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 The 15th HETSA Conference

University of New England, 16-19 July, 2002


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

PROGRAM

Tuesday -16 July

 

6pm: Reception Registration & Welcome
         Mary White College Drinks & Light Refreshment


Wednesday - 17 July


8.30am

J.W. Nevile

Expectations, Lags and Particular Parameter Values in Harrod's Dynamics


9.10am

M.L. Treadgold

Deflationary Bias in Currency Boards: A Brief History of an Idea


9.50am

 

W. Coleman

Anti-Economics: A Guide


10.30am: Morning Tea

10.45am

J. King

Lament for Economics, or How Barbara Wootton Gave it All Away and Became a Sociologist


11.25am

P. Dalziel

Pareto, Parsons and the Boundary Between Economics and Sociology


12.10pm

 

 

W. Hogan

A.G.B. Fisher: Trans-Tasman Economist

12.50pm: Lunch


1.40pm

T. Aspromourgos

The Functionless Investor: Keynes's Euthanasia of the Rentier Revisited


2.20pm

 

 

T. Kanao

Keynes, Kalecki and the Japanese Economy|

3pm: Afternoon Tea


3.15pm

A. Endres & 
G. Fleming

 

The Shaping of Economic Thought in International Economic Organisations: Illustrations form the IMF, OECD and World Bank


3.55pm

 

L. O'Hara

Economics, Power, and History: Some Controversies Revisited - Through the Eyes of John Ralston Saul

4.35pm: Drinks Breather


4.50pm: Work-in-Progress Session  -  Nightingale, Turnell, Flatau, Kriesler


6pm: End of Day's Formal Proceedings


Thursday - 18 July


8.30am

J. Lodewijks

Research in the History of Economic Thought as a Vehicle for the Defence and Criticism of Orthodox Economics

9.10am

M. Schneider

The Relativity Theory of Economic Behaviour: Its Incidence in the History of Economic Thought and its Significance

9.50am

 

 

G. Fishburn

Evolution and the Nature of Man in Greek Thought

10.30am: Morning Tea


10.45am: Guest Lecture from Geoff Harcourt


11.45am

S. Kates

History of Wage Fixation in Australia: The Employer Perspective

 

12.25pm

G. Smith

Economic Paradigms and the Australian Wage-Setting, 1975-1995: From Macroeconomic Distribution to an Enterprise Productivity Focus

 

1.05pm: Lunch


2pm

L. Moss

The Seligman-Edgeworth Debate about the Analysis of Tax Incidence: The Advent of Mathematical Economics 1892 - 1910

2.40pm

N. Hart

The 1920s Cost Controversies: Did Anybody Read Marshall's Principles?


3.20pm: Afternoon Tea


3.30pm: Peter Groenewegen Retrospective

 

4.20pm

A. Walsh and T. Lynch

The Development of Price-Information Theory and Subjectivism about Ultimate Values

 

5pm

M. McLure

Dualistic Distinctions and Pareto's Relativistic Approach to Science

 

7pm for 7.30pm: Conference Dinner - Booloominbah


Friday - 19 July

 

8.30am

G. Moore

The Cambridge Millites and the Early Economic Writings of Leslie Stephen


9.10am

M. Cross

Adam Smith on Colonial Policy and Conflict


9.50am

C. Gehrke

On the Gestation of Piero Sraffa's edition of The Works and Correspondence of David Ricardo

 

 

10.30am: Morning Tea


10.45am

S. Tomo

The Year 1922: A Watershed of Mises and Hayek


11.25am

M. Smith

On Interest and Profit: Thomas Tooke's Major Legacy to Economics

 

12.05pm

P. Gangopadhyay

Relevance and Robustness of Sweezy's 1949 Paper in Explaining Price Rigidity


12.45pm: Lunch


1.30pm: HETSA Annual General Meeting


2pm: End of Conference


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