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2011-10-30T09:51:00.000+01:00

Il blog STOREP sospende in data odierna la propria attività.

On the merits of repeating oneself – A conference in defense of Bruno Frey

2011-10-28T17:33:00.001+02:00

"It is only by varied repetition that new ideas can be impressed upon reluctant minds."
This often repeated admonition by the Nobel-prize winning economist James M. Buchanan is obviously unknown to the journalist of the German daily "Handelsblatt" Olaf Storbeck, who has initiated a vendetta against the well-respected economist Bruno S. Frey accusing him of self-plagiarism. Many people agree that such a delinquency does not even exist. For this reason, a meeting will be convened at the University of Erfurt to discuss the issue, the merits and demerits of repeating oneself.
Essays read and defended at this meeting will be published in the journal "Homo Oeconomicus" in a conference issue.
The meeting will take place at the University of Erfurt on December 9.

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

2011-10-27T13:32:00.000+02:00

Edited by: Erik Thomson
University of Manitoba
Issue date: 2011-10-22
Papers: 10

Contents:

1. From Wald to Savage: homo economicus becomes a Bayesian statistician
Giocoli, Nicola
2. A critical perspective on heterodox production modeling
Murray, Michael/ M J
3. TRADE, MONEY, AND THE GRIEVANCES OF THE COMMONWEALTH: ECONOMIC DEBATES IN THE ENGLISH PUBLIC SPHERE DURING THE COMMERCIAL CRISIS OF THE EARLY 1620'S
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak
4. Economic policy and the financial and economic crisis
Kowalski, Tadeusz
5. "Economic freedom" and economic growth: questioning the claim that freer markets make societies more prosperous
Cohen, Joseph N
6. N-Person cake-cutting: there may be no perfect division
Brams, Steven J.; Jones, Michael A.; Klamler, Christian
7. Punishment, reward, and cooperation in a framed field experiment
Noussair, Charles; van Soest, Daan; Stoop, Jan
8. While the crisis proceeds: A world redistribution of economic power?
Renato G. Flores Jr.
9. Bandit models and Blotto games.
Thomas, C.D.
10. Some lessons from the financial crisis for the economic analysis
Geoff Kenny; Julian Morgan

http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pth72.htm

Sixth Annual Conference on the History of Recent Economics

2011-10-26T09:00:00.000+02:00

11-12 May 2012,
FEP-UP, University of Porto, Portugal

In its sixth consecutive year, the HISRECO conference offers a venue for review and development of this work. We are inviting submissions of papers that deal with the post-WWII era. The deadline for the submission of paper proposals is 31st October 2011. If you are interested in participating, please submit a proposal containing roughly 500 words and indicating clearly the original contribution of the paper (if you have a draft of the paper, we would be happy to see that as well).
Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent by 1st December 2011 and completed papers will be due on 15th March 2012 so that we can provide feedback and then give discussants time to prepare comments.

Proposals should be sent electronically to pedrotx@fep.up.pt.
The organizing committee consists of Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham), Philippe Fontaine (École normale supérieure de Cachan and Institut universitaire de France), Yann Giraud (Université de Cergy-Pontoise), Tiago Mata (Duke University) and Pedro Teixeira (University of Porto).
or further information about the conference please contact Pedro Teixeira, pedrotx@fep.up.pt

History of Economics Society Distinguished Fellow - Call for Nominations 2011-12

2011-10-25T16:35:00.001+02:00

The History of Economics Society Distinguished Fellow Committee (as determined by the HES Constitution - Chair: Jerry Evensky, and Members: Steve Medema and Avi Cohen) invites nominations for the Distinguished Fellow award to be presented at the HES 2012 annual meeting June 22-25 at the Brock University.

Nominations should include a statement about the candidate that can be the basis for the award citation, and a CV and/or biographical statement. For examples of past citations, please see the HES website links to "Awards and Honors" then "Distinguished Fellows" or directly visit the web page:
http://historyofeconomics.org/Fellows.cfm .

Please send nomination materials to Jerry Evensky, Department of Economics, 110 Eggers Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA or to jevensky@syr.edu> by December 17, 2011.
Email submissions are preferred.

Elezione Segretario Generale della STOREP

2011-10-24T15:45:00.003+02:00

Si sono concluse le operazioni di voto per l'elezione del Segretario Generale della STOREP.
Katia Caldari è stata eletta nuovo Segretario Generale dell'Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell'Economia Politica (STOREP).
A seguito dell'elezione di Katia Caldari, subentra a fare parte del Consiglio Direttivo della STOREP Stefano Fiori (Università di Torino), che era risultato il primo dei non eletti nelle elezioni svoltesi nel 2009.

La nuova composizione degli organi dell'associazione è quindi la seguente

Organi dell'associazione

Presidente:
Annalisa Rosselli (Università di Roma Tre)

Segretario Generale:
Katia Caldari (Università di Padova)

Consiglio Direttivo:
Katia Caldari (Università di Padova)
Roberto Ciccone (Università di Roma Tre)
Terenzio Cozzi(Università di Torino)
Massimo Di Matteo (Università di Siena)
Riccardo Faucci (Università di Pisa)
Stefano Fiori (Università di Torino)
Alessandro Lanteri (Università del Piemonte Orientale)
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
Aldo Montesano (Università Bocconi, Milano)
Salvatore Rizzello (Università del Piemonte Orientale)
Annalisa Rosselli (Università Roma Tor Vergata)
Carlo Zappia (Università di Siena)

Tesoriere:
Salvatore Rizzello (Università del Piemonte Orientale)

Collegio dei Revisori dei conti:
Alberto Baccini (Università di Siena)
Maurizio Mistri (Università di Padova
Cosma Orsi (Università di Lugano)

Collegio dei Garanti:
Giacomo Becattini (Università di Firenze)
Augusto Graziani (Università di Roma
Giorgio Lunghini (Università di Pavia)
Luigi Pasinetti (Università di Milano, Cattolica)

Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization

2011-10-21T18:02:00.003+02:00

Volume 80, Issue 2
October 2011

Special Issue on the work of James Buchanan
Edited by Dr.Peter Boettke

Contents:

-Teaching economics, appreciating spontaneous order, and economics as a public science
Peter Boettke

-Bukantianism—Buchanan's philosophical economics
Hartmut Kliemt

-Buchanan on externalities: An exercise in applied subjectivism
Alain Marciano

-Persuasion, psychology and public choice
Michael C. Munger

-Government, clubs, and constitutions
Peter T. Leeson

-Substance vs. procedure: Constitutional enforcement and constitutional choice
Georg Vanberg

-Empirical constitutional economics: Onward and upward?
Stefan Voigt

-Do we need a distinct monetary constitution?
Steven Horwitz

-Pathologies of the state
Timothy Besley

-Constitutions and crisis
Christopher J. Coyne

-James M. Buchanan – Doing away with discrimination and domination
Karen Horn

-On James Buchanan
Amartya Sen

-Honoring James Buchanan
Elinor Ostrom

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01672681/80

LE PROSPETTIVE FINANZIARIE ED IL FUTURO DELLA POLITICA DI COESIONE EUROPEA

2011-10-20T16:56:00.003+02:00

Villa Umbra, loc. Pila, Perugia
28 OTTOBRE 2011

CO-FINANZIATO DAL FONDO SOCIALE EUROPEO (FSE) NELL’AMBITO DEL PROGRAMMA OPERATIVO REGIONALE (POR) UMBRIA,
FSE “OBIETTIVO COMPETITIVITÀ REGIONALE E OCCUPAZIONE” 2007 – 2013

09:20 Apertura dei lavori
Alberto Naticchioni, Amministratore Unico Seu Servizio Europa e della Scuola Umbra di Amministrazione Pubblica
Saluti
Marco Vinicio Guasticchi, Presidente della Provincia di Perugia e dell’UPI Umbria
Calogero Alessi, Presidente Sviluppumbria S.p.A
Coordinamento dei lavori, Mino Lo Russo, giornalista
INTRODUZIONE
Vittorio Calaprice, Rappresentanza in Italia della Commissione europea - Settore Comunicazione, informazione e reti
La nuova Agenda europea per la riforma della Politica di Coesione

RELAZIONI
Jader Canè, DG Occupazione, affari sociali e inclusione, Capo Unità Aggiunto, Economia sociale di mercato negli Stati membri I: FSE Italia, Danimarca, Svezia, Commissione europea
Strategia e ruolo del Fondo Sociale europeo per lo sviluppo e l’occupazione in Italia: come disegnare la prossima programmazione?

Rossella Rusca, Dirigente Ufficio V dell'unione europea, Direzione generale per le politiche dei fondi strutturali comunitari, Ministero per lo Sviluppo Economico
Il ruolo e la Strategia dell’Italia nel quadro della definizione della riforma della politica di coesione

Aurelio Bruzzo, Ordinario di Politica economica, Dipartimento di Economia, Istituzioni e Territorio, Direttore del Centro di documentazione e Studi sulle Comunità europee dell’Università di Ferrara
La riforma della Politica di Coesione: strategie, obiettivi e “governance”

Catiuscia Marini, Presidente della Regione Umbria, Membro della Commissione per la politica di coesione e territorio (COTER), Comitato delle Regioni
Le prospettive della politica di coesione 2014 - 2020: la valutazione ed il parere dell’Umbria quale Regione d’Europa

Interventi programmati:
Mario Bravi, Segretario regionale CGIL
Ulderico Sbarra, Segretario regionale CISL
Aurelio Forcignanò: Segretario - Confindustria Umbria
Fabio Filpo, Avvocato, in rappresentanza degli ex allievi del SEU
Wladimiro Boccali, Sindaco di Perugia e Presidente Anci Umbria

13.30 Relazione di chiusura dell’on. Gianni Pittella, Primo Vice Presidente del Parlamento Europeo

per info e iscrizioni:

Segreteria:
Davide Ficola tel. 075/5159741 - d.ficola@seu.it
Riccardo Trona, tel. 075/5159749 r.trona@seu.it
Fax 075.5159785

Scomparsa Pierangelo Garegnani

2011-10-19T09:00:00.001+02:00

Con molta tristezza annunciamo la scomparsa del socio onorario Pierangelo Garegnani. In tutto il corso della sua lunga attività scientifica, Pierangelo Garegnani ha portato avanti, con grande rigore analitico, la linea di pensiero aperta da Piero Sraffa, di cui fu allievo e interlocutore, di riscoperta dell’impostazione teorica degli economisti classici e di critica dell’impostazione teorica dominante. Ricordiamo la rilevanza internazionale dei suoi contributi teorici e la sua partecipazione a dibattiti decisivi per lo sviluppo della teoria economica nel Novecento.

La Storep contribuirà a ricordarne la figura con iniziative scientifiche in un prossimo futuro.

Il Presidente STOREP
Annalisa Rosselli

Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference - Call for Papers

2011-10-18T09:00:00.000+02:00

APEBH 2012: Canberra(Australia), 16-18 February 2012

Organised by the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand

16-18 February 2012, Australian National University, Canberra (Australia)

Theme:Economic Integration: Historical Perspectives from Europe and the Asia-Pacific region

Call for Papers

Papers and proposals for sessions are invited for the APEBH 2012 conference. The main conference theme is ‘Economic Integration: Historical Perspectives from Europe and Asia-Pacific’ but the organisers are open to proposals for contributions on other topics in economic, social, and business history, as well as to proposals for sessions on particular themes. Researchers across a broad range of disciplines are warmly welcomed. Early career researchers are encouraged to participate. The conference organisers are particularly interested in attracting papers that examine developments in countries and regions in the Asia-Pacific region and papers that provide an international comparative perspective.

Economic integration is generally considered to be an aspect of the current process of globalisation. The European Union (EU) is often held up as a possible model for fostering the process of regional economic integration inAsia. However, the integration process inEuropesince the 1950s has been a formal process by which member states handed some authorities to the supranational EU. Throughout history, processes of economic integration occurred through both informal and formal processes. They occurred across regions within countries as transport facilities improved. They occurred across the borders of neighbouring countries as bilateral trade barriers were reduced, and in regions of the world due to multilateral initiatives. Formal agreements were not necessarily a prerequisite for economic integration. Private enterprises often took international business initiatives, despite the continued existence of barriers to international trade and investment. Formal processes of lowering such barriers followed. Where tariffs had been lowered, deepening integration by reducing non-tariff trade barriers remained an ongoing process. This happened in countries that became federations (e.g.USA,Germany,Australia,Malaysia), and countries that concluded bilateral (e.g. Australia-New Zealand), plurilateral (e.g. AFTA) and multilateral trade agreements.

Hence, there are historical experiences abound. What lessons can be drawn from comparative historical perspectives on processes of economic integration? How were such processes taken from one level to the next, how were issues of differential regulation dealt with, how did private enterprises seize new business opportunities and influence the process of integration, and what consequences did cross-border integration have for markets and societies? Lastly, integration has rarely been a linear process, but one of leaps and bounds. What can we learn from cases when integration processes rebounded? Are they fragile processes that need continuous energising to avoid being taken for granted?

Our theme could be approached from a number of perspectives, including those of the cliometrician, the economic historian, the economic theorist, the business historian, the applied economist, as well as the social historian. There is scope for new interpretations, new findings, as well as syntheses of existing work.

ALL ABSTRACTS, PROPOSALS FOR SESSIONS, AND PAPERS FOR REFEREEING OR POSTING ON THE CONFERENCE WEBSITE SHOULD BE EMAILED TO ALL THREE MEMBERS OF THE PROGRAMME COMMITTEE:

Dr John Singleton, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield (UK), J.Singleton@shu.ac.uk

A/Professor Jim McAloon, Victoria University, Wellington(New Zealand), jim.mcaloon@vuw.ac.nz

Dr Keir Reeves, MonashUniversity, Melbourne(Australia), Keir.Reeves@monash.edu

Paper abstracts of one page may be submitted at any time up to the closing date of 30 November 2011. A decision on proposals will be made within a month of submission. Session proposals of one page may be submitted up to the same date, outlining the main objectives of the session and potential participants. You are not obliged to submit your full paper for refereeing. Complete versions of accepted papers should be sent to us by 4 February 2012 for posting on the conference website.

Some universities require staff attending conferences to have their papers refereed. If this is the case in your institution, please submit the full paper by the 30 November 2011 due date for the double blind refereeing process.

A conference paper prize will be awarded. A selection of papers (subject to the normal reviewing process and standards) may be published in Australian Economic History Review: An Asia-Pacific Journal of Economic, Business and Social History (see: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8446).

Further details about the conference and the Call for Papers can be found at this web page: http://apebhconference.wordpress.com

The web page of the Economic History Society of Australia andNew Zealandis: http://economichistorysociety.wordpress.com

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

2011-10-17T11:05:00.001+02:00

Edited by: Erik Thomson
University of Manitoba
Issue date: 2011-10-15
Papers: 21

Contents:

1. Hicks on Walrasian Equilibrium in the 1930s and Beyond
Franco Donzelli
2. The Law of Indifference, Equilibrium, and Equilibration in Jevons, Walras, Edgeworth, and Negishi
Franco Donzelli
3. Menger 1934 revisited
Ole Peters
4. Examining resilience and vulnerability as concepts conditional upon human values: a review
Jacqueline de Chazal
5. Autobiography
Pissarides, Christopher A.
6. Chaotic Time Series Analysis in Economics: Balance and Perspectives
Marisa Faggini
7. "The German Influence on the Origin of U.S. Federal Financial Rescues"
James L. Butkiewicz
8. Where are the poor in International Economics?
Luis Carvalho; Aurora A.C. Teixeira
9. Agent Behavior under Risky and Uncertain Conditions. An Empirical Verification of Irving Fisherâs Notion of Time Preference
Balgah, Roland Azibo; Buchenrieder, Gertrud
10. Aux origines de la propriété scientifique : auctorialité scientifique et propriété intellectuelle au XIXe siècle
Gabriel Galvez-Behar
11. Rational bubbles and the spirit of capitalism
ZHOU, Ge
12. Autobiography
Siamond, Peter A.
13. EMPRUNTS SOUVERAINS ET VULNÉRABILITÉ FINANCIÈRE DE LA MONARCHIE D'ANCIEN RÉGIME. TOUT S'EST-IL JOUÉ SOUS LOUIS XIV ?
Katia Béguin; Pierre-Charles Pradier
14. Which Way to Cooperate
Kaplan, Todd; Ruffle, Bradley
15. Autobiography
Mortensen, Dale T.
16. Payment schemes in random-termination experimental games
Katerina Sherstyuk; Nori Tarui; Majah-Leah Ravago; Tatsuyoshi Saijo
17. Who acts more like a game theorist? Group and individual play in a sequential market game and the effect of the time horizon
Wieland Mueller; Fangfang Tan
18. Former des économistes au développement durable : les enjeux d'une expérimentation niveau Master
Catherine Figuière; Michel Rocca
19. Truth-Telling and Trust in Sender-Receiver Games with Intervention
Mehmet Y. Gurdal; Ayca Ozdogan; Ismail Saglam
20. History of monetary policy in India since independence
Ashima Goyal
21. Henry L. Moore et le marché du coton, 1917: La météorologie agricole et le juste prix.
Eric Chancellier

http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pth72.htm

European Review of Economic History

2011-10-14T17:30:00.002+02:00

Volume 15 - Issue 03 - 2011

Table of Contents

Research Articles

-Survival of the richest? Social status, fertility and social mobility in England 1541-1824
NINA BOBERG-FAZLIC and PAUL SHARP and JACOB WEISDOR

-Did Ivan's vote matter? The political economy of local democracy in Tsarist Russia
STEVEN NAFZIGER

-Remittances, capital flows and financial development during the mass migration period, 1870–1913
RUI ESTEVES and DAVID KHOUDOUR-CASTÉRAS

-The role of technology and institutions for growth: Danish creameries in the late nineteenth century
INGRID HENRIKSEN and MARKUS LAMPE and PAUL SHARP

-To err is human: US rating agencies and the interwar foreign government debt crisis
MARC FLANDREAU and NORBERT GAILLARD and FRANK PACKER

-The legacy of the Swedish gift and inheritance tax, 1884–2004
HENRY OHLSSON

http://www.esaim-m2an.org/action/displayIssue?jid=ERE&tab=currentissue

Books reviews - Edward Elgar Publishing

2011-10-13T11:31:00.003+02:00

The Dissemination Of Economic Ideas
Edited by Heinz D. Kurz, Professor of Economics, University of Graz, Austria, Tamotsu Nishizawa, Professor, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Japan and Keith Tribe, Department of History, University of Sussex, UK

This highly illuminating book marks a significant stage in our growing understanding of how the development of national traditions of economic thought has been affected by both internal and external factors.

September 2011, 392 pp, Hardback

Gunnar Myrdal, Friedrich A. Von Hayek, Robert W. Fogel, Douglass C. North And Amartya K. Sen
Edited by Howard R. Vane, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK and Chris Mulhearn, Reader in Economics, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

‘These volumes complement Vane and Mulhearn’s critically acclaimed book, The Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics, and are an indispensable guide to key developments in modern economics.’
– Mark Blaug, University of London and University of Buckingham, UK

September 2011, 872 pp, Hardback

Herbert A. Simon, George J. Stigler And Ronald H. Coase
Edited by Howard R. Vane, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK and Chris Mulhearn, Reader in Economics, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

‘These volumes complement Vane and Mulhearn’s critically acclaimed book, The Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics, and are an indispensable guide to key developments in modern economics.’
– Mark Blaug, University of London and University of Buckingham, UK

September 2011, 320 pp, Hardback

James M. Buchanan, Gary S. Becker, Daniel Kahneman And Vernon L. Smith
Edited by Howard R. Vane, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK and Chris Mulhearn, Reader in Economics, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

‘What a brilliant idea! To provide readers with both information on the Nobel Laureates in Economics and, to the degree possible, the original papers for which they were honored. The names of the “contributing” Laureates speak for themselves. Howard Vane and Chris Mulhearn, the editors, and Edward Elgar, the publisher, are to be congratulated for putting the idea into effect.’
– Warren J. Samuels, Michigan State University, US

September 2011, 544 pp, Hardback

Ragnar A.k. Frisch, Jan Tinbergen And Lawrence R. Klein
Edited by Howard R. Vane, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK and Chris Mulhearn, Reader in Economics, Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

‘What a brilliant idea! To provide readers with both information on the Nobel Laureates in Economics and, to the degree possible, the original papers for which they were honored. The names of the “contributing” Laureates speak for themselves. Howard Vane and Chris Mulhearn, the editors, and Edward Elgar, the publisher, are to be congratulated for putting the idea into effect.’
– Warren J. Samuels, Michigan State University, US

September 2011,432 pp, Hardback

For full contents - www.e-elgar.com

Journal of the History of Economic Thought

2011-10-12T12:20:00.004+02:00

Volume 33 - Issue 03 - 2011

Table of Contents

-THE MONETARY ECONOMICS OF BENJAMIN GRAHAM: A BRIDGE BETWEEN GOODS AND MONEY?
PERRY MEHRLING

-RECIPROCITY AND HENRY C. CAREY’S TRAVERSES ON “THE ROAD TO PERFECT FREEDOM OF TRADE”
STEPHEN MEARDON

-CAPABILITIES FOR THE MISERABLE; HAPPINESS FOR THE SATISFIED
JOSÉ M. EDWARDS and SOPHIE PELLÉ

-CARL MENGER AND HIS FOLLOWERS IN THE AUSTRIAN TRADITION ON THE NATURE OF CAPITAL AND ITS STRUCTURE
ANTHONY M. ENDRES and DAVID A. HARPER

-THE HIDDEN ADAM SMITH IN HIS ALLEGED THEOLOGY
GAVIN KENNEDY

Book Reviews

-Jeffrey T. Young, ed., Elgar Companion to Adam Smith (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2009)
Jason J. Delaney

-Gavin Kennedy, Adam Smith’s Lost Legacy (Basingstoke, UK, and New York, USA: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005)
Glenn Hueckel

-Daniel Geary, Radical Ambition: C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009)
Tiago Mata

-Joseph Schumpeter, The Nature and Essence of Economic Theory, edited by Bruce A. McDaniel (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2010)
Matthew McCaffrey

-Frederic Lee, A History of Heterodox Economics: Challenging the Mainstream in the Twentieth Century (London and New York: Routledge/Taylor and Francis, 2009)
Phillip Anthony O’Hara

-Roger Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine, eds., The History of the Social Sciences since 1945 (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Dorothy Ross

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=HET&tab=currentissue

14 th International Conference of the Charles Gide Association for the Study of Economic Thought

2011-10-11T18:07:00.002+02:00

Organized by GREDEG, CNRS and the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis and with the support of ISEM.
Nice, June 7-9 2012
« History of macroeconomics: from the years of « High Theory » (1926-1939) to modern approaches »

Call for proposals
(Submission deadline 15 th of January 2012)
In the context of the current economic crisis, macroeconomists have great incentives to investigate the founding contributions of macroeconomics as an autonomous field of research.
The aim of this conference is to question the nature of those investigations and to analyze how macroeconomics has evolved.
Proposals for communications on the conference theme might fall within one or several of the following topics:

1. Modelling Expectations
2. Financial instability, deflation and debt policy
3. Business cycles theories, cyclical growth analyses
4. The finance-growth nexus
5. Theories of economic growth
6. Accelerator – multiplier models (debates, microeconomic foundations…)
7. Corridor of stability and macroeconomic policies
8. Disequilibrium theories
9. Monetary theories and policies
10. Keynes and Keynesianism
11. Economic theories and policies

Plenary addresses will be given by Kevin Hoover (Duke University), Pascal Bridel (Lausanne University) and Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira (Strasbourg University).

The 14th Charles Gide conference also encourages submissions of papers or open sessions in all other fields of History of Economic Thought.
A thematic issue will be published at the Cahiers d’Economie Politique: a specific call for papers will be diffused soon and posted on the websites of the Charles Gide Association for the Study of Economic Thought and of Cahiers d’économie politique.

Proposals for communications, in the form of abstracts of approx. 500 words, specifying whether or not the paper falls under the theme of the conference, should be sent before January 15, 2012, at Gide2011@gredeg.cnrs.fr.
The decisions of the scientific committee will be made by February 20, 2012 and final papers will have to be sent before May 21, 2012.
For further information, please visit
http://www.gredeg.cnrs.fr/Colloques/GIDE/ or write to the organizing committee at Gide2011@gredeg.cnrs.fr.

CFP-ESHET 16th Annual Conference in St Petersburg

2011-10-10T10:16:00.002+02:00

The 16th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) will be held at St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance (Russia), May 17-19, 2012.
(Conference web site: http://eshet2012.ru).
The Conference will be organized by the Department of Economics of St. Petersburg State University and the Leontief Centre.

ESHET 2012 welcomes papers and proposed sessions in all areas of the history of economic thought. To submit a proposal please send an abstract of about 400 words for a paper and/or a proposal of about 600 words for a session (together with the abstracts of the session papers) no later than the 15th December 2011.

The Conference will host a special theme:
Institutions and Values in Economic Thought

The standard view of economists that economics is a value-free science independent from political and social institutions has changed significantly. Even positive economics is value-laden in choosing its subject-matter, methods, concepts and scientific criteria.
"Institutions matter" in economics, and there are many ways of studying institutions in different schools of economic thought. Though mainstream economics has neglected institutions, there remain important questions for historians of economics: What is the place of institutions in the different economic schools (Mercantilism, Classical political economy, the Cambridge school, Marxism, Austrian, Post-Keynesian and Evolutionary economics, and others)? Why were institutions neglected for so long in modern economic theory? What are the accomplishments of institutional thinking in economics? Can bridges be built between Old and New Institutional economics? What are
the cultural and national traditions of economic thought regarding institutions?

Topics for discussion could include:
. Institutions in economic thought
. Old and New institutional economics
. National traditions and evolution of economic thought regarding institutions
. Various economic schools on the role of institutions in the economy
. Is economics a value-free or value-laden science?
. Role of institutions in shaping economic thought
. Institutions and economic performance
. Institutions and values in Transitional/Emerging/Developing markets

Keynote Speakers
. Geoffrey Hodgson, Research Professor in Business Studies at the University of Hertfordshire, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Institutional Economics
. Viktor Polterovich, Professor at the New Economic School

A selection of papers from all areas of the conference will be published in the Special Issue of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought.

Scientific Committee:
Irina Eliseeva, St. Petersburg State University
John Davis, Marquette University
Harald Hagemann, University of Stuttgart
Danila Raskov, St. Petersburg State University
Amos Witztum, London Metropolitan University and London School of Economics

Organising Committee:
Irina Eliseeva, Danila Raskov
Irina Karelina, Leontief Centre
Harald Hagemann, Amos Witztum
Andrey P. Zaostrovtsev, Leontief Centre

Important Dates

December 15, 2011 Deadline for abstract submission
January 30, 2012 Notification of accepted/rejected abstracts
March 7, 2012 Last Date for Early Registration
April 2, 2012 Deadline for visa application at local Consulates/Embassies of Russia
April, 23 Deadline for registration for the Conference
April 16, 2012 Deadline for sending full papers
May 18, 2012 Conference Dinner & Boat Trip
May 17-19, 2012 ESHET 2011 Conference Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo

Journal of Economic Methodology - New Issue

2011-10-07T09:00:00.000+02:00

Volume 18, Issue 3, 2011

Articles

-Estranged parents and a schizophrenic child: choice in economics, psychology and neuroeconomics
Don Ross

-Evidential variety as a source of credibility for causal inference: beyond sharp designs and structural models
François Claveau

-The Stern Review and its critics: economics at work in an interdisciplinary setting
Fredrik Hansen

-Conceptual tools for assessing experiments: some well-entrenched confusions regarding the internal/external validity distinction
María Jiménez-Buedo

-Explaining growth? The case of the trade–growth relationship
Jonathan Perraton

Book Reviews

-What are animal spirits?Rationality and explanation in economics
Shaun P. Hargreaves Heap

-Variations in causal reasoning. Causality and causal modelling in the social sciences: measuring variations
Jaakko Kuorikoski

-New directions in economics and the philosophy of economics? The Oxford handbook of philosophy of economics
Roger E. Backhouse

History of Political Economy - New Issue

2011-10-06T16:31:00.002+02:00

Volume 43, Number 3, Fall 2011

Articles

-Thomas C. Leonard
Religion and Evolution in Progressive Era Political Economy: Adversaries or Allies?

-Nahid Aslanbeigui and Guy Oakes
Hostage to Fortune: Edward Chamberlin and the Reception of The Theory of Monopolistic Competition

-Claude d'Aspremont, Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira, and Louis-André Gérard-Varet
Imperfect Competition and the Trade Cycle: Aborted Guidelines from the Late 1930s

-Gerhard Michael Ambrosi
The Offer-Curve Approach to Labor Market Analysis: From Marshall-Pigou over Robbins and Buchanan into Oblivion?

-Mircea Platon
Newtonian Science, Commercial Republicanism, and the Cult of Great Men in La Beaumelle's Pensées (1752)

-Pierangelo Garegnani
On Blaug Ten Years Later

-Heinz D. Kurz and Neri Salvadori
In Favor of Rigor and Relevance: A Reply to Mark Blaug

Book Reviews

-Bradley W. Bateman
John Maynard Keynes

-Christopher Bliss
The Development and Testing of Heckscher-Ohlin Trade Models: A Review

-Keith Tribe
Economists and Societies: Discipline and Profession in the United States, Britain, and France, 1890s to 1990s

http://hope.dukejournals.org/content/current

8th BETA-Workshop in Historical Economics

2011-10-05T10:37:00.001+02:00

Call for Papers - 8th BETA-Workshop in Historical Economics: 11-12 May 2012.

The 2012 annual BETA-Workshop in Historical Economics will be hosted by the University of Strasbourg from 11 to 12 May and organised in association with the Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée (BETA, http://www.beta-umr7522.fr), the Association Française de Cliométrie (AFC, http://www.cliometrie.org) and Cliometrica (Springer Verlag, http://www.springer.com/journal/11698).

Keynote speaker for the 8th Edition is Oded GALOR, Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of Economics, Brown University and Visiting Professor, MIT (http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac/Oded_Galor/).

The organization welcomes proposals in all aspects of "Population Cliometrics and
Unified Growth Theory" covering a wide range of periods and countries.

For each proposed paper, please send by e-mail, as soon as possible and before January 1st 2012, a short abstract of 1000-1500 characters.

Speakers who submit a proposal to the Workshop should be able to obtain independent financial support for their travel and conference attendance. However, a very limited support fund exists to assist younger colleagues who are unable to obtain funding from their own institution or from another source. Meals are offered to the
participants during the Workshop at no cost

Please do not hesitate to circulate this call for papers as widely as possible.

Contact for paper proposals and practical matters: Claude DIEBOLT, cdiebolt@unistra.fr

Elezioni Segretario Generale STOREP

2011-10-04T09:00:00.000+02:00

Come stabilito nell'ultima Assemblea, le elezioni per il rinnovo delle cariche sociali dell'Associazione si terranno dal 15 al 22 ottobre 2011.
E' in scadenza la seguente carica: Segretario Generale.
Entro il termine previsto del 30 settembre 2011 è pervenuta un'unica candidatura:
Katia Caldari (Università di Padova)
Come deciso dal Consiglio Direttivo dello scorso giugno, le elezioni si effettueranno a scrutinio segreto attraverso la procedura online disponibile sul sito:
http://www.ballotbin.com/
Le operazioni di voto si apriranno sabato 15 ottobre alle ore 00.01 e si chiuderanno sabato 22 ottobre alle ore 23.59.
Il giorno giovedì 13 ottobre ogni socio riceverà per email un messaggio di iscrizione alle elezioni e dal 15 ottobre potrà votare cliccando sul link inserito nel messaggio ricevuto o andando direttamente sul sito http://www.ballotbin.com/ e digitando il codice personale comunicato nel messaggio. Dopo aver votato i soci riceveranno un messaggio di conferma. Immediatamente dopo la chiusura delle elezioni, l'esito finale sarà comunicato automaticamente via email a tutti i soci.

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics - New Issue

2011-10-03T12:04:00.002+02:00

Edited by: Erik Thomson
University of Manitoba
Issue date: 2011-10-01
Papers: 17

Contents:

1. Expectations, Employment and Prices: A Suggested Interpretation of the New 'Farmerian' Economics
Marco Guerrazzi
2. The Contribution of Douglass North to New Institutional Economics
Claude Ménard; Shirley Mary M.
3. Thesis of religion: normative basis of Islamic economics
Shaikh, Salman Ahmed
4. Sistemas sociotécnicos, innovación y desarrollo.
Lepratte, Leandro
5. Finitely repeated games with social preferences
Oechssler, Jörg
6. Monetarism
Juravle , Daniel
7. On the set of imputations induced by the k-additive core
Michel Grabisch; Tong Li
8. The Role of Default in Macroeconomics
Charles A. E. Goodhart; Dimitrios P. Tsomocos
9. More than Meets the Eye: an Eye-tracking Experiment on the Beauty Contest Game
Müller, Julia; Schwieren, Christiane
10. A Decade of Editing the European Economic Review
Eckstein, Zvi; Gal-Or, Esther; Gylfason, Thorvaldur; von Hagen, Jürgen; Pfann, Gerard A.
11. Floating against the tide : Spanish monetary policy, 1870-1931
Pablo Martín-Aceña; Elena Martínez Ruiz; Pilar Noguer Marco
12. On Envelope Theorems in Economics: Inspired by a Revival of a Forgotten Lecture
Löfgren, Karl-Gustaf
13. Ultimata bargaining: generosity without social motives
Breitmoser, Yves; Tan, Jonathan H.W.
14. Do People Care about Social Context? Framing Effects in Dictator Games
Dreber, Anna; Ellingsen, Tore; Johannesson, Magnus; Rand, David
15. When Ricardo saw profit, he called it rent: on the vice of parochial realism
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont
16. Credible Communication and Cooperation: Experimental Evidence from Multi-stage Games
Andersson, Ola; Wengström, Erik
17. A formula for Nash equilibria in monotone singleton congestion games
Abderrahmane ZIAD, University of Caen Basse-Normandie, CREM (UMR CNRS); Samir SBABOU, University of Caen Basse-Normandie, CREM (UMR CNRS); Hatem SMAOUI, CEMOI, Université de la Réunion

http://econpapers.repec.org/

Irving Fisher Conference

2011-10-01T09:00:00.000+02:00

Leda-Sdfi (University of Paris 9 Dauphine), Phare (University of Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) and Triangle (University Lumière Lyon 2) are organizing a European conference to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the First publication of the “Purchasing Power of Money” by Irving Fisher. It will be held at University of Lyon 2, 14-15th October, 2011.

The organizing committee is composed by Jérôme de Boyer des Roches, Robert Dimand, Jean-Pierre Potier and by myself.

You can find the program by making access to:
http://triangle.ens-lyon.fr/spip.php?article2105

Società Italiana degli Economisti - Assemblea

2011-09-30T11:30:00.003+02:00

E' convocata l'assemblea ordinaria dei soci della Società Italiana degli Economisti per Venerdì 14 ottobre 2011 in prima convocazione alle ore 13,30 e in seconda convocazione alle ore 18,15 presso l’Aula Magna (piano terra) della Facoltà di Economia dell’Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, Via Silvio D’Amico, 77, con il seguente ordine del giorno:

1. Relazione del Consiglio di Presidenza
2. Modifiche di Statuto
3. Bilancio e rendiconto finanziario
4. Varie ed eventuali

75 years of General Theory

2011-09-29T09:00:00.000+02:00

December 2-3, 2011
University of Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne
Maison des Sciences Économiques,
106, boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75013 Paris, FRANCE

The year 2011 marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of Keynes's The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
The conference aims at analyzing the influence of Keynes's book on current theories and policies. It will discuss the ways Keynes's ideas fueled the reflection of all economists, whether Keynesians or not, theorists or policy makers, and discuss how The General Theory was used, instrumented or hijacked both by economic theories and by economic policies.

For more information and registration, see the conference website:
http://ces.univ-paris1.fr/75GT.htm

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics - New Issue

2011-09-28T10:29:00.000+02:00

Edited by: Erik Thomson
University of Manitoba
Issue date: 2011-09-22
Papers: 12

Contents:

- Raţionalitatea în economie: de la homo oeconomicus la homo irationalis
Constantinescu, Radu
- John Maynard Keynes: Is That you Knocking on the Door?
Tadeusz Kowalski; Yochanan Shachmurove
- Qualitative and temporal aggregation
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont
- Econophysics: empirical facts
Anirban Chakraborti; Ioane Muni Toke; Marco Patriarca; Frédéric Abergel
- Efficiency, egalitarism, stability and social welfare in economics
Elvio Accinelli; Leobardo Plata-Pérez; Joss Sánchez-Pérez
- Happiness, Habits and High Rank: Comparisons in Economic and Social Life
Clark, Andrew E.
- Model averaging in economics
Enrique Moral-Benito
- The Effect of Hysteresis on Equilibrium Selection in Coordination Games
Julian Romero
- Econophysics: agent-based models
Anirban Chakraborti; Ioane Muni Toke; Marco Patriarca; Frédéric Abergel
- Oeconomicus vs. Academicus din perspectiva diacronică a relaţiei între ciclurile Kondratieff şi reformele structurale ale învăţământului superior
Hălăngescu, Constantin I.
- A Model of Partnership Formation with Friction and Multiple Criteria
Stephen Kinsella; David M. Ramsey
- Between the Penthouse and the Outhouse: The Sorting of Economics Professors and the Quality of Military Personnel
Timothy Perri

http://nep.repec.org/

Economia Politica - New Issue

2011-09-27T13:36:00.000+02:00

The new issue of Economia Politica - Journal of Analytical and Instiutional Economics has been published

Economia Politica - Vol. XXVIII, no. 2
(English version)

SOMMARIO/CONTENTS

EDITORIALE/EDITORIAL NOTE

For the Development of Middle East and North Africa. Sovereign Wealth Fund, European Union, Arab League and Others
by Alberto Quadrio Curzio

SAGGI/ESSAYS

Forecasting Errors: Yet More Problems for Identification?
by Bruno Contini

The Solow Growth Model with Endogenous Migration Flows and Congested Public Capital
by Romano Piras

Labour Market Assimilation and Over-Education: The Case of Immigrant Workers in Italy
by Carlo Dell’Aringa and Laura Pagani

RASSEGNA/SURVEY

The Positive Analysis of Consumption Externalities
by Emanuela Randon

RECENSIONI/BOOK REVIEWS

Arrow K.J. - Sen A. - Suzumura K. (2011), Handbook of Social Choice and Welfare, vol. 2
di Pier Carlo Nicola

Orléan A. (2010), Dall’euforia al panico. Pensare la crisi finanziaria e altri saggi
by Alberto Russo

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Abstracts of all published articles are available following the links above. Instructions on how to access all the articles full-text can be obtained from the web site of the publisher Il Mulino following the link "Subscriptions and downloads" available at www.economia.politica.it

Suggestions and/or questions to the Editor in Chief must be addressed to Centro di Ricerca in Analisi Economica e Sviluppo Economico Internazionale - CRANEC (Research Centre in Economic Analysis and International Economic Development - CRANEC) to the following e-mail: cranec-ep@unicatt.it.

The Istanbul-Conference-Special Issue of EJHET

2011-09-26T09:00:00.000+02:00

The preparations of the Special Issue of the European Journal of the History of Economic Thought devoted to the ESHET Conference in Istanbul are now underway. The association invites participants of the conference to submit their papers for consideration for the special issue of EJHET. The Special Issue has no theme and all papers presented at the conference will be considered.
Please note that the competition will be fierce as the number of papers in the special issue is very limited indeed.

Please also note the following:

1. Papers presented at the conference are not automatically considered for the Special Issue. The editors will only consider those papers which have been especially submitted for the Special Issue. We will not consider papers which have not been presented at the conference.
2. Submitted papers will undergo a process of review by anonymous referees in line with the regular procedures of EJHET.
2. Full papers (including a short abstract and a list of up to five key-words) should be submitted no later than 31st October 2011 to a.witztum@londonmet.ac.uk
3. Those who are not native English speakers are asked to have their papers checked by a native English speaker before submission. It is in the best interest of every author to deliver his or her paper written in a readily intelligible and accessible manner.

Companies Act 2006 : http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/companyinfo

History of Economics Society Distinguished Fellow Call for Nominations 2011-12

2011-09-23T09:00:00.000+02:00

History of Economics Society Distinguished Fellow Call for Nominations 2011-12

The History of Economics Society Distinguished Fellow Committee (as determined by the HES Constitution - Chair: Jerry Evensky, and Members: Steve Medema and Avi Cohen) invites nominations for the Distinguished Fellow award to be presented at the HES 2012 annual meeting June 22-25 at the Brock University.

Nominations should include a statement about the candidate that can be the basis for the award citation, and a CV and/or biographical statement. For examples of past citations, please see the HES website links to "Awards and Honors" then "Distinguished Fellows" or directly visit the web page: http://historyofeconomics.org/Fellows.cfm.

Please send nomination materials to Jerry Evensky, Department of Economics, 110 Eggers Hall, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY 13244 USA or to jevensky@syr.edu by December 17, 2011.
Email submissions are preferred.

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics - New Issue

2011-09-22T09:00:00.001+02:00

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

Edited by: Erik Thomson
University of Manitoba
Issue date: 2011-09-16
Papers: 16

Contents:

-Economic Emergence: an Evolutionary Economic Perspective
John Foster; J. Stan Metcalfe
-Increasing returns and stability
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont
-The impact of economics blogs
McKenzie, David; Ozler, Berk
-A new look at Marx' refutation of Ricardo's refutation of the labor theory of value.
Kepa M. Ormazabal
-On the Smooth Ambiguity Model: A Reply
Peter Klibanoff; Massimo Marinacci; Sujoy Mukerji
-"Central Banking in an Era of Quantitative Easing"
Andrew Sheng
-Homo oeconomicus vs. homo academicus - provocări și dileme din perspectiva globalizării Hălăngescu, Constantin I.
-Sharing the surplus in games with externalities within and across issues
Effrosyni Diamantoudi; Inés Macho-Stadler; David Pérez-Castrillo; Licun Xue
-An extension of the Sensmaking-Intuition Model (SIM) by defining ethics: an answer to Sonenshein.
Olivier Charpateau
-The power to tax
Estrada, Fernando
-Trust, Reciprocity and Rules
Thomas A. Rietz; Eric Schniter; Roman M. Sheremeta; Timothy W. Shields
-Cooperative games with incomplete information: Some open problems
Françoise Forges; Roberto Serrano
-Re-Thinking Reputation
Andrew Mell
-The conflict between general equilibrium and the Marshallian cross
Zaman, Asad; Saglam, Ismail
-Maurice Allais, itinéraire d’un économiste français.
Sterdyniak, Henri
-Man is the only animal that trips twice over the same stone
Lorca-Susino, Maria

http://nep.repec.org/

CALL FOR PAPERS – INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE « ECONOMIC PHILOSOPHY »

2011-09-21T09:00:00.000+02:00

Sciences Po Lille – 21-22 June 2012, France
Sciences Po Lille and the Papers in Political Economy,with support of CLERSE (UMR 8019), Lille 1, l’Association Charles Gide

"What is economic philosophy? It is a well known phrase. In France, in Europe and
worldwide, journals, research centers and academic syllabi refer to it. But what does it mean?
Does it have an object, a methodology and references which would really distinguish it from economic theories? Is it just another name to refer to what we once called doctrine? Is it more or something else than what we today call economic epistemology? And what place does economic philosophy occupy alongside other fields of philosophy? These questions, and similar ones, seem to have enough relevance for the Papers in Economic History to organize a conference on these with the aim of publishing a special issue.
A first estimate shows that three possible meanings can be distinguished - as so many
orientations for proposals. At first, there would be an economic philosophy in the way there is an underlying philosophy in any positive science in the shape of an envelope which supports or hinders it. The study of this economic philosophy - as philosophy of the economy - would then consist in bringing to light the decisive notions from which economic analysis draws its resources or from which, on the contrary, it has to operate an epistemological break-away.
There would then be an economic philosophy in the sense that the economic notions of
optimum, collective well-being and social choice result in questions relative to the freedom of the agents and to the justice of their mutual relations. Economics would thus appear as a body in two complementary parts – a positive side or examination of the empirical conditions ensuring the maximum efficiency of the actions relative to the production of wealth in a given society; a normative side or description of the ideal conditions under which these results ensure the moral satisfaction of the members of this society. Economic philosophy would constitute this normative part. It would thus be another name for welfare economics, theory of social choice or economic theory of justice.
Finally, there would be an economic philosophy in the sense that the essential notions constitutive of the field of economy and economics are the objects of an analysis pushed to its final limits. Economists are acquainted with this level of inquiry on fundamental concepts of their domain under the title of pure theory. Pure theory does not raise the positive question of how an economic device works best compared to others. Nor does it normatively question the ideal conditions under which the economy can be just. Pure theory rises to the superior level of the so-called real or abstract definitions which, in their turn, command the deployment of economics as a coherent and relevant whole.
But are we saying enough? Shouldn’t we go further than the simple review of the
possible meanings of a phrase? Shouldn’t we also understand that an economic philosophy may come under the banner of a great philosophical tradition to unify economic theoretical propositions - as political or moral philosophies are wont to? It would then be necessary to speak about Aristotelian, Hegelian or Marxist economic philosophy, an economic philosophy inspired by J.S. Mill, the Vienna Circle or Wittgenstein or influenced by Hayek or evolutionism - further incentives for proposals."

PROPOSALS
An abstract (no more than 500 words) of the proposed contribution should be submitted by e-mail to philoeco@sciencespo-lille.eu in English or French, with a brief curriculum vita, postal and email addresses.
DEADLINES
15 October 2011: submission deadline
03 December 2011: meeting of the program committee
17 December 2011: notification to applicants
14 May 2012: full paper submission deadline
For more information, please contact: philoeco@sciencespo-lille.eu
EVENT
A selection of papers will be published in a special issue of the Cahiers d’Economie
Politique-Papers in Political Economy Organizers’ intent is to publish other papers in a separated publication
MANAGING COMMITTEE
Arnaud Berthoud, Lille1, CLERSE - Jiména Hurtado, Universidad de Los Andes,
PHARE - Patrick Mardellat, Sciences Po Lille, CLERSE - Delphine Pouchain,
Sciences Po Lille, CLERSE - Shirine Sabéran, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, PHARE -
Richard Sobel, Lille1, CLERSE

http://www.cahiersdecopo.fr/fr/data/uploads/callpapersecophilo2012.pdf

Best Article in the History of Economics: Call for Nominations

2011-09-20T10:17:00.001+02:00

The History of Economics Society is pleased to invite nominations for "Best Article in the History of Economics", 2011. Any article in the history of economics or economic thought published in English in the calendar year preceding the next Annual Meeting of the Society is eligible for consideration (that is, articles published in 2011, prior to the Annual Meeting in June, 2012).
It is recognized, however, that despite official publication dates, many publications are shipped after year end. In such cases, relevant articles that are in 'proof' form, with accompanying evidence of the journal and its year of publication, may be accepted at the discretion of the Chair of the committee.
The Committee considers all nominated articles as well as all articles published in the Society's journal: Journal for the History of Economic Thought. The committee cannot ask editors of journals for their nominations as editors, but editors may nominate in a personal capacity. Nomination of an article by its author is welcome. To nominate a dissertation for the award, please contact the chair of the committee.
sziliak@roosevelt.edu

For more info: http://historyofeconomics.org/Awards.cfm

2012 Warren Samuels Prize

2011-09-19T09:00:00.000+02:00

The Association for Social Economics (ASE), one of the founding member organizations of the Allied Social Science Associations, together with the Review of Social Economy, invite submissions for the 2012 Warren Samuels Prize
Established a number of years ago, this prize is awarded to a paper, presented at the January ASSA meetings, that best exemplifies scholarly work that:

· Is of high quality,
· Is important to the project of social economics,
· Has broad appeal across disciplines.

Papers will not normally exceed 7,500 words (inclusive of references, notes), and should follow the style guidelines for the Review of Social Economy.
The winner of the prize will be announced during the ASE presidential breakfast, to which the winner is invited. The winning paper may, subject to peer review, be published in a subsequent issue of the Review of Social Economy. The winner of the Warren Samuels Prize receives a $500 stipend.

The selection committee consists of:

A Past-President of ASE;
A Co-editor of the Review of Social Economy (Chair);
A member of the Editorial Board, Review of Social Economy.

This prize is awarded to a paper, being presented at the January, 2012, ASSA meetings in Chicago, Ill., in sessions not restricted to sessions in the ASE programme. Please send your paper electronically, as a word or pdf attachment, to Wilfred Dolfsma, Corresponding Editor, Review of Social Economy, before December 5th, 2011 to w.a.dolfsma@rug.nl.

Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Award

2011-09-16T09:00:00.001+02:00

Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Award

In 2004 the History of Economics Society established the Joseph J. Spengler Prize for the best book in the history of economics. The prize comprises of a stipend of $500 plus travel expenses up to $500 to attend the presentation at the Society's annual conference.
A list of past winners can be found at:
http://www.historyofeconomics.org/Spengler.cfm

Original, authored books in the history of economics published, in English, during the two calendar years preceding the HES Meeting at which the award is presented (this year, from 1 January 2010 - 31 December 2011). Scholarly books and monographs are eligible, as are English-language translations of scholarly books in the history of economics, but neither textbooks, doctoral dissertations, nor edited volumes are eligible. Any publisher may nominate one or two books and should submit a nominating note and four copies of the book for each book nominated. Any individual, including a book's author, may submit a nominating note and four copies of the book nominated. Eligible books may be re-nominated in successive years. Individual nominators may wish to ask the nominee's publisher to supply the copies, and before nominating a book individuals may wish to check with the HES Secretary to ensure that the book has not already been nominated.
To be considered, nominations (and the four book copies) must be received no later than December 31, 2011. Nominations should be submitted to: Tim Leonard, Secretary, History of Economics Society, Department of Economics, Princeton University, Fisher Hall, Princeton, NJ, United States, 08544.

This year's committee is formed by James Forder (Oxford University), Tiago Mata (Duke University), Rob Van Horn (Univ. of Rhode Island), and Michael White (Monash University).

The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good - New Issue

2011-09-15T10:08:00.002+02:00

The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the Common Good
Robert H. Frank
Princeton University Press

Who was the greater economist--Adam Smith or Charles Darwin? The question seems absurd. Darwin, after all, was a naturalist, not an economist. But Robert Frank, New York Times economics columnist and best-selling author of The Economic Naturalist, predicts that within the next century Darwin will unseat Smith as the intellectual founder of economics. The reason, Frank argues, is that Darwin's understanding of competition describes economic reality far more accurately than Smith's. And the consequences of this fact are profound. Indeed, the failure to recognize that we live in Darwin's world rather than Smith's is putting us all at risk by preventing us from seeing that competition alone will not solve our problems.

Smith's theory of the invisible hand, which says that competition channels self-interest for the common good, is probably the most widely cited argument today in favor of unbridled competition--and against regulation, taxation, and even government itself. But what if Smith's idea was almost an exception to the general rule of competition? That's what Frank argues, resting his case on Darwin's insight that individual and group interests often diverge sharply. Far from creating a perfect world, economic competition often leads to "arms races," encouraging behaviors that not only cause enormous harm to the group but also provide no lasting advantages for individuals, since any gains tend to be relative and mutually offsetting.

The good news is that we have the ability to tame the Darwin economy. The best solution is not to prohibit harmful behaviors but to tax them. By doing so, we could make the economic pie larger, eliminate government debt, and provide better public services, all without requiring painful sacrifices from anyone. That's a bold claim, Frank concedes, but it follows directly from logic and evidence that most people already accept.

Robert H. Frank is an economics professor at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management and a regular "Economic View" columnist for the New York Times, and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos. His books, which have been translated into 22 languages, include The Winner-Take-All Society (with Philip Cook), The Economic Naturalist, Luxury Fever, What Price the Moral High Ground?, and Principles of Economics (with Ben Bernanke).

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9509.html

4th Workshop "History of economics as culture"

2011-09-14T09:49:00.000+02:00

The H2S (History of Social Science) group, Economix (CNRS UMR 7235) and THEMA (CNRS UMR 8184) are organizing the fourth annual workshop on the “History of ‘economics as culture’ (Histoire culturelle des savoirs économiques)” to be held Friday, March 9th, 2012 at the University of Cergy-Pontoise (near Paris, France). Since its first installment in 2009, this workshop is bringing together scholars from different disciplines such as economics, history, art and literary theory, science and technology studies – this list is not exclusive – to discuss, from an historical vantage point, the place of economics in our culture.

Below are some suggestions of topics that exemplify what will be at issue:
- Discussions of the interactions between art, literature and economics; for example how artists, writers have articulated more or less elaborate representations of what was the economy and/or political economy and/or some part of these.
- Studies of the interactions between cultural or artistic objects such as magazines, books, maps, photographs, paintings, graphs and economic thinking. Also, we encourage scholars to consider economic texts as cultural items, reflecting upon the consequences their form had on their reception.
- The depiction of economics as part of cultures (political, commercial, scientific, etc.) of past (including very recent past) societies; in particular, discussions of economic representations (or culture) of specific social groups such as merchants, workers, businessmen, etc.
The workshop will comprise of 5 or 6 papers containing genuine and unpublished research.
If you have an interest in these topics, please send a proposal of no more than 1000 words or a draft paper of what you want to present before December 15, 2011 at the following address: historyofeconomicsasculture@gmail.com
If you are interested in the subject but are unable to send a proposal, feel free to contact the organizers at the same address for further discussion/information.
Also, last year program is available here:
http://thema.u-cergy.fr/presentation/news-21/article/cfp-histoire-culturelle-des?lang=fr

Candidature elezioni Segretario Generale STOREP

2011-09-13T09:00:00.000+02:00

Si comunica che sono aperte le candidature per il rinnovo delle cariche sociali dell'Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell'Economia Politica (STOREP).
E' in scadenza la seguente carica: Segretario Generale.
Chiunque intenda candidarsi deve inviare una mail al segretario uscente (segretario@storep.org) entro il 30 settembre 2011.
Le elezioni si terranno nell'ottobre 2011 con procedura informatica.

Dallo Statuto si ricorda che:
ARTICOLO 7: (...) Ogni Socio ordinario ha diritto a esprimere un voto nelle assemblee e gode dei diritti di elettorato attivo e passivo.
ARTICOLO 12: (...) L’elezione del Presidente, del Segretario Generale, del Consiglio Direttivo e del Collegio dei Revisori dei conti è svolta direttamente in una Assemblea Ordinaria o Straordinaria, qualora ad essa partecipino almeno due terzi degli aventi diritto di voto, in prima convocazione e con almeno la metà degli aventi diritto di voto nella seconda convocazione. L’elezione avviene, sempre a scrutinio segreto, con le seguenti modalità. Almeno entro 30 giorni prima dell’Assemblea al cui ordine del giorno vi sia l’elezione e/o il rinnovo delle cariche sociali i candidati formalizzano la loro candidatura per mezzo di lettera al Segretario, che può essere anche telematica, e a cui il Segretario darà la più ampia diffusione. Ogni elettore può esprimere rispettivamente:
(...) una sola preferenza per il Segretario (...)
ARTICOLO 13: (...) La carica di Segretario Generale dura tre anni ed è rinnovabile per un ulteriore mandato.

L'elenco aggiornato dei soci ordinari è disponibile sul sito STOREP
http://www.storep.org/soci.htm

Workshop internazionale "Economic Theories and Policies. A Historical Perspectives (1945-2002)"

2011-09-12T14:04:00.004+02:00

l'Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell'Economia Politica (STOREP) promuove il Workshop internazionale "Economic Theories and Policies. A Historical Perspectives (1945-2002)".
Il Workshop si terrà a Roma il 21-22 settembre 2011 presso la Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell'Università di Roma Tre (Room 2b) , Via G. Chiabrera 199 ed è organizzato da Veronica Anelli, Piero Bini, Katia Caldari,Francesco Cattabrini, Simona Ferrulli e Fabio Masini.
Il programma del workshop può essere scaricato da
http://www.storep.org/workshop.htm
http://www.storep.org/workshop_en.htm

Presentation:

Theories, events and public choices are closely interdependent factors in the production and circulation of ideas. The economic literature often singles out causal nexuses between events and economic policy reactions, implying that the latter responds to the formers. In turn, it is often underlined that policy makers “demand” economic theories in support of their choices. This is an interpretative model we may define “highly exogenous”, because events represent exogenous shocks on the policy making process and, as a second step, on the search for theories. Its interpretative capacity is nevertheless weak: the relationship among theories, choices, events is much more complex, less linear, often bi-univocal, with some unforeseeable “short
circuits”. In order to tackle with such complexity, it is necessary to use a model
which assumes the inherent interdependence of such variables and singles out the time
evolution of their reciprocal influences which, in turn, generate new events, theories and policies. The workshop is a step within a wider international project aiming at analysing the theoretical debates and the main choices of economic policy after WWII, considering some relevant national cases and some international economic institutions. It seeks to reconstruct the relational complexity which characterizes the network of economic theory, policymaking processes and the most important events of the time span considered. Through a comparative analysis among single (nations/institutions) cases, the workshop will attempt to find some interpretative keys that make explicit such “circuits” among facts.

Invited speakers:

Veronica Anelli
University o Florence
Roger Backhouse
University of Birmingham
Bradley Bateman
Dennison University, USA
Piero Bini
University of Roma Tre
Erik Buyst
University of Leuven
Francesco Cattabrini
University of Roma Tre
James Forder
Balliol College Oxford
Harald Hagemann
University of Hohenheim
Johan Lönnroth
University of Goteborg
Ivo Maes
University of Leuven - Belgium National Bank
Fabio Masini
University of Roma Tre
Jean Pisani-Ferri
University of Paris-Dauphine
Masazumi Wakatabe
Waseda University, Tokyo
Juan Zabalza
University of Saragoza

Programme:

Wednesday 21 September 2011

09.30 First Session. Chair: M. Cristina Marcuzzo
· Piero Bini and Fabio Masini, University of Roma Tre
Economic Theories and Policies. Setting the Table
· Harald Hagemann, University of Hohenheim
Economic Theories and Policies in Germany
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Second Session. Chair: Harald Hagemann
· Masazumi Wakatabe, Waseda University, Tokyo
Central Banking, Japanese Style: Economics and the Bank of Japan, 1945-2010
· Roger Backhouse, University of Birmingham and James Forder, Balliol College Oxford
Economic Theories and Policies in the UK
15.00 Third Session. Chair: Daniela Parisi
· Juan Zabalza, University of Saragoza
Economic Theories and Policies throughout Dictatorship and Democracy. Spain 1945-2009
· Ivo Maes, University of Leuven - Belgium National Bank
Economic Thought and Policy: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa at the European Commission
16.30 Coffee break
17.00 Fourth Session. Chair: Annalisa Rosselli
· Piero Bini, University of Roma Tre
Economic Theories and Policies in Italy in the 1970s
· Francesco Cattabrini, University of Roma Tre
The Modigliani controversy: from theory to policy and back

Thursday 22 September 2011

09.00 Fifth Session. Chair: Roger Backhouse
· Johan Lönnroth, University of Goteborg
Who came first: Politicians or academic economists?
· Erik Buyst, University of Leuven
Economic Thought and Policy in Belgium (1944-1999)
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Sixth Session. Chair: Piero Bini
· Bradley Bateman, Dennison University, USA
Rethinking the Monetarist Experience: Monetary Theory and Monetary Policy in the United States
· Jean Pisani-Ferri, University of Paris-Dauphine
French Economic Policy: Have we Learned?
· Veronica Anelli, University of Florence
IMF conditionality and the changing economic paradigms
13.15 End of Workshop

2012 CONFERENCE NEWS FROM DOWNUNDER

2011-09-09T11:01:00.001+02:00

The 25th History of Economic Thought Society od Australia(HETSA) Conference will take place in Melbourne from July 5-7th it will be hosted by HETSA and the University of Ballarat. It will take place in the historic setting of the Royal Society of Victoria Building.

Just before the conference the Joseph Shumpeter society are having a conference at the University of Queensland, Brisbane. It will be held from July 2 till July 5.
At the End of the HETSA conference the 41 Australian Conference of Economists will take place in Melbourne from the 8th july till the 12 JUly.

Like the HETSA conference it is taking place in Melbourne CBD and is being hosted by Victoria University. There is, alas, no joint registration fee arrangement. All three conferences are run by three different field societies.

Obviously you might be able to chalk up a couple of conferences one after another and see a bit of downunder.
Organizing Secretary invite early offers of papers for the HETSA conference and please contact Alex Millmow a.millmow@BALLARAT.EDU.AU for accommodation options at this early stage.

http://www.hetsa.org.au/

2011 Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Competition

2011-09-08T19:50:00.001+02:00

The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics is pleased to announce that submissions for the 2011 Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate Student Essay Competition are now being accepted. Submissions will be accepted from advanced PhD students in economics or other relevant disciplines anywhere in the world. The competition is limited to thesis chapters and/or other research that is geared toward publication in the professional journals; submissions should adhere to appropriate standards of academic writing and should be on a topic relevant to Austrian economics. There is no word limit; and, students submitting papers to this competition will retain all publication rights to their work; however, winners are encouraged to submit their papers to The Review of Austrian Economics for possible publication.

Three prizes are given, each worth $1000, to be used to pay expenses to attend the Southern Economic Association meetings this November 19-21, 2011 in Washington, DC, where the winners will present their work on a special panel scheduled for 10:00am, Monday, November 21. Prize awards are contingent on attending the SEA meetings and the SDAE's annual business meeting and awards banquet on Sunday evening, November 20.

The prize committee consists of:

. Peter Boettke, Committee Chair, George Mason University

. Emily Chamlee-Wright, Beloit College

. Steven Horwitz, St. Lawrence University

. David Prychitko, Northern Michigan University

. Virgil Storr, Mercatus Center at George Mason University

Deadline for submissions is October 15, 2011. Decisions will be made on or around October 20.

Please include a copy of your CV with your submission. All questions and submissions should be sent electronically to David Currie at

dcurrie@gmu.edu

http://it.stlawu.edu/sdae/

2013 AEA Meetings

2011-09-07T09:00:00.001+02:00

The current Journal of Economic Perspectives contains the announcement of program plans for the 2013 AEA Meetings. Part of that announcement reads:

"Members wishing to give papers or organize complete sessions for the program for the AEA meetings in San Diego, January 4-6, 2013, are invited to submit proposals electronically (NO hardcopies!) to Professor Claudia Goldin via the American Economic Association web site at http://www.aeaweb.org/Annual_Meeting/submissions.php
The submission portal for the 2013 annual AEA meeting opens on March 1, 2012. While papers covering a wide array of topics in economics will be included on the 2013 program, Professor Goldin is especially interested in receiving proposals that interpret current economic issues in light of the past."

The CFP thus presents a rare opportunity for not only economic historians but also historians of economics to participate in the AEA meetings quite apart from the usual HES Sessions at the encompassing ASSA meeting.

The Poverty of Clio: Resurrecting Economic History - Francesco Boldizzoni

2011-09-06T19:01:00.002+02:00

The Poverty of Clio challenges the hold that cliometrics--an approach to economic history that employs the analytical tools of economists--has exerted on the study of our economic past. In this provocative book, Francesco Boldizzoni calls for the reconstruction of economic history, one in which history and the social sciences are brought to bear on economics, and not the other way around.

Boldizzoni questions the appeal of economics over history--which he identifies as a distinctly American attitude--exposing its errors and hidden ideologies, and revealing how it fails to explain economic behavior itself. He shows how the misguided reliance on economic reasoning to interpret history has come at the expense of insights from the humanities and has led to a rejection of valuable past historical research. Developing a better alternative to new institutional economics and the rational choice approach, Boldizzoni builds on the extraordinary accomplishments of twentieth-century European historians and social thinkers to offer fresh ideas for the renewal of the field.

Economic history needs to rediscover the true relationship between economy and culture, and promote an authentic alliance with the social sciences, starting with sociology and anthropology. It must resume its dialogue with the humanities, but without shrinking away from theory when constructing its models. The Poverty of Clio demonstrates why history must exert its own creative power on economics.

Francesco Boldizzoni is research fellow in economic history at the University of Bari and a life member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. He is the author of Means and Ends: The Idea of Capital in the West, 1500-1970.

Table of Contents:

Preface ix
Chapter 1: Truth on the Cross
Science and Ideology 1
Chapter 2: Economics with a Human Face? 18
Chapter 3: The Fanciful World of Clio 54
Chapter 4: The World We Have Lost
Microeconomic History 87
Chapter 5: The World We Have Lost
Macroeconomic Perspectives 120
Chapter 6: Building on the Past
The Creative Power of History 138
References 173
Index 209

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9476.html

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

2011-09-05T09:00:00.000+02:00

New Economics Papers
History and Philosophy of Economics

Edited by: Erik Thomson
University of Manitoba
Issue date: 2011-08-29
Papers: 10

CONTENTS:

Irving Fisher, Debt Deflation and Crises
Robert J. Shiller
Economic Returns to Education: What We Know, What We Don't Know, and Where We Are Going – Some Brief Pointers
Harmon, Colm P.
Forms of Emergence and the Evolution of Economic Landscapes
Ron Martin; Peter Sunley
A positive theory of cooperative games: The logit core and its variants
Bolle, Friedel; Breitmoser, Yves; Otto, Philipp E.
Aggregate Representations of Aggregate Games
Martimort, David; Stole, Lars
Pricing risk and ambiguity: The effect of perspective taking
Stefan T. Trautmann; Ulrich Schmidt
Endogenous Norm Formation Over the Life Cycle – The Case of Tax Evasion
Nordblom, Katarina; Zamac, Jovanhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
A Review and Bibliography of Early Warning Models
Yucel, Eray
The Minority Game Unpacked: Coordination and Competition in a Team-based Experiment
Giovanna Devetag; Francesca Pancotto; Thomas Brenner
Why didn’t Canada have a banking crisis in 2008 (or in 1930, or 1907, or ...)?
Michael D. Bordo; Angela Redish; Hugh Rockoff

http://nep.repec.org/

NEP - August issues

2011-09-02T09:00:00.004+02:00

NEP: New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

Edited by: Erik Thomson
University of Manitoba

Issue date: 2011-08-02
Papers: 9

CONTENTS

-A behavioral approach to the political and economic inquiry into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations
Boettke, Peter
-Reconstructing the Quantity Theory (I)
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont
-Uncertainty aversion and equilibrium in extensive games.
Rothe, Jorn
-Angus Maddison and Development Economics
Szirmai, Adam
-Economics and Theoretical Physics
Punabantu, Siize
-Convexity and the Shapley value in Bertrand oligopoly TU-games with Shubik's demand functions
Dongshuang Hou; Theo Driessen; Aymeric Lardon
-An Anarchist's reflection on the political economy of everyday life
Boettke, Peter
-Econophysics: Bridges over a Turbulent Current
Shu-Heng Chen; Sai-Ping Li
-Defying Gravity: The 1932 Imperial Economic Conference and the Reorientation of Canadian Trade
David S. Jacks

Issue date: 2011-08-09
Papers: 13

CONTENTS

-The Present and Future of Game Theory
Martin Shubik
-What would Hume make of our Current Theories and our Current Economic Predicament? And what should we make of his views on government debt?
Peter Sinclair (University of Birmingham)
-Os mecanismos de funcionamento do “Padrão Ouro”: uma visão crítica
Cláudio Gontijo
-On the existence of Berge's strong equilibrium
Messaoud Deghdak; Monique Florenzano
-G. Th. Guilbaud et la théorie du choix social.
Bernard Monjardet
-L'économie du bien-être est morte. Vive l' économie du bien-être !
Antoinette Baujard - Université of Caen Basse-Normandie - CREM-CNRS
-The Strategic Use of Ambiguity
Frank Riedel; Linda Sass
-Considerateness
Edna Ullmann-Margalit
-O conceito de produção na contabilidade social: uma contribuição crítica
Cláudio Gontijo
-Explaining the harmonic sequence paradox
Ulrich Schmidt; Alexander Zimper
-The fiscal theory of the price level and the backing theory of money
Sproul, Michael
-Marginal tax rates, tax revenues and inequality. Reagan’s fiscal policy
Elena Briata
-A “nova dialética” de Christopher Arthur e O capital de Karl Marx: uma análise crítica
Cláudio Gontijo

Issue date: 2011-08-15
Papers: 18

CONTENTS
-G. Th. Guilbaud et la théorie du choix social
Bernard Monjardet
-The Influence of Irving Fisher on Milton Friedman’s Monetary Economics
Michael D. Bordo; Hugh Rockoff
-"The Political Business Cycle: New Evidence from the Nixon Tapes"
Burton A. Abrams; James L. Butkiewicz
-How to end to the debt crisis in one month
Punabantu, Siize
-Econophysics: A Brief Review of Historical Development, Present Status and Future Trends
B. G. Sharma; Sadhana Agrawal; Malti Sharma; D. P. Bisen; Ravi Sharma
-Uniform profit ratios
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont
-Economic Returns to Education: What We Know, What We Don’t Know, and Where We Are Going – Some Brief Pointers
Matt Dickson; Colm Harmon
-Structuralist macroeconomics and new developmentalism
Pereira, Luiz C. Bresser (Luiz Carlos Bresser)
-Modernidade, pós-modernidade e neoliberalismo
Pereira, Luiz C. Bresser (Luiz Carlos Bresser)
-A taxa de câmbio no centro da teoria do desenvolvimento
Pereira, Luiz C. Bresser (Luiz Carlos Bresser)
-To game or not to game: teaching transportation planning with board games
Arthur Huang; David Levinson
-Evolving to the Impatience Trap: The Example of the Farmer-Sheriff Game
David K Levine; Salvatore Modica; Federico Weinschelbaum; Felipe Zurita
-Emotions, Sanctions and Cooperation
Mateus Joffily; David Masclet; Charles N. Noussair; Marie-Claire Villeval
-Upgrading or Downgrading? \ Framing Effects in Online Shopping Environments \
Nozomi NAKAJIMA
-Limited Rationality and Strategic Interaction: A Probabilistic Multi-Agent Model
Yves Ortiz; Martin schüle
-"Keynesian Fiscal Stimulus: What Have We Learned from the Great Recession?"
Laurence Seidman
-Path dependence in public-good games
Lisa Bruttel; Tim Friehe
-Lies and Biased Evaluation: A Real-Effort Experiment
Rosaz, Julie; Villeval, Marie Claire

Issue date: 2011-08-22
Papers: 4

CONTENTS
-The return of vulgar economics: A Rejoinder to Colander, Holt and Rosser
Matías Vernengo
-Keynes’s missing axioms
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont
-The Possibility of a Welfare Policy in a World of Emotion-Driven Individuals: A Humean Point of View
André Lapidus
-Tastes, castes, and culture : the influence of society on preferences
Fehr, Ernst; Hoff, Karla

http://nep.repec.org/

Warren Samuels (1933-2011)

2011-09-01T09:00:00.001+02:00

With great sadness, STOREP reports that Warren Samuels passed away August 17 at home in Gainesville, Florida. Warren was a highly respected and extensively published historian of economic thought, economic methodologist, and expert on the economic role of government. He was a long-time member of the Association for Social Economics, a member of the editorial board of the Review of Social Economy, president of the ASE in 1988, and a 1997 Divine Award recipient. Warren Samuels was author or co-authorhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif of many books and scholarly papers, edited or co-edited a tremendous number of volumes, including a considerable amount of unpublished, archival materials, edited or co-edited Journal of Economic Issues, Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology, and the Journal of Income Distribution, was on the editorial boards of 22 journals, and edited or co-edited many book series. For the last number of years he worked at compiling and organizing every reference and interpretation of the invisible hand concept. Erasing the Invisible Hand: Essays on an Elusive and Misguided Concept in Economics will appear with Cambridge University Press in September. Warren will be remembered for his generosity and kindness towards those with whom he worked and interacted, for his tolerance, humanity, and concern for others, and for his intellectuality, openness, honesty, and his commitment to pluralism in economics. Many individuals and organizations benefited from his support, and the economics profession was fortunate to count him a member.
Website: https://www.msu.edu/~ec/faculty/samuels/samuels.htm

Buone Vacanze

2011-07-29T09:00:00.000+02:00

Il blog STOREP sospende la propria attività fino al 31 agosto. Tornerà il 1 settembre.
Buone vacanze.

PhD Programs 2012 at IMT

2011-07-28T11:05:00.001+02:00

Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca

NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR THE PHD PROGRAM IN:
ECONOMICS, MARKETS AND INSTITUTIONS

http://www.imtlucca.it/phd_programs/call_for_applications/index.php

IMT mission is to produce scientific and technological knowledge in areas marked by a lack of technological applications and skilled human capital.

Ph.D. programs and research labs at IMT focus on processes of institutional and technological change, with particular reference to economics, political and social sciences, computer sciences and engineering.

IMT’s teaching and working language is English.

Lombardy Advanced School of Economic Research

2011-07-27T10:00:00.000+02:00

Lombardy Advanced School of Economic Research

Director: Prof. Paolo Garella
The Lombardy Advanced School of Economic Research (LASER) is an inter-university doctoral school in Economics founded by the Universities of Bergamo, Brescia, Milano and Pavia. The main purpose of LASER is to promote cutting-edge research activities and the circulation of scientific knowledge in Economics. The location of the School fosters the cooperation with companies and institutions interested in the development of advanced university education and qualified research projects.

PhD in Economics
Duration: 3 years

Program Structure
The three-years PhD in Economics program offered by LASER is the result of the merging of three programs previously taught at the Universities of Bergamo, Milano (jointly with Brescia) and Pavia.
For the 2011-2014 years, LASER activities are partially funded by a grant from Fondazione Cariplo

Admissions
The call for applications is now open! Please visit LASER website for more information: http://www.laser.unimi.it
Applications deadline: August 31, 2011

Selection of applicants follows a two-phase process: evaluation of qualifications and oral examination.
The PhD in Economics intends to select very qualified applicants from Europe and all over the world, especially graduates who have already been exposed to a high-level preparation. The program adopts an extremely strict policy concerning the applicants' selection, setting rigorous admission requirements. Only applicants with strong motivation and knowledge are admitted. A good command of economic mathematics, econometrics, microeconomics and macroeconomics is an important condition for entering the program. An excellent knowledge of English is essential for the attendance of LASER PhD in Economics, since all course are taught in English.

PhD Study Program
The PhD program offered by LASER has a three-year duration and intends to provide an advanced general education in Economics, allowing to form economists with a complete cultural profile and able to successfully pursue different professional and career paths, both in academics as well as in non-academic jobs characterized by high intellectual content and strong international focus.
The educational activities of the PhD in Economics cover all the important subjects in the economic field: the four universities composing LASER in fact feature many qualified professors, allowing the teaching as well as the development of research and supervision in all advanced and frontier fields. Students will also be encouraged to develop their study, research and thesis-writing in well-defined and determined areas.
The first year of the doctoral program is mainly dedicated to the attendance of taught courses (lectures and classes) and relative exams. Students also carry out study activities as well as participate in reading groups and workshops, in order to identify the topic which will then become the subject of their doctoral thesis. First-year teaching represents a combination of “core courses” and “field courses”. Core courses cover the traditional areas of modern economics (microeconomics, macroeconomics and econometrics), while field courses are specialized or thematic courses, offered as electives. The mandatory educational activities, mostly common to the entire class, represent an important element to create a cohesive team of students capable of interacting and cooperating, as well as to build a spirit of group identity. During the first year each student is assigned a tutor. Personal tutors advise students regarding their academic career.
The second and third years are mainly dedicated to research, conducted either in Italy or abroad, in doctoral programs belonging to structured networks and part of bilateral mobility agreements. Students participate in research seminars, workshops, reading groups and other educational activities; they also attend modules or courses. Each student is assigned a supervisor, who leads the student’s research activity and evaluates the student’s progress. During the third year each student is monitored also by a second supervisor.
The list of courses that will be offered in the 2011-2012 academic year can be found on the website: www.laser.unimi.it

2011 Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society: E. Roy Weintraub

2011-07-26T09:00:00.000+02:00

E. Roy Weintraub has been elected Distinguished Fellow of the History of Economics Society.

This is the Society's highest honor, recognizing a lifetime’s engagement with the subject, and is bestowed usually on one person each year. The list of fellows includes powerhouses in the field of economics, among them some names that are well known in our department (former department members Joseph Spengler and A. W. Coats, as well as Craufurd Goodwin) and some names that are well known to economists in general (Nobel Prize winners George Stigler and Friedrich von Hayek; Lionel Robbins, who coined the most common definition of economics; and Don Patinkin, who laid the groundwork for postwar monetary theory).

Weintraub’s election was announced at the 2011 meeting of the History of Economics Society (HES), held June 17-20 at the University of Notre Dame.

Originally a mathematician who only later in his career turned to history, Weintraub has investigated and documented the process by which economics became a mathematical science.

“Anyone writing on that subject owes a considerable debt to Professor Weintraub and bears an obligation to confront his views,” states the letter of nomination that was read aloud at the HES meeting. “More generally, he has promoted an awareness of, and fostered contact with, the larger social and intellectual context in which economics developed. Through his influence, historians of economics are now in closer contact with literary studies, science studies and the history of science. Taken together, his primary research and his influential historiographic approach constitute an exceptional lifetime achievement.”

The citation concludes that “few modern scholars in any university have traversed the terrain from mathematics via economics into the humanities, and contributed with such distinction as E. Roy Weintraub. Professor Weintraub is indeed ‘a genuine scholar to be cherished’ . . . a renaissance man, who sequentially reinvents his intellectual space and then makes others see it as his natural home.”

Perhaps his most important book is How Economics Became a Mathematical Science (2002), which won “Best Book” awards from both the HES and the European Society for the History of Economic Thought. In chapters examining pairings of mathematicians and economists, it reconstructed the interrelationship of those disciplines in the twentieth century. He is currently organizing a HOPE conference that will take place at Duke in 2013 on the history of MIT economics in the postwar period.

“I’m grateful to the Society not only for this recognition but for supporting work in the history of the discipline,” Weintraub said. “That the HES was created with involvement from people at Duke and was the first organization of its kind makes it particularly gratifying to be elected to such an honor. And now with the HOPE Center, Duke has an institutional framework to carry on the tradition.”

Founded in 1974, the History of Economics Society has committed itself to encouraging interest, fostering scholarship, and promoting discussion among scholars and professionals in the field of the history of economics. The Society’s journal, the Journal of the History of Economic Thought, is published by Cambridge University Press.

http://econ.duke.edu/news/archive/2011/06/23/weintraub-distinguished-fellow-of-the-history-of-economics-society

Weboeconomia - Update

2011-07-25T15:26:00.001+02:00

Weboeconomia has been updated:
http://www.weboeconomia.org/index.html

You can now browse the table of contents of issues 1 and 2
<http://www.weboeconomia.org/annee_en_cours.html> of 2011

Also, Weboeconomia contains 6 new book reviews <http://www.weboeconomia.org/consulter_bro.html> :

- A History of Russian Economic Thought, by Vincent Barnett (reviewed by François Allisson)

- La science économique comme ingénierie, by Michel Armatte (reviewed by Cléo Chassonery-Zaïgouche)

- Why some things should not be for sale. The moral limits of the market, by Debra Satz (reviewed Marc Fleurbaey)

- The structural evolution of morality, by McKenzie Alexander (reviewed by Cyril Hédouin)

- Neuroéconomie. Comment les neurosciences transforment l'analyse économique, by Christian Schmidt (reviewed by Nicolas Vallois)

- Critical political economy. Complexity, rationality, and the logic of post-orthodox pluralism, by Christian Arnsperger (reviewed by Pierre Livet)

Also, a new "call for papers" has just been published:

- Economic imperialism <http://www.weboeconomia.org/call_for_papers.html> (deadline for submission: June 15th, 2012).

Three other "call for papers" are still open:

- The codifying function of the entrepreneur <http://www.weboeconomia.org/call_for_papers.html> (deadline, September 15th, 2011)

- Behavioral economics and neuroeconomics meet economic policy <http://www.weboeconomia.org/call_for_papers.html> (deadline, September 15th, 2011)

- The economics of migrations: Lessons from history, theoretical debates, and methodological issues <http://www.weboeconomia.org/call_for_papers.html> (deadline, October 15th, 2011)

The other headings that have been updated are:

List of the editorial board <http://www.weboeconomia.org/comite_redaction.html>

List of professional associations <http://www.weboeconomia.org/supporting_oeconomia.html> entitling to a preferential subscription rate

The Schedule <http://www.weboeconomia.org/agenda.html>

The authors' guidelines <http://www.weboeconomia.org/authors_guidelines.html>

Call for Papers: European Asian Economics, Finance, Econometrics and Accounting Science Association

2011-07-22T09:00:00.000+02:00

The European Asian in Economics, Finance, Econometrics and Accounting Science Association (http://aeefa.unipi.gr) warmly invites you to join the 3rd Conference in Economics, Finance and Econometrics planned to be held in Howard Civil Service International House, Taipei in September 5-8, 2012.

All topics in the areas of Economics, Finance, Accounting and Econometrics are welcome. Moreover, papers that are dealing with the global financial crisis are mostly welcome.

Contact:
Nicholas Apergis
University of Piraeus
napergis@unipi.gr

more info: http://aeefa.unipi.gr/

Research Assistant for Economic Theory/Game Theory

2011-07-21T08:59:00.001+02:00

Research Assistant (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) for Economic Theory/Game Theory

Institute for Mathematical Economics, Bielefeld University, Germany (University / College)
Application Deadline on Jul 31, 2011

The Institute of Mathematical Economics (IMW), one of the central institutions of Bielefeld University, is currently searching for a full-time

Research Assistant (wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter) for Economic Theory/Game Theory

Position description:

The Research Assistant for Economic Theory/Game Theory will research in the field of economic theory/game theory (75 %) and teach up to 4 hours per week per term on bachelor/master/doctoral level (25 %).

Requirements:

- excellent doctoral degree in mathematical economics, economics or mathematics
- profound knowledge in microeconomics and game theory
- experience in research
- German language skills a bonus

Period of employment: October 1, 2011 - September 30, 2014 with option of extension of 3 years

Deadline: July 31, 2011

Please mail or email CV to:

University Bielefeld
Institute of Mathematical Economics (IMW)
Prof. Christoph Kuzmics, Ph.D.
V10-134
Postfach 100131
D-33501 Bielefeld
Germany

Email: christoph.kuzmics@uni-bielefeld.de

Contributions to Political Economy

2011-07-20T09:00:00.001+02:00

Contributions to Political Economy
Volume 30
June 2011

CONTENTS

Keynes’s Theory of Monetary Policy: An Essay In Historical
Reconstruction
EDWIN DICKENS
UK Fiscal Policy After the Global Financial Crisis
MALCOLM SAWYER
A Theory of Minsky Super-cycles and Financial Crises
THOMAS I. PALLEY
The Political Economy of Homeric Society and the Origins of Money
MARK S. PEACOCK
Total Requirements for Gross Output and Intersectoral Linkages: A Note
on Dmitriev’s Contribution to the Theory of Profits
THEODORE MARIOLIS AND ELEFTHERIA RODOUSAKI
The US Congress Inquiry on the Financial and Economic Crisis
ALDO BARBA

BOOK REVIEWS

GIANCARLO DE VIVO (ed.), Il Tableau économique di François Quesnay
Reviewed by PETER GROENEWEGEN

AJIT SINHA, Theories of Value from Adam Smith to Piero Sraffa

http://cpe.oxfordjournals.org/content/current
Reviewed by SAVERIO M. FRATINI

History of Economics Review

2011-07-19T11:02:00.002+02:00

History of Economics Review, n.53 - Winter 2011, has just been published.
Its contents include:

Articles

Hayek, Keynesian Economics and Planning Against Competition: A Caveat? (pp. 1-9)
Andrew Farrant and Edward McPhail

On Adam Smith's Digression Appended to his Chapter on Bounties in The Wealth of Nations: A Window onto his Approach to Political Economy (pp. 10-24)
M.B. Harvey-Phillips

Douglas Copland and the Aftershocks of the Premiers' Plan, 1931-1938 (pp. 25-43)
Alex Millmow

A Note on Henry George's Concept of Value from Obligation (pp. 44-54)
John Pullen

Luxury, Crisis and Consumption: Sir James Steuart and the Eighteenth- Century Luxury Debate (pp. 55-72)
Aida Ramos

Dear Prudence: W.F. Lloyd on Population Growth and the Natural Wage (pp. 73-90)
Michael V. White

Book Reviews

Robert Leeson, ed., David Laidler's Contributions to Economics (pp. 91-92)
William Coleman

Wolfgang Hafner and Heinz Zimmermann, eds, Vinzenz Bronzin's Option Pricing Models: Exposition and Appraisal (pp. 93-96)
Robert W. Dimand

Simon Cook, The Intellectual Foundations of Alfred Marshall's Economic Science: A Rounded Globe of Knowledge (pp. 96-99)
Mark Donoghue

Mark Blaug and Peter Lloyd, eds, Famous Figures and Diagrams in Economics (pp. 99-102)
Peter Groenewegen

Aspromourgos, Tony, The Science of Wealth. Adam Smith and the Framing of Political Economy (pp. 102- 104))
Heinz D. Kurz

Alessandro Roncaglia, Piero Sraffa, Great Thinkers in Economics Series (pp. 105-107)
Matthew Smith

http://www.hetsa.org.au/historyeconreview.html

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

2011-07-18T11:24:00.001+02:00

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

Edited by: Erik Thomson
University of Manitoba
Issue date:2011-07-13
Papers: 18

Contents:

-Market Stability in Adam Smith: Competitive Process and Institutions
Menudo, Jose M.
-La Teoría de los Sentimientos Morales y Una investigación sobre la naturaleza y causas de la Riqueza de las Naciones: tropezar dos veces con la misma piedra
Calero, Analía Verónica
-Von persönlicher Energie zur Führerschaft, von der Führerschaft zum schöpferischen Reagieren - Schumpeters Arbeit am Unternehmerbegriff
Ulrich Hedtke
-When development meets culture : the contribution of Celso Furtado in the 1970s
Alexandre Mendes Cunha; Gustavo Britto
-Economic page turners
Björn Frank
-Scelte e razionalità nei modelli economici: un'analisi multidisciplinare
Schilirò, Daniele; Graziano, Mario
-Экономический кризис, мировая экономика, экономическая наука и экономическая политика.
Sherstnev, Mikhail
-Field Experiments in Economics: Comment on an article by Levitt and List
Stephen T. Ziliak
-Mathematical Economics: A Reader
Birendra K. Rai1; Chiu Ki So; Aaron Nicholas
-Personalökonomik. Stärken, Schwächen und ihr Platz in der Personalwirtschaftslehre
Dilger, Alexander
-Social capital literature and Durlauf´s criticism
Lízia Figueiredo
-The Experimental Economics of Religion
Robert Hoffmann
-Moral Emotions and Partnership
Jürgen Bracht; Tobias Regner
-Visible seeds of socialism and metamorphoses of capitalism: socialism after Rosdolsky
Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque
-An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change, Nelson & Winter (1982)
Nadia Jacoby
-An Historical Walk Through Recent Financial Crises
Tadeusz Kowalski; Yochanan Shachmurove
-The Minority Game Unpacked: Coordination and Competition in a Team-based Experiment
T. Brenner; G. Devetag; F. Pancotto
-Information transmission in coalitional voting games.
Serrano, Roberto; Vohra, Rajiv

http://nep.repec.org/

JSHET Conference 2012 - Call for papers

2011-07-15T09:00:00.000+02:00

JSHET Conference 2012
Call for Papers

The 76th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought (JSHET)will be held on May 26-27, 2012 at Fukushima University, Fukushima, Japan.
The organising committee invites proposals for individual papers (in English or in Japanese) on all aspects of the history of economic thought.

Submissions should be mailed to:

ikeda@econ.keio.ac.jp

Each author should send his/her abstract of about 600 words in English or 2000 letters in Japanese for a paper, as an attached document (PDF or WORD format) to an electronic mail, containing the title of the paper, his/her name, affiliation, postal and electronic addresses and the fax number.
The deadline for submission is September 20, 2011.

A complete list of accepted contributions and a provisional programme will be available at the beginning of December 2011. The outlines (within 6 pages of format A4) of the paper should be submitted by February 27, 2012. They will be printed and mailed to all participants one month before the conference.

The fee for non-members of JSHET to present a paper at the conference is 6,000 yen.

Further information of JSHET and the conference may be found on the web site:

http://jshet.net/

For additional information, please send your queries to the above email address.

Scomparsa Prof. Ferdinando Targetti

2011-07-14T09:00:00.000+02:00

La Società Italiana degli Economisti annuncia con dolore la scomparsa del
socio Ferdinando Targetti (Professore ordinario presso l'Universita' di Trento)

UK history of economic thought conference

2011-07-13T09:00:00.000+02:00

The 43rd annual UK history of economic thought conference will be held
in Balliol College Oxford on 7-9 September. Accommodation and meals
will be available in the College.

There will be a discounted registration fee for those registering by 31
July.

Further details and registration forms are available from James Forder james.forder@balliol.ox.ac.uk

Pioneers Of Law And Economics - New Issue

2011-07-12T09:00:00.000+02:00

Pioneers Of Law And Economics

Edited by Lloyd R. Cohen, Professor and Joshua D. Wright, Professor, George Mason University School of Law, US

‘. . . pure gems in each and every essay. . . Reading this book provides an intellectual framework for the history of thought in the field that until now it had sorely lacked.’
– Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi, American Review of Political Economy

The law and economics movement came of age in the second half of the 20th century and had a profound effect on both the scholarship and practice of law. The specially commissioned essays in this book honor the pioneering contributions of those who created the foundation of the modern law and economics enterprise.

The editors of the volume embrace a view of the field that is inclusive not only of a broad range of issues, but also of economic methods. Celebrated here as the founding pioneers of law and economics is a remarkably varied collection of scholars: applied and theoretical micro-economists, founders of public choice economics, and legal scholars and judges. They include: Ronald Coase, Aaron Director, George Stigler, Armen Alchian, Harold Demsetz, Benjamin Klein, James Buchanan, Gordon Tullock, Henry Manne, Richard Posner, Gary Becker, William Landes, Richard Epstein, Guido Calabresi, Frank Easterbrook, Daniel Fischel, Steven Shavell and A. Mitchell Polinsky. Contributors to the volume include other pioneers, former students and clerks, colleagues, and influential scholars in the field.

Scholars and students working in the tradition of law and economics, as well as those in the fields of economics, law and public policy will find the book an essential reference for this important area of scholarship.

Elgar original reference
For full contents - www.e-elgar.com

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

2011-07-11T10:39:00.001+02:00

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

Edited by: Erik Thomson
University of Manitoba
Issue date: 2011-07-02
Papers: 12

Contents:

- Advertising, Welfare Economics and Ethics
Ian Steedman
- Classical vs. Neoclassical Conceptions of Competition
Lefteris Tsoulfidis
- The state’s existence between facts and norms: A reflection on some problems to the analysis of the state
Daniel Gaus
- Exploitation and its unintended outcomes. An axiomatic obituary for Marx’s surplus value.
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont
- Beyond the market-institutions dichotomy: The institutionalism of Douglass C. North in response to Karl Polanyi's challenge
Claude Didry; Caroline Vincensini
- Examining resilience and vulnerability as concepts conditional upon human values: a review
de Chazal, Jacqueline
- The End of the “Liberal Theory of History”? Dissecting the U.S. Congress’ Discourse on China’s Currency Policy
Nicola Nymalm
- POWER AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN GERMAN POLITICAL ECONOMY: THE CASES OF WERNER SOMBART AND FRIEDRICH VON WIESER
Gilles Campagnolo; Christel Vivel
- Verwilderungen des sozialen Konflikts: Anerkennungskämpfe zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts
Honneth, Axel
- The Happiness-Income Paradox Revisited
Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu McVey, Laura; Switek, Malgorzata; Sawangfa, Onnicha; Zweig, Jacqueline Smith
- A Testable Theory of Imperfect Perception
Andrew Caplin; Daniel Martin
- Intersubjective meaning and collective action in'fragile'societies : theory, evidence and policy implications
Gauri, Varun; Woolcock, Michael; Desai, Deval

http://econpapers.repec.org/scripts/search/search.asp?neplist=nephpe2011-07-02

International Review of Applied Economics

2011-07-08T09:00:00.000+02:00

International Review of Applied Economics
25(4):July 2011

Journal website:http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02692171.asp

- Incentives to self-employment decision in Sweden / Altin Vejsiu
- The interplay between labor market rigidity and volatility-growth nexus / Michał Brzozowski
- R&D subsidies and private R&D expenditures: evidence from Italian manufacturing data / Oliviero A. Carboni
- Skilled and unskilled wage dynamics in Italy in the 1990s: changes in individual characteristics, institutions, trade and technology / Anna Maria Falzoni; Alessandra Venturini; Claudia Villosio
- An empirical investigation into the gravitation and convergence of industry return rates in OECD countries /Andrea Vaona

Cambridge Journal of Economics - New Issue

2011-07-07T09:00:00.000+02:00

Cambridge Journal of Economics
Volume 35
Issue 4 July 2011

Table of Contents

Articles

- Özlem Onaran, Engelbert Stockhammer, and Lucas Grafl
Financialisation, income distribution and aggregate demand in the USA
Camb. J. Econ. (2011) 35(4): 637-661

- Manuel R. Agosin and Franklin Huaita
Capital flows to emerging economies: Minsky in the tropics
Camb. J. Econ. (2011) 35(4): 663-683

- Man-Seop Park
Routes of money endogeneity: a heuristic comparison
Camb. J. Econ. (2011) 35(4): 685-704

- Ana C. Santos
Behavioural and experimental economics: are they really transforming economics?
Camb. J. Econ. (2011) 35(4):705-728

- Ludovic Frobert
French utopian socialists as the first pioneers in development
Camb. J. Econ. (2011) 35(4): 729-749

- Theodore T. Koutsobinas
Liquidity preference in a portfolio framework and the monetary theory of Kahn
Camb. J. Econ. (2011) 35(4): 751-769

- Brian J. Loasby
Uncertainty and imagination, illusion and order: Shackleian connections
Camb. J. Econ. (2011) 35(4): 771-783

- Sylvie Rivot
Special remedies for special causes: involuntary unemployment in Keynes’ political writings
Camb. J. Econ. (2011) 35(4): 785-803

A Cooperative Species Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution

2011-07-06T09:00:00.000+02:00

A Cooperative Species
Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution
Samuel Bowles & Herbert Gintis

To read the entire book description or a sample chapter:
http://press.princeton.edu/lists/lt.php?id=YhgGXVJSDlJQD0ldUAoaAlRUBQc%3D

Why do humans, uniquely among animals, cooperate in large numbers to
advance projects for the common good? Contrary to the conventional
wisdom in biology and economics, this generous and civic-minded
behavior is widespread and cannot be explained simply by far-sighted
self-interest or a desire to help close genealogical kin. /A
Cooperative Species/ shows that the central issue is not why selfish
people act generously, but instead how genetic and cultural evolution
has produced a species in which substantial numbers make sacrifices to
uphold ethical norms and to help even total strangers.

"Bowles and Gintis stress that cooperation among individuals who are
only distantly related is a critical distinguishing feature of the
human species. They argue forcefully that the best explanation for
such cooperation is altruism. Many will dispute this claim, but it
deserves serious consideration."--Eric Maskin, Nobel Laureate in
Economics

Princeton University Press
41 William Street
Princeton, New Jersey
U.S.A. 08540
http://press.princeton.edu/lists/lt.php?id=YhgGXVJSDlJXBkldUAoaAlRUBQc%3D

Cuadernos de economia - Papers

2011-07-05T16:54:00.002+02:00

CUADERNOS DE ECONOMÍA/SPANISH JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND FINANCE is calling
for papers.
The review publish economics articles in english or spanish. This year,
it will publish for the first time with ELSEVIER, it implies access to the
database SCOPUS (www.scopus.com) and the catalogue ScienceDirect (www.sciencedirect.com).

The link is :

http://www.elsevier.es/es/revistas/cuadernos-economia-329

Historical collection:

http://digitool-uam.greendata.es/R/GBPM1XNHQA8QLLPFC44PCLQ26AV8APV7NNPSV7S29
YPE6EAJAQ-01113?func=collections-result&collection_id=1439&pds_handle=GUEST

Some authors which have published in Cuadernos since 1973: M. Blaug, G. C. Harcourt, J.R. Hicks, N. Kaldor y A. K. Sen; and important spanish economists as: D. Anisi, A. Espasa, A. Pastor, P. Maragall, F. Ovejero, N. Serra y J. Urrutia.

Journal of Economic Methodology

2011-07-04T09:47:00.002+02:00

Journal of Economic Methodology
Volume 17, Issue 4, 2010
The international scholarly journal of the International Network for Economic Method INEM)

Articles:

Terence Hutchison and Frank Knight: a reappraisal of their 1940–1941 exchange
John Hart
pages 359-373

Two puzzles regarding the replacement ratio in the context of renewal theory
George C. Bitros
pages 375-395

Financial Crisis Symposium:

Introduction: Methodological implications of the financial crisis
Kevin D. Hoover
pages 397-398

Should the financial crisis inspire normative revision?
Don Ross
pages 399-418

The economics profession, the financial crisis, and method
David Colander
pages 419-427

Implications for models in monetary policy
Stan du Plessis
pages 429-444

Book reviews:

Identity economics: towards a more realistic economic agent?
Miriam Teschl
pages 445-448

Is spontaneous order a value-free descriptive methodological tool?
N. Emrah Aydinonat
pages 448-452

http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjec20/17/4

AFIT Student Scholars Award Competition

2011-07-01T09:00:00.000+02:00

AFIT Student Scholars Award Competition

The Association for Institutional Thought (AFIT) proudly announces the Seventh Annual AFIT Student Scholars Award Competition. The aim of AFIT is to encourage undergraduate and graduate students in Economics and Political Economy to pursue research in topics within the Institutional Economics framework.

Awards will be made to the three best papers. Winners are expected to present their research during a special session at the Annual Meetings of AFIT, held during the Western Social Science Association’s 54th Annual Conference at the Hyatt Regency, Houston, April 11-14, 2012.

Winners will each receive:
-$300 prize
-One year student membership in AFIT
-Paid WSSA Conference Registration
-Paid admission to the AFIT Presidential Address Dinner

Winning papers must be presented at the special AFIT session in order to be eligible for the prize. Prizes will be presented during the AFIT Presidential Address Dinner.

Application Procedures and Deadlines
Papers must be between 15-25 pages in length, including references and appendices. They should be submitted electronically (preferably in Word format) by December 15, 2011 to:
Daniel A. Underwood
Professor, Economics & Environmental Science
Peninsula College
1502 East Lauridsen Blvd.
Port Angeles, WA 98362
USA
E-mail: dunderwood@pencol.edu

Winners will be notified by 1/15/12.
For more information about AFIT, visit: www.associationforinstitutionalthought.org/

17th Workshop on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe

2011-06-30T09:00:00.000+02:00

17th Workshop on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe

European integration at the crossroads: Deepening or disintegration?
16-18 September 2011 | the C3-Center for International Development in Vienna/Austria

This year’s EuroMemo Group conference will be held in Vienna from 16-18 September 2011. The conference will open on the afternoon of Friday, 16 September with the customary plenary on the State of the Union. Key speakers are:
-The Political State of the Union, Birgit Mahnkopf (Berlin School of Economics and Law)
-The Economic State of the Union, Ozlem Onaran (Middlesex University, London)

EuroMemo Group invite you to attend the conference and to submit proposals for papers for one of the four workshops shown below. These should address the key themes of EU policy in each area.

Workshop 1: Austerity policies – Coordinator: Marica Frangakis
Austerity policies are being imposed in a number of EU member states, most notably in the euro area periphery and in Central and Eastern Europe. This workshop aims to examine developments in specific countries, giving special emphasis to the degradation of social protection systems and of labour market institutions, and the implications for youth unemployment and the organization of old-age security.

Workshop 2: The future of the eurozone – Coordinator: Trevor Evans
Developments of the past year raise the danger of a disintegration of the eurozone. As some members states struggle to deal with rising levels of public and private debt, the EU has promoted new governance measures that look set to exacerbate the situation. Contributions are invited that address macroeconomic imbalances, debt and the banking crisis, monetary policy and the role of the ECB, the European Stability Mechanism, and the Pact for the Euro.

Workshop 3: The EU and the world – Coordinator: Werner Raza
Developments in neighbouring Mediterranean countries highlight just one of the international challenges faced by the EU. This workshop seeks papers that address the issues of migration, trade policy, EU development policies, as well as, more generally, the role of the EU in global governance, in particular the G20.

Workshop 4: Energy, climate change and sustainability, after Fukushima – Coord.: Frieder O. Wolf
The crisis in Japan dramatically focused public attention on the pressing urgency for a fundamental change in energy policy. Papers are invited that will address the challenge of developing policies that promote social, economic and environmental sustainability.

Proposals for papers together with a short abstract (maximum 250 words) should be submitted by 30 June. If accepted, completed papers should be submitted by 1 September.

If you would like to participate in the workshop, copy the registration form into an email and reply by the 30 June 2011 to euromemo@uni-bremen.de:

- that you would like to participate and
- whether you wish to offer a paper for one of the workshops.

The provisional programme is attached. Please note that there will be a conference fee collected at the venue (20 Euro / 10 Euro for students).

The C3-Center for International Development is located in the centre of Vienna, close to the “Altes AKH”-campus of the University of Vienna. Information sheets with details about travel arrangements and hotel bookings are attached. A contingent of rooms has been reserved at three hotels in Vienna. Please use the attached form to make your own bookings. Please be aware that early booking is strongly recommended to secure a room at one of the hotels.

10th Conference of the Australian Society of Heterodox Economists - Call for papers

2011-06-29T11:15:00.002+02:00

10th Conference of the Australian Society of Heterodox Economists - Call for papers

The relevance, contribution and future of Heterodox Economics
5-6 December 2011 | the Coogee Crowne Plaza Hotel, Sydney | website

Over the last 10 years, the annual SHE Conference has provided a vital forum for the discussion of alternatives to mainstream economics. The Conference provides a broad pluralistic and interdisciplinary forum to discuss issues of importance to heterodox economists.

For 2011 the SHE Conference theme is The relevance, contribution and future of Heterodox Economics

Topics of interest to this overarching theme include: the failure of neoclassical economics to predict, explain or find solutions to the global financial and economic crises; the current climate and energy crisis, nationally and internationally; the relationship of economists to policymaking and decision-makers; the teaching of heterodox economics; and, research evaluation and the impact of ERA ratings and rankings.

Registration details will be announced later and be available at: http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/research/societyofheterodoxeconomists/SHEconference/Pages/default.aspx

Submission details:
Submissions are invited for single papers, complete sessions and symposia (comprising more than one session) relevant to the over-arching conference theme, or which discuss issues of importance from perspectives which differ from, or critically examine, mainstream economics.

Single papers:
All papers should include a 250 word abstract that clearly states the issue being addressed, its main points and argument. It should be stated, at the time of submission, if you require your paper to be refereed and if you wish your paper to be considered for a symposium.

The deadline for refereed papers is Monday 10 October 2011.
The deadline for non-refereed papers is Monday 31 October 2011.

Complete sessions:
Session proposals should be sent to p.kriesler@unsw.edu.au and include the following information:
• A short title
• A description of the session which should be no more than one page
• The names of the proposed participants in the session
• An abstract for each paper to be included in the session
• The name and email address of the session organiser
The deadline for complete sessions is Friday 15 July 2011.

Symposia:
SHE encourage proposals for symposia which address a single topic or issue. The SHE Conference Committee will work with symposia organisers, when constructing the conference program, to ensure a coherent list of sessions for each symposium, and schedule these so that participants can follow a symposium across more than one session. Symposium proposals should be submitted to p.kriesler@unsw.edu.au and include the following information:
A short title (no more than 5 words)
A short description of the type of paper that would be suitable for inclusion in the symposium
The name and email address of the symposium organiser
The deadline for symposium proposals is Friday 15 July 2011.

Deadlines:
The SHE Conference Committee will consider all proposals for papers, sessions and symposia, and will notify you of the acceptance or rejection of your proposal.
Complete session proposals are due by Friday 15 July 2011 and will be notified by Monday 25 July 2011.
Symposium proposals are due by Friday 15 July 2011 and will be notified by Monday 25 July 2011.
The deadline for refereed papers is Monday 10 October 2011.
The deadline for non-refereed papers is Monday 31 October 2011.

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

2011-06-28T09:00:00.000+02:00

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

Edited by: Erik Thomson
University of Manitoba
Issue date: 2011-06-25
Papers: 17

Contents:

1. Portrait of the Economist as a Young Man: Raúl Prebisch's evolving views on the business cycle and money, 1919-1949
Matías Vernengo
2. Scarcity, self-interest and maximization from Islamic angle
Hasan, Zubair
3. Trade, money, and the grievances of the commonwealth : economic debates in the English public sphere during the commercial crisis of the early 1620's
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak
4. Applications of a constrained mechanics methodology in economics
Jitka Janov\'a
5. Afraid of God or Afraid of Man: How religion shapes attitudes toward free riding and fraud
H'madoun M.
6. GDP as a Measure of Economic Welfare
Moshe Syrquin
7. Mutamenti strutturali: modelli, metodi e principi in una nuova prospettiva
Schilirò, Daniele
8. Towards a Theory of Fair Interest Rates on Microcredit
Marek Hudon; Joakim Sandberg
9. Signs of reality - reality of signs. Explorations of a pending revolution in political economy.
Hanappi, Hardy
10. Belling the cat: Eli F. Heckscher on the gold standard as a discipline device
Fregert, Klas
11. Properties of an economy without human beings
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont
12. Traditions of Renewal - How four traditions linking emotion and cognition in different ways allow for strategic renewal ahead of one's time
Manuel Hensmans; George Yip; Gerry Johnson
13. The Free-Trade Doctrine and Commercial Diplomacy of Condy Raguet
Stephen Meardon
14. When do people cooperate? The neuroeconomics of prosocial decision making
Declerck C.H.; Boone Ch.; Emonds G.
15. Irving Fisher and Price-Level Targeting in Austria: Was Silver the Answer?
Richard C.K. Burdekin; Kris James Mitchener; Marc D. Weidenmier
16. Causal Structure and Hierarchies of Model
Kevin D. Hoover
17. Ordering Ambiguous Acts
Ian Jewitt; Sujoy Mukerj

Joseph J. Spengler Prize 2011

2011-06-27T17:33:00.000+02:00

In 2004 the History of Economics Society established the Joseph J. Spengler Prize for the best book in the history of economics.

The winner of the 2011 Spengler Prize was announced at the HES meeting this past weekend in South Bend. It goes this year to Robert Leonard for his Von Neumann, Morgenstern and the Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science 1900-1960.

Journal of the History of Economic Thought - New Issue

2011-06-24T09:00:00.000+02:00

Journal of the History of Economic Thought

Volume 33 - Issue 02 - June 2011

Table of Contents

-EARLY DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS DEBATES REVISITED
MICHELE ALACEVICH

-WICKSELL ON THE AMERICAN CRISIS OF 1907
MAURO BOIANOVSKY

-AFTERSHOCKS FROM A REVOLUTION: ORDINAL UTILITY AND COST-OF-LIVING INDEXES
THOMAS A. STAPLEFORD

-AN ECONOMIC APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF LAW IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY: GAETANO FILANGIERI AND LA SCIENZA DELLA LEGISLAZIONE
FABRIZIO SIMON

-ADAM SMITH’S ESSENTIALS: ON TRUST, FAITH, AND FREE MARKETS
JERRY EVENSKY

...

http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?jid=HET&volumeId=33&seriesId=0&issueId=02

NEW TRENDS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES II

2011-06-23T09:00:00.000+02:00

NEW TRENDS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES II

UNED. Dpto. de Logica, Historia y Filosofia de la ciencia
Madrid, September 28-29 2011

Confirmed invited speakers:

Marcel Boumans (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Gregor Betz (Freie Universität, Berlin)
Laurence Kaufmann (Université de Lausanne)
Eleonora Montuschi (London School of Economics and Università
Ca’Foscari, Venice)
Julian Reiss (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)

Contributed papers on any topic in the philosophy of the social sciences are welcome. Please, send an abstract of about 1000 words, before June 25th to Jesús Zamora-Bonilla,jpzb@fsof.uned.es

http://www.uned.es/dpto_log/pssworkshop2011.html

Tavola rotonda "Surtout pas trop zele"

2011-06-22T13:08:00.000+02:00

TAVOLA ROTONDA SUL VOLUME "SURTOUT PAS TROP ZELE. SCIENZA ECONOMICA DI OGGI NELLE IMPRESSIONI DI UN ECONOMISTA DI IERI" DI ITALO MAGNANI
UNIVERSITA' DI MILANO - DIPARTIMENTO DI ECONOMIA - 22 GIUGNO 2011
Via del Conservatorio, 7 - aula seminari

Prenderanno parte:

- Giuseppe Bognetti,
- Massimo Florio
- Francesco Guala

che discuteranno il libro:

"Surtout pas trop de zèle. Scienza economica di oggi nelle impressioni di
un economista di ieri"
di Italo Magnani (Università di Pavia).

Il leitmotiv di questo libro vuole essere un invito silenzioso rivolto dall'autore a sé stesso e ai suoi colleghi economisti perché non ci si prenda troppo sul serio. E' una sottile vena di amarezza quella attraverso cui l'autore guarda ad alcune tendenze che sembrano affermarsi
pericolosamente negli studi economici odierni e condizionano il modo con cui oggi si fa accademia: l'abuso dell'inglese, la matematica usata un po' dappertutto, la scelta di un linguaggio tecnico allusivo di proposizioni scientifiche che lasciano immaginare chissà quali contenuti, la standardizzazione usata persino nel modo di confezionare il prodotto, la
gran mole degli scritti ai quali si conferisce la dignità della pubblicazione, le molte certezze e la troppa fiducia riposta nella scienza economica. Il libro affronta, sul terreno dell'economia positiva, una miriade di problemi economici di ieri e di oggi, ad esempio: l'evoluzione
dell'industria dell'editoria, la trasformazione delle forme dei mercati, certe forme di innovazione tecnologica, la flessibilità del mercato del lavoro, l'adeguatezza della domanda aggregata, la ridistribuzione dei redditi.

Seguiranno i commenti dell'autore e la discussione con i partecipanti.

La durata del seminario, che si svolgerà in italiano, è prevista in un'ora.

Resources for Economists on the Internet

2011-06-21T09:00:00.001+02:00

Resources for Economists on the Internet

Vol. 14, No. 6
June 17, 2011
Editor: Bill Goffe
Dept. of Economics, SUNY Oswego
Editorial Assistant: Rich Freeh

http://rfe.org/index.php

This guide is sponsored by the American Economic Association. It lists more than 2,000 resources in 97 sections and sub-sections available on the Internet of interest to academic and practicing economists, and those interested in economics. Almost all resources are also described.
Those searching the Internet for economic information might also wish to try the Economics Search Engine (ESE). It indexes 23,000 economics web sites from around the world. Searches with it only return their contents.

The Complete Table of Contents is for those who want a list of all resources in this guide. From there you can go to a resource quickly -- simply click on its name. A link to an extended description here in RFE is denoted by "details..." As the Complete Table of Contents is quite large, there is also an Abridged Table of Contents that just lists RFE's sections and sub-sections. One can also search all parts of this guide.

You can also navigate this guide by starting with the main sections listed above on this title page. There, you can (i) move directly to the resource (again, by clicking on the title), (ii) read a short description of many resources in that section, (iii) click to an extended description by following the [details] links, or (iv) click to a "deeper" sub-section and where these same navigation conventions apply).

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

2011-06-20T12:57:00.000+02:00

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

University of Manitoba
Issue date: 2011-06-18
Papers: 7

CONTENTS:

1. Fair competition: The engine of economic development
Thomas, Alex M; Walling, Lima
2. The dynamics of legitimation - Why the study of political legitimacy needs more realism
Daniel Gaus
3. Is conceptual vagueness an asset? Resilience research from the perspective of philosophy of science
Sebastian Strunz
4. Size matters - when it comes to lies
Gerald Eisenkopf; Ruslan Gurtoviy; Verena Utikal
5. Chris Pissarides, CEP's Nobel laureate
Barbara Petrongolo
6. Big ideas: economic geography
Henry Overman
7. In nitely-lived agents via two-sided altruism
Seghir, Abdelkrim; Salem, Sherif

http://econpapers.repec.org/RAS/pth72.htm

Darwin’s Clever Neighbour - George Warde Norman and his Circle

2011-06-17T09:00:00.000+02:00

Darwin’s Clever Neighbour
George Warde Norman and his Circle

D.P. O’Brien, Emeritus Professor of Economics, University of Durham, UK and John Creedy, The Truby Williams Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne, Australia

‘This is the autobiography of a prominent 19th century economist, which was miraculously saved from destruction by fire. It would be interesting simply as a personal account of the education of an upper class gentleman of the Victorian era. But Norman became a long-serving director of the Bank of England who entered into public debates on matters of public finance and international trade. The editors are well-known authorities in the history of economic thought and provide us with a 50-page introduction to the technicalities of Norman’s contributions. This is an invaluable entrée into classical economics as it was experienced at the time.’
– Mark Blaug, University of London and University of Buckingham, UK

‘This book has been a long time in the making but well worth the wait. It is a work of immense scholarship. The editors of George Warde Norman’s autobiography have put a huge effort into the production. The volume has a splendid introduction and is then packed with fascinating detail revealing the world of an important nineteenth century figure – the grandfather of Montagu Norman no less – that lights up the working of the Bank and the City and much else besides.’
– Forrest H. Capie, Bank of England, UK

George Warde Norman, 1793–1882, a Director of the Bank of England 1821–72, was an important figure in both the development and the implementation of the theory of monetary control, embodied in the Bank Charter Act of 1844. Norman wrote an Autobiography covering his first 54 years, and this provides a remarkable portrait not only of Norman himself but of the social and intellectual network in which he lived. He was an intimate of the Utilitarians, especially George Grote with whom there was ultimately a quarrel which has never been made public before. He was a businessman, at first in the timber trade, in which connection he spent time in Norway, and made the acquaintance of Napoleon’s Marshall, Bernadotte, by then King of Sweden and Norway, and then in fire insurance. He also wrote on economic matters, not only on monetary issues but also on trade theory and taxation. The Autobiography, which has survived fire and flood, was rediscovered in the 1960s by D.P. O’Brien who at that time prepared a typescript which has been used by scholars. With the release of this edition, the work is now available for the first time in a fully edited and corrected version. It should be of interest to historians of economic thought, economic historians, and students of nineteenth century intellectual history and society.

2010 512 pp

For full contents - www.e-elgar.com

XVIII Conferenza Scientifica dell'Associazione Italiana per lo Studio dei Sistemi Economici Comparati

2011-06-16T09:00:00.000+02:00

XVIII Conferenza Scientifica dell'Associazione Italiana per lo Studio dei Sistemi Economici Comparati

Riprendere la crescita:
protezionismo o governance internazionale?

Giovedì 23 - Sabato 25 Giugno 2011, Palazzo Menichelli, Università di Macerata

Keynotes Speakers:
Jan Svejnar (University of Michigan)

Wendy Carlin (University College London)

http://www.unimc.it/aissec2011/

History of Political Economy - Summer 2011

2011-06-15T09:00:00.000+02:00

History of Political Economy
A Celebration of Forty Years of “History of Political Economy” and the Editorship of Craufurd Goodwin
Volume 43, Number 2, Summer 2011

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Craufurd Goodwin and History of Political Economy:
A Double Anniversary
Kevin D. Hoover

Uses and Abuses of Adam Smith
Amartya Sen

Theme 1: The Fine Arts

The Political Economy of Art:
Ruskin and Contemporary Cultural Economics
David Throsby

Romantic versus Real-World Art-Making and Valuation
Neil De Marchi

Economics and Aesthetics in Ruskin and Neoclassicism
Robert Leonard

John Ruskin: Ethics in Economics
Annabel Wharton

Theme 2: The Environment

Exchange, Specialization, and Property as a Discovery Process
Vernon L. Smith

Consumer Sovereignty in the History of Environmental Economics
H. Spencer Banzhaf

Inventing Price Systems and Substitutes for them
V. Kerry Smith

What Begat Property?
Jonathan B. Wiener

Theme 3: Journalism and Public Policy

The Uses and Misuses of Economics in Daily Journalism
Louis Uchitelle

The Great Recession as a Great Enlightener
William Barber

When a Crisis in Journalism Meets an Economy in Crisis
Philip Bennett

Fractals in Economic Journalism
Tiago Mata

Theme 4: Religion

“In a Space of Questions”: A Reflection on Religion and Economics at the Beginning of the twenty-first Century
Bradley W. Bateman

Economics and Antagonisms
Stanley Hauerwas

Whose Economics? Which Religion? Comments on Bradley Bateman’s “in a Space of Questions” Kelly Johnson

The Entwinement of Religion and Economics: Comments on Bradley Bateman’s “in a Space of Questions”
Barbara Herrnstein Smith

http://hope.dukejournals.org/current.dtl#ARTICLES

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

2011-06-14T09:00:00.000+02:00

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

Edited by: Erik Thomson
University of Manitoba
Issue date: 11-06-2011
Papers: 12

CONTENTS:

1. Schlock economics
Azmat, Hayat
2. Beyond the global financial crisis: central banking in a new global financial system
Turhan, Ibrahim M.
3. Deliberation and oversight in monetary policy, 1976-2008.
Bailey, Andrew; Schonhardt-Bailey, Cheryl
4. Competition as an Ambiguous Discovery Procedure: A Reappraisal of Hayek's Epistemic Market Liberalism
Ulrich Witt
5. Book Review: Constructions of Neoliberal Reason.
Stewart, Neil
6. Struggling for Political Economy: an Institutional Issue
Bruno Tinel
7. The wondrous effortlessness of unifying circuit-, money-, price- and distribution theory
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont
8. At a time of persistent unemployment, Nobel Laureate Chris Pissarides's search theory offers significant lessons for policy makers.
Petrongolo, Barbara
9. Social Exchange and Risk and Ambiguity Preferences
John Engle; Jim Engle-Warnick; Sonia Laszlo
10. Game Theoretic Analysis of Negotiations under Bankruptcy
Amira Annabi; Michèle Breton; Pascal François
11. On uniqueness and stability of symmetric equilibria in differentiable symmetric games
Andreas Hefti
12. Leadership games with convex strategy sets.
von Stengel, Bernhard; Zamir, Shmuel

International Conference of the Centennial Anniversary of the Purchasing Power of Money by Irving Fisher

2011-06-13T10:18:00.001+02:00

Triangle (University Lumière Lyon 2), Phare (University of Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Leda-Sdfi (University of Paris 9 Dauphine) are organizing a European conference for the 100th anniversary of the First publication of the "Purchasing Power of Money" by Irving Fisher. It will be held at University of Lyon 2, 14-15th October, 2011. The organizing committee is composed by Jérôme de Boyer des Roches, Robert Dimand, Jean-Pierre Potier and by myself.
You can find a preliminary version of the program:

http://www.rebecagomezbetancourt.com/Programme%20Colloque%20Fisher.pdf

International Conference of the Centennial Anniversary of the Purchasing Power of Money by Irving Fisher
14 -15 October 2011
At the University Lumière Lyon 2
18 Quai Claude Bernard, 69007 Lyon

Scientific committee
Jérôme de Boyer des Roches, Phare & Leda Sdfi, Université Paris Dauphine
Robert Dimand, Brock University, Ontario, Canada
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, Triangle, Université Lumière Lyon 2
Jean-Pierre Potier, Triangle, Université Lumière Lyon 2

Participants

1. Michael Assous, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
2. Alain Béraud, Université Cergy-Pontoise
3. Mauro Boianovsky, Universidade de Brasilia
4. Jérôme de Boyer, Université Paris Dauphine
5. Sylvie Diatkine, Université Paris 12 Créteil
6. Robert Dimand, Brock University, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
7. Harald Hagemann, Universität Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany
8. Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, Université Lumière Lyon 2
9. David Laidler, University of Western Ontario, Canada
10. Florencia Sember, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne & Conicet, Argentine

ITALIAN SOCIETY OF LAW AND ECONOMICS - Call for paper

2011-06-10T09:00:00.000+02:00

The ITALIAN SOCIETY OF LAW AND ECONOMICS welcomes submissions of full papers on any topic regarding the economic analysis of law for its seventh annual conference to be held in Turin (Italy) on December 16-17, 2011.

Topics covered may include: Bankruptcy, Behavioural Law and Economics, Competition Policy, Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Criminal Law, Environmental Law and Economics, Family Law and Economics, Intellectual Property, Judicial Decision-Making, Regulation, Securities Law, Law & Social Norms, Taxation

A draft or completed paper shall be submitted online through the website:
http://www.side-isle.it/ocs2/index.php/SIDE/side-isle2011

Priority will be given to completed papers.

Important dates to remember:

* Proposals must be sent by September 11, 2011
* Acceptance of proposals will be communicated by October 16, 2011
* Edited papers should be sent by October 30, 2011

People from The Board of Directors, the Local Organizing Committee and the Advisory Board will appoint referees and select the works.

As in previous years, both Italian and English submissions are welcome.

The program will guarantee at least one English session for each time slot.

Board of Directors
Magda Bianco, Emanuela Carbonara, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, Giulio Napolitano, Giovanni Ramello, Simone Sepe, Lorenzo Sacconi

Local Organizing Committee
Giovanni Ramello, Enrico Colombatto, Gianmaria Ajani on behalf of IEL - International Programme in Comparative Analysis of Institutions, Economics and Law

Advisory Board
Roberto Artoni, Fabrizio Cafaggi, Francesco Denozza, Riccardo Del Punta, Luigi a. Franzoni, Paolo Giudici, Michele Grillo, PierGiuseppe Monateri, Ugo Pagano, Roberto Pardolesi, Francesco Parisi, Michele Polo

Segreteria Scientifica
Antonio Nicita, Matteo Rizzolli

ESHET-MEXICO Conference 2011 - Reminder

2011-06-09T09:00:00.002+02:00

The Committee of the ESHET-MEXICO Conference 2011 reminds that abstracts are received until July 1st (NOT June 1st. as it is in our web site), in the mails:
eshetmexico@economia.unam.mx,
eshetmexico@gmail.com,
jpabloarroyo@hotmail.com.
If you have questions or want more information please contact the email listed.

MicroCafè

2011-06-08T09:00:00.001+02:00

MicroCafé - Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics

Wednesday, June 8, 2011,
5.00-6.30 PM
Frank Hindriks (University of Groningen)
How to think about institutions? The philosophy and economics of social rules and regularities
Venue:
University of Milan, via Conservatorio 7, Department of Economics, Seminar Room (2nd floor)

ABSTRACT
Institutions are often regarded as regularities in behaviour or rules for action. Such a Practice Conception (PC) focuses on behavioural aspects of institutions and identifies institutions with regulative rules. Alternatively, institutions can be regarded as being constituted by our beliefs. This Constitution View (CV) focuses on ontological aspects of institutions. It identifies institutions with constitutive rules. In this paper, I consider the relation between the PC and the CV. Using Lewis (1969) and Searle (1969, 1995) as representatives of these views I argue that - in spite of appearances - they are consistent with one another. The crucial premise of this argument is what I call the transformation view of constitutive rules (TV), according to which constitutive rules are transformations of regulative rules. CV in fact complements PC nicely. It is especially useful for bringing important ontological issues into focus, including multiple realizability and constitution as the relation between non-institutional and institutional phenomena.

SPEAKER Frank Hindriks is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. His main fields of interest are ethics & philosophy of action, and social ontology & political philosophy. The topics that he investigates include (1) intentional action, moral responsibility, the Knobe effect, the doctrine of double effect, moral judgment, and experimental ethics, as well as (2) collective responsibility, collective reasoning, groups, institutions, constitutive rules, identity, freedom, group freedom, group rights, and equal opportunity. He has also done some research concerning the philosophy of language (assertion, rule-following, response-dependence, and truth) and economic methodology (idealization, mechanisms, tractability assumptions, unrealistic assumptions).

Forthcoming seminar:

June 15: Giacomo Sillari (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Knowledge, common knowledge and coordination
Venue: Bocconi

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics - New Issue

2011-06-07T09:00:00.000+02:00

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

Edited by: Erik Thomson
University of Manitoba
Issue date: 2011-06-04
Papers: 22

Contents:

1. The Algorithmic Revolution in the Social Sciences: Mathematical Economics, Game Theory and Statistical Inference
K. Vela Velupillai
2. Computation in Economics
K. Vela Velupillai; Stefano Zambelli
3. What is wrong with heterodox economics? Kalecki's profit theory as an example
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont
4. Eudaimonia and the Economics of Happiness
Santiago Melo
5. Economics, Control Theory, and the Phillips Machine
Brian Hayes
6. From bounties on exportation to the natural and market price of labour: Smith versus Ricardo
Meacci, Ferdinando
7. Communication, commitment, and deception in social dilemmas: experimental evidence
G. Camera; M. Casari; M. Bigoni
8. Continuity, Discontinuity and Dynamics in Mathematics & Economics - Reconsidering Rosser's Visions
K. Vela Velupillai; Stefano Zambelli
9. Beyond the DSGE straightjacket
Pesaran, M. H.; Smith, R. P.
10. A organização e o novo conceito de capital no capitalismo dos profissionais
Pereira, Luiz Carlos Bresser
11. The Time-to-Build Tradition in Business Cycle Modelling
N. Dharmaraj; K. Vela Velupillai
12. Introduction to the Phillips Machine and the Analogue Computing Tradition in Economics
K. Vela Velupillai
13. The Epistemology of Simulation, Computation and Dynamics in Economics Ennobling Synergies, Enfeebling 'Perfection'
K. Vela Velupillai; Stefano Zambelli
14. Schumpeter and the essence of profit
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont
15. Business Cycles in the Phillips Machine
Allan McRobie
16. How Shall We Prepare Students for Attacking New Scientific Problems with Computation?
Rosalind Reid
17. Democracy and capitalist revolution
Pereira, Luiz Carlos Bresser
18. Teaching Macroeconomics after the Crisis: A Survey among Undergraduate Instructors in Europe and the U.S.
Gärtner, Manfred; Griesbach, Björn; Jung, Florian
19. Pricing, liquidity and the control of dynamic systems in finance and economics
Willis, Geoff
20. Thirty Years of Heteroskedasticity-Robust Inference
James MacKinnon
21. Law and Economy in Traditional China: A "Legal Origin" Perspective on the Great Divergence
Ma, Debin
22. Cinco modelos de capitalismo
Pereira, Luiz Carlos Bresser

Types of Economic Theory

2011-06-06T09:00:00.000+02:00

Types of Economic Theory

By Othmar Spann
Translated by Eden Paul and Cedar Paul
Series: Routledge Revivals

First published in English 1929, this is a reissue of the nineteenth edition of Othmar Spann's classic history of economic thought, which is strongly influenced by the German Romantic tradition.
Spann intended the work to serve as both history of economic thought and a critique of the main theories and systems of political economy, analysing the basic problems of economics in the light of the evolution of economic theory. His study encapsulates everything from pre-mercantile economics through to the political economy of the early twentieth century, encompassing such diverse subjects as the physiocratic system, the development of German political economy and the evolution of socialism.

Published May 31st 2011 by Routledge

"The Thinkers in the Late Tokugawa Kyushu" - Conference

2011-06-03T09:00:00.003+02:00

The Society for the History of Japanese Economic Thought (SHJET), will hold the annual conference at Saga University, Saga City, Kyushu (Region), Japan, during June 4-5, 2011.

The unifying theme for this conference is
"The Thinkers in the Late Tokugawa Kyushu (in the Early 19th Century)".
During this period, Japan's Tokugawa Shogunate Government was
ending its isolationist policy.

You can find an English version of the program, following the Japanese original edition, by making access to:
http://web.econ.keio.ac.jp/staff/mkomuro/atoc-JET/index.html
and by clicking the fifth hot link (in Japanese) from the top.

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics - New Issue

2011-06-01T09:00:00.000+02:00

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

Edited by: Erik Thomson
University of Manitoba
Issue date: 2011-05-30
Papers: 9

CONTENTS:

1. Rhetoric and Conceptual Problems in Economics: the Case of General Equilibrium Theory
Michele Gori; Vinicio Guidi
2. Die Rezeption der John Maynard Keynes Manuskripte von 1904 bis 1911. Anregungen für die deutschsprachige Diskussion
Muchlinski, Elke
3. Time for behavioral political economy? An analysis of articles in behavioral economics
Berggren, Niclas
4. The impact of the termination rule on cooperation in a prisoner's dilemma experiment
Normann, Hans-Theo; Wallace, Brian
5. On the notion of ecological justice
Stefanie Glotzbach
6. Moral Impossibility in the Petersburg Paradox : A Literature Survey and Experimental Evidence
Tibor Neugebauer
7. Friedman's monetary economics in practice
Edward Nelson
8. Imagined futures. Fictionality in economic action
Beckert, Jens
9. L'importance des langues et des mots dans la comparaison : traduction et controverses
Jean-Claude Barbier

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics - New Issue

2011-05-31T09:00:00.002+02:00

New Economics Papers History and Philosophy of Economics

Edited by: Erik Thomson
University of Manitoba
Issue date: 2011-05-24
Papers: 16

CONTENTS:

1. The role of experts in the public assessment of England´s trade crisis of the early 1620´s
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak
2. "Was Keynes's Monetary Policy, a outrance in the Treatise, a Forerunnner of ZIRP and QE? Did He Change His Mind in the General Theory?"
Jan Kregel
3. Portrait of the Economist as a Young Man: Raúl Prebisch’s evolving views on the business cycle and money, 1919-1949
Esteban Pérez Caldentey and Matías Vernengo
4. The making of heterodox microeconomics
Lee, Frederic
5. The pure logic of value, profit, interest
Kakarot-Handtke, Egmont
6. Contextual Risk and Its Relevance in Economics
Diederik Aerts; Sandro Sozzo
7. Law as a Precondition for Religious Freedom
Christoph Engel
8. Besonderes Verwaltungsrecht und ökonomische Theorie
Christoph Engel
9. Expectations, employment and prices: a suggested interpretation of the new 'farmerian' economics
Guerrazzi, Marco
10. A Contextual Risk Model for the Ellsberg Paradox
Diederik Aerts; Sandro Sozzo
11. The Role of Theory in Field Experiments
David Card; Stefano DellaVigna; Ulrike Malmendier
12. Cognitive load in the multi-player prisoner's dilemma game
Duffy, Sean; Smith, John
13. Perfect equilibrium in games with compact action spaces
Bajoori Elnaz; Flesch János; Vermeulen Dries
14. Patience, Cognitive Skill and Coordination in the Repeated Stag Hunt
Omar Al-Ubaydli; Garett Jones; Jaap Weel
15. Intertemporal evaluation criteria for climate change policy: the basic ethical issues
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Schymura, Michael
16. What motivates academic scientists to engage in research commercialization: ‘gold’, ‘ribbon’ or ‘puzzle’?
Lam, Alice

MicroCafé - Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics

2011-05-30T09:00:00.001+02:00

MicroCafé - Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics

Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 5.00-6.30 PM

Randomization in medicine and economics
David Teira (UNED, Madrid)

VENUE

Bocconi, Via Röntgen 1, 5th floor, room 5-E4-SR04

ABSTRACT

The paper attempts to bridge the gap between philosophy of economics and philosophy of medicine and discusses the methodological virtues of randomized experiments in both fields.

A handout of the talk and the paper are attached

SPEAKER

David Teira Serrano is associate professor at the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid. He has worked on the epistemological implications of the statistical techniques applied in early demand theory and their impact on Milton Friedman's methodological stance, and is now working on the role of impartiality in the design and interpretation of clinical trials. More on David and his research at www.uned.es/personal/dteira/

FORTHCOMING SEMINARS

June 8: Frank Hindriks (University of Groningen)

How to think about institutions? The philosophy and economics of social rules and regularities

Venue: University of Milan

June 15: Giacomo Sillari (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

Knowledge, common knowledge and coordination

Venue: Bocconi

Crises and Cycles in Economic Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias

2011-05-27T09:00:00.000+02:00

Crises and Cycles in Economic Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias
Edited by Daniele Besomi

To be published June 29th 2011 by Routledge – 632 pages

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Economics

This book aims at investigating from the perspective of the major economic dictionaries the notions of economic crisis and cycle. The project consists in giving an extensive summary of a number of significant entries on this subject, with an introductory essay to each entry placing them (and the dictionary to which they belong) in their context, giving some details on the author of the dictionary entry, and assessing the entry’s (and its author’s) contribution. The broad picture (including the history of these encyclopedic tools) will be examined in the introductory essays.

Contents:

Part I: Introductory 1. Introduction Daniele Besomi 2. A Brief History of Economic Dictionaries. An Essay in Bibliography Daniele Besommi 3. Naming Crises. A Note on Semantics and Chronology Daniele Besomi 4. Dictionary Reconstructions of the History of the Theories of Crises and Cycles. A Meta-Taxonomy Daniele Besomi Part II: The Classic Dictoinaries 5. Between Progress and Decline: Crises in Early French Dictionaries and Encyclopedias (1830-1840) Ludovic Frobert 6. The Analysis of Crises in Early French Dictoaries and Encyclopedias Daniele Besomi 7. Wilhelm Roscher's Crises Theory: From Production Crises to Sales Crises Harald Hagemann 8. Charles Coquelin: Banking Monopoly and Commercial Crises Daniele Besomi 9. Commercial Crisis and Credit in the First Spanish General Encyclopedia (1851-1855) Jesús Astigarraga and Juan Zabalza 10. Expectations and Crises in Auguste Ott's Dictionnaire des Sciences Politiques et Sociales Daniele Besomi 11. Gerolamo Boccardo on Internally Generated Commercial Crises Daniele Besomi 12. Clément Juglar 1863-1891: Tracking and Interpreting the Periodic Return of Crises Cécile Dangel-Hagnauer 13. Henry D. Macleod's Dictionary of Political Economy: Britain's First Aborted Attempt Cécile Dangel-Hagnauer 14. Adolf Wagner: Economic Crises, Capitalism and Human Nature Vitantonio Gioia 15. Émile de Laveleye: Economic Crises, Christianity and Socialism Ludovic Frobert 16. Of the 'Old' Palgrave Entries on Crises Pascal Bridel 17. From Crises to Cycles: Tugan-Baranovsky and the Brockham-Efron (1895-1915) François Allisson 18. Heinrich Herkner: Inequality of Income Distribution, Overcapitalisation and Underconsumption Harald Hagemann 19. Wilhelm Lexis: Crises and Overproduction Harald Hagemann 20. Arthur Spiethoff: From Economic Crises to Business Cycle Theory Vitantonio Gioia 21. Koynus's 'Economic conjuncture' in the Granat Encyclopedia Vincent Barnett 22. Wesley Mitchell, Arthur Burns and Trygve Haavehno on Business Cycles: The Two Encyclopyedias of the Social Sicnes (1930-1935 and 1968) Pier Francesco Asso and Luca Fiorito 23. Tinbergen on Dynamics and Conjuncture in Stridiron's Bedrijfseconomische encyclopedie Peter Rodenburg Part III: The Recent Dictionaries 24. Nikolai Kondratiev and Long Waves in Recent Dictionaries and Encyclopedias Francisco Louçã 25. Political Business Cycles Jon-Peter Olters 26. Nonlinear Business Cycles in Recent Dictionaries Giorgio Colacchio 27. An Assessment of Real Business Cycles in Recent Dictionaries Marc Pilkington 28. Back to Crises: Post-War Dictionaries and the Reslience of an Old Category Daniele Besomi and Giorgio Colacchio 29 A Bibliography of Specialised Dictionaries of Economics and Related Subjects Daniele Besomi

Il ventunesimo secolo di Keynes

2011-05-26T09:00:00.000+02:00

Luiss University Press

A cura di Lorenzo Pecchi e Gustavo Piga

Il ventunesimo secolo di Keynes.
Economia e società per le nuove generazioni

Nel 1930, il grande economista inglese John Maynard Keynes scrisse un breve saggio, dal tono colloquiale e informale, intitolato Possibilità economiche per i nostri nipoti. Il testo, scritto inizialmente per essere letto agli studenti, e successivamente rivisitato per la pubblicazione, è stato a lungo tempo dimenticato, finché la recente crisi mondiale non l'ha riportato all'attenzione di economisti ed esperti.
Perché queste dieci pagine scarse, scritte in modo molto poco accademico e, anzi, quasi divulgativo, sono ritenute così degne d'attenzione?
Il motivo è da ricercarsi nelle profezie che Keynes, riferendosi al "nostro" ventunesimo secolo, proponeva ai propri studenti: in un momento di crisi, come si sarebbe potuto intervenire, e che cosa avrebbe comportato l'intervento nel lungo periodo?
Lo scritto keynesiano, che apre questo volume, viene oggi letto da sedici dei più illustri economisti dei giorni nostri, che provano a vedere se, come e in che misura le profezie ivi contenute abbiano trovato riscontro negli avvenimenti di questi anni e, quando questo non è accaduto, quale è stato il motivo dell'"errore" di Keynes, e quali insegnamenti possiamo trarre da ciò.
Il libro, partendo da presupposti e punti di vista scientifici diversi, non manca di indagare i grandi temi al centro del dibattito ai giorni nostri. L'analisi di questioni quali il consumismo, la ricchezza, il tempo libero e il lavoro, la disuguaglianza, lo sviluppo e la tecnologia, fa sì che il saggio, come lo scritto che lo ha ispirato, sia a un tempo una lezione e una guida per gli "ascoltatori" di oggi.

Con scritti di:
Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel per l'economia 2001),
Edmund Phelps (Nobel per l'economia 2006),
Gary Becker (Nobel per l'economia 1992),
Robert Solow (Nobel per l'economia 1987),
Jean-Paul Fitoussi,
William Baumol,
David Levine
e altri ancora.

Studi e Note di Economia - New Issue

2011-05-25T09:00:00.000+02:00

Il fascicolo n. 3-2010 della rivista
"Studi e Note di Economia"
è da oggi scaricabile da internet al seguente indirizzo web:

http://www.mps.it/Investor+Relations/ResearchAnalisis/StudiNoteEconomia/Archivio/2010+Fascicolo+3.htm

Table of contents:

Fascicolo 3 2010

Financial Crises and Economic Depressions: An Introduction
Autori: C. ZAPPIA – L. FIORITO

Performing the recession
Autori: D. WILSON – W. DIXON

Henry Simons and the other Minsky Moment
Autore: J. TOPOROWSKY

Keynes on the Relation of the Capitalist “Vulgar Passions” to Financial Crises
Autore: T. WINSLOW

Crisi finanziarie e sviluppo ciclico secondo l’approccio di Paolo Sylos Labini
Autori: M. CORSI - G. GUARINI

The 2007-9 financial crisis: an endogenous-money view
Autore: S. ROSSI

Cahiers d'économie politique - Papers in Political Economy - New Issue

2011-05-24T09:00:00.000+02:00

Cahiers d'économie politique - Papers in Political Economy )

Is a bilingual French-English journal devoted to the history of economic ideas and theoretical debates since 1974.
The last issue, number 60, can be downloaded from CAIRN:
www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-d-economie-politique-2011-1.htm

This is the table of contents of the last issue

Articles :

- Benoît Walraevens , « Corruption des travailleurs et éducation dans les sociétés selon Adam Smith »

- Cyrille Ferraton & David Vallat, « Une approche politique du crédit populaire : Pierre-Joseph Proudhon et le crédit mutuel »

- Laurent Baronian , « La monnaie dans les Grundrisse »

- Guy Bensimon, « La stabilité de la hiérarchie des salaires et l'expression des quantités de travail en unité commune »

- Abdelaziz Berkane, « Un essai de typologie des comportements économiques : le cas de la tradition théorique autrichienne »

- Ludovic Ragni, « La méthode mathématique chez Walras et Cournot : comparaison et enjeux de discorde »

Reviews and bibliographical notes :
- Jonathan Marie : Christian Tutin, Une histoire des théories monétaires par les textes, Flammarion, Paris, collection « Champs classiques », 2009, 508 p.

- Nicolas Rieucau : Arnaud Orain et Philippe Le Pichon (dir.), Graslin. Le temps des Lumières à Nantes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 2008, 326 p. Contributions de Gilles Bienvenu, Alain Delaval, Gilbert Faccarello, Yvon Le Gall, Philippe Le Pichon, Arnaud Orain, Daniel Rabreau, Samuel Rajalu, Guy Saupin ; avec un texte de J.-J.-L. Graslin, Dissertation de Saint-Pétersbourg (1768)

- Éric Pommier : Hans Jonas, "Philosophical Essays: From Ancient Creed to Technological Man", University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1974, 349 p. Hans Jonas, Le Principe, trad. Jean Greisch, Champs Flammarion, Paris, 1998 [réédité en 2008], 470p.

Editing economic ideas :
« L'édition complète des Œuvres de Jules Dupuit l'économiste »
- Philippe Poinsot : Breton, Yves et Klotz, Gérard (éd.), Œuvres économiques complètes de Jules Dupuit, Economica, Paris, 2009, 1350 p.

The future of Economics: Updating Bounded Rationality - Workshop

2011-05-23T09:00:00.000+02:00

The future of Economics: Updating Bounded Rationality *

Workshop organized by

The International Herbert A. Simon Society

in collaboration with

Italian Cultural Institute of New York ** and Fondazione Rosselli, Turin, Italy

May 23, 2011 – New York

Italian Cultural Institute

686 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10065

Are the recent financial crisis and the many market failures a final blow to the concept of olympic rationality and the definitive victory of bounded rationality?

The goal of the panel is to specify the interdisciplinary aspects of bounded rationality, a concept introduced by Herbert Simon, and how psychology, philosophy and computer sciences have contributed to redefine its conceptual boundaries and consequent applications to economic and social sciences. Updating bounded rationality means to understand how philosophical analysis and neurocognitive research have reshaped the limits of “rationality”, one of the most controversial concepts in epistemology, economics, psychology and social sciences. Nobel laureates in Economics Kenneth Arrow, Daniel Kahneman, Oliver Williamson and many other distinguished scholars will speak about a cutting-edge topic at the crossroads of several sciences.

Panelists: Riccardo Viale, Massimo Egidi, Richard Nelson, Jon Elster, Roy Radner, Dan Sperber, Oliver Williamson, Giovanni Dosi, Colin Camerer, Mie Augier, Kenneth Arrow, Daniel Kahnenman, Edward Feigenbaum, Susan Carey, Alvin Goldman, Steven Lukes, Gloria Origgi, Pamela McCorduck, Craig Calhoun, Sidney Winter, Lawrence Hirschfeld, David Klahr, Vernon Smith, Nassim Taleb.

By invitation only, subject to seat availability. If you would like to participate please write to Francesco Ricciardo at f.ricciardoiicny@gmail.com

*http://www.fondazionerosselli.it/User.it/index.php?PAGE=Sito_en/Home
**http://www.iicnewyork.esteri.it/

The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics - new issue

2011-05-20T09:00:00.000+02:00

The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE) is proud to announce the publication of its latest issue online at http://ejpe.org

EJPE is a peer-reviewed biannual academic journal publishing research which improves our understanding of the methodology, history, ethics, and inter-disciplinary relations of economics. EJPE is an open access journal supported by the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE).

Contents of this issue include:

Strength and riches: Nicholas Barbon’s new politics of commerce
by GEOFFREY C. KELLOW

Against the pragmatic justification for realism in economic methodology
by SIMON DEICHSEL

Puzzled by realism: a response to Deichsel
by USKALI MÄKI

Anti-realism or pro-something else? Response to Deichsel
by TONY LAWSON

SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION
The inexact and separate philosophy of economics:
an interview with DANIEL HAUSMAN

BOOK REVIEWS
DAVID COLANDER on Roger E. Backhouse's "The puzzle of modern economics: science or ideology?"

DAVID M. FRANK on Paul W. Glimcher's "Foundations of neuroeconomic analysis"

IRENE VAN STAVEREN on Robert Garnett, Erik Olsen, and Martha Starr (eds) "Economic pluralism"

JOSEPH HEATH on Debra Satz's "Why some things should not be for sale"

CHRISTOPHER J. BERRY on Willie Henderson's "The origins of David Hume’s economics"

JOOST W. HENGSTMENGEL on Johan J. Graafland’s "The market, happiness,
and solidarity: a Christian perspective"

CALL FOR PAPERS
EJPE welcomes academic articles on all areas of philosophy and economics. See http://ejpe.org for details of the submission process and criteria.

Young scholars are encouraged to apply for the Mark Blaug Prize in Philosophy and Economics: http://ejpe.org/mark-blaug-prize/

Recent PhD graduates in a relevant field who would like the opportunity to describe their research to EJPE's inter-disciplinary readership are invited to submit a short summary of their thesis for publication

Oeconomia vol.1 n°1 Online

2011-05-19T09:00:00.000+02:00

Oeconomia – History/Methodology/Philosophy, vol.1, issue n°1, has just come out (both online and in print). You can access it from the publisher’s website at http://www.necplus.eu.

We remind you that members of a number of professional societies can benefit from a special rate offer. A direct access to the subscription form is available at:

http://www.necplus.eu/OECdiscountOnlineAsso2011 (online version only)

http://www.necplus.eu/OECdiscountPaperandEAsso2011 (print version plus online version)

A list of partner professional associations is available under the heading “Supporting Oeconomia” of Weboeconomia. (Passwords necessary to benefit from special rates are obtainable from your association.)

Surtout pas trop de zèle. Scienza economica di oggi nelle impressioni di un economista di ieri - Presentazione

2011-05-18T09:00:00.001+02:00

Alla Facoltà di Economia dell'Università degli studi di Bari "A.Moro", il 19 maggio 2011, alle ore 17.30, Domenicantonio Fausto e Antonio Pedone discutono il libro di Italo Magnani Surtout pas trop de zèle. Scienza economica di oggi nelle impressioni di un economista di ieri, CIRIEC, Milano, 2009, pp. 210.
Sarà presente l'autore

Appeal of teachers and researchers‏

2011-05-17T09:00:00.000+02:00

«Renewing the research and teaching in finance, economics and management to better serve the common good»
(Genève-Fribourg-Zürich March 2011)
(1) The authors of this appeal are deeply concerned that more than three years since the outbreak of the financial and macroeconomic crisis that highlighted the pitfalls, limitations, dangers and responsibilities of main-stream thought in economics, finance and management, the quasi-monopolistic position of such thought within the academic world nevertheless remains largely unchallenged. This situation reflects the institutional power that the unconditional proponents of main-stream thought continue to exert on university teaching and research. This domination, propagated by the so-called top universities, dates back at least a quarter of a century and is effectively global. However, the very fact that this paradigm persists despite the current crisis, highlights the extent of its power and the dangerousness of its dogmatic character. Teachers and researchers, the signatories of the appeal, assert that this situation restricts the fecundity of research and teaching in economics, finance and management, diverting them as it does from issues critical to society.
(2) This appeal is public and international and may be seen as part of a broader framework of convergent initiatives. Under current conditions, the academic world cannot be expected to train the open, innovative, responsible minds that are required for facing current and future challenges. This situation is restricted neither to Switzerland nor to Europe. Research on economics, finance, and management ought to contribute to the common good and avoid complacent analysis about the supposed benefits that the economic system may derive from of financialization of economic and social activities driven by the alleged benefits of financial innovation and speculation.
(3) Professors, lecturers and researchers have been entrusted by society with the task of serving the society through their search for a better understanding of reality. Only in this context does academic freedom have a real meaning. Such freedom entails a responsibility and not a mere license. Today the major priorities for research in finance, economics and management should be to examine their foundations as well as the implications of these foundations for practice in light of the events that led to the financial crisis. Only on the basis of such an examination will it be possible to design policies and remedies which lead to a balanced functioning of the economy.
(4) It is imperative to go beyond discussions between specialists with a similar cast of mind. Inevitably such discussions are likely to fall short of a critical examination of premises. The present situation requires the opening of the disciplines of economics, finance and management to a fundamental questioning, free of the trammels of the dominant conceptual framework, which is required for their regeneration. However, such efforts face strong resistance within the academic world and must therefore seek external support. Affirmation of the need of the disciplines of economics, finance and management for plurality of approaches entails debate concerning these disciplines’ epistemological, ethical and anthropological foundations.
(5) As trustees of the confidence of citizens and as producers of ideas that influence attitudes, behaviours and policies, we wish to draw the attention of public opinion and politicians to the fact that the conditions required for the responsible carrying-out of our mission are missing. This appeal is addressed, on the one hand, to students, researchers early in their careers, colleagues and economic actors and, on the other hand, to those with essential roles in the management of academic education and research such as rectors, presidents and deans of academic institutions, and administrators of research funding. All these parties have role to play in to ensuring the fulfilment of conditions for a fundamental regeneration of our disciplines and for the required return to Intellectual pluralism.
(6) Teachers of higher education, the signatories of this appeal, wish to suggest some courses of action that would promote such pluralism, the only defence against the risk of blinkered dogmatism and the misguided loss of intellectual and political direction which is the result of this dogmatism. These courses of action include:
Undertaking a critical retrospective review of recent teaching and research in economics, finance and management with the aim of raising awareness concerning the relevance to society of work in disciplines which are supported by public funding. Academic freedom cannot be a justification for teachers and researchers to ignore their broader social responsibility.
Actively promoting interdisciplinarity at institutional level through the encouragement of enhanced communication, of opening dedicated institutional spaces and fostering links between academics in different disciplines.
(7) Conditions have to be created to make intellectual pluralism a reality at all levels of the academic hierarchy through measures such as the following:
Consideration should be given when recruiting new academic personnel to their interest in broader socio-economic problems as well as in issues bearing on the equity, stability and sustainability of the economic and financial system.
The criteria for the evaluation of research should be expanded to include practical relevance and willingness, manifested in publications, to tackle interdisciplinary themes. Such an expansion would counterbalance existing criteria which attribute overwhelming importance to the number of publications in a limited number of highly rated, monolithic journals.
(8) Subjecting prevailing main-stream thought to reasoned criticism is a scientific duty. Such criticism makes possible progress towards the goal of intellectual pluralism in the disciplines of economics, finance and management, an intellectual pluralism which is essential to the capacity of these disciplines to enrich public debate and to clarify the nature of policy choices.
(9) The authors of this appeal are the following:
Titel/First Name/Last Name Institution
Country

Prof. Hon. Claude Auroi IUHEID – Geneva Switzerland
Prof. Heinrich Bortis University of Fribourg Switzerland
Prof. Marc Chesney University of Zurich Switzerland
Prof. Paul Dembinski University of Fribourg Switzerland
Prof. Denis Dupré University of Grenoble France
Prof. Rajna Gibson University of Geneva Switzerland
Prof. Jean-Christophe Graz University of Lausanne Switzerland
Em. Prof. Chris Lefebvre Catholic University of Leuven Belgium
Prof. Rafeal Matos HES Sierre Switzerland
Em. Prof. Claude Mouchot University of Lyon 2 France
Prof. Alfred Pastor IESE – Barcelona Spain
Prof. Étienne Perrot Catholic Institute of Paris France
Prof. HES Marie-Françoise Perruchoud-Massy HES Sierre Switzerland
Prof. Frédéric Poulon University Montesquieu – Bordeaux IV France
Prof. Birger P. Priddat University of Witten/Herdecke Germany
Gilles Raveaud
Maître de conférences University Paris 8 Saint-Denis France
Prof. Sergio Rossi University of Fribourg Switzerland
Prof. Jean-Michel Servet IUHEID – Geneva Switzerland
Prof. Milad Zarin University of Neuchatel Switzerland

The colleagues from teaching and research and all interested persons, who read this appeal and would like to sign it, can do this on this blog by clicking on the following link: http://www.responsiblefinance.ch/appeal/sign-for-call. For any comments on this appeal please use the following field.
You can also send your signatures and comments to: manifeste@obsfin.ch.

Cliometrica - New Issue

2011-05-16T09:00:00.001+02:00

Cliometrica, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2011
Luca Pensieroso: Real business cycle models of the Great Depression.
Harald Degner: Do technological booms matter? New evidence on the relationship between firm size and innovativeness.
Howard Bodenhorn: Manumission in nineteenth-century Virginia.
Péter Földvári, Bas van Leeuwen: What can price volatility tell us about market efficiency? Conditional heteroscedasticity in historical commodity price series.
Christopher Hoag: Clearinghouse membership and deposit contraction during the Panic of 1893.
Website: http://www.springerlink.com/content/120412/

Seminari Università di Bergamo

2011-05-13T09:00:00.000+02:00

All'interno dei corsi di Economia Monetaria e Economia Monetaria Internazionale
della Facoltà di Economia dell'Università di Bergamo
si svolgerà un CICLO DI LEZIONI SULLA CRISIsecondo il seguente calendario

Lunedi 9 maggio 10.30-13.30
Riccardo Bellofiore (Università di Bergamo)
La Grande Recessione: la dimensione globale, la crisi europea

Lunedi 9 maggio 16.30-19.30
Riccardo Bellofiore (Università di Bergamo)
Marx e la crisi

Martedi 10 maggio 16.30-19.30
Hervé Baron (ricercatore indipendente) e Stefano Lucarelli (Università di Bergamo)
"Pensare la crisi finanziaria": l'approccio convenzionalista di André Orléan

Mercoledì 11 maggio 10.30-13-30
Massimo Florio (Università di Milano)
Le radici reali della crisi finanziaria globale

Lunedi 16 maggio 10.30-13.30
Riccardo Bellofiore (Università di Bergamo)
Marx e la crisi

Lunedì 16 maggio 16.30-19.30
Jo Michell (SOAS London)
Speculation, financial innovation, and stock-flow consistency

Martedì 17 maggio 14.30-18.30
Gérard Dumènil (Università Paris X)
The Crisis of the Early 21st Century: A Critical Review of the Alternative Interpretations

Mercoledì 18 maggio 10.30-13.30
Gérard Dumènil (Università Paris X)
The Crisis of Neoliberalism

Lunedì 23 maggio 16.30-19.30
Francesco Garibaldo (già direttore IPL [Istituto per il Lavoro])
L'industria italiana ed europea nella crisi globale

Martedì 24 maggio 16.30-19.30
François Chesnais (Università Paris XIII)
Finance capital and the economic and social crisis

Lunedì 6 giugno 10.30-13.30
Alessandro Vercelli (Università di Siena)
Collassi finanziari e disastri nucleari: dinamica complessa e rischi catastrofici

Lunedì 6 giugno 16.30-19.30
Marcello Messori (Università di Roma, Tor Vergata)
La crisi del debito sovrano europeo: origini e prospettive

Martedì 7 giugno 16.30-19.30
Vittorio Valli (Università di Torino)
L'economia italiana: i nodi strutturali e la crisi

Mercoledì 8 giugno 10.30-13.30
Giovanna Vertova (Università di Bergamo)
La crisi economica globale: una prospettiva di genere

Le lezioni saranno in italiano o in inglese (in questo caso, con traduzione consecutiva), con l'eccezione dell'incontro del 17 maggio che si svolgerà in inglese senza traduzione.

La partecipazione è aperta a tutte e tutti.
Per informazioni: riccardo.bellofiore@unibg.it

Comunicazione Ministro Reclutamento

2011-05-12T09:00:00.003+02:00

Si segnala che all'indirizzo http://www.unisi.it/dl2/20110510143150350/revisione_statuti_lettera_ministro.pdf, è consultabile la lettera dell'onorevole Ministro Maria Stella Gelmini sull'applicazione della Legge 30 dicembre 2010 N. 240.