Editors'
Note
Firstly, we would like
to remind you that deadlines for
submitting paper proposals are approaching; for example, ASE-ASSA
(4/30), URPE-ASSA
(5/1), ICAPE
(4/3o), EAEPE
(5/1), and so on. Follow the link provided to get details about each
conference.
Secondly, we are glad to announce that a book on Heterodox
Analysis of Financial Crisis and Reform
has just been
published. This book is the outcome of the Fourth Biannual Cross-Border
Post Keynesian Conference held at Buffalo State College in October
2009. Both TJ (as a co-editor and author) and TS (as an author)
contributed to this volume. We hope you find this book thought
provoking. We want to remind you that you can have a copy of any
heterodox books if you write a review for the Heterodox Economics
Newsletter. Contact our book review editor, Dr. Fadhel Kaboub at kaboubf@denison.edu,
for any query about a book review.
Lastly, We will depart from the usual commentary in this edition and
direct you to a note in the For Your Information section. The Japan
Society for Historians of Economic Thought (JSHET) Annual Meetings,
which were to be held at Fukushima University in May, have been
postponed due to the ongoing efforts to recover from the devastating
impacts of the earthquake/tsunami. To our colleagues in Japan, no
apology is necessary. Our thoughts are with you and the people of
Japan, and we will support you in any way we can.
In solidarity,
Tae-Hee Jo and Ted
Schmidt, Editors
Email: heterodoxnews@gmail.com
Website:
http://heterodoxnews.com
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Call for Papers
2nd
CES
“Critical Economics” Summer School
12th-15th of July 2011 | Lousã
(Portugal) | website
Environmental Values and Public
Policies
The CES “Critical
Economics Summer School”, launched
in 2009, brings together in annual meetings economists and other social
scientists to discuss topics of shared interest. This series of summer
schools aims at promoting a forum for critical research on the economy
and in economics. The school is primarily intended for PhD students and
post-doctoral researchers as well as young scholars.
This second
edition of the Summer School is
devoted to analyze how the growing
relevance of environment, recognized as a “good”
and as a
“problem” of our societies, challenges public
policy
instruments and procedures that allow government policy on
environmental issues to be made material and operational. These
instruments and procedures are significantly relying on economic
theories and expertise. The creation of environmental markets is one
clear example of the importance of economic theory in shaping societal
answers to the environmental crisis. The problem with economics applied
to the environment is that economics has a specific and limited
definition of the value of the environment. Through exploring the
dimension of environmental value pluralism with insights coming from
sociology and philosophy, we want to discuss the limits of existing
economic instruments and procedures and explore alternative pathways
(included conflict and participation) allowing for the taking into
account of the various ways in which environments matter to people and
to their communities.
The speakers will be invited
to discuss three main topics:
1) Environmental values and
valuation
We are interested in
exploring economic valuation as one of the
possible ways to value the environment. Philosophical and sociological
approaches to the issue of the plurality of forms of valuing
environment are here discussed. We are interested as well in the issue
of how the plurality of forms of valuing environment can be composed in
public decision processes, especially through deliberation.
2) Environmental markets
We are interested in
exploring the socio-technical construction
of environmental markets, and the instruments relying on environmental
markets (like CBA), entering into the details of the operations of
commensuration that are needed in order to create them and their limits
in terms of neglecting value pluralism.
3) Public decision and the
environment: participation and
conflict
We are interested in
discussing the complexity of public decision
processes concerning environmental issues and the place for
participation and conflict as active contributions to the reshaping of
public policies.
Guest lecturers include John
O’Neill from the University of
Manchester (Manchester, UK), Laurent Thévenot from the Ecole
des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France) and Clive Spash from
the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Vienna, Austria). CES
Lecturers include José Maria Castro Caldas, João
Rodrigues, Laura Centemeri, Stefania Barca.
Course language wil be
English.
Interested PhD students,
post-docs and early stage researchers
are encouraged to apply by submitting a curriculum vitae and a two-page
abstract of the proposed paper, together with the author’s
contact details (Name, affiliation, email address) to criticaleconomics2011@ces.uc.pt
.
Deadline for submissions is April
15th 2011. Acceptance
will be communicated by email by May 1st 2011. Final papers are due by
July 7th 2011.
Venue
The Summer School will be
held at the
Meliá Palácio da
Lousã. Formerly
Palace of Viscondessa do Espinhal, it is
classified as Historical Heritage. It is located in Lousã's
historical city center, with stunning views of Lousã
Mountain. Fee
Registration fee: 50
€ for students and 150 € for
non-students Accommodation costs + meals
from the night of the 11th of July to
the afternoon of the 15th of July: 250 € The organization may
subsidize a small number of students,
especially students coming from outside Europe. The decision will be
based on the interest of the proposed paper and subject to proof of
student status.
3rd
International Encuentro
“The Workers' Economy”
"Analyzing & Debating a New
Economy
from the Perspective of Workers & Self-management"
June 9-11, 2011 | Mexico City
In recent decades the global
economy’s management has been
in the hands of the capitalists and their neo-liberal institutions.
Where has it led? It has led first to an extreme polarization of
resources and wealth between a handful of enriched countries and the
majority of impoverished ones, and within countries between a shrinking
handful of capitalists and the immense majority of workers - who are
made ever more insecure. Second, it has led to the greatest ecological
disaster ever produced by humans in history. And third, it has led to
the worst economic crisis of the capitalist system since the crash of
1929. Today, hovering over the chaos and conflict in which their
management has plunged the world, the capitalists try to salvage their
privileges and wealth while making the workers pay the consequences.
Thus while governments and international institutions bail out
capitalists in crisis, they also increase costs to and decrease income
of, the workers – precisely to pay for those bailouts. And
all
this is on top of the “normal costs” of the
exploitation of
work.
Clearly the workers are not
sitting idly by in the face of this
economic leadership, which is irrational for the workers and for
humankind but--rational for the capitalists! On the one hand, the
workers are resisting paying for the mess due to this capitalist
leadership in crisis, and, on the other, they are re-thinking and
challenging the capitalists’ conduct of the economy while
forging
their own practices and institutions.
The fragmentation of the
workers’ struggles in each country
and in the world is nevertheless also one of the principle
characteristics of our time. Countless conflicts between capital and
labor unfold in seeming isolation from each other. But there are many
examples of self-management and self-organized economic forms spreading
throughout the world, while millions of workers who reject their status
as workers are coming to recognize themselves in new and old forms of
work and resistance. This new condition of the working class,
interwoven with other movements and forms of struggle, is still far
from producing a new project for workers as such. Yet in all their
diverse situations at this stage of globalized capitalism, the workers,
recovering and recreating their historical struggles, are beginning to
outline and reconstruct their own alternative economic, political and
social management.
This Third International
Encuentro “The Workers’
Economy” comes after Encuentros in 2007 and 2009 in Buenos
Aires,
Argentina. It will contribute to the debate on the same themes,
bringing academic and intellectual contributions together with the
practices and ideas of the workers and other social and political
activists. This Third International Encuentro “The
Workers’
Economy” proposes to continue examining and systematizing
workers’ experiences. It will study both their critical
resistance to the capitalists’ management of the economy, and
the
shaping of their own forms of leadership.
This Third Encuentro is in
Mexico rather than Argentina. This
challenges the organizers to consolidate the space generated by the
debate and to accentuate its international character. Mexico is one of
the countries in which neo-liberalism has shown itself with most
savagery and impunity, in turn provoking important workers’
struggles and social movements of protest. They need support.
Organizing the Encuentro in Mexico aims to help reinforce and draw
attention to these struggles.
Topics of debate:
- Analysis of the capitalist
management of the economy and
proposals for global self-management.
- The new crisis of global
capitalism: analysis and responses from
the perspective of the workers’ economy.
- Self-management: the
historical assessment.
- Self-management in its
present stage: its problems and
potential. Recuperated factories, co-ops, and attempts at
self-management by social movements.
- Self-management and women
- The socialist experience,
analysis of its past and future.
- The challenges of trade
union experience within neoliberal
global capitalism.
- Informal, precarious and
demeaning work: social exclusion or
reconfiguration of work in global capitalism?
- The universities, the
workers and the movements: debates about
methodologies and practices of mutual construction.
The Third Encuentro
“The Workers’ Economy” will
take place over three days with morning and afternoon sessions and will
be open to the public. There will be plenary sessions and workshops
based on presentation of papers, videoconferencing, and a final plenary
with discussion and conclusions.
Organizing Committee: Area
Work Studies of the Department of
Social Relations of the Autonomous Metropolitan University at
Xochimilco and the Open Faculty Program of the Faculty of Philosophy
and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires.
Co-organizers of the
Encuentro (currently confirmed) are:
- Center for Global
Justice, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
- Institute of Philosophy,
Havana, Cuba.
- Faculty of Philosophy
and History of the University of
Havana.
- Autonomist Argentina
Project (http://www.autonomista.org).
- Unidad Ecutora de
CONICET, Argentina.
- Program of Anthropology
and the History of the Capital-Work
- Relation in the
Contemporary Context, Center for Advanced
Studies, National University of Cordoba.
Deadline for sending summaries of
papers:
March 31, 2011
Deadline for sending complete
presentations: April 29, 2011.
Contact regarding the Third
Encuentro:
- centrodoc@gmail.com
(Centro de Documentación de Empresas Recuperadas, Programa
Facultad Abierta, UBA, Argentina).
- andres.ruggeri@gmail.com
(Andrés Ruggeri, Director, Programa Facultad Abierta)
- marcoagomez.gomez@gmail.com
(Marco Augusto Gómez Solórzano, Director del
Área
de Estudios del Trabajo de la UAM-Xochimilco, México)
- cpacheco@correo.xoc.uam.mx
(Celia Pacheco, Directora Departamento de Relaciones Sociales, UAM-X,
México).
For more information on the
Encuentro International “La
economía de los trabajadores” and editions of
selected
papers from the 2007 y 2009 sessions, visit www.recuperadasdoc.com.ar
8th
International Conference
Developments in Economic Theory and Policy
29th June to 1 July, 2011 | Bilbao (Spain)
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 (formed
by papers submitted on an individual basis gropued according their
themes), 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 proposals of ‘Organized
Sessions’ is 25th May 2011. For more information, you can
contact
with Jesus Ferreiro (jesus.ferreiro@ehu.es)
and Maribel Garcia-del-Valle (teresa.gvalleirala@ehu.es
), or visit the website www.conferencedevelopments.com
10th
Conference of the Australian Society of Heterodox Economists
5-6 December 2011 | Coogee Crowne Plaza Hotel, Sydney | website
The
relevance, contribution and future of
Heterodox Economics
The 10th annual Australian Society of Heterodox Economists (SHE)
Conference will be held on the 5th and 6th of December 2011. This year,
for the first time, the conference will be held at the Coogee Crowne
Plaza Hotel, Sydney.
Over the last 10 years, the annual SHE Conference has provided a vital
forum for the discussion of alternatives to mainstream economics. The
Conference provides a broad pluralistic and interdisciplinary forum to
discuss issues of importance to heterodox economists.
For 2011 the SHE Conference theme is The relevance, contribution and
future of Heterodox Economics.
Topics of interest to this overarching theme include: the failure of
neoclassical economics to predict, explain or find solutions to the
global financial and economic crises; the current climate and energy
crisis, nationally and internationally; the relationship of economists
to policymaking and decision-makers; the teaching of heterodox
economics; and, research evaluation and the impact of ERA ratings and
rankings.
Registration details will be announced later and be available at: http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/research/societyofheterodoxeconomists/SHEconference/Pages/default.aspx
Submission details:
Submissions are invited for single papers, complete sessions and
symposia (comprising more than one session) relevant to the
over-arching conference theme, or which discuss issues of importance
from perspectives which differ from, or critically examine, mainstream
economics.
Single papers:
All papers should include a 250 word abstract that clearly states the
issue being addressed, its main points and argument. It should be
stated, at the time of submission, if you require your paper to be
refereed and if you wish your paper to be considered for a symposium.
The deadline for refereed papers is Monday 10 October 2011.
The deadline for non-refereed papers is Monday 31 October 2011.
Complete sessions:
We welcome proposals for complete sessions. Session proposals should be
sent to p.kriesler@unsw.edu.au
and include the following information:
- A short title
- A description of the
session which should be no more than one
page
- The names of the proposed
participants in the session
- An abstract for each paper
to be included in the session
- The name and email address
of the session organiser
The deadline for complete sessions is Friday 15 July 2011.
Symposia:
We encourage proposals for symposia which address a single topic or
issue. The SHE Conference Committee will work with symposia organisers,
when constructing the conference program, to ensure a coherent list of
sessions for each symposium, and schedule these so that participants
can follow a symposium across more than one session. Symposium
proposals should be submitted to p.kriesler@unsw.edu.au
and
include the following information:
- A short title (no more than
5 words)
- A short description of the
type of paper that would be suitable
for inclusion in the symposium
- The name and email address
of the symposium organiser
The deadline for symposium proposals is Friday 15 July 2011.
Deadlines:
The SHE Conference Committee will consider all proposals for papers,
sessions and symposia, and will notify you of the acceptance or
rejection of your proposal.
Complete session proposals are due by Friday 15 July 2011 and will be
notified by Monday 25 July 2011.
Symposium proposals are due by Friday 15 July 2011 and will be notified
by Monday 25 July 2011.
The deadline for refereed papers is Monday 10 October 2011.
The deadline for non-refereed papers is Monday 31 October 2011.
For further information, visit SHE Website: http://she.web.unsw.edu.au
American
Journal of Economics and Sociology: Special Issue
"Measuring the Contribution of
Dissident
Scholarship"
Peer review provides the foundation for academic research, and yet peer
review and esteem can potentially be a self-reinforcing process. Common
training in a dominant paradigm can make academics prone to
group-think. The self-referential tendency is exacerbated in the social
sciences and humanities where theories are evaluated based on
interpretations of events and experiments cannot be used to explode
shared fallacies. Non-mainstream economics alleges that this
self-referential potential has been realized, and further that
conventional metrics of quality scholarship based on citations and
reputation essentially assume and fail to demonstrate the superior
quality of the mainstream.
The failure of conventional measures to demonstrate the superiority of
mainstream economics does not prove the comparable worth of
non-mainstream economics. Documentation of mainstream
economics’
flaws protected by self-referential peer review and demonstration of
the value of non-mainstream economics has proved elusive, perhaps due
to the extent of circularity. This special issue solicits innovative
attempts to assess the contribution of non-mainstream economics and
economists. Subjective evaluation by non-mainstream economists of the
value of their research seems hopelessly self-serving, indicating the
need for new metrics to measure the contribution of dissidents relative
to the mainstream. Papers employing a wide range of methods are
encouraged, including historical and contemporary case studies,
quantitative approaches, and comparison of economics literature and
other literatures.
Authors interested in submitting a paper are encouraged to contact the
Guest Editor. Papers should be submitted to the AJES website, by
February 15, 2012.
Guest Editor: Daniel Sutter, University of Texas – Pan
American, dssutter@utpa.edu
European
Group for Public Administration (EGPA) 33rd Annual Conference
7-10 September,
Bucharest, Romania | website
PSG: Public Administration,
Technology & Innovation (www.ttu.ee/pati)
Deadline for abstracts: 1
May (submit to: erkki.karo@ttu.ee)
The newly-established
permanent study group ‘Public
Administration, Technology & Innovation’ (PATI) of
EGPA will
be officially inaugurated at the 33rd Annual Conference of EGPA in
Bucharest, following the preliminary kick-off meeting to be held in May
at Tallinn University of Technology (see more: www.ttu.ee/pati).Technological
developments of the last decades have brought the co-evolutionary
linkages between technology and public sector institutions into the
center of both economics and public administration research.
Technologies can, arguably, make public administration more effective,
efficient, transparent and more accountable; but they can also cause
problems with privacy, sustainability, legality, and equality, to name
just a few examples. Recent public sector austerity measures (and
attempts at lean government in general) may thwart socio-political
efforts to foster technological innovation; but they can at the same
time lead to greater willingness of governments to adopt new
technologies and management principles based, directly or indirectly,
on technological innovations. The challenge to public administration
research is not only to trace and understand these linkages, but to
find working solutions to these apparent trade-offs, and even to
investigate the nature and permutations of the techno-administrative
interface generally.
We are inviting papers
dealing with theoretical or empirical
topics looking at either side of the co-evolution perspective of
technological and institutional development; the role of public
administration in technological progress and innovation; and the role
of technology and innovation in the trajectories of public
administration.
The deadline for the
submission of the abstracts is May 1, 2011.
Abstracts and all inquiries should be submitted to Erkki Karo (erkki.karo@ttu.ee)
Papers will be
selected no later than June 1, 2011. Authors whose abstracts have been
accepted should dispatch their completed text to the Study Group (erkki.karo@ttu.ee)
and to Fabienne
Maron: f.maron@iias-iisa.org
by July 31, 2011 at the latest.
History
of Economic Thought
Society of Australia (HETSA) Conference
Melbourne 5-8 July 2011 |
RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia
The deadline for paper
submissions has been extended to May
15th. You can find the
original announcement in HEN 110 here.
Market
Square: The Cambridge Business & Society Interdisciplinary
Research
Group
Wednesday, 25 May 2011 | Cambridge, UK | Download CFP
Evidence-based
Policy-making and the Real World -
A Difficult Match?
Over the past decade, the concept of evidence-based policy making has
been popularised across the globe, in mainstream research and policy
arenas. Abandoning old dichotomies between market and state,
policy-makers now follow the formula "what matters is what works."
Thus, the evidence-based approach is advocated as a desirable way of
providing rigorous solutions to pressing problems as well as
incorporating analytical techniques in policy design, monitoring and
evaluation.
However, serious questions remain in the underlying assumptions of this
practice. While quantitatively measured and analysed data are respected
as scientific 'evidence', qualitative accounts tend to be ignored. As a
consequence, attention may be shifted towards easily measurable goals
(e.g. the direct impact of a policy on a certain population), away from
hard-to-measure aspects (e.g. positive and negative externalities of
that policy). Whatever analytical techniques are employed,
evidence-based policy making requires effective communication and
knowledge transfer systems, as well as developed state capabilities and
political support. Moreover, there is little discussion of the
conditions under which evidence collected in one domain can be used in
another: the complexity of social and political reality requires the
contextualized identification of feasible alternative policies rather
than the passive implementation of so called best practices.
This one-day workshop provides a platform for leading researchers and
practitioners in the various fields of social and political sciences to
critically reflect and discuss the challenges and opportunities of
evidence-based policy making. We invite papers that engage with, but
are not limited to, the following sub-themes:
- The Making of
Evidence-Based Policy
What constitutes 'evidence'? What
counts as evidence and what doesn't? Under what conditions can evidence
from one context be used in another? Whose stories are constructed as
evidence and how is this process related to the existing power
relations? What are the pro and cons of analytical techniques such as
randomised controlled trials or mixed methods currently adopted in
policy design? We welcome contributions from philosophers, historians,
social scientists and practitioners with critical perspectives on
knowledge and power, conventional scientific methods, and the
utilitarian turn in research.
- Public Policies and State
Capability Traps
Discovering what works under what
conditions is not sufficient. Public institutions may be stuck in
capability traps which undermine their chance of implementing effective
evidence-based policies. What capabilities do states need to develop in
order to design, implement, monitor and evaluate policy measures? How
can they foster effective implementation of evidence-based designed
policies? How can they transform the process of monitoring and
evaluation in a learning experience? Contributions from social
scientists, practitioners and politicians involved in development
programmes are welcomed.
- Evidence-Based Policy in
Practice
In what context has the concept of
evidence-based policy gained its momentum? How is evidence-based policy
formulated and implemented in the real world? Does the process reflect
evidence-based policy making or policy-based evidence making? How does
the evidence-based approach affect the boundaries of problems for
investigation as well as solutions? Researchers and practitioners are
encouraged to discuss the issues in specific fields (e.g. international
relations, international development, energy policy, healthcare policy)
and/or in a country of focus.
FORMAT
Following the interdisciplinary mission of Market Square - the
Cambridge Business & Society Research Group, the workshop
provides
a forum to connect researchers (faculty members and graduate students)
from different disciplines as well as practitioners. Participation will
be limited to 50 people in order to facilitate interactive discussion.
Presentations will be grouped into panels according to theme. Speakers
will have 20 minutes to present their papers. Each session will be
opened by a key note speaker. A discussion between the panellists,
discussants and the audience will follow the presentations. A final
round table will close the workshop.
We welcome participation from researchers and practitioners beyond
Cambridge and the UK.
CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
- Professor Nancy Cartwright
(London School of Economics)
- Dr Michele Clara (UNIDO -
Development Policy Unit)
SUBMISSIONS
Please send an abstract of your paper (not exceeding 500 words and
containing contact details) to info@marketsquarecambridge.org
no later than 2 May 2011. Notification of acceptance will follow by 9
May 2011 at the latest.
While it is not necessary to send your full paper in advance, you are
encouraged to do so in order to facilitate in-depth discussion. Should
you wish to have your paper made available electronically on the Market
Square website, please e-mail a copy of the full paper by 25 May 2011.
Please address your submissions and enquiries to: info@marketsquarecambridge.org
CONVENORS
- Hassan Akram, Department of
Sociology, University of Cambridge
- Antonio Andreoni,
Department of Land Economy, University of
Cambridge
- Ivano Cardinale, Judge
Business School, University of Cambridge
- Helen Coskeran, Department
of Politics and International
Studies, University of Cambridge
- Anna Kim, Judge Business
School, University of Cambridge
Historical
Materialism 2011 Conference
Central London | 10–13 November 2011 | website
Spaces of Capital, Moments of
Struggle
The ongoing popular
uprisings in the Arab world, alongside
intimations of a resurgence in workers' struggles against 'austerity'
in the North and myriad forms of resistance against exploitation and
dispossession across the globe make it imperative for Marxists and
leftists to reflect critically on the meaning of collective
anticapitalist action in the present.
Over the past decade, many
Marxist concepts and debates have come
in from the cold. The anticapitalist movement generated a widely
circulating critique of capitalist modes of international
'development'. More recently, the economic crisis that began in 2008
has led to mainstream-recognition of Marx as an analyst of capital. In
philosophy and political theory, communism is no longer merely a term
of condemnation. Likewise, artistic and cultural practices have also
registered a notable upturn in the fortunes of activism, critical
utopianism and the effort to capture aesthetically the workings of the
capitalist system.
The eighth annual Historical
Materialism conference will strive
to take stock of these shifts in the intellectual landscape of the Left
in the context of the social and political struggles of the present.
Rather than resting content with the compartmentalisation and
specialisation of various 'left turns' in theory and practice, we
envisage the conference as a space for the collective, if necessary,
agonistic but comradely, reconstitution of a strategic conception of
the mediations between socio-economic transformations and emancipatory
politics.
For such a critical
theoretical, strategic and organisational
reflection to have traction in the present, it must take stock of both
the commonalities and the specificities of different struggles for
emancipation, as they confront particular strategies of accumulation,
political authorities and relations of force. Just as the crisis that
began in 2008 is by no means a homogeneous affair, so we cannot simply
posit a unity of purpose in contemporary revolutions, struggles around
the commons and battles against austerity.
In consideration of the
participation of David Harvey, winner of
the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize, at this year's
conference, we would particularly wish to emphasise the historical and
geographical dimensions of capital, class and struggle. We specifically
encourage paper submissions and suggested panel-themes that tackle the
global nature of capitalist accumulation, the significance of
anticapitalist resistance in the South, and questions of race,
migration and ecology as key components of both the contemporary crisis
and the struggle to move beyond capitalism.
There will also be a strong
presence of workshops on the
historiography of the early communist movement, particularly focusing
on the first four congresses of the Communist International.
The conference will aim to
combine rigorous and grounded
investigations of socio-economic realities with focused theoretical
reflections on what emancipation means today, and to explore
– in
light of cultural, historical and ideological analyses – the
forms taken by current and coming struggles.
Deadline for registration of
abstracts: 1 May 2011
http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/8annual/submit
Preference will be given to
subscribers to the journal and
participants are expected to be present during the whole of the event
– no tailor-made timetabling for individuals will be
possible,
nor will cameo-appearances be tolerated.
How
Class Works 2012
June 7-9, 2012 | SUNY Stony
Brook, USA
The Center for Study of
Working Class Life is pleased to announce
the How Class Works – 2012 conference, to be held
at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook, June 7-9, 2012. Proposals
for papers, presentations, and sessions are welcome until December 12,
2011 according to the guidelines below. For more information, visit our
Web site at <www.workingclass.sunysb.edu>.
Purpose and orientation: The
conference seeks to explore ways in
which an explicit recognition of class helps to understand the social
world in which we live, and ways in which analysis of society can
deepen our understanding of class as a social relationship.
Presentations should take as their point of reference the lived
experience of class; proposed theoretical contributions should be
rooted in and illuminate social realities. Presentations are welcome
from people outside academic life when they sum up social experience in
a way that contributes to the themes of the conference. Formal papers
will be welcome but are not required. All presentations should be
accessible to an interdisciplinary audience.
Conference themes: The
conference welcomes proposals for
presentations that advance our understanding of any of the following
themes:
- The mosaic of class,
race, and gender. To explore how class
shapes racial, gender, and ethnic experience and how different racial,
gender, and ethnic experiences within various classes shape the meaning
of class.
- Class, power, and social
structure. To explore the social
content of working, middle, and capitalist classes in terms of various
aspects of power; to explore ways in which class and structures of
power interact, at the workplace and in the broader society.
- Class and community. To
explore ways in which class operates
outside the workplace in the communities where people of various
classes live.
- Class in a global
economy. To explore how class identity and
class dynamics are influenced by globalization, including experience of
cross-border organizing, capitalist class dynamics, international labor
standards.
- Middle class? Working
class? What's the difference and why
does it matter? To explore the claim that the U.S. is a middle class
society and contrast it with the notion that the working class is the
majority; to explore the relationships between the middle class and the
working class, and between the middle class and the capitalist class.
- Class, public policy,
and electoral politics. To explore how
class affects public policy, with special attention to health care, the
criminal justice system, labor law, poverty, tax and other economic
policy, housing, and education; to explore the place of electoral
politics in the arrangement of class forces on policy matters.
- Class and culture: To
explore ways in which culture transmits
and transforms class dynamics.
- Pedagogy of class. To
explore techniques and materials useful
for teaching about class, at K-12 levels, in college and university
courses, and in labor studies and adult education courses.
Proposals for presentations
must include the following
information: a) title; b) which of the eight conference themes will be
addressed; c) a maximum 250 word summary of the main points,
methodology, and slice of experience that will be summed up; d)
relevant personal information indicating institutional affiliation (if
any) and what training or experience the presenter brings to the
proposal; e) presenter's name, address, telephone, fax, and e-mail
address. A person may present in at most two conference sessions. To
allow time for discussion, sessions will be limited to three
twenty-minute or four fifteen-minute principal presentations. Sessions
will not include official discussants.
Proposals for poster
sessions are welcome. Presentations may be
assigned to a poster session.Proposals for sessions are welcome. A
single session proposal must include proposal information for all
presentations expected to be part of it, as detailed above, with some
indication of willingness to participate from each proposed session
member.
Submit proposals as an
e-mail attachment to michael.zweig@stonybrook.edu
or as hard copy by mail to the How Class Works - 2012 Conference,
Center for Study of Working Class Life, Department of Economics, SUNY,
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384.
Timetable: Proposals must be
received by December 12, 2011. After
review by the program committee, notifications will be mailed on
January 17, 2012. The conference will be at SUNY Stony Brook June 7-9,
2012. Conference registration and housing reservations will be possible
after February 20, 2012. Details and updates will be posted at http://www.workingclass.sunysb.edu.
Conference coordinator:
Michael Zweig
Director, Center for Study
of Working Class Life
Department of Economics
State University of New York
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384
631.632.7536
michael.zweig@stonybrook.edu
ICAPE's
3rd International
Conference
Nov. 11-13, 2011 | University of Mass.-Amhers, USA | website
We would be pleased if you
would consider submitting a proposal
for a paper, session of papers, or roundtable for ICAPE's 3rd
international research conference, "Rethinking economics in a time of
economic distress." Founded in 1993, the International
Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE) is an
association of associations committed to promoting healthy diversity in
approaches to producing economic knowledge.
For the upcoming conference,
to be held at U.Mass.-Amherst on
Nov. 11-13, 2011, we invite proposals for papers or sessions from any
strand of interested scholarship, examining topics of cross-cutting
interest for creating a more robust, socially-valuable body of economic
knowledge. Potential topics could include (but are not limited to):
- Re-thinking macro models
via complex-systems: Path dependencies,
endogenous cycles, emergent properties
- Minskian analyses of
financial fragility & implications for
financial policy
- Is fiscal policy different
in the 21st century? Deficits &
global bond markets
- Stresses and strains in the
international financial system:
Currencies, governance, emerging powers
- Enriching economics through
perspectives of race, gender,
ethnicity, and class
- Ecological sustainability
as a central concern in economic
analysis
- Measuring economic
performance differently: Alternatives to GDP
- Human-capabilities and
development practice
- Bringing the state back in
to economic development
- Social and behavioral
approaches to individual economic
behavior: Is homo economicus dead?
- Grass-roots economic
change: Community economies, local
currencies, living wages, urban farming
- The economics of war and
peace
- Heterodox economics and
social provisioning
- Alternative theories of
business cycles: Austrian,
Post-Keynesian, Marxian, Schumpeterian
- Profits, factor shares, and
financialized capitalism; varieties
of capitalism(s)
- Ethics and the economics
profession
- Economic education after
the financial crisis: What needs to
change?
- Practices of economic
research: journals, research evaluation,
interdisplinarity, underrepresented groups in the economics profession
- Changes in empirical
methods: Has the ‘con’ gone out
of econometrics? Are experiments the only right way to study individual
economic behavior?
- Pluralism as a strategy for
building a more robust economic
knowledge
- Innovations in all strands
of unconventional economic theory:
Evolutionary, ecological, complexity, institutional, feminist,
Austrian, Marxian, Post-Keynesian, behavioral/psychological, social,
radical political economy, critical realism, general heterodox.
The deadline for submitting
proposals is April 30, 2011.
We welcome proposals for individual papers, full sessions, and
roundtables. To submit proposals, please go to: https://editorialexpress.com/conference/ICAPE2011,
and follow the instructions given there.
For individual papers,
please include: Your name, your title and
affiliation, an abstract of 300 words or less, 3 keywords, and contact
information (address, phone, email). For full sessions of papers,
panels, and other formats, please include the above for each
contribution, as well as a title for the session, chair, discussants,
and the name and contact information of the session organizer. Please
alert promising graduate students to this opportunity to present their
work, get new ideas, begin to make connections, etc. Information on
plenary speakers, travel logistics, etc. will be posted soon on the
ICAPE website: <http://www.icape.org/>.
For further information or
questions, please contact one of the
co-chairs of the organizing committee: Martha Starr, <mailto:mstarr@american.edu>,
or Erik Olsen, <mailto:olsenek@umkc.edu>.
Organizing committee:
Martha Starr, Erik Olsen, Ioana Negru, Giuseppe Fontana, Mwangi wa
Githinji, Andrew Mearman, Bruce Pietrykowski, Virgil Storr
Advisory committee:
Gerald Epstein, David Colander, John Davis, Edward Fullbrooke, Rob
Garnett, Stephanie Seguino.
Japan
Society of Political Economy Annual Conference 2011
September 17 and 18, 2011 |
Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan | website
The
Japan Society of
Political Economy (JSPE) is an
interdisciplinary association
devoted to the study, development, and application of political economy
to social problems. Japan has been an important laboratory for
developing and debating ideas about capitalism and its dynamics. On the
one hand, many political economists in Japan have chosen to work with
diverse approaches to political economy – the French
Regulation
school, the Cambridge Keynesian models, institutionalist and historical
schools, and so on. On the other hand, Japan has given rise to several
distinct strands of Marxian political economy such as the Uno School.
JSPE has been the largest organization of heterodox economists in Japan
since its founding in 1959. Its annual meetings have provided important
occasions for debate among diverse points of view. Beginning in October
2001, the JSPE began inviting non-Japanese economists to make
presentations and engage in debates at these annual meetings. (For more
information see its homepage: http://www.jspe.gr.jp/en_front)
The title of the plenary
session is "The Global Economic Crisis
and State: Alternative Approaches for Monetary and Fiscal Policies."
Speakers in the English sessions include Thomas Sekine, Makoto Itoh,
Alain Lipiec, Samuel Hollander, Nobuharu Yokokawa, Badar Alam Iqbal,
Gbadebo Olusegun Odularu, Hitoshi Hirakawa, Shinjiro Hagiwara, and
Akira Matsumoto.
JSPE invites proposals for
the English sessions in the following
categories.
English
Sessions I: Topics relating to
the plenary
session such as: (1) The Global Economic Crisis and State: Alternative
Approaches for Monetary and Fiscal Policies, (2) Mechanisms of the
Crisis and their Consequences, (3) Regimes of Capitalism, (4) Global
Reconfigurations of Capitalism, and (5) The Future of Capitalism.
English
Sessions II: All proposals
reflecting the
tradition and analytical perspective of JSPE which include (1)
environment, (2) gender, (3) inequality, (4) regional economies and (5)
research agenda are welcome.
Submission Procedures and
the Deadline:
Proposals should reach the
JSPE Committee for International
Communication and Exchange (Jspecice@jspe.gr.jp
) by 11
June 2011 at the latest.
When submitting your
proposal, please include:
1. The title of proposed
paper and the category of the session;
2. Name and academic
affiliation;
3. E-mail and postal
address;
4. An abstract (up to 200
words).
Notification of acceptance
will be sent by 27 June.
Cost:
Attendants will pay their conference fee (6000 yen
per person including the conference buffet), as well as their own
transportation, accommodation and other personal expenses.
Contact:
Prof. Nobuharu Yokokawa (Chairman of the JSPE
Committee for International Communication and Exchange) E-mail: yokokawa@cc.musashi.ac.jp
Postal Address: c/o Prof.
Toshiaki Ohtomo, Department of
Economics, Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro,Toshima-ku, Tokyo
Japan 171-8501 Tel: +81-3-3985-2281
Journal
of
Pedagogy: Special Issue
"Governmentality–Neoliberalism–Education: the risk
perspective"
Analyses of neoliberalism in education, whether in terms of educational
policies or in the practical sense of the word, have been appearing in
pedagogic discourse for almost a decade. Originally, these analyses
were connected with Foucault’s concept of governmentality
which
led to the development of an area of analysis referred to as
governmental studies. Of late, this has greatly expanded and became a
basis for the critical analysis of neoliberalism and an important part
of what is known as critical pedagogy. Following a phase in which
neoliberalism was generally rejected, there has been an emergence of
more differentiated research applied to the different sectors of
education – from lifelong, tertiary through to secondary,
primary
and pre-school education.
The Journal of Pedagogy, in response to these developments, appeals for
submissions to the upcoming monothematic issue entitled Governmentality
– Neoliberalism – Education: the risk perspective.
The
journal wishes to provide a platform for a variety of analyses on the
impact of neoliberal rationality in the administration of the different
sectors in education, especially in the educational policy of the
European Union. We anticipate that relevant analyses will include those
relating to the international context, those on research already
conducted in this field, and those outlining the situation in
postcommunist countries, where this type of analysis is just at the
very beginning. The issue seeks contributions on the following
questions or issues:
- theoretical sources for and
current forms of governmental
studies in education,
- neoliberal motives for
political decisions on education,
- the manifestation of
neoliberalism in the reforms of individual
countries of the EU,
- applications of neoliberal
governmentality analyses in the
planning and implementation of training and education at different
educational levels,
- the analysis of various
educational discourses through the prism
of neoliberalism, - the professionalization and deprofessionalization
of teaching in the era of neoliberalism,
- neoliberal governmentality
in technologies for measuring the
quality of education.
The upcoming issue is planned as the second issue of the 2011 volume.
It will be published in English. The deadline for submitting
contributions is 30.06.2011 and they should be sent to the
journal’s email address: jop@truni.sk.
The guidelines to which
contributions to the journal should adhere are outlined on the webpage
of the journal: http://www.versita.com/jlpy/.
The editors for this monothematic issue are Associate Prof. Ondrej
Kaščák, Ph.D. (okascak@truni.sk)
and Prof.
Branislav Pupala, Ph.D, (bpupala@truni.sk)
from the
Faculty of Education at Trnava University, Trnava, Slovakia.
Download Call for
Papers.
Research
Network
Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) 15th Conference
28-29 October 2011 | Berli, Germany
From crisis to growth? The challenge
of
imbalances, debt, and limited resources
With introductory lectures on
post-Keynesian Economics for graduate students onintroductory lectures
on post-Keynesian Economics for graduate students on 27 October 2011.
Four years after the first
turbulences on the U.S. housing market
that triggered the subsequent global crisis, the future of the world
economy is still highly uncertain. Is the crisis over, or are we
heading towards a period of stagnation or recession? What will be the
drivers of future growth? How to cope with high private and public
debt? Is there a new growth model capable of overcoming the problems of
financial instability, income inequality and trade imbalances? Are high
growth rates still possible or desirable, given limited natural
resources?
The submission of papers in
the following areas is encouraged:
- Global imbalances after the
crisisGlobal imbalances after the
crisis
- High debt of firms,
governments and households and economic
dynamicsHigh debt of firms, governments and households and economic
dynamics
- Macroeconomic imbalances
and public debt in the euro
areaMacroeconomic imbalances and public debt in the euro area
- Macroeconomic and
distributional implications of fiscal
restraintMacroeconomic and distributional implications of fiscal
restraint
- Sustainability of growth
paths and desirability of high
growthSustainability of growth paths and desirability of high growth
- Energy prices and
inflationEnergy prices and inflation
- Modelling growth: Towards a
new theory of growth?
For the open part of the
conference the submission of papers on
the general subject of the Research Network is encouraged as well. We
also ask for the submission of papers for graduate student sessions on
both the specific topic of this conference and the general subject of
the Research Network. Conference language is English. Selected papers
will be published after the conference. Registration forms for the
introductory lectures will be available online in early July.
The deadline for paper
proposals is 26 June 2011.
Please
send an abstract (one page) to: fmm@boeckler.de.
Decisions will be made by
mid-August. Accepted papers should be
sent in by 15 October to be posted on the conference web page.
Organising committee of the
conference:
Hansjörg Herr,
Torsten Niechoj, Claus Thomasberger, Achim
Truger and Till van Treeck
Coordinating Committee of
the Research Network:
Sebastian Dullien (HTW
Berlin), Trevor Evans (Berlin School of
Economics), Jochen Hartwig (KOF/ETH Zürich), Eckhard Hein
(Berlin
School of Economics), Hansjörg Herr (Berlin School of
Economics),
Camille Logeay (HTW Berlin), Özlem Onaran (Middlesex
University)
Torsten Niechoj (IMK, Düsseldorf), Jan Priewe (HTW Berlin),
Engelbert Stockhammer (Kingston University), Claus Thomasberger (HTW
Berlin), Achim Truger (IMK, Düsseldorf) and Till van Treeck
(IMK,
Düsseldorf).
More on the Research
Network: www.network-macroeconomics.org
South
Africa Today: How Do
We Characterise the Social Formation?
The 2011 ILRIG April Conference
29 and 30 April 2011 | Community House, Salt River, Cape Town
Since 2007 ILRIG has been hosting an annual conference in April, either
on behalf of, or in partnership with, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. It
is our intention to continue this tradition of conferences in April as
an interface between critical analysts showcasing their work and
activists in the labour and social movements debating the nature of the
current juncture and strategic challenges facing our movements. In 2010
we looked at the causes and consequences of the global capitalist
crisis and the possibilities for developing
anti-capitalist alternatives.
In 2011 we have decided to call for papers and to invite participants
on the question: how do we characterise the Social African social
formation today?
2011 is the 17th year of the achievement of democracy in SA. But in
that time, instead of the mass struggles of the 1970s; 1980s and early
1990s leading to radical transformation we have seen a decline in the
extent and depth of those struggles and the triumph of a neo-liberal
order. South Africa has joined the BRICS as an aspiring power, South
African corporations have become global players, the composition of the
ruling class is still overwhelmingly white and we are now the most
unequal society in the world. At the same time we have an ex-liberation
movement in government, carried there by the struggles of a black
working class majority and with a ruling Alliance which includes the
biggest trade union federation and a long standing Communist Party.
More recently we have seen the rise of movements and community-based
activists who have waged struggles quite relentlessly for some 5-10
years – serving as a source of optimism and renewal on the
left
and yet not galvanising into a social force capable of speaking in its
own name, let alone challenging the neo-liberal order. We have also
seen a readiness of some organised workers to strike and test the
limits of the partnership that comprises the ruling tripartite Alliance.
Part of the many challenges facing activists today is characterising
what the nature of the new order is in South Africa today –
unlike in the apartheid period where the nature of that order was
starkly apparent. This means that activists battle with the tension
between the legitimacy of their cause and the legitimacy of the
liberation credentials of the current government and its associated
democratic institutions in the state.
On the left, in the broadest sense, this tension has been variously
characterised as “a society carrying out transformation
against
residual apartheid forces”; a victim of global forces
imposing
neo-liberalism “from the North”; a developmental
state; a
natural consequence of a nationalist or a social democratic project
triumphing over a more radical alternative; and even the triumph of
neo-apartheid.
How do we characterise this social formation? What configuration of
social forces led to this conjuncture and what are the strategic,
programmatic and organisational consequences of taking one
characterisation over another? How does one’s choice/s inform
how
one sees international solidarity in Africa and the wider world today?
The conference will consist of two components:
- Inputs by speakers on the
basis of draft papers submitted by
interested activists and analysts – South African and
international, and
- Workshopped and parallel
sessions in which ILRIG facilitators
engage the issues raised at facilitated sessions using educational
methodologies
Themes:
- 1. The recent evolution of
the capitalist class in SA, its
relations to other capitals globally, its “racial”
and
gendered make-up; its mode of accumulation and its relation to the
state
- 2. The recent evolution of
the ANC, the changing social
composition of its cadre, its relations to the state and to the
capitalist class, and to the dominated classes.
- 3. The working class of SA
today and its changing
“racial” and gendered nature as well its
re-composition
across both the sphere of production and reproduction; its
consciousness and struggles and how do these impact, or otherwise, on
various organisations today.
To this end ILRIG is inviting papers from any interested person.
Final papers must be submitted by 21 April 2011. Where possible, ILRIG
will provide travel and accommodation for successful candidates. All
communication must be directed to Russell Dudley ilrigaprilconference@gmail.com
or 084-915 9709
Publication
After the Conference the papers will be published in an annual journal
to be edited, published and distributed by the conference hosts.
Workshop:
Trade Unions, Free
Trade and the Problem of Transnational Solidarity
2 and 3 December 2011 |
Nottingham University, UK
Two-day workshop at the
Centre for the Study of Social and Global
Justice (CSSGJ)
Keynote Speaker: Samir Amin
Since the completion of the
GATT Uruguay Round and the
establishment of the WTO in the mid-1990s, the international free trade
agenda has been drastically expanded including now also issues related
to
intellectual property
rights, trade in services and trade-related
investment measures. The WTO Doha negotiations round launched in 2001
had been intended to complete ‘unfinished business’
especially in the area of free trade in services, public procurement
and agriculture. At the same time, resistance to these developments has
increased with the demonstrations at the WTO ministerial conference in
Seattle in 1999 as a first landmark event. The latest attempt to revive
the Doha round in July 2008 ended in failure. In view of the problems
at the multilateral level, both the EU and the USA have increasingly
engaged in bilateral strategies of free trade agreements. These
strategies include the expanded trade agenda and are a tool to achieve
what has been impossible within a multilateral setting.
Free trade strategies have
increasingly become a problem for the
international labour movement. On the one hand, trade unions in the
North especially in manufacturing have supported free trade agreements.
They hope that new export markets for products in their sectors will
preserve jobs. On the other, trade unions in the Global South as well
as social movements more generally oppose these free trade agreements,
since they often imply deindustrialisation and the related loss of jobs
for them.
Unsurprisingly,
transnational solidarity is difficult if not
impossible to achieve as a result. At the same time, however, it has to
be asked what free trade actually is and whether we can call the
existing system really a free trade system? How trade unions understand
both these questions is fundamental for their chances to understand
each other. Understandings of free trade, which draw on alternative
economic theories – see, for example, Samir Amin’s
theory
of unequal exchange and imperialism – may open up new
avenues. Additionally, a focus is required on
countries’
different position in the global economy, core, semiperiphery,
periphery, the related dynamics of uneven and combined development
structuring it, as well as the related implications for labour
movements in view of free trade. Equally, a sector specific view is
required, as particular sectoral dynamics are likely to have an
influence on trade unions’ outlook on free trade.
In this workshop, we intend
to focus on the problematic around
free trade, the current free trade system and the related neo-liberal
ideology, as well as analyse the problems for trade unions and social
movements in more detail.
The objective is to understand better
the dynamics underlying free trade as well as explore possibilities for
transnational solidarity against the background of uneven and combined
development. This will also
involve a discussion of alternative
conceptualisations of free trade based on different economic theories
and the related implications for labour movements. The workshop
intends to reach beyond
academia and facilitate discussions
between academics and trade union researchers as well as social
movement activists.
In more detail, we invite
papers by academics, trade union
researchers and social movement activists in the following areas:
- basic analyses of what a
‘proper’ free trade system
is;
- analyses of current free
trade policies, the implications of
neo-liberalism as well as the concrete results of free trade policies
for the populations affected. Can we call the current system a free
trade system?
- analyses of free trade
policies and the relationships with other
policies of neo-liberal restructuring;
- implications of
countries’ structural location in the
global economy as well as sectoral specificities for trade
unions’ positions on free trade;
- analyses of resistance
movements to concrete free trade
agreements with a specific emphasis on co-operation and/or non
–
co-operation between trade unions and social movements;
- analyses of the position of
specific trade unions and/or social
movements on free trade;
Paper proposals of ca. 250 words should be sent to Andreas.Bieler@nottingham.ac.uk
by 9 May 2011. There is no
registration fee for the workshop and
all participants will be provided with coffee/tea breaks, two lunches
and one evening dinner free of charge.
The workshop is supported
with a small research grant of
£6960 by the British Academy (SG102043) as well as a grant of
£1750 by the University of Nottingham priority group
Integrating
Global Society.
Call
for Participants
Colloque
à Paris VIII: Remodeling Finance and Its Governance in Times
of
Uncertainty
12, 13 et 14 Mai |
Université Paris 8 | Program
| Registration
Form
Vous êtes
invités à assister au premier
colloque international consacré au thème
«
Remodeling finance and its governance in times of uncertainty
».
Ce colloque s’inscrit dans le cadre européen du
programme
COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), plus
particulièrement dans l’action IS0902 «
Systemic
Risks, Financial Crises and Credit » qui regroupe une
trentaine
de pays.
Ce colloque se déroulera à
l'Université Paris 8
les 12, 13 et 14 mai prochains et est organisé par le
Laboratoire d'Economie Dionysien (LED). Vous trouverez en
pièces
jointes le programme provisoire ainsi qu'un formulaire d'inscription.
Si vous souhaitez participer, il est important de nous retourner au
plus vite le formulaire rempli. Cela nous permettra
d'évaluer
l'affluence et d'organiser au mieux les déjeuners et le
repas de
gala.
Bien entendu, n'hésitez pas à diffuser cette
information.
En espérant vous voir à l'occasion de ces
journées,
Le comité d'organisation
Esther Jeffers et Jonathan Marie
Eastern
Conference for Workplace Democracy
July 8-10, 2011 | University
of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
"Connecting
Our Workplaces: Building Cooperative
Economies"
The 2011 Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy will bring together
representatives of worker cooperatives, ESOPs, and other
cooperatively-run organizations to strengthen the network of democratic
workplaces in the Eastern United States. Through networking, seminars,
tours, and storytelling, participants will exchange tools and solutions
for democratic management and development of cooperative workplaces. We
will share strategies for building systems for regional support and
advocating for ourselves as we build momentum toward the 2012
International Year of Cooperatives.
The Eastern Conference for Workplace Democracy supports an economy that
utilizes cooperative and democratic organizational structures to
support equitable systems for exchanging goods, services &
products
and stewardship of the commons for mutual benefit by all. We believe
that democratic workplaces are the fundamental building blocks that
power our work towards economic, social, and environmental justice and
solidarity.
The Conference brings together worker-owners, employees of
democratically-run ESOPs, companies and organizations that provide
support to democratic workplaces, and anyone interested in the
workplace democracy movement. It is held every two years in the Eastern
United States.
For more information:
Contact ECWD organizers Neily Jennings or Esteban Kelly at info@east.usworker.coop,
or go to our website at http://east.usworker.coop/
Summer
School: Structural
Change, Real-Fnancial Interactions and Development
13 to 21 June | University of Pavia | website
The University of Pavia,
Faculty of Political Sciences, in
collaboration with CICOPS (University of Pavia), University of
Bethlehem, and Regione Lombardia, organizes a Summer School on
Structural Change, Real-Financial Interactions and Development.
If you are a highly
motivated student of economics, at master or
Ph.D. level, or you are working with a research centre or a public
institution, our Summer School offers you the opportunity of spending
one week studying, researching, discussing, and exchanging experiences
in the nice atmosphere of a historical Italian city nurtured by
international experts and fellow students from all around the world.
Applications and other
information can be found on the web site
here:
https://sites.google.com/site/paviasummerschool2011/home
The
Spirit of Capital: A
Conference on Hegel and Marx
April 28 and 29th | New
School for Social Research | website
Full conference schedule: http://spiritofcapital.com/schedule/
Third
Graz Schumpeter Summer
School
3-9 July 2011 | Graz, Austria | website
Whither Macroeconomics?
The recent financial and
economic crisis has confirmed doubts as
to the capacity of contemporary mainstream macroeconomics and
especially its New Classical branch to explain the facts and provide a
reliable guide to economic policy. Some of its critics even maintained
that it was partly responsible for what happened by misleading policy
makers, financial institutions and other economic agents. The Summer
School will draw some lessons from the financial and economic crisis by
focusing attention on what is wrong with received macroeconomics and
what are promising alternative approaches in the field.
The school addresses PhD
students and young researchers (Junior
Fellows) working in the fields of Macroeconomics, Financial Theory,
International Economics, Globalization and Development Economics and
Economics of Regulation and Governance.
The Senior Faculty includes:
Professor Gerhard Illing, University of Munich, Germany
Professor Heinz D. Kurz, The
Graz Schumpeter Centre
Professor Thomas Lux,
University of Kiel, Germany
Professor Yosh Ono, ISER
Osaka, Japan
Professor Richard Sturn, The
Graz Schumpeter Centre
Professor Lance Taylor, New
School, New York, U.S.A.
The Summer School will be
organized by the Schumpeter Centre of
Graz University, Graz, Austria. Admission is open to up to 30 Junior
Fellows, that is, graduate students and recent Ph.D.'s. The schedule of
the Summer School has between three and four lectures each day, given
by members of the Senior Faculty. A further part of the time will be
devoted to seminars in which Junior Fellows are given the opportunity
to present their research and get feedbacks from peers. Successful
participation in the Summer School will be certified.
More information: www.uni-graz.at/schumpeter.centre
14th
SCEME
Seminar
8-9 June 2011 | Aberystwyth University, UK | website
The Stirling Centre for
Economic Methodology (SCEME) in
association with the School of Management and Business Aberystwyth
University would like to announce a call for participants to the
fourteenth seminar in a series on the methodology of economics. We are
very pleased to be able to announce that Victoriah Chick, emeritus
Professor at UCL, will attend as guest speaker to lead the discussion.
Topic
The banking and economic
crises have focused attention on
economics and its capacity to forecast, analyse and present policy
solutions. Radical questions have been raised in public discourse about
the way in which economics approaches its subject matter, i.e. its
methodology. The purpose of this seminar is to reflect on the future
methodology of economics as well as the role of methodological analysis
itself, in light of the banking and economic crisis.
Organisation
The two-half-day seminar
(lunchtime-to-lunchtime) will take place
in a small informal setting with a workshop character at Aberystwyth
University on 8-9 June 2011.
The seminar programme and
registration form are now available at http://www.management.stir.ac.uk/research/economics/sceme-workshops
For further information
contact:
Dr Kobil Ruziev
Lecturer in Economics
Programme Leader MSc Finance
School of Management and
Business
Aberystwyth University
Aberystwyth SY23 3DD
Tel: 01970 622522
kkr@aber.ac.uk
Socialism
2011 Conference
July 1-4, 2011 | Chicago, Illinois | website
Featured Speakers:
Anthony Arnove •
Omar Barghouti • John Carlos •
Todd Chretien • Mark Clements • Paul D'Amato
• Steve
Early • Egyptian Activists • Sam Farber •
Joel Geier
• Anand Gopal • Paul LeBlanc • Alan Maass
• Marlene
Martin • Scott McLemee • Immanuel Ness •
Khury
Petersen-Smith • Mostafa Omar • Jennifer Roesch
• Ahmed
Shawki • Sharon Smith • Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Sherry
Wolf • Dave Zirin
Topics
Capitalism, Climate Change,
and the Future of Humanity •
Obama and Black Politics • Is a Second Recession
Coming?
•Breaking the Siege of Gaza • Is Human Nature a
Barrier to
Socialism? • The ABC's of Marxism •
and more.
Job
Postings for Heterodox
Economists
International
Institute of
Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague
Two
Academic
Vacancies at ISS in Social Policy and Youth Studies, at Assistant
Professor (Lecturer/Senior Lecturer) level
The International Institute of Social
Studies (ISS) in The Hague, a University Institute of Erasmus
University Rotterdam (EUR) and a leading academic centre for
development studies, has two academic vacancies for the position of
Assistant Professor (i.e. Lecturer/Senior Lecturer), one in the field
of Social Policy and the other is in the field of Youth Studies, both
based in the Staff Group Rural Development, Environment and Population
Studies. The Staff Group focuses on poverty, socio-economic security
and population studies, child and youth studies, agricultural and rural
development, sustainable development and environment in the Global
South. Both posts will be offered for an initial three year
appointment, to commence as soon as possible, with the possibility of
extension (and tenure), depending on the financial and staffing
situation. In accordance with salary ranges applied at the Erasmus
University Rotterdam and indicated in the Collective Labour Agreement
(CAO NU) of the Dutch universities, and depending on the
candidate’s experience, the salary will range from €
3195 to
€ 4970 gross per month (CAO NU scale 11/12) under full-time
contract. In addition, ISS pays an 8% holiday allowance and an
end-of-year payment which is for 2010: 8.3 %. Detailed profiles for
both posts can be consulted at:
John
Marshall Visiting Research Fellow University of Richmond
Visiting Research Fellow for 2011-12
The John Marshall
International Center for the Study of
Statesmanship, Jepson School of Leadership Studies,
University of Richmond
The John Marshall International Center for the Study of Statesmanship
at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond, is
accepting applications for the position of John Marshall Visiting
Research Fellow for 2011-12.
The Marshall Fellow will be in residence at the University of Richmond
in order to pursue his or her own advanced research on the theory and
practice of statesmanship from the perspective of the history of
political, legal, or economic ideas. Educational requirements: Ph.D. in
political science, classics, philosophy, history, or
economics.
Applications for the fellowship are encouraged from those who have just
finished or who are about to finish their doctoral dissertations. More
advanced scholars on sabbatical leave who wish to be at the University
of Richmond in order to pursue their research will also be considered.
The successful applicant must meet all position requirements at the
time of selection.
Applications should be sent electronically to https://www.urjobs.org/
and include
a letter of application, a curriculum vita, three letters of reference,
a one-page research plan, and a writing sample. Inquiries may
be
directed to Nancy Nock, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, nnock@richmond.edu.
Additional
information about the Marshall Center and the Jepson School can be
found at http://jepson.richmond.edu.
Review of applications will begin on April 1, 2011 and continue until
the position is filled.
The University of Richmond is committed to developing a diverse
workforce and student body and to supporting an inclusive campus
community.
Other
Worlds, USA
Media
and Education Coordinator
Organizational
Description: Other Worlds is a
women-driven, multi-media education and movement-building
collaborative. We inspire hope and knowledge that other worlds are
possible, and also help to build them. We compile and bring to light
economic, political, social, and environmental alternatives that are
flourishing throughout the world, and open up new pathways for the
public throughout the Americas to adapt and integrate them. We support
the global movements that are propelling the alternatives. In the U.S.,
we seek to draw in new participants and strengthen existent efforts for
economic justice, environmentally sound systems, and meaningful
democracy. Other Worlds’ program includes: (1) Documenting
stories of thriving, large-scale just economies in a context of
globalization, and with an emphasis on gender; (2) Creating literature,
art, and media, to distribute through public fora, mainstream and
alternative media vehicles, and grassroots collaborations; (3)
Inspiring action. Working in partnership with movements and
citizens’ groups to help the viewers/readers/listeners become
effective change agents in their own communities, sectors, nation,
and/or world; and (4) Generating support for the alternatives and the
movements behind them. We campaign, fundraise, and support in other
ways the movements we feature and others working in the same spirit.
Job
Description: The Media and
Education Coordinator will
direct Other Worlds’ educational outreach with a view toward
mobilizing action for economic and social justice. S/he will produce
materials and gather those of allied movements and organizations;
ensure that our media and documentation find their way to communities
and organizations hungry for inspiration and information; and connect
them with organizing resources that they may need.
The job will begin at 3 days
a week with the possibility of
becoming full-time, funding allowing.
Responsibilities:
- Developing and implementing
national strategies to spread media
and educational resources about alternatives – those produced
by
Other Worlds and by allies in national and international movements - to
those either fighting for just economies and societies or wanting to do
so;
- Building and maintaining
distribution outlets in mainstream and
alternative press, in public venues, and through national and community
organizations;
- Gathering content and using
communications infrastructure,
including website and social media, to disseminate it;
- Editing and distributing an
ongoing journalism series about
Haiti;
- Creating promotional
materials to publicize our education work,
as needed.
S/he will share
responsibility in:
- Helping with fundraising
and other elements of building Other
Worlds;
- Collaborating with to
colleagues to develop Other Worlds’
multi-media arts, media, and educational pieces. Requirements:
- Strong commitment to
economic and social justice;
- Good understanding of
economic globalization and local and
global alternatives movements. Direct connections with those movements
are a plus;
- At least two years of
experience in public education, outreach,
journalism, and/or communications;
- Ability to take independent
initiative while being accountable
to a team;
Spanish, French, or Creole
language a plus.
Location: Bay Area,
California or New Orleans, Louisiana area,
United States
Start Time: Immediate.
Fees and Benefits: Fees are
pro-rated at $38,000. Full health
insurance. Three weeks vacation per year. Flexible hours. To apply,
please send a cover letter explaining your interest, a resume, and
three references to info.otherworlds@gmail.com
Other Worlds is an equal
opportunity employer. People of color
and people from the global South are especially encouraged to apply.
Post
Doctoral Fellowship on
the “Political Economy of Global Finance”Political
Economy
Research Group (PERG)
Starting date: Fall of 2011
Application deadline: May 2, 2011 at 17:00
The Political Economy
Research Group (PERG) at Central European
University (CEU) invites applications for a two-year post-doctoral
fellowship on the “Political Economy of Global
Finance” to
begin in the fall of 2011.
Description of fellowship
The ongoing global financial crisis has demonstrated a clear need to
revise established paradigms in comparative political economy. In
particular, dominant approaches in this field have underestimated the
degree of “financialization,” that is the
predominance of
financial markets, motives, institutions, and elites in the operation
and governance of the economy in all forms of capitalism. Therefore
PERG seeks a post-doctoral researcher with a specialty in the
international political economy of global finance, financial
development, or related topics.
In addition to working on
his or her research and publication
agenda, the post-doctoral fellow will be expected to attend and
actively engage in PERG seminar meetings, participate in collaborative
research projects with PERG members, give a public lecture at CEU, and
contribute to the organization of lectures or a workshop with renowned
scholars in the field. If interested, the fellow will also have the
opportunity to engage in research seminars at multiple departments and
potentially teach a course.
About CEU and PERG
Central European University (CEU, http://www.ceu.hu)
is a graduate research-intensive university specializing primarily in
the social sciences. It is located in Budapest, and accredited in the
United States and Hungary. CEU’s mission is to promote
academic
excellence, state-of-the-art research, and civic engagement, in order
to contribute to the development of open societies in Central and
Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, and other emerging democracies
throughout the world. CEU offers both Master’s and doctoral
programs, and enrolls more than 1500 students from nearly 100
countries. The teaching staff consists of more than 140 resident
faculty, from over 40 countries, and a large number of prominent
visiting scholars from around the world. The language of instruction is
English.
PERG (http://perg.ceu.hu)
is a highly
active, collaborative research group of CEU doctoral students and
faculty from four departments - Political Science, International
Relations and European Studies, Public Policy, and Economics - working
in the area of political economy. The post-doctoral fellow will benefit
from engaging in a very active and motivating community of senior and
junior researchers that is focused on providing feedback on
colleagues’ work and engaging in collaborative research. The
research profile of PERG members includes many dimensions of political
economy, such as labor markets, social mobilization, migration, fiscal
and social policy, and transnational capitalism. The fellow may also
utilize PERG’s contacts and networks within and beyond CEU
that
relate to the Political Economy of Global Finance.
Conditions
The two-year position is created within the framework of the
“CEU
20th Anniversary Postdoctoral Fellowships” to commemorate 20
years of academic activity at CEU. The successful candidate will
receive a competitive stipend and will be eligible for a health plan.
How to apply?
The application package should consist of a single PDF file with a
short letter of motivation stating the candidate’s
qualifications
and reasons for interest in the fellowship, a research proposal
outlining current and future research (2-3 pages), a CV, the contact
information of three references (including e-mail, phone number,
mailing address, and relationship to the applicant), and one writing
sample (published article, work-in progress, or a dissertation
chapter).
Informal enquiries may be addressed to perg@ceu.hu.Please
send your
complete application package to:
advert@ceu.hu
- including job code
in subject line: 2011/023
University
of Bradford, UK
- School of Social and
International Studies
- LECTURER IN ECONOMICS REF:
ASS1581
- Grade 9: £37,990
- £44,016 per annum
- Fixed term for 3 years
The Economics Division is
seeking to appoint an enthusiastic and
effective lecturer to support our expanding undergraduate and
postgraduate teaching programme, as well as contributing to our
research profile. The Economics Division is an innovative and dynamic
area within the School of Social and International Studies. The
Division has diverse student body and a commitment to quality teaching
and applied research.
You will be required to
teach in the core areas of economics with
a specific focus on microeconomic theory and applied areas of
microeconomics. You should hold a PhD in economics or be close to
completion. You are also expected to have an active research profile
and publications record, or to be able to demonstrate research
potential following the completion of a PhD.
Closing Date: 12 noon on
27th April 2011
Full details at: http://www.brad.ac.uk/human-resources/media/hr/allfiles/pdfs/ASS1581.pdf
The
University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus, Canada
The University of British
Columbia, Okanagan Campus, invites
applications for two full-time instructors
in Economics to teach
courses in both terms of the Fall/Winter
2011-12 session (September 1, 2011-April 30, 2012). These positions
will be held in Economics (http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/econ/welcome.html)
in the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences (http://web.ubc.ca/okanagan/ikbarberschool/welcome.html
).
One of these positions is to
temporarily cover for an as yet
unfilled but confirmed tenure-track position in economics which will be
advertised later in Fall 2011 for a July 2012 start, the other to cover
for various faculty leaves in 2011-12.
We seek applicants with a
completed or nearly completed PhD in
Economics at the time of appointment. The successful candidates will be
expected to teach up to 5 undergraduate courses in Economics. For one
or the other of these positions the courses might include introductory
principles of micro and/or macroeconomics, money and banking, labour
economics, cost-benefit analysis, international economics, history of
economic thought, Canadian or World economic history, development
economics etc. All fields of specialization will be considered. Salary
will be commensurate with experience and qualifications. At the
conclusion of the contract opportunities might be available for
additional teaching in summer 2012.
Applications will be
reviewed beginning April 15,
2011
and the process will continue until the positions are filled. Other
types of term appointments (e.g. Visiting Professor etc) may be
considered for suitable candidates see http://www.hr.ubc.ca/faculty-relations/recruitment/titles-ranks-descriptions/job-descriptions/
For the application process
please go to http://www.ubc.ca/okanagan/facultystaff/prospective/recruitment/lecturer_sessional/bsas.html
Or apply online through our posting on EconJobMarket.org and post your
requested material on that site.
Heterodox
Journals
Challenge,
54(2):
March-April 2011
Journal website: http://www.mesharpe.com/mall/results1.asp?ACR=CHA
- Letter from the Editor /
Jeff Madrick
- The Economy Has Not Solved
Its Problems / Robert Wade
- Fiscal Austerity: Lessons
from Recent Events in the British
Isles / Giuseppe Fontana, Malcolm Sawyer
- Reforming the U.S. Tax
System / Bob Carbaugh, Koushik Ghosh
- Working Without Laws in New
York City / Diana Polson, James
DeFilippis, Annette Bernhardt
- How Poor Are America's
Poor? / Steven Pressman
- Violent Nation / Mike
Sharpe
Journal
of
the History of Economic Thought, 33(1): March 2011
Journal website: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=HET
Articles
- Hes Presidential Address:
The Coase Theorem Lessons For The
Study Of The History Of Economic Thought / Steven G. Medema
- Karl Knies And The
Prehistory Of Neoclassical Economics:
Understanding The Importance Of “ Die Nationaloekonomische
Lehre
Vom Werth” (1855) / Kosmas Papadopoulos, Bradley W. Bateman
- The Theory Of Value In The
National Economy / Karl Knies
- Crises As A Disease Of The
Body Politick. A Metaphor In The
History Of Nineteenth-Century Economics / Daniele Besomi
Review Essay
- Review Essay: Politics And
Political Economy After Smith /
Donald Winch
Book Reviews
- Poovey Mary, Genres of the
Credit Economy. Mediating Value in
Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century England (Chicago and London: Chicago
University Press, 2008), pp. 511. ISBN 13: 978-0-226-67532-9 / Marina
Bianchi
- Mirowski Philip and Plehwe
Dieter, eds., The Road from Mont
Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009), pp. vi, 469, $55.00.
ISBN 978-0-674-03318-4. / Ross B. Emmett
- Simon J. Cook, The
Intellectual Foundations of Alfred
Marshall’s Economic Science. A Rounded Globe of Knowledge
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. xviii, 331,
£52.25. ISBN 978-0-76008-9. / Peter Groenewegen
- Nahid Aslanbeigui and Guy
Oakes, The Provocative Joan Robinson:
The Making of a Cambridge Economist (Durham NC: Duke University Press,
2009), pp. x, 293, illus., bibl., index, $23.95 (paper). ISBN
9780822345381./ Eleonora Sanfilippo
- Schabas Margaret, The
Natural Origins of Economies (Chicago and
London: University of Chicago Press, 2006), pp. xi, 231, $40.00. ISBN
0–226–73569–9. / Jeffrey T. Young
Industrial
and Corporate
Change, 20(2): April 2011
Journal website: http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol20/issue2/index.dtl
Articles
- John R. Baldwin and Wulong
Gu / Firm dynamics and
productivity growth: a comparison of the retail trade and manufacturing
sectors
- Federico Munari and Laura
Toschi / Do venture capitalists have a
bias against investment in academic spin-offs? Evidence from the micro-
and nanotechnology sector in the UK
-
- Pablo Arocena, Mikel
Villanueva, Raquel Arévalo, and
Xosé H. Vázquez / Why are firms challenging
conventional
wisdom on moral hazard? Revisiting the fair wage–effort
hypothesis
- Ester G. Silva and Aurora
A. C. Teixeira / Does structure
influence growth? A panel data econometric assessment of "relatively
less developed" countries, 1979–2003
- Valentina Meliciani and
Debora Radicchia / The informal
recruitment channel and the quality of job-worker matches: an analysis
on Italian survey data
- Andreas Al-Laham, Daniel
Tzabbar, and Terry L. Amburgey / The
dynamics of knowledge stocks and knowledge flows: innovation
consequences of recruitment and collaboration in biotech
Special Section: Globalization and Corporate R&D
- Pietro
Moncada-Paternò-Castello, Marco Vivarelli, and
Peter Voigt / Drivers and impacts in the globalization of corporate
R&D: an introduction based on the European experience
- Spyros Arvanitis and Heinz
Hollenstein / How do different
drivers of R&D investment in foreign locations affect domestic
firm
performance? An analysis based on Swiss panel micro data
- Dolores
Añón Higón, Miguel Manjón
Antolín, and Juan A. Mañez / Multinationals,
R&D, and
productivity: evidence for UK manufacturing firms
- Franziska Kampik and
Bernhard Dachs / The innovative performance
of German multinationals abroad: evidence from the European community
innovation survey
International
Socialism, 30: April 2011
Journal website: http://www.isj.org.uk/
Analysis
Feedback
Book reviews
Pick of the quarter
Metroeconomica,
62(2): May 2011
Journal website: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0026-1386
- Wage Policy In An
Open-Economy Kalecki–Kaldor Model: A
Simulation Study
- Rudiger von Arnim
- Unions, Monopolistic
Competition And The Optimal Monetary Regime
/ Jonathan G. James and Phillip Lawler
- Social Conflict, Growth And
Factor Shares / Christopher Tsoukis
and Frederic Tournemaine
- International Outsourcing,
The Real Exchange Rate And Effective
Demand / Ken-ichi Hashimoto
- Numeraire, Savings And The
Instability Of A Competitive
Equilibrium / Sergio Parrinello
- Macroeconomic Linkages In
Mexico / Julio López, Armando
Sanchez and Aris Spanos
- Back To The Ordinalist
Revolution: Behavioral Economic Concerns
In Early Modern Consumer Choice Theory / D. Wade Hands
Mother
Pelican, 7(4): April
2011
Theme:
Gender Equality for Human Development
Journal website: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv07n04page1.html
Articles:
- Editorial Opinion ~ Gender
Equality for Human Development
- Two Wings of a Bird: The
Equality of Women and Men,
Bahá’ís USA
- Via Feminina: Mystical Path
of the Feminine, Beverly Lanzetta
- Basic Education and Gender
Equality, Chris Niles
- Gender equality in the
crossfire, Deniz Kandiyoti
- Will Women Priests Change
the Church?, Mary E. Hunt
- Gender Equality and Justice
in Islam, Riffat Hassan
- Women, Islam, and the Push
for Islamic Reform, Isobel Coleman
- Why I Am a Pro-Feminist
Man, Richard J. Newman
Supplements:
- Advances in Sustainable
Development
- Directory of Sustainable
Development Resources
- Sustainable Development
Simulation Version 1.5
- Status of Gender Equality
in Society
- Status of Gender Equality
in Religion
Revista
de Economia Critica
10: Segon Semestre 2010
Journal website: http://revistaeconomiacritica.org/
| Download the full issue here.
ARTÍCULOS
- Vivienda vacía e
intervención pública en la Comunidad
Autónoma del País Vasco en el contexto europeo Aitziber Etxezarreta
Etxarri
SEMIMONOGRÁFICO CRISIS DEL
MODELO AGROALIMENTARIO Y ALTERNATIVAS
- Presentación / Manuel
Gonzalez de Molina y Xavier Simón
- El sistema agroalimentario
globalizado: imperios alimentarios y
degradación social y ecológica / Manuel Delgado Cabeza
- Agroecología: potenciando
la agricultura campesina para
revertir el hambre y la inseguridad alimentaria en el mundo / Miguel A.
Altieri y Clara I. Nicholls
- Políticas públicas y
alternativas agroecológicas en Brasil:
perspectivas para la seguridad y soberanía alimentaria / Francisco
Roberto Caporal y Paulo Petersen
- Agroecología y
Decrecimiento. Una alternativa sostenible a la
configuración del actual sistema agroalimentario español / Manuel
González de Molina y Juan Infante Amate
- Construyendo alternativas
agroecológicas al sistema
agroalimentario global: acción y reacción en el estado español
Xavier Simón Fernández, Damián Copena Rodríguez y / Lucía
Rodríguez Amoedo
NOTAS SOBRE LA CRISIS
- Racionalidad versus
intereses: hacia una economía política de
la “Globalización + Crisis” / Juan Tugores Ques
CLÁSICOS U OLVIDADOS
- Where have all the
Sraffians gone? (A propósito del
cincuentenario de Producción de mercancías por medio de mercancías)
/ Antonio Garrido de la Morena
- Presentación del artículo
de Piero Sraffa, Sobre las
relaciones entre coste y cantidad producida / Alfons Barceló
- Sobre las relaciones entre
coste y cantidad producida / Piero
Sraffa
RECENSIONES DE LIBROS
- Robert Skidelsky, El
regreso de Keynes. Crítica, Madrid, 2009
Luis Fernando Lobejón
- Alicia Girón González
(coord.), Crisis económica, una
perspectiva feminista desde América Latina, prólogo Cristina
Carrasco, Caracas Venezuela: UNAM, Instituto de Investigaciones
Económicas: Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales: Universidad
Central de Venezuela, Centro de Estudios de la Mujer, 2010 / Patricia
Duarte Rodríguez
- Juan Tugores Ques, Crisis
lecciones aprendidas...O no,
Fundación Centro de Estudios Internacionales/Marcial Pons. Madrid,
2010 / Carlos Berzosa Alonso Martínez
- S. Jallais, B. Guerrien,
Microeconomía, una presentación
crítica, Maia Ediciones. Madrid, 2008 Ausias Ribó Argemí
Socio-Economic
Review, 9(1):
2011
Journal website: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/4180/2
Capitalism
– a Virtual Special Issue
Ever
since it was inaugurated,
Socio-Economic Review has published theoretical and empirical work on
capitalism as a socio-economic order: its varieties and commonalities,
their origin and change, and the interaction between capitalism,
politics and social structure. This first Virtual Special Issue
presents a selection of articles that deal with capitalism from a
political-economy and historical-institutionalist perspective. Dates of
original publication extend from 2003 to 2011.
Freely Available:
- Morals
and politics in the ideology of neo-liberalism,
Bruno Amable, 2011
Volume 9(1)
- Are
there laws of motion of capitalism?,
Robert Boyer, 2011 Volume 9(1)
- A
pragmatist theory of capitalism,
Christoph Deutschmann, 2011 Volume
9(1)
- Taking
capitalism seriously: towards an institutionalist approach to
contemporary political economy,
Wolfgang Streeck, 2011 Volume 9(1)
- Economic
regulation and social solidarity: conceptual and analytic innovations
in the study of advanced capitalism,
Kathleen Thelen, 2010 Volume
8(1)
- Institutional
change in varieties of capitalism,
Peter A. Hall and Kathleen
Thelen, 2009 Volume 7(1)
- A
neorealist approach to institutional change and the diversity of
capitalism, Bruno Amable and
Stefano Palombarini, 2009 Volume 7(1)
- The
temporalities of capitalism,
William H. Sewell, Jr, 2008 Volume
6(3)
- Towards
a more dynamic theory of capitalist variety,
Richard Deeg and
Gregory Jackson, 2007 Volume 5(1)
- A
new double movement? Anthropological perspectives on property in the
age of neoliberalism, Chris
Hann, 2007 Volume 5(2)
- Institutional
coherence and macroeconomic performance,
Lane Kenworthy, 2006
Volume 4(1)
- The
varieties of capitalism paradigm: not enough variety?,
Matthew
Allen 2004 Volume 2(1)
- Varieties
of welfare capitalism, Alexander
Hicks and Lane Kenworthy, 2003
Volume 1(1)
Socio-Economic
Review, 9(2): April 2011
Journal website: http://ser.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol9/issue2/index.dtl
EDITORIAL
- Wolfgang Streeck and
Jürgen Feick / Editorial
ARTICLES
- John L. Campbell / The US
financial crisis: lessons for theories
of institutional complementarity
- Jared L. Peifer / Morality
in the financial market? A look at
religiously affiliated mutual funds in the USA
- Jochen Hirschle / The
affluent society and its religious
consequences: an empirical investigation of 20 European countries
- Bryn Jones and Peter Nisbet
/ Shareholder value versus
stakeholder values: CSR and financialization in global food firms
- Susanne Lütz,
Dagmar Eberle, and Dorothee Lauter /
Varieties of private self-regulation in European capitalism: corporate
governance codes in the UK and Germany
STATE OF THE ART
- Philipp Genschel and Peter
Schwarz / Tax competition: a
literature review
DISCUSSION FORUM
- Gregory Shaffer, John L.
Campbell, Glenn Morgan, Terence C.
Halliday, and Bruce G. Carruthers / On Terence C. Halliday and Bruce G.
Carruthers Bankrupt: Global Lawmaking and Systemic Financial Crisis.
Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2010: Panel at the SASE 2010
Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, USA
REVIEW SYMPOSIUM
- Michael B. Katz, Bill
Maurer, and Erik Olin Wright /
Margaret R. Somers Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness
and the Right to Have Rights. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press,
2008
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includes:
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Why
Did Fiscal Stimulus Work in Sierra Leone during the crisis?
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Weeks
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The latest articles and news
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wages and wealth of working
America
Upcoming events
Please join EPI Board Member and AFL-CIO President, Richard Trumka and
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, for a presentation and
discussion of Exiting from the Crisis, a volume of essays by global
trade union leaders and economists on a more just and sustainable model
of global economic growth.
This event will be held on April 15, from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at
AFL-CIO headquarters:
815 16th St., N.W.,Washington, DC
To attend, please RSVP to Sherri Close at sclose@aflcio.org
or 202-637-5216.
Global
Labour Column
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Featured Themes
- Drawing Lessons from US
Financial Reform Efforts: A civil
society perspective by Aldo Caliari
Featured Articles
- Marxism, Crisis Theory and
the Crisis of the Early 21st Century
by William K. Tabb
- Homogeneous Middles vs.
Heterogeneous Tails, and the End of the
'Inverted-U': The share of the rich is what it's all about by
José Gabriel Palma
- The Devastation of Peace in
Egypt by Ali Kadri
News Analysis
- Changing the Policy
Paradigm by Akmal Hussain
- The Transmission of Global
Food Prices by C.P. Chandrasekhar
& Jayati Ghosh
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A historical perspective on Estonia and Brazil by Erkki Karo and Rainer
Kattel
Events & Announcements
- European Group for Public
Administration announces the 33rd
Annual Conference by the Permanent Study Group on Public
Administration, Technology & Innovation, 7-10 September,
Bucharest,
Romania
- Call for applications for
scholarships for participating in
“Justice - Responsibility for the Future", the
inter-disciplinary
conference organised by the European Forum Alpbach 2011, 18 August-3
September.
- Applications are invited
for the five year Joan Robinson
Research Fellowship in Heterodox Economics which has been established
at the University of Cambridge. This scholarship is sponsored by Girton
College and the Cambridge Political Economy Society Trust (which hosts
the Cambridge Journal of Economics)
Levy
News
Upcoming Events
New Publications
- It's
Time to Rein In the Fed, Scott
Fullwiler and L. Randall Wray.
Public Policy Brief No. 117
- Can
Portugal Escape Stagnation without Opting Out from the Eurozone?,
Pedro Leao and Alfonso Palacio-Vera. Working Paper No. 664, March 2011
- Quality
of Match for Statistical Matches Used in the 1995 and 2005 LIMEW
Estimates for Great Britain, Thomas
Masterson. Working Paper No.
663, March 2011
- The
Financial Crisis Viewed from the Perspective of the "Social Costs"
Theory, L. Randall Wray. Working
Paper No. 662, March 2011
- Minsky's
Money Manager Capitalism and the Global Financial CrisisL.
Randall
Wray. Working Paper No. 661, March 2011
- Financial
Markets, Jörg Bibow.
Working Paper No. 660, March 2011
- Minsky
CrisisL. Randall Wray. Working
Paper No. 659, March 2011
- Keynes
after 75 Years: Rethinking Money as a Public Monopoly, L.
Randall
Wray. Working Paper No. 658, March 2011
- What
Does Norway Get Out Of Its Oil Fund, if Not More Strategic
Infrastructure, Michael Hudson.
Working Paper No. 657, March 2011
Heterodox
Books and Book
Series
The
American Road to
Capitalism
Studies
in Class-Structure, Economic Development
and Political Conflict, 1620–1877
By Charles Post
Brill. 2011. Series in
Historical Materialism Book Series, 28
ISBN-13 (i): 978 90 04 20104
0 (HB), 300 pp. | website
Most US historians assume
that capitalism either “came in
the first ships” or was the inevitable result of the
expansion of
the market. Unable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social
labour in the antebellum US, most historians of the US Civil War have
privileged autonomous political and ideological factors, ignoring the
deep social roots of the conflict. This book applies theoretical
insights derived from the debates on the transition to capitalism in
Europe to the historical literature on the US to produce a new analysis
of the origins of capitalism in the US, and the social roots of the
Civil War.
Business
as Usual: The
Economic Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism
By Paul Mattick
Reaktion Books. March 2011. ISBN: 978 1 86189 801 2 (pb) | website
In Business as Usual Paul Mattick explains the recession in jargon-free
style, without shying away from serious analysis. He explores current
events in relation to the development of the world economy since the
Second World War and, more fundamentally, looks at the cycle of crisis
and recovery that has characterized capitalism since the early
nineteenth century. Mattick situates today’s crisis in the
context of a capitalism ruled by a voracious quest for profit. He
places the downturn within the context of business cycles and uses this
explanation as a springboard for exploring the nature of our capitalist
society, and its prospects for the future.
Canadian
Labour in Crisis: Reinventing the Workers’ Movement
By David Camfield
Fernwood Publishing. April 2011. ISBN: 9781552664162 | website
Canadian Labour in Crisis argues that, despite its real
deficiencies,the labour movement is as important today as it was a
hundred years ago. Drawing on the ideas of union and community
activists as well as academic research, David Camfield offers an
analysis of the contemporary Canadian working-class movement and how it
came to be in its current state. He argues that re-energizing the
movement in its current form is not enough — it needs to be
reinvented to face the challenges of contemporary capitalism.
Considering potential ways forward, Camfield asserts that reforming
unions from below and building new workers’ organizations
offer
the best possibilities for effecting real change within the movement.
Decent
Capitalism: A Blueprint for Reforming our Economies
By Sebastian Dullien, Hansjörg Herr, Christian Kellermann
Pluto Press. March 2011. ISBN: 9780745331096 (pb) | website
Decent Capitalism argues for a response that addresses
capitalism’s systemic tendency towards crisis, a tendency
which
is completely absent from the mainstream debate. The authors develop a
concept of a moderated capitalism that keeps its core strengths intact
while reducing its inherent destructive political force in our
societies. This book argues that reforming the capitalist system will
have to be far more radical than the current political discourse
suggests.
Economics
and Diversity
By Carlo D'Ippoliti
Routledge. May 2011. 272
pages. ISBN: 978-0-415-60027-9 (HB).
Series in Routledge
Frontiers of Political Economy |
website
D’Ippoliti
introduces the concept of diversity to summarise
all differences that are of social origin and that a theory or model
seeks to explain. This contrasts with the traditional concept of
heterogeneity that instead refers to differences that are deemed to be
exogenous of economic theory. In approaching this, the book ranges from
the fields of methodology and history of economics to applied empirical
work, as well as gender diversity which is considered in depth. The
analysis of the thinking of two major economists of the past, John
Stuart Mill and Gustav Schmoller, demonstrates how gender diversity
exemplifies some of the fundamental issues in economics, such as the
division of labour, society’s capacity to reproduce itself,
and
the role of social institutions and their impact on individual and
collective behaviour.
Free
Trade
Doesn't Work
By Ian Fletcher
Coalition for a Prosperous
America. 2011. Second edition.
ISBN-13: 978-0578079677 | website
Gramsci's Prison Notebooks
Columbia University Press | website
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Heterodox
Analysis of
Financial Crisis and Reform
Edited by Joëlle Leclaire, Tae-Hee Jo, and Jane Knodell
Edward Elgar. March 2011.
192 pp ISBN: 978 1 84980 156 0 (HB) | Website
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Though the worst of the
financial crisis of 2008 has, with hope,
ebbed, it has forever changed the economy in the United States and
throughout the rest of the world. Using the financial and economic
crisis as a catalyst, this volume examines how to better regulate the
financial system and what to expect in the future if no steps are made
toward reform. This book lays the foundation for those steps by
providing concrete ideas that will push policy in the direction of jobs
growth and widespread prosperity.
Paired with a history of
financial market problems, Heterodox
Analysis of Financial Crisis and Reform analyzes
complacency
regarding the state of the economy, its lack of jobs, growing income
disparity, poverty and the consequences of the false but widely shared
belief that the economy is self-regulating. This book suggests ways to
account for the inherent instability of financial markets and how to
make asset values less precarious. Examining both the macro and micro
sides of financial instability, the authors argue that existing rules
and regulations are either not applied or that they are not effective
enough to prevent market fluctuations of the magnitude experienced in
2008. This volume also sheds new light on just how inextricably linked
success on Wall Street and welfare on Main Street have become.
Oil:
A
Time Machine
Journey Beyond Fanciful Economics
and Frightful Politics
By Cyrus Bina
Linus Publications. 2011.
ISBN: 1-60797-050-3 | Website
| News
This book is a systematic
study of oil in its historical stages,
as a time machine. This is a groundbreaking theoretical (and empirical)
innovation in step with The Economics of the Oil Crisis (1985). This
volume unites separate domains of economics, politics, and
international relations into an organic whole, capturing domestic,
foreign, and global environmental policies. As a specific exploration
in political economy, this book is about the evolution of a commodity
that eventually transformed into the pervasive, almost mystical force
that it is today.
The
Plot against the NHS
By Colin Leys and Stewart Player
April 2011. Merlin Press. ISBN 978 0 85036 679 2 (pb) | website
For more than a decade government ministers have worked behind the
scenes with the private sector to turn the not-for-profit National
Health Service into a healthcare market. Leys and Player reveal how
this was done and how the private healthcare industry in England is
poised to take over a fast-growing share of the NHS budget. They show
what Mr Lansley’s ‘any willing provider’
free-for-all
will mean for patients, placed at the mercy of ruthless corporations
and ambitious ‘doctorpreneurs’. They also show that
the
government’s mantra ‘that there is no
alternative’ is
a deception, and how Scotland and Wales have successfully chosen a
different course.
The
Politics of Equality: An Introduction,
By Jason C. Myers
Zed Books. ISBN: 9781848138445 (hb) | website
Why are socialists, communists and social democrats concerned with the
distribution of wealth? Why do they place so much importance on public
goods such as education and health care? To what extent does democracy
matter to socialist ideologies? In The Politics of Equality, Jason C.
Myers sheds new light on questions like this, providing a readable,
contemporary introduction to egalitarian political philosophy.
Concentrating on ideas and values rather than on the rise and fall of
parties and movements, the book offers crucial insights into a vital
tradition of political thought and how it is key to our understanding
of contemporary debates from Obama's plans for a national health care
programme to the recent global wave of economic state regulation.
Heterodox
Book Reviews
Adam
Smith: An Enlightened Life by Nicholas Phillipson
Yale University Press, 346 pp., $32.50
Reviwed by Yuval Levin or the New Republic. March
21, 2011.
Read the review
here.
Marx
and Philosophy Review
New reviews just published
online in the Marx and Philosophy Review
of Books:
- Morgon on Badiou
- Melançon on
Therborn
- Weislogel on Kierkegaard
- Bunyard on Negativity
- Melrose on
'scientific’ socialism'
- Pomeroy on
Mészáros
- Salzani on Marx and
postmodernism
- Kerrigan on Gramsci
- Eyers on Lacan and
psychoanalysis
- Robinson on Dietzgen
New comments and discussion,
And a new list of books for review all
at www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/
Heterodox
Graduate Programs
and Scholarships
Doctoral
Contract in
Post-Keynesian economics in Paris 13
Dear friends and colleagues,
I am very pleased to let you
know that the Post-keynesian task
group in Paris 13 has three year grant to offer for a PhD student in
Post-Keynesian economics. Speaking French is not mandatory. The
applicant has to be a graduate student in economics. He will hold a
Master degree in Economics (or any international equivalent degree).
The applicant must graduate no later than September 1st, 2012. The
candidate is not, and has never been, enrolled as a PhD student. The
monthly net wage will be around 1700 Euros. The French social
security system is included
in it. See further information in the
attached calls – in French and in English.
Could you please spread this
call as widely, and as quickly, as
possible? The deadline for applying is May 6th, 2011.
Many thanks.
All the best,
Dany Lang, associate
professor
For more details, see Call
for Applications in French
and in English.
Scholarships for Students attending WAPE
Conference
Students attending the 2011 Conference of the World Association for
Political Economy in Amherst, Massachusetts from May 27 to May 29 are
eligible for URPE-sponsored scholarships to cover part of the
conference registration fee (Registration Fee is $100 for early
registration, i.e. before April 22.) Students who are URPE members will
receive scholarships of $60, and non-members are eligible for
scholarships of $50. Further information on both the Conference and
URPE membership is available at www.urpe;org.
Students may choose, with their applications, to take out URPE
memberships ($20 for a limited membership or $30 for a full (student)
membership,) in which case they will be eligible for the $60
scholarship. Full members receive a subscription to the Review of
Radical Political Economics (4 issues per year) and the quarterly URPE
Newsletter. Limited members receive only the Newsletter.
Note: There is an optional forum dinner at the Conference on May 28,
for which an additional $30 fee must be paid at the time of application.
Applications must be submitted to the URPE National Office by April
22. You may not apply for the
URPE scholarships by using the online
application process for the WAPE Conference.
Students who have not yet
registered for the WAPE Conference
Choose one of the four categories below in order to determine the
amount of the fee to be sent with this application:
Registration for WAPE Conference + URPE membership (if applicable)
Not including dinner Including dinner
(a) Current URPE members $40 $70
(b) New members (limited membership) $60 $90
(c) New members (full membership) $70 $100
(d) Students who do not wish to join URPE now $60 $90
Students who have already
registered for the WAPE Conference
should apply for the scholarships directly to the National Office, by
completing the form above and enclosing a stamped self-addressed
envelope. Scholarships will be sent to you as follows:
(a) Current URPE members $60
(b) Students taking out limited membership with this application now $40
(C) Students taking out full membership with this application now $30
(d) Students who do not wish to join URPE now $40
Download Application
Form.
Heterodox
Web Sites and
Associates
Dix
Theses Pour Un Nouveau
Developpementalisme
L'ADEK (Edwin Le Heron la représentant) et Robert Boyer ont
été les 2 français qui se sont
réunis
à Sao Paulo en mai 2010 pour lancer un programme pour un
nouveau
développementalisme autour de 10 thèses
alternatives au
Consensus de Washington aujourd'hui discrédité.
Ce projet
qui concerne plus particulièrement les pays
émergents est
dirigé par Luis-Carlos Bresser-Pereira et financé
par la
fondation Ford et la School of Economics of Sao Paulo (Fondation
Getulio Vargas). Nous venons de nous réunir à
nouveau
(mars 2011) pour réfléchir sur les
thèmes 6, 7 et
8 et ce travail va se prolonger et se développer dans
l'avenir.
Vous trouverez le site de cette initiative ci-dessous et il
serait très important qu'un nombre important de
keynésiens français la soutienne en y souscrivant
(procédure très rapide sur le site). Nous
organiserons
certainement rapidement un colloque en France autour de ce projet.
Website: http://www.tenthesesonnewdevelopmentalism.org/theses_french.asp
John
Harvey's Forbes.com
Blog
http://blogs.forbes.com/johntharvey/
Queries
from Heterodox Economists
Help
wanted! International
Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE)
ICAPE webperson
ICAPE needs someone with
good web skills to help manage its
website: www.icape.org.
Workload
could be appreciable in the months leading up to the ICAPE conference
at U.Mass.-Amherst (Nov. 11-13, 2011). But there are great
opportunities for making connections and contributing to the
advancement of pluralism in economics. If interested, please send a
note to outgoing ICAPE webmistress, Martha Starr, mstarr@american.edu,
indicating
your background and familiarity with website work.
ICAPE ASSA booth coordinator
ICAPE also needs someone to
coordinate its booth at the ASSA
meeting in Chicago in January 2012. Responsibilities include:
collecting materials from ICAPE associates who have things to display,
recruiting and scheduling volunteers, setting up and taking down the
booth. Excellent opportunity to make connections and contribute to the
advancement of pluralism in economics! If interested, please send a
note to ICAPE executive secretary-treasurer, Erik Olsen, olsenek@umkc.edu.
For
Your Information
Japan
Society for Historians
of Economic Thought: Annual Meeting Postponed.
Dear Fellow Historians of
Economic Thought,
As you know, the northeastern part of Japan was severly hit by one of
the greatest earthquakes and tsunami on March 11, and we are sruggling
to rescue those who are affected, rebuild the community, society and
economy, and contain the nuclear contaminations.
We have been planning to hold the annual meeting of the JSHET from May
21-22 at Fukushima University, Fukushima, but considering the current
uncertainties and the proximity of the venue to the affected area, we
have decided to postpone this year's annual meeting. We apologize for
any inconveniece which this decision might cause.
However, we are also determined to hold this year's annual meeting,
possibly sometime in the latter half of the year. The details are not
yet determined, but they will be notified in due course.
Thank you for your
coorperation and understanding.
with best wishes,
On behalf of
President Masaharu Hattori
President-elect Keiko Kurita
Masazumi Wakatabe, Chair of the Committee for Communication and
Planning, JSHET
Thomas
Guggenheim Program in
the History of Economic Thought Research Prize
The Thomas Guggenheim Program in the
History of Economic Thought Research at Ben Gurion University of the
Negev announces the second bi- annual Prize for Outstanding and
Original Research in the History of Economic Thought. The prize, in the
sum of $10,000, will be awarded to a distinguished scholar for his\her
life's work.
Nomination of candidates
should be made by submitting a brief
description (maximum three pages) of the work of the nominee, and their
CV to: Ela at mcer@bgu.ac.il
The deadline for submissions
is June 15th 2011. A Committee of
experts will make the decision by September 1st 2011. The committee
members may also propose candidates of their choice.
The prize will be awarded at
BGU in a public lecture to be
delivered by the winner in December 2011.The Thomas Guggenheim Program
in the History of Economic Thought operates under the auspices of an
International Advisory Committee, comprising:
Prof. Arie Arnon (Ben Gurion
University)
Prof. Thomas Guggenheim
(University of Geneva)
Prof. Maria Cristina
Marcuzzo (Sapienza Universita Di Roma)
Prof. Joel Mokyr
(Northwestern University)
Prof. Jacques Silber (Bar
Ilan University)
Prof. Warren Young (Bar Ilan
University University)
Prof. Jimmy Weinblatt (Ben
Gurion University)
Prof. Amos Witztum (London
Metropolitan University)
Heterodox
Economics Syllabi
on URPE website
Dear URPE members,
And most of you know, the
syllabi section on our
Web site was resurrected a year
or so ago as part of series of new
projects URPE has begun, and now has a lot of very interesting and
useful current heterodox and radical syllabi on many areas of
economics. This is the once-a-semester call I send out at the end of
each semester when you have all the bugs out of your syllabi, to simply
do a couple of clicks and send to me what you already have done all the
work on. The Steering Committee has gotten a LOT of feedback from
people teaching economics, particularly but not only ones just
starting, on how useful these have been to them in developing their own
syllabi.
I am sending this out now
before your semester ends and you move
onto other things, though I wouldn’t actually post them until
June 1 which is the first moment I will get to turn to working on our
constantly developing URPE Web site.
In solidarity, Al (Al@economics.utah.edu)
Petition:
TIAA-CREF Divestment Campaign
A campaign has been launched to have
TIAA-CREF, the major pension fund for university and many non-profit
organizations to divest from firms that aid and profit from the the
Israeli occupation of the West Bank including East Jerusalem and Gaza.
As of now some 20,000 signatures have been gathered on a petition by
Jewish Voice For Peace(JVP) sponsoring the campaign.
Last summer over 10,000 signatures on
divestment petitions were presented to T-CREF at the Annual Meeting of
the pension fund . I joined some 30 other meeting participants in
expressing our and the signers dismay that the pension fund claiming to
invest our money according to ethical standards continues to include in
their social fund such firms as Caterpillar which sells militarized
bulldozers to destroy Palestinian homes to expand Israeli settlements)
and Motorola which sells surveillance equipment placed around
settlements and checkpoints as well as communication systems to the
Israeli army and West Bank settlers.
Several weeks before the Annual Meeting
the Fund had flatly rejected our demand for divestment However with the
great growth over a short period in the number of signers, they said
they will act according to the will of the membership.
Please sign the petition electronically
and receive more detailed information about the campaign from
http://jewishvoiceforpeace.org/tiaa-cref
You don't have to be a member of
the Fund (a check mark next to
your signature will indicate if you are). Nor of course do you have to
be Jewish.
La
Commune
de Vancouver: Paris 1871 / Vancouver 2011
March 18 - May 28 | Simon Fraser University, Canada
In March of 1871, after defeat in the Franco-Prussian War, a period of
material hardship and growing class antagonisms, and the election of a
monarchist majority in the National Assembly (and the subsequent
removal of the seat of government from Paris to Versailles), the people
of Paris rose up, taking the administration and defense of the city
into their own hands. It was, in geographer David Harvey’s
words,
“the greatest class-based communal uprising in capitalist
history.” Under a red flag for 73 days, the Commune organized
its
own affairs and those of a city of 2 million, enacting a series of
radical reforms it did not last long enough to see bear fruit. The
Commune was violently suppressed at the end of May, with more than
20,000 Parisians killed in street fighting or summarily executed.
This March through May 2011, a group of SFU faculty and students will
mark the 140th anniversary of the Commune by declaring La Commune de
Vancouver—a series of talks, film screenings, presentations,
colloquia, poetry readings, performances, and provocations, many in
both French and English. Events will be held at SFU Burnaby and in
downtown Vancouver locations, and involve participation by community
members, activists, artists and academics.
The website and list of events can be
found here.
The
Clinton E. Jencks
Memorial Fund
The Rosenberg Fund for
Children (http://www.rfc.org/)
has a named fund for
Clinton E. Jencks—see below. Jencks was in fact a
radical/Marxist
economist back in the 1940s/50s. He eventually got a PhD and taught at
San Diego State U. He was an economist that actually worked/engaged in
the class struggle and his life was under far more stress and danger
than those heterodox economists working in the ivory tower. For more
about Jencks, just google his name or look him up in my
“History
of Heterodox Economics”. So if you are thinking about making
a
socially conscious donation and commemorating a heterodox economists at
the same time, think about RFC and the Jencks fund.
The Clinton E.
Jencks Memorial FundIn
March 2008, Muriel Sobelman-Jencks established an annual grant of $1000
in memory of her husband, Clinton E. Jencks (1918-2005), “El
Palomino,” organizer for United Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers,
Local 890. Clinton played himself in “Salt of the
Earth,”
the only American film to be blacklisted. The movie depicted the
McCarthy era strike by New Mexico zinc miners and the struggle of women
to achieve equality, and became one of 400 motion pictures selected by
the Library of Congress for the National Film Registry. This annual
grant is designated to assist children of workers who have been
penalized, injured, fired, jailed or have died for their organizing
efforts to build unions, improve working conditions and elevate living
standards for all in the work force. Anyone who wishes to donate to the
Clinton E. Jencks Memorial Fund should indicate that designation when
making a contribution to the RFC.
Stern,
Weitzman Receive
GDAE’s Leontief Prizes
On March 8, the Global Development and Environment Institute presented
the 2011 Leontief Prize to Lord Nicholas Stern of the London School of
Economics and Dr. Martin Weitzman of Harvard University. Both
economists are widely renowned for their pioneering and influential
analysis of the economics of global climate change. GDAE’s
annual
Leontief Prize recognizes economists whose theoretical and empirical
work provides a deeper understanding of the nexus between economic,
social, and environmental objectives. Tufts President Larry Bacow
opened the well-attended event, which featured lectures from Lord Stern
and Dr. Weitzman.
UNICEF
and
the Economic Research Foundation (ERF) New e-learning program
UNICEF and the Economic
Research Foundation (ERF) invite you to
participate in a new e-learning programme focusing on socio-economic
policies for child rights with equity. This free, self-paced online
course is available to all development partners at UN agencies,
governments, universities and civil society organizations.
Course Description: This
innovative programme is a foundational
course on economic and social policies to promote equity and child
rights. The topics covered include: the human rights-based approach to
development;socially- responsive macroeconomic policies such as fiscal,
monetary and exchange rate policies; equitable sector policies; public
finance and social budgeting; multidimensional poverty; social
protection, migration and climate change.
The e-course aims to provide
evidence-based arguments and
advocacy skills needed to promote equity and children's rights in
public policy, in the context of recent developments such as the
economic crisis or high food prices.
Course Duration: The course
is self-directed and may be completed
at your own pace.
Registration: This course is
being offered free of charge to
ensure maximum outreach. Upon completion of each module, a test is
administered and a certificate will be issued to all who reach
successful completion.
Visit policyforchildrights.orgto
get
started. Please share this announcement with all who may be interested
in participating.
The course was designed by
an ERF team led by Jayati Ghosh,
Director of the Economic Research Foundation, and a UNICEF team led by
Isabel Ortiz, Associate Director of Policy and Practice, UNICEF.