History of Political Economy Spring Conference on April 26 - 28

22 April 2013 9:15AM

The 2013 HOPE conference will have as its general subject "MIT and the Transformation of American Economics." The archival collections in the Economists Papers Project of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, of MIT economists Paul Samuelson, Robert Solow, Franco Modigliani, Evsey Domar, and Franklin Fisher present an unusually rich source for scholars to examine in order to address the topic. However, those collections certainly do not circumscribe the questions that historians might wish to engage, such as the following: