Program for“Thoughts on Economic Development, China and the West”

CEDR-ESHET-SCHET Joint Conference 11– 12 October 2010

“Thoughts on Economic Development, China and the West”

Co-Organized by:
Wuhan University
European Society for the History of Economic Thought

Undertaken by:
Centre for Eonomic Developement Research, Wuhan University
Economics & Management School of Wuhan University
Chinese Society of Development Economics
Society for Chinese History of Economic Thought

10, October 2010
Afternoon    Arrival in Wuhan
   Check in the Luojia Mountain Villa (Guest House of Wuhan University)

Morning, 11, Oct. 2010
08.20 All of the delegates take a walk to the Conference Room 6, Building of School of Economics & Management, Wuhan University

08.30-09.20 h    Opening Ceremony
Chair: Prof. Dr. Ma Ying

09.20 – 09.40 h    Photograph-taking

09.40-12.00 h    Session 1: Early and Classical Ideas
Chair: Gerhard Michael Ambrosi

Asian Classics in a Western Collection of History of
Economic Thought
Bertram Schefold, J. W. Goethe-University, Frankfurt, Germany Discussant: Wang Yongqin, Fudan University, China
Influence of Chinese Philosophy on European Enlightenment Movement
Tang Ren-wu & Wang Lei, Beijing Normal University, China
   Discussant: Stefan Gaasmand Jacobsen, Aarhus University, Denmark,
Quesnay, Physiocracy and the Chinese Ideal – Europeans Borrowing Arguments from Chinese Political Economy?
Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen, Aarhus University, Denmark,
   Discussant: Wang Lei, Beijing Normal University, China
The Reception of Adam Smith in East Asia: A Comparative Perspective
Liu Qunyi, Peking University, China
   Discussant: Evelyn L. Forget, university of Manitoba, Canada

12.00 - 13.20 h    Lunch at the Luojia Mountain Villa
Afternoon
13.20 All the participants walk to the Conference Room 6, Building of School of Economics & Management, Wuhan University

13.30 – 15.30 h    Session 2: Early 20th Century
Chair: Wen Jiandong

Yan Fu, Individualism and Social Order: Translating Western Ideas at the Dawn of the 20th Century
Yang Cui & Evelyn L. Forget, University of Manitoba, Canada
   Discussant: Liu Qunyi, Peking University, China
Historic Mission and Epochal Value of Sun Yat-sen’s Economic Thoughts
Yan Qinghua & Sun Zhijun, Wuhan University, China
Discussant: Olga N. Borokh, Russian Academy of Science, Russia
Chinese Tradition Meets Western Economics: Tang Qingzeng and his Legacy.
Olga N. Borokh, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow,Russia
Discussant: Sun Zhijun, Wuhan University, China

15.30 - 15.45 h    Coffee break
15.45 – 18.00 h    Session 3: Development
Chair: Harald Hagemann

Commodities, Natural Resources and Growth: A Study through the History of Economics
   Mauro Boianovsky, University of Brasilia, Brazil
Discussant: Ma Ying, Wuhan University, China
Conditions of Reproduction, Formation of Average Rate of Profit
and Nature of Economic Growth
Feng Jinhua, Shanghai University of Finance & Economics, China
Discussant: Massimo Ricottilli, University of Bologna, Italy
Development Theory and Transition
Massimo Ricottilli, University of Bologna, Italy
Discussant: Luo Zhi, Wuhan University, China

18:00-20:00 Banquet at the Hu Jing Restaurant

Morning, 12 October, 2010
07:00-08:20 Breakfast at the Luojia Mountain Villa
08.20 All the participants take a walk to the Conference Room 6, Building of School of Economics & Management, Wuhan University

08:30-10:30 Section 4: Dissemination
Chair: Wang Yongqin

He Lian: a Founder and Practitioner of the Utilization of Western Economics in China
Zhou Jianbo & Feng Jingyu, Peking University, China
Dicussant: Gilles Campagnolo, University of Provence, France
Economic Thought and the Idea of Science in Three Influent Western Thinkers during the Modernization Process and the “Break-up” Period in China
Gilles Campagnolo, University of Provence, France
Discussant: Ye Chusheng, Wuhan University, China
The Transmission of Heterodox Economics in China: 1949-2009
   Zhang Lin, Yunan University, China
Discussant: Harald Hagemann, University of Hohenheim, Germany

10.30 – 10.45 h    Coffee Break
10.45 – 12.00 h    Session 5: Institutions & Development
Chair: Bertram Schefold

Understatnding Economic Development and Institutional
Change: The East Asian Development Model Recondidered with
Implications for China
Wang Yongqin, Fudan University, Shanghai, China
Discussant: Hans-Michael Trautwein, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Development Economics: A Theoretical and Historical Perspective Davide Gualerzi, University of Padua, Italy
Discussant: Dai Qian, Wuhan University, China

12.15 - 13.35h    Lunch at the Luojia Mountain Villa

Afternoon
13.35 All the participants take a walk to the Conference Room 6, Building of School of Economics & Management, Wuhan University

13.45 – 15.15 h    Session 6: Reform
Chair: Liu Qunyi

30 Years of the Disputes on China's Economic Reform:
Review and Thinking
   Guo Xibao, Wuhan University, China
Discussant: Bertram Schefold, J. W. Goethe-University, Germany
The Contribution of Keynesian Thought to the Economic Development of China
    Gerhard Michael Ambrosi, University of Trier, Germany,
Discussant: Fang Fuqian, Renmin University of China
Chinese Economic Reform and the Two Faces of North Atlantic Economic Neoliberalism: A History of Thought Perspective
Matthias Klaes & Zhang Yi, Keele University, U.K
Discussant: Wen Jiandong, Wuhan University, China

15.15-15.30 h Coffee Break
15.30-17.30 h Section 7: The Present
Chair: Hans-Michael Trautwein

Worlds Apart: Western Economics in China
Fang Fuqian, Renmin University of China, Beijing
Discussant: Gerhard Michael Ambrosi, University of Trier, Germany,
    Hirschman and Irish Industrial Policy
Patrick Paul Walsh, University College of Dublin, Ireland
Discussant: Guo Xibao, Wuhan University, China
On the Economics Research of Modern Chinese Students Studying
in America: with the Special Review on Doctoral Dissertations
Zou Jinwen & Dr.Song Lizhi, Zhongnan University of Economics & Law, Wuhan, China
Discussant: Matthias Klaes, Keele University, U.K

17.30 - 18.00 h    Conclusion & Closing of the Conference
Hans-Michael Trautwein

18.00 h    Dinner at the Luojia Mountain Villa