“100 years after the publication of "A Theory of Consumption” by Hazel Kyrk (1923)”

Joinly sponsored with International Association for Feminist Economics

Chair: David Philippy (University of Lausanne, Centre Walras-Pareto)

1. Edith Kuiper (State University of New York (SUNY) at New Paltz) “Hazel Kyrk (1886-1957) and the Research on Consumption Standards”

2. David Philippy (University of Lausanne, Centre Walras-Pareto) & Rebeca Gomez Betancourt (University of Lyon) “Hazel Kyrk’s intellectual roots: When first-generation home economists met the institutionalist framework”

3. Miriam Bankovsky (La Trobe University) “What should families want? From Hazel Kyrk to Margaret Reid and beyond”

Discussants: Nancy Folbre (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Shoshana Grossbard (University of San Diego)

Friday January 6, 10.15am-12.15pm

"Applied Economics in the Progressive and Interwar Eras: Mutually Contextualizing Economic History and the History of Economics"

Jointly sponsored with the Economic History Association 

Co-Chairs: Spencer Banzhaf (HES) and Randall Walsh (EHA) 

Discussant: Karen Clay (Carnegie Melon University, NBER)

1. “If a Man Eats Not, Neither Can He Work:” How a Gilded Age Liberal Program of Sanitary and Food Reform Did Away with the Labor Theory of Value. Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche (CRASSH, Cambridge University) and Harro Maas (Centre Walras-Pareto, University of Lausanne)

Discussant: Karen Clay (Carnegie Melon University, NBER)

2. Hell with a Lid Off: Households' Locational Choices in America's Most Polluted City. Spencer Banzhaf (Georgia State Univ., PERC, NBER), William Mathews (University of Pittsburgh) and Randall Walsh (University of Pittsburgh, NBER)

Discussant: Rebeca Gomez-Betancourt (Université Lumière Lyon 2)

3. Smoke from Factory Chimneys: The Applied Economics of Air Pollution in the Progressive Era. Spencer Banzhaf (Georgia State Univ., PERC, NBER) and Randall Walsh (University of Pittsburgh, NBER)

Discussant: Price Fishback (University of Arizona, NBER)

4. Municipal Socialism in the United States, 1900-1940. James Siodla (Colby College) and Tate Twinam (College of William & Mary)

Session organizers: Michaël Assous and Mauro Boianovsky

Session chair: Michaël Assous

Paper # 1: “Minsky and Kindleberger: Fellow Travelling Theorists of National and International Financial Instability” Perry Mehrling, Boston University,

Paper # 2: On the importance of the dynamic Leontief model for the development of macroeconomics Vincent Carret, Université Lyon 2, Triangle and Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy,

Paper # 3: On Theory and Models of Endogenous Economic Cycles: A Historical andContemporary Perspective. Marco Gross, International Monetary Fund,

Paper # 4: Samuelson’s last macroeconomic model: secular stagnation and endogenous cyclical growth. Michaël Assous, Université Lumière Lyon-2, Triangle Mauro Boianovsky, Universidade de Brasilia.

Friday January 6, 2.30pm-4.30pm

Session proposal: On _Hayek: A Life_

Chair & moderator:

Sandra J. Peart, E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Professor in Leadership Studies, University

of Richmond

Panelists:

Bruce Caldwell, Research Professor of Economics, Duke University

Steven N. Durlauf, Steans Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago; Editor, Journal of Economic Literature

Hansjoerg Klausinger, emeritus, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Vernon Smith, George L. Argyros Endowed Chair in Finance and Economics, Chapman University

Emily Skarbek, Associate Research Professor of Political Theory and Director of PPE research seminar, Brown University

Cass Sunstein, Robert Walmsley University Professor, Harvard Law School