20th Summer School on the History of Economic Thought, Economic Philosophy and Economic History
THE EVOLUTION OF THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF DECISION-MAKING
The Summer School is co-organized by ESHET (European Society for the History of Economic Thought), PHARE (Centre for the Philosophy, History and Analysis of Economic Representation, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, University of Insubria, University of Milan, and STOREP (Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell’Economia Politica).
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Here follows the final program of the school.
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THE EVOLUTION OF THE ECONOMIC THEORY OF DECISION-MAKING
LAKE COMO SCHOOL, AUGUST 28 – SEPTEMBER 1, 2017
FINAL PROGRAM
SUNDAY 27 AUGUST
18.30 – 20.30: Welcome drinks and registration, Villa del Grumello
MONDAY 28 AUGUST
9.00-9.15: Salutations & Introduction
9.15-10.45: Ivan Moscati, “A Crash Course in the History of Decision Theory, 1870-1990”
11.15-12.45: Jean-Sébastien Lenfant, “Psychology and Choice from Gossen to Tversky”
14.40-17.00: Students’ presentations
Ivan Mitrouchev, “How Behaviourism and Mentalism Reshape the Common Understanding of Positive and Normative Economics”
Leon Guillot, “Widening Wicksell’s Conception of Political Economy: His “Thoroughly Revolutionary Programme”
Ecem Okan, “David Hume and Adam Smith on War and Public Debt”
Luca Congiu, “Communication or Environment? A Classification of Nudges Based on Two Layers of Choice Architecture”
TUESDAY 29 AUGUST
9.00-10.30: Francesco Guala, “On the Meaning of Preferences: Lessons from History and Philosophy of Science”
11.00-12.30: Paul Anand, “Rationality, Transitivity, and Capabilities”
14.40-16.30: Students’ presentations
Blaz Remic, “The Role of Intrinsic Motivation in Economic Decision-Making”
Philippe Van Bassuhyssen, “Making Sense of Game Theoretic Models”
Thiago Oliveira, “Armstrong, Bernardelli and Georgescu-Roegen: A Forgotten Chapter of the History of Decision Theory”
WEDNESDAY 30 AUGUST
9.00-10.30: Ivan Moscati, “Theory of Measurement and Decision Making I”
11.00-12.30: Raffaello Seri, “Theory of Measurement and Decision Making II”
14.40-17.00: Students’ presentations
Sofia Valeonti, “Hugh McCulloch’s and John Sherman’s Monetary and Tariff Policies in the Greenback Debate”
Michel Gaul, “Technical progress in a multisectoral production economy: from Sraffa’s subsystems to Pasinetti’s vertically hyper-integrated sectors”
Remy Guichardaz, “What could be a Rawlsian intellectual property? An inquiry through the critical assessment of Proudhon”
David Philippy, “Hazel Kyrk, Libertarian Paternalist Avant la Lettre”
THURSDAY 31 AUGUST
9.00-10.30: Wade Hands, “Revealed Preference Theory: History, Philosophy, and Contemporary Issues”
11.00-12.30: Chris Starmer, “The Psychologizing of Economics: The Case of the Theory of Risky Choice”
14.40-17.00: Students’ presentations
Kate Vredenburgh, “Rescuing Revealed Preferences”
Francesco Fabbri, “Minimal Mentalism and The Case for Brain-Less Economics”
Daria Pignalosa, “The Modern Model of Intertemporal Utility Maximization: Empirical Roots and Theoretical Implications”
Nicola Campigotto, “Do Lewisian Conventions Require Symmetric Reasoning?”
FRIDAY 1 SEPTEMBER
9.00-10.30: Marc-Arthur Diaye, “A Crash Introduction to Qualitative Decision Theory”
11.00-13.20: Students’ presentations
Juan Carvajalino, “A Note on Paul Samuelson’s Early Methodology”
Cyrielle Poiraud: “On Levinas’ Political Theory: A Two-dimensional Approach of Justice”
Jerome Lange, “That Necessity Is the Mother of Invention. Population, Progress and Inequality in Smith, Malthus, and the Four Stages Theory”
Adriana Calcagno, “The Development Thought of Raúl Prebisch as a Response to Argentina’s External Vulnerability”
14.30-15.30: End-of School meeting
Mario Cedrini