The History of Economic Thought in Latin America - Belo Horizonte, 26/11/2013

The History of Economic Thought in Latin America
26 November 2013, Cedeplar/UFMG, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

The Research Group on Intellectual History and the History of Economic Ideas at Cedeplar/UFMG and the Center for Latin American Studies at UFMG are  promoting the seminar “The History of Economic Thought in Latin America”. The  event is part of the preparations for the 2014 Latin American Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), which will take place at Cedeplar/UFMG.

Program
–3:30 p.m.: Opening Address

Antonio Mitre (Head of the Center for Latin American Studies/UFMG)
Alexandre Mendes Cunha (Cedeplar/UFMG)
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (Cedeplar/UFMG)

3:30-–5:30 p.m.: Roundtable: Latin American Economic Debates

Andrés Álvarez (Universidad de Los Andes – Colombia): “The monetary and banking debates in Colombia, 1880-1910: between free banking and central banking”

Ricardo Solís (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana – Mexico): “Money and banking during the Mexican Revolution: events and economic thought (1913-1921)”

Maurício Coutinho (Unicamp – Brazil): “Furtado and his critics: from stagnation to the resumption of economic growth”

Chair: Alexandre Mendes Cunha (Cedeplar/UFMG)

5:30-–6 p.m.: Coffee Break

6-–8 p.m.: Roundtable: Historiographical Perspectives

Jimena Hurtado (Universidad de Los Andes – Colombia): “The beginnings of political economy in Colombia: Ezequiel Rojas and the transmission / transformation of Utilitarianism and ideology”

Mauro Boianovsky (UnB – Brazil): “Constructing the history of Latin American economic thought”

José M. Edwards (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez – Chile): “Towards a new history of economic thought in Chile (1810-1970)”

Hugo da Gama Cerqueira (Cedeplar/UFMG – Brazil): “History of economic thought in Brazil: teaching and research”

Chair: Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak (Cedeplar/UFMG)

The seminar will be held at the UFMG School of Economics (FACE). For more information, please visit: http://ihhei.wordpress.com/english-version/seminars/

Alexandre Mendes Cunha & Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak
Research Group on Intellectual History and the History of Economic Ideas, Cedeplar/UFMG