1:00-7:00 pm
Registration at the Hotel Amazónia

9:00 am
Opening session
1. José Lu¡s Cardoso: Welcome to the ECHE'96.
2. Peter Groenewegen (University of Sidney), Expectations about Twentieth Century Economics in the Late Nineteenth Century: an Overview.

10:00 am
Coffee break

10:30-12:30 am
Sessions A1 to A5

Session A1: Money and banking

Chair: Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (University of Rome, La Sapienza)

1. Pascale Pitavy-Simoni (University of Paris I): Melon and Dutot's analysis of Law's system: the emergence of a liberal concept of money.
2. Sylvie Diatkine (University of Evry): Thomas Hodgskin on money and capital: a Smithian anarchist's point of view?
3. Franck Yonnet (University of Evry): From banking communism to the "Société Generale".
4. Annalisa Rosselli (University of Rome, Tor Vergata): The origins of the political economy of money.

Discussants:
1. Antoin Murphy (Trinity College, Dublin)
2. Harald Hagemann (Hohenheim University, Stuttgart)
3. Cécile Dangel (University of Nice)
4. Fernando Mendez-Ibisate (European University of Madrid)

Session A2: Das Adam Smith problem

Chair: Bertram Schefold (University J.W. Goethe, Frankfurt)

1. Francesco Luna (University of Venice): From the 'History of Astronomy' to the 'Wealth of Nations': wonderful wheels and invisible hands in Adam Smith's major works.

2. Amos Witztum (London Guildhall University): A study into Smith's conception of the human character: das Adam Smith problem revisited.

3. Philippe Bertrand (University of Paris I): The prudent man and the origins of the Wealth of Nations.

4. Gianni Vaggi (University of Pavia): Adam Smith and the economic policy of laissez-faire.

Discussants:
1. A. Dow (Glasgow Caledonian University)
2. Philippe Fontaine (University of Antilles-Guyane)
3. Rudi Verburg (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
4. Alec Gee (Dundee University)

Session A3: Causality, expectations and economic methodology

Chair: Arjo Klamer (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

1. Robin Rowley (McGill University, Montreal): From causal corrective to calibration: perspectives on mymic cycles in macroeconomics.
2. Esther-Mirjam Sent (University of Notre Dame): Convenience: the mother of all rationality in Sargent.
3. Christian Schmidt (University of Paris-Dauphine): The origins of players' expectations in game theory.
4. Uskali Maki (Erasmus University Rotterdam): The problem of social Coase: between regulation and free market in economic methodology.

Discussants:
1. Albert Jolink (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
2. Claudio Sardoni (University of Rome)
3. Neri Salvadori (University of Pisa)
4. Wade Hands (University of Puget Sound)

Session A4: Competition, equilibrium and dynamics

Chair: Pascal Bridel (University of Lausanne)

1. Frank Sosth‚ (University of Nice): The Malthusian foundations of evolutionary economics.
2. Lars Herlitz (University of Goteborg): Knut Wicksell and Gustav Cassel on the efficiency of "free competition".
3. Christien Gehrke (University of Graz): On the transition from long-period to short-period equilibria.
4. Carlo Zappia (University of Siena): General equilibrium over time: some lessons from the 1930s.

Discussants:
1. Sergio Cremaschi (University of Turin)
2. Mauro Boianovsky (ST. Edmund's College, Cambridge)
3. Gary Mongiovi (St. John's University)
4. Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame)

Session A5: Internationalization of economics in post-1945 Europe
Roundtable. Chair and introduction : A.W. (Bob) Coats

1. A.W. (Bob) Coats (University of Nottingham): Internationalization of economics in post-1945 Europe.
2. Henk W. Plasmeijer and Evert Schoorl (University of Groningen): Post-war Dutch economics: internationalization and homogenization.
3. Michalis Psalidopoulos (Panteion University, Athens): The internationalization of post-war economics: Greece.
4. Bo Sandelin and Ann Veiderpass (University of Goteborg): The post-1945 internationalization of economics: Sweden.

12:30 am
Lunch break

2:30-4:00 pm
Sessions B1 to B5

Session B1: Adam Smith and the institutional context

Chair: Gilbert Faccarello (ENS Fontenay Saint Cloud)

1. Salim Rashid (University of Illinois): Adam Smith's rise to superior fame.
2. Anne Devichi (University of Nice): An economic interpretation of Adam Smith's concept of 'nation'.
3. Alec Gee (Dundee University): Modes of thought in economics: the retreat from the classical approach to the pre-classical.

Discussants:
1. Gianni Vaggi (University of Pavia)
2. Fabio Masini (University of Florence)
3. Ricardo Faucci (University of Pisa)

Session B2: Utilitarianism and marginal utility theory

Chair: Ian Kerr (Curtin University of Technology, Perth)

1. Bert Mosselmans (University of Brussels): Mimesis and scarcity in the rise of neoclassical political economy: Malthus's population mechanism, Jevons's coal question and the rise of marginality.
2. Alessandro Roncaglia (University of Rome): From utilitarianism to marginal utility.
3. Fabio Ranchetti (University of Pisa): The economical and the utilitarian calculus in Edgeworth.

Discussants:
1. Margaret Schabas (York University, Toronto)
2. Richard Sturn (University of Graz)
3. Victoriano Mart¡n (European University of Madrid)

Session B3: Austrian economics

Chair: Gilles Dostaler (University of Qu‚bec at Montr‚al)

1. Maurice Lagueux (University of Qu‚bec at Montreal): Von Mises' apriorism and Austrian economics: from Menger to Mises.
2. Riccardo Bellofiore (University of Bergamo): Between Wicksell and Hayek: a new look at Mises's "Theory of Money and Credit".
3. Brian J. Loasby (University of Sterling): Ludwig M. Lachmann: subjectivism in economics and the economy.

Discussants:
1. Andrea Salanti (University of Bergamo)
2. Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (University of Rome, La Sapienza)
3. Laurence Moss (Babson College, Boston)

Session B4: Value and social valuation in economics

Chair: Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame)

1. Wilfred Dolfsma (Erasmus University Rotterdam): The social construction of value. Value theories and John Loche's framework of qualities
2. Arjo Klamer (Erasmus University Rotterdam): In search of identity: economics and values.
3. S. Drakopoulos (University of Aberdeen): Origins and development of the trend towards value-free economics.

Discussants:
1. Pier Luigi Porta (University of Milan)
2. Avi Cohen (York University, Toronto)
3. Ian Steedman (Manchester Metropolitan University)

Session B5: Internationalization of economics in Europe
Roundtable. Chairman and introduction: A.W. (Bob) Coats

1. Salvador Almenar (University of Valencia): The internationalization process of economics: the case of Spain (1930-1970).
2. Carlos Bastien (Technical University of Lisbon): The advent of modern economics in Portugal.
3. Arnold Wilts (University of Amsterdam): Dutch economics in a comprehensive Welfare State, ca. 1930-1960

4:00 pm
Coffee break

4:30-6:00 pm
Sessions C1 to C5

Session C1: Agriculture and political economy

Chair: Philippe Steiner (University of Paris-Dauphine)

1. Marianne Fischman (University of Lille I): The essential role of agriculture in Quesnay and Smith's economic representations of society.
2. Janina Rosicka (Jagiellonian University, Cracow): Myth and Science. François Quesnay.
3. Lluis Argemj (University of Barcelona): Thaer and Von Thunen: from agronomy to political economy.

Discussants:
1. Cosimo Perrota (University of Lecce)
2. Paul Trescott (Southern Illinois University)
3. Antoinette M. James (Randolph-Macon Woman's College)

Session C2: Keynesian topics

Chair: David Colander (Middlebury College)

1. Claudio Sardoni (University of Rome): Wages and employment: a Keynesian model
2. Hugo A. Keuzenkamp (Tilburg University and London School of Economics): Keynes and the logic of econometric method
3. John Presley (Loughborough University), Paul Mizen (University of Nottingham) and Ivo Maes (University of Leuven): Did Keynes' General Theory hinder the development of modern portfolio theory?

Discussants:
1. Harald Scherf (University of Hamburg)
2. Peter Rosner (Vienna University)
3. Pierre Levy (University of Paris-Dauphine)

Session C3: Business cycles I
Chair: Lars Herlitz (University of Goteborg)

1. Mauro Boianovsky (ST. Edmund's College, Cambridge): Cassel on cyclical growth.
2. Ulrich Witt (University of Freiburg): The Hayekian Puzzle: spontaneous order and the business cycle.
3. Jan Reijnders (Utrecht University): Early endogenous theories of the business cycle: Tugan Baranowsky and his influence on Spiethoff, Schumpeter and Cassel.
Discussants:
1. Vicent Barnett (Birmingham University)
2. Hansjorg Klausinger (Vienna University)
3. Alain Raybaut (University of Nice)

Session C4: Economics, language and rhetoric

Chair: Mark Blaug (University of Exeter)

1. Sergio Cremaschi and Marcelo Dascal (University of Turin): A cycle in the Malthus-Ricardo controversy: a pragmatic analysis of the corn laws discussion.
2. Alan W. Dyer (Northeastern University, Boston): Thorstein Veblen, Stanley Cavell and ordinary language economics.
3. Catherine Labio (ICHEC, Brussels): Literature and economics: rethinking interdisciplinary history.

Discussants:
1. Mary Morgan (London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam)
2. Arjo Klamer (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
3. Robert Leonard (University of Quebec at Montreal)

Session C5: Heterodoxy and social issues in economic theory

Chair: Ernest Lluch (University of Barcelona)

1. Jean-Jacques Gislain (University of Nantes): Sismondi's conversion.
2. Harro Maas (University of Amsterdam): The depoliticization of political economy: Jevons and the Fabian Society.
3. Annie L. Cot (University of Lille): Richard T. Ely and the invention of labour economics in the American 'gilded age'.

Discussants:
1. John Vint (Manchester Metropolitan University)
2. Alessandro Roncaglia (University of Rome)
3. A.W. (Bob) Coats (University of Nottingham)

8:30 pm
Conference Dinner and Fado at Castelo de S. Jorge
Bus departure from Hotel Amazónia at 7:30

9:00-10:30 am
Sessions D1 to D5

Session D1: Value and classical economics

Chair: Heinz D. Kurz (University of Graz)

1. Cosimo Perrotta (University of Lecce): Productive consumption, unproductive consumption and accumulation in the classical economists.
2. Gérard Jorland (EHESS-CNRS, Paris): Value theories and the aggregation problem.
3. Ian A. Kerr (Curtin University of Technology, Perth): The linkages between real value and economic welfare: from classical to neoclassical economics.

Discussants:
1. Henk Plasmeijer (University of Groningen)
2. Gabriele Kasten (University of Hamburg)
3. Maurice Lagueux (University of Quebec at Monreal)

Session D2: Economic modelling

Chair: Carlo Zappia (University of Siena)

1. Mary Morgan (London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam): Irving Fisher's models of money.
2. Geert Reuten (University of Amsterdam): Economic models and Marx's 1885 reproduction model.
3. Teodoro Togati (University of Turin): On the side of the representative agent.

Discussants:
1. Pascal Bridel (University of Lausanne)
2. Christien Gehrke (University of Graz)
3. John Presley (Loughborough University)

Session D3: Business cycles II

Chair: Richard Arena (University of Nice)

1. Cécile Dangel and Alain Raybaut (University of Nice): Albert Aftalion's theory of endogenous business cycles: an early contribution to macrodynamics
2. Giovanni Pavanelli (University of Turin): Non-neutrality of money and business cycles in Irving Fisher's work.
3. Mauro Gallegati (University of Pescara) and Domenica Tropeano (University of Macerata): Lundberg on business cycles.

Discussants:
1. Christian Schmidt (University of Paris-Dauphine)
2. Robin Rowley (McGill University, Montreal)
3. Jan Reijnders (Utrecht University)

Session D4: Walrasian themes

Chair: Kunio Nakakubo (Himeji-Dokkyo University)

1. Albert Jolink (Erasmus University Rotterdam): What's so romantic about Leon Walras?
2. Jean-Pierre Potier (University Lumière-Lyon 2): Léon Walras "applied economist": "free competition" principle and State intervention.
3. M. Eugénia Mata (New University of Lisbon): A false start of neoclassical economics in Portugal: the work of Ant¢nio Horta Os¢rio.

Discussant:
1. Roberto Baranzini (University of Lausanne)
2. Fabio Ranchetti (University of Pisa)
3. Salvador Almenar (University of Valencia)

Session D5: Internationalization of economics outside Europe

Chair: Peter Groenewegen (University of Sydney)

1. Yassine Essid (Tunisia): Arab-muslim economic thought and the development decades.
2. Paul B. Trescott (Southern Illinois University): How Keynesian economics came to China.
3. Aiko Ikeo (Kokugakuin University): The development of Keynesian-type economics in Japan.

Discussant:
1. Ernest Lluch (University of Barcelona)
2. Carlos Bastien (Technical University of Lisbon)
3. Michalis Psalidopoulos (Panteion University, Athens)

10:30 am
Coffee break

11:00-12:30 am
Sessions E1 to E5

Session E1: Adam Smith, the Scottish tradition and further

Chair: Antoin Murphy (Trinity College, Dublin)

1. A. Dow (Glasgow Caledonian University), S.C. Dow (University of Sterling), A. Hutton and M. Keaney (Glasgow Caledonian University): Traditions in economics: the case of Scottish political economy.
2. Daniel Diatkine and Janine Jacquet (University of Evry): Smith, Ferguson and the social classes.
3. Jochen Schumann (University of Munster): Heinrich von Storch's theory of "inner goods" as determinants of a nation's civilization.

Discussants:
1. Amos Witzum (London Guildhall University)
2. Francesco Luna (University of Venice)
3. António Almodovar (University of Oporto)

Session E2: Trade and international economics

Chair: Carlos Rodriguez Braun (Complutense University, Madrid)

1. Rainer Klump (University of Wuerzburg): Port, stockings, gold and the Ricardo paradox: Anglo-Portuguese trade and the emergence of international trade theory.
2. Pier Luigi Porta (University of Milan) and Roberto Scazzieri (University of Bologna): Beyond the nation-state. International civil society and the formation of wealth
3. Fabio Masini (University of Florence): Market and institutions: the case of international economics.

Discussants:
1. Fátima Brandão (University of Oporto)
2. Salim Rashid (University of Illinois)
3. Anne Devichi (University of Nice)

Session E3: Classical economics: interpretations and dissent

Chair: John Vint (Manchester Metropolitan University)

1. André Tiran (University Lumière-Lyon 2): Say's law and Ricardo.
2. Ricardo Faucci (University of Pisa): Hegel, Marx and classical economics: some interpretative issues.
3. Heinz D. Kurz (University of Graz):Johann Heinrich von Thunen on production and distribution.

Discussants:
1. Evert Schoorl (University of Groningen)
2. Geert Reuten (University of Amsterdam)
3. W. Van den Panhuysen (Free University of Brussels)

Session E4: Neoclassical economics and policy issues

Chair: Albert Jolink (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

1. Pierre Levy (University of Paris-Dauphine): The early history of the Philips curve reexamined.
2. Avi J. Cohen (York University, Toronto): Frank Knight's position on capital and interest: foundation of the Knight/Hayek/Kaldor debate.
3. Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame) and Wade Hands (University of Puget Sound): Harold Hotelling and the neoclassical dream.

Discussants:
1. Warren Young (Bar-Ilan University)
2. Gilles Dostaler (University of Quebec at Montreal)
3. Annie Cot (University of Lille)

Session E5: Hayek and Austrian economics

Chair: Laurence Moss (Babson College, Boston)

1. Zbigniew Hockuba (Warsaw University): Order and chaos in the economy: the Hayekian viewpoint on economic transformation.
2. Carime Ayati (University of Grenoble): Macro foundations of Hayek's economic thought
3. Peter-Wim Zuidhof (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Morgenstern and Hayek. Who is on the road to nowhere?

Discussants:
1. Ricardo Bellofiori (University of Bergamo)
2. Ulrich Witt (University of Freiburg)
3. Ingrid Rima (Temple University, Philadelphia)

12:30 am
Lunch break

2:30-4:00 pm
Sessions F1 to F5

Session F1: Pre-classical economics in continental Europe

Chair: Gianni Vaggi (University of Pavia)

1. Philippe Steiner (University of Paris-Dauphine): When science meets economy: a note on the French eighteenth century case.
2. Arild Saether (Agder University College, Kristiansand): The emergence of economics as a science in Denmark-Norway.
3. Paola Faggi (University of Florence): Pietro Verri and European economic thought in the eighteenth century.
4. Ernest Lluch (University of Barcelona): Cameralism outside the German world.

Discussants:
1. Luis Argem¡ (University of Barcelona)
2. Bo Sandelin (University of Goteborg)
3. Gilbert Faccarello (ENS Fontenay Saint-Cloud)
4. Lars Herlitz (University of Goteborg)

Session F2: Growth theories and economic progress

Chair: Harald Scherf (University of Hamburg)

1. Antoinette M. James (Randolph-Macon Woman's College) and Bruce T. Elmslie (University of New Hampshire): The convergence debate from the perspective of a lesser developed country: the German Historical School in the 1800s.
2. Bertram Schefold (University Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Frankfurt): The German Historical School and the belief in ethical progress.
3. Mario Pomini (University of Padua) and Andrea Salanti (University of Bergamo): Why do some theories emerge so late? The case of endogenous growth.
4. Neri Salvadori (University of Pisa): The classical growth theory in relation to the recent literature on endogenous growth.

Discussants:
1. Rainer Klump (University of Wuerzburg)
2. S. Drakopoulos (University of Aberdeen)
3. Heinz D. Kurz (University of Graz)
4. Bert Mosselmans (University of Brussels)

Session F3: Monetary theories and experiences

Chair: Michalis Psalidopoulos (Panteion University, Athens)

1. Pascal Bridel (University of Lausanne): Pareto, money and monetary theory.
2. Harald Hagemann (Hohenheim University, Stuttgart): Nicholas Johannsen on money and credit, the saving-investment process and the multiplier.
3. Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (University of Rome, La Sapienza): The demise of the quantity theory. The evolution of the alternative approach to monetary theory.
4. Manuel Farto and Ant¢nio Mendon‡a (Technical University of Lisbon): The Portuguese economic thought and the adoption of the gold standard in Portugal.

Discussants:
1. Mark Blaug (University of Exeter)
2. Domenica Tropeano (University of Macerata)
3. Sylvie Diatkine (University of Evry)
4. Annalisa Rosselli (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)

Session F4: Keynes's vision and formation

Chair: M. Jacinto Nunes (Technical University of Lisbon)

1. Peter Rosner (Vienna University): Can we consider the Keynesian revolution a scientific progress?
2. Gilles Dostaler (University of Qu‚bec at Montr‚al): The formation of Keynes's vision.
3. Tizziano Raffaelli (University of Pisa): Keynes's apprenticeship with Marshall in 1905.
4. Richard Arena and Stéphane Ngo Mai (University of Nice): Post-classical and pre-Keynesian features in John Hobson's contribution to economics.

Discussants:
1. David Colander (Middlebury College)
2. Athol Fitzgibbons (Griffith University)
3. Harry Landreth (Centre College, Lancaster)
4. Alan Dyer (Northeastern University, Boston)

Session F5: Economic psychology and experiment

Chair: Mary Morgan (London School of Economics and University of Amsterdam)

1. Philippe Fontaine (University of Antilles-Guyane): The changing place of empathy in economics.
2. Margaret Schabas (York University, Toronto): A fleeting fancy for psychology? Victorian economics and the science of the mind.
3. Stéphane Aymard (University of Montpellier): Experimental methods in economics - history, development and critics.
4. Robert Leonard (University of Quebec at Montreal): Time, psychology and equilibrium in interwar Vienna.

Discussants:
1. Robert Hébert (Auburn University)
2. Harro Maas (University of Amsterdam)
3. Francisco Louçã (Technical University of Lisbon)
4. Uskali Maki (Erasmus University Rotterdam)

4:30 pm
Coffee break

5:00-6:30 pm
Sessions G1 to G5

Session G1: Economic theory and policy in Adam Smith

Chair: Philippe Fontaine (University of Antilles-Guyane)

1. Bruno Miconi (University of Siena): Galiani, Smith and further. The problem of the measure of "real value" in Chapter V of the Wealth of Nations.
2. Nerio Naldi (University of Rome): Labour embodied and labour commanded in the Wealth of Nations.
3. Rudi Verburg (Erasmus University Rotterdam): Adam Smith on distributive justice.

Discussants:
1. Ian Kerr (Curtin University of Technology, Perth)
2. Philippe Bertrand (University of Paris I)
3. Carlos Rodriguez Braun (Complutense University, Madrid)

Session G2: Marshall, Keynes and the formation of the canon

Chair: Margaret Schabas (York University, Toronto)

1. Ingrid Rima (Temple University, Philadelphia): From political economy to instrumentalism.
2. António Almodovar and Fátima Brandão (University of Oporto): Economics and economists in the making: the role of Alfred Marshall.
3. David Colander (Middlebury College) and Harry Landreth (Centre College, Lancaster): Political influence on the textbook Keynesian revolution: God, man and Laurie Tarshis at Yale.

Discussants:
1. Tizziano Raffaelli (University of Pisa)
2. Peter Groenewegen (University of Sydney)
3. Richard Arena (University of Nice)

Session G3: Schumpeter in context

Chair: Robert Hébert (Auburn University)

1. Laurence S. Moss (Babson College, Boston): Schumpeter and the scientific study of the market process.
2. Eric Nasica (University of Nice): Money, finance and production in Schumpeter and Keynes: from analogies to complementarity.
3. Hansjorg Klausinger (Vienna University): Schumpeter, Hayek and monetarism: three views of the great depression.

Discussants:
1. Brian Loasby (University of Sterling)
2. Nuno Valério (Technical University of Lisbon)
3. Carlo Zappia (University of Siena)

Session G4: Economic theory and policies

Chair: Robert Leonard (University of Quebec at Montreal)

1. Warren Young (Bar-Ilan University): The early costing of atomic energy in the US and UK: 1946-1953.
2. Adrienne van den Bogaard (University of Amsterdam): Planning in France and Norway (1930-1955).

Discussants:
1. Esther-Mirjam Sent (University of Notre Dame)
2. Arild Saether (Agder University College, Kristiansand)

Session G5: Ancient and scholastic economic thought

Chair: Marjorie Grice-Hutchison (University of Malaga)

1. Anastassios Karayannis (University of Piraeus): Economic ideas of ancient Greek sophists and orators.
2. Toon Van Houdt (University of Leuven): Leonard Lessius on taxation and justice: an underestimated chapter in the history of late scholastic economic thought.

Discussants:
1. Bertram Schefold (University J.W. Goethe, Frankfurt)
2. André Lapidus (University of Paris I)