=================== HES POSTING ===================== [Posted on behalf of Annie L. Cot <[log in to unmask]> --RBE] Association Charles Gide pour l'Etude de la Pensee Economique International Conference Formal Models and Economic Theory: History, Analysis, Methodology Paris September 17 and 18, 1999 Call for papers What kind of scientific references did economic theory adopt throughout its history? What formal models were conducive to these references? How did they shape the analytical content of the theory? What analogies or homologies could be considered as having initiated new approaches to economic theory? Such questions lead to analyze the place and role of medical, chemical, mechanical, thermodynamical, biological, systemic, or other formal metaphors in the construction of economic theory. The conference on "Formal Models and Economic Theory : History, Analysis, Methodology" is thus open to several approaches : the history of the scientific references adopted by economists since the XVIIth century, the history - whether externalist or internalist - of the successive ways in which economic theory has been formalized throughout time, the history of mathematical economics, the history of econometrics, the history of game theory, the study of the connections at work in cotemporary theory between analysis and methodology, the renewal of the methodological and epistemological debates on the foundations, the conditions, the justifications and the limits of formalization in economics. Scientific Committee Richard Arena (LATAPSES, University of Nice) Claude d'Aspremont (CORE, Catholic University of Louvain) Yves Breton (Centre Walras, University of Lyon II) Annie L. Cot (GRESE, University of Paris I) Gerard Debreu (Chaire Blaise Pascal, CERMSEM, University of Paris I) Pierre Dockes (Centre Walras, University of Lyon II) Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira (BETA, University of Strasbourg) Roger Frydman (CAESAR, University of Paris X) Louis-Andre Gerard-Varet (GREQAM, University of Aix-Marseille) Roger Guesnerie (DELTA, EHESS) Gerard Jorland (CNRS, EHESS) Jerome Lallement (GRESE, University of Dijon) Andre Lapidus (CHPE, University of Paris I) Claude Meidinger (TEAM, University of Paris I) Philippe Mongin (CNRS, THEMA, University of Cergy-Pontoise) Sylvain Sorin (Laboratoire d'econometrie de l'X, University of Paris X) Bernard Walliser (Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussees, EHESS) Andre Zylberberg (EUREQUA, University of Paris I) Organizing Committee Nicolas Chaigneau (GRESE, University of Paris IX) Annie L. Cot (GRESE, University of Paris I) Julien Dupont (GRESE, University of Paris I) Gerard Jorland (CNRS, EHESS) Ariane Kieffer (GRESE, University of Paris XI) Jerome Lallement (GRESE, University of Dijon) Philippe Le Gall (ATOM, University of Paris I) Veronique Parel (GRESE, University of Reims) Abstracts should be submitted by January 30th, 1999, to: Colloque "Modeles formels et theorie economique : histoire, analyse, epistemologie" GRESE Universite de Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne Maison des Sciences Economiques 106-112, boulevard de l'Hopital 75013 Paris France telephone : 33 (0) 1 55 43 42 37 e-mail : [log in to unmask] ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]