Sixth Annual Conference on the
History of Recent Economics
11-12 May 2012
CIPES and CEF.UP, University of Porto, Portugal.
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
