LCBER Conference: Economics -The Tragic Science?

LCBER Conference: Economics -The Tragic Science?

Is Economics the Tragic Science? Critical responses to DeMartino’s harm-centric economics - An online conference.

By LSBU Business School

Date and time

Thu, 30 Mar 2023 02:30 - 09:00 PDT

Location

Online

Agenda

10:30 AM - 10:40 AM

Introductory Remarks

George DeMartino (Professor of International Economics in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver)

10:40 AM - 11:00 AM

Harm-Centric Economics and its Moral Foundations

Craig Duckworth (Senior Lecturer in Governance, Ethics & Economics, LSBU Business School); Ioana Negru (Reader in Economics, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania)

11:00 AM - 11:30 AM

The Tragedy of Seeking a Better Technocracy. Comments on George DeMartino’s Th

Paolo Ramazzotti (Professor of Economic Policy and Economics of Institutions at the University of Macerata)

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Harm Science, Hard Science and the Quest for Appropriate Methods in Economics

Irene Sotiropoulou (Senior Lecturer in Economics & Statistics at Edge Hill University)

12:00 PM - 12:30 PM

The Tragedy of Measuring

Stefano Solari (Associate Professor of Political Economy at the University of Padua

12:30 PM - 1:30 PM

Break

1:30 PM - 2:00 PM

What’s the Harm in Economics Textbooks? A Natural Language Processing Approach

Kevin Capehart (Associate Professor of Economics, Craig School of Business, California State University, Fresno)

2:00 PM - 2:30 PM

Economics in Crisis: Charlatans, Tyrants and Destroyers

Peter Boettke (University Professor of Economics and Philosophy, George Mason University, and Director of the F. A. Hayek Program for Advanced Study in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the Merca...

2:30 PM - 3:00 PM

Radical Ecological Economics: A Paradigm to Overcome the Tragedy of Economic “

David Barkin (Distinguished Professor Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City)

3:00 PM - 3:15 PM

Break

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Pain in Economics

John Komlos (Professor Emeritus Munich University)

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM

Comments on DeMartino’s ‘Tragic Science’

Deirdre McCloskey (Distinguished Professor of Economics, History, English, and Communication University of Illinois at Chicago)

4:15 PM - 4:45 PM

Reflections

George DeMartino (Professor of International Economics in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver)

4:45 PM - 5:00 PM

Ends

About this event

In his most recent book, The Tragic Science (2022), Professor George DeMartino (University of Denver) argues for a harm-centric economics. Economic policy analysis recognises that most economic interventions entail harms along with benefits. But the notion of harm that economists standardly accept is, DeMartino argues, highly restricted. This limited conception of harm blinds economists to the real damage that economic policy interventions can inflict and this ought, DeMartino suggests, to encourage us to revisit the notion of harm in economic theory and practice. Join us to appraise this important idea. The conference will be of interest to academics and applied economists in policy and business. 

Organised and sponsored by London Centre for Business & Entrepreneurship Research (LCBER)at LSBU Business School.

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This event will be delivered virtually via Zoom. Please see joining link : Zoom Link - LCBER Conference : Economics - The Tragic Science

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