================= HES POSTING ================= 12th Heibronn Symposium in Economics and the Social Sciences 25-27 June 1999 The twelfth Heilbronn Symposium in Economics and the Social Sciences will be devoted to the role of mathematics in the social sciences in general and economics in particular. It is the mission of the Heilbronn meetings to unearth a body of literature that is tied to the German language and no longer available to the international community of scholars. In the case of mathematical contributions, one should think that the language divide were of no particular significance. However, although mathematics is an international language, the mathematical contributions published in the German literature are not very well known with very few and notable exceptions. Even in the case of these exceptions, however, the extensive discussions of the purpose(s) and limitations of mathematical analysis necessarily given in verbal form are not very well understood. Hence, the focus of the symposion is on mathematical contributions, their identification and reconstruction, their criticial discussion and modern rendition and their analysis from the point of view of contemporary theory development. The conference will be held in Heilbronn from June 25-27, 1999. The conference site is the traditional Schiesshaus at less than five minutes' distance from the railroad station. On Thursday 24 June, at four o'clock, conference participants will gather at the big clock in front of the railroad station, for a guided tour. Afterwards, dinner in Hotel Goetz. There will be no registration fee, so no subsidies can be requested. Active participants will be our guests during the conference, depending on the state of the budget. Please address your inquiries to: Prof. Dr. Juergen G. Backhaus Maastricht University, AE P.O. Box 616 6200 MD Maastricht The Netherlands tel: +31-43-3883636 fax: +31-43-3258440 email: [log in to unmask] ============ FOOTER TO HES POSTING ============ For information, send the message "info HES" to [log in to unmask]