|
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
|
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|
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
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Stephen Pratten
(Kings College, London) |
The Conflict Between Formalism and Realisticness in Modern Economics: the Case of the New Institutional Economics
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January 27
|
Steven Fleetwood
(University of Lancaster) |
What is a Labour Market?
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February 03
|
William Oliver Coleman
(University of Tasmania) |
What is criticism for?
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February 10
|
Paul Downward
(Staffordshire University) |
Applied Economics: Can There be a Critical Realist Approach?
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February 17
|
Makoto Nishibe
(University of Hokeido) |
What is Money?: A look at local currencies or LETS ( Local Exchange Trading Systems)
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February 24
|
Francesco Guala
(University of Exteter) |
The Methodology of Experimental Economics
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March 03
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Jonathan Köhler
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Economic Modelling and Reality
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March 10
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John Latsis
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The Arbitrary Economy
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MICHAELMAS TERM 2002
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October 14
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Tony Lawson
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Limitations of Modern Economics (or: Why turn to Realist Social Theorising?)
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October 21
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Tony Lawson
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Possibilities for Economics
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October 28
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Stephen Pratten
(Kings College, London) |
Comparing Cambridge Realist Social Theorising and the LSE Approach to Econometrics.
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November 04
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Mario da Graça Moura
(University of Porto) |
Realist Social Theorising and the History of Economic Thought
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November 11
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Alan Shipman
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Is Globalisation Real?
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November 18
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Geoffrey Hodgson
(University of Hertfordshire) |
The Legal Nature of the Firm and the Myth of the Firm-Market Hybrid
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November 25
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Philip Faulkner and Jochen Runde
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Information, Knowledge and Agency
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December 02
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Gregor Zwirn
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'Friedrich August von Hayek - Methodological Individualist or
Methodological Atomist?' |
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EASTER TERM 2002
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29 April
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Mary Morgan
(London School of Economics) |
Seeing the World in
Models |
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06 May
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Bank Holiday
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Bank Holiday
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13 May
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Peter Dickens
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Changing Nature, Changing Ourselves: a Critique and Reconstruction of the `Risk Society' Thesis.
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20 May
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Lawrence Hamilton
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Needs and
Politics Beyond Rights and Preferences |
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LENT TERM 2002
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21 January
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Ed Nell
(New School for Social Research) |
Critical Realism and Transformational Growth.
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28 January
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Simon Deakin
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Legal Memetics: Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Legal Change
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04 February
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Christos Pitelis
|
On Economics and Business Ethics'
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11 February
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Jenneth Parker
|
Positivist methodology and fundamentalism in economics: with
special reference to structural adjustment and the World Bank' |
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18 February
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Ugo Pagano
(University of Siena) |
Critical Realism and Institutionalism
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25 February
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Steve Dunn
|
Keynes and
Transformation: Some Reflections |
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04 March
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Frank Hahn
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Are Philosophy and Methodology harmful?
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11 March
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Dave Taylor
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Information Science Concepts for
Economists |
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MICHAELMAS TERM 2001
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08 October
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Tony Lawson
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Realist social theorising:
Why might economists turn to it? |
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15 October
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Tony Lawson
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Realist social theorising: Implications for economic practice?
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22 October
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Representatives of The Cambridge 27
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Opening up economics - a proposal by 27 Cambridge PhD students
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29 October
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Geoff Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire)
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John Commons and the Foundations of
Institutional Economics |
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05 November
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Clive Lawson
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What is Technology?
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12 November
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Paul Lewis
|
The Austrian School and the Reclamation of Reality in Modern Economics
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19 November
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Julie Nelson
(Tufts University) |
Feminism and Economics
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26 November
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Sheila Dow
(University of Stirling) |
Uncertainty in Economic Thought: A Reconsideration with respect to Model Uncertainty
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EASTER TERM 2001
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30 April
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Clive Spash
|
Round table on:
Environmental Values |
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07 May
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Bank Holiday
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No Seminar
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14 May
|
Ingrid Robeyns
|
Round Table on:
The Capabilities Approach |
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21 May
|
Leon Montes
|
Round table on:
Why should economists bother with the History of Thought? |
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LENT TERM 2001
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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
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|
MICHAELMAS TERM 2000
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09 October
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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
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|
27 November
|
Paul Lewis
|
The applicability of Economic Models
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|
EASTER TERM 2000
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|
05 -07 May
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For details see conference programme
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|
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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
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|
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
|
