5th 2009 International Keynes Conference at Sophia (IKCS) ― Global Crisis and Keynes: Present and Past

5^th 2009 International Keynes Conference

 at Sophia (IKCS)

―　Global Crisis and Keynes: Present and Past

　　　    　

http://www2u.biglobe.ne.jp/~olympa/cambridge/kokusai/kokusai.htm

The main purpose of this conference is to deepen our understanding of economics past and today and to ask where economics is going, in terms of Keynes’s influence and Keynesianism, which have been influential from the early 1920s up to the present day. It will be discussed in terms of the history of economic thought and economic theory/policy. We will sincerely welcome the collaboration between the two fields of economics.

  This conference is composed of two areas.

(i)  Keynes’s or Keynesian theory/policy in relation to the present global crisis.

(ii)  Keynes’s influences from various points of view such as history, ethics and so forth.

In this conference, economists with diverse backgrounds are invited to contribute his/her paper. We are sure that this project should be a great opportunity to study, examine, and discuss the above themes.

This is the fifth International Keynes Conference (IKC). Based on the IKCs so far held four times, the following book is gonna to be out:

Bateman, Hirai and Marcuzzo, eds. The Return to Keynes, Harvard University Press.

D

ate: 17 (Tues.) [10:00-18:00] and 18 (Wed.) March [10:00-18:00]

Venue: Room 2-510, Fifth Floor, Bldg. 2, Sophia University

Programme

Day 1 (17 March, Tues.)

Time	Presente r	Title				Commentator
10:00-12:20 Chair: Jan Kregel	1 Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (Univ. of Rome, <La Sapienza>)	Speculation in Commodities: Keynes’s “Practical Acquaintance” with Futures Markets1				Toshiaki Hirai
	2 Tsutomu Watanabe (Hitotsubashi Univ.)	The Liquidity Trap: A New Keynesian View				Kevin Hoover
12:20-13:50	Lunch
13:50-16:10 Chair: Maria Cristina Marcuzzo	3 Jan Kregel  (Levy Economics Institute of Bard College)			Keynes,Liquidity Preference and  Bank Bailouts in the Sub-Prime Financial Crisis	Touichiro  　 Asada ( Chuo Univ.)
	4 Perry Mehrling (B arnard College, Columbia Univ.)			Keynes after Modern Finance: Perspectives on the Global Crisis2	Ryuzo Kuroki (Rikkyo Univ.)
16:10-16:40				Coffee Break
16:40-17:50 Chair:Kevin Hoover	5. Atsushi Komine (Ryukoku Univ.) Takeshi Ikeda (Rikkyo Univ.)		(translators’ report) On Keynes and his Battles3		Gilles Dostaler

Day 2 (18 March, Wed.)

10:00-12:20 Chair:Anna Carabelli	6.Gilles Dostaler  (Univ. of Québec at Montreal)		Keynes and the Love of Money: the Freudian Connection4	Hiroyuki Shimodaira (Yamagata Univ.)
	7 Toshiaki Hirai (Sophia Univ.)		International Design and the British Empire	Perry Mehrling
12:00-13:50	Lunch
13:50-16:10 Chair:Bradley Bateman	8 Kevin Hoover (Duke Univ.)		Was Harrod Right?	Yoshihiko Hakamata (Chuo Univ.)
	9 Anna  Maria Carabelli & Mario Cedrini (University of Oriental Piedmont)		The Economic Problem of Happiness: Keynes on Happiness and Economics	Yoshio Watanabe (Meiji Univ.)
16:10-16:40	Coffee Break
16:40-17:50 Chair: Perry Mehrling	10 Bradley Bateman (Denison University)	Keynes Returns to America5		Asahi Noguchi (Senshu Univ.)

70 minutes per paper. 20 min. for a presenter; 10 min. for a commentator, 5 min. for a presenter's response; 25 min.. for general discussion between a presenter and the participants.

1) JHET, forthcoming.

2) Based on his forthcoming book, "The New Lombard Street", Princeton University Press

3) On Keynes and his Battles by Gilles Dostaler (The author is there.)
4) Gilles Dostaler (Univ. of Québec at Montreal) Keynes and the Love of Money: the  

 Freudian Connection (based on Dostaler et Bernard, M., Capitalisme et pulsion de mort, Paris, Albin Michel, 2009)

 5) Bradley Bateman(Denison University)        
   Keynes Returns to America (Based on Bateman, B., Hirai, T. and Marcuzzo, M.C.

 eds., The Return to Keynes, Harvard University Press, forthcoming  ... the

 contributions come from the Conferences so far held).

     Toshiaki Hirai

(Chief Organizer, Prof., Faculty of Economics,

Sophia Univ., Tokyo)