Marshallian Industrial Economics

4 March 2008 at 3:24 pm Peter G. Klein 1 comment

| Peter Klein |

Almost every recent paper on networks, clusters, agglomeration economies, and the like mentions Alfred Marshall’s concept of the “industrial district” and gives the obligatory cite to Book IV of Marshall’s Principles (Marshall’s term was the more colorful “thickly peopled industrial district”). But what exactly were Marshall’s views on industrial districts, and on industrial economics more generally? Attend this workshop to find out:

International Workshop: “Marshall and the Marshallians on Industrial
Economics”

March 15-16th 2008, Mercury Tower, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

March 15 (Saturday)

10:00-12:00
Chair: Cristina Marcuzzo (Rome Univ.)
Richard Arena (Nice Univ.) “Alfred Marshall as an Industrial Economist”
Tamotsu Nishizawa (Hitotsubashi Univ.) “Industry and Trade Reconsidered”
Comment: Tiziano Raffaelli

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:30
Chair: Marco Dardi
Marco Bellandi (Firenze Univ.) “Industrial Districts and Waves of Industrialization”
Katia Caldari (Padua Univ.) “At the Origin of the Industrial District: Alfred Marshall and the Cambridge School”
Comment: Shigeru Matsushima, Atsushi Komine

15:30-16:00 Coffee

16:00-18:30
Chair: Fred Lee
Tiziano Raffaelli (Pisa Univ.) “Industry and Trade on Business Size”
Kenji Fujii (Aoyamagakuin Univ.) “Fairness in Marshall: Fair Wages and Capability-building”
Richard Langlois (Connecticut Univ.) “Organization, Capabilities, and the Evolution of the Industrial Structure: Marshall and After”
Comment: Nobuhiro Ito , Richard Arena, Tadashi Nishibe

March 16 (Sunday)

10:00-12:30
Chair: Roger Backhouse
Simon Cook (Tel-Aviv Univ.) “The Historical Background to Marshall’s Industrial Economics”
Carlo Cristiano “Following Marshall in different directions. Layton and MacGregor on the relations of capital and labour, ca. 1911-1914”
Masashi Kondo (Osaka Pref. Univ.) “Alfred Marshall and Walter T. Layton on the Cambridge School”
Comment: Hiroyuki Shimodaira, Fred Lee, Katia Caldari

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:30
Chair: Richard Langlois
Marco Dardi (Firenze Univ.) “Marshall, welfare and industrial progress, or: the ‘utilitarian’ joins the ‘evolver'”
Annalisa Rosselli (Rome Univ.) “Sraffa and his critique of Marshall’s economics”
Comment: Satoko Nakano, Takashi Yagi (Yoshihiko Hakamata)

15:30-16:00 Coffee

16:00-18:30
Chair: Annalisa Rosselli
Hiroyuki Shimodaira (Yamagata Univ.) “Dennis Robertson on Industrial Society: The Control of Industry re-examined”
Lise Arena (Oxford Univ.) “The Marhallian Tradition of Industrial Economics in Oxford during the period 1940s-1970s”
Comment: Cristina Marcuzzo, Roger Backhouse, Masazumi Wakatabe
Fred Lee (Missouri Univ.) “D. H. MacGregor and the Marshallian Tradition at Oxford, 1920 – 1945”
Comment: Marco Bellandi, Masazumi Wakatabe, Roger Backhouse

18:45-20:00 Dinner Party

For further information contact Prof. Tamotsu Nishizawa email:
nishizawa@ked.biglobe.ne.jp