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This listing is not rated yet.   Rate it!  |  Report it! AdamSmithLives http://adamsmithlives.blogs.com visually oriented blog on the history of economic ideas Category: Blog Directory » Science Blogs » Social Sciences Hits: 2 Date added: 2006-09-16 01:50:10 Alexa traffic rank: 5,349,350 Site language: EN Site encoding: UTF-8

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HOPE conference announcement
The annual /History of Political Economy/ Conference -- this year on the topic "Robert Solow and the Development of Growth Economics" -- will be held 25-27 April 2008 at Duke University. Further information, including the tentative program, can be found on the Duke History of Economy... Read more...
Published 6 months ago

Conferences in the History of Economics
3 conference announcements of interest to historians of economics have come in recently: 1 )from Steve Medema) The 40th annual UK History of Economic Thought Conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, over 3-5 September, 2008. The conference will retain its traditional... Read more...
Published 7 months ago

Rawls on Robbins
Here's a taste of what David will talk about at the Robbins conference in London. We've obtained a number of Rawls' copies of books by economists, including Rawls' copy of The Nature and Significance. So we can see what struck Rawls as he read Robbins. Here, you can see Rawls' exclamation --... Read more...
Published 7 months ago

Nature and Significance: Robbins at 75
The Robbins conference website is now set to go! http://sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/lionelrobbins/conferenceprogramme.asp Read more...
Published 7 months ago

Lionel Robbins, Nature and Significance of Economic Science
Readers know that I studied with Sam Hollander. Perhaps because of this, I have long felt that Sam's teacher, Lionel Robbins, deserves more recognition than he has been given by the profession. So I am very pleased that N&S is now 75 years old; we can use the occasion to celebrate Robbins and... Read more...
Published 8 months ago

Leo Thorsness -- modern day hero
Yesterday we took Colonel Leo Thorsness, leader in Residence at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, to the airport. Before this, he spent 2 1/2 days with our faculty and students -- talking to newly admitted Jepson students about his days in Hanoi Hilton, to students in our Foundations... Read more...
Published 8 months ago

HE position at James Madison
Barkley Rosser, at JMU, has posted this note at the HES list: I am pleased to announce that there is a tenure track, assistant professor job opening availableat James Madison University, for which the primary field desired is history of economics, with other fields with that being anything... Read more...
Published 8 months ago

Eugenics resurfaces
David Levy and I recently wrote this in the wake of James Watson's recent resignation: Watson’s remarks call to mind debates in the 19th Century over Ireland and the West Indies. There, too, the debate centered on the seemingly simple question of whether the Irish (or the former slaves in... Read more...
Published 8 months ago

History of recent economics, mechanism design, etc.
The recent Nobel set off a flurry of remarks to which I don't hope to add. But I should say that it also prompted a note to me from Kyu Sang Lee, former Young Scholar at the HES and participant in the Summer Institute at George Mason University. Not surprisingly, given his interest in the... Read more...
Published 8 months ago

HES line up for Allied Social Sciences Association annual meeting
Perry Mehrling has lined up a terrific set of sessions for the ASSAs. If you're going, check these out. The ASSAs allocate sessions and pay attention to attendance (someone counts!) so we need a good turn out for all. Last year, there were people standing in the doorway and sitting on the... Read more...
Published 8 months ago