HOPE 2019: Economics and Engineering: Institutions, Practices, and Cultures

HOPE 2019: Economics and Engineering: Institutions, Practices, and Cultures

Organized by Pedro Duarte and Yann Giraud

April 5

All sessions will be held in the Breedlove Conference Room, room 349 of the Perkins Library.

8:15-8:45 Coffee and light breakfast

 

8:45-9:00 Pedro Duarte and Yann Giraud, “Introductory remarks”

 

9:00-10:00 Thomas Stapleford “Engineering, Managerial Science, and American Economics, 1900 – 1940”

 

10:00-11:00 Judy Klein, “Shotgun Weddings in Control Engineering and Post-War Economics”

 

11:00-11:30 Coffee break

 

11:30-12:30 Amy Bix, “The Professional, Institutional, and Educational Association of Economics and Engineering in the United States, 1900-Present”

 

12:30-14:00: Lunch

 

14:00-15:00 Marcel Boumans, (on Skype) “Rationality, Information Processing and Filters”

 

15:00-16:00 William Thomas, “Best-Guess Engineering, Iterative Modeling, and the Nascent Economics of Information”

 

16:00-16:30 Coffee break

 

16:30-17:30 Béatrice Cherrier and Aurélien Saïdi “A Century of Economics and Engineering at Stanford”

 

19:00 Dinner at Parizade. If you are staying at the JB Duke, meet in front at 18:45 for transportation.

 

 

April 6

All sessions will be held in the Breedlove Conference Room, room 349 of the Perkins Library.

8:00-8:30 Coffee and light breakfast

 

8:30-9:30 Daniel Breslau, “The Political Efficiency of Pricing: Engineers and Economists in the Development of Electricity Markets”

 

9:30-10:30 Chung-Tang Cheng, “Guy H. Orcutt’s Road to DYNASIM: Using Microanalytic Simulation in 'Reengineering' the Society”

 

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

 

11:00-12:00 Guillaume Yon, “Shaping Behaviors, Planning Investment: The Engineers-Economists of Électricité de France and the Pricing of Electricity in Post-War France”

 

12:00-13:30 Lunch

 

13:30-14:30 Ivan Boldyrev, “On Speaking Prose: How Soviet Engineers Could Do Economics”

 

14:30-15:30 Till Düppe, “German Fears in Economic Engineering”

 

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

 

16:00-17:00 Mary Morgan “Comments”, followed by a roundtable discussion.

 

17:00-17:30 Yann Giraud & Pedro Duarte Closing Instructions from Conference Volume Editors.

 

19:00 Closing dinner in Meeting Room B of the JB Duke.