Day 1 | Thursday 19 March 2020 Location: Pôle Sud, room Bering | |
Guest session | Book Launch Event on Postwar Soviet Economics | |
18.00–20:00 | Ivan Boldyrev: Presentation of the book “Economic Knowledge in Socialism” (HOPE supplement, 2019) Olessia Kirtchik: Engineering the Soviet Economy: From Automatic Control to Governance in Complex Systems | |
20:00 | Welcome Cocktail |
Day 2 | Friday 20 March 2020 Location: Château de Dorigny | |
09.30–10.00 | François Allisson, Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche, Pedro Duarte, Yann Giraud and Harro Maas: Welcome and introduction to the conference | |
Session 1 | Development in Context | |
10.00–10.45 | Alain Marciano: How Buchanan’s concern for the South shaped his first academic works | |
10.45–11.15 | Coffee break | |
11.15–12.00 | Nicolás Dvoskin: Social policy agencies in Latin America. Theoretical discussions and political constraints (1950-1980) | |
12.00–14.00 | Lunch at the Geopolis cafeteria | |
Session 2 | Public Opinion and Governance | |
14.00–14.45 | Max Nagel: The rise of macro-finance: A socio-historical analysis of monetary and financial governance in Argentina and Chile | |
14.45–15.30 | Tom Kayzel: Planning and the Rationalisation of Public Opinion: From Discussions to Decisions | |
15.30-16.00 | Coffee break | |
Session 3 | Toolkits | |
16.00–16.45 | Andrej Svorenčik: The First-Price Auction Controversy | |
16.45–17.30 | Ludvig Goldschmidt Pederson: Seeing the Future through the Pork on your Plate – how economists came to politics | |
19.00 | Gala Diner at the Restaurant Le Vaudois |
Day 3 | Saturday 21 March 2020 Location: Château de Dorigny | |
Session 4 | Microfounded Macroeconomics | |
09.15–10.00 | Romain Plassard: The incorporation of agent-based models into the Bank of England’s toolkit | |
10.00–10.45 | Chung-Tang Cheng: Richard Stone’s Cambridge Crew of Econometricians and the Diffusion of Post-war Microeconometrics | |
10.45–11.15 | Coffee break | |
11.15–12.00 | Tanguy Le Fur: Edward Prescott and the labor supply elasticity: from business cycle fluctuations to aggregation theories | |
12.00–14.00 | Lunch at the Restaurant de Dorigny – Da Nino | |
Session 5 | Mainstream and Heterodoxy | |
14.00–14.45 | Michel De Vroey: Mainstream Economics. Its Rise and Evolution. | |
14.45–15.30 | Alexandre Chirat: Insights on Postwar Economics from JK Galbraith’s project: Postwar Pluralism as a means toward heterodoxy (1952-1973) | |
15.30–16.00 | Conclusion and general discussion |