Aiko Ikeo will present a paper titled "The Americans on Tanzan Ishibashi and His Keynesianism" at the annual conference of Japan's Society for Monetary Economics in Tokyo. The conference takes place in May 2012.
Matthieu Ballandonne receives Warren and Sylvia Samuels award, other honors
Matthieu Ballandonne, a student in the 2011 Summer Institute and a recent HOPE Center visitor, has received the Warren and Sylvia Samuels Young Scholars Award. The award provides funds to attend and present a paper at the next History of Economics Society meeting.
New publications by HOPE Center Fellows and Visitors
An interview with Gary Becker conducted by Catherine Herfeld will be published in a forthcoming issue of the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics. Catherine will be a Research Fellow of the Center in 2012–13.
Kevin D. Hoover to be keynote speaker at the XIV Colloque de l’Association Charles Gide
Kevin D. Hoover, the editor of History of Political Economy, will be the keynote speaker at the fourteenth Colloque de l'Association Charles Gide pour l'étude de la pensée économique.
New book by Pierre Desrochers looks at the economics of our food supply
"Eat local" may be all the rage in some circles, but a new book by Pierre Desrochers, a 2009-10 Fellow of the HOPE Center, questions the wisdom and viability of the local-food movement.
Carol M. Connell to publish book on Machlup and the Bellagio Group
Carol M. Connell, who presented a paper in March 2011 to the Center on Fritz Machlup and the Bellagio Group conference, has a book on the subject scheduled to appear in January 2013.
Stefan Kolev, 2010-11 Visitor, appointed Full Professor
Stefan Kolev, a 2010-11 HOPE Center Visiting Scholar, was appointed to become Full Professor of Economics and Economic Policy at the University of Applied Sciences Zwickau in Saxony, Germany, beginning in March 2012.
Samuli Leppala, a 2010-11 Visitor, Joins Cardiff Business School
Samuli Leppälä, a 2010-11 Visitor of the HOPE Center, has accepted a position with Cardiff Business School as a lecturer in economics. He will join the faculty there in August. Samuli recently completed his PhD at the Turku School of Economics in Turku, Finland.
Two Center Fellows and a participant in the 2011 HOPE conference have produced an edited volume of essays on the economics department at the University of Chicago.
Former HOPE Center Fellow publishes book on neoliberalism in Britain
Chris Payne, who spent 2009-10 as a Fellow of the HOPE Center, has published The Consumer, Credit, and Neoliberalism: Governing the Modern Economy (Routledge, 2011).
