Symposium 2019 - Keynotes
Ian Gough is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy at the University of Bath and Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics (UK). His research focuses on human needs and well-being, social policy and climate change He is the author of A Theory of Human Need (Macmillan, 1991, with Len Doyal), Wellbeing in Developing Countries: From Theory to Research (Cambridge University Press, 2007, with Allister McGregor) and Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing (Edward Elgar, 2017). Professor Gough was awarded the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy’s Gunnar Myrdal Prize in 1992 and is a elected member of the Academy of Social Sciences.
Geoffrey M. Hodgson is an Emeritus Professor in Management at Loughborough University London (UK). His research focuses on the institutions and evolution of capitalism. He is the author of Economics and Institutions: A Manifesto for a Modern Institutional Economics (Polity, 1988), Economics and Evolution: Bringing Life Back into Economics (University of Michigan Press, 1993), How Economics Forgot History: The Problem of Historical Specificity in Social Science (Routledge, 2001) and Conceptualizing Capitalism: Institutions, Evolution, Future (University of Chicago Press, 2005). Professor Hodgson is the recipient of the Veblen-Commons Award (2012) and the Schumpeter Prize (2014). He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Institutional Economics and a founder and current Secretary of WINIR.
Gregory Jackson is Professor of Management, Chair of Human Resource Management and Labor Politics at the Free University of Berlin (Germany) and Visiting Professor at Loughborough University London (UK). His work examines how corporate governance is influenced by diverse organizational and institutional contexts, particularly in the cases of Germany, Japan, the UK and USA. He is the editor of Corporate Governance in Japan: Institutional Change and Organizational Diversity (Oxford University Press, 2007, with Masahiko Aoki and Hideaki Miyajima) and Changing Models of Capitalism in Europe and the United States (Routledge, 2015, with Richard Deeg), He is the Editor-in-Chief of Socio-Economic Review and an Editor of the British Journal of Industrial Relations.
Jonas Pontusson is Professor of Comparative Politics at the University of Geneva (Switzerland). His work focuses on the comparative politics of inequality and redistribution, with an emphasis on labor-market dynamics and the role of trade unions. He is the author of Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe versus Liberal America (Cornell University Press, 2006), which was awarded the American Political Science Association’s Gladys M. Kammerer Award, and an editor of Coping with Crisis: Government Reactions to the Great Recession (Russell Sage Foundation, 2012, with Nancy Bermeo). He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Socio-Economic Review and Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal.