UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY

2nd International Conference on Economic and Social History

"Markets" and Politics
Private interests and public authority (18th-20th centuries)

Volos, 10-12 February 2012

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Programme

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Friday, 10 February 2012

10.30
Registration
11.00
Opening addresses
11.30-12.50
Session I: Perceptions of the economy
Chair: Michel Zouboulakis

Yorgos Stassinopoulos: Markets and politics or markets without politics: expunging politics from the economy in modern western economic thought [In Greek]

George Argeitis & Athanassios Koratzanis: The ‘New Consensus’ model: unrealistic theory-incredible policy [In Greek]

Vassilis Roussopoulos: The engagement of economic theories in the struggle of interests [In Greek]

Nicholas Theocarakis: The market as default mechanism. A history of economic thought perspective

12.50-13.20
Discussion
Discussant: Zaharias Moutoukias
13.20-14.20
Session II: Ideological aspects of economic practices
Chair: George Stathakis

Chrysanthi Avlami: From one market to the next: trade as a differentiating concept between antiquity and modernity in the 18th century [In Greek]

Polycarpos Karamouzis: Religious morality and economic behaviour: the ideological uses of philanthropy in the official discourse of the Greek Church [In Greek]

Paschalis A. Arvanitidis & Georgios Papagiannitsis: Back to the future: economics through the lenses of pragmatism

14.20-14.50
Discussion
Discussant: Yorgos Stassinopoulos
14.50-16.30
Lunch break
16.30-17.30
Session III: Economic and political activities in pre-revolutionary Greece
Chair: Onur Yildirim

Martha Pylia: Economic activities of Theodoros Kolokotronis in the prerevolutionary period [In Greek]

Sophia Laiou: Politico-economic partnerships in the Aegean in the beginning of 19th century: the case of admiral of the Ottoman fleet Küçük Hüseyin Paşa and Hydra kocabaş Georgios Voulgaris [In Greek]

Christos Desyllas: Distinctive institutions of microfinance and legal regulations in the Corfu market of the 18th-19th centuries [In Greek]

17.30-18.00
Discussion
Discussant: Maria Christina Chatziioannou
18.00-18.15
Break
18.15-19.15
Session IV: Land property and the state
Chair: Dimitris Dimitropoulos

Onur Yildirim & Seven Ağır: Asset Ownership and Legal Change in the 19th c. Istanbul

Kostas Raptis: Between market and politics: noble large landowners in Central Europe from the mid-19th century to the interwar period [In Greek]

Thanos Andritsos & Dimitris Poulios: “Hodja’s Bakery”: approaching the “Greek particularities“. Urban planning practice, state power and private interests (19th-21st century) [In Greek]

19.15-19.45
Discussion
Discussant: Nicholas Theocarakis
19.45-20.45
Session V: Public finances, entrepreneurship and politics
Chair: Nicholas Theocarakis

Zaharias Moutoukias: Fiscal institutions and social networks: the construction of markets and republican order in the Hispanic world, 1790-1830

Ali Yaycioglu: Business of Governance: Military and Fiscal Entrepreneurs in the 18th Century Ottoman World

Dimitris Dimitropoulos: Market, taxes and coercions: the tzelepiko in Ali Pasha’s territories [In Greek]

20.45-21.15
Discussion
Discussant: Socrates Petmezas
21.30
Dinner

Saturday, 11 February 2012

09.00-10.00
Session VI: Private interests, markets and politics
Chair: Minna Rozen

Rolf Hugoson: Βeyond the consensus culture: Recognizing Urban Interests in Sweden, 1719-1921

Hugo Pereira: Markets, Politics and Railways: Portugal, 1852-1892

Vassilis Manoussakis: The Business Elites of occupied Europe and the end of Nazi “New Order”: the cases of Greece and Belgium

10.00-10.30
Discussion
Discussant: Evridiki Sifneos
10.30-11.30
Session VII: Labour and labour legislation
Chair: Maria Christina Chatziioannou

Isabelle Lespinet-Moret: International Labor Organisation during the interwar: Labor Policy between Industrials’s economics interests and social justice ideal

Nikos Potamianos: State policy, small business units and concentration of capital: the case of labour legislation and hygiene standards, 1910-1929 [In Greek]

Angeliki Nikolaou: The issue of the dockworkers in the port of Volos as a terrain of confrontation and negotiation between the agents of political power and private enterprise in the 1930s [In Greek]

11.30-12.00
Discussion
Discussant: Leda Papastefanaki
12.00-12.30
Break
12.30-13.30
Session VIII: Big businessmen and political power
Chair: Christos Hadziiossif

Iordanis Aivazis & Maria-Christina Chatziioannou: Political power and agents of economic activity in postwar Greece: the case of Stratis Andreadis [In Greek]

Gelina Harlaftis: Aristotle Onassis vs American government in the 1950s

Eleni Beneki: Ship-owners and politics: the case of Epaminondas K. Empiricos [In Greek]

13.30-14.00
Discussion
Discussant: Katerina Papakonstantinou
14.00-16.00
Lunch break
16.00-17.00
Session IX: Interest groups in Greece in the 20th c.
Chair: Gelina Harlaftis

Katerina Papakonstantinou & Ilias Bissias: Interest groups and politics: ship-owners and political power in Greece in the 1960’s and 1970’s

Christos Tsakas: Expropriations and contracts in question: the later phase of the dictatorship, 1973 – 1974 [In Greek]

Stratos Dordanas: Krupp vs. Ehrhardt: competition between German entrepreneurial groups for the Greek armaments programmes before the Balkan Wars [In Greek]

17.00-17.30
Discussion
Discussant: Kostas Raptis
17.30-18.00
Break
18.00-19.00
Session X: Entrepreneurs and politics: Pressures and negotiations
Chair: Yannis Caloghirou

Minna Rozen: Capital and Power and the “Big Fire”

Fabrice Akono & Nicolas A. Metaxides: Confrontation et/ou coopération entre pratiques politiques et logiques économiques dans le processus de la création de l’ imaginaire entrepreunial en Afrique subsaharienne

Christina Agriantoni & Evridiki Sifneos: Businessmen involved in politics. Greece, 1880-1940

19.00-19.30
Discussion
Discussant: Gelina Harlaftis
19.30
Round Table: State and "Markets" today: an assymetrical relation?
Christos Hadziiossif, Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis, Zaharias Moutoukias, Georges Stathakis, Nicholas Theocarakis, Michel Zouboulakis
Coordinator: Christina Agriantoni
21.30
Dinner

Sunday, 12 February 2012

9.00-10.20
Session XI: Emerging markets, new practices
Chair: Riki Van Boeschoten

Eleftheria Deltsou: Agro-and eco-tourism enterprises at the turn the 21st century: Observations on new forms of entrepreneurship in the European Union [In Greek]

Spyros Dimanopoulos: The emergence of the entrepreneurial group of hotel owners in the prefecture of Heraklion, 1970-1980 [In Greek]

George Ioannidis: Creating markets out of nothing: the case of Continuing Vocational Training in Greece [In Greek]

Yannis Caloghirou: Information Society in Greece [In Greek]

10.20-10.50
Discussion
Discussant: Aigli Dimoglou
10.50-11.10
Break
11.10-12.10
Session XII: Economic activity and state intervention in the interwar period
Chair: Dimitris Kyrtatas

Orly C. Meron: Ethnic professionals and public utilities: Jewish engineers in Greece between the wars

Giulio Mellinato: The origins of Finmare. A technocratic reform beyond state and market in fascist Italy

Kostis Karpozilos: “Α rational experiment”: discussing the New Deal in times of Depression

12.10-12.40
Discussion
Discussant: Christina Agriantoni
12.40-14.00
Session XIII: Political economy and the state
Chair: Socrates Petmezas

Anna Mahaira: The law “du cadenas” of 1897 in France and its role in the adoption of a “national” political economy [In Greek]

Angelos Chotzidis: The international economic control of the Ottoman Empire (1881-1914): the activities of European creditors and the reaction of the Ottoman authorities and farmers [In Greek]

Alexandros-Andreas Kyrtsis: The “securitization” of social democracy: effective demand policy and deregulation of capital markets (1979-2008) [In Greek]

George Stathakis: The state in the neoliberal era: the contradictions [In Greek]

14.00-14.30
Discussion
Discussant: Christos Hadziiossif
14.30
Closing of the Conference
15.00
Farewell lunch

 
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