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ECONOMIC LECTURE SERIES
September 18
900 years of historical continuity or a long march of continuous disruptions?
September 25
The past is present today: Key historical disruptions that shaped today's world.
November 27
Looking ahead now: What continuities to come - What disruptions to follow?
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You are invited to take a historical tour de force with Professor Asdrubal Baptista, Emeritus Professor at IESA, Cambridge Professor of Economics, and former President of the Venezuelan Academy of Economics, to entertain how world forces are taking over relations of all sorts and leading us into a new historical time. The world is changing rapidly as we speak, giving open prominence to market realities whose main characteristic is their unceasing expansion or rapid transformation. Old frontiers give way to new ones, not only in the political realm but in many other areas, drawing day after day new borders. Where are we heading to? What to expect from the ensuing times? How are we to find ourselves in this changing world?
To try to understand the enormous complexity around us we must perforce have reference points. As a political economist, Asdrubal Baptista invites us to look at what the classics of the likes of Montesquieu, Hume and Kant, Adam Smith, Hegel and Marx, Jacob Burckhardt and Nietzsche, Keynes and Hayek, Heidegger or Teilhard de Chardin can tell us.
Aula
University of Aruba
J.E Irausquinplein 4
7 pm
Entrance is free
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Speaker
Asdrúbal Baptista.Tenured Professor of Political Economy (IESA; Universidad de los Andes).
Simón Bolivar Professor, University of Cambridge.
President of the Venezuelan Academy of Economics
(2007-2009).
Honorary Member of the Colombian Academy of Economics.
Former Minister of Economic Affairs and Director of the Venezuelan Central Bank (1994).
Professor's Baptista recent works are:
Itinerario por la Economía Política (volume II);
Teoría económica del capitalismo rentístico (second edition);
Bases cuantitativas de la economía venezolana: 1830-2008
Suma del pensar venezolano, Asdrúbal Baptista, editor,
(seven volumes).
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