Conference Program
Day 1 – Nov 7
8h30 – 9h00 – Registration
9h00 – 9h30 - Welcome and introduction:
João Carlos Ferraz (Vice-President, Brazilian Development Bank), Nilcéa
Freire (Ford Foundation Representative/Brazil) and Leonardo Burlamaqui
(Program Officer, Ford Foundation)
9h30- 11h15 -Session 1: The BICs Strategies for Weathering the Crisis
Chair: Leonardo Burlamaqui (Program Officer, Ford Foundation)
Rubens Ricupero (Former Brazil´s Finance Minister)
Jan Kregel (Levy Institute) – “Strategies for Weathering the Crisis:
Decoupling or Strategic Hedging?”
Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. (Brazil´s Director to IMF)
11h15 – 11h30 – Coffee-break
11h30 - 13h15 - Session 2: International Regulatory Reforms so Far: What’s in
place and what’s missing?
Chair: Stephan Richter (Theglobalist.com)
Arturo O’Connell (Argentina’s Central Bank) – “International Regulatory
Reform: there is little that is not missing”
Kevin Gallagher (Boston University) – “The New Vulture Culture:
Sovereign Debt Restructuring and International Trade and Investment
Treaties”
Jose Antonio Ocampo (Initiative for Policy Dialogue/Columbia University) “A Comprehensive Macroprudential Framework for Developing
Countries”
Discussant: Rainer Kattel (Tallinn Technical University)
13h15 – 14h15
Keynote speaker – Luciano Coutinho (President,
Development Bank) – Growth Perspectives for Brazil
Brazilian
National
14h15 – 15h15 – Lunch, brunch at BNDES
15h15 - 16h45 - Session 3: Brazil’s Development Strategy: From ECLAC to the
Washington Consensus to New Thinking?
Chair: Rogério Sobreira (Fundação Getúlio Vargas, MINDS)
Nelson Barbosa (Brazilian Deputy Finance Minister)
Luis Carlos Bresser Pereira (Brazil’s Former Finance Minister, Fundação
Getúlio Vargas) – “New developmentalism and the structuralist
development macroeconomics”
Ricardo Bielschowsky (Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) –
“Some thoughts on Brazilian new development strategy and new
development pattern”
Discussant: Jose Antonio Ocampo (Initiative for Policy Dialogue/Columbia
University)
16h45 – 17h00 – Coffee-break
17h00 – 18h30- Session 4: The BIC’s Emergence: Institutional Building and
New (or Relevant?) Economic Thinking?
Chair: Moira Paz Estenssoro (CAF - Banco de Desenvolvimento da América
Latina)
Martin Khor (Executive Director, South Center)
Rogério Studart (Brazilian Director to the World Bank) – “The role and
limits of BRICs as stabilizers of the world economy in this crisis”
John Matthews (University of Sydney) – “The BICs and green development:
How China is forging a new green development model that Brazil, India
and others are already emulating”
Discussant: Arturo O’Connell (Central Bank of Argentina)
Day 2 – Nov 8
9h00 – 10h45 – Session 5: The BIC’s in the Renewed “Global” Coordinating
Bodies: What has happened so far and what should be happening?
Chair: Maria Edileuza Fontenele Reis (Brazil’s Ministry of External Affairs)
Ngaire Woods (Director, Global Economic Governance Program at Oxford
University)
Lori Wallach (Director, Public Citizen)
Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr. (Brazil´s Director to IMF)
Discussant: Albert Keidel (Georgetown University)
10h45 – 11h00 – Coffee-break
11h00 – 11h30 Andrew Sheng (China Regulatory Comission)
New International Monetary Order: A Systemic Evaluation
Discussant: Benjamin Coriat (Université de Paris XIII)
11h30 – 13h15 - Session 6: Forging New Thinking (1): Shaping Financial
Institutions for Innovation and Development.
Chair: Silvia Marques de Brito e Silva (Central Bank of Brazil)
Glauco Arbix (President, FINEP)
Ernani Torres (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) - “Lessons from the
crisis: The Experience of the Brazilian Development Bank”
L. Randall Wray (UMKC and Jerome Levy Institute) – “A MinskySchumpeter Approach to Reconstituting Financial Institutions for
Capital Development of the Economy”
Discussant: Jan Kregel (Jerome Levy Institute)
13h30 - 14h30 – Lunch, brunch at BNDES
14h30 – 16h15- Session 7: Forging New Thinking (2): Knowledge Governance
as Development Strategy: Reasserting the Public Interest in Knowledge
Access and Dissemination.
Chair: Ana Célia Castro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, MINDS)
Giovanni Dosi (Sant´Anna School of Economics) - “The impact of IPR on the
rate and directions of knowledge accumulation”
Fred Block (University of California, Davis) – “Collision Course: Network
Collaboration and the IPR Regime”
Leonardo Burlamaqui (Ford Foundation) - “Knowledge Governance: A
Democratic Development Strategy”
Discussant: Jorge Avila (President, Brazil´s Patent Office)
16h15 – 16h30 – Coffee-break
16h45 – 18h15 - Session 8: Forging New Thinking (3): Alternative Teaching
Experiences: Brazil, India, US and EU
Chair: Luiz Fernando de Paula (UERJ, President, Brazilian Keynesian
Association)
Mário Possas (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) - “The need to teach
Economics as a dynamic and complex subject”
Benjamin Coriat (Université de Paris XIII) – “The Eurozone Crisis
How and Why it Happened. Lessons for future Institutional Builders”
L. Randall Wray (UMKC and Jerome Levy Institute)
Discussant: Adriana Amado (Executive Secretary, National Association of the
Graduate Programs in Economics, ANPEC)
Day 3 – Nov 9
9h15 – 11h00 - Session 9: The Return of the State: Learning From the BRIC’s?
Chair: Anna Jaguaribe (IBRACH, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Linda Weiss (University of Sydney) - “The transformative state: return,
renewal, or rediscovery?”
João Carlos Ferraz (Vice-president, BNDES) – “Industrial policy: reflections
from a current practitioner still with traces of academic research”
Rainer Kattel (Tallin University of Technology – “The return of the state?
The neoliberal legacies and challenges in catching up economies”
Discussant: Fred Block (University of California, Davis)
11:00 - 11:15 – Coffee-break
11h15 – 13h00 - Session 10: From Weathering the Crisis to Re-Building
Prosperity: New Policy Perspectives
Chair: João Paulo dos Reis Velloso
Albert Keidel (Georgetown University) – “Four Dimensions of China’s
Economic Success: Policies for a Second-best World”
Jan Kregel (Jerome Levy Institute)
Luiz Awazu Pereira da Silva (Director, Central Bank of Brazil)
Stephan Richter (Theglobalist.com) “Welcoming the Era of Post-American
Economic Thinking: Toward a Global Anthropology of Economics”
General Discussion
13h00 – 13h30 – Luiz Carlos Delorme Prado (President, International Centre
Celso Furtado) - Homage to Professor Antonio Barros de Castro
13h30 – 14h15 – Closing Remarks
Leonardo Burlamaqui (Ford Foundation), Francisco Eduardo Pires de Souza
(BNDES)