LENT TERM 1994
|
January 17
|
Steve Parsons
De Montfort University
|
Problems with Realism in Economics
|
January 24
|
Frank Wilkinson
Cambridge University
|
Economy and Performance: What do Institutions
do?
|
January 31
|
Colin Rogers
|
The Methodology of Post Keynesianism
|
February 07
|
Tony Lawson
University of Cambridge
|
Abstraction
and Economic
Modelling |
February 14
|
Frank
Hahn |
Does Economic Theory Need Philosophy?
|
February 21
|
Bruce Caldwell
|
Possibilities for, and limits to,
Methodology in Economics
|
February 28
|
Geoff Hodgson
University of Cambridge
|
Varieties of Capitalism: an Institutionalist
Perspective
|
March 07
|
Bruce Caldwell
|
Hayek's Methodology: Explication,
Analysis and Questions
|
EASTER TERM 1994
|
April 25
|
Brian Holley
University of Cambridge
|
The Poverty of Economism
|
May 02
|
Paul Dalziel
|
Process analysis, Realism and Macro-economics
|
May 09
|
Mark Peacock
University of Cambridge
|
Ethnomethodology, Rationality
and Realism
|
May 16
|
Daniel Hausman
|
What is Wrong with Economics?
|
May 23
|
Wade Hands
|
On the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge
|
MICHAELMAS 1994
|
October 10
|
Tony Lawson
University of Cambridge
|
A Predictive Science of Economics?
|
October 17
|
Tony Lawson
University of Cambridge
|
Critical Realism: What is it?
|
October 24
|
Andrew Collier
University of Southampton
|
Problems about Critical Realism
|
October 31
|
Patrick Baert
University of Cambridge
|
Critical Realism and the Social Sciences:
Three Problems
|
November 07
|
Margaret Schabas
|
Is money real?
|
November 14
|
Kumaraswamy Velupillai
|
On the use of `New Mathematics' in
Economics
|
November 21
|
Gabriele Pastrello
|
Time and Equilibrium: Two Illusive
Guests in the Writings of Keynes, Hawtrey and Robertson
|
November 28
|
Steve Fleetwood
University of Cambridge
|
Marx, Hayek and Realism
|
LENT TERM 1995
|
January 23
|
Steve Pratten
University of Cambridge
|
Operationalising Transaction Economics:
Implications and Alternatives
|
January 30
|
Geoff Hodgson
University of Cambridge
|
The Necessity of Habits and Rules
|
February 06
|
Eckehard Rosenbaum
University of Cambridge
|
Value judgements and Evolutionary
Epistemology
|
February 13
|
Frank Hahn
University of Cambridge
|
How do we get from Fiction to
Reality?
|
February 20
|
Gary Mongiovi
University of Jamaica, New York
|
Sraffa, the Surplus Approach and Economic
Method
|
February 27
|
Simon Deakin
University of Cambridge
|
Contracts, Co-Operation and Trust:
the role of the Institutional Framework
|
March 06
|
Jonathon Perraton
University of Sheffield
|
Globalization of Economic Activity?
Some conceptual Issues.
|
March 13
|
Geoff Harcourt
University of Cambridge
|
Doing Economics
|
EASTER TERM 1995
|
May 01
|
John O'Neill
University of Lancaster
|
Essences and Markets
|
May 15
|
Paul Anand
De Montfort University
|
The Economic Anthropology of HIV and
AIDS
|
May 28
|
Aly Fischer
|
Experiments and Economics
|
MICHAELMAS TERM 1995
|
October 09
|
Tony Lawson
University of Cambridge
|
The Possibility of Economics as Science
|
October 16
|
Tony Lawson
University of Cambridge
|
Critical Realism: A Theory of Social
Reality
|
October 23
|
Jochen Runde
University of Cambridge
|
Assessing Causal Explanations
|
October 30
|
Fiona Scheibl
University of Hertfordshire
|
Critical Realism: Implications for
Applied Research
|
November 06
|
Steve Fleetwood
University of Cambridge
|
A Realist Critique of Theories of
Trade Unions
|
November 13
|
Geoff Hodgson
University of Cambridge
|
Biological Metaphors and Economics:
From 1890s to 1990s
|
November 20
|
Antonio Califati
University of Ancona
|
How do Collective Agents Think?
|
November 27
|
John Foster
University of Queensland
|
Theorising Historical Processes in
Economics: From Timelessnesss to Time Irreversibility
|
LENT TERM 1996
|
January 22
|
Steve Pratten
University of Cambridge
|
The Closure Assumption as a `first
step': on Coherence in Post Keynesianism
|
January 29
|
Frank Wilkinson
University of Cambridge
|
Trust in Business Relationships.
|
February 05
|
Jochen Runde
University of Cambridge
|
Is Popper a Popperian?: on Popper,
probabilities and propensities
|
February 12
|
Paul Lewis
University of Cambridge
|
Metaphor and Scientific Realism
|
February 19
|
Alessandro Vercelli
University of Sienna
|
Uncertainty, Rationality and Learning:
a Keynesian perspective
|
February 26
|
Rajani Kanth
|
Against Eurocentred Epistemologies:
A Critique of Science, Realism and Economics
|
March 04
|
Neil Costello
Open University
|
Learning and Routines in High-Tech
Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: The use of rich case studies
|
March 11
|
Des Gasper
|
Needs and Basic Needs
|
EASTER TERM 1996
|
April 29
|
Open Discussion
|
Critical Realism: Criticisms, Possibilities
and Future Directions
|
May 13
|
Geoffrey Ingham
University of Cambridge
|
Money is a Social Realtion
|
May 20
|
Pat Northover
University of Cambridge
|
Evolutionary Growth Theory and Forms
of Realism
|
MICHAELMAS TERM 1996
|
October 14
|
Tony Lawson
University of Cambridge
|
Do Economists Need Methodology?
|
October 21
|
Tony Lawson
University of Cambridge
|
Theorising Social Being
|
October 28
|
Geoff Hodgson
University of Canmbridge
|
Thorstein Veblen and the Genesis of
Evolutionary Economics
|
November 04
|
Patrick Baert
University of Cambridge
|
A Critique of the Economic Approach
in the Social and Political Sciences.
|
November 11
|
Jane Humphries
University of Cambridge
|
Feminist Economics
|
November 18
|
Scott Meikle
University of Glasgow
|
The Metaphysical Formation of the
Economic Realm
|
November 25
|
Steve Fleetwood
University of Cambridge
|
Beyond realism? Recent developmentsin
Economic Methodology.
|
December 02
|
David Youngand Bernard Walters
University of Manchester
|
What is Post Keynesianism? A critique
Of Recent Assessments
|
LENT TERM 1997
|
January 20
|
Steve Pratten
University of Cambridge
|
Needs and Wants: The Case of Broadcasting
policy.
|
January 27
|
Round Table Discussion
|
Evolutionary Economics.
|
February 03
|
Peter Lipton
University of Cambridge
|
Contrastive Explanation
|
February 10
|
Willy Brown
University of Cambridge
|
Methodological Issues in Industrial
Relations Research
|
February 17
|
Tony Lawson
University of Cambridge
|
Assessing some Recurring Criticisms
of Critical Realism
|
February 24
|
Tom Boylan andPaschal O'Gorman
Universityof Galway
|
Causal Holism
|
March 03
|
Paul Downward
University of Stafford
|
A Realist Re-evaluation of Post Keynesian
Pricing Theory.
|
March 10
|
Simon Deakin
University of Cambridge
|
Contract Theory: the Necessity of
Inter-Disciplinary Research
|
EASTER TERM 1997
|
April 28
|
Tony Lawson
University of Cambridge
|
What is Economics?
|
May 12
|
Diana Strassmann
Rice University
|
Identifying Economic Texts as Social
Objects; or Why the Need for a Journal of Feminist Economics?
|
May 19
|
Heinrich Bortis
|
Keynes' Philosophy
|
MICHAELMAS TERM 1997
|
October 13
|
Tony Lawson
University of Cambridge
|
Why bother with methodology?
|
October 20
|
Tony Lawson
University of Cambridge
|
A theoryof Social Reality
|
October 27
|
Geoff Hodgson
University of Cambridge
|
Economics: Where Should We Start?
|
November 03
|
Clive Lawson
University of Cambridge
|
A Competence Theory of the Region
|
November 10
|
Dan Hausman
|
Explanation and Diagnosis in Economics
|
November 17
|
Roy Rotheim
|
Realism and Post Keynesian policy
|
November 24
|
Sheila Dow
Stirling University
|
Hume Smith and Critical realism
|
December 01
|
Thorbjoern Knudsen
Copenhagen Business School
|
Perspectivism or Realism in the Assessment
of Research Fields?
|
LENT TERM 1998
|
| January
19
|
Stephen Pratten
University of Cambridge
|
Making sense of Coase
|
| January
26
|
Roger Backhouse
University of Birmingham
|
Uncritical Realism
|
| February
02
|
Ron Martin
University of Cambridge
|
The New Geographical Turn in Economics:
Some Critical Reflections
|
| February 09
|
Mark Peacock
|
Charity Ends with the Lottery: the
National Lottery, Economic Reason, and the Probability of Altruism
|
| February 16
|
Michael Pollitt
University of Cambridge
|
Ethics and Economic Performance
|
| February 23
|
Fabienne Peter
University of Harvard
|
Rhetoric vs.Realism in Economic Methodology:
in search of a new Framework for Economics
|
March 02
Afternoon and Evening Workshop
Feminist Phiosophy:
Realism and the Post Enlightenment Critique.
What Future for
Feminist Theory?
|
Alison Assiter and Anne
Seller
Kate Soper
Caroline New
|
Can there be a Feminist Realist Epistemolgy?
Humanism, Feminism and Postmodernism
Realism, Feminism and the New Idealism
|
| March 09
|
Mie Augier
Copenhagen Business School
|
Knowledge, Rationality, and Decision-Making:
A Realist Perspective
|
EASTER TERM 1998
|
April 27
|
Geoff Harcourt
University of Cambridge
|
On Political Economy, Religion and
Method
|
May 11
|
Fred Lee
De Montfort University
|
Critical Realism, Grounded Theory
and Post Keynesian Economics
|
May 18
|
Neil Costello
Open University
|
Routinising Change in High Technology
Small Firms
|
MICHAELMAS TERM 1998
|
October 12
|
Tony Lawson
University of Cambridge
|
Moving Economics Forward. What has
Methodology got todo with it?
|
October 19
|
Tony Lawson
University of Cambridge
|
Moving Economics Forward: Economics
and Reality
|
October 26
|
Jochen Runde
University of Cambridge
|
Information Knowledge and Agency:
The Information-
Theoretic Approach and the Austrians.
|
November 02
|
Geoff Hodgson
University of Cambridge
|
The Old and the New Insitutionalism.
|
November 09
|
Paul Downward and John Finch
Universities of Stafford
and Aberdeen
|
Empirical Methods and Inference: a
Realist Commentary
|
November 16
|
Flavio Comim
University of Cambridge
|
Is there Commonsense in Critical Realism?
|
November 23
|
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
|
A Philosophical Critique of Rational
Choice Theory.
|
November 30
|
Christian Knudsen
Copenhagen Business School
|
Do Methodological Choices Have Theoretical
Implications? Sidney Winter's Realist Critique of Milton Friedman's
Instrumentalist
Methodology.
|
LENT TERM 1999
|
January 18
|
Geoff Hodgson
University of Hertforshire
|
Structures and Institutions: Reflections
on Institutionalism and Critical Realism
|
January 25
|
Paul Lewis and Jochen Runde
University of Cambridge
|
A Critical Realist Perspective on
Paul Davidson's Methodological Writings on and Rhetorical Strategy for
Post Keynesian Economics
|
February 01
|
Wendy Olsen
University of Bradford
|
Credit Markets and Critical Realism
|
February 08
|
Sheila Dow
University of Stirling
|
Post Keynesianism and Critical Realism:
What is the connection?
|
February 15
|
Stephen Nash
University of Cambridge
|
Uncertainty and Welfare: Frank Knight's
expansion of Welfare Economics
|
February 22
|
Ingrid Robeyns
University of Cambridge
|
Methodological Issues in Feminist
Economics
|
March 01
|
Esther-Mirjam
Sent
University of Notre Dame
|
Simon Simulating Science
|
EASTER TERM 1999
|
April 26
|
Geoff Hodgson
University of Hertfordshire
|
The Supposed Theoretical and Policy
Implications of Critical Realism: A Critique
|
May 10
|
Mark Setterfield
Trinity College, Hartford CT
|
Critical Realism and Formal Modelling:
Incompatible Bedfellows?
|
May 17
|
Arjo Klamer
University of Rotterdam
|
The Art of Economic Persuasion
|
MICHAELMAS TERM 1999
|
October 11
|
Tony Lawson
University of Cambridge
|
The Place of
Methodology in Modern Economics
|
October 18
|
Tony Lawson
University of Cambridge
|
Economics as
Realist Social Theory
|
October 25
|
Sylvia Walby University
of Leeds
|
The Science
Question in Feminism Revisited
|
November 01
|
Steve Pratten
Kings College London
|
Economics as
Progress: Econometric Modelling and Critical Realism as Programmes for
Research
|
November 08
|
Chuck McCann
University of Pittsburgh
|
Hayek Through
the Lens of Critical Realism
|
November 15
|
Geoff Hodgson
University of Hertfordshire
|
Is Social Evolution
Lamarckian or Darwinian?
|
November 22
|
Michelle
Baddely University
of Cambridge
|
A Defence of
econometrics
|
November 29
|
Brian Pinkstone
University of Adelaide
|
Persistent Demi-Regs,
Robust Tendencies and Anticipating the Future : Critical Realism and
the
Singer-Prebisch Thesis
|
LENT TERM 2000
|
24 January
|
Paul Lewis
and Jochen Runde
University of Cambridge
|
Intersubjectivity in Economics: a
critical realist perspective
|
31 January
|
Andrew Sayer University
of Lancaster
|
Associational Versus Counterfactual
Thinking
|
07 February
|
Penny Hawkins
University of
Stirling
|
Constraints
in Economic theory
|
14 February
|
Geoff Hodgson
University of Hertfordshire
|
Darwin, Veblen and the Problem
of Causality in Economics
|
21 February
|
Andy Brown, Gary Slater and David
Spencer
(Universities of East London, Leeds and
Leeds, respectively)
|
Driven to Abstraction? Critical realism
and the search for the ‘inner
connection’ of social phenomena.
|
28 February
|
Edward
Fullbrook
Bristol
|
From Paradigmatic to Non-Paradigmatic
Rationality
|
06 March
|
Richard Arena
University of Nice
|
Understanding Hayek's contribution:
should the emphasis be on change or on continuity?
|
13 March
|
Cristos Pitelis
University of Cambridge
|
The Approach of Edith Penrose
|
EASTER TERM 2000
|
05 -07 May
|
|
|
15 May
|
Clive Lawson
|
Round table on:
What are social relations?
|
22 May
|
Tony Lawson
|
Ethics and realist philosophy
|
MICHAELMAS TERM 2000
|
09 October
|
Tony Lawson
|
Realist and other approaches to methodology
|
16 October
|
Tony Lawson
|
Explanatory strategy appropriate to
(the nature of) social reality
|
23 October
|
Bruce Caldwell
(London School of Economics)
|
Why Hayek?
|
30 October
|
Geoff Hodgson
(University of Hertfordshire)
|
Old And New Institutionalism
|
06 November
|
Phil Falkner
|
Some problems with the conception
of the human subject in critical realism
|
13 November
|
Steve Dunn
(Leeds University Business School)
|
Post Keynesian Economics: an open
systems approach
|
20 November
|
Jochen Runde
|
Filling in the Background
|
27 November
|
Paul Lewis
|
The applicability of Economic Models
|
LENT TERM 2001
|
22 January
|
Alan Shipman
|
Realism versus Pragmatism (with an
application to evolutionary economics)
|
29 January
|
Geoff Hodgson
(University of Hertfordshire)
|
The Complex
Evolution of a Simple Traffic Convention: The Nature and Function of
Habit
|
05 February
|
Stephanie Blankenburg and Geoff
Harcourt
|
The 1920s debate on the representative
firm and increasing returns: methodological aspects and implications.
|
12 February
|
Alfonso Salinas
|
Economics: between the necessity and
the impossibility of ethics
|
19
February
|
Axel
Leijonhufvud
(University of Trento)
|
What kind of Neoclassical Theory do
we want?
|
26 February
|
Leon Montes
|
Smith and Newton: some methodological
issues concerning general equilibrium
|
05 March
|
Mario Da Graça Moura
(University of Porto)
|
Schumpeter on Theory and History
|
12 March
|
Leading representatives from Paris
of the post-autistic economics movement.
|
The state of modern economics
|
EASTER TERM 2001
|
30 April
|
Clive Spash
|
Round table on:
Environmental Values
|
07 May
|
Bank Holiday
|
No Seminar
|
14 May
|
Ingrid Robeyns
|
Round Table on:
The Capabilities Approach
|
21 May
|
Leon Montes
|
Round table on:
Why should economists bother with the
History of Thought?
|
MICHAELMAS TERM 2001
|
08 October
|
Tony Lawson
|
Realist social theorising:
Why might economists turn to it?
|
15 October
|
Tony Lawson
|
Realist social
theorising: Implications for economic practice?
|
22 October
|
Representatives of The Cambridge
27
|
|
29 October
|
Geoff Hodgson
(University of Hertfordshire)
|
John Commons and the Foundations of
Institutional Economics
|
05 November
|
Clive Lawson
|
What is Technology?
|
12 November
|
Paul Lewis
|
The Austrian School and the Reclamation
of Reality in Modern Economics
|
19 November
|
Julie Nelson
(Tufts University)
|
Feminism and Economics
|
26 November
|
Sheila Dow
(University of Stirling)
|
Uncertainty in Economic Thought:
A Reconsideration with respect to Model Uncertainty
|
LENT TERM 2002
|
21 January
|
Ed Nell
(New School for
Social Research)
|
Critical Realism and Transformational
Growth.
|
28 January
|
Simon Deakin
|
Legal Memetics:
Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Legal Change
|
04 February
|
Christos Pitelis
|
On Economics and Business Ethics'
|
11 February
|
Jenneth Parker
|
Positivist methodology and fundamentalism
in economics: with
special reference to structural adjustment
and the World Bank'
|
18 February
|
Ugo Pagano
(University of Siena)
|
Critical Realism and Institutionalism
|
25 February
|
Steve Dunn
|
Keynes and
Transformation: Some Reflections
|
04 March
|
Frank Hahn
|
Are Philosophy and Methodology harmful?
|
11 March
|
Dave Taylor
|
Information Science Concepts for
Economists
|
EASTER TERM 2002
|
29 April
|
Mary Morgan
(London School of
Economics)
|
Seeing the World in
Models
|
06 May
|
Bank Holiday
|
Bank Holiday
|
13 May
|
Peter Dickens
|
Changing Nature, Changing Ourselves:
a Critique and Reconstruction of the `Risk Society' Thesis.
|
20 May
|
Lawrence
Hamilton
|
Needs and
Politics Beyond Rights and Preferences
|
MICHAELMAS TERM 2002
|
October 14
|
Tony Lawson
|
Limitations of Modern Economics
(or: Why turn to Realist Social Theorising?)
|
October 21
|
Tony Lawson
|
Possibilities
for Economics
|
October 28
|
Stephen Pratten
(Kings College, London)
|
Comparing Cambridge Realist Social
Theorising and the LSE Approach to Econometrics.
|
November 04
|
Mario da
Graça Moura
(University of Porto)
|
Realist Social Theorising and the
History of Economic Thought
|
November 11
|
Alan Shipman
|
Is Globalisation Real?
|
November 18
|
Geoffrey Hodgson
(University of Hertfordshire)
|
The Legal Nature of the Firm and the
Myth of the Firm-Market Hybrid
|
November 25
|
Philip Faulkner and Jochen Runde
|
Information, Knowledge and Agency
|
December 02
|
Gregor Zwirn
|
'Friedrich August von Hayek - Methodological
Individualist or
Methodological Atomist?'
|
LENT TERM 2003
|
January 20
|
Stephen Pratten
(Kings College,
London)
|
The Conflict Between Formalism and
Realisticness in Modern Economics: the Case of the New Institutional
Economics
|
January 27
|
Steven Fleetwood
(University of Lancaster)
|
What is a Labour Market?
|
February 03
|
William Oliver Coleman
(University of Tasmania)
|
What is criticism for?
|
February 10
|
Paul Downward
(Staffordshire University)
|
Applied Economics: Can There be a
Critical Realist Approach?
|
February 17
|
Makoto Nishibe
(University of
Hokeido)
|
What is Money?: A look at local currencies
or LETS ( Local Exchange Trading Systems)
|
February 24
|
Francesco Guala
(University of
Exteter)
|
The Methodology of Experimental Economics
|
March 03
|
Jonathan
Köhler
|
Economic Modelling and Reality
|
March 10
|
John Latsis
|
The Arbitrary
Economy
|
EASTER TERM 2003
|
| April 28
|
Bob Rowthorn
|
The Moral Challenge of Globalisation:
migration and other issues
|
| May 5
|
Bank Holiday
|
No Seminar
|
| May 12
|
Jamie Galbraith
(University of Texas)
|
Evolutionary Methods for Economic
History
|
| May 19
|
Ilian Iliev
|
Knowledge and Information in the Economics
of Information Approach: Use, Misuse and Limitations
|
MICHELMAS TERM 2003
|
October 13 |
Tony Lawson
(Cambridge) |
Reorienting Economics: Why and How ? |
October 20 |
Tony Lawson
(Cambridge) |
Reorienting Economics: What are the
consequences? |
October 27 |
Geoffrey Hodgson
(University of Hertfordshire) |
Darwinism and Institutional Economics |
November 03 |
Ben Fine
(London School of Oriental and African Studies) |
Economics Imperialism: If at first you don't
succeed ... |
November 10 |
Clive Hamilton
(Executive Director of The Australia Institute [Australia's
foremost progressive think tank]) |
Liberty and well-being in post-scarcity
society |
November 17 |
Amartya Sen
(Cambridge) |
Sraffa, Wittgenstein and Gramsci |
November 24 |
John Davis
(Universiteit Amsterdam and Marquette University) |
The Theory of the Individual in Economics:
Identity and Value |
December 1 |
Andy Brown
(Leeds University Business School) |
Critical Realism and the Political Economy of
the Euro |
LENT TERM 2004 |
January 19 |
Tony Lawson |
An Ontological Turn: What Difference does it
Make? |
January 26 |
Geoff Hodgson
(University of Hertfordshire) |
Social Darwinism |
February 02 |
Caroline New
(University of Bath Spa) |
Feminist Theorising and Ontology |
February 09 |
Geoffrey Ingham |
The Nature of Money |
February 16 |
Bruce Caldwell
(University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA) |
Hayek's Challenge |
February 23 |
Paul Lewis |
Transforming Economics? |
March 01 |
Paul Lewis and Jochen Runde |
Lachmann and Social-Economic Order |
March 08 |
Mark Setterfield
(Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut, USA) |
Another Look at the Relationship between
'Formalism' and Critical Realism |
EASTER 2004 |
April 26 |
Johnny Lawson |
Autism and Economics: Explaining the Drive
Towards Mathematical Modelling. |
May 03 |
Mark de Rond |
Chance, Choice and Determinism |
May 10 |
Peter Kesting |
The Relation between Routine and Decision: an
Action-Based Approach |
May 17 |
Ilian Iliev |
The Methodological Foundations of the Systems
of Innovation Approach |
MICHAELMAS
2004
|
October 11 |
Tony Lawson |
Tensions in Modern Economics: An Explanation
and Resolution |
October 18 |
Tony Lawson |
Doing Economics Differently |
October 25 |
Geoff Hodgson
(University of Hertfordshire) |
What are institutions? |
November 01 |
Clive Lawson |
Technology and the Bad Life |
November 08 |
Shaun Hargreaves-Heap
(University of East Anglia) |
Critical Realism and the Heterodox Tradition
in Economics |
November 15 |
Stephen Dunn
(Stanford University) |
The Realist Approach of J.K. Galbraith |
November 22 |
Stephen Pratten
(Kings College, London) |
Can we Explain Social Reality Without
Resorting to Fictions? Abstraction,
Idealisation and Isolationism in Economic Theory. |
November 29 |
Paul Downward
(Loughborough University) |
Triangulation in Economic Research:
Reorienting Economics into Social
Science |
LENT 2005
|
January 24
|
Jochen Runde
|
On Rules, Routines and the Adoption of Technological
Innovations
|
January 31
|
Steve Fleetwood
|
Do Economists Explain?
|
February 07
|
Ha-Joon Chang
|
Theorising the Market and the State: an Institutionalist
Perspective
|
February 19
|
John Latsis
|
Convention and Intersubjectivism: New Deveopments in in
French Economics
|
February 21
|
Andrew Mearman
|
Critical Realism in Economics and Open Systems Ontology: A
Critque
|
February 28
|
Andy Brown
(Leeds University Business School)
|
Reorienting Realism in Economics and Open-Systems Ontology:
A Critique
|
March 07
|
Nuno Martins
|
Capabilities as Causal Powers
|
EASTER 2005
|
May 02
|
Rajani Kanth
|
Realism
and Love: Locating Science, Society and Anthropic Discourse
|
May 09
|
Miriam Teschl
|
A Model
of Personal Identity for the Economic Agent
|
May 16
|
Gregor Zwirn
(Universite de Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne)
|
Ludwig
Mises on the Epistemological Foundations og the Social Scienmces
Reconstructed: An Ontological View and Reclassification
|
May 23
|
Tim Foxton
|
Technological Lock-in and the Role of Innovation
|
MICHAELMAS
2005
|
October 10 |
Tony Lawson |
Why Reorient Modern Economics,
and How? |
October 17
|
Tony Lawson |
Reorienting Economics |
October 24
|
Stephen Pratten
|
Ontology and Economics
|
October 31
|
Simon Deakin and Frank
Wilkinson
|
The Law of the Labour
Market: Industrialisation, Employment and Legal Evolution |
November 07
|
Phil Faulkner and Jochen
Runde
|
Getting to Grips with Technology |
November 14
|
Geoff Hodgson
|
The Problem of Formalism in Economics
|
November 21
|
Toru Yamamori
|
A Non-Essentialist Approach to Identity: Sen and
Cultural/Post-Colonial Theories |
November 28
|
Giuseppe Fontana |
Keynesian Uncertainty and Money |
LENT TERM 2006
|
| January 23
|
Hugh Willmott and Ismael Al-Amoudi
|
Realism as an Alluring Discourse: The
Case of Organization Studies |
January 30
|
Irene van Staveren
(Nijmegen Univerity, The Hague)
|
Post Keynenism meets Feminism
|
February 06
|
Geoff Harcourt |
The Cambridge Approach to Economics |
February 13
|
David Tyfield
(University of Exeter)
|
Incorporating Schuumpeter into Realist Ontology |
February 20
|
Patrick Baert
|
Pragmatist philosophy of social research - a proposal
|
February 27
|
Shailaja Fennell
|
Bodies and spaces: conceptualising gender research in rural labour markets
|
March 06
|
Jack Vromen
(Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam)
|
Conjectural Revisionary Ontology and Theoretical Pluralism
|
March 13
|
Andy Brown
(University of Leeds)
|
A materialist development of some recent contributions to
the labour
theory of value
|
|
May 01
|
Bank Holiday
|
No Seminar
|
May 08
|
Kate Kenny
|
Subjectivity in UK Non Profit Organizations: Insights from an
in-depth study |
May 15
|
Ismael Al-Amoudi |
What are social rules?
|
May 22
|
Arnis Vilks
(Leipzig School of Management
|
Positivism. Game Theory and the 'Classh of Civilisations'
|
|
October 09
|
Tony Lawson
|
How can methodology reasonably make a difference to economics? |
October 16
|
Tony Lawson |
Doing Economics differently |
October 23 |
Pete Boettke
(George Mason University) |
Comparative Historical Political Economy |
October 30 |
Clive Lawson |
Clarence Ayres and Technology |
November 06 |
Dave Elder-Vass
(Birkbeck College London) |
A Method for Social Ontology |
November 13 |
Nancy Cartwright
(London School of Economics)
|
What Use is Causal Inference? |
| November 20 |
Geoff Hodgson
(University of Hertfordshire)
|
An Institutional and Evolutionary Perspective on Health Economics
|
November 27
|
Vinca Bigo and Nitya Mohan |
Care in Economics |
|
January 22
|
Christian Arnsperger
(University of Louvain)
|
Tales of an Unconscious Critical Realist:
From Homo Economicus to Complexity and Dialectics
|
January 29
|
Thomas McQuade
(New York
University)
|
Science
and the
Market
|
| February 05
|
Olivier Favereau
(Université Paris X et CNRS)
|
What is the (French) Convention School?
|
| February 12
|
Michelle Baddeley
|
Keynes and Neuroeconomics
|
| February 19
|
Alistair Dow
(Glasgow Caledonian University) |
History and Economics: Staples and
Political Economy
|
| February 26
|
Margaret Schabas
(University of British Columbia)
|
The Natural Origins of Economics
|
| March 05
|
John Latsis, Clive Lawson and Nunon
Martins |
Round Table on: "Why Bother with
Ontology?"
Launch of: "Contributions to Ontology",
edited by John Latsis, Clive Lawson and Nuno
Martins |
| March 12
|
Gabriel Palma
|
From fundamentalism to idolatry: Why did
mainstream economics switch from the ‘worship of a concept’ (the
efficiency of free markets) to the
‘worship of a thing’ (mathematics)’.
|
|
|
October 08
|
Tony Lawson
(Cambridge)
|
Some Problems of Modern Economics (and a Solution)
|
October 15
|
Tony Lawson
(Cambridge)
|
What is Heterodox Economics?
|
October 22
|
Brian Pinkstone
(University of Western Australia)
|
Some Applications of Critical Realism
|
October 29
|
Geoffrey Ingham
(Cambridge)
|
Recent Debates on the Nature of Money
|
November 05
|
Ben Fine
(SOAS London)
|
The Economics of Identity and the Identity of Economics
|
November 12
|
Geoffrey Hodgson
(University of Hertfordshire)
|
Prospects for Economic Sociology
|
November 19
|
Arnoud de Meyer
(Cambridge)
|
Making Sense out of Empirical Data on Technology Management
|
November 26
|
Erik Olsen
(University of Missouri-Kansas City)
|
Rethinking Social Ontology in Political Economy |
|
January 21 |
Ha-Joon Chang
(Cambridge) |
Institutional Change and Economic Development |
January 28 |
Andrew Gamble
(Cambridge) |
What have the Austrians ever done for us? Hayek and the Nature of Economic Reasoning. |
February 04 |
Michael Joffe
(Imperial College, London)
|
What would a Scientific Economics Look Like? |
February 11 |
Nuno Martins
(Portuguese Catholic University, Porto) |
Neuroeconomics: Methodological Issues |
February 18 |
Julie Nelson
(Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts) |
What is Care?
|
February 25 |
Stephen Pratten
(Kings College, London) |
Critical Realism and Causality: Tracing the
Aristotelian Legacy' |
March 03 |
Uskali Maki
(Academy of Finland, Helsinki)
|
Why (Genuinely Critical) Realists love Unrealistic Models |
March 10 |
Vinca Bigo
(Cambridge) |
Explaining the (Mathematical) Orientation of Modern Economics |
MICHAELMAS TERM 2008
|
October 13 |
Tony Lawson
(Cambridge) |
Does Economics, in Particular an Economics seeking to be Scientific,
require, or even legitimately support, Methods of Mathematical
Modelling ? |
| October 20 |
Tony Lawson
(Cambridge) |
Heterodox Economics and Pluralism |
October 27 |
Phil Faulkner and Jochen Runde
(Cambridge) |
Ontology, Technology and the Transmuting Turntable |
November 03 |
Gabriel Palma
(Cambridge)
|
How did Neo-Liberalism and the lack of Critical Thinking in Economics get
us where we are today?
|
November 10 |
Martin Kilduff
(Cambridge) |
Red in Tooth and Claw: The Struggle for New Knowledge in Organisations |
November 17 |
Dave Elder-Vass
(University of Essex) |
Emergence, Normativity and the Social Ontology of Organisations
|
November 24
|
Peter Dickens
(Cambridge) |
Cosmic Society: Towards a Sociology of the Universe
|
| December 01 |
Geoffrey Hodgson
(University of Hertfordshire)
|
Capitalism -- Unleashed, Regulated, or Overthrown ? |
|
Jan 19
|
Tony Lawson
|
Ontology and Economics
|
January 26 |
John Latsis, Philippe Batoulier and Jacques Merchiers |
Need and Equity in Healthcare |
February 02
|
Vinca Bigo and Ioana Negru |
Talk postponed (due to weather conditions) |
February 09 |
Mark de Rond and Jochen Runde |
Evaluating Causal Explanations of Samples of One |
February 16 |
Two presentations, two sets of speakers:
1) Vinca Bigo and Ioana Negru (both of Cambridge)
and
2) Gene Callahan
(Cardiff University) |
Towards Pluralism in the Academy:
Must we include everyone? |
February 23 |
Stephen Pratten
(Kings College London) |
Natural Classes, Social kinds and Gender |
March 02 |
Arne Moritz
(Seminar für Philosophie, Martin Luther Universität, Halle, Wittenberg) |
Ontological Aspects of the Fair Trade Debate |
March 09 |
Jamie Morgan and Wendy Olsen
(University of Manchester)
|
Critical Realism and Unfree Labour |
|
Monday
October 19
|
Tony Lawson
|
What is, and Why bother with, Social Ontology?
|
Monday
November 02
|
Andrew Gamble
(Politics, Cambridge) |
The Nature of Crisis
|
Monday
November 16
|
Ha-Joon Chang
(Economics and Development Studies Cambridge)
|
The Nature of Development: Hamlet
without the Prince of Denmark
|
Monday
November 30
|
Nuno Martins
(Portugese Catholic University,Porto)
|
The Nature of Social Evolution
|
|
LENT TERM 2010
|
Monday
January 25
|
Tony Lawson
(Cambridge)
|
Can mathematical modelling in social theory provide any insight? What are the arguments in favour of formal modelling?
|
Monday
February 08
|
Margaret Archer
(University of Warwick) |
Structure - Reflexivity - Agency
|
Monday
February 22
|
Ron Martin
(Cambridge)
|
Rethinking Path Dependence: Beyond Lock-in to Evolution
|
Monday
March 08
|
Adel Daoud
(University of Gothenburg)
|
What is Scarcity?
|
MICHAELMAS TERM 2010
|
Monday
October 18
|
Tony Lawson
(Cambridge)
|
How might Social Ontology help Economics and the rest of Social Science?
|
Monday
November 01
|
Jamie Morgan |
Marshall and the Nature of Modern Economics
|
Monday
November 15
|
Simon Deakin
|
The Nature of Law
|
Monday
November 29
|
Philip Faulkner
and Jochen Runde
|
The Social, the Material, and the Ontology of non-Material Technological Objects
|
LENT TERM 2011
|
Monday
31 January
|
Tony Lawson
(Cambridge)
|
The State of Modern Economics
|
Monday
14 February
|
Nuno Martins
(Portuguese Catholic University, Porto) |
The Revival of Political Economy in the Cambridge Tradition
|
Monday
28 February
|
Steve Pratten
(Kings College, London)
|
Process, Pragmatism and Critical Realism
|
Monday
14 March
|
Filomena de Sousa
(Technical University of Lisbon)
|
Cambridge (Critical) Realism in Context
|
MICHAELMAS TERM 2011
|
Monday
17 October
|
Tony Lawson
(Cambridge)
|
Social Ontology and Economics
|
Monday
31 October
|
Mary Wrenn
(Cambridge) |
Agency and Neo-Liberalism
|
Monday
14 November
|
Stuart Birks
(Massey University, New Zealand) |
Economic Theory: Consistency and Rhetoric?
|
Monday
28 November
|
Ha-Joon Chang
(Cambridge)
|
Institutions and Economic Development: Theory, History, and Policy
|
