Here is the provisional program of the Econ-Fun Symposium (10-11 December 2010, Rotterdam):
10.12.2010 Friday
09:00 – 09:30 Welcome
09:30 – 10:30 Diane Coyle (keynote): “Who’s laughing now at the dismal science?”
10:30 – 10:45 Break: Coffee etc.
10:45 – 11:30 Uskali Mäki: “On the philosophy of the new kiosk economics of everything”
11:30 – 12:15 N. Emrah Aydinonat: “The two images of economics: Why the fun disappears when important questions are at stake?”
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:15 Jack Vromen: “Finding the Right Levers; Introducing Fines in Kindergartens and All That…”
14:15 – 15:00 Peter M. Spiegler: “The Unbearable Lightness of the Economics-Made-Fun Genre”
15:00 – 15:15 Break: Coffee etc.
15:15 – 16:00 Björn Frank: “Economic Page Turners”
16:00 – 16:45 Paul Teule & Erwin Dekker: “Economics made fun, and made fun of”
16:45 – 17:00 Break: Coffee etc.
17:00 – 18:00 Robert H. Frank (keynote): “The Economic Naturalist Writing Assignment”
19:00 Conference Dinner
11.12.2010 Saturday
10:30 Coffee
10:45 – 11:30 Jean Baptiste Fleury: “The Evolving Notion of Relevance: An Historical Perspective to the “Economics-Made-Fun” movement”
11:30 – 12:15 Edward Nik-Khah and Rob Van Horn: “Inland Empire: Economics Imperialism as an Imperative of Chicago Neoliberalism”
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 14:15 Roger Backhouse: “Economics is a serious (and difficult) subject”
14:15 – 15:15 Ariel Rubinstein (keynote): “Are economists economic agents?”
15:15 – 15:30 Closing
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