Conference Year Conference Location President
2025 Richmond Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
2024 Santiago, Chile Maria Pia Paganelli
2023 Vancouver, BC Ross Emmett
2022 Minneapolis Ross Emmett
2021 Virtual Ross Emmett
2020 Virtual Marcel Boumans
2019 New York City Marcel Boumans
2018 Chicago Evelyn Forget
2017 Toronto Evelyn Forget
2016 Durham, NC Mauro Boianovsky
2015 East Lansing, MI Jeff Biddle
2014 Montreal  Robert Leonard
2013 Vancouver Margaret Schabas
2012 Ontario Robert Dimand
2011 Indiana  Phil Mirowski
2010 Syracuse, NY  Jerry Evensky
2009 Denver Steven Medema
2008 Toronto  Avi Cohen
2007 Fairfax, VA Sandra Peart
2006  Grinnell, IA  Bradley Bateman
2005 Tacoma, WA  D. Wade Hands
2004 Toronto     Mary Morgan
2003  Durham, NC E. Roy Weintraub
2002  Davis, CA  Kevin Hoover
2001  Winston-Salem, NC  J. Daniel Hammond
2000  Vancouver  John Davis
1999  Greensboro, NC  Bruce Caldwell
1998  Montreal  David Colander
1997  Charleston, SC  Robert Clower
1996  Vancouver Malcolm Rutherford
1995  Indiana James Henderson
1994  Boston Laurence Moss
1993  Philadelphia  Ingrid Rima
1992  Fairfax, VA  Karen Vaughn
 1991  College Park, MD  Robert Hebert
1990  Lexington, VA  S. Todd Lowry
1989  Richmond, VA  William Barber
1988  Toronto  Donald Moggridge
1987  Boston  Donald Walker
1986  New York City  Abraham Hirsch
1985  Fairfax, VA  A.W. Coats
1984  Pittsburgh, PA  Mark Perlman
1983  Charlottesville, VA  John Whitaker
1982  Durham, NC  Martin Bronfenbrenner
1981  East Lansing, MI Warren Samuels
1980  Boston William Grampp
1979  Urbana-Champaign, IL  Royall Brandis
1978  Toronto  Craufurd Goodwin
1977  Irvine, CA Carl Uhr
1976  Chicago George Stigler
1975  Boston  Joseph Spengler
1974  Chapel Hill  Vincent Tarascio
1973

(Exploratory)

 Chicago  Organized by Warren Samuels and Vincent Tarascio

 

The HES would like to thank Bruce Caldwell, Kevin Hoover, David Levy, Steve Medema, Malcolm Rutherford, Karen Vaughn and the Duke University Center for the History of Political Economy for their assistance in collecting programs and related documents.

Date Session Title
1/5/2025 Insights from History of Economic Thought to Understanding the Economy’s Future
1/5/2025 Gender and Feminism in Economics and in the History of Economic Thought
1/4/2025 Monetary Innovations in the History of Economics
1/3/2025 Inflation: Then and Now
1/7/2024 Under-Appreciated Economists
1/7/2024 Technocracy, Economists, and Foreign Advisors in Latin America
1/6/2024 Gender Issues, Feminism and Economics in the History of Economic Thought
1/6/2024 Macroeconomic Modeling in the U.S. and Europe: A Historical Perspective
1/6/2023 100 Years after the publication of “A Theory of Consumption” by Hazel Kyrk (1923)
1/6/2023 Applied Economics in the Progressive and Interwar Eras: Mutually contextualizing economic history and the history of economics.
1/6/2023 Visions of Economic Instability
1/6/2023 On Hayek: A Life
1/8/2022 The Computerization of Economics: Computers, Programming, and the Internet in the History of Economics
1/8/2022 Reflecting on Pluridisciplinarity and Economics
1/7/2022 Women and the Economics Profession After World War II
1/7/2022 Economists, Economics and Indigenous Peoples
1/5/2021 Inequalities in the Progressive Era
1/5/2021 Macro Agent-Based versus DGSE Modeling: A Short History of Two Competing Approaches to Macroeconomics
1/4/2021 Economic Pluralisms and Unity in History, Theory, Methodology
1/4/2021 New Historical Perspectives on Women and Economics
1/3/2021 Economics and Racism – The Long View
1/3/2020 Historical Sociology Approaches in History of Economics
1/3/2020 Endogenous Preferences: A Historical View
1/3/2020 Alternative Traditions in Public Choice
1/4/2020 New Thinking on Adam Smith and Economics
1/5/2020 The Cowles Commission at the Frontiers of Theoretical Economics
1/4/2019 Economics and Engineering: Institutions, Practices and Cultures
1/4/2019 Keynesianism: Its Rise, Fall, and Transformation in Europe and North America
1/4/2019 History of Women’s Economic Thought
1/5/2019 Pure Mind, Applied Vision, and Social Conscience: Revisiting the Economics of Léon Walras
1/5/2018 Economic Knowledge in Socialism
1/5/2018 Basic Income: The Past and the Present
1/6/2018 Beyond Say’s Law: Reappraising Jean-Baptiste Say’s Political Economy
1/7/2018 Physics and Financial Economics: New Transfers and New Relations
1/6/2017 International Macroeconomics and Finance
1/7/2017 International Trade and Trade Policy
1/3/2016 Becoming Applied: The Transformation of Economics after 1970
1/3/2016 Ruling the Market: Neoliberal Reasoning in Germany and Beyond
1/3/2016 200 Years of Women Economists (Co-Hosted with CSWEP)
1/4/2016 Public Choice: Origins and Perspectives
1/3/2015 Keynes and Keynesian Economics in Light of the Financial Crisis
1/3/2015 Histories of Behavioral Economics
1/4/2015 Shakespeare and Economics
1/4/2015 History of Discrimination in Economics
1/3/2014 Market Failure in Context
1/4/2014 Experiments in Economics: Historical and Methodological Perspectives
1/4/2014 Financial Crises and Their Resolution in the History of Economic Thought
1/4/2014 New Perspectives on Malthus: What Was He Really Saying about Population Growth and Human Societies?
1/4/2013 Real Business Cycles after Three Decades: Past, Present and Future
1/4/2013 Keynes and the International Monetary System: The Centennial of Keynes (1913)
1/4/2013 Writing MIT’s History (joint with AEA)
1/5/2013 Looking for Best Practices in Economic Journalism: Past and Present
1/6/2012 David Hume on Normative Economics
1/6/2012 The History of Financial Economics: A Session in Memory of Peter Bernstein (joint with AFA)
1/7/2012 Reflecting on Twenty-Five Years of the Economic Science Association (joint with ESA)
1/7/2012 Chicago and Democracy
1/7/2011 The Histories of Scientifi c Observation in Economics
1/7/2011 Rational Expectations, Retrospect and Prospect: On the 50th Anniversary of John Muth’s “Rational Expectations and the Theory of Price Movements”
1/8/2011 Irving Fisher and Modern Economics: 100 Years after the Purchasing Power of Money (joint with AEA)
1/8/2011 Selling Economics to the Foundations
1/3/2010 The Integration of Micro- and Macroeconomics from a Historical Perspective
1/3/2010 Complexity in the History of Economic Thought (joint with AEA)
1/4/2010 100 Years of Walras’s Death
1/4/2010 Financial Crises and the History of Economic Thought
1/3/2009 The Role of Oral History in the Study of Economics
1/3/2009 Theory of Moral Sentiments after 250 Years
1/4/2009 The Real Debate of the 1950’s: Marshallian versus General Equilibrium Approaches
1/4/2009 Growth Theory in Historical Perspective
1/4/2008 What Was/Is Financial Economics? (joint with AFA)
1/4/2008 Keeping the Faith: The Continuing Engagement of Economics with Religion
1/5/2008 Thorstein Veblen at 150: Rethinking a Survivor (joint with AFEE)
1/5/2008 Rawls and the Economists
1/5/2007 The Nature and Significance of Economic Science: Robbins’ Essay, 75 Years On
1/5/2007 Adam Smith as Theologian
1/6/2007 Chicago Economics in Historical and Philosophical Perspective
1/6/2007 Great Ideas for Teaching the History of Economic Thought
1/6/2006 Mathematics, Econometrics and the History of Contemporary Economics
1/6/2006 Keynes General Theory After Seventy Years
1/7/2006 The Postwar Origins of the Chicago School (60 Years On)
1/7/2006 Buchanan and Hayek on the Constitutional Order
1/7/2005 Economics and Philosophy of Mind I: Neuroeconomics, Rationality, and Externalism
1/8/2005 Using Writing Across the Curriculum in the History of Economics Course (Roundtable)
1/8/2005 Cowles from Chicago to Yale: A Session Making the 50th Anniversary of the Move of the Cowles Commission from Chicago to Yale
1/8/2005 Complexity, Pluralism, and the Future of Economics
1/3/2004 Improving the Race: Darwinism and Economics a Century Ago
1/3/2004 Re-making the Boundaries of Economics in the 20th Century
1/4/2004 Lost Dimensions in Modern Micro-Macro Theory
1/4/2004 IS/LM: Past, Present and Future
1/3/2003 Dynamic Models in the Late Twentieth Century
1/3/2003 Alternative Accounts of the End of Globalization
1/4/2003 Postcolonialism and Economics
1/4/2003 Institutional and Chicago Economics
1/4/2002 Debating Analytical and Political Egalitarianism
1/4/2002 Non-Econom ic Objectives as a Study in the History of Economic Thought
1/4/2002 Keynes and General Equilibrium Theory
1/5/2002 The Makings of “Modern” Economics During the Cold War
1/5/2001 Contemporary Relevance of Classical Trade Theory
1/5/2001 Columbia University and American Economics: The Interwar Period and Beyond
1/6/2001 The 50’s and 60’s Carnegie Connections (Roundtable)
1/7/2001 Carnegie Connections of the 1950’s and 1960’s
1/7/2000 Extensions on Classical Political Economy
1/8/2000 Unconventional Economics
1/8/2000 Formal Expositions Along Austrian Themes in the History of Economics
1/8/2000 Emigre Economists in America: Their Impact and Their Experiences
1/3/1999 The Impact of RAND on Economics
1/4/1999 The History of Women in Economics
1/4/1999 Alfred Schutz and Economics: Exploring the Interface of Economics and Sociology
1/5/1999 Sraffa’s Centenary
1/3/1998 Wicksell’s Influence on Modern Economic Theory: In Honor of the 100th Anniversary of Interest and Prices
1/3/1998 Taxation, Rationality and Group Rationality
1/4/1998 Wesley Clair Mitchell after 50 Years (Roundtable)
1/4/1998 On the Road Again: The Influence of Travel and Travel Writing on Classical Political Economy
1/4/1997 Irving Fisher in Prospect and Retrospect
1/5/1997 Outside Variables as Determinants of Methodology
1/5/1997 Turning Points in Economics
1/5/1997 Game Theory in Historical Perspective (joint with AEA)
1/5/1996 Increasing Returns, Growth and Convergence: Progress versus Decay as Topics in the History of Economic Thought
1/6/1996 Marshallian Economists: Marshall, Knight, and Stigler
1/6/1996 The Development of Modern Monetary Thought
1/6/1996 Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Economics
1/6/1995 How Women View Economics and How Economists View Women (joint with IAFFE)
1/6/1995 Classical Economics
1/6/1995 Historical Perspectives on Mathematical Economics
1/7/1995 The Legacy of Ronald Coase: Essays on the Thirty-fifth Anniversary of “The Problem of Social Cost” (joint with AEA)
1/3/1994 Game Theory on the 50th Anniversary of von Neumann and Morgenstem’s Theory of Games and Economic Behavior (joint with AEA)
1/3/1994 Economics and the History of Science
1/4/1994 Defining the Field of Economic Methodology in an Encyclopedia Project (Roundtable Discussion)
1/4/1994 Uncovering Lost Contributions: Insights from the Work of Early Women Economists (joint with IAFFE)
1/5/1993 The History of Women in Economics (joint with AEA)
1/5/1993 Realism and Economic Theory
1/5/1993 Marshall and Friedman: Artists or Scientists?
1/6/1993 Blaug’s Methodological Appraisals of Heterodox Economic Theories (joint with URPE)
1/3/1992 Institutional Analysis in the History of Economics (joint with AEA)
1/3/1992 Issues in Classical Economics
1/3/1992 American Contributions to the History of Economics
1/4/1992 Methodology and Model Building
12/28/1990 The Contributions of Friedrich A. Hayek (joint with AEA)
12/29/1990 Historical Studies of Controversies in Econometrics
12/30/1990 Natural Science Influences in Early Neoclassical Economics
12/28/1989 How Has Outside Funding Affected the Course of Economic Research? (Panel
Discussion)
12/28/1989 Alfred Marshall: One Hundred Years Later (joint with AEA)
12/29/1989 Economists, Theologians and Modern Economic Thought
12/30/1989 Emerging Heterodoxy in Economic Methodology
12/28/1988 Ethical Premises in Economic Thought (joint with AEA and ASE)
12/28/1988 Neoclassicism and Its Critics
12/29/1988 Analytical Marxism and Its Critics (joint with AEA)
12/30/1988 The French Revolution and Economic Thought
12/28/1987 Studies in Mathematics and Economic Analysis (joint with AEA)
12/29/1987 Studies in Economic Dynamics: Cycles and Growth
12/30/1987 Novel Features of the Chicago Tradition (joint with AEA)
12/28/1986 What Have We Learned About Technical Progress Since Ricardo’s Machinery Case?
12/29/1986 Econometric Research and the Development of Economic Analysis (joint with AEA)
12/30/1986 Reflections on the Economics of the Swedish School (joint with AEA)
12/28/1985 American Economics Officially Turns 100 (joint with AEA)
12/29/1985 First Forays into the History of Economics (joint with AEA)
12/30/1985 Popper Among the Economists (joint with AEA)
12/28/1984 New Perspectives on H. H. Gossen, The Laws of Human Relations (1854) (joint with AEA)
12/28/1984 Malthus: 150 Years After His Death (joint with AEA)
12/30/1984 Origins and Predecessors of Modern United States Radical Political Economy (joint with AEA)
12/28/1983 Structural and Aggregative Methodologies in Historical Perspective (joint with AEA)
12/29/1983 Marxian Economics and the Economics of Karl Marx (joint with AEA)
12/29/1983 Classical and Neoclassical Monetary Economics (joint with AEA)
12/29/1982 Policy Issues in the History of Economic Thought (joint with AEA)
12/29/1982 Keynes-Marx Centennial, 1883-1983: Comparisons and Contrasts (joint with AEA)
12/30/1982 Philosophy and History of Economics (joint with AEA)
12/29/1981 Contributions to the History of Economic Thought (joint with AEA)
12/29/1981 Symposium on American Economics in the 1930’s and 1940’s: The Rise to World Leadership (joint with AEA)
12/30/1981 New Directions in the History of Economic Thought Qoint with AEA)
9/5/1980 Macro-Micro Compatibility: Historical and Philosophical Aspects (joint with AEA)
9/6/1980 Contemporary Economics as a Chapter in the History of Economic Thought (joint with AEA)
9/6/1980 Recent Economists: Their Work and Their Legacy (joint with AEA)
12/29/1979 History of Economic Thought (joint with AEA) xxxix December 30 10:15 am
12/29/1979 The Centennial of Henry George’s Progress and Poverty (joint with AEA)
8/29/1978 More on Keynes (joint with AEA)
8/30/1978 On Neo-Classical Economics
8/31/1978 On Marx
12/28/1977 History of Economic Thought: The Interpretive Literature (I)
12/28/1977 History of Economic Thought: The Interpretive Literature (II)
12/29/1977 History of Economic Thought: The Interpretive Literature (III)
12/29/1977

History of Economic Thought: The Interpretive Literature (IV)