Paper Session

100 Years after the Publication of “A Theory of Consumption” by Hazel Kyrk (1923)

 Friday, Jan. 6, 2023   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM (CST)

 New Orleans Marriott, Preservation Hall Studio 3

Hosted By: HISTORY OF ECONOMICS SOCIETY & INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR FEMINIST ECONOMICS

Chairs:
David Philippy, CY Cergy Paris University

Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, University of Lyon 2

 

·        Hazel Kyrk (1886-1957) and the Research on Consumption Standards

Edith Kuiper, SUNY-New Paltz

·        Hazel Kyrk’s Intellectual Roots: When First-Generation Home Economists Met the Institutionalist Framework

David Philippy, CY Cergy Paris University

               Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, University of Lyon 2

               Robert W. Dimand, Brock University

·        What Should Families Want? From Hazel Kyrk to Margaret Reid and Beyond

Miriam Bankovsky, La Trobe University

·        Hazel Kyrk, the Economics of the Social Relevance of Consumption and Keynes’s Consumption Function

Attilio Trezzini, Roma Tre University

 

Discussant(s)

Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Shoshana Grossbard, University of San Diego

William Waller, Hobart and William Smith Colleges

Felipe Almeida, Federal University of Paraná

Giulia Zacchia, University of Rome-La Sapienza

JEL Classifications

B2 - History of Economic Thought since 1925

D1 - Household Behavior and Family Economics

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Paper Session

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

 Friday, Jan. 6, 2023   10:15 AM - 12:15 PM (CST)

 New Orleans Marriott, Preservation Hall Studio 3

Hosted By: HISTORY OF ECONOMICS SOCIETY & ECONOMIC HISTORY ASSOCIATION

Chairs:
 Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University, PERC, and NBER

Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh and NBER

 

·        How to Promote the Common Good through a New “Business Ethics”: The Contribution of Charlotte Per-Kins Gilman

              Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, University of Lumière Lyon 2

Guillaume Vallet, University of Grenoble Alpes

·        Hell with a Lid Off: Households' Locational Choices in America's Most Polluted City

             Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University, PERC, and NBER

William Mathews, University of Pittsburgh

               Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh and NBER

·       Smoke from Factory Chimneys: The Applied Economics of Air Pollution in the Progressive Era

              Spencer Banzhaf, Georgia State University, PERC, and NBER

               Randall Walsh, University of Pittsburgh and NBER

·      Municipal Socialism in the United States, 1900-1940

           James Siodla, Colby College

Tate Twinam, College of William and Mary

 

Discussant(s)

Martin Saavedra, Oberlin College

Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, University of Lyon 2

Price Fishback, University of Arizona and NBER

Sandra Peart, University of Richmond

JEL Classifications

B2 - History of Economic Thought since 1925

N3 - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy

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Paper Session

Visions of Economic Instability

 Friday, Jan. 6, 2023   12:30 PM - 2:15 PM (CST)

 New Orleans Marriott, Preservation Hall Studio 3

Hosted By: HISTORY OF ECONOMICS SOCIETY

Chair: Michaël Assous, University of Lyon 2

 

·        Minsky and Kindleberger: Fellow Travelling Theorists of National and International Financial Instability

Perry Mehrling, Boston University

·        Investment Planning and the Input-Output Model in Postwar Europe

Vincent Carret, University of Lyon 2 and Duke University

·        On Theory and Models of Endogenous Economic Cycles: A Historical and Contemporary Perspective

Marco Gross, International Monetary Fund

·        Samuelson’s Last Macroeconomic Model: Secular Stagnation and Endogenous Cyclical Growth

Mauro Boianovsky, University of Brasilia

Michaël Assous, University of Lyon 2

 

JEL Classifications

B2 - History of Economic Thought since 1925

E3 - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles

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Panel Session

On Hayek: A Life

 Friday, Jan. 6, 2023   2:30 PM - 4:30 PM (CST)

 New Orleans Marriott, Preservation Hall Studio 3

Hosted By: HISTORY OF ECONOMICS SOCIETY

Moderator: Sandra Peart, University of Richmond

Panelist(s)

Bruce Caldwell, Duke University

Steven N. Durlauf, University of Chicago and Editor-Journal of Economic Literature

Hansjoerg Klausinger, Vienna University of Economics and Business

Vernon Smith, Chapman University

Emily Skarbek, Brown University

Cass Sunstein, Harvard Law School

 

JEL Classifications

B2 - History of Economic Thought since 1925

B3 - History of Economic Thought: Individuals