European Conference on the History of Economics
 

Siena 2007

 


Programme

Thursday, 4 October

7.00 pm Registration

8.00 pm Welcome Dinner

Friday, 5 October

9.00 am Welcome

9.15 am Opening Lecture
Hilbert and the Axiomatic Approach: Its Background and Development
Leo Corry (Tel-Aviv University)

10.15 am Coffee/tea break

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

11.45 am
Schelling’s non-axiomatics
Alessandro Innocenti (University of Siena)
- Discussant: Philippe Fontaine (École normale supérieure de Cachan)

1.00 pm Lunch

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

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

4.30 pm Coffee/tea break

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

8.00 pm Conference Dinner

Saturday, 6 October

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

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

11.15 am Coffee/tea break

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

1.00 pm Lunch

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

4.30 pm Visit to Siena

8.00 pm Dinner at Osteria Boccon del Prete