September 13, 2021 (Monday)

(very likely this will take place at the JFK Institute of Free University Berlin)

09:00–09:15 

Welcome remarks by Dirk Ehnts, speaker of the board of Pufendorf-Gesellschaft e.V.

09:15–10:45 

Lecture by Warren Mosler (Valance Co. Inc.): Introduction to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)

11:15–12:45 

Lecture by Alla Semenova (SUNY Potsdam): 

12:45–14:00

Lunch break

14:00–15:45  

Lecture by Zdravka Todorova (Wright State U): MMT, Veblen's Theory, and Feminist Institutional Economics

16:15–17:45 

Lecture by Randall Wray (Levy Institute): The Green New Deal

September 14, 2021 (Tuesday)

(online via Zoom and Youtube)

09:15-10:45

Panel I: Unions and demand policy, with Friederike Spiecker, Oliver Picek (Momentum Institut Wien)  and Fritz Helmedag (University of Chemnitz)

11:15-12:45

Panel II: Inequality, with Randall Wray (Levy Institute), Miriam Rehm (University of Duisburg), Dorothea Schäfer (DIW Berlin) and Fabio de Masi (Member of the German Parliament)

12:45-14:00

Lunch break

14:00-15:45

Panel III: Green New Deal, with Claudia Kemfert (DIW), Asker Voldsgaard (IIPP London), Fadhel Kaboub (Denison University) and others 

16:15-17:45

Panel IV: Political economy of fiscal policy, with Warren Mosler (Valance Inc.), Achim Truger (German Council of Economic Advisers), Philippa Sigl-Glöckner (Dezernat Zukunft) and Paul Sheard (Harvard Kennedy School)

September 15, 2021 (Wednesday)

08:00-18:00

online presentations of submitted papers (via Zoom)

(possibly presentations in Berlin if the pandemic allows)