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Welcome
Keynote #1 - Room HZ2
Sarah Mathew (Arizona State University): “Self-Governance in Pastoral Kenya: Examining Norms and Meta-norms that Support Decentralized Social Order among Turkana Herders”
Reception
Adjourn
Parallel A
Coffee Break
Parallel B
Lunch
Parallel C
Coffee Break
Parallel D
Keynote #2 - Room HZ2
Gérard Roland (UC Berkeley): “Empires, Nation States and Democracies”
Reception
Adjourn
Parallel E
Coffee Break
Parallel Focus Sessions #6
Session 1: Historical Political Economy (HPE) in SIOE — room HZ7
Chair: Jared Rubin (Chapman)
Participants: Federica Carugati (King’s College London), Scott Gehlbach (U Chicago), Gerard Roland (UC Berkeley), Emily Sellars (Yale University)
Scholars across disciplines have been engaging in historical political economy (HPE) for the last two decades. Only recently, however, have steps been taken to mark HPE as a disciplinary endeavor distinct from its cognates: economic history, political economy, and political history (Jenkins and Rubin 2023) – these include the creation of the blog Broadstreet and the publication of Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy. Coinciding with the Handbook’s release, this roundtable aims at publicizing current achievements, as well as reflecting on the discipline’s future development. Participants will reflect on thematic, methodological, and strategic developments, including the contribution that HPE can make to SIOE, and vice versa.
Session 2: Anthropology and Economics — room HZ8
Chair: Paul Seabright (Toulouse)
Participants: Bob Gibbons (MIT), Sarah Mathew (ASU), Blanka Misic (University of Vienna)
Evolutionary anthropologists have emphasized that human learning is: cumulative, with succeeding generations building on the accumulated knowledge of earlier ones; distributed, with no single individual mastering all the elements of knowledge required to achieve social objectives; tacit, in the sense that nobody may know how to communicate it explicitly, rather, it has to be acquired by learners through a process of acculturation and observation. Institutions and organizations engage, consciously and unconsciously, in the transmission of knowledge. They do so via processes that are subject to both persistence and innovation. This session will explore what economists and anthropologists can learn from each other about how this happens.
Session 3: Research with and within Firms — room HZ9
Chair: Decio Coviello (Montreal)
Participants: Morten Bennedsen (University of Copenhagen), Matthias Heinz (University of Cologne), Hideo Owan (Waseda University)
Doing research with firm data is a methodological challenge, but offers insights into what managers and workers really do, and hence informs theoretical work. Different approaches co-exist that use different type of data: nation- or industry-wide observational data, firm-level archival data, or data from RCTs with firms. A second dimension of diversity exists across institutional backgrounds. The panel will discuss new developments, challenges and experiences across North America, Europe and Japan.
Lunch
Parallel G
Coffee Break
Parallel H
Reception
Keynote #3: Presidential address - Metzler Room (Casino)
Gillian Hadfield (University of Toronto): “Institutions, Organizations and Transformative AI”