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Adam Smith Lives! A History of Economic Thought Blog December 2007 November 2007 October 2007 September 2007 August 2007 January 2007 November 2006 October 2006 September 2006 July 2006  Sandra J. Peart & David M. Levy: The "Vanity of the Philosopher" : From Equality to Hierarchy in Post-Classical Economics European Journal of the History of Economic ThoughtEds. José Luís Cardoso, Gilbert Faccarello, Heinz D. Kurz, Antoine E. Murphy Journal of the History of Economic ThoughtEd. Steven G. Medema, HES journal History of Political EconomyEd. Craufurd D. W. Goodwin, Associate Eds. Neil De Marchi, E. Roy Weintraub Add me to your TypePad People list Subscribe to this blog's feed HOPE conference announcement The annual /History of Political Economy/ Conference -- this year on the topic "Robert Solow and the Development of Growth Economics" -- will be held 25-27 April 2008 at Duke University. Further information, including the tentative program, can be found on the Duke History of Economy Group website (http://econ.duke.edu/HOPE), following the links to HOPE Conferences and then to the 2008 conference or, directly, to the HOPE 2008 websitehttp://econ.duke.edu/HOPE/HOPEconference2008OpenAccess/HOPE2008master.htmMauro Boianovsky <mboianovsky@gmail.com>Kevin Hoover <kd.hoover@duke.edu> Organizers December 20, 2007 in History of Economic Thought Conferences | Permalink | TrackBack (0) Conferences in the History of Economics 3 conference announcements of interest to historians of economics have come in recently:1 )from Steve Medema) The 40th annual UK History of Economic Thought Conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, over 3-5 September, 2008. The conference will retain its traditional intimate format, with substantialtime devoted to the presentation and discussion of each of the papers.Papers on all aspects of the history of economics and economic thoughtare welcome. Those wishing to present a paper at the conference shouldsend an abstract of five hundred words to the conference organizer,Professor Steven Medema, by email at steven.medema@cudenver.edu or viathe post to Department of Economics, CB 181, University of ColoradoDenver, Denver, CO 80217-3364, USA. The deadline for receipt ofproposals is April 1, 2008, and decisions will be made by April 15,2008. Further information about the conference will be made available inthe coming months.___________2 (from David Teira Serrano) XI Summer School on Economics and Philosophy: SOCIAL NORMSSan Sebastian (Spain), 14-17 July 2008; Director: Cristina Bicchieri (UPenn)Coordinators: Alfonso Dubois (UPV), David Teira & Jesús Zamora (UNED)Preliminary list of speakers: Jason Alexander (LSE), Daniel Andler (ParisIV-ENS), Cristina Bicchieri (UPenn), Pablo Brañas (Ugr), Jordi Brandts(CSIC), Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC- CNR), Jason Dana (UPenn), JonElster (College de France), Diego Gambetta (Oxford), Herbert Gintis(UMass), Russell Hardin (NYU), Shaun Nichols (U. Arizona), EdnaUllmann-Margalit (Tel-Aviv)Since 1998 the Urrutia Elejalde has annually organized a Summer School onfrontier topics between philosophy, economics and other social sciences,bringing together scholars from all these fields to explore them. The aimof this year Summer School is to introduce participants to the vastresearch that is taking place in the area of social norms. >Fromphilosophy and psychology to evolutionary game theory and experimentaleconomics, recent work on social norms is shedding light on why and underwhat circumstances people engage in pro-social behavior, and how norms mayemerge, stabilize or decay.We encourage submission of papers that cover one or more of the aboveareas. The scientific committee will consider a number of submissions byyoung scholars at graduate or postgraduate level. The Foundation willcover the registration fees and accomodation expenses of the authors.Please send a 2000 words pdf abstract to David Teira (dteira [at]fsof.uned.es) before Jan 31st 2008. A decision will be made by March 15th.For further information on the School, visit:http://www.urrutiaelejalde.org/SummerSchool/2008.html___________ 3 (from Pedro Duarte) The New Zealand Association of Economists and the Econometric Society will holda symposium (in New Zealand, July 2008) on the Phillips Curve. The selectedpapers will be published in the North American Journal of Economics andFinance. Although the main concern of the symposium is with "the estimation,inference, and policy implications of the Phillips Curve, and its place inmacroeconomic analysis," the 50th anniversary of Phillips' original articleopens up the possibility that some historian of economics participate in thesymposium and reach a broader audience of macroeconomists. For more details onthis symposium, please visit:http://www.phillips08.org.nz/ December 11, 2007 in History of Economic Thought Conferences | Permalink | TrackBack (0) Rawls on Robbins Here's a taste of what David will talk about at the Robbins conference in London. We've obtained a number of Rawls' copies of books by economists, including Rawls' copy of The Nature and Significance. So we can see what struck Rawls as he read Robbins. Here, you can see Rawls' exclamation -- "splendid!" -- beside Robbins' discussion of interpersonal comparisons of utility: December 07, 2007 in Analytical Egalitarianism | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Nature and Significance: Robbins at 75 The Robbins conference website is now set to go! http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/lionelrobbins/conferenceprogramme.asp December 06, 2007 in History of Economic Thought Conferences, Why the past of economics matters | Permalink | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0) Lionel Robbins, Nature and Significance of Economic Science Readers know that I studied with Sam Hollander. Perhaps because of this, I have long felt that Sam's teacher, Lionel Robbins, deserves more recognition than he has been given by the profession. So I am very pleased that N&S is now 75 years old; we can use the occasion to celebrate Robbins and to sort out just what he said that was so important. Frank Cowell and Amos Witztum have sent the HES list this announcement of the upcoming Robbins conference at the London School of Economics. A Conference onThe Nature And Significance of Economic Science75th Anniversary of Lionel Robbins’s Essay. This year marks the 75th anniversary of Lionel Robbins’s Essay on the Nature and Significance of Economic Science. The Department of Economics at LSE and the editors of Economica are marking the event by a conference and a special issue of the journal. The purpose of this conference is to renew the considerations of Robbins’s theme and reflect on the current nature and significance of economic science as well as examine Robbins’s own position from a historical perspective.Speakers include: Tony Atkinson, Ken Binmore, Lawrence Blume, RichardLipsey and Robert SugdenThe Conference will take place at LSE on 10-11 December 2007.There are no conference fees. Participation includes luncheon on bothdays of the conference and a conference dinner on Monday, 10/12.However, there are a limited number of places and registration is on the basis of first come first served.You can obtain your registration form and examine the programme of the conference at:http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/lionelrobbins/ November 19, 2007 in History of Economic Thought Conferences | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Leo Thorsness -- modern day hero Yesterday we took Colonel Leo Thorsness, leader in Residence at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, to the airport. Before this, he spent 2 1/2 days with our faculty and students -- talking to newly admitted Jepson students about his days in Hanoi Hilton, to students in our Foundations classes, ethics, and Don Forsyth's Group Dynamics class, and so on. Lunch with ROTC students at UR; pizza with Richmond College men. Dinner for our Jepson Forum event, Ronald Takaki. Throughout, Colonel Thorsness' message is courage, "do what's right, help others", and -- here the leadership lesson emerges -- people will follow you if you this is your mantra. If it's not, they won't. He told us about how the men at Hanoi Hilton stripped the leader -- ranking officer -- of his rank because he had given up on this motivational mantra and become a broken man. Is there a link to HET? Economists today rarely talk about the motivational force that a good leader generates. But Adam Smith knew about such things. In a paper I presented at the International Leadership Association 2 weeks ago, David Levy and I made the case that, for Smith, the approbation that comes from "doing the right thing", being praiseworthy, motivates leaders and then their followers.Here's a key passage that makes the case that a leader, motivated by equality, was able to command a rather large number of supporters at Culloden. My grandmother was a MacLean (of Duart); David's a Cameron. Here's what Smith has to say about leadership: It is not thirty years ago since Mr. Cameron ofLochiel, a gentleman of Lochabar in Scotland, without any legal warrantwhatever, not being what was then called a lord of regality, nor even atenant in chief, but a vassal of the Duke of Argyle, and without beingso much as a justice of peace, used, notwithstanding, to exercise thehighest criminal jurisdiction over his own people. He is said to havedone so with great equity, though without any of the formalities ofjustice; and it is not improbable that the state of that part of thecountry at that time made it necessary for him to assume this authorityin order to maintain the public peace. That gentleman, whose rent neverexceeded five hundred pounds a year, carried, in 1745, eight hundred ofhis own people into the rebellion with him. (Smith WN: B.III, Ch.4). November 17, 2007 in Jepson School of Leadership Studies | Permalink | TrackBack (0) HE position at James Madison Barkley Rosser, at JMU, has posted this note at the HES list: I am pleased to announce that there is a tenure track, assistant professor job opening availableat James Madison University, for which the primary field desired is history of economics, with other fields with that being anything (although we are also hiring in public economics separately). We are looking for somebody interested in teaching history of economic though on about an annual basis. If you or somebody you know might be interested, please check out our ad in the October JOE, or contact Prof. Ehsan Ahmed at ahmedex@jmu.edu. We will be interviewing at the ASSA meetings in New Orleans, and the deadline for applications is December 1. November 11, 2007 in HET jobs | Permalink | TrackBack (0) Eugenics resurfaces David Levy and I recently wrote this in the wake of James Watson's recent resignation: Watson’sremarks call to mind debates in the 19th Century over Ireland and theWest Indies. There, too, the debate centered on the seemingly simplequestion of whether the Irish (or the former slaves in Jamaica) were asintelligent as the English. In “What is to be Done with Ireland” andother articles, the philosopher and political economist John StuartMill argued that the Irish were inherently no different from theEnglish. The soon-to-be forgotten co-founder of eugenics, W. R. Greg,argued that the Irish were inherently different, “idiosyncratic.” ForGreg, different meant inferior. On the policy side, thedebate fits with Watson’s statement as well — if the Irish wereinferior to the English, then English social and economic policywouldn’t work there. Something else had to be devised. Eugenics was one answer that gained currency for well over a century.Not surprisingly, Watson has also come out in favor of eugenics.Though we don't say this in the article (see the link below), it is interesting to note that Watson's reputation apparently survived his earlier remarks on eugenics. You can see the full article from the Providence Journal Bulletin, here. November 05, 2007 in "Race" and hierarchy in the History of Economic Ideas, Why the past of economics matters | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0) History of recent economics, mechanism design, etc. The recent Nobel set off a flurry of remarks to which I don't hope to add. But I should say that it also prompted a note to me from Kyu Sang Lee, former Young Scholar at the HES and participant in the Summer Institute at George Mason University. Not surprisingly, given his interest in the history of recent economics, Kyu earned his PhD from Notre Dame University under Phil Mirowski. He reminds me that his 2006 HOPE article is an attempt to write a history of design mechanism:Mechanism Design Theory Embodying an Algorithm-Centered Visionof Markets/Organizations/Institutions Kyu Sang LeeThis article examines mechanism design theory (MDT), which has recentlygarnered widespread attention in the microeconomics literature. The mainconclusion drawn here is that MDT provides the dominant Walrasian generalequilibrium tradition with a new transpersonal, algorithm-centeredvision of markets/organizations/institutions while leaving unsolved the lingeringproblems associated with that tradition, many of which were plainlyrevealed by the Sonnenschein-Mantel-Debreu (SMD) results (Ingrao andIsrael 1990, chaps. 11, 12; Rizvi 1994).The study of recent economics has now engaged enough historians of economic thought that a new group has emerged along with a new set of conferences, the first of which was held at Nanterre, last June. You can find out more by checking their website: HESREC. I like old and dusty books -- this week I enjoyed re-reading some Mandeville -- but the new stuff, in my mind, is like a breath of fresh air in a sub-discipline that can sometimes be so far removed from the present that it ceases to overlap sufficiently with what economists know, today. October 30, 2007 in new history of economic ideas initiatives | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) HES line up for Allied Social Sciences Association annual meeting Perry Mehrling has lined up a terrific set of sessions for the ASSAs. If you're going, check these out. The ASSAs allocate sessions and pay attention to attendance (someone counts!) so we need a good turn out for all. Last year, there were people standing in the doorway and sitting on the floor for the HES session on Chicago-style economics! Also (another reminder later): the HES will host a reception for those interested in talking about teaching or research in the history of economic ideas. Friday. 6:30-8:3 p.m. Room tba. Plan to attend and meet up with some like-minded types._______________The History of Economics Society is sponsoring the following sessions at the 2008 ASSA meetings in New Orleans. Jan. 4, 10:15 amHES/AFAWhat Was/Is Financial Economics? (B2)Presiding: STEPHEN BUSER, Ohio State UniversityGEOFFREY POITRAS, Simon Fraser University, and FRANCK JOVANOVIC, University of Quebec-Montreal--Pioneers of Financial EconomicsHICHEM BEN-EL-MECHAIEKH and ROBERT DIMAND, Brock University--LouisBachelier's 1938 Volume on the Calculus of Speculation: EfficientMarkets and Mathematical Finance in Bachelier's Later WorkPETER BERNSTEIN, Peter L. Bernstein, Inc.--In the Thick of This World: The True Story of Modern FinancePERRY MEHRLING, Barnard College, Columbia University--The Spirit of Finance and the Development of MacroeconomicsJan. 4, 12:30 pmHESKeeping the Faith: The Continuing Engagement of Economics with Religion (B1)Presiding: SPENCER BANZHAF, Georgia State UniversitySTEPHEN MEARDON, Bowling Green State University--Whence CommerceFollowed the Missionary: Religions Origins of Doctrines of U.S. Tradeand ExpansionHARRO MAAS, Amsterdam School of Economics--A Hard Battle to Fight: The Dismal Science in Cambridge 1820-1850DANIELA PARISI, Catholic University of Milan--Economics to the Service of Humankind: The Political Economy of Francesco VitoDiscussants: BRAD BATEMAN, Grinnell CollegePAUL OSLINGTON, University of New South WalesSPENCER BANZHAF, Georgia State UniversityJan. 5, 10:15 amHES/AFEEThorstein Veblen at 150: Rethinking a Survivor (B1)Presiding: ANNE MAYHEW, University of TennesseeMATTHEW WILSON, University of Denver--Veblen on Veblen: Social Critic, Evolutionary Scientist, or Both?ROBERT PRASCH, Middlebury College--Thorstein Veblen's Theory of ConsumptionERIC HAKE, Eastern Illinois University--Thorstein Veblen's Theory ofBusiness Enterprise, Business Cycles, and Industrial OrganizationDiscussants: MALCOLM RUTHERFORD, University of British ColumbiaJANET KNOEDLER, Bucknell UniversityJan. 5, 2:30 pmHESRawls and the Economists (B3)Presiding: SANDRA PEART, University of RichmondSANDRA PEART, University of Richmond, and DAVID LEVY, George Mason University--The Buchanan-Rawls CorrespondenceJOHN DAVIS, Marquette University and University of Amsterdam--Rawls and Sen on Deliberative DemocracyJOE PERSKY, University of Illinois-Chicago--Rawls' Thin Defense of PropertyDiscussants: STEVEN DURLAUF, University of WisconsinDAVID COLANDER, Middlebury Coll October 21, 2007 in History of Economic Thought Conferences | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Next »  Searchable, extensive database of works in the History of Econ Ideas (ECONLIB) History of Economic Thought Website (New School) History Of Economics Society McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought Summer Institute for the HET ANU - History of Economic Thought Society of Australia ECHE - European Conferences on the History of Economics JSHET - Japanese Society for HET The Economists' Papers Project at Duke University Economists' Portraits HOPE conference announcement Conferences in the History of Economics Rawls on Robbins Nature and Significance: Robbins at 75 Lionel Robbins, Nature and Significance of Economic Science Leo Thorsness -- modern day hero HE position at James Madison Eugenics resurfaces History of recent economics, mechanism design, etc. HES line up for Allied Social Sciences Association annual meeting _qoptions = { tags:"typepad.core" }; _qacct="p-fcYWUmj5YbYKM"; quantserve(); |
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