3:00-5:00 pm
Registration

7:00-11:00 pm
Pre-conference dinner

8:00-9:00 am
Registration and coffee

9:00-10:00 am
Opening session
1. Albert Jolink: 'Welcome to Rotterdam and to the ECHE'
2. Lawrence Moss (President American HES): 'Entering the next century together: Prospects for a globalization of the history of economics'

10:00-10:30 am
Coffee break

10:30-12:00 am
Sessions A1 to E1

Session A1: From Physiocrats to Smith (Leuven)

Chair: Margaret Schabas (York University)

1. RASHID, Salim (University of Illinois): The physiocratic influence on Smith.
2. ASPROMOURGOS, Tony (University of Sydney): Cantillon on real wages and employment.
3. JACQUET, Janine (University of Paris I): Adam Smith and the Scottish Historical School

Discussants:
1. Gianni Vaggi (University of Padova)
2. Antoin Murphy (Trinity College, Dublin)
3. Alec Gee (University of Dundee)

Session B1: Transforming values (Montreal)

Chair: Ferdinando Meacci (University of Padova)

1. GILIBERT, Giorgio (University of Modena): Means and extremes: an Aristotelian theory of value theories.
2. JORLAND, Gérard (CNRS, Paris): The Transformation Problematics.
3. IKEO, Aiko (Kokugakuin University): Marxist economics in Japan.

Discussants:
1. André Lapidus (University of Paris I)
2. Geert Reuten (University of Amsterdam)
3. Tony Brewer (University of Bristol)

Session C1: Entrepreneurs and Knights (Bergen)

Chair: Philippe Fontaine (University of Antilles-Guyane)

1. LANDRETH, Harry and LANDRETH, Donna (Centre College): An essay on the theory of entrepreneurship from the perspective of the history of economic thought.
2. EMMETT, Ross (Augustana University College): "What is truth" in capital theory? On the relation between economics and the dilemma of liberalism in Frank Knight's contribution to the capital controversy.
3. SCHMIDT, Christian (Université de Paris IX): Risk and uncertainty: a Knightian distinction revisited.

Discussants:
1. John Groenewegen (Erasmus University)
2. Jack Birner (University of Maastricht)
3. Ross Emmett (Augustana University College)

Session D1: From Poland to Portugal (Hull)

Chair: José Luis Cardoso (Technical University Lisbon)

1. ROSICKA, Janina (Jagiellonian University): Polish economic thought in Renaissance.
2. SAETHER, Arild (Agder State College and EIPA): Samuel Pufendorf, The grandfather of modem economics.
3. MATA, Maria Eugénia (Universidade Nova de Lisboa): Economic ideas and economic policy in Portugal in the 19th century.

Discussants:
1. Toon Van Houdt (University of Leuven)
2. Neil De Marchi (Duke University)

Session E1: British economists and the Classics (Baltimore)

Chair: Annie Cot (University of Lille)

1. ROSIER, Michel and TUTIN, Christian (University of Paris VII/University of Paris I): Mr Hicks and the classics
2. BESOMI, Daniele: Roy Harrod and traditional theory.
3. MIZEN, Paul and PRESLEY, John R. (Nottingham Universityl/Loughborough University): The correspondence of sir Dennis Holme Robertson (1890-1963): The discovery of a hidden treasure?

Discussants:
1. Omar Hamouda (York University)
2. Christian Tutin (University of Paris I)
3. Michael Psalidopoulos (Panteion University)

12:00-2:00 pm
Lunch break

2:00-3:30 am
Sessions A2 to E2

Session A2: From Physiocrats to Ricardo (Leuven)

Chair: Gianni Vaggi (University of Padova)

1. PLASMEIJER, Henk (University of Groningen): Pauvres paysans, pauvre royaume.
2. BREWER, Anthony (University of Bristol): Turgot, Smith, and capital accumulation.
3. STIRATI, Antonella (Università di Siena): Smith's legacy and the definitions of natural wage in Ricardo.

Discussants:
1. Peter Groenewegen (University of Sydney)
2. Philippe Fontaine (University of Antilles-Guyane)
3. Bert Kerkhof (University of Nijmegen)

Session B2: Development and Growth (Montreal)

Chair: Tony Aspromourgos (University of Sydney)

1. GEE, Alec (University of Dundee): James Anderson as a development economist.
2. CESARATTO, Sergio (Università degli studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'): Growth, technical change and thrift in marginalist theory: critical assessment and alternative perspectives.
3. TROPEANO, Domenica and GALLEGATI, Mauro (University of Macerata/University of Pescara): Lindah1 on disequilibrium growth; price expectations, wage regimes and the distribution of income.

Discussants:
1. Bert Hamminga (University of Tilburg)
2. Neri Salvadori (University of Pisa)
3. Heinz Kurz (University of Graz)

Session C2: Coordinating Keynes (Bergen)

Chair: Bruna Ingrao (University of Rome)

1. GNOS, Claude (Université de Bourgogne): Keynesian economics and Say's law.
2. NALDI, Neri (Università degli studi di Roma 'La Sapienza'): General Theory's chapter 16:"Sundry observations on the nature of capital."
3. LOASBY, Brian (University of Sterling) Co-ordination failure in economic theory. "

Discussants:
1. Evert Schoorl (University of Groningen)
2. Michel de Vroey (University of Louvain-la-Neuve)
3. Maarten Janssen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Session D2: History of Economic Thought Transferred (Hull)

Chair: Richard Arena (University of Nice)

1. SCHMIDT, KarI-Heinz (University of Paderborn): European and intercontinental transfer of economic ideas during the 18th and 19th century.
2. MAES, Ivo (National Bank of Belgium): The development of the economic thought of the European Community.
3. PARISI, Daniela (Cath. University of Milan): The institutionalization of HET in Italy.

Discussants:
1. Lawrence Moss (Babson College)
2. Arild Saether (Agder State College and EIPA)
3. Tiziano Raffaelli (University of Pisa)

Session E2: Humanism, society and public finance (Baltimore)

Chair: Betsey Price (M.I.T.)

1. WINNETT, Cathy and WINNETT, Adrian (University of Bath): From civic humanism to Carlylean critique: the German connection.
2. PORTA, Pier Luigi (University of Milan) Competition and civil society in Italian economic thought: 1750-1850
3. FAUSTO, Domenicantonio (University of Naples): The role of the coercive element in fiscal choice in the Italian tradition in public finance.

Discussants:
1. Siep Stuurman (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
2. Adrian Winnett (University of Bath)
3. Fabio Masini (University of Florence)

3:30-4:00 pm
Tea break

4:00-5:00 pm
Sessions A3 to E3

Session A3: Ricardo and beyond (Leuven)

Chair: Gary Mongiovi (St. John's University)

1. PERROTTA, Cosimo (University of Lecce): Smith's earliest followers and the issue of unproductive labour.
2. DIXON, William (London Guildhall University): Ricardo and political order.

Discussants:
1. Guido Erreijgers (UFSI Antwerp)
2. Antonella Stirati (University of Siena)

Session B3: Capital and classical economics (Montreal)

Chair: Pascal Bridel (University of Lausanne)

1. KURZ, Heinz (University of Graz): Friederich Benedict Wilhelm von Hermann's contribution to the theory of capital and interest.
2. SCHUMANN, Jochen (Westfalische Wilhelms Universität): Hans Von Mangoldt, a representative of German classical economics in the 19th century.

Discussants:
1. Bertram Schefold (J. W. Goethe Universität)
2. Bert Mosselmans (Free University Brussels)

Session C3: Hayek in turmoil (Bergen)

Chair: Christian Schmidt (University of Paris-Dauphine)

1. ARENA, Richard (University of Nice): The role of banks in Hayek's theories of the trade cycle: an overview.
2. BIRNER, Jack (University of Maastricht): The surprising place of cognitive psychology in the work of F.A. Hayek

Discussants:
1. Harald Hagemann (Universität Hohenheim)
2. Carlo Zappia (University of Siena)

Session D3: An Anglo saxon Saga (Hull)

Chair: Philippe Le Gall (University of Paris-I)

1. BACKHOUSE, Roger (University of Birmingham): The international spread of American-style professional economics since 1945:Britain.
2. SENT, Esther-Mirjam (University of Notre Dame): Sargent's Symmetry Saga.

Discussants:
1. Arjo Klamer (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
2. Hugo Keuzenkamp (University of Tilburg and LSE)

Session E2: The Italian/Dutch Connection (Baltimore)

Chair: Robert Leonard (University of Quebec at Montreal)

1. FAGGI, Paola (University of Florence); Debates in Italian economic periodicals.
2. WILTS, Arnold (University of Amsterdam): Changes in Dutch economics in the 1930s.

Discussants:
1. Daniela Parisi (Cath. University of Milan)
2. Ivo Maes (National Belgian Bank)

5:00-6:30 pm
'Happy' hour

6:30-7:00 pm
Transportation by bus to Hotel New York

7:00-10:00 pm
Conference runner (Hotel New York)

10:00-10:30 pm
Transportation by bus to Novotel Brainpark

8:00-9:00 am
Registration and coffee

9:00-10:30 am
Sessions F1 to J1

Session F1: Statistics and Spectrals (Leuven)

Chair: Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham)

1. CHAIGNEAU, Nicolas (Université de Paris I): A Sketch in the History of Indifference Curves: Edgeworth, Fisher and the role of psychology.
2. KIM, Jinbang (University of California): The gold question, statistics and three economists
3. LE GALL, Philippe (Université de Paris I): A puzzle in the history of econometrics: Henry Moore's pioneering application of spectral methods in economics.

Discussants:
1. Fabio Ranchetti (University of Pisa)
2. Mary Morgan (LSE and University of Amsterdam)
3. Marcel Boumans (University of Amsterdam)

Session G1: Institutionalism in differing varieties (Bergen)

Chair: Harry Landreth (Centre College)

1. GROENEWEGEN, John (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Classical and new institutionalism compared
2. GISLAIN, J-J. and STEINER, Ph. (ENS Fontenay-Saint-Cloud): L 'institutionalisme Americain et l'economie positive Durkheimienne: quelque rapprochements.
3. VROMEN, Jack (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Mechanistic evolution in institutional Economics

Discussants:
1. Elma van de Mortel (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
2. Kurt Dopfer (University of St. Gallen)
3. Nienke Oomes (University of Amsterdam)

Session H1: Money as the root of all (Hull)

Chair: Bertram Schefold (J. W. Goethe Universität)

1. MOSS, Lawrence (Babson College): Platonic deception as a theme in the history of economics; the administration of monetary policy.
2. RITZMANN, Franz (University of Zürich): Money, a Substitute for Confidence? Vaughan to Keynes and beyond.
3. BRIDEL, Pascal (University of Lausanne): Numéraire, money and Walras's theorem of equivalent redistribution.

Discussants:
1. Xavier Bradley (University of Bourgogne)
2. Annalisa Rosselli (University of Rome 2)
3. Jan van Daal (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Session I1: Unemployment and policy (Baltimore)

Chair: Carlo Zappia (University of Siena)

1. KLAUSINGER, Hansjörg (Vienna University): Pigou's macroeconomics of unemployment (1933): a simple model.
2. DE VROEY, Michel (Université catholique de Louvain): Involuntary unemployment: the missing piece in Keynes' s General Theory.
3. GARSIDE, W.R. (University of Birmingham): Economics, Political economy and Labour market policy

Discussants:
1. Tony Aspromourgos (University of Sydney)
2. Claude Gnos (University of Bourgogne)
3. Henk Plasmeijer (University of Groningen)

Session J1: Lavoisier, hypochondria and coins (Montreal)

Chair: Peter Groenewegen (University of Sydney)

1. POIRIER, Jean-Pierre (Comité Lavoisier de I' Academie des Sciences): An economist in action: The education and thought of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier (1743-1794).
2. DE MARCHI, Neil (Duke University): Managing hypochondria and prosperity: Mandeville's animal and material economy.
3. SCHABAS, Margaret (York University): Two sides of the same coin: economics as a natural and/or human science.

Discussants:
1. José Luis Cardoso (Technical University of Lisbon)
2. Rudy Verburg (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
3. Esther-Mirjam Sent (University of Notre Dame)

10:30-11:00 am
Coffee break

11:00-12:00 pm
Plenary Meeting on the European Conferences on the History of Economics: background and prospects.

12:00-2:00 pm
Lunch break

2:00-3:30 am
Sessions F2 to J2

Session F2: Business cycles and models (Leuven)

Chair: Mary Morgan (LSE and University of Amsterdam)

1. GIOIA, Vitantonio (University of Lecce): Arthur Spiethoff: business cycles and economic system. A methodological reflection
2. BOUMANS, Marcel (University of Amsterdam): The first business cycle modeIs: mixed differences.
3. BOGAARD, Adrienne van den (University of Amsterdam): The Dutch Central Planning Bureau.

Discussants:
1. Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham)
2. Jinbang Kim (University of California)
3. Martin Fase (University of Amsterdam and Dutch Bank)

Session G2: Morals and characters (Bergen)

Chair: Neil De Marchi (Duke University)

1. PRICE, Betsey (M.I. T .): Henry of Ghent and the tensions of Economics.
2. MAAS, H. (University of Amsterdam): Thomas Reid's resistance to a mathematical treatment of morals.
3. KLAMER, Arjo (Erasmus University Rotterdam): The disappearance of character from Economics.

Discussants:
1. Toon Van Houdt (University of Leuven)
2. Margaret Schabas (York University)
3. Sheila Dow (University of Stirling)

Session H2: It's all about Marshall (Hull)

Chair: Michel de Vroey (University of Louvain-la-Neuve)

1. GROENEWEGEN, Peter (University of Sydney): Unemployment and price stability: aspects of the Marshallian legacy on the monetary economy.
2. TANAKA , Toshihiro (Kwansei Gakuin University): J.B. Clark and A. Marshall: some unpublished letters.
3. RAFFAELLI, Tiziano (University of Pisa): The principles of organization: a forgotten chapter in Marshallian economics.

Discussants:
1. Richard Arena (University of Nice)
2. Harry Landreth (Centre College)
3. Wilfred Dolfsma (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

Session I2: The nature of equilibrium (Baltimore)

Chair: Esther-Mirjam Sent (University of Notre Dame)

1. TIEBEN, Bert (Free University of Amsterdam): Is there a God in economics: a short history of economic equilibrium.
2. LENDJEL, Emeric (Université de Paris I): Walker's realistic interpretation of Walras.
3. FISCHMAN, Marianne (University of Lille); Naturalism in Walras's conception of economics.

Discussants:
1. Bruna Ingrao (University of Rome)
2. Pascal Bridel (University of Lausanne)
3. Roberto Baranzini (University of Lausanne)

Session E2: Sraffian structures (Montreal)

Chair: Jack Vromen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

1. ALBANI, Paolo (Università degli studi di Firenze): Sraffa and Wittgenstein. Profile of an intellectual friendship.
2. GADISSEUR, J.-F. (University of Liège): Scientific structures and economic theories.
3. LEONARD, Robert (University of Quebec): Sign, Society and Structure.

Discussants:
1. Jean-Pierre Potier (University of Lyon 2)
2. Robert Leonard (University of Quebec at Montreal)
3. Christian Schmidt (University of Paris IX)

3:30-4:00 pm
Tea break

4:00-5:00 pm
Sessions F3 to J3

Session F3: Ignorance and samples (Leuven)

Chair: Ross Emmett (Augustana University College)

1. HAMOUDA, Omar and ROWLEY, Robin (York University\McGill University): Finding and Presuming Ignorance
2. KEUZENKAMP, Hugo A. (University of Tilburg): 'Moonshine' or On the notions of sample and population in the advent of econometrics.

Discussants:
1. Brian Loasby (University of Stilling)
2. Philippe Le Gall (University of Paris I)

Session G3: Short period liberalism (Bergen)

Chair: John Groenewegen (Erasmus University)

1. MARCUZZO, Maria Christina (University of Rome): Short Period Economics in Retrospect
2. MASINI, Fabio (University of Florence): Lionel Robbins: the response of the liberaI tradition to economic nationalism.

Discussants:
1. Hansjörg Klausinger (Vienna University)
2. W.R. Garside (University of Birmingham)

Session H3: Value and demand (Hull)

Chair: Heinz Kurz (University of Graz)

1. BELLANCA, Nicolo (Università di Torino): The theory of value of Pantaleoni.
2. SALVADORI, Neri (University of Pisa): Sraffa on demand.

Discussants:
1. Giorgio Gilibert (University of Modena)
2. Steve Rankin (University of East Anglia)

Session I3: Disequilibrium and efficiency (Baltimore)

Chair: Jack Birner (University of Maastricht)

1. MONGIOVI, Gary (St John's University); Shackle on Equilibrium and Time: a Critical Note.
2. ZAPPIA, Carlo (Università di Siena): The informational efficiency of economic systems and Hayek's paradox.

Discussants:
1. Bert Tieben (Free University Amsterdam)
2. Rudy van Zijp (Free University Amsterdam)

Session J2: History and method (Montreal)

Chair: Arjo Klamer (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

1. DOPFER, Kurt (University of St. Gallen); Historical Regularities and A Priori Order: A Perennial Theme of German Speaking Economists.
2. DOW, Sheila (Stirling University): Methodological Pluralism and Pluralism Method

Discussants:
1. Karl-Heinz Schmidt (University of Paderborn)
2. Jack Vromen (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

5:00-6:00 pm
Drinks