Symposium on ELR

["MARIO SECCARECCIA" <MSECCARE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

           Anyone on the PKnet who lives or plans to be in the Ottawa
area next week is welcome to join us for a symposium on ELR at the
University of Ottawa next Friday. You will find below the relevant
information:
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                             One-Day Symposium
                   FULL EMPLOYMENT AND PRICE STABILITY:
                  PERSPECTIVES ON GOVERNMENT AS EMPLOYER
                              OF LAST RESORT
                        at the University of Ottawa
                in the Senate Room (Tabaret Bldg. Room 083)
                         Friday, October 17, 1997

                     Morning Session (9:30-12:00 a.m.)
                Chair: Ron G. BODKIN (University of Ottawa)
              Alain PARGUEZ (University of Besancon, France)
   Title: "The Role of Budget Deficits within a Circuitist Perspective"
   Discussant: Stephanie BELL (Jerome Levy Economics Institute, U.S.A.)

                      Coffee Break (10:15-10:30 a.m.)

           Chair: Graham WHITE (University of Sydney, Australia)
         L. Randall WRAY (Jerome Levy Economics Institute, U.S.A.)
Title: "Government as Employer of Last Resort: Full Employment without
           Inflation"
              Discussant: Marc LAVOIE (University of Ottawa)

       Chair: Paul BROWNE (Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives)
            Mathew FORSTATER (Jerome Levy Economics Institute)
           Title: "Stability and Flexibility of Full Employment"
    Discussant: Louis-Philippe ROCHON (New School for Social Research)

                          Lunch (12:00-2:30 p.m.)

                    Afternoon Session (2:00-5:00 p.m.)
              Chair: Mario SECCARECCIA (University of Ottawa)
           Warren MOSLER (Adams, Viner and Mosler Ltd., U.S.A.)
               Title: "Full Employment and Price Stability"

                       Coffee Break (2:45-3:00 p.m.)

             Roundtable on the Feasibility of the ELR Proposal
                 Andrew JACKSON (Canadian Labour Congress)
                 Jan KREGEL (University of Bologna, Italy)
         William KREHM (Committee on Monetary and Economic Reform)
      Dimitri PAPADIMITRIOU (Jerome Levy Economics Institute, U.S.A.)
                   Gilles PAQUET (University of Ottawa)
          Timothy SARGENT (Federal Department of Finance, Ottawa)

Sponsored by Department of Economics, University of Ottawa, and the
Canadian Centre forPolicy Alternatives.
For further information, please contact Professor Mario Seccareccia,
Department of Economics, University of Ottawa, at (613) 562-5800
ext. 1691.

	
Mario Seccareccia
Department of Economics
University of Ottawa
P.O. Box 450, Station A
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada (K1N 6N5)
E-mail: mseccare@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Tel.: (613) 562-5800 ext. 1691
Fax:  (613) 562-5999