The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University is pleased to announce our 2014-15 fellows.
Kyle Bruce, Macquarie University. Kyle will be working on the unexplored origins of proto-Keynesian demand management in the writings of the US scientific management movement. Most recently, he is the author of the entry on George Elton Mayo In The Oxford Handbook of Management Theorists (Oxford University Press, 2013) and, with C. Nyland and P. Burns, a forthcoming article titled "Taylorism, the International Labour Organization, and the Diffusion of Codetermination," which will appear in Organization Studies.
Hsiang-Ke Chao, National Tsing Hua University. A contributor to the 2011 HOPE special issue, Histories on Econometrics, Hsiang-Ke is on a Fulbright Fellowship this year. His work at the Center will investigate the analytical role of diagrammatic models in the history of economics. He is the author of Representation and Structure in Economics: The Methodology of Econometric Models of the Consumption Function (Routledge, 2009) and editor, along with Szu-Ting Chen and Roberta L. Millstein, of Mechanism and Causality in Biology and Economics (Springer, 2013).
Federico D'Onofrio, Utrecht University. Federico's work at the Center will involve a project on the rediscovery of peasant-friendly agricultural policies by the New Institutionalists. He spent 2013-14 at Yale University on a Rubicon grant awarded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research.
Adam Leeds, University of Pennsylvania. Adam is a PhD student in anthropology, studying economic knowledge production in Moscow. During his fellowship at the HOPE Center he will complete chapters in his dissertation on the history of economics in the former Soviet Union and Russia. He attended two Summer Institutes at the Center.
Sylvère Mateos, Lyon University. A PhD student, Sylvère is investigating the origins of the human capital revolution.
Maria Pia Paganelli, Trinity University (Texas). A member of the advisory board of HOPE, Maria is a coeditor of The Oxford Handbook of Adam Smith (Oxford University Press, 2013). She will spend her fellowship writing a historiographical review of the recent literature on the Scottish Enlightenment.
Reinhard Schumacher, University of Potsdam. Reinhard is a PhD student and the 2013 recipient of the Mark Blaug Prize in Philosophy and Economics for his article "Adam Smith's Theory of Absolute Advantage and the Use of Doxography in the History of Economics," which was published in the autumn 2012 issue of the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics. He is working on a project exploring the writings and influence of Adam Smith.
George Tvalas, Bank of Greece. George's research has focused on international monetary policy, monetary union, and exchange rates. He currently serves as a member of the Monetary Policy Council at the Bank of Greece.