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Equality and the Market Conference

Conference Program

 

Thursday, September 28

 

Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, 326 Galvez Street

1:00 pm           Welcome

Debra Satz, Director of Stanford's Program in Ethics in Society

 

1:15 - 2:45 pm     Session 1: The Market: Good, Bad, or Just Indifferent?

 

    * Speaker: Anne Phillips, London School of Economics

    * Comments: Mark Kelman, Stanford Law

    * Chair: Richard Ford, Stanford Law

 

2:45 - 3:00 pm     Coffee Break

3:00 - 4:30 pm     Session 2: Do Markets Undermine Inequalities?

 

    * Speaker: Dan Hausman, University of Wisconsin, Madison

    * Comments: David Grusky, Stanford

    * Chair: Peter Stone, Stanford

 

4:45 - 6:15 pm     Session 3: The Contingency of Blocked Exchanges

 

    * Speaker: Jonathan Wolff, University College, London

    * Comments: Michael Blake, University of Washington

    * Chair: Kenneth Arrow, Stanford

 

6:15 - 7:15 pm     Wine and Cheese Reception; all are welcome!

 

Friday, September 29

 

Frances C. Arrillaga Alumni Center, 326 Galvez Street

8:30 - 9:00 am     Coffee and Pastries

 

9:00 - 10:30 am Session 4: Responsibility, Fairness, and Institutions

 

    * Speaker: Bertil Tungodden, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration

    * Comments: Peter Hammond, Stanford

    * Chair: Patrick Suppes, Stanford

 

10:45 - 12:15 pm         Session 5: Markets, Inequalities and Care

 

    * Speaker: Nancy Folbre, University of Massachusetts (Amherst)

    * Comments: Joshua Cohen, Stanford

    * Chair: Myra Strober, Stanford

 

 

 

2:00 - 3:30 pm     Session 6: Egalitarianism, Option Luck and Insurance Markets

 

    * Speaker:Marc Fleurbaey, Universite de Pau

    * Comments: Richard Arneson, UCSD

    * Chair: Elisabeth Hansot, Stanford

 

3:30 - 3:45 pm     Coffee Break

 

3:45 - 5:15 pm     Session 7: The Relationship Between Income Inequality and Equality of Opportunity

 

    * Speaker: Susan Mayer, University of Chicago

    * Comments: Rob Reich, Stanford

    * Chair: Agnieszka Jaworska, Stanford

 

 

Saturday, September 30

 

Schwab Residential Center, 680 Serra Street

9:30 - 10:00 am Coffee and Pastries

 

10:00 - 11:30 am          Session 8: Voluntary Slavery and the Limits of the Market

 

    * Speaker: Debra Satz

* Comments: Barbara Fried, Stanford Law

    * Chair: Scotty McLennan, Stanford

 

11:45 am - 1:15 pm   Session 9: Prospects for Achieving Equality in Market Economies

 

    * Speaker: John Roemer, Yale

    * Comments:Victor Fuchs, Stanford

    * Chair: Eamonn Callan, Stanford

 

1:15 - 2:30 pm     Lunch:

 

2:30 - 4:00 pm     Session 10: Against Desert: Markets, Equality, and Pure Procedural Justice

 

    * Speaker: Elizabeth Anderson, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

    * Comments: Seana Shiffrin, UCLA Law

    * Chair: David Hills, Stanford

 

 

 

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