Department of Economics

Mental Models and Economic Policy: Neo-liberalism and Its Competition, Claremont Graduate University, April 1-2, 2005

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Friday, April 1st

Albrecht Auditorium, CGU

9:00      Coffee

9:30 – 11:00      I.  Overview Session

“Ideologies, Mental Models, and the Debate About Ideas”

      Tom Willett, Claremont Colleges

      Ravi Roy, Southern Utah University

“Shared Mental Models”

      Art Denzau, Claremont Graduate University

“The Meanings of Neoliberalism”

      Nancy Auerbach, Scripps College

11:00 – 11:15     Break  

11:15 – 12:30     II.  The Evolution of Economic Ideas

                               Chair:  Sven Arndt, Claremont McKenna College

“The Evolution of Macroeconomics Doctrine”

      Graham Bird, University of Surrey

“The Spread of Neoclassical Economic Ideas”

      Tom Borcherding, Claremont Graduate University

12:30 –  2:00     Lunch

  2:00 –  3:30     III.  Neoliberalism and Its Competitors

A.  Eastern Europe and Russia

Chair:  Patricia Dillon, Scripps College

·         Hilary Appel, Claremont McKenna College

·         King Banaian, St. Cloud State (Ukraine)

·         Shale Horowitz, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee

   3:30 – 3:45     Break

3:45 – 5:15

B.  Africa, Latin America and the Middle East

Chair:  Nancy Auerbach, Scripps College

·         Leslie Armijo, Reed College

·         Andy Hira, Simon Fraser University

·         Pierre Englebert, Pomona College

·         Lewis Snider, Claremont Graduate University

   5:15 – 6:00     Reception

Saturday, April 2nd

Stauffer 106, CGU

  8:30    Coffee

  9:00 – 10:15    III.  Neoliberalism and Its Competitors – continued

C.  In the US and Western Europe

Chair:  James Lehman, Pitzer College

·         Ravi Roy, Southern Utah University

·         Nigel Boyle, Pitzer College

·         Hilton Root, Pitzer College

 10:15 – 10:30    Break

 10:30 – 12:30

D.  Asia

            Chair:  Don Crone, Scripps College

“India”

      Ashima Goyal, Visiting Scholar, CGU

“Indonesia”

      Steve Marks, Pomona College

“Thakshinomics in Thailand”

      Penny Angkinand, CGU

“Japan”

      Art Denzau, Claremont Graduate University

“China”

      John Siebert, former CGU Board of Trustees member

“Asian Economic Development Models”

      Ramkishen Rajan, National University of Singapore

  12:30 –           Lunch

Funding from the Freeman Program in Asian Political Economy

and

the Claremont Institute for Economic Policy Studies

is gratefully acknowledged

For further information, please contact Lynda.Marquez@cgu.edu