2017 HOPE Conference: Program

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]