SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON INSTITUTIONAL
ECONOMICS

Hertford campus of the
University of Hertfordshire

Contact to:

Geoff Hodgson
Research Professor
University of Hertfordshire
E-mail:  g.m.hodgson@herts.ac.uk

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PROGRAMME
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THURSDAY 7TH SEPTEMBER 2000

10.00 Registration and coffee

11.00 Tony Lawson (University of Cambridge) on
'Critical realism and
institutional economics'

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Nathalie Lazaric (University of Technology at
Compiegne) 'The 
Role of
Routines, Rules and Habits in Collective Learning:
Some Epistemological 
and
Ontological Considerations'

15.00 Edward Lorenz (Centre for Employment Studies,
Noisy-le-Grand)
'Organisational Routines in the Light of the "Old"
Evolutionary 
Economics'

16.30 Tea

17.00-18.30 (Keynote speaker) Bart Nooteboom (Erasmus
University,
Rotterdam) 'Abstraction, specificity and discovery'.

20.00 Workshop dinner, with Victoria Chick (University
College, London) 
as
after dinner speaker.

FRIDAY 8TH SEPTEMBER

09.30 Geoff Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire) on
'The Problem of
Historical Specificity'.

11.00 Coffee

11.30 Armando Barrientos (University of Hertfordshire)
'Explaining 
Labour
Market Institutions'

12.30 Lunch

13.30 Alexander Lascaux (Russian Academy of Sciences)
'Non-Monetary
Transactions in Russian Transitory Economics: An
Institutional 
Approach'

15.00 Jane Hardy (University of Hertfordshire)
'Corporate Strategy and
Disembedding Old Legacies: The Case of Wroclaw,
Poland'

16.30 Tea

17.00 End of workshop.