Economists from 1780 to 1980: Observing and configuring the economy
10.55-11.30
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Clara Mattei, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa
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Austerity and Repressive Politics: Italian Economists in the Early Years of the Fascist Government.
11:30 - 12:05
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Gerardo Serra, University of Sussex
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Red Pilgrimages: The Tale of Three Cambridge Economists Observing First-Hand Communist 'Experiments',1920s-1960s
12:05 - 12:55
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Martha Lampland, University of California, San Diego
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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
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Maxine Montaigne, LSE
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Malthusian ideas and ideals in the British media of the 1830s and 40s
14:55 - 15:30
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John Gent, LSE
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The British Restriction of 1797: The ancestral anatomy of monetary expansion and contraction
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 - 16:35
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Tobias Vogelgsang, LSE
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Setting up Germany's recovery after 1945: OMGUS and the production and dissemination of economic facts
16:35 - 17:10
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Theodora Dryer, University of California,San Diego
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Rationalising American subsistence: Visions of econo-mathematical governance and the search for optimum,1923-1953
17:10 - 18:00
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E. Roy Weintraub, Duke University
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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.
Convenors: