The Centre for Social Studies, Associate Laboratory of the University of Coimbra, is launching The CES Critical Economics Summer School to bring together in annual meetings economists and other social scientists to discuss topics of shared interest.

This series of summer schools aims at promoting a forum for critical research on the economy and in economics. The school is primarily intended for advanced graduate and post-doctoral researchers as well as young scholars. Young researchers will thus have the opportunity to attend lectures and discuss their work with distinguished scholars in the selected fields of research.

2009 CES Critical Economics Summer School
Coimbra, July 6-9

The institutional foundations of the economy:
property, markets and public policy

The first edition is devoted to the institutional foundations of the economy. It will bring on board the institutionalist and the feminist perspective on two basic economic institutions – property and markets. Particular attention will be given to the relation between these institutions and public policy, specifically to how these institutions are shaped, and permanently reshaped, by public policies. The speakers will be invited to discuss four main topics:

1) The foundations of the economy: the institutionalist and the feminist perspective.
2) Rights, property and property rights.
3) The limits of the market and institutional impurity.
4) Public policy and institutional change.

Guest lecturers include Daniel W. Bromley from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Julie A. Nelson from the University of Massachusetts Boston, and John O’Neill from the University of Manchester.

CES Lecturers include José Castro Caldas, Tiago Santos Pereira, Vítor Neves e José Reis.

Interested graduate students and post-docs are encouraged to apply by submitting a curriculum vitae and a two-page abstract of the proposed paper, together with the author’s contact details (Name, affiliation, email address) to summer2009@ces.uc.pt.

Deadline for submissions is April 10th 2009. Acceptance will be communicated by email by May 1st 2009.