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Cambridge Realist Workshop 
 Conference 2000 
Critical realism: what difference does it make?
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Friday May 05, 2000
 
15:00-15:45
Registration
Entrance to Lecture Block, Sidgwick Site, Sidgwick Avenue
15:45-16:00 
 

16:00 - 17:00 
 

17:00 - 18:00
 
Chairperson: Tony Lawson 
Hello and Welcome 
Sheila Dow
Historical Reference: Hume and Critical Realism 
Alex Viskovatoff
Critical Realism from a Kantian Point of View
Room 3 
Lecture Block, 
Sidgwick Site
 
 
 
19:00 for 19:30
Buffet Reception
Ramsden Room 
St Catharine's 
College
 
 
 
 
Saturday May 06, 2000
 
09:00 - 10:30
Chairperson: Michelle Baddeley 
Paul Downward
Critical Realism and Econometrics: Constructive Dialogue with Post Keynesian Economics 
Fred Lee
Theory Creation and the Methodological Foundations of Post Keynesianism 
Little Hall, 
Sidgwick Site
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
Newnham College
11:00 - 12:30
Parallel Session A 
Chaiperson: Ingrid Robeyns 
Brian Pinkstone
Econometrics versus contrastives: alternative approaches to explanation in economic history - a case study. 
John Finch
Non-parametric statistical inference in pursuit of causal explanations 
Parallel Session B 
Chairperson: Geoff Ingham 
Heikki Patomaki
 Economics of Financial Instability 
John Wood
Understanding monetary policy. Caution: critical realists at work.
 
 
 
Room 3 
Lecture Block 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
Room 2 
Lecture Block
 
 
12:30- 14:00
Lunch Break
Newnham College
 
14:00 - 15:00 
 
 
 
 
15:00 - 16:00

 
 

Chairperson: Paul Lewis 
Mark Peacock
 Explaining Theory Choice: an assessment of the critical realist contribution to explanation 
Nitasha Kaul
  Theory on Critical Realist Terms 
Contextual social political economy
 
 
Little Hall

 
 

16:00 - 16:30
Coffee
 Newnham College
16:30 - 18:00
Chairperson: Neil Costello 
Eckehard Rosenbaum
What is a Market? On the Methodology of a Contested Concept 
Alan Shipman
How markets get started: mainstream approaches, critical realist alternatives
 
Little Hall
 
 

 

 
 
 
19:00
Bus leaves from Sidgwick Site for Girton College
 
19:15 for 20:00 
 
Conference Dinner 
After dinner speakers: 
Sheila Dow 
Steve Fleetwood

 

Girton College
 
 
 
 
Sunday May 7, 2000
 
09:00-10:30
Chaiperson: Geoff Harcourt 
John Smithin
Macroeconomic theory and capitalism 
Jesper Jesperson
Why critical realism is important for macroeconomic theory
Little Hall
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
 
 
11:00-12:00

 

Parallell Session A 
Chairperson: Chuck McCann 
          
Mario de Graca Moura
Metatheory as the key to understanding: 
Schumpeter after Shionoya 

Parallel Session B 
Chairperson: Steve Pratten 
     
Stephen Wainwright
For Bourdieu in realist social science 

 Parallel Session C 
Chairperson: Sandye Gloria 
      
Leonhard Bauer
Markets, Maximisation, Money and Infinity -- Our modern religion
 
 
Room 3
Lecture Block
 
 
 
 
Room 2
Lecture Block
 

 
 
Room 1
Lecture Block
 
 
12:00 - 13:00
Parallel Session A 
Chairperson: Jochen Runde 
Thorbjoern Knudsen
Dynamic Time and Originative Choice: Shackle Revisited 
Parallell Session B 
Chairperson: Mariana Vintiadis 
Gabriel Pastrello
The Unicorn and Effective Demand
 
Room 3 
Lecture Block
 
 

 
Room 2 
Lecture Block, Sidgwick Site
13:00 - 14:15
Lunch
 Newnham College
14:15 - 15:30
 
Open session: Any reactions? 
Introduced by Tony Lawson

 

Little Hall
 
 
 
19:00 ----
Pub Session?
Granta Pub 
 
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