International Workshop:

"The Limits to Capitalism:
Economics and Liberalism Re-examined"

March 13th-14th (Sunday-Monday), 2011
Mercury Tower, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

 

March 13 (Sunday)

 

10:40

Opening

10:45-12:30 Roger Backhouse (Univ. of Birmingham)
"James Meade's liberalism"
Comment: Yuichi Shionoya (Hitotsubashi Univ.)
12:30-13:40 Lunch
13:45-16:15

Keith Tribe (Univ. of Sussex)
"Welfare Economics in the Shadow of New Liberalism"
Comment: Satoko Nakano (Meiji Gakuin Univ.), Satoshi Yamazaki (Kouchi Univ.)

Tamotsu Nishizawa (Hitotsubashi Univ.)
"Marshall on Progress and Welfare -From Welfare State to Welfare Society-"
Comment: Katia Caldari (Univ. of Padova)

16:15-16:20 Coffee
16:25-18:00

Daisuke Nakai (Kinki Univ.)
"Sidgwick and the Utilitarian Economic Thought"
Comment: Roger Backhouse

 

Bradley Bateman (Denison Univ.) General Comment

 

March 14 (Monday)

 

10:30-12:00

Ben Jackson (Univ. of Oxford)
"The Think Tank Archipelago: Thatcherism and Neo-Liberalism"
Comment: Atsushi Komine (Ryukoku Univ.)

12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30

Harald Hagemann (Univ. of Hohenheim)
"Germany after WWII: Ordoliberalism, the Social Market Economy, and Keynesianism"
Comment: Yukihiro Ikeda (Keio Univ.), Chikako Nakayama (Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies)

Francesco Cattabrini (Univ. of Rome)
"Modigliani and the Italian Debate over Labor Cost: A Neomarginalist Approach Leading Back to Neoliberal Policies?"
Comment: Atsushi Naito (Ohtsuki City College), Masanobu Sato (Daito Bunka Univ.)

15:30-15:45 Coffee
15:45-17:45

Fabio Masini (Univ. of Rome)
"Designing the Institutions of International Liberalism: the Interwar Period"
Comment: Midori Wakamori (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.)

Makoto Nishibe (Hokkaido Univ.)
"The Trend of Economic Thinking of Market and Money and its Error: What is the Hayekfs Position on the Issues?"
Comment: Harald Hagemann

18:30- Dinner Party