Fifth Annual Conference on the
History of Recent Economics
29-30 April 2011
Duke University, North Carolina, USA.
Duke University, North Carolina, USA.
| 09:30-10:00 | Introductions |
| 10:00-11:00 | Joy Rohde "Statecraft by Proxy: The Privatization of Social Research for National Security." |
| 11:00-11:15 | Coffee |
| 11:15-12:15 | Judy Klein "Mathematical Programming for the Cold War or How I Learned to Stop Worrying Love Satisficing." Discussant: E. Roy Weintraub |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch |
| 14:15-15:15 | Andrej Svorencik "Twenty Five Years of Economics Science Association." Discussant: Evelyn Forget |
| 15:15-16:15 | Roundtable on "Interventions", with Craufurd Goodwin, Evelyn Forget, Tiago Mata, Rob McGregor. |
| 10:00-11:00 | Daniel T Rodgers "The Intellectuals' Search for Power in an Age of Fracture, 1975-2000." |
| 11:00 | Coffee |
| 11:30-12:30 | Alain Marciano and Steven Medema "The Problem of Social Cost" and the "Coase Theorem": Their Early Reception at the University of Chicago. Discussant: Verena Halsmayer |
| 12:30 | Lunch |
| 14:00-15:00 | James Forder "Milton Friedman on the Institutional Causes of Inflation" Discussant: Kevin Hoover |
| 15:00-16:00 | Pedro Teixeira "Conquering or Mapping? Textbooks and the Dissemination of Human Capital Theory in Applied Economics." Discussant: Avi Cohen |
| 16:00 | Coffee |
| 16:30-17:30 | Rob van Horn "Aaron Director and the Labour Education Movement." Discussant: Philippe Fontaine |
| 16:45-18:00 | Roundtable on "Writing the history of economics at MIT and Chicago", with Roger E. Backhouse, Steven G. Medema, and E. Roy Weintraub. |