Ladies and Gentlemen, We cordially invite you to the first Kazimierz Łaski Lecture Amit Bhaduri Professor Emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi Power, Inequality and Economic Policy Friday, April 8, 2016, 1.30 pm AK Wien Bürogebäude 2 Vortragssaal, 6. Stock Plößlgasse 2 1040 Vienna The lecture is organized in cooperation with AK Wien. Abstract Power is the organising principle of inequality, be it of income, wealth, gender, race, religion or region. In mainstream economic theory, interactions among rational isolated individuals are connected to one another only through prices and quantities in the market. For those brought up in this intellectual tradition, this has set a mildly dissident research agenda for analysing `market failures´, and how wrong prices get set. However, the debate between market fundamentalists and those who allow for the possibility of price failures under various characterisations of imperfect information (e.g. moral hazard, asymmetric information, adverse selection etc.) touches tangentially, but does not really face the question of economic power. At the abstract level institutions are social devices put in place not just to routinize actions, but to reduce the options or strategy sets of some and to expand that of others. More than anything else, the analysis of economic power is the analysis of institutions and their reinforcing ideologies. The lecture tries to illustrate this with two examples of guiding economic policies, one from a developed (USA) and one from a developing (India) capitalism. Speaker Dr. Amit Bhaduri is Professor Emeritus at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, and is currently the Visiting Chair Professor in Political Economy at Goa University. He has served as Professor of Political Economy at the University of Pavia, Reader at the Delhi School of Economics, and Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta. Dr. Bhaduri´s research spans several important fields including capital and growth theory, Keynesian and Post-Keynesian macroeconomics, and development economics. Together with Diane Elson he is 2016 Leontief Prize Winner, awarded by the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. Best regards Michael Landesmann Scientific Director wiiw -- Michaela Bönisch Wiener Institut für Internationale Wirtschaftsvergleiche (wiiw) The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies Rahlgasse 3, A-1060 Wien T: +43 1 533 66 10 - 40 F: +43 1 533 66 10 - 50 boenisch@wiiw.ac.at http://www.wiiw.ac.at/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you do not want to receive further mailings please send an e-mail to boenisch@wiiw.ac.at Falls Sie keine weiteren Zusendungen des wiiw wünschen senden Sie bitte ein E-Mail an boenisch@wiiw.ac.at