2009 Economic History Association Meetings

The 36th Annual Conference of the History of Economic Society

2009 Annual Conference
Denver, Colorado

The 36th Annual Conference
of the History of Economic Society will be held June 26-29, 2009 at
the University of Colorado Denver.

There is an optional reception on Friday, June 26. Conference
sessions will begin on the morning of Saturday, June 27. The
conference will run until mid-day on Monday, June 29.  For
travel accommodations, please try to plan on leaving Monday in the
late afternoon or evening. The airport is only a 40 minute taxi ride
from downtown Denver.

Understanding Liberty and Choice: Free Trade and Globalization

Featured speaker:
Russell Roberts, author of The Price of Everything: A Parable of Possibility and Prosperity and The Choice: A Fable of Free Trade and Protection.

Co-sponsored by Liberty Fund, Inc.

When: May 14-16, 2009

Where: Washington D.C., Hotel TBD

What: Working conference, including:

* Keynote address and extended Q and A with Russell Roberts.
* Required pre-conference readings (298 pages) and 2.5 hours of podcasts.
* Small group Socratic seminars.

Who: PTA members only, by application (limited to 30 participants)

* Deadline: Applications must be received by February 25, 2009.
* Selected attendees notified via email February 27, 2009.
* $200 deposit due with application. (Deposit refunded after the program or upon notification of non-acceptance to the program.)
* Participants responsible for their own travel.

2 nights single occupancy lodging and meals plus $500 travel stipend.
(Attendance at all sessions required to receive stipend.)

Selection from the applicant pool will reflect the FTE's desire to assemble a conference group with the following characteristics:

* commitment to excellence in teaching economic reasoning;
* diversity of teaching experience, background, current economics-related teaching assignment, and school type; and
* geographic/demographic diversity (regional, rural/urban, etc.).

Apply on-line Here

Questions: Ken Leonard, kleonard@fte.org
206-910-9374



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69th Economic History Association meeting - Sept. 11-13, 2009,

Theme: Human Welfare: Measurement, Analysis and Interpretation

Sept. 11 - 13, 2009 Tucson, Arizona

As is the rule, papers on all subjects in economic history are welcome, but a number of sessions will be devoted to the theme "Human Welfare: Measurement, Analysis and Interpretation." The ultimate goal of economic historians is to illuminate the evolution of human welfare. This year’s theme promotes efforts to unify and to find common denominators in diverse approaches to understanding this central aspect of our past. Measurement is a central concern, even in modern studies of this complex subject. Among the issues to consider are the variety of approaches and how they compare. What was the contribution of improvements in health? Of emancipation or freedom? Of the right to vote? Of moderating the business cycle, or reducing bank failures? Can we estimate the social cost of inequality or crime, and of war, epidemics and other calamities? Of consumer surplus from trade? By how much did technological change improve welfare by making home and market production, as well as travel, easier and safer? What was the cost of isolation, or alternatively the benefit of cheap communication? What are the counterfactuals most suitable for addressing these types of questions?

ASET Conference

The Arizona Society of Economics Teachers presented - the 8th Annual ASET Conference at Mesa Community College Saturday, February 21, 2009 from 7:30 am - 12:00 pm
Announcements:
Summer courses - ASU (June 4 - 11)and UofA (June 11 - 24) - tuition subsidized total of 9 graduate hours
MCC online courses for teachers - pass the APEA- tuition subsidized.
FTE programs (graduate credits $50/semester hour).
Institute on Environment and the Economy - registration deadline March 5.
ACEE upcoming programs


8:00 a.m. Welcome and Introductions
Dr. James Mabry, Vice President of Academic Affairs, MCC
8:15 a.m.
Guest Speaker – Don Wentworth, PhD,
“Globalization Viewed Through a Wine Glass”
9:00 a.m. Break - Meet the ASET Board Candidates
9:15 a.m. Lesson Demonstrations:
John Morton, ACEE
Vanessa Schneider, Fraser Institute, Canada

Overview of Frasier Programs

Frazier Powerpoint - Economic Freedom

2008 Winning Student Entry - Frasier Video Contest

“Economic Growth & Economic Freedom”
Economic Freedom Map


10:30 a.m. Break – Voting for ASET board

10:45 a.m. Keynote Speaker – William Boyes, PhD, ASU

“The Global Financial Crisis”

11:45 a.m. Awards, Raffle,


New ASET Board: Dr. Alice Temnick, President Susan Ford, Secretary, Debbie Henney, Darcy Brodson, Brett Haglin and Charles Frazier board members.

Thanks to
the Thomas R. Brown
Foundation for the lodging stipend for
hotel stay Friday night!



Contact Mark Sammons at
programs@trbfoundation.org
for more information.

Foundation for Teaching Economics

Understanding Liberty & Choice: Property Rights in American History
Welcome to the FTE blog supporting the joint FTE/Liberty Fund conference on Property Rights in American History to be held Dec. 4 - 6, 2008, in Denver.

We are delighted that you will be participating in this conference. As you're aware, the conference combines presentations, interactive learning, and Socratic Seminar sessions. This pre-conference blog has several functions: First, it is designed to introduce you to your Socratic seminar discussion group. Then, in a few weeks, we'll ask each of the 3 seminar discussion groups to help us in planning the panel presentations and formulating questions for the panelists - but that's down the road a little way. For now, we just want you to get to know one another.


There will be 3 Socratic Seminar groups in Denver, and you've been assigned to the BLUE group. All members of your Socratic Seminar group have been invited to join this blog. Given the range of experience with online conversation, we'll start simply - by meeting one another.

Capitalism, Morality, and Liberty

I will attend the Liberty Fund colloquium in Denver on “Capitalism, Morality, and Liberty” on April 3-6, 2008.

“Understanding Liberty and Choice: The Contributions of Experimental Economics” - Sept. 26-28

This conference on experimental economics would include thirty participants drawn from the Foundation for Teaching Economics’ Professional Teacher Association membership. The conference would be a modified repeat of a conference we previously co-sponsored with the Foundation for Teaching Economics. The goal of the conference would be to introduce a group of outstanding teachers to the classical underpinnings of experimental economics and its theory and current practice. The program would also give these participants the opportunity to discuss, in detail, the nature of experimental economics and its relation to issues of liberty and responsibility with professional researchers in the field.