The History of Workshops and Conference in Economics

The seminar culture has historically been a important part of the transmission of ideas and the sharpening of ideas. Chicago actually sort of evolved a culture of if you want to sharpen your ideas go through fighting and clashes with each other. And also what you can see in the history of workshops and conference is that it contributed to it both reflected and contributed to build that sort of hierarchical structure. So there is a premium to making a sort of smart comments and sort of helping the speaker. I wouldn't give you any hints on the why and the how, and to do that, you need to do some histories, histories of how they workshop culture and the debating culture evil that Chicago and white spread to