European Conference on the History of Economics
 

Siena 2007

 


List of Papers

OPENING LECTURE: Leo Corry (Tel-Aviv University)
Hilbert and the Axiomatic Approach: Its Background and Development

Roger Backhouse (Univ. of Birmingham) and Steve Medema (Univ. of Colorado at Denver)
Robbins’s Essay and the axiomatisation of economics
Discussant: Annalisa Rosselli (University of Rome–Tor Vergata)

Olav Bjerkholt (University of Oslo) and Ariane Dupont (INRETS, Paris)
Ragnar Frisch’s Axiomatic Approach in Econometrics
Discussant: Lionello Punzo (University of Siena)

Till Düppe (PhD Student, EIPE – Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Gerard Debreu: from Nicolas Bourbaki to Adam Smith. A phenomenology of becoming an economist
Discussant: Bruna Ingrao (University of Rome–La Sapienza)

Harald Hagemann (University of Hohenheim) and Lionello Punzo (University of Siena)
On Robert Remak’s Superposed Price Systems: Before Axiomatization
Discussant: Ivan Moscati (Bocconi University)

Alessandro Innocenti (University of Siena)
Schelling’s non-axiomatics
Discussant: Philippe Fontaine (ENS Cachan)

Tinne Hoff Kjeldsen (Roskilde University)
The significance of modelling in Economics for the development of Mathematics: The minimax-, the duality-, and the Kuhn-Tucker theorem
Discussant: Nicola Giocoli (University of Pisa)

Mario Pomini and Gianfranco Tusset (University of Padua)
Dynamics versus axiomatisation: the case of the Italian Paretian School
Discussant: Massimo di Matteo (University of Siena)

Chikakazu Tadakoshi (Yokohama City University)
A Pioneering Argument for the Axiomatic Method Revealed in Whately’s Economics
Discussant: José Luís Cardoso (Technical University of Lisbon)

Arnis Vilks (Leipzig Graduate School of Management)
Axiomatization, Immunization, and Convention in Economics
Discussant: Marco Dardi (University of Florence)