The Workshop on the Economic Thought: fin-de-siecle to interwar

Friday, 15 February 10:30-17:30
at the business meeting room, Faculty of Economics Building
Main Campus of YNU

Session 1
Hayek and Kaldor, Close Encounter at the LSE
By Hansjoerg Klausinger (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration)
Discussant: Kazuhiko Yago (Tokyo Metropolitan University)

Session 2
Perspectives for the changing Phase of Austrian Liberalism in the Interwar Period
By Chikako Nakayama (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Diversity of the Project of Welfare on the Turn to the Twentieth Century in Britain and America
By Yasunori Fukagai (Yokohama National University)
Discussant:
Hansjoerg Klausinger; for Nakayama
T.B.A.; for Fukagai

Session 3 (on Economics and Psychology / Behaviour)
The Road Not Taken: How Psychology was Removed from Economics, and How It Might be Brought Back
By Luigino Bruni (University of Milan-Bicocca)
Discussant: Masahiro Kawamata, (Hosei University)

* This session is based on the paper by Luigino Bruni & Robert Sugden, which appeard in the Economic Journal, Volume 117, Issue 516, Page 146-173, Jan 2007


Saturday, 16 February
at Yokohama Plaza Hotel
http://www.yokohamaplazahotel.co.jp/

Session 4
Rethinking on the British New Liberalism and Social Welfare: from the comparative views of Evolution and Eugenics
by Jyunichi Himeno (Nagasaki University)
discussant: Benjamin Jackson (University College, Oxford)

Session 5: Reading Benjamin Jackson's Equality and the British Left
Read by Benjamin Jackson
Discussant: Tomoari Matsunaga (Gunma University)

* Ben Jackson, Equality and the British Left: a study in progressive political thought, 1900-1964, Manchester University Press, 2007

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Yasunori Fukagai