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 The 16th HETSA Conference

St Patrick’s Campus, ACU, 15-18 July, 2003


[Web pages hosted by University of Tasmania, School of Economics and Finance]

PROGRAM

 

Tuesday - 15 July

 

6–8.00 pm: Reception, Registration & Welcome

                   115 Café, St Patrick’s Campus, 115 Victoria Parade

                   Drinks & Light Refreshment

 

 

Wednesday - 16 July

(Note: All sessions are held in the Recital Room).

 

 

Session 1: Late-Victorian Economics

 

9.00am

Mike White

A Grin Without a Cat: W.S. Jevons' Elusive Equilibrium

 

 

9.40am

John Pullen

Henry George’s Lecture Tour of Australia in 1890

 

10.20am

 

Gregory Moore

 

Ashley’s The Tariff Problem: A Centenary Appraisal

 

11.00am: Morning Tea

 

 

Session 2: Religion and Economics

 

11.30am

Clive & Clara Beed

Distributional Implications of Contemporary Judeo-Christian Economics

12.10pm

Bruce Duncan

Ethics and Economics: a Catholic perspective

 

12.50 pm: Lunch

 

 

Session 3: Keynes – Literary Style, War and the GT Defence

 

1.50pm

Rod O’Donnell

Keynes As A Writer: Three Case Studies

2.30pm

   

Sean Turnell

Keynes and the Economic Causes of War

3.10pm

Geoffrey Fishburn

 

Keynes, 1937 (and Thereabouts)

 

3.50 pm: Afternoon Tea

 

 

Session 4: Work-in-Progress

 

4.20pm

 

Troy Lynch

Austrian Capital Theory

4.40pm

Toney Endres

Architects of International Finance: Bretton Woods to the 1970s

5.00pm

John Lodwijks

Peter Groenewegen and the History of Political Economy

5.20pm

Heath Spong

Henry Ford as the First Schumpeterian Entrepreneur

 

5.40 pm: End of Day's Formal Proceedings

 

 

Thursday - 16 July

(Note: All sessions are held in the Recital Room).

 

 

Session 5: Heterodox Economics

 

9.00am

John King

Frederick Allen and the Future of Capitalism

9.40am

Robert Dixon

A Critique of Davidson on Keynes and Kalecki

10.20

Jerry Courvisanos

An Outline on the Development of Political Business Cycles

 

11.00am: Morning Tea

 

 

Session 6: Voices From Europe

 

11.30am

 Marina Bianchi

Satiety and Beyond: Scitovsky’s Analysis of a Joyless Economy

 

12.10pm

Michael McLure

An Italian Foundation For New Fiscal Sociology

 

12.50pm: Lunch

 

(Editorial Meeting for the members of the Editorial Board)

 

 

Session 7: History of Australian Economic Policy

 

1.50 pm

Alex Millmow

Niemeyer, Scullin and the Australian Economists

2.30pm

William Coleman

Cambridge, England or Cambridge, Tasmania. Some recent excavations of the Giblin multiplier

 

3.10 pm

Evan Jones

Macroeconomic Policy and Industrial Structure: Contested Parameters of Economic Policy in Post-World War II Australia

 

 

3.50pm: Afternoon Tea

 

4.20pm: Session 8- Key-note Address

 

 Neil De Marchi: Visualizing the Gains from Trade, mid-1870s-1962

 

5.20 pm: Business Meeting

 

7.30pm: Conference Dinner: Pireaus Blues Greek Restaurant

              310 Brunswick St, Fitzroy 3065  (Drinks at 7.00 for those

               who are interested)

  

 

Friday – 18 July

(Note: All sessions are held in the Recital Room).

 

 

Session 9: Methodology, Ideology and Scandal

 

9.00am

James Doughney

Fact and Value in Economics: Putting the Pieces Back Together

 

9.40am

Matthew Steen

Schumpeter’s Theory Of Ideological Influence

 

10.20am

Owen Covick & Beverly Vickers

The Trials of Whitaker Wright

 

11.00am: Morning Tea

 

 

Session 10: Classical Macroeconomics

 

11.30am

Matthew Smith

Tooke’s Explanation of General Price Movements in England, 1792-1856

 

12.10pm

Steve Kates

Say’s Law and the Modern Economy

 

12.50 pm: End of Conference

 

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