Workshop internazionale "Economic Theories and Policies. A Historical Perspectives (1945-2002)"

l'Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell'Economia Politica (STOREP) promuove il Workshop internazionale "Economic Theories and Policies. A Historical Perspectives (1945-2002)".
Il Workshop si terrà a Roma il 21-22 settembre 2011 presso la Facoltà di Scienze Politiche dell'Università di Roma Tre (Room 2b) , Via G. Chiabrera 199 ed è organizzato da Veronica Anelli, Piero Bini, Katia Caldari,Francesco Cattabrini, Simona Ferrulli e Fabio Masini.
Il programma del workshop può essere scaricato da
http://www.storep.org/workshop.htm
http://www.storep.org/workshop_en.htm

Presentation:

Theories, events and public choices are closely interdependent factors in the production and circulation of ideas. The economic literature often singles out causal nexuses between events and economic policy reactions, implying that the latter responds to the formers. In turn, it is often underlined that policy makers “demand” economic theories in support of their choices. This is an interpretative model we may define “highly exogenous”, because events represent exogenous shocks on the policy making process and, as a second step, on the search for theories. Its interpretative capacity is nevertheless weak: the relationship among theories, choices, events is much more complex, less linear, often bi-univocal, with some unforeseeable “short
circuits”. In order to tackle with such complexity, it is necessary to use a model
which assumes the inherent interdependence of such variables and singles out the time
evolution of their reciprocal influences which, in turn, generate new events, theories and policies. The workshop is a step within a wider international project aiming at analysing the theoretical debates and the main choices of economic policy after WWII, considering some relevant national cases and some international economic institutions. It seeks to reconstruct the relational complexity which characterizes the network of economic theory, policymaking processes and the most important events of the time span considered. Through a comparative analysis among single (nations/institutions) cases, the workshop will attempt to find some interpretative keys that make explicit such “circuits” among facts.

Invited speakers:

Veronica Anelli
University o Florence
Roger Backhouse
University of Birmingham
Bradley Bateman
Dennison University, USA
Piero Bini
University of Roma Tre
Erik Buyst
University of Leuven
Francesco Cattabrini
University of Roma Tre
James Forder
Balliol College Oxford
Harald Hagemann
University of Hohenheim
Johan Lönnroth
University of Goteborg
Ivo Maes
University of Leuven - Belgium National Bank
Fabio Masini
University of Roma Tre
Jean Pisani-Ferri
University of Paris-Dauphine
Masazumi Wakatabe
Waseda University, Tokyo
Juan Zabalza
University of Saragoza

Programme:

Wednesday 21 September 2011

09.30 First Session. Chair: M. Cristina Marcuzzo
· Piero Bini and Fabio Masini, University of Roma Tre
Economic Theories and Policies. Setting the Table
· Harald Hagemann, University of Hohenheim
Economic Theories and Policies in Germany
11.00 Coffee break
11.30 Second Session. Chair: Harald Hagemann
· Masazumi Wakatabe, Waseda University, Tokyo
Central Banking, Japanese Style: Economics and the Bank of Japan, 1945-2010
· Roger Backhouse, University of Birmingham and James Forder, Balliol College Oxford
Economic Theories and Policies in the UK
15.00 Third Session. Chair: Daniela Parisi
· Juan Zabalza, University of Saragoza
Economic Theories and Policies throughout Dictatorship and Democracy. Spain 1945-2009
· Ivo Maes, University of Leuven - Belgium National Bank
Economic Thought and Policy: Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa at the European Commission
16.30 Coffee break
17.00 Fourth Session. Chair: Annalisa Rosselli
· Piero Bini, University of Roma Tre
Economic Theories and Policies in Italy in the 1970s
· Francesco Cattabrini, University of Roma Tre
The Modigliani controversy: from theory to policy and back

Thursday 22 September 2011

09.00 Fifth Session. Chair: Roger Backhouse
· Johan Lönnroth, University of Goteborg
Who came first: Politicians or academic economists?
· Erik Buyst, University of Leuven
Economic Thought and Policy in Belgium (1944-1999)
10.30 Coffee break
11.00 Sixth Session. Chair: Piero Bini
· Bradley Bateman, Dennison University, USA
Rethinking the Monetarist Experience: Monetary Theory and Monetary Policy in the United States
· Jean Pisani-Ferri, University of Paris-Dauphine
French Economic Policy: Have we Learned?
· Veronica Anelli, University of Florence
IMF conditionality and the changing economic paradigms
13.15 End of Workshop

Tavola rotonda "Surtout pas trop zele"

TAVOLA ROTONDA SUL VOLUME "SURTOUT PAS TROP ZELE. SCIENZA ECONOMICA DI OGGI NELLE IMPRESSIONI DI UN ECONOMISTA DI IERI" DI ITALO MAGNANI
UNIVERSITA' DI MILANO - DIPARTIMENTO DI ECONOMIA - 22 GIUGNO 2011
Via del Conservatorio, 7 - aula seminari


Prenderanno parte:

- Giuseppe Bognetti,
- Massimo Florio
- Francesco Guala


che discuteranno il libro:


"Surtout pas trop de zèle. Scienza economica di oggi nelle impressioni di
un economista di ieri"
di Italo Magnani (Università di Pavia).


Il leitmotiv di questo libro vuole essere un invito silenzioso rivolto dall'autore a sé stesso e ai suoi colleghi economisti perché non ci si prenda troppo sul serio. E' una sottile vena di amarezza quella attraverso cui l'autore guarda ad alcune tendenze che sembrano affermarsi
pericolosamente negli studi economici odierni e condizionano il modo con cui oggi si fa accademia: l'abuso dell'inglese, la matematica usata un po' dappertutto, la scelta di un linguaggio tecnico allusivo di proposizioni scientifiche che lasciano immaginare chissà quali contenuti, la standardizzazione usata persino nel modo di confezionare il prodotto, la
gran mole degli scritti ai quali si conferisce la dignità della pubblicazione, le molte certezze e la troppa fiducia riposta nella scienza economica. Il libro affronta, sul terreno dell'economia positiva, una miriade di problemi economici di ieri e di oggi, ad esempio: l'evoluzione
dell'industria dell'editoria, la trasformazione delle forme dei mercati, certe forme di innovazione tecnologica, la flessibilità del mercato del lavoro, l'adeguatezza della domanda aggregata, la ridistribuzione dei redditi.


Seguiranno i commenti dell'autore e la discussione con i partecipanti.


La durata del seminario, che si svolgerà in italiano, è prevista in un'ora.

ESHET-MEXICO Conference 2011 - Reminder

The Committee of the ESHET-MEXICO Conference 2011 reminds that abstracts are received until July 1st (NOT June 1st. as it is in our web site), in the mails:
eshetmexico@economia.unam.mx,
eshetmexico@gmail.com,
jpabloarroyo@hotmail.com.
If you have questions or want more information please contact the email listed.

MicroCafè

MicroCafé - Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics

Wednesday, June 8, 2011,
5.00-6.30 PM
Frank Hindriks (University of Groningen)
How to think about institutions? The philosophy and economics of social rules and regularities
Venue:
University of Milan, via Conservatorio 7, Department of Economics, Seminar Room (2nd floor)



ABSTRACT
Institutions are often regarded as regularities in behaviour or rules for action. Such a Practice Conception (PC) focuses on behavioural aspects of institutions and identifies institutions with regulative rules. Alternatively, institutions can be regarded as being constituted by our beliefs. This Constitution View (CV) focuses on ontological aspects of institutions. It identifies institutions with constitutive rules. In this paper, I consider the relation between the PC and the CV. Using Lewis (1969) and Searle (1969, 1995) as representatives of these views I argue that - in spite of appearances - they are consistent with one another. The crucial premise of this argument is what I call the transformation view of constitutive rules (TV), according to which constitutive rules are transformations of regulative rules. CV in fact complements PC nicely. It is especially useful for bringing important ontological issues into focus, including multiple realizability and constitution as the relation between non-institutional and institutional phenomena.

SPEAKER Frank Hindriks is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Groningen. His main fields of interest are ethics & philosophy of action, and social ontology & political philosophy. The topics that he investigates include (1) intentional action, moral responsibility, the Knobe effect, the doctrine of double effect, moral judgment, and experimental ethics, as well as (2) collective responsibility, collective reasoning, groups, institutions, constitutive rules, identity, freedom, group freedom, group rights, and equal opportunity. He has also done some research concerning the philosophy of language (assertion, rule-following, response-dependence, and truth) and economic methodology (idealization, mechanisms, tractability assumptions, unrealistic assumptions).



Forthcoming seminar:


June 15: Giacomo Sillari (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Knowledge, common knowledge and coordination
Venue: Bocconi

MicroCafé - Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics

MicroCafé - Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics

Wednesday, June 1, 2011, 5.00-6.30 PM



Randomization in medicine and economics
David Teira (UNED, Madrid)


VENUE

Bocconi, Via Röntgen 1, 5th floor, room 5-E4-SR04



ABSTRACT

The paper attempts to bridge the gap between philosophy of economics and philosophy of medicine and discusses the methodological virtues of randomized experiments in both fields.

A handout of the talk and the paper are attached


SPEAKER

David Teira Serrano is associate professor at the Department of Logic, History and Philosophy of Science, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid. He has worked on the epistemological implications of the statistical techniques applied in early demand theory and their impact on Milton Friedman's methodological stance, and is now working on the role of impartiality in the design and interpretation of clinical trials. More on David and his research at www.uned.es/personal/dteira/



FORTHCOMING SEMINARS

June 8: Frank Hindriks (University of Groningen)

How to think about institutions? The philosophy and economics of social rules and regularities

Venue: University of Milan



June 15: Giacomo Sillari (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)

Knowledge, common knowledge and coordination

Venue: Bocconi

Seminari Università di Bergamo

All'interno dei corsi di Economia Monetaria e Economia Monetaria Internazionale
della Facoltà di Economia dell'Università di Bergamo
si svolgerà un CICLO DI LEZIONI SULLA CRISIsecondo il seguente calendario

Lunedi 9 maggio 10.30-13.30
Riccardo Bellofiore (Università di Bergamo)
La Grande Recessione: la dimensione globale, la crisi europea

Lunedi 9 maggio 16.30-19.30
Riccardo Bellofiore (Università di Bergamo)
Marx e la crisi

Martedi 10 maggio 16.30-19.30
Hervé Baron (ricercatore indipendente) e Stefano Lucarelli (Università di Bergamo)
"Pensare la crisi finanziaria": l'approccio convenzionalista di André Orléan

Mercoledì 11 maggio 10.30-13-30
Massimo Florio (Università di Milano)
Le radici reali della crisi finanziaria globale

Lunedi 16 maggio 10.30-13.30
Riccardo Bellofiore (Università di Bergamo)
Marx e la crisi

Lunedì 16 maggio 16.30-19.30
Jo Michell (SOAS London)
Speculation, financial innovation, and stock-flow consistency

Martedì 17 maggio 14.30-18.30
Gérard Dumènil (Università Paris X)
The Crisis of the Early 21st Century: A Critical Review of the Alternative Interpretations

Mercoledì 18 maggio 10.30-13.30
Gérard Dumènil (Università Paris X)
The Crisis of Neoliberalism

Lunedì 23 maggio 16.30-19.30
Francesco Garibaldo (già direttore IPL [Istituto per il Lavoro])
L'industria italiana ed europea nella crisi globale

Martedì 24 maggio 16.30-19.30
François Chesnais (Università Paris XIII)
Finance capital and the economic and social crisis

Lunedì 6 giugno 10.30-13.30
Alessandro Vercelli (Università di Siena)
Collassi finanziari e disastri nucleari: dinamica complessa e rischi catastrofici

Lunedì 6 giugno 16.30-19.30
Marcello Messori (Università di Roma, Tor Vergata)
La crisi del debito sovrano europeo: origini e prospettive

Martedì 7 giugno 16.30-19.30
Vittorio Valli (Università di Torino)
L'economia italiana: i nodi strutturali e la crisi

Mercoledì 8 giugno 10.30-13.30
Giovanna Vertova (Università di Bergamo)
La crisi economica globale: una prospettiva di genere

Le lezioni saranno in italiano o in inglese (in questo caso, con traduzione consecutiva), con l'eccezione dell'incontro del 17 maggio che si svolgerà in inglese senza traduzione.

La partecipazione è aperta a tutte e tutti.
Per informazioni: riccardo.bellofiore@unibg.it

MicroCafé - Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics

MicroCafé - Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics
Wednesday, May 11, 2011, 5.00-6.30 PM
The law of indifference, equilibrium, and equilibration in Jevons, Walras, Edgeworth, and Negishi
Franco Donzelli (University of Milan)
VENUE Bocconi, Via Röntgen 1, 5th floor, room 5-E4-SR04
ABSTRACT
In developing their equilibrium theories over the decade 1871-1881, Jevons, Walras, and Edgeworth made use of some version of a Law, called Law of Indifference by Jevonsand Edgeworth and often referred to as the Law of One Price in connection with Walrasian economics. In Jevons’s theory of exchange, the Law of Indifference is a quasi-tautology playing a fundamental role in both the derivation of the equilibrium conditions and the characterization of Jevons’s equilibrium concept. In Walras’s pure-exchange model, the Law of One Price, assumed as a postulate and lacking any proper theoretical underpinnings, is no longer confined to equilibrium analysis, as in Jevons, but is so conceived as to embrace Walras’s equilibration analysis, namely, the celebrated tâtonnement construct, too. Finally, in Edgeworth’s theory of exchange, the Law of Indifference, once again restricted to equilibrium analysis only, is made to emerge as a limiting result, produced by the joint operation of Edgeworth’s replication and recontracting mechanisms and associated with the unbounded increase in the size of the economy. One century after Edgeworth’s achievements, Negishi (1982) resumed Jevons’s and Edgeworth’s interpretation of the Law of Indifference as an equilibrium property; yet, parting company with Edgeworth, he tried to prove that the arbitrage mechanism underlying the Law is at work and fully effective even in very small finite economies. The aim of this paper is twofold: first, to reconstruct the various uses of the Law of Indifference and its variants in the diverse theoretical traditions originated by Jevons, Walras, and Edgeworth; secondly, to critically discuss Negishi’s attempt to revive Jevons’s Law of Indifference as a fully micro-founded and extremely powerful equilibrium property of finite competitive economies where arbitraging activities are allowed for.

INFORMATION
For information, contact francesco.guala@unimi.it or ivan.moscati@unibocconi.it

14th SCEME Seminar Call for papers

14th SCEME Seminar
8-9 June 2011 | Aberystwyth University, UK The Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME) in association with the School of Management and Business Aberystwyth University would like to announce a call for participants to the fourteenth seminar in a series on the methodology of economics. We are very pleased to be able to announce that Victoriah Chick, emeritus Professor at UCL, will attend as guest speaker to lead the discussion.
Topic
The banking and economic crises have focused attention on economics and its capacity to forecast, analyse and present policy solutions. Radical questions have been raised in public discourse about the way in which economics approaches its subject matter, i.e. its methodology. The purpose of this seminar is to reflect on the future methodology of economics as well as the role of methodological analysis itself, in light of the banking and economic crisis.
Organisation
The two-half-day seminar (lunchtime-to-lunchtime) will take place in a small informal setting with a workshop character at Aberystwyth University on 8-9 June 2011.
The seminar programme and registration form are now available at http://www.management.stir.ac.uk/research/economics/sceme-workshops

For further information contact:

Dr Kobil Ruziev
Lecturer in Economics
Programme Leader MSc Finance
School of Management and Business
Aberystwyth University
Aberystwyth SY23 3DD

Tel: 01970 622522
kkr@aber.ac.uk

Heterodox Economics Newsletter - New Issue

Heterodox Economics Newsletter, Issue 114 | April 11, 2010
Table of Contents
Call for Papers
2nd CES “Critical Economics” Summer School
3rd International Encuentro “The Workers' Economy”
8th International Conference Developments in Economic Theory and Policy
10th Conference of the Australian Society of Heterodox Economists
American Journal of Economics and Sociology: Special Issue
European Group for Public Administration (EGPA) 33rd Annual Conference
History of Economic Thought Society of Australia (HETSA) Conference
Market Square: The Cambridge Business & Society Interdisciplinary Research Group
Historical Materialism 2011 Conference
How Class Works 2012
ICAPE's 3rd International Conference
Japan Society of Political Economy Annual Conference 2011
Journal of Pedagogy: Special Issue
Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) 15th Conference
South Africa Today: How Do We Characterise the Social Formation?
Workshop: Trade Unions, Free Trade and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity
Call for Participants
Colloque à Paris VIII: Remodeling Finance and Its Governance in Times of Uncertainty
Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy
Summer School: Structural Change, Real-Fnancial Interactions and Development
The Spirit of Capital: A Conference on Hegel and Marx
Third Graz Schumpeter Summer School
14th SCEME Seminar
Socialism 2011 Conference
Job Postings for Heterodox Economists
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague
John Marshall Visiting Research Fellow University of Richmond
Other Worlds, USA
Post Doctoral Fellowship on the “Political Economy of Global Finance”Political Economy Research Group (PERG)
University of Bradford, UK
The University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Canada
Heterodox Journals
Challenge, 54(2): March-April 2011
Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 33(1): March 2011
Industrial and Corporate Change, 20(2): April 2011
International Socialism, 30: April 2011
Metroeconomica, 62(2): May 2011
Mother Pelican, 7(4): April 2011
Revista de Economia Critica 10: Segon Semestre 2010
Socio-Economic Review, 9(1): 2011
Socio-Economic Review, 9(2): April 2011
World Review of Political Economy
Heterodox Newsletters
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
CDPR Development Viewpoint
EPI News
Global Labour Column
IDEAs
Levy News
Heterodox Books and Book Series
The American Road to Capitalism
Business as Usual: The Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism
Canadian Labour in Crisis: Reinventing the Workers’ Movement
Decent Capitalism: A Blueprint for Reforming our Economies
Economics and Diversity
Free Trade Doesn't Work
Gramsci's Prison Notebooks
Heterodox Analysis of Financial Crisis and Reform
Oil: A Time Machine
The Plot against the NHS
The Politics of Equality: An Introduction,
Heterodox Book Reviews
Adam Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson
Marx and Philosophy Review
Heterodox Graduate Programs and Scholarships
Doctoral Contract in Post-Keynesian economics in Paris 13
Scholarships for Students attending WAPE Conference
Heterodox Web Sites and Associates
Dix Theses Pour Un Nouveau Developpementalisme
John Harvey's Forbes.com Blog
Website: http://heterodoxnews.com

Il Governo Locale dal 1861 ad oggi - Presentazione

Presentazione de IL GOVERNO LOCALE DAL 1861 AD OGGI
a cura di IRES, IRPET, SRM, IRER e IPRES, con il patrocinio SIEP
Giovedì 14 aprile, ore 14.30 - 17.30Sala Conferenze Archivio di Stato Piazzetta Mollino - Torino
RSVP entro il 13 aprile - Mail: editoria@ires.piemonte.it - Tel. 0116666461

Seminario Jean-Baptiste Say Oeuvres Complètes

All'interno dell'insegnamento di "Storia economica e del pensiero economico"
venerdì 1 aprile 2011, dalle 15.30 alle 18.30, in aula 15
presso la Facoltà di Economia
Bergamo, Via dei Caniana 2
si svolgerà il
SEMINARIO-DIBATTITO Jean-Baptiste Say Oeuvres Complètes
André Tiran(President dell'Università di Lyon 2)
Jean-Pierre Potier (Università di Lyon 2)
Pier Luigi Porta (Università di Milano Bicocca)
coordina
Riccardo Bellofiore (Università di Bergamo)
La partecipazione è aperta a tutti gli interessati
Per ulteriori informazioni: riccardo.bellofiore@unibg.it

MicroCafé - Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomic

Wednesday March 30
Richard Bradley (London School of Economics)
Hypothetical Reasoning in Decision Making
Venue: Economics Dept, Bocconi University, Via Röntgen 1, Milan, 5th floor, room E4-SR04
ABSTRACT:
Human decision makers make their choices not just in the light of what they believe and desire to the case, but also with reference to what is or would be the case were certain conditions ful…lled or actions performed. The topic of this paper is the nature of the hypothetical reasoning that characterises such prospective agency. In particular I introudce a model in which the di¤erences between factual and counterfactual supposition can be explored and the respective claims of evidential and causal decision theory examined.
MicroCafé is a series of seminars devoted to historical and philosophical research in the foundations of microeconomics. Participation is open to all scholars interested in these topics. Papers are circulated in advance.
Seminars take place on Wednesday between 5.00-6.30 PM either at Bocconi University
or at the University of Milan.
After the seminar, participants are invited to an informal “happy hour” discussion.
For information, contact francesco.guala@unimi.it or ivan.moscati@unibocconi.it

Il cammino dell’economia italiana 1979-2009

Riviste Scientifiche Unicredit - Il trentennale di «Economia Italiana»
Unicredit ha il piacere di invitarla alla presentazione del volume
Il cammino dell’economia italiana 1979-2009, a cura di Michele Barbato
Martedì 29 Marzo 2011, ore 9,30
Banca d'Italia - Villa Huffer
Via Nazionale, 191 - ROMA
Programma
9,30 Registrazione
Presiede
10,00 PAOLO SAVONA Editor Economia Italiana
Indirizzo di saluto
10,15 FABRIZIO SACCOMANNI Direttore Generale Banca d’Italia
Intervengono
10,30
MICHELE SALVATI Professore di Economia Politica Università di Milano
GIANGIACOMO NARDOZZI Professore di Economia Politica Politecnico di Milano
Concludono
11,30
MICHELE BARBATO Direttore Responsabile Economia Italiana
GUIDO MARIA REY Professore di Economia Politica Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna di Pisa

Seminario “L’IMPRESA COMPETITIVA. Conoscenza e sviluppo in condizioni di incertezza.”

Seminario di presentazione del volume
edito da Luiss University Press
“L’IMPRESA COMPETITIVA. Conoscenza e sviluppo in condizioni di incertezza.”
Luiss Guido Carli, Sala delle Colonne
Roma, 6 aprile 2011- ore 17.30
In ricordo di Alberto Cerrone
Programma
Ore 17.30 Introduzione ai lavori
Massimo Egidi, Rettore Luiss Guido Carli
Ore 17,40 Presentazione del volume:
Mario Morroni, Autore, Dipartimento di Scienze economiche,
Università di Pisa
Ore 17,50 Ne discutono
Luigi Abete, Presidente BNL-BNP Paribas
Innocenzo Cipolletta, Presidente UBS Italia
Aldo Fumagalli, Presidente Commissione Sviluppo sostenibile, Confindustria
Modera: Massimo Mascini, Direttore “Il Diario del lavoro”
Ore 18.50 Ricordo di Alberto Cerrone
Angela Magistro, Facoltà di Economia, Università La Sapienza, Roma
Ore 19,00 Conclusioni
Rita Santarelli,Vice Presidente LUISS Guido Carli
Website: http://www.luiss.it/it/

MicroCafé - Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics

MicroCafé - Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics
Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 5.00-6.30 PM
Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory
Robert Leonard (Université du Québec à Montréal)
VENUE
Bocconi, Via Röntgen 1, 5th floor, room 5-E4-SR04
ABSTRACT
The speaker presents chapter 9 of his book “Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory” (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
SPEAKER
Robert Leonard writes about the history of twentieth-century economics and the social sciences in scientific and cultural contexts. His work has appeared in a range of journals that address economics and the history of science, including the Economic Journal, History of Political Economy, and Isis. His 1995 article in the Journal of Economic Literature, from which his book on game theory grew, won the Best Article Award of the History of Economics Society. Leonard is Professor of Economics at the Université du Québec à Montréal.
OTHER MICROCAFÉ SEMINARS
You can find a list of the other Microcafé seminars at: http://www.dip.unibocconi.it/microcafe
INFORMATION
For information, contact francesco.guala@unimi.it or ivan.moscati@unibocconi.it

Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics

MicroCafé - Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics
Wednesday February 23, 2011
Luca Zarri (University of Verona)
Happiness and Tax Morale
Venue: Economics Dept, University of Milan, Via Conservatorio 7, Milan, 2nd floor, seminar room
Abstract:
This paper presents evidence that \tax morale" - taxpayers' intrinsic motivation to pay taxes - constitutes a new determinant of happiness, even after controlling for several demographic and socioeconomic factors. Using data on Italian households for 2004, we consider the distinction between unconditional vs conditional moral attitudes towards taxation and assess the strength of tax morale by relying on single items as well as composite multi-item indices. Our discovery that fiscal honesty generates a higher hedonic payoff than cheating is in line with Harbaugh et al. (2007)'s neuroeconomic findings. Further, it sheds light on the well-known "puzzle of compliance", that is the fact that many individuals pay taxes even when expected penalty and audit probability are extremely low: tax compliance is less puzzling once we show that not only it is materially costly, but also provides sizeable non-pecuniary benefi ts that make it rewarding in itself.
MicroCafé is a series of seminars devoted to historical and philosophical research in the foundations of microeconomics. Participation is open to all scholars interested in these topics. Papers are circulated in advance.
Seminars take place on Wednesday between 5.00-6.30 PM either at Bocconi University or at the University of Milan.
After the seminar, participants are invited to an informal “happy hour” discussion.
For information, contact francesco.guala@unimi.it or ivan.moscati@unibocconi.it

MicroCafé Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics - Programme

MicroCafé Seminars on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics
Seminars take place on Wednesday between 5.00-6.30 PM either at Bocconi University or at the University of Milan.
February 23
Luca Zarri (University of Verona)
Happiness and Tax Morale
Venue: Economics Dept, University of Milan, Via Conservatorio 7, Milan, 2nd floor, seminar room
March 16
Robert Leonard (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory
Venue: Economics Dept, Bocconi University, Via Röntgen 1, Milan, 5th floor, room E4-SR04
March 30
Richard Bradley (London School of Economics)
Hypothetical Reasoning in Decision Making
Venue: Economics Dept, Bocconi University, Via Röntgen 1, Milan, 5th floor, room E4-SR04
For information, contact francesco.guala@unimi.it or ivan.moscati@unibocconi.it

Esiste un'alternativa al capitalismo?

Il giorno 19 gennaio alle ore 18 alla libreria Feltrinelli in piazza dei Martiri di Napoli il Rettore Massimo Marrelli, il sen. Umberto Ranieri e il prof. Gaetano Cuomo presenteranno il libro di Bruno Jossa "Esiste un'alternativa al capitalismo?", manifestolibri, 2010.
Sito web: http://www.manifestolibri.it/vedi_indice.php?id=563

Microcafé Seminars Bocconi University

MICROCAFÉ SEMINARS ON THE HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF MICROECONOMICS
Games Judges Don't Play: Predatory Pricing and Strategic Reasoning in US Antitrust
NICOLA GIOCOLI (University of Pisa)
Thursday, November 11, 2010, 5.00pm
Bocconi University, Via Röntgen 1, Fifth floor, seminar room E4-SR04
ABSTRACT
The paper analyzes the last three decades of debates on predatory pricing in US antitrust law, starting from the literature which followed Areeda & Turner 1975 and ending with the early years of the new century, after the Brooke decision. Special emphasis is given to the game-theoretic approach to predation and to the reasons why this approach has never gained attention in courtrooms. It is argued that, despite their mathematical rigor, the sophisticated stories told by strategic models in order to demonstrate the actual viability of predatory behavior fail to satisfy the criteria which guide the decisions of antitrust courts, in particular their preference for easy-to-apply rules. Therefore predation cases are still governed by a peculiar alliance between Chicago-style price theory - which, contrary to game theory, considers predatory behavior almost always irrational - and a Harvard-style attention for the operational side of antitrust enforcement.

Luigi Einaudi: studioso, statista, governatore

Luigi Einaudi: studioso, statista, governatore
A cura di Nicola Acocella - Carocci editore, Roma 2010
Discuteranno del volume: Francesco Forte, Alfredo Gigliobianco, Roberto Marchionatti
Sarà presente il curatore.
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Il volume, frutto dei lavori di un convegno sul grande statista tenutosi a Caprarola il 10 ottobre scorso, è suddiviso in quattro parti. La prima traccia i vari aspetti della grande personalità di Luigi Einaudi, che lo iscrivono senz'altro nella storia del nostro paese. La seconda parte inquadra la figura di Einaudi e la sua visione dell'economia politica. La terza parte è dedicata agli aspetti lessicali della scrittura di Luigi Einaudi, mentre l'ultima parte cerca di tracciare un bilancio della figura di Einaudi alla luce degli anni che ci separano dalla sua scomparsa.