The 10th [2020] Annual Conference of the KSJ 

10th Keynes Conference
Time Schedule and Program

5 & 6 December, 2020

Conference Place: Online Conference

Day 1 (5th December, Sat)

10:00~12:15

Session Ⅰ: Digital Currency and Cashless Payments

Chair: Yasutoshi NOSHITA, Professor, Kokushikan University, Japan

CBDC and Monetary Policy

Speaker: Masashi NAKAJIMA, Professor, Reitaku University, Japan

Cashless Payments and the Digitalization of Money: the Case of Japan

Speaker: Taku KINAI, Manager, Corporate Planning Dept., Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting, Japan

Payment System and Cashless Payment in the Retail Transactions

Speaker: Yasutoshi NOSHITA, Professor, Kokushikan University, Japan

Discussant: Takeshi OGAWA, Associate Professor, Senshu University, Japan

Discussant: Etsuko KATSU, Professor, Meiji University, Japan

12:30~14:45

Session Ⅱ: Economic Growth and Innovation

Chair: Jiro OBATA, Professor, Rissho University, Japan

Industrial and Financial Innovation in Perspective of Hicks's Capital Theory

Speaker: Jiro OBATA, Professor, Rissho University, Japan

Discussant: Toru NAGAHARA, Associate Professor, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan

Service Industry Prices / Wage Theories

Speaker: Yutaka KUWAGAKI, Lecturer, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan

Discussant: Jiro OBATA, Professor, Rissho University, Japan

A Two-class Economy from the Multi-sectoral Perspective: The Controversy between Pasinetti and Meade-Samuelson-Modigliani Revisited

Speaker: Kazuhiro KUROSE, Associate Professor, Tohoku University, Japan

Discussant: Toichiro ASADA, Professor, Chuo University, Japan

15:15~17:30

Session Ⅲ: Questioning from Post Keynesians

Chair: Yoshio WATANABE, Professor, Meiji University, Japan

Unconventional Monetary Policy and Instability of Financial System

Speaker: Yoshio WATANABE, Professor, Meiji University, Japan

Discussant: Atsushi NAITO, Professor, Ohtsuki City College, Japan

A Two-Sector Kaleckian Model with Differences in Employment Form

Speaker: Ryunosuke SONODA, Associate Professor, Saga University, Japan

Discussant: Takeshi IKEDA, Professor, Rikkyo University, Japan

Coordinated Fiscal and Monetary Stabilization Policy in the Manner of MMT: A Study by Means of Dynamic Keynesian Model

Speaker: Toichiro ASADA, Professor, Chuo University, Japan

Discussant: Ryuzo KUROKI, Professor, Rikkyo University, Japan

17:30~18:00

Report on the Publication of Review of Keynesian Studies Vol.2

Speaker: Toshiaki HIRAI, Professor, Sophia University, Japan

Day 2 (6th December, Sun)

10:00~12:30

Session Ⅳ: From a Perspective of Equality/Egalitarianism - Keynes, Pigou and Welfare States

Chair: Satoshi NIIMURA, Professor Emeritus, Okayama University, Japan

Keynes's New Liberalism

Speaker: Toshiaki HIRAI, Professor, Sophia University, Japan

Discussant: Nobuhiro ITO, Associate Professor, Takasaki City University of Economics, Japan

Pigou's Egalitarianism

Speaker: Satoshi YAMAZAKI, Associate Professor, Kochi University, Japan

Discussant: Yuichi KIMURA, Associate Professor, Nihon University, Japan

Welfare States and Equality

Speaker: Norio SASAKI, Professor, Tohoku University, Japan

Discussant: Nanako FUJITA, Professor, Nagoya City University, Japan

13:00~15:15

Session Ⅴ: Global Political Economy swayed by the "New Cold War": from the Perspective of China, the United States, and Europe

Chair: Kimihito SAKURAI, Professor, Rikkyo University, Japan

China's Recursion on Marxism and Revival of the Cold War in Asia

Speaker: Kenji MINEMURA, Editorial Office, The Asahi Shimbun Company, Japan

The "New Cold War" and The U.S.

Speaker: Kimihito SAKURAI, Professor, Rikkyo University, Japan

The "New Cold War" and Europe

Speaker: Soko TANAKA, Professor, Tohoku University, Japan

Discussant: Atsuji OHARA, Associate Professor, University of Nagasaki, Japan

15:20　Closing