Wednesday Dec12, 2018

18:30-20:00

 Welcome Dinner (Zhili restaurant 直隶会馆)

Thursday Dec13, 2018     

08:00-08:50

Breakfast Keynote: Economics and 40 Years of Reform in China

Speaker: Julian Gewirtz

Host: Jack Gao

09:00-10:00

New Structural Economics (NSE): An Introduction

Speaker:  Justin Yifu Lin, Robert Johnson

Moderator: Yong Wang

10:00-10:15

Coffee Break

10:15–11:15

NSE and History of Thoughts in Development Economics

How NSE fits in history of thoughts and bridges structuralism and neoclassical economics

Panelists:  Ashwini Deshpande, Finn Tarp, Celestin Monga, Francis Lui

Moderator: Yuan Yang

11:30-12:45

NSE and 40 Years of Chinese Economic Transformation

How insights of NSE could be applied to China’s development

Panelists: Justin YIfu Lin, Edmund S. Phelps, Adair Turner, Xiaodong Zhu

Moderator: Jack Gao

12:45-14:15

Lunch Keynote：Village Communities and Global Development

Speaker: Roger Myerson

Host: Yong Wang

14:15-15:45

NSE and African Economies

A number of cases of African economies to demonstrate how NSE may be applied

Panelists: Celestin Monga, Arkebe Oqubay, Adair Turner,

Folashade Soule-Kohndou

Moderator: John Powell

15:45-16:00

Coffee Break

16:00-17:30

  Philosophical Traditions in Economics: East and West

  Insights from different philosophical traditions in China, US, Europe and what economic thoughts and framework have resulted.

 Panelist: Justin Yifu Lin, Hui Wang, Andrew Sheng, Weisen Li

Moderator: Robert Johnson

18:00-18:30

Dinner (Shao Yuan restaurant at Peking University北京大学勺园餐厅)