The year 2010 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities. On this occasion, the Centro Ricerche e Documentazione 'Piero Sraffa', with the support of the Università degli Studi Roma Tre, promotes an international Conference on Piero...

For over forty years the UK HET conference has been the principal annual event in Britain for historians of economic thought to present and discuss their current research. [gemäß den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information] The website is no longer available.

Two one day conferences will be held at the University of Nottingham on Monday 21st June and Monday 28th June 2010. Programme for 28th June: - On the Case for Free Trade - Firms in International Trade - International Trade Game - Could the UK Go Bust?

Recent developments in international economics have stressed the importance of firm heterogeneity in explaining trade patterns and the effects of increased globalisation. This has coincided with the increasing use of datasets which link information on individual workers to the firms in which...

Two one day conferences will be held at the University of Nottingham on Monday 21st June and Monday 28th June 2010. Programme for 21st June: - Protectionism and the Global Recession - Will China Become the Next Economic Superpower? - International Trade Game - The Global Financial Crisis - Are...

Plenary speakers: - Richard Seaford (Exeter): Money, Abstraction, and the Genesis of the Psyche - Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths): The Dead Pledge of Society: Methodological Problems and Political Consequences of 'Real Abstraction' - Christopher Arthur: Abstraction, Universality and Money - Martin...

The special theme of the conference is: The shifting boundaries between public and private in economics. As with past STOREP conferences, proposals for sessions or submissions of papers concerning any other aspect of the history of economic thought are also welcome.

The Conference is intended to provide a forum for the dissemination of student research relating to issues of Globalisation and Economic Policy from both theoretical and empirical perspectives. These areas include Foreign Direct Investment, Trade, Productivity, Economics of the MNEs, Migration...