... Copyright © 1974 by Duke University Press 1974 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. A report on the Chicago Conference of the History of Economics Society The newly formed History...

... PETERV. MINI Keynes und the modern world: Proceedings of the Keynes Centenury Conference, King’s College, Cambridge. Edited by David Worswick and James Trevithick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Pp. 269. As the title indicates, this book contains the essays, comments...

.... Minerva 18 : 448 -73. Afterword A Pall along the Watchtower: On Leaving the HOPE Conference Philip Mirowski All things that live long are graduallyso saturated with reason that their origin in unreason becomes improbable Does...

.... In Economics, Governance, and Law: Essays on Theory and Policy . Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar. ____. 2004a . The Buchanan Colloquium on the Status of the Status Quo: Reports on a Conference. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 22A : 219 -56. ____. 2004b . Markets...

...Robert E. Lucas, Jr. Duke University Press 2004 Keynote Address to the 2003 HOPE Conference: My Keynesian Education Robert E. Lucas Jr. I have mixed feelings about Bob Byrd1 saying he’s looking forward to receiving my papers. He’s probably only going to get them when I’m gone...

... and Gold: The Political Economy of International Monetary Conferences, 1867–1892. By Steven P. Reti. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998. x; 214 pp. $59.95. In the minds of many people, economists included, the classical gold standard rep...

...Ariane Dupont-Kieffer The conference organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences (hereafter PAS) in 1961 on “the role of econometrics in formulating development plans” represents a milestone in the work of Ragnar Frisch but also in the history of econometrics, challenging the more or less...

...Ivan Boldyrev Abstract This article tells the story of the first international topological conference in Moscow (1935), an outstanding event that, for the first time, brought together the most notable American, European, and Soviet mathematicians, including those who would later play decisive roles...

...Michele Alacevich; Mauro Boianovsky This is the editorial introduction to the HOPE conference volume on the history of development economics. The disciplinary field of development economics has been surrounded by controversies since its inception in the postwar period. Although growth economics...

... calculated by his Index Number Institute. Fisher’s simultaneous pursuit of several reform and scientific projects sometimes got in the way of each other, as in 1912 when his campaigns for an international conference on the cost of living and an international society for the promotion of mathematics...

... for Radical Political Economics and the Committee on the Status of Women in the Economics Profession, along with the role played by the sessions organized during the ASSA conferences; the tension between the different methodologies used by feminist economists; and the tension surrounding the place of feminist...

... in the transformation of American economics in the postwar period. A conference was held April 26-28, 2013, at Duke University, sponsored by Duke University Press and with generous financial support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. In the end the conferees learned that telling the story of MIT’s role in the postwar...

...E. Roy Weintraub MIT emerged from “nowhere” in the 1930s to its place as one of the three or four most important sites for economic research by the mid-1950s. A conference held at Duke University in April 2013 examined how this occurred. In this article the author argues that the immediate postwar...

... generated a debate on the choice criteria of growth programs, opposing the productive efficiency typical of these models to the utilitarian approach supported by Malinvaud and Koopmans. The Vatican Conference of 1963, where Koopmans presented a first version of his 1965 model, was embedded in this debate...

...Marina Bianchi; Neil De Marchi This introduction traces the connections between economics and psychology that were explored in a 2015 conference on the subject held at Duke University. Over much of the past half-century, sporadic attention has been given to the possible links between economics...

... in dozens of monographs, articles, and conference reports from 1963 to the mid-1980s. Despite evident support at two CPSU Party Congresses (1966, 1971), SOFE never got traction in the official planning or administrative organs, although some specific mathematical methods and recommendations derived from...

... examine economists’ ideas about structural adjustment across socialist eras—from 1920s Weimar Germany and the Soviet Union to midcentury socialist Yugoslavia and the post-1964 UN Conference on Trade and Development—and explore the origins of what we know today as structural adjustment policies...

..., this survey analyzes a series of elements within the HOPE literature set, and those related to the broader historiography of economics (i.e., including not only publications, but also conferences, workshops, the development of institutions, and several reactions to this research project). It uses...

...Ariane Dupont-Kieffer; Robert W. Dimand; Sylvie Rivot Abstract The 2023 HOPE conference aimed to understand the interrelationships between the Second World War and economics. Examining this back-and-forth means examining the transformative effect of the war on the content and status of economics...

... the 2001 HOPE conference for helpful comments on this essay. The Role of HES Meetings 63 the HES have been an important means to this end in the history of eco- nomics in the last quarter century. The list of academic social factors I judge to have been important...