From: Graeme Gooday
Sent: 04 November 2010 22:45
To: members@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
This
original Newlyn-Phillips machine has recently been renovated by the University
of Leeds HSTM Museum taskforce and displayed at Leeds University Business
School
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@leeds.ac.uk
Phone
messages: 0113 343 3274
FAX:
0113 343 3265