The usage of metaphors in the theorization of crises, cycles and equilibrium

Conference program
 

Thursday, October 24, 14.30 - Cycles (1)

Welcome and introduction to the conference
 
Bert Tieben:
When money makes the difference: The nature of monetary disturbances in Austrian and Swedish business cycle theories
 
Francisco Louçã:
The constitutive metaphors in business cycle analysis: from Frisch to RBC, how economics failed to understand crises
 
Juan Zabalza and Jesus Astigarraga:
Organic, Medical and Physical Metaphors in Germán Bernácer’s Theory of Business Cycles (1916-1936)
 
Discussion
 
Cocktail

Friday, October 25, 08.30 - Equilibrium

Justine Loulergue:
The metaphors of “équilibre” in the Journal des économistes, 1841-1874
 
Gilles Campagnolo:
The metaphor of “robinsonade” with regard to equilibrium theories with expectations
 
Discussion
 
Coffee break
 
Sonya Marie Scott and Daniele Besomi:
The Pendulum & equilibrium
 
Gianfranco Tusset:
Statistical equilibrium in early twentieth century Italian economists
 
Discussion
 
12.00 - 14.00: Lunch @ Nino’s

Friday, October 25, 14.00 - Commercial crises

Monika Poettinger:
Economic crises in nineteenth century Italy: a cultural analysis
 
Roberto Baranzini & Daniele Besomi:
Clément Juglar’s epistemic usage of metaphors
 
Kenji Mori:
From “Explosion”-Metaphor to “Double Crisis”-Concept: Karl Marx as Journalist and Theorist on Economic Crises.
 
Discussion
 
Coffe break
 
Michael White:
Riders on the Storm: W. Stanley Jevons’ “Statistical Atlas”, Meteorological Metaphors and the Analysis of ‘Commercial Fluctuations’
 
Harro Maas:
Ontological commitment and the empirical analysis of commercial cycles and crises in the work of Jevons and Marshall
 
Discussion
 
20:00 : Conference dinner

Saturday, October 26, 08:30 - Cycles (2)

Marius Kuster:
The monster entrepreneurs have created: Faustian metaphor in Werner Sombart’s business cycle theory
 
Elizaveta Burina:
Chemical metaphors in the restauration process modelling by Vladimir Bazarov.
 
Annie Lou Cot:
Mendelian and racial analogies in the early 20th century economic debates over immigration
 
Lunch @ Nino's