Program
Duke NEH Summer Institute 2013
The History of Political Economy
June 2 – 21, 2013
Below you will find the schedule for the Duke Summer Institute. There are 2 sessions a day, Monday through Thursday, and one morning session on Friday. The morning session each day will run from 9:00-11:00am, and the afternoon sessions from 4:00-6:00pm.
The readings for each session may be found at the "Program and Readings" link directly below.
Sunday, June 2
2 – 6 p.m. Participants arrive and register at Central Campus Apartments
6:30 Welcome Barbecue, Center for the History of Political Economy, Social Science Suite 07
Monday June 3: Introductions
9:00-11:00am Session 1 – Introductions of Program and Participants – Caldwell
4:00-6:00pm Session 2 – Introduction to the History of Economics and its Narratives – Weintraub
Tuesday June 4: Mercantilism: Two Views
9:00-11:00am Sessions 3 – Caldwell and Wennerlind
4:00-6:00pm Sessions 4 – Caldwell and Wennerlind
Wednesday June 5: David Hume and Adam Smith, Political Economists
9:00-11:00am Session 5 – David Hume, Political Economist – Wennerlind
4:00-6:00pm Session 6 – Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations I – Caldwell
Thursday June 6: Adam Smith and David Hume, Moral and Social Philosophers
9:00-11:00am Session 7 – Smith and The Theory of Moral Sentiments – Hanley
4:00-6:00pm Session 8 – David Hume, Philosopher and Social Theorist – Hanley
Friday June 7: Adam Smith, Political Economist II
9:00-11:00am Session 9 – Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations II – Caldwell
Monday June 10: Marx, Engels, and Socialism
9:00-11:00am Session 10 – Introduction and Background on Hegel and Utopian Socialism – Caldwell
4:00-6:00pm Session 11– Marx on Value, Exploitation, and Transforming Values into Prices – Erten
Tuesday June 11: More on Marx
9:00-11:00am Session 12 – The Laws of Motion of the Capitalist System – Caldwell
4:00-6:00pm Session 13 – Extensions and Applications: Primitive Accumulation and Crisis Theory – Erten
Wednesday June 12: The Marginal Revolution and Its Detractors
9:00-11:00am Session 14 – Background to the Marginal Revolution – Caldwell
4:00-6:00pm Session 15 – The Austrian School and its Opponents – Caldwell
Thursday June 13: The Progressive Era and the American Institutionalists
9:00-11:00am Session 16 – The Progressive Movement and Economic Reform – Leonard
4:00-6:00pm Session 17 - American Institutionalism in the Interwar Period: An Overview – Rutherford
7pm Durham Bulls Baseball Game
Friday June 14: More on Institutionalism
9:00-11:00am Session 18 – American Institutionalism: Walton Hamilton and Creative Problem-Solving – Rutherford
Monday June 17: The Emergence of the Analysis of Market Failure
9:00-11:00am Session 19 – Medema
4:00-6:00pm Session 20 – Medema
Tuesday June 18: Keynes and Hayek: A First Look
9:00-11:00am Session 21 – Maynard the Man – Goodwin
4:00-6:00pm Session 22 – Hayek in the Interwar Years: Keynes, Socialism, and the Knowledge Problem – Caldwell
Wednesday June 19: Keynes and Coase
9:00-11:00am Session 23 – Keynes the Economist – Goodwin
4:00-6:00pm Session 24 – Market Failure Revisted: The Coase Theorem – Medema
Thursday June 20: Keynes and Hayek
9:00-11:00am Session 25 – Lord Keynes’ Policy Work – Goodwin
4:00-6:00pm Session 26 – The Abuse of Reason Project and The Road to Serfdom – Caldwell
7pm Closing Dinner at Tyler's Taproom
Friday June 21: Hayek’s Later Contributions
9:00-11:00am Session 27 – The Economy as a Complex Order – Caldwell
The final hour of Session 27 will be a Summer Institute Wrap-Up – no readings.