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Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
Nachrichten, Termine, Experten
This conference is organized by:
Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF Potsdam), Emory University and
GHI Washington
and supported by: Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung
Conveners:
Dr. Ralf Ahrens (ZZF Potsdam)
Associate Professor Astrid M. Eckert (Emory University)
Dr. Stefan Hördler (GHI Washington)
As the postwar boom abated in the Western industrial nations, a broad variety of state economic interventions rapidly gained significance that were subsumed (though with partly differing connotations) under the labels of "structural" or "industrial policy." Unlike regulatory and stabilization policies that address economic conditions on the macro level, structural policy focuses on the development of particular regions or sectors. It has always implied expectations and assumptions about the desired composition and development of a national economy and its regional and sectoral labor markets.
Through the use of subsidies and infrastructure projects financed by the state, tax money was redirected in favor of certain regions, industries or even single companies. The costs of such measures, their economic outcomes and the concomitant socio-political principles required public justification and have frequently been the subject of debates. Structural policy therefore stands at the intersection of politics and economics. Despite its centrality for both, the historical practice of political decisions relating to structural policy after the boom decades has yet to be explored.
This conference aims at convening economic and political historians to discuss the driving forces, debates and practices of structural policy in Western Europe and the United States since the 1960s. It seeks to address the range of reactions within the "varieties of capitalism" to challenges posed by global structural changes. It intends to elucidate negotiations between political players and industrial actors as well as the economic causes and consequences of subsidies.
Conference Program
Thursday, 28 May 2015
14.30-16.00
Frank Bösch, Welcome
Conveners, Introduction
I. Industrial Policies "After the Boom"
Chair: Christopher Neumaier
Martin Chick, Industrial policy in Britain since 1970: changing values, assumptions and mechanisms
Marc Levinson, Punishing productivity: Some consequences of U.S. industrial policy, 1969-1985
16.30-18.00
II. European Impacts
Chair: Marc Buggeln
Samuel Beroud, "Positive adjustments": The emergence of supply-side economics in OECD and G7 debates, 1975-1983
Laurent Warlouzet, The Golden Age of EEC industrial policy. Managing the decline of steel from 1977 to 1984
Christos Tsakas, The industrialization of Europe's South-Eastern bulwark: Greek industrial policy from the association treaty with the EEC to the transition to democracy, 1961-1975
19.00 Dinner
Friday, 29 May 2015
9.30-11.00
III. Regional Development: Theories and Policies
Chair: Rüdiger Graf
Ferenc Gyuris, Western concepts about regional convergence as products of the scientific Cold War
Astrid M. Eckert, West German borderland aid and European state aid control
Fabio Lavista, Structural policies, regional development and industrial specialisation in Italy (1960-1990)
11.30-13.00
IV. Sectoral Policies
Chair: Kim C. Priemel
Dorothee Ryser, Fighting structural change: The case of the Swiss dairy sector, 1960s‐1990s
Stefan Hördler, Structural crisis and industrial policy in the 1970s: The steel industries in Germany and the US
Ralf Ahrens, Subsidies and the perception of change. Debates and practice in West German structural policy
14.00-15.30
V. Politics, Companies, and Unions
Chair: Anne Sudrow
Christian Marx, A European structural crisis cartel as solution to a sectoral depression? The West European fibre industry in the 1970s and 1980s
Sebastian Voigt, Delayed perception, familiar reaction? The crisis policy of the Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund in the 1970s and early 1980s
Final Discussion
Information on participating / attending:
Registration Deadline: May 20, 2015
To register, please contact Dr. Ralf Ahrens: ahrens@zzf-pdm.de
There are no registration fees for this conference.
Date:
05/28/2015 14:30 - 05/29/2015 15:30
Registration deadline:
05/20/2015
Event venue:
Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam (ZZF Potsdam)
Seminar Room (Ground Floor)
Am Neuen Markt 9d
14467 Potsdam
Brandenburg
Germany
Target group:
Business and commerce, Scientists and scholars
Email address:
Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Economics / business administration, History / archaeology, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Conference / symposium / (annual) conference
Entry:
05/04/2015
Sender/author:
Marion Schlöttke
Department:
Öffentlichkeitsarbeit
Event is free:
yes
Language of the text:
English
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event50815
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