The Cachan History of Social Science Group
14th ‘History of Economics as History of Science’
Spring Workshop
École normale supérieure de Cachan, Pavillon des jardins, Seminar Room
Programme
9:45-10:35am
Jeff Pooley (Muhlenberg College)
A Curious Tale of Economics at the Federal Communications Commission: A Reply to an Industry-Commissioned History
10:45-11:35am
Ben Wilson (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Cold War System: Strategic Nuclear Arms Control and the Cybernetic Vision
11:35-11:55am: Tea/coffe Break
11:55am-12:45pm
Zach Griffen (UCLA)
Economizing the Social: The Emergence of Education and Health Economics in the Middle of the Twentieth Century
12:45-2:15pm : Lunch
2:15-3:05pm
Kira Lussier (University of Toronto)
How Psychology Became Human Capital: Psychological Testing in Corporate America, 1965-1985.
3:15-4:05pm
Quinn Slobodian (Wellesley College)
The State is a Bandit: How Mancur Olson and Public Choice Economists Quantified the Rule of Law
Contact : Philippe Fontaine
philippe.fontaine at ens-cachan.fr
