The Politics of Economics [2017-2019]

Convenors

Convenors

Alice Pearson (PhD Candidate, Social Anthropology) [17-19]
Jack Wright  ( PhD Candidate, History and Philosophy of Science) [17-19]
Raffaele Danna (PhD Candidate, History) [17-19]
Ida A. B. Sognnaes (PhD Candidate, Land Economy) [17-19]
Jostein Hauge (Research Associate, Institute of Manufacturing) [18-19]

Previous convenors
Kim Caspar Hecker (PhD Candidate, POLIS) [17-18]
Jens van ‘t Klooster (PhD Candidate, Philosophy) [17-18]
Aled Davis (POLIS) [2018]

 

Jack Wrightis a doctoral candidate in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science. Jack works on scientific pluralism and contextualism and what they mean for economics, with a particular focus on how economic expertise can and should be structured. Jack has also written on the epistemic status of economic modelling and the use of evidence-based and data driven forms of reasoning in policy making. Jack has previous degrees in mathematics, economics, and philosophy.

Alice Pearson is a PhD candidate in the Department of Social Anthropology. Her thesis is based on 12 months ethnographic research of economics education at a university in Northern Europe and addresses questions of performativity, ethics and aesthetics in the discipline. Alice holds a BSc in Government and Economics from LSE and an MPhil in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge.

 

Raffaele Danna is a PhD candidate at the Faculty of History. His research focuses on the diffusion of the “Commercial Revolution” from Italy to Europe relying mainly on the diffusion of the Hindu-Arabic numeral system between the XIII and the XVI centuries. He holds a BA and an MA in Philosophy from the University of Bologna. He is broadly interested in interdisciplinary approaches to History as well as to contemporary issues, an interest which he fosters also by sitting on the editorial board of Pandora – Rivista di Teoria e Politica.

Ida Sognnaes is a PhD researcher at the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG) working on the interactions between energy, environment, and economic systems. Her thesis examines the application of integrated economic models to guide sustainable development. Ida has a broad interdisciplinary background centred around environmental issues and has degrees in applied mathematics and physics, political science, and energy and resources. Prior to setting up The Politics of Economics Ida ran Paper 0 for two years.

Jostein Hauge is a Research Associate at the Centre for Science, Technology & Innovation Policy, a research group at the Institute for Manufacturing. His research interests include economic development, the role of the state in economic change, technological paradigms, industrialisation, international trade, and globalisation. Jostein holds a PhD in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge, an MSc in Development Economics from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, and a BSc in Economics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

 

Previous convenors [2017-18]

Kim Hecker is a PhD candidate at the Department of Politics and International Studies looking at the relationship between contemporary perspectives on technological change and 20th century political thought. His wider research interests range from topics relating to philosophy of technology to ‘realist’ political theory.

 

 

 

Jens van ‘t Klooster is a PhD candidate in Philosophy who works on financial markets, distributive justice, and related topics. His dissertation is titled ‘How to make money: Distributive justice, finance and monetary constitutions’ and makes a case for money and finance as a central concepts of political philosophy.

 

Faculty Advisors

Dr Stephen John (Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science)
Dr Anna Alexandrova (Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Science)
Dr Ha-Joon Chang (Reader in Economics and Director of the Centre of Development Studies)
Professor David Runciman (Professor of Politics and Head of POLIS)
Professor Simon Szreter (Faculty of History)

Programme 2018-19

Politics of Economics
The Political Vernaculars of Value Creation 9 Oct 2018 5:15pm - 6:45pm, Seminar Room, SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road Fabian Muniesa (Mines ParisTech) – Politics of Economics
The Power of Economists within the State 23 Oct 2018 5:15pm - 6:45pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road Johan Christensen (Leiden), Ellen Quigley (Cambridge) – Politics of Economics
Measuring Poverty and Inequality in the Global South 6 Nov 2018 5:15pm - 6:45pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road Poornima Paidipaty (Cambridge), Jason Hickel (Goldsmiths) – Politics of Economics
POSTPONED: Women and Economics 20 Nov 2018 5:15pm - 6:45pm, Seminar Room S1, 1st Floor Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road. NB Different room today*  Erin Hengel (Liverpool), Anja Prummer (Queen Mary) –  Politics of Economics
Asymmetry, Disagreement and Biases: Epistemic Worries About Expertise and How to Address Them 24 Jan 2019 5:15pm - 6:45pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road *NB Different day* Cathrine Holst (Oslo) – Politics of Economics
Economics and/or Wellbeing 5 Feb 2019 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar Room SG1*, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road NB Different time and room* Will Davies (Goldsmiths), Anna Alexandrova (Cambridge) – Politics of Economics
Measurement of the Sustainable Development Goals 19 Feb 2019 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road Professor Mary Morgan (LSE) – Politics of Economics
Private Equity and the Balance of Twinkie the Kid 5 Mar 2019 5:00pm - 7:00pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road Daniel Souleles (Copenhagen Business School) – Politics of Economics
How Should We Approach Evidence for Policy? 11 Jun 2019 5:15pm - 6:45pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT Nancy Cartwright (Durham), Eleonora Montuschi ((Venice Ca’ Foscari, LSE)

Past events

Politics of Economics
Why Do Rich People Love Austerity? 10 Oct 2017 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar Room SG2, Alison Richard Building Dan Hausman (Wisconsin-Madison) – Politics of Economics
Philosophy and Public Policy after Piketty 24 Oct 2017 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building Martin O'Neill (York) – Politics of Economics
The Politics of New Economic Technologies 7 Nov 2017 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building Hannah Kuchler (Financial Times), Mathew Lawrence (The Institute for Public Policy Research), Julian Gruin, (Amsterdam) – Politics of Economics
The Two Puzzles of Social Democracy: How it Confutes Market Doctrines 21 Nov 2017 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building Avner Offer (Oxford) – Politics of Economics
The Last Crisis of Social Democracy: Economics and Populisms 23 Jan 2018 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar room SG1, Alison Richard Building Wolfgang Munchau (Financial Times), Chirstopher Bickerton (Cambridge) – Politics of Economics
The Age of the Applied Economist: The Transformation of Economics Since the 1970s 6 Feb 2018 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar room SG1, Alison Richard Building Beatrice Cherrier (Caen) – Politics of Economics
Economics into Policy 20 Feb 2018 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar room SG1, Alison Richard Building Paul Johnson (Institute for Fiscal Studies), Angus Armstrong (National Institute for Economic and Social Research) – Politics of Economics
POSTPONED: Populism and Central Bank Independence 6 Mar 2018 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar room SG1, Alison Richard Building Rosa Lastra (Queen Mary University of London) – Politics of Economics
Populism and Central Bank Independence 21 Mar 2018 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar room S2, 2nd floor, Alison Richard Building Rosa Lastra (Queen Mary, London) – Politics of Economics
Neoliberalism and the Economics of Transition: Contrasting Russia and China 1 May 2018 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar room SG1, Alison Richard Building Isabella Weber (Goldsmiths), Tobias Rupprecht (Exeter) – Politics of Economics
Politics of the Green Economy 15 May 2018 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar room SG1, Alison Richard Building John O'Neill (Manchester), James Vause (UNEP-WCMC), Bhaskar Vira (Cambridge) – Politics of Economics
The Politics of IMF Economic Ideas in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis 29 May 2018 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar room SG1, Alison Richard Building Ben Clift (Warwick) – Politics of Economics
Before Trump: The Neoliberal-Illiberal Alliance of the WTO & IMF and SCO 30 May 2018 5:00pm - 6:30pm, Seminar Room 2, History and Philosophy of Science Faculty, Free School Lane* S.A. Amadae (MIT) – Politics of Economics
Postponed: How Should We Approach Evidence for Policy? 12 Jun 2018 12:00pm - 2:00pm, Seminar Room SG1, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge, CB3 9DT Nancy Cartwright (Durham), Eleonora Montuschi (LSE) – Politics of Economics