The Cachan History of Social Science Group

9th 'History of Economics as History of Science'
Spring Workshop

Saturday, 16 June 2012
École normale supérieure de Cachan
Pavillon des jardins, salle des conférences

The Cachan History of Social Science Group

9th 'History of Economics as History of Science'
Spring Workshop

Saturday, 16 June 2012
École normale supérieure de Cachan
Pavillon des jardins, salle des conférences

Papers can be downloaded in a password-protected area

Programme

10:00-10:50 am
Roger E. Backhouse (University of Birmingham and Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Responding to Economic Crisis: Macroeconomic Revolutions in the 1930s and 1970s.

11:00-11:50 am
Simone Diender (Brandeis University)
The Economist in a Web of Disciplines: Eli Ginzberg and the Problems of Human Resources in Mid-Twentieth Century America.

11:50-12:10 am: Tea/coffe Break

12:10-1:00 pm
Mark Bevir (University of California at Berkeley)
John Rawls in Historical Context.

1:00-2:30pm : Lunch

2:30-3:20 pm
Mark Solovey (University of Toronto and Harvard University)
Social Science Funding under Siege in Conservative Times. The Case of the U.S. National Science Foundation during the 1970s.

3:30-4:20 pm
Nadine Weidman (Harvard University)
Ethics, Values and the Sciences of Human Nature During the Early Cold War.

Workshop end