ESHET Young Scholars Seminar - Reminder

The European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) invites young scholars (i.e. those who are working on or have just completed a PhD, regardless of their age) to submit their work to the Young Scholars Seminar to be held on the occasion of the ESHET Conference.
Four submissions will be selected: ESHET will cover board, accommodation and registration fees plus travel expenses up to 300 Euros. The authors of the selected papers will have 30 minutes each to present the paper and a senior scholar, appointed by the ESHET Council, will discuss it. Papers may be on any topic relevant to the history of economics, and are not restricted to the conference theme.
ESHET encourages young scholars to participate in the conference. A one-year ESHET membership is offered to all young scholars who submit a paper.
Candidates should e-mail a paper no longer than 9000 words to Professors Ragip Ege and Tiziano Raffaelli (ege@cournot.u-strasbg.fr and t.raffaelli@fls.unipi.it), by 10 January 2010. The results of the selection process will be communicated to the candidates by 15 February 2010. Papers that have not been selected will be considered for presentation at other conference sessions.
Website: http://www.eshet.net/conference/2010

Workshop STOREP “Alternative Approaches to the Building of Economic Dynamics in the Years of High Theory” - Programme

STOREP WORKSHOP “ALTERNATIVE APPROACHES TO THE BUILDING OF ECONOMIC DYNAMICS IN THE YEARS OF HIGH THEORY”
December 18-19, 2009
RESIDENZA IL REFUGIO
UNIVERSITÀ DI SIENA
VIA DEL REFUGIO 4, SIENA

PROGRAMME

Friday 18th December 2009
9.00-9.15 Introduzione
Annalisa Rosselli, Università di Roma Tor Vergata, Presidente STOREP
Massimo Di Matteo, Università di Siena & Franco Donzelli, Università di Milano

9.15-10.45
Alfredo Medio, Università di Udine, Equilibrium and Stability in Economic Dynamics
Alessandro Vercelli, Università di Siena & Serena Sordi, Università di Siena, Genesis and evolution of the multiplier accelerator model in the years of high theory
Discussants: Ronny Mazzocchi, Michael Assous
10.45-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-12.45
Marji Lines, Università di Udine, Dynamical Aspects in the Modelling of Economic Fluctuations
Michael Assous, Université de Paris 1, Early Keynesian Models and the Emergence of Endogenus Cycle Theories
Discussants: Luca Pensieroso, Michel De Vroey
12.45-14.15 Lunch
14.15-15.45
Paolo Trabucchi, Università di Roma 3, Some notes on the call for a 'dynamics' in the pure theory of the 30's and its significance in the evolution of neoclassical theory
Ronny Mazzocchi, Università di Siena, Roberto Tamborini, Università di Trento, & Hans Michael Trautwein, University of Oldenburg, The Two Triangles: What did Wicksell and Keynes know about macroeconomics that modern economists do not (consider)?
Discussants: Franco Donzelli, Alessandro Vercelli
15.45-16.15 Coffee break
16.15-18.30
Michel De Vroey, Université Catholique de Louvain, & Pierre Malgrange, Université Catholique de Louvain, Dynamizing the IS-LM model: Klein's contribution
Franco Donzelli, Università di Milano, Hicks on equilibrium, disequilibrium, and dynamics in the 1930s and beyond
Mario Pomini, Università di Padova, Beyond the static general equilibrium: the idea of dynamic equilibrium in the interwar period
Discussants: Alfredo Medio, Goulven Rubin, Massimo Di Matteo
20.00 Dinner

Saturday 19th December 2009
9.00-11.15
Ferdinando Meacci, Università di Padova, The Disappointment of Expectations: The Years of High Theory Versus The Years of Rational Expectations
Goulven Rubin, Université de Paris 8 Saint-Denis, Hicks and the ‘economics of depression’ in the 1930s
Massimo Di Matteo, Università di Siena, Economic Dynamics as a Succession of Equilibria
Discussants: Marji Lines, Paolo Trabucchi, Gianfranco Tusset
11.15-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-13.15
Gianfranco Tusset, Università di Padova, Going back to the origins of econophysics: Luigi Amoroso
Luca Pensieroso, Université Catholique de Louvain, Real Business Cycle Models of the Great Depression
Discussants: Mario Pomini, Serena Sordi
13.15 End of the Workshop
Website: http://www.storep.org/workshopdynamics/index.htm

Journal of the History of Economic Thought - New Issue

Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Volume 31, Issue 04, September 2009
Articles
A Symposium on The Nature and Significance of Economic Science by Lionel Robbins
Mark Blaug, Foreword, pp. 417-420.
Fabio Masini, Economics and Political Economy in Lionel Robbins's Writings, pp. 421-436.
David Colander, What Was "It" That Robbins Was Defining?, pp. 437-448.
Andrea Scarantino, On the Role of Values in Economic Science: Robbins and His Critics, pp. 449-473.
Roger E. Backhouse, Robbins and Welfare Economics: A Reappraisal, pp. 474-484.
Roger E. Backhouse and Steven G. Medema, Robbins's Essay and the Axiomatization of Economics, pp. 485-499.
Harro Maas, Disciplining Boundaries: Lionel Robbins, Max Weber, and the Borderlands of Economics, History, and Psychology, pp. 500-517.
Benny Carlson, Who Was Most World-Famous - Cassel or Keynes? The Economist as Yardstick, pp. 519-530.
Arthur M. Diamond, Schumpeter vs. Keynes: "In the Long Run Not All of Us Are Dead", pp. 531-541.
Steven G. Medema, History by the Numbers: A Comment on Carlson and Diamond, pp. 543-547.
Book Reviews
Bruce Caldwell, George Steinmetz, ed., The Politics of Method in the Human Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2005), pp. ix, 620, $25.95 (paperback). ISBN 0-8223-3518-2, pp. 549-550.
Bruce Caldwell, Erik Angner, Hayek and Natural Law (London and New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. xvi, 140, $65.00. ISBN 978-0-415-39715-5, pp. 551-555.
Bruce Caldwell, Elisabeth Nemeth, Stefan W. Schmitz, and Thomas E. Uebel, eds., Otto Neurath's Economics in Context (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007), pp. x, 234, $169.00. ISBN 978-1-4020-6904-8, pp. 555-560.
Website: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=HET&volumeId=31&seriesId=0&issueId=04

La ricerca della sostenibilità. Modelli di interazione economia-ambiente

Si segnala l'uscita del libro del socio STOREP Fiorenzo Martini, La ricerca della sostenibilità. Modelli di interazione economia-ambiente, Celid 2009.

INDICE

Introduzione

1. OLTRE LA CENTRALITÀ DEL VALORE AGGIUNTO. IL RUOLO DEL
CAPITALE NATURALE
1.1 Capitale, interesse e reddito nella teoria di Irving
Fisher
1.2 Contabilità nazionale “verde” e capitale naturale
1.2.1 Correzioni in chiave ecologica del prodotto annuo
1.2.2 Sostenibilità nel tempo: la metodologia del
Genuine Saving
1.3 La nozione di capitale naturale (e del suo
accrescimento) negli schemi di H.E.Daly e dell’economia
ecologica
1.4 La proposta di revisione della Contabilità nazionale
nell’ottica dello sviluppo sostenibile formulata da Daly
sulla base del concetto di capitale alla Fisher
1.5 Conclusioni

2. L’ECONOMIA COME INSIEME DI PROCESSI INTERDIPENDENTI. IL
MODELLO DI LEONTIEF ESTESO ALL’AMBIENTE
2.1 La matrice NAMEA e la sua insufficienza
2.2 Consumi finali e produzioni lorde
2.3 I modelli di Leontief allargati all’ambiente
2.4 Verso una contabilità integrata economico-ambientale
2.5 L’analisi delle interdipendenze strutturali nella
storia dell’economia politica

3. DA CANTILLON A WACKERNAGEL E REES. IMPRONTA ECOLOGICA
E BIOCAPACITÀ
3.1 La domanda finale interna espressa in area bioproduttiva
3.2 Impronta ecologica e biocapacità
3.3 L’ impronta ecologica di nazioni e regioni
3.4 Impronta ecologica e input output analysis
3.5 L’ ecological footprint assessment delle organizzazioni
3.5.1 L’estensione della metodologia ad un contesto
di valutazione ambientale dell’attività produttiva
3.5.2 L’applicazione alle imprese e alla pubblica
amministrazione. Rassegna di casi studio

4. L’EREDITÀ DI GEORGESCU-ROEGEN. FONDI, FLUSSI,
ECOEFFICIENZA
4.1 Modello di Georgescu-Roegen e funzione di produzione
neoclassica
4.2 L’origine plurifattoriale dell’attività produttiva
4.3 Una contabilità macroeconomica espressa in tonnellate
4.4 “Fare di più con meno”: gli indicatori di ecoefficienza
4.5 Pressioni ambientali e creazione di ricchezza.
De-coupling assoluto e relativo

5. PROCESSI, PRODOTTI, SERVIZI: IL METABOLISMO AZIENDALE
5.1 L’impresa come unità di analisi economico-ecologica
5.2 Bilancio di esercizio, bilancio ambientale e di
sostenibilità
5.3 Una contabilità dei fattori produttivi.
L’environmental cost accounting
5.4 Responsabilità di prodotto e LCA

Riferimenti bibliografici

Sito web: http://www.celid.it/

European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) - Elections

The Executive Committee of ESHET is pleased to announce the results of the recent election.
Harald Hagemann has been elected president.
The following members of the society have been elected to the Executive Committee: Annie Cot, John Davis, Manuela Mosca, Neri Salvadori, Hans-Michael Trautwein, and Amos Witztum.
The term of election is for two years, starting from the annual conference in Amsterdam in March 2010.

2010 meetings History of Economics Society - Call for paper

The 2010 meetings of the History of Economics Society will be held at the Syracuse University over June 25-28.
The Distinguished Lecture will be delivered by Nancy Folbre. She will be speaking on "Greed, Lust and Gender: The Rhetoric of Self Interest in Political Economy".
The call for papers is available at:http://hes2010.syr.edu/email-callforpapers.html
Website: HES2010@syr.edu

Annual Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia - Call for papers

The Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia is to be held 7-9 July 2010, at the University of Sydney, Sydney.
The distinguished visitor to give the keynote speech to the conference will be Professor Harald Hagemann, University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany.
Abstracts for papers to the conference can be submitted up to 30 April 2010
Website: http://hetsa.fec.anu.edu.au/

ASSA Conference 2010 HES Sessions - Program

HES sessions program at ASSA 2010, Atlanta, GA,
January 3-5, 2010

January 3, 2010, 10:15 am
HES The Integration of Micro and Macroeconomics From a Historical Perspective
Presiding: JOHN DAVIS, Marquette University
PEDRO GARCIA DUARTE, Universidade de Sao Paulo - Not Going Away: Representative-agent Model and Microfoundations in Recent Macroeconomics
D. WADE HANDS, University of Pudget Sound - The Rise and Fall of Walrasian Economics: the Keynes Effect
KEVIN D. HOOVER, Duke University - Microfoundational Programs
PHILIP E. MIROWSKI, Notre Dame University - How Cowles Neutered Keynes and Laid the Groundwork for Neoclassical Macroeconomics
Discussant: PERRY MEHRLING, Barnard College
January 3, 2010, 12:30 pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis
AEA/HES Complexity in the History of Economic Thought (B2)
Presiding: MAURO BOIANOVSKY, Universidade de Brasilia
J. BARKLEY ROSSER JR., James Madison University - Chaos Theory Before Lorenz
JOHN B. DAVIS, Marquette University - The Emergence of Agent-based Modeling in Economics
PHILIP E. MIROWSKI, Notre Dame University - Complexity as Excuse versus Complexity as Inspiration
DAVID COLANDER, Middlebury College, CASEY ROTHSCHILD , Massachusetts Institute of Technology - The Sins of the Sons of Samuelson
Discussants: WADE HANDS, University of Pudget Sound
ELIAS KHALIL, University of Richmond, JUDY KLEIN, Mary Baldwin College, MICHAEL MAKOWSKY, Towson University

January 4, 2010, 10:15 am
HES 100 years of Walras's Death
Presiding: WADE HANDS, University of Pudget Sound
MICHEL DE VROEY, Université Catholique de Louvain - Marshall and Walras: Incompatible Bedfellows?
FRANCO DONZELLI, Universita degli Studi di Milano - Edgeworth versus Walras on Equilibrium and Disequilibrium
ALAN KIRMAN, Groupement de Recherche en Economie Quantitative
d'Aix-Marseille - Walrasian Theory: The Starting Point for a Journey Down the Wrong Road?
PASCAL BRIDEL, Universite de Lausanne - The Normative Origins of General Equilibrium Analysis
Discussants: JEAN PIERRE POTIER, Universite Lumiere Lyon 2, DAVID COLANDER, Middlebury College, CASEY ROTHSCHILD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

January 4, 2010, 2:30 pm,
HES Financial Crises and the History of Economic Thought
Presiding: SANDRA PEART, University of Richmond
PERRY MEHRLING, Barnard College - New Lombard Street
THOMAS HUMPHREY, Federal Reserve Bank-Richmond - The Lender of Last Resort in the History of Economic Thought
SANDRA PEART, University of Richmond, DAVID LEVY, George Mason University - Economists, Cartoons and Crises
Discussants: KEVIN D. HOOVER, Duke University, BENJAMIN FRIEDMAN, Harvard University

Website: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/Annual_Meeting/index.htm

VII STOREP Conference - Call for papers

VII STOREP Conference 30 May – 1 June 2010, University of Trento, Italy

CALL FOR PAPERS

The 7th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy (STOREP) will be hosted by the Department of Sociology and Social Research and the Department of Economics of the University of Trento from May 30th to June 1st 2010.

Proposals of sessions or submissions of papers concerning any aspect of the history of economic thought are welcome.

Paper abstracts of no more than 200 words or a brief (≤ 400 words) description of theme, motivation, authors and paper titles for a session should be submitted to segretario@storep.org. The deadline for submissions is January 31st, 2010. The Scientific Committee will send notice of acceptance or rejection within February 20, 2009. Completed papers will be due by May 10th, 2010.

The special theme of the conference is “The shifting boundaries between public and private in economics”.

The financial and economic crisis has once again demonstrated the importance of having clear ideas about the relationships between the public and private spheres in economics. Caught by the surprise of circumstances, governments have intervened massively in national economies and tentative steps are being taken to change the rules of the global financial and economic game. These developments are forcing economists and policy makers to revise their ideas about the boundaries between public and private. The history of economic thought provides a rich source of theories about this topic and it would be inefficient not to make use of it.

The distinction between public and private in economics is common wisdom since Aristotle’s differentiation between politics as the management of the city state, and economics as the conduct of the household. The relationships between the public and the private spheres lie at the foundation of Adam Smith’s research programme. His work is in part a critical reaction to Bernard Mandeville’s idea that private vices generate public benefits. With the exception of Mandeville and some libertarians, however, few economists have ever doubted that markets and social and political institutions, such as governments, can coexist. Either subsystem of the national or global economy has tasks that it can perform more effectively or efficiently. Keynes’ insistence on the role of fiscal policy is but an example of a full array of studies emphasizing their complementarity. It is generally agreed that a specific legal and social framework is needed to make markets work while markets generate the means with which to finance collective or public goods.

There is far less consensus about the ways in which the public domain may correct, or hamper, the functioning of the market and vice versa. Moreover, ideas on where the boundary between the two lie are subject to abrupt changes, especially in times of sudden and violent financial and economic shocks. For instance, according to economic analysis, banks, except for central banks, are private enterprises. The crisis, however, has shown that their malfunctioning is a public bad and policy makers were forced to conjure up ad-hoc measures to save banks that were too big to fail. This was tantamount to admitting that a system of private banks is a public or collective good. Yet too little had been done to safeguard its positive externalities.

Public and private domains are not completely complementary; there remains a set of goods and services that are desired by citizens yet fail to be produced by either. They are provided instead by private initiative and spontaneous social organizations in the form of collective goods, club goods and goods that are transferred for nothing from one individual to another. This continuously changing space between market and government, often referred to as “civil society”, has been examined with varying intensity in economics and in sociology. Here lies the domain of discussions on issues such as the type of pension and health insurance systems, the role of the State versus philanthropy in the redistribution of wealth, and federalism. Also, recent experimental evidence invites economists to reconsider the line that separates subjective or private costs and opportunities from objective factors such as the limits of our mental capabilities.

The purpose of the special theme of this year’s conference is to illustrate how the reasoning in terms of the boundary between public and private in the history of economics can provide a better insight on public policies, social organisations and individual behavioural patterns.

Scientific Committee: Katia Caldari (University of Padua), Roberto Ciccone (University of Roma Tre), Terenzio Cozzi (University of Turin), Massimo Di Matteo (University of Siena), Riccardo Faucci (University of Pisa), Alessandro Innocenti (University of Siena), Alessandro Lanteri (University of Eastern Piedmont), Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (University of Rome La Sapienza), Aldo Montesano (Bocconi University, Milan), Salvatore Rizzello (University of Eastern Piedmont), Annalisa Rosselli (University of Rome Tor Vergata), Carlo Zappia (University of Siena).

Organizing Committee: Jack Birner (University of Trento), Elisabetta De Antoni (University of Trento), Alessandro Innocenti (University of Siena), Carlo Zappia (University of Siena)

Website: http://events.unitn.it/en/storep2010

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought - New Isssue

The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Volume 16 Issue 4 2009
Articles
Brian J. Loasby, Knowledge, coordination and the firm: Historical perspectives, pp. 539–558.
Kurt Rothschild, A nostalgic retrospect on a debate on various aspects of welfare economics, pp. 559–574.
Yuichi Shionoya, The history of economics as economics?, pp. 575–597.
Patrick Mardellat, Max Weber's critical response to theoretical economics, pp. 599–624.
Andreas Kakridis, Continuity and change: Mapping the community of economists in Greece (1944 to 1967), pp. 625–664.
Luca Zamparelli, Average cost and marginal cost pricing in Marshall: Textual analysis and interpretation, pp. 665–694.
Book reviews
Thierry Demals, Hobbes, Économie, Terreur et Politique, pp. 695–702.
Carsten Pallas, Johann Heinrich von Thünen als Vordenker einer Sozialen Marktwirtschaft, pp. 702–705.
Website: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g917173811