========================= HES POSTING ================= [NOTE: The following program was arranged by HES Vice-President Roger Backhouse. -- RBE] History of Economics Society Session Program -- 1998 ASSA Meetings 3-5 January 1998, Chicago Session 1 -- On the road again: the influence of travel and travel writing on classical political economy (B1) Presiding -- Deirdre McCloskey (University of Iowa) Brian Cooper (New School for Social Research) -- Instructions for Travellers: Making Economics Fit the World and Making the World Fit Economics Robert W. Dimand (Brock University) -- Classical Political Economy and Orientalism: Nassau Senior's Eastern Tour Ulla Grappard (Colgate University) -- Lady Bountiful: Gender and Representation in International Trade Discussants -- Deirdre McCloskey (University of Iowa), Janet Seiz (Grinnell College), James Henderson (Valparaiso) University Session 2 -- Taxation, Rationality and Group Rationality (B2) Presiding -- Roger E. Backhouse (University of Birmingham, UK) Larry Moss (Babson College) -- The Advent of Mathematical Economics in the United States: The Case of the Edgeworth-Seligman Debate about the Incidence of Taxes Mary Ann Martinsek Dimand (Albion College) -- Coase and Lindahl: Markets and exchange Esther Mirjam Sent, (University of Notre Dame)-- Bounded Rationality on the Rebound Discussants -- To be confirmed. Session 3 -- Wesley Clair Mitchell after 50 Years (Round Table Discussion) (B2) Presiding -- Scott Simkins (North Carolina A&T State University) Moses Abramovitz (Stanford University) -- Reflections on Mitchell Jeff Biddle (Michigan State University) -- Wesley C. Mitchell as Statistician Eli Ginzberg (Columbia University) -- Mitchell: A 50 Year Retrospective Mark Perlman (University of Pittsburg) -- Mitchell, Keynes and Schumpeter Compared: Their Assumptions, Their Methods, and the Founding of Schools Scott Simkins (North Carolina A&T State University) -- Mitchell, Measurement and Theory Session 4 -- Wicksell's Influence on Modern Economic Theory: In Honor of the 100th Anniversary of Interest and Prices (B1) Presiding -- Michael J. Gootzeit (University of Memphis) Michael J. Gootzeit (University of Memphis) -- Wicksell and the Sophisticated Quantity Theory Thomas Humphrey (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) -- Fisher and Wicksell: Different Interpretations of the Quantity Theory Mauro Boianovsky (Universidade de Brasilia) -- Lord Keynes and the Swedes: the Wicksell Connection Revisited James Ahiakpor (California State University at Hayward) -- Wicksell's Theories of Credit, Interest, Money and Inflation: Consistency with or Deviation from the Classics? Discussants -- To be confirmed. ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]