The 13th HISRECO conference should have taken place at the Pareto-Walras center of the University of Lausanne from March 19 to 20, 2020. It was canceled due to the epidemic situation. We would like to warmly thank the local organizers, François Allison and Harro Maas, as well as the participants. This would have been the program for that event.
| Day 1 | Thursday 19 March 2020 Location: Pôle Sud, room Bering | |
| Guest session | Book Launch Event on Postwar Soviet Economics | |
| 18.00–20:00 | Ivan Boldyrev: Presentation of the book “Economic Knowledge in Socialism” (HOPE supplement, 2019) Olessia Kirtchik: Engineering the Soviet Economy: From Automatic Control to Governance in Complex Systems | |
| 20:00 | Welcome Cocktail |
| Day 2 | Friday 20 March 2020 Location: Château de Dorigny | |
| 09.30–10.00 | François Allisson, Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Pedro Duarte, Yann Giraud and Harro Maas: Welcome and introduction to the conference | |
| Session 1 | Development in Context | |
| 10.00–10.45 | Alain Marciano: How Buchanan’s concern for the South shaped his first academic works | |
| 10.45–11.15 | Coffee break | |
| 11.15–12.00 | Nicolás Dvoskin: Social policy agencies in Latin America. Theoretical discussions and political constraints (1950-1980) | |
| 12.00–14.00 | Lunch at the Geopolis cafeteria | |
| Session 2 | Public Opinion and Governance | |
| 14.00–14.45 | Max Nagel: The rise of macro-finance: A socio-historical analysis of monetary and financial governance in Argentina and Chile | |
| 14.45–15.30 | Tom Kayzel: Planning and the Rationalisation of Public Opinion: From Discussions to Decisions | |
| 15.30-16.00 | Coffee break | |
| Session 3 | Toolkits | |
| 16.00–16.45 | Andrej Svorenčik: The First-Price Auction Controversy | |
| 16.45–17.30 | Ludvig Goldschmidt Pederson: Seeing the Future through the Pork on your Plate – how economists came to politics | |
| 19.00 | Gala Diner at the Restaurant Le Vaudois |
| Day 3 | Saturday 21 March 2020 Location: Château de Dorigny | |
| Session 4 | Microfounded Macroeconomics | |
| 09.15–10.00 | Romain Plassard: The incorporation of agent-based models into the Bank of England’s toolkit | |
| 10.00–10.45 | Chung-Tang Cheng: Richard Stone’s Cambridge Crew of Econometricians and the Diffusion of Post-war Microeconometrics | |
| 10.45–11.15 | Coffee break | |
| 11.15–12.00 | Tanguy Le Fur: Edward Prescott and the labor supply elasticity: from business cycle fluctuations to aggregation theories | |
| 12.00–14.00 | Lunch at the Restaurant de Dorigny – Da Nino | |
| Session 5 | Mainstream and Heterodoxy | |
| 14.00–14.45 | Michel De Vroey: Mainstream Economics. Its Rise and Evolution. | |
| 14.45–15.30 | Alexandre Chirat: Insights on Postwar Economics from JK Galbraith’s project: Postwar Pluralism as a means toward heterodoxy (1952-1973) | |
| 15.30–16.00 | Conclusion and general discussion |
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