University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA

E000 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics

E400 - Money and Interest Rates

E600 - Macroeconomic Policy Formation

 

The Department of Economics invites applications for one anticipated tenure track opening at the assistant professor level beginning Fall 2005 (subject to final budgetary approval).  The successful applicant will have teaching and applied research interests in the areas of macroeconomics and monetary policy and would contribute to undergraduate general education, the economics major and graduate instruction.  Candidates with an interest in applied, interdisciplinary work are particularly encouraged to apply; we are interested in candidates who will interact well with the applied policy researchers currently in the department.  Candidates should have a Ph.D. and teaching experience.  Evidence of excellence in scholarship is desirable.

Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2004 and continue until the positions are filled.  Send letter of application, vita, a sample of written work, and three current letters of recommendation.  An equal opportunity-affirmative action employer.  CONTACT: Chair, Personnel Committee, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125-3393.

“Reassessing the Case for Free Trade”

Ingrid Rima will be hosting a mini-conference on the topic “Reassessing the Case for Free Trade” at Temple University’s Philadelphia center-city facility (TUCC) January 5th and 6th from 9AM to 4:30PM. This is a NO FEE conference, courtesy of the Dean of Temple’s Fox School of Business and Management, and precedes the ASSA conference.

 

The mini-conference will be sponsored by the Athenian Policy Forum (APF), which now has a peer reviewed Journal of Economic Asymmetries, in addition to edited conference volumes published by Edward Elgar Ltd of the UK.

 

The APF web sites are: www.apforum.org and www.apfpress.com.

Please send abstracts, or let me know about your planned attendance, by October 15, 2004 to irima@aol.com. The convention hotels will extend the ASSA rate.

CONFERENCE ON RADICAL ECONOMICS IN THE 20TH CENTURY:

RADICAL ECONOMICS AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT

CALL FOR PAPERS

CONFERENCE ON RADICAL ECONOMICS IN THE 20TH CENTURY:

RADICAL ECONOMICS AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT

 

                          Date:     15 - 17 September 2005

                         

Place:    Linda Hall Library of Science, Engineering and Technology

adjacent to University of Missouri-Kansas City, Kansas City, Missouri, United States

 

2005 will be the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World, the most radical union in North America.  To commemorate the anniversary, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is hosting a conference on radical economics.  The Conference theme is the role of radical economics in the labor movement in the United States and around the world.  Radical economics includes but is not restricted to anarchism, Marxism, syndicalism, radical Institutionalism, left-wing Keynesianism, and plain old-fashion radical economics.  Proposals on any aspect of the theme are invited.

 

For detailed information: IWWCONF.doc

ANNOUNCING PROFESSOR PAUL DAVIDSON'S LECTURE

TITLE: COPING WITH THREATENING FINANCIAL CRISES AND INTERNATIONAL DEBT DEFAULTS: A PROPOSAL FOR REFORM

 

LOCATION: AUDITORIUM, FRANKLIN COLLEGE SWITZERLAND

 

TIME: 28 SEPTEMBER 2004, 5:30PM

 

SPONSORED BY BSI GAMMA FOUNDATION AND FRANKLIN COLLEGE ECONOMICS ALUMNI FUND

For Detailed Information: PaulDavidson.pdf

Microeconomics in Context

By Neva Goodwin, Julie A. Nelson, Frank Ackerman, and Thomas Weisskopf

 

Microeconomics in Context provides a thorough introduction to the principles of microeconomics through a fresh and realistic portrait of the world of the 21st century. Microeconomics in Context will help your students gain a deeper understanding of economic analysis and contemporary controversies of interest and importance. It examines economic activity in its environmental and social contexts, drawing on both traditional economic principles and new research to give your students greater insight into our economic world.

Order from Houghton Mifflin

For detailed information: Microeconomics in Context.doc

Association for Institutional Thought (AFIT) Conference

Association for Institutional Thought (AFIT) conference will be held in Albuquerque, NM in April.

You may find the call for papers either at:

http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~radkisso/AFIT2005call.pdf

or

http://afit.cba.nau.edu/call_for_participants.htm

 

The AFIT conference is part of the Western Social Science Association annual conference. 

For the conference information, dates, hotels, etc... visit

http://wssa.asu.edu/wssa_conference.htm

The Second bi-annual Dijon Conference

LE CENTRE D’ETUDES MONETAIRES ET FINANCIERES

Presents

The Second bi-annual Dijon Conference

Sponsored by the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics

May 19-21, 2005

Université de Bourgogne, Laboratoire d’Economie Gestion, Dijon, France

 

Deadline for proposals: December 15, 2004

Deadline for final draft of paper: April 1, 2005

 

Organized by Claude Gnos and Louis-Philippe Rochon

For detailed Information: DijonConference.doc

SEARCHING FOR PANEL MEMBERS

I am looking for Heterodox economists to participate in the following panels (open to all views) at the Eastern Economics Association Meetings 4-6 March 2005 in New York City.

 

-Fisher's theory of interest rate and the notion of real interest rate: Do real values matter?

(Open to both views: those who like the notion of real rate and those who do not. I will personally argue against.)

 

-Monetary Policy in a Post Keynesian Framework: (I will do something about asset prices and monetary policy, but everything is possible again)

 

-Money: History, Nature, Role: (I will defend the chartalist approach and will look at its implication in terms of liquidity preference and economic history. Again it is open to the chartalist and non-chartalist economists.)

If you are interested, please e-mail me at:  tymoignee@umkc.edu.

 

Eric

SOCIAL POLICY AS IF PEOPLE MATTER: A CROSS-NATIONAL DIALOGUE

The conference will examine social policies and their outcomes from multiple perspectives and assess current challenges to social progress.

November 11-12, 2004

Ruth S. Harley University Center

Adelphi University, Garden City, NY

 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

* Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate in Economics, Professor of Economics, Columbia University, New York, NY

 Full Employment and Social Well-Being in a Global Economy

* Joakim Palme, Director, Institute for Futures Studies; Professor, Swedish Institute for Social Research, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden

 The Future of the Social Democratic Model

 

PANELISTS from across the globe will address social policy issues in cross-national perspective:

* Gender

* Aging

* Employment

* Social Exclusion

* Families and Youth

* Immigration

* Housing

* Health Care

*Welfare reform

 

REGISTRATION

Early Registration for both days is $75  (BY October 15, 2004) Registration for both days is $90 (AFTER October 15, 2004)

Student and one-day registration rates are also available. To register for the conference and for more information about speakers, agenda, and accommodations, visit www.adelphi.edu/peoplematter

 

Conference Committee:

-Maud Edgren-Schori, Department of Social Work, Stockholm University, Co-Chair -Gertrude Schaffner Goldberg, School of Social Work, Adelphi University, Co-Chair -Stacey Dyckman, Assistant to the Doctoral Program, Adelphi University School of Social Work -Bonnie Eissner, Associate Director of Public Affairs, Adelphi University -Elizabeth Palley, School of Social Work, Adelphi University -Andrew Safyer, Dean, School of Social Work, Adelphi University -Robert A. Scott, President, Adelphi University -Hugh Wilson, Department of Political Science, Adelphi University

FOR COMPLETE PROGRAM DETAILS, VISIT www.adelphi.edu/peoplematter

Capital, Empire And Revolution

As part of the preparation for the London European Social Forum, the journals HISTORICAL MATERIALISM and SOCIALIST REGISTER, as well as the ISAAC AND TAMARA DEUTSCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE COMMITTEE invite you to a two-day conference on 'CAPITAL, EMPIRE AND REVOLUTION' on Saturday 9 October - Sunday 10 October 2004, at Birkbeck College, London (Malet Street, Russell Square and Goodge Street Underground Stations).

TIMETABLE:

SATURDAY 9 OCTOBER:

9.30-11.00 Plenary session:

CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM AND CRISIS IN THE SOUTH

 

PATRICK BOND, 'Necessary and Contradictory features of Subimperialism: The

Case of South Africa'

PAUL MATTICK JNR., 'Explaining the Asian Crisis: Theory and Observation in the Critique of Political Economy'

DOUG STOKES, 'America's Other War: Terrorising Colombia'11.00-11.30 Break

11.30-13.00 Plenary session:

CAPITALISM, IMPERIALISM AND CRISIS IN THE NORTH

ALEX CALLINICOS, 'Building a New Left: The Politics of Resisting Neoliberalism'

ELMAR ALTVATER, 'The Capitalist Social Formation, the Fossil Energy Regime,

and Conflicts about Oil Supply'

RICHARD WALKER, 'The Boom and the Bombshell: The New Economy and the Transformation of San Francisco'

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-16.00 Plenary session:

ISAAC AND TAMARA DEUTSCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE LECTURES

NEIL DAVIDSON, 'How Revolutionary Were the Bourgeois Revolutions ?'

BENNO TESCHKE, 'Bourgeois Revolution, State-Formation and the Problem of the International'

Discussant: GEORGE COMNINEL

16.00-16.30

16.30-18.30 Workshops

Workshop 1:

MOISHE POSTONE, 'History and Helplessness: Toward a Critique of Fetishized

Anti-Capitalism'

Workshop 2:

ANDRES PIQUERAS, 'The Social Structure of Accumulation, the Accumulation

Model and its Closing under Mature Capitalism'

RAY KIELY, 'US Imperialism and Global Capitalism'

DENILE CONVERSI, 'Cultural Blowback: The USA in the Politics of Anti-Globalisation'

Workshop 3:

SUMIT SARKAR, 'Marxist Approaches to Hindutva'

SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER:

09.30-11.00 Plenary session: CAPITAL AND VALUE

CHRISTOPHER J. ARTHUR, 'The Idea of Capital'

PATRICK MURRAY, 'Capital : The Mismeasure of Wealth'

MICHAEL HEINRICH, 'Ambivalences in Marx's Critique of Political Economy as

Obstacles for the Analysis of Contemporary Capitalism'

11.00-11.15 Break

11.15-13.00 Workshops

Workshop 1:

'Third-World Capitalism and the Developmentalist State in Comparative

Perspective:

A Symposium on Vivek Chibber's Locked in Place: State-Building and Late Industrialization in India'

VIVEK CHIBBER

SUMIT SARKAR

BARBARA HARRISS-WHITE

ROBERT WADE

Workshop 2:

GEORGE COMNINEL, 'The Feudal Foundations of Modern Europe'

NEIL DAVIDSON

BENNO TESCHKE

Workshop 3:

JOSEPH FRACCHIA, 'Historical Materialism as Corporeal Semiotics:  The

Corporeal Foundations of Marx's Critique of Capitalism'

DAVID MCNALLY, 'Commodity Fetishism and the Labouring Body: Dialectical Reversals in "One of Marx's Least Understood Jokes"'

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-17.00 Plenary session:

THE CONTRADICTIONS OF US IMPERIALISM TODAY, launching Socialist Register

2005, 'The Empire Reloaded'

COLIN LEYS (Chair)

TONY BENN

SIMON BROMLEY

PETER GOWAN

JOHN GRAHL

LEO PANITCH

ELLEN MEIKSINS WOOD

Attendance is free, but if you would like to attend this conference, please register by sending your name by email to hm@lse.ac.uk.

University of Oslo

1-2 Researcher positions

Up to 2 positions as Researcher (SKO 1109) available at Centre for

Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK), Faculty of Social Sciences,

University of Oslo. For further information please contact Director

Professor Helge Hveem (phone: + 47 22840623, E-mail:

helge.hveem@tik.uio.no) or Administrative Head of Centre Irene Sandlie

(phone: +47 22840618, E-mail: irene.sandlie@tik.uio.no)

Salary (Ltr.: 53-65) depending on qualifications. The application deadline

is 5th of October 2004. Ref. nr. 04/8321.

Applications must include CV, education certificates and references and

should be addressed to: Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture,

University of Oslo, P.O Box 1108 Blindern, 0317 Oslo, Norway.

Two new, externally financed researcher positions will be established at

Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK).

Women are particularly invited to apply. The overall goal of TIK’s

research strategy is to explore the production of knowledge, the interplay

between science and technology, entrepreneurship and innovation, based on

interdisciplinary linkages between social sciences and the humanities

(sciences of art). TIK has a total staff of around 50 employees including

the permanent scientific positions, professor II, PhD candidates,

postdoctoral research fellows, and administration. TIK has its own program

(PhD and postdoc) for research training within the doctoral programme of

the Faculty of Social Sciences. The Centre is responsible for the

Norwegian part of an international MA programme on science, technology and

society (ESST), and a project oriented BA subject within the field of

organization and leadership. A new programme is being developed. TIK’s

research is organized in four research groups within and across three main

research areas related to production of knowledge: 1) Science and

technology, nature and culture; 2) Economic culture and organization; and

3) Innovation, growth and development in a global economy. The applicants

must have qualifications within one of the three research areas and

experience with research integrating these problems and perspectives. The

candidate must have a Ph.d.-degree or other relevant qualifications.

Scientific production and international publishing over the last few years

and potential for future research will be emphasized. The chosen

researcher must contribute to long term development of the research areas

and research environment at the Centre. She/he must have competence which

can be used in different types of projects and in accordance with TIK’s

priorities.  (The TIK centre is to a considerable degree based on external

financing. We are thus looking for persons with considerable engagement in

research and who will enjoy work in a dynamic environment). Those who are

successful in obtaining a position will initiate and lead research

projects. They should therefore have proven experience in acquiring

research funding. The successful candidate will also to some extent take

part in teaching courses and supervising students, PhD and MA. Relevant

experience will therefore be an advantage. Ability to cooperate, to build

and take part in networks and some experience in research administration

will be emphasized. In evaluating the applicants and in accordance with

the usual academic norms, particular emphasis will be put on the submitted

scientific publications.  In ranking those applicants who are found

qualified by the commission, emphasis will be put on documented ability to

acquire research funding, dissemination of research, teaching experience

and pedagogical qualifications, general dissemination, and other

qualifications including from other activities.

Applicants must enclose 4 copies of the application letter together with

complete overview on educational background, previous positions held, and

other experience. In addition a complete list of scientific works with

information on publisher and project funding (plan) must be enclosed.

Applicants must indicate which of the scientific works that is to be

considered important for this application. The number of these should not

exceed 10. Documentation on pedagogical qualifications must be enclosed

and summarized. Applicants must enclose 4 complete sets of (published or

unpublished) scientific work that are to be considered.

The application is to be sent to: Centre for Technology, Innovation and

Culture (TIK), University of Oslo, P.O.Box  1108 Blindern, 0317 Oslo,

Norway.  Interviews are part of the application process, and applicants

may be demanded to held trial lectures.

Papers in Progress

Macroeconomic Instability

For Detailed Information:  MI.doc

Free Trade and the Environment:  Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond

by Kevin P. Gallagher

(Stanford University Press, 2004; $42.50 Cloth; $16.95 paper)

 

Free Trade and the Environment examines the impact economic integration

has on the environment, focusing on Mexico, which transformed itself

from one of the world's most closed economies to one of the most open.

Mexico's experience offers a cautionary tale for governments and

policy-makers considering the hotly debated relationship between

globalization and the environment.

 

This volume investigates two commonly held and opposing beliefs in the

policy community about the impact of free trade on the environment.

While some argue that free trade will raise incomes in developing

countries, thus encouraging governments to protect the environment,

others argue that free trade simply provides an incentive for

heavily-polluting firms to move to developing countries with lax

environmental regulations. This volume shows that for Mexico neither

position is correct, and concludes with a set of concrete

recommendations for policies that couple environmental protection with

economic integration.

 

For information, a table of contents, and ordering information, see:

http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/policy_research/FreeTradeEnvBook.htm

Skidmore College/ Saratoga Springs, New York

A10 General Economics

 

Skidmore College seeks two tenure-track faculty beginning September 2005. Rank and salary are negotiable. We are primarily interested in candidates who embrace the teacher-scholar model within a liberal arts framework. Preference will be given to candidates whose interests lie in the areas of environmental economics and policy, international money and finance, and statistics and applied econometrics. Five course teaching load, including a willingness to participate in the College’s interdisciplinary programs (Women’s Studies, Asian Studies, Environmental Studies, Law and Society, and International Affairs). We welcome applications from individuals working in all traditions of economic analysis. Skidmore is an equal opportunity employer and encourages women and ethnic minorities to apply. Candidates will be expected to have completed their Ph.D. by September, 2005. Initial applications should consist of a resume, statement of teaching and research interests, writing sample and 3 letters of recommendation, all of which may be sent by e-mail to rotheim@skidmore.edu.  The application deadline is November 15, 2004.  Interviews will be conducted at the AEA meetings in January. Contact: Roy J. Rotheim, Chairperson, Department of Economics, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 12866.

Call for Papers –NAFTA

For detailed information: NAFTA.doc