International Network for Economic Method Conference
Madrid, 12-13 Sept. 2008

2nd CALL FOR PAPERS

Keynote Speakers: Roger Backhouse (University of Birmingham), Partha Dasgupta (Cambridge University)

Plenary panel sessions on:

- Neuroeconomics, coordinated by Don Ross (U. of Alabama at Birmingham & U. of Cape Town), with the participation of Mark Dean (New York University), Benoit Hardy-Vallee (University of Toronto) & Jack Vromen (Erasmus Univeristy Rotterdam)

- Neoliberalism as Philosophy and Politics, coordinated by Philip Mirowski (University of Notre Dame), with the participation of John O'Neill (U. Manchester) & Dieter Plehwe (Social Science Research Center Berlin)

The sixth INEM conference will be hosted by the Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia (UNED) and the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation. Contributed papers are welcome in all areas of economic methodology and cognate disciplines, including papers on conceptual issues in economics, the methodological analysis and appraisal of theories and techniques, methodological issues in applied fields, the history of methodological thought in economics, the sociology of economic science, the rhetoric of economics, the relationship between economics and other disciplines, the philosophy and history of science, social epistemology, and the economics of science.

Paper proposals: They should consist of a 500 word abstract, together with the contact details of the author (Name, affiliation, email address).

Session proposals: We welcome panel proposals for 90 minute sessions (three speakers, at least). They should consist of a 1000 word abstract stating the aim of the session and their respective contribution, together with the contact details of the coordinator and speakers (Name, affiliation, email address). We also welcome panels on recent books in ‘author meets critics’ format.

The abstract should be attached to an email message to inem2008 [at] gmail.com. Deadline for submissions is April 1st 2008. Results of the selection procedure will be communicated by May 1st 2008.

Scientific Committee: Uskali Mäki (Academy of Finland, Chair), Roger Backhouse (U. Birmingham), D. Wade Hands (U. Puget Sound), Esther-Mirjam Sent (U. Nijmegen), Bruce Caldwell (U. N. Carolina Greensboro), Matthias Klaes (Keele U.), Jesus Zamora-Bonilla (UNED).

Organizing Committee: J. Francisco Alvarez (UNED), Miranda del Corral (UNED), Juan Carlos García-Bermejo (UAM, Chair), Maria Jimenez Buedo (UNED), Julian Reiss (EIPE), David Teira (UNED), Juan Urrutia (UEF) Jesus Zamora-Bonilla (UNED, INEM representative)

For further information, email INEM2008 [at] gmail.com

INEM 2008 is immediately preceded by the VIII Winter Workshop on Economics and Philosophy: Ethics, Justice, and Gender (confirmed speakers: Diana Strassmann, co-ordinator; Alison Jaggar, Fabienne Peter, Ingrid Robeyns and Stephanie Seguino) on September 11, also hosted by the Urrutia Elejalde Foundation.

The Iberoamerican Society for Economic Methodology will hold their bi-annual session in Madrid on September 9-10.