2024 IASS Tokyo Conference
Final Program
Waseda University, School of Political Science and Economics
Monday 11th, March 2024
9:00 – 9:30 am
Opening Ceremony
Room: Various 501
Aiji Tanaka, President of Waseda University (prerecorded video message)
Masato Shizume, Dean of the Graduate School of Economics
Shin Kubo, President of the JSHET
Hisashi Shinohara, President of the Japanese Adam Smith Society
Maria Pia Paganelli, President of the International Adam Smith Society
9:30-11:00 am
Keynote speech 1
Room 501
Roos Slegers (Tilburg University)
“Manners, morals, and loneliness: Mary Wollstonecraft and Adam Smith”
chairperson: Maria Pia Paganelli (Trinity University)
11:20-12:50 am
Session: Labor, empire, and service
chairperson: Sora Sato (Keio University)
Room 301
Ana Paula Londe Silva (University of Glasgow)
“Dependence vs interdependence: Adam Smith on forced labor”
Christopher Baker (The American University in Cairo)
“Adam Smith and imagined empire”
Chenxi Gao (Kyushu Sangyo University)
“The classical definition of service by Smith and its misinterpretation in political economy”
Session: Commerce
chairperson: Michele Bee (Università del Salento)
Room 401
Austin Lamb (Boston College)
“Is a commercial society a happy society? Smith, Rousseau, and moral pretence”
Ruoyu Han (University of Cambridge)
“Commerce, credit, and capitalism: the monetary politics of Adam Smith”
Ryo Sadamori (Nagoya University of Economics)
“The relation between commercial development and “feudal law” in Montesquieu and Adam Smith”
Session: Morality
chairperson: Hiroyuki Ota (University of Glasgow)
Room 402
Barbara Symmes (Universidad de Los Andes)
“Insights from Adam Smith on self-interest and the social formation of morality”
Elias Khalil (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies)
“Is Adam Smith consistent – Is he successful in deriving principles regarding vanity and malevolence from moral sentiments?”
Chapin Cimino (Drexel University, Kline School of Law)
“We don’t ‘sit still and do nothing,’ so what does justice require? (law in action)”
12:50-14:20
Lunch Time (on your own)
14:20-15:50
Session: Morality and philosophy
chairperson: Yusuke Ando (Rikkyo University)
Room 301
Steven Brownell (SAG Corporation)
“Impartial spectator, social convention, and existentialism”
Felipe Gonzalez T. Machado (University of Vienna)
“Imagining through interactive engagement: an exploration of imaginative processes in Smith’s moral theory”
John Stinespring (University of Tampa)
“The prevalence of loss aversion for Adam Smith”
Session: Luxury, morality, and music
chairperson: Leo Steeds (University of Glasgow)
Room 401
Barry Weingast (Stanford University)
“A modest emendation of Adam Smith’s luxury hypothesis”
José de la Cruz Garrido Fuchslocher (Universidad des Desarrollo)
“Vanity and social recognition according to Adam Smith”
Tetsuo Taka (Kyushu University)
“Adam Smith’s theory of music”
Session: Impartial spectator, philosophy
chairperson: Hisashi Shinohara (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Room 402
Stefano Fiori (University of Torino)
“Through the looking-glass. Individual and social identity in Shaftesbury, Montesquieu and Adam Smith”
Jose Ernest Montoya (National Autonomous University of Mexico)
“Why be an impartial spectator: Adam Smith and his contribution to moral ethical frameworks in decision making”
Session: Smith in context
chairperson: Kuniaki Makino (Keio University)
Room 501
Chikoti Sai Sri Hara (Azim Premji University)
“Reading A. K. Dasguputa: introduction to interpreting Adam Smith in Indian thinkers”
Michael Ray Taylor (University of Glasgow)
“Adam Smith and the Jacobite economy of liberty”
16:10-17:40
Session: Religion
chairperson: Roos Slegers (Tilburg University)
Room 301
Daisuke Arie (Yokohama National University)
“Adam Smith’s natural theological Newtonianism and political economy”
Rafael Andres Barrera Gutierrez (Escuela Colombiana de Ingenieria Julio Garavito)
“Adam Smith’s metaphor of the great theatre of nature and the unfinished nature of knowledge”
Brendan Long (Charles Sturt University)
“Two new books on Smith and religion”
Session: Adam Smith problem, history, and context
chairperson: Toshiaki Ota (Kumamoto University)
Room 401
Christine Dunn Henderson (Singapore Management University)
“The ‘Adam Smith’ problem in a democratic age: Smith and Tocqueville on self-interest and sympathy
Enrique Guerra-Pujol (University of Central Florida)
“Die Adam Smith Probleme”
Riccardo Bonfiglioli (University of Bologna)
“Smith’s conception of perpetual immediacy as philosophical problem”
Session: Labor and progress
chairperson: Naoki Hayashi (Onomichi City University)
Room 402
Yiftah Elazar (Hebrew University) and Michelle Schwarze (University of Wicsonsin-Madison)
“Adam Smith on freedom from toil and anxiety”
Maria Pia Paganelli (Trinity University)
“Where is the labor theory of value in Adam Smith?: Adam Smith’s value theory revisited”
Michele Bee (Università del Salento) and Ivan Sternick (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
“Value in exchange. Adam Smith’s theory of value in reverse”
18:00-20:00
Rihga Hotel
Reception
Tuesday, 12th March 2024
7:30-8:30
IASS Board Meeting (invitation only)
9:00-10:30
Keynote Speech 2
Room 501
Masazumi Wakatabe (Waseda University)
“‘Opulence and freedom’: what Adam Smith could teach us about the future of capitalism”
chairperson: Tatsuya Sakamoto (Waseda University)
10:50-12:20
Session: art and aesthetics
chairperson: Stefano Fiori (University of Torino)
Room 301
Caroline Breashears (St. Lawrence University)
“Smith and the Alston Street Theatre”
Eiko Yamamoto (Seikei University)
“Smith’s skepticism about the imitative nature of instrumental music: the unconscious recognition of absolute music”
Maureen Harkin (Reed College)
“Smith, craft, and aesthetics”
Session: Human nature and Wealth of Nations
chairperson: Ana Paula Londe Silva (University of Glasgow)
Room 401
John Alcorn (Trinity College)
“The multiple self and sympathy in Hume and Smith”
Ledson Luiz Gomes da Rosa (Univerisidade Federal Fluminense)
“Development of capitalism and human nature in Adam Smith: a problem of the synthesis”
Daniel Diatkine (University of Paris-Saclay and the University of Évry)
“The origin of a difficulty inherited from the Wealth of Nations“
Panel: Adam Smith studies in Japan: in memory of Hiroshi Mizuta
chairperson: Barry Weingast (Stanford University)
Room 402
Tatsuya Sakamoto (Waseda University)
“Introduction: a brief history of the Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought”
Kuniaki Makino (Keio University)
“On the Japanese studies in the history of economic thought before and during World War II”
Shinji Nohara (University of Tokyo)
“The origin and nature of Hiroshi Mizuta’s Adam Smith’s studies”
12: 20 – 13:50
Lunch Time (on your own)
13:50 – 15:20
Session: Development and wealth
chairperson: Tetsuo Taka (Kyushu University)
Room 301
Matthew Smith (University of Sydney)
“Adam Smith on growth and economic development”
Maria Alejandra Carrasco (Universidad de Los Andes)
“Citizens or merchants: equality, wealth, and justice in Smith’s society”
Leo Steeds (University of Glasgow)
“Adam Smith’s stadial history: progress, population and the improvement of the earth”
Session: Politics, law, and trust
chairperson: Keith Hankins (Chapman University)
Room 401
Kristen Collins (George Mason University)
“Inequality and equanimity in Adam Smith’s approach to spectatorship”
Toshiaki Ota (Kumamoto University)
“Resentment, jurisprudence, and ‘the liberty of the subjects’: a reconsideration of Adam Smith’s philosophy of law”
John T. Scott (University of California)
“Narrowing justice: Smith and the modern natural jurisprudence tradition”
Session: Edmund Burke
chairperson: Austin Lamb (Boston College)
Room 402
Sora Sato (Keio University)
“Redefining the Burke-Smith paradigm: J. G. A. Pocock’s contributions”
Fabrizio Simon (Università degli Studi di Palermo)
“Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Arthur Young and the Whig constitutionalism in the Mediterranean”
Yuki Okamoto (University of Tokyo)
“Comparative study of Adam Smith and Edmund Burke’s moral theory”
15: 40 – 17 :40
Panel: Reform and improvement in the Scottish and French Enlightenments: the case of Adam Smith, Condorcet and the physiocrats
chairperson: Ledson Luiz Gomes da Rosa (Univerisidade Federal Fluminense)
Room 301
Moderator: Yoshie Kawade (University of Tokyo)
Speakers: Hiroki Ueno (Keio University), Mizuki Nagami (Osaka Metropolitan University), Yusuke Ando (Rikkyo University)
discussants: Craig Smith (University of Glasgow) and Ryan Patrick Hanley (Boston College)
Panel: Editing/translating the Wealth of Nations and beyond
chairperson: Maria Pia Paganelli (Trinity University)
Room 401
Jean-François Dunyach (Sorbonne University)
“Editorship vs Authorship, William Playfair’s 1805 edition of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations”
Justine Loulergue (Lausanne University)
“Germain Garnier’s reading of WN: turning Smith more French and more XIXth century-like?”
Mauricio C. Coutinho (Universidade Estadual de Campinas)
“The first translation of the Wealth of Nations into Portuguese (1811)”
Shinji Nohara (University of Tokyo)
“The translations of the Wealth of Nations in Japan”
Session: New approaches to Smith’s studies
chairperson: Keith Hankins (Chapman University)
Room 402
Naoki Hayashi (Onomichi City University)
“Adam Smith on textmining”
Mauro Alem (IADB), Julio Elias (UCEMA) and Ignacio Penagos Montoya (SMU)
“Evaluating Adam Smith’s insights: assessing the impact of transportation on economic development”
Evandro Barbosa (Federal University of Pelotas)
“Adam Smith’s legacy: sympathy and AI’s impact on moral sense and relationships”
Ernest Edwards
“Adam Smith’s invisible hand in the creation of cultural objects through AI”
18:00 – 19:30
Keynote speech 3
Room 501
Eric Schliesser (University of Amsterdam)
“Adam Smith and liberal politics”
chairperson: Craig Smith (University of Glasgow)
Wednesday, 13th March 2024
9:00 – 10:30
Session: morality
chairperson: Ryan Patrick Hanley (Boston College)
Room 301
Tsubasa Uchisaka (International Christian University)
“Impartiality, the spectator and the impartial spectator: from Locke to Smith”
Nir Ben-Moshe (University of Illinois)
“Was Smith a virtue ethicist?”
Thais Alves Costa (Universidade Federal de Pelotas)
“Adam Smith and the integrity of the individual in challenging contexts”
Session: legacy
chairperson: Eiko Yamamoto (Seikei University)
Room 401
Douglas E. Stevens (George State University)
“The rediscovery of TMS in economics, finance, and accounting”
Kesong Wang (Hokkaido Univeristy)
“Division of labor and social rationalism: from Smith, to Menger, Taussig and Mises
Qing Guo (University of Glasgow/Nankai University)
“Inquiry into Yan Fu’s Theory of Value-Based on Yan Fu’s Marginalia in the source text of The Wealth of Nations”
Session: Smith in context
chairperson: Fabrizio Simon (Università degli Studi di Palermo)
Room 402
Mihai Olteanu (Johns Hopkins University)
“The contested role and reception of Adam Smith in revolutionary France”
Yuanjiang Wang (Beijing Foreign Studies University)
“Navigating the Abyss: A Comparative Analysis of Adam Smith’s Evolutionary Perspective on Death, Drawing from Socrates and Expanding on Plato’s Notions of Soul and Justice”
Hiroyuki Ota (University of Glasgow)
“Adam Smith and David Hume: natural principles in human nature”
10:50-12:50
Session: Context, imperialism and politics
chairperson: John T. Scott (University of California)
Room 301
Toyohiro Mashima (Waseda University)
“Smith and List in Wartime Japan (1937-1945)”
Yuchen Sun (King’s College London)
“Smith and Rousseau on political representation in historical perspectives”
Motonori Ishii (Waseda University)
“F. A. Hayek and Adam Smith on the role of government”
Huahui Zhu (Tsinghua University)
“The challenge of distance: Smith on liberty, despotism and overseas imperial governance”
Panel: Adam Smith on history and progress: revisiting Smith’s stadial theory
chairperson: Yoshie Kawade (University of Tokyo)
Room 401
Craig Smith (University of Glasgow)
“Change, stages, and improvement in Smith’s stadial theory”
Eric Schliesser (University of Amsterdam)
“The methodological-epistemic uses of stadial theory in Smith: a response to Sagar”
John Thrasher (Chapman University)
“From the reign of Saturn to the end of history: conjectural history and stadial history in Smithian liberalism”
Maria Pia Paganelli (Trinity University)
“Is Smith rejecting stadial theory?
Session: progress and development
chairperson: Hiroki Ueno (Keio University)
Room 402
Ryan Patrick Hanley (Boston College)
“Adam Smith on social progress and the evolution of love”
Zack Rauwald (University of Cambridge)
“Adam Smith on population, climate, and progress”
Kamal Tasiu Abdullahi (Istanbul University)
“Adam Smith and economic development: lessons for developing nations”
Riitta Koivisto (Tampere University)
“Adam Smith on the rich and the poor: the relation of economy and politics”
12: 50-14:20
Lunch Time (on your own)
14:20-15:00
General Assembly
15:00 – 16: 30
Keynote Speech 4
Room 501
Bart Wilson (Chapman University)
“Re-classicalizing the principles of economics”
chairperson: Shinji Nohara (University of Tokyo)
16:30 – 17:00
Closing ceremony
Room 501
18:00 – 20:00
Rihga Hotel
Banquet
Thursday, 14th March, 2024
11:00 – 16:00
The exhibition of Adam Smith’s Library
at the Kojima conference room, 2nd floor, Economics Research Annex (Kojima hall), Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo
We will explain the collection at 11:00 and 13:00.
Address
Waseda University, School of Political Science and Economics (Building 3 in the campus map)
Rihga Hotel
International Adam Smith Society 