Symposium
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DAY 1: Wednesday, 15 September
08:30-09:00Registration
Session 1 Setting the political and economic scene
09:00-9:45 The world economy since 1945 and the changing functions of international economic institutions
(UN, World Bank, IMF, GATT/WTO,BIS)
Charles Simkins, St Augustine College
09:45-10:30 Global political power transitions, state regimes and distributive conflict within and between states
Raphael de Kadt, St Augustine College
10:30-11:00TEA
Session 2A The role of the state in a social market system and in a global context
11:00-11:45 The relevance of social market economics in the current global situation
Jörg M. Winterberg, Rektor SRH Hochschule Heidelberg
Session 2B Business and the public good
11:45-12:30 Merchants of Modernity: Business and the Public Good
Ann Bernstein, Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE)
12:45-1:30 LUNCH
Session 3 Sociological and theological aspects of economic globalization
13:45-14:30The sociological implications of economic globalization
David Fryer, Rhodes University
14:30-15:15Catholic social thought and the global economy, with special emphasis on
Caritas in Veritate
Rodney Moss, St Augustine College
15:15-15:30TEA
Session 4 Economic globalization and people
15:30-16:15 The challenges of international migration
Aurelia Wa Kabwe-Segatti, Forced Migration Studies Programme, WITS
16:15-17:00 Education for all: economic and social inclusion imperatives
Nick Rowe, St Augustine College
DAY 2: Thursday, 16 September
Session 5 Ethics and the global economy
09:00-09:45Ethical challenges of the current economic system: the common good: access to global forums, distributive
justice, management of the global commons, and climate
Marilise Smurthwaite, St Augustine College
09:45-10:30 New Directions in Global Financial Governance and Regulation
Laurence Boulle, Mandela Institute, WITS
10:30-11:00TEA
Session 6 New directions
11:00-12:00 New Directions in Economics and Ethics
Gerard Walmsley, St Augustine College
12:15LUNCH AND CLOSURE