Friday, 22 November 2002

9.00 - 9.30 Opening address - Professor Antonio Scaglia, Head of the Faculty of Sociology of Trento, and Professor Lauro Struffi, Environmental Sociology, Trento

9.30 - 10.00 Rolf Steppacher, Basel, Geneva:
Karl William Kapp's Evolutionary Perspective: "Man", "Culture" and the Need for a New, Normative, Interdisciplinary Social and Economic Science

FIRST SESSION
The Problem of Social Costs in Conflictual Capitalism

10.00 - 10.30 James Swaney, Dayton:
Systems Realities and the Limitations of Conventional Approaches to Environmental Problems: Toward a Kapp-Inspired Alternative

10.30 - 11.00 Elmar Altvater, Berlin:
The Social Costs of Deregulation in a Globalized Economy

11.00 - 11.30 Discussion and Coffee Break

11.30 - 12.00 Paolo Ramazzotti, Marco Rangone, Macerata, Padua
Unemployment as a Social Cost

12.00 - 12.30 Lorenz Jarass, Gustav Obermair, Wiesbaden, Regensburg:
Improved Allocation Through Environmental Taxation? Theory and Reality:The Example Germany

12.30 - 13.00 Discussion

SECOND SESSION
Economy, Human Health and Social Welfare

15.00-15.30 Maurizio Franzini, Rome
Social Welfare, Social Costs and Rights

15.30-16.00 Pietro Frigato, Pisa
K. William Kapp's Theory of Social Costs and Socioeconomic Epidemiology. Some General Reflections and the Case of the Impairment of the Human Factor of Production

16.00-16.30 Discussion and Coffee Break

16.30-17.00 Richard Peter, Ulm
The Impact of Economic and Labor Market Policy on Health: the Case of the Health Costs of the 'Transition Process' in Central and Eastern Europe

17.00-17.30 Giuseppe Costa, Turin
Individual and Contextual Determinants of Inequalities in Health: the Italian Case

17.30-18.00 Discussion

Saturday, 23 November 2002

THIRD SESSION
Formal Democracy, Market Institutions and Institutional Change: Directions of a New Great Transformation

9.00 - 9.30 Regine Heidenreich, Regensburg:
Political Democracy and Social Costs: Reading K.W. Kapp`s Political Economy Today

9.30 - 10.00 Michele Cangiani, Venice:
Capitalism and Democracy: Social Costs, the "Double Movement" and the Directions of the New Great Transformation

10.00 - 10.30 Discussion and Coffee Break

10.30 - 11.00 Wolfram Elsner, Bremen:
Increasing Socio-Economic Complexity and Coordination Requirements Beyond the Market

11.00 - 11.30 Antonio Nicita, Ugo Pagano, Siena:
The Future of Capitalism Between Extension of Rights and Extension of Markets

11.30-12.00 Discussion

12.00-12.30 Conclusion