=================== HES POSTING ===================== Economists at War: The Influence of the Practice of World War II and the Cold War on the Culture of Economics. Conference organized by the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics in collaboration with the Institutional History of Economics Research Area of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy. Provisional Programme Wednesday, April 21, 1999 Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands 8:30- 9:00 Reception 9:00- 9:45 Andrew Pickering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign-- World War II as a Discontinuity in the Social and Cyborg Sciences 9:45-10:30 Mary Morgan, University of Amsterdam and London School of Economics-- Ideology and Tool-Based Economics in the Post-War Years 10:30-11:00 Break 11:00-11:45 Albert Jolink, Erasmus University Rotterdam-- The Travelling Salesman Returns from the War: Tjalling Koopmans and Linear Programming 11:45-12:30 Francisco Louca, Technical University of Lisbon-- Prometheus Tired of War: Econometricians' Debates on the Role of Planning and Economic Policies 12:30-13:30 Lunch 13:30-14:15 Esther-Mirjam Sent, University of Notre Dame-- Military/Artificial Intelligence: Military Science Policy and Herbert A. Simon 14:15-15:30 Judy Klein, Mary Baldwin College-- Gun Laying and Economic Policy: Post War Applications to the Theory of Error-Actuated Automatic Control Systems 15:30-16:00 Break 16:00-16:45 Robert Leonard, University of Quebec at Montreal-- Controlling Bodies, Freeing Minds: John Williams, Architect of RAND Research 16:45-17:30 Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame-- RAND/OR: How Operations Research Put the Rigor in the Mortis 17:30-18:00 Concluding discussion 19:00 Dinner Registration costs: DFL 100 or EURO 45 (registration + lunch), DFL 200 or EURO 90 (registration + lunch + dinner), DFL 35 or EURO 15 (student registration + lunch), DFL 135 or EURO 60 (student registration + lunch + dinner). Please send a message to Loes van Dijk at <[log in to unmask]> to receive a registration form. She can also be reached by phone at +31-10-4088967 and via fax at +31-10-4088979. Further updates will be posted at: http://www.eur.nl/fw/philecon/warkshop.html. ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]