VII SIAME Symposium Helsinki 2011
On August 31 and September 1, 2011, the Symposium of the Ibero-American Society of Economic Methodology will take place in Helsinki, Finland. The venue for the event will be room A217 of the building Metsätalo, located at Unionkatu 40, from the Department of Political and Economic Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Helsinki.
The program of the event is presented below.
Metsätalo Building
VII SIAME Symposium Helsinki 2011
Program
Wednesday, August 31
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Session I
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Topic 1: Ethics and economics
9:00-10:15
Economic Progress: different approaches and moral and social aspects.
Miguel-Angel Galindo, Domingo Ribeiro and Maria Teresa Mendez
10:15-11:30
Social responsibility as ethical behavior: an analysis from the financial perspective.
Immaculate BuendÃa-MartÃnez and Elias Rizkallah
11:30-11:45
Break
11:45-13:00
The ethical virtues of capital and economic growth.
MarÃa Soledad Castaño-MartÃnez and Isabel MartÃnez RodrÃguez
13:00-14:15
Iustitia et iure: ethical components in the tax approaches of economic thought.
Jose Antonio Negrin de la Pena and Juan Jose Rubio Guerrero
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Session II
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Topic 2: Logic, rationality and causality
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16:00-17:15
Unintended consequences, invisible hand explanations and methodological individualism.
Ricardo F. Crespo
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17:15-18:30
On the aggregation of judgments and preferences.
Juan Carlos Garcia-Bermejo
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18:30-18:45
Break
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18:45-20:00
Exception and breach in explanations through rationality.
Silvia Lerner
Thursday September 1
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Session III
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Topic 2: Logic, rationality and causality
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9:00-10:15
The logical structure of econometrics.
Adolfo Garcia de la Sienra
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10:15-11:30
Causal pluralism in the evaluation of economic policy.
Luis Mireles-Flores
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11:30-11:45
Break
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11:45-13:00
Experimental economics and clinical trials: A comparative analysis of the Strategies for controlling reactivity in human experiments.
David Teira, Jesus Zamora and Maria Jimenez Buedo
Room A217
