36th Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia

The 36th Annual HETSA Conference will be held from 16th to the 18th July 2025 at the University of Western Australia Business School, Perth, Australia. HETSA 2025 is being hosted by the UWA Business School’s Economic History & History of Economic Thought Research Network and the University of Notre Dame Australia.

Conference Programme and Abstract Book

 You can download the 2025 Conference Programme and Book of Abstracts using the links below:

Registration

Registration fees are $250 for scholars and $100 for students. Early bird rates are, however, available until 9 July 2025 being $220 for scholars and $80 for students. All charges above are GST exclusive.

Please register here: https://payments.uwa.edu.au/HESTAConference2025

Venue

HETSA 2025 will be held at the University of Western Australia Business School.

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The Conference Dinner will be held at the University Club of Western Australia.

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Contact

Please feel free to contact David Gilchrist (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or Riko Stevens (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) with any queries regarding HETSA 2025.


Thank you to our event sponsors:

• Business Events Perth
• Economic Society of Australia (WA Branch)
• George Kailis

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Conference Programme

Books of Abstracts.pdf

WEDNESDAY 16 JULY

17:00-19:00 | Welcome Drinks
UWA Business School

THURSDAY 17 JULY

8:30-9:00 | Registration & Coffee
UWA Business School

9:00-9:15 | Conference Welcome
UWA Business School


9:15-10:30 | Session 1: Keynote Address
UWA Business School | Chair: Alex Millmow

  • Topic: Ragnar Frisch and the 1961 International “Antonio Feltrinelli’ Prize in Context
    Speaker: Michael McLure

10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea & Coffee
UWA Business School


11:00-12:30 | Session 2: Classical Economics
UWA Business School | Chair: Harry Bloch

  • A Reply: On Adam Smith’s Theory of Growth and the Classical-Keynesian Demand-Led
    Approach | Matthew Smith
  • Malthus’s Global Politics | Ryan Walter
  • Studies of Tableau Économique in Post-War Japan | Takashi Yagi


12:30-13:30 | Lunch & HER Editorial Board Meeting
UWA Business School


13:30-15:00 | Session 3: Financial Markets
UWA Business School | Chair: Rod O’Donnell

  • Equities most fair: A critical analysis of E.L. Smith’s 1924 Common Stocks as Long-
    Term Investments and evaluation of its contribution to finance and portfolio theory |
    Carlos Correia
  • Adam Smith on Speculation: Some Institutional Aspects of Smith’s Theory of
    Speculation | Riko Stevens
  • Debt, Inflation and the Shape of the Global Pandemic Recovery | Yixiao Zho


15:00-15:30 | Afternoon Tea & Coffee
UWA Business School

15:30-17:00 | Session 4: Austrian Economics
UWA Business School | Chair: George Kailis

  • Hayek and Complexity Economics: Shared Philosophical roots and Differing
    approaches to Price | Medini Bhat
  • Central Banking and the Free Banking Alternative: An Analysis of the Contribution
    and Influence of Vera Smith| Sheldon Brown
  • Lachmann: Between Shackle and Schutz | Bill Tulloh

17:00-18:00 | HETSA AGM
UWA Business School

18:30-21:30 | Conference Dinner
University Club of Western Australia
Speaker: Ron Manners AO, Mannkal Economic Education Foundation

 

FRIDAY 18 JULY

8:30-9:00 | Coffee
UWA Business School

9:00-10:30 | Session 5: Methodology
UWA Business School | Chair: Michael McLure

  • Stan Metcalfe, a pioneer of evolutionary price theory | Harry Bloch
  • Why Study the History of Economic Thought? | Ian Kerr
  • Metaphors in Economics: Science, or Science Fiction? | Rod O’Donnell

10:30-11:00 | Morning Tea & Coffee
UWA Business School


11:00-12:30 | Session 6: Political Economy
UWA Business School | Chair: Ryan Walter

  • From the Legalist School to Kautilya’s Arthashâstra: the Birth of the Traditions promoting State Intervention into the Economies of China and India | Alexandre Reichart
  • The Theory of Individuality in American Protectionist Thought | Mathew Frith
  • A Monument to French Political Economy | David Hart

12:30-13:30 | Lunch
UWA Business School


13:30-15:00 | Session 7: Religion & Socialism
UWA Business School | Chair: Matthew Smith

  • New evidence on Colin Clark’s career and conversion from the Church of England to
    the Roman Catholic Church| Ernest Cheung
  • Reflections on the Civil Economy Tradition with Special Reference to Antonio
    Genovesi (1713-1769) and Giacinto Dragonetti (1738-1818) | Elena Douglas
  • N. G. Butlin’s 1959 Monograph “Colonial Socialism in Australia” and the Discourse in
    Economic History| David Gilchrist

15:00-15:30 | Afternoon Tea & Coffee
UWA Business School

15:30-17:00 | Session 8: History of the Economic Society of Australia [Panel Discussion]
Co-Badged with the Economic Society of Australia (WA Branch)
UWA Business School | Chair: Riko Stevens

  • Topic: An Evolving Record - A Centennial History of the Economic Society of Australia
  • Speaker: Alex Millmow | Panellists: Harry Bloch, Michael McLure, John Roberts

17:00-19:00 | Refreshments
Co-Badged with the Economic Society of Australia (WA Branch)
UWA Business School