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The 71th Annual Conference of the Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought (JSHET) will be held on May 27-28, 2007 at the Kyusyu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan. Proposals for papers (in English or in Japanese) on all aspects of the history of economic thought are welcome. Please send an abstract of about 600 words in English or 2000 letters in Japanese for a paper by October 9, 2006, to: Contact: Professor Gentaro Seki, E-mail

The contributors whose proposals are accepted will be notified by November 31. The outlines (each within 6 pages) of the papers should be submitted by March 15, 2007. 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://society.cpm.ehime-u.ac.jp/shet/shetj.html

Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics has a working paper series which is availabel on-line at http://www.eur.nl/fw/english/eipe/workingpapers (scroll to the bottom of the page!). At the moment the following papers are available for downloading: 

• Jack Vromen, Depicting social contracts as robust equilibria, January 2006, download (pdf)

• Jack Vromen, Organizational routines and individual skills, January 2006, download (pdf)

• Mark Blaug, The Fundamental Theorems of Modern Welfare Economics, February 2006, download (pdf)