Program, “MIT and the Transformation of American Economics”, 2013 HOPE Conference
All sessions are in the GlaxoWellcome Classroom, R. David Thomas Center, Duke University
Friday April 26
8:45AM-9:00AM -- Welcome and Introduction
9:00AM-10:30AM -- Session 1: Framing
Beatrice Cherrier: “A Concise History of Economics at MIT, 1940-1972”
Roger Backhouse: “Paul A. Samuelson’s Move to MIT”
10:30-11:00AM BREAK
11:00AM-12:30PM -- Session 2: Networks
Andrej Svorencik: “Towards a Prosopography of the MIT Economics Department”
Pedro Duarte: "MIT Graduate Networks: the early years"
12:30-PM-2:00PM Lunch in Thomas Center dining room
2:00PM-3:30PM -- Session 3: Pedagogy
Yann Giraud: "The Political Economy of Textbook Writing: Paul Samuelson, MIT and the Making of Economics, 1945-1961"
Pedro Teixeira: “MIT Economists, Textbooks, and the Expansion of Economics’ Boundaries”
3:30-4:00PM BREAK
4:00PM-5:30PM -- Session 4: Distinctiveness I
Harro Maas: “Forging Correspondence: Samuelson and MIT as Truthspots”
Michael Weinstein: “From Tarshis to Samuelson: The Transformation of Economic Discourse”
7:30PM Dinner in Thomas Center dining room
Saturday April 27
9:00AM-10:30AM -- Session 5: Distinctiveness II
William (“Sandy”) Darity and Arden Keeger: “The Desegregation of an Elite Economics Department's Ph.D. Programs: Black Americans at MIT"
William Thomas: "Operations Research vis-à-vis Economics at MIT and at Large"
10:30AM-11:00AM BREAK
11:00AM-12:30PM -- Session 6: Macroeconomics
Perry Mehrling: "MIT and Money"
Mauro Boianovsky and Kevin Hoover: "MIT and the Rise of Growth Economics (1956-1970)"
12:30PM-2:00 PM Lunch in Thomas Center dining room
2:00-3:30PM -- Session 7: Capital and Growth
Roger Backhouse: "MIT and the other Cambridge"
Verena Halsmeyer: “‘Technical Economics’" and “‘Engineering in the Design Sense’" --
The Case of Solow's Growth Model"
3:30-4:00PM BREAK
4:00-5:30PM -- Session 8: Fields
Stephen Meardon: "On Kindleberger and Hegemony: From Berlin to M.I.T. and Back"
Peter Temin: “The Rise and Fall of Economic History at MIT”
7:30PM Dinner at Parizade – Transportation Arranged
Sunday April 29
10:00AM-11:30AM -- Session 9: MIT Historiography and Closing Discussion
E. Roy Weintraub: “Telling the Story of MIT in the 1940s”
12:00-1:30PM Lunch