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CALL FOR PAPERS
Essays on Hume's Political Economy
Columbia University
May 2003
We invite you to submit a paper for presentation at a conference on Hume's political economy, to be held at Columbia University (New York City) on May 9-10, 2003. The paper is to be new and original, and not intended for publication elsewhere. Routledge has expressed considerable enthusiasm to serve as publisher and is currently reviewing our proposal for such a volume. Some of the topics we hope to cover are Hume on trade and commerce, money and credit, trust and social capital, economic development, and public finance. Papers that link Hume's political economy to his other writings or place it in a broader historical context are also welcome. We expect to settle on about twelve papers, and reprint four or five classic articles on Hume's economics so that the volume will serve as the point of departure for scholarly inquiries into the subject. We will serve as co-editors, and prepare an introduction to the volume.
A fund from Columbia University allows us to cover the costs of accommodation (3 nights hotel) and most of the meals for the two days. We are in the process of securing additional funds for travel, but if you are able to obtain them from another granting agency, we would be most grateful.
If you are interested in participating, please send us a letter of intent and a one-page abstract of your paper by December 1st, 2002. The paper that you would submit should be no more than 30 pages (double-spaced), including notes and references. It is understood that your essay is more likely to be work-in-progress that would benefit from presentation at the conference. The bulk of the revisions will come in the 12 months or so after we meet. This, we believe, gives each contributor a more realistic time frame in which to produce a significant and polished essay. However, we will ask you to post your paper on a collective website by April 2003, so that each participant will have read it in advance of the meeting. After the conference next May, we will ask you to expand and revise the paper by October 2003, to be sent out for refereeing. Assuming one more round of revisions is undertaken (if necessary) in response to the refereeing, we expect the final papers to be ready by May 2004 and the volume to appear
by the end of that year.
Margaret Schabas, Philosophy Department
University of British Columbia
Vancouver BC
Canada V6T 1Z1
Schabas@interchange.ubc.ca
Carl Wennerlind, Economics Department
Barnard College, Columbia University
3009 Broadway, New York
NY 10027 USA
cwennerl@barnard.edu
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