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Programme
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| Wednesday | Thursday | Friday |
| Thursday 18 September | ||
| 9.00 - 10.30 | Plenary Debate: ‘The Future of Development’ Debate led by: |
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Thandika Mkandawire | |
| Ajit Singh | ||
| Guy Standing | ||
| Chair: Bob Rowthorn | ||
| 10.30 - 11.00 | Coffee | |
| 11.00 - 13.00 | Parallel Sessions | |
| Methodology 2: Reconstructing political economy | ||
| A Micocci | An alternative materialistic PE | |
| E Tsakolotas | Reconstruction of political economy (the need to combine facts and values) | |
| Tony Lawson | Chair | |
| Microeconomics 2: Agency, Capability and Consumption | ||
| G Murughan | Entitlements capabilities and institutions: problems in their empirical application | |
| C Greenhalgh | Rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief – but who is who in the capitalist economy? | |
| M Turvani | Economics and Cognition: the Case of Illegal Drugs Addiction | |
| Frank Wilkinson | Chair | |
| Macroeconomics 2: The Future of Macroeconomics and the Role of the State | ||
| W Cornwall & J Cornwall | A future for Keynesian macroeconomics | |
| J Toporowski | Finance and political economy | |
| J Salavisa | The economic role of the state and its future | |
| Geoff Harcourt | Chair | |
| International 2: The Future of Capitalism | ||
| T McDonagh | Global neoliberalism: the latest stages of capitalism | |
| A Calafati | The economic deconstruction of Europe | |
| A Ebner | Economic policy in globalisation: theorising the governance | |
| Grahame Thompson | Chair | |
| Development 2: Future of Development Economics – Methodology and Agenda | ||
| J-S Shin | The future of development economics: a methodological agenda | |
| S Dow & A Dow | The way forward for development economics: the case of Scotland | |
| R Prendegast | Development as freedom in the political economy of Amartya Sen | |
| Stephanie Blankenburg | Chair | |
| 13.00 - 14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00 - 15.30 | Plenary Debate: ‘The Future of the Global
Financial System’ Debate led by: |
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| Paul Davidson | The Future of the International Financial System | |
| Jan Kregel | ||
| John Williamson | ||
| Chair: Geoff Harcourt | ||
| 15.30 - 16.00 | Tea | |
| 16.00 - 18.00 | Parallel Sessions | |
| Methodology 3: Complexity | ||
| D Colander | The complexity revolution (or why and how complexity models will take over) | |
| J Foster | From Simplistic to Complex Systems in Economics | |
| G Devetag | The influence of experimental and computational economics: Economics back to the future of social sciences | |
| K Velupillai | Chair | |
| Microeconomics 3: E-commerce | ||
| E Giovannetti | Agglomeration in the internet: does space still matter? The MIX-IXP case | |
| L Van Hove | Making electronic money legal tender: pros and cons. | |
| P-Y Badillo | Information society and network economy: from euphoria to reality | |
| Ron Martin | Chair | |
| Macroeconomics 3: Capitalism, Growth and Profitability | ||
| J Perraton | Explaining profit rates in advanced capitalist countries since the Golden Age | |
| P Petit | On growth regimes in the post-Fordist era | |
| Ken Coutts | Chair | |
| International 3: Topics on foreign direct investment and transition Economies | ||
| J Hardy | Institution building or institution bending? The role of aid and foreign investment in transforming the Polish economy | |
| G Ietto-Gillies | Transnational corporations’ strategies and the nation state | |
| Chaplyin | Russian-Belarussian credit and money: future prospects | |
| Michael Kitson | Chair | |
| Development 3: ‘The Future of Development’ – Post Debate Discussion | ||
| Thandika Mkandawire | ||
| Ajit Singh | ||
| Guy Standing | ||
| Chair: Stephanie Blankenburg | ||
| Special Session 3: History of Thought: the Cambridge Tradition | ||
| T Nishizawa | Teaching 100 years ago: Marshall & the Cambridge economics tripos | |
| M Marcuzzo and C Sardoni | The correspondence between Maynard Keynes and Joan Robinson | |
| M Silva Duarte | Sraffa and Joan Robinson | |
| Geoff Harcourt | Chair | |
| 18.00 - 19.00 | Keynote Lecture: ‘The Cambridge School of Keynesian Economics’ | |
| Professor Luigi Pasinetti | ||
| Chair: Geoff Harcourt | ||
| 19.30 | Conference Dinner – Robinson College | |