Dear list members,

     An international conference on MEGA and Marx will be held from the 27th Feb. to the 1st Mar. in Tokyo, jointly organized by two JSPS (Japan Society for the Promotion of Science) projects led by Kenji Mori, Tohoku University and Susumu Takenaga, Daito Bunka University, and back used by Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Marx-Engels Forschers Japan. The following programme is provisional and may be updated with minor modifications. It is available on the Web Site of Mori, http://www.econ.tohoku.ac.jp/~mori/event/index.html <http://www.econ.tohoku.ac.jp/~mori/event/index.html>
    The papers to be presented in the conference will be also uploaded on the same site.  

      Susumu Takenaganational Conference
MEGA and Marxian Discourses on Economic Crises






Triggered by the US financial crisis in 2007, the world economy experienced the gravest crisis since the Great Depression. Far from showing any sign of recovery, it has been still struggling with increasing seriousness of debt crisis, unemployment, poverty, energy problem and other symptoms of economic failure.  

Karl Marx experienced economic crises of the 19th century in real time, and especially as for the 1857 crisis that was the first world economic crisis in human history and the following 1864-66 crisis, he eagerly collected detailed data from actual journalism and documented the courses of the crises in several note books. These note books, which are being now edited for MEGA volumes in Japan, can be seen as a first-class primary material for the historical research on the crises. 

As a representative stream of economics that has focused on the economic crisis, Marxian scholars have continued their theoretical and empirical research endeavors on the topic since more than a century. Their large stock of knowledge and insight must be reviewed towards a new theoretical framework to explain and solve the contemporary problems.   

The conference presents philological and theoretical outcomes from MEGA edition of Marx’ original note books and provides overviews and new perspectives from Marxian crisis discourses. 




Date: February 27 (Friday) to March 1 (Sunday) 2015
Venue: Surugadai Memorial Hall
               3-11-5 Kandasurugadai,Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8324, Japan
(http://global.chuo-u.ac.jp/english/siteinfo/visit/surugadai/ <http://global.chuo-u.ac.jp/english/siteinfo/visit/surugadai/>)
   Room: 510, 560
Organizers: Kenji Mori (Tohoku University)
Susumu Takenaga (Daito Bunka University)

The conference is supported by Japan Society for Promotion of Science (KAKENHI 23423035 and 23330069), Graduate School for Economics and Management, Tohoku University and Keiwaka Foundation, and Die Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Marx-Engles-Forschers Japan.
February 27. Friday
10:30 – 17:00

10:30-10:35
Opening Address (Susumu Takenaga, Daito Bunka University), room 510

Parallel Session A1:  MEGA and Crisis Theory (1), room 510
10:35-12:05
Regina Roth (BBAW, Germany): Survey on results and potentials of the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe.

Michael Heinrich (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin): The new trends in Marx's Critique of Political Economy during the 1870ies.

13:30-15:00
Jérôme de Boyer des Roches (Université de Paris 9, France): Bank rate, profit of enterprise, risk premium and promoter’s profit in Marx and Hilferding.

Korefumi Miyata (Komazawa University, Japan): The Main Theme and Significance of Marx's Credit Theory.

15:30-17:00
Thomas Kuczynski (Germany): Structural crises and long swings in economic development. Observations by Marx, theoretical modelling and historical -statistical analysis.

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Hiroshi Onishi (Keio University, Japan): The Marxian Optimal Growth Model; Reproduction Scheme and General Law of Capitalist Accumulation.

Parallel Session A2: Ecology and Furture, room 560
10:35-12:05
Ryuji Sasaki (Rikkyo University, Japan): Labor and Ecology in Marx.

Hideto Akashi (Komazawa University, Japan) The Elasticity of Productive Capital and Ecological Crisis.

13:30-15:00
Kohei Saito (Humboldt Universität, Germany): Marx's Notebooks on Agricultural Chemistry of 1868: Beyond Liebig's theory of Stoffwechsel.

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Masami Asakawa (Sapporo Gakuin University, Japan): Marx's theory of modern industry and the Association as the future society.

15:30-17:00
eongjin Jeong (Gyeongsang National University, Korea): Marx's Communism as Associations of Free Individuals: A Reappraisal.

Kiichiro Yagi (Setsunan University, Osaka): Marxian Economics in Japan after 1945 - Between Heritage and Innovation .

Dinner 18:00-


February 28. Saturday
10:00 – 17:00

Parallel Session B1: MEGA and Crisis Theory (2), room 510
10:00-12:00
Rolf Hecker (Berliner Verein zur Förderung der MEGA-Edition e.V., Germany): Marx’ Motivation for the Genesis of Books of Crisis 1857.

Kenji Mori/ Atsushi Tamaoka (Tohoku University, Japan): Marx's "Books of Crisis" in His Study and View on the Economic Crisis of 1857.

Fritz Fiehler(Germany): 1857.France: An error of judgement by Karl Marx?

13:30-15:00
Susumu Takenaga (Daito Bunka University, Tokyo): Marx’s study on the economic crisis of 1866 in his excerpt notebooks toward the end of the 1860’s.

Eduardo da Motta e Albuquerque, Hugo Eduardo da Gama Cerqueira (UFMG, Brazil): If we have not touched the bottom, how far are we from it? : Marx, The Economist and The Money Market Review on the Crises of 1866.

15:30-17:00
Timm Grassmann (BBAW, Germany): Marx on the Panic of 1866. Towards a revision of the credit theory? 

Marx on Crises (General Discussion)

Parallel Session B2: Philosophy and History room 560
10:00-12:00
Han Lixin (Tsinxua University, China): The Literature-based Research on Paris Manuscripts and its Significance.

Izumi Omura (Tohoku University, Japan): Digital Edtion of the chapter "Feuerbach" of the "German Ideology”.
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13:30-15:00
Soichiro Sumida (Hitotsubashi University, Japan): Reexamination of ‘the Asiatic form' in ‘Forms which Precede Capitalist Production’, in view of London excerpt notebooks.

Kevin Anderson (University of California,USA): The Late Marx on Non-Western and Precapitalist Societies.

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15:30-17:00
Nobuyoshi Torii (Chuo University, Japan): Role of Resultate des unmittelbaren Produktionsprozesses for Das Kapital.

Oleg Ananyin (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia): Marx's excerpts from Cantillon: scope and relevance.


Dinner 18:00-





March 1. Sunday
9:00 – 17:05

Technical Change, Income Distribution and Crisis Theory 
in the Light of History of Economic Thoughts, room 510
10:00-12:00
Heinz D. Kurz (University of Graz, Austria): Making Sense of Marx: Schumpeter’s Adoption-cum-Adaptation of Marxian Ideas.

Bertram Schefold (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany): Making Sense of Marxian Crisis Theory in the Light of the History of Economic Thought: Real and Monetary Factors.

13:30-14:30
Zeng Hong yan, Yan Peng fei (Wuhan University, China), The Holism of Marx’s Economic Crisis Theory ---Comments on “Circulation Capital” and “Circulating Capital” in the course of editing The Capital V2 by Engels.

Yoshihisa Iwata (Tokyo Keizai University, Tokyo): Clément Juglar’s theory of periodic crises and the currency controversy in England and France in the Nineteenth Century.

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15:00-17:00
Guillaume Fondu (Université de Rennes I, France): Is French public always impatient to come to a conclusion? Thirty years of reading Marx in France.

Roberto Fineschi (Siena School for Liberal Arts, Italy): Fifteen years of Marx in Italy: Editions, Philosophy, and Economy.

Denis Melnik (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Russia) : Marxian Studies in Post-Revolutionary Russia (1920s-1930s).

17:00-17:05
Closing Address (Kenji Mori, Tohoku University)