Program Schedule
The conference will bring together academics and thought leaders to present seven or eight original papers with an effort to give a broad representation of views- Western and Indian, liberal, conservative, and libertarian.
| Saturday, 4 January 2014 |
| 9:00-10:00 |
Registration & Tea |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Welcome: Baishali (Emcee)
Introduction: Arthur Melzer |
10:30-12:00 |
Opening Address: Bourgeois Dignity: Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
- Speaker: Deirdre McCloskey
- Chair: Parth J Shah
|
| 12:00-13:00 |
Lunch |
13:00-14:45 |
The World Is Too Much With Us? On The Expanding Reach of the Market
- Speaker: Steven Lukes
- Discussant: Neera Badhwar
- Chair: TBD
|
| 14:45-15:15 |
Break |
15:15-17:00 |
Free Market Fairness
- Speaker: John Tomasi
- Discussant: Gurpreet Mahajan
- Chair: Shikha Dalmia
|
| 17:00-18:00 |
Networking & Tea |
| Sunday, 5 January 2014 |
9:00-10:45 |
Good and Bad Contracts: How Consequentialism Helps Define Moral Theory
- Speaker: Richard Epstein
- Discussant: Rajshree Chandra
- Chair: Christopher Lingle
|
| 10:45-11:00 |
Break |
11:00-12:45 |
Catching up with the West (and Western Liberalism): Chinese, Indian and Japanese Responses to Liberalism in the Early Twentieth Century
- Speaker: Pankaj Mishra
- Discussant: Tom Palmer
- Chair: TBD
|
| 12:45-13:45 |
Lunch |
13:45-15:30 |
Religion and Economy in Enlightenment Political Thought
- Speaker: Andrew Bibby
- Discussant: Peter McNamara
- Chair: Gurcharan Das
|
| 15:30-16:00 |
Break |
16:00-17:45 |
Session: TBD
- Speaker: Pratap Bhanu Mehta
- Discussant: Parth J Shah
- Chair: TBD
|
| 17:45-18:00 |
Closing & Vote of Thanks: Baishali Bomjan |
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