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Sixth Annual Conference on the
History of Recent Economics

11-12 May 2012
CIPES and CEF.UP, University of Porto, Portugal.


9h30 – Welcome Session

9h45 – 10h45: Chair: Philippe Fontaine (ENS de Cachan and Institut universitaire de France)

  • Andrew Jewett (Harvard University) - American Conservatives and the Problem of Social Science in the 1950s

10h45 – 11h15: Coffee-Break

11h15 – 12h45: Chair: Yann Giraud (Université de Cergy-Pontoise)

  • Floris Heukelom (Radboud University Nijmegen) - Maurice Allais, Jimmie Savage, and the Allais paradox
  • Cléo Chassonnery Zaïgouche (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) - Reshaping the Methodology through Experimentation? The Economics of Discrimination after Gary S. Becker

13h00 – 14h30: Lunch

14h30 – 16h00: Chair: Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham)

  • Pedro Garcia Duarte (University of São Paulo, FEA-USP) and Michel De Vroey (Université Catholique de Louvain) – In Search of Lost Time: The Neoclassical Synthesis
  • Danilo Freitas Ramalho da Silva (University of São Paulo) - Friedman, Phelps, Lucas and the Natural Rate of Unemployment

16h00 – 16h30: Coffee-Break

16h30 – 17h15: Chair: Evelyn Forget (University of Manitoba)
Verena Halsmayer (DK-plus, University of Vienna) – (Micro)cultures and misunderstandings: From Harrod's Dynamic Theory to Solow's Growth Model

20h00 – Dinner

9h30 – 10h30: Chair: Pedro Teixeira (U.Porto)

  • Evelyn Forget (University of Manitoba) - The Natural History of Policy Error

10h30 – 11h00: Coffee-Break

11h00 – 12h30: Chair: Tiago Mata (Cambridge University)

  • David Mitch (University of Maryland Baltimore County) - Recruiting Hayek to Chicago
  • Andrej Svorencik (University of Utrecht) - The First-Price Auction Controversy

12h30 – 12h45: Concluding Session

13h00 – 14h30: Lunch