History and Philosophy of Economics
The Twenty-Fourth Annual International Workshop on the History and Philosophy of Science
Monday-Wednesday, December 13-15, 2010
The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Economics and Society Program
The Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Edelstein Center for the History and Philosophy of Science, Technology and Medicine
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Thomas Guggenheim Program on the History of Economic Thought
Monday December 13
At Tel Aviv University
10:00–12:30
The Philosophical Foundations of Economics
Greetings and Chair: Yossef Schwartz (Tel Aviv University)
Menahem Yaari (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Justice and the Market
Wade Hands (University of Puget Sound)
Normative Rational Choice: Past, Present and Future
Amos Witztum (London Metropolitan University)
Human Sociality and Economic Theory
12:30–13:30 Lunch break
13:30–16:00
Marxist Thought: In His Time and Ours
Chair: Steven Medema (University of Colorado Denver)
Samuel Hollander (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
On Karl Marx's Effective Abandonment of the Theory of Surplus Value (Exploitation) Under Industrial Capitalism Economics and Society Program
Moshe Zuckermann (Tel Aviv University)
Reflections on Social Structure and Emancipatory Historiosophy in Marxian Thought
Simon Cook (Independent Scholar)
Primitive Political Economy: Smith, Marshall, and Marx
Danny Gutwein (Haifa University)
The Superstructure of Privatization: Neo-Marxism as a Neoliberal Ideology
16:00–16:30 Coffee break
16:30–18:30
Disagreements in the History of Economics
Chair: David Laidler (University of Western Ontario)
Steven Medema (University of Colorado Denver)
The Coase Theorem: A Case Study in the Early History of Economics Imperialism
Warren Young (Bar-Ilan University)
The Evolution and Dissemination of ‘Freshwater’ Economics: Insights from the Archives of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
Shiri Cohen (Bar-Ilan University)
Tensions between Two Concepts of
Tuesday December 14
at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
13:00–15:00 (Rotem Hall)
Macroeconomic Interventions I
Chair: Samuel Hollander (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
David Laidler (University of Western Ontario)
Monetary Economics and the Economic Crisis
Arie Krampf (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
A Conceptual History of Central Bank Independence: Standardization of Central Banking in the Interwar Period
Arie Arnon (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
Crises and Theorizing Economic Policy: The Case of Monetary Theory
15:00–15:30 Coffee break
15:30–16:45 (Rotem Hall)
Macroeconomic Interventions II
Chair: Amos Witztum (London Metropolitan University)
Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame)
Never Let a Dire Crisis Go to Waste: Cognitive Dissonance, Buyer’s Remorse, and Other Economists’ Afflictions in the Great Recession
Maria Christina Marcuzzo (Università La Sapienza di Roma)
A Methodological Agenda for New Economic Thinking
17:00–18:15 (Senate Hall)
Keynote Address
Chair: Jimmy Weinblatt (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Bertram Schefold (The Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main) Winner of the 2010 Thomas Guggenheim Prize in the History of Economic Thought
Marx, Sombart, Weber and the Debate about the Genesis of Modern Capitalism
18:15–19:00 Reception
Wednesday December 15
at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
10:30–13:00
Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Chair: Eytan Sheshinski (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Maya Bar-Hillel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Some Observations on Behavioral Economics from a Non-Economist
Ido Erev (Technion, Israel Institute of Technology)
The 1-800 Critique, Counter-Examples, and the Future of Behavioral Economics
Bradley Ruffle (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Do We Need Laboratory Experiments in Economics?
13:00–14:00 Lunch break
14:00–16:00
What should be Taught in Economics?
Chair: Moshe Justman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
David Colander (Middlebury College)
What is to be Taught?
Round Table:
Maria Christina Marcuzzo (Università La Sapienza di Roma)
Ariel Rubinstein (Tel Aviv University)
Nathan Sussman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Karnit Flug (Bank of Israel)
16:00–16:30 Coffee break
16:30–18:00
Keynote Address
Greetings and Chair: Gabriel Motzkin (Director, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
Robert J. (Yisrael) Aumann (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Nobel Prize Laureate in Economics for 2005
Economics in the Talmud