Rethinking Economics and YSI

Philosophy of Economics Working

Group at STOREP 2018

Whatever Happened
to Economics?
Università degli Studi di Genova
Piazzale E. Brignole
JUNE 27-28, 2018
WEDNESDAY,
JUNE 27
BREAKFAST
UNIVERSITY CAFE 10:00 
10:30 
WELCOME SESSION
ROOM 6 10:30 
Introduction by 11:00 
Rethinking economics,
Young scholars initiative,
Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik

SESSION 1
ROOM 6 11:00 
Methodology and state of the 12:30 
discipline

LUNCH
UNIVERSITY CAFE 12:30 
13:00 
WORKSHOP 1
ROOM 6 13:00 
Diversifying the economic 14:30 
toolkit

PARALLEL SESSION 2-3

ROOM 7 14:30 
Institutions and Indicators 16:00 

ROOM 8
Economic Policy and Growth

BREAK
UNIVERSITY CAFE 16:00 
16:15 
SESSION 4
ROOM 6
16:15
YSI Philosophy of Economics 17:15
Working Group brainstorming

KEYNOTE SPEECH
ROOM 6 17:15 
"Fellow travellers on the road 18:45 
to freedom from neoclassical
economics" 
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo

DINNER 20:00

THURSDAY,
JUNE 28
BREAKFAST
UNIVERSITY CAFE 9:00 
9:30 

WORKSHOP 2
ROOM 19 9:30 
What should an economist 10:30 
know?

BREAK 10:30 
11:00 
DIALOGUE WITH PROF.
GEOFFREY M. HODGSON
ROOM 19
11:00 
The boundaries of Economics
13:00 

BEGINNING STOREP
13:00
CONFERENCE 2018
SESSION 1 - METHODOLOGY AND STATE OF THE
DISCIPLINE

Benedikt Goodman
The increasing homogenity of economics faculties in Norway
and it's underlying factors.

Giulia De Matteis
The challenges posed at the boundaries of economics by
pluralism and contributions and inputs from other disciplines

Leonardo Conte
Quantitative methods for economic sciences: a critical
analysis

Maarten Kavelaars
Pluralism in academic economics education

Moderator: Francesca Barba

SESSION 2 - ECONOMIC POLICY AND GROWTH

Anne Loscher
Overcoming Crises, Stagnation, and the Lower Zero Bound
Problem – The Contribution by the ‘Crank Heretic’ Robert
Eisler

Olivier Malay
History of the search for economic growth

Mateus Lachtermacher
whatever happened to economics - Poverty reduction

Francesca Rhys-Williams
Why we should add a gender lens to the economic toolkit

Moderator: Karen Lin

SESSION 3 - INSTITUTIONS AND INDICATORS

Amarilys Abreu
Legal contestations of economic policies

Juan-Pedro Castro
EU economics: A sample case of institutions as determinants
of the sphere of the economically possible
Tanguy Ollinger
The debt concept
Riccardo Cirio
Analysis of Bretton Woods and Beijing Consensus: similarities
and discrepancies
Moderator: Ross Cathcart