Re: IIIConferenceBuenosAires

["Javier Finkman" <finkman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Guillermo,

 

The fact that the conference is organized by an association of left-wing economists leads me to a question: is the conference open to non-unfriendly-to-markets economists? (I hate the right-wing label, sorry).

 

Or, to explain it further. Is the conference open to economists....

    that believe that irrestricted capital account liberalization is not a good thing but are also somewhat suspicious of capital controls,

    that believe that a cheap local currency -even if implies lower real wages- has a role in development (not only growth, development),

    that believe that many times the markets -like democracy- is the worst system of coordination except all those other systems which have been tried from time to time (paraphrasing Winston obviously)

    that agreed that public investment is complementary of private investment (rather than an alternative to... as suggested by the crowding-out hypothesis) but are         distrustful of massive investment programes without a clear source of finance,

    that believe that Buchanan had a very good point with his public choice approach,

    that reject the idea of importing institutions but instead believe in building them rather than assuming them (a neoclassical vice true, but shared by many left-wing economists)

    that believe that a broken state cannot implement "bastard" or "hydraulic" keynesian policies,

    that believe that infant industries should not remain infant forever on behalf of industrialization,

   

 

What I am trying to ask, Guillermo, is how tolerant would the association be with economists holding different beliefs. I found many of my left-wing colleagues as intolerant as many of my righ-wing ones.

 

Nevertheless, if the conference is open to non-unfriendly-to-markets economists (I am looking for a better label), I would be pleased to go.

 

Best regards,

 

Javier

 

 

 

----- Original Message -----

From: "Guillermo E. Gigliani" <ggigli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

To: "Frederic Lee" <leefs@xxxxxxxx>; "POST-KEYNESIAN THOUGHT" <pkt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 5:39 PM

Subject: IIIConferenceBuenosAires

> I send you the announcement for a conference- III Conference of 
Latin
> American Political Economists
> - that is being organized 
jointly by the Sociedad de Economia Politica
> (SEP) of Brazil and 
Economistas de Izquierda (EDI) which is an
> association of left-wing 
economists created last year en Buenos Aires.
> 
> We hope that 
besides our colleagues from Brazil, many economists from
> other
> 
countires may come to the III coloquio. Among them, Alejandro Valle
> 
Baeza (Mexico), Diego Guerrero (Spain), David Debrott (Chile), Gérard
> 
Duménil (France). I met Duménil and Al Campbell at Porto Alegre last
> 
January and both told me they might came. This week Gérard send us his
> 
confirmation.
> IADE (Instituto Argentina para el Desarrollo Economica, 
which is a
> progressive local research center) is helping us in the 
organization,
> but we do no have any funding for tickets or 
forhotel.
> We hope to receive many visitors froam abroad, mainly because 
costs in
> dollars in Argentina are very low. We expect to offert rooms in 
a three
> star hotel close to the Facultad for 15 dollars per day for 
those who
> wish to come.
> Please try to send the information I 
attach to Post-Keynesian Thought
> members and teachers in US 
universities. I have sent this information to
> Paddy Quick and she will 
publish it in the URPE Newsletter.
> Yours
>