Conference "Justice and Economics: ancient doctrines and modern theories"

Call for papers
The Association Charles Gide pour l’Etude de la Pensée économique organizes a conference at the University of Toulouse 1- Capitole (France), June 16-17th 2011.
The issue of the Conference will be
Justice and Economics: ancient doctrines and modern theories
“I would argue that the nature of modern economics has been substantially impoverished by the distance that has grown between economics and ethics”. Amartya Sen, On Ethics and Economics, 1987, p. 7.
It is now over 20 years since Sen’s observation that economic thought had tried to develop its epistemological autonomy by emancipating itself from the authority of ethics. But economists increasingly recognize that the positive dimension of economic theory does not necessarily exclude the normative dimension and that a condition for progress in economic knowledge is interdisciplinary research to invent new forms of complementarity between these two.
Possible approaches to the theme of “justice” might include, among others:
* Theories of justice in historical perspective
* The question of justice in economic and political currents (liberalism, socialism, ...)
* Justice, exchange, barter and money
* Distributive versus commutative justice
* The “just” and the “good” in economic thought
* Justice in welfare economics
* History of social choice theory
* The equity versus equality debate
* Normative issues of public economics
* Justice and game theory
* Justice and sustainable development
* Justice and education
Abstracts in French or English (of no more than 300 words for a paper, or 500 words for a session) should be submitted before 28 th February 2011; to alain.alcouffe@univ-tlse1.fr, or following the instructions on toulouse-justice-2011.fr (forthcoming January 2011).
Scientific committee : Amartya Sen (Nobel Prize 1998), Alain Alcouffe (Toulouse 1), Maurice Baslé (Rennes 1), Arnaud Berthoud (Lille 1), Annie Cot (Paris 1), Alain Clément (Tours), Michel de Vroey (Louvain), Arnaud Diemer (Clermont Ferrand), Ragip Ege (Strasbourg), Michel Herland (Martinique), Serge-Christophe Kolm (EHESS), Patrick Mardellat (Lille), Emma Rothschild (Harvard and Cambridge), Bertram Schefold (Frankfurt University), Julian Wells (Kingston University).
Local committee : Hugues Kenfack, Vice Président du Conseil Scientifique, UT1, Alain Alcouffe (UT1), E. Auriol, (UT1), Philippe Jeannin (UPS), Jean Michel Plassard (UT1 1), Jacques Prades (UTM).
Conference e-mail address: alain.alcouffe@univ-tlse1.fr,or christian.reina@univ-tlse1.fr
Mailing Address : Alain Alcouffe, Université Toulouse 1, 2 rue du doyen Gabriel Marty, F-31042 Toulouse CEDEX 09