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).