Homo Phileconomicus

The History of Economics Society is sponsoring the following sessions at the 2008 ASSA meetings in New Orleans. Jan. 4, 10:15 am, HES/AFA

 

What Was/Is Financial Economics? (B2)

Presiding: STEPHEN BUSER, Ohio State University

 

GEOFFREY POITRAS, Simon Fraser University, and FRANCK JOVANOVIC, University of Quebec-Montreal–Pioneers of Financial Economics

 

HICHEM BEN-EL-MECHAIEKH and ROBERT DIMAND, Brock University–Louis Bachelier’s 1938 Volume on the Calculus of Speculation: Efficient Markets and Mathematical Finance in Bachelier’s Later Work

 

PETER BERNSTEIN, Peter L. Bernstein, Inc.–In the Thick of This World: The True Story of Modern Finance

 

PERRY MEHRLING, Barnard College, Columbia University–The Spirit of Finance and the Development of Macroeconomics

Jan. 4, 12:30 pm

HES

 

Keeping the Faith: The Continuing Engagement of Economics with Religion (B1)

Presiding: SPENCER BANZHAF, Georgia State University

 

STEPHEN MEARDON, Bowling Green State University–Whence Commerce Followed the Missionary: Religions Origins of Doctrines of U.S. Trade and Expansion

 

HARRO MAAS, Amsterdam School of Economics–A Hard Battle to Fight: The Dismal Science in Cambridge 1820-1850

 

DANIELA PARISI, Catholic University of Milan–Economics to the Service of Humankind: The Political Economy of Francesco Vito

 

Discussants: BRAD BATEMAN, Grinnell College

PAUL OSLINGTON, University of New South Wales

SPENCER BANZHAF, Georgia State University

 

 

Jan. 5, 10:15 am

HES/AFEE

 

Thorstein Veblen at 150: Rethinking a Survivor (B1)

 

Presiding: ANNE MAYHEW, University of Tennessee

 

MATTHEW WILSON, University of Denver–Veblen on Veblen: Social Critic, Evolutionary Scientist, or Both?

 

ROBERT PRASCH, Middlebury College–Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of Consumption

 

ERIC HAKE, Eastern Illinois University–Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of Business Enterprise, Business Cycles, and Industrial Organization

 

Discussants: MALCOLM RUTHERFORD, University of British Columbia

JANET KNOEDLER, Bucknell University

 

 

Jan. 5, 2:30 pm

HES

Rawls and the Economists (B3)

Presiding: SANDRA PEART, University of Richmond

 

SANDRA PEART, University of Richmond, and DAVID LEVY, George Mason University–The Buchanan-Rawls Correspondence

 

JOHN DAVIS, Marquette University and University of Amsterdam–Rawls and Sen on Deliberative Democracy

 

JOE PERSKY, University of Illinois-Chicago–Rawls’ Thin Defense of Property

 

Discussants: STEVEN DURLAUF, University of Wisconsin

DAVID COLANDER, Middlebury College