6:00pm - 7:15pm
Evening Keynote:
“Humanomics: Scientific Humanities in Aid of Economic Science”
CREATE | CHALLENGE | ENRICH
Sep. 12 -­‐ 14, 2014 | NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | THE NEW SCHOOL | COLUMBIA LAW Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, The New School
Deirdre McCloskey
Break 15 minutes
7:30pm - 8:45pm
*This program is tentative and subject to change
FRIDAY September 12, 2014
New York University, 40 Washington Square South
& The New School, 66 West 12th street
8:30am - 9:30am Registration @ Greenberg Lounge, NYU LAW SCHOOL
9:30am - 10:00am
Opening Student Remarks:
Why We’re Rethinking Economics
Tishman Auditorium, NYU Law School
Thomas Vass, Founder of Rethinking Economics NY
Yuan Yang, Founder of Rethinking Economics
10:00am - 11:30pm
Opening Keynote:
“Getting Past Biases in Economic Methodology: Broader Questions and a Bigger Toolbox”
Tishman Auditorium, NYU Law School
Julie Nelson
Evening Panel:
Why Rethink Economics?
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, The New School
Steve Keen, Deirdre McCloskey, Philip Mirowski and Julie Nelson
SATURDAY September 13, 2014
Columbia University - 435 W 116th St
*All classrooms for this day are located in Jerome Greene Hall. Atschul Auditorium is in the SIPA building,
whiich can be accessed through Jerome Greene Hall.
8:30am - 10:30am Registration @ Jerome Greene Hall , COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
9:00am - 10:25am
Morning Panels
The Role of Rational Choice
Altschul Auditorium
Efe Ok and Sanjay Reddy
Why Study Post-Keynesian Economics?
11:30am - 1:00pm Lunch / ‘‘ the ReThink Tank ‘‘
Room 106 (J.G. Hall)
Steve Keen and Randall Wray
1:00pm - 2:45pm
Break 5 minutes
Afternoon Panel:
Macro Economics and Policy Making: What Went Wrong and What Needs to Change
Tishman Auditorium, NYU Law School
Willem Buiter, James Galbraith and Paul Krugman
10:30am - 12:00pm
Keynote Address:
What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets
2:45pm - 4:00pm Break / Walk to the New School
Altschul Auditorium
Michael Sandel
4:00pm - 5:45pm
12:00pm - 12:45pm Lunch
Afternoon Panel:
Law, Institutions and Economic Design
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, The New School
Darrick Hamilton, Philip Harvey, Kate Judge and Tamara Lothian
Break 15 minutes
12:45pm - 2:30pm
Afternoon Panels
Banking: The Public Dimension
Altschul Auditorium
Mehrsa Baradaran, Ellen Brown, Emma Coleman Jordan and Christopher Backley
Development Economics
Room 106 (J.G. Hall)
Branko Milanovic and Nathan Nunn
Break 15 minutes
2:45pm - 4:30pm
Afternoon Panels
SUNDAY September 14, 2014
The New School, 66 West 12th street
*The Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall and all classrooms for this day are located at 66 West 12th Street
8:30am - 10:30am Registration @ 66 West 12th Street, THE NEW SCHOOL
10:00am - 11:20am
The Role of Economic Models in Public Policymaking
Morning Breakout Workshops
Neoliberalism and Neoclassical Economics
Room 106 (J.G. Hall)
Bernard Harcourt and Dotan Leshem
Austrian Economics (Room 404, 66 W. 12th St.)
Does Economics Need Feminism? (Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall, The New School)
On the Nature of Exchange (Room 406, 66 W. 12th St.)
Social Entrepreneurship (Room 407, 66 W. 12th St.)
Promoting Interdisciplinary Research (room 510, 66 W. 12th St.)
Break 15 minutes
Break 10 minutes
4:45pm - 6:00pm
11:30am - 12:50pm
Breakout Workshops
Tools for Economic Thinking: Math, Psychology, Complexity and the Evolution of
Economic Thought
Breakout Panels
Pluralism in Economics Education
Altschul Auditorium
Dominik Hartmann and Cesar A. Hidalgo
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
John Komlos and Jack Reardon
Agent Based Modelling
Rethinking Environmental Economics
Room 106 (J.G. Hall)
Rajiv Sethi
Room 404 (66 W. 12th St.)
Alex Teytelboym and Gernot Wagner
Rethinking Finance and Pensions
PEPS Economie
Room 104 (J.G. Hall)
Raphaële Chappe, Tim MacDonald, Peter Rajsingh
Room 407 (66 W. 12th St.)
Jules Salomone
Beyond Precarious Labor: Cooperatives and the Solidarity Economy
1:00pm - 1:30pm Lunch
Altschul Auditorium
Dean Baker, Art Kimball, David Levy and Pavlina Tcherneva
Room 102 (J.G. Hall)
Maliha Safri
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Break 15 minutes
Afternoon Keynote:
The Case for Economics Being Taught Comparatively
6:15pm - 7:30pm
Evening Keynote:
Should Economists be Experts in Markets or Experts in Human Nature
Altschul Auditorium
Philip Mirowski
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
Richard Wolff
Break 15 minutes
2:45pm - 3:45pm
Afternoon Keynote:
What is Left Out of the Mainstream Economics Textbook
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
Peter Boettke
Marxian Economics
Room 404 (66 W. 12th St.)
Isabella Weber and Richard Wolff
Break 15 minutes
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Student Plenary
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
Break 15 minutes
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Closing Keynote
Alvin Johnson/J.M. Kaplan Hall
Dean Baker and Neva Goodwin
Conference Ends
About Rethinking Economics
Sponsors & Contributors
Rethinking Economics New York would like to thank the following sponsors for their generous
contributions:
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Institute For New Economic Thinking
Public Banking Institute
Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at the New School for Social Research
University Student Senate
New School
Organizers
Rethinking Economics New York (The Organizing Committee)
Pedro Cadenas
Raphaele Chappe
Eveyln (Kyungjae) Jeon
Elira Karaja
George Liu
Federico Raimondi Slepoi
Joe Seydl
Sarah Thomas
Thomas Vass
The Modern Money Network
MMN is an independent, non-partisan, global, student-driven non-profit organization.
MMN’s aims to:
1) Identify, bring together, and provide a shared space for students, scholars, professionals and
members of the public to discuss, debate and refine ideas about money and finance;
2) Collect, organize and present cutting-edge scholarship and learning materials in an accessible
and rigorous way; and
3) Build the capacity of affiliated individuals, institutions and networks to solve monetary and financial problems.
Student Contributors
Kate Bahn
Jigar Bhatt
Kamilla Buchter
Abraham Gutnam
Charlie Djordjevic
Liya Palagashvili
Daniel Scheer
Viral Tarbara
Isabella Weber