Political Economy of Fairness and Globalisation

Conference hosted jointly by GEP and Murphy Institute of Political Economy

Held on 1st and 2nd April, 2005 at Tulane University, New Orleans

Convenors: Udo Kreickemeier (University of Nottingham and GEP) and Doug Nelson (Tulane University and GEP)

Presentations

Panel I. Research on Fairness Norms

• Truman Bewley
  Fairness, Reciprocity, and Wage Rigidity

 

Panel II. Domestic Political Economy of Fairness

• Per Lundborg
  Wage Fairness, Growth and the Utilization of R&D Workers
• Udo Kreickemeier and Hartmut Egger
  Fair Wages and International Fragmentation
• Carl Davidson, Steve Matusz, and Doug Nelson
  Fairness and Adjustment to Trade Shocks in a Simple Political Economy
• Michael Hiscox
  Through a Glass and Darkly: Framing Effects and Individuals’ Attitudes Towards International Trade

 

Panel III. International Political Economy of Fairness

• Susan Aaronson and Jamie Zimmerman
  Fair Trade?: How Oxfam Presented a Systematic Approach to Globalization, Human Rights and Development
• Amrita Narlikar
  Fairness in International Trade Negotiations: Developing Countries in the GATT and WTO
• Mathias Risse
  Fairness in Trade
• Howard Chang
  Cultural Communities in a Global Labor Market: Immigration Restrictions as Residential Segregation