Conference Sraffa's Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities 1960-2010. - Programme

Sraffa's Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities 1960-2010.
2nd-4th December 2010, Roma Tre University, Faculty of Economics
PROGRAMME
Thursday, 2 December
8:30-9:30 Registration (entrance in the Conference room will be allowed until 9:30)
10:00 Opening of the Conference, in the presence of Giorgio Napolitano, President of the Italian Republic
Aula Magna, Chair: P. Leon (Roma Tre University)
10:00-10:15 Welcome addresses: G. Fabiani (Rector of Roma Tre University), A. Rosati (Assessore al Bilancio of the Provincia di Roma), C.M. Travaglini (Dean of the Faculty of Economics “Federico Caffè”)
10:15-11:10 Plenary Session I - Capital and the Neoclassical Theory
P. Garegnani (Roma Tre University)
On the present state of the capital controversy
Discussant: H. Gram (City University of New York)
11:10-11:45 coffee break
11:45-13:30 Plenary Session I - Capital and the Neoclassical Theory
S. Parrinello (Sapienza University of Rome)
Numeraire, savings and the instability of a competitive equilibrium
Discussant: F. Ravagnani (Sapienza University of Rome)
E. Bellino (Univ. Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan)
On the Ramsey optimal path
Discussant: F. Petri (University of Siena)
13:30-15:00 lunch
15:00-17:30 Plenary Session II - The Revival of the Classical Surplus Theory and its Developments
Aula Magna, Chair: H. Bortis (University of Fribourg)
M. Pivetti (Sapienza University of Rome)
Advanced capitalism and the change in income distribution: a suggested classical interpretation
Discussant: A. Stirati (Roma Tre University)
A. Roncaglia (Sapienza University of Rome)
Some notes on scarcity
Discussant: A. Palumbo (Roma Tre University)
F. Serrano (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Elements of continuity and change in the international economic order: an analysis based on the modern classical surplus approach
Discussant: A. Bagchi (Inst. of Develop. Studies Kolkata)
17:30-18:00 coffee break
18:00-19:30 Parallel sessions A
Friday, 3 December
9:00-11:30 Plenary Session III - Historical Contexts and the Revival of the Classical Approach
Aula Magna, Chair: L.L. Pasinetti (Univ. Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan)
P. Leon (Roma Tre University)
Lessons from the contemporary crisis
Discussant: M. De Cecco (Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa)
I. Eliseeva (Saint Petersburg State University)
“Production of commodities by means of commodities” in Russia
Discussant: A. Ginzburg (Univ. of Modena and R. Emilia)
G. Mongiovi (St. John's University of New York)
On the concept of exploitation in Marxian economics
Discussant: R. Bellofiore (University of Bergamo)
11:30-12:00 coffee break
12:00-13:45 Parallel sessions B
13:45-15:00 lunch
15:00-17:30 Plenary Session IV - Issues Concerning Sraffa’s Manuscripts
Aula Magna, Chair: B. Schefold (Goethe University Frankfurt)
H.D. Kurz (Karl Franzens University of Graz)
Reviving the “standpoint of the old classical economists”: Piero Sraffa’s contribution to political economy
Discussant: N. Naldi (Sapienza University of Rome)
M. De Cecco (Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa)
Looking backwards: from the role of money, interest rates and the central bank in Production of Commodities, to Sraffa's lectures on continental banking
Discussant: R. Arena (University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis)
A. Campus (Sapienza University of Rome)
On Sraffa's manuscripts of the 1920s
Discussant: A. Rosselli (University of Rome “Tor Vergata”)
17:30-18:00 coffee break
18:00-19:30 Parallel sessions C
19:45 Conference dinner
Saturday, 4 December
9:00-10:45 Parallel sessions D
10:45-11:15 coffee break
11:15-13:45 Plenary Session V - The Classical Approach: Economic Policy and Applied Analysis
Aula Magna, Chair: H.D. Kurz (Karl Franzens University of Graz)
R. Ciccone (Roma Tre University)
Public debt and output determination
Discussant: O. Dejuàn (University of Castilla – La Mancha)
T. Aspromourgos (University of Sydney)
Can (and should) monetary policy permanently pursue a zero real interest rate?
Discussant: M. Pivetti (Sapienza University of Rome)
C. Medeiros (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
The political economy of developmental strategies
Discussant: A. Ginzburg (Univ. of Modena and R. Emilia)
13:45-15:00 lunch
15:00-16:45 Parallel sessions E
16:45-17:15 coffee break – end of Conference
Website: http://host.uniroma3.it/eventi/sraffaconference2010/