2012 HOPE Conference

The 2012 HOPE Conference took place on April 13 and 14 at the Rhodes Conference Room on Duke's West Campus. The topic of this year's conference was the economist as public intellectual. The presenters and paper titles were as follows:

  • Roger E. Backhouse and Bradley W. Bateman, "Inside-Out: Keynes's Use of the Public Sphere"
  • Peter Boettke, "The Public Intellectual as Economist: The Case of Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993)"
  • Angus Burgin, "The Reluctant Public Life of Friedrich Hayek"
  • Robert W. Dimand, "'Perhaps I'm a Don Quixote but I'm Trying to Be a Paul Revere': Irving Fisher as Public Intellectual"
  • Gil Eyal, "Economic Expertise and the Public Sphere: From a History of Intellectuals to a History of Interventions"
  • Jean-Baptiste Fleury and Alain Marciano, "Becker and Posner: Public Intellectualship and the Freedom of Preaching"
  • Christopher Godden, "Economists and the Public: British Economists as Public Intellectuals, 1919-1939"
  • Craufurd Goodwin, "The Making of a Public Economist: Walter Lippmann (1889-1974) in Peace and War"
  • Sue Howson, "The Economist as Public Intellectual: Lionel Robbins"
  • Rob Roy McGregor and Warren Young, "Federal Reserve Bank Presidents as Public Intellectuals"
  • Philip Mirowski and Edward Nik-Khah, "Private Intellectuals and Public Perplexity: The Economics Profession and the Economic Crisis"

The conference was organized by Tiago Mata (University of Cambridge) and Steven G. Medema (University of Colorado Denver). A selection of the papers will appear in a supplemental issue to the 2013 volume of HOPE.