Cet atelier est organisé par le groupe « histoire des sciences sociales » du laboratoire Economix, avec le soutien de l'Institut d'histoire moderne et contemporaine. Il est lié à deux autres séries d'ateliers : History of Economics as Culture et History of Economics as History of Science.

L'entrée est libre, mais il est utile de s'inscrire auprès de Claire.Lemercier@ens.fr

Les textes seront mis en ligne une semaine avant l'atelier. Vu la présence d'invités non francophones, les présentations se feront pour l'essentiel en anglais, mais il sera évidemment possible de discuter en français.

The general aim of this workshop is to foster discussion between historians of economic "facts" and of economic "thought", as well as between historians and economists (and sociologists, political scientists, etc. interested in economic history and/or history of economics). The 2009 edition will focus on two themes: bankruptcies (morning session) and history of economic statistics (afternoon session).

The workshop is organized by the H2S group in Economix with support from the Institute for Early Modern and Modern History. It is connected to other H2S series of workshops: History of Economics as Culture et History of Economics as History of Science.

Entry is free but it is recommanded to register by writing to Claire.Lemercier@ens.fr

The papers will be downloadable at least one week before the workshop.

Programme

Thursday, 2 April 2009 / Jeudi 2 avril 2009

Ecole normale supérieure, 48, bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris

Plan d'accès / map

Room/salle A2 (morning session/matin) - Salle/room 10 (après-midi/afternoon session)

Histoires des faillites / Bankuptcies

10 am-12.30 pm ; 10h-12h30

V. Markham Lester (Birmigham-Southern College, Birmingham, Alabama)
Bankrupt women entrepreneurs: Observations on women-owned and operated businesses in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century England

Paolo Di Martino (University of Manchester) & Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur (EHESS)
Insolvency law and practice in historical perspective: A European comparative view (c.1880-1913)

Histoires des statistiques économiques / History of economic statistics

2 pm-5.30 pm ; 14h-17h30

Loïc Charles (Université de Reims & INED) & Guillaume Daudin (Université de Lille & OFCE)
The Bureau of the balance of trade and the production of foreign trade statistics in France during the 18th century

Jean-Pierre Beaud & Jean-Guy Prévost (Université du Québec à Montréal)
The Politics of Objectivity: Canada’s Statistical Regimes, 1800-2008

Emmanuel Didier (CNRS, CESDIP, Paris)
Counting Ears: Democracy, Statistics and the Making of the New Deal