2025 HOPE Conference: The History of Economics Pedagogy
Organizers: Jason Brent (Duke), Jennifer Jhun (Duke), Steven Medema (Duke)
Friday, April 25
9:15–10:05 Nahid Aslanbeigui (Independent Scholar) & Guy Oakes (Monmouth University), “Cambridge 1938: The ‘Defection’ of Colin Clark, the Crisis of Confidence, and the Origins of the Department of Applied Economics”
10:30–11:20 Irwin (Bud) Collier (Freie Universität Berlin), “Running the Economics Ph.D. Gauntlet at Harvard: A Preliminary Look at the Survivors of 1939-42”
11:45–12:35 Jason Brent (Duke), “The AEA Goes to High School in the Age of Sputnik”
2:00–2:50 Jean-Baptiste Fleury (Sorbonne Université) & Yann Giraud (CY Cergy Paris Université), “Not Another Subfield Journal: The Origins and Early Years of the Journal of Economic Education”
3:15-4:05 Danielle Guizzo (University of Bristol), “Critical Economics in the UK: An Institutional History of Heterodox Economics Education (1960s–1990s)”
Saturday, April 26
9:00–9:50 Beatrice Cherrier (Ecole Polytechnique) & Aurélien Saïdi (ESCP Business School), “Pedagogy for Whom? The Case of the 3-Equation New Keynesian Model”
10:15–11:05 Samuel Bowles (Santa Fe Institute), Wendy Carlin (UCL), Simon D. Halliday (Johns Hopkins), Sahana Subramanyam (Stanford), “What Do We Think and Economist Should Know? A Machine Learning Investigation of Research and Intermediate-Level Textbooks”
11:30–12:20 François Courtoy (UCLouvain), Michel De Vroey (UCLouvain), & Riccardo Turati (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona), “What Do We Teach in Macroeconomics? Evidence of a Theoretical Discrepancy”
2:00–2:45 Gianfranco Tusset (Università di Padova), “Teaching Capitalism: The Role of Schools of Economic Thought”
3:15-4:05 Steven G. Medema (Duke), “How Textbooks Create Knowledge and Meaning: The Case of the Coase Theorem in Intermediate Microeconomics, 1960–1979”