Past Workshop Programmes (2020-1994 archive version)
Monday 27 Jan | Tony Lawson | The Nature of Social Reality |
Monday 10 Feb | Simon Deakin | The Ontology of the Corporation |
Monday 24 Feb | Stephen Pratten | Money, Social Positioning and Trust |
Monday 09 Mar | Jana Bacevic | Valuation, Epistemic Positioning, and Inequalities |
Monday 21 Oct | Tony Lawson | Really Rethinking Economics |
Monday 04 Nov | Stephen Medema | The Utility of Fictional Models for coming to grips with Reality |
Monday 18 Nov | Dave Elder-Vass | The Nature of Value and price |
Monday 02 Dec | Paul Lewis | Ontology and the History of Economic Thought |
Monday 28 Jan | Clive Lawson | Technology and a Speeding up of the Social |
Monday 11 Feb | Heikki Patomäki | Reflexivity of Anticipations in Economics and Political Economy |
Monday 25 Feb | Beatrice Sasha Kobow, Trevor Wedman and Bahar Araz | A Panel Discussion on 'The Nature of Value' |
Monday 11 Mar | Christos Pitelis | The Ontology of Organisations, Markets, Business Ecosystems and Entrepreneurship |
Monday 15 Oct | Tony Lawson | How should economics be changed (if at all)? |
Monday 29 Oct | Eckhard Rosenbaum | Institutions and mental models – Some reflections on the interplay of social reality and its representation |
Monday 12 Nov | Geoffrey Hodgson | Why rumours of the death of Max U are exaggerated |
Monday 26 Nov | Lynne Chester | Energy as a constituent of social reality: Can social ontology provide insight? |
Monday 12 Feb | Łukasz Hardt | Classical economists as advocates of economics without laws |
Monday 26 Feb | Paul Lewis | Ontology and the History of Economic Thought |
Monday 12 Mar | Rajani Kanth and Genevieve Vaughan | Eurocentrism and the Gift Economy: A Critique and an Envisioning |
Monday 16 Oct | Tony Lawson (University of Cambridge) | What is wrong with modern economics, and why does it stay wrong? |
Monday 30 Oct | Nuno Martins (Catholic University of Porto) | The Nature of Value: Smith, Marx and Marshall |
Monday 13 Nov | Geoffrey Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire) | The Pathology of Heterodox Economics and the Limits to Pluralism |
Monday 30 Jan | Yannick Slade-Caffarel (Kings College London and CSOG) | What if there is no nature to heterodox economics? |
Monday 13 Feb | Rupert Read (University of East Anglia, and Chair of Green House) | Economics and Science, with special reference to ecological economics. |
Monday 27 Feb | John Latsis (Henley Business School and CSOG) | The Limits of Ontological Critique: from Judgmental Rationality to Justification |
Monday 17 Oct | Tony Lawson (University of Cambridge) | Central fallacies of Modern Economics |
Monday 31 Oct | Dave Elder Vass (University of Loughborough) | How to change economics: learning from the economy beyond the marketplace |
Monday 14 Nov | Simon Deakin (University of Cambridge) | the Ontology of Corruption |
Monday 25 Jan | Jochen Runde (Judge Business School Cambridge) | Material and non-material objects: an object-oriented ontology for information systems research |
Monday 08 Feb | Jamie Morgan (Leeds Beckett University) | What is Neoclassical Economics? |
Monday 22 Feb | Andy Brown (Leeds University Business School) | The Nature of Value and Money |
Monday 19 Oct | Tony Lawson (University of Cambridge) | Economics: some considerations for going forward |
Monday 02 Nov | Roman Eliassen (Anglia Ruskin University), Jostein Løhr Hauge (Cambridge University) and Ivan Rajic (Cambridge University) | Fit for a fix: Why the Economics curriculum needs a pluralist revamp |
Monday 09 Nov | Josef Mensik (University of Brno) | Mathematics and economics |
Monday 30 Nov | Ben Fine (School for Oriental and African Studies) | The Nature of Value |
Monday 15 June | John Searle (University of California, Berkeley) | Critical Issues in Social Ontology |
Monday 26 Jan | Paul Lewis (Kings College London) | The Emergence of "Emergence" in the work of F.A. Hayek: An Historical Analysis |
Monday 09 Feb | Ian Gough (LSE) | Climate Change and Sustainable Welfare: an Argument for the Centrality of Human Needs |
Monday 23 Feb | Tony Lawson (University of Cambridge) | The Nature of the Corporation...... And why Economics, including Economic Philosophy, and Social Theory more widely, need a turn to Social Ontology |
Monday 09 Mar | Beatrice Kobow (Universität Leipzig, Institute of Philosophy) | Do Fictions Help us Understand the World? |
Monday 13 Oct | Tony Lawson (University of Cambridge) | ‘Rethinking Modern Economics’: Twenty or so common myths |
Monday 27 Oct | A Roundtable Discussion | What is the Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism and Why is it Needed? |
Monday 10 Nov | Steve Keen (University of Kingston) | A Defence of Mathematical Modelling in Economics |
Monday 24 Nov | Bendik Bygstad (University of Oslo) | The Generative Mechanisms of Digital Infrastructure Evolution |
Monday 27 Jan | Simon Deakin (University of Cambridge) | What is a ‘company’ and what should we do about it? |
Monday 10 Feb | Paul Lewis (Kings College London) | Hayek, Emergence and Social Order |
Monday 24 Feb | Geoffrey Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire) | What is Capital? |
Monday 03 Mar | Steve Fleetwood (University of West of England) | Labour markets, Labour Market Institutions and the Relationship Between Them |
Monday 21 Oct | Tony Lawson (University of Cambridge) | |
Monday 04 Nov | Bill Waller (Hobart and William Smith Colleges) | Veblen and instincts reconsidered |
Monday 18 Nov | Josef Mensik (University of Brno) | The Nature of Money |
Monday 02 Dec | Nuno Martins (University of the Azores) | The Cambridge Revival of Political Economy |
Monday 28 Jan | Makoto Nishibe (University of Hokkaido) | What is Globalisation and What Does it Do? |
Monday 11 Feb | Jamie Morgan (University of Manchester and Helsinki) | Critical Realism and Constructive Critique in Economics: Contrast Explanation and New Economic Thinking |
Monday 25 Feb | Elodie Bertrand (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) | Realism, Discourse and Practice: the case of Ronald Coase |
Monday 11 Mar | Filomena de Sousa (Faculty of Sciences-University of Lisbon) | Debating Data: On Constitutive and Explanatory Ideas |
Monday 15 October | Tony Lawson (University of Cambridge) | Social ontology as means for a more relevant social theory including economics |
Monday 29 October | Dimitris Milonakis (University of Crete) | Ongoing developments in mainstream economics and what they signify. |
Monday 12 November | John Latsis (Henley Business School) | The perils of performativity |
Monday 26 November | Clive Lawson (University of Cambridge) | Technology, Recombination and Speed |
LENT TERM 2012 | ||
Monday 30 January | Dave Elder-Vass (University of Essex) | Towards A Social Ontology of Market Systems |
Monday 13 February | Jamie Morgan and Heikki Patomäki (University of Helsinki) | Is the Future in the Past? What does it mean to Anticipate the Future? |
Monday 27 February | Tony Lawson (Cambridge) | Mathematical Modelling and Ideology in the Economics Academy: competing explanations of the failings of the modern discipline? |
Monday 12 March | John Mulberg (Open University) | Towards an Institutionalist Political Economy of Allocation |
MICHAELMAS TERM 2011 | ||
Monday 17 October | Tony Lawson (Cambridge) | Social Ontology and Economics |
Monday 31 October | Mary Wrenn (Cambridge) | Agency and Neo-Liberalism |
Monday 14 November | Stuart Birks (Massey University, New Zealand) | Economic Theory: Consistency and Rhetoric? |
Monday 28 November | Ha-Joon Chang (Cambridge) | Institutions and Economic Development: Theory, History, and Policy |
LENT TERM 2011 | ||
Monday 31 January | Tony Lawson (Cambridge) | The State of Modern Economics |
Monday 14 February | Nuno Martins (Portuguese Catholic University, Porto) | The Revival of Political Economy in the Cambridge Tradition |
Monday 28 February | Steve Pratten (Kings College, London) | Process, Pragmatism and Critical Realism |
Monday 14 March | Filomena de Sousa (Technical University of Lisbon) | Cambridge (Critical) Realism in Context |
MICHAELMAS TERM 2010 | ||
Monday October 18 | Tony Lawson (Cambridge) | How might Social Ontology help Economics and the rest of Social Science? |
Monday November 01 | Jamie Morgan | Marshall and the Nature of Modern Economics |
Monday November 15 | Simon Deakin | The Nature of Law |
Monday November 29 | Philip Faulkner and Jochen Runde | The Social, the Material, and the Ontology of non-Material Technological Objects |
LENT TERM 2010 | ||
Monday January 25 | Tony Lawson (Cambridge) | Can mathematical modelling in social theory provide any insight? What are the arguments in favour of formal modelling? |
Monday February 08 | Margaret Archer (University of Warwick) | Structure - Reflexivity - Agency |
Monday February 22 | Ron Martin (Cambridge) | Rethinking Path Dependence: Beyond Lock-in to Evolution |
Monday March 08 | Adel Daoud (University of Gothenburg) | What is Scarcity? |
MICHAELMAS TERM 2009 | ||
Monday October 19 | Tony Lawson | What is, and Why bother with, Social Ontology? |
Monday November 02 | Andrew Gamble (Politics, Cambridge) | The Nature of Crisis |
Monday November 16 | Ha-Joon Chang (Economics and Development Studies Cambridge) | The Nature of Development: Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark |
Monday November 30 | Nuno Martins (Portugese Catholic University,Porto) | The Nature of Social Evolution |
LENT TERM 2009 | ||
Jan 19 | Tony Lawson | Ontology and Economics |
January 26 | John Latsis, Philippe Batoulier and Jacques Merchiers | Need and Equity in Healthcare |
February 02 | Vinca Bigo and Ioana Negru | Talk postponed (due to weather conditions) |
February 09 | Mark de Rond and Jochen Runde | Evaluating Causal Explanations of Samples of One |
February 16 | Two presentations, two sets of speakers: 1) Vinca Bigo and Ioana Negru (both of Cambridge) and 2) Gene Callahan (Cardiff University) | Towards Pluralism in the Academy: Must we include everyone? |
February 23 | Stephen Pratten (Kings College London) | Natural Classes, Social kinds and Gender |
March 02 | Arne Moritz (Seminar für Philosophie, Martin Luther Universität, Halle, Wittenberg) | Ontological Aspects of the Fair Trade Debate |
March 09 | Jamie Morgan and Wendy Olsen (University of Manchester) | Critical Realism and Unfree Labour |
MICHAELMAS TERM 2008 | ||
October 13 | Tony Lawson (Cambridge) | Does Economics, in Particular an Economics seeking to be Scientific, require, or even legitimately support, Methods of Mathematical Modelling ? |
October 20 | Tony Lawson (Cambridge) | Heterodox Economics and Pluralism |
October 27 | Phil Faulkner and Jochen Runde (Cambridge) | Ontology, Technology and the Transmuting Turntable |
November 03 | Gabriel Palma (Cambridge) | How did Neo-Liberalism and the lack of Critical Thinking in Economics get us where we are today? |
November 10 | Martin Kilduff (Cambridge) | Red in Tooth and Claw: The Struggle for New Knowledge in Organisations |
November 17 | Dave Elder-Vass (University of Essex) | Emergence, Normativity and the Social Ontology of Organisations |
November 24 | Peter Dickens (Cambridge) | Cosmic Society: Towards a Sociology of the Universe |
December 01 | Geoffrey Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire) | Capitalism -- Unleashed, Regulated, or Overthrown ? |
LENT TERM 2008 | ||
January 21 | Ha-Joon Chang (Cambridge) | Institutional Change and Economic Development |
January 28 | Andrew Gamble (Cambridge) | What have the Austrians ever done for us? Hayek and the Nature of Economic Reasoning. |
February 04 | Michael Joffe (Imperial College, London) | What would a Scientific Economics Look Like? |
February 11 | Nuno Martins (Portuguese Catholic University, Porto) | Neuroeconomics: Methodological Issues |
February 18 | Julie Nelson (Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts) | What is Care? |
February 25 | Stephen Pratten (Kings College, London) | Critical Realism and Causality: Tracing the Aristotelian Legacy' |
March 03 | Uskali Maki (Academy of Finland, Helsinki) | Why (Genuinely Critical) Realists love Unrealistic Models |
March 10 | Vinca Bigo (Cambridge) | Explaining the (Mathematical) Orientation of Modern Economics |
MICHAELMAS TERM 2007 | ||
October 08 | Tony Lawson (Cambridge) | Some Problems of Modern Economics (and a Solution) |
October 15 | Tony Lawson (Cambridge) | What is Heterodox Economics? |
October 22 | Brian Pinkstone (University of Western Australia) | Some Applications of Critical Realism |
October 29 | Geoffrey Ingham (Cambridge) | Recent Debates on the Nature of Money |
November 05 | Ben Fine (SOAS London) | The Economics of Identity and the Identity of Economics |
November 12 | Geoffrey Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire) | Prospects for Economic Sociology |
November 19 | Arnoud de Meyer (Cambridge) | Making Sense out of Empirical Data on Technology Management |
November 26 | Erik Olsen (University of Missouri-Kansas City) | Rethinking Social Ontology in Political Economy |
LENT TERM 2007 | ||
January 22 | Christian Arnsperger (University of Louvain) | Tales of an Unconscious Critical Realist: From Homo Economicus to Complexity and Dialectics |
January 29 | Thomas McQuade (New York University) | Science and the Market |
February 05 | Olivier Favereau (Université Paris X et CNRS) | What is the (French) Convention School? |
February 12 | Michelle Baddeley | Keynes and Neuroeconomics |
February 19 | Alistair Dow (Glasgow Caledonian University) | History and Economics: Staples and Political Economy |
February 26 | Margaret Schabas (University of British Columbia) | The Natural Origins of Economics |
March 05 | John Latsis, Clive Lawson and Nunon Martins | Round Table on: "Why Bother with Ontology?" Launch of: "Contributions to Ontology", edited by John Latsis, Clive Lawson and Nuno Martins |
March 12 | Gabriel Palma | From fundamentalism to idolatry: Why did mainstream economics switch from the ‘worship of a concept’ (the efficiency of free markets) to the ‘worship of a thing’ (mathematics)’. |
MICHAELMAS TERM 2006 | ||
October 09 | Tony Lawson | How can methodology reasonably make a difference to economics? |
October 16 | Tony Lawson | Doing Economics differently |
October 23 | Pete Boettke (George Mason University) | Comparative Historical Political Economy |
October 30 | Clive Lawson | Clarence Ayres and Technology |
November 06 | Dave Elder-Vass (Birkbeck College London) | A Method for Social Ontology |
November 13 | Nancy Cartwright (London School of Economics) | What Use is Causal Inference? |
November 20 | Geoff Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire) | An Institutional and Evolutionary Perspective on Health Economics |
November 27 | Vinca Bigo and Nitya Mohan | Care in Economics |
EASTER TERM 2006 | ||
May 01 | Bank Holiday | No Seminar |
May 08 | Kate Kenny | Subjectivity in UK Non Profit Organizations: Insights from an in-depth study |
May 15 | Ismael Al-Amoudi | What are social rules? |
May 22 | Arnis Vilks (Leipzig School of Management | Positivism. Game Theory and the 'Classh of Civilisations' |
LENT TERM 2006 | ||
January 23 | Hugh Willmott and Ismael Al-Amoudi | Realism as an Alluring Discourse: The Case of Organization Studies |
January 30 | Irene van Staveren (Nijmegen Univerity, The Hague) | Post Keynenism meets Feminism |
February 06 | Geoff Harcourt | The Cambridge Approach to Economics |
February 13 | David Tyfield (University of Exeter) | Incorporating Schuumpeter into Realist Ontology |
February 20 | Patrick Baert | Pragmatist philosophy of social research - a proposal |
February 27 | Shailaja Fennell | Bodies and spaces: conceptualising gender research in rural labour markets |
March 06 | Jack Vromen (Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam) | Conjectural Revisionary Ontology and Theoretical Pluralism |
March 13 | Andy Brown (University of Leeds) | A materialist development of some recent contributions to the labour theory of value |
MICHAELMAS 2005 | ||
October 10 | Tony Lawson | Why Reorient Modern Economics, and How? |
October 17 | Tony Lawson | Reorienting Economics |
October 24 | Stephen Pratten | Ontology and Economics |
October 31 | Simon Deakin and Frank Wilkinson | The Law of the Labour Market: Industrialisation, Employment and Legal Evolution |
November 07 | Phil Faulkner and Jochen Runde | Getting to Grips with Technology |
November 14 | Geoff Hodgson | The Problem of Formalism in Economics |
November 21 | Toru Yamamori | A Non-Essentialist Approach to Identity: Sen and Cultural/Post-Colonial Theories |
November 28 | Giuseppe Fontana | Keynesian Uncertainty and Money |
EASTER 2005 | ||
May 02 | Rajani Kanth | Realism and Love: Locating Science, Society and Anthropic Discourse |
May 09 | Miriam Teschl | A Model of Personal Identity for the Economic Agent |
May 16 | Gregor Zwirn (Universite de Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne) | Ludwig Mises on the Epistemological Foundations og the Social Scienmces Reconstructed: An Ontological View and Reclassification |
May 23 | Tim Foxton | Technological Lock-in and the Role of Innovation |
LENT 2005 | ||
January 24 | Jochen Runde | On Rules, Routines and the Adoption of Technological Innovations |
January 31 | Steve Fleetwood | Do Economists Explain? |
February 07 | Ha-Joon Chang | Theorising the Market and the State: an Institutionalist Perspective |
February 19 | John Latsis | Convention and Intersubjectivism: New Deveopments in in French Economics |
February 21 | Andrew Mearman | Critical Realism in Economics and Open Systems Ontology: A Critque |
February 28 | Andy Brown (Leeds University Business School) | Reorienting Realism in Economics and Open-Systems Ontology: A Critique |
March 07 | Nuno Martins | Capabilities as Causal Powers |
MICHAELMAS 2004 | ||
October 11 | Tony Lawson | Tensions in Modern Economics: An Explanation and Resolution |
October 18 | Tony Lawson | Doing Economics Differently |
October 25 | Geoff Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire) | What are institutions? |
November 01 | Clive Lawson | Technology and the Bad Life |
November 08 | Shaun Hargreaves-Heap (University of East Anglia) | Critical Realism and the Heterodox Tradition in Economics |
November 15 | Stephen Dunn (Stanford University) | The Realist Approach of J.K. Galbraith |
November 22 | Stephen Pratten (Kings College, London) | Can we Explain Social Reality Without Resorting to Fictions? Abstraction, Idealisation and Isolationism in Economic Theory. |
November 29 | Paul Downward (Loughborough University) | Triangulation in Economic Research: Reorienting Economics into Social Science |
EASTER 2004 | ||
April 26 | Johnny Lawson | Autism and Economics: Explaining the Drive Towards Mathematical Modelling. |
May 03 | Mark de Rond | Chance, Choice and Determinism |
May 10 | Peter Kesting | The Relation between Routine and Decision: an Action-Based Approach |
May 17 | Ilian Iliev | The Methodological Foundations of the Systems of Innovation Approach |
LENT TERM 2004 | ||
January 19 | Tony Lawson | An Ontological Turn: What Difference does it Make? |
January 26 | Geoff Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire) | Social Darwinism |
February 02 | Caroline New (University of Bath Spa) | Feminist Theorising and Ontology |
February 09 | Geoffrey Ingham | The Nature of Money |
February 16 | Bruce Caldwell (University of North Carolina at Greensboro, USA) | Hayek's Challenge |
February 23 | Paul Lewis | Transforming Economics? |
March 01 | Paul Lewis and Jochen Runde | Lachmann and Social-Economic Order |
March 08 | Mark Setterfield (Trinity College, Hartford Connecticut, USA) | Another Look at the Relationship between 'Formalism' and Critical Realism |
MICHELMAS TERM 2003 | ||
October 13 | Tony Lawson (Cambridge) | Reorienting Economics: Why and How ? |
October 20 | Tony Lawson (Cambridge) | Reorienting Economics: What are the consequences? |
October 27 | Geoffrey Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire) | Darwinism and Institutional Economics |
November 03 | Ben Fine (London School of Oriental and African Studies) | Economics Imperialism: If at first you don't succeed ... |
November 10 | Clive Hamilton (Executive Director of The Australia Institute [Australia's foremost progressive think tank]) | Liberty and well-being in post-scarcity society |
November 17 | Amartya Sen (Cambridge) | Sraffa, Wittgenstein and Gramsci |
November 24 | John Davis (Universiteit Amsterdam and Marquette University) | The Theory of the Individual in Economics: Identity and Value |
December 1 | Andy Brown (Leeds University Business School) | Critical Realism and the Political Economy of the Euro |
EASTER TERM 2003 | ||
April 28 | Bob Rowthorn | The Moral Challenge of Globalisation: migration and other issues |
May 5 | Bank Holiday | No Seminar |
May 12 | Jamie Galbraith (University of Texas) | Evolutionary Methods for Economic History |
May 19 | Ilian Iliev | Knowledge and Information in the Economics of Information Approach: Use, Misuse and Limitations |
LENT TERM 2003 | ||
January 20 | Stephen Pratten (Kings College, London) | The Conflict Between Formalism and Realisticness in Modern Economics: the Case of the New Institutional Economics |
January 27 | Steven Fleetwood (University of Lancaster) | What is a Labour Market? |
February 03 | William Oliver Coleman (University of Tasmania) | What is criticism for? |
February 10 | Paul Downward (Staffordshire University) | Applied Economics: Can There be a Critical Realist Approach? |
February 17 | Makoto Nishibe (University of Hokeido) | What is Money?: A look at local currencies or LETS ( Local Exchange Trading Systems) |
February 24 | Francesco Guala (University of Exteter) | The Methodology of Experimental Economics |
March 03 | Jonathan Köhler | Economic Modelling and Reality |
March 10 | John Latsis | The Arbitrary Economy |
MICHAELMAS TERM 2002 | ||
October 14 | Tony Lawson | Limitations of Modern Economics (or: Why turn to Realist Social Theorising?) |
October 21 | Tony Lawson | Possibilities for Economics |
October 28 | Stephen Pratten (Kings College, London) | Comparing Cambridge Realist Social Theorising and the LSE Approach to Econometrics. |
November 04 | Mario da Graça Moura (University of Porto) | Realist Social Theorising and the History of Economic Thought |
November 11 | Alan Shipman | Is Globalisation Real? |
November 18 | Geoffrey Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire) | The Legal Nature of the Firm and the Myth of the Firm-Market Hybrid |
November 25 | Philip Faulkner and Jochen Runde | Information, Knowledge and Agency |
December 02 | Gregor Zwirn | 'Friedrich August von Hayek - Methodological Individualist or Methodological Atomist?' |
EASTER TERM 2002 | ||
29 April | Mary Morgan (London School of Economics) | Seeing the World in Models |
06 May | Bank Holiday | Bank Holiday |
13 May | Peter Dickens | Changing Nature, Changing Ourselves: a Critique and Reconstruction of the `Risk Society' Thesis. |
20 May | Lawrence Hamilton | Needs and Politics Beyond Rights and Preferences |
LENT TERM 2002 | ||
21 January | Ed Nell (New School for Social Research) | Critical Realism and Transformational Growth. |
28 January | Simon Deakin | Legal Memetics: Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Legal Change |
04 February | Christos Pitelis | On Economics and Business Ethics' |
11 February | Jenneth Parker | Positivist methodology and fundamentalism in economics: with special reference to structural adjustment and the World Bank' |
18 February | Ugo Pagano (University of Siena) | Critical Realism and Institutionalism |
25 February | Steve Dunn | Keynes and Transformation: Some Reflections |
04 March | Frank Hahn | Are Philosophy and Methodology harmful? |
11 March | Dave Taylor | Information Science Concepts for Economists |
MICHAELMAS TERM 2001 | ||
08 October | Tony Lawson | Realist social theorising: Why might economists turn to it? |
15 October | Tony Lawson | Realist social theorising: Implications for economic practice? |
22 October | Representatives of The Cambridge 27 | Opening up economics - a proposal by 27 Cambridge PhD students |
29 October | Geoff Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire) | John Commons and the Foundations of Institutional Economics |
05 November | Clive Lawson | What is Technology? |
12 November | Paul Lewis | The Austrian School and the Reclamation of Reality in Modern Economics |
19 November | Julie Nelson (Tufts University) | Feminism and Economics |
26 November | Sheila Dow (University of Stirling) | Uncertainty in Economic Thought: A Reconsideration with respect to Model Uncertainty |
EASTER TERM 2001 | ||
30 April | Clive Spash | Round table on: Environmental Values |
07 May | Bank Holiday | No Seminar |
14 May | Ingrid Robeyns | Round Table on: The Capabilities Approach |
21 May | Leon Montes | Round table on: Why should economists bother with the History of Thought? |
LENT TERM 2001 | ||
22 January | Alan Shipman | Realism versus Pragmatism (with an application to evolutionary economics) |
29 January | Geoff Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire) | The Complex Evolution of a Simple Traffic Convention: The Nature and Function of Habit |
05 February | Stephanie Blankenburg and Geoff Harcourt | The 1920s debate on the representative firm and increasing returns: methodological aspects and implications. |
12 February | Alfonso Salinas | Economics: between the necessity and the impossibility of ethics |
19 February | Axel Leijonhufvud (University of Trento) | What kind of Neoclassical Theory do we want? |
26 February | Leon Montes | Smith and Newton: some methodological issues concerning general equilibrium |
05 March | Mario Da Graça Moura (University of Porto) | Schumpeter on Theory and History |
12 March | Leading representatives from Paris of the post-autistic economics movement. | The state of modern economics |
MICHAELMAS TERM 2000 | ||
09 October | Tony Lawson | Realist and other approaches to methodology |
16 October | Tony Lawson | Explanatory strategy appropriate to (the nature of) social reality |
23 October | Bruce Caldwell (London School of Economics) | Why Hayek? |
30 October | Geoff Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire) | Old And New Institutionalism |
06 November | Phil Falkner | Some problems with the conception of the human subject in critical realism |
13 November | Steve Dunn (Leeds University Business School) | Post Keynesian Economics: an open systems approach |
20 November | Jochen Runde | Filling in the Background |
27 November | Paul Lewis | The applicability of Economic Models |
EASTER TERM 2000 | ||
05 -07 May | For details see conference programme | |
15 May | Clive Lawson | Round table on: What are social relations? |
22 May | Tony Lawson | Ethics and realist philosophy |
LENT TERM 2000 | ||
24 January | Paul Lewis and Jochen Runde University of Cambridge | Intersubjectivity in Economics: a critical realist perspective |
31 January | Andrew Sayer University of Lancaster | Associational Versus Counterfactual Thinking |
07 February | Penny Hawkins University of Stirling | Constraints in Economic theory |
14 February | Geoff Hodgson University of Hertfordshire | Darwin, Veblen and the Problem of Causality in Economics |
21 February | Andy Brown, Gary Slater and David Spencer (Universities of East London, Leeds and Leeds, respectively) | Driven to Abstraction? Critical realism and the search for the ‘inner connection’ of social phenomena. |
28 February | Edward Fullbrook Bristol | From Paradigmatic to Non-Paradigmatic Rationality |
06 March | Richard Arena University of Nice | Understanding Hayek's contribution: should the emphasis be on change or on continuity? |
13 March | Cristos Pitelis University of Cambridge | The Approach of Edith Penrose |
MICHAELMAS TERM 1999 | ||
October 11 | Tony Lawson University of Cambridge | The Place of Methodology in Modern Economics |
October 18 | Tony Lawson University of Cambridge | Economics as Realist Social Theory |
October 25 | Sylvia Walby University of Leeds | The Science Question in Feminism Revisited |
November 01 | Steve Pratten Kings College London | Economics as Progress: Econometric Modelling and Critical Realism as Programmes for Research |
November 08 | Chuck McCann University of Pittsburgh | Hayek Through the Lens of Critical Realism |
November 15 | Geoff Hodgson University of Hertfordshire | Is Social Evolution Lamarckian or Darwinian? |
November 22 | Michelle Baddely University of Cambridge | A Defence of econometrics |
November 29 | Brian Pinkstone University of Adelaide | Persistent Demi-Regs, Robust Tendencies and Anticipating the Future : Critical Realism and the Singer-Prebisch Thesis |
EASTER TERM 1999 | ||
April 26 | Geoff Hodgson University of Hertfordshire | The Supposed Theoretical and Policy Implications of Critical Realism: A Critique |
May 10 | Mark Setterfield Trinity College, Hartford CT | Critical Realism and Formal Modelling: Incompatible Bedfellows? |
May 17 | Arjo Klamer University of Rotterdam | The Art of Economic Persuasion |
LENT TERM 1999 | ||
January 18 | Geoff Hodgson University of Hertforshire | Structures and Institutions: Reflections on Institutionalism and Critical Realism |
January 25 | Paul Lewis and Jochen Runde University of Cambridge | A Critical Realist Perspective on Paul Davidson's Methodological Writings on and Rhetorical Strategy for Post Keynesian Economics |
February 01 | Wendy Olsen University of Bradford | Credit Markets and Critical Realism |
February 08 | Sheila Dow University of Stirling | Post Keynesianism and Critical Realism: What is the connection? |
February 15 | Stephen Nash University of Cambridge | Uncertainty and Welfare: Frank Knight's expansion of Welfare Economics |
February 22 | Ingrid Robeyns University of Cambridge | Methodological Issues in Feminist Economics |
March 01 | Esther-Mirjam Sent University of Notre Dame | Simon Simulating Science |
MICHAELMAS TERM 1998 | ||
October 12 | Tony Lawson University of Cambridge | Moving Economics Forward. What has Methodology got todo with it? |
October 19 | Tony Lawson University of Cambridge | Moving Economics Forward: Economics and Reality |
October 26 | Jochen Runde University of Cambridge | Information Knowledge and Agency: The Information- Theoretic Approach and the Austrians. |
November 02 | Geoff Hodgson University of Cambridge | The Old and the New Insitutionalism. |
November 09 | Paul Downward and John Finch Universities of Stafford and Aberdeen | Empirical Methods and Inference: a Realist Commentary |
November 16 | Flavio Comim University of Cambridge | Is there Commonsense in Critical Realism? |
November 23 | Jean-Pierre Dupuy | A Philosophical Critique of Rational Choice Theory. |
November 30 | Christian Knudsen Copenhagen Business School | Do Methodological Choices Have Theoretical Implications? Sidney Winter's Realist Critique of Milton Friedman's Instrumentalist Methodology. |
EASTER TERM 1998 | ||
April 27 | Geoff Harcourt University of Cambridge | On Political Economy, Religion and Method |
May 11 | Fred Lee De Montfort University | Critical Realism, Grounded Theory and Post Keynesian Economics |
May 18 | Neil Costello Open University | Routinising Change in High Technology Small Firms |
LENT TERM 1998 | ||
January 19 | Stephen Pratten University of Cambridge | Making sense of Coase |
January 26 | Roger Backhouse University of Birmingham | Uncritical Realism |
February 02 | Ron Martin University of Cambridge | The New Geographical Turn in Economics: Some Critical Reflections |
February 09 | Mark Peacock | Charity Ends with the Lottery: the National Lottery, Economic Reason, and the Probability of Altruism |
February 16 | Michael Pollitt University of Cambridge | Ethics and Economic Performance |
February 23 | Fabienne Peter University of Harvard | Rhetoric vs.Realism in Economic Methodology: in search of a new Framework for Economics |
March 02 Afternoon and Evening Workshop Feminist Phiosophy: Realism and the Post Enlightenment Critique. What Future for Feminist Theory? | Alison Assiter and Anne Seller Kate Soper Caroline New | Can there be a Feminist Realist Epistemolgy? Humanism, Feminism and Postmodernism Realism, Feminism and the New Idealism |
March 09 | Mie Augier Copenhagen Business School | Knowledge, Rationality, and Decision-Making: A Realist Perspective |
MICHAELMAS TERM 1997 | ||
October 13 | Tony Lawson University of Cambridge | Why bother with methodology? |
October 20 | Tony Lawson University of Cambridge | A theoryof Social Reality |
October 27 | Geoff Hodgson University of Cambridge | Economics: Where Should We Start? |
November 03 | Clive Lawson University of Cambridge | A Competence Theory of the Region |
November 10 | Dan Hausman | Explanation and Diagnosis in Economics |
November 17 | Roy Rotheim | Realism and Post Keynesian policy |
November 24 | Sheila Dow Stirling University | Hume Smith and Critical realism |
December 01 | Thorbjoern Knudsen Copenhagen Business School | Perspectivism or Realism in the Assessment of Research Fields? |
EASTER TERM 1997 | ||
April 28 | Tony Lawson University of Cambridge | What is Economics? |
May 12 | Diana Strassmann Rice University | Identifying Economic Texts as Social Objects; or Why the Need for a Journal of Feminist Economics? |
May 19 | Heinrich Bortis | Keynes' Philosophy |
LENT TERM 1997 | ||
January 20 | Steve Pratten University of Cambridge | Needs and Wants: The Case of Broadcasting policy. |
January 27 | Round Table Discussion | Evolutionary Economics. |
February 03 | Peter Lipton University of Cambridge | Contrastive Explanation |
February 10 | Willy Brown University of Cambridge | Methodological Issues in Industrial Relations Research |
February 17 | Tony Lawson University of Cambridge | Assessing some Recurring Criticisms of Critical Realism |
February 24 | Tom Boylan andPaschal O'Gorman Universityof Galway | Causal Holism |
March 03 | Paul Downward University of Stafford | A Realist Re-evaluation of Post Keynesian Pricing Theory. |
March 10 | Simon Deakin University of Cambridge | Contract Theory: the Necessity of Inter-Disciplinary Research |
MICHAELMAS TERM 1996 | ||
October 14 | Tony Lawson University of Cambridge | Do Economists Need Methodology? |
October 21 | Tony Lawson University of Cambridge | Theorising Social Being |
October 28 | Geoff Hodgson University of Canmbridge | Thorstein Veblen and the Genesis of Evolutionary Economics |
November 04 | Patrick Baert University of Cambridge | A Critique of the Economic Approach in the Social and Political Sciences. |
November 11 | Jane Humphries University of Cambridge | Feminist Economics |
November 18 | Scott Meikle University of Glasgow | The Metaphysical Formation of the Economic Realm |
November 25 | Steve Fleetwood University of Cambridge | Beyond realism? Recent developmentsin Economic Methodology. |
December 02 | David Youngand Bernard Walters University of Manchester | What is Post Keynesianism? A critique Of Recent Assessments |
EASTER TERM 1996 | ||
April 29 | Open Discussion | Critical Realism: Criticisms, Possibilities and Future Directions |
May 13 | Geoffrey Ingham University of Cambridge | Money is a Social Realtion |
May 20 | Pat Northover University of Cambridge | Evolutionary Growth Theory and Forms of Realism |
LENT TERM 1996 | ||
January 22 | Steve Pratten University of Cambridge | The Closure Assumption as a `first step': on Coherence in Post Keynesianism |
January 29 | Frank Wilkinson University of Cambridge | Trust in Business Relationships. |
February 05 | Jochen Runde University of Cambridge | Is Popper a Popperian?: on Popper, probabilities and propensities |
February 12 | Paul Lewis University of Cambridge | Metaphor and Scientific Realism |
February 19 | Alessandro Vercelli University of Sienna | Uncertainty, Rationality and Learning: a Keynesian perspective |
February 26 | Rajani Kanth | Against Eurocentred Epistemologies: A Critique of Science, Realism and Economics |
March 04 | Neil Costello Open University | Learning and Routines in High-Tech Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: The use of rich case studies |
March 11 | Des Gasper | Needs and Basic Needs |
MICHAELMAS TERM 1995 | ||
October 09 | Tony Lawson University of Cambridge | The Possibility of Economics as Science |
October 16 | Tony Lawson University of Cambridge | Critical Realism: A Theory of Social Reality |
October 23 | Jochen Runde University of Cambridge | Assessing Causal Explanations |
October 30 | Fiona Scheibl University of Hertfordshire | Critical Realism: Implications for Applied Research |
November 06 | Steve Fleetwood University of Cambridge | A Realist Critique of Theories of Trade Unions |
November 13 | Geoff Hodgson University of Cambridge | Biological Metaphors and Economics: From 1890s to 1990s |
November 20 | Antonio Califati University of Ancona | How do Collective Agents Think? |
November 27 | John Foster University of Queensland | Theorising Historical Processes in Economics: From Timelessnesss to Time Irreversibility |
EASTER TERM 1995 | ||
May 01 | John O'Neill University of Lancaster | Essences and Markets |
May 15 | Paul Anand De Montfort University | The Economic Anthropology of HIV and AIDS |
May 28 | Aly Fischer | Experiments and Economics |
LENT TERM 1995 | ||
January 23 | Steve Pratten University of Cambridge | Operationalising Transaction Economics: Implications and Alternatives |
January 30 | Geoff Hodgson University of Cambridge | The Necessity of Habits and Rules |
February 06 | Eckehard Rosenbaum University of Cambridge | Value judgements and Evolutionary Epistemology |
February 13 | Frank Hahn University of Cambridge | How do we get from Fiction to Reality? |
February 20 | Gary Mongiovi University of Jamaica, New York | Sraffa, the Surplus Approach and Economic Method |
February 27 | Simon Deakin University of Cambridge | Contracts, Co-Operation and Trust: the role of the Institutional Framework |
March 06 | Jonathon Perraton University of Sheffield | Globalization of Economic Activity? Some conceptual Issues. |
March 13 | Geoff Harcourt University of Cambridge | Doing Economics |
MICHAELMAS 1994 | ||
October 10 | Tony Lawson University of Cambridge | A Predictive Science of Economics? |
October 17 | Tony Lawson University of Cambridge | Critical Realism: What is it? |
October 24 | Andrew Collier University of Southampton | Problems about Critical Realism |
October 31 | Patrick Baert University of Cambridge | Critical Realism and the Social Sciences: Three Problems |
November 07 | Margaret Schabas | Is money real? |
November 14 | Kumaraswamy Velupillai | On the use of `New Mathematics' in Economics |
November 21 | Gabriele Pastrello | Time and Equilibrium: Two Illusive Guests in the Writings of Keynes, Hawtrey and Robertson |
November 28 | Steve Fleetwood University of Cambridge | Marx, Hayek and Realism |
EASTER TERM 1994 | ||
April 25 | Brian Holley University of Cambridge | The Poverty of Economism |
May 02 | Paul Dalziel | Process analysis, Realism and Macro-economics |
May 09 | Mark Peacock University of Cambridge | Ethnomethodology, Rationality and Realism |
May 16 | Daniel Hausman | What is Wrong with Economics? |
May 23 | Wade Hands | On the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge |
LENT TERM 1994 | ||
January 17 | Steve Parsons De Montfort University | Problems with Realism in Economics |
January 24 | Frank Wilkinson Cambridge University | Economy and Performance: What do Institutions do? |
January 31 | Colin Rogers | The Methodology of Post Keynesianism |
February 07 | Tony Lawson University of Cambridge | Abstraction and Economic Modelling |
February 14 | Frank Hahn | Does Economic Theory Need Philosophy? |
February 21 | Bruce Caldwell | Possibilities for, and limits to, Methodology in Economics |
February 28 | Geoff Hodgson University of Cambridge | Varieties of Capitalism: an Institutionalist Perspective |
March 07 | Bruce Caldwell | Hayek's Methodology: Explication, Analysis and Questions |