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1 January 2001 May 2001 November 2001 Middlesex Metropolitan Table 2 Speakers and titles of papers, January 2001 to January 2006 Ken Coutts The impact of imports on UK manufacturing prices Ian Steedman Oxbridge economists and philosophers on Marx s theory of value Robert Dunn Industrial production and primary commodity prices: a factor analysis approach Martin Myant Banks the motor of the Czech transformation Heterodox macroeconomics a methodological approach: it all began in 1934 Nick Karagiannis Alternative development policy for the Caribbean: the challenge of the developmental state approach Gwilym Price Different perspectives on housing issues Johannes Stephen Sources of productivity growth in selected accession candidates and determinants of their productivity gaps relative to the EU Brendan Sheehan Joan Robinson s theories of unstable growth Herbert Schui The rate of interest under the regime of credit money: a political, nonmarket instrument of resource allocation and a rent for money owners Paul Dalziel The triumph of Keynes: what now for monetary policy research? Basil Moore Saving and investment (?) Victoria Chick & The operation of monetary policy in an endogenous money liquidity Sheila Dow preference framework The Bank of England macroeconomic model: its nature and Malcolm Sawyer implications Peter Howells & Iris Central banks and market interest rates Biefang-Frisancho Giuseppe Fontana & Monetary policy rules: what are we learning? Alfonso Palacio Vera M G Hayes May-08

2 March 2002 November 2003 May 2004 Metropolitan University of the West of England Cambridge Ian Steedman John Poxon Jan Toporowski Karl Betz Paul Ormerod Paul Downward Alberto Cruz Richard Weston Mark Roberts & John McCombie Ahmad Seyf Sheila Dow & Dipak Ghosh Kobil Ruziev Paul Downward & Andrew Mearman Hicksian technical progress and relative price change: can monopoly and/or taxation lower relative price? Poverty and education: a socioeconomic analysis Monetary policy in an era of capital market inflation: the link with Keynes Endogenous money, liquidity preference and the theory of interest Macroeconomic methodology from a Post Keynesian perspective Evolution of market structure and competition On leisure demand: a Post Keynesian critique of neoclassical theory The business cycle in a financially deregulated context: theory and evidence Housing construction Liquidity and liquidity Effective demand constrained growth in a two-sector Kaldorian model The principle of effective demand as the general equilibrium of a monetary production economy Globalisation: What next? Liquidity preference - a fuzzy concept? Role of money in Uzbek economy: transition from a barter economy into a monetary one? Triangulation in economic research: reorienting economics into social science M G Hayes May-08

3 September 2004 November 2004 Greenwich Victoria Chick John& Wendy Cornwall Paul Davidson Geoff Harcourt Sheila Dow, Giuseppe Fontana, Claudio Sardoni, Jesper Jespersen & Malcolm Sawyer Eckhard Hein & Achim Truger Andrew Watt John Grieve Smith Michelle Baddeley, Malcolm Sawyer Carsten Ochsen Santonu Basu & Sushanta Mallick An equilibrium of action The role of power and institutions in macroeconomic theory The future of the international money payment systems What would Marx and Keynes have made of the happenings of the past 30 years and more? The future of Post Keynesian economics Whatever happened to Germany? Is the decline of the former European key currency country caused by structural sclerosis or macroeconomic mismanagement? Comparing Europe s employment-policy benchmark countries: what do Denmark and the Netherlands tell us about the causes of unemployment and successful employment strategies? Unemployment and fiscal policy in the EU Does the capital stock affect unemployment? Effects of macroeconomic and institutional variables on unemployment Does technological change induce unemployment? M G Hayes May-08

4 February 2005 May 2005 November 2005 Cambridge SOAS Middlesex Howard Stein Ha-Joon Chang Ajit Singh Michelle Baddeley Shailaja Fennel Wynne Godley Marc Lavoie Elisabetta de Antoni Alfonso Palacio-Vera John McCombie & Mark Roberts Shujie Yao, Z. Zhang & L. Hanmer Claudio Sardoni An institutional perspective to finance and development as an alternative to financial liberalization Financial institutions in macroeconomic management Shareholder wealth maximisation, stock market and new technology: should the US corporate model be the universal standard? The impacts of armed conflict on the evolution of financial institutions in developing economies Institutional reform and financial transition in Russia: an evolutionary perspective Thinking strategically about the US economy Banks and liquidity preference in a post-keynesian stock-flow consistent model Macroeconomics: some methodological issues Hyman Minsky s theory of financial instability: are we really sure that Keynes would have agreed? On Liquidity Traps: a framework for the analysis of macroeconomic policy in the "age" of central banks A tale of four growth paradigms: some preliminary results Growing inequality and poverty in China Why central banks (and money) rule the roost Keynes's given degree of competition M G Hayes May-08

5 January 2006 Oxford Brookes Jonathan Perraton Eckhard Hein & Achim Truger Pascal Petit Elisabetta de Antoni Malcolm Sawyer Eleni Paliginis Jesus Ferreiro Isabel Salavisa Paradise Lost? The fate of the Scandinavian economies in the 21st century The Danish case: flexicurity and demand management Germany's stagnation in the European context Thirty years of massive unemployment: its impact on the wage labour nexus Italy and the EMU: a controversial issue Economic Policy in the UK under New Labour: the end of boom and bust? The impact of EMU on Greece and Ireland Can miracles come to an end? Limitations of the current model of growth in Spain The end of catching up in Portugal: causes and consequences Source: records held by the author M G Hayes May-08

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