40CJE Papers

40 YEARS OF THE CAMBRIDGE JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS CONFERENCE PAPERS

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DAY ONE: Tuesday, 12 July 2016

Paper Title Presenter(s)
Session 1 – Opening Session
Chair: Stephen Pratten, Co-Editor of Cambridge Journal of Economics
‘Why bother with social ontology?’ Tony Lawson

To no-one will we sell justice”: the ontology of corruption’ – Presentation

Russia’s Legal Transitions: Marxist Theory, Neoclassical Economics And The Rule Of Lawin‘ – Paper

Simon Deakin
 11:15 -12:45 SESSION 2 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 2A: Financial Innovation (SCR)
Chair: Larry King
Trends in sectoral net lending before and after the crisis in Europe’ Florentin Glötzl, Armon Rezai
Quantitative Easing: A Post-Mortem Maria Ivanova
 ‘Understanding Financial Innovations: An Evolutionary/Post Keynesian Approach Hasan Cömert, Gary Dymski
11:15 -12:45 SESSION 2 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 2B: Central Banking (Ramsden Room)
Chair: Alan Shipman
Monetary institutions and economic growth in Brazil after the Inflation Targeting Regime: theoretical aspects and empirical evidence Elisangela Araujo, Eliane Arauj, Fernando Ferrari-Filho
Central Banking in the 21st Century: the future of the Bank of England Sheila Dow
Can an Institutional Arrangement Defeat Globalization? Central Bank Independence turns Forty Christopher Hartwell
11:15 -12:45 SESSION 2 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 2C: History of Economic Thought – Keynes (McGrath Centre)
Chair: Jochen Runde
The Logic of Keynes’ ‘My Early Beliefs Anna Carabelli, Mario Cedrini
Kalecki’s Critique of Open-Economy Keynesianism Jan  Toporowski
The coming of Keynes to Wall Street, 1931-1939 Carlo Cristiano, Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Eleonora Sanfilippo
13:45 -15:15 SESSION 3 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 3A: Uncertainty (SCR)
Chair: Clive Lawson
Unknown Unknowns and the Black Swan Phil Faulkner, Jochen Runde, Alberto Feduzi
Structural flaws in the Axiomatic approach to Post Keynesianism Rod O’Donnell
 ‘Is Keynesian uncertainty epistemic or ontological? The Davidson / O’Donnell controversy?’ Stefan Voss
13:45 -15:15 SESSION 3 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 3B: Monetary Institutions (Ramsden Room)
Chair: Ken Coutts
A Post-Keynesian Theory for the Yield on Equity Markets Javier Lopez Bernardo
Financialisation, Debt and Inequality: Scenarios Based on a Stock flow Consistent Model’ Daniel Detzer
The effects of financial payments and financial incomes on non-financial companies’ physical investment. Evidence from firm-level data for the EU15 member states Daniele Tori, Ozlem Onaran
13:45 -15:15 SESSION 3 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 3C:
Legal Evolution, Labour & Capital (McGrath Centre)
Chair: Sue Konzelmann
Does labour law hurt labour by reducing employment?’ Simon Deakin & Prabirjit Sarkar
‘Why corporations in developing countries are likely to be even more susceptible to the vicissitudes of international finance than their counterparts in the developed world: A Tribute to Ajit Singh’ José Gabriel Palma
15:45 -17:15 SESSION 4 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 4A: Nature of Money (SCR)
Chair:
 ‘On the ontology of fractional reserve banking Michael Bauwens
 ‘On the Necessity of Money in Smith’s Commercial Society and Marx’s Commodity Producing Economy’  Isabella Weber
Understanding the Shift from Micro to Macro-Prudential Regulation: A Discursive Network Analysis’ Matthias Thiemann, Mohamed Aldegwy, Edin Ibrocevic
15:45 -17:15 SESSION 4 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 4B: Political Economy, Stagnation and Capitalism (Ramsden Room)
Chair: Michael Landesmann
Stagnation in Modern Capitalism? Profitability and Investment amongst Industrialised Economies Jonathan Perraton
Military Spending and Contemporary Capitalism Giorgio D’Agostino, Paul Dunne, Luca Peroni
Secular stagnation or stagnation policy? Steindl after Summers Eckhard  Hein
15:45 -17:15 SESSION 4 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 4C: History of Economic Thought ‐  Cambridge Economics
Chair: Christos Pitelis
Robert Malthus : J.M. Keynes’s ‘First’ Cambridge Economist’  G  M Ambrosi
Harrod and the Cambridge School Fiona Maclachlan
Alfred Marshall’s Intellectual_Tragedy Geoff Harcourt, Peter Kriesler, John Nevile
17:30 -18:30 SESSION 5
Round Table Discussion on ‘‘Developing a career in Heterodox Economics’

DAY TWO: Wednesday, 13 July 2016

9:45 -11:00 SESSION 6 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 6A: Applied Economics in Cambridge (SCR)
Chair: Jonathan Perraton
Accounting for the impact of the DAE: An intellectual history of economic measurement’ Matthew Fright
The New Cambridge School: their Contribution to the History of Economic Thought Graeme Smith
9:45 -11:00 SESSION 6 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 6B: Developments in Social Ontology (Ramsden Room)
Chair: Steven Pratten
 ‘An economy of practices Dave Elder-Vass
 ‘Why Wealth is Poor Concept Patrick Murray, Jeanne Schuker
9:45 -11:00 SESSION 6 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 6C: Heterodox Economics & Teaching (McGrath Centre)
Chair: Michael Kitson
  ‘Curriculum (Non-)Reform in UK Economics: An Analysis Andrew Mearman, Sebastian Berger, Danielle Guizzo Archela
 ‘Reteaching Economics: Challenges and Opportunities Susan Newman & Antonio Andreoni on behalf of Reteaching Economics
11:30 -13:00 SESSION 7 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 7A: Gender, Employment and job quality (SCR)
Chair: Mia Gray
 ‘Gender and Well-Being in Europe: occupation and lifecourse effects’ Mark Smith, Agnieska Piasna, Brendan Burchell, Jill Rubery
‘Explaining Austerity: A social reproduction approach’ Sue Himmelweit
 ‘Shifting Labour Supply Groups, Changing Priorities – Gender, the European Employment Strategy and National Policy Responses Mark Smith, Paola Villa
14:00 -15:30 SESSION 7 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 7B: Wealth Concentration & Poverty (Ramsden Room)
Chair: Geoff Harcourt
 ‘Wealth Concentration, Income Distribution, and Alternatives for the USA Lance Taylor, Ozlem Omur, Armon Rezai
 ‘The Share of the Top One Percent: Is it due to the Marginal Product of Labour or Financialisation?’ John McCombie, Marta Spreafico
‘A class rate of profit for the US economy, 1929-2012’ Simon Mohun
11:30 -13:00 SESSION 7 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 7C: Industrial Districts, Organisation & Policy (McGrath)
Chair: tbc
Britain’s Industrial Evolution: From Industrial Districts to Large Scale Production and Back Again?’ Sue Konzelmann, Birbeck,Frank Wilkinson, Marc Fovargue-Davies,
Industrial Policy in a Changing World: Basic Principles, Neglected Issues and New Challenges’ Ha Joon Chang, Antonio Andreoni
Marshallian Industrial District: the end of an era or adaptation to the global economy? Gabi Dei Ottati
14:00 -15:30 SESSION 8 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 8A: Ethics (SCR)
Chair: tbc
Pluralism in Economics and the Question of Ontological Pluralism Imko Meyenburg
What is the social responsibility of academic economists? Michael Roos
14:00 -15:30 SESSION 8 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 8B: Critique of the Main Stream (Ramsden Room)
Chair: Sheila Dow
Formalising Economics: Social Change, Ideology and Mathematics in Economic Discourse Dimitris Milonakis
Using normative methodology to make pluralism consistent with realism’ Yannick Slade-Caffarel
Production of Commodities by means of Commodities and Non-Uniform Rates of Profits Stefano Zambelli
14:00 -15:30 SESSION 8 – PARALLEL SESSIONS
PARALLEL SESSION 8C: Eurozone Crisis (McGrath)
Chair: Michael Ellman
The ECB monetary strategy: from theory to facts … and beyond?’  Carlos Rodriguez-Fuentes
Neoliberalism, monetary union and the Euro Crisis. A post-Keynesian approach  Engelbert Stockhammer
European Monetary Integration and Disintegration: A Structural Political Economy Approach  Ivano Cardinale, Michael Landesmann
SESSION 9
Round Table Discussion on ‘‘The Future of Economics Teaching’
CONFERENCE ENDS