Past Conferences

2020 HOPE Conference: "Statistical Inference in Twentieth-Century Economics"

Conference

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Session 1: 11:00 – 12:00 Jeff Biddle (Michigan State University) – Statistical Inference in Economics in the 1920s and 1930s: The Crop and Livestock Forecasts of the US. Department of Agriculture

Session 2: 12:15 – 13:15 Amanar Akhabbar (École supérieure des sciences commerciales d'Angers [ESSCA]) – Some Statistical Studies at the Harvard Economic Research Project (HERP)

Break: 13:15 – 14:00

Session 3: 14:00 – 15:00 Paul Burnett (University of California, Berkeley) – The Chicago Agriculture Group and Their Use of Statistics as a Cold-War Weapon

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"The Orderly Economists: Transatlantic Reformulations of Twentieth-Century Political Economy"

Conference

Saturday, January 11, 2020

Location: 113 Social Sciences

One-day conference organized by Stefan Kolev.

2018 HOPE Conference: "Economic Knowledge in Socialism"

Conference

Friday, April 6, 2018

Location: Duke University

ECONOMIC KNOWLEDGE IN SOCIALISMANNUAL CONFERENCE OF THE CENTER FOR THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, DUKE UNIVERSITY, APRIL 6-7, 2018 ORGANIZED BY TILL DÜPPE AND IVAN BOLDYREV

April 6 8:15-8:45 Coffee and light breakfast

8:45-9:00 Till Düppe and Ivan Boldyrev Commencement of Conference

9:00-10:00 György Peteri By Force of Power: On the Relationship between Social Science Knowledge and Political Power in Economics in Communist Hungary

10:00-11:00 Martha Lampland “From Each according to their Ability, to each according to their Need”: Calorie...

2017 HOPE Conference - "The Political Economy of Development Economics: A Historical Perspective"

Conference

Friday, April 28, 2017

Location: Sanford School of Public Policy

Organized by: Michele Alacevich, Columbia University, and Mauro Boianovsky, University of Brazilia

2016 HOPE Conference - "Becoming Applied: The Transformation of Economics after 1970"

Conference

Saturday, April 2, 2016

Location: Duke University

Organized by Roger E. Backhouse (University of Birmingham and University of Rotterdam) and Beatrice Cherrier (University of Caen)

2016 HOPE Conference: "Becoming Applied:

The Transformation of Economics after 1970," April 1-2, 2016

Welcome to the homepage of the 2016 HOPE conference, "Becoming Applied: The Transformation of Economics after 1970."

Organized by Roger E. Backhouse (University of Birmingham and University of Rotterdam) and Beatrice Cherrier (University of Caen), the conference will explore the...

1 Day Conference: "The Contributions of Businesspersons to Economics"

Conference

Friday, November 13, 2015

Location: Duke University

Organized by: Robert Van Horn (University of Rhode Island) and Edward Nik-Khah (Roanoke College)

2015 HOPE Conference -“Psychology and Economics: The Early History”

Conference

Friday, April 24, 2015

Organized by: Marina Bianchi, University of Cassino, and Neil De Marchi, Duke University

2014 HOPE Conference: Market Failure in Context

Conference

Friday, April 18, 2014

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

Program

Digital History of Economics Collections: Potential and Challenges

Conference

Saturday, February 8, 2014

9:30am

Location: Perkins 118

One Day Conference

Organizer: Matthias Klaes, University of Dundee

2013 HOPE Conference: MIT and the Transformation of American Economics

Conference

Friday, April 26, 2013

Location: Duke University

Event Type Conference Friday, April 26, 2013, to Sunday, April 29, 2013

Organizer and Volume Editor E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University

Volume DetailsMIT 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)...