Forwarded to HES by Ross B. Emmett on behalf of Giorgio Rampa and Luciano Stella *********************************************************** HARROD'S TRADE CYCLE 60 YEARS LATER Genova, Palazzo Balbi, Aula della Meridiana Wednesday Sept. 25th - Friday Sept. 27th, 1996 Programme (provisional) WED. 25th, 5 pm: Welcome Address by Professors V. Uckmar (Chairman of the Istituto di Scienze Economiche e Finanziarie) V. Sirotti (Societa' Italiana delgi Economisti) G. Visintini (Dean of the Faculty of Law) G. Casale (Dean of the Faculty of Political Science) THURS. 26th, 9.30 am: Session 1, chairperson: A. Amato W. Eltis (Oxford): Harrod-Domar Equation from Quesnay to Marx to Harrod and Domar discussant: T. Cozzi L. Punzo (Siena): Harrod's Story in the History of Macrodynamics discussant: G. Rampa (probably) J. Kregel (Bologna): title to be announced THURS. 26th, 3.30 pm: Session 2, chairperson: G. Rampa A. Medio (Venice): Business Cycle and Predictability discussant: D. Checchi M. Caminati (Siena): 'Warranted' and Learning Dynamics in a Fix-Price Economy discussant: I. Lavanda FRI. 27th, 9.30 am: Session 3, chairperson: A. Fossati D. Besomi (Loughborough): Harrod and the 'Time-Lags Theories of the Cycle' discussant: P. Varri W. Young (Bar Ilan): Harrod and Haberler: Trade Cycles, Dynamics, and International Economics discussant: C. Marcuzzo M. Pugno (Trento): Harrodian Economic Dynamics discussant: B. Miconi FRI. 27th, 3 pm: Session 4, chairperson: G. Dellacasa A.P. Thirlwall (Canterbury): The Balance of Payments Growth "from Mercantilism to Keynes to Harrod and Beyond" discussant: L. Stella J. S.L. McCombie (Cambridge): Balance of Payments Constraint and Harrod Foreign Trade Multiplier Revisited discussant: M. Di Matteo Fri. 27th, 5 pm: Summing up, chairperson: G. Pittaluga Communications already announced: G. Casale, S. De Gleria, F. Praussello, R. Soliani, B. Soro Istituto di Scienze Economiche e Finanz. Universita di Genova via Balbi 30, 16126 Genova fax [33] 10 256904