CONFERENCE PROGRAM

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

The list of Invited Speakers participating at the Special Plenary Sessions is the following one:

The Economics of the Financial Transactions Tax

• Philip Arestis (University of the Basque Country and University of Cambridge) and Malcolm Sawyer (University of Leeds): The Financial Transactions Tax: Its Potential and Feasibility (Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer)
• John Grahl (Middlesex University) and Photis Lysandrou (London Metropolitan University): Financial Transactions Tax versus Wealth Tax
• Yiannis Kitromilides (University of Westminster): The Effectiveness of the Financial Transactions Tax in the Absence of Global Coordination

Economic Policies, Governance and the New Economics

• Valpy Fitzgerald (University of Oxford): The Great Recession, Capital Market Failure and International Financial Regulation
• John Weeks (SOAS, University of London): A Progressive International Monetary System: Growth Enhancing, Speculation Reducing and Cross-Country Equity
• Jesús Ferreiro, Patricia Peinado, and Felipe Serrano (University of the Basque Country): Global Imbalances and Capital Movements as Constraints to the International Economic Recovery
• Emiliano Brancaccio (University of Sannio) and Giuseppe Fontana (University of Leeds and University of Sannio): Current account imbalances, Capital Flows and ‘European Southernification'
• Luiz Fernando de Paula (University of the State of Rio de Janeiro) and Fernando Ferrari-Filho (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul): Capital Flows, International Imbalances and Economic Policies in Latin America
• Nigel F. B. Allington and John S.L. McCombie (Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy Research and Downing College): ‘The Past is Never Dead. It's Not Even Past': Global Imbalances and Capital Flows in South East Asia
• Howard Stein (University of Michigan) Africa and the Perversities of International Capital Flows

The Governance of Natural Resources

• Ian Hodge (University of Cambridge): The Future of Public Forests: An Institutional Blending Approach to Forest Governance in England
• Kepa Astorkiza and Ikerne del Valle (University of the Basque Country): TBA
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