From the Editors
I [TS] saw Inside Job Saturday evening
and it is a must-see documentary! Charles Ferguson lays out
the financial crisis in a way that is understandable and graphic.
Toward the end of the film Ferguson makes the point that the
(mainstream) economics profession also deserves blame for prostituting
itself over the past thirty years, acting as paid cheerleaders for
deregulation of finance. The interviewer (I assume it is
Ferguson) does a great job, as he first sets up Mishkin, Hubbard, and
(John) Campbell, then lays bare their hypocrisy. Hubbard actually
threatens him in the end. On the other hand, Martin Feldstein is
almost smug in his response when he answers that he has no regrets for
his actions (or inactions) in his position on the Board of AIG--it's as
if he is saying, "F-you pal, I got rich doing this." The
documentary can be a great instructional tool as well as a way to
continue to put pressure on the irrelevance of mainstream
theory. Once it goes into DVD distribution, I plan on
organizing a showing for our campus and community, with a follow-up
panel discussion.
Along this same line of thought, a group of students at
Berkley have started a campaign against neoclassical economics; see the
" Kick it Over Manifesto" in the For
Your Information section.
As I [TS] mentioned in a previous issue of HEN, I think
it's important for heterodox economists to publish our ideas in popular
outlets. In our media section there are links
to a Financial Times editorial by Grabel and Chang, as
well as a letter to the editor by our book review editor Fadhel
Kaboub. I also published a piece in our local alternative
magazine (on QE2, suggesting an alternative based on Abba Lerner's
notion of functional finance).
Lastly, but not the least, we'd like to call your attention to
eye-opening data items kindly provided by Fred Lee, the Editor of the American
Journal of Economics and Sociology. Those items are
For more detailed information about rankings and other interesting work
done by heterodox economists, please see the forthcoming issue of the American
Journal of Economics and Sociology (if you or your institution are
not subscribing the Journal, you may consider subscribing it here.)
In solidarity,
Tae-Hee Jo and Ted Schmidt, Editors
Email: heterodoxnews@gmail.com
Website: http://heterodoxnews.com
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AHE
Conference 2011
13th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics: Economists of Tomorrow
6-9 July 2011 | Nottingham Trent University, UK
In more than ten years the AHE has established a reputation as a major
national and international forum for the discussion of alternatives to
mainstream economics, and for the interdisciplinary and pluralistic
nature of its discussions. It is also plays an ongoing role in
strengthening the community of heterodox economists, and to the
development of heterodox economic theories on various themes through
the dissemination of ideas and arguments.
The esteem of the economics profession has reached an all-time low, in
the wake of the global financial crisis that most economists failed to
predict. In this context we have a particularly important role to play
as heterodox economists, many of whom were well aware that the crisis
was imminent and who also have a range of proposals for new stable and
sustainable economic and social structures.
For 2011 the AHE Conference theme is Economists of Tomorrow. This
reflects the fact that, the world over, we are focused on challenging
the hegemonic domination of our profession by just one approach
embedded in mainstream economics, the neoclassical approach. The clear
failure of neoclassical economics to predict, explain or find solutions
to the global financial and economic crises makes it vulnerable. It is
our intention is to use this opportunity to further expand and
strengthen the case for pluralism within the economics profession.
Particular topics of interest under this over-arching theme include:
addressing the power structures of the profession such as the Research
Excellence Framework, the Royal Economic Society and the ABS ranking of
economics journals; pluralism in research and teaching; research
evaluation; openness to innovation and creativity; and the
relationships between economists and decision-makers. The 2011
Conference will have both refereed and non-refereed papers. All paper
proposals should indicate whether the paper is intended to be refereed
or not.
A feature of the AHE is as a pluralist forum for dialogue.
Consequently, the conference will also provide a broad pluralistic and
interdisciplinary forum to discuss issues that members of the AHE and
others feel are important. To gain an idea of the sorts of topics and
issues that may be of interest to participants please see the details
of the AHE conference 2010 at either www.hetecon.org
or www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/hetecon/conference/2010/
The international character of the conference has been a vital factor
in its growing success. Scholars requiring documentation in support of
visa or funding applications should indicate this at the time of
submitting an abstract or panel proposal. Conference registration fees,
all transportation and accommodation costs are at the expense of
participants. Nevertheless, the AHE Conference Steering Committee is
able to allocate some limited funding to assist participants from
outside the US and European Union whose proposal is accepted. If you
wish to apply for help with your conference costs please contact the
organising committee (AHEConference@ntu.ac.uk).
The conference language is English.
Details regarding submission and registration
The conference invites submissions for single papers, panels and
sessions of relevance to the over-arching conference theme or address
topics or issues of importance to heterodox economics from standpoints
which differ from, or critically examine, mainstream economics.
To facilitate dialogue and timetabling, participants whose papers are
accepted must register by Sunday 12 June 2011. All participants will be
expected to take part in at least two full days of the conference, in
order to be included in the final programme. Participants should also
be prepared to serve as discussants and/or session chairs. Further
registration details will be announced later.
Single papers
All participants including those proposed for sessions and themes must
submit an abstract to the conference website at www.hetecon.org. The abstract,
which must be no longer than one page, should include a brief
informative title, a clear statement of the issue the proposed paper
will address, its main points, and its argument. Your abstract must
state if you wish your paper to be considered for a theme and if you
require it to be refereed. You must provide contact and affiliation
details for all authors. If your paper is submitted in the name of more
than one author, please indicate who will receive correspondence. The
authors of successful abstracts will be notified and must provide a
complete paper, unless the proposal is to be taken in a poster session,
by the deadline for papers (see below). Both papers and abstracts must
either be in Word or PDF format.
Complete sessions
The AHE welcomes proposals for complete single sessions and encourages
those which address a single topic or issue from a variety of
viewpoints or disciplines. Session proposals should be sent to AHEconference@ntu.net and
should include:
- a short title (no more than 5 words),
- a description of the session which should be no more than one
page
- the names of the proposed participants in the session
- an abstract for each paper to be included in the session
- the name and email address of the session organiser.
Themes
We encourage proposals for themes which address a single topic or
issue from a variety of viewpoints or disciplines. The conference
committee will work with theme organisers, when constructing the
conference programme, to construct a coherent list of sessions for the
theme, and schedule these so that participants can follow the theme.
Theme proposals should be sent to
AHEConference@ntu.net and
should include:
- a short title (no more than 5 words),
- a short description of the type of paper that would be suitable
for inclusion in the theme, and
- ·he name and email address(es) of the theme organiser(s).
Themes, once agreed by the conference committee, will be posted on the
website along with contact details for theme organisers up until the
closing date for papers. When submitting paper proposals, authors will
be invited to indicate for which theme, if any, they consider it
suitable. Theme organisers will be asked to consider all such
submissions for inclusion.
Poster sessions
Poster sessions are intended to encourage new work by postgraduate or
postdoctoral students, will depend on the number of submissions, and
will be announced nearer the date of conference. If you wish your paper
to be presented in a poster session, you need not provide a complete
paper.
Deadlines
- Proposal for panels are to be submitted by Sunday 14 November
2010.
- Proposals for sessions are to be submitted by Sunday 30 January
2011.
- Abstracts for all papers—to be included in a panel, theme
or general conference session, and poster sessions—are to be
submitted by Sunday 30 January 2011.
The AHE Committee will consider all proposals and abstracts and will
notify you of the acceptance or rejection of your proposal.
- Panel proposals will be notified by Monday 29 November 2010.
- Session proposals will be notified by Monday 14 February 2011.
- Paper proposals will be notified by Monday 14 February 2011.
- Refereed papers are to be submitted by Sunday 15 May 2011.
- Non-refereed papers are to be submitted by Sunday 29 May 2011.
Those submitting refereed and non-refereed papers must register, for a
minimum of two days of the conference, by Sunday 12th June 2011.
Registration details will be announced later.
All proposals, abstracts and papers are to be submitted via the AHE
website: www.hetecon.org.
All queries relating to the conference, but not concerning the
submission of proposals or papers, should be addressed to: Bruce Philp (AHEConference@ntu.ac.uk).
To keep up to date with the 2011 conference and other AHE activities,
subscribe to the AHE-ANNOUNCE mailing list (www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=AHE-ANNOUNCE)
and visit www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/hetecon/conference/2010/
or www.hetecon.org. Earlier
conferences can also be found at www.hetecon.com
Download Call for Papers.
14th Berlin Roundtables on
Transnationality: Financialization and Everyday Life
25 – 29 June 2011 | the Social Science Research Centre
Berlin and Humboldt-University, Berlin
Essay Competition – Conference –
Research Grant
Based on an international essay competition, up to 30 applicants will
be invited to discuss their research with prominent scholars at one of
Europe's leading research institutions. Cost for travel and
accommodation in Berlin will be covered by the Irmgard Coninx
Foundation. The conference will be divided into two workshops:
Workshop I ‘
Deconstructing Credit and Money in Neoliberalism:
Power, Culture, and History’ chaired by Jane Guyer
(Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University) and Susanne Soederberg (Global
Development & Political Studies, Queen’s University, Canada)
and
Workshop II ‘
Financialization and Corporate Social
Responsibility: Consumers and Investors as the New Policymakers?’
chaired by Boris Holzer (Sociology, University of Bielefeld) and Bryane
Michael
(Economics, Stockholm School of Economics)
For further information please visit our homepage and the background
paper at:
http://www.irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de/index.php?id=271
The call for papers extends to scholars (max. up to 5 years after
Ph.D.) and practitioners. Please submit your paper (maximum 3500 words
including footnotes and bibliography), an abstract (max. 300 words), a
narrative biography and a CV using the online submission form on the
Foundation’s website. Submission deadline is
27 March 2011.
Please note that co-authorship and already published papers will not be
accepted.
Among the conference participants, an international jury will award up
to two three-month fellowship to be used for research in Berlin. The
grant includes a monthly stipend of 1,000 € plus appropriate
accommodation.
For inquiries please contact us: info(a)
irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de
Critical Governance Studies
Conference
December 13-14 2010 | Warwick University UK
“Governance” has for some time been a fashionable concept
across the social sciences and throughout the public, private and
voluntary sectors. Rod Rhodes identified 7 different arenas and senses
in which
“governance” discourse is used and promoted: governance as
governing without government, the minimal state, new public management,
self-organising networks, socio-cybernetic systems, good governance;
corporate governance.
Our goal is to establish a forum to challenge orthodoxies and develop a
dialogue between scholars and practitioners interested in developing
critical approaches to the study and practice of governance. To this
end, Warwick University’s Institute of Governance and Public
Management has organised a two day international, cross-disciplinary
conference to debate these issues, with a view to generating a
post-conference edited collection.
Our keynote speaker is the world-renowned Professor Nancy Fraser (New
York’s New School for Social Research). Professor Nigel Thrift
(Vice Chancellor, University of Warwick), will give the opening
address. Other distinguished contributors include professors Mark Bevir
(Berkeley, California), Janet Newman (Open University), Helen Sullivan
(Birmingham) and Hugh Willmott (Cardiff).
We welcome individual abstract submissions from now until 19th November
and invite colleagues to submit abstracts on themes that might include,
among others, critical approaches to the governance of citizens, space,
money, networks, risk, security, science and universities. Proposals
for panels and streams along these lines are also welcome. Abstracts
for both panels and individual papers should be between 200 and 500
words and including the names, positions, affiliations and contact
details of all proposers and contributors.
As the conference theme is “challenging orthodoxies”, we
ask colleagues to address it directly in their abstracts by describing
a problematic orthodoxy, subjecting it to critical challenge and
outlining
new areas of inquiry and new social practices based on the critical
approach. At the same time, we encourage people to problematize the key
terms, governance, orthodoxy and critique.
After the conference, we plan to publish an edited collection with
selected papers, showcasing the best critical governance research from
across the disciplines. We are able to offer a small number of
discounts to scholars and doctoral students who would otherwise be
unable to attend. If you wish to apply for a discounted fee, please
state this at the end of your abstract and explain why you need
financial support.
We look forward to meeting you at the Warwick Critical Governance
Studies conference. Warwick University is close to Shakespeare’s
Stratford-on-Avon, to the charming and historic Cotswolds, and to
London. Warwick’s campus is easily accessible by road, plane and
train (20 minutes from Birmingham International Airport; or 60 minutes
from London’s Euston rail station). Warwick’s campus and
conference facilities are pleasant and modern, the accommodation is 4
star and the service is professional.
Jonathan S Davies and Penelope Tuck
Institute of Governance and Public Management (IGPM)
Warwick University, Coventry UK
5th “Dijon”
Post-Keynesian Conference
13.-14. May 2011 | Roskilde University, Denmark
The fifth “Dijon” Post-Keynesian conference will be
organized as a joined cooperation between the Université de
Bourgogne, Laurentian University, Roskilde and Aalborg University, on
the 75th year anniversary of The General Theory. This
year’s conference themes are:
The (Macro) economic Consequences of:
- European Monetary System
- European banks and financial institutions
- European labor markets: unemployment, employment and income
distribution
- European fiscal policies: Employment, income distribution and
budget deficits
- European Environment and economic growth
The General Theory after 75 years:
- Keynes’ methodology
- Keynes’s macroeconomic theory as different from mainstream
economics in all areas of relevance
Teaching Keynes’s macroeconomics:
- How to teach Keynes’s macroeconomics?
- What to do when textbooks are lacking?
Proposals for a full session and/or for individual papers within these
topics are especially welcome. They could either have a mainly
political perspective related to the actual crises in Europe or they
might focus on theoretical dimension, how to make a macroeconomic
analysis in the spirit of the General Theory. Within the latter
category we think that a special session commemorating the original
contributions by the late Wynne Godley would be timely.
Papers will be considered for publication by Edward Elgar – if
possible in two volumes: 1. European economics crises in Keynesian
perspectives and 2. The General Theory after 75 years 3. Teaching
Keynes’s macroeconomics – why is it so difficult?
Conference fee:
participation, lunches, dinner (Viking Ships Museum), coffee and fruit,
150€,
Master & PhD-Students (with supervisor recommendation), 50 €
Submission should be send to professor Jesper Jespersen (jesperj@ruc.dk) not later than 1st
February 2011.
The organizing committee consists of:
Jesper Jespersen, Roskilde Universitet
Mogens Ove Madsen, Aalborg Universitet
Louis-Philippe Rochon, Laurentian University
Claude Gnos, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon
For more information on the conference visit: www.ruc.dk/kienet.
Download Call for Papers.
DIME Workshop: Technology,
institutions and development
Perspectives from economics, anthropology and
geography on agrarian change
February 18-19, 2011 | Max Planck Institute of Economics, Jena, Germany
| website
Development studies have devoted a large amount of research to
understand the processes and impacts of institutional and technological
change, using different theoretical and methodological approaches.
Notable examples are the post WWII contributions of Hirschman,
Rosenstein-Rodan and Myrdal among others, recent economic growth
literature, anthropological studies of participatory development,
international political economy, economic and cultural geographies of
globalization, and the evolutionary and institutional approaches that
incorporate insights from various social science sub-disciplines,
including economic sociology of networks. Despite the richness of
contributions, crossbreeding between different research programs and
disciplines has been occasional, and cross-disciplinary discussions of
research results on focused issues are rare.
A privileged vantage point for conducting such cross-disciplinary
discussions is provided by the phenomenon of agrarian change, which has
allowed detailed analyses of the relations between institutions (e.g.
property rights, socio-cultural power structures, colonial burdens and
their post-colonial incarnations), agri-production technologies,
exchange practices and wider rural development. The study of agrarian
change has also sparked debates on appropriate technology, structural
change, poverty alleviation, distribution of resources, and the
functioning of markets. Recently, in the wake of the 2007-8 food crisis
and massive land-grab investments in Africa for food and fuel, coupled
with continuing smallholder distress and indebtedness in fast-growing
countries such as India and China, agrarian change and food
security/sovereignty have become crucial points of debate on
development processes and policies at the national and global scales.
We aim to bring together contributions – theoretical and
empirical, qualitative and quantitative, from any disciplinary
background – that focus on the multifaceted interactions between
(groups of) individuals, science and technology, institutional
structures, and the different social practices associated with them in
development processes. We especially encourage contributions that map
these interactions in the context of the current agrarian
transformation in developing countries through further integration into
global and local branded markets, changing patterns of use and
distribution of resources (e.g. due to climate change impacts), and the
multi-dimensional sustainability of development processes.
Topics
The following is an incomplete list of themes and topics that should
serve as a guide to submit papers, and for which one or more leading
scholars in the field has been invited to contribute
AGRARIAN CHANGE:
- Technological change in agriculture (A)
- Production and exchange practices (B)
- Agricultural markets: local and global (C)
- Value chains, contract farming, fair trade, and the multiple
forms of global demand/production relations (D)
- The impact of bio-fuels on agrarian change (E)
- GMO’s and the market of seeds (F)
- Land distribution and land grabbing (G)
- Quality standards and certification (H)
TECHNOLOGY, INSTITUTIONS AND DEVELOPMENT:
- Power and institutional asymmetries in the process of
development (I)
- Gender issues in institutional and technological change to
development (J)
- Science and technology: producers and users (K)
- Change in consumption, structural change and agrarian change (L)
- Economic development: evolutionary approaches (M)
- Development studies: historical views (N)
For further information, download Call for Papers.
Disaster! A Conference on
Catastrophes in History
April 9, 2011 | Hagley Museum and Library, Wilmington, Delaware
The University of Delaware-Hagley Fellows invites scholars to join us
in a conversation about how disasters have shaped societies, cultures
and environments since 1700. What makes a disaster a disaster? Who
decides? How have they been interpreted? What are the consequences of
disasters? What can historians gain by studying disasters? We
particularly encourage proposals for papers that explore how disasters
can inform the histories of business, technology, consumption, the
environment, work, and everyday life.
We welcome proposals by both graduate students and established
scholars. Financial assistance for travel will be provided to all
conference presenters.
Please email a 300-word abstract and a one-page CV to the Hagley
Fellows at hagley.fellows@gmail.com
by December 31, 2010. For more information: www.udel.edu/hagley.
Feminist Economics: Special
Issue on Land, Gender, and Food Security
Guest Editors: Stephanie Seguino, Gale Summerfield, and Dzodzi
Tsikata
In reaction to the global food price crisis in 2007–8 as well as
concerns over population pressures and water shortages, wealthier
developing countries and newly industrialized ones have begun a surge
of leasing and acquisition of millions of hectares of farmland in many
poorer developing countries. The expanding global demand for biofuels
and other non- food agricultural commodities, along with rising
agricultural commodity prices, represent an additional impetus for
these acquisitions by wealthier developing countries. Experts are
concerned that these large-scale land deals will increase food
insecurity and inequalities within the countries that lease or sell
land. Such transactions may also widen income gaps between the
wealthier and poorer developing countries engaged in them.
To date, analyses of land acquisitions have not addressed human rights
and gender implications of these processes. Given women’s
important roles as producers and consumers of agricultural products in
affected countries and the implications of gender equality for long-run
growth, this is a critical lacuna in research. For this special issue,
Feminist Economics encourages scholars from economics and related
disciplines to submit papers that reveal gender impacts of the leases
and acquisitions, including effects on women’s access to land,
intrahousehold allocation, on-farm agricultural productivity, household
food security, and investments in children’s well-being.
Consideration of gender differences related to class, ethnicity, and
location are encouraged. Feminist Economics especially welcomes
submissions from the Global South and transition economies.
Contributions may cover diverse topics, including but not limited to:
- Distributional, including gender, effects on access to and
control over land and livelihoods
- Gender employment effects and broader socioeconomic impacts of
land leasing and land acquisition
- Impacts of the leasing arrangements on urban and rural producers
and consumers
- Land rights, human rights, and socioeconomic justice •
Responses by civil society and government to land acquisitions
Please direct queries and abstracts (500 words maximum) to the Guest
Editors, Stephanie Seguino
(sseguino@uvm.edu), Gale
Summerfield
(summrfld@illinois.edu),
and Dzodzi Tsikata
(dzodzit@yahoo.co.uk or
dtsikata@ug.edu.gh),
no later than 15 January 2011.
If the Guest Editors approve an abstract, the complete manuscript will
be due 1 August 2011 and should be submitted to Feminist Economics
through the submissions website (
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rfec).
Questions about these procedures may be sent to
feministeconomics@rice.edu,
+1.713.348.4083 (phone), or +1.713.348.5495 (fax).
History of
Economics as Culture Workshop 2011
April 8th, 2011 | University of Cergy-Pontoise (near Paris,
France)
This is to announce that we are organizing on behalf of the H2S
(History of Social Science) group the third workshop on “history
of ‘economics as culture’ (Histoire culturelle des savoirs
économiques)” to be held Friday, April 8th, 2011 at the
University of Cergy-Pontoise (near Paris, France). Our intention is to
bring together scholars from different disciplines to discuss from an
historical vantage point, the place of economics in our culture. Below
are some suggestions of topics that exemplify what will be at issue:
- To consider the interactions between art, literature and
economics;
- To discuss the interactions between cultural or artistic objects
such as magazines, books, maps, photographs, paintings, graphs and
economic thinking and to consider economic texts as cultural items and
to reflect upon the consequences their physical form had on their
reception.
- To consider economics as part of cultures (political,
commercial, scientific, etc.) of past (including very recent past)
societies; in particular, to discuss the economic representations (or
culture) of specific social groups such as merchants, workers, business
men, etc.
The workshop will comprise of 5 or 6 papers containing genuine
unpublished research. If you have an interest in these topics, please
send us a proposal of no more than 1000 words or a draft paper of what
you want to present before January, 15 at the following address:
historyofeconomicsasculture@gmail.com
If you are interested in the subject but are unable to send a proposal,
feel free to contact us at the same address for further
discussion/information. Also, last year program is available here:
http://economix.u-paris10.fr/fr/activites/colloques/?id=113
IAFFE
(International Association for Feminist Economics) 2011 Conference
June 24 - 26, 2011 Hangzhou, China
Conference Theme:
Reorienting economic theory,
policies, and institutions: Feminist and critical perspectives on the
global economic crisis
The global economic crisis that began in 2008 has resulted in
widespread critiques of mainstream economic thinking. This has created
intellectual and policy space to rethink economic theory and policies
in a variety of critical areas: economic development and
industrialization, growth, environment and climate change, inequality
by gender and ethnicity, and the role of the state. Feminist economic
thought has a great deal to contribute at this period of ripe
intellectual ferment. Further, feminists are positioned to be able to
contribute to ongoing debates on how to reform the global financial
architecture, and with that, institutions of global economic
regulation, such as the World Bank, World Trade Organization, and
International Monetary Fund.
The theme of the 2011 IAFFE annual conference, Reorienting
economic theory, policies, and institutions: Feminist perspectives in
the aftermath of the global economic crisis to be held in Hangzhou,
China offers an opportunity to bring together scholars whose
contributions can stimulate thinking in these critical areas. We
welcome paper submissions on the theme of the conference as well topics
of interest to feminist economics. Papers do not have to explicitly
address gender, but should be gender-relevant.
· Macroeconomic policies to promote full employment
· Gender-sensitive public policy
· Feminist monetary and tax policies
· Large-scale land acquisitions, gender, and food security
· Stratification economics: Gender and racial economic
hierarchies
· The economics of identity
· Gender analyses of China’s economic development model
· Feminist analysis of global economic power shift to BRICs
· Feminist economic thought and activism
· Lessons from the Asian development model in the wake of the
global crisis
· Feminist human rights approaches to economic policy
· Gender effects of China’s investment in Africa
· Global crisis, international migration, and paid domestic
workers
· The global crisis and paid and unpaid work
· Feminist proposals for financial sector reform
· Gender, informal employment, and social security
Conference Structure
Panel proposals and individual paper submissions are invited on any
aspect of feminist inquiry into economic issues. This includes papers
that focus explicitly on gender as well as those that are on broader
topics that are gender-relevant. IAFFE conference panels do not as a
rule have discussants. This year, papers will be assigned to regular
panels or to a limited number of panels focused on New Projects in
Feminist Economics; senior scholar will be assigned as discussants on
these panels. The conference language will be in English and Chinese
and we hope to provide simultaneous translation for most sessions and
panels.
Submissions: Proposals must be submitted on-line via the IAFFE website (
www.iaffe.org).
(If you do not have internet access, please contact the Conference
Coordinator, Jolene Walker, at 1 402 472 3372 for instructions on how
to proceed.) Submissions can be made for panels or individual papers.
Participants are limited to one paper presentation. Titles and
abstracts for all papers (including those that are part of panels) are
required. Check the IAFFE website,
http://www.iaffe.org/conferences/annual/index.php,
for detailed submission guidelines.
Deadline for Submission: The deadline for submissions is March 1, 2011.
Acceptances will be announced by early April.
Travel Grant Funds: Through the generous assistance of several granting
agencies including the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA),
IAFFE is able to provide assistance to a limited number of scholars and
graduate students to assist with travel and other expenses associated
with attending our Annual Conferences. We are especially interested in
funding scholars from Africa and other regions of the Global South as
well as a limited number of scholars and graduate students from OECD
countries. Our goal is to foster the diversity of the geographical
representation and perspectives at IAFFE conferences. People who plan
to present a paper at the conference, and who come from countries with
developing and transition economies, are also encouraged to apply for
this funding.
Applications should be submitted early. Submissions for the travel
grant program will be accepted beginning December 1. The deadline for
applications to the program is March 1, 2011. Notifications of awards
will begin April 1, 2011. Please check the IAFFE website for Travel
Grant application information or write to
conference@iaffe.org for more
information. We encourage applicants to apply for their visas as soon
as possible.
The conference will be held at Zhejiang Gongshang University in
collaboration with the Chinese Women Economists Research Training
Program of the China Center for Economic Research, Peking University.
Ninth
International Conference of the International Development Ethics
Association
Gender Justice and Development: Local
and Global
June 9-11, 2011 | Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, U.S.
The International Development Ethics Association (IDEA) with Centre on
Values and Ethics (COVE) at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada and
Center for International Studies (CIS) and Philosophy Department at
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA
Plenary speaker:
Naila Kabeer, Professorial Fellow, Institute of Development Studies,
Sussex and Senior Research Fellow, Department of International
Development, UK
While submissions on any topic in development ethics are welcome, IDEA
is particularly interested in submissions that fit the theme of
exploring, understanding, and analyzing the role of gender justice
in development theory and policy. Scholars and activists in
development are increasingly using the concept "gender justice" to
replace the terms "gender equality" and "gender mainstreaming". Many
now hold that describing situations using the latter terms fails to
address adequately the ongoing gender-based injustices from which women
suffer. However, there is no single definition of gender justice and
much disagreement among local, national, and international
power-holders about what constitutes gender injustice and how to
alleviate or eliminate it.
IDEA invites submissions that could include discussions of gender as it
relates to any of the following list of topics. Gender and
- concepts of equality, justice, rights, capabilities
- concepts of agency, empowerment, freedom, autonomy
- concepts of democracy, citizenship, constitutionalism
- concepts of the law, judicial reform, access to justice
- intersections of race, class, ethnicity, other factors of
discrimination
- intersections of local/national and global
- economic globalization, global economy, markets, labor
- the family, community, nation, global
- reproductive health, health care, population
- education, religion, culture
- concepts of poverty, measuring inequalities
- the environment, climate change, public health
- feminisms, movements, activism
- post-colonialism, imperialism, transnationalism
- power, knowledge, institutional structures
- care ethics, values and ethics in general
- migration, global in the local
- violence, conflict, war, terrorism
- Human Development Reports, Millennium Development Goals,
measurements, standards
- local, national, and global institutions and NGOs
Papers could examine these issues from diverse theoretical and
conceptual perspectives including philosophical argument, empirical
analysis, examinations of policy, and action strategies. Papers could
consider how and to what degree the concrete experiences of women in
specific contexts can and should inform theory, practice, and activism
at local and global levels. The conference will engage scholars and
practitioners from around the world and from a wide variety of
disciplines and activities (including philosophy and other humanities,
social sciences, policy studies, development, social work, NGOs, local
and global agencies and organizations, government officials and policy
makers). IDEA particularly welcomes submissions from scholars and
practitioners in South countries.
Submission of Abstracts.
Proposals should be submitted by email to Christine Koggel at
ckoggel@brynmawr.edu and should
include:
1. An abstract of 500 words
2. Name, affiliation, and contact information on a separate page
3. A biography of under 100 words (for the conference program)
The conference will be conducted primarily in English. There may be
some presentations in Spanish, depending on the availability of
volunteers to give informal translations. Proposals for presentations
in Spanish should be sent to Daniela Gallegos at
danielagallegos@yahoo.com.
Important dates:
- December 17, 2010: deadline for proposals
- February 18, 2011: notification of acceptance
- May 1, 2011: deadline for submission of complete papers
Program Co-Chairs:
Jay Drydyk, President of IDEA and
Director of COVE
Christine Koggel, Co-Director of CIS and Board Member of IDEA
IIPPE:
Second International Conference in Political Economy
Neoliberalism and the Crises of Economic Science
May 20-22, 2011 | Istanbul University, Beyazit, Turkey
The global crisis of the last years of the “noughties” has
cruelly exposed the deficiencies not only of mainstream economics but
also of broader strands of political economy from across the social
sciences more generally that have promoted neoliberalism. Media and
academic commentary has focused on the inability to predict the crisis
and the corresponding inadequacies of the economics profession,
expecting a sort of self-criticism and reconstruction from within the
discipline, whilst the inadequate treatment of the economic and the
economy across the social sciences has been less harshly exposed to
criticism.
In the case of economics, this has led to a spirited deference of the
existing frame of analysis (What crisis? Bubbles don’t exist) and
to the assertion that the discipline’s principles remain adequate
but they need to be better and more realistically applied, possibly
with the incorporation of other behavioural elements and techniques.
Similar minor modifications to analytical frameworks have emanated from
the international financial institutions and national treasuries, etc,
if to some extent to allow for more discretion in policy rather than
fundamental rethinks. Accordingly, the degree of rethinking within
mainstream economics is strikingly underwhelming as, indeed, is the
rethinking informing policy responses where neoliberal support to
globalisation of finance remains to the fore, with dramatic adjustments
at the expense of working people and the poor.
Although, then, the urgent issues brought about by the global crisis
have made such questioning of mainstream economics both necessary and
inevitable, there are also wider implications for a more inclusive
reconstruction of economic understanding across the social sciences as
a means to inform both academic and policy-making circles.
This conference will probe much deeper into the multiple crises of
economic science, informed by the perspectives of political economy
that have long been ignored and marginalised by the mainstream, whether
deriving from critical political economy and heterodox economics or
from the treatment of the economy from across the social sciences as a
whole. The ultimate aim is to explore new avenues in promoting and
developing critical political economy in view of recent developments.
As well as engagements with economics and the economic, we are seeking
individual contributions and proposals for panels that address
Neoliberalism and the Crises of Economic Science through:
- the critical weaknesses of the mainstream in its
continuing evolution;
- critique of recent developments within mainstream economics such
as game theory, experimental economics, behavioural economics,
neuroeconomics, complexity theory, etc;
- the challenges to, and potential for, heterodox economics and
Marxist political economy;
- the lessons that can be gained from the history of economic
thought;
- the role of methodology in the critique of mainstream economics
and neoliberal political economy in providing for alternatives;
- the relation between economics and other social sciences in view
of economics imperialism: economics and politics, economic history,
philosophy, sociology, law, etc;
- the role of interdisciplinarity in promoting alternatives to the
mainstream;
- the role to be played by critical political economy within
social science;
- the ways in which an alternative economics can engage with and
promote both activism and alternative theories, policies and
ideologies;
- how to locate the world economy and the role of the (neoliberal)
(nation-) state;
- the relationships between finance and accumulation and between
economic and social reproduction;
- the analytical location of class, power and conflict.
We welcome both individual submissions and proposals for panels (or
streams of panels), with the latter ideally already incorporating a
number of proposed submissions but allowing for others to be added as
appropriate.
The deadline for submission of both individual abstracts of papers and
proposals for panels is the 15th of February 2011(submissions should be
sent to iippe@soas.ac.uk
and/or t.s.b.d@superonline.com.
Potential participants will be notified by the 15st of March. The
deadline for the submission of full papers is the 15th of April. Early
submissions, even if only provisional, are essential both to avoid
disappointment and to help in the appropriate allocation of papers to
designated panels and streams that will themselves be strengthened
through solicited contributions and the plenaries.
This Conference is Hosted by Turkish Social Sciences Association (TSSA)
and Istanbul University Research Center for Global Politics and
Administration (GLOPAR)
Download Call for Papers.
The 2011 Left Forum
Pace University, NYC | March 18-20 |
website
The 2011 Left Forum will take place at Pace University (NYC).
This year's theme is "Toward a Politics of Solidarity." The Left Forum
organizers have not announced the details yet but we would like to let
you know that URPE members can submit panels to the LF either
independently or with URPE sponsorship. The advantage of URPE
sponsorship is that you will get more publicity within URPE and you
will get help with organizing your panel. The LF lists sponsoring
organizations in its brochure and on its website and URPE sponsorship
may help your panel get accepted by the LF.
The URPE deadline for submissions of URPE-sponsored panels is Thursday,
November 18. The URPE Steering Committee will review the submissions
that weekend, and make a decision on which panels will be sponsored by
URPE.
People who attend the LF are well-informed but most are not
economists. Panels should be on topics of general interest. Please be
prepared to make a major contribution toward organizing your panel, but
be open to the possibility of accepting additional suggestions of
panelists from URPE or from the 2011 LF organizers. The factors
involved in determining which panels will be sponsored by URPE include:
how many panels apply; whether your panel is of general interest;
whether a panel on the same topic has already been accepted by the 2011
Left Forum; whether URPE decides to co-sponsor panels with other
organizations; how much effort you are able to contribute toward
organizing your panel; whether it is possible to form a complete panel
from your suggestion; and whether you have been in an URPE panel
recently.
The Left Forum deadline for panel submissions and the cost information
have not been decided yet. Last year each panel paid $125, which was
generally split between the panelists and sometimes the chair (3 - 5) -
and the registration fee for the conference was them waived for these
people. See the LF website for further announcements.
The Journal of Critical
Globalisation Studies: The Idea of Crisis
The Journal of Critical
Globalisation Studies invites submissions for a Special Issue on
'The Idea of Crisis'.
The concept of ‘crisis’ has a long and complex lineage in
the human sciences. On the one hand, it has been consistently deployed
to understand issues of order and change since at least the 18th
century. Influential contributions run the gamut from Marx on the
evolution ofmacro-social structures all the way through to Lacan on how
the individual finds and maintains its place within these. On the other
hand, its sheer ubiquity and apparent polyvalence have served to render
the concept an object of inquiry in its own right. Conceptual
historian Reinhart Koselleck, for example, has written at length on how
the term’s meanings and referents have varied across space and
time.
In the contemporary study of global politics, this richness of meaning
is on full display. Indeed, both during and after the Great Credit
Crash of 2007-2009, the notion of ‘crisis’ has been widely
employed in a range of different ways. For example, it has been used to
identify different periods in world history and to account for specific
pathways of institutional transformation; to describe the
contradictions that underpin the failure of a political or economic
system to function, and to understand the interpretive struggles
triggered by the recognition of these failures. Within the very broad
remit of thinking about ‘The Idea of Crisis’, the Journal
of Critical Globalisation Studies invites full-length articles, essays
(pieces up to 5,000 words), and book reviews for its fourth issue. The
aim of the special issue is to bring together academics from a range of
disciplinary backgrounds in order to explore how different theories of
crisis or change may feed into the historical process itself. The
editors particularly welcome pieces that explore some of the following
questions (although without intending to proscribe any other avenues
contributors may wish to explore):
- How have theories of crisis changed over time?
- How do these changes relate to ongoing meta-theoretical debate
in the human sciences, broadly conceived?
- What is the relationship between theories of crisis and other
theories of order and change?
- Which theories or visions of crisis have emerged or rose to
prominence during the crisis of 2007-2009? How are we to interpret
this?
- How might we understand ‘the Idea of Crisis’ as an
historical force? What is its historical significance?
To be considered for publication, contributions must be submitted
electronically as email attachments to abstracts@criticalglobalisation.com.
The submission deadline is 1st December 2010. Manuscripts should be
prepared according to the journal’s guidelines which are
available on the website. For more information about the themes of the
special issue in advance of the deadline for full manuscripts, please
contact the editor-in-chief for issue 4, Amin Samman: amin@criticalglobalisation.com.
Nature™ Inc?
Questioning the Market Panacea in Environmental Policy and Conservation
30 June – 2 July 2011 | ISS, The Hague, The Netherlands
Nature is dead. Long live Nature™ Inc.! This adagio inspires many
environmental policies today. In order to respond to the many
environmental problems the world is facing, new and innovative methods
are necessary, or so it is argued, and markets are posited as the ideal
vehicle to supply these. Indeed, market forces have been finding their
way into environmental policy and conservation to a degree that seemed
unimaginable only a decade ago. Payments for ecosystem services,
biodiversity derivatives and new conservation finance mechanisms,
species banking, carbon trade, geoengineering and conservation 2.0 are
just some of the market mechanisms that have taken a massive flight in
popularity in recent years, despite, or perhaps because of the recent
‘Great Financial Crisis’.
The conference seeks to critically engage with the market panacea in
environmental policy and conservation in the context of histories and
recent developments in neoliberal capitalism. The conference is steeped
in traditions of political economy and political ecology, in order to
arrive at a deeper understanding of where environmental policies and
conservation in an age of late capitalism come from, are going and what
effects they have on natures and peoples. ‘Nature™
Inc’ follows a successful recent conference in Lund, Sweden, in
May 2010 and several earlier similar initiatives that have shown the
topic to be of great interest to academics, policy-makers and civil
society. The present conference is thus meant not only to deepen and
share critical knowledge on market-based environmental policies and
practices and nature-society relations more generally, but also to
strengthen and widen the networks enabling this objective.
Topics include but are not limited to:
- General trends in market-based environmental policies and
instruments
- New forms of neoliberal conservation (including web 2.0, species
banking, etc)
- Agro-food systems, the meat-industrial complex, and aquaculture
- Agro-fuels, energy and climate change
- The relation between conservation and land (including protected
areas, etc.)
- Financialisation of the environment
- New social, environmental and peasant movements and left
alternatives
- Accumulation by dispossession, property regimes, and the
“new” enclosures
- Ecological imperialisms, including the recent ‘land
grabs’ Urban and rural political ecologies and the links between
them
- Theoretical advancements in nature-society relations
Paper proposals are due 15 December 2010. Please send a 250-300 word
proposal, with title, contact information, and three keywords as a Word
attachment to: nature2011@iss.nl.
Proposals for complete panels are welcome. Conference language is
English. Authors will be notified by 15 January 2011. Complete papers
are due by 1 April, 2011.
More information soon on: www.iss.nl/nature2011
and www.worldecologyresearch.org.
Organization:
The conference will be organized by the Institute of Social Studies,
Erasmus University Rotterdam, together with the University of
Manchester, UK, and University of Queensland, Australia.
Society of Heterodox
Economists (SHE) Conference: Additional Sessions
An additional Symposia has been being arranged for this
year’s conference:
On Post Keynesian Economics
Society for
Socialist Studies, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences
Continental Shifts, Divisions, and
Solidarities
01 June – 04 June 2011 | University of New Brunswick and
St. Thomas University, Fredericton, Canada
The West is looking East. Capitalists are seeking cheap labour and new
customers in China. Workers fear low-wage competition and job losses.
Politicians wonder whether China, possibly in conjunction with India,
Russia and Brazil, will challenge the world dominance of Western
countries. Environmentalists worry about the ecological impact of new
centres of economic growth.
Yet it is by no means certain whether there really is a continental
shift from the West to the East and whether economic growth can be
sustained after the world economic crisis 2008/9. Maybe the East is
just getting westernized as other parts of the world have before.
Moreover, little do we in the West know about the aspirations, hopes
and fears of people living on other continents.
What we can do is to speculate about the future. Times of uncertainty
are also times of historical openings. Will there be ever-tighter
market integration, a trans-pacific solidarity of capitalists? Will
there be political divisions between the East and the West? Will
workers East and West find ways to overcome the divisions that kept
them apart for most of capitalist history? Will today’s workers
struggles in China inspire workers struggles of the future in other
countries and on other continents?
The changing geography of the world economy is intimately linked to
changes in social structures within and between countries. Gender roles
and ethnic compositions of societies are shaken, creating the space for
new solidarities across the dividing lines of race and gender but also
producing the danger of new forms of sexism and racism.
Like any other changes in the past, the “Continental Shifts,
Divisions, and Solidarities” are also a challenge to the ways we
understand the world(s) around us. Thus, this is a time to rethink
established epistemologies, theories and underlying philosophies. The
Society of Socialist Studies invites proposals for papers, roundtables,
and session addressing any aspect of the theme of “Continental
Shifts, Divisions, and Solidarities”.
Proposals for Roundtables and Sessions
At this point we are mainly interested in proposals for roundtables and
sessions, which will then be posted on our website so that individuals
can propose papers to all suggested sessions. Proposals for roundtables
should include a list of participants. Unlike sessions they are not
open for individual proposals.
Proposals for Papers
You can submit proposals for an individual paper at this point. The
Programme Committee will try to find a place for it. Sessions open for
individual proposals will be posted to our website as soon as they are
accepted by the Programme Committee.
Please submit abstracts (maximum of 100 words) for any proposals before
15 January 2011 to: Ingo Schmidt, Programme Committee Chair,
ingos@athabascau.ca
http://socialiststudies.ca/
http://congress2011.ca/
Call for
Participants
Beyond Eurocentrism: A Marx
for the 21st Century
November 21, 2010. 1:00 PM | Community Room A, Westside Pavilion, Pico
and Westwood Boulevards, LA. | Sponsored by West Coast
Marxist-Humanists | Admission Free.
Speaker: Kevin Anderson, author of the just-published Marx at the
Margins: Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
(University of Chicago Press, 2010)
While Karl Marx concentrated in his major writings on capital and
class in Western Europe, he also wrote extensively on colonialism
and non-Western societies, especially with regard to India,
China, and
Russia. Many of his writings also took up nationalism, race, and
ethnicity, notably in Poland, the U.S., and Ireland. By carrying
out a critical analysis of these neglected writings, this book
offers us a Marx for the twenty-first century.
Kevin Anderson teaches sociology, political science, and feminist
studies at UC-Santa Barbara. He is also the coauthor of Foucault
and the Iranian Revolution (2005) and the coeditor of The Rosa
Luxemburg
Reader.
Contact: arise@umarxisthumanists.org,
http://www.usmarxisthumanists.org/
Beyond Rationality III
Workshop: Resistance and the Practice of Rationality
19 – 20 Nov. 2010 | the London School of Economics &
Political Science.
The themes for this workshop involve the linking of the issue of the
limits of rationality with the concept of ‘resistance’.
This word used to be used as a synonym to irrational or reactionary
behaviour in the social sciences. But things seem to have moved on and
we now are able to recognise that resistance is a constant of human
conduct, and its relation to rationality or irrationality is not
determined nor fixed at any historical epoch nor with respect to any
topic. The study workshop will ask: to what extent are social
scientific conceptions of ‘resistance’ sui generis, or to
what extent are they borrowed from the natural sciences by metaphor and
analogy and vice-versa?
The meeting will take place at the LSE under the auspices of the Centre
for the Philosophy of Natural and Social Science, the Institute for
Social Psychology and the Center for Intelligence and Strategic Studies
(Oxford MS).
If you would like to attend please email
Philcent@lse.ac.uk to reserve a
place. Please include your name, your institution and a contact email
address.
For more information please see:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/events/BeyondRationality/beyondRationalityIII.aspx'
Crisis and
Critique: Historical Materialism Annual London Conference 2010
Central London, Thursday 11th to Sunday 14th November
ALL ATTENDEES AND SPEAKERS MUST PRE-REGISTER, PRE-REGISTRATION
CLOSES AT MIDNIGHT ON NOVEMBER 8TH
Notwithstanding repeated invocations of the ‘green shoots of
recovery’, the effects of the economic crisis that began in 2008
continue to be felt around the world. While some central tenets of the
neoliberal project have been called into question, bank bailouts, cuts
to public services and attacks on working people's lives demonstrate
that the ruling order remains capable of imposing its agenda. Many
significant Marxist analyses have already been produced of the origins,
forms and prospects of the crisis, and we look forward to furthering
these debates at HM London 2010. We also aim to encourage dialogue
between the critique of political economy and other modes of criticism
– ideological, political, aesthetic, philosophical –
central to the Marxist tradition.
In the 1930s, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht projected a journal to
be called ‘Crisis and Critique’. In very different times,
but in a similar spirit, HM London 2010 aims to serve as a forum for
dialogue, interaction and debate between different strands of
critical-Marxist theory. Whether their focus is the study of the
capitalist mode of production's theoretical and practical foundations,
the unmasking of its ideological forms of legitimation or its political
negation, we are convinced that a renewed and politically effective
Marxism will need to rely on all the resources of critique in the years
ahead. Crises produce periods of ideological and political uncertainty.
They are moments that put into question established cognitive and
disciplinary compartmentalisations, and require a recomposition at the
level of both theory and practice. HM London 2010 hopes to contribute
to a broader dialogue on the Left aimed at such a recomposition, one of
whose prerequisites remains the young Marx’s call for the
‘ruthless criticism of all that exists’.
Evolution
de la régulation: bancaire et financière face à la
crise
22 novembre 2010 | Centre de Formation Professionnelle Notariale de
Paris
La journée est gratuite mais nécessite une inscription
avant le 15 novembre car les places sont limitées.
Download Program | Registration Form.
The Global Crisis:
Rethinking Economy and Society
December 3–5, 2010 | Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory |
part of 3CT’s Economy and Society Series | website
Friday, December 3, 2010
8:45–9:30 Breakfast & Introductory Remarks
9:30–12:30 Panel No. 1: Understanding the Crisis Historically
• Chair: William Sewell
• David Harvey
• Duncan Foley
• Beverly Silver
• Immanuel Wallerstein
• Discussant: Moishe Postone
12:30–1:30 Lunch
1:30–4:00 Panel No. 2: The Crisis and the Global South
• Chair: Lisa Wedeen
• Vivek Chibber
• Ho-fung Hung
• Claudio Lomnitz
• Achille Mbembe
• Discussant: John Comaroff
Saturday, December 4, 2010
9:00–9:30 Breakfast & Introductory Remarks
9:30–11:45 Panel No. 3: The Financialization of Economic Life
• Chair: Paul Cheney
• James Galbraith
• Benjamin Lee/Edward LiPuma
• Greta Krippner
• Discussant: Gary Herrigel
11:45–12:45 Lunch
12:45–3:00 Panel No. 4: Neo-liberalism as Ideology and as Policy
• Chair: Jean Comaroff
• Neil Brenner/Jamie Peck/Nik Theodore
• Peter Evans/Bill Sewell
• Saskia Sassen
• Discussant: James Sparrow
3:00–3:15 Coffee Break
3:15–5:30 Panel No. 5: Unsettled Practices: Work and Expert
Knowledge
• Chair: TBA
• Michael Hardt
• Richard Sennett
• Kaushik Sunder Rajan
• Discussant: Andreas Glaeser
Sunday, December 5, 2010
10:00–12:30 Roundtable: Paths to the Future
This conference has been co-sponsored by the Franke Institute for the
Humanities, the Norman Wait Harris Fund, the History Department, the
Anthropology Department, the Nicholson Center, the Social Sciences
Division and the Political Science Department. For further information,
please contact Anwen Tormey (amtormey@uchicago.edu)
Interdisciplinary
Seminars: Human Rights, Markets and Governance Challenges
October, 25th 2010 to June, 30th 2011 at ISCTE-IUL, Avenida das
Forças Armadas, Lisbon, Portugal | website
We are pleased to send you the program of the Seminars on “Human
Rights, Markets and Governance Challenges", organised by
DINÂMIA-CET, the Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies
of ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute (IUL), which will be held from
October, 25th 2010 to June, 30th 2011 at ISCTE-IUL, Avenida das
Forças Armadas, Lisbon, Portugal.
The organising committee,
Maria Eduarda Gonçalves
Maria de Fátima Ferreiro
Ana Costa (DINÂMIA – CET, ISCTE/IUL).
Download Program (in English).
London
Seminar on Contemporary Marxist Theory
The global economic and financial crisis has witnessed a deepening of
interest in different forms of critical and radical thought and
practice. This seminar will explore the new perspectives that have been
opened up by interventions of contemporary Marxist theory in this
political and theoretical conjuncture. It involves collaboration among
Marxist scholars based in several London universities, including Brunel
University, King’s College London, and the School of Oriental and
African Studies. Guest speakers – from both Britain and abroad
– will include a wide range of thinkers engaging with many
different elements of the various Marxist traditions, as well as with
diverse problems and topics. The aim of the seminar is to promote
fruitful debate and to contribute to the development of more robust
Marxist analysis. It is open to all.
Autumn Term Programme
9th November, 5pm
- King's College London, Strand Campus, S-1.04, Raked Lecture
Theatre
- Massimiliano Tomba (University of Padua)
- The Historical Materialist at work: Re-reading “The
Eighteenth Brumaire”
15th December, 5pm
- King's College London, Strand Campus, K.3.11 Raked Lecture
Theatre
- Peter D. Thomas (Brunel University)
- Contours of Contemporary Western Marxism
The schedule for 2011 will be made available at a later date. Speakers
will include David Leopold (Oxford), Esther Leslie (Birkbeck), Stathis
Kouvelakis (King's) and Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths).
For further information, please contact:
- Alex Callinicos, European Studies, King's: alex.callinicos [at] kcl.ac.uk
- Stathis Kouvelakis, European Studies, King's: stathis.kouvelakis
[at] kcl.ac.uk
- Costas Lapavitsas, Economics, SOAS: cl5 [at] soas.ac.uk
- Peter Thomas, Politics and History, Brunel: PeterD.Thomas [at] brunel.ac.uk
Marxism Beyond the
Boundaries
Thursday 11 November 7.30 pm at the Brockway Room, Conway Hall. 25 Red
Lion Square London WC1 (nearest tube: Holborn). Admission free
(collection for room). All welcome.
SPEAKERS
- Peter Hudis, co-editor of the 'Complete Works of Rosa
Luxemburg', on the Dialectics of Economic Turbulence
- Kevin B Anderson, author of 'Marx at the Margins', on Race,
Class and Capitalism
- David Black, author of 'Helen Macfarlane, A Feminist,
Revolutionary Journalist and Philosopher in mid-19th Century England',
on Marxism and Philosophy
- Heather Brown , author of 'Marx on Gender and the Family: A
Critical Study' (forthcoming), on Marxism and Gender
- Ba Karang, editor of Africa Links, on Africa Today
Contact: HobgloblinLondon@aol.com
CPNSS Seminar: Towards
Discursive Economics
Thursday 11 November 2010 , 4:40pm - 6:00pm | Room T206, 2nd Floor,
Lakatos Building, LSE
Speaker: Vladimir Yefimov
Robert Shiller succeeded to forecast and understand the crisis by
paying attention to the dominant discourse among all involved actors
concerning housing market. The Discursive Economics makes analysis of
any economic phenomena in the same way. It starts the Discursive Turn
in economics which already took place in psychology and political
science. It studies speech acts taking place in certain arrays of
people in order to reveal rules and story lines for understanding
socio-economic reality. In the research project the ontological and
epistemological comparisons will be made between Discursive Economics
and Experimental, Behavioural and Institutional Economics.
This event is open to all.
Society of Government
Economists Annual Conference
November 15-16, 2010 | Washington, DC.
Download the Program.
Workshop: Latent Factor
Analysis
Nov. 15, 2010 | University of Manchester – Cathie Marsh Centre
for Census & Survey Research
This short course covers latent variables and confirmatory factor
analysis. A latent variable is a thing (such as an attitude) that has
been measured using a set of three or more indicators. We aim to show
what kinds of models would lead to an adequate factor model.
Participants will be shown the SPSS and MPLUS methods of doing factor
analysis.
- By Wendy Olsen and Samantha Watson
- Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of a statistical package such
as SPSS, and a previous exposure to regression analysis, are both
required.
- Level: Intermediate.
For more details and registration, see: www.ccsr.ac.uk/courses/list
You will find this course on 15 Nov. 2010 and there is a fee depending
on your status.
Contact for more details wendy.olsen@manchester.ac.uk
Contact for registration Margaret.martin@manchester.ac.uk
Job
Postings for Heterodox Economists
Dickinson
College, US
Assistant Professor
Dickinson College Department of Economics has a fall 2011 opening
for a tenure track position at the Assistant Professor level. We are
seeking someone qualified to teach environmental and ecological
economics. Ideally, applicants would have research interests in either
domestic or international environmental and ecological issues. The
Department of Economics is deeply committed to pluralism in economics
and heavily values diversity of economic perspectives including
heterodox economics.
Dickinson College is a liberal arts college where excellence in
teaching and research are strongly emphasized, and where innovative,
interdisciplinary courses and programs are strongly supported,
including through our Center for Sustainability Education. Dickinson
has a strong global education program. Fluency in a second language
would be valuable. Primary teaching responsibilities include:
Environmental and Ecological Economics; Introductory and intermediate
level theory (either micro or macro); and 200/300 level field courses.
All members of the department teach first year and senior seminars in
rotation. The teaching load will be five courses per year. Ph.D
preferred. Dickinson is committed to diversity, and we encourage
candidates who will contribute to meeting that goal to apply.
Applications and nominations of women and minorities are strongly
encouraged.
Application Instructions:
Applications must be submitted online at:
http://jobs.dickinson.edu by
November 15. Your curriculum vitae should include contact information
for three professional references. We will be interviewing candidates
at the ASSA Meetings in January by pre-arranged appointment only.
Franklin
& Marshall College, US
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
The Department of Economics at Franklin & Marshall College invites
applications for a one-year visiting position at the Assistant
Professor level, beginning Fall 2011 and pending administrative
approval. Teaching experience is required. Teaching load is 3/2 and may
include participation in the College's general education program. The
teaching responsibilities will likely include teaching our Introduction
to Economic Perspectives course (please check the web site to get a
description of the course), an elective course concerning the issues of
gender, race, and class, and perhaps another elective chosen in
consultation with the department. Salary and benefits are competitive
and commensurate with qualifications.
Candidates should send a letter of application indicating why they
believe themselves to be an especially good fit for our department and
our curriculum. We strongly recommend visiting our website at
http://www.fandm.edu/economics
for more information about our department and our approach to teaching
economics in a liberal arts environment. Also include a curriculum
vitae, graduate transcript, three letters of recommendation, a teaching
statement, a research statement, and teaching evaluations and send to
Tami Lantz, Department Coordinator, Department of Economics, Franklin
& Marshall College, P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, PA 17604. We will not
accept electronic submissions. However, questions can be sent to the
department coordinator, Tami Lantz, at tami.lantz@fandm.edu. Please
reference the position in heterodox and feminist economics in your
letter of application.
Franklin & Marshall College is a highly selective liberal arts
college with a demonstrated commitment to cultural pluralism. EOE
B5 - Current Heterodox Approaches
B54 - Feminist Economics
National
Chengchi University, Taiwan
Assistant Professor of Economics (2
positions)
The Department of Economics at National Chengchi University in
Taiwan announces its recruitment plan for autumn/2011. The Department
has up to two tenured-track teaching and research positions available.
Ability to communicate in Chinese and a Ph.D.
degree in Economics are required. The application deadline is January
31, 2011. The full application package including recommendation letters
should be received before the deadline. (For more information, see
http://econo.nccu.edu.tw)
A complete application should include:
- Application letter,
- Resume,
- Photocopies of the applicant’s degrees, or a letter from
the thesis supervisor to certify that the applicants can meet our
degree requirement deadline. The candidates in our first run list
should provide a formal letter from their adviser to ensure obtaining
Ph.D. degree by the end of June 2011,
- An official copy of transcript sent directly from the issuing
institute(s),
- Samples of publication, such as degree thesis, referred papers
and/or working papers if written in the past five years, and
- Three recommendation letters sent directly from referees.
Please send your application file to:
Recruiting Committee
Department of Economics
National Chengchi University
Taipei 116, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Phone: 886-2-29393091 ext 51058
Fax: 886-2-29390344
National Priorities Project
Budget Analyst
National Priorities Project (NPP) makes complex federal budget
information transparent and
accessible so people can prioritize and influence how their tax dollars
are spent. We hold the vision
of an informed and engaged democracy where all people affected by
federal spending priorities
have the ability and opportunity to shape our nation's budget. Located
in Northampton, MA, since
1983, NPP focuses on the personal and societal impact of federal
spending at the national, state,
congressional district and local levels. Find out more at
http://www.nationalpriorities.org.
NPP's Budget Analyst works collaboratively with the Database Manager,
colleagues in IT and
colleagues in communications and networking. This position plans and
executes the research
necessary for NPP's suite of materials and tools.
For more information, download
Job Description.
Saint Peter's College, US
Assistant Professor of Economics
The Department of Economics and Finance at Saint Peter's College
invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant
Professor level, beginning in the Fall of 2011. Candidates for
the position should have already earned a Ph.D. in economics or be near
completion of such a degree. Preferred areas of specialization
are economic development or environmental economics. Teaching
experience is required. Preference will be given to candidates
with teaching experience in statistics. The teaching load is 4/4
and will include statistics, economic development and poverty and
inequality.
Saint Peter's College is a liberal arts college with a demonstrated
commitment to diversity. EOE.
Candidates should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae,
graduate transcript, three letters of recommendation, a teaching
statement, a research statement, and teaching evaluations to
Dr. Edwin Dickens, Chair
Department of Economics and Finance
Saint Peter's College
2641 Kennedy Boulevard
Jersey City, NJ 07306
SUNY-Cortland,
US
Assistant Professor of Economics
JEL Classification: B5 Current Heterodox Approaches
The Economics Department at the State University of New York (SUNY)
College at Cortland invites applications for a full-time tenure-track
Assistant Professor. A 3-3 teaching load . Teach such courses as
intermediate contemporary public policy, intermediate microeconomics,
math for economists and at least one political economy elective
depending on field(s) of specialization Also, develop an active
research agenda, engage in service activities on campus, and advise
undergraduate students. Required Qualifications: Ph.D. expected by time
of appointment. Preferred Qualifications: College teaching experience
and demonstrated potential for scholarship. The Department will
interview candidates at the ASSA meetings in Denver. Review of
applications will begin immediately and will continue until the
position is filled. For consideration apply online at
https://jobs.cortland.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=52363.
SUNY Cortland is an AA/EEO/ADA employer. We have a strong commitment to
the affirmation of diversity and have interdisciplinary degree programs
in the areas of Multicultural Studies.
For further information and application instructions, see the November
JOE at
http://www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.php?JOE_ID=201011_394871
SUNY-New
Paltz, US
Assistant Professor of Economics
JEL Classification codes:
- O0 – Economic Development
- E0 – Macroeconomics
- F0 – International Economics
- O53 – Economy-wide Country Studies: Asia Pacific
- O54 – Economy-wide Country Studies: Latin America
The Department of Economics at the State University of New York at New
Paltz invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant
Professor position, starting in Fall 2011. Ph.D. and teaching
experience are required. Exceptional ABD candidates with a firm
completion date will be considered. The candidate must demonstrate
effective communication and teaching skills. Teaching responsibilities
will include Macroeconomics, Economic Development of the Asia Pacific
Region (or Latin America), International Trade and Finance, and
lower-division General Education courses.
The faculty member will be expected to establish a strong program of
research and scholarship, to advise students, and to contribute to the
life and work of the department and the college. The successful
candidate will develop teaching interests and an active research agenda
in Development Economics with an applied research focus on
macroeconomic issues (prefer Asia Pacific emphasis; will consider Latin
American emphasis).
SUNY New Paltz is a highly selective, public college that is recognized
for the strength of its academic programs. It is located in the
beautiful Hudson River Valley with easy access to New York City and
other nearby cultural and recreational amenities. Please send a letter
of application, curriculum vitae, student teaching evaluations, and
other evidence of teaching effectiveness, a sample research paper,
graduate transcript, and three current letters of reference to:
Dr. Edith Kuiper, Search Chair
Department of Economics, JFT 814
State University of New York at New Paltz
600 Hawk Drive
New Paltz, NY 12561-2440
Please note Search #F10-18 on all materials submitted. Applications
will be accepted until the position is filled; however, priority will
be given to applications received by December 7, 2010.
We especially encourage applications from individuals who can bring
diverse cultural and ethnic perspectives and experiences to the campus
and who can advise and mentor all members of our diverse student body.
SUNY New Paltz is an AA/EOE/ADA employer.
University College London,
UK
Lecturer in Political Science: Public Policy
Economics and Analysis
Department / Division: UCL Department of Political Science/School of
Public Policy
Grade: Grade 7/8
Hours: Full time
Salary (inclusive of London allowance): Salary will be on the UCL
Lecturer A or B salary scale grade 7, (£35,415 - £38,441
per annum), and grade 8, (£39,510 - £46,635 per annum).
Duties and Responsibilities
UCL wishes to appoint a lecturer to contribute to research and teaching
within the Department of Political Science/School of Public Policy. The
new lecturer will undertake research of the highest international
standards within his or her own specialist field, which will contribute
to the research standing and culture of the Department. They will teach
on the Masters and within the School’s other programmes and
supervise PhD students.
As well as teaching Public Policy Economics and Analysis and possibly
contributing to other popular current courses, we would expect the new
lecturer to offer at least one and possibly two new courses that
complement existing offerings. This appointment is available from 1
September 2011.
Key Requirements
The new Lecturer can be in any area of political science but will be
expected to make a major contribution to the teaching and
administration (lecturing, running seminars and recruiting, mentoring
and coordinating PG Teaching Assistants) of the course, Public Policy
Economics and Analysis. This is a core course taken by all students on
the public policy MSc programmes (Public Policy, International Public
Policy and European Public Policy). Candidates must have a PhD in
political science, economics or a public policy related area, a proven
track record of publications in leading journals and a demonstrated
ability to win grant-funding.
Further Information
A job description and person specification can be accessed at the
bottom of this page. To apply for the vacancy please click on the
‘Apply Now’ button below or visit
www.ucl.ac.uk/hr/jobs.
Informal enquiries may be made to Professor David Coen,
d.coen@ucl.ac.uk. If you have any
queries regarding the vacancy or the application process, please
contact Ms Nicky Henson, Departmental Administrator, email
n.henson@ucl.ac.uk, tel +44 (0)20
7679 4966.
CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 5pm, Friday 26th November 2010
It is anticipated that long listed candidates will be contacted in
December 2010 and that successful candidates will be interviewed in
January 2011.
University
of California, Los Angeles, US
Faculty Position in Housing
The UCLA Department of Urban Planning invites applications for a
tenure-track faculty position in housing beginning July 1, 2011. We
seek bold and innovative thinkers who show intellectual leadership in
addressing the housing challenges and inequalities faced by diverse
populations in cities and regions. The appointment is expected to be at
the rank of assistant professor, although applicants at other levels
may also be considered.
A Ph.D. in Urban Planning or a related field is required. Our
department is consistently ranked among the top internationally, and
our diverse undergraduate, masters, and PhD students are consistently
placed in excellent positions. We have 18 faculty, about 200 graduate
students, and nearly 100 students pursuing our urban affairs minor. The
UCLA School of Public Affairs - home to the departments of Public
Policy, Social Welfare, and Urban Planning as well as five research
centers - and its sister schools and centers, including the UCLA Ziman
Center for Real Estate, provide an outstanding intellectual setting.
Southern California is one of the world's major metropolitan areas,
with rich cultural, social, intellectual and recreational offerings.
While applications will be accepted until the position is filled, all
materials should be submitted by December 10, 2010 to be guaranteed
full consideration. Send hard copies of a (a) letter of application,
(2) resume/c.v., (3) names and contact information for three academic
referees, and a (4) single representative article or conference paper
to:
Ms. Marsha Brown
Department of Urban Planning
School of Public Affairs
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656.
Please reference tracking number 1184-1011-01.
UCLA offers an attractive salary and benefits package, including a
housing assistance program for new faculty members. Salary is
commensurate with education and experience. UCLA is an Affirmative
Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. For more information about the
department, please visit our web site:
http://publicaffairs.ucla.edu/urban-planning.
University
of Connecticut, US
Assistant or Associate Professor
Department of Economics and the Human Rights Institute
The Department of Economics and the Human Rights Institute (HRI) at the
University of Connecticut seek to fill a tenure track faculty position
in Economics and Human Rights at the Assistant or Associate Professor
level beginning August, 2011. Candidates must demonstrate the potential
for research excellence in Economics and Human Rights and willingness
to contribute to the development of economics courses appropriate for
the new human rights major. Teaching responsibilities on the graduate
and undergraduate levels will be in both the Department of Economics
and the Human Rights Institute.
Minimum Qualifications: The completion of all requirements for a Ph.D.
in Economics by August 22, 2011; demonstrated excellence in research in
economics and human rights; the ability to develop appropriate courses
for human rights curriculum; and a teaching background. Equivalent
foreign degrees are acceptable.
Preferred Qualifications: The ability to contribute through research,
teaching, and/or public engagement to the diversity and excellence of
the learning experience.
This is a full-time, 9 month, tenure track position. Salary and
benefits are competitive. Rank and salary will be commensurate with
background, qualifications, and experience.
Please submit a letter of interest that describes how your work relates
to human rights, a CV, three letters of reference, and a writing sample
by December 1, 2010 to
<
http://www.econjobmarket.org/>http://www.econjobmarket.org/.
Screening will begin immediately, with interviews planned for the ASSA
meetings in Denver. The University of Connecticut is an EEO/AA
employer. (Search # 2011152)
University
of Dallas, US
Assistant, Associate or Professor of
Economics
JEL Classifications:
B--History of Economic Thought
C00--Mathematical and Quantitative Methods: General
N00--Economic History: General
O1--Economic Development: General
P5--Comparative Economic Systems: General
The Economics Program in Constantin College of the University of Dallas
seeks to fill a tenure-track position beginning fall 2011. Teaching and
research interests should fall in some or all of the listed fields.
Teaching load is six courses per academic year, with flexibility in
specific teaching assignments. For Assistant Professor, evidence of
teaching excellence and refereed publications, or the promise thereof,
is expected. For Associate or Professor, evidence of teaching
excellence and a record of refereed publication and professional
activity are required.
The Economics Program in Constantin College is growing and offers BA
degrees in both Economics and Economics and Finance. The liberal arts
program of the college has a substantial humanities and sciences core
taught in a small class setting with extensive use of original sources.
Faculty are expected to be excellent teachers with active research and
publications interests. Preference will be given to candidates who
demonstrate interest in and commitment to student learning and success,
to general education and to interdisciplinary collaboration with
colleagues in the liberal arts and sciences.
Applicants should send a cover letter, CV, statement of teaching
philosophy and research interests, and a list of course teaching
capabilities and preferences to:
Dr. Samuel Bostaph
Professor of Economics and Chairman
Department of Economics
Constantin College
University of Dallas
1845 E. Northgate Drive
Irving, Texas 75062
Review of applications will continue until January 31, 2010. Position
is subject to final budget approval.
University
of Denver, US
Assistant Professor of Economics
Heterodox Economics
Environmental Economics
Urban and Regional Economics
Labor Economics
Applied Econometrics
The Department of Economics seeks to fill one tenure-track position at
the rank of assistant professor starting September 2011. Candidates
must show promise of distinction in research and publications. They
must also show promise of excellent teaching ability, especially for
our introductory courses "Macro- and Microeconomics I: History and
Theories" and/or "Macro- and Microeconomics II: Theories and Policies."
Teaching these courses requires familiarity with economic history, the
history of economic thought, philosophy of social science, and
heterodox as well as mainstream perspectives on economic theory and
policy. Research and teaching strengths in another applied field, such
as Environmental, Urban, or Labor Economics, are desirable. Ability to
teach M.A. level applied econometrics is also helpful. The teaching
load is two (4-5 hour) courses per quarter. Applicants must apply
online at
www.dujobs.org and
follow instructions there. A cover letter, a curriculum vitae, 3
letters of recommendation, and a sample of recent research will be
required. Applications received after December 8, 2010, cannot be
guaranteed consideration. The University of Denver is committed to
enhancing the diversity of its faculty and staff and encourages
applications from women, minorities, people with disabilities, and
veterans. Please visit
www.du.edu/ahss/schools/economics/
for more information about the Department.
University
of Michigan-Dearborn, US
Assistant Professor of Economics
JEL Classification: N -- Economic History
One tenure track opening for a position at the Assistant Professor
level. The primary area of teaching responsibility is Economic History
of US, and European or International. A secondary area is Money and
Banking. The Economics program is located within a multi-disciplinary
Department of Social Sciences that includes History and Political
Science.
Teaching load is three courses per semester, including core courses -
principles of economics and intermediate theory. A Ph.D. in economics
or evidence of its impending completion is required. Additional
selection criteria include demonstrated potential for and commitment to
teaching talented and diverse undergraduates, as well as the ability to
sustain a productive research agenda. Appointment effective September
1, 2011. Salary is competitive.
The University of Michigan-Dearborn currently enrolls approximately
8,900 students in undergraduate and graduate programs. The University
is one of three campuses along with Ann Arbor and Flint - in the
University of Michigan system. Faculty and students have the
opportunity to collaborate across all three campuses in research and
scholarly activity. UM-Dearborn is located ten miles west of Detroit
and thirty-five miles east of Ann Arbor.
The University of Michigan-Dearborn is dedicated to the goal of
building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty committed to
teaching and working in a multicultural environment, and strongly
encourages applications from minorities and women.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.umd.umich.edu/dept/acad/casl/socsci/econ.
The University of Michigan, Dearborn is an equal
opportunity-affirmative action employer.
University
of Sydney, Australia
Lecturer in Political Economy - Two
Positions in the Department of Political Economy
Reference No. 3476/1010
- Work with leading academics in the field
- Australia's top rated Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- A competitive academic salary is available
Applications are invited for two full-time positions in the Department
of Political Economy to commence as soon as possible. The appointments
are fixed term for two years, subject to the completion of a
satisfactory probation and/or confirmation period for new appointees.
Visit sydney.edu.au/positions
and search by the reference number 3476/1010 for more information and
to apply.
Remuneration package: a competitive remuneration package is available
(consisting of a Level B salary $82,112 - $97,506 plus leave loading
and up to 17% employer's contribution to superannuation).
CLOSING DATE: 17 November 2010
University
of Vermont, US
Gund Professor of Ecological
Economics and Director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics
The Gund Institute for Ecological Economics is a transdisciplinary
research center at the University of Vermont, administered by the
Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources and structured
to encourage campus‐wide collaborations that study and develop
solutions to society's most pressing challenges. The Gund Professor is
an endowed, tenured, 9‐month position, and also serves as the Director
of the Institute. The Director provides intellectual leadership for the
Institute and works with faculty and students of all of UVM's colleges
and schools, as well as state, national, and international
organizations to develop the fields of ecological economics and design
through practical systems analysis and problem‐solving.
Ecological economics is a
heterodox approach to
economics and the environment, focusing on the human economy as
embedded in complex social and biophysical systems. The Gund Institute
is developing practical approaches to problem‐solving for
sustainability, tested in Vermont's living laboratory and applied
throughout the world. The State of Vermont and City of Burlington are
recognized leaders in efforts to redefine economic progress; strengthen
rural working landscapes and urban communities; transform energy, food,
and health care systems; manage common resources; and design livable
human communities. The Gund Institute is ideally situated to play a
leading role in developing the science of sustainable development,
pioneering policy initiatives, and training the ecological
entrepreneurs of the 21st century.
We seek a highly entrepreneurial systems thinker to advance an
internationally renowned transdisciplinary research program in
ecological economics and design; raise funds in support of that
research agenda; build relationships with state, national, and
international organizations; and teach and advise graduate students.
The Director also works with the Gund's Managing Director in support of
business operations, research and teaching collaborations, and campus
relations. We encourage candidates from diverse fields, but training or
experience in economics is expected. Applicants should demonstrate (1)
a record of transdisciplinary research at the interface between
ecological and socio-economic systems; (2) established ties to the
professional communities of ecological economics, ecological design, or
related fields; (3) a history of sustained research funding and support
of graduate students; (4) evidence of teaching excellence, including
integrative, problem‐based or service‐learning formats; and, (5) a
commitment to promoting diversity in educational experiences and
staff/student recruitment. The University of Vermont aspires to be
among the nation's premier small research universities with a
commitment to liberal education, environment, health, and public
service. In pursuing that goal, the University recently identified
three "Spires of Excellence" in which it will strategically focus
institutional investments and growth over the next several years. These
include Neuroscience, Behavior and Health; Complex Systems; and Food
Systems (
www.uvm.edu/~tri/). For this
position, we particularly encourage candidates who take a complex
systems approach to environmental problem solving. Interests and
experience in complex systems modeling, sustainable food and energy
systems, climate change adaptation, health and environment, livable
community design, or economic behavior research would all be welcome.
Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2010, with an
anticipated start date of September 1, 2011. The expected appointment
is at full professor rank with tenure. The University of Vermont is an
Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer, and welcomes
applications from women; underrepresented ethnic, racial and cultural
groups; and from people with disabilities. The University is especially
interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and
excellence of the academic community through their research, teaching,
and/or service. Applicants are requested to include in their cover
letter information about how they will further this goal. Applications
must include a letter of interest, curriculum vitae, and contact
information for three references, and must be submitted electronically
at
www.uvmjobs.com referencing
requisition number 033777.
Further information about the Gund Institute, current projects,
and collaborations are available at
www.uvm.edu/giee/. Inquiries may
be made to Professor Jon Erickson, Managing Director of the Gund
Institute for Ecological Economics and chair of the search committee at
jon.erickson@uvm.edu
or 802-656-2906.
Conference
Papers, Reports, and Articles
PKSG Keynes Seminar: The
financial crisis and the future of macroeconomics
Tuesday 26 October. Charles Goodhart, London School of Economics |
Discussant: Michael Kuczynski, Pembroke College, Cambridge [talk
only] [slides
only]
For past and upcoming seminars, visit PKSG website: http://www.postkeynesian.net/keynes.html
On The
Concepts of Period and Run in Economic Theory by Goeffrey Harcourt
Seminar paper is available here:
http://research.economics.unsw.edu.au/cpimienta/temp/Concepts_of_Period_and_Run_Econ_Theory.doc
Heterodox
Journals
Alternative
Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research, 22: 2011
Journal website:http://www.alternateroutes.ca
Saving Global Capitalism:
Interrogating Austerity & Working Class Responses to Crises
Introduction
- Saving Global Capitalism: Interrogating Austerity & Working
Class Responses to Crises
Articles
- Permanent Austerity: The Politics of the Canadian Exit Strategy
from Fiscal Stimulus / Bryan Evans, Greg Albo
- Janus-Faced Austerity: Strengthening the
‘Competitive’ Canadian State / Carlo Fanelli, Chris Hurl
- Can Global Capitalism Be Saved? “Exit Strategies”
for Capitalism or Humanity / Minqi Li
- European Capitalism: Varieties of Crisis /
Ingo Schmidt
- Cutting Government Deficits: Economic Science or Class War? /
Hugo Radice
- The Keynesian Revival: a Marxian Critique / Richard Wolff
- Free Transit and Social Movement Infrastructure: Assessing the
Political Potential of Toronto’s Nascent Free Transit Campaign /
Rebecca Schein
- PERIPHERALIZATION OF THE CENTRE: W(H)ITHER CANADA? REVISITED /
Dave Broad
Media, Arts & Culture
- Political Poetry / Lyle Daggett
- Multinational [G]rape Corporation / Aaron Henry
- "Eyes Wide Shut" / Bora Erdagi
- The Faces of Austerity / Kyle Hamilton
Reviews and Reflections
- About Canada: Animal Rights / Priscillia Lefebvre
- Cops, Crime & Capitalism: The Law and Order Agenda in Canada
/Gulden Ozcan
- The Ecological Revolution: Making Peace with the Planet / Alda
kokallaj
- In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown & Left
Alternatives / Carlo Fanelli
- Canada's 1960s: The Ironies of Identity in a Rebellious Era /
Edward Hilchey
Cambridge
Journal of Economics, 34(6): November 2010
Journal website: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3924/1
- Paolo Ramazzotti / Industrial districts, social cohesion and
economic decline in Italy
- Zeynep Önder and Süheyla Özyildirim / Banks,
regional development disparity and growth: evidence from Turkey
- Stilianos Alexiadis and Dimitrios Tsagdis / Is cumulative growth
in manufacturing productivity slowing down in the EU12 regions?
- Gabriel Porcile and Gilberto Tadeu Lima / Real exchange rate and
elasticity of labour supply in a balance-of-payments-constrained
macrodynamics
- Soltan Dzarasov / Critical realism and Russian economics
- Aditya Bhattacharjea / Did Kaldor anticipate the New Economic
Geography? Yes, but ...
- Paul M. Guest / Board structure and executive pay: evidence from
the UK
- Christian Bidard / The dynamics of intensive cultivation
FORUM
- Irene van Staveren and Colin Danby / Introduction to the
symposium on post-Keynesian and feminist economics
- Siobhan Austen and Therese Jefferson / Feminist and
post-Keynesian economics: challenges and opportunities
- Irene van Staveren / Post-Keynesianism meets feminist economics
- S. Charusheela / Gender and the stability of consumption: a
feminist contribution to post-Keynesian economics
- Colin Danby / Interdependence through time: relationships in
post-Keynesian thought and the care literature
Capital & Class, 34(3):
Oct. 2010
Journal website: http://cnc.sagepub.com/
Guest Editor: guest edited by Adam David Morton,
"Approaching Passive Revolutions"
- Adam David Morton / The continuum of passive revolution
- Neil Davidson / Scotland: Birthplace of passive revolution?
- Ian G. McKay / The Canadian passive revolution, 1840-1950
- Chris Hesketh / From passive revolution to silent revolution:
Class forces and the production of state, space and scale in modern
Mexico
- Ian Bruff / Germany’s Agenda 2010 reforms: Passive
revolution at the crossroads
- Rick Simon / Passive revolution, perestroika, and the emergence
of the new Russia
- Kevin Gray / Labour and the state in China’s passive
revolution
- Jamie C. Allinson and Alexander Anievas / The uneven and
combined development of the Meiji Restoration: A passive revolutionary
road to capitalist modernity
- Alex Callinicos / The limits of passive revolution
- Ian G. McKay / Feature review: Our awkward ancestors: Trotsky,
Gramsci and the challenge of reconnaissance: Emanuele Saccarelli
Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism: The Political Theory
and Practice of Opposition, Routledge: London, 2008; 312 pp.:
9780415873383, £26.99 (pbk)
- Chris Hesketh / Book review: William I. Robinson Latin America
and Global Capitalism, John Hopkins University: Baltimore, 2008; 440
pp.: 080189039X £29 (hbk)
- Rosaleen Duffy / Book review: Joel Wainwright Decolonizing
Development: Colonial Power and the Maya, Blackwell: London, 2008; 312
pp.: 9781405157053, £19.99 (pbk)
- Ertan Erol / Book review: Cihan Tuğal Passive Revolution:
Absorbing the Islamic Challenge to Capitalism, Stanford University:
Stanford, 2009; 306 pp.: 9780804761451, £22.50 (pbk)
- Graham M. Smith / Book review: Gopal Balakrishnan Antagonistics:
Capitalism and Power in an Age of War, Verso: London, 2009; 290 pp.:
9781844672691, £14.99 (pbk)
- Mathew Humphrey / Book review: John Schwartzmantel Ideology and
Politics, Sage: London, 2008; 198 pp.: 9781412919722, £67 (hbk);
9781412919739, £22.99, (pbk)
- David Slater / Book review: Richard Peet Unholy Trinity: The
IMF, World Bank and WTO, Zed Books: London, 2009; 287 pp.:
9781848132528, £17.99 (pbk)
- Ian Bruff / Book review: Bill Dunn Global Political Economy: A
Marxist Critique, Pluto: London, 2008; 370 pp.: 9780745326665,
£19.99 (pbk)
- Hugo Radice / Book review: Colin Leys Total Capitalism: Market
Politics, Market State, Merlin Press: London, 2008; 144 pp.:
9780850365900, £10.95 (pbk)
- Oli Harrison / Book review: Göran Therborn From Marxism to
Post Marxism? Verso: London, 2008; 194 pp.: 9781844671885, £14.99
(hbk)
- Paul Blackledge / Book review: Mike Haynes and Jim Wolfreys
(eds.) History and Revolution, Verso: London, 2007; 266 pp.:
9781844671519, £17.99 (pbk)
- Maurizio Atzeni / Book review: David A. Spencer The Political
Economy of Work, Routledge: London, 2009; 192 pp.: 9780415457934,
£60 (hbk)
- Dipankar Sinha / Book review: Mark T. Berger (ed.) After the
Third World? Routledge: London, 2009; 264 pp.: 9780415466370, £75
(hbk)
- Gerard Cotterell / Book review: Regis Debray Praised be Our
Lords, Verso: London, 2007; 336 pp.: 9781844671403, £19.99 (pbk)
Challenge,
53(6): November-December 2010
Journal website: http://www.challengemagazine.com/
- Letter from the Editor / Jeff Madrick
- Austerity Is Not a Solution: Why the Deficit Hawks Are Wrong /
Robert Pollin
- When Is Austerity Right?: In Boom, Not Bust / Arjun Jayadev,
Mike Konczal
- Absurd Austerity Policies in Europe / Philip Arestis, Theodore
Pelagidis
- The Massive Shedding of Jobs in America / Andrew Sum, Joseph
McLaughlin
- America and the Crossroads of Capitalist Globalization / Peter
Nolan
- Rising Inequality, Public Policy, and America's Poor / Lane
Kenworthy
- How Well Have Americans Been Doing? / Stephen J. Rose, John
Schmitt's
- The Failure of Capitalism / Mike Sharpe
Forum for Social Economics,
39(3): Oct. 2010
Journal website: http://springerlink.com/content/l02128637571/
- Trustworthiness as a Moral Determinant of Economic Activity:
Lessons from the Classics / Michel S. Zouboulakis
- The Economics of Social Interactions: An Interdisciplinary
Ground for Social Scientists? / Andreia Tolciu
- Is There a Bias Toward Contributing to Local Public Goods?
Cultural Effects / Calvin Blackwell & Michael McKee
- An Institutionalist Vision of a Good Economy / Janet Knoedler
& Geoffrey Schneider
- Marx and Engels’ Vision of a Better Society / Al Campbell
- Asset Prices and the Financial Crisis of 2007–09: An
Overview of Theories and Policies / Marc D. Hayford & Anastasios G.
Malliaris
- Securitization, Social Distance, and Financial Crises /David A.
Zalewski
Moneta e Credito, 63(251):
2010
Journal website: http://sead-pub.cilea.it/index.php/MonetaeCredito
PSL Quarterly Review,
63(254): 2010
Journal website: http://sead-pub.cilea.it/index.php/PSLQuarterlyReview
Mother Pelican, Nov. 2010
Mother Pelican is a journal on sustainable human development. It is
named in honor of the Human Being that "Mother Pelican" represents. The
November 2010 issue has been posted:
What is the Root Cause of Unsustainable Development?
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n11page1.html
Articles:
1. Editorial Opinion ~ The Root Cause of Unsustainable Development
2. The Economics of Natality, by Ina Praetorius
3. The Case for Working with our Cultural Values, by Tom Crompton
4. The First Woman Priest, by José Ignacio González Faus
5. Reducing Inequality: The Missing MDG, by Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
6. The Values of Everything, by George Monbiot
7. Reflections on Paying Living Wages, by Rita M. Rodriguez
8. Ecological Perspectives on Business Decision-Making, by Ilia Delio
9. Adam and Eve and the Gender Divide, by John R. Coates
Supplements:
1. Advances in Sustainable Development
2. Directory of Sustainable Development Resources
3. Sustainable Development Simulation (SDSIM) Version 1.2
Heterodox
Newsletters
CCPA: Oct.
2010
Website: http://www.policyalternatives.ca
Out
of Equilibrium: The Impact of EU-Canada Free Trade on the Real Economy,
by CCPA research associate Jim Stanford, models three scenarios to
provide a range of estimates regarding the likely impacts of EU-Canada
free trade. In every case, Canada's bilateral trade balance worsens
significantly. The simulations suggest an incremental loss of between
28,000 and 150,000 Canadian jobs. Click here
to read the full report.
Trish Hennessy and Stephen Dale put together an excellent outline of
the benefits of taxes in a report called The
Power of Taxes: The Case for Investing in Canadians. They show how
the public services that taxes pay for provide a bargain for Canadians,
how a fair tax system creates more social equity, and how good public
services attract business investments and create jobs. Click here
to download the report.
Development
Viewpoint: Oct. 2010
“Is
China’s Currency Substantially Undervalued?” by Duo Qin
Economic Sociology - the
European electronic newsletter, 12(1): Nov. 2010
Newsletter website: http://econsoc.mpifg.de/newsletter/newsletter_current.asp
- Credit Rating Agencies and the Global Financial Crisis by
Timothy J. Sinclair
- Amartya Sen's The Idea of Justice and Financial Regulation by
Daniel Mügge
- Elements of a Formal Sociology of the Financial Markets by
Andreas Langenohl
- Have the Media Made the Greek Crisis Worse? by Sonja Juko
- Transfer Union or Common Bond? On the Moral Economy of the
Eurozone by Nigel Dodd and Johannes Lenhard
- Analysis of Power Relations of Banks in Contemporary Society by
Miłos Zieliński
- Not so 'Mickey Mouse': Lessons in the Nature of Modern Money
from Complementary Monetary Innovations by Josh Ryan-Collins
- Grassroots Innovations for Sustainable Development by Jill
Seyfang, Adrian Smith and Noel Longhurst
- Book Reviews
- PhD Projects in Economic Sociology
Global Labour Column: Nov.
2010
IDEAs: Oct. 2010
website: www.networkideas.org
or www.ideaswebsite.org
Featured Articles
Alternatives
News Analysis
Events & Announcements
Levy
News: Oct. 2010
NEW PUBLICATIONS
News from Downunder (History
of Economic Thought Society of Australia)
(From Alex Millmow, President of the History of Economic Thought
Society of Australia)
We have some very good news to share with our HET colleagues around the
world.
Firstly, Emeritus Professor Peter Groenewegen of the University of
Sydney was announced as a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Society
of Australia partly for his meritorius work in the history of economic
thought. He joins a list of other distinguished Austrlain economists so
recognized.
Secondly, the Victorian Branch of the Economic Society of Australia
have for sale at a modest price of $AU15 a calender that celebrates 12
of the most famous diagrams in economics. The choice and the conception
of the calendar was the brainchild of Professors Robert Dixon and Peter
Lloyd, both of the University of Melbourne. The calendar is advertised
on the Economic Society of Australia website. It is likely to become a
collecter's piece for the HET afficianado.
Finally the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia 24th
annual conference will occur in the first week of July 2011 at RMIT
University in Melbourne. It will run from wednesday to friday in the
first week in July.It is being organized by Steve Kates from RMIT and
details by Steve on the two compelling themes of the conference
will be released soon. On the following Monday, the 11 of July the 40th
Annual Australian Conference of Economists, being organised by William
Coleman of the ANU will be held at the Australian National University
in Canberra.It will run till the 13th of July.
Overseas visitors will be able to attend if they wish two major
economic conferences in south eastern Australia within the space of 7
days, Canberra and Melbourne are only 45 minutes apart by air travel.
Both cities and their conference venues are extremely attractive.
Heterodox
Books and Book Series
Beyond
Inflation Targeting: Assessing the Impacts and Policy Alternatives
Edited by Gerald A. Epstein and A. Erinc Yeldan. Edward Elgar. Oct.
2010. Hardback 978 1 84720 938 2 | website
‘Inflation targeting (IT) has become the sacred cow of central
banking. But its suitability to developing nations remains contested.
The contributors to this volume perform the valuable service of
sketching out plausible, more development-friendly alternatives. They
are to be commended in particular for avoiding a one-size-fits-all
approach and paying close attention to the needs of specific countries.
Their proposals range from relatively minor tinkering in IT to
comprehensive overhaul. A common theme is the central role of the real
exchange rate, which the central banks ignore at their economies’
peril.’ – Dani Rodrik, Harvard University, US
Biofuels
and the Globalization of Risk: The Biggest Change in North-South
Relationships Since Colonialism?
By James Smith. Zed Books. Paperback ISBN: 9781848135727 £17.99 |
website
'This is a revolutionary body of work that analyses the allure of
biofuels from a global, historical and political perspective. Nuances
of why the global debate on biofuels, climate change, and sustainable
development have lost resonance with the livelihoods and local
perspective are explored. The question of whether the biofuel system
offers emerging economies, and local communities the opportunity of
being exigent from the colonial paradigm is probed.' - Professor Judi
Wakhungu, Director of the African Centre of Technology Studies
Cosmopolitanism
and Global Financial Reform: A Pragmatic Approach to the Tobin Tax
By James Brassett. May 27th 2010 by Routledge. Hardback:
978-0-415-55217-2 | Series in Routledge/RIPE
Studies in Global Political Economy | website
Acknowledgement of the ethical dimension of global finance is
commonplace in the wake of financial crises. The sub-prime crisis and
ensuing credit crunch are only the latest in a long run of global
financial crises that wreak social havoc and force us to...
Development,
Sexual Rights and Global Governance
By Amy Lind. January 4th 2010 by Routledge. Hardback: 978-0-415-77607-3
| Series in Routledge/RIPE
Studies in Global Political Economy | website
This book addresses how sexual practices and identities are imagined
and regulated through development discourses and within institutions of
global governance. The underlying premise of this volume is that the
global development industry plays a...
Gender and
Global Restructuring: Sightings, Sites and Resistances
Edited by Marianne H. Marchand, Anne Sisson Runyan. 2nd Edition. August
3rd 2010 by Routledge. Hardback: 978-0-415-77679-0 | Series in RIPE Series in
Global Political Economy | website
In this new edition of this best selling text, interdisciplinary
feminist experts from around the world provide new analyses of the
ongoing relationship between gender and neoliberal globalization under
the new imperialism in the post-9/11 context...
Global
Governance, Poverty and Inequality
Edited by Rorden Wilkinson, Jennifer Clapp. May 11th 2010 by Routledge.
Hardback: 978-0-415-78048-3 | Series in Global
Institutions | website
A series of crises unfolded in the latter part of the first decade of
the 21st Century which combined to exacerbate already profound
conditions of global economic inequality and poverty in the
world’s poorest countries. In 2007, the unsound lending...
The
Globalization of Motherhood: Deconstructions and reconstructions of
biology and care
Edited by Wendy Chavkin, JaneMaree Maher. June 24th 2010 by Routledge.
Hardback: 978-0-415-77894-7 | Series: Routledge
Research in Comparative Politics | website
The convergence of dramatic declines in birth rates worldwide, aside
from sub-Saharan Africa, the rise of untrammelled global movement of
capital, people and information, and the rapid-fire dissemination of a
host of new medical technologies has led to...
Governing
Climate Change
By Peter Newell, Harriet Bulkeley. February 26th 2010 by Routledge.
Hardback: 978-0-415-46768-1 | Series in Global
Institutions | website
Governing Climate Change provides a short and
accessible introduction to how climate change is governed by an
increasingly diverse range of actors, from civil society and market
actors to multilateral development banks, donors and cities. The issue
of...
Governing
Financial Services in the European Union: Banking, Securities and
Post-Trading
By Lucia Quaglia. February 22nd 2010 by Routledge. Hardback:
978-0-415-56418-2 | Series: Routledge/UACES
Contemporary European Studies | website
The global financial crisis that reached its peak in late 2008 has
brought the importance of financial services regulation and supervision
into the spotlight. This book examines the governance of financial
services in the EU, asking who governs...
Heterodox Macroeconomics:
Keynes, Marx and Globalization
Routledge. The paperback release, priced at $42.95 and available
January 13, 2011.
The book provides a timely, unique and current synthesis of the best
work by top heterodox scholars addressing today's most pressing
macroeconomic issues. The book analyzes:
- rising inequality, global financial instability, and
macroeconomic crisis; and,
- the perverse and pernicious neoliberal policy-making since 1980
that led to increased financial instability; and provides:
- a coherent, second wave synthesis of post-Keynesian and Marxian
macro theory; and,
- heterodox policy alternatives to neoliberal, free-market
policies.
The book is divided into four sections:
- Heterodox Macrotheory and a revised Keynes-Marx synthesis;
- Accumulation, Crisis and Instability;
- The Macrodynamics of the Neoliberal Regime;
- Contemporary Heterodox Macroeconomic Policies.
The book's twenty essays include theoretical, international,
historical, and country perspectives on financial fragility and
macroeconomic instability.
Heterodox Macroeconomics is an especially useful book for undergraduate
or graduate courses on globalization, economic crisis, modern Marxian
and post-Keynesian analysis and also for modern history of thought and
macroeconomics courses that consider heterodox perspectives.
This book brings together leading world heterodox scholars to make
sense out of these topics and to update heterodox macroeconomic theory.
Its papers build centrally on recent foundational heterodox macro
analyses and authors include: Gerald Epstein, Stephen Fazzari, Martin
Wolfson, Makato Itoh, Soo Haeng Kim, Raford Boddy, Gary Dymski,
Jonathan Goldstein, David Kotz, Fred Moseley, Ilene Grabel, Malcolm
Sawyer, Michele Naples, Bill Gibson and Michael Hillard.
More information about this book can be obtained from the
publisher’s website: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415778084/
If you have further questions about the book, please contact the
authors:
Jonathan Goldstein, Professor of
Economics, Bowdoin College
jgoldste@bowdoin.edu
207-725-3595.
Michael Hillard, Professor of Economics, University of Southern Maine
mhillard@maine.edu, 207-780-6409
(USA)
Routledge
Handbook of International Political Economy (IPE): IPE as a global
conversation
Edited by Mark Blyth. June 11th 2010 by Routledge. Paperback:
978-0-415-78141-1 | website
The study of the International Political Economy (IPE), like the IPE
itself, is plural and unbounded. Despite what partisans sometimes say,
rather than there being ‘one way’ of studying the IPE that
is the ‘right way’, we find across the world...
Marx's
Political Writings
New editions of Marx’s Political Writings, with a foreword by
Tariq Ali. Verso Books. ISBN: ISBN: 9781844676095 | website
Karl Marx was not only the great theorist of capitalism, he was also a
superb journalist, politician and historian. In these brand-new
editions of Marx’s Political Writings we are able to see the
depth and range of his mature work from 1848 through to the end of his
life, from The Communist Manifesto to The Class Struggles
in France and The Critique of the Gotha Programme.
The Making of a
Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate Power in the 21st Century
By William K. Carroll. Zed Books. Oct. 2010. ISBN:9781848134430
£24.99 | website
Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in
global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist
class, triggered by economic and political transformations that have
blurred national borders and disembedded corporate business from
national domiciles. Using social network analysis, William Carroll maps
the changing field of power generated by elite relations among the
world's largest corporations and related political organizations.
Carroll provides an in-depth analysis that spans the three decades of
the late 20th and early 21st century, when capitalist globalization
attained unprecedented momentum, propelled both by the
transnationalization of accumulation and by the political paradigm of
transnational neoliberalism. This has been an era in which national
governments have deregulated capital, international institutions such
as the World Trade Organization and the World Economic Forum have
gained prominence, and production and finance have become more fully
transnational, increasing the structural power of capital over
communities and workers.
Within this context of transformation, the book charts the making of a
transnational capitalist class, reaching beyond national forms of
capitalist class organization into a global field, but facing spirited
opposition from below in an ongoing struggle that is also a struggle
over alternative global futures.
The Myth of Development:
Non-Viable Economies and the Crisis of Civilization
By Oswaldo de Rivero. Zed Books. Oct. 2010. ISBN: 9781848135840
£16.99 | website
The message of this courageous classic book is that the benefits of
development, so long promised over the past sixty years, have not come
about for most people. Nor are they going to.
State-driven and market-led development models have both failed. Many
countries, and their cities in particular, are collapsing into
'ungovernable chaotic entities' under the control of warlords and
mafias. Oswaldo de Rivero argues that the 'wealth of nations' agenda
must be replaced by a 'survival of nations' agenda. In order to prevent
increasing human misery and political disorder, many countries must
abandon dreams of development and adopt instead a policy of national
survival based on providing basic water, food and energy, and
stabilizing their populations.
This much-anticipated new edition not only features updated figures and
statistics but also original new writing on the most essential new
issues for the development myth, including emerging economies, the
global economic crises, environmental issues and particularly, climate
change.
Population
and Development
By Meghana Nayak and Eric Selbin. Zed Books. Paperback ISBN:
9781842779606 £16.99 | website
'This is a bold and original book which places population change at the
centre of human development over the past 250 years. Written in a
highly accessible style, this book should be read by everyone
interested in the fundamental forces that have shaped the modern
world.' - John Cleland, Centre for Population Studies, London School of
Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
'What a systematic exposition of the linkages between population and
development! Dyson, through his life-long experience with strong
statistical evidences argues that no other force has greater
consequences for development than demographic transition as it
influences population aging, international migration and climate
change.' - Dr S Irudaya Rajan, Chair Professor, Ministry of Overseas
Indian Affairs Research Unit on International Migration, Centre for
Development Studies, Kerala, India
Ontology
and Economics: Tony Lawson and His Critics
Edited by Edward Fullbrook. Paperback: 978-0-415-54649-2: $44.95
– £23.50 | website | Series: Routledge
Advances in Heterodox Economics
This original book brings together some of the world's leading critics
of economics orthodoxy to debate Lawson's contribution to the economics
literature. The debate centres on ontology, which means enquiry into
the nature of what exists, and in this collection scholars such as
Bruce Caldwell, John Davis and Geoffrey Hodgson present their
thoughtful criticisms of Lawson's work while Lawson himself presents
his reactions.
"This collection of essays between Tony Lawson and his critics is an
important contribution to the ongoing critical discourse on ontology,
realism and heterodox economics..." -- Frederic S. Lee, University of
Missouri-Kansas City
Rosa
Luxemburg: Ideas in Action
By Paul
Frölich. Haymarket Books. September 2010.
ISBN: 9781608460748 | website
Written by a contemporary of (and sometime collaborator with) Rosa
Luxemburg with an intimate knowledge of the inner workings of the
German Social Democratic Party, this biography strikes the right
balance between personal insight and political analysis. Tracing Rosa
Luxemburg’s development from a humble Polish girl with a keen
interest in herding geese to the most important leader of the German
Communist Party, the image that emerges from Frölich’s
narrative is that of arguably the most remarkable woman ever produced
by the international socialist movement.
The
Politics of Combined and Uneven Development: The Theory of Permanent
Revolution
By Michael Löwy. Haymarket Books. September 2010. ISBN: 9781608460687 | website
Löwy’s book is the first attempt to analyze, in a systematic
way, how the theories of uneven and combined development, and of the
permanent revolution—inseparably linked—emerged in the
writings of thinkers such as Karl Marx and Leon Trotsky. Such radical
reflections permit us to understand modern economic development across
continents as a process of ferocious change, in which
“advanced” and “backward” elements fuse, come
into tension, and collide—and how the resulting ruptures make it
possible for the oppressed and exploited to change the world.
Savage
Economics: Wealth, Poverty and the Temporal Walls of Capitalism
By David L. Blaney, Naeem Inayatullah. January 4th 2010 by Routledge.
Hardback: 978-0-415-54847-2 |
Series in RIPE Series in
Global Political Economy | website
This innovative book challenges the most powerful and pervasive ideas
concerning political economy, international relations, and ethics in
the modern world. Rereading classical authors including Adam Smith,
James Steuart, Adam Ferguson, Hegel, and...
Zombie
Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx
By Chris Harman. Haymarket Books. September 2010.
ISBN: 9781608461042 | website
While for most mainstream commentators the financial crisis that opened
in 2007 signaled the failure of regulation and accountability, Chris
Harman describes the ongoing economic turmoil as a byproduct of
capitalism's inability to consider anything but the bottom line.
Heterodox
Book Reviews
Capitalism, Institutions,
and Economic Development
By Michael G. Heller. New York: Routledge, 2009. xx + 312 pp. $130
(hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-415-48259-2.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Brandon Dupont,
Department of Economics, Western Washington University. Read the review
here.
Them and Us: Changing
Britain – Why We Need a Fair Society
By Will Hutton, Little, Little, Brown & Company (30 Sep 2010).
ISBN: 978-1408701515. £20
Reviewed for Our Kingdom by William Davis. Nov.
3, 2010. Read the review here.
Marx and
Philosophy Review of Books
New reviews just published online in the
- Tom Angier on Habermas
- Tom Eyers on Badiou
- Nathan Coombs on green capitalism
- Jan Kandiyali on Michael Walzer
- Jamie Pitts on Christian anarchism
- Todd Mei on the metaphysics of capitalism
And a new list of books for review. All at www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/
RRPE Books
for Review
The Review of Radical Political Economics website has just
updated its list of books available for review. Please consider
contributing to the RRPE by submitting a book review. More information,
including a list of books as well as instructions for reviewers, is
here:
http://www.urpe.org/rrpe/reviews.htm. Please contact David Barkin,
RRPE Book Review Editor, for more information, barkin@correo.xoc.uam.mx
Heterodox Graduate
Programs and Scholarships
British
Academy Visiting Scholarships
The British Academy is pleased to announce a call for applications to
its Visiting Scholars scheme for the year 2011-12 . The scheme is
intended to enable overseas postdoctoral academics to come to the UK
for a period of between two and six months in order to carry out
research in a British institution.
The scheme is open to any scholar from outside the UK. Application must
be made in conjunction with a UK-based academic sponsor whose home
institution is willing to host the visit.
The closing date for applications is 8 December 2010, for visits to
take place after 1 May 2011. Results of the competition will be
announced in late March 2011.
For further information and how to apply see the Academy's website:
http://www.britac.ac.uk/funding/guide/intl/visfells.html
Uppsala
University: PhD Student Position in Critical Media/Communication Studies
Uppsala University hereby declares the following position to be open
for application:
PhD student position in Media and Communication Studies at the
Department of Informatics and Media as of January 1st, 2011.
The candidate is supposed to participate in the department’s
ongoing research in the field of web 2.0/social media/social networking
sites & economic online surveillance/Internet prosumer labour.
Therefore applicants with a solid background in the combination of the
following areas are solicited to apply: critical media and
communication studies, Critical Theory, critical political economy,
critical political economy of media, ICTs and communication; Internet
studies, surveillance and privacy studies, critical advertising and
consumer culture studies.
Qualifications: master’s degree (candidates with any suited
disciplinary and interdisciplinary background are welcome to apply),
excellent command of written and spoken English.
The application should include
a) an application form including a
copy of a degree certificate that proves the applicant’s
eligibility for studies at the research level in Media and
Communication Studies;
b) a CV;
c) a copy of the master thesis (additional works related to the
advertised position’s topic may also be included);
d) an outline of experience in and motivation for conducting research
in the advertised research field (minimum: 1000 words)
Education at the research level has a duration of five years, of which
the first year is financed with a scholarship (utbildningsbidrag) and
the four following years with employment as PhD candidate. PhD
candidates are expected to conduct their education at the research
level by working full time and by participating actively in the
activities of the department. Obligatory administrative and teaching
duties at the department may not exceed 20 % of full-time.
The application form and instructions in English are available from:
http://www.uppdok.uadm.uu.se/blanketter/BLfoant.pdf
http://www.uppdok.uadm.uu.se/blanketter/BLfo-enginstr.pdf
More information about PhD studies at Uppsala University and at the
Faculty of Social Sciences are available at:
http://www.uu.se/en/node76
http://www.doktorandhandboken.nu
(click on the link “English”)
http://info.uu.se/uadm/dokument.nsf/sidor/10CF35EB7132C99BC125721F004AA423?OpenDocument
http://regler.uu.se/
Uppsala University cannot cover travel and accommodation costs for
short-listed candidates, who are invited for a job interview. Uppsala
University is striving to promote equality through gender balance. The
majority of employees are men, so we encourage female applicants to
apply for positions. Information about the employment, Professor for
Media and Communication Studies: Christian Fuchs (christian.fuchs@im.uu.se):
+46 18 471 1019; Head of the Department and Professor Mats Edenius: +46
18 471 11 76. Representatives from the Union are: Anders
Grundström, Saco-rådet, tel. +46 18-471 53 80, Carin
Söderhäll, TCO/ST tel. +46 18-471 19 96 and Stefan
Djurström, Seko, tel. +46 18-471 33 15.
The application should be sent, not later than November 26, 2010,
preferably by e-mail to registrator@uu.se,
or by fax +46-184712000, or by mail to Registrar’s Office,
Uppsala University, Box 256, SE-751 05 UPPSALA, Sweden. In any
correspondence, please use the reference number UFV-PA 2010/2775.
Heterodox
Economists in the Media
Paging Doctor Bernanke
(Schmidt)
Article on why QE2 is misguided, suggesting an alternative stimulus
based on Abba Learner's functional finance (here).
Why Capital Controls Are Not
All Bad (Grabel and Chang)
By Ilene Grabel and Ha-Joon Chang, Published in the Financial
Times (
here) October 25 2010
Speculators deny rights to
the Hungry (Kaboub)
Letter to the Financial Times (
here) by Fadhel Kaboub. October 25, 2010
Queries
from Heterodox Economists
Call for Papers for a
Session on: Economics: Left, Right, or Wrong
Society for Socialist Studies (SSS)m Congress of the Humanities
and Social Sciences, 2011
University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University, Fredericton 01
June – 04 June 2010
For a long time, right-wing economics served the world’s
capitalists quite well as a means to justify their quest for profits
and as a toolbox for the management of capitalist economies. The crisis
that hit the world economy in 2008 proved this kind of economics wrong
on both accounts. Since then, left-wing economists, Keynesians and
Marxists, used their chance to say that they had been right with their
dire predictions about the future of capitalist accumulation,
particularly its neoliberal kind, all along. But they didn’t take
the time to ask why just a few people were interested in their
analyses. With the crisis in its third year, the demand for left-wing
economics is still limited. One might even wonder whether the crisis
was just a refreshing phase of creative destruction neoliberal
economics.
This workshop will investigate the reasons why demand for left-wing
economics is so low. Is there just a lack of supply? And if so, is this
because left-wing economists are largely barred from economics
departments and the media? Or is it because they still try to sell
yesteryears’ ideas instead of offering innovative Marxist and/or
Keynesian analysis? Or is there a lack of customers because most people
on the left decided to abandon economics for other fields of inquiry
and activism?
The workshop “Economics: Left, Right, or Wrong” invites
papers that speak to the aforementioned questions or contribute to the
re-invigoration of left-wing economics in any other way.
Contact:
Ingo Schmidt:
ingos@athabascau.ca
For Your
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Geoffrey
Harcourt is awarded the Veblen-Commons Award 2011
Professor Geoffrey Harcourt has been awarded the
Veblen-Commons Award. This is the highest academic honour given by the Association of
Evolutionary Economics. It is awarded to those who the Association
views as having “substantially advanced our understanding of how
economies actually work, in addition to insights that advance economic
theory.” In this regard, the Association deems
Geoff’s achievements to have been “monumental”.
There will be a lunch in Geoff’s honour at the forthcoming
Allied Social Sciences Association Meeting in Denver on 7 January,
2011, on which occasion he will deliver an address.
3rd
Buddhist Economics Platform Conference Postponed
With approval from the scientific committee, it is with sincere
regrets that I have decided that it is best to postpone the of the 3rd
Buddhist economics platform conference in Brisbane January 18-19, 2011.
While we had 16 high quality abstracts, the significant travel to
Australia for most participants is unlikely to be justified unless we
had a more complete program of papers.
I am very sorry for any inconvenience and the efforts that you made in
your abstracts and applications and I hope no-one suffers financially
from its postponement.
We will discuss options for a new date as soon as possible but it is
unlikely to be well into the second half of 2011.
My apologies again. Thank you for your support, it is greatly
appreciated.
Kind regards,
Peter
Dr. Peter Daniels
Environmental and Ecological Economics
Urban Research Program
Griffith School of Environment
Griffith University, Nathan 4111
Brisbane, AUSTRALIA
Phone: Australia 61-7-3735-7189
FAX: Australia 61-7-3735-7459
Email:
p.daniels@griffith.edu.au
Heterodox
Syllabi
From Al Campbell @URPE:
Last Spring (if I recall right!) I sent out a note to you all
asking for you to send me syllabi of courses you been teaching that
others might want to see to design their own courses (we used to have
this on the Web several years back, and it was very useful). I finally
got things from last Spring posted about a month and a half ago. As
some of you now are thinking about designing your courses for Spring,
you might want to check out the new material we got. There are about 40
new ones posted. From the front page of our site
www.urpe.org go to Resources ...., and
then you will see a link to Syllabi.
As you are now into this semester, some of you that finish up your
syllabi after the first few weeks of class may be able to send them. In
any case, if an anyone has new material from this Fall, or from last
Spring that they did not send to me, please send it and I will post
it. I will likely send out a very brief note asking for syllabi
at the beginning of next semester.
Note - we have 4 or 5 syllabi in SPANISH now, and we hope to be getting
more of those and posting them - so if you have a syllabus in Spanish,
please send that and I will post it.
Joseph Dorfman Best
Dissertation Award
Second and Final Call for Nominations
The History of Economics Society is accepting nominations for its
annual JOSEPH DORFMAN BEST DISSERTATION AWARD for dissertations in the
history of economic thought and economic methodology. In memory of
Joseph Dorfman, historian of economic thought and Distinguished Fellow
of the History of Economics Society, his family endowed a permanent
fund for the award. The winner will receive a stipend of $500 plus
travel expenses up to $500 to attend the presentation at the Society's
annual conference.
All dissertations in the history of economic thought and economic
methodology that are written in English and completed during the
previous academic year (September 2009 to August 2010) are eligible.
The selection committee considers only nominated dissertations. A list
of past recipients can be found at
http://historyofeconomics.org/Dorfman.cfm
.
The selection committee comprises Malcolm Rutherford (chair), Peter
Boettke, and James Ahiakpor. To nominate a dissertation for the award,
please notify Malcolm Rutherford (rutherfo@uvic.ca)
by December 15, 2010. Please also send a copy of the dissertation in
pdf form.
Joseph Dorfman Dissertation Prize
Malcolm Rutherford (Chair), University of Victoria, Canada
Peter Boettke, George Mason University
James Ahiakpor, California State University, East Bay
Documentary
Film: Dystopia: What is to be done?
Dystopia: What is to be done? is an hour long documentary film
available for free viewing and/or download and showing for educational
purposes on the website: www.DystopiaFilm.com.
It analyses a compendium of crises facing humanity - peak oil, climate
change, pollution, disease. poverty, terrorism, war etc. - in terms of
their complex causal inter-linkages and common framing and exacerbation
within the global world economy. The long time Marxist message that
humanity faces a choice between (eco)socialism and barbarism is given a
renewed urgency. The website in addition to the film contains a one
minute trailer, a resources page and information about the book of the
same title and it author.
Documentary Film: Robinson
in Ruins
Robinson in Ruins is the eagerly awaited sequel to Patrick
Keiller's earlier two films London
and Robinson
in Space. Narrated by Vanessa Redgrave, this cinematic essay
intriguingly blends fiction and documentary, taking us on a tour of the
English landscape against the backdrop of our current economic
predicament and looming environmental catastrophe...
References to the Captain Swing riots of 1830, Shelley, Marx, the opium
poppy fields of Oxfordshire and the war in Afghanistan all serve to
make this a timely, provocative film, studded with surreal humour.
Intellectually stimulating, mysterious and beautiful, Robinson in Ruins
makes us consider the world around us afresh. For more information and
to watch the trailer, visit bfi.org.uk/releases
Kick it Over Manifesto
An international student movement to
free the economics curriculum from its neoclassical straightjacket was
launched last week at the University of California at Berkeley. For its
first action, students worldwide are being encouraged to post the
following manifesto, preferably printed on brightly coloured paper, on
the doors and bulletin boards of their univeristy’s economics
department.
The
Handbook for Economics Lecturers
Website: http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/handbook/
Section 1: Teaching
Editor: Peter Davies
Section 2: Assessment
Editors: John Houston and David Whigham
Section 3: Course Design
Editor: David Newlands
Section 4: Evaluation
Editor: David Newlands
Teaching Assistants
The Nobel family dissociates
itself from the economics prize
From Real-World
Economics Review Blog, Oct. 22, 2010
On October 11th Peter Nobel, a lawyer and descendent of
Alfred Nobel, issued a statement dissociating the Nobel family from the
so called Nobel prize in economics. Below is my translation of
Nobel’s statement.
The Economics Prize in memory of Alfred Nobel should be
criticised on two grounds. First, it is a deceptive utilisation of the
institution of the Nobel Prize and what it represents. Second, the
economics prize is biased, in the sense that it one-sidedly rewards
Western economic research and theory.
Alfred Nobel’s testament was not a hasty piece of work. It
was a carefully thought out document. Also, Alfred Nobel’s
letters suggest that he disliked economists.
The proposal of a Riksbank [central bank] prize “in memory
of Alfred Nobel” was discussed by the Nobel Foundation on April
26, 1968. Professor Sten Friberg, rector of the Karolinska Institute,
opposed the idea. The Nobel committee of the Norwegian parliament
[which selects the peace prize candidate] expressed serious misgivings.
But a rapid decision was expected, apparently under pressure. Why?
Riksbanken’s chief Per Åsbrink had close contacts within
the government, and for the Nobel Foundation it was vitally important
to conserve its tax privileges.
What was the position of the Nobel family? Three days before the
meeting of April 26, the then director of the Nobel Foundation, Nils
Ståhle, met two members of the family and telephonically talked
with a third one. Their position was that “it should not become
like a sixth Nobel Prize”, but that if the economics prize could
be kept clearly separate from the Nobel Prizes then it might be an
acceptable idea. On May 10, Ståhle and the president of the Nobel
Foundation, von Euler, visited the family’s eldest, Martha Nobel,
then 87 years old — with severely impaired hearing but
intellectually in good form. They obtained her written approval of the
economics prize “under given conditions,” namely that the
new prize in all official documents and statements should be kept
separated from the Nobel prize, and called the “prize in economic
science in memory of Alfred Nobel.”
In a telephonic conversation with a nephew, Martha Nobel said
that the whole thing was prearranged and impossible to oppose, so that
one could only hope that they would keep their pledge that no confusion
with the real Noble prize should occur. There was no approval from the
Nobel family as a whole. We were informed only much later.
What has happened is an unparalleled example of successful
trademark infringement. However, nobody in the world can prevent
journalists, economists and the general public from talking about the
“Nobel prize in economics,” with all its connotations. That
is why, in the name of decency and in order to honour Alfred
Nobel’s memory, this bank prize in his memory should be given on
a different occasion than the Nobel day [a day of ceremonies
headed by the king].
With no knowledge of economics, I have no opinions about the
individual economics prize winners. But something must be wrong when
all economics prizes except two were given to Western economists, whose
research and conclusions are based on the course of events there, and
under their influence. I can imagine Alfred Nobel’s sarcastic
comments if he were able to hear about these prize winners. Above all
else, he wanted his prizes to go to those who have been most beneficial
to humankind, all of humankind!
URPE 2009
Programme with video and audio links online
Why France Matters Here Too
(article by R. Wolff)
"For many weeks now, the historic social change sweeping across
France has drawn increasing attention globally. It should. A genuine,
mass democratic upsurge has surprised all those who thought, hoped, or
feared that such things could no longer happen in countries like France
or the US."
Full article is published in the
Monthly Review (
here).