International Network for Economic Method (INEM) Conference November 12- 14, 2010 University of Alabama at Birmingham
Friday November 12th
Highland Conference Center*
2012 Magnolia Avenue
Chair: Harold Kincaid
8:30 a.m. Ming Chien Lo,
St. Cloud State University, and
James C. Morley, University of New South Wales,
“Modern Macroeconomics: A Critique”
Saturday November 13th
Bevill Building, 845 19th Street South
Chair: Erik Angner
8:00 a.m. Francois Claveau,
Eramus University,
“Multiple Evidential Sources in Labour Economics:
Consensual Unemployment Policies with Limited Causal
Knowledge”
9:30 a.m. Jonathan Perraton
University of Sheffield,
“Explaining Growth? The Case of the Trade-Growth
Relationship”
9:00 a.m. Maria Jimenez Buedo,
National University of Distance Education(UNED)
“Conceptual tools for assessing experiments in
Economics: some problems around the notions
of internal and external validity”
10:30 a.m. Marshall Abrams,
University of Alabama at Birmingham,
“Probability in Social Contexts: How Individual Choices
and Varying Circumstances Produce Stable Social Patterns”
10:00 a.m. C. Tyler DesRoches,
University of British Columbia,
“A Contextualist 3-place model of confirmation
for Reiss’ Evidence-Based Economics”
11:30 Lunch
11:00 a.m David Tiera
National University of Distance Education(UNED)
“Choosing Expert Statistical Advice Practical Costs and
Epistemic Justification”
Bevill Building, 845 19th Street South
Sunday November 14
Bevill Building, 845 19th Street South
Chair: Don Ross
8:30 a.m. Adolfo García de la Sienra
Guajardo
Universidad Veracruzan,
"Is Every Measurement a StructureHomomorphism?"
9:30 a.m. Silvia Lerner
and Diego Weisman,
University of Buenos Aires, “Some
remarks about scientific change – logic
and philosophical aspects, the case of
Prospect Theory.”
10:30 a.m. David Frank,
Jeremy Colonna, and
Nick Malecek
University of Texas
“Neuroeconomics as metaphysics and
methodology: Perspectives from
philosophy and neuroscience”
Boxed Lunch provided
Chair: Ricardo Crespo
1:00 p.m. Erik Angner,
University of Alabama at Birmingham,
“Subjective Well-Being: When and Why It Matters”
12:00 Noon Lunch
Chair: Wade Hands
1:30 p.m. Aki Lehtinen,
University of Helsinki,
“Economic models, derivational robustness and indirect
confirmation”
2:00 p.m. Fredrik Hansen,
Dalarna University,
“The Stern Review and its Critics: Putting Economics
at Work in an Interdisciplinary Setting”
2:30 p.m. Robert Renshaw,
Renshaw Enterprises,
“Some Limitations of Econometrics”
3:00 p.m. Attilia Ruzzene,
Erasmus University,
“On the limited relevance of Marshallian causal
functions for assessing economic policies”
3:30 p.m. Ricardo Crespo,
IAE, Universidad Austral,
“A Normative account of economic models”
4:00 p.m. Don Ross,
University of Cape Town,
“Estranged parents and a schizophrenic child: choice in
economics, psychology and neuroeconomics”
4:30 p.m. Julian Reiss,
Erasmus University Rotterdam,
“Genealogical Thought Experiments in Economics”
Chair: Harold Kincaid
11:45 a.m. Gustavo Marqués
University of Buenos Aires,
“What kind of realism lies behind
behavior economics?
12:45 p.m. Andrew Yuengert,
Pepperdine University,
“Is There Anything Economics Cannot
Do? The Need for a Background Account”
International Network for Economic Method (INEM) Conference November 12- 14, 2010 University of Alabama at Birmingham
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