God and Mammon: The Religious and Economic Fault‐lines of Liberalism

A conference at Yale University • April 13, 2012
Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, Connecticut

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8:30 Introductions
Charles Walton, Yale University and Bryan Garsten, Yale University

9:00 Keynote Address

“Liberalism and the Morality of Commercial Society”
Jeremy Jennings, Queen Mary, University of London

10:00 Religion, Just Intolerance, and Insurgency in Liberal Thought
Chair: Bryan Garsten, Yale University

“John Locke on Intervention, Uncertainty, and Insurgency,”Samuel Moyn, Columbia University

“Lancelot Addison and the Intolerant Religious Liberalism of Late Stuart England,”William Bulman, Lehigh University

Discussant: Steven Smith, Yale University

11:15 The Development of Economic Thinking
Chair: Charles Walton, Yale University

“The Commercial Oeconomy,”David Grewal, Yale Law School

“Political Economy, Social Contract, and Representation: The Foundation of Sieyès’s Political Thought,”William Sewell, University of Chicago

“‘Anti‐Benthanism’: Utilitarianism and the French liberal tradition,”Cheryl Welch, Harvard University

Discussant: Emma Rothschild, Harvard University

1:30 Is the Modern Self “liberal”?
Chair: Bryan Garsten, Yale University

“Liberalism Versus Individualism in Eighteenth-Century France,”Charly Coleman, Washington University in St. Louis

“The Post‐revolutionary Self” (selections from book), Jan Goldstein, University of Chicago

Discussant: Philip Gorski, Yale University

2:20 Religion and Economic Assumptions in the Writings of Benjamin Constant
Chair: Charles Walton, Yale University

“Religion and the Case Against Ancient Liberty: Benjamin Constant’s Other Lectures,”Bryan Garsten, Yale University

“The Importance of Republican Liberty in French Liberalism,”Andrew Jainchill, Queen’s University

Discussant: Jeremy Jennings, Queen Mary, University of London

3:10 Reciprocity, the Gift, and Economic Liberalism
Chair: Bryan Garsten, Yale University

“Les graines de la discorde: Print, Public Spirit, and Free Market Politics in the French Revolution,”Charles Walton, Yale University

“Liberalism, Self‐interest, and the Gift,”Harry Liebersohn, University of Illinois at Urbana‐Champaign

Discussant: Julia Adams, Yale University

4:15 Liberalism, Utopianism, and Imperialism
Chair: Charles Walton, Yale University

“Free Market Utopianism: Polanyi and the Political Paradox of Economic Liberalism,”Margaret Somers, University of Michigan

“Freedom without Slavery? ‘Coolies,’ Prostitutes, and Outcasts in Meiji Japan’s ‘Emancipation Moment,’”Daniel Botsman, Yale University

Discussant: Adam Tooze, Yale University

5:15 Concluding Thoughts and Discussion