VIII Winter Workshop on Economics and Philosophy (2008) | ETHICS, 
JUSTICE AND GENDER

A workshop organized by the the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation at the 
Universidad Nacional de Educaci?n a Distancia (UNED)

Madrid, September 11-12 2008

Coordinator: Diana Strassmann (Rice University)

http://www.urrutiaelejalde.org/WinterWorkshop/2008.html

Although economists have long treated social justice and ethics as 
beyond its disciplinary boundaries, standard theories provide inadequate 
explanations of human deprivations and inequalities. With gender 
inequality pervasive in societies around the world, better 
understandings of women's economic lives could lead to a more 
illuminating, useful and accountable economics. Scholarship on gender 
has been particularly hampered by theories that insufficiently 
acknowledge how power relations and social norms influence women's 
access to economic resources, health, education, and political agency. 
How can philosophical tools and theories inform the work of economists 
seeking to address gender inequality? More generally, how might greater 
sensitivity to concerns of ethics and justice enable more comprehensive 
economic analyses that better contribute to the struggle for a 
gender-just world? And how can advances in feminist economics inform 
philosophical theories of justice, ethics, and epistemology? Papers may 
draw from a wide range of philosophical and economic ideas and 
scholarship in addressing issues relating to gender, economics, human 
deprivations, capabilities, and justice.

Speakers: Diana Strassmann (Rice University), Alison Jaggar (University 
of Colorado, Boulder), Fabienne Peter (University of Warwick), Ingrid 
Robeyns (Radbound Universiteit Nijmegen), and Stephanie Seguino 
(University of Vermont)

Contributed papers by: Meryl Altman and Kerry Pannell (DePauw 
University, USA), Mohamed Behnassi (Ibn Zohr University, Morocco & 
North-South Social Sciences Research Centre), G?nseli Berik (University 
of Utah, USA), David de la Croix and Marie Vander Donckt (Universit? 
Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Shakuntala Das (University of Missouri 
? Kansas City), Zahra Karimi (Mazandaran University, Iran), Lynda Lange 
(University of Toronto, Canada), Yumiko Yamamoto (UNDP, Asia-Pacific 
Regional Centre in Colombo RCC)

Registration: Registration in the workshop is free, but if you want to 
join the participants in the conference lunch on Sept. 11, you have to 
book a seat and pay a 30 EUR menu. Send an e-mail with your contact 
details before Sept. 1 to David Teira {dteira [at] fsof.uned.es}

INEM 2008

Notice that this event takes place jointly with the International 
Network for Economic 2008 Conference (Madrid, 12-13 September)

http://www.urrutiaelejalde.org/inem2008.html