Summer Institute for the Preservation of the
Study of the History of Economics
June 19 - 22, 2009
Adam Smith Program, Jepson School of Leadership Studies
University of Richmond
Friday, June 19
Financial Crises, Historically Considered
Breakfast 7:00-9:00 AM Heilman Dining Center
9:00 - 10:00
James Buchanan, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, George Mason University and Virginia Polytechnical Institute and State University, "Why Economists Have So Little to Say on the Crisis"
10:00 - 11:00
Leland Yeager, Professor Emeritus, Auburn University, "The Continuing Search for a Monetary Constitution"
11:00 - 12: 30
Thomas Humphrey, (retired) Richmond Federal Reserve Bank, and Richard Timberlake, Professor Emeritus, University of Georgia, "The Fed's Deviation from Classical Thornton-Bagehot Lender-of-Last-Resort Policy" Humphrey-Timberlake paper
Lunch 12:30 - 2:00 Heilman Dining Center
2:00 - 3:30
Kevin Hoover, Duke University, "Was Harrod Right?" Hoover paper
Break 3:30 - 4:00
4:00 -5:00
Jessica Wang, University of British Columbia, "The Lawyer as Economic Analyst" Wang paper
Catered dinner 5:30 - 7:00 Richmond Room, lower level, Heilman Dining Center
Saturday, June 20
Experts and Expertise
Breakfast 7:00 - 9:00 AM Heilman Dining Center
9:00 - 10:30
Harro Maas, University of Amsterdam, "Fields of Expertise: Shifting Practices of Observation in 19th Century Political Economy" Maas paper
10:30 - 12:00
Charles McCann, University of Pittsburgh, "Richard Theodore Ely: Christian Socialist and Prophet of Paternalism" McCann paper
Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 Heilman Dining Center
1:00 - 2:00
Verena Halsmayer, University of Vienna, "Harrod's 'Essay in Dynamic Theory' and the Formalization of Growth Theory"
2:00 - 3:00
Ekkehard Köhler, Walter Eucken Institute, "The Indispensible Walter Eucken and the Freiberg School: From Resistance to Hitler to German Social Market Economy"
Break 3:00 - 3:30
3:30 - 4:30
Domenico da Empoli, La Sapienza, University of Rome, "Correspondence Between Wilhelm Roepke and Luigi Einaudi During the 1940s"
4:30 - 5:30
David M. Levy, George Mason University and Sandra J. Peart, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, "Jacob Viner on Rules and Authority in Bernard Mandeville, Adam Smith and Milton Friedman"
Dinner in the Heilman Dining Center before 6:45 pm
Sunday, June 21
Political Economy
Breakfast 7:00 - 9:00 AM Heilman Dining Center
9:00 - 10:30
Marcel Boumans, University of Amsterdam, "Twentieth Century Debates on Positive Economics" Boumans paper
10:30 - 12:00
Stefan Kolev, University of Hamburg, "Power and Social Cohesion as Determinants: The Role of Government in Economic Policy in the Oeuvre of Walter Eucken and Wilhelm Röpke" Kolev paper
Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 Heilman Dining Center
1:00 - 2:00
Michal Lehuta, Trend Analysis, "Honest Argumentation in Politics? Public Choice Theory vs. Communicative Action"
2:00 - 3:00
Chris Payne, London School of Economics, "The Governmentality of Thatcherism: Monetary Policy in the 1980s" Payne paper
Break 3:00 - 3:30
3:30 - 5:00
Eric Schliesser, Leiden University, "The Thomas Kuhn-George Stigler Correspondence and the Surprising Weberian Roots of Chicago"
Dinner in the Heilman Dining Center before 6:45 pm
Monday, June 22
Adam Smith, a Celebration of Theory of Moral Sentiments
Breakfast 7:00 - 9:00 AM Heilman Dining Center
9:00 - 10:30
Leonidas Montes, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez, "Adam Smith's Stoicism and Self-Command" Montes paper
10:30 - 12:00
Gavin Kennedy, Professor Emeritus, Heriot-Watt University, "The Alleged Religiosity of Adam Smith: Evidence from the History of Astronomy and Moral Sentiment" Kennedy paper
Lunch 12:00 - 1:00 Heilman Dining Center
1:00 - 2:00
Michael Thomas, George Mason University, "Smith in the Context of Order" Thomas paper
2:00 - 3:00
Maria Pia Paganelli, Yeshiva University, "The Same Face of the Two Smiths" Paganelli paper
Break 3:00 - 3:30
3:30 - 5:00
David M. Levy, George Mason University and Sandra J. Peart, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, "A Conversation with Richard Ware"
Catered dinner 5:30 - 7:00, Jepson Alumni Center's Quigg Room
Additional Papers
Daniela Fernanda Parisi, Universita Cattolica Del Sacro Cuore, "Rockefeller Foundation and Italy: Whether and How to Finance an Economic Plan?" Parisi paper