Economics for
the Future

Cambridge (UK)
17-19 September 2003

For more information email:
cjeconf@econ.cam.ac.uk

 

Programme

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Wednesday Thursday Friday
Wednesday 17 September
12.00 -14.00 Registration
 
14.00 -15.30 Welcome and Plenary Debate
Plenary Debate 1: ‘The Future of Industrial Capitalism’
Debate led by:
  John Eatwell  
  Bob Rowthorn  
  Paolo Sylos Labini  
  Chair: Michael Kitson
   
15.30 - 16.00 Tea – Clough Hall, Newnham College
   
16.00 - 18.00 Parallel Sessions
  Methodology 1: Use of Mathematics in history of thought
  R Arena Can economics be a mathematical and a social science?
  M Fracanzani Law and economics: back to Aristotle and the role of maths
  K Velupillai The unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in economics
  Tony Lawson Chair
  Microeconomics 1: Outsourcing, sub-contracting and the changing boundaries of organisations
  D Grimshaw & J Rubery Inter-capital relations and the network organisation: Redefining the issues concerning work and employment
  U Muehlberger From relational employment to relational contracting: outsourcing and dependent self-employment in the British and Austrian insurance industry
  B Trukeschitz & U Schneider New forms of financing for social services
  Frank Wilkinson Chair
  Macroeconomics 1: Unemployment
  D Webster The invention of ‘hysteresis’ and the misdiagnosis of the UK’s structural unemployment
  P Arestis & M Sawyer Aggregate demand, conflict and capacity in the inflationary process
  D Spencer The workplace requirements for sustainable full employment
  Ron Martin Chair
  Development 1A: Economic Development and Globalisation
  G Mantey & N Levy A re-assessment of national credit policies for economic development with global markets
  A Sindzingre Institutions And Development: Some Theoretical Elements
  Stephanie Blankenburg Chair
  Development 1B: Economic Growth in Developing Countries: Diverse Issues
  S Chakravorty Spatial inequality and the size distribution of income
  R Islam Revisiting the East Asian model of economic growth: labour market perspective
  A Gabriele Exports of services, exports of goods and economic growth in developing countries
  tbc Chair
  International 1: New international financial architecture
  A David Do controls on capital inflows insulate domestic variables against external shocks?
  S Sen The future of global finance: what is wrong with the current conjuncture?
  P Dulbecco & J-P Allegret The governance of international institutions: the IMF and the evolution of the new international financial architecture
  John Grieve Smith Chair
  Special Session 1: Ethics
  D Cameron Libertarian trick: ethics without economics
  A R Patey 6th form economics and philosophy: back to ethics and political economy
  J Sullivan The reification of justice
  Jane Collier Chair
   
18.00 Reception and Poster Session – Clough Hall, Newnham College