Call for papers
Prague Conference on Political Economy 2012
“Interdisciplinarity, the future of Social Sciences?”
CEVRO Institute
Prague, October 26-28 2012
The purpose of the 2012 Prague Conference on Political Economy is to
gather papers that will focus on the challenges that multidiciplinarity
brings to social sciences and policy-making in the beginning of the 21st
century. Both theoretical and empirical papers are expected not only to
address the current state of the discipline but also to envisage new
perspectives for its development. The conference will welcome papers
discussing issues at the intersection of economics, law, political
science, history, philosophy, and other humanities.
More specifically, some of the research questions the participants
might address are:
Law-and-economics in the 21th century
Austrian Economics and mainstream solutions to economic crises
Libertarian paternalism and “NUDGE” and public policy
Do social scientists need more interdisciplinarity or not?
Heterodox approaches vs. the mainstream in social sciences
European integration at the crossroads,
Challenges to economic freedom measurement – China and the Nordic
Model
Participants to the PCPE 2012 will have the opportunity to attend the
symposium celebrating the seminal work and the 80th birthday of GUIDO
CALABRESI, professor at Yale and Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Second Circuit. The topic of the symposium will be “Law and
Economics as an Applied Science. The Legacy of Guido Calabresi”. During
this symposium, lectures will be given by JULES COLEMAN, Yale
University; ENRICO COLOMBATTO, Università di Torino; MARC GEISTFELD, New
York University; JAMES HACKNEY JR., Northeastern University; LAURA
KALMAN, University of California at Santa Barbara; ALAIN MARCIANO,
Université de Montpellier 1; STEVE MEDEMA, University of Colorado;
GIOVANNI B. RAMELLO, Università del Piemonte Orientale; KIP VISCUSI,
Vanderbilt University; and BRADLEY WENDEL, Cornell University.
LOCATION: The Conference will take place in the quaint and newly
reconstructed building of the CEVRO Institute (school of legal and
social studies) in the heart of Prague, the capital of the Czech
Republic.
PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Please submit abstracts of your papers to
josef.sima@vsci.cz.
The deadline for submission is June 30, 2012. Decisions will be made by
July 15, 2012.
Conference Website: http://www.cevroinstitut.cz/en/Section/pcpe/
Program committee
Josef Šíma, CEVRO Institute
Giovanni Ramello, University of Eastern Piedmont
Alain Marciano, Université de Montpellier 1
