[SIGCIS-Members] FW: Seminar on the Newlyn-Phillips Machine, University of Leeds, Weds 10th November. 3-4pm

[Thomas Haigh]

From: Graeme Gooday 
Sent: 04 November 2010 22:45
To: members at sigcis.org
Subject: Seminar on the Newlyn-Phillips Machine, University of Leeds, Weds
10th November. 3-4pm

 

"The Newlyn/Phillips Machine in the context of the Phillipsian Stabilisation
Project"

Speaker: Professor Robert Leeson, Stanford University.

 

Wednesday 10th November   3p.m. to 4 p.m.

Leeds University Business School, Room 1:44 

(Building 19 at http://www.leeds.ac.uk/downloads/file/384/campus_map )

 

The Newlyn-Phillips Machine mark 1 was developed at the University of Leeds
in 1949-50 by economists Walter Newlyn and Bill Phillips (LSE) and served as
the prototype of the MONIAC analogue hydraulic computer.
<http://www.leeds.ac.uk/hpsmuseum/newlynphillips.htm>
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/hpsmuseum/newlynphillips.htm 

 

This original Newlyn-Phillips machine has recently been renovated by the
University of Leeds HSTM Museum taskforce and displayed at Leeds University
Business School 

See
http://business.leeds.ac.uk/news-events/news-item/articles/2010/October/busi
ness-school-honours-newlyn-phillips/  

 

Professor Robert Leeson, has taught at a variety of universities, including
Stanford, Western Ontario, Murdoch and London. He is currently Campbell
Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has published
widely on the history of macroeconomic thought and policy, for example
editing A. W. H. Phillips: Collected Works in Contemporary Perspective
(Cambridge University Press, 2000), and is a regular contributor to the
Australian financial and general press.

 

 

  

 

Professor Graeme Gooday,

Head of Department

Department of Philosophy, 

Michael  Sadler Building,

University of Leeds,

LEEDS, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom

E-mail: g.j.n.gooday at leeds.ac.uk

Phone messages: 0113 343 3274

FAX: 0113 343 3265

 

 

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