Advanced Training Course
What is Economics after all? What its history teaches

May 9th, 16th and 23rd, 2009

 
Economics is not the monolithic knowledge that it many times seems to be. On the contrary, it is, and always has been, a field of, often heated, controversy, that reflects different perspectives regarding what is, or should be, society. In order to understand what is Economics today it is necessary to look up its history. That is precisely what this advanced training course proposes.

 
Venue: Ler Devagar, LX Factory, Rua Rodrigues de Faria nº 103, Alcântara, Lisbon.

Registration: 100€ or 25€ for two sessions

Registration closed

Organization: Studies on Governance and Economic Institutions Research Group / Le Monde diplomatique - portuguese edition

Coordination: José Castro Caldas

 
Programme
 
May 9th, 2009

10:00 Other Economies (Francisco Louçã, ISEG)

  • The return of Political Economics
  • After the empire of finance, sustainable economy

14:00 Economics, moral and politics (José Castro Caldas, CES)

  • The Moral Economy of Aristotle
  • Medieval economic thought
  • Economics and Politics: mercantilisms

16:30 The Enlightment and Classic Economic Politics (Maria de Fátima Ferreiro, ISCTE)

  • Economics and the moral philosophy of Adam Smith
  • Classic Political Economy

May 16th, 2009

10.00 Romanticism, Historicism and Political Economy (Luis Francisco Carvalho, ISCTE)

  • The “romantic” review of Political Economy
  • The Historic School(s)

14:00 Socialisms (José Castro Caldas, CES)

  • Socialisms before Marx
  • The critique on Marx’s Political Economy

17:00 The origin and consolidation of neoclassic tendency (Vitor Neves, CES, FEUC)

  • The marginalist ‘revolution’
  • The world of neoclassic economists

May 23rd, 2009

10:00 Institutions and change (José Reis, João Tolda, CES, FEUC)

  • Institutionalism
  • Schumpeter’s evolutionism

14 :00 The 1929 crisis and Keynesianism (Luis Francisco Carvalho, ISCTE)

  • What happened in 1929 after all?
  • Economics and Politics in Keynes

16:30 Neoliberalism: rise and fall? (João Rodrigues, University of Manchester)

  • Mont Pelerin society
  • From  Bretton Woods’ collapse to the Washington consensus
  • The Economy after the financial collapse