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Sessions of interest to economists include: - The limitations of evidence based policy - Measuring individual expectations in surveys - Methodological issues in analyzing place - Half-day workshop on propensity score matching, Barbara Sianesi, UCL

The importance of empirical methods applied to micro (household or firm) data, and the use of experimental methods to obtain new insights into micro behavior, has been emphasized most prominently by the Nobel Prizes in Economics to James Heckman and Daniel McFadden in 2000, and to Vernon Smith...

The workshop will cover, from an interrelated perspective, three main themes: Theme 1: Aggregated models of economic behavior Theme 2: Disaggregated models of economic behavior and artificial societies Theme 3: Mastering complex problems in economics, finance, and management.

The workshop aims to address Shackle's contribution to the economic thought of the XXth century, with particular regard to uncertainty, expectations, decision making, fluctuations and methodology.