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History of Postwar Social Science Workshop
12 December 2014, 10:00 am – 4:30 pm
Schedule
10.00 – 10.50: Taming Maxwell’s Demon: Economists, historians of science, and the Bush Report on American science policy. Harro Maas (Utrecht University) & Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham)
Coffee break
11.20 – 12.10: The Rise and fall of central planning. David Engerman (Brandeis University)
12.20 – 13.10: The struggle over the place of political theory at Berkeley in the 1960s. Emily Hauptmann (University)
Lunch break
14.40 – 15.30: The contestable marketplace of ideas: Paul Samuelson, radical economics and the political side of textbook making, 1967–1977
Yann Giraud (University of Cergy)
15.40 – 16.30: From opportunity theory to capital punishment: Economists fighting crime in the 1960s and 1970s. Jean-Baptiste Fleury (University of Cergy)
Organisers: Roger Backhouse (reb@bhouse.org.uk) and Philippe Fontaine (fontaine@ens-cachan.fr). Supported by the CNRS European Scientific Coordination Network (GDRE #711)