Workshop

WORKSHOP

REVISITING THE BOUNDARIES OF ECONOMICS

A Historical Perspective

Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri (Torino, Italy)

April 16, 2010

9.30-13.30

On Creativity and Rationality

Robert Leonard (Montreal, Torino-ICER)

Karl Menger’s modernism: aesthetics, politics and social science

Discussant: Marco Dardi (Firenze)

Bruna Ingrao (Roma)

The imaginative faculty. Cognition in the arts versus rationality in economics

Discussant: Stefano Fiori (Torino)

On Paradigms and Revolutions

Vincenzo Crupi (Firenze)

Progress and revolutions in economics: The legacy of a debate

Discussant: Nicola Giocoli (Pisa)

14.30-18.30

On Complexity and Evolution

Pietro Terna (Torino)

Complexity and economics

Discussant: Enrico Scalas (Piemonte Orientale)

Francesco Cassata, Roberto Marchionatti (Torino)

The Darwin-Babbage connection. Complexity and biology in Alfred Marshall

Discussant: Telmo Pievani (Milano)

On Gift and Exchange

Mario Cedrini (Piemonte Orientale)

A Maussian perspective of Keynes’s economic diplomacy

Keith Hart (London)

Marcel Mauss on gifts, markets and money

Discussant: Giandomenica Becchio (Torino)

Website

www.carloalberto.org/doctorates.html

Contacts

Francesco Cassata

(Dipartimento di Economia “S. Cognetti de Martiis” -  francesco.cassata@unito.it)

Leanne Duggan

(Collegio Carlo Alberto - leanne.duggan@carloalberto.org)