7th ESHET Conference
   


"L’agent économique : théorie et histoire"


General Programme

Location :

  • Thursday, 30 January, Friday, 31 January : Ministère de l’Education Nationale et de la Recherche, Carré des Sciences, 25, rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève Paris 5.
  • Saturday 1st February : Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Centre Panthéon, 12, Place du Panthéon, Paris 5 & Centre Sorbonne 17, rue de la Sorbonne Paris 5.

Thursday, 30 January

09:00 a.m. - 12:00 : Executive Committee Meeting

12:00 - 01:00 p.m. : lunch

01:30 p.m. - 03:00 p.m. : PhD. seminar Sessions 1 et 2 (Carré des Sciences, 25, rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève, Paris 5°).

1st Session - Amphithéâtre A (Chair : P. L. Porta)
· Tchinguiz CHAMCHIEV (Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble) : Wicksell and money (Discussant W. Eltis).
· Claudia SUNNA (Université de Florence) : Wicksell on population and steady growth (Discussant E. Streissler).
· Herrade IGERSHEIM (Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg) Le paradoxe libéral-parétien : un second théorème d’impossibilité dû aux "effets d’indépendance" (Discussant P. Bridel).

2nd Session - Amphithéâtre B (Chair : M. Marcuzzo).
· Ozgür GÜN (PHARE, Université Paris I) : Les raisons de l’apparition de l’hypothèse d’agent altruiste dans la théorie économique contemporaine (Discussant D. Diatkine).
· Alexandra HYARD (EHESS, Paris), La science de l’homme économique et la science du législateur chez Dugald Stewart (Discussant : D. Diatkine).

03:15 p.m. - 04:45 p.m. Ph.D. Seminars. Sessions 3 et 4 (Carré des Sciences, 25, rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève, Paris 5°).

3rd Session - Amphithéâtre A (Chair : C. Perrotta)
· Miriam TESCHL, (Université Aix-Marseille, The identity of the economic agent (Discussant : R. Arena )
· Julien VINCENT (ENS-Ulm, Paris) : Une critique "berkeleyienne" de Marshall: La théorie individualiste de l'agent économique et du sens commun chez Wicksteed (Discussant J. Vint).
· Ivan MOSCATI (Università Bocconi, Milano) : How the rational consumer survived heterodox criticism : a neo-Kantian explanation (Discussant : R. Arena)

4th Session - Amphithéâtre B (Chair : P. Steiner)
· Maximilien NAYARADOU, (Université Paris 9-Dauphine) : Comportement des consommateurs et sabotage de la consommation dans la pensée économique de Thorstein Veblen (Discussant : P. Steiner).
· Samuel FEREY (Université Paris I) : L’évolutionnisme comme métaphore : l’analyse économique du droit entre naturel et artificiel (Discussant : P. Steiner).
· Stefano SPALETTI (Università di Macerata) : Economists and education in History of Economic Thought, the Italian case (Discussant : P.L. Porta).


03:00 p.m. - 05:00 p.m. : registration

05:00 p.m.- 07:00 p.m. : Amphithéâtre Poincaré : Opening conference by Roger Guesnerie and presidential address by Erich Streissler

 

Friday, 31 January

08:30 a.m. - 09:00 a.m.: Registration
09:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.: Sessions A (Carré des Sciences, 25, rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève, Paris 5°).

Session A1 : The agent and rationality (I) (Amphithéâtre Poincaré)
· Maurice Lagueux, Economic agent and minimal rationality (Discussant : Luigino Bruni)
· Eyüp Özveren, Economic agent and rationality: How the institutional setup matters (Discussant : John Vint)
· Michel Zouboulakis, On the classical embeddedness of rationality in classical political economy (Discussant : Peter Rosner)

Session A2 : The Preclassical agent (Amphithéâtre Stourdzé)
· Richard Sturn, Economic man and the rational agent; David Hume on the principles of human action in and beyond the economic sphere (Discussant : André Lapidus)
· Baccar Gherib, Y a-t-il un homo œconomicus chez Hume ? (Discussant : Jeffrey Young)

Session A3: The agent and imperfect competition (Amphithéâtre A)
· Christian Schmidt, Players and agents: Some lessons from game theory for the understanding of the meaning of an economic agent (Discussant : Nicola Giocoli)
· Manuel Fernandez Lopez, The analysis of monopolistic behavior : from Cournot to Harrod and Robinson (Discussant : Matthias Klaes)
· Fabrice Tricou, Trois figures d’agent néo-classique (Discussant : Stefano Fiori)

Session A4 : Classical theory of value and distribution (I) (Amphithéâtre B)
· Arrigo Opocher, Piero Sraffa’s early price equations and the theory of distribution at the turn of the XXth century (Discussant : Cristina Marcuzzo)
· Heinz Kurz and Neri Salvadori, Sraffa and the mathematicians: Abram S. Besicovitch (Discussant : David Teira Serano)
· Heinz Kurz, The surplus interpretation of the classical economists (Discussant : Ferdinando Meacci)

Coffee break

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.: Sessions B (Carré des Sciences, 25, rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève, Paris 5°).

Session B1 : The agent and rationality (II) (Amphithéâtre Poincaré)
· Mathias Klaes and Esther-Mirjam Sent, A conceptual history of the emergence of bounded rationality (Discussant : O.F. Hamouda)
· Giocoli, Nicola, The consistency view of rationality and the changing image of neoclassical economics (Discussant : Neri Salvadori)

Session B2 : Agent and Smith (I) (Amphithéâtre Stourdzé)
· Amos Witzum and Jeffrey Young, The neglected agent: The life and rights of the poor in Adam Smith (Discussant : Daniel Diatkine)
· Alain Clément, Le pauvre dans la pensée économique classique (Discussant: Nathalie Sigot)

Session B3 : Macroeconomics History (I) (Amphithéâtre A)
· Riccardo Realfonzo, Business cycle theory in Italy: underinvestment versus overinvestment explanation (Discussant : Alain Raybaud)
· Cécile Dangel-Hagnauer and Alain Raybaut, Trade cycles in Cambridge: Agents and their beliefs (Discussant : Mauro Boianovsky)
· Mauro Boianovsky and Harald Hageman, Wicksell on technical change, real wage and employment (Discussant : Michel De Vroey)

Session B4 : Classical theory of value and distribution (II) (Amphithéâtre B)
· Christian Gehrke, Price of wages : a curious phrase (Discussant : Arrigo Opocher)
· Ferdinando Meacci, Positive profit, relative profit and capital as command of productive labour (Discussant : Yorgos Sthatakis)
· Fernando Vianello, The smithian origin of Ricardo corn-ratio theory of profits (Discussant : Pier Luigi Porta)

02:00 p.m. -02:45 p.m. : Invited conference by Emma Rothschild (Amphithéâtre Poincaré)

Coffee break


03:15 p.m. - 04:45 p.m. : Parallel sessions C (Carré des Sciences, 25, rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève, Paris 5°).

Session C1: The agent and decision theory (Amphithéâtre Poincaré)
· Manuel Fernandez-Grela, The hicksian rational consumer (Discussant : Jean-Sébastien Lenfant)
· David Teira-Serrano et Pierre-Charles Pradier, L’homme avisé, raisonnable et rationnel : Bernoulli, Condorcet, Allais et la décision rationnelle (Discussant : Carlo Zappia)
· Carlo Zappia, Shackle’s economic agent and modern decision theory (Discussant : Charles Henri Pradier)

Session C2 : Agent and Smith (II) (Amphithéâtre Stourdzé)
· Pierre Force, Is self-interest a first principle in the Wealth of nations? (Discussant : Richard Sturn)
· Stephano Fiori, The individual as economic agent in Smith’s theory (Discussant : Gloria Vivenza)

Session C3 : History of macroeconomics (II) (Amphithéâtre A)
· Eleonora Sanfilippo, Marshall and Keynes : a difference in their use of the ceteris paribus assumption (Discussant : Pascal Bridel)
· Sylvie Rivot, Patinkin and Keynes on involuntary unemployment: are wage cuts a good remedy to unemployment? (Discussant : Ricardo Realfonzo)

Session C4 : Classical theory of value and distribution (III) (Amphithéâtre B)
· Riccardo Soliani, Turgot’s Reflections sur la formation et la distribution des richesses…: a prelude of labor theory (Discussant : Laure Chantrel)
· José M. Menudo and José Mª O`Kean, The french tradition : the emergence of the entrepreneur as an acknowledged agent of production (Discussant : Antoin Murphy)


05:00 p.m. - 06:30 p.m. : Parallel sessions D (Carré des Sciences, 25, rue de la Montagne Sainte Geneviève, Paris 5°).

Session D1 : The Homo Oeconomicus (I) (Amphithéâtre Poincaré)
· O.F. Hamouda, Homo oeconomicus: Deus ex machina (Discussant : André Lapidus)
· Luigino Bruni, Hic sunt leones, The missing link of interpersonal relationships in the tradition of economics (Discussant : Roberto Baranzani)

Session D2 : Agent and Smith (III) (Amphithéâtre Stourdzé)
· Caroline Gerschlager, Adam Smith’s theory of moral sentiments and the emergence of the concept of economic agent (Discussant : Antonella Picchio)
· Gloria Vivenza, The agent, the actor and the spectator. Adam Smith’s metaphors in recent literature (Discussant : Pierre Force)

Session D3 : History of macroconomics (III) (Amphithéâtre A)
· Ingo Barens : Keynes’ Reaction to Hicks’ and Meade’s Interpretation of the General Theory (Discussant : Eleonora Sanfilippo)
· Michel de Vroey, Lucas on involuntary unemployment (Discussant : Sylvie Rivot)
· Giovanni Pavanelli, The early reception and diffusion of Irving’s Fisher’s works in Italy (Discussant : Goulven Rubin)

Session D4 : Market and entrepreneur (Amphithéâtre B)
· Antoin Murphy, The entrepreneur from Cantillon to Schumpeter (Discussant : Michaelis Psalidopoulos)
· Sheldon, Richard “The eyes of Argus, the hand of Briareus, and the Purse of Croesus”: The Problem of Speculation in Early Classical Economics c.1760-1820’ (Discussant : Richard van den Berg)


07:30 p.m. : Diner at the Musée du Louvre (Diner’s speech by Mark Perlman)

Saturday 1st February

09:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. : Parallel sessions E (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, Centre Panthéon, 12, place du Panthéon, Paris 5°)

Session E1 : The homo oeconomicus (II) (Salle 15)
· William Dixon and David Wilson, The evolution of homo oeconomicus from Hobbes to Chalmers (Discussant : Maurice Lagueux)
· Peter Rosner, Merchants, Landlords and capitalists as agents in English mercantilist literature (Discussant : Michel Zouboulakis)
· John Davis, The Embedded Individual Tradition in Economics (Discussant : Philippe Steiner)

Session E2 : The concept of economic agent in the Austrian tradition (Salle 16)
· Richard Arena, The notion of the economic agent and collective beliefs in the Austrian tradition with special reference to Friedrich von Wieser (Discussant : Erich Streissler)
· Aldo Montesano, The economic agent : a comparison between the Austrian school and equilibrium theory (Discussant : Erich Streissler)
· Roberto Scazziari, The economic agent from the Scottish tradition to the Austrian tradition (Discussant : Erich Steissler)

Session E3 : Money (salle 200/209)
· Carl Wennerlind, Money and magic in the seventeenth century (Discussant : Cosimo Perrotta)
· Susumu Takenaga, Theory of money of David Ricardo (Discussant : Ghislain Deleplace)
· Andrès Alvarez and Jimena Hurtado Prieto, Why is Marx an economist and not Rousseau ? Some elements of response from their monetary theory (Discussant : Gilbert Faccarello)

Session E4: Economics and politics (I) (Salle 214)
· Luigi PASINETTI, Pure theory vs. full economic analysis - Sraffa’s riddle (Discussant : Jean Cartelier)
· Massimo M.AUGELLO and Marco E.L. GUIDI, Economics and politics: Economists in the Italian parliament from 1860 to 1922 (Discussant : José-Luis Cardoso)
· Robert PRASCH et Thierry WARIN : Dupont de Nemours and Adam Smith: The Rhetoric of Economic Reform (Discussant : Philippe Steiner)

Session E5 : History of microeconomics (Salle 216)
· Jean-Sebastien Lenfant, De Hicks à Smale : substituabilité et stabilité de l’équilibre général walrasien (Discussant : Ludovic Ragni)
· Roberto Baranzani, Pascal Bridel, Fiorenzo Mornati and Elena Tatti, Exchange and utility : Pareto vs. Walras (Discussant : André Legris)
· Guglielmo Forges Davanzati, John Bates Clark: Normal norms and the labour market in neoclassical economics (Discussant : Nathalie Le Bouteillec)

Coffee break

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 a.m. : Parallel sessions F (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, Centre Panthéon)

Session F1 : The concept of economic agent in the French Tradition (Salle 15)
· Evert Schoorl, From the virtue-maximising to the utility-maximising: agent: citizens, producers and consumers in J.B. Say’s economic (Discussant : Jean-Pierre Potier)
· Laure Chantrel et Benoît Prévost, Rationalité, individu et histoire chez Turgot (Discussant : Robert Prasch)
· Antonio Almodovar and Maria de Fatima Brandao, In search of a model for economic agent: from Smith to Say (Discussant : Thierry Warin)

Session F2 : The concept of economic agent in the German tradition (Salle 16)
· Ragip Ege, L’agent économique dans la philosophie politique hégélienne (Discussant : Carlos Bastien)
· Richard A. Werner, The impact of differing economic methodology on the conception of the economic agent and the design of institutions: the case of the German non-classical tradition (Discussant : Roberto Scazzieri)
· Heino Heinrich Nau, Max Weber the Economist: Institutional, Evolutionary and Methodological Aspects in Weber’s Social Economics (Discussant : Richard Arena)

Session F3 : Austrian tradition (salle 200/209)
· Günther Chaloupek, Carl Menger’s contribution to the Austrian currency reform debate and his theory of money (Discussant : Agnés Festré)
· A. Festré: Knut Wicksell and Ludwig von Mises on the organization of the banking system (Discussant : Gunther Chaloupek)
· Robert Nadeau, Cultural evolution true and false : a debunking of Hayek’s critics (Discussant : Thierry Aimar)

Session F4 : Economics and politics in Austria (Salle 214)
· Hansjörg Klausinger, From Mises to Morgenstern : the Austrian school and the ständestaatd (Discussant : Harald Hageman)
· Odile Lakomski-Laguerre et Stéphane Longuet, J.A. Schumpeter et la démocratie : le fin d’un mythe (Discussant : Vincent Bourdeau)
· Nils Goldschmidt, Heinrich Dietzel and the economic principle (Discussant : Heinz D. Kurz)

Session F5 : Economics and philosophy (I) (Salle 216)
· Cosimo Perrotta, The ethical foundation of economic value : Aristotle to Adam Smith (Discussant : Amos Witztum)
· Claudio Sardoni, The quest for realism of economic theory (Discussant : Annie Cot)
· Fabienne Peter, Choice, Consent, and the Legitimacy of Market Transactions (Discussant : André Lapidus)

 

02:00 p.m. - 03:30 p.m. : Parallel sessions G (Université de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, Centre Panthéon)

Session G1 : The concept of economic agent in the Lausanne School (Salle 15)
· Kayoko Misaki, Walras’s zero-profit entrepreneur in the light of his pure and applied economics (Discussant : Aldo Montesano)
· Vincent Bourdeau, Individu démocratique et agent économique chez Léon Walras (Discussant : Ragip Ege)
· André Legris et Ludovic Ragni, Théorie de l’action, rationalité et conception de l’individu dans l’œuvre de Pareto (Discussant : Richard A. Werner)

Session G2 : Agent, Institutions and Macroeconomy (Salle 16)
· Bert Mosselmans, The prehistory of the representative agent: the agent man according to Quetelet, Jevons and the German historical school (Discussant : Heino H. Nau)
· Abdallah Zouache, The agent in Keynes’s coordination problem (Discussant: Ingo Barens)
· Charles, Loïc et Le Bouteillec, Nathalie: Is Woman an economic Agent ? The Theoretical Debate on Labour Market Legislation for Women (1850-1914) (Discussant : Cécile Dangel)

Session G3 : Economics and politics (II) (salle 200/209)
· Carlos Bastien and Jose Luis Cardoso, From homo oeconomicus to homo corporativus (Discussant : Eyup Ozveren)
· Jesus M. Zaratiegui, The applied economic thought of Alberto Ullastres, Spanish minister of Commerce (Discussant : Richard Sheldon)
· Michalis Psalidopoulos, A central banker and social justice: K. Varvaressos (Discussant : Massimo Augello)

Session G4 : Economics and Politics (III) (Salle 214)
· George Stathakis, Capital as commodity in the third volume of Marx’s capital (Discussant : Andrés Alvarez)
· Salvador Almenar, Measuring budgets' consumers and wages. Fin de siècle realistic debates at the International Institut of Statistics (1885-1915) (Discussant : Claudio Sardoni)
· Bert Mosselmans et H. W. Plasmeijer : Jan Ackersdijck (1790-1861): The Economic Agent and the Rise of Liberalism in the Low Countries (Discussant: Hansjorg Klausinger)

Session G5 : Economics and philosophy (II) (Salle 216)
· Antonella Picchio, Needs and passions of human subsistance in the early eighteenth century: Defoe and Mandeville (Discussant : Baccar Gherib)
· Richard van den Berg, Canalising the passions: A.N. Isnard’s theory of human nature (Discussant : Sandrine Leloup)
· Philippe Steiner, When the agent dies… The political economy of inheritance in nineteenth century France (Discussant : Marco Guidi)


04:00 p.m.- 06:00 p.m.: General Meeting of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought and Blanqui’s Lecture by Alessandro Roncaglia
(Université Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, Centre Sorbonne, Amphithéâtre Turgot).

06:00 p.m.- 08:00 p.m.: Cocktail and closing of the meeting (Rectorat des Universités de Paris, 17, rue de la Sorbonne, Paris 5°, Salle des Autorités)

 
       
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