The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University has
scheduled the following workshops and other events for the Spring 2009
semester. Workshops are held on Friday afternoons from 3:30 to 5 in
the Social Science Building, Room 327.
Jan. 9 Joint Economic History/HOPE Workshop Mahmoud El-Gamal, Rice
University "Islamic Financial Jurisprudence"
Jan. 16 HOPE Workshop Angus Burgin, Harvard University "The
Colloque Lippmann and the Origins of Neoliberalism"
Jan. 20 HOPE Workshop Daniel Hammond, Wake Forest University
"Strange Bedfellows: Msgr. John A. Ryan and the Minimum Wage Movement"
Feb. 13 HOPE Workshop Warren Young, Bar-Ilan University "The
Minnesota Fed Archives Project and the Role of Drafts of Papers in the
History of Economics"
Feb. 17 Panel discussion: "John Maynard Keynes of Bloomsbury." Held
at the Nasher Museum of Art as part of the "A Year of Bloomsbury"
celebration at Duke University
(http://news.duke.edu/2008/09/bloomsbury.html), this will be the"kick-off" event for the establishment of the Center. Craufurd
Goodwin, Roy Weintraub, Kevin Hoover, and Bruce Caldwell will explore
the place of Keynes within Bloomsbury and offer an assessment of his
legacy.
Feb. 20 HOPE Two-fer Workshop Philip Mirowski, University of Notre
Dame, and Bruce Caldwell, Duke University "Neoliberalism, Chicago,
and Hayek: Two Views"
March 20 HOPE Workshop Aiko Ikeo, Waseda University "Kaname
Akamatsu (1896-1974) on Technology, Natural Resources, and the
Flying-Geese Pattern Theory of Development" (Part of the Critical
Biography Series Project organized by the Society for the History of
Japanese Economic Thought)
March 27 HOPE Workshop Edward Nik-Khan, Roanoke University
"George Stigler and the Chicago Business School"
April 17 HOPE Workshop Rob Leonard, Université du Québec à
Montréal "Economics and Modernism, 1900-1950"
Bruce Caldwell
bruce.caldwell@duke.edu
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