(5th) 2009 International Keynes Conference

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

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.

Date: 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 Presenter Title Commentator


10:00-12:20
Chair: Jan Kregel

1 Maria Cristina Marcuzzo (Univ. of Rome)
 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 (Barnard 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.) and Takeshi Ikeda (Rikkyo Univ.)

(translators’ report)
On Keynes and his Battles
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 Connection
 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 America
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.

Toshiaki Hirai
(Chief Organizer, Prof., Faculty of Economics, Sophia Univ., Tokyo)