Transforming Homo Economicus (6th Workshop)

10:00–10:30 am Welcome (coffee, tea and biscuits)

10:30 -11:20 am Daniel Zamora Vargas: The Needs Mystique: Markets, Economics and Wants in the 20th Century

11:30 am -12:20 pm Wade Hands (University of Puget Sound): On the (non) History of Preference Purification in Modern Economics

12:20 – 2:00 pm: Lunch

2:00 – 2:50 pm Liping Wang (Peking University): An Integrative Center or Sprawling Marginalities? The History of the Committee on Human Development between 1940s and 1960s.

3:00 – 3:50 pm Stephen Turner (University of South Florida): Inventing “Social Thought”

4:10 – 5:00 pm Lucian M. Ashworth (Memorial University of Newfoundland): Interdisciplinary Openness or Scholarly Refugium? The First Three Decades of the Chicago Committee on International Relations

Please contact organiser Philippe Fontaine if you would like to attend.