========================== HES POSTING =============== Kress Seminar Paul Wendt 64 Riverside St #3 Watertown, MA 02172-2652 tel: 617-926-8253 email: [log in to unmask] 30 Oct 1996 Kress seminar participants, Our next seminar is Thursday, 7 Nov, 7:40-10 pm, in Littauer M16 on the Harvard University campus. We feature one paper and two discussants: Richard Ebeling (Hillsdale C) Expectations and Expectations Formation in Ludwig von Mises's Theory of the Market Process Discussants: Mark Tomass (Babson C) Roger Koppl (Fairleigh-Dickinson U) RICHARD EBELING is now in Russia and is coming back to the states the day before he travels on to Boston (no paper in advance). He has an interesting intrepretation of the Austrian school view of expectations. He is extremely critical of rational expectations and the like and offers an opposing point of view. While many students of Austrian economics read early Mises and Hayek, Ebeling puts his finger on several later works by Mises, such as __Theory and History__ because it represents an advance over the Verstehen school ["understanding"--PW] ideas of the 1920 and also the typological thinking of Max Weber and others. How these insights come to be filtered and altered in Mises's thinking is a genuinely novel and interesting subject for a lecture. For those who do not know Richard Ebeling or his work, what better way than over good food and conversation? ---- Laurence Moss, Babson College Dinner Anyone interested in dinner and conversation before the seminar is invited to gather at the Singha House Thai restaurant (1105 Mass. Ave) at 6:00. The food is great, matched only by the company. The Singha House is prepared to handle late additions to a party (to about 6:30 for dinner or 7:00 for appetizer or drink, given our time constraint). I hope to see you Thursday, ----Paul [imagine my signature here, P/\/\/\/\t] ======================================================================== KRESS NEWSLETTER, 30 Oct 96 (this space may be yours; contact me) ======================================================================== Next session, 21 Nov 96 ----------------------- Yngve Ramstad (URI) will speak on the influence of social psychology and John Dewey in early 20th century American economics. Details TBA. [. . . remainder of newsletter deleted . . .] ----Paul Wendt Coordinator, Kress Seminar in HEcTh ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]