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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 Group website (http://econ.duke.edu/HOPE), following the links to HOPE Conferences and then to the 2008 conference or, directly, to the HOPE 2008 website
http://econ.duke.edu/HOPE/HOPEconference2008OpenAccess/HOPE2008master.htm

Mauro Boianovsky <[email protected]>
Kevin Hoover <[email protected]>
    Organizers

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 intimate format, with substantial
time devoted to the presentation and discussion of each of the papers.
Papers on all aspects of the history of economics and economic thought
are welcome. Those wishing to present a paper at the conference should
send an abstract of five hundred words to the conference organizer,
Professor Steven Medema, by email at [email protected] or via
the post to Department of Economics, CB 181, University of Colorado
Denver, Denver, CO 80217-3364, USA. The deadline for receipt of
proposals is April 1, 2008, and decisions will be made by April 15,
2008. Further information about the conference will be made available in
the coming months.
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2  (from David Teira Serrano) XI Summer School on Economics and Philosophy: SOCIAL NORMS

San Sebastian (Spain), 14-17 July 2008;   Director: Cristina Bicchieri (UPenn)
Coordinators: Alfonso Dubois (UPV), David Teira & Jesús Zamora (UNED)

Preliminary list of speakers: Jason Alexander (LSE), Daniel Andler (Paris
IV-ENS), Cristina Bicchieri (UPenn), Pablo Brañas (Ugr), Jordi Brandts
(CSIC), Cristiano Castelfranchi (ISTC-  CNR), Jason Dana (UPenn), Jon
Elster (College de France), Diego Gambetta (Oxford), Herbert Gintis
(UMass), Russell Hardin (NYU), Shaun Nichols (U. Arizona), Edna
Ullmann-Margalit (Tel-Aviv)

Since 1998 the Urrutia Elejalde has annually organized a Summer School on
frontier topics between philosophy,  economics and other social sciences,
bringing together scholars from all these fields to explore them. The aim
of this year Summer School is to introduce participants to the vast
research that is taking place in the area of  social norms. >From
philosophy and psychology to evolutionary game theory and experimental
economics, recent work on social norms is shedding light on why and under
what circumstances people engage in pro-social behavior, and how norms may
emerge, stabilize or decay.

We encourage submission of papers that cover one or more of the above
areas. The scientific committee will consider a number of submissions by
young scholars at graduate or postgraduate level. The Foundation will
cover the registration fees and accomodation expenses of the authors.

Please send a 2000 words pdf abstract to David Teira (dteira [at]
fsof.uned.es) before Jan 31st 2008. A decision will be made by March 15th.

For further information on the School, visit:
http://www.urrutiaelejalde.org/SummerSchool/2008.html
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3  (from Pedro Duarte)  The New Zealand Association of Economists and the Econometric Society will hold
a symposium (in New Zealand, July 2008) on the Phillips Curve. The selected
papers will be published in the North American Journal of Economics and
Finance. Although the main concern of the symposium is with "the estimation,
inference, and policy implications of the Phillips Curve, and its place in
macroeconomic analysis," the 50th anniversary of Phillips' original article
opens up the possibility that some historian of economics participate in the
symposium and reach a broader audience of macroeconomists. For more details on
this symposium, please visit:

http://www.phillips08.org.nz/

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 -- "splendid!" -- beside Robbins' discussion of interpersonal comparisons of utility:

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