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Academic Year 2007-2008
Thursday, September 6, 2007, History of Political Economy Lunch Seminar, 11:30am, 327 Social Sciences Deirdre McCloskey (U. IL - Chicago and Erasmus University, Rotterdam) "Adam Smith, the Last of the Former Virtue Ethicists."
Summer 2007
Friday, 22 June 2007 History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Marcel Boumans (University of Amsterdam), Measurement in Economics
Academic Year 2006-2007
Friday, April 27, 2007, 3:40pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Pedro G. Duarte (Duke University), Final Ph.D. Defense
Friday, April 27, 2007, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Roger Sandilands (University of Strathclyde), Does modern endogenous growth theory adequately represent Allyn Young?
Friday, April 6, 2007, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Tiago Mata (Technical University of Lisbon & Duke University), Saving Economics From Itself: Leonard S. Silk at the New York Times Against the Nixon Economists
Friday, March 30, 2007, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Pedro G. Duarte (Duke University), Historical Considerations on Optimal Monetary Policy
Friday, March 9, 2007, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Dan Hammond (Wake Forest University), Markets, Politics, and Democracy at Chicago
Friday, March 9, 2007, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Roy Weintraub (Duke), Intellectual Leaders and Accusations of Anti-Semitism: Some Historiographic Concerns
Friday, February 23, 2007, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Bruce Caldwell (UNC Greensboro), A new entry on Friedrich Hayek for the New Palgrave
Friday, February 16, 2007, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Pedro G. Duarte (Duke University), (RE)Visiting Frank P. Ramsey: the Public Finance Concept of Optimal Monetary Policy
Friday, February 9, 2007, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Craufurd Goodwin (Duke University), Economics and War
Friday, February 2, 2007, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Neil De Marchi (Duke University), Essaying an Entry on the Conflicted but Non-Conflictive J.S. Mill
Friday, September 8, 2006, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Christian E. Weber (Seattle University), Andreas Voigt on Ordinal and Cardinal Utility in 1893
Friday, September 15, 2006, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar, 327 Social Sciences
Pedro G. Duarte (Duke University), Visiting Frank P. Ramsey: the Public Finance Concept of Optimal Monetary Policy
Friday, October 27, 2006, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar, 327 Social Science
Paola Tubaro , John E. Tozer's Mathematical Model, 1838
Friday, February 4, 2005, 3:45pm, History Of Economic Thought Seminar
Craufurd Goodwin (Duke University), The Art of an Ethical Life: Keynes and Bloomsbury
Friday, February 18, 2005, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar
Simon Cook (Duke University), A Philosophy of History
Friday, February 25, 2005, 4:00pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar
Thomas (Tim) Leonard (Princeton), Who shall select the fittest?: eugenics, economics and the origins of American reform
Friday, March 4, 2005, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar
Pedro G. Duarte (Duke University), A Feasible and Objective Concept of Optimality: the quadratic loss function and the U.S. monetary policy in the 1960s
Friday, March 4, 2005, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar
Bruce Caldwell (UNCG), "The Road to Serfdom" and "Hayek Collected Works"
Friday, March 25, 2005, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar
Pedro G. Duarte (Duke University), Modigliani Papers at Duke
Friday, April 1, 2005, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar
Rod O'Donnell (Sydney), KEYNES’S PRINCIPLES OF WRITING (INNOVATIVE) ECONOMICS
Friday, April 8, 2005, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar
E. Roy Weintraub (Duke University), Talk About Economists' Lives: An Historian's Perspective
Friday, April 8, 2005, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar
Loic Charles (Paris), The Writing Workshop of François-Quesnay and the Making of Physiocracy and
Friday, April 15, 2005, 12:00pm, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar
Claudia Sunna (University of Lecce), Population within the Social Sciences: Joseph J. Spengler on Population, Development and Welfare
Friday, April 15, 2005, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar
Catherine Labio (Yale), Literature and economics: anatomy of a divorce
Fall 2004
Friday, October 15, 2004, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar
Joseph M. Ostroy (UCLA), The Invisible Hand
Friday, October 29, 2004, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar
Ivan Moscati (Bocconi University), Early Experiments in Consumer Demand Theory: 1930 – 1970
Friday, November 5, 2004, 11:45am, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar
Simon Cook (Duke University), Visions of Value: 1867 and 1870
Friday, November 12, 2004, 11:45am, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar
Pedro G. Duarte: Misuses of the History of Economics (Duke University), Backshouse: "Misunderstanding the history of the Business Cyle"; and Bateman: "Buchanan and Wagner on Keynes"; and Davis: "Robbins, textbooks, and the extreme value neutrality view"
Friday, November 12, 2004, 3:45pm, History Of Political Economy Seminar
Michel De Vroey (
Université Catholique de Louvain à Louvain-La-Neuve ), On the Right Side for the Wrong Reason: Friedman on the Marshall-Walras Divide
Tuesday, December 7, 2004, 11:45am, History Of Political Economy Lunch Seminar
Spencer Banzhaf (Resources for the Future), Consumer Surplus with and without Apology: Applied Welfare Measurement in the 1950s and '60s
