HES Events at ASSA Annual Meeting

HES SPONSORED EVENTS AT ASSA Annual Meeting in Denver
PROGRAMME
Cocktail Reception for Members and Friends
Friday, January 7, 2011
6:00 pm, Hyatt Regency—Mineral Hall C

HES Sponsored Sessions:
Jan 07, 2011 12:30 pm, Hyatt Regency, Capitol 1
History of Economics Society
The Histories of Scientific Observation in Economics (B2)
Presiding: Harro Maas (University of Amsterdam)
Undercover, Field, and Participant Observers in US Labor Economics 1900-1930
Malcolm Rutherford (University of Victoria)
Observational Error from Gauss to Morgenstern
Marcel Boumans (University of Amsterdam)
Looking for Observations for late 20th Century Macroeconomics
Pedro Duarte (University of Sao Paulo)
Kevin D. Hoover (Duke University)
Observing Experiments: What Do Economists See?
Andrej Svorencik (University of Amsterdam)
Discussants:
Kevin D. Hoover (Duke University)

Jan 07, 2011 2:30 pm, Hyatt Regency, Capitol 1
History of Economics Society
Rational Expectations, Retrospect and Prospect: On the 50th Anniversary of John Muth's "Rational Expectations and the Theory of Price Movements" (B2) (Panel Discussion)
Panel Moderator: Kevin Hoover (Duke University)
Kevin D. Hoover (Duke University)
Michael Lovell (Wesleyan University)
Robert E. Lucas (University of Chicago)
Dale Mortensen (Northwestern University)
Robert J. Shiller (Yale University)
Neil Wallace (Pennsylvania State University)
Warren Young (Bar-Ilan University)

Jan 08, 2011 10:15 am, Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall G
History of Economics Society/American Economic Association
Irving Fisher and Modern Economics: 100 Years After The Purchasing Power of Money (B3)
Presiding: David Laidler (University of Western Ontario)
Irving Fisher and Index Number Theory
Erwin Diewert (University of British Columbia)
Irving Fisher and Chicago Economics
Michael D. Bordo (Rutgers University)
Hugh Rockoff (Rutgers University)
Irving Fisher, Debt Deflation, and Crises
Robert J. Shiller (Yale University)
Irving Fisher and the Quantity Theorists of his Time
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt (University of Lyon, TRIANGLE)
Jerome de Boyer des Roches (University of Paris IX-Dauphine)
Discussants:
Alice Orcutt Nakamura (University of Alberta)
David E. W. Laidler (University of Western Ontario)
Robert W. Dimand (Brock University)

Jan 08, 2011 2:30 pm, Hyatt Regency, Mineral Hall G
History of Economics Society
Selling Economics to the Foundations (B2)
Presiding: Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame)
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger: Public Image, the State, and Research in Economics, 1970-1985
Thomas Scheiding (Elizabethtown College)
Tiago Mata (University of Amsterdam)
Getting Hooked on Drugs: The Chicago School, the Pharmaceutical Project, and the Construction of Medical Neoliberalism
Edward Nik-Khah (Roanoke College)
Eric Wanner and the Economics of Behavioral Economics
Floris Heukelom (Nijmegen School of Management)
Discussants:
Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame)
Steven Medema (University of Colorado-Denver)
Malcolm Rutherford (University of Victoria)