Program of the event:
MONDAY 6 SEPTEMBER, 9.30 AM – 6 PM
9.30 am: Welcome
10 am – 12 pm: Panel 1: The Financialization of Public Policies
Discussant: Eve Chiapello (EHESS, CEMS)
Pierre Alayrac (EHESS, CMH) and Antonin Thyrard (EHESS, CEMS) – The three ages of European productive investment policies
Thomas Hélie (University of Reims, CRDT) and Loïc Meuley (Université de Strasbourg, Sage) – Portrait of the European Union as a “cultural business angel”. Public investment instruments as vectors for the diffusion of an “entrepreneurial ethos” in cultural and creative fields
Matthias Thiemann (Sciences Po, CEE) and Dan Mocanu (Cambridge University) – Chasing Unicorns with public money: The crucial role of Public Actors in the rise and stabilization of the Venture Capital Market in the EU
12 – 1.30 pm: Lunch break
1.30 – 3.30 pm: Panel 2: Theory of the “Investment State”
Discussant: Cornelia Woll (Sciences Po, CEE & MaxPo)
Fabio Bulfone, Timur Ergen (Max Planck Institute) and Manolis Kalaitzake (University of Edimburg) – The Political Economy of Corporate Welfare
Philipp Golka (Leiden University) – Subsidize finance and all profit? Social impact investing and the rise of the leveraging state in Britain
Ulrike Lepont (ENS Cachan, IDHES) – Public Spending and Austerity: The Two Faces of the “Investment State”
3.30 – 4 pm: Break
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