War and the Culture of Economics

War and the Culture of Economics

Veranstalter
the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam
Veranstaltungsort
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Rotterdam
Land
Netherlands
Vom - Bis
21.04.1999 -
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Esther-Mirjam Sent

Economists at War:

The Influence of the Practice of World War II and the Cold War on the Culture of Economics.

Conference organized by the Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics in collaboration with the Institutional History of Economics Research Area of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy.
Registration costs: DFL 100 or EURO 45 (registration + lunch), DFL 200 or  EURO 90 (registration + lunch + dinner), DFL 35 or EURO 15 (student registration + lunch), DFL 135 or EURO 60 (student registration + lunch + dinner).

Please send a message to Loes van Dijk at <m.l.vandijk@fwb.eur.nl> to receive a registration form. She can also be reached by phone at +31-10-4088967 and via fax at +31-10-4088979.

Further updates will be posted at:

http://www.eur.nl/fw/philecon/warkshop.html

address during spring 1999 semester:

CPNSS
Tymes Court Building London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom

phone (work): +44-171-9556827
phone (home): +44-171-8312209
fax: +44-171-9556869

http://www.nd.edu/~esent
mailto:sent.2@nd.edu Registration costs: DFL 100 or EURO 45 (registration + lunch), DFL 200 or  EURO 90 (registration + lunch + dinner), DFL 35 or EURO 15 (student registration + lunch), DFL 135 or EURO 60 (student registration + lunch + dinner).

Please send a message to Loes van Dijk at <m.l.vandijk@fwb.eur.nl> to receive a registration form. She can also be reached by phone at +31-10-4088967 and via fax at +31-10-4088979.

Further updates will be posted at:

http://www.eur.nl/fw/philecon/warkshop.html

address during spring 1999 semester:

CPNSS
Tymes Court Building London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom

phone (work): +44-171-9556827
phone (home): +44-171-8312209
fax: +44-171-9556869

http://www.nd.edu/~esent
mailto:sent.2@nd.edu

Programm

Wednesday, April 21, 1999

Erasmus Institute for Philosophy and Economics
Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

8:30- 9:00 Reception

9:00- 9:45 Andrew Pickering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign--

World War II as a Discontinuity in the Social and Cyborg Sciences

9:45-10:30 Mary Morgan, University of Amsterdam and London School of Economics--

Ideology and Tool-Based Economics in the Post-War Years

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-11:45 Albert Jolink, Erasmus University Rotterdam--

The Travelling Salesman Returns from the War: Tjalling Koopmans and Linear Programming

11:45-12:30 Francisco Louca, Technical University of Lisbon--

Prometheus Tired of War: Econometricians' Debates on the Role of Planning and Economic Policies

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:15 Esther-Mirjam Sent, University of Notre Dame--

Military/Artificial Intelligence: Military Science Policy and Herbert A. Simon

14:15-15:30 Judy Klein, Mary Baldwin College--

Gun Laying and Economic Policy: Post War Applications to the Theory of Error-Actuated Automatic Control Systems

15:30-16:00 Break

16:00-16:45 Robert Leonard, University of Quebec at Montreal--

Controlling Bodies, Freeing Minds: John Williams, Architect of RAND Research

16:45-17:30 Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame--

RAND/OR: How Operations Research Put the Rigor in the Mortis

17:30-18:00 Concluding discussion

19:00 Dinner

Kontakt

CPNSS
Tymes Court Building London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
United Kingdom


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