Conference Organizers:

Marcello Musto, York University. Toronto-Canada

Kenji Mori, Tohoku University, Sendai-Japan.

February 18-19, 2012

Yokohama – Japan

Yokohama Program

Crisis Conference Poster

• February 18-19, 2012, Kanagawa University, Yokohama – Japan
• Day 1: Saturday, February 18, 2012
  • 10:00 – 10:45 Opening Speeches
    • Representative of Kanagawa University
    • Kenji Mori
    • Marcello Musto
  • 10:45 – 12:30 Session I: Marx and the 1857 Crisis
  • Chair: Michio Akama
    • Economic Crisis and Revolution: from the Communist Manifesto to the Grundrisse by Marcello Musto
    • Marx’s Notebooks of 1857 Crisis by Izumi Omura and Chen ChangAn
    • The 1857 Economic Crisis and the Birth of the Production Theory of Crisis by Kenji Mori
    • Discussant: Atsushi Tamaoka
  • 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00 – 17:00 Session II: The Making of Marx’s Theory of Crisis
  • Chair: George Comninel
    • What is the Significance of Marx’s theory of crisis? by Simon Clarke
    • What did Marx Mean by “Crisis”? by Terrell Carver
  • 15:15 – 15:45 Tea Break
    • History, Theory and Empirical Research: How Marx Built his Theory of Crisis by Michael R. Krätke
    • Toward the Completion of the Theory of Crisis: Developing Marx’s Conception by Keizo Hayasaka
    • Discussant: Tetsuya Kawamura
  • 19:00 Dinner
• Day 2: Sunday, 19 February, 2012
  • 10:00 – 12:00 Session III: Using Marx Today
  • Chair: Marcello Musto
    • Capitalist Crises and the Crisis This Time by Leo Panitch
    • Toward a Comprehensive Theory of Crisis by Michael Perelman
    • A Critical Synthesis of Marxist Debates on the “Great Recession” by Seongjin Jeong
    • Discussant: Satoshi Yoshii
  • 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
  • 13:30 – 15:15 Session IV: Capital and Crisis in the XXI Century
  • Chair: Yutaka Furuya
    • Capitalist Instability and the Contemporary Crisis: Marxist Debates by Greg Albo
    • Profits and commercial deficit: A Marxist Interpretation of the 2008 USA crisis by Alejandro Valle Baeza
    • Marx and Minsky on Financial Crisis: Marx Moment? by Daiki Asanuma and Kazuhiro Kurose
    • Discussant: Takashi Ohno
  • 15:15 – 15:30 Tea Break
  • 15:30 – 17:30 Roundtable: Marx’s Theory of Economic Crisis: A Worldwide Bibliography, 1989–2011
  • Chair: Leo Panitch
    • An Overview of the Bibliography by George Comninel
    • English Publications by Baris Karaagac
    • Scandinavian and Russian Publications by Pertti Honkanen
    • German Publications by Franz Fiehler
    • Spanish and Portuguese Publications by Alejandro Valle Baeza
    • Korean Publications by Seongjin Jeong