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April 2, 2005
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A.D. White House
Cornell campus
Hope in the Economy Conference
Co-sponsored by the Clarke Program in East Asian Law and Culture
View conference agenda
Guest Speakers:
- Katherine Verdery, University of Michigan
"Hope Turned Upside-Down: How Communists Fomented Class Struggle in Romanian Villages, 1948-1962"
- Mabel Berezin, Cornell University
"Marketing Hope: From Polity to Persons in the New Europe"
- Hirokazu Miyazaki, Cornell Anthropology
"Replication as a Technique of Hope: The Case of Financial Economics"
- Bill Maurer, UC Irvine
"Chronotypes of the Alternative: Hope for the New Economy" (download .pdf)
- Naoki Kusaga, Osaka University
"Hope Between Inside and Outside: 'Freeters' in Japan"
- Annelise Riles, Cornell University
"Hope, Means, and Response: Three Registers of Property"
- Richard Swedberg, Cornell University
"Hope and Economic Development: The Case of 18th-Century Sweden" (download .pdf)
- Jane Guyer, Johns Hopkins University
"When and How does Hope Spring Eternal in Personal and Popular Economics? Thoughts from West Africa to America"
| October 18, 2004 | |
Visit to Cornell Campus
Nobel Laureate Robert Fogel (Cornell '48)
"Changes in the Process of Aging during the Twentieth Century"
Conference co-sponsored by Cornell University Lecture Series; School of Industrial and Labor Relations; Economics Department; Policy Analysis and Management (PAM); Center for the Study of Inequality (CSI); Center for the Study of Economy and Society; John Abowd, Edmund Ezra Day Professor (ILR School); Francine Blau, Frances Perkins Professor (ILR School); Ronald Ehrenberg, Irving M. Ives Professor (ILR School)
Robert Fogel of the University of Chicago, Nobel laureate in Economics, and '48 graduate of Cornell gave a public lecture, titled "Changes in the Process of Aging during the Twentieth Century," as a part of the University Lecture Series. This web site commemorates his homecoming visit. Professor Fogel is the author of Railroads and American Economic Growth (1964); Time on the Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (1974) (with Stanley L. Engerman); Without Consent or Contract: The Rise and Fall of American Slavery (1989); The Fourth Great Awakening and the Future of Egalitarianism (2000); and The Slavery Debates, 1952-1990: A Retrospective (2003). His most recent book is entitled The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100: Europe, America, and the Third World (2004).**
| October 8-9, 2004 | |
Statler Hotel Amphitheater
Cornell Campus "The Norms, Beliefs, and Institutions of Capitalism: Celebrating Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism"
Conference organized by Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg with funding from The John Templeton Foundation
The Fall of 2004 marks the 100th anniversary of Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. While sociologists and economists have examined the general workings of markets and the roles that political and social institutions play in capitalism, less attention has been paid to the values that are crucial to a modern, vigorous, and healthy capitalism. This conference will, in part, highlight a central question raised by Weber's work - the relationship between values, economic institutions, and performance - critical to understanding the institutional framework and the motivation for economic gain that gave rise to capitalism.
Conference Agenda and Paper Abstracts (.pdf)
Speakers:
- Robert Barro (Harvard University) and Rachel McCleary (Harvard University)
"State Religions" (.pdf)
- Peter Berger (Boston University)
"Max Weber is Alive and Well, and Living in Guatemala: The Protestant Ethic Today" (.pdf)
- Paul DiMaggio (Princeton University)
"Our Franklins, Our Selves: Benjamin Franklin, the Protestant Ethic, and Economic Sociology"
- Robert Frank (Cornell University)
"Income Inequality, Tax Policy, and the Protestant Ethic"
- Francis Fukuyama (Johns Hopkins University)
"Good Governance and Normative Behavior"
- Mark Granovetter (Stanford University)
"The Social Construction of Corruption" (.pdf)
- Russell Hardin (NYU)
"Capitalism and Mismatched Incentives"(.pdf)
- Byron Johnson (Princeton University)
"The Long-Term Monetary Effects of Religious Programs on Prisoner Recidivism"
- Barnaby Marsh (Oxford University)
"Spiritual Capital and Economic Behaviour"
- John Meyer (Stanford University) and Ronald Jepperson (University of Tulsa)
"The Multiple Linkages Between Institutional Frameworks and Economic Development"
- Victor Nee (Cornell University)
"Weberian Bureaucracy and the Corporation in the Global Economy"
- Michael Novak (American Enterprise Institute)
"Reaching up to Weber -- and Beyond: The Moral Ecology of Liberty"
- Charles Sabel (Columbia University)
"Deliberate Choices, Not Blessed Endowment: Rethinking Weber's Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in Light of the Missteps and Promising Leads in Research on Economic Development"
- John Schneider (Calvin College)
"Is Christianity an 'Iron Cage' for Capitalism?"
- Brian Spooner (University of Pennsylvania)
"Religion, Culture and the Market in the Age of Globalization"
- Richard Swedberg (Cornell University)
"Tocqueville on the Spirit of American Capitalism" (.pdf)
- Duncan Watts (Columbia University)
"Collective Dynamics of Belief"
Institutions, Market Processes, and the Firm
2004-2005 Seminar Series
Yusheng Peng, Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong
"Kinship Networks, Rural Industries, and Max Weber"
April 21, 2005
Hayagreeva Rao, Kellogg School, Northwestern University
"Border Patrol: Culinary Categories as Constraints in French Gastronomy"
March 17, 2005
Kaiy Quek, Cornell University
"Gravitational Model of Rational Choice: A Framework for Social Mechanism Theorizing"
March 3, 2005
Lauren Edelman, Univ. of California
"Overlapping Fields and Constructed Legalities: The Endogeneity of Law"
February 17, 2005
Victor Nee, Cornell University
"Politicized Capitalism: Developmental State and the Firm in China"
January 27, 2005
George Loewenstein, Carnegie Mellon
"Animal Spirits: Affective and Deliberative Processes in Economic Behavior"
December 2, 2004
David Stark, Columbia University
"Social Times of Network Spaces: Sequence Analysis of Network Formation and Foreign Investment in Hungary, 1987-2001"
November 18, 2004
Ezra Zuckerman, MIT
"Control or Communication: Within-Network Exchange in the Selection of Home Remodelers"
November 4, 2004
Frank Dobbin, Harvard University
"Affirmative Action in Action: How Bureaucracy and Recruitment Change the Ranks of Management"
October 21, 2004
Robert Gibbons, MIT
"What is Organizational Economics? (and Should Any Sociologists Care?)"
September 2, 2004
For current and future events, see the Calendar of Events.
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