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The 14th HETSA Conference


TUESDAY, 10 JULY

 

Welcome Reception

 

7.00 p.m: Lazenby’s Bistro (Building number 25 on the website map of the Hobart Sandy Bay campus, and next door to the conference area).

 

Activities:

  • Drinks and cocktails will be served.

  • Meeting other HETSA2001 participants on a social level.

  • Registration for the conference.

  • Distribution of satchel with all available conference papers included.

  • Orientation to the campus and conference for visitors.

A University mini-bus will travel around to The Mayfair Plaza, Woolmers Inn, Wrest Point Casino and Grosvenor Court, pick-up registered conference participants and take them to the reception. The pick-up will be between 6.30 and 7.00 p.m., so make sure you are at your accommodation place during this time period, if you want to attend the reception. The mini-bus will also return you back at the end of the reception.

 

WEDNESDAY, 11 JULY

 

  • All conference sessions are held in Room Humanities 346 of the Arts-Humanities Building, number 29 on the website map of the Hobart Sandy Bay campus.

  • See details of titles and authors for each session following the timetable.

  • All sessions will start promptly on time and note that lunch is for 45 minutes only.

8.30-8.50 am:

Registration at the foyer of the Arts-Humanities Building (next to the main entrance of the building). Coffee and tea on arrival.

 

8.50-9.00 am:

Welcome to the conference and organisational details by the convenors (in Room Humanities 346).

 

9.00-10.45 am:

Session 1

 

10.45-11.15 am:

Morning Tea

 

11.15-1.00 am:

Session 2

 

1.00-1.45 pm:

Lunch at Lazenby’s Bistro (Building number 25, next door to the conference area).

 

1.45-3.30 pm:

Symposium ?A Century of the Economics of Federalism

 

3.30- 3.50 pm:

Afternoon Tea

 

3.50- 5.35 pm:

Session 3

 

End - Day One of conference.

 

 

THURSDAY, 12 JULY

 

  • All conference sessions are held in Room Humanities 346 of the Arts-Humanities Building, number 29 on the website map of the Hobart Sandy Bay campus.

  • See details of titles and authors for each session following the timetable.

  • All sessions will start promptly on time and note that lunch is for 45 minutes only.

 

8.50-9.00 am:

Coffee and tea on arrival

 

9.00-10.45 am:

Session 4

 

10.45-11.15 am:

Morning Tea

 

11.15-1.00 am:

Session 5

 

1.00-1.45 pm:

Lunch at Lazenby’s Bistro (Building number 25, next door to the conference area).

 

1.45-3.00 pm:

Keynote Address ?Professor Craufurd Goodwin

 

3.00- 3.30 pm:

Afternoon Tea

 

3.30- 5.15 pm:

Session 6

 

7.30 pm:

Conference Dinner at The Royal Yacht Club of Tasmania with special guest after dinner speaker: Dr. Peter Hay, political scientist and renowned Tasmanian "rat-bag" and raconteur.

 

A University mini-bus will travel around to The Mayfair Plaza, Woolmers Inn, Wrest Point Casino and Grosvenor Court, pick-up registered conference dinner participants and take them to the dinner venue. The pick-up will be between 7.00 and 7.30 p.m., so make sure you are at your accommodation place during this time period, if you want to attend the dinner. The mini-bus will also return you back at the end of the dinner.

 

End ?Day Two of conference

 

FRIDAY, 13 JULY

 

 

  • All conference sessions are held in Room Humanities 346 of the Arts-Humanities Building, number 29 on the website map of the Hobart Sandy Bay campus.

  • See details of titles and authors for each session following the timetable.

  • All sessions will start promptly on time and note that lunch is for 45 minutes only.

8.50-9.00 am:

Coffee and tea on arrival

 

9.00-10.15 am:

Annual General Business Meeting of HETSA

 

10.15-10.30 am:

Morning Tea

 

10.30-12.15 am:

Session 7

 

12.15-1.00 pm:

Lunch at Lazenby’s Bistro (Building number 25, next door to the conference area).

 

1.00-2.45 pm:

Symposium ?The History of Australian Economic Thought

 

2.45- 3.15 pm:

Afternoon Tea

 

3.15- 4.45 pm:

Session 8

 

End - Day Three of conference

 

SATURDAY, 14 JULY

 

 

Field Trip to Richmond and Port Arthur

 

9.00 am:

  • Pick up at University Centre (Building number 25, above Lazenby’s Bistro)

  • Travel to Richmond

  • Explore historical Richmond Village

10.45 am:

Morning Tea at Richmond Arms Hotel

 

11.15 am:

Travel on to Port Arthur Historical Site

 

12.45 pm:

Lunch in the Museum Caf?/font>

 

1.45 pm:

Extended guided site tour with economic history perspective

 

3.30 pm:

Afternoon Tea in New Visitors Centre

 

4.00 pm:

Depart Port Arthur and return to Hobart and accommodation (arrival time approx. 5.30 pm).

 

End of Conference

 

 

 

 

Conference Presentations: Title and Author Details

 

1. Keynote Address ?Professor Craufurd Goodwin (12 July, 1.45pm)

"The Value of Things in the Imaginative Life: Microeconomics in the Bloomsbury Group"

 

2. Symposiums

 

A Century of the Economics of Federalism (11 July, 1.45pm)

Discussion Leader: Bob Rutherford

 

Panel

  • Brian Dollery, "A Century of Vertical Fiscal Imbalance in Australian Federalism", School of Economics and Finance, University of New England, Armidale, N.S.W.

  • Peter Groenewegen, "R.C. Mills and Australian Fiscal Federalism, with Special Reference to the Methodology of the Development of Grants Commission", University of Sydney, N.S.W.

  • Jerry Courvisanos, "Russell Mathews and Research into Fiscal Federalism", School of Economics and Finance, University of Tasmania, Launceston.

The History of Australian Economic Thought (13 July, 1.00pm)

Discussion Leader: Ray Petridis

Panel:

  • Craufurd Goodwin, "Economic Enquiry in Australia: Reflections after 41 years!"

  • Ian Castles, "The Nature and Use of Measures of Economic Quantity: the Work of Australian Economists in the 1940s"

  • Bruce McFarlane, "How ‘Australian?is Economics in Australia?"

 

3. Titles and Authors of Contributor Sessions

(in order of appearance)

 

Session 1 (11 July, 9.00am)

Chair: tba

  • Alf Hagger, "Copland, Giblin, Brigden and Wilson: The Quartet Forms", School of Economics and Finance, University of Tasmania, Hobart (presented by William Coleman).

  • Alex Millmow, "The Power and Triumph of Economic Ideas; Australian Economists in the Thirties", Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, N.S.W.

  • Sean Turnell, "Australia’s ‘Employment Approach?to International Postwar Reconstruction: Calling the Bluff of Multilateralism", Department of Economics, Macquarie University, N.S.W.

 

Session 2 (11 July, 11.15am)

Chair: tba

  • Margaret McDonough-Glen, "Herbert Heaton ?A Voice of Dissent in Economic History" Marrickville, Sydney.

  • Warren Hogan, "Messenger of Change: Allan George Barnard Fisher", Faculty of Economics, University of Sydney, N.S.W.

  • John Lodewijks, "HOPE in the Antipodes", University of New South Wales, N.S.W (presented by Geoff Fishburn).

 

Session 3 (11 July, 3.50pm)

Chair: tba

  • Neil Hart, "Marshall's Representative Firm Theory: Equilibrium versus Evolution", University of Western Sydney, N.S.W.

  • Fabio Cerina, " Ceteris Paribus and Dynamics in Marshall", Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche, Universit?di Firenze, Italy.

  • Steve Keen, UWS, John Legge, La Trobe, Geoff Fishburn, UNSW, "A 75th Anniversary Present for Sraffa". Dr. Steve Keen, School of Economics and Finance, University of Western Sydney, N.S.W.

 

Session 4 (12 July, 9.00 am)

Chair: tba

  • James K. Galbraith, "Future History: The Humphrey-Hawkins Process and the Deeper Thoughts of Alan Greenspan", LBJ School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, U.S.A. (work-in-progress)

  • Steven Kates, "The Art of Central Banking: A History of the Theory Behind the Policy", Australian Chamber of Commerce & Industry.

  • Matthew Smith, "On Central Banking ‘Rules? Tooke’s Critique of the Bank Charter Act of 1844", Faculty of Economics, University of Sydney, N.S.W.

 

Session 5 (12 July, 11.15am)

Chair: tba

  • Michael Schneider, "Sismondi's Macroeconomic Model", Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe University, Victoria.

  • Colin Richardson, "Traverse Analysis: Progenitors and Pioneers", School of Economics and Finance, University of Tasmania, Launceston.

 

Session 6 (12 July, 3.30pm)

Chair: tba

  • Michael White, "Doctoring Adam Smith: The Fable of the Diamond and Water Paradox", Monash University, Victoria.

  • Chikakazu Tadakoshi, "Richard Whately as a Professor of Political Economy", Faculty of Economics & Business Administration, Yokohama City University, Japan.

  • Tony Aspromourgos, "The Development of English Economic Vocabulary, 1662-1776: the Formation of a Disciplinary Language", School of Economics & Political Science, University of Sydney, N.S.W. (work-in-progress)

Session 7 (13 July, 10.30am)

Chair: tba

  • Shigeki Tomo, "A Sealed Influence of Othmar Spann on Hayek’s Dissertation (1923)", Faculty of Economics, Kyoto-Sangyo University, Japan.

  • G.C.G. Moore, "John Neville Keynes’s Solution to the English Methodenstreit", Australian Catholic University, Melbourne.

  • Stephen Goldborough, "The Development of Finance Theory since 1952 - a Critical View", The University of Newcastle, N.S.W.

 

Session 8 (13 July, 3.15pm)

Chair: tba

  • Atsushi Komine, "Beveridge on Unemployment in 1909", Faculty of Economics, Niigata Sangyo University, Japan.

  • Paul Flatau, "Hicks?Theory of Wages Revisited", School of Economics and Finance, Murdoch University, Western Australia.

  • John King, "A Brief History of Socialist Economics", Department of Economics and Finance, La Trobe University, Victoria.


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