6th CES International Seminar on the Foundations of Economics

Economic Expertise and the "Real World"

Ana Costa

João Ramos de Almeida

José Castro Caldas

Julian Reiss

Laura Centemeri

Nuno Ornelas Martins

Paulo Alexandre Chaves Coimbra

Tiago Mata

Tiago Santos Pereira

28 de setembro de 2015, 10h00

CIUL Auditorium (Picoas Plaza | Lisbon)

Programme

10h00 - 10h15 Seminar Opening

10h15 - 12h45
The Portuguese bailout experiment: does the IMF learn? > José Castro Caldas, Ana Costa, and Paulo Coimbra (CES - Universidade de Coimbra and DINÂMIA’CET/ISCTE-IUL)

Trust and the Myth of Objectivity in Economics > Julian Reiss (Durham University)

The Crisis in the Eurozone and Fiscal Austerity Policies: A (missing) link between science and policy? > Tiago Santos Pereira (CES - Universidade de Coimbra)

14h00 - 15h40
Troika: como a imprensa económica percepcionou a aplicação do Memorando > João Ramos de Almeida (CES - Universidade de Coimbra)

Milton Friedman and the tax-revolt of the late 1970s >Tiago Mata (University College London)

15h40 - 16h00 Coffee-break

16h00 - 17h40
Economic approaches to human labour: from the labour theory of value to the marginal productivity of labour > Nuno Martins (Universidade Católica do Porto)

The forms (and impasses) of social critique in the neo-liberal “governing through objectives” > Laura Centemeri (CEMS/IMM, CNRS-EHESS)