2014 HOPE Conference: Market Failure in Context

Thursday, April 17, 2014 to Saturday, April 19, 2014

Organized by:
Alain Marciano, Université de Montpellier I, and Steven Medema, University of Colorado – Denver

Thursday, April 17

7:00-9:00 pm: Informal gathering, Bull Durham Bar, Washington Duke Inn

 

Friday, April 18

9:30-9:45: Welcome, Alain Marciano (University of Montpellier 1) and Steve Medema (University of Colorado Denver)

9:45-10:45: Tim Leonard (Princeton University), "Market Failure and the Progressive Era Origins of the Economist as Expert"

10:45-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-12:00 Nahid Aslanbeigui (Monmouth University) and Guy Oakes (Monmouth University), "The British Tariff Reform Controversy and the Genesis of Welfare Economics, 1903-1912"

12:00-1:30: Lunch (Rhodes Conference Room)

1:30-2:30: Roger E. Backhouse (University of Birmingham), "Economic Power and the Financial Machine: Competing Conceptions of Market Failure in the Great Depression"

2:30-2:45: Coffee break

2:45-3:45: Bradley W. Bateman (Randolph College), "Analyzing Market Failure: Adam Smith and John Maynard Keynes"

3:45-4:00: Coffee break

4:00-5:00 Malcolm Rutherford (University of Victoria), "Market Deficiencies: The Institutionalist Analysis"

5:00-5:15: Closing remarks, Day 1, Alain Marciano (University of Montpellier 1) and Steve Medema (University of Colorado Denver)

7:00: Dinner, Duke University Room, Washington Duke Inn (for HOPE faculty and conference-paper presenters only)

 

Saturday, April 19

9:30-9:45: Opening remarks, Alain Marciano (University of Montpellier 1) and Steve Medema (University of Colorado Denver)

9:45-10:45: Sebastian Berger (University of West England), "K. Wm. Kapp's Social Theory of Social Costs as the Negation of Neoliberalism"

10:45-11:00: Coffee break

11:00-12:00: Marianne Johson (University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh), "Public Goods, Market Failure, and Voluntary Exchange"

12:00-1:30: Lunch (Rhodes Conference Room)

1:30-2:30: J. Daniel Hammond (Wake Forest University), "Paul Samuelson as Social Physician: A History of Therapeutic Nihilism"

2:30-2:45: Coffee break

2:45-3:45: John D. Singleton (Duke University), "Sorting Charles Tiebout: The Construction and Stabilization of Postwar Public Good Theory"

3:45-4:00: Coffee break

4:00-5:00: David Colander (Middlebury College), "Framing the Economic Policy Debate"

5:00-5:15: Closing remarks, Day 2, Alain Marciano (University of Montpellier 1) and Steve Medema (University of Colorado Denver)

6:45: Taxi pick-up for dinner, in front of Washington Duke Inn

7:00: Dinner, Piedmont, 401 Foster Street, Durham, NC (for HOPE faculty and conference-paper presenters only)

[end of conference]