Conference History and Philosophy of Economics

Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies
Conference History and Philosophy of Economics
Friday April 16, 2010 8:00am to 6:00pm
Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Study, Conference Rooms, University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC Canada
Organizers: Margaret Schabas and Tyler Des Roches (UBC)
Programme
8:30 Margaret Schabas (UBC): Hume on Economic Well-Being
9:30 Evelyn Forget (Manitoba): 'At Best an Echo': 18th and 19th-Century Translation Strategies in the History of Economics
Coffee Break 10:30 to 11:00
11:00 Malcolm Rutherford (Victoria): Science and Social Control: The Institutionalist Movement in American Economics, 1918-1945
12:00 Jack Vromen (Erasmus): Heterogeneous Economic Evolution: A Different View on Darwinizing Evolutionary Economics
Lunch (on site) 1:00 to 2:30
2:30 D. Wade Hands (Puget Sound): Back to the Ordinalist Revolution: Behavioral Economic Concerns in Early 20th-Century Consumer Choice Theory
3:30 Steven Medema (Denver): The ‘Subtle Processes of Economic Reasoning’: Marshall, Becker, and Theorizing about Economic Man and Other-Regarding Behavior
Tea Break 4:30 to 5:00
5:00 Michel de Vroey (Louvain): Lucas on the 'Lucasian revolution': An Assessment
Funding for the workshop is provided by the Distinguished Scholar in Residence Program. The Departments of Economics and of Philosophy (UBC) provided additional funding. Prior registration is mandatory, but there is no fee. Contact Tyler DesRoches tylerdes@interchange.ubc.ca for more information and to register.