Friday, September 14
8:45-10:45
Roundtable on Johan van Overtveldt’s The Chicago School of Economics
Chair Warren Samuels; Ross Emmett, Robert Leeson, Philip Mirowski
11:00-12:15
Mostly Milton Friedman
- Beatrice Cherrier, “Friedman’s Science and Politics"
- Robert Leeson, “The Collected Writings of Milton Friedman: Chicago from the Archives”
12:15-1:15
Lunch
1:15-3:30
Agricultural & Consumption Economics
- Tom Stapleford, “Between Washington & Wall Street: Chicago and the Study of Consumer Demand, 1920-1960”
- Paul Burnett, “Theodore W. Schultz, Policy Planning, and Agricultural Economics in the Cold-War United States.”
- Pedro Teixeira, “The Development of Human Capital Research at Chicago”
3:45-5:00 The Fogel Interview Project
Mark Guglielmo
5:30-7:30
Dinner
7:30-9:30
The Role of Hayek & Viner
- Bruce Caldwell, “Hayek and the Chicago School”
- Erik Angner, “Hayek, cultural evolution, and the idea of spontaneous order”
- Angus Burgin, “A Prehistory of the Chicago School"
Saturday Sept. 15
9:30-11:00
Evolution at Chicago?
- Philip Mirowski “On the Origins (at Chicago) of Some Species of Evolutionary Economics”
- Jack Vromen, “Allusions to evolution: Edifying evolutionary biology rather than economic theory”
11:15-12:30
What Defines the Chicago School?
- Mike Reay, “Impressions of Chicago from Interviews with Economists”
- Eric Schliesser, "Stigler, Friedman and the curious connection between the methodology of Chicago philosophy of science and Thomas Kuhn"
12:30-1:30
Lunch
1:30-3:30
Law & Economics at Chicago
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James Hackney, “
Richard Posner, Chicago School Economics, and the Evolution of Law and Economics: A Personal, Intellectual, and Institutional Biography”
- Steve Medema, “Chicago Price Theory and Chicago Law and Economics”
- Rob van Horn, “The Antitrust Project”
3:45-5:30
Pedagogy, morality and structure
- Ross Emmett, “Sharpening Tools in the Workshop: The Chicago Workshop System and the School's Success”
- Eddie Nik-Khah, “George Stigler and Industrial Organization at Chicago”
- Dan Hammond, “Transcendental Commitments of Economists: Friedman, Knight, and Nef”
- Independent dinners
7:30-9 Moral Views of Market Societies: Public Lecture and Response
- Marion Fourcade “Moral Views of Market Society” from Annual Reviews of Sociology, 2007