From the Editors
I [TJ] attended the ASSA meeting in Denver a
couple of weeks ago. It was nice to see many friends and colleagues. As
always, there were many interesting sessions and events organized by
heterodox associations. Not surprisingly, many sessions were devoted to
the analysis of financial crisis and policy from various heterodox
perspectives (and yet I wanted to listen to more theoretical issues).
Those who attended the Meeting might notice that someone from the ASSA
administration was counting heads in every session. That was for the
sake of allocating sessions for participating associations. Simply
speaking, if there are not many people (except presenters, a moderator,
and discussants in the conference program) at the heterodox sessions,
the number of sessions allocated to heterodox associations will be
decreasing next year. This is a quite absurd policy. For example, as an
URPE member (among others), I feel compelled to go to URPE sessions in
order not to lose any, despite the fact I might prefer a competing
heterodox session (or perhaps, sessions organized by non-heterodox
associations). Heterodox associations might work closer together when
they are organizing ASSA sessions. Perhaps, they can put similar
sessions in different time slots, reduce the number of discussants
appearing in the conference program, or assign a moderator from one of
presenters/discussants, etc. And of course I hope to see more heterodox
crowds at the next ASSA meeting (see below the calls for papers by ASE
and URPE).
Lastly, we are glad to announce that the new edition of the Heterodox
Economics Directory has been published. You can download it here.
Happy New Year!
Tae-Hee Jo and Ted Schmidt, Editors
Email: heterodoxnews@gmail.com
Website: http://heterodoxnews.com
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Table of Contents
Call
for Papers
Call for Participants
Job Postings for Heterodox Economists
Conference Papers, Reports, and Articles
Heterodox Journals
Affinities:
Journal of Radical Theory, Culture and Action, 4(2): 2010
The
American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 70(1): January 2011
Cambridge Journal of Economics, 35(1): January 2011
Challenge, 54(1): January-February 2011
The Commoner,
14: Winter 2010
Economic Systems Research, 22(3): September 2010
Economic Systems Research, 22(4): December 2010
International
Socialism, 129: January 2011
Intervention.
European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies
Moneta e
Credito, 63(252): 2010
Mother
Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development, 7(1): Jan. 2011
Metroeconomica, 62(1): Feb. 2011
PSL Quarterly
Review, 63(255): 201
Review of Political Economy, 22(4): October 2010
Review of
Political Economy, 23(1): January 2011
Heterodox Newsletters
Heterodox Books and Book Series
Heterodox Book Reviews
Heterodox
Graduate Programs and Scholarships
Heterodox Web Sites and Associates
Queries
from Heterodox Economists
For Your Information
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Call for Papers
ASE
(Association for Social Economics) at ASSA 2012
Chicago, USA | Jan. 6-8, 2012
“The economics of social
responsibility”
The concept of social responsibility holds that individuals,
communities, businesses, and governments should consider the
consequences of their actions for others -- avoiding behaviors that
limit the options or erode the wellbeing of others, and favoring those
which enhance them. Examples of important SR initiatives include:
Corporate Social Responsibility, Socially Responsible Investment,
Social Enterprises, microfinance, Socially Responsible Lending,
sustainable banking and finance, ethical and sustainable consumption,
local- and organic-food sourcing, fair-trade supply chains, sweat-free
labor standards, and ‘green sourcing’ by businesses and
governments. Issues of social responsibility have been little studied
in economics, despite their obvious theoretical, empirical and policy
interest.
For the ASE sessions at the 2012 ASSA meetings, we welcome proposals
for papers on all aspects of the economics of social responsibility.
Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Foundations of SR in theories of ethics and social justice
- Theories of business and individual behaviors as guided by
self-interest, pro-social motives, and social norms
- Identifying what prompts businesses, consumers, industry groups,
local governments, and other groups to voluntarily modify their
behaviors to incorporate SR concerns
- Evidence on the impact of SR -- e.g. for slowing environmental
degradation, building sustainable communities, improving livelihoods
and capabilities of disadvantaged groups, etc.
- Effects of SR on business performance: Profits, productivity,
employment, compensation
- Skeptical views: Is SR is “all talk and little
action”?
- Comparisons of private pro-social initiatives vs. government
actions as means of advancing social welfare
- Social & ethical responsibilities of the economics
profession -- in research, policy-making, and the classroom
- Submissions
The deadline for proposals is April 30, 2011. All proposals
should include: paper title, abstract of up 250 words, authors’
names and institutional affiliations, and contact info for the
corresponding author, including email address. Proposals for complete
sessions are also welcome. Submissions should be sent to Martha Starr,
ASE President-elect, at mstarr@american.edu.
Individuals whose papers are accepted for presentation must either be
or become members of the Association for Social Economics no later than
July 1, 2011, in order for the paper to be included in the program.
Membership information can be found at www.socialeconomics.org.
All papers presented at the ASSA meetings are eligible for the Warren
Samuels Prize, awarded to the best paper that advances the goals of
social economics and has widespread appeal. Papers can also be
considered for a special P&P issue of the Forum for Social
Economics. Details of these opportunities will be sent to authors of
accepted papers.
For further information, visit the ASE
website.
The
Commoner: Property, Commoning and Commons
Call for Contributions
In legal and philosophical terms the organisation of a commons is
encoded into property protocols, which structure its use, access and
decision-making rights and responsibilities. Property, then, is central
to debates about commons and commoning: how do commoners relate to each
other with regard to a given resource and how is a commons defined
vis-a- vis the rest of the world?
As discussed in Volume 1, property relations are not only exclusive,
private property rights as instantiated within capitalist democracy (a
particular conception of property). As a jurisprudential concept,
property can be used to understand, analyse, reflect upon and organise
social relations with regard to things in any context (the general
conception of property). The conflation of the general with the
particular conceals the historical and anthropological fact that
property can be and is understood (very) differently and hence
consolidates existing property regimes.
The purpose of this two volume Special Issue is to instigate further
debate about property, commoning and commons. The call for
contributions to the second volume continues on page two, following
details about the first volume.
Download Call for Contributions.
Conference
of North American and Cuban Philosophers and Social Scientists
June 14 through 26, 2011 in Havana, Cuba
Open to scholars from all disciplines, this 12 day trip will allow you
to contact professional counterparts, experience Cuban reality, and
pursue your academic research agenda in the company of fellow scholars.
The RESEARCH NETWORK IN CUBA will convene June 14 through 26, 2011 in
Havana, Cuba. The intent is to assist in helping you conduct
investigations of Cuban society by connecting you with Cuban
specialists and organizations who share your interests. You will
participate in the 22nd CONFERENCE OF NORTH AMERICAN AND CUBAN
PHILOSOPHERS AND SOCIAL SCIENTISTS to be held at the University of
Havana, June 20 through 24.
We invite you to propose a paper to be presented at the Conference.
Cuban organizers will make every effort to pair your paper with one on
a similar topic by a Cuban scholar. Topics are wide open and inclusive.
But we are especially interested in receiving papers in the areas of:
- 21st Century Socialism, the Socialist Transition, Market and
Plan
- Democracy, Social Justice, Participation
- Sustainable Agriculture, Organic & Green, Local Development,
Food Security
- Cooperatives, Self Management
- Globalization, Neo-liberalism, Nation-state, Transnational
Capital
- National Identity, Transculturation, Multi-culturalism
- Imperialism at Home and Abroad
Submit a 1 to 2 page abstract.
LICENSE: The U.S. government severely restricts travel to Cuba, but
research scholars may travel legally under a general license. GRADUATE
STUDENTS can obtain specific licenses to do research related to their
graduate work.
COST: Approximately $1500 for a basic 12 day stay in Havana. This
includes double hotel occupancy, breakfast, translation during
conference and tours, and all group activities. Airfare is not included.
2011 DEADLINES:
- May 2 completed papers
- May 2 completed applications
Additional information at www.cubaconference.org
or by email to Cliff DuRand at cliff@globaljusticecenter.org
Critical Political Economy
Research Network at ESA
7-10 September 2011, Geneva, Switzerland
Sessions organised by the
Critical
Political Economy Research Network of the European Sociological
Association at the
10TH ESA Conference
Conference theme:
‘Social relations in
turbulent times’. Critical Political Economy sessions theme:
‘Varieties of capitalism in crisis?’
The continued fall-out from the economic crisis has led to continuous
debate about the impact of this systemic shock to the world economy.
For instance, evidence could be amassed to support or refute the
argument that it has had a significant impact on the future of
capitalist diversity. On the one hand, it has generated common systemic
pressures everywhere – the most salient being the recurrent
fiscal crises of different national states – but on the other,
there have been important differences in the national responses to the
crisis – compare for example Germany and the United States.
In the field of political economy, a much-discussed approach has been
the varieties of capitalism literature. Conceived here as wider than
just the paradigmatic Varieties of Capitalism framework and inclusive
of a general institutionalist orientation when studying national
political economies, a weakness in this work has been the low priority
placed on the wider social relations which institutions are inevitably
part of. Therefore, although much progress has been made in the past 15
years, the ability of the varieties of capitalism literature to account
for the developments of the past few years – and thus its more
general explanatory capacity – is open to question.
As such, the phrase ‘Varieties of capitalism in crisis?’
has two distinct but connected meanings. For this reason, the CPE RN is
interested in receiving abstracts which consider the evolution of
empirical capitalisms – we expect our sessions to focus on but
not be exclusively concerned with Europe, be it at the national,
regional or supranational level – and/or conceptual issues
related to the study of capitalist diversity. We seek contributions
from scholars with an interest in political economy research, whatever
their disciplinary affiliation (sociology, political science,
economics, geography, anthropology, ethnology, development studies,
area studies, history, etc.). Hence we aim to attract a diverse range
of junior and senior researchers, from postgraduate students to
professors.
NETWORK OVERVIEW: The network was established in 2005 as a platform to
promote and facilitate research aimed at understanding recent
transformations of capitalism and capitalist societies in the European
Union and Europe. Its purpose is to reassert political economy
perspectives in European social science, and to promote critical and
emancipatory scholarship. We are avowedly interdisciplinary in our
outlook, and seek to bring together researchers employing a range of
critical political economy perspectives.
Defense and Realms
April 14-15, 2011 | ENSTA-Bretagne, France
Hosted by: ENSTA-Bretagne (ENSIETA) and the University of Western
Brittany (UBO)
Venue: ENSIETA Campus, Brest, France
The purpose of this conference is to identify the consequences of
on-going transformations on the “realms of defense”, which
are both its local footprints and the transformations of defense as a
social construct.
Indeed, since the 1990s, relations between the players in the world of
defense have been changing because of geo-strategic transformations,
spatial reorganization, budgetary trends as well as evolutions within
the production of defense per se, which have disrupted its economic and
social fabric. These evolutions widen the
scope of industrial activities and modify the organization of relations
between armed forces, firms and local economies as well as the society.
As a result, it is necessary to evaluate and reassess defense and its
missions through a thorough approach. The nature of armed forces’
missions tends to evolve, resulting in a double movement of
“spatial unbundling” and globalization of their missions.
There are also evolutions in the public/private boundaries as a
consequence of policy choices, administrative reforms and the search
for greater organizational efficiency (resulting from technological
change, increasing role of Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO), rise
of dual services...). These mutations deeply affect the footprints of
defense in several dimensions and it is therefore useful to analyze
such changes and their impacts on local communities, the public/private
boundaries and evolving requirements of armed forces.
This conference aims at reconsidering the interactions between defense
and its stakeholders. It represents an opportunity for economists,
political scientists and other researchers in social sciences from
around the world to share ideas and discuss the future developments in
different fields of research, notably:
- Economic and social impacts of defense activities on local
economies
- Procurement policies and public finance
- Public-private partnerships and the emergence of services-based
solutions
- Evolution of the public/private, defense/security boundaries
- Economic and social impacts of military transformation and
innovation
- Military recruitment and military bases
- Spatial structuring of defense needs
- Geographic patterns of defense needs
- Geopolitical issues on defense
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Call for Papers.
Development and
Commodification in Latin America: Limits and Possibilities
Friday, May 6, 2011 |
Conference website
Hosted by Johns Hopkins University Program in Latin American Studies
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Fernando Coronil, (CUNY-Graduate Center)
Development projects in Latin America, no matter the scope or scale,
have entailed processes of commodification in which particular modes of
governance and economic strategies are subsumed to the logic of the
market. While processes of commodification are premised on the
conversion of use-value into exchange-value, the practical life of
these processes can illustrate the limits as well as the unexpected
possibilities of this conversion. In the region, resource privatization
schemes have unwittingly cast light on the embeddedness of goods and
services in human as well as market relations. Likewise, alongside the
implementation of development projects, claims to and about biological
material and knowledge as well as the emergence of different modes of
commerce of bodies, sex and desire, regularly re-draw the boundaries
between nature and culture, private and public, and North and South.
For its spring 2011 conference, the Program in Latin American Studies
at Johns Hopkins University invites papers from across the social
sciences and humanities to reflect on the limits and possibilities of
the different articulations between (and representations of)
development and commodification in Latin America. We invite papers to
address these matters from a variety of perspectives that are suggested
(but not exhausted) by the following questions:
- In what ways can we think of the state as both the object and
source of commodification?
- Is it possible to promote development goals that do not rely on
commodification?
- In what ways could we say that there is something (anything?)
different about the role of commodification in neo-liberal capitalism
as practiced in the region?
- The economic logic of accumulation notwithstanding, what is so
powerful or even magical about the process of commodification?
- In what ways does Latin America play a particular role in
transnational markets that entail the commodification of the body?
- How do local economies emerge around sex and medical tourism and
trafficking? How do these economies articulate with the politics and
erotics of race?
- How are processes of commodification productive of new forms of
political subjectivity and community?
- How are development strategies and projects interiorized in
people’s beliefs and how do they crystallize in everyday
practices?
- What visions of the future or reflections on the past are
produced by development projects?
- What practices of memory and/or fictionalization challenge these
discourses?
- How are different sites (spaces, places) of development
conceived and inhabited? In what senses can the act of inhabiting
constitute a challenge to development projects?
Please send title and a brief abstract
(200 words) indicating the applicant’s academic status,
affiliation and contact information, by February 4, 2011 to jhuplas@gmail.com
Dynamic
Growth in the Economic and Monetary Union
12 and 13 July 2011 | Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Organized by the Strategic Programming Unit (UPS) and the Department of
Political Economy and Taxation
(ECD) of the Committee on Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU).
The deadline for receipt of proposals is: April 2, 2011
Themes of the Symposium
- Review of growth in the WAEMU: stylized facts, consensus, debate
- Determinants of growth in the WAEMU
- Monetary Policy, Inflation and Growth in the WAEMU zone, ECOWAS
and CEMAC
- The optimality of WAEMU and CEMAC
- From diagnosis to prescription: how different strategies for
growth?
with a copy simultaneously to Mr. Kako NUBUKPO (
knubukpo@uemoa.int ) and Mr
Laurent MATHIEU (
lmathieu@uemoa.int
)
EAEPE-AISSEC
Session on the Policy Issues Facing The European Monetary Union
The 2011 AISSEC Conference in Macerata (Italy; June 23-25) will host a
joint AISSEC-EAEPE
session on The Policy Issues Facing The European Monetary Union.
The aim of the session is to focus on the policy issues that the
present crisis of the European
Monetary Union brings to the fore. It is less concerned with a full
fledged policy agenda than with
a discussion of the problems that underlie the identification of such
an agenda. Papers dealing with
any specific issue that relates to this theme are welcome.
Submission of abstracts:
Please send a 600-700 word abstract to Paolo Ramazzotti, local
organizer of the joint session
(ramazzotti@unimc.it) by
February 7, 2011.
The abstract should clearly mention:
- title of the paper
- reference to the joint session
- name of the author(s) and full address of the corresponding
author (postal address, phone, fax and email)
- the aim of the study and methodology
- (expected) results and/or conclusion
- up to 5 keywords.
Important deadlines for this session only:
- Deadline for abstract submission: February 7, 2011
- Notification for abstract acceptance: February 28, 2011
- Deadline for paper submission: May 23, 2011
- Registration of authors: May 31, 2011
The conference fee, if paid before May 31, is € 50 Euro for junior
participants (up to 35 years
old) and € 120 for all the others. After May 31 the fee is
€60 for junior participants (up to 35 years
old) and €130 for all the others. The fee includes the biennial
membership of AISSEC, all the
conference materials, catering (lunch and coffee breaks). In order to
be included in the program,
registration fees of at least one of the authors of accepted papers
should be paid before 31 May
2011.
Further details on the conference and on Macerata can be found on the
AISSEC Conference
website:
http://www.unimc.it/aissec2011
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Call for Papers
European Society for History
of Economic Thought (ESHET) Conference in Mexico
México City | 9 to 12 November 2011 |
Website
"From colonial empires to globalization: history
of economic thought approaches"
Suggested Themes:
Mercantilism and colonial development; America silver and the flows of
precious metals; Classical political economy and the break up of the
colonial order; Free trade and primary commodities export; Liberalism
and Nationalism in Latin America; Nationalisms and heterodoxy; The
theory of development at CEPAL.; The Marxist Heritage in Latin America;
Import substitution and development; the Keynesian tradition in Latin
America; Dates on the transformation of the financial system;
Mainstream and heterodox economics in Latin Americ; The economics of
Latin America, debates and interpretations; Alternative theories of
economic development.
An abstract of about 400 words for a paper and about 600 words for a
session should be submitted at the latest by 1st of June 2011. The
final version of the accepted papers should be sent at the latest by
1st September 2011. Six travelling grants will be made available to the
authors of papers selected by the Scientific Committee.
Send paper proposals and any question on the Conference to: eshetmexico@economia.unam.mx
A selection of the papers presented at the conference will be
published in a volume.
Scientific Committee
Juan Pablo Arroyo, (Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México); José Luis Cardoso
(Universidade de Lisboa); Annie Cot (Universitè de Paris I);
Harald Hagemann (Universitat Hohenheim, Stuttgart); Leonor Ludlow
(Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Maria Cristina
Marcuzzo (Università di Roma “La Sapienza”);
María Eugenia Romero Sotelo, (Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México)
History of Economic Thought
Society of Australia (HETSA) Conference
Melbourne 5-8 July 2011 | RMIT Uniersity, Melbourne, Australia
This is the second call for papers for the Twenty-Fourth
Conference of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia
which is being hosted by the School of Economics, Finance and Marketing
in the College of Business at Melbourne’s RMIT University. RMIT
is one of Australia’s oldest universities and is situated in
thevery centre of the city. The Conference will be heldfrom 5-8 July
2011 in RMIT’s historic Emily Macpherson Building.
There will be two themes in this conference, the first being the role
of the history of economics within economics itself and then, secondly,
a Retrospective and Prospective on Keynes to commemorate the 75th
anniversary of the publication of his General Theory in 1936. But as
with every HETSA Conference, papers on every area in the history of
economics are sought and welcomed.
We are very pleased that the distinguished Keynesian scholar and
immediate past President of the European History of Economics
Association, Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, will give the keynote address.
The formal deadline for submission of abstracts is March 2011.
The conference website can be viewed on the HETSA website at:
www.hetsa.org.au
International
Conference on International Business (ICIB)
19-21 May 2011 | University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
Dear colleague,
You are invited to participate in the International Conference on
International Business (ICIB) 2011, which will be held at the
University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. ICIB 2011 aims to bring
together academics and practitioners in order to share ideas and
methods for the exploration of foreign direct investment (FDI), the
role of multinational corporations (MNCs) and the complexity of the
globalized business environment.
ICIB 2011 will take place on 19-21 May 2011 and will be organized in
parallel sessions of English and Greek. ICIB 2011 will focus on –
but not limited to –research in the following fields:
- Entrepreneurship and international business environment
- European Union enlargement
- Financial management
- Global budgetary crisis management by the European Union
institutions
- Globalization, MNCs, competitiveness and development
- Labour economics and industrial relations
- MNCs and political strategies
- Mergers & Acquisitions
- Impact and determinants of FDI
- FDI and European economic integration
- FDI, trade and regional integration
- FDI and transition
- Tourism – enterprise and industry
ICIB 2011 is supported by a number of participating journals and
follows a specific publication procedure. The conference program will
be developed after the deadline for submission abstracts/summaries: 15
April 2011.
For further information please refer to
www.icib.eu.
Yours sincerely,
John Marangos
On behalf of the organizing and scientific committee.
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Call for Papers.
International Journal of
Applied Behavioral Economics
The Editors-in-Chief of the International Journal of Applied
Behavioral Economics (IJABE) would like to invite you to consider
submitting a manuscript for inclusion in this scholarly journal. The
following describes the mission, coverage, and guidelines for
submission to IJABE.
Mission
The mission of the IJABE is to examine the main applications of
Behavioral Economics in business and organizations, both in classical
terms as well as influenced by digitalization and new technologies.
Behavioral Economics arises from research that shows human boundary
rationality and failures in acting in
“self”—interest, loss aversion, among
others—influence the making of economic choices and decisions.
Despite the importance of an interdisciplinary perspective, the
practical applications of this research are not well represented. The
journal promotes papers that show a direct link between Behavioral
Economics and concrete, practical applications at a business and
organizational level, with a special focus on the effects of technology
implementation and usage on economic agents’ perception,
behavior, and decision-making processes. For this purpose, the journal
serves as a distribution channel for research that contributes to
theory and practice development in this knowledge domain.
IJABE is a new journal and is also seeking editors. More
information can be found on their website
here.
International Journal of
Contemporary Sociology
Special Issue On “
Twenty-First Century
America In Crisis: Meltdown Or Transformation?”
Submission Deadline: August 31, 2011
Twenty-first century America is clearly in a state of crisis: neither
the government nor the economy are effective while many social
institutions remain highly problematic. Political gridlock, strident
campaigns, a major economic recession combined with persistent
unemployment, an ongoing housing crisis as well as educational,
family-related, religious, healthcare and justice declines represent
but a few of the highly visible symptoms. What do such developments
reflect and what do they portend for the future? Do these trends
indicate a national meltdown or a country in the process of
transformation in the global context?
This special issue of the Journal is designed to expose readers to a
wide variety of these trends, both historical and contemporary,
exploring major factors behind them, their future impact, and possible
policy implications. Planned topics include the analysis of such trends
regarding political ineffectiveness at all levels, the emergence of new
social movements, financial deterioration in the context of a world
market, the failure of education, problems regarding healthcare, the
justice system, the changing impact of the national media, and new
levels/types of poverty and homelessness among others. Exploration of
past and current trends, unique developments, directions of possible
change, and the long-term effects on traditional institutions is
particularly encouraged, interpreting them in reference to either
long-term national decline or emerging transformation in response to a
changing global environment.
You are invited to participate in this endeavor. If you accept our
invitation, you are asked to focus on a specific trends and related
factors, explore these in detail regarding their development and future
societal impact, evaluating the kinds of societal effects which might
consequently ensue. We are particularly concerned with developing new
and relevant insights into this highly topical area.
Your participation in this project is invited. If for some reason you
cannot accept our invitation, please suggest someone who might and/or
distribute this invitation to other potential contributors. The present
deadline for submitting manuscripts is August 31, 2011. For
International Journal of Contemporary Sociology’s Author’s
Instructions, please visit the Journal’s web site at:
http://cla-web.auburn.edu/ijcs/index.html
If you are unable to access this information, please let us know and we
will forward it to you as soon as possible.
IIPPE Conference 2011
Neoliberalism and the Crises of Economic Science
May 20-22, 2011, Istanbul University, Beyazit
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(On line
submission on http://www.iippe.org/wiki).
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.
Hosted by Turkish Social Sciences Association (TSSA) and
Istanbul University Research Center for Global Politics and
Administration (GLOPAR)
Download Call for Papers.
Korean
Association for Political Economy (KAPE) 2011 International Conference
Global Economic Crisis and Innovation of Economics
April 14-15, 2011 | Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea
The conference aims at exploring a wide range of topics on the economic
crisis (past or present), and the ways to innovate economics whose
necessity is felt most seriously at the current crisis. Concerning the
latter, it features a variety of heterodox alternatives to mainstream
economics, including Marxist, institutional, post-Keynesian, Sraffian,
and Regulationist approaches.
We are very pleased to announce that a number of distinguished scholars
from around the world have already confirmed to speak at the
conference. They include:
- Kaneko Masaru(Keio University, Japan)
- Marc Lavoie (University of Ottawa, Canada)
- Meng Jie (Renmin University, China)
- Neri Salvadori (University of Pisa, Italy)
- Pagano Uno (University of Siena, Italy)
- Pascal Petit (Paris 13th University, France)
- Peter Skott (University of Massachusetts, US)
- Riccardo Bellofiore (University of Bergamo, Italy)
- Samuel Bowles (Santa Fe Institute, US)
- Uni Hiroyuki(Kyoto University, Japan)
Papers concerning any aspects of political economy, as well as the
above themes, are welcome. Abstracts of approximately 500 words should
be sent to jkchoi@knu.ac.kr by February 15, 2011.
Registration fees are $50 USD (registration only), or $300 USD
(registration, accommodation and meals for the conference period).
If you have any further questions on the conference, please do not
hesitate to contact us at jkchoi@knu.ac.kr.
Left Forum
Left Forum has extended the panel submission deadline from its current
date of January 15th, to
February 5th. For those panel
organizers who have submitted only partial panel information online, we
ask you to complete your proposals now. For example, if you have not
yet filled in all the speakers’ names, please do so and obtain
confirmations right away.
For those of you who have just written in with ideas for panels, please
transform those ideas into an online panel submission right away. As
the conference organizing crunch time is upon us, prompt completion of
your panel proposals is imperative.
For those who have not submitted you panel proposals yet, please follow
this link to the Left Forum website:
submit or update
panels.
For those of you who have encountered difficulties submitting online,
please either write to us at
panels@leftforum.org,
or call us at the number below and we will work with you to resolve the
problems.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference.
Seth Adler
Conference Coordinator
212 817 2003/2002
Marxism and
Culture (Call for Book Proposals)
Pluto Press
Call for Book Proposals
The Marxism and Culture series aims to revive, renew and develop
Marxism as an emancipatory tool for analyzing media and cultural
practices within capitalism and class society. During the 1990s Marxism
got bashed; it was especially easily mocked once its ‘actually
existing’ socialist version was toppled with the fall of the
Berlin Wall. Postmodernism made Marxism a dirty word, and class
struggle a dirty thought and even dirtier deed. But those days that
consigned Marxism to history themselves now seem historical. The crash
of neo-liberalism in a now global economy has trashed many so-called
certainties about the superiority of capitalism. A new spirit of
critical questioning is emergent in the context of a crisis that is
political, economic, social, cultural and ecological.
Marxism, however critically its inheritance is viewed, cannot be
overlooked by the increasing numbers who make efforts to provide an
analysis and a consequent practice. Our series is dedicated to
exploring both Marxist methodologies and the role of culture in this
situation, from the mass media to the avant-garde. Culture is the
contested terrain on which we imagine alternative models of social
being and critically decode the ways we remain tied, by habits and
perspectives, values and emotions, to the horizon of capital. We
welcome proposals that contribute to the understanding of our urgent
situation through the prism of culture.
Books published in the series so far:
- Marxism and Media Studies: Key Concepts and Contemporary Trends
- Mike Wayne
- Philosophizing the Everyday, The Philosophy of Praxis and the
Fate of Cultural Studies - John Roberts
- Marxism and the History of Art, from William Morris to the New
Left - Andrew Hemingway (ed)
- Red Planets, Marxism and Science Fiction - Mark Bould &
China Mieville
- Dark Matter, Art and Politics in the Age of Enterprise Culture ,
Gregory Scholette
- Magical Marxism, Subversive Politics and the Imagination, Andy
Merrifield
Series Editors
NYC
Historical Materialism Conference
New School for Social Research, New York City | May 6-8th 2011
Information will be posted at www.hmny.org
Inquiries can be directed to organizers@hmny.org
Radical Democracy Conference
April 4 – 5, 2011 | New York, NY
Paper Abstracts Submission Deadline: January 31
Notification Date: February 18
Full Papers Deadline: March 21
The Department of Politics at The New School for Social Research, in
collaboration with the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society
at Columbia University, is sponsoring a two-day graduate student
conference interrogating the concept, history, and implications of
radical democracy. Striving to assess the legacy of antiquity on
contemporary radical democratic theory, as well as explore the work of
contemporary theorists such as Abensour, Arendt, Castoriadis, Mouffe,
Negri, Ranciere, and Wolin, we invite you to submit abstracts on any
theme pertaining to the history, meaning, development and application,
or critique of the concept OF “radical democracy.”
We strongly encourage submissions that touch upon any of the following
themes, however, papers exploring other relevant topics and issues are
also strongly encouraged:
- Promises, limits and critiques of the concept of radical
democracy
- Ancient democratic thought in relation to modernity and
post-modernity
- Technology and the mediums of (radical) democracy
- Consensus building/agonistic democracy
- Engendering radical democracy: race, ethnicity, gender,
sexuality, class
- Post-Leftist democratic politics
- Radical democracy and anarchism
- Relationship between radical democracy and traditional regime
forms such as oligarchy, liberalism, republicanism, socialism,
communism
- Exploring the relationship between radical democracy and key
concepts in political theory such as: participatory/direct democracy;
agency and autonomy; state and nation; capitalism; imperialism; anarchy
and authority, dictatorship and tyranny; sacrifice and violence;
revolution and reform
Interested participants should submit a one-page abstract (up to 300
words) that includes institutional affiliation, academic level, and
contact information by Monday, January 31. You will receive a
notification of our decision by Friday, February 18. Full conference
papers will be due by Monday, March 21. Please submit your abstract at
radicaldemocracy@newschool.edu.
Congress of the Humanities
and Social Sciences: New Scholars Session
Fredericton, Canada | 31 May – 03 June 2011
Society for Socialist Studies, Graduate Student Sessions
The most recent crisis of capital poses an immense set of challenges.
Neoliberalism is deepening, chronic hunger is widespread and ecological
degradation continues apace. Opportunities have nevertheless emerged.
Student movements are organizing across Europe, the Middle East and the
Americas, while creative projects and struggles are proliferating
across the world. To make sense of all of this, the Society of
Socialist Studies invites graduate students to submit paper proposals
for the New Scholars Session at the 2011 Congress of the Humanities and
Social Sciences.
Submissions are welcome from those who have yet to complete their
Masters degree. Perspectives from a wide array of disciplines and
interdisciplinary fields are welcome, including history, political
science and sociology, among others. Paper topics are encouraged from
socialist, feminist, anti-racist and ecological points of view. Paper
proposals could be in any of these areas, as well as on topics relating
to the Society’s theme, “Continental Shifts, Divisions, and
Solidarities.”
The theme marks an attempt to grapple with global shifting and
fragmentation of capital and power. Like other changes in the past,
“Continental Shifts, Divisions, and Solidarities” is an
attempt to challenge to the ways we understand the world(s) around us.
This is a time to rethink established epistemologies, theories and
underlying
philosophies.
Please submit abstracts (maximum of 100 words) by January 31, 2011 to:
Matthew Brett, New Scholars chair,
brett.matthew@yahoo.ca
The Association Charles Gide
pour l’Etude de la Pensée économique
University of Toulouse 1- Capitole (France) | June 16-17th 2011.
The issue of the Conference will be Justice
and Economics: ancient doctrines and modern theories. "I would
argue that the nature of modern economics has been substantially
impoverished by the distance that has grown between economics and
ethics”. Amartya Sen, On Ethics and Economics, 1987, p. 7.
It is now over 20 years since Sen’s observation that economic
thought had tried to develop its epistemological autonomy by
emancipating itself from the authority of ethics. But economists
increasingly recognize that the positive dimension of economic theory
does not necessarily exclude the normative dimension and that a
condition for progress in economic knowledge is interdisciplinary
research to invent new forms of complementarity between these two.
Possible approaches to the theme of “justice” might
include, among others:
- Theories of justice in historical perspective
- The question of justice in economic and political currents
(liberalism, socialism, ...)
- Justice, exchange, barter and money
- Distributive versus commutative justice
- The “just” and the “good” in economic
thought
- Justice in welfare economics
- History of social choice theory
- The equity versus equality debate
- Normative issues of public economics
- Justice and game theory
- Justice and sustainable development
- Justice and education …
Abstracts in French or English (of no more than 300 words for a paper,
or 500 words for a session) should be submitted before 28 th February
2011; to
alain.alcouffe@univ-tlse1.fr,
or following the instructions on toulouse-justice-2011.fr (forthcoming
January 2011).
Scientific committee : Amartya Sen (Nobel Prize 1998), Alain Alcouffe
(Toulouse 1), Maurice Baslé (Rennes 1), Arnaud Berthoud (Lille
1), Annie Cot (Paris 1), Alain Clément (Tours), Michel de Vroey
(Louvain), Arnaud Diemer (Clermont Ferrand), Ragip Ege (Strasbourg),
Michel Herland (Martinique), Serge-Christophe Kolm (EHESS), Patrick
Mardellat (Lille), Emma Rothschild (Harvard and Cambridge), Bertram
Schefold (Frankfurt University), Julian Wells (Kingston University).
Mailing Address : Alain Alcouffe, Université Toulouse 1, 2 rue
du doyen Gabriel Marty, F-31042 Toulouse CEDEX 09
The Second
Conference of the Regulating for Decent Work Network
6-8 July 2011 | Geneva, Switzerland
Organized by the International Labour Office
In collaboration with the University of Manchester’s
Fairness at Work (FaW) Research Group and the University of
Melbourne’s Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law (CELRL)
In the most prominent global policy agendas, the economic crisis has
relegated labour market regulation to a subordinate status. Yet at
national-level there have been notable successes in sustaining
regulatory institutions and adjusting them to recessionary conditions;
and there are signs of ongoing innovation and evolution in
regulatory strategies, design and techniques in all regions. The
altered economic conditions have also prompted reconsideration of
longstanding research and policy themes, lending some new resonance
while others are refashioned or discarded. Among the most urgent tasks
for researchers and policy-makers is to determine how labour market
regulation can help to promote a fair recovery: one that generates and
sustains decent jobs. This project entails a set of wide-ranging and
complex challenges that include identifying the role of labour
regulation in curbing spiralling unemployment and halting the decline
in wage growth; gauging the effect of new regulatory agendas on issues
such as fairness and job quality; and identifying the role of
implementation and enforcement of labour laws in the altered economic
context.
To advance these debates, the Regulating for Decent Work Network is
pleased to announce the Second RDW Conference, to be held in the
International Labour Office, Geneva from 6-8 July 2011. The RDW
Conference will be co-hosted by the University of Manchester’s
Fairness at Work Research Group (FaW) and the University of
Melbourne’s Centre for Employment and Labour Relations Law
(CELRL). Researchers from all regions and from a range of disciplines
including law, economics, industrial relations, development studies,
sociology, psychology and geography are encouraged to attend.
Submission of abstracts
Abstracts should be submitted to
rdw@ilo.org. They will be subject to a
competitive review process. It is expected that a number of edited
volumes will be published drawn from selected conference
papers.rdw@ilo.org.
They will be subject to a competitive review process. It is expected
that a number of edited volumes will be published drawn from selected
conference papers.
Deadlines
- Abstract submission (RDW Fellowship applicants) 31 December 2010
- Abstract submission (general) 31 January 2011
- Communicating acceptance (fellowship applicants) 28 February
2011
- Communicating acceptance (general) 31 March 2011
- Full paper submission 31 May 2011
For any queries, please contact the Conference Organizing Committee at
rdw@ilo.org
5th
Post-Keynesian Conference
13.-14. May 2011 | Roskilde University, Denmark
The fifth Post-Keynesian conference at the Continent will be organized
as a joined cooperation between the Université de Bourgogne,
Laurentian University, Roskilde University and Aalborg University. The
first four bi-annual conferences have been hosted by Université
de Bourgogne every second year in December organized by Claude Gnos and
Louis-Phillippe Rochon. This time we will try another season of the
year (May 2011) and another place (Roskilde, Denmark – close to
Copenhagen).
We have chosen three main interrelated themes for the conference:
- European economic crises in Keynesian perspectives.
- The General Theory after 75 years – a new paradigm in
macroeconomics and its relevance for today: methodology, theory and
politics.
- Teaching Keynes’s macroeconomics – why are
mainstream textbooks not really helpful? Hence, what could be done?
Keynes made an optimistic statement in a letter to George Bernard Shaw,
dated January 1935 ‘that I am going to revolutionize the way we
think about economics not immediately, but within the coming 10
years’. 75 years on, we can see that Keynes was much too
optimistic. Keynes’s approach has not penetrated the way
mainstream textbooks present macroeconomic issues. The theoretical
debates and the economic policies undertaken during the actual
macroeconomic crises in Europe and in America have demonstrated that
Keynes’s macroeconomic methodology has not (yet?) been
understood. What are the obstacles – method, theory,
politics and/or teaching? There will be sessions on the lack of success
of Keynes’s macroeconomics in all four dimensions.
The (Macro)economic Consequences of:
- European Monetary System
- European banks and financial institutions
- European labour 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’s methodology
- Keynes’s macroeconomic theory as distant 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.
Submission should be send to professor Jesper Jespersen (
jesperj@ruc.dk) not later than 1st
February 2011, accepted papers and conference sessions will be
announced on 1st March 2011. Full papers should be ready 1st May 2011
and will be made available at the home-page of the conference,
Up-dated information and registration will currently be made available
on Kienet just follow the link -
http://www.ruc.dk/institutter/isg/forskningen/samarbejder-netvaerk/kienet/
The Conference is in English.
Three Main speakers (to be confirmed):
- The European Economic Crises seen from without by James
Galbraith
- Solutions to the economic crises in the spirit of the General
Theory by ‘Marc Hayes, Cambridge University’
- Teaching Keynes’s Macroeconomics – why has it
failed? by Marc Lavoie
A panel discussion –
75 years after the
publication of The General Theory: where are we and where should we go?
The organizing committee consists of:
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 €
We have made a reservation of hotel rooms in Copenhagen and Roskilde.
More information and registration can be obtained from
http://www.ruc.dk/institutter/isg/forskningen/samarbejder-netvaerk/kienet/
6th Annual
Conference of the Italian Association for the History of Political
Economy (STOREP)
June 9-11, 2011 | Minervino di Lecce, Italy
The Sixth Annual Conference of the Italian Association for the History
of Political Economy (STOREP) will be held at Minervino di Lecce,
Italy, on June 9-11, 2011. The Conference will open on Thursday, June
9, at 6:30pm and is expected to close on Saturday, June 11, at 1:30pm.
The special theme of the conference is "Economic
development and social cohesion: converging goals?"
Proposals for sessions or submissions of papers concerning any
aspect of the history of economic thought are welcome. Paper
abstracts of no more than 200 words or a brief (≤ 400 words)
description of theme, motivation, authors and paper titles for a
session should be submitted to
segretario@storep.org.
The deadline for submissions is February 28th, 2011. The Scientific
Committee will send notice of acceptance or rejection within March
15th, 2011. Completed papers will be due by May 16th, 2011.
Young Scholars Award
The award is open to young scholars (under 35 years of age). In order
to be eligible, one is required to submit a Curriculum Vitae and a
paper abstract of no more than 200 words on any topic relevant to the
history of political economy. The authors of the selected papers will
receive a contribution of 200 euro to cover board and accommodation.
Please submit the request and the abstract to segretario@storep.org by
February 28th, 2011. The results of the selection process will be
communicated by March 15th, 2011.
Scientific Committee
Katia Caldari (Università di
Padova), Roberto Ciccone (Università di Roma Tre), Terenzio
Cozzi (Università di Torino), Massimo Di Matteo
(Università di Siena), Riccardo Faucci (Università di
Pisa), Alessandro Innocenti (Università di Siena), Alessandro
Lanteri (Università del Piemonte Orientale), Maria Cristina
Marcuzzo (Università di Roma), Aldo Montesano (Università
"L. Bocconi", Milano), Salvatore Rizzello (Università del
Piemonte Orientale), Annalisa Rosselli (Università di Roma Tre),
Carlo Zappia (Università di Siena)
Organizing Committee
Katia Caldari (Università
di Padova), Alessandro Innocenti (Università di Siena),
Salvatore Rizzello (Università del Piemonte Orientale), Anna
Spada (Università del Piemonte Orientale), Claudia Sunna
(Università del Salento), Carlo Zappia (Università di
Siena)
Conference website: http://www.storep.org/convegno2011
8th
International Conference Developments in Economic Theory and Policy
Bilbao, Spain | 29th June to 1 July, 2011
The Department of Applied Economics V of the University of the Basque
Country and the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy,
Department of Land Economy, of the University of Cambridge, are
organizing the 8th International Conference Developments in Economic
Theory and Policy. The Conference will be held in Bilbao (Spain), from
29th June to 1st July, 2011.
Although papers are invited on all areas of economics, there will be
two Plenary Sessions with Invited Speakers about the following topics:
- The Greek and the Euro Area Crises
- Feminist Economics
Suggestions for Organized Sessions are encouraged. An Organized Session
is one session constructed in its entirety by a Session Organizer and
submitted to the conference organizers as a complete package. Session
Organizers must provide the following information:
- Title of the session, name and affiliation of the organizer,
name and affiliation of chair (if different than organizer)
- Titles of the papers (3-4 papers), name, affiliation and contact
information of authors
Besides Plenary, Organized and Normal Parallel sessions, there will
also be Graduate Student Sessions. In these sessions, students making a
MSc or a PhD programme can present their researches and discuss that of
other students. Participants in Graduate Student Sessions will pay a
lower conference fee.
The deadline to submit papers and ‘Organized Sessions’ is
25th May 2011. For more information, you can contact with Jesus
Ferreiro (
jesus.ferreiro@ehu.es)
or Maribel Garcia-del-Valle (
teresa.gvalleirala@ehu.es
) or visit the website
www.conferencedevelopments.com
URPE (Union for Radical
Political Economics) at ASSA 2012
Chicago | January 6-8, 2012
The ASSA in Denver this past weekend went quite well. We invite you to
respond to the call for Chicago ASSA, January 6-8, 2-12. Applications
are due by May 1 via the special website for this purpose. If you have
any ideas for panels please contact us as you plan so we have a sense
of what people are planning and in case two similar panels might be
combined or planned in tandem.
URPE invites proposals for individual papers and complete sessions for
the URPE at ASSA annual meeting. URPE welcomes proposals on radical
political economic theory and applied analysis from a wide variety of
theoretical traditions.
The deadline for proposed papers and sessions is May 1, 2011. At that
time individual and panel proposals will be checked to be sure everyone
is current with their URPE dues or the proposals will be set aside.
Proposals for complete sessions are encouraged and should include the
session title, a brief description of each paper, and the names,
institutional affiliations, and email addresses of the chair,
discussants, and presenters. Proposals for sessions should contain four
papers. If you are proposing a complete session, please arrange to have
discussants for your papers and a chair for your session. As the
organizer of this session, you are responsible for conveying
administrative information to session members, including confirmation
that the session has been accepted, the time and location, and
deadlines. A registration form must be completed for each paper.
Proposals for individual papers should include the title, the abstract,
and the author's name, institutional affiliation, and email. You should
also complete the registration form. Individuals whose papers are
accepted may also be expected to serve as a discussant for a different
paper at the meetings. If you list the areas you prefer to discuss, all
attempts will be made to match your preferences. Individual papers that
are accepted will be assigned to sessions and each session will have an
assigned organizer. It is the organizer's job to convey administrative
information to session members, including confirmation that the session
has been accepted, the time and location, and deadlines.
URPE has no paid ASSA staff, so those presenting papers must
share the burden of organizing.
We regret that high quality individual papers may be turned down due to
the inability to place them in a session with papers with similar
themes. For this reason, we strongly encourage proposals for full
sessions. The number of sessions we can accept is limited by ASSA, and
we regret that high quality sessions may be turned down as well.
Please note that the date, time, and location of sessions are assigned
by ASSA, not URPE. You should receive word from URPE that your
paper/session was accepted by mid-June. ASSA will not assign dates and
times until much later in the summer.
Please note that anyone who presents a paper (but not the chairs or
discussants) must be a member of URPE (except at joint sessions with
other groups, in which case they can be a member of the other
organization) at the time of submission of the paper or panel proposal.
Contact
urpe@labornet.org or
413-577-0806 for membership information. We will confirm membership
prior to accepting proposals. Applications should be submitted online
on the URPE website
www.urpe.org,
beginning April 1 (instructions will be available by March 1 on the
website). If you have questions or problems with the online submission,
please contact Fred Moseley at the email address below. Only
applications received by the May 1 deadline will be considered. If you
have any other questions, please contact one of the URPE at ASSA
coordinators below:
World
Association for Political Economy 2011 Conference
The Sixth Forum of the World Association for Political Economy.
Co-sponsored by the Union for Radical Political Economics
May 27-29, 2011 | the University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA, USA
Responses to Capitalist Crisis: Neoliberalism and
Beyond
Paper Application Deadline Extended to February 1
Topics for the Sixth WAPE Forum
1. Class analysis of the responses to the financial and economic crisis.
2. Is neoliberalism on the way out or will it survive the economic
crisis? What might replace it?
3. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the revived Keynesian
economics?
4. What problems are posed by the rising national debt in many
countries?
5. The prospects for major institutional and regulatory reform in the
global economy and in various countries.
6. Class analysis of the growth of right-wing movements in response to
the economic crisis.
7. Lessons from the history of past capitalist crises for the current
situation.
8. The problems of, and opportunities for, building socialism in the
midst of capitalist crisis.
9. Can the euro survive the current economic crisis?
10. The danger that tensions among states due to the economic crisis
may lead to serious conflict.
11. Can the East Asian Model be accepted by the other countries?
12. Indigenous people in the United States
13. Human Development Economics in Political Economy
Proposals for both individual papers and complete sessions are welcome.
Please send your application, including curriculum vitae and a paper
abstract of 500 words (in Chinese or English), to Professor Xiaoqin
Ding at wape2006@gmail.com.
Deadline for applications: Original deadline January 15, 2011, extended
to February 1, 2011.
Applicants will be notified about acceptance of their paper by February
15, 2011.
Papers (in Chinese or English), of up to 6,000 words, will be due by
March 31, 2011.
Website for the Forum: http://urpe.org/conf/wape/wape2011/wape.html
Call for Participants
CEPN Seminars of the Task
group “Post-Keynesian Analyses and Modelling”
The City of
London on Trial: What did financiers learn from the crisis?
The Schools of Arts and Social Sciences, city University London,
cordially invite you to a lunchtime discussion,
Wednesday 16 February 2011, 12:30 PM
Panel Discussion
Speaker(s):
- Professor Steve Schifferes, Department of Journalism
- Professor Keith Pilbeam, Department of Economics
- Professor Michael Ben-Gad, Department of Economics
- Dr Anastasia Nesvetailova, Department of International Politics
- Chair: Professor Christina Slade, Dean of Arts and Social
Sciences
Location:
Northampton Suite, 4th Floor, University Building, City University
London, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB | maps & directions:
www.city.ac.uk/maps
Programme:
- "Nothing... but what have we learned about the power of
financiers?" / Professor Steve Schifferes, Department of Journalism
- "Misaligned incentives and the credit crunch." / Professor Keith
Pilbeam, Department of Economics
- "Bonuses, Bailouts and Industrial Policy: Gosplan in the City" /
Professor Michael Ben-Gad, Department of Economics
- "The Magic and Vice of Financial Alchemy" / Dr Anastasia
Nesvetailova, Department of International Politics
Chair: Professor Christina Slade, Dean of the School of Arts and Social
Sciences
Email us to reserve a place:
Dean-Arts-SocialSciences@city.ac.uk
Conference on Cultural
Workforce Issues
March 10, 2011 | Northampton Suite, City University London,
Northampton Square, London
Until relatively recently, conditions within cultural labour markets
were of little interest to policymakers. They were assumed to offer
"good work", and the only policy goal was to support their growth, and
ensure we had a skilled workforce. But data on the unrepresentative
nature of the cultural labour market and concerns about declining
social mobility, have led to something of a change of mind.
This half-day conference explores some of the less desirable aspects of
cultural work, as a way of thinking about the policy and leadership
challenges that they present, and what may be done to improve working
conditions and entry to the sector.
Information on regestration can be found at the conference
website
here.
Eric Hobsbawm on How to
Change the World
Professor Eric Hobsbawm in discussion on his latest book, How to
Change the World: Tales of Marx and Marxism.
In his major new work, Eric Hobsbawm addresses the history of
Marxism in the 162 years since the publication of Marx's Capital and
assesses its continuing relevance as a challenge to capitalism.
This event is free but places are strictly limited. As we
anticipate high demand we ask that you send your details to Stefan
Dickers to confirm your place:
Stefan.dickers@bishopsgate.org.uk
3rd Global
Commune Event: Trade Unions - Are They Fit For Purpose?
Saturday, January 29th | Out of the Blue Centre, Dalmeny Street, Leith,
Edinburgh
In both the UK and Ireland today, the overwhelming majority of trade
union leaders have signed up to social partnerships. These effectively
reduce unions to a free personnel management service for the employers.
However, the traditional Broad Left response of electing alternative
leaders has shown itself unable to counter social partnerships. Indeed
many current union leaders, who now accept social partnership, were
themselves earlier Broad Left members. The third Global Commune event,
jointly sponsored by the Republican Communist Network and the commune,
asks the question - “Trade unions - Are they fit for
purpose?” A number of different approaches to organising workers
will be discussed in workshops over the day.
COST
- £5 for full-time employed
- £2 for others
FIRST SESSION
11.00 - 12. 30: Panel followed by workshop sessions and follow up
plenary
1. Working within trade unions - the rank and file perspective - Allan
Armstrong
2. Working with the IWW - Alberto Durango
3. Building the Independent Workers Union - Tommy McKearney
4. Supporting workers from outside - an autonomist perspective - Mike
Vallance
5. How do communists organise in trade unions? - Stuart King
SECOND SESSION
1.30 - 15.00: Community unionism -Should trade union membership be
confined to employed workers? Patricia Campbell and Paul Stewart
Worshop
15.00 - 15.15 - break
THIRD SESSION
15.15 - 16.30
Repeat workshops followed by plenary
There will be a chance to continue the discussion informally
afterwards. Further information can be had by contacting Allan
Armstrong at: allan.armstrong.1949@hotmail.co.uk
The Hyman P. Minsky Summer
Seminar
June 18-26, 2011 | Levy Economics
Institute of Bard College, Annadale-0n-Hudson, New York
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College is pleased to announce
that it will hold the second annual Minsky Summer Seminar June
18–26, 2011. The Seminar will provide a rigorous discussion of
both the theoretical and applied aspects of Minsky’s economics,
with an examination of meaningful prescriptive policies relevant to the
current economic and financial crisis.
The Summer Seminar will be of particular interest to graduate students,
recent graduates, and those at the beginning of their academic or
professional careers. The teaching staff will include well-known
economists concentrating on and expanding Minsky’s work.
Applications may be made to Susan Howard at the Levy Institute (howard@levy.org),
and should include a current curriculum vitae. Admission will include
provision of room and board on the Bard College campus. A limited
number of small travel reimbursements ($100 for US fellows and $300 for
foreign fellows) will be available to participants.
Due to limited space availability, the deadline for applications is March
31, 2011.
The Summer Seminar program will be organized by Jan Kregel, Dimitri B.
Papadimitriou, and L. Randall Wray.
International
Workshop: Evolutionary Thinking and its Policy Implications for Modern
Capitalism
22-23 September 2011 | Offley Place, Great Offley, near Hitchin,
Hertfordshire, England.
Since our previous announcement we have enlisted one additional
speaker (Ulrich Witt) and we have opened up an online registration
facility on
http://www.uhbs-groe.org/p7.htm.
(Details of fees etc. are also given on this website.)
The workshop is organised by the Group for Research in
Organisational Evolution (GROE) at the University of Hertfordshire. The
workshop theme is:
‘EVOLUTIONARY THINKING AND
ITS POLICY IMPLICATIONS FOR MODERN CAPITALISM’
Speakers:
- Howard Aldrich (University of North Carolina, USA): ‘Using
evolutionary thinking to explain the emergent nature of entrepreneurial
phenomena’
- Eric Beinhocker (McKinsey Global Institute, USA): ‘Beyond
left versus right: evolutionary economics and the future of policy and
politics’
- Geoff Hodgson (University of Hertfordshire, UK): ‘The
evolution of morality and its implications’
- Stan Metcalfe (emeritus, University of Manchester, UK):
‘Why economies evolve: knowledge, emergent novelty and adaptation
in modern capitalism’
- Viktor Vanberg (Walter Eucken Institute, Germany):
‘Darwinian paradigm, cultural evolution and human purposes’
- David Sloan Wilson (Binghamton University, USA): ‘Nothing
about policy making makes sense except in the light of evolution’
- Ulrich Witt (Max Planck Institute, Jena, Germany): 'The
evolution of consumer behavior and the problem of reaching
sustainability'
The workshop will start at 9.30 am on 22 September and finish at
5.00pm on 23 September 2011.
This workshop is designed to provide in-depth discussion of
cutting-edge issues, in a forum that permits the attention to detail
and definition that is often lacking in larger, conference-style
events. The expected maximum number of participants is 40. Please book
early to avoid disappointment.
Symposium on Karl Marx's
'Notes on James Mill' (1844)
2-6pm, Saturday February 5, 2011 | the London Knowledge
Lab, 23-29 Emerald Street, London WC1
Sponsored by Marx and Philosophy Society
Andrew Chitty and Martin McIvor will lead a discussion of this
fascinating early text by Marx.
An English version of the text is available at http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/james-mill/index.htm
. An alternative translation is in the Penguin Early Writings
collection, titled 'Excerpts from James Mill's Elements of Political
Economy'.
Attendance is free and open to all. To register e-mail Meade
McCloughan: m.mccloughan@ucl.ac.uk
Directions and map: http://tinyurl.com/ywmsvc
Tube stations: Holborn and Russell Square.
Marx and Philosophy Society: http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/
Labour, Capitalism and
Radical Critique
Dr. Peter Thomas (Brunel University – Historical Materialism)
gives a lecture in University of Tampere (Finland) 28 January 2011 (at
14-16, Linna Building K110, Kalevantie 5)
Themes: Labour-Power (Arbeitskraft)
Die Organisationsfrage as regulative idea?
The Lisbon
Treaty Evaluated: Impact and Consequences
31 January - 1 February 2011 | Woburn House, Tavistock Square,
London
A UACES conference, supported by the European Commission.
UACES invites you and your colleagues to register for 'The Lisbon
Treaty Evaluated', a two-day conference assessing the impact and
consequences of the Treaty's first year. The conference is intended to
encourage creative and informed thinking that will contribute to the
ongoing debate on the ‘Future of Europe’.
The conference comprises a series of research panels as well as
plenary sessions: Professor Helen Wallace (LSE) will present a keynote
address on the opening day of the conference.
Guest Speakers include: Andrew Duff MEPJohn Palmer (Visiting
Fellow, Sussex European Institute and founder political director of the
European Policy Centre)John Peet (Europe Editor, The Economist)
For more information about the conference, including a full
programme and how to register visit
www.uaces.org/lisbon
Marshall Society:
Keynes-lecture
Wednesday 26 January, Kings College
- Jesper Jespersen: "Keynes's General Theory becoming 75 years:
time to re-read and reflect"
- Venue: King's College, 5:30 pm
Democratic
Alternatives to Capitalism: Marx's Writings on Exiting Capitalism, Part
1
Sunday, January 30, 2011, 1:00 PM Community Room B, Westside Pavilion,
Los Angeles
(Westside Pavilion is at Pico & Westwood Boulevards;
Community Room B is on west side of the mall, third floor, near
Landmark Theater; free parking in mall lot)
Speaker: Kevin Anderson, author of Marx at the Margins
A discussion of Marx on the Paris Commune of 1871, an experiment
in socialist freedom in which both capital and the state were
challenged in what he called “the political form at last
discovered under which to work out the economical emancipation of
labor.”
Sponsored by West Coast Marxist-Humanists
Research Network
Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) 3rd International
Summer School
31 July - 07 August 2011, Berlin, Germany
Venue: IGM-Bildungsstaette Berlin-Pichelssee
Theme: "Keynesian Macroeconomics and European
Economic Policies"
The summer school aims at providing an introduction to
Post-Keynesian economics and to the problems of European economic
policies as well as presenting some ongoing research to interested
graduate students (MA and PhD) and junior researchers. It will consist
of overview lectures, a panel discussion, student study groups and
academic papers and it will feature leading international researchers
in the area, like Robert Blecker (USA), Gary Dymski (USA), Eckhard Hein
(Germany), John King (Australia), Marc Lavoie (Canada), Malcolm Sawyer
(UK) and Engelbert Stockhammer (UK). Issues of monetary economics, the
theory of growth and distribution, and the relation of Post-Keynesian
Economics to other heterodox traditions, but also to the now prevalent
New Keynesian approach, will be covered as well as applications of
Keynesian theory to issues of the finance, unemployment, monetary
policy and macroeconomic policy coordination in the EU.
Language is English. There is a fee of EUR 100,- (reduced: EUR 50,-)
for each participant for accommodation and meals. Travelling costs
cannot be covered.
Application: Send a letter of motivation (explain why you want to
participate and how the Summer School relates to your study and
research interests and/or your MA/Phd dissertation plans and/or you
work area; max. 2 pages); your CV; the questionnaire (see hyperlink
below) including an address of one academic adviser, who may be
contacted for reference, to
mailto:susanne-stoeger@boeckler.de
no later than *
March 15th, 2011*. Applicants will be informed by
mid-April and accepted participants will be provided with a reading
package for the summer school.
2nd Annual
Workshop on Global Law and Economic Policy
May 31st - June 10th, 2011 Harvard Law School.
IGLP: THE WORKSHOP is an intensive ten day residential program
designed for DOCTORAL and POST-DOCTORAL SCHOLARS. The Workshop aims to
promote innovative ideas and alternative approaches to issues of global
law, economic policy and social justice in the aftermath of the
economic crisis. The initiative will bring young scholars and faculty
from around the world together with leading faculty working on issues
of global law and economic policy for serious research collaboration
and debate. In 2011, we will inaugurate a series of new Pro-Seminars
designed for small groups of scholars engaged in collaboration aiming
toward publication.Alumni of past IGLP Workshops are particularly
encouraged to apply to participate in these new Pro-Seminars.
The 2011 Workshop will focus on deepening our understanding of
heterodox traditions for understanding global political economy. The
ongoing economic crisis has challenged conventional thinking about the
relationship between global economic life and national or local
political choices and legal arrangements. The result is an opening for
new thinking. To date, the academy has not taken advantage of that
opening. We are convinced that doing so will require us to revisit and
revive the many experimental and alternative traditions of thinking
about the international political system, legal order and economy which
have existed alongside mainstream thinking for more than a century.
This year's substantive streams will focus on the ability of heterodox
traditions - from sociology, political theory, economics and law - to
contribute to our thinking about ways forward from the crisis.
For more information, including how to apply, please visit our website
at http://www.harvardiglp.org/iglp-the-workshop/
Union
Research Summer School
June 12-17, 2011 | Ithaca, New York
The AFL-CIO and Cornell University are sponsoring a Strategic Corporate
Research Summer School on June 12-17, 2011 in Ithaca, New York. The
course (credit or non-credit) is designed for undergrad and grad
students who are interested in working as union researchers and
campaigners. The registration deadline is May 17.
Scholarships are available if taking the course for credit. To obtain a
registration form and other information, go to http://www.sce.cornell.edu/ss/programs.php?v=STRATCORP&s=Overview
or contact Kate Bronfenbrenner at (607) 254-4749 or scrsummer@cornell.edu.
Job Postings for Heterodox
Economists
The Centre for the Study of
Living Standards (CSLS), Canada
An economist
The position may be staffed at the junior or senior level and on a
contract or permanent basis. The position involves conducting analysis
and applied research on trends in and determinants of productivity,
living standards, and economic well-being in Canada and other countries
and developing policy recommendations to improve performance in these
areas.
Qualifications:
- MA or PhD in economics
- Strong technical and analytical skills
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Strong interest in living standards issues
The CSLS is a national, independent economic research organization
based in Ottawa. Its objectives are to contribute to a better
understanding of trends in and determinants of productivity, living
standards, and economic well-being in Canada through research and to
contribute to public debate by developing and advocating specific
policies to increase the living standards of Canadians. For
additional information on the CSLS, go to www.csls.ca.
Interested parties are asked to email a covering letter and CV to CSLS
Executive Director, Andrew Sharpe at andrew.sharpe@csls.ca by
January 31, 2011. All applications and inquiries will be treated
in strict confidence. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted.
Institute for Research on
Public Policy, Montreal, Canada
A Research Director to contribute to its
research programs, which include Aging, Competitiveness, Productivity
and Economic Growth, and Canadian Federalism. As Research Director, you
will be responsible for identifying research priorities, taking part in
the development of projects, and overseeing their execution and
completion.
The position requires a strong analytical mind and a highly developed
critical sense, ability to synthesize ideas and bring a
multidisciplinary approach to research, and excellent written and oral
communication skills. The ideal candidate is dynamic and versatile, has
strong project management abilities, is a team player, and is at ease
working with academic and other experts. A master's degree or higher
(preferably in economics or a related public policy field) and at least
three years' experience in public policy are highly desirable, and
functional bilingualism is essential. Salary and benefits will be
commensurate with experience.
Please submit a letter of application, c.v. and salary expectation by
e-mail to smcintyre@irpp.org,
by fax to (514) 985-2559, or by mail to IRPP, 1470 Peel St., Suite 200,
Montreal, QC, H3A 1T1. Please respond before February 18, 2011. Only
candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
The International Trade
Union Confederation (ITUC)
A legal advisor to cover the Asia-Pacific
region
The posting is available through this link:
http://www.ituc-csi.org/IMG/pdf/HTUR_Legal_Advisor_external.pdf
The deadline is January 31.
SUNY College at Old
Westbury, USA
Assistant Professor
The Department of Politics, Economics, and Law at the State
University of New York, College at Old Westbury invites applications
for a full-time tenure track position for Fall 2011 at the Assistant
Professor level in the field of Labor Relations. The Department offers
two interdisciplinary majors: 1) Politics, Economics, and Law and 2)
Industrial and Labor Relations.
QUALIFICATIONS: Applicants must have a JD or Ph.D. in a relevant
social science, such as economics, political economy, political
science, sociology, or law and must be authorized to work in the United
States. The ideal candidate would be a dynamic scholar and activist
with some teaching experience, record of scholarly publications, direct
experience with labor movements, and a strong commitment to social
justice and the empowerment of working people, who would develop new
outreach programs in labor relations. Areas of focus may include, but
are not limited to: globalization and global labor rights, immigration,
labor and employment law, labor economics, labor history, collective
bargaining and organizing, gender/race/ethnicity and work, or public
policy.
The teaching load is three courses per semester, and class sizes
are small to allow for a focus on effective teaching. Most ILR courses
are scheduled in the evening. Salaries are competitive. Review of
applications will begin on February 1, 2011 and continue until the
position is filled.
TO APPLY: Send letter of application, curriculum vitae,
transcript of highest degree earned, three letters of reference,
syllabi of courses taught, summary of teaching evaluations, and a
writing sample to: SUNY College at Old Westbury, Search Committee:
PEL-URPE, Office of Human Resources, P.O. Box 210, Old Westbury, NY
11568; or e-mail application materials as attachments in MS Word format
(only if application to include attachments total less than 15 pages)
to:
hrsearch@oldwestbury.edu.
The College at Old Westbury is located 25 miles east of New York City,
on a 600-acre campus on the north shore of Long Island. Old Westbury
prides itself on interdisciplinarity and on a faculty committed both to
excellence in teaching a diverse student body, as well as to strong
research agendas. Women and minorities are especially encouraged to
apply. The State University of New York College at Old Westbury is an
Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
San
Francisco Community College District, USA
Economics and Statistics Instructor
Posting Number: 0100078
Filing Deadline (All postings close at 4:00 PM): 02-11-2011
Job Type: Faculty - Tenure-Track/Part-Time Pool
Examples of Duties:
- Teach Macro Economics classes.
- Teach Micro Economics classes.
- Teach Introductory Statistics classes.
- Participate in curriculum development.
- Participate in other faculty responsibilities and duties as
appropriate, such as department and campus committee work as well as
professional development activities.
- Perform professional duties including, but not limited to,
testing, grading, maintaining gradebook, maintaining student attendance
records, etc.
- Teach day, evening, and/or Saturday classes at any of the
College's campuses as required.
- Perform other related duties as assigned by the supervisor.
City College of San Francisco Minimum Requirements:
- Demonstrated knowledge, skills, and abilities to work with
community college students with diverse academic, socioeconomic,
cultural, sexual orientations, disabilities, and ethnic backgrounds
(Required).
- Earned Master's Degree or higher in Economics from an accredited
institution; OR THE EQUIVALENT.
- Satisfactory completion of a minimum of two courses in
Statistics (at least one of which must be at the graduate level as part
of the Economics major).
Desirable Qualifications:
- Previous teaching experience at the community college level (in
Macro or Micro Economics or Introductory Statistics).
- Previous teaching experience in college level Macro or Micro
Economics or Introductory Statistics.
All application materials must be submitted online through the CCSF
website.
To obtain additional information and apply, please visit our website at
http://jobs.ccsf.edu.
University
of Greenwich, London, UK
Lecturers in Business Economics
As part of our on-going development strategy, the Business School
is seeking Lecturers in Business Economics. You will be part of the
International Business and Economics Department which provides a range
of successful undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the fields
of International Business and Economics.
The school is seeking an academic capable of conducting quality
research and lecturing on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in
international applications of Business Economics, Institutional
Economics, Financial Economics, Microfinance or a related area. The
role will involve conducting research in a relevant discipline. You may
also be involved in developing new part time and flexible learning
courses in your area of teaching and research specialism.
The Department hosts the Centre for Business Network Analysis and the
Public Sector International Research Unit and research complimentarity
with these groups would be very welcome. The Department was rated 1st
in the UK for Economics in the 2009 National Student Satisfaction
Survey and 2/3 of the Department's research was rated world-class or
world-leading in the last UK Research Assessment Exercise.
Salary Scale: £33,128 - £37,882 per annum inclusive of
London Weighting.
We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications
from all sections of the community.
To obtain further particulars and an application form visit our website
http://wwww.gre.ac.uk/jobs/1746g7/job-reference-1746g7,
email
Jobs@gre.ac.uk or write to
the Personnel Office, University of Greenwich, Avery Hill Road, London,
SE9 2UG quoting reference.
Applications should be returned by 5pm on 4 February 2011.
Conference Papers, Reports,
and Articles
Economic Policy: In Search
of an Alternative Paradigm, Middlesex University
IIPPE Financialisation
Working Paper Series
The IIPPE Financialisation Working Group is pleased to announce
four more additions to their Working paper series by Ivan Lesay,
Avgitidou Athina, G.C. Harcourt and Jan Toporowski.
The IIPPE Financialisation Working Paper series offers PhD
students and young researchers the opportunity to have their papers
reviewed by two academics who are working in their field of research.
This process gives young researchers the chance to gain valuable
feedback on their work and offers the possibility of making their work
visible to a wider audience and helping to prepare it for publication.
Avgitidou and Ivan's papers on Financial crisis: The myth of free
market ideology and current regulatory reforms and How Fit For
Development Is The European Investment Bank? Development Economics
Discourse Analysis
were reviewed by one junior and one senior academic and recommended for
publication as working papers.
Despite the focus on promoting and supporting young
researchers’ work, we are particularly happy to also announce the
publication of G.C. Harcourt’s valedictory lecture The Crisis in
Mainstream Economics. The
lecture, which was given on the 12th of May at the School of Oriental
and African Studies (SOAS), is also available as a Audio File on the
IIPPE Financialisation Working Group Web Site.
Last but not least, Jan Toporowski has submitted his provocative
paper on Marx’s Grundrisse And The Monetary Business Cycle, which
was presented at the 1st IIPPE conference in Crete in September 2010.
If you are interested in submitting your work for review and
publication as an IIPPE Financialisation Working Paper please send your
paper to
ak82@soas.ac.uk and
jm60@soas.ac.uk. We particularly
encourage submission from PHD students and young researchers who are
preparing their work for an academic publication and are interested in
feedback and advice from academics in their fields. If you have a
preference for a potential reviewer please indicate so. A list of
current reviewers can be found on the IIPPE Financialisation Working
Group web-site. Alternatively, if you are aware of an academic within
IIPPE who you feel would be more suitable to referee your paper, please
indicate this as well and we will try to accommodate. In a similar
vein, we would also appreciate any academics within and outside IIPPE,
who have some interest in financial topics and who would be interested
in acting as referees to get in contact with us. The workload is
minimal (maximum a paper a year), but a greater pool
of referees would allow us to match the paper with the best expertise
in the area and would be a great support to young researchers.
New
Publications on Taxes in the United States
The Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE) announces
the publication of two new papers on taxes in the United States by
Senior Researcher Brian Roach.
A working paper, titled “Progressive and Regressive Taxation in
the United States: Who's Really Paying (and Not Paying) Their Fair
Share," provides an in-depth look at the current and historical
distribution of the tax burden in the United States. The results show
that the overall federal tax system is quite progressive. But when
state and local taxes are included as well, the overall U.S. tax system
is only slightly progressive. Further, most of the progressivity of the
overall tax system occurs in the lower half of the income spectrum. At
upper-income levels, progressivity levels off and actually reverses at
the highest income levels. Thus claims that America has a “highly
progressive” tax system do not appear to be valid. There is no
clear long-term trend in the progressivity of the U.S. tax system.
Relative stability in tax progressivity stands in stark contrast to
rising economic inequality. While changes in tax progressivity could
have partially offset the rise in income inequality, this has not been
the case. Analysis of the compromise plan to extend the Bush tax cuts
shows that the progressivity of the plan is much closer to the original
Republican proposal than President Obama’s proposal that would
have eliminated the Bush tax cuts for high-income households.
An educational module, titled “Taxes in the United States:
History, Fairness, and Current Policy Issues,” provides students
with an overview of the U.S. tax system, including the historical
development of tax policies. The difference between progressive and
regressive taxes is explained and current data are presented showing
how the tax burden falls on different groups. The student reading
consists of 34 pages which includes discussion questions, glossary,
references, and additional resources.
You can download the papers
here.
Post Keynesian Economics
Study Group
The website has been updated with the four latest talks from the
Keynes Seminar which took place during November:
- Sheila Dow on The reform of financial regulation
- Jesper Jespersen and Jonathan Perraton for a perspective on the
crisis from Scandinavia
- Malcolm Sawyer on fiscal consolidation
Visit
http://www.postkeynesian.net/keynes.html
to find these and many others.
Rutgers University Report on
the Unemployed
"The Shattered American Dream:
Unemployed Workers Lose Ground, Hope, and Faith in their Futures."
A new survey of unemployed American workers documents dramatic erosion
in the quality of life for millions of Americans. Their financial
reserves are exhausted, their job prospects nil, their family relations
stressed, and their belief in government’s ability to help them
is negligible. They feel hopeless and powerless, unable to see their
way out of the Great Recession that has claimed 8.5 million jobs.
The survey shows that only one-quarter of those first interviewed in
August 2009 have found full-time jobs some 15 months later. And most of
those who have become reemployed have taken jobs they did not really
want for less pay. Moreover, the recession has wreaked havoc on the
retirement plans of older workers. These are some of the main findings
of The Shattered American Dream: Unemployed Workers Lose Ground, Hope,
and Faith in their Futures, a new report from the Heldrich Center. The
Heldrich Center first interviewed a national sample of 1,202 unemployed
workers in August 2009, using the web-enabled KnowledgePanel®
conducted by Knowledge Networks of Menlo Park, CA. Just over 900 were
re-interviewed in March 2010, and 764 were re-interviewed between
November 5 and 28, 2010 for this report.
Here is the complete report summarizing the findings.
Conference on Sraffa's Production
of Commodities by Means of Commodities 1960-2010
2nd-4th December 2010, Roma Tre University, Italy
Heterodox Journals
Affinities:
Journal of Radical Theory, Culture and Action, 4(2): 2010
Special Issue: "What is the Radical Imagination?"
Edited by Max Haiven and Alex Khasnabish
Read and download for free at: www.affinitiesjournal.org
Editorials/Introductions
- Max Haiven, Alex Khasnabish / "What is the radical imagination?
A Special Issue"
Interventions: Struggles
- Franco BIFO Berardi / "Precariousness, Catastrophe and
Challenging the Blackmail of the Imagination"
- Taiaiake Alfred / "What is Radical Imagination? Indigenous
Struggles in Canada"
- Julie E. Dowsett / "Commodity Feminism and the Unilever
Corporation: Or, How the Corporate Imagination Appropriates Feminism"
- Phanuel Antwi and Amber Dean / "Unfixing Imaginings of the City:
Art, Gentrification, and Cultures of Surveillance"
Interventions: Provocations
- Larissa Lai / "Other Presents: Imagining the Human and Beyond"
- Justin Paulson / "The Uneven Development of Radical Imagination"
- Chris Churchill / "A Radical and Elitist Imagination? Political
Paternities and Alternatives in the History of Ideas"
- Petra Rethmann / "A few notes on the question, what is radical
imagination?"
- Randy Martin / "Dancing Through the Crisis"
Interventions: Openings
- Allan Antliff / "Anarchist Imaginaries"
- Judy Rebick / "Re-Imagining Revolution"
- Patrick Reinsborough / "Giant Whispers: Narrative Power, Radical
Imagination and a Future Worth Fighting For…"
- Glen Coulthard / "Place against Empire: Understanding Indigenous
Anti-Colonialism"
Peer Reviewed Articles
- Rachel Elaine Strasinger / "Beyond Protest: Radical Imagination
and the Global Justice Movement"
- Terry Maley / "Participatory Budgeting and the Radical
Imagination: In Europe but not in Canada?"
- Michael Truscello / "The Disruptive Time of the Gift: (Radical)
Imagination at Work in Free and Open Source Software"
The American
Journal of Economics and Sociology, 70(1): January 2011
Journal website: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0002-9246&site=1
- Editor's Introduction / Frederic S. Lee
- Political Economy of Property Tax Reform: Hawaii's Experiment
with Split-Rate Property Taxation / Sally Kwak and James Mak
- Land Value: Seven Major Questions in the Analysis of Urban Land
Values / ÜNsal ÖZdilek
- The Impact of Housing Rehabilitation on Local Neighborhoods: The
Case of Small Community Development Organizations / Marvin M. Smith and
Christy Chung Hevener
- Do We Still Need Cities? Evidence on Rates of Innovation from
Count Data Models of Metropolitan Statistical Area Patents / Norman
Sedgley and Bruce Elmslie
- Rational Irrationality and Group Size: The Effect of Biased
Beliefs on Individual Contributions Towards Collective Goods / Andreas
P. Kyriacou
- The Relevance of Personal Characteristics in Health Care
Rationing: What the Australian Public Thinks and Why / Malcolm
Anderson, Jeff Richardson, John McKie, Angelo Iezzi and Munir Khan
- Charitable Giving Expenditures and the Faith Factor / Vince E.
Showers, Linda S. Showers, Jeri M. Beggs and James E. Cox, Jr
- Becoming a Winner But Staying the Same: Identities and
Consumption of Lottery Winners / Bengt Larsson
- Are Agricultural PACs Monolithic? An Empirical Investigation of
Political Contributions from Agricultural Subsectors / Craig A. Bond,
Dana L. Hoag and Jennifer Freeborn
- Who Is Eligible? Should Affirmative Action be Group- or
Class-Based? / William Darity, Jr., Ashwini Deshpande and Thomas
Weisskopf
- A Critique of the Orthodox Approach to Indonesia's Growth and
Employment Problems and Post Keynesian Alternatives / Anis Chowdhury
and Iyanatul Islam
Cambridge
Journal of Economics, 35(1): January 2011
Journal website: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3924/1
- Robert Skidelsky / The relevance of Keynes
- Steve Fleetwood / Sketching a socio-economic model of labour
markets
- Christian E. Weller / Could international labour rights play a
role in US trade?
- Cathal O'Donoghue, David Meredith, and Eamon O'Shea / Postponing
maternity in Ireland
- Alex Bryson and Satu Nurmi / Private sector employment growth,
1998–2004: a panel analysis of British workplaces
- Antonio Carlos Macedo e Silva and Claudio H. Dos Santos /
Peering over the edge of the short period? The Keynesian roots of
stock-flow consistent macroeconomic models
- Paul H. Jensen and Elizabeth Webster / Macroeconomic conditions
and the determinants of commercialisation
- Kornelius Kraft, Jörg Stank, and Ralf Dewenter /
Co-determination and innovation
- Holger Graf / Gatekeepers in regional networks of innovators
- Ruslan Dzarasov / Eichnerian megacorp and investment behaviour
of Russian corporations
- Maria Cristina Marcuzzo and Annalisa Rosselli / Sraffa and his
arguments against ‘marginism’
Challenge,
54(1): January-February 2011
Journal website: http://www.mesharpe.com/mall/results1.asp?ACR=CHA
- Letter from the Editor / Jeff Madrick
- Budget Deficit Alarmism Is Sabotaging Growth / Thomas Palley
- Great Depression II: Why It Could Happen and How to Prevent It /
Laurence Seidman
- The Domestic Roots of Perpetual War / Franklin Spinney
- The Challenge of Multigenerational Poverty / Herbert J. Gans
- Hayek on Socialism and on the Welfare State: A Comment on
Farrant and McPhail's "Does F.A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom Deserve to
Make a Comeback?" / Bruce Caldwell
- A Response to Caldwell on F. A. Hayek and The Road to Serfdom /
Andrew Farrant, Edward McPhail
- Review: This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial
Folly. By Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff / Yeva Nersisyan, L.
Randall Wray
- Big Money / Mike Sharpe
The Commoner, 14: Winter
2010
Special Issue:
Property, Commoning and the
Politics of Free Software
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Economic
Systems Research, 22(3): September 2010
Journal website:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09535314.asp
- INTEGRATING A HOUSEHOLD DEMAND SYSTEM IN THE INPUT-OUTPUT
FRAMEWORK. METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS AND MODELLING IMPLICATIONS / Ignazio
Mongelli; Frederik Neuwahl; José M. Rueda-Cantuche
- AN ENVIRONMENTAL/INPUT-OUTPUT LINEAR PROGRAMMING MODEL TO REACH
THE TARGETS FOR GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS SET BY THE KYOTO PROTOCOL /
José Ramon San Cristóbal
- TRADE INTEGRATION, OUTSOURCING AND EMPLOYMENT IN AUSTRIA: A
DECOMPOSITION APPROACH / Wolfgang Koller; Robert Stehrer
- ANALYSING IMPLICATIONS OF LIMITED WATER AVAILABILITY FOR GREAT
BARRIER REEF CATCHMENTS / Alex Smajgl; Ludwig Liagre
- STRUCTURAL INTERDEPENDENCE AMONG COLOMBIAN DEPARTMENTS /
Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli; Eduardo Amaral Haddad; Jaime Bonet Moron;
Geoffrey J. D. Hewings
Book Review
- The National Accounts as a Tool for Analysis and Policy: In View
of History, Economic Theory and Data Compilation Issues / Utz-Peter
Reich
Economic
Systems Research, 22(4): December 2010
Journal website:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09535314.asp
- TOURISM STUDIES AND INPUT–OUTPUT ANALYSIS: INTRODUCTION TO
A SPECIAL ISSUE / Bart Los; Albert E. Steenge
- TOWARDS A NEW FRAMEWORK FOR ACCOUNTING AND MODELLING THE
REGIONAL AND LOCAL IMPACTS OF TOURISM / Bjarne Madsen; Jie Zhang
- TOURISM SATELLITE ACCOUNTS FOR REGIONS? A REVIEW OF DEVELOPMENT
ISSUES AND AN ALTERNATIVE / Calvin Jones; Max Munday
- TOURISM MULTIPLIERS FOR A SMALL CARIBBEAN ISLAND STATE; THE CASE
OF ARUBA / Albert E. Steenge; Annemieke M. Van De Steeg
- COMBINING NON-MARKET VALUATION AND INPUT–OUTPUT ANALYSIS
FOR COMMUNITY TOURISM PLANNING: OPEN SPACE AND WATER QUALITY VALUES IN
COLORADO, USA / Sarah Cline; Andrew Seidl
- MACROECONOMIC EFFECTS OF A VAT REDUCTION IN THE ITALIAN HOTELS
& RESTAURANTS INDUSTRY / Mara Manente; Michele Zanette
- AN IMPORTANT FACTOR IN JOB ESTIMATION: A NONLINEAR JOBS-TO-SALES
RATIO WITH RESPECT TO CAPACITY UTILIZATION / Ya-Yen Sun; Kam-Fai Wong
International
Socialism, 129: January 2011
Journal website:
http://www.isj.org.uk/
Analysis
Feedback
Book reviews
Intervention. European
Journal of Economics and Economic Policies
Forum
-
Different sources of capitalism’s instability: Finance
in Minsky and money in The General Theory / Elisabetta De Antoni
-
The spread of Keynesianism in Brazil: The origins and
experience of the Brazilian Keynesian Association / Luiz Fernando de
Paula, Fernando Ferrari Filho
Special Forum on Macroeconomic Theory and Macroeconomic Pedagogy
-
The New Consensus in macroeconomics and non-mainstream
approaches / Claudio Sardoni
-
Macroeconomic Theory and Macroeconomic Pedagogy – A
review of the book edited by Giuseppe Fontana and Mark Setterfield /
Sebastian Dullien
-
Macroeconomic Theory and Macroeconomic Pedagogy: A response
to some criticisms / Giuseppe Fontana, Mark Setterfield
Special Issue on The global financial crisis – Analysis and
policy options
Editorial to the Special
-
Crises and paradigms in macroeconomics / Malcolm Sawyer
-
Global imbalances, monetary disorder, and shrinking policy
space: Keynes’s legacy for our troubled world / Anna M.
Carabelli, Mario A. Cedrini
-
Global imbalances, the US dollar, and how the crisis at the
core of global finance spread to »self-insuring« emerging
market economies / Jörg Bibow
-
Kaldorian boom-bust cycles in the housing market / Ingo
Barens, Peter Flaschel, Florian Hartmann, Andreas Röthig
-
The global financial crisis and the shift to shadow banking /
Yeva Nersisyan, L. Randall Wray
-
The economies of deleveraging: The aftermath of
financialization / Thomas I. Palley
Book Reviews
-
Joachim Becker et al.: Heterodoxe Ökonomie (Klara
Zwickl)
-
Herbert Schui: Gerechtere Verteilung wagen. Mit Demokratie
gegen Wirtschaftsliberalismus (Markus Marterbauer)
-
Bo Sandelin, Hans-Michael Trautwein, Richard Wundrak: A Short
History of Economic Thought (Eckhard Hein)
Moneta e Credito, 63(252):
2010
Journal website (articles are
available here): http://sead-pub.cilea.it/index.php/MonetaeCredito/issue/view/24/showToc
- Introduzione / Alessandro Roncaglia
- “Europa 2020”, nuovo governo economico e
ri-regolamentazione finanziaria:incentivi o vincoli alla crescita? /
Mario Sarcinelli
- Kindleberger economista, storico del capitalismo / Leandro Conte
- Perché la teoria post-keynesiana non è dominante /
Angelo Reati
- Note Bibliografiche: Salvati, M. (2009), Capitalismo, mercato e
democrazia (Cristina Marcuzzo)
Mother Pelican: A Journal of
Sustainable Human Development, 7(1): Jan. 2011
Articles
- Editorial ~ A Christmas Reflection on Being Human
- Envisioning a Sustainable World, by Donella H. Meadows
- The power to create a better world is already ours, by John
Bunzl
- Rare Earths Diplomacy, by Sean Daly
- A Real Solution to Global Debt Crises, by Julia Dowling
- Flaws in Human Mentality: A few thoughts on the subject, by
Copthorne Macdonald
- Sustainable Growth Is An Oxymoron, by Rudy M. Baum
- Faith in service: What has gender got to do with it?, by Mariz
Tadros
- What the New Human Development Index tells us about Africa, by
Francisco R. Rodriguez
Supplements
- Supp1. Advances in Sustainable Development
- Supp2. Directory of Sustainable Development Resources
- Supp3. Sustainable Development Simulation (SDSIM) Version 1.4
- Supp4. Budapest Call for Climate Justice (WCC, November 2010)
Metroeconomica,
62(1): Feb. 2011
Journal website: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0026-1386
- THE INFLUENCE OF DIFFERENT FORMS OF GOVERNMENT SPENDING ON
DISTRIBUTION AND GROWTH / Pasquale Commendatore, Carlo Panico and
Antonio Pinto
- TRANSITIONS OUT OF UNEMPLOYMENT: THE ROLE OF SOCIAL NETWORKS'
TOPOLOGY AND FIRMS' RECRUITMENT STRATEGIES / Andrea Mario Lavezzi and
Nicola Meccheri
- STRONG SUBJECTIVISM IN THE MARXIAN THEORY OF EXPLOITATION: A
CRITIQUE / Roberto Veneziani and Naoki Yoshihara
- A MICROECONOMIC MODEL OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY / Tommy
Lundgren
- POST KEYNESIAN PERSPECTIVES AND COMPLEX ECOLOGIC–ECONOMIC
DYNAMICS /J. Barkley Rosser, Jr
- GROWTH, STAGNATION AND STATUS PREFERENCE / Ryu-ichiro Murota and
Yoshiyasu Ono
- SIZE AND COMPOSITION OF PUBLIC SPENDING IN A NEOCLASSICAL GROWTH
MODEL /Oliviero A. Carboni and Giuseppe Medda
- TAX, STIMULI OF INVESTMENT AND FIRM VALUE / Yishay D. Maoz
- ASYMPTOTIC AGE STRUCTURES AND INTERGENERATIONAL TRADE /Gregory
Ponthiere
- ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE EFFECTS OF FISCAL POLICY /Richard H. Day
and Chengyu Yang
PSL Quarterly Review,
63(255): 201
Journal website (articles are available here): http://sead-pub.cilea.it/index.php/PSLQuarterlyReview/issue/view/25/showToc
- Confronting the financial crisis: surveillance and regulation
/Alessandro Roncaglia
- Reforming financial systems after the crisis: a comparison of EU
and USA /Rainer Masera
- Empowering supervisors with more principles and discretion to
implement them will not reduce the dangers of the prudential approach
to financial regulation /Mario Tonveronachi
- Do Better Political Relations with the USA Improve A
Country’s Economic Outlook? /Amirhossein Najafi, Anwar Aridi,
Hossein Askari
Review of
Political Economy, 22(4): October 2010
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/crpe
Symposium in Memory of John Cornwall
- Foreword to the Symposium, / G. C. Harcourt
- Macrodynamics for a Better Society: The Economics of John
Cornwall / Mark Setterfield; A. P. Thirlwall
- What Monetary Policy after the Crisis? / Philip Arestis; Malcolm
Sawyer
- The Return of Keynesian Economics: A Contribution in the Spirit
of John Cornwall's Work /Giuseppe Fontana
Other Articles
- Discounting Nordhaus / Thomas R. Michl
- Financial Uncertainty and Business Investment / Engelbert
Stockhammer; Lucas Grafl
- International Reserves, Effective Demand and Growth / Moritz
Cruz; Peter Kriesler
- Does Class Matter? Social Cleavages in South Korea's Electoral
Politics in the Era of Neoliberalism / Wonik Kim
Book Reviews
- The Political Economy of Work / Bruno Tinel
- Regional Monetary Policy / Paul Dalziel
Review of Political Economy,
23(1): January 2011
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/crpe
- A Nobel Prize for Governance and Institutions: Oliver Williamson
and Elinor Ostrom
- Peter E. Earl; Jason Potts
- Who is Going to Kiss Sleeping Beauty? On the
‘Classical’ Analytical Origins and Perspectives of
Input–Output Analysis / Heinz D. Kurz
- A Perspective on Minsky Moments: Revisiting the Core of the
Financial Instability Hypothesis / Alessandro Vercelli
- Credit Money, Collateral and the Solvency of Banks: A Post
Keynesian Analysis of Credit Market Failures / Paul Ramskogler
- Adam Smith and the Division of Labour among the Social Sciences
/ Tony Aspromourgos
- The Concept of Abstract Labour in Adam Smith's System of Thought
/ Eric Rahim
- The Revival of Classical Political Economy and the Cambridge
Tradition: From Scarcity Theory to Surplus Theory / Nuno Martins
- Capabilities and Functionings: The Role of Social Capital for
Accessing New Capabilities / Matteo Migheli
Book Reviews
- Unjust Deserts: How the Rich are Taking Our Common Inheritance /
Oren M. Levin-Waldman
- From the Corn Laws to Free Trade: Interests, Ideas and
Institutions in Historical Perspective / Oren M. Levin-Waldman
- Euros and Europeans, Monetary Integration and the European Model
of Society / Ivo Maes
- Conflict and Cooperation: Institutional and Behavioral Economics
/ David Dequech
- Capital Flight and Capital Controls in Developing Countries /
Tung-Yi Kho
- Competition Policy: Theory and Practice / Robert P. Rogers
- Economics in Real Time. A Theoretical Reconstruction / Lina
Ochoa
- A Handbook of Alternative Monetary Economics / Angelo Reati
Heterodox Newsletters
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CCPA, January 2011
- a new study by CCPA Research Associate Hugh Mackenzie that shows
compensation for Canada's top CEOs appears to be recession-proof. The
study looks at 2009 compensation levels for Canada’s best paid
100 CEOs and finds they pocketed an average of $6.6 million during the
darkest period of the recession – a stark contrast from the total
average Canadian income of $42,988. At this rate of reward, this
handful of elite CEOs pocketed the equivalent of the average Canadian
wage by 2:30 pm on January 3 – the first working day of the year.
Read the full report here.
- Looking into the crystal ball: 2011 predictions. As we round out
another decade, thoughts turn to the future. The Canadian Centre for
Policy Alternatives’ Hugh Mackenzie, Shauna Mackinnon, Trish
Hennessy, Jim Stanford, Armine Yalnizyan and I weigh in on the issues
facing Canada in the years ahead. We flag the economy, social unrest,
drift, democracy, dirty oil, and corporate Canada as things to watch in
2011 and beyond. Click
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- New Our Schools/Our Selves released. The winter issue of Our
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EPI (Economic Policy
Institute) News, January 2011
More people, fewer jobs
The latest unemployment report released last week contained more
sobering data. Although the nationwide unemployment rate dropped to
9.4% in December from 9.8% in November, a large part of that decline
reflected unemployed workers who left the labor force and were no
longer counted among the unemployed.
Poverty and the social safety net
Last year, the Census Bureau reported that 14.3% of Americans were
living in poverty in 2009. But the methodology used to measure poverty
in America has long been a matter of dispute and on January 4, the
Census Bureau released some alternative estimates. These new
calculations show that, when accounting for the current cost of living
in different parts of the country, far more people have poverty-level
incomes.
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Award by the Association for Evolutionary Economics. The award is
presented annually to a scholar who has substantially contributed to
our understanding of how economics actually work, in addition to
providing insights that advance economic theory
New Publications
- Quantitative
Easing and Proposals for Reform of Monetary Policy Operations /
Scott Fullwiler and L. Randall Wray
- How Rich Countries Became Rich and Why Poor Countries Remain
Poor: It's the Economic Structure . . . Duh! / Jesus Felipe, Utsav
Kumar, and Arnelyn Abdon
- Modeling Technological Progress and Investment in China: Some
Caveats / Jesus Felipe and John McCombie
- China in the Global Economy / Sunanda Sen
- Disaggregating the Resource Curse: Is the Curse More Difficult
to Dispel in Oil States than in Mineral States? / Timothy Azarchs and
Tamar Khitarishvili
- The Central Bank "Printing Press": Boon or Bane? Remedies for
High Unemployment and Fears of Fiscal Crisis / Greg Hannsgen and
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
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nef
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BBC World Tonight explores the shorter working week
nef begins new project on criminal justice
Citizen's panel builds economic democracy from the ground up
- Throughout 2011, nef will be helping European
Alternatives to organise a large-scale transeuropean project that
will bring together thousands of citizens across Europe to discuss
common actions to fight for their civil rights, as expressed in the
EU’s Stockholm Programme and Charter of Fundamental Rights. The
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Alan Greenspan: The Oracle
Behind the Curtain
By E Ray Canterbery.
World Scientific. ISBN: 978-981-256-606-5| website
"Because he is a gifted writer who avoids jargon and unnecessary
abstraction, Professor Canterbery defends his points in ways that are
accessible to general readers... there are a number of issues he raises
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Behind the Crisis: Marx's
Dialectics of Value and Knowledge
By Guglielmo Carchedi.
Brill 2011. Historical
Materialism Book Series 26. ISBN 978 90 04 18994 2 (HB) | website
Much has been written since Capital was first published,
and more recently after the demise of the Soviet Union and the
consequent triumph of neoliberalism, about the irrelevance,
inconsistency, and obsoleteness of Marx. This has been attributed to
his unworkable method of inquiry. This book goes against the current.
It introduces the issues that are presently most hotly debated, it
evaluates them, and it groups them into four headings, each one of them
corresponding to a chapter. At the same time, it submits a new reading
of Marx’s method of social research and on this basis it argues
that Marx’s work offers a solid foundation upon which to further
develop a multi-faceted theory of crises highly relevant for the
contemporary world.
Central
Banking and Financialization: A Romanian Account of How Eastern Europe
Became Subprime
By Daniela Gabor
Palgrave Macmillan, November 2010. Series: Studies in
Economic Transition ISBN: 0230276156 (HB) | Website
At the beginning of 2009, Eastern Europe became the source of
increasing concerns, as it was feared that the large foreign borrowing
of its banking system could trigger an economic cataclysm. This book
explores how and why Eastern Europe became subprime, taking Romania as
a paradigmatic case study. It explains the region's vulnerability
through the growing financialization of banking activity, money and
currency markets. Central banks, it argues, have played a key role in
this process by offering an ‘institutional home’ to global
forces and reorienting practices of monetary management to the
requirements of financialization.
The book advances a conceptual approach to the political economy of
central banking that distinguishes between monetary theory, policy
narratives and practices of monetary management. This re-politicization
is fundamental for understanding how central banks are produced
through, and operate within, processes of neoliberal financialization.
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Criticism
of Theology: On Marxism and Theology III
By Roland Boer
Brill 2011. Historical
Materialism Book Series, 27. ISBN: 978 90 04 18974 4 (hb) | website
Criticism of Theology provides a detailed and critical
commentary on the continued fascination with religion by yet more
significant Marxist philosophers, historians and critics: Max
Horkheimer, E.P. Thompson, G.E.M. de Ste. Croix, Michael Löwy,
Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Antonio Negri.
Simultaneously critique and construction, Criticism of Theology
carefully analyses their work through close textual readings, with a
view to locating hidden gems that may be developed further. The book
continues the project for a renewed and enlivened interaction between
Marxism and religion, being the third of five volumes in the Criticism
of Heaven and Earth series.
Evaluating
Economic Research in a Contested Discipline: Ranking, Pluralism, and
the Future of Heterodox Economics
Edited by Frederic S. Lee and Wolfram Elsner
Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN: 978-1-4443-3945-1, Hardcover, 200 pages |
Series in the Studies in
Economic Reform and Social Justice | website
This book challenges the view that using SSCI journal citations
(especially its impact factor score) and peer
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discipline such as economics, these methods are used by mainstream
economists to attack and dismiss heterodox economics.
In this book, the authors investigate discrimination against heterodox
economics by examining case studies in
Australia, Italy, and the United States. In addition, they show how
SSCI journal citations can be used to promote heterodox economics and
heterodox research without simultaneously denigrating mainstream
economics and its research. Finally, the book concludes with the
unexpected position that a contested economics discipline results in
the creation of better economists who are more capable of contributing
in an open and intelligent manner to economic-social policy issues.
Evaluating Economic Research in a Contested Discipline features the
first extensive rankings of heterodox and mainstream economics journals
and rankings of US graduate programs. The book also examines the impact
of national research assessment exercises on heterodox economics in
Italy and Australia.
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Economics and Sociology, with support from the Robert Schalkenbach
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Series in Great
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This book is a thoroughly engaging depiction of the life and work of a
Canadian farm boy who went on to become a jet-setting celebrity. Over a
career that spanned three-quarters of a century, John Kenneth Galbraith
became the world's most famous economist, a confidant in presidential
politics and an iconic figure in progressive American liberalism. This
great Public Intellectual led us all to consider the dangers of an
obsolete Conventional Wisdom, the complexities of an Affluent Society,
and the implications of the emergence of powerful organizations.
This book demonstrates the relevance of Galbraith's ideas to the
current global economic crisis and beyond to the endemic problems of
capitalism. It conveys his inveterate optimism that an evolutionary,
pragmatic, and behavioral political economy can guide us to a reformed
democratic capitalism that is economically, socially, and ecologically
sustainable.
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The Legacy of John Kenneth
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Edited by Steve Pressman
1st edition January 12, 2011. Routledge; ISBN-10:
0415617391 ; ISBN-13: 978-0415617390. $122.50 |
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When John Kenneth Galbraith passed away on April 29, 2006, the
economics profession lost one of its true giants. And this is not just
because Galbraith was an imposing figure at 6 feet, 9 inches tall.
Throughout his life, Galbraith advised Presidents, made important
professional contributions to the discipline of economics, and also
tried to explain economic ideas to the general public. This volume pays
tribute to Galbraith’s life and career by explaining some of his
major contributions to the canon of economic ideas. The papers describe
the series of unique contributions that Galbraith made in many
different areas. He was a founder of the Post Keynesian view of money,
and a proponent of the Post Keynesian view that price controls were
necessary to deal with the problem of inflation in a modern economy
where large firms already control prices and prices are not determined
by the market. He promulgated the view that firms manipulate individual
preferences and tastes, through advertising and other means of
persuasion, and he drew out the economic implications of this view. He
was a student of financial frauds and euphoria, and a forerunner of the
Post Keynesian/Minskean view of finance and how financial markets
really work. This book was published as a special issue of the Review
of Political Economy.
Keynes Betrayed: The General
Theory, the Rate of Interest, and ‘Keynesian’ economics
By Geoff Tily
2nd edition. 2010. Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN-10: 0230277012 (pb).
First published in 2007 and now re-issued in paperback with a
preface putting the work in the context of the global economic crisis
(and a bit of ‘told you so’) and revised title. Given
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macroeconomists to put Keynes back into Keynesian economics.' - Colin
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The National Question and
the Question of Crisis
Edited by Paul Zarembka
Emerald Group, Bingley, UK 2010, Research in Political Economy
Volume 26, ISBN: 978-0-85724-493-2 |
website
This volume focuses on nationality's efficacy in much of world affairs,
andon the background and current issues surrounding global crisis. As
one of the most famous Marxist revolutionaries, Rosa Luxemburg
vigorously promoted her own conceptions, often opposing Lenin, her
contemporary. In this volume, Narihiko Ito offers a much needed,
extensive analysis of her position on the nation state versus national
autonomy. This is followed by a critique of the current Iranian
conjuncture, offered by Farhang Morady.
The Reform of the Bolivian
State: Domestic Politics in the Context of Globalization
By Andreas Tsolakis
First Forum Press/Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN: 978-1-935049-27-2 |
website
Restoring
Democracy to America: How to Free Markets and Politics from the
Corporate Culture of Business and Government
By John F. M. McDermott
Penn State University Press 2010. ISBN 978-0-271-03724-0 |
website
Read the
except from this book (by
courtesy of John McDermott).
Uneven Development: Nature,
Capital and the Production of Space
By Neil Smith
Verso, June 2010. Paperback, 328 pages. ISBN: 9781844676439 | website
New and updated edition with a new foreword by DAVID HARVEY
Heterodox Book Reviews
The Marx and Philosophy
Review of Books
New reviews just published online in the Marx and Philosophy
Review of Books
- Tally on Jameson
- Blackledge on Marxism and World Politics
- Gray on Re-reading Marx
- Versieren on Everling
- Verikukis on Eagleton
New comments and discussion and a new list of books for review all at
www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/
Heterodox
Graduate Programs and Scholarships
Fellowship program on Capitalism, the
Corporation, and Economic Democracy, Rutgers University
The Fellows Program at Rutgers University's School of Management and
Labor Relations invites applications for fellowships to study employee
stock ownership and profit sharing and broad-based stock options in the
corporation and society in the United States.
The fellowships will be awarded for the 2011-2012 academic year to
outstanding PhD candidates or post-doctoral scholars or faculty in the
areas of economics, economic and business history, labor studies and
employment relations, law, management and business, public policy, and
relevant social science and humanities disciplines. The general theme
of the fellowships includes research on the idea, practice, and public
policies involving broadening the ownership of capital assets in the
corporation and in society, such as the Employee Stock Ownership Plan
(ESOP), as well as other approaches whereby consumers may have capital
ownership of enterprises and individual citizens may have access to
broader opportunities for capital acquisition in the economy. The
relevance of these and other related ideas to the concept of economic
democracy and democratic capitalism may also be examined. The Fellows
are typically supported at their home institution but they may be in
residence at Rutgers University. The period and length of the
fellowship may vary between July 1, 2011 and June 30, 2012. The
fellowships may be used for research, travel, or living expenses.
Fifteen fellowships will be awarded: four Beyster Fellowships in the
amount of $25,000. including the J. Robert Beyster Visiting
Professorship, five Louis O. Kelso Fellowships in the amount of
$12,500., two Robert Smiley Fellowships in Economic History in the
amount of $5,000. for archival research, and several other related
fellowships. The fellowships would permit the student or faculty member
to associate with several scholars engaged in this area of research and
receive mentoring and support and assistance with datasets and archives
from a group of more than fifty fellows across the United States.
Applicants may submit the following information by email or letter by
January 31, 2011 or February 25, 2011 depending on the specific
fellowship deadline: 1) A statement of no more than 1500 words
describing the proposed research project including its current status
and broader significance; 2) A curriculum vitae; 3) Three letters of
reference (included in sealed envelopes or submitted separately by
email or mail.) Address: Search Committee, Fellowship Programs, Rutgers
University, School of Management and Labor Relations, Levin Building
Room 216, 94 Rockefeller Road, New Brunswick, New Jersey 08854. For
more information, please email: beysterfellowships@smlr.rutgers.edu
or fellowship_program@smlr.rutgers.edu
or see http://smlr.rutgers.edu/research-and-centers/beyster-fellowship-and-fellows-programs
Recipients will be announced by March 15, 2011.
Economics for Equity and the
Environment Network 2011 Summer Internship Program
Economics
for Equity and the Environment Network (E3) is a national network
of economists developing new and better arguments for environmental
protection. We support improved decision making in public policy by
involving our economists in dialogue and cooperation with NGOs,
decision makers, the public, media and stakeholders. We support and
promote research that demonstrates fair and effective solutions to real
world environmental problems.
E3 Network’s internship program offers economics graduate
students the opportunity to work directly with environmental
organizations. Graduate students gain real world insights into
environmental protection and explore possible avenues for their
research and professional development. Organizations benefit from the
expertise and training of these junior economists. Recent interns have
been placed with the Natural Resources Defense Council, Union of
Concerned Scientists, International Rivers Network, Greenpeace, Friends
of the Earth, Conservation Strategy Fund, Marine Conservation Biology
Institute, Clean Air-Cool Planet, Forest Guild, New Voice of Business,
Center for Environment and Population, Stockholm Environment Institute,
Global Development and Environment Institute, and The Trust for Public
Land.
Interns will be placed with an environmental organization for 8 weeks
and will be paid a stipend of $5000. E3 prioritizes graduate students
who are dedicated to applied economics research and who support
E3’s commitment to social justice. Applicants must be willing to
relocate to accommodate their NGO placement. The deadline for
applications for summer 2011 is February 21.
To apply, please email the following information to Kristen Sheeran (director@e3network.org),
Director, by the deadline. Curriculum vita One letter of reference A
three-page statement of your research interests and how they relate to
E3 Network’s mission.
For further information, visit http://www.e3network.org/internship.html
Post-doc
Fellowship in Political Economy, Hertie School of Governance
Jointly at the Political Economy Cluster and the Centre for Fiscal
Governance.
DL for applications is 31 January.
For more information, download Announcement.
Heterodox Web Sites and
Associates
EMU-Cost
website
A new website
www.emu-cost.net
supporting a grant for European application European monetary
unifications, from Antiquity to modern times (EMU) .
You will find galleries of books published by the potential
participants, information on all the participants and institutions, and
a video of presentation of the application.
The initial objective of EMU consists of an interdisciplinary
approach to furthering our understanding of the changes brought about
by European monetary unification in the light of historical and social
experience.
EMU will stimulate collective research by organizing a strong network
of researchers, replacing the current fragmented national perception of
monetary and economic history, linked to the political divisions of
Europe in the last centuries, with a global perception.
COST is an intergovernmental
framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology. It
contributes to reducing the fragmentation in European research and
opening the European Research Area to cooperation worldwide.
COST has clearly shown its
strength in non-competitive research and public utility problems. It
has been successfully used to maximise European synergy and added value
in research cooperation and is a useful tool to further European
integration
Global Alliance for
Immediate Alteration
This space is an experiment for constructing a new type of
transnational social network union that aims at brining individual
industrial and non-industrial workers in the Global North, the
precariat in the Global South; peasants, domestic, immigrant and
jobless workers together with social movement activists from other
struggle fields, activist/researchers and many others who has to work
in order to reproduce his/her life and to provide an open space where
we can connect our networks and struggles to each other.
GAIA project is an open invitation for inventing a world wide, common,
grassroots, wiki social movement union that will aim an immediate
alteration of capitalist social, cultural, and political order.
Marcello
Musto's webiste on contemporary research on Marx
A new website from Marcello Muston about contemporary research on
Marx,
here.
Institute
for New Economic Thinking New Blog
We are happy to announce the launch of a new regular feature on
our website, a blog called “The Money View,” written by
Perry Mehrling, a top economics professor on our Advisory Board. The
Money View will regularly engage current financial news and policy
debates from the standpoint of the classics of monetary theory.
Mehrling starts with the idea that capitalism is essentially a
financial system, which means that we need to take a money view in
order to understand how it works.
Mehrling is an economics professor at Barnard College, Columbia
University, and a scholar whose research lies at the intersection of
monetary and financial economics, with special emphasis on historical
and institutional approaches. His most recent book is “The New
Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort,”
which traces the evolution of the banking system through the 20th
century until now.
The Money View blog is one of several new features on the website that
we will be rolling out in the early part of this year as we build our
content and grow our online community. Please take some time to watch
short video segments of some of our recent interviews with Charles
Ferguson, the director of the controversial documentary “Inside
Job” that takes on academic practices in economics, or with Adair
Turner, Chairman of the Financial Services Authority, the top financial
regulator of the United Kingdom.
We invite you to comment on The Money View or other content and
get engaged in our community by registering an account on our website.
Stay tuned as we update you more frequently in the exciting year ahead.
Queries
from Heterodox Economists
Information on
Popularity/Sales of Principles textbooks
I am in search of information regarding the popularity, in terms
of sales, of principles textbooks. I have done some rudimentary online
searches for this information, but it is unclear to me which textbooks
generate the largest sales volume or even where to find this
information. I am wondering if the sales figures are compiled in a
relatively easy to access format. As an addendum, the purpose of my
search for sales figures is based on an interest in surveying the most
"popular" principles textbooks in an effort to see the degree to which
any of the most widely sold books include any heterodox ideas. Thank
you for your assistance.
Contact: Justin A. Elardo, PhD
elarco_justin@hotmail.com
Portland Community College
For Your Information
300
Economists Call for AEA to Adopt Code of Ethics
300 economists have issued a public letter arguing that the
American Economics Association should adopt a code of ethics for
economists. Read the Letter from the 300 economists
here.
See also "The Economics of Economists'
Ethics: If they read their own research, economists might disclose
conflicts of interest more often", by Annie Lowrey, Slate, Jan. 5,
2011.
Oxford Economics and Oxford
Economists
(From Fred Lee)
On my department web site I have placed two manuscripts—see
the links below (it takes a few seconds after clicking on the links for
the manuscripts to show up). One consists of recollections I collected
from students and economists about Oxford economics and Oxford
economists. All the originals are lodged in Bodleian Library, Oxford.
The second is a very hard to get autobiography by E. L. Hargreaves.
Both deal with Oxford in the interwar and post-war period and may be of
interest to anyone engaged in research in this area or on for example
the development of the Marshallian school outside of Cambridge. If you
have any questions about the manuscripts please feel free to e-mail me
leefs@umkc.edu
