Programme

The 6th conference of the International Walras Association
The International Diffusion of Walras’s Economics: Influence,
Interpretations and Controversies
« La diffusion internationale de l’économie de Léon Walras : rayonnement,
interprétations et controverses »
September 11-13, 2008
Kyodai-kaikan, Room 102
Kyoto University, Japan.
Programme
Thursday 11/09
11:00-12:00
Meeting of the organizing committee
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13:00-14:00
Registration
14:00-14:15
Greetings from the organizing committee of the AIW
Roberto BARANZINI (University of Lausanne), Kayoko MISAKI (Shiga University)
14:15-15:00 Opening Lecture
Kiichiro YAGI (Professor of Kyoto University, the former President of the
Japan Society for the History of Economic Thought)
“Alternative Equilibrium Vision in Austrian Economics：Walras and Austrians”
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:00
Session 1: Diffusion of Walras’s economics in Germany, Japan and the United States.
President：Richard ARENA (University of Nice)
Discussant：Roberto BARANZINI
Alain ALCOUFFE (University of Toulouse) “Walras - Cassel, the German connection revisited”
Kayoko MISAKI “The general equilibrium theory in Japanese economic thought”
Annie L.COT (University of Paris 1)“Walras without Walras? General Equilibrium Theory in
North America: another tale, 1891-1938”
Friday 12/09
10:00-12:00
Session 2: Diffusion of Walras’s economics in Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Russia.
President：Kayoko MISAKI
Discussant：Annie L.COT
André LEGRIS
& Ludovic RAGNI (University of Nice) “The Éléments d’économie politique
pure and the Italian Economists ”
J. ASTIGARRAGA & J.ZABALZA (University of Alicante) “The diffusion and reception of
Walrasian ideas in Spain”
Henk. W. PLASMEIJER (University of Groningen) “Walrasian Heretics in the Netherlands”
Francois ALLISSON (University of Lausanne) « Les premiers lecteurs de Walras en
Russie (1890-1919) »
12:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:00
Session 3 : France
President：Annie L.COT
Discussant：Jean-Pierre POTIER (University of Lyon 2)
Keiko KURITA (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University) “The emergence of the social economics in
France: Walras, Cheysson and Gide”
Richard ARENA “Léon Walras and Joseph Garnier itinéraire d’une relation scientifique ambigüe”
15.00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-17:30
Session 4: Diffusion of Walras’s economics by economists of the 20th century.
President：Roberto BARANZINI
Discussant：Richard ARENA
Kuniaki MAKINO (Kyoto University)“Acceptance and Alteration of the General Equilibrium
Theory in Japan: Takata Yasuma’s Interpretation of the General Equilibrium Theory”
Alain RAYBAUT (University of Nice)“Henry L.Moore and the dynamical complement of Walras’s
pure economics”
Alain BERAUD (University of Cergy-Pontoise) « Walras et Hicks : de Walras aux Modèles NéoWalrasiens»
Amanar AKHABBAR (University of Lausanne) & Jérôme LALLEMENT
« De Walras a Leontief
en passant par Samuelson et Sraffa, les théories nomades »
17:30-18:00
Coffee Break
18:00-19:00
Seminar by Pierre DOCKES (University of Lyon 2) on his book, L’enfer, Ce n’est pas les autres!
(in French )
20:00Conference Dinner
Saturday 13/09
10:30-12:00
Session 5: Philosophy and Socialism
President：Kayoko MISAKI
Discussant：Kunio NAKAKUBO (Himeji- Dokkyo University)
Arnaud DIEMER (University of Clermont Ferrand) “Auguste Walras, a philosophical approach to
Political Economy”
Michele BEE (University of Salento) “Les référence philosophiques de Lėon Walras et les
manuscrits sur la Philosophie de l’Art”
Roberto BARANZINI “Léon Walras’s Socialism and his economics”
12:00-14:00
14:00-16:00
Lunch
Session 6:
Pure economics and money
President：Roberto BARANZINI
Discussant：Pascal BRIDEL (University of Lausanne)
Shigeki TOMO (Kyoto Sangyo University) “Beyond Walras: On the historicity of Walras’s Market
Equilibrium Concept”
Pierre DOCKES & Jean-Pierre POTIER “Léon Walras and the Significance of Free Competition”
Toshiaki HIRAI (Sophia University) “How Did Economists Respond to Walrasian Theory?– The Cases
of the Wicksell Connection and Two Japanese Economists”
Gianfranco TUSSET (University of Padua)“Integrating money into the Walrasian general
equilibrium: Gustavo Del Vecchio’s theory”
16:00
Closing of the conference
16:30 Meeting of the International Walras Association
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Scientific Committee
Richard Arena (University of Nice), Roberto Baranzini（University of Lausanne, President),
Pascal Bridel (University of Lausanne), Arnaud Diemer (University of Clermont Ferrand), Pierre
Dockès (University of Lyon 2), Marion Gaspard (University of Lyon 2), Jérôme Lallement
（University of Paris 5), Kayoko Misaki (Shiga University), Jean-Pierre Potier (University of
Lyon 2), Donald Walker (University of Indiana).
Organizing Committee
Kiichiro Yagi (Kyoto University)
Roberto Baranzini (University of Lausanne)
Kayoko Misaki (Shiga University)
This conference is supported by the Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University and the
French Embassy in Japan .
It is approved by the Japan Society for the History of Economic Thought.
Both the Institute for Economic and Business Research and the Joint Research Center, Shiga
University assisted this conference.