Conference on Developing Quantitative Marxism, 16^th-18^th April 2009

Hosted by: University of Bristol and University of the West of England, Bristol,

Venue: Burwalls Hall, University of Bristol

Conference Programme

15/04/2009

THURSDAY 16^th APRIL

Session I: 14.00 -15.00

Military Spending and the Falling Rate of Profit. J Paul Dunne, Alvin Birdi and Luca Pieroni

Tea: 15.00-15.30

Session II 16.00 -17.00

Absolute Surplus-Value and the Employment Multiplier. By Bruce Philp and Andrew Trigg, Nottingham Trent and Open University

18.30 Dinner at Burwalls

FRIDAY 17^th APRIL

Session III: 10.00-11.00

Marx after Stone: The Critique of `Political Economy' must reflect its scientific progress. By Peter Flaschel, Faculty of Economics, Bielefeld University, Germany

Coffee: 11.00-11.30

Session IV: 11.30-12.30

Size effects in financial ratios: the probabilistic political economy perspective. By Julian Wells, Kingston University.

Lunch 12.30-13.30

Session V: 14.00 -15.00

Labour values, prices of production and market  prices in the German economy. By Nils Fröhlich Chemnitz University of Technology, Department of Economics, Germany

Tea: 15.00-15.30

Session VI 15.30 -17.00

Competitive Socialism, Flexicurity Capitalism and Marx's Analysis of Capitalism. By Peter Flaschel Faculty of Economics, Bielefeld University, Germany and Sigrid Luchtenberg, Faculty of Educational Sciences, Essen-Duisburg University, Germany.

19.30 Conference Dinner at Muset

SATURDAY 18^th APRIL

Informal gathering to discuss the way forward –venue to be arranged