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["Ric Holt" <rholt@xxxxxxx>]

>>> "Giuseppe Fontana" <gf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 02/04/2004 2:24:21 PM >>>
Dear Colleagues,
Please find below information regarding the following events:


A) The Eighth Annual Post Keynesian Workshop (Summer School: June 19 -
24, 2004; Conference: June 26 - June 29, 2004). Please note that the
15TH FEBRUARY 2004 is the DEADLINE for both the Summer School
Applications and Conference Paper Proposals (abstracts or complete
papers).


B) The Preliminary Programme for Downing College (Cambridge, UK)
Conference on "New Monetary Policy".


C) The Call for papers for the SCEME Seminar "Complexities of
Economics", University of Stirling, Saturday 6 March 2004 (
www.econ.stir.ac.uk/SCEME/ ).


Best wishes,
Giuseppe

A)


The Eighth Annual
Post Keynesian Workshop


Summer School: June 19 - 24, 2004
Conference: June 26 - June 29, 2004


hosted by the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability,
the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics,
and the University of Missouri - Kansas City



In this email:
1. WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT
2. IMPORTANT DEADLINES!
3. WORKSHOP WEBSITES (WITH FULL DETAILS REGARDING PAPER PROPOSALS,
SUMMER SCHOOL APPLICATIONS, REGISTRATION, AND COSTS)


1. WORKSHOP ANNOUNCEMENT


The Eight International Post Keynesian workshop will consist of the
Post Keynesian Summer School from June 19-24, 2004 and the Post
Keynesian Conference from June 26-29, 2004. The two events are linked in
time but participants may want to go to either one or both.


The organizing theme for the workshop is "Economic Policy for the Real
World". Summer school and conference programs will be organized by Paul
Davidson, Jan A. Kregel, L. Randall Wray and Mathew Forstater. This
Workshop will provide a rigorous discussion of both the theoretical and
applied aspects of Post Keynesian economics, with an examination of
meaningful prescriptive policies relevant to real world phenomena. The
summer school will be of particular interest to graduate students and
recent graduates. Well-known Post Keynesian economists from around the
world will be the teaching staff at the school.


Abstracts of paper proposals must be received by February 15, 2004, and
should be sent to Pavlina Tcherneva at the email address below.


2. IMPORTANT DEADLINES


February 15, 2004: Summer School Applications
February 15, 2004: Conference Paper Proposals (abstracts or complete
papers)
May 15, 2004: Conference Registration (higher rates apply for onsite
registrations).
Conference fee: $75 (pre-registration)/$100 (late registration).
Student rate: $35.
May 15, 2004: Hotel booking at guaranteed conference rate of $84/night;
higher rate applies after this date.
May 31, 2004: Complete Paper Submission (If we receive your paper by
this date, we will post it on our web site for conference participants
to read and print before the conference. It will also be reproduced on a
CD. Unlike in previous years, at this workshop hard copies of conference
papers will not be reproduced for participants.)

2. WORKSHOP WEBSITES

1. General Website: <http://www.cfeps.org/events/pk2004>
2. Call for Conference Participants:
(http://www.cfeps.org/events/pk2004/callparticipants.htm)
3. Call for Conference Paper Proposals:
(http://www.cfeps.org/events/pk2004/callpapers.htm)
4. Call for Summer School Faculty:
(http://www.cfeps.org/events/pk2004/callfaculty.htm)
5. Call for Summer School Students:
(http://www.cfeps.org/events/pk2004/callstudents.htm)
6. Conference Registration Form:
(http://www.cfeps.org/events/pk2004/registration.htm)
7. Conference Costs: (http://www.cfeps.org/events/pk2004/costs.htm)
8. Conference Hotel Information:
(http://www.cfeps.org/events/pk2004/hotel.htm)

Pavlina R. Tcherneva
UMKC-CFEPS
Economics; 211 HH
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, MO 64110
tel.: 816.235.5835
fax: 816.235.6558
tchernevap@xxxxxxxx
www.cfeps.org http://www.cfeps.org/

B)


PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME FOR THE 18 - 20 MARCH, 2004, CONFERENCE ON: 'NEW'
MONETARY POLICY: IMPLICATIONS AND RELEVANCE


PLACE OF CONFERENCE: DOWNING COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE


PROPOSED PROGRAMME


Thursday 18 March, 2004


Registration: 1.15p.m. Music Room E Staircase, Downing College


2.00pm - 3.30pm          (Chair and Opening: John McCombie)


Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer: New Consensus Monetary Policy: A
Critique


Michelle Baddeley and Giuseppe Fontana: Monetary Policy in the
Information Economy: Old Problems and New Challenges


3.30pm - 4.00pm          Coffee


4.00pm - 5.30pm          2 papers (Chair: Dimitri Papadimitriou)


Tony Thirlwall: Saving and Financial Liberalisation in Developing
Countries
Valpy Fitzgerald: The New Monetary Policy in Emerging Market Economies


7.00p.m.           Dinner


Friday 19 March, 2003


9.30am - 11.00am         2 papers (Chair: Randy Wray)


Nigel Allington  and John McCombie: Asset Pricing and Monetary Policy


Stephanie Bell: The Relationship of Public Debt to Monetary Policy
Outcomes


11.00am - 11.30am.      Coffee


11.30am - 1.00pm         2 papers (Chair: Michelle Baddeley)


Georgios Chortareas: Characterising Monetary Policy in Europe: Evidence
from Central Bank Reaction Functions


Tom Palley: Monetary Policy in an Era of Financial Speculation: The
Case for Asset-Based Reserve Requirements


1.00pm - 2.00pm          Lunch


2.00pm - 3.30pm          3 papers (Chair: Tony Thirlwall)


Karim Basta: FED and Japanese Monetary Policies Compared
Dimitri Papadimitriou: Federal Reserve Policy and its Effects on the
U.S. Economy


Elias Karakitsos: The Risk of Replacing the Equity with the Property
Bubble


3.30pm - 4.00pm          Coffee




4.00pm - 5.30pm          2 papers (Chair: Philip Arestis)


Charles Goodhart: Some Questions on the Experience of Monetary Targetry
in the UK


Charles Freedman: Reflections on the Bank of Canada Monetary Policy


7.15p.m. Conference Dinner (After Dinner Speaker: Bernard Connolly, on
The Politics of Monetary Policy)


Saturday 20 March, 2003


10.00am - 11.30am       2 papers (Chair: Elias Karakitsos)


Jan Kregel: Monetary Policy and Capital Flows
Randy Wray: International Aspects of Current Monetary Policy


12.00noon - 1.00pm       Lunch


1.00pm - 3.00pm Warren Mosler: Current Events in Financial Markets:
Economic and Specific Trading Opportunities. This is a round-the-table
discussion (for those that can and are interested in staying on for this
session).


3.00pm Departure


NB: Edward Elgar will publish the proceedings of the conference. It
would be helpful if papers were available at the conference; but this is
not essential. Final versions should be with the editors by the end of
October. Please make sure that you send a copy in word, either via e-
mail or on a diskette in the post, to Philip Arestis (pa267@xxxxxxxxx;
address: Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, Department of
Land Economy, University of Cambridge, 19 Silver Street, Cambridge CB3
9EP, UK; Tel. 01223 766 971).

C)

SCEME Seminar "Complexities of Economics"
University of Stirling, Saturday 6 March 2004
CALL FOR PAPERS:





Economics as it has developed over the past decades has become a highly
differentiated discipline. The expanding range of research methods, with
the addition of experimental economics on the one hand, and the move
towards computer simulation on the other as an increasingly favoured
method of analysis, make it arguably difficult to characterise the
various strands of research in economics in terms of a common
methodological core.

This one-day seminar will address these issues in reaction to Machine
Dreams (CUP 2002) by Philip Mirowski, who will participate as a guest
speaker.

We invite contributions that discuss the role of the computer and
computing techniques in contemporary economics, that engage with
evolutionary game theory, automata theory, complexity / systems theory
on a methodological level, that put contemporary economics in a
historical context, or that take their lead directly from a particular
aspect of Machine Dreams, possibly moving from a critical appraisal of
Mirowski's discussion on to develop a substantive contribution in
their own right. Other related themes are also encouraged, if
in doubt please get in touch.

A limited number of places is available for non-contributing delegates,
please pre-register your interest informally via email.

For more details please consult www.econ.stir.ac.uk/SCEME/  or contact:


Dr. Matthias Klaes
Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME)
Department of Economics
University of Stirling
Stirling FK9 4LA

Matthias.Klaes@xxxxxxxxxx