Workshop on:
Re-evaluating Value –
non-market value models for changing times
Mediterranean Institute for Advanced
Research, Aix-Marseille University,
Marseille, France, http://www.imera.fr, June 17-18th 2013
The Topic
Value is a major aspect of any economic theory: what it is,
how it is produced, measured, stored and transferred between agents. Indeed,
historically, these aspects characterise different schools of political
economy. Some approaches focus on an objective
basis for value such as labour or physical resources. Others place emphasis on
subjective judgments by individual agents and free exchange between them.
Recent, often ICT mediated, developments such as “commons
based peer production”, “crowd funding”, “freecycling” and new virtual currencies
do not fit easily into existing economic models of value. On the other hand “complexity science” tools
and approaches allow for a widening of traditional models of value.
Traditional models have focused on agents using either
object or subjective notions of value and equilibrium points. Agent-based modelling
allows for experimentation with new and hybrid notions of value in
non-equilibrium conditions. In these,
value might be an emergent phenomena where agents construct notions of value
through the interplay of subjective and objective factors supporting novel
forms of exchange and cooperation.
In this workshop we aim to bring together researchers from
different disciplines such as economics, philosophy, anthropology, law and
computer science, who are working towards new conceptions of value, models that
embody them and real world systems that depend on them.
Day 1 - Grand Challenges
The first day of this workshop is devoted to opening up the
key issues to do with theories and approaches to understanding value at the
present time. It is open to all who are
interested. The day will start at 9.30 and end at 4.30pm with an hour for lunch
and two 30 min coffee breaks. Talks will
be 30 mins long plus 15 mins for discussion.
Day 2 – Developing Agent-Based Models to Meet the Challenges
The second day of the workshop is devoted to informal
discussions about developing simulation models that start to address some of
the different conceptions of value. It
is not expected that everyone will stay for day 2, or all of day 2, but is open
to all who want to seriously discuss the development of relevant simulation
models. The day will start at 10am and continue for the rest of the day, or
until everyone is tired.
Speakers and Discussants
The following people are either invited speakers or will be
leading a discussion session (in alphabetical order), followed by their talk
title if available.
- Bruno Vetel, “Who benefits from the
value? Virtual currencies design for a massively multiplayer online role
playing game.”
- Jean Magnan de Bornier. “Value in economics:
datum, construct or instrument?”
- Jean-Benoit Zimmerman, “Jamendo: the
heartbeat of free music!”
- Jeremy Pitt, “The Reinvention of Social Capital
for Self-Organising Electronic Institutions”
- Jeff Johnson, “Value from first
principles”
- Bruce Edmonds, “Towards modelling mundane value”
- Paul Omerod, TBA
- Andrzej Nowak, TBA
- Juliette Rouchier, TBA
- Mario Paolucci, TBA
- Olivier Chanel, TBA
- David Hales, TBA
Hotels and food
Others at the workshop are staying at the hotel Lutetia (
http://www.lutetia-marseille.com).
You will need to book yourself into this, or at another hotel (e.g. via http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Hotels-g187253-Marseille_Bouches_du_Rhone_Provence-Hotels.html).
On monday night, a dinner is planned at
Les Panisses, please let Juliette (
juliette.rouchier@univ-amu.fr) know if you you
plan to join us for this before 9
th June (we think we can cover this
and lunch for participants, assuming we do not get too many).
Directions
The Hotel
Hotel Lutetia, 38 Allée Gambetta, is easy to attain from the
train station: go down the stairs, cross the street and walk down the street
facing you (Boulevard d'Athènes). “Allée
Gambetta” where the hotel is, is the second or third street on the left.
·
To go from the airport to the train station, the
best solution is to take the shuttle from/to airport/gare Saint Charles
(cheaper and nicer than taxis who are unpleasant thieves in their majority in
Marseille) - buy a return ticket while going out of the terminal and get on the
bus – in 25 minutes you can get to the train station at any time of the day.
The Meeting Venue
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Walking: Walk up the Allée Gambetta to the top,
turn left/right and carry more or less on in the same direction on Boulevard
Longchamps. Go up to the end of the boulevard and when facing the palais (huge
museum) turn left and carry on going up on a street with serious traffic,
walking on the right side. carry on until the Place Le Verrier. On your right
you will find a large black grid which will be open. Get in and find the building
of the institute.
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Tram: take the tram at Canebière Garibaldi and
get down at Longchamps, then you will see the Palais Longchamps and turn around
the palais on the left, as for the walking instructions.
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In you get lost: beware : locals do not know the place so
well – you have to refer to “Maison des Astronomes”,
which is its old name, but is known to something like 10% of the population.
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