Experience, Logics and the Science of Trade in the Long 18th Century
Cotting House Conference Room 107
April 29, 2016
9:00-9:15 AM
Welcome
9:15-10:00 AM
“Jealousy of Credit: John Law’s 'System' and the Geopolitics of Financial
Revolution”
John Shovlin, New York University
10:00-10:45 AM
“The Preeminent Bookkeepers in Christendom: Calculating Personalities
and Impersonal Calculations, c. 1718”
William Deringer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
10:45-11:00 AM
Coffee Break
11:00-11:45 AM
“Swedish Political Economy in the Age of Freedom: Merchants,
Mechanics, and Machines”
Carl Wennerlind, Barnard College, Columbia University
11:45 AM-1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00-1:45 PM
“The Uses and Abuses of Expertise”
Andre Wakefield, Pitzer College
1:45-2:30 PM
“Speculation: The Science of Calculating Contingencies”
Christine Zabel, Harvard University
2:30-2:45 PM
Coffee Break
2:45-3:30 PM
“Inclined Plans: Business Plans and the Mechanics of Capitalism”
Martin Giraudeau, London School of Economics & Political Science
3:30-4:30 PM
Discussion
Participants can receive copies of the papers in advance of the conference by sending an
email request to Christine Zabel, czabel@fas.harvard.edu.