Workshop: The influence and status of economics in academia, policy making, and wider society

This workshop was organized as a part of the research project ESSK: Economics as Serviceable Social Knowledge (funded by the Academy of Finland)

  • Date: Tuesday, 24 January, 2023.
  • Time: 10.15 – 16.00
  • Place: Siltavuorenpenger 3A, Helsinki. ”Athena” building, Room 261, 2nd floor.
  • Online participation: via Zoom

Program

10.15 – 10.20 Welcome & opening words

10.20 – 11.20 Uskali Mäki: On the normative authority of economics

11.20 – 12.20 Luis Mireles-Flores: Some problems with the empirical turn in economics

12.20 – 13.45 Lunch (independently)

13.45 – 14.45 Teemu Lari: Which kind of pluralism is useful? The role of academic institutions and structures

14.45 – 15.45 N. Emrah Aydinonat: Econ-101ism and the Covid-19 Pandemic

15.45 – 16.00 Wrap-up discussion

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