Warwick Manuscript Development (WMD)
Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation
Politics and International Studies
University of Warwick
May 11-13 2009
Seminar Room S.150, Social Studies Building (#53)
May 11
17:00-18:00 - IPE Publishers Talk
Chair: Leonard Seabrooke, University of Warwick
Heidi Bagtazo, Routledge
John Haslam, Cambridge University Press
Alexandra Webster, Palgrave
18:30-22:30 - Dinner, Scarman House, University of Warwick Campus
May 12
8:00-9:00 – Breakfast, Scarman House (must be there by 8.30 for food)
Chair: Leonard Seabrooke, University of Warwick
9:30-10:30
The Currency of Power: The IMF and Monetary Reform in Frontier Economies
André Broome, University of Birmingham
Discussant: Ben Clift, University of Warwick
10:45-11:45
The WTO, Governance and the Limits of Law
Jens Ladefoged Mortensen, University of Copenhagen
Discussant: Jan Aart Scholte, University of Warwick
12:00-13:00
A Global Political Economy of Derivatives: Risk, Property and the Artifice of
Indifference
Duncan Wigan, University of Sussex
Discussant: Andrew Baker, Queen's University
13:00-14:00 – Sandwiches and coffee.
Chair: Peter Burnell, University of Warwick
14:00-15:30
Who Gets What and Why: The Creation and Distribution of Wealth in Capitalist
Economies
Paul Lewis, University of Warwick
Discussant: Adam David Morton, University of Nottingham
15:45-16:45
Power Elites: Club Model Politics and the Construction of Global Finance
Eleni Tsingou, University of Warwick
Discussant: Wesley W. Widmaier, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia
19:00 – Dinner at The Cross Hotel, Kenilworth (dinner expenses are covered for
discussants)
May 13
8:00-9:00 – Breakfast, Scarman House (must be there by 8.30 for food)
Chair: Lorraine Elliott, The Australian National University
9:30-10:30
'Cosmopolitanism and Global Financial Reform: A Pragmatic Approach to the Tobin
Tax'.
James Brassett, University of Warwick
Discussant: Susan Park, University of Sydney
10:45-11:45
Everyday Economies and Egalitarian Politics
Wesley W. Widmaier, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia
Discussant: Leonard Seabrooke, University of Warwick
12:00-13:00
Varieties of Neoliberalism
Huw McCartney, University of Manchester
Discussant: Ben Rosamond, University of Warwick
13:00-14:00 – Sandwiches and coffee.
Chair: Ben Rosamond, University of Warwick
14:00-15:00
Poverty of Plenty: Changing Development Strategies in the IMF and the World Bank
Antje Vetterlein, Copenhagen Business School
Discussant: Lorraine Elliott, The Australian National University
15:15-16.15
A Greater Transformation: A Post-Rationalist Account of the Rise of Market
Civilisation'
Earl Gammon, University of East Anglia
Discussant: John M. Hobson, University of Sheffield
16:15. Close of WMD sessions