This symposium is aimed at discussing the present world crisis in terms of (in a word) “Keynes’s Spirits”. We invoke Keynes here because we believe that he, among others, is the person who can provide us with great momentum for breaking through a state of stagnation into which economics, economic policy as well as social philosophy, philosophy and culture are falling. Over these thirty years Monetarism, which is critical of macroeconomics and social philosophy built up by Keynes, and then “New Classical Economics”, which negates them, had swept the American academia. However, on the wake of this crisis, not only the public but also even the mainstream economists have expressed serious suspicion of the present state of macroeconomics and social philosophy.
We believe that we need the development of new economics and social philosophy. With this problem consciousness we are to hold this symposium as follows.
Venue: Sophia UniversityDate: December 12, Sunday Program
Opening Speech
The First Symposium (12:40 – 14:20) “Whither the World Economy and the Japanese Economy ― From a Point of View of Economic Theory and Economic Policy”
Prof. Toichiro Asada (Chuo University)
Prof. Yoshiyasu Ono (Osaka University)
Prof. Hiroshi Yoshikawa (Tokyo University)
Chairperson：Prof. Asahi Noguchi (Senshu University)
***Special Lecture (14:40-15:30) “My Study on Keynes”Prof. Mitsuharu Itoh（Kyoto University）
Interviewer and Chairperson：Prof. Masazumi Wakatabe (Waseda University)
***The Second Symposium (15:40-17:20) “How Should We Understand the Present Capitalism? － From a Point of View of Economic Thought, Social Philosophy and Philosophy Prof. Kunitake Itoh (Kyoto University)Prof. Katuhito Iwai (International Christian University)Prof. Yosuke Mamiya (Kyoto University）
Chairperson：Prof. Toshiaki Hirai (Sophia University）
Closing Speech
