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9th Annual Conference: Philosophical Foundations of Economics and the Good Economy: Individual Values, Human Pursuits, Self-Realization and Becoming

Please click here for Program.

Papers

  • Introductory Remarks
    • Edmund S. Phelps
  • Session 1: Flourishing
    • Edmund S. Phelps (unavailable)
    • Richard Robb
    • Mark C. Taylor
  • Session 2: The Good Economy
    • Esa Saarinen
    • Robert Shiller
    • Amar Bhide (Discussant)
  • Session 3: Philosophical Underpinnings
    • Jeffrey N. Helzner
    • Sebastiano Maffettone
    • Richard Sennett
    • David Sidorsky
    • Andrzej Rapaczynski (Discussant)
  • Session 4: Economic Culture
    • Emma Rothschild (unavailable)
    • Peter Pazzaglini (unavailable)
    • Juan V. Sola
  • Session 5: Social Impacts
    • Jianguo Wang
    • Saskia Sassen
    • Barnaby Marsh (Discussant)


Video of panels

  • Introductory Remarks by Edmund Phelps and Keynote Speech by Martin Seligman
    Link to video
  • Session 1: Flourishing
    Link to video 1, video 2
  • Session 2: The Good Economy
    Link to video 1, video 2
  • Session 3: Philosophical Underpinnings
    Link to video 1, video 2, video 3
  • Session 4: Economic Culture
    Link to video 1, video 2, video 3, video 4, video 5
  • Session 5: Social Impacts
    Link to video 1, video 2, video 3
  • Dinner Speech by Joseph Stiglitz
    Link to video
  • Luncheon Speech by Amartya Sen
    Link to video
  • Dinner Speech by John Kay
    Link to video
     

Photos from the event
(Click to enlarge) 

Nicholas Beale, Jianhui Zhou and Esa Saarinen at Friday's dinner. 

Nate Robb and Thomas Nagel at
Friday's dinner.

Barbara Phipps, Jianguo Wang and John Kay at dinner.

Esa Saarinen, Lydia Thome and Alfredo Navarrete waiting for Joseph Stiglitz's after-dinner speech.

Patricia Armendariz, Luigi Paganetto
and Maria Sola at Friday's dinner.
 

Peter Pazzaglini presenting his paper "Homo Stultus: The Fool Within Us".
 

Emma Rothschild presenting her paper  on Condorcet, values, and a long-term perspective on the current financial crisis.

Esa Saarinen discussing the previous session with participants.

 

Saskia Sassen presenting her paper "Beyond Inequality: Expulsion" in the last session on Saturday.
 

Dinner discussions between Merritt Fox, Mark Berner and Gylfi Zoega.

 

From left to right, Thomas Nagel, Amartya Sen, Luigi Paganetto and Amar Bhidé at lunch on Saturday.
 

From left to right, Richard Robb, Sebastiano Maffettone, David Sidorsky, Thomas Nagel, Richard Sennett, and Andrzej Rapaczynski.

Luigi Paganetto, Saskia Sassen and Sebastiano Maffettone at Saturday
night's dinner.

Jianguo Wang, Joseph Stiglitz
and Edmund Phelps at dinner.
 

Nicholas Beale asking Amartya Sen to elaborate on some points of his luncheon speech. 

John Kay speaking during Saturday's dinner.

Director Edmund Phelps before Amartya Sen's luncheon speech on Saturday afternoon.

 

 

 

 


 

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