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The New Economics as ‘Mainstream’ Economics
Thursday 28 January / Friday 29 January 2010
Murray Edwards
College,
Cambridge, UK
(all sessions in the Lecture Theatre of Buckingham
House)
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Thursday 28 January
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| 09.00 |
Registration and coffee (in
the Foyer) |
09.30 |
Session 1: Theoretical Foundations
I: Whole System Approaches
Dr Terry Barker, Chairman of
Cambridge Econometrics and Director of the Cambridge Centre for Climate
Change Mitigation Research (4CMR), Department of Land Economy, University
of Cambridge
Proposed theoretical foundations of ‘New
Economics’: values, resources, money, growth
and policy
Presentation (PDF 362Kb)
Paper (PDF 53Kb)
Prof Gary Dymski, University of California
Riverside
On the possible
replacement fo the 'Effiicent Market' Hypothesis
Paper (PDF 705Kb) |
11.00 |
Coffee
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11.30 |
Session 2: Theoretical Foundations
II: Macroeconomics
Prof
Irene van Staveren: Associate Professor of Feminist Development
Economics, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
From
Gender as an Exogenous or Impact Variable to Gender
as an Endogenous Force in the New Economics
Presentation (pdf 40Kb)
Paper (PDF
123Kb)
Prof
Engelbert Stockhammer,
Associate Professor, Department of Economics,
Vienna University of Economics and Business
The macroeconomics of unemployment reconsidered |
13.00 |
Lunch (in the Foyer) |
14.00 |
Session 3: Theoretical Foundations
III: Aggregation of People
Prof Giuseppe Fontana,
Professor of Monetary Economics, Leeds University Business School, University
of Leeds
The paramount principle of interdependence of aggregate
supply and aggregate demand in the New Economics
Presentation (PDF
166Kb) |
15.30 |
Coffee |
16.00 |
Session 4: Policy Issues I:
Work and Care
Dr
Wendy Harcourt: Society for International
Development
Rethinking the Economics of Care: Women’s Work
at the Crossroads of Production and Reproduction
Paper (PDF
57Kb)
Dr Andrew
Brown, Senior Lecturer in Economics, at the Centre
for Employment Relations Innovation and Change (CERIC), Leeds
University Business School, University of Leeds
Dr
David Spencer, Senior Lecturer in Economics,
Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change,
University of Leeds
Towards a new research agenda on work and well being |
19.00 |
Pre-dinner refreshments (in Foyer) followed by
conference dinner (in the Council
Room)
(There will
be limited space for these refreshments, which
are not included in the advertised prices,
and the Trust may have to exercise discretion about
who can attend.)
After-Dinner Speaker: Dr
Geoff Harcourt
Emeritus Reader in the History of Economic Theory,
Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge
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| Friday 29 January |
09.30 |
Session 5: Policy Issues II:
Social Groups and Individuals
Prof
Jesus Ferreiro, Associate Professor in Economics, Department
of Applied Economics, University of the Basque Country, Bilbao
Prof
Felipe Serrano, Professor in Economics,
Department of Applied Economics, University of
the Basque Country, Bilbao
Long-term uncertainty and social security
systems
Presentation (PDF
108Kb)
Prof
Teresa Ghilarducci, Professor in Economic Policy Analysis,
Director of Bernard Schwartz Centre for Economic Policy Analysis
(SCEPA), The New School for Social Research, New York
Unintended effects? Social insurance and macroeconomic
performance
Presentation (PDF 176Kb) |
11.00 |
Coffee |
11.30 |
Session 6: Policy Issues III: Macroeconomic
Policy
Prof
Philip Arestis, Director of Research, Cambridge Centre for
Economic & Public Policy (CCEPP), Department of Land Economy, University
of Cambridge
Prof Malcolm Sawyer,
Professor of Economics, Leeds University Business School, University of Leeds
Innovative thinking on economic policy and the ‘New
Economics’
Presentation (PDF 46Kb)
Prof Jing
Chen, Assistant Professor, School of Business, University
of Northern British Columbia
Biophysical theory of production: policy implications
Presentation (PDF 41Kb)
Paper (PDF 491Kb)
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13.00 |
Lunch
(in the Foyer)
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14.00 |
Session 7: Policy Issues IV: Globalisation
Issues
Dr
Alfonso Palacio-Vera,
Lecturer in Economics, Complutense University of
Madrid, Department of Applied Economics III, Faculty of Economic
and Entrepreneurial Sciences, Somosaguas Campus,
Madrid
The neutral rate of interest
and role of uncertainty in a New Economics theoretical framework
Presentation (PDF 48Kb)
Prof Korkut
Erturk, Professor of Economics, University of Utah
Rethinking the individual-society nexus and the
role of power vs policy
Paper (PDF 176Kb) |
15.30 |
Coffee
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16.00 |
Session 8: Policy Issues V: Current Economic
Crisis
Prof Eckhard Hein, Professor
of Economics, Berlin School of Economics
Dr
Achim Truger, Senior Economist, the Macroeconomic
Policy Institute (IMK), the Hans-Böckler Foundation
Financial crisis, global recession, economic
policy reactions and long-run requirements for a
New Economics Deal
Presentation (PDF 143Kb)
Dr
John McCombie, Director, Cambridge Centre for Economic & Public
Policy (CCEPP), Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
The End of the Consensus in Macroeconomic Theory, or There and Back Again
(co-authored by Dr Maureen Pike, Oxford Brookes University
Business School)
Presentation (PDF 1.1Mb) |
17.30 |
End of conference
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