VIII Winter Workshop on Economics and Philosophy (2008)

Ethics, Justice and Gender

A workshop organized by the the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation at the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia

Madrid, September 11-12 2008

Coordinator: Diana Strassmann (Rice University)

Convenors: David Teira & Jesús Zamora (UNED)

Conference pictures from Diana Strassman

Program (Updated: Sep. 6, pdf) | Conference venue | Practical information

Book of abstracts

Although economists have long treated social justice and ethics as beyond its disciplinary boundaries, standard theories provide inadequate explanations of human deprivations and inequalities. With gender inequality pervasive in societies around the world, better understandings of women's economic lives could lead to a more illuminating, useful and accountable economics. Scholarship on gender has been particularly hampered by theories that insufficiently acknowledge how power relations and social norms influence women's access to economic resources, health, education, and political agency. How can philosophical tools and theories inform the work of economists seeking to address gender inequality? More generally, how might greater sensitivity to concerns of ethics and justice enable more comprehensive economic analyses that better contribute to the struggle for a gender-just world? And how can advances in feminist economics inform philosophical theories of justice, ethics, and epistemology? Papers may draw from a wide range of philosophical and economic ideas and scholarship in addressing issues relating to gender, economics, human deprivations, capabilities, and justice.

Speakers: Diana Strassmann (Rice University), Alison Jaggar (University of Colorado, Boulder), Fabienne Peter (University of Warwick), Ingrid Robeyns (Radbound Universiteit Nijmegen), and Stephanie Seguino (University of Vermont)

Contributed papers by: Meryl Altman and Kerry Pannell (DePauw University, USA), Mohamed Behnassi (Ibn Zohr University, Morocco & North-South Social Sciences Research Centre), Günseli Berik (University of Utah, USA), David de la Croix and Marie Vander Donckt (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium), Shakuntala Das (University of Missouri – Kansas City), Zahra Karimi (Mazandaran University, Iran), Lynda Lange (University of Toronto, Canada), Yumiko Yamamoto (UNDP, Asia-Pacific Regional Centre in Colombo RCC)

Registration: Registration in the workshop is free, but if you want to join the participants in the conference lunch on Sept. 11, you have to book a seat and pay a 30 EUR menu. Send an e-mail with your contact details before Sept. 1 to David Teira {dteira [at] fsof.uned.es}

INEM 2008

Notice that this event takes place jointly with the International Network for Economic 2008 Conference (Madrid, 12-13 September)

The Winter Workshop is supported by:

Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED) • Vicerrectorado de Relaciones Internacionales Ministerio de igualdad Instituto de la mujer Ministerio de ciencia e innovación • Programa de Acciones complementarias Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnologia Urrutia Elejalde Foundation