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PRESENTATIONT he 5th Latin American Conference of the History

of Economic Thought – ESHET Chile 2015, is locally organized by the School of Government and the Center for the Study of Political History

(CEHIP) of the Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez (UAI). It will take place in Santiago de Chile at the UAI Peñalolén Campus and the headquarters of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) during November 25-27. It has considered proposals on all topics related to the history, philosophy and methodology of economics, especially those connected to the main theme of the Conference: “Historical Approaches in Economics – from Continental Europe to the Americas”.

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COMMITTEES

josé luís cardoso (universidade de lisboa)

annie l . cot (université paris 1 – panthéon sorbonne)

josé edwards (universidad adolfo ibáñez)

pedro garcia duarte (universidade de sao paulo)

rebeca gómez betancourt (université lumière lyon 2)

wade hands (university of puget sound)

alexandre mendes cunha (universidade federal de minas gerais)

nicole gardella (universidad adolfo ibáñez)

josé edwards (universidad adolfo ibáñez)

andrés estefane (universidad adolfo ibáñez)

claudio robles (universidad adolfo ibáñez)

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

TRAVEL GRANTS & YOUNG SCHOLARS

annie l . cot

davide gualerzi

erich pinzón fuchs

pierre-hernan rojas

andré calixtre

miguel ángel castillo

felipe correa

victor cruz e silva

manuela fernandez

monica hernandez

sharmin khodaiji

conrado krivochein

clara mattei

carolina miranda

catalina murcia

TRAVEL GRANTS (BY ESHET)

YOUNG SCHOLAR GRANTS (BY INET AND THE LOCAL ORGANIZATION)

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INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT

the local organization is grateful of the support provided by:

GENERAL PROGRAM

10:00 to 10:45

10:45 to 11:00

11:00 to 12:15

12:15 to 13:30

13:30 to 15:00

15:00 to 15:30

15:30 to 17:00

17:00 to 18:00

wednesday, november 25 (eclac, sala celso furtado)

on-site registration

welcome address

opening session by alicia bárcena: economic thought at the eclac, past and present

lunch time

parallel sessions a

coffee break

keynote lecture by osvaldo sunkel: historical approaches in economics, a personal perspectivethree stages in osvaldo sunkel’s thinking on development by mauro boianovskychair: claudio robles

welcome cocktail

9:00 to 10:00

10:00 to 10:30

10:30 to 12:00

12:00 to 13:00

13:00 to 15:00

15:00 to 15:30

15:30 to 17:00

thursday, november 26 (uai, sala 305-c)

business meeting

coffee break

parallel sessions b (young scholar sessions)

lunch time

parallel sessions c

coffee break

plenary session by josé cademártori: economics and politics in chile: an analysis from the “unidad popular” experiencediscussant: stephen meardonchair: josé luís cardoso

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9:00 to 10:30

10:30 to 11:00

11:00 to 12:30

12:30 to 13:30

13:30 to 15:00

15:00 to 15:30

15:30 to 17:00

17:00 to 17:15

from 20:30

friday, november 27 (uai, sala 305-c)

parallel sessions d (young scholar sessions)

coffee break

parallel sessions e

lunch time

parallel sessions f

coffee break

plenary session by rolf lüders: economics and politics in chile: an analysis from the university of chicago experiencediscussant: mauro boianovskychair: josé edwards

concluding remarks by josé luís cardoso and josé edwards

dinner at “la copa feliz”

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

wednesday, november 25 (eclac, sala celso furtado)

10:00 to 10:45

10:45 to 11:00

11:00 to 12:15

12:15 to 13:30

13:30 to 15:00

on-site registration

welcome address

opening session by alicia bárcena: economic thought at the eclac, past and present

lunch time

parallel sessions a

session a1 (sala celso furtado): celso furtado, raúl prebisch and development economics chair: annie l. cot

Beyond capital fundamentalism: Harrod, Domar and the history of development economicsMauro Boianovsky, Universidade de BrasiliaDiscussant: TBA

Cultural and technological dependence in Celso Furtado’s work: discussions on appropriate technology and consumption patternsRenata Bianconi, UNICAMPDiscussant: TBA (in Portuguese)

Raúl Prebisch, the Economic Cycle and the Performance of the Central Bank of Argentina in its First Years (1935-1943)Florencia Sember, Universidad de Buenos Aires y CONICETDiscussant: Pierre-Hernan Rojas

session a2 (aula 2): kindleberger, perroux and prebisch and the semi-nal debates on international political economy chair: carlos eduardo suprinyak

Charles Kindleberger and post-Soviet Hegemonic StabilityStephen Meardon, Bowdoin CollegeDiscussant: TBA

François Perroux’s original perspectives on International Political Economy in the 1950s: L’Europe sans rivages and La coexistence pacifiqueAlexandre Mendes Cunha, Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisDiscussant: TBA

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Business Cycles as the Foundation of Latin American StructuralismNatalia Bracarense and A. Reeves JohnsonDiscussant: TBA

session a3 (z-407): 19th century: british colonialism, brazilian state press and progressive taxation in spainchair: hans-michael trautwein

British Economists and the Defence of the Colonial Empire (1870-1914)Alain Clément, University of ToursDiscussant: TBA

Practical knowledge and economic reforms in Brazil: the role of an enlightened State Press (1799-1801)José Luís Cardoso, Institute of Social Sciences, University of LisbonDiscussant: TBA

Views on progressive taxation in Spanish economists in the 19th centuryJavier San Julian, University of BarcelonaDiscussant: TBA

15:00 to 15:30

15:30 to 17:00

17:00 to 18:00

coffee break

keynote lecture by osvaldo sunkel: historical approaches in economics, a personal perspectivethree stages in osvaldo sunkel’s thinking on development by mauro boianovskychair: claudio robles

welcome cocktail (eclac, hall 4to piso)

thursday, november 26 (uai, sala 305-c)

9:00 to 10:00

10:00 to 10:30

10:30 to 12:00

business meeting

coffee break

parallel sessions b (young scholar sessions)

session b1 (305-c): banking, austerity and monetary orderchair: josé luís cardoso

The relationship between a post-colonial economy and the development of its financial system: the case of BrazilDaniela Freddo, University of BrasiliaDiscussant: Rebeca Gomez Betancourt

The British “Treasury View”: An Austerity DoctrineClara Mattei, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, PisaDiscussant: Hans-Michael Trautwein

Reforming the International Monetary System in the 1930s: A Study of Harry Dexter White’s Monetary ThoughtPierre-Hernan Rojas, Université Paris DauphineDiscussant: Florencia Sember

session b2 (402-c): teaching economics in latin america (in spanish/por-tuguese)chair: jimena hurtadogeneral discussant: alfredo félix blanco

La enseñanza de la Economía desde la perspectiva de Jesús Antonio BejaranoMiguel Ángel Castillo, Universidad Pedagógica y Tecnológica de ColombiaDiscussant: Andrés Álvarez

To improve is to change: the recent evolution of the economics curricula in ChileFelipe Correa Mautz, CEPALDiscussant: Pedro Duarte

Basic concepts and basic explanations: Proposal to address fundamental notions of the economics science using cartoonsCatalina Murcia Alejo, Universidad de los AndesDiscussant: Stephen Meardon

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session b3 (403-c): history and philosophy of science and economicschair: d. wade hands

Learning from Ignorance: Agnotology’s Challenge to Philosophy of ScienceManuela Fernández Pinto, Universidad de los AndesDiscussant: Annie L. Cot

The Political Economy of ScarcityConrado Krivochein, Fluminense Federal UniversityDiscussant: Maria Pia Paganelli

The Nature of Critique in the Economic ScienceCarolina Miranda Cavalcante, Universidade Federal do Rio de JaneiroDiscussant: Danilo Freitas Ramalho da Silva

12:00 to 13:00

13:00 to 15:00

lunch time

parallel sessions c

session c1 (305-c): stagnation, cycles and moneychair: natalia bracarense

Prebisch and Neisser on the transnational propagation of cyclical fluctuationsHans-Michael Trautwein and Mauro BoianovskyDiscussant: TBA

Furtado and His Critics: The ‘Stagnation’ ModelMauricio Coutinho, UNICAMPDiscussant: Davide Gualerzi

Stagnation in a Historical PerspectiveDavide Gualerzi, University of PaduaDiscussant: TBA

Money, Credit and Reform in the Portuguese Old Regime: the writings of D. Rodrigo de Souza Coutinho, 1786-1811Bruno Aidar, Federal University of Alfenas, BrazilDiscussant: TBA

session c2 (402-c): growth, accumulation, development and banking in latin american economies (in spanish/portuguese)chair: alexandre mendes cunha

Crisis in Venezuela, or the Bolivarian dilemma: to revolutionize or to perish? A Kaleckian interpretationRoberto Lampa, CONICET and IDAES-Unsam, ArgentinaDiscussant: TBA

Genealogía y crítica del concepto de superexplotación en Ruy Mauro MariniMatari Pierre, UACM MéxicoDiscussant: TBA

Peasantry partisans and peasantry opponents. An historic debate in the agrarian Colombian contextMauricio Ramírez Gómez, EAFIT ColombiaDiscussant: TBA

Bernardo Souza Franco’s views on regional and national banking in the Brazilian Empire (1845-1848)Thiago Gambi, Universidade Federal de AlfenasDiscussant: TBA

session c3 (403-c): money and inflation in latin americachair: danilo freitas ramalho da silva

En ausencia de Money Doctors hay que ser profeta en su tierra: ideas económicas y creación de un Banco Nacional en Colombia en el siglo XIXAndrés Álvarez, Universidad de los AndesDiscussant: TBA

Guillermo Subercaseaux’s historical approach to money and banking (1898-1952)Rebeca Gomez Betancourt, Université Lyon IIDiscussant: TBA

El Debate Ministerial: una Controversia sobre el Origen de la Inflación en México (1955)Ma. Eugenia Romero Sotelo, UNAM MéxicoDiscussant: TBA

Monetary policy in the economic liberalization of society in Mexico and SpainJuan Pablo Arroyo, Universidad Nacional Autónoma, MéxicoDiscussant: TBA

15:00 to 15:30

15:30 to 17:00

coffee break

plenary session by josé cademártori: economics and politics in chile: an analysis from the “unidad popular” experiencediscussant: stephen meardonchair: josé luís cardoso

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friday, november 27 (uai, sala 305-c)

9:00 to 10:30 parallel sessions d (young scholar sessions)

session d1 (305-c): jevons, klein and banking chair: stephen meardon

Jevons’s Ideal Role for Labor Unions and the Role of Unions Substitutes in the U.S. Monica Hernandez, New School for Social ResearchDiscussant: D. Wade Hands

Reconciling Keynes and Tinbergen? Lawrence R. Klein and the Making of MacroceconometricsErich Pinzón Fuchs, Université Paris 1Discussant: José Luís Cardoso

The institutional role of the Bank of England: Palmer Rule, Bank Act, 1844, and a critique of Thomas TookeNicholas Blikstad, UNICAMPDiscussant: Alexandre Mendes Cunha

session d2 (402-c): society and coordination: “cordial roots”, regula-tion, higher education and ideologychair: andrés álvarez

Sergio Buarque de Holanda and the Cordial Men: about a radical interpretation from a Brazilian perspective for the Latin American historyAndré Calixtre, IPEA BrazilDiscussant: Mauricio Coutinho

Wont and historical processes in Colombian scientific communities in the early 21st Century: a review from the theoretical works of Thorstein VeblenClaudia Pico and Óscar Eduardo PérezDiscussant: Natalia Bracarense

Regulatory problems in contemporary society: a theoretical approach (in Spanish)Ricardo Valenzuela, Robinson Lobos and Francisco OjedaDiscussant: Jimena Hurtado

session d3 (403-c): chair: rebeca gomez betancourt

Notes on the transmission of Keynes’s ideas into Brazil through Eugênio Gudin’s “Principles of Monetary Economics”Victor Cruz e Silva, Marco Cavalieri and Marcelo CuradoDiscussant: Alain Clement

Bringing the Nation Back In: Conceptualising ‘Indian Economics’ in Colonial IndiaSharmin Khodaiji, Jawaharlal Nehru University, IndiaDiscussant: Thomas Adams

Suarez and modern economic theory (in Spanish)Germán Scalzo, Universidad Panamericana, MéxicoDiscussant: Javier San Julián

9:00 to 10:30

10:30 to 11:00

11:00 to 12:30

parallel sessions d (young scholar sessions)

coffee break

parallel sessions e

session e1 (305-c): adam smithchair: mauricio coutinho

Adam Smith on sympathetic persuasion, propriety and self-commandLeonidas Montes, Universidad Adolfo IbáñezDiscussant: TBA

We Are Not The Center of The Universe: The Role of Astronomy in the Development of Morality in Adam SmithMaria Pia Paganelli, Trinity UniversityDiscussant: Manuela Fernandez

Adam Smith and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Justice as an Attribute of Individuals and InstitutionsJimena Hurtado, Universidad de los AndesDiscussant: TBA

session e2 (402-c): mises, luhmann and courcelle-seneuilchair: d. wade hands

Tensions between Theory and History in Von Mises’s Critique of SocialismEmmanoel Boff, Universidade Federal FluminenseDiscussant: TBA

Through the looking glass. Albert O. Hirschman reader of Jean-Gustave Courcelle-Seneuil: the Chilean mirrorAnnie L. Cot, Université Paris 1Discussant: TBA

Niklas Luhmann’s economic theory as a reflexive radicalization of classical liberalismAldo Mascareño and Hugo CadenasDiscussant: TBA

session e3 (403-c): the problems of “service”, “free market education” and “rational behavior”chair: pedro garcia duarte

The Problem of Service in Anglo-American Economic and Social ThoughtThomas Adams, University of SydneyDiscussant: TBA

Adam Smith on free market educationJosé de la Cruz Garrido, CPP, Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad del DesarrolloDiscussant: TBA

The evolution of homo economicusCarlos Rodríguez-Sickert, CICS, Facultad de Gobierno, Universidad del DesarrolloDiscussant: Victor Cruz e Silva

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12:30 to 13:30

13:30 to 15:00

lunch time

parallel sessions f

session f1 (305-c): friedman, buchanan, chilechair: stephen meardon

Friedman’s two visits to Chile in contextLeonidas Montes, Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez,Discussant: TBA

Friedman and ChileEdward McPhail, Dickinson CollegeDiscussant: TBA

James M. Buchanan’s Two Trips to ChileAndrew Farrant, Dickinson CollegeDiscussant: TBA

session f2 (402-c): philosophy and methodology of economicschair: annie l. cot

The Road to Rationalization: A History of “Where the Empirical Lives (Or Has Lived)” in Modern Consumer Choice TheoryD. Wade Hands, University of Puget SoundDiscussant: TBA

Phronetic science: A Nietzschean Moment?Gonzalo Bustamante, Universidad Adolfo IbáñezDiscussant: TBA

Volenti non fit iniuria: consentimiento, intercambio productivo y precio justo en Anarquía, Estado y utopía de Robert Nozick.Felipe Schwember, Universidad Adolfo IbáñezDiscussant: TBA

session f3 (403-c): research policy in brazil and macroeconomic theory chair: rebeca gomez betancourt

The First Keynesian Reactions to Lucas’s Macroeconomics of EquilibriumDanilo Freitas Ramalho da Silva, Universidade Federal do ABCDiscussant: TBA

A Path Through the Wilderness: Time Discounting in Growth ModelsPedro Duarte, Universidade de Sao PauloDiscussant: TBA

Funding Policy Research under “Distasteful Regimes”: The Ford Foundation and the Social Sciences at the University of BrasíliaCarlos Suprinyak and Ramón García FernándezDiscussant: TBA

15:00 to 15:30

15:30 to 17:00

17:00 to 17:15

from 20:30

coffee break

plenary session by rolf lüders: economics and politics in chile: an analysis from the university of chicago experiencediscussant: mauro boianovskychair: josé edwards

concluding remarks by josé luís cardoso and josé edwards

dinner at “la copa feliz”

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

medical serviceTraveling with medical insurance is recommended.However, special medical plan will be in place for the duration of the event. This service will be provided by Clínica Las Condes, www.clc.cl . It includes:• Setting up a primary health care room at the event’s venue • Coordination with the Clinic’s emergency service. Air ambulance service will be available in case of emergency.• ER Hotline 56 2 6107777 Clínica Las Condes Rescue

planning in the event of an emergency

Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez has designed an emergency plan in case of any event of this nature.This plan includes coordination with Carabineros de Chile (Police Force) and Bomberos (Fire Department). In addition, an evacuation plan will be duly signed in the premises. In the event of any emergency, please contact the room officer.In the event of an emergency at any of the hotels, passengers must contact the operator at each establishment, usually by dialing “0”. Other national emergency telephones;• Carabineros (Police Force): 133 • Policía de Investigaciones (Investigations Police): 134• Bomberos (Fire Department): 132 • Ambulancia (Ambulance Service): 131

currencyLocal currency is the Chilean peso ($ or CLP). It is issued in $1,000, $2,000, $5,000, $10,000 and $ 20,000 bills, and in $1, $5, $10; $50, $100 and $500 coins.International Exchange Rate: US$ 1 to CLP 503.83 (at October 26, 2011)€ 1 to CLP 701.03 (at October 26, 2011)

Currency can be freely exchanged in banks, money exchange agencies, hotels and/or airports. US dollars and Euros are not accepted in local stores.Credits cards are accepted in most commercial establishments. “Cirrus” or “Plus” are also accepted at ATM’s, which display bilingual menus. ATM’s are practically everywhere, especially in banking and money exchange agency areas, as well as in hotels, gas stations, pharmacies and supermarkets, although they may not be easily found in rural areas. Banco Santander UAI branch office will be open on November 10th and 11th, from 8.00am to 3.00pm.For further information, please visit www.bcentral.cl

communicationsChile’s telephone area code is 56. Area code for Santiago is 2. National and international long-distance calls are handled by a number of carriers, offering different rates. Before making a long-distance call, please inquire about services and rates. Calls may be made through Direct Dialing or via operator. For calls within the country, please dial:Carrier + area code + telephone number ( e.g. XXX-2- 3311000)

weather Latitude, altitude and proximity to the ocean determine Chile’s climate variety. Rainfalls increase and temperatures drop as one moves down southwards.While visiting Santiago in mid November, expect temperatures between 8 and 26 degrees Celsius (between 46 and 79 degrees Farenheit) warmer during the day and cooler at nightFor further information, please visit www.meteochile.cl

electric powerElectric voltage in Chile is 220 volts, 50 cycles (222v 50Mhz). Transformers are necessary to operate 110v devices and equipment. However, most portable equipment – including personal computers – usually comes with an internal transformer that automatically sets to the voltage used in Chile. Checking power specifications for each particular electric device is recommended.