MONDAY 25 September
6.00-7.00? Delegates are cordially invited to informally gather at a cocktail lounge / bar at Hotel Hotel, in easy walking distance of University House. Google maps will guide you there.
TUESDAY 26 September
8.00-8.30 Registration
8.30 -8.45 Welcome
8.45-10.15
Adam Smith in the Australian Colonies; Chris Berg
An Australian Echo of Speehamland; Rob Bray
The Economists and New Zealand Population: Problems and Policies; Tony Endres and Geoff Brooke
Chair: William Coleman
10.15-10.35 Morning Tea
10.35-12.05
The Separation of Political Economy from Theology in 19th c Britain ; Paul Oslington
John Malcolm Ludlow, Christian Socialism and Economic Thought; Akira Ou
Methodological Implications of Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of Human Nature: Why Should We Modify the Concept of “Economic Man”?; Noriko Ishida
Chair: Greg Moore
12.05-1.00 Lunch
[The HETSA AGM will take place 12.20-1.00]
1.00-3.05
Classical Economic Theory Explained; Steve Kates
Marx@200; John King
The Educational Thought of N.W. Senior: The Relationship of The Poor Law Amendment Act and Education; Satoshi Fujimura
Alfred Marshall’s Intellectual Tragedy; Geoff Harcourt, Peter Kriesler, and John Nevile
Cuckoos in the nest? Section F of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, 1835 – 1890; Geoff Fishburn
Chair: Tony Aspromourgos
3.05-3.30 Tea
3.30-4.30
Schumpeter on Money, Credit and the Price Level; Harry Bloch
“It is Pronounced Oiler” and other Misconceptions Arising from Deploying Euler’s Homogenous Function Theorem to Prove Product Exhaustion; Greg Moore
4.30-5.30 Journey among the Catallaticists; John Creedy
Chair: William Coleman
5.30-7.30 [Nothing scheduled]
7.00-9.30 Dinner Old Parliament House
HETSA prizes
John Lodewijks; Remembering Goodwin
Jeremy Sheamur; HET and the Job Market: a remedy
WEDNESDAY 27 September
8.30-10.15
Charles Wickens: the Commonwealth’s second statistician and first economist; John Hawkins
Edward Dyason, the ‘Businessman Ideologue’ and His Sojourn with the Economists, 1914-1939; Cecily Hunter
L.F. Giblin’s movements from 1890 to 1909; Ian Macfarlane
Richard Downing’s public advocacy for reforms to pensions and superannuation; Benedict Davies
Chair: William Coleman
10.15-10.35 Morning Tea
10.35-12.05
Keynes, Public Debt and the Complex of Interest Rates; Tony Aspromourgas
John Maynard Keynes, Joan Robinson and the Prospect Theory Approach to Wage Determination; Ian McDonald
‘The Integration of Dynamics and Statics in Keynes’s Mature Economics: Rod O’Donnell
Chair: Selwyn Cornish
12.05-1.00 Lunch
[The History of Economics Review Editorial Board will meet 12.20-1.00]
1.00-3.05
Keynes’s Influence on the Design of the Australian Monetary Policy Framework; Peter Docherty
The Coming of Keynesianism to Australia; Peter Kriesler and John Nevile
Robert Menzies and Economic Liberalism; Rick Umback
Trevor Swan and Indian Planning: The Lessons of 1958/59; Selwyn Cornish and Raghbendra Jha
John Crawford, Development Economics and India; Nick Brown
Chair: Alex Millmow
3.05-3.30 Tea
3.30-4.30
If you build it, they will come: communicating infrastructures and the development of Australia’s economic history field; Claire Wright
Writing a history of Australasian economic thought; Alex Millmow
Chair: Geoff Brooke
4.30-5.30 Hayek’s Intellectual Development: Is it Relevant to Today’s Problem-Situation?; Jeremy Sheamur
Chair: Alex Millmow
