Programme

10h00 - 10h15 Seminar Opening

10h15 - 12h45
The Portuguese bailout experiment: does the IMF learn? > José Castro Caldas, Ana Costa, and Paulo Coimbra (CES - Universidade de Coimbra and DINÂMIA’CET/ISCTE-IUL)

Trust and the Myth of Objectivity in Economics > Julian Reiss (Durham University)

The Crisis in the Eurozone and Fiscal Austerity Policies: A (missing) link between science and policy? > Tiago Santos Pereira (CES - Universidade de Coimbra)

14h00 - 15h40
Troika: como a imprensa económica percepcionou a aplicação do Memorando > João Ramos de Almeida (CES - Universidade de Coimbra)

Milton Friedman and the tax-revolt of the late 1970s >Tiago Mata (University College London)

15h40 - 16h00 Coffee-break

16h00 - 17h40
Economic approaches to human labour: from the labour theory of value to the marginal productivity of labour > Nuno Martins (Universidade Católica do Porto)

The forms (and impasses) of social critique in the neo-liberal “governing through objectives” > Laura Centemeri (CEMS/IMM, CNRS-EHESS)