Friday May 29, 2015
University of Cergy-Pontoise, France
Les Chênes II, Salle des Thèses
Local Organizer: Yann Giraud
Maxime Desmarais-Tremblay (University of Lausanne and Université of Paris I) – On the definition of Public Goods: Assessing Richard A. Musgrave’s contribution
Adam Leeds (University of Pennsylvania and Duke University) – Dreams in Cybernetic Fugue: Cold War Technoscience, the Intelligentsia, and the Birth of Soviet Mathematical Economics
Serge Benest (ENS Cachan) – The French Resistance, the Rockefeller Foundation and Social Science: The difficult birth of the Sixth Section at the École Pratique des Hautes Etudes, 1944-1948
Matthias Schmelzer (University of Geneva) – ‘Born in the corridors of the OECD’: The forgotten origins of the Club of Rome and the unraveling of the postwar confidence in economic growth
Pedro Garcia Duarte (University of Sao Paulo) – From Real Business Cycle and New Keynesian to DSGE Macroeconomics: Facts and Models in the Emergence of a Consensus
History of Recent Economics Conference 