HES: ANN -- European Conferences on the History of Economics (fwd)

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European Conferences on the History of Economics

Changing Instruments in Economics

April 20-22, 2000
Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics
Erasmus University
Rotterdam, The Netherlands


Program

Keynote lecture:  Harry Collins: Economics as a Science.

Session: Mind your game
Nicola Giocoli: Fixing the point: von Neumann, Nash and the new
gametheoretic tools for mathematical economics
Peter Rosner: Severing economics from psychology: modern utility
theory and the Vienna Circle - the quest for an empirical science

Session: Fine-spinning Instruments

Harro Maas: Instruments of precision
Emeric Lendjel: The statistical origin of the cobweb diagram

Session: Emerging Techniques

Philippe Steiner: French Political Economy and its Techniques: a
Study of the Revue Economique (1950-1980)
Hsiang-Ke Chao: Milton Friedman and the Emergence of the Permanent
Income Hypothesis

Session: States of Normality

Sybilla Nikolow: Balancing the strength of the states. German
economic thinking around 1800
Gnlbahar Tezel: Shifting Understandings of Normality: Marshall on Custums.

Session :Indexfingers and rules of thumb

Arianne Dupont-Kieffer: How Ragnar Frisch approached the theory of
value with index numbers
Helen Roberts: Laspeyers and his index


For information and registration:

www.eur.nl/fw/philecon/eche.html

or

send a message to Loes van Dijk at vandijk@xxxxxxxxxx to receive a
registration form. She can also be reached by phone at +31-10-4088967
and via fax at +31-10-4088979.

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