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HPPE Summer Workshop 2015

Economists from 1780 to 1980: Observing and configuring the economy

10.55-11.30

  • Clara Mattei, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa
  • Austerity and Repressive Politics: Italian Economists in the Early Years of the Fascist Government.

11:30 - 12:05 

  • Gerardo Serra, University of Sussex
  • Red Pilgrimages: The Tale of Three Cambridge Economists Observing First-Hand Communist  'Experiments',1920s-1960s

12:05 - 12:55 

  • Martha Lampland, University of California, San Diego
  • The Science of Commodifying Labor: Work Science and the Transition to Socialism  in Hungary,1920-1956

12:55 - 14:20 Lunch break 

14:20 - 14:55 

  • Maxine  Montaigne, LSE
  • Malthusian ideas and ideals in the British media of the 1830s and 40s

14:55 - 15:30 

  • John Gent, LSE
  • The British  Restriction of 1797: The ancestral anatomy of monetary expansion and contraction

15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break 

16:00 - 16:35 

  • Tobias Vogelgsang, LSE
  • Setting  up Germany's  recovery after 1945: OMGUS and the production and dissemination of economic  facts

16:35 - 17:10 

  • Theodora Dryer, University of California,San Diego
  • Rationalising American subsistence: Visions of econo-mathematical governance and the search for optimum,1923-1953

17:10 - 18:00

  • E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University
  • McCarthyism and the Mathematisation of Economics

The workshop takes place at LSE, in 32 Lincoln's  Inn Fields, room B07.

Please register your interest with one of the convenors. Walk-ins are welcome though, also if you would like to attend just particular talks or sessions.

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