Friday, April 26, 2013 to Sunday, April 28, 2013
Location: Duke University
Organizer and Volume Editor
E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University
Volume Details
MIT and the Transformation of American Economics. Annual supplement to volume 46, History of Political Economy. Durham, N.C., and London: Duke University Press, 2014.
Papers and Participants
Introduction: Telling the Story of MIT in the Postwar Period, pp. 1-12 (abstract)
E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University
Part 1. Beginnings
Toward a History of Economics at MIT, 1940-72, 15-44 (abstract)
Beatrice Cherrier, University of Caen
MIT's Openness to Jewish Economists, 45-59 (abstract)
E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University
Paul A. Samuelson's Move to MIT, pp. 60-77 (abstract)
Roger E. Backhouse, University of Birmingham
Part 2. Connections
The Early Years of the MIT Program in Industrial Economics, 81-108 (abstract)
Pedro Garcia Duarte, University of São Paulo
MIT's Rise to Prominence: Outline of a Collective Biography, 109-133 (abstract)
Andrej Svorencik, University of Mannheim
Negotiating the "Middle-of-the-Road" Position: Paul Samuelson, MIT, and the Politics of Textbook Writing, 1945-55, 134-152 (abstract)
Yann Giraud, University of Cergy-Pontoise
Serving the Institute and the Discipline: The Changing Profile of Economics at MIT as Viewed from Textbooks, 153-174 (abstract)
Pedro Teixeira, University of Porto
Part 3. Distinctiveness
MIT and Money, 177-197 (abstract)
Perry Mehrling, Barnard College
In the Kingdom of Solovia: The Rise of Growth Economics at MIT, 1956-70, 198-228 (abstract)
Mauro Boianovsky, University of Brasilia
Kevin D. Hoover, Duke University
From Explatory Modeling to Technical Expertise: Solow's Growth Model as a Multipurpose Design, 229-251 (abstract)
Verena Halsmayer, University of Vienna
MIT and the Other Cambridge, 252-271 (abstract)
Roger E. Backhouse, University of Birmingham
Making Things Technical: Samuelson at MIT, 272-294 (abstract)
Harro Maas, Utrecht University
Decisions and Dynamics: Postwar Theoretical Problems and the MIT Style of Economics, 295-314 (abstract)
William Thomas, History Associates (Rockville, Maryland)
Part 4. Inside MIT
The Desegregation of an Elite Economics Department's PhD Program: Black Americans at MIT, 317-336 (abstract)
William Darity Jr., Duke University
Arden Kreeger, Duke University
The Rise and Fall of Economic History at MIT, 337-350 (abstract)
Peter Temin, MIT
On Kindleberger and Hegemony: From Berlin to MIT and Back, 351-374 (abstract)
Stephen Meardon, Bowdoin College