Friday, April 13, 2012 to Saturday, April 14, 2012
Organizers and Volume Editors
Tiago Mata, University of Cambridge
Steven G. Medema, University of Colorado Denver
Volume Details
The Economist as Public Intellectual. Annual supplement to volume 45, History of Political Economy. Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press.
Papers and Participants
Cultures of Expertise and the Public Interventions of Economists, pp. 1–19
Tiago Mata, University of Cambridge
Steven G. Medema, University of Colorado Denver
"Perhaps I'm a Don Quixote but I'm Trying to Be a Paul Revere": Irving Fisher as a Public Intellectual, pp. 20-37
Robert W. Dimand, Brock University
Observers, Commentators, and Persuaders: British Interwar Economists as Public Intellectuals, pp. 38-67
Chris Godden, University of Manchester
Inside Out: Keynes's Use of the Public Sphere, pp. 68-91
Roger E. Backhouse, University of Birmingham
Bradley W. Bateman, Randolph College
Walter Lippmann: The Making of a Public Economist, pp. 92-113
Craufurd Goodwin, Duke University
Lionel Robbins: Political Economist, pp. 114-136
Susan Howson
Henry Hazlitt as an Intellectual Middleman of "Orthodox Economics," pp. 137-165
Peter Boettke, George Mason University
Liya Palagashvili, George Mason University
Federal Reserve Bank Presidents as Public Intellectuals, pp. 166-190
Rob Roy McGregor, University of North Carolina-Charlotte
Warren Young, Bar Ilan University
Age of Certainty: Galbraith, Friedman, and the Public Life of Economic Ideas, pp. 191-219
Angus Burgin, Johns Hopkins University
Economic Indicators as Public Interventions, pp. 220-253
Gil Eyal, Columbia University
Moran Levy, Columbia University
Becker and Posner: Freedom of Speech and Public Intellectualship, pp. 254-278
Jean-Baptiste Fleury, University of Cergy-Pontoise
Alain Marciano, University of Montpellier 1
Private Intellectuals and Public Perplexity: The Economics Profession and the Economic Crisis, pp. 279-311
Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame
Edward Nik-Khah, Roanoke College