2006 Workshop on Measurement in Economics

A workshop on measurement and economics will be held on 21-22 April (Tinbergen Institute, University of Amsterdam). The workshop brings together researchers from diverse backgrounds (metrology, history, philosophy, economics and econometrics). The programme is attached.

2002 Workshop on Measurement in Economics and Natural Sciences

Workshop Measurement in economics and natural sciences, 13-14 May, Tinbergen Institute. The programme is attached.

2000 Workshops

Workshop on Behavioural economics on the 10 of March and on entrepreneurship on the 19 June, 2000.

Seminars

A list of the seminars from 2002 to 2007:

• Frans van Winden (University of Amsterdam), Thoughts on Current Behavioral Economics, 16 March, 2007.
• Ricardo Crespo (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo), The Capabilities Approaches and Aristotelian Practical Reason, 12 March, 2007.
• Andrew Mearman (University of the West of England), Methodological Triangulation at the Bank of England: An Investigation, 17 March, 2006.
• Jan Toporowski (University of London, UK) Oskar Lange on the Keynes - Tinbergen dispute, 29 April, 2005.
• Peter Thomas (University of Queensland, Australia, visiting PhD researchear at UvA) Ricardo, Marx, Gramsci - A New Concept of Immanence?, 22 April, 2005.
• Marcel Boumans (University of Amsterdam) On questions economists ask about the world and how they model their answers, 15 April, 2005.
• Riccardo Bellofiore (University of Bergamo, Italy) Rosa Luxemburg and the monetary circuit of capital in the Anticritique, 8 April, 2005.
• John Davis (University of Amsterdam and Marquette University, USA) On Akerlof and Kranton on Identity, 18 March, 2005.
• Harro Maas (University of Amsterdam) How rationality came to economics, 4 March, 2005.
• Mark Blaug (University of Amsterdam and Erasmus University Rotterdam) Why did Schumpeter neglect intellectual property rights?, 25 February, 2005.
• Edith Kuiper (University of Amsterdam) Debates on gender equality in 18th century Europe, 18 February, 2005.
• Irene van Staveren (Institute of Social Sciences) A critique of Amartya Sen's prioritization of freedom in his capability approach, 5 March, 2004.
• Dan Hausman (University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA) Valuing Health States, Part I: Passing the Buck, 21 January, 2004.
•  Philippe Le Gall (Université d'Angers, France)
  Methodological and philosophical foundations of econometrics in France, 1838-1930, 19 December, 2003.
• Julian Reiss (London School of Economics, UK)
  Beyond Spiders and Ants: Basing Economics on Evidence, 5 December, 2003.
• Uskali Mäki (Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam)
  Unrealistic assumptions and unnecessary confusions: Rereading and rewriting Milton Friedman's 1953 essay, 28 November, 2003.
•  Irene van Staveren (Institute of Social Sciences) A critique of Amartya Sen's prioritization of freedom in his capability approach, 31 October, 2003.
• Eric Schliesser (University of Washington, St. Louis, USA) Causal Reasoning in Hume's Political Economy, 24 October, 2003.
• Malcolm Rutherford (University of Victoria, Canada) Institutional and Chicago Economics: Interrelations and Oppositions, 11 March, 2003.
• Ron Giere (NIAS and University of Minnesota, USA) The Role of Computation in Scientific Cognition, 10 March, 2003.
• Jochen Runde (University of Cambridge, UK) Information, Knowledge, and Economic Agency, 6 March, 2003.
• Matthias Klaes (University of Keele, UK) Conceptual Bridges in the Historiography of Semantic Fields, 17 December, 2002.
• Kevin Hoover (University of California at Davis, USA) Nonstationary Time Series, Cointegration, and the Principle of the Common Cause, 11 December, 2002.
• Philippe Fontaine (Ecole normale superieure, France) Incorporating Altruism in Economics: 1974-1961 Before Becker, 3 December, 2002.
• Esther-Mirjam Sent (NIAS and University of Notre Dame, USA) Pluralisms in Economics, 25 November, 2002.
• Jack Vromen (Erasmus University Rotterdam) An evolutionary perspective on collective intentionality, 11 November, 2002.
• Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame, USA) On the Ultimate Incoherence of the ‘Economics of Information', 4 November, 2002.

2005 Seminar series on Rationality and Economics

This seminar series discusses the development of the concept of rationality in 20th century economics. Organisers: John Davis, Harro Maas and Floris Heukelom. For program and reading list see the attachment below.

2004 Seminar series on Neuroscience and Economics

This series is devoted to neuroeconomics. Organisers: Harro Maas, Floris Heukelom and Marcel Boumans. For the program and reading list see the attachment below.

2000 Annual Research Day

some pics of the 2000 meeting...