The Political Economy of Development Economics: A Historical Perspective
Duke University, Center for the History of Political Economy
April 28-29, 2017
Conveners: Michele Alacevich and Mauro Boianovsky
Conference venue: Rhodes Conference Room, room 223 of the Sanford School of Public Policy, 201 Science Drive, Duke University, Durham, NC
Conference schedule:
FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 2017
8:45-9:15am
Breakfast
9:15-9:30am
Michele Alacevich and Mauro Boianovsky
The history of development economics: introductory remarks
The Pre-History of Development Economics
9:30-10:15am
Stephen Meardon (Bowdoin College)
The political element in theories of American economic development, from the founding to the closing of the frontier
10:15-11:00am
Amitava Dutt (University of Notre Dame)
The poverty of development economics and Indian economic thought
11:00-11:30am
Coffee break
11:30am-12:15pm
Eric Helleiner (University of Waterloo)
Some origins of economic development thinking in the ‘periphery' before 1939: a comparison of Chinese and Latin American contributions
12:15-1:45pm
Lunch
The Postwar Rise of Development Economics
1:45-2:30pm
Michele Alacevich (University of Bologna and INET)
The birth of development economics: theories and institutions
2:30-3:15pm
Joseph Love (Illinois University)
CEPAL, industrialization and economic inequality in Latin America
3:15-3:45pm
Coffee break
3:45-5:00
Key-Note Speaker
Frances Stewart (University of Oxford)
Changing approaches to development since 1950 – drawing on Karl Polanyi
7:00pm
Dinner (Rotunda Room of the Washington Duke Inn)
SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 2017
8:45-9:15am
Breakfast
The Postwar Rise of Development Economics (continued)
9:15-10:00am
Mauro Boianovsky (University of Brasilia)
When the history of ideas meets theory: W. Arthur Lewis and the classical economists on development
The Role of Economic Experts
10:00-10:45am
Mary Morgan (LSE)
Measuring development
10:45-11:15am
Coffee break
11:15am-12:00pm
Moshe Syrquin (University of Miami)
Putting numbers in development economics: from Clark to Maddison and beyond
12:00-12:45pm
Robert Leonard (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Schumacher and the idea of intermediate technology
12:45-2:15pm
Lunch
2:15-3:00pm
Marcel Boumans (Utrecht University) and Neil De Marchi (Duke University)
Models, measurement and “normal” industrialization: Jan Tinbergen and development planning without theory
3:00-3:30pm
Coffee break
Development Economics in Turbulent Times: Crisis, Reassessment, and New Perspectives
3:30-4:15pm
Salim Rashid (Universiti Utari Malaysia)
From anxiety to hope: ‘economic development’ from the 1950s to the 1990s
4:15-5:00pm
Alisson Demeritt (University of Washington) and Karla Hoff (World Bank)
The making of behavioral development economics
5:00-5:30pm
All
Closing session
7:30pm
Dinner [TBD]
The following speakers cannot attend the conference, but their papers will be circulated and will be part of the discussion
Keith Tribe (Independent Scholar)
The Colonial Office, economic development and early development economics
[Pre-History of Development Economics section]
Nils Gilman (UC Berkeley)
The discreet charm of W. W. Rostow; or, why modernization theory never dies
[Post-war Rise of Development Economics section]
John Toye (University of Oxford) and Richard Toye (University of Exeter)
The counter-revolution in development economics
[Development Economics in Turbulent Times section]