Program -- 1996 Annual Conference

FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1996

6:45 pm Opening reception - at Cecil Green Park House (5 minute walk from the Henry Angus Building). Cash bar open until 10:30pm.

SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1996

7:00 am Executive Meeting - in the Mary Murrin Lounge, located at Walter Gage Residence.

8:00-10:00 am

SESSION A-1 (room 210) American Monetary Economics in the Twentieth Century

Chair: David Laidler (University of Western Ontario)
• Perry Mehrling (Barnard College), The Public Interest and the Money Interest: American Monetary Thought.

• J. Daniel Hammond (Wake Forest), Labels and Substance: Friedman's Restatement of the Quantity Theory.

Discussants:

• George Selgin (University of Georgia)
• Roger Sandilands (University of Strathclyde)

SESSION A-2 (room 226) Jevons, Marginalism and Neoclassical Economics

Chair: Nahid Aslanbeigui (Monmouth University)
• Jeff Lipkes (Hollins College), Religion in the Reception of Marginalism in Britain.

• Rhead S. Bowman (Southern Utah University), Policy Implications of W.S. Jevons's Economic Theory.

• Sasan Fayazmanesh (California State University, Fresno), On the Application of Mathematics to Economics: A Case Study of Jevons' Reading of Smith.

Discussants:

• Bradley Bateman (Grinnell College)
• Sandra J. Peart (Baldwin-Wallace College)
• A.M.C. Waterman (University of Manitoba)

SESSION A-3 (room 326) Issues in Smithian Economics

Chair: Jerry Evensky (Syracuse University)
• Peter Hand Matthews (Middlebury College), On The Obscure Origins of the Efficiency Wage Hypothesis.

• James E. Alvey (University of Toronto), Mechanical and Biological Analogies in Adam Smith.

• Andreas Ortmann (Bowdoin College), Adam Smith's Reasoning Routines.

• Gianni Vaggi (University of Pavia), The Social-Economic Man of Adam Smith.

Discussants:


• Mark R. Greer (Dowling College)
• Robert Urquhart (University of Denver)
• Spencer J. Pack (Connecticut College)
• Jeffrey Young (St. Lawrence University)

SESSION A-4 (room 223) Methodology: Falsification, Anomalies, Psychology

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SESSION A-5 (room 225) Topics in Pre-Classical Economic Theory

Chair: S. M. Ghazanfar (University of Idaho)
• Hamid Hosseini (King's College), Economics and Household Management in the Works of Ibn Sina and Nasir Tusi: A Further Reason for Rejecting the Schumpeterian Great Gap Thesis.

• Rick Kleer (University of Regina), Money, Banks and Commerce: Economic Theory and English Politics After the Glorious Revolution.

• Paul Harrison (Brandeis University), The Price is Wrong: Stock Market Prices Debated in the Early 18th Century.

Discussants:


• Kenneth N. Townsend (Hampden-Sydney College)
• Robert P. Rogers (Ashland University)
• J. Patrick Raines (University of Richmond)

10:30am-12:30pm

SESSION B-1 (room 210) Pioneers of American Economic Policy Analysis

Chair: Craufurd Goodwin (Duke University)
• William Barber (Wesleyan College), Irving Fisher as a Pioneer of Economic Policy Analysis.

• Jeff Biddle (Michigan State University), Social Science and the Making of Social Policy: Wesley Mitchell's Vision.

• Craufurd Goodwin (Duke University), The Vision Thing: The Global Economy of Harold Moulton and Leo Pasvolsky.

Discussants:


• Robert Dimand (Brock University)
• Anne Mayhew (University of Tennessee)
• A. W. (Bob) Coats (University of Nottingham)

SESSION B-2 (room 226) Contributions of Women Economists

Chair: Mary Ann Dimand (Albion College)
• Evelyn Forget (University of Manitoba), Saint-Simonian Women.

• Susan H. Gensemer (Syracuse University), Early Women Economists and Labor Economics.

• Aiko Ikeo (Kokugakuin University), Three Women Economists in Japan.

• Drucilla Barker (Hollins College), "Old" Home Economics and the Family in Economics

• Mary Ann Dimand (Albion College), The Biography of Women Economists: Why?

Discussants:


• Michele Pujol (University of Victoria)
• Bette Polkinghorn (California State, Sacramento)
• Bette Polkinghorn (California State, Sacramento)
• Mary Ann Dimand (Albion College)
• Bo Sockwell (Berry College)

SESSION B-3 (room 326) Austrian Economics

Chair: Bruce Caldwell (University of North Carolina, Greensboro)
• Bruce Caldwell (University of North Carolina, Greensboro), Hayek and Socialism.

• Steven Horwitz (St. Lawrence University), Monetary Calculation and Mises's Critique Planning.

• Greg Ransom (University of California -Riverside), Top Ten List - Top Ten Hayek Myths.

Discussants:


• Jack Birner (University of Maastricht)
• Peter Lewin (University of Dallas)
• Peter Boettke (New York University)

SESSION B-4 (room 223) Socialist and Marxian Economics

Chair: Michael Perelman (California State, Chico)
• Chai-on Lee (Chon-nam National University), (Wicksell's) Monetary Equilibrium in the Light of Marx's Reproduction Schemes.

• Hamid Hosseini (Kings College), Finance Capital and Its Colonial Policy: The Neglected Contributions of Karl Kautsky.

• Guido Erreygers (University of Antwerp), Early Socialist Thought on Bequest and Inheritance.

Discussants:


• Alan Freeman (University of Greenwich)
• Michael Perelman (California State, Chico)
• Dell Champlin (University of Eastern Illinois)

SESSION B-5 (room 225) Classical and Modern Monetary Economics

Chair: J. Daniel Hammond (Wake Forest)
• Neil T. Skaggs (Illinois State University), Money in the Theory of Economic Development: With Special Attention to the Considerable Contributions of Henry Dunning Macleod.

• André Fourçand and Hélène Kontzler (University of Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne), Classical and Modern Money Supply Theories: A Historical and Analytical Comparative Framework.

• Kam Hon Chu (Memorial University), The Buffer Stock Approach and Classical Monetary Economics.

Discussants:


• J. Daniel Hammond (Wake Forest)
• Neil Skaggs (Illinois State University)
• T. K. Rymes (Carleton University)

SESSION B-6 (room 325) Classical Approaches to Contemporary Policy Issues

Chair: Rick Kleer (University of Regina)
• Joseph Persky (University of Illinois at Chicago), Ending the Poor Laws as They Knew Them or Classical Family Values

• Anthony M. Carilli (Hampden-Sydney College), The Evolution of the Ideal Tax

• Ingrid Rima (Temple University), Class Conflict and Economic Growth: An Analysis Suggested by the Wealth of Nations

Discussants:


• Ann Schwier (Southern Illinois University)
• Andreas Ortmann (Bowdoin College)
• Jane Clary (College of Charleston)

2:00-4:00 pm

SESSION C-1 (room 223) Thorstein Veblen: Evolutionary Economics and Institutionalism

Chair: Janet Knoedler (Bucknell University)
• Neil B. Niman (University of New Hampshire), Marshall, Veblen and the Search for an Evolutionary Economics.

• J. Patrick Raines and Charles G. Leathers (University of Richmond and University of Alabama), The Functioning of Stock Markets in Veblen's Capital Theory.

• Robin Neill (Carleton University), Europe in America: Veblen and His Canadian Connections.

Discussants:


• Philip Mirowski (Notre Dame)
• Paul Harrison (Brandeis University)
• Malcolm Rutherford (University of Victoria)

SESSION C-2 (room 225) Entrepreneurs and Concepts of Competition

Chair: Jan van Daal (Erasmus University)
• Yuichi Shionoya (Hitotsubashi University), Schumpeter's Weltanschauung and Political Economy.

• Frank M. Machovec (Wofford College), The Walrasian Destruction of the Market as an Entrepreneurial Discovery Process.

• Donald A. Walker (Indiana University of Pennsylvania), Perfect Competition, Historically Contemplated Again.

Discussants:


• Humberto Barreto (Wabash College)
• Ezra Davar (Ministry of Agriculture of Israel)
• Jan van Daal (Erasmus University)

SESSION C-3 (room 210) Defining the Role of Government: Transitions in the History of Economic Thought

Chair: Steven G. Medema (University of Colorado at Denver)
• A.W. Coats (University of Nottingham), Sidgwick: A Transitional Figure?

• Nahid Aslanbeigui (Monmouth University), What Did Pigou Say that Sidgwick Did Not?

• Steven G. Medema & Warren J. Samuels (University of Colorado at Denver/Michigan State University), The Economic Role of Governments, In Part, A Matter of Selective Perception, Sentiment and valuation: The Cases of Pigovian and Paretian Welfare Economics.

Discussants:


• Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham)
• Bradley Bateman (Grinnell College)
• Peter Boettke (New York University)

SESSION C-4 (room 226) Adam Smith: The Moral Sentiments and the Common Good

Chair: Gianni Vaggi (University of Pavia)
• Robert Urquhart (University of Denver), Self-Delusion, Self-Interest, and Natural Harmony in Adam Smith.

• Spencer J. Pack (Connecticut College), Adam Smith on the Virtues: A Partial Resolution of the Adam Smith Problem.

• Jeffrey Young (St. Lawrence University), The Invisible Hand and the Common Good: General Justice in Adam Smith's Political Economy.

• Jerry Evensky (Syracuse University), On Necessary Conditions for a Constructive Liberal Society: Beyond Buchanan's Constitutional State - Back to the Future with Adam Smith and J.S. Mill.

Discussants:


• Anthony Brewer (University of Bristol)
• James Alvey (University of Toronto)
• Gianni Vaggi (University of Pavia)
• Kenneth Avio (University of Victoria)

SESSION C-5 (room 326) Keynes and Money

Chair: Stanley Bober (Duquesne University)
• David R. Andrews (Cazenovia College), Sraffa and The Treatise on Money

• Thomas K. Rymes (Carleton University), Marshall on Money: A Prelude to Keynes's Chapter 17?

• Scott Sumner (Bentley College), The Role of the Gold Standard in Keynesian Monetary Theory.

Discussants:


• Jörg Bibow (Cambridge)
• David Laidler (University of Western Ontario)
• Keizo Nagatani

SESSION C-6 (room 407\409 -- computer lab) Internet Resources for the Historian of Economics

Facilitators:
• Ross Emmett (Augustana University College)
• Rod Hay (McMaster University)
• Lief Bluck (University of Victoria)

4:30 pm -- Business Meeting in the Henry Angus Building, room 104.

SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 1996

8:00-10:00 pm

SESSION D-1 (room 210) Roundtable: What is American About American Economics?

Chair: Craufurd Goodwin (Duke University)
• A.W. Coats (University of Nottingham), Lead Speaker.

• Bill Barber (Wesleyan College)

• Ross Emmett (Augustana University College)

• Anne Mayhew (University of Tennessee)

• Mary Morgan (London School of Economics)

SESSION D-2 (room 226) Feminist approaches to the History of Economics

Chair: Michele Pujol (University of Victoria)
• Michele Pujol (University of Victoria), Nineteenth Century Economic Writing by Women.

• Zohreh Emami (Alverno College), What does Joan Robinson Have in Common with Feminist Economists?

• Janet A. Seiz (Grinnell College), Feminist and Post-Colonial Critiques of Economics: a Comparative Analysis.

Discussant: Drucilla Barker (Hollins College)

SESSION D-3 (room 326) Austrian Economics on Two Continents

Chair: Don Lavoie (George Mason University)
• J.A.H. Maks (University of Limburg), Classical, Neo-Classical and Austrian Philosophy of Economic Science.

• Laurence S. Moss (Babson College), Friedrich A. Hayek: Super Dissenter.

• J. Patrick Gunning (National Chung Hsing University), Harold J. Davenport and the American Transformation of the Austrian Theory of Value and Cost.

• Zbigniew Hockuba (Warsaw University), Liberal Economic Thought of the Cracow School.

Discussants:


• Maurice Lagueux (Université du Montréal)
• Anthony Carilli (Hampden-Sydney College)
• Laurence S. Moss (Babson College)
• J. A. H. Maks (University of Limburg)

SESSION D-4 (room 223) Malthus and Malthusian Economics

Chair: Paul Bowles (University of Northern B.C.)
• Glenn Hueckel (Purdue University), A "Smithian View" of Malthus's Labor Commanded Measure of Value.

• Yasunori Fukagai (Kanagawa University), Productive-Unproductive distinction and the Structure of accumulation: Malthus, Chalmers and J.S. Mill.

• A.M.C. Waterman (St. John's College), Malthus and the Origin of Mathematical Economics

• Takuo Dome (Osaka University), Malthus on Taxation and National Debt

Discussants:


• Jerry Evensky (Syracuse University)
• Joseph Persky (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• James Henderson (Valparaiso University)
• Glenn Hueckel (Purdue University)

SESSION D-5 (room 225) Recent Developments in Macroeconomics

Chair: W. Robert Brazelton (University of Missouri, Kansas)
• David Colander (Middlebury College), Post Walrasian Macro.

• Howard R. Vane and Brian Snowdon (Liverpool John Moores University and University of Northumbria), Accounting for the Success of New Classical Macroeconomics: The Role of Internal Scientific Characteristics.

• Scott P. Simkins (North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University), The Rebirth of Empiricism in Macroeconomics: Mitchell and the Modern Empiricists.

Discussants:


• Elizabeth Allgoewer (University of St. Gallen)
• Esther-Mirjam Sent (Notre Dame)
• Judy Klein (Mary Baldwin College)

SESSION D-6 (room 325) Monetary Economics and Policy: International Perspectives

Chair: Neil Skaggs (Illinois State University)
• Chris Mulhearn (Liverpool John Moores University), Sterling Devaluations in the Twentieth Century: Continuity and Context.

• Aiko Ikeo (Kokugakuin University), The Development of International Monetary discussion in Japan, Including the Contributions by Mathematician Rikitaro Fujiswa.

• Frank G. Steindl (Oklahoma State University), The Decline of a Paradigm: Recovery in the 1930s.

Discussants:


• John Presley (Loughboroug University)
• Scott Sumner (Bently College)
• Walter Van Trier (University of Antwerp)

10:30am-12:30pm

SESSION E-1 (room 223) Commons And Institutional Economics

Chair: Malcolm Rutherford (University of Victoria)
• R.A. Gonce (Grand Valley State University, Michigan), The Nature and Significance of Commons' `A Sociological View of Sovereignty'.

• Philippe Broda (Université de Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), Commons Versus Veblen on the Place of the Individual in the Social Process: A Case of Methodological Divergence.

• Brent McClintock (Carthage College), William Ball Sutch: A New Zealand Institutionalist.

Discussants:


• Warren J. Samuels (Michigan State University)
• Malcolm Rutherford (University of Victoria)
• Janet Knoedler (Bucknell University)

SESSION E-2 (room 210) Knight and Hayek on Capital

Chair: Avi J. Cohen (York University)
• Ross Emmett (Augustana University College), "What is Truth" in Capital Theory? The Relation Between Economics and the Dilemma of Liberalism in Frank H. Knight's Contributions to the Capital Controversy.

• Avi J. Cohen (York University), Frank Knight's Position on Capital and Interest: Foundation of the Knight/Hayek/Kaldor debate.

• Peter Boettke (New York University), Knight, Hayek, Capital and the Issue of Socialist Calculation.

Discussants:


• Claus Noppeney (Harvard University/University of St. Gallen)
• Jeff Lipkes (Hollins College)
• Frank Machovec (Wofford College)

SESSION E-3 (room 226) Say and Ricardo

Chair: Gilles Dostaler (Université du Quebec à Montréal)
• Philippe Steiner (Ecole Normale Supérieure), The Structure of Say's "Traite d'economie Politique" and his Subsequent Works.

• José Luis Cardoso (Technical University of Lisbon), Say's Law in Context.

• John B. Davis (Marquette University), Ricardo: A New Career in Politics.

Discussants:


• Evelyn Forget (University of Manitoba)
• Steve Pressman (Monmouth College)
• Terry Peach (University of Manchester)

SESSION E-4 (room 326) Can There be an Economics of Economics?

Chair: David M. Levy (George Mason University)
• Wendy Motooka (Harvard), Theorizing is Quixotic.

• Phil Mirowski (Notre Dame), Polanyi's Failed Economics of Science.

• Susan Feigenbaum (University of Missouri) and David M. Levy (George Mason University), Technological Obsolescence of Scientific Fraud.

Discussants:


• D. Wade Hands (Puget Sound)
• Esther-Mirjam Sent (Notre Dame)

SESSION E-5 (room 225) Topics in European Economics

Chair: Y. S. Brenner (Utrecht University)
• Orhan Kayaalp (Lehman College of C.U.N.Y.), Antonio De Viti De Marco and the Modern Theory of Public Goods.

• Agnes Miklos-Illes (University of Zürich), Science Without War.

• J.A.H. Maks and M. Haan (University of Limburg), Heinrich von Stackelberg's Text Book "Grundlagen der theoretischen Volkswirtschaftslehre" Revisited.

• Neils Kærgård (Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen), The Danish Economist Jens Warming -- Odd and Genius.

Discussants:


• Maria Christina Marcuzzo (University of Rome "La Sapienza")
• A. H. G. M. Spithoven (Utrecht University)
• Nahid Aslanbeigui (Monmouth College)
• Y. S. Brenner (Utrecht University)

SESSION E-6 (room 325) Money, Finance and Growth

Chair: Perry Mehrling (Barnard College)
• Mauro Boianovsky (Universidade de Brasilia), Wicksell, Ramsey, and the Theory of Interest.

• André Tiran, (Centre A et L. Walras), The Theory of Money of J.A. Schumpeter

• Mary S. Morgan (University of Amsterdam & London School of Economics), Irving Fisher's Analogical Models of Money

Discussants:


• Chai-on Lee (Chon-nam National University)
• Steven Horwitz (St. Lawrence University)
• Perry Mehrling (Barnard College)

2:00-4:00 pm

SESSION F-1 (room 223) The Impact of the US Economy on the Evolution of Microeconomic Thought: Case Histories

Chair: Dell Champlin (University of Eastern Illinois)
• Sheryl D. Kasper (Maryville College), Henry C. Simons on Industrial Organization.

• Janet Knoedler (Bucknell University), Veblen and Technical Efficiency.

• Anne Mayhew (University of Tennessee), Public and Professional Opinion: the Case of Trusts and Monopolies.

Discussant: Mary Morgan (London School of Economics)

SESSION F-2 (room 226) American Economics and Policy Analysis

Chair: Robin Neill (Carleton University)
• W. Robert Brazelton (University of Missouri), The Economic Analysis and Policies of Leon H. Keyserling: CEA, 1946-1952 -- The Truman Era.

• Jerry L. Petr (University of Nebraska-Lincoln), The Social Conscience of an American Economist: Alvin S. Johnson as Advocate/Reformer.

• Christine Rider (St. John's University), Oscar Lange: A Reappraisal.

• Craufurd Goodwin and Steven Meardon (Duke University), The Internationalization of American Economic Policy Analysis.

Discussants:


• William Barber (Wesleyan College)
• Brent McClintock (Carthage College)
• Steven G. Medema (University of Colarado at Denver)
• Jeff E. Biddle (Michigan State)

SESSION F-3 (room 210) Methodology, Econometrics, Measurement

Chair: Uskali Mäki (Erasmus University)
• James R. Wible (University of New Hampshire), Peirce's Economic Reasoning in his Methodological Essay, "On the Logic of Drawing History from Ancient Documents Especially from Testimonies".

• Judy L. Klein (Mary Baldwin College), Empirical Analysis of Worldwide Studies in Time Series and Stochastic Processes: 1847-1938.

• Esther-Mirjam Sent (University of Notre Dame), What an Economist Can Teach Nancy Cartwright.

Discussants:


• Ianik Marcil (Université de Montréal)
• Kevin Hoover (University of California, Davis)
• E. Roy Weintraub (Duke University)
• John B. Davis (Marquette University)

SESSION F-4 (room 225) From Pre-Keynesian to Post-Keynesian Economics

Chair: Gary Mongiovi (St. John's University)
• Walter Van Trier (University of Antwerp), The Einstein of Economics. Some Notes on the Early Reception of Major Douglas' Social Credit Theories.

• Claudio Sardoni (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"), The Debate on Excess Capacity Before the General Theory.

• Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"), The Correspondence between J.M. Keynes and R.F. Kahn.

• Stanley Bober (Duquesne University), Consumer Demand, Technical Change and the Labor Supply Curve: Revisited in the Light of Post-Keynesian Economics.

Discussants:


• Mauro Boianovsky (Universidade de Brasilia)
• David R. Andrews (Cazenovia College)
• Guido Erreygrs (University of Antwerp)
• Ingrid Rima (Temple University)

SESSION F-5 (room 325) Marxian Economics

Chair: Michael Lebowitz (Simon Fraser University)
• Alan Freeman (University of Greenwich), Mr. Marx and the Neoclassics: A Revisionist Interpretation.

• Gil Skillman (Wesleyan College), Marx's Historical-Materialist Theory of Profit and Interest

• Michael Perelman (California State University, Chico), Marx, Devalorization, and the Theory of Value

Discussants:


• Roy Rotheim (Skidmore College)
• Michael Lebowitz (Simon Fraser University)
• Cliff Bekar (Simon Fraser University)

SESSION F-6 (room 326) The Place of the History of Economics

Chair: David Colander (Middlebury College)
• Nahid Aslanbeigui and Michele I. Naples (Monmouth University & Trenton State College), The Future of History: The Changing Status of History of Thought in the Economics Profession.

• Patrick J. Welch (Saint Louis University), Life on the Edge: A Narratology of the History of Economics' Standing in the Profession.

Discussants:


• Avi J. Cohen (York University)
• Margaret Shabas (York University)

6:00pm Presidential Address -- Henry Angus Building (room 104). Jim Henderson (Valparasio University), "Emerging Learned Societies: Economic Ideas in Context"

6:45pm The H.E.S. Presidential Banquet in the Ponderosa Building, located behind the Henry Angus Building.

MONDAY, JULY 1, 1996

8:00-10:00 am

SESSION G-1 (room 210) Fisher, Knight, and Twentieth Century American Economics

Chair: Malcolm Rutherford (University of Victoria)
• Robert Dimand (Brock University), The Quest for an Ideal Index: Irving Fisher and The Making of Index Numbers.

• Claus Noppeney (Havard University/University of St. Gallen), Frank Knight's Agnosticism as a Step Towards a Discursive Ethics in Political Economy.

• Robert P. Rogers (Ashland University), Robert A. Heinlein and Twentieth Century American Economics.

Discussants:


• J. Patrick Gunning (National Chung Hsing University)
• Ross Emmett (Augustana University College)
• Rod Hay (McMaster University)

SESSION G-2 (room 226) Rhetoric and Methodology in Economics

Chair: Lawrence Boland (Simon Fraser University)
• Roger E. Backhouse (University of Birmingham), Rhetoric and Methodology in Contemporary Macroeconomics

• Maurice Lagueux (Université de Montréal), Metaphors, Models and Theories in Economics: What is the Difference?

• Ianik Marcil (Université de Montréal), Is Philosophy of History Relevant to Economic Epistemology?

Discussants:


• D. Wade Hands (Puget Sound)
• Phillipe Mongin (Université Catholique de Louvain)
• Lawrence Boland (Simon Fraser University)

SESSION G-3 (room 223) Preferences in the Austrian Tradition

Chair: Christian Schmidt (University of Paris - Dauphine)
• Don Lavoie (George Mason University), The Cultural process in Preferences formation.

• Laurence Moss (Babson College), Consumer Sovereignty, Consumer Preferences and Austrian Entrepreneur.

• Thierry Aimar (University of Nancy II), Preferences, Rent-Seeking and the Market.

Discussants:


• Laurence Moss (Babson College)
• Theirry Aimar (University of Nancy II)
• Christian Schmidt (University of Paris - Dauphine)

SESSION G-4 (room 326) Growth and Development: Ferguson, Smith, and Classical Economics

Chair: James Henderson (Valparaiso University)
• Anthony Brewer (University of Bristol), Adam Ferguson, the Scottish Enlightenment, and the Concept of Economic Growth.

• James E. Alvey (University of Toronto), Did Adam Smith Adopt an End of History View?

• Mark R. Greer (Dowling College), G.W.F. Hegel and the Development of Classical Political Economy.

• Richard Arena and Anne Devichi (University of Nice), Some Notes on 'National Wealth' in Classical Political Economy.

Discussants:


• Paul Bowles (University of Northern B. C.)
• Susan Fayazmanesh (California State, Fresno)
• Richard Arena (University of Nice)
• James Henderson (Valparaiso University)

SESSION G-5 (room 225) Eighteenth Century French Economics

Chair: Robert Will (University of British Columbia)
• Loïc Charles (Université de Paris 1, Panthéon-Sorbonne), Ferdinando Galiani on the Grain Trade in Pre-Revolutionary France: A Theoretical Approach.

• Jean-Jacques Gislain (Université de Nantes), Helvétius and Holbach Utilitarianism and Guarantism of the French Enlightenment.

• Gilles Dostaler (Université du Québec ä Montréal), Quesnay and Natural Laws: Filiations and Critiques.

• Steven Pressman (Monmouth University), Are the Different Variants of the Tableau Économique Consistent?

Discussants:


• Phillipe Steiner (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
• José Luis Cardoso (Technical University of Lisbon)
• Evelyn Forget (University of Manitoba)
• Giles Dostaler (Université du Québec à Montréal)

SESSION G-6 (room 325) Keynes: Liquidity Preference, Loanable Funds, and Portfolio Theory

Chair: Jochen Runde (Cambridge University)
• Ivo Maes, Paul Mizen, John Presley (National Bank of Belgium, Nottingham University, Loughborough University), Early Developments of Modern Portfolio Theory.

• Jörg Bibow (University of Cambridge), The Loanable Funds Fallacy In Retrospect.

Discussants:


• John Chant (Simon Fraser University)
• Jochen Runde (Cambridge University)

10:30 am-12:30 pm

SESSION H-1 (room 210) Realism and Empiricism in Contemporary Economic Methodology

Chair: D. Wade Hands (University of Puget Sound)
• Jochen Runde (Cambridge University), On Popper, Probabilities and Propensities.

• Thomas A. Boylan and Paschal O'Gorman (University College, Galway), Empiricism Without the Dogmas: A Causal Holist Perspective.

• Uskali Mäki (Erasmus University), Some Metaphysics of the Ceteris Paribus Clause.

Discussants:


• Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham)
• Kevin Hoover (University of California, Davis)
• Gregory Dow (Simon Fraser University)

SESSION H-2 (room 223) Neoclassical Economics

Chair: Margaret Shabas (York University)
• Jan van Daal (Erasmus University), From Utilitarianism to Hedonism: Gossen, Jevons and Walras.

• Sandra J. Peart (Baldwin-Wallace College), Impatience, Self-Reliance and Intertemporal Decision Making in Early Neoclassical Thought.

• Ezra Davar (Ministry of Agriculture of Israel), Walras' Original General Equilibrium Theory: a Case Study of an Exchange Economy.

• Thomas M. Humphrey (Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond), The Early History of the Box Diagram

Discussants:


• Margaret Shabas (York University)
• Rhead S. Bowman (Southern Utah University)
• Aiko Ikeo (Kokugakin University)
• J. Patrick Raines (University of Richmond)

SESSION H-3 (room 226) Ricardo After Sraffa

Chair: Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza")
• Fernando Vianello (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"), On Ricardo's Principle that the Profits of the Farmer Regulate the Profits of all Other Trades.

• Annalisa Rosselli (Universita di Roma "Tor Vergata"), Was there a "sheet anchor" on which all Ricardo's Propositions were built?

• Terry Peach (University of Manchester), Ricardo after Sraffa and Garegnani: A Critique.

Discussants:


• John B. Davis (Marquette University)
• Gary Mongiovi (St. John's University)
• P. A. Garegnani (III Universita di Roma)

SESSION H-4 (room 225) European Economics: The Netherlands

Chair: Y. S. Brenner (Utrecht University)
• J.B.D. Simonis (Utrecht University), Ferdinand Domela Nieuwenhuis (1846-1919).

• Y.S. Brenner (Utrecht University), Christiaan Cornelissen (1864-1942).

• A.H.G.M. Spithoven (Utrecht University), J. Zijlstra (b.1918): The Structural Financing of Government.

Discussants:


• Agnes Miklos-Illes (University of Zürich)
• Neils Kærgård (Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University, Copenhagen)
• J. B. D. Simonis (Utrecht University)