11th International Keynes Conference* Globalization and Financial Markets

11^th

International Keynes Conference*

Globalization and Financial Markets

3rd Floor, Faculty Building 3,

East Campus, Hitotsubashi University
　

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　   Program

21 March (Sat.) 2015

Opening

Session I

Chair: Toshiaki Hirai (Sophia University)

17:15-18:15 (01) William Garside (Waseda University) 

“Does Keynes Have a Message for Slow-growth Japan?”

End

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22 March (Sun.) 2015

 

Session II

Chair: Jiro Obata (Rissho University)

9:30-10:30 (02) Jan Toporowski (SOAS, University of London)

“Keynes, International Credit Money, and Exchange Rate Effectiveness”

Comment: Yasutoshi Noshita (Kokushikan University)

10:30-11:30 (03) Toshiaki Hirai (Sophia University)

“Capitalism and Globalization”

Comment: Eleonora Sanfilippo (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio)

11:30-12:30 (04) Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (University of Rome

 <La Sapienza>)

    “Financialization of Commodities in Perspective. A Viewpoint from Keynes's Investments”

Comment: Nobuhiro Itoh (Takasaki City University of Economics)

 

　　Session III

Chair: Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

14:30-15:30 (05) Eleonora Sanfilippo (University of Cassino and Southern Lazio)

“Investing in Commodities: Keynes's Practice in Speculation”

Comment: Asahi Noguchi (Senshu University)

15:30-16:30 (06) Jan Kregel (Levy Economics Institute of Bard College)

"Keynes, Minsky and International Financial Fragility"

Comment: Yoshio Watanabe (Meiji University)

16:30-18:00 Round Table: On Fighting Market Failure (Routledge, 2012)　 Translated (Nihon Keizai Hyouronsha, 2015 [forthcoming])

  Chair: Toshiaki Hirai

Author:Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

  Panelists:

Ryuzo Kuroki (Rikkyo University)

　 Yoshihiko Hakamata (Chuo University)

   Nobuhiro Ito (Takasaki City University of Economics)

Finale

10th International Keynes Conference Present and Past Globalization ― Keynes’s Relevance Today ―

10^th International Keynes Conference

            　

Present and Past Globalization

― Keynes’s Relevance Today ―

 

Supported by the Keynes Society Japan (KSJ)

16 March (Sun.) 2014

15:00-15:15 “On KSJ Activities for Our Foreign Colleagues”

Toshiaki Hirai (President, KSJ)

Session I 

Chair: Julio Lopez

15:15  Cristina Marcuzzo

　　　

　　“Whatever Happened to the Keynesian Multiplier”

Discussant: Hirohiko Okumura (Gakushuin University)

16:15  Jiro Obata (Rissho University)

     

“A Development of Theory of Money from Keynes to Hicks”

Discussant: Cristina Marcuzzo

17:15 – 18:15 Beth Genné (University of Michigan)

“Royal Ballet Society and Keynes” (provisional)

End

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17 March (Mon.) 2014

 

Session II. Keynes and International System

Chair: Giuseppe Fontana

10:00 Anna Carabelli

“Globalisation and Keynes’s Ideal of a “Sounder Political Economy between All Nations”

Discussant: Nobuhiro Itoh

11:00 Toshiaki Hirai

 “Keynes’s Battle over International Monetary System

                ― System Designer vs Pragmatist”

Discussant: Anna Carabelli

12:00  Giuseppe Fontana (University of Leeds)

“Central Banking in a Monetary Union: A Monetary Theory of Production Perspective”

　　Discussant: Julio Lopez

 

Session III.

Chair: Anna Carabelli

15:00 Julio Lopez, Mexico

“The Macroeconomics of the Neoliberal Reforms: Mexico’s Experience”

Discussant: Masao Ishikura

16:00  Asahi Noguchi

“Controversies regarding Monetary Policy and Deflation in Japan from the 1990s to the early 2000s”

Discussant: Giuseppe Fontana 

17:00 -18:00 Round Table: On The Return to Keynes Translated

Presenter: Cristina Marcuzzo

Panelists

Atsushi Naito　

Yuichi Kimura

Hiroyuki Shimodaira

End

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*[Breakdown]

Presentation  30 min.

 Discussant  5min.

Rejoinder  5min.

Floor  20min.

9th International Keynes Conference Exploring Keynes from Various Fronts

9^th International Keynes Conference

Exploring Keynes from Various Fronts

Supported by the Keynes Society Japan (KSJ)

Sano Shoin, Hitotsubashi University

19 March (Tues.) 2013

15:00 “On KSJ Activities for Our Foreign Colleagues”

Toshiaki Hirai (President, KSJ)

Session I. Governance, Money and Uncertainty

Chair: Louis-Philippe Rochon (Laurentian University, Canada)

 Roderick O’Donnell (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)

 “Two Different Approaches to Uncertainty: The Human Characteristics/Abilities Approach, and the Ergodic/Nonergodic Approach”

Discussant: Arata Fujiwara (Rikkyo University)

16:15 Michael Trautwein (University of Oldenburg, Germany)

“Economic Thinking about Transnational Governance: Blind Spots and Historical Perspectives”   

Discussant: Asahi Noguchi (Senshu University)

17:15 Masao Ishikura (Hitotsubashi University)

 　　“Marx and Keynes on Money: from the Perspective of the Value Form and the Money-of-account”

  　

     Discussant: Yasutoshi Noshita (Kokushikan University)

18:15 End of Session

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20 March (Wed.) 2013

 

Session II. Keynes and International System

Chair:Michael Trautwein (University of Oldenburg, Germany)

10:00 Toshiaki Hirai (Hitotsubashi University)

“Keynes and the Transmutation Process of the Plan for Commodity Control

Scheme”

Discussant: Luca Fantacci (Bocconi University, Italy)

11:00 Luca Fantacci (Bocconi University, Italy)

“Keynes’s Commodity and Currency Plans for the Post-War World”

Discussant:Yoshio Watanabe (Meiji University)

12:00 Louis-Philippe Rochon (Laurentian University, Canada)

“Currency Speculation, Capital Controls and the Keynes Plan”

Discussant: Jiro Obata　(Rissho University)

 

Session III. Keynesian Theories and Thinking

Chair: Luca Fantacci (Bocconi University, Italy)

14:00 Toichiro Asada (Chuo University)

“Monetary Stabilization Policy by Means of the Taylor Rule in a Dynamic Keynesian Model with Capital Accumulation”

　　Discussant: Nobuhiro Ito (Takasaki City University of Economics)

15:00 Atushi Naito (Ohtsuki City College)

“Return of the Rentier: Keynes’s View on ‘the Euthanasia of the
Rentier’ Revisited”　　

Discussant: Louis-Philippe Rochon (Laurentian University, Canada)

16:00 Ryuzo Kuroki (Rikkyo University)

“Minsky Moment”

Discussant: Hirohiko Okumura (Gakushuin University)

17:00

End of Session

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*[Breakdown]

Presentation 30 min.

 Discussant 5min.

Rejoinder 5min.

Floor 20min.

8th International Keynes Conference, Firenze, Italy Florence, March 2012

8th International Keynes Conference, Firenze, Italy

Florence, March 2012

Sala Gigli, Palazzo Panciatichi e Capponi-Covoni – Via Cavour, 4

Programme

22 March 2012, Thursday - The World of Finance after Keynes

III Session. Chair: Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham)

(1) 09.15 Toshiaki Hirai, Keynes and the Case for Europe

Discussants: Fabio Ranchetti Fabio Ranchetti (Università di Pisa) and Sergio Nisticò (Università di Cassino); debate

(2) 10.15 Anna Carabelli and Mario Cedrini (University of Eastern Piedmont), Some Foreseeable Disasters of the Global Economy: The High Cost of Neglecting Keynes’s Approach

Discussants: Toshiaki Hirai (Sophia University, Tokyo) and Sergio Nisticò (Università di Cassino); debate

11.15 Coffee break

(3) 11.30 Julio Lopez Gallardo (UNAM, Mexico City), Keynes, Kalecki and the Real World

Discussants: Fernando Cardim de Carvalho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and Anna Simonazzi (University of Rome, La Sapienza); debate

12.30 Lunch: “Trattoria San Lorenzo”, Borgo San Lorenzo 53r

IV Session. Chair: Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (University of Rome, La Sapienza)

(4) 14.00 Fernando Cardim de Carvalho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Liquidity Preference of Banks and Crisis

Discussants: Anna Simonazzi (University of Rome, La Sapienza) and Luca Fantacci (Bocconi University, Milan); debate

(5) 15.00 Luca Fantacci (Bocconi University, Milan), Time for Bancor: Keynes's Currency Plan as a Solution to Global Imbalances

Discussants: Mario Cedrini (University of Eastern Piedmont) and Julio Lopez Gallardo (UNAM, Mexico City); debate

16.00 Coffee break

(6)16.15 Atsushi Komine (Ryukoku University, Kyoto), Why did Keynes promote Grace I in 1921? A Cambridge University Officer’s Attitude towards Conferring Degrees on Women

Discussants: Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (University of Rome, La Sapienza) and Anna Carabelli (University of Eastern Piedmont); debate

7th International Keynes Conference at Sophia (IKCS) Whither the Capitalistic World? ― Dialogue in “Keynes’s Spirits” ―

7th International Keynes Conference

at Sophia (IKCS)

 　　　　　　　

Whither the Capitalistic World?

―　Dialogue in “Keynes’s Spirits” ―

The main purpose of this conference is to discuss how the capitalistic economy is and where it is going to be headed, covering economic theory, economic policy and social philosophy.

  We need a new development, quite different from “New Classical Economics and Neo Liberalism”. Keynes is the very person who can provide us with great insight for breaking through the state of stagnation into which economics and economic policy as well as social philosophy are falling.

  Aware of this problem (in a word, “Keynes’s Spirits), we are to hold this conference.

  Besides the papers to be read, we are to have the <Round-table Discussion: The Present Situation of the World Economy and a special report on the present Chinese social economy.

                                      Toshiaki Hirai (Chief Organizer)

 Dates: March 1 (Tues.) Venue Bldg 2-510 (5th fl.), Sophia University

 March 2 (Wed.) Venue Bldg 12-303 (3rd fl.), Sophia University

Presenters

(1) Jan Kregel
Prof., Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, USA

(2)　Colin Rogers
Prof., Univ. of Adelaide, Australia

(3) Peter Spahn
    Prof. Univ. of Hehenheim, Germany

(4) Linda Grove

Prof., Sophia University (Former Vice-President)

(5) Asahi Noguchi

Prof., Senshu University

(6) Toichiro Asada

   Prof., Chuo University

(7) Yuichi Kimura

   Associate Prof., Saitama University

(8) Toshiaki Hirai

Prof., Sophia University

Commentators

(9) Yoshio Watanabe

  Prof., Meiji University

(10) Atushi Komine

  Prof., Ryukoku University

(11) Nobuhiro Ito

  Lecturer., Takasaki City University of Economics

(12) Atushi Naito

  Associate Prof., Ohtsuki City College

Program

Day 1 (1 March, Tues.)

Time/Chair	Presenter			Title	Commentator
10:30-12:50 Chair: T. Hirai	Colin Rogers			Keynes　and Capitalism	A. Komine
	Toichiro Asada			Central Banking and Deflationary Depression : A Japanese Perspective	J. Kregel
12:50-14:10	Lunch
14:10-15:20 Chair: P. Spahn	Asahi Noguchi		The State of Macroeconomics in View of the World Economic Crisis		A. Naito
15:20-18:00 (15:20 – 16:10) Chair: T. Hirai (15min. per each talk)	J. Kregel (USA), P. Spahn (Germany/EU), T. Asada (Japan) <Round-table Discussion> The Present Situation of the World Economy
(16:10 – 16:40)		Coffee Break
(16:40 – 18:00)		Discussion with the Floor

Day 2 (2 March, Wed.)

10:00-12:20 Chair: P. Spahn		Toshiaki Hirai	International Design and the British Empire	C. Rogers
		Yuichi Kimura	Lionel Robbins and John Maynard Keynes: The Robbins Circle's Counterattack of Laissez-Faire against Cambridge	L. Grove
12:20-13:40		Lunch
13:40-16:00 Chair: C. Rogers	Jan Kregel		Is Keynes's Monetary Policy  à outrance in the Treatise, a forerunner of ZIRP and QE? Did He Change His Mind in the General Theory?		Y. Watanabe
	Peter Spahn		In a Keynesian Mood? Why Exchange Rate Systems Collapse?		N. Ito
16:00-16:50	Coffee Break
16:50-18:00 Chair: J. Kregel		Linda Grove	On Contemporary Chinese Social Economy	T. Hirai

70 minutes per paper. 25 min. for a presenter; 10 min. for a commentator, 10 min. for a presenter's response; 25 min. for general discussion between a presenter and the participants (Round-table Discussion is to follow a different rule).