Issue 117 |
July 11, 2011
Editors'
Note
Congratulations to the World Economics Association (WEA) as
they had over 3,500 people register for membership in the first week
alone! To date, there are close to 5,000 members from 120
countries. This speaks to both the need for pluralism in
economics and the failings of the dominant paradigm. If you have
not yet become a member and are interested, you can find that
information in the For Your
Information section.
A query for our readers. We are beginning to receive
requests to market online courses. While we believe it is a
worthwhile endeavor, given the trend and workload, we are hesitant to
create another section for these activities. However, we think it would
be a valuable service if there was a promotional site for heterodox
online economics courses. We would appreciate your ideas on this,
so please email us your thoughts. Wouldn't it be great to promote
heterodox online courses to students at places like the University of
Chicago!?
Lastly, at the risk of self-promotion, we'd like to again draw your
attention to the
special issue call for papers from On the Horizon. This is
an excellent occasion for heterodox economists to speak directly to, in
particular, educational administrators and policy makers. You can
address, for example, educational, social, political, cultural, and
environmental issues alternative to market-oriented policies. Or you
can explore pedagogical approaches beyond market-fundamentalist
mainstream teaching methods. We look forward to receiving many
visionary paper proposals.
In solidarity,
Tae-Hee Jo and Ted Schmidt, Editors
Email: heterodoxnews@gmail.com
Website: http://heterodoxnews.com
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Table
of Contents
Call
for Papers
Call for Participants
Job Postings for Heterodox Economists
Conference Papers, Reports, and Articles
Heterodox Journals
Business History
Review
Cambridge
Journal of Economics, 35(4): July 2011
Capital &
Class, 35(2): June 2011
Challenge,
54(4): July-August 2011
Contributions to Political Economy, 30(1): June 2011
The Economic and Labour Relations Review
Economics and
Philosophy, 27(2): July 2011
Economy and
Society, 40(2): 2011
Ensayos Revista de Economía, 30(1): Mayo 2011
European
Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 18(2): 2011
Forum for
Social Economics, 40(2): July 2011
Industrial and
Corporate Change, 20(3): July 2011
International
Journal of Political Economy, 40(1): Spring 2011
International Socialism Journal, 131: June 2011
Intervention.
European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies, 8(1): May 2011
Journal of
Agrarian Change, 11(3): July 2011
Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 33(2): June
2011
Journal of Institutional Economics, 7(2): 2011
Journal of
Post Keynesian Economics, 33(3): Spring 2011
Journal of
World-Systems Research, 17(2): 2011
Metroeconomica,
62(3): July 2011
Mother
Pelican, 7(6): June 2011
Review of Political Economy, 23(3): July 2011
Revue de la
régulation: Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoirs, 9: 1er Semestre
2011
Socio-Economic Review, 9(3): July 2011
Heterodox Newsletters
Heterodox Books and Book Series
Heterodox Book Reviews
Heterodox
Graduate Programs and Scholarships
Heterodox Web Sites and Associates
Queries
from Heterodox Economists
For Your Information
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Call for Papers
AFIT 2012 Conference:
Institutionalism and Building a Better Future
The 33rd annual meeting of AFIT will be held
April 11-14, 2012 | Houston, Texas. Hyatt Regency, Houston
In conjunction with the Western Social Science Association (WSSA) 54th
Annual Conference
Theme for the 2012 Conference: Institutionalism
and Building a Better Future
The evolution of institutions-changes in the social, cultural, and
legal environment in which individuals and groups of individuals
operate and make decisions-is critical to making sense of the current
state of the economy. Rarely have the stakes been so high in
understanding what transpired in taking the economy to where it is
today and in understanding the implications of current and future
social and economic policies. Institutional economists bring a rich and
robust tradition to the holistic analysis of economic activity where
‘people matter’ that can contribute to this understanding.
The theme for the 2012 AFIT conference is: Institutionalism and
Building a Better Future. Since 2012 is a presidential election year,
it is even more urgent than ever that Institutional analysts make sure
their voices are heard in various policy discussions. Topics for
presentations may include: historical analysis of the current crisis
(what brought the economy to this point and why), how do
‘differences’ play into access to economic opportunity and
outcomes, as well as how sound policy may contribute to building a
better system of social provisioning for all people. The organizer
recognizes that there are many topics of interest to
institutional-heterodox economists that are not connected to the
conference theme and papers on those topics are welcome as well.
The Association for Institutional Thought provides an excellent
platform for the delivery of papers concerned with theoretic and
applied issues in a broad range of areas. AFIT sessions are
well-attended, and presenters can expect to receive valuable comments
on their work.
Proposals for complete sessions are encouraged—see the submission
format below. If you are proposing a complete session, please arrange
to have discussants for your papers and a moderator for your session.
It is anticipated that at least one panel of graduate student papers
will be included in the program this year. In addition, AFIT will
continue to sponsor prizes for outstanding student papers. A formal
announcement of this year’s competition is attached.
AFIT will continue the tradition of having one or more sessions that
explores ideas, experiences, and materials to advance economic
education from institutional and other heterodox perspectives.
Participants in these roundtables are encouraged to submit their
materials to the conference organizer for posting on the AFIT web site.
AFIT is also receptive to proposals for panels to review and discuss
books recently published by AFIT members.
Individuals whose papers are accepted may also be expected to serve as
a discussant for a different paper at the meetings. If you list the
areas you prefer to discuss, all attempts will be made to match your
preferences.
Proposal Format: Paper
- Title of the Paper
- Name, Affiliation, Mailing Address, Telephone Number, E-mail
Address
- Other Authors
- Abstract (not exceeding 200 words; type in New Times Roman 12)
Proposal Format: Session
- Title of the Session
- Title of each Paper (3/4 papers)
- Moderator with Affiliation, Mailing Address, Telephone Number,
E-mail Address
- Discussant(s) with Affiliation, Mailing Address, Telephone
Number, E-mail Address
- Presenters with Affiliation, Mailing Address, Telephone Number,
E-mail Address
- Abstract for each paper for the session (not exceeding 200
words; type in New Times Roman 12)
Anyone interested in attending the AFIT Conference or in finding out
more about the organization may visit the AFIT web site at http://www.associationforinstitutionalthought.org/
Conference registration information can be found at the WSSA web site http://wssa.asu.edu.
You must be a member of AFIT to present a paper at the
conference—there are no exceptions. Annual dues are $25. Annual
dues for full-time students is$15. Contact Mary Wrenn,
Secretary-Treasurer of AFIT at http://www.associationforinstitutionalthought.org
for additional information.
All participants are required to register for the WSSA-AFIT conference
prior to March 1, 2012. This means everybody: professors, graduate
students, undergraduate students—there are no exceptions.
All proposals must be sent to the conference organizer by December 1,
2011. Send proposals by E-mail with the subject line AFIT 2012 Proposal
Last name and file attachment in Microsoft Word or RTF format to the
conference organizer and Vice President of AFIT:
Barbara Wiens-Tuers, Ph.D.
baw16@psu.edu
Penn State Altoona
Download Call for Papers.
AFIT 7th Annual Student
Scholars Award Competition
The Association for Institutional Thought (AFIT) proudly announces the
Seventh Annual AFIT Student Scholars Award Competition. The aim of AFIT
is to encourage undergraduate and graduate students in Economics and
Political Economy to pursue research in topics within the Institutional
Economics framework.
Awards will be made to the three best papers. Winners are expected to
present their research during a special session at the Annual Meetings
of AFIT, held during the Western Social Science Association’s
54th Annual Conference at the Hyatt Regency, Houston, April 11-14, 2012.
Winners will each receive:
1. $300 prize
2. One year student membership in AFIT
3. Paid WSSA Conference Registration
4. Paid admission to the AFIT Presidential Address Dinner
Winning papers must be presented at the special AFIT session in order
to be eligible for the prize. Prizes will be presented during the AFIT
Presidential Address Dinner.
Application Procedures and Deadlines
Papers must be between 15-25 pages in length, including references and
appendices. They should be submitted electronically (preferably in Word
format) by December 15, 2011 to:
Daniel A. Underwood
Professor, Economics & Environmental Science
Peninsula College
1502 East Lauridsen Blvd.
Port Angeles, WA 98362
USA
E-mail: dunderwood@pencol.edu
Winners will be notified by 1/15/12.
Download Call for Papers.
Anarcho-Syndicalist
Review: On Participatory Economics
Anarcho-Syndicalist Review (www.syndicalist.org)
is planning a special issue on Participatory Economics, which continues
to draw attention from many anarchists interested in how economic life
might be organized in a post-revolutionary society. We are seeking book
reviews, critiques and other material that engages Parecon both as
economic theory and political practice. Among the materials we are
interested in are an overall summary and critique of the proposal,
using the major texts; reviews of recent work including Robin
Hahnel’s Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to
Cooperation and Chris Spannos’s anthology, Real Utopia:
Participatory Society for the 21st Century; evaluation of
Parecon’s strategy proposals; and a review of previous debates
and criticisms. We welcome other ideas.
While the ASR editorial collective remains deeply critical of the
Parecon project (as we have been from the start), we are open to
materials from a variety of standpoints. Our goal is to offer a
substantive review and assessment of what has become one of the
best-known visions for implementing a libertarian socialist economy, as
part of our ongoing series of articles exploring anarchist economics.
We hope to receive submissions for this special issue by Dec. 15, 2011,
and would be glad to discuss specific proposals with authors in advance.
anarchosyndicalistreview@gmail.com
Annual New School –
UMass Graduate Workshop in Economics
5-6 November 2011 | The New School
The primary aim of the annual New School – UMass workshop in
economics is to give graduate students of both Departments the
opportunity to present and discuss their research work in a
collaborative environment. Faculty may also present, but priority will
be given to graduate students. Submissions from graduate students at
other Departments are welcome, but should be accompanied by a
nomination letter or email from a faculty member at that Department.
The workshop will be held this year at The New School in New York City
on 5-6 November 2011. Sessions will start Saturday 5 November at 1pm
and the workshop will close around 3pm on Sunday 6 November.
Each paper will be allocated about 45 minutes (20 minutes for
presentation, 10 minutes for comments by a discussant and 15 minutes
for general discussion).
Send paper proposals (including title and abstract) and offers to act
as a discussant to Christian Proaño (proanoac@newschool.edu)
and Mohan Rao (rao@econs.umass.edu).
The closing date for proposals is Friday 7 October. A preliminary
program will be drawn up by 14 October. Completed papers must be
available not later than Monday 24 October.
For further information, please contact Christian Proaño or Mohan Rao.
The Workshop is open to non-UMass/New School students.
The
Capitalist Mode of Power: Past, Present, Future
The Second Annual Forum on Capital as Power
20-21 October 2011 | York University, Toronto
Extended Abstract Submission Deadline: July 31st, 2011
Keynote Speaker: Bob Jessop, Lancaster University
The annual conference series organized by the Forum on Capital as Power
brings together a diverse range of radically minded people interested
in exploring the concept of power as a basis for re-thinking and
re-searching value, capital and accumulation. As the name of our forum
suggests, we think that the Capital as Power framework offers a
promising new, but by no means the only, alternative for pursuing
radical and innovative research in political economy. By
conceptualizing capital as the symbolic quantification of power, and
capitalism as a mode of power, this framework challenges the
foundational bifurcations between politics/economics,
‘real’/‘nominal’ and state/capital upon which
conventional theories of capitalism rest. And by re-casting
accumulation as a process of differential capitalization, this
framework also offers research tools for empirically exploring
capitalism; something that liberal and Marxist theories, anchored
respectively in problematic units of ‘utility’ and
‘abstract labour’, have difficulty providing. This combined
focus on theoretical-empirical research is, for us, of paramount
importance. It points the way to a more democratic form of knowledge
production. And it corresponds with what we believe should be a guiding
maxim of radical praxis: that in order to change the world, we first
have to adequately interpret and explain it.
As with all new frameworks, the Capital as Power approach is still very
much open to elaboration and refinement, as well as contestation. Our inaugural conference in 2010
marked a positive step in this regard. It generated enthusiastic
discussion and debate, it produced exciting new insights and new
research related to the Capital as Power approach, and it yielded
original material for forthcoming publications. But there is still
ample scope for further inquiry: is a focus on Capital as Power able to
account for the historical origins and spread of capitalism? Is it
amenable to contemporary comparative research in different geographical
and social contexts? What can a focus on Capital as Power tell us about
the possible future trajectories of the global capitalist order? What
kind of democratic and humane alternatives to the existing order does
it envision? And in what ways does Capital as Power intersect and
overlap with other power-centered approaches to political economy?
With these questions in mind, our second annual conference invites
contributions from those who critically engage with, extend or
operationalize the Capital as Power approach in their own research. We
also welcome contributions by those who present other power-centered
alternatives to existing theories of capitalism. Contributions might
address, but are not necessarily restricted to, the following areas:
- Capitalist power and the labour process;
- The emergence of the modern state as a locus of capitalization;
- The role of capitalist power in contemporary crises of real
estate, sovereign debt or natural resources;
- The intersection of the capitalist mode of power with other
modes of power;
- Capital as Power from regional and comparative perspectives;
- The role of entertainment, leisure and consumption from a
capitalist perspective;
- Capitalist power over the biosphere;
- Alternative visions for the future, including alternative,
democratic accounting systems.
Please send abstracts of 250 words to the following address by July 31,
2011: capitalaspower2011@gmail.com
Organizing Committee: Joseph Baines (York University), Sandy Brian
Hager (York University) and Mladen Ostojic (York University)
Environment and Society:
Capitalism and the Environment
We write with an update about the third issue of Environment and
Society. This is a new peer review research annual published by
Berghan, which solicits incisive surveys of research on
human-environment relations. We are inviting papers for the next issue
on the broad theme of “capitalism and the environment”. We
are going to
organize the issue around topic areas (see below) and ask the authors
to, within the review of the literature in that topic area, address
some crosscutting themes are issues (see below).
Best,
Paige West and Dan Brockington
ares.journal@gmail.com
http://journals.berghahnbooks.com/air-es/
Proposed Topic Areas for Issue number 3:
- Water; Terrestrial wildlife (including birds); Aquatic wildlife;
Forests; Carbon; Agriculture; Bio-products; Bio-knowledge; Minerals;
Finance; Ethical commodities; Landscapes (eco regions); Images; Brands;
Tourism
Proposed crosscutting themes / issues for issue number 3:
- Financialization, commoditization, market speak, abstraction,
commercialization, accumulation by dispossession and other means,
regulation, deregulation, privatization, changing roles of states
–NGO’s – the private sector, roles of elites, foreign
investments, indigenous knowledge, limits to capitalism, growth of
capitalism
Feminist
Economics: Engendering Economic Policy in Africa
Guest Editors: Caren A. Grown, Abena D. Oduro, and Irene van Staveren
In recent years, feminist economists and gender and development
scholars have drawn attention to the adverse effects in Africa of
policies associated with the Washington Consensus, including trade
liberalization, strict anti-inflationary policies, and privatization of
government functions.
As these policies particularly disadvantage women and the poor, a
variety of voices have emerged critiquing their underlying assumptions
and renewing efforts to promote alternate pathways to gender equity,
wellbeing, and sustainable economic development.
The special issue, planned for online publication in 2014 and print
publication in 2015, will bring together new research aimed at
challenging and improving economic policies in Africa. More generally,
the special issue will provide a forum for feminist economists and
scholars in relevant disciplines to analyze the interrelationships
among macroeconomic reforms, gender inequalities, and the microeconomic
channels that affect the well-being of women, their families, and their
communities. The special issue will welcome both theoretical and
empirical contributions, and analyses that rely on diverse research
methodologies, including statistical analysis. Feminist Economics
especially welcomes submissions from African scholars as well as others
from the Global South.
Contributions may cover diverse topics, including but not limited to:
- Gender and poverty dimensions of macroeconomic policy, aid,
and/or debt
- Enhancing food security and reducing livelihood risks using
social protection
- Ensuring equitable growth and development in post-conflict
economies
- Property rights and how they affect the ownership of assets by
women and men
- Microfinance and the debate over its efficacy for women's
empowerment
- The care economy and the role of social policy
Deadline for abstracts:
Please direct queries and abstracts (500 words maximum) to the Guest
Editors, Caren Grown (cgrown@american.edu),
Abena D. Oduro (aoduro@ug.edu.gh),
and Irene van Staveren (Staveren@iss.nl),
no later than 1 September 2011.
If the Guest Editors approve an abstract, the complete manuscript will
be due 1 April 2012 and should be submitted to Feminist Economics
through the submissions website (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rfec).
Questions about these procedures may be sent to feministeconomics@rice.edu,
+1.713.348.4083 (phone) or +1.713.348.5495 (fax).
International
Conference on Degrowth in the Americas
14-20 May 2012 | Montreal, Canada
The goal of this conference is to build
a degrowth movement in the Americas with rigorous examination of
issues, involving academia and social movements, arts and sciences,
thought and living experiences. For this purpose it will be a "slow"
one-week long conference to experience degrowth.
The Montreal Degrowth Conference invites papers, posters,
workshops, proposals for arts, and interactive activities to address
and experience degrowth in its diverse manifestations. The conference
builds upon previous international degrowth conferences (
Paris, 2008
and
Barcelona, 2010) and aims at
contributing to the following themes:
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Grounding: What is a flourishing Earth and what world views
enable it?
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Knowing: How can the physical, biological and social sciences
help us in understanding how to enhance the flourishing of the Earth's
life systems?
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Relating: What means of relationship and exchange can help
enhance the continual flourishing of the Earth's life systems?
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Consenting: How the can the major political, economic,
development, social, technical, and scientific priorities of society be
developed with broad and informed public dialogue and consent?
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Sharing: How can the radically unjust inequalities between
people be eliminated; and how can the human fair share of the Earth's
life support systems be defined and achieved?
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Experiencing: What would a flourishing society look and feel
like for individuals and collectives at various temporal and spatial
scales?
How we will talk
The Conference seeks an open and plural dialogue among various
stakeholders including academics, artists, business, the general
public, political leaders, social organizations, students and unions.
Our engagements will be "convivial" – friendly, warm, welcoming,
yet rigorous and daring, as the conference seeks extensive
interpersonal engagement and ultimately, action.
The conference will be attended by a variety of stakeholders with
different professional and cultural backgrounds. Therefore,
communicating in accessible language (whether in English, French and
Spanish) is encouraged whenever possible.
Presentation Formats
We are pleased to invite submissions of the following types of
proposals. Please note that all speakers and presenters will be
required to register for the Conference.
1. Symposia (½ or a full day)
We invite anyone interested in organizing a symposium within the
framework of degrowth and the conference themes to contact the
conference secretariat directly. Proposals will be considered on a
case-by-case basis.
2. Arts and cultural exhibits/performances
We are very interested in receiving artistic proposals relating
to the conference themes. These can include any type of artistic
proposal, such as installations, performances, exhibits, etc..
Workshops (90 minutes)
3. A workshop would comprise of a 90 minute session that treats
one or more of the conference themes. The session organizer will be
responsible for the content of the session, confirming all speakers and
identifying a session chair.
4. Roundtables (90 minutes)
These sessions would include 4 to 6 people based on a common
theme. Each participant will have 5 to 7 minutes to present their ideas
on the theme. These short presentations will be followed by 60 minutes
of discussion. This session is designed for individuals who would like
to engage in discussion surrounding the themes and their ideas.
5. Special sessions (90 minutes)
We are open to any form of organisation of special sessions as
long as it is related to the themes of the degrowth conference. It
could be a complementary mix of artistic and academic presentation or a
non verbal activity. For instance, to study and overcome the
limitations of making the academic knowledge understandable and usable,
one could envision a combination of a world café discussion and
an academic presentation, or the same presentation in an academic
format and in a broad audience format, followed by a critical
evaluation of the differences. The special sessions will be evaluated
on a case-by-case basis by the Programme/Scientific Committee, with
external advisers when necessary.
6. Paper presentations (20 minute presentation + 10 minute
discussion)
Interested participants are invited to propose presentations of
20 minutes (individual or group) relating to one or more of the
conference themes. A discussion period will take place after each
presentation. Individual presentations will be grouped in sessions by
the Programme/Scientific Committee. Time will be allocated at the end
of the session to permit discussion between the presenters and
participants.
7. Posters
Poster presentations provide an opportunity to introduce
innovative or non-innovative approaches related to the conference
themes. Poster sessions are available to all delegates. Posters can
cover research reports, testimonies, accounts, political standpoints or
simple questioning of the status quo.
The rules of the game
Evaluation of proposals:
Reviewers of proposals will be peers and non-peers with expertise
and experience in the themes of the conference, and will assess both
their rigour and broad accessibility. A jury composed of renowned
artists will be composed to evaluate proposals having an artistic
component, in collaboration with the Programme/Scientific Committee.
The Programme/Scientific Committee will use appropriate review criteria
suitable to the different forms and content of the presentations.
Proposals will be expected to meet the following criteria:
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Relevance to the conference themes and objectives.
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Easily accessible and broadly understandable writing.
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Use of an appropriate and reproducible methodology.
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Potential for engaging participants in substantive
discussions.
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An achievable outline with regard to time allotment.
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Adhere to the proposal submission guidelines.
Deadlines:
- Artistic proposals: December 1, 2011
- Symposia, workshops, roundtables and special sessions: December
31, 2011
- Paper presentations: December 31, 2011
- Posters: February 28, 2012
- Abstracts for individual symposia, workshop and roundtable
presentations: February 28, 2012
Acceptance of proposals will be sent out on a rolling basis as
they are reviewed, but no later than 60 days after received. The
Programme/Scientific Committee reserves the right to revise programme
allocations if criteria and deadlines are not met.
Length of Proposals (excluding references):
2,000 words for symposia or colloquia (1/2 or full day);
2,000 words for workshops (90 minutes);
2,000 words for roundtable sessions (90 minutes);
2,000 words for oral presentations (20 minutes);
500 words for arts and cultural exhibits, plus a sample of work;
250 words for posters.
To be included for all Proposals:
- Session/presentation/poster title
- Full name, contact information (email, phone number, address)
and affiliation
- Speaker(s)/Presenter(s) and their contact information if
different from the above
- Titles should briefly identify the content and should give a
clear idea of what will happen in the session.
- Theme(s) and keywords to be addressed
- A general description (see the number of words required above)
- A short description that will be used in the conference program
that should clearly and concisely identify what will be presented and
the delivery format.
- Session outline, if needed
- A list of any audio/visual equipment required
- The type of space required (large room, outdoors, corridor,
atrium, etc.).
- A brief description of how this presentation will lead
participants to a deeper understanding of degrowth issues and
ultimately to action.
Proposal submission guidelines:
- Proposals should preferably not have been previously published.
For previously published works, please include a rationale.
- Proposals should be clear, concise and written in English,
French or Spanish.
- Proposals can only be submitted online via the conference
website.
- Only submissions received prior to the posted deadline will be
considered.
- Submitted proposals that contain similar or duplicate
information from the same or similar set of authors will be
disqualified.
- It is the author's responsibility to submit a correct proposal.
Conference presentations will be published online and any errors in
spelling, grammar or scientific fact will be reproduced as typed by the
author.
- The submission of a proposal carries with it the obligation
that it will be presented at the meeting by at least one of the
authors.
- To withdraw a proposal, the contact author or speaker must send
an email request along with the proposal reference name at least three
weeks prior to the conference.
- Please note that all presenters must register for the
conference.
International
Conference on Post Keynesian Economics, Japan
September 14-16, 2011 | Meiji University, Japan
The Japanese Society for Post Keynesian Economics Click here will
organize the International Conference on Post Keynesian Economics on
September 14-16, 2011.
Dates: September 14-16, 2011
Building: Academy Common, Meiji University
Rooms: 309B,309G (9th floor of Academy Common, Meiji University)
Address: 1-1 kandasurugadai, Chiyodaku, Tokyo 101-8301 JAPAN
Topics:
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Financial Crisis and Economics
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Growth and Ditribution
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Any topics on Post Keynesian Economics
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Historical approach, Theoretical approach, Empirical approach
to Post Keynesian Economics (or Ricardian -Neo Ricardoian Economics)
etc.
Invited Lectures by
Prof.G.C.Harcourt (University of New South Wales)
Abstract Submission Deadline (extended): July 10, 2011
Contact:
Takashi Yagi (Meiji University)
Critique: Journal of
Socialist Theory: Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
2012 Special Issue: Legacy of Rosa
Luxemburg
Born in Tsarist Poland in 1871, she emigrated to Germany and became one
of the most inspirational figures of the Second International.
Luxemburg arrived in Berlin in the spring of 1898 in time join the
Revisionist debates, which made her famous as a Marxist theoretician.
Time and again Luxemburg proved herself as a gifted orator, inspiring
workers to join the socialist movement, as well as she a talented
theoretician, attempting to expand Marx?s work and make it relevant to
early 20th century movement. However, Rosa Luxemburg was and remains a
controversial figure.
To mark the 140th anniversary of Rosa Luxemburg’s birth,
Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory will
be producing a special issue on and around Luxemburg’s
works and her legacy. The special issue would like to examine some of
her most well known works (such as the Russian Revolution, Mass Strike,
National Question, and Organisational Question, Accumulation of
Capital) and address their relevance to today.
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What is Rosa Luxemburg’s legacy?
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Is her work still relevant today?
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During a time of economic crisis, does Luxemburg’s
work, Accumulation of Capital have anything to offer the 21st century?
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Why does Luxemburg continue to inspire?
Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory welcomes contributions
covering any aspect of Marxist political economy, philosophy and
history. Articles should not normally exceed 7-8,000 words in length.
Articles must include an abstract of no more than 300 words and a
maximum of 6 key words. Please note that Critique does not use the
Harvard system and expects footnotes to appear at the bottom of the
International Critical
Thought
International Critical Thought (ICT), an English-language
quarterly edited by Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and published by
Routledge, which made its debut in the first quarter of 2011, is now
calling for submissions.
The journal comes up as a response to recent developments that have
crippled the capitalist regime and led the world to a period of
fundamental change. It aims to serve the Marxist and left scholars in
their reflection upon the past and inquiry into the future, with an
emphasis laid on coalescence of social concern with academic rigor, and
bettering of the reality through better understanding it. As a 21-
century forum, ICT goes along with cultural diversity and intellectual
openness, and is most willing to facilitate dialogues not just within
left community but also between the left and other social thoughts.
And as a journal based in China, it lends an extra attentive ear to the
developing world experience, for instance, to discussion on what
China’s rise means to the world and in particular the world
socialism.
So, a publication outlet for left scholarship across the world, ICT
welcomes studies done in various academic disciplines employing
different research tools.
Articles reviewing interesting books are also needed. The length
of contributions may vary between 2,000 (for book review for example)
and 6,000 words, and follow the Chicago Manual of Style in writing and
citation.
We look forward to hearing from you. For further information, please
contact Dr. Gao Jingyu via email
gaojy@cass.org.cn.
New Zealand Economics
Papers: on Quality of Life
In recent years, there has been growing interest in research relating
to the determinants of quality of life (whether at the household,
regional or national level). This special issue aims to present a
selection of works, taken from all areas of research on subjective and
objective well-being: from conceptualization, prevalence, explanation
and evaluation. Papers from a broad range of disciplines (health,
philosophy, sociology and economics) are welcome. Areas of focus for
this special issue include, but are not limited to:
- Related empirical work, including determinants of physical and
mental health status.
- Papers evaluating levels of life satisfaction, and related
measurement issues.
- Research making use of the NZGSS (New Zealand General Social
Survey)
Please note, that application to a New Zealand context is not a
criterion for acceptance. The special issue will be guest-edited by
Gail Pacheco (email: gail.pacheco@aut.ac.nz),
Stephanié Rossouw (email: stephanie.rossouw@aut.ac.nz)
and Don Webber (email: don.webber@aut.ac.nz) from
the Department of Economics, Auckland University of Technology.
New Zealand Economic Papers is a fully peer-reviewed scholarly journal
published by leading international publishers Taylor & Frances
(under the Routledge imprint) on behalf of the New Zealand Association
of Economists. The journal is indexed in leading international
databases including EconLit, ABI/Inform and EBSCO.
For online access to articles and other information about the journal,
including instructions for online submissions, please visit the
journal’s website http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rnzp.
Selection of papers for the special issues will follow peer review.
Submissions should be made online. Please indicate that your paper is
meant for the special issue on quality of life during the submission
process. Final version of accepted papers must be submitted in a format
compatible with MS-Word.
Deadline for submissions: 30 July 2011
Oeconomicus
Oeconomicus is a journal based at University of Missouri- Kansas
City (UMKC), which affords students an opportunity to participate in
all aspects of an academic journal within a heterodox framework with a
strong emphasis involving political economy and both heterodox micro
and macro economics. Of the many theoretical frameworks that are
emphasized among the dominant themes, but not limited to, are
Institutionalism and post-Keynesian, evolutionary, comparative economic
systems, ecological, developmental economics, and Marxism. Oeconomicus
focuses on real world applications of heterodox thought along with
critiques of mainstream theory. The journal accepts articles and book
reviews from all students currently enrolled either at the graduate or
undergraduate level.
Articles should be limited to approximately 5,000 words and book
reviews between 500-750. Submissions are due by September 1st, 2011.
Send all submissions to Lief Erickson
Lrevg9@mail.umkc.edu, with
Oeconomicus in the subject line.
On the
Horizon: Beyond Market-Fundamentalist Economics
June 2012 Special Issue of On the Horizon
Beyond Market-Fundamentalist Economics: An
Agenda for Heterodox Economics to Change the Dominant Narrative
Guest Editors: Tae-Hee Jo, Lynne Chester, and Mary C. King
The financial crisis of 2008 threw in sharp relief the inadequacy of an
increasingly market fundamentalist, mainstream neoclassical economics
to accurately explain the economy or to provide guidance to policy
makers that will lead to widely-shared prosperity and human wellbeing.
Critical understandings of market dynamics and alternative approaches
are found in the spectrum of heterodox economics. In 2008, On the
Horizon (OTH) published a special issue (Vol. 16, No. 4) on heterodox
economics, “Publishing, Refereeing, Rankings, and the Future of
Heterodox Economics.”
In an upcoming special issue, OTH will go further, to highlight how
practitioners of heterodox economics might differently advise policy
makers around the globe to proceed, and how those policy programs might
be supported by a re-formulated economic narrative which, in turn,
would be shaped by re-designed economics curriculum, different
approaches to pedagogy and funding for far wider research agendas, if
heterodox economists were to receive the kind and level of support
currently enjoyed solely by mainstream neoclassical economists.
For inclusion in this special issue, we are interested in a range of
possible papers that conceptualize the policy, teaching, and research
arenas to reshape the dominant economic narrative and break the
hegemony of market-fundamentalism that would result from substantially
strengthened support of all heterodox traditions. Scholars may
choose to focus on the contribution of a particular school of economic
thought, or draw from a number of heterodox frameworks, and similarly
may focus on one nation or many.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
1. The Policy Program
- What policies would heterodox economists—or practitioners
of Institutionalist, Marxist, Feminist, Post Keynesian and other
traditions—advise policy makers to support with respect to
energy, the environment, trade, employment, family policy, finance,
education, health care, military efforts and other pressing issues?
- How might recommended policies vary for more and less affluent
nations?
- How would we suggest meeting the challenges of sustainability,
raising world-wide living standards while reducing negative
environmental and social impacts?
- Are policy ideas influential only if they come from elite
academic institutions? Are there other institutional
interconnections that reinforce accepted policy ideas and how might
heterodox economists seek to reframe these institutions and their
relationships?
- How have overlooked insights gained currency in the past?
What role does the media play in the acceptance or dismissal of
economic ideas?
- How can heterodox economists use cultural practices,
organizational processes and technological parameters to change the
standard dominant economic narrative?
2. Heterodox economics in universities and schools: Curriculum
and pedagogy
- What would a heterodox economics curriculum look like? Are
there examples of appropriate curriculum for elementary and secondary
education, as well as universities?
- Does heterodox economics call for different pedagogical
approaches than those central to market-fundamentalist mainstream
neoclassical economic teaching methods?
3. What would be the impact of significantly increased funding for
research in heterodox economics?
- If heterodox economists had access to private sector/non-profit
philanthropic funds of the order of magnitude of INET/Rockefeller
Foundation and public funding of the order of the NSF/RAE, could
the profession be changed in terms of research, teaching, economics
department composition, conferences, etc.?
- What would the research agendas comprise? Would
methodological changes occur? What kinds of metrics might be
used?
4. Is the division into heterodoxy and orthodoxy unique in the
discipline of economics, perhaps because of its political centrality?
Are there lessons from other disciplines in the social sciences?
- What are the consequences for the economics discipline of the
dismissal of heterodox ideas by orthodox economists?
- What are the ways that heterodox economics can achieve more
widespread acceptance of pluralism?
Papers
One-page proposals are to be submitted to the guest editors (
oth.heterodox.econ@gmail.com)
and papers should be submitted online at
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/oth.
Submitted papers undergo a peer-review process.
Papers are expected in well-supported essay style, between 1000 and
5000 words, including abstracts, key words, and references. Please see
the general guidelines for authors on the journal site
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/oth.htm.
Important Dates
- One page proposals due: August 1, 2011
- Acceptances announced: August 15, 2011
- Draft Papers due: November 1, 2011
- Final Papers due: February 1, 2012
- Publication: June 2012
Contact Information:
- Paper proposals should be sent to guest editors,
oth.heterodox.econ@gmail.com
- For general questions, contact the Editor of On the Horizon, Dr.
Tom P. Abeles, tabeles@gmail.com
Guest Editors:
- Tae-Hee Jo, SUNY Buffalo State College, USA
- Lynne Chester, The University of Sydney, Australia
- Mary C. King, Portland State University, USA
About Journal
On the Horizon focuses on the increasingly complex intersection of
forces that are impinging on education and learning and to which
educators, human resource professionals and all committed to human
potential must respond. Areas of interest include the changing needs of
an increasingly global society, the economics and business of education
delivery, changing policies and practices affecting curriculum content,
certification and intellectual property, and rules and regulations
governing institutions. Fore more information, visit the Journal
website:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=oth
URPE
Conference: The War on the Working Class
October 1, 2011 | St. Francis College,
Brooklyn, NY
The Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) will be
sponsoring a conference on Saturday October 1 with the title "The War
on the Working Class." The conference will take place at St. Francis
College, Brooklyn and will be open to the general public. It will be
followed on Sunday by a membership meeting, which is again open to
everyone but at which voting is restricted to URPE members.
The conference aims to bring together people actively involved in
resisting the multi-pronged attack which is currently taking place with
radical political economists who can share their theoretical
understanding of the issues. (Some people are of course in both
categories!) If you are interested in speaking on a panel, or better
still, organizing a panel with speakers who can address both aspects of
an issue, please contact:
Working
Lives: Special Issue on Oral History and Working-Class History
Deadline: Dec.1, 2011 - Abstracts (one
to two pages) and CVs
April 1, 2012 - Complete papers
Since the 1960s, if not before, labour and working-class history has
been closely connected to the practice of oral history. Working-class
historians were at the forefront of developments in oral history, often
using this method as a means of recuperating the history of those who
were less likely to leave archival and written sources. They created
written histories, archival collections, museum exhibits and community
projects that gave workers, their families and their communities a new
voice, and a new place in history. Writing on working-class oral
history has also encompassed far more than recovery projects; scholars
have enriched the field of oral history by addressing questions about
method, theory and approach, by offering critical reflections on our
assumptions and expectations about oral history practice. Oral history
has similarly enriched the field of working class history, posing new
questions, challenging existing interpretations, and diversifying the
themes and subjects we study
The Oral History Forum d’histoire orale is currently seeking
contributions that engage with oral history and working-class history,
broadly defined. This special issue will explore questions of method,
theory, approach, and examine the ways in which oral history offers a
unique perspective and insights into working class history. University
researchers, community organizers, educators, oral historians, public
historians, and others who are working in this field are invited to
submit theoretical and methodological papers, as well as
empirically-based essays based on original research, reviews (books,
new media, exhibitions, films, theatrical productions), and discussions
for this special edition of the journal. Topics might include (but are
not limited to) paid work, unpaid labour, the labour movement,
politics, working-class communities and culture, the intersections of
gender, race/ethnicity, religion, and class, immigrant and migrant
communities, unemployment and poverty, and state interventions in
working-class lives. All article submissions will be subject to the
normal peer review process of the journal.
The Oral History Forum d’histoire orale is the online journal of
the Canadian Oral History Association
www.oralhistoryforum.ca
which serves as the online meeting place for scholars, community
activists, librarians, archivists, and others who use oral history to
explore the past. Through this open-access collection we hope to
generate discussion on this important theme and provide a valuable
resource for people interested in the study of oral history and
working-class history, whether in the classroom or in their own
research. Articles will be published as soon as they are ready,
ensuring a quick turn around time for early submissions, and the
collection will be launched in 2012.
Please send queries and submissions to:
Joan Sangster and Janis Thiessen
jsangster@trentu.ca and
Janis.Thiessen@unb.ca
Guest Editors, Oral History Forum d’histoire orale
University of Winnipeg
515 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3B 2E9
Call for Participants
43rd UK
History of Economic Thought Conference
7-9 September 2011 | Balliol College
Oxford
Provisional schedule
Wednesday 7 September
- 11-12:45 registration in Lecture Room 23
- 12:45-2 lunch in Balliol Hall
- 2 pm Arild Sather: Pufendorf – Hutcheson's and Smith's
most important source?
- 3 pm Renee Prendergast: Jonathan Swift's critique of
consequentialism?
- 4pm Tea
- 4:30 pm Richard van den Berg: An Englishman, a Scotsman, two
Irishmen and the different mid-eighteenth century accounts of the
price-specie-flow mechanism
- 5:30 pm Gavin Kennedy: Adam Smith on religion
- 7pm Dinner in Balliol Hall.
Thursday 8 September
- 9 am Terry Peach: Smith, beggars and kings: A miserable shift
and evasion?
- 10 am Susumu Takenaga: Value of money: labour value theory and
quantity theory in Ricardo's economic theory
- 11am Morning coffee
- 11:15 am Steven Kates: Demand for Commodities is not demand for
labour: history of economic thought and the management of the modern
economy
- 12:15 pm Motohiro Okada: A reappraisal of Jevons' thought on
labour exchange
- Lunch in Balliol Hall
- 2 pm Toomas Truuvert: Irving Fisher's conception of interest
- 3 pm Nerio Naldi: Sraffa and Keynes on commodity-rates of
interest
- 4 pm Tea
- 4:15 pm Jerome Lange: Allyn Young's inquiry into the nature and
causes of the growth of markets
- 5:15 pm Elisabeth Springler: Kurt Rothschild's contribution to
Post-Keynesian economics
- 6:15 Business Meeting followed by pre-dinner reception
- 7:45 pm Conference Dinner in Balliol Hall
Friday 9 September
9 am John King: The 'Cambridge Keynesians': Some unanswered questions
10 am Michael Salvagno: Schumpeter, Hicks and Lowe: Theorising the
economic canon
11 am Coffee
11:15 am Jonathan Perraton (unconfirmed speaker):
Déjà-vu? The current crisis and macroeconomics –
the 1970s revisited?
12:15 pm Pedro Teixeira: Conquering or mapping? Textbooks and the
dissemination of human capital theory in applied economics
Lunch in Balliol Hall and end of conferenceThere will be a discounted
registration fee for those registering by 31 July.
Provisional
schedule |
Registration Form
Global Capitalism and
Transnational Class Formation
September 16 -18th, 2011 | Academy of Sciences Prague, Czech
Republic
Sponsored by the Global Studies Centre, Prague and the Global Studies
Association of North America.
Keynote Speakers: William Robinson and Leslie Sklair
This will be the first international conference devoted to
transnational capitalist class theory and global class formation. Over
the past decade a growing body of work has established TCC theory as an
important theoretical approach for examining global capitalism. The
conference will provide a place to share research, debate and explore
this newly emerging school of social/economic analysis.
Papers topics can include: transnational capitalist class and working
class formations; transnational capitalist class and national
capitalist class relations; elite networks; immigration and migration;
global capitalism; production networks and commodity chains; global
finance; transformation of the nation-state; the transnational state;
transnational governance; information technology and globalization; the
military/industrial complex and state.
Registration Fees: $80.00 U.S.
International Organizing Committee: William Carroll, Canada;
Johannah Fahey, Australia; Jerry Harris, U.S.; Marek Hrubec, Czech
Republic; Georgina Murray, Australia, Bill Pelz, U.S.
ICAPE Conference 2011
Nov. 11-13, 2011 | University of Massachusetts Amherst
Registration
The registration link is not yet active; we will send the
information as soon as we have it. The registration fee will be $165,
with an additional $35 for an optional conference dinner on Saturday
night.
Travel and accommodations
Information on travel to Amherst and options for accommodations
can be found at
http://www.icape.org/?p=Conferences. It is
advisable to book your accommodations early due to strong demand for
hotel space at that time of year.
International Forum on the
Social and Solidarity Economy (FIESS)
October 17-20, 2011 | Montreal, Canada
The FIESS is taking place October 17th to 20th in Montreal
(Canada). Its central theme is “Government and Civil
Society”.
Social and solidarity economy networks play a fundamental role
through their mobilization and education of actors of the social and
solidarity economy (SSE) and carry out the essential work of having
public instances recognize the needs of the sector. These efforts will
be presented in the FIESS, in particular during the plenary session on
national structural laws for the social economy (sometimes called
“social enterprise”), during the workshops covering local
partnerships in favour of the SSE (for example in Minas Gerais,
Brazil), and through examples of networks working to obtain the
recognition of public instances (for example in Cameroun) or that are
the result of a successful partnership between government and civil
society (for example the JEUN’ESS program in France for the
insertion of young people in the SSE). As such : Firstly, we invite you
to join us in October in order to share your experience and your work
in favour of the development of the social economy in your region, and
to be inspired by the best practices taking place all over the world.
You can register
here
(please note that the reduced fees for early registration end July
22nd). In the interest of facilitating early registration, you need not
make definitive workshop choices when registering. Once registered, all
participants will receive a confirmation number which allows them to
complete or modify their workshop choices before September 17th 2011.
International Greening
Education Event 2011
19-21 October, 2011 | Karlsruhe, Germany
A three-day International Greening Education Event will be held from
19th to 21st of October, 2011 in the green city of Karlsruhe, Germany.
This event will take academia, education, environmental and sustainable
development policy makers, senior members of academic institutions,
representatives of government and non-governmental organisations and
international development agencies, administrators and teachers,
sustainable development practitioners and environmental management
professionals through the need for greening education and then discuss
effective initiatives that educational institutions need to take to
make sustainability an integral part of teaching and learning.
The event provides an exclusive forum to examine how global warming,
climate change and other environmental concerns are reshaping education
globally, deliberate on the role of academia in making world cleaner,
greener and more sustainable, discuss cutting-edge issues in greening
education and share best practices from around the world in respect to
education for sustainability.
Further to the knowledge sharing on greening education including topics
such as ecologizing curriculum (incorporating sustainability), greening
of courses and creating low carbon education institutions; the upcoming
event also provides an excellent networking opportunity with academia,
sustainable development practitioners and other stakeholders in Europe
and beyond. An excursion (optional) on Saturday the 22nd of October,
2011 is planned which will also provide an additional and informal
networking opportunity.
You are cordially invited to attend this international event and/ or
nominate the member(s) of your institution.
For further information, please see the
event details.
http://www.etechgermany.com/IGEE2011.pdf
Or contact via email:
mail@etechgermany.com
Summer Institute: Media,
Democracy and the Economy
July 24-30, 2011 | Smith College, Northampton, MA
Our Core Economics Curriculum: Our staff of progressive
economists will lead you in a vibrant learning process in which you
will gain the economic basics that you need to know to make your social
change work more effective.
"I learned about the ups and downs of the GDP, the business cycles, and
the global economy. These tools have given me an understanding of why
it is so important to be an environmental activist, because in a world
of big economics, there is still the human perspective." Rodolfo
Padron, Shundahai Network and Western Shoshone Alliance, Las Vegas, NV
In our core classes on the U.S. and the International economies, you
will deepen your understanding of how the economy works-or doesn't. You
will learn about the roots of the current economic crisis and assess
current strategies to fix it, and we will explore the solidarity
economy-strategies for a more just and sustainable world.
Our approach is highly participatory and we recognize that we are all
teachers and learners. No economics background is necessary.
Special track on Media, Democracy and the Economy:
In addition to our core economics curriculum, each year we focus on a
special topic; this year, it's Media, Democracy and the Economy.
The linkages between the economy, democracy and the media system are
inseparable. And the media system is awash in problems.
Only a handful of big corporations own almost all daily newspapers,
magazines, radio and television stations, book publishers, and, more
recently, broadband service providers. This ensures that media in
all of its forms almost always mirrors the economic elite's
corporate-dominated worldview -- a perspective that has degraded
people’s material lives, our democracy, and the planet in favor
of Wall Street.
There is good news on all fronts: people are calling for a
dramatic change in our economic system and the digital age is giving us
the opportunity to transform the mainstream media system to better
serve democracy.
As we provide you with the economic training necessary to create the
social change you envision, we will also demonstrate how the media
system functions and how to wield it to achieve your goals.
General scholarships for the 2011 Popular Economics Institute are
available!
Are you ready to register?
Visit our website:
CPE 2011 Summer
Institute and we'll see you in July!
Summer
School: Labour Studies in Global Perspective
Tuesday 13th – Friday 16th of September 2011 | Centre
Pierre Naville, Université d’Évry Val
d’Essonne
The Summer School has a two-in-one aim: developing
international scientific knowledge in the field of labour studies
and enhancing English language skills in social sciences.
Programme
Tuesday 13th Inaugural address by Professor Michael
Burawoy: “Labor Studies in the 21st century”
Wednesday 14th Labour and
financialisation in times of crisis
Thursday 15th State, institutions and
labour markets
Friday 16th Labour standards, social
rights and mobilizations
Summer School activities include:
courses, conferences, workshops, English as a foreign language
tutorship, plant visit.
Scientific committee:
- Stephen Bouquin / Sociologist, historian, Centre Pierre Naville,
Évry
- Michael Burawoy / Sociologist, University of Berkeley, Los
Angeles
- Jean-Pierre Durand / Sociologist, Centre Pierre Naville,
Évry
- Steve Jefferys / Sociologist, London Metropolitan University
- Sian Moore / Socio-economist, London Metropolitan University
- Adam Mrozowicki / Sociologist, University of Wroclaw, Poland
- Birger Simonson / Historian, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
- Paul Stewart / Sociologist, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow
Forms of participation
- Participants who want to present a paper (in English) should
submit their proposal on 1st of August at the latest. The best papers
will be published.
- Open university policy for all other participants.
Inscription costs for non IWLS-members
- Residential (courses, tutorship, validation, lunch and
residence) // 400 euro.
- Summer School without residence (courses, tutorship, validation,
lunch) // 200 euro.
http://www.centre-pierre-naville.org
(online July 2011)
Workshop: State, Crisis and
the Refusal of Recovery
Friday, July 15th 2011 14:00 to 17:00 | Istanbul Bilgi University,
Santral Campus E2-302
Co-organised by the Centre for Ethics and Politics, Queen Mary,
University of London and the PhD Program on Organization Studies,
Istanbul Bilgi University.
This workshop enquires into the current political production of state
crisis to resolve a crisis of capitalism. The objective of the workshop
will be to explore the strategies deployed to produce a private sector
recovery, at the national and international level, through the
displacement of debt onto welfare, education and health programmes with
a particular focus on the UK and Turkey in the wider EU/global context.
It will look at the responses both of national governments as well as
unions, activist networks to these challenges, as well as explore the
theoretical problems for state theory that this new round of neoliberal
recovery programmes for the ailing – both intellectually as well
as in terms of legitimacy – of the state /capital relation that
has developed since the 1970s.
Central to the present enforced strategies of recovery is the double
movement of transfer of private debt to the state and from the state to
the population, where it takes the form not only of financial debt, but
debt work, or indenture. It is here, in the imposition of indenture
that management ideology comes into its own, not just
echoing the politics of scarcity and the logic of necessity, but
appearing to enable indenture, to provide a way to endure this
penurious work, and indeed to seek the capitalist freedom in it. While
the private sector is to do less with more, and the public sector more
with less, the indentured worker is to make both these propositions
plausible. On the one hand, having been traded in for cash by
corporations, and the other having been burdened with civic and social
functions, the indentured worker is to make up for a lack of formal
work with informal work now directed not toward self-organisation, but
for instance in Britain, in the ’Big Society,’ or in the
Global South by building ‘governance’ and ‘healthy
civil societies’. Her debt will not be worked off with such
formalized informal labour, but it will be serviced, allowing the
transfers to continue. This is one way to
understand everything in the business school from CSR to open
innovation to social marketing to the enduring call to ‘manage
yourself’ a featured column in each issue of the Harvard Business
Review. But all of this exhortation reminds us that management cannot
necessarily resist the refusal to make good on these debts.
In this workshop, we shall be looking to explore the various forms that
the refusal of neoliberal recovery programmes have taken and discuss
the new forms of organising and the possible opening for a new
internationalism of struggle that the spreading of austerity programmes
has encouraged.
Contributors: Stefano Harney (Queen Mary, University of London), Emma
Dowling (Queen Mary, University of London), Demet Dinler (PhD
candidate, University of London and Strategic Research and Organising
Specialist, International Transport Workers Federation), Evren Hosgor
(Bilgi University, Istanbul)
Contact:
e.dowling@qmul.ac.uk
or
evren.hosgor@bilgi.edu.tr
Job Postings for Heterodox
Economists
Connecticut College, USA
We will be looking to fill a position in behavioral finance during this
coming academic year. We very much want to hire a heterodox economist
to fill this position. We are a small, liberal arts college that places
an equal emphasis on teaching and research. We have a 3-2 teaching
load, and two of these courses would be devoted to a course in
behavioral economics and a senior seminar in behavioral
economics. The individual hired to fill this position would have
great flexibility with respect to the other three courses.
For more information, contact:
Dr. Edward J. McKenna
Professor of Economics
Connecticut College
New London, Ct 06320
Email: ejmck@conncoll.edu
Franklin and Marshall
College, USA
One-year Visiting Position, Economics
The Department of Economics at Franklin & Marshall College
invites applications for a one-year visiting position at the Instructor
or Assistant Professor rank, beginning Fall 2011. Ph.D. preferred, ABD
required. The teaching load is 3/2.
In the fall, the ideal candidate will teach scheduled courses on
the political economy of development and perspectives on race, class,
and gender. Given the late date of the appointment, however, we will
consider alternative courses based on the abilities and interests of
the applicant.
Applicants should send in one email a letter of application, a
curriculum vitae, a graduate transcript, and evidence of successful
teaching to
antonio.callari@fandm.edu.
Two letters of recommendation should be sent separately.
Applications will be considered as they are received.
Franklin & Marshall College is a highly selective liberal
arts college with a demonstrated commitment to cultural pluralism. EOE
Richard Stockton College of
New Jersey, USA
Visiting Instructor or
Visiting Assistant Professor, Economics.
One-year position (sabbatical replacement), Fall 2011 - Spring
2012.
Our program (we have "programs," not departments at Stockton)
is hiring a one year sabbatical replacement for one of our
colleagues. We are a small program (6 members) of political
economists, offering an economics major and minor. Please note
that Richard Stockton College is near Atlantic City - 2 ½ hours
from NYC and 1 ¼ hours from Philadelphia.
Candidates will be expected to teach introductory courses in
Economics. Teaching load is three courses (12 credit hours) per
semester. Additional duties as negotiated under the collective
bargaining agreement. Applicants should have a Ph.D. or be ABD
candidates in economics. Evidence of excellent teaching experience is
required. Academic experiences with culturally diverse
populations desired. Salary is dependent upon experience.
Screening will begin June 15, 2011 and will continue until the
position is filled.
Send letter of application describing qualifications and
accomplishments, curriculum vitae, evidence of teaching excellence,
graduate transcripts, and three letters of recommendation to:
Dr. Cheryl Kaus, Dean of Social and Behavioral Sciences
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey
AA___, P.O. Box 195
Pomona, NJ 08240.
Sarah
Lawrence College, USA
WOODWARD CHAIR IN PUBLIC POLICY
Sarah Lawrence College invites applicants for a full-time
tenure-track position in the social sciences division beginning in Fall
2012. We seek a scholar whose research and teaching interests are
focused on intersections between public policy and social justice.
Specific areas of interest may include civil rights or international
law and human rights, labor studies, law and society, or inequality and
social policy (children, housing, education). Candidates should have a
passion for undergraduate teaching, with a special emphasis on
connecting students’ academic and intellectual pursuits to
community-based learning or public engagement. A PhD completed by the
time of appointment in one of the social sciences or a related
discipline is required, and experience working with community-based
organizations is preferred. The successful candidate will hold The
Joanne Woodward Chair in Public Policy, which honors Ms. Woodward's
(1990) social commitment and concern with public issues. The
application should include the following: cover letter including a
statement of teaching philosophy and research interests, curriculum
vitae, course descriptions and syllabi for two proposed courses, a
sample of scholarly writing, graduate transcript(s) and three letters
of reference. Deadline for receipt of applications: September 30, 2011.
To apply for the position, go to:
https://slc.simplehire.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=50517
Sarah Lawrence College is a small liberal arts college with a
unique pedagogy based on small classes and individual tutorials. For
information on Sarah Lawrence College, our curriculum, teaching
methods, and philosophy of education, please see our Web site at:
http://www.slc.edu . SLC is an Equal
Opportunity Employer committed to achieving a racially and culturally
diverse community.
University of Bath, UK
Lectureship, Global Political Economy
This permanent position is intended to make a significant contribution
to research and teaching capacity on global political economy and the
economics of developing countries. The successful candidate will have a
strong publications profile; a record of securing research funding; and
be able to offer teaching in International Development at MSc (global
political economy) and BSc (economics of international development)
level.
The Department of Social and Policy Sciences was rated second in the UK
in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, and been rated 5 or its
equivalent in all previous assessments. The Centre for Development
Studies at Bath has been a leading UK centre for research and
postgraduate study in international development for more than thirty
years. Our research clusters around, but is not limited to, three major
themes: Well-being and human development; Childhood, youth, and the
life course; and Insecurity, inequality, and inclusion.
More information and Online application
HERE
Proposed start date: 1 September 2011
Informal enquiries about the post can be made to the Head of the
International Development Group, Dr Sarah White at S.C.White@bath.ac.uk or on
+44(0) 1225 385298.
University
of Greenwich, UK
Lectureships (2), Department of
International Business & Economics
Arising from rapid growth, the Department of International
Business & Economics at the University of Greenwich is seeking
candidates for two entry-level lectureships in International Business,
broadly defined.
We are a Department of applied economics with our area of application
in International Business and would particularly welcome applicants
able to contribute to the study of International Business in emerging
economies, support the work of the Public Services International
Research Unit or the Centre for Business Network Analysis, or apply a
critical perspective to the study of International Business.
University
of Leon, Spain
Lecturers, Economics
(Candidates should possess an acceptable level of spanish)
The Department of Economics at the University of Leon (ULE), Spain, is
interested in recruiting candidates to fill one or more full-time
positions for lecturers for the coming academic year, 2011-12. In
particular, we are looking for potential candidates to fill the
positions of Ayudante Doctor (Junior PhD Lecturer) and Contratado
Doctor (Senior PhD Lecturer).
The Department of Economics at ULE explicitly pledge their commitment
to ideological and methodological pluralism in Economics, and
therefore, for the open positions we welcome all candidates from
different schools of Heterodox Economics (the way this is understood,
for instance, in ICAPE or the Heterodox Economics Directory, that is,
post-Keynesian, feminist, institutionalist, Marxian, social economics,
Sraffian, austrian, radical, etc.). Applicants with specialization in
all areas of Economics/Political Economy are welcome.
Essential prerequisites are that the candidate must hold a doctoral
degree, demonstrate a high commitment to teaching at graduate and
postgraduate level and display a relevant research record (qualitative
and quantitative). Also, the current laws in Spain for hiring in all
categories of university teaching require that, in order to apply for
the position, applicants must be in possession (or able to obtain) the
necessary national or regional accreditation or authorisation, granted
by National or Regional Accreditation Agencies. For advice on this
matter or any other informal query, please contact the recruitment
committee at jrgara@unileon.es (Dr Jorge
García-Arias).
Ayudante Doctor (Junior Lecturer PhD) positions are for one
year, renewable every year for three more years.
Contratado Doctor (Senior PhD Lecturer) positions are indefinite.
Selection will open in June 2011 and will remain open for all of 2011,
or until the ideal candidates are hired.
Candidates should possess an acceptable level of spanish or, failing
that, commit to achieve an acceptable level during the first year of
residence (University of Leon has a renowned tradition for and a wide
range of spanish courses for foreigners).
For applications and further particulars, please send an e-mail to jrgara@unileon.es
University
of Newcastle, Australia
Postdoctoral fellowships
Due date for these postdocs is 20 July, with one possibly going
to religion, given our (Newcastle University's) status as a leading
religion research centre in Australia. Projects in the area of religion
and radicalism, Marxism and religion would be welcome, since that is
one of our research strengths.
University of
Minnesota-Morris, USA
One-year Lecturer Position, Economics
One-year temporary position (with the possibility of renewal) in
Economics is available at the University of Minnesota-Morris, beginning
in August, 2011. We are particularly interested in candidates with
expertise to teach Principles of Microeconomics and Macroeconomics, as
well as two additional courses, preferably one of which is appropriate
for Management majors. Required qualifications are: Masters in
Economics or related field (hiring will be at the Teaching Specialist
level); Ph.D. preferred (Lecturer level). Annual teaching load is 6
courses.
The University of Minnesota, Morris is an undergraduate residential
public liberal arts college serving over 1,800 students. As one of five
campuses of the University of Minnesota, UMM has a unique mission and
offers the best of both in the world of higher education--a small,
close-knit campus complemented by the power and support of a
world-renowned research University system. UMM is located 160 miles
west of Minneapolis in the rural community of Morris, MN. The student
body is talented, diverse and engaged. The Morris student body is one
of the most ethnically diverse in the University of Minnesota system
with 20% students of color (12% are American Indian students) and a
growing international student population. The college values diversity
in its students, faculty, and staff. Our campus is a national leader in
renewable energy, often running "grid negative" due to two commercial
grade wind turbines and the first corn stover biomass converter in the
U.S. Our current faculty have received 18 of the University
system’s highest teaching award, and they are also very active in
research and publication. To learn more about the University of
Minnesota, Morris visit our website at
http://www.morris.umn.edu. To
learn more about the Economics/Management department visit:
http://www.morris.umn.edu/academic/Economics-Management.
The college is especially interested in qualified candidates who
can contribute to the diversity of our community through their
teaching, research, and/or service because we believe that diversity
enriches the classroom and research experience at the University.
Also, please send via email and regular mail a cover letter,
evidence of teaching effectiveness, curriculum vitae, a copy of
graduate transcript, and at least 2 letters of reference to:
svburks@morris.umn.edu;
Economics Search Committee Chair, Division of Social Sciences,
University of Minnesota, Morris, 600 E. 4th St., Morris, MN 56267.
Position open until filled; review of applications will begin June 20,
2011.
For other communications, please contact Prof. Stephen Burks at:
svburks@morris.umn.edu or
320-589-6191, Fax: 320589-6117.
The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and
employer. We are committed to the policy that all persons shall have
equal access to its programs, facilities, and employment without regard
to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, age, marital
status, disability, public assistance status, veteran status, or sexual
orientation. To request disability accommodations, please contact Sarah
Mattson at 320-589-6021.
Conference Papers, Reports,
and Articles
Post Keynesian Economics
Study Group
Downloads are available from all Keynes Seminar presentations at
the PKSG website: http://www.postkeynesian.net/keynes.html
UMASS
Working Paper Series
The most recent working papers by UMASS economics faculty can be
found
HERE.
There are Progressive
Economists: Reflections after a Post-Keynesian Conference, Roskilde,
Denmark
John Weeks' Blog with comments on the May conference
at Roskilde
HERE.
Heterodox Journals
Business History Review
Business
History Review has published its first issue with Cambridge
University Press, providing current content of this outstanding journal
online for the first time in its 85 year history.
Read entire issue for free
Business History Review begins its publishing era at Cambridge with an
engaging editorial, which considers the work published by business
historians over the past ten years, and thinks about the future
direction of the journal as well as of the field more broadly. To mark
the occasion we have made the whole
issue freely available, with our compliments.
Cambridge Journal of
Economics, 35(4): July 2011
Journal website: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3924/1
Articles
- Özlem Onaran, Engelbert Stockhammer, and Lucas Grafl /
Financialisation, income distribution and aggregate demand in the USA
- Manuel R. Agosin and Franklin Huaita / Capital flows to emerging
economies: Minsky in the tropics
- Man-Seop Park / Routes of money endogeneity: a heuristic
comparison
- Ana C. Santos / Behavioural and experimental economics: are they
really transforming economics?
- Ludovic Frobert / French utopian socialists as the first
pioneers in development
- Theodore T. Koutsobinas / Liquidity preference in a portfolio
framework and the monetary theory of Kahn
- Brian J. Loasby / Uncertainty and imagination, illusion and
order: Shackleian connections
- Sylvie Rivot / Special remedies for special causes: involuntary
unemployment in Keynes’ political writings
Capital & Class, 35(2):
June 2011
Journal website: http://cnc.sagepub.com/content/vol35/issue2/?etoc
Articles
- The TEKEL resistance movement: Reminiscences on class struggle /
Metin Özugurlu
- Aspiration problems for the Indian rural poor: Research on
self-help groups and micro-finance / Jamie Morgan and Wendy Olsen
- From transition crisis to the global crisis: Twenty years of
capitalism and labour in the Central and Eastern EU new member states /
Özlem Onaran
- The backward march of labour halted? Or, what is to be done with
‘union organising’? The cases of Britain and the USA /
Gregor Gall and Jack Fiorito
- Reformism on a global scale? A critical examination of
David Held’s advocacy of cosmopolitan social democracy / Brian
Roper
- The rising mafioso capitalists, opportunities, and the case of
Turkey / Fatma Ülkü Selçuk
- On value and abstract labour: A reply to Werner Bonefeld / Axel
Kicillof and Guido Starosta
- A comment on Bonefeld’s ‘Abstract labour: Against
its nature and on its time’ / Guglielmo Carchedi
- Book review: Toward deglobalisation and food sovereignty?:
Walden Bello The Food Wars, Verso: London, 2009; x + 176 pp:
9781844673315, £7.99 (pbk) / Gerardo Otero
- Book review: Alex Callinicos Imperialism and Global Political
Economy, Polity Press: Cambridge, 2009; 295pp: 9780745640464,
£17.99 (pbk) / Eren Duzgun
- Book review: Jo McBride and Ian Greenwood (eds.) Community
Unionism: A Comparative Analysis of Concepts and Contexts, Palgrave:
London, 2009; 249 pp: 9780230572508, £52 (hbk) / Ronaldo Munck
- Book review: Martin Upchurch, Graham Taylor and Andrew Mathers
The Crisis of Social Democratic Trade Unionism in Western Europe: The
Search for Alternatives, Ashgate: London, 2009, 226 pp: 9780754670537
£55 (hbk) / Ian Bruff
- Book review: Owen Worth and Phoebe Moore (eds.) Globalisation
and the ‘New’ Semi-Peripheries, Palgrave: London, 2009; 256
pp: 9780230220751, £60 (hbk) / Ray Kiely
- Book review: Michel Freyssenet (ed.) The Second Automobile
Revolution: Trajectories of the World Carmakers in the 21st Century,
Palgrave: London, 2009; 468 pp: 9780230219717 £75 (hbk) / Matthew
Paterson
- Book review: Étienne Balibar The Philosophy of Marx,
Verso, 2007, 139 pp: 9781844671878 £9.99 (ppk) / Tony N. Buell
- Book review: Ben Fine Theories of Social Capital, Pluto
Press/International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE),
2010; 271 pp: 9780745329963, £27.50 (pbk) / Iain Pirie
- Book review: Christopher J. Arthur The New Dialectic and
Marx’s Capital, Brill: Leiden, 2002; 264 pp: 9789004136434,
31(pbk) / Vasilis Grollios
- Book review: Marianne Maeckelbergh The Will of the Many: How the
Alterglobalisation Movement is Changing the Face of Democracy, Pluto
Press, 2009, 256 pp: 9780745329253 £17.99 (pbk) / Nathaniel Mehr
- Book review: Christian Marazzi The Violence of Financial
Capitalism, Semiotext(e), 2010, 112 pp: 9781584350835 £9.95 (pbk)
/ Paul Langley
- Book review: Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler Capital As
Power: A Study of Order and Creorder, Routledge: London, 2009; 438 pp:
9780415496803, £22.99 (pbk) / Vineeth Mathoor
- Book review: Leo Panitch and Martijn Konings (eds.) American
Empire and the Political Economy of Global Finance, Palgrave: London,
2009; 334 pp: 9780230236080, £19.99 (pbk) / Eren Duzgun
- Book review: Henry Bernstein Class Dynamics of Agrarian Change,
Fernwood Publishing: Halifax NS, 2010; 142 pp: 9781565493568
£15.50 (pbk) / Tom Brass
- Book review: Ronald H. Chilcote The Portuguese Revolution: State
and Class in the Transition to Democracy, Rowman & Littlefield:
Boulder, CO, 2010; 313 pp: 978074256792, £49.95 (hbk) /Adam David
Morton
- Book review: Alf Gunvald Nilsen Dispossession and Resistance in
India: The River and the Rage, Routledge: London, 2010; 231 pp:
9780415558648 £80 (hbk) / Manali Desai
- Book review: Gerado Otero (ed.) Food for the Few: Neoliberal
Globalism and Biotechnology in Latin America, University of Texas
Press: Austin, 2008; 321 pp: 9780292726130, £28.99 (hbk) / Geoff
Tansey
Challenge, 54(4):
July-August 2011
Journal website: http://mesharpe.metapress.com/link.asp?id=M134675P4808
- Letter from the Editor / Jeff Madrick
- The European Monetary Union Needs a Government Banker / Thomas
Palley
- What Causes Obesity? And Why Has It Grown So Much? / John Tomer
- Bridging Austrian and Market Socialist Economics / Guinevere
Nell
- Markets, Governments-and Communities! / Rick Wicks
- Review: Maynard's Revenge. By Lance Taylor / Jane D'Arista
- The Unwarranted Attack on Social Safety Nets /
- Amitai Etzioni
- Ice-T and the Pathology of Poverty / Mike Sharpe
Contributions
to Political Economy, 30(1): June 2011
Journal website: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3924/3
Articles
- Edwin Dickens / Keynes's Theory of Monetary Policy: An Essay In
Historical Reconstruction
- Malcolm Sawyer / UK Fiscal Policy After the Global Financial
Crisis
- Thomas I. Palley / A Theory of Minsky Super-cycles and Financial
Crises
- Mark S. Peacock / The Political Economy of Homeric Society and
the Origins of Money
- Theodore Mariolis and Eleftheria Rodousaki / Total Requirements
for Gross Output and Intersectoral Linkages: A Note on Dmitriev's
Contribution to the Theory of Profits
- Aldo Barba / The US Congress Inquiry on the Financial and
Economic Crisis
Book Reviews
- Peter Groenewegen / Il Tableau économique di
François Quesnay
- Saverio M. Fratini / Theories of Value from Adam Smith to Piero
Sraffa
The
Economic and Labour Relations Review
Full text of the articles is available online through:
http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/research/publications/economiclabourrelationsreview/pastissues/Pages/default.aspx
Selected articles from the Review:
- (Available soon) Volume 22(1) – articles by John Nevile
and Peter Kriesler (comparing policy responses to slumps of 1950s-60s
and recent slumps), by Neil Hart (major piece on macro theory), by
O’Donnell et al on Sydney airport privatisation, and by Cull and
Whitton on business students’ financial literacy
- Volume 21 (2)- article by Harcourt
- Volume 20(2) – major overview by Theocarakis on concept of
labour in classical and marginalist economics and by Aspromourgos on
Adam Smith
- Volume 19(2) – global financla crisis – Stpaledon,
Hart, Nevile, Kreisler; and hspital privatisation (Chung)
- Volume 19(1) – Chester on regulation theory, Nevile and
Kriesler on minimum wages
Economics and Philosophy,
27(2): July 2011
Journal website:http://journals.cambridge.org/EAP
Articles
- An Extended Framework For Preference Relations / Johan E.
Gustafsson
- Poverty Measurement: Prioritarianism, Sufficiency And The
‘I's Of Poverty / Lucio Esposito, Peter J. Lambert
- Choice, Internal Consistency And Rationality / Aditi
Bhattacharyya, Prasanta K. Pattanaik, Yongsheng Xu
- Luck-Egalitarianism: Faults And Collective Choice / Kasper
Lippert-Rasmussen
Reviews
- Capabilities and Happiness, edited by Luigino Bruni, Flavio
Comim and Maurizio Pugno. Oxford University Press, 2008. vii + 352
pages. / Paul Anand
- Experimental Economics: Rethinking the Rules, Nicholas Bardsley,
Robin Cubitt, Graham Loomes, Peter Moffat, Chris Starmer, and Robert
Sugden. Princeton University Press, 2010. viii + 375 pages. /Andrew
Caplin
- Why We Cooperate, Michael Tomasello. MIT Press, 2009. xviii +
206 pages. / Mattia Gallotti
- Health, Luck, and Justice, Shlomi Segall. Princeton University
Press, 2010. x + 239 pages. / Daniel M. Hausman
- Luck Egalitarianism – Equality, Responsibility and
Justice, Carl Knight. Edinburgh University Press, 2009. v + 250 pages.
/Robert Huseby
- Economics as Hermeneutics: Rationality and Explanation in
Economics, Maurice Lagueux. Routledge, 2010. xx + 275 pages. / Jaakko
Kuorikoski
- Fairness, Responsibility, and Welfare, Marc Fleurbaey. Oxford
University Press, 2008. x + 295 pages. / Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen
Economy and Society, 40(2):
2011
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03085147.asp
Special Issue: Rights, Cultures, Subjects
and Citizens
Original Articles
- Introduction: rights, cultures, subjects and citizens / Susanne
Brandtstädter; Peter Wade; Kath Woodward
- Resistencia para que? Territory, autonomy and neoliberal
entanglements in the 'empty spaces' of Central America / Charles R.
Hale
- Localized neoliberalism, multiculturalism and global religion:
exploring the agency of migrants and city boosters / Nina Glick
Schiller
- 'Emancipation' or 'regulation'? Law, globalization and
indigenous peoples' rights in post-war Guatemala / Rachel
Sieder
- The law cuts both ways: rural legal activism and citizenship
struggles in neosocialist China / Susanne
Brandtstädter
- Subjectification and education for quality in China / Andrew B.
Kipnis
Review article
- Self-analysis and socio-analysis: Bourdieu's way / Liliana Pop
Ensayos
Revista de Economía, 30(1): Mayo 2011
Journal website
European
Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 18(2): 2011
Journal website:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09672567.asp
Articles
- R.G. Hawtrey on the national and international lender of last
resort / Jérôme de Boyer des Roches; Ricardo Solis Rosales
- Pigou on business cycles and unemployment: an anti-gold-standard
view / Norikazu Takami
- Visiting-economists through Hirschman's eyes / Ana Maria Bianchi
- The Janus face of Eli Heckscher: theory, history and method /
Mats Lundahl
- Beauty contested: how much of Keynes' remains in behavioural
economics' beauty contests? / Alessandro Lanteri; Anna Carabelli
Book reviews
- Economic Theory and Economic Thought, Essays in Honour of Ian
Steedman / Fabio Petri
- Economic Theory and Economic Thought. Essays in Honour of Ian
Steedman / Edwin Burmeister
- Criticisms of Classical Political Economy. Menger, Austrian
economics and the German Historical School / Nikolay Nenovsky
- Barriers to Competition: The Evolution of the Debate /
Alessandro Roncaglia
- Œuvres économiques complètes / Manuela Mosca
- Auf der Suche nach Klarheit im Kosmos der Ökonomie.
Beiträge zur Wirtschaftstheorie. Wirtschaft - Forschung und
Wissenschaft, Band 25 / Karl-Heinz Schmidt
- Allgemeine ('theoretische') Nationalökonomie. Vorlesungen
1894-1898 / Keith Tribe
Forum for Social Economics,
40(2): July 2011
Journal website: http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/12143
- Are Full Employment and Social Cohesion Possible Under
Financialization? / Georgios Argitis & Stella Michopoulou
- Market as a Weapon: Domination by Virtue of a Constellation of
Interests / Anton Oleinik
- Capabilities and Constraints / Shankaran Nambiar
- On the Role of Paradigms in Understanding Economic Globalization
/ Kavous Ardalan
- Some Insights on Religion from Public Goods Economics / Prateek
Goorha
- Struggle for Survival in the Deregulated Market:
Re-commodification and Informalisation of the Taxi Sector in Stockholm
/ Zoran Slavnic
- Keynes’ Preface to the German Edition of the General
Theory: Nazi Sympathies or Methodological Empathies? / Mark Pernecky
& Thomas Richter
Explorations in Social Economics:
- A Convoluted Path / David George
- Minsky Goes to Buffalo—and Takes on the Economics
Establishment / Charles J. Whalen
Industrial and Corporate
Change, 20(3): July 2011
Journal website:
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3924/5
- Benjamin Wellstein and Alfred Kieser / Trading "best
practices"—a good practice?
- Roberto Mazzoleni / Before Bayh–Dole: public
research funding, patents, and pharmaceutical innovation
(1945–1965)
- Hyundo Choi, Sangook Park, and Jeong-dong Lee /
Government-driven knowledge networks as precursors to emerging sectors:
a case of the hydrogen energy sector in Korea
- Marc Baaij, Abe de Jong, and Jan van Dalen / The dynamics
of superior performance among the largest firms in the global oil
industry, 1954–2008
- Glen Dowell and Robert J. David / Effects of ancestral
populations on entrepreneurial founding and failure: private liquor
stores in Alberta, 1994–2003
- Kyung-Min Nam / Learning through the international joint
venture: lessons from the experience of China s automotive sector
- Marcela Miozzo and Damian Grimshaw / Capabilities of large
services outsourcing firms: the "outsourcing plus staff transfer model"
in EDS and IBM
- Haibo Zhou, Ronald Dekker, and Alfred Kleinknecht /
Flexible labor and innovation performance: evidence from longitudinal
firm-level data
International Journal of
Political Economy, 40(1): Spring 2011
Journal website: http://mesharpe.metapress.com/link.asp?id=J64367232606
- A World Upside Down?: Deficit Fantasies in the Great Recession /
Thomas Ferguson, Robert Johnson
- A Financialized Monetary Economy of Production / Andrea
Fumagalli, Stefano Lucarelli
- What Lies Beneath: A Case for Disaggregated Analysis in
Evaluating Structural Policy Shifts / Suranjana Nabar-Bhaduri
International
Socialism Journal, 131: June 2011
Journal website:
http://www.isj.org.uk
Analysis:
- Unsteady as she goes / Alex Callinicos
- Britain’s trade unions: the shape of things to come /
Martin Smith
- The Tories: An anatomy / Richard Seymour
- The growing social soul of Egypt’s democratic revolution /
Anne Alexander
- Culture and multiculturalism / Gareth Jenkins
- Geert Wilders and the rise of the new radical right / Maina van
der Zwan
- The Great Unrest and a Welsh town / Tim Evans
Feedback:
- The relevance of permanent revolution: A reply to Neil Davidson
/ Joseph Choonara
- Anarchism, syndicalism and strategy: A reply to Lucien van der
Walt / Paul Blackledge
Interview:
- Talkin’ ‘bout a revolutionary / Ian Birchall on Tony
Cliff
Book reviews
- Behind the masks / Peyman Jafari
- Interrogating empire / G Francis Hodge
- This time it’s personal / Simon Englert
- Science and industry / Amy Gilligan
- Karl Marx in Wonderland / Luke Evans
Intervention.
European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies, 8(1): May 2011
Journal website: http://www.metropolis-publisher.com/Periodika/Zeitschrift-Intervention/catalog.do
Forum
- Interview with G. C. Harcourt
- Wilfried Altzinger: Kurt W. Rothschild (1914 – 2010). A
modest and upright character with an outstanding publication record
- Kazimierz Laski, Leon Podkaminer: Common monetary policy with
uncommon wage policies: Centrifugal forces tearing the euro area apart
- Wolfram Elsner: Evolutionary Institutionalism. Sources, history
and contemporary relevance of The Association for Evolutionary
Economics – AFEE
Articles | Artikel
- Camille Logeay, Jürgen Kromphardt: Flattening of the
Phillips Curve: Estimations and consequences for economic policy
- Sergio Cesaratto: The macroeconomics of pension reform: The case
of severance pay reform in Italy
- Giorgos Argitis: A view on post-Keynesian interest rate policy
Special Issue on »The political economy of an Australian patriot
and a Cambridge economist«
- Editorial to the Special Issue
- G.C. Harcourt: Post-Keynesian theory, direct action and
political involvement
- Philip Arestis, Malcolm Sawyer: The economic policies of the
political economy of the Australian patriot and Cambridge economist
- Claudio Sardoni: Incomes policies: Two approaches
- John McCombie: ›Cantabrigian Economics‹ and the
aggregate production function
- Stephanie Blankenburg: On Sraffa, post-Keynesian theories of
pricing and capitalist competition: Some observations
- Lilia Costabile: International capital movements, speculation,
and the ›conservation of saving‹ principle. A
›Harcourtian‹ interpretation of global imbalances and the
global crisis
Book Reviews | Rezensionen
- G.C. Harcourt, Prue Kerr: Joan Robinson (Eckhard Hein)
- Tracy Mott: Kalecki’s Principle of Increasing Risk and
Keynesian Economics (Malcolm Sawyer)
- David Colander (ed.): Post Walrasian Macroeconomics (Engelbert
Stockhammer)
- Grigore Pop-Eleches: From Economic Crisis to Reform (Joachim
Becker)
- Hans H. Bass, Toshihiko Hozumi, Uwe Staroske (eds.): Labor
Markets and Labor Market Policies between Globalization and World
Economic Crisis (Mechthild Schrooten)
- Tim Jackson: Prosperity Without Growth – Economics for a
Finite Planet (Simon Sturn)
- Walter O. Ötsch: Mythos Markt (Christian Spanberger)
Journal of Agrarian Change,
11(3): July 2011
Journal website: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=1471-0358
Journal of
the History of Economic Thought, 33(2): June 2011
Journal website:
http://journals.cambridge.org/HET
Research Articles
- Early Development Economics Debates Revisited / Michele
Alacevich
- Wicksell On The American Crisis Of 1907 / Mauro Boianovsky
- Aftershocks From A Revolution: Ordinal Utility And
Cost-Of-Living Indexes / Thomas A. Stapleford
- An Economic Approach To The Study Of Law In The Eighteenth
Century: Gaetano Filangieri And La Scienza Della Legislazione /
Fabrizio Simon
- Adam Smith’s Essentials: On Trust, Faith, And Free Markets
/ Jerry Evensky
Book Reviews
- Steven G. Medema, The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the
History of Economic Ideas (Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2009), pp. 272, $35.ISBN 978-1-4008-3077-0. / H. Spencer Banzhaf
- Thomas A. Stapleford, The Cost of Living in America. A Political
History of Economic Statistics 1880–2000 (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2009), pp. 421, $34.95. ISBN 978-0-521-71924-7. /
Emmanuel Didier
- George Warde Norman, Taxation and the Promotion of Human
Happiness: An Essay by George Warde Norman, ed. D. P. O’Brien,
with assistance from John Creedy (Cheltenham and Northampton: Edward
Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2009), pp. xilll, 209, £59.95. ISBN
978-1-84844-485-0. / Takuo Dome
- Ross B. Emmett, Frank Knight and the Chicago School in American
Economics (London and New York: Routledge, 2009), pp. xxxi, 218, $130
(hardcover). ISBN 978-0415775007. /
- Andrew Farrant
- Lanny Ebenstein, Milton Friedman: A Biography (New York:
Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), pp. xi, 286, $27.95 (hardcover). ISBN
1-4039-7627-9. / Arthur M. Diamond
Journal of
Institutional Economics, 7(2): 2011
Journal website:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JOI
- Organizational routines and cognition: an introduction to
empirical and analytical contributions / Nathalie Lazaric
- Emergence and functionality of organizational routines: an
individualistic approach / ULRICH WITT
- Routines as multilevel mechanisms / JACK J. VROMEN
- Artifacts at the centre of routines: performing the material
turn in routines theory / LUCIANA D'ADDERIO
- The endogenous origins of experience, routines, and
organizational capabilities: the poverty of stimulus / TEPPO FELIN and
NICOLAI J. FOSS
- Problems at the Foundation? Comments on Felin and Foss / SIDNEY
G. WINTER
- The foundation is solid, if you know where to look: comment on
Felin and Foss / BRIAN T. PENTLAND
- Poverty of stimulus and absence of cause: some questions for
Felin and Foss / GEOFFREY M. HODGSON and THORBJØRN KNUDSEN
Journal of Post Keynesian
Economics, 33(3): Spring 2011
Journal website:
http://mesharpe.metapress.com/link.asp?id=V340274M5017
- Bernanke's paradox: can he reconcile his position on the federal
budget with his recent charge to prevent deflation? / Pavlina R.
Tcherneva
- The stagnant labor market: some aspects of the bleak picture /
Arjun Jayadev, Michael Konczal
- The endogeneity of the natural rate of growth for a selection of
Asian countries / Mark Dray, A. P. Thirlwall
- Financial conventions in Keynes's theory: the stock exchange /
David Dequech
- The modern food industry and public health: a Galbraithian
perspective / Stephen Dunn
- Deficit reduction, the age of austerity, and the paradox of
insolvency / Yiannis Kitromilides
Journal of World-Systems
Research, 17(2): 2011
Journal website: http://jwsr.ucr.edu/
Regular Section Articles:
- Matthew C. Mahutga, Roy Kown, and Garrett Grainger:
"Within-Country Inequality and the Modern World-System: A Theoretical
Reprise and Empirical First Step "
- Benjamin D. Brewer: "Global Commodity Chains & World Income
Inequalities: The Missing Link of Inequality and the "Upgrading"
Paradox"
- John M. Shandra, Eric Shircliff, and Bruce London: "The
International Finance Corporation and Forest Loss: A Cross-National
Analysis"
- Jon Shefner and Julie Stewart: "Neoliberalism, Grievances, and
Democratization: An Exploration of the Role of Material Hardships in
Shaping Mexico's Democratic Transition"
- Jerome Klassen and William K. Carroll: "Transnational Class
Formation? Globalization and the Canadian Corporate Network"
- Stefano B. Longo: "Global Sushi: The Political Economy of the
Mediterranian Bluefin Tuna Fishery in the Modern Era"
- Y. Hugh Jo: "The Capitalist World-System and U.S. Cold War
Policies in the Core and the Periphery: A Comparative Analysis of
Post-World War II American Nation-building in Germany and Korea"
Special Section Articles
- Terry-Ann Jones and Eric Mielants: "Introduction to the Special
Section"
- Matias Vernengo and Mathew Bradbury: "The Limits to
Dollarization in Ecuador: Lessons from Argentina"
- José Luis Rocha: "Remittances in Central America: Whose
Money is it Anyway?"
- Christopher Dick and Andrew K. Jorgenson: "Capital Movements and
Environmental Harms"
- Jeffrey Kentor, Adam Sobek, and Michael Timberlake:
"Interlocking Corporate Directorates and the Global City Hierarchy"
- Suleyman Degirmen: "The Effects of Foreign Bank Participation on
the Turkish Banking System and Crisis"
Book Review Essays:
- Edward Schortman: "Understanding Ancient Interactions"
- Peter Turchin: "Strange Parallels: Patterns in Eurasian Social
Evolution"
Book Reviews:
- John Bellamy Foster, Brett Clark, and Richard York "The
Ecological Rift: Capitalism's War on the Earth" (Reviewed by Kirk S.
Lawrence)
- Mabel Berezin, "Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times: Culture,
Security and Populism in new Europe" (Reviewed by Timothy M. Gill)
- Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and Timothy Patrick Moran,
"Unveiling Inequality: A World-Historical Perspective" (Reviewed by
Ho-fung Hung)
- John Darwin, "The Empire Project: The Rise and Fall of the
British World-System, 1830-1970" (Reviewed by Gary Maynard)
- Kate Bedford, "Developing Partnerships: Gender, Sexuality and
the Reformed World Bank" (Reviewed by Claire Laurier Decoteau)
- Francis Shor, "Dying Empire: U.S. Imperialism and Global
Resistance" (Reviewed by Jackie Smith)
- Böröcz, József, "The European Union and Global
Social Change: A Critical Geopolitical-Economic Analysis" (Reviewed by
Zsuzsa Gille)
Metroeconomica, 62(3): July
2011
- A Generalized Oligopoly Model With Conjectural Variations /
Ludovic A. Julien and Olivier Musy
- A Behavioural Finance Model Of Exchange Rate Expectations Within
A Stock-Flow Consistent Framework / Marc Lavoie and Gauthier Daigle
- A Mathematical Approach To Harrod's Open Economy Dynamics /
Mario Sportelli and Giuseppe Celi
- Freedom And Achievement Of Well-Being And Adaptive Dynamics Of
Capabilities / Jun Matsuyama and Kenji Mori
- Dual Labor Markets And The Impact Of Minimum Wages On Atypical
Employment / Peter Flaschel and Alfred Greiner
Mother Pelican, 7(6): June
2011
Theme: Clean Energy for Human Development
Articles:
-
Editorial Opinion ~ Clean Energy for Human Development
-
Wisdom in the Twenty-First Century, by Tom Lombardo
-
Family Planning for a Sustainable Future, by Robert Engelman
-
A Community's Struggle with Diversity, by Susan Clark et al
-
Law of Rights of Mother Earth, by the Assembly of Bolivia
-
Campaign for a Global Citizens Movement, by the Widening
Circle
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Fate of Mountain Glaciers, by the Vatican Academy of Sciences
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The Baha'i Understanding of Gender Equality, by May Lample
-
Gender Equity in Islam - Part 1, by Jamal Badawi
Supplements:
-
Advances in Sustainable Development
-
Directory of Sustainable Development Resources
-
Status of the Transition to Clean Energy
-
Status of Gender Equality in Society
-
Status of Gender Equality in Religion
Articles
- C.E. Ferguson and the Neoclassical Theory of Capital: A Matter
of Faith / Scott Carter
- The Complexity Era in Economics / Richard P. F. Holt; J. Barkley
Rosser Jr.; David Colander
- The Short Period and the Long Period in Macroeconomics: An
Awkward Distinction / Eleonora Sanfilippo
- The Impact of Technical Change and Profit on Investment in
Australian Manufacturing / Harry Bloch; Jerry Courvisanos; Maria
Mangano
- 'Managing' Reductions in Working Hours: A Study of Work-time and
Leisure Preferences in UK Industry / Dan Wheatley; Irene Hardill; Bruce
Philp
- Duration, Intensity and Productivity of Labour and the
Distinction between Absolute and Relative Surplus-value / Stavros
Mavroudeas; Alexis Ioannides
- Emil Lederer and the Schumpeter-Hilferding-Tugan-Baranowsky
Nexus / Angelos Vouldis; Panayotis G. Michaelides; John
Milios
- Wicksteed, Robbins and the Emergence of Mainstream Economic
Methodology / S. A. Drakopoulos
Book Reviews
- The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates / Gene
Callahan
- Capitalists, Workers and Fiscal Policy. A Classical Model of
Growth and Distribution / Guglielmo Forges Davanzati
- Money, Investment and Consumption: Keynes's Macroeconomics
Rethought / M. G. Hayes
Revue de la
régulation: Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoirs, 9: 1er Semestre
2011
Journal website: http://regulation.revues.org/
« RSE, régulation et
diversité du capitalisme »
Éditorial
Dossier : RSE, régulation et diversité du capitalisme
Varia
Opinions - débats
Notes de lecture
- Mehrdad Vahabi / Douglass C. North,
John Joseph Wallis et Barry R. Weingast, Violence et ordres sociaux,
Paris, éditions Gallimard, 2010, 459 pages.: Une recension
critique
- Jean-Marie Harribey / Frédéric
Lordon, Capitalisme, désir et servitude. Marx et Spinoza, La
Fabrique, 2010.
- Bruno Tinel / Jules Falquet, De
gré ou de force. Les femmes dans la mondialisation, Paris, La
Dispute, 2008.
- Alain Piveteau / Julien Vercueil,
Les pays émergents : Brésil – Russie – Inde
– Chine… Mutations économiques et nouveaux
défis, Bréal, 2010. L’émergence
économique dans la mondialisation. Entre autonomie et
dépendance
Présentations de thèses
Socio-Economic
Review, 9(3): July 2011
Journal website: http://ser.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol9/issue3/index.dtl
ARTICLES
- Andrew Schrank / Co-producing workplace transformation: the
Dominican Republic in comparative perspective
- Rafael Muñoz de Bustillo, Enrique
Fernández-Macías, Fernando Esteve, and
José-Ignacio Antón / E pluribus unum? A critical survey
of job quality indicators
- Melike Wulfgramm / Can activating labour market policy offset
the detrimental life satisfaction effect of unemployment?
- Daniel Oesch and Jorge Rodríguez Menés / Upgrading
or polarization? Occupational change in Britain, Germany, Spain and
Switzerland, 1990–2008
- Rebecca J. Oliver / Powerful remnants? The politics of
egalitarian bargaining institutions in Italy and Sweden
DISCUSSION FORUM
- Eric Helleiner, Leonard Seabrooke, Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud,
Adam Leaver, Karel Williams, and Glenn Morgan / Reforming the global
financial architecture
REVIEW SYMPOSIUM
- Akos Rona-Tas, David Dequech, and Jens Beckert / David Stark The
Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life. Princeton and
Woodstock, Princeton University Press, 2009
Heterodox Newsletters
Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives
Commentary:
In this age of austerity, as Canada continues on the path of
economic recovery following the worldwide recession of 2008, workers
find themselves under attack — and the attack is coming from many
directions. The CCPA has put together some resources (
HERE) to help Canadians understand what's
behind the attack, who's at risk, and how the austerity agenda is
really about pitting workers against workers.
More information from CCPA's
National Update can be found
HERE.
Centre for
Development Policy and Research
-
Egypt’s ‘Orderly Economic Transition’:
Accelerated Structural Adjustment under a Democratic Veneer?, Viewpoint
No. 64, by Adam Hanieh.
-
The Economic Prospects of the ‘Arab Spring’: A
Bumpy Road Ahead, Development Viewpoint No. 63, by Hassan Hakimian.
-
‘Cash-on-Delivery’ Aid: A Red Herring or the
Future of Aid?, Development Viewpoint No. 62, by Michael Jennings.
Economic Sociology - the
european electronic newsletter, 12(3): July 2011
Website: http://econsoc.mpifg.de/newsletter/newsletter_current.asp
- Money Nutters by Bill Maurer
- Using the Future in the Present: Risk and Surprise in Financial
Markets by Elena Esposito
- For a Love of False Consciousness: Adam Smith On the Social
Origin of Scarcity by Gustav Peebles
- History in Finance and Fiction in History: The Crisis of 2008
and the Return of the Past by Amin Samman
- Economic Crisis and the Politics of Austerity in Ireland by
Niamh Hardiman
- The European Sovereign Debt Crisis: the Portuguese Case by
João Carlos Graça, João Carlos Lopes and Rafael
Marques
- Living on Borrowed Money: On the Social Response of the Current
Greek Crisis by Sokratis Koniordos
- Book Reviews
EPI
News
GDAE News
Global
Labour Column
- Forthcoming Book on South Africa’s World Cup: A Legacy for
Whom? (Release date: September 2011). For more information, contact Eddie.Cottle@bwint.org
- New issue of the International Journal of Labour Research
- GLU call for applications
The Global Labour University (GLU) is
inviting trade unionist and labour activists to apply for a specialised
Masters programme on 'Labour and Globalisation' at the University of
the Witwatersrand in South Africa.
The GLU provides a unique opportunity
to study and discuss the challenges of globalisation together with a
global group of fellow trade unionists. Internships with trade union
organisations and labour research institutions offer the chance to
engage in labour movements in different countries and at international
level.
The final deadline for applications is
31 July 2011. The GLU awards a limited number of scholarships for
participants from developing and transition countries. Applicants need
to have the endorsement of a trade union to apply for a scholarship.
IDEAs
Featured articles:
Levy News
New Publications:
- Minsky
on the Reregulation and Restructuring of the Financial System: Will
Dodd-Frank Prevent "It" from Happening Again? Research
Project Report. April 2011.
-
Income
Distribution in a Monetary Economy: A Ricardo-Keynes Synthesis.
Nazim Kadri Ekinci, Working Paper No. 672, May 2011.
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Public
Job-creation Programs: The Economic Benefits of Investing in Social
Care: Case Studies in South Africa and the United States. Rania
Antinopulous and Kijong Kim, Working Paper No. 671, May 2011.
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The
Product Space: What does it say about the Opportunies for Growth and
Structural Transformation of Sub-Saharan Africa? Arnelyn Abdon and
Jesus Felipe, Working Paper No. 670, May 2011.
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Race,
Power and the Subprime/Foreclosure Crisis: A Mesoanalysis.
Gary A. Dymski, Jesus Hernandez, and Lisa Mohanty, Working Paper No.
669, May 2011.
NEF Newsletter
The
New Economics Foundation celebrated its 25th year in
June. Also announced in their newsletter is the creation of a new
MA program. You can find more details about their program in the
Heterodox
Graduate Programs and Scholarship section.
More information from NEF can be found on their website
HERE.
News &
Letters: Marxist-Humanist newspaper
PERI Announcements
Recent policy studies:
Heterodox Books and Book
Series
After
Globalization
By Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman
Wiley-Blackwell. May 2011. 264 pp ISBN: 978-1-4051-7794-8 - HB |
website
In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that
contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the
inability to think "an after" to globalization. After establishing
seven theses (on education, morality, history, future, capitalism,
nation, and common sense) that challenge the false promises that
sustain this time-limit, After Globalization examines four popular
thinkers (Thomas Friedman, Richard Florida, Paul Krugman and Naomi
Klein) and how their work is dulled by these promises. Cazdyn and
Szeman then speak to students from around the globe who are both
unconvinced and uninterested in these promises and who understand the
world very differently than the way it is popularly represented.
After Globalization argues that a true capacity to think an after to
globalization is the very beginning of politics today.
The Bonds of Debt: Bonds
Against the Common Good
By Richard Dienst
Verso Books. April 2011. 200 pp ISBN: 9781844676910 HB | website
In this timely book, cultural critic Richard Dienst considers the
financial crisis, global poverty, the media and radical theory to
explore indebtedness as the universal condition of modern life. With
humour and verve, Dienst examines a sometimes surprising array of
subjects – analysing Obama’s National Security Strategy,
the architecture of Prada stores and a fairy tale told by Karl Marx
– to capture a modern condition founded on fiscal imprudence.
The Bonds of Debt also includes a substantive takedown of
Bono’s“anti-poverty” campaigning. Dienst exposes the
hollowness of campaigns like the ‘Product RED’ branding
exercise and shows how Bono’s style of celebrity activism does
more to maintain systems of global poverty than to challenge them. He
also unpicks the construction of the grandiose and ubiquitous image of
“Bono” as the public face of global poverty. Ultimately,
Dienst argues, this style of celebrity campaigning leads to a
well-behaved activism which is little more than “the pop-cultural
expression of official policy”.
Moving beyond the dominant pieties and widespread anxieties surrounding
the topic, Dienst reconceives the world’s massive financial
obligations as a social, economic and political bond, where the
crushing weight of objectified wealth comes face to face with new
demands for equality and solidarity. As the “EU debt
crisis” builds, with one European country after another falling
victim to the all-powerful credit agencies, Dienst’s incisive
analysis is both timely and necessary.
Capital as
a Social Kind: Definitions and Transformations in the Critique of
Political Economy
By Howard Engelskirchen
Routledge. Feb. 2011. Hardback: 978-0-415-77691-2. Series: Routledge
Frontiers of Political Economy | website
Capital as a Social Kind provides an introduction to social kinds in
social theory. Thinking about kinds, the way we sort the things of the
world into categories -- water, for example, is a natural kind –
has made an important contribution to our understanding of science in
the last half century, but these advances have been largely applicable
to the natural, rather than the social sciences. Drawing on the rich
examples offered by Marx’s analysis of capital and exploring a
methodology that will be of interest to both Marxist and non-Marxist
social theorists alike, Capital as a Social Kind extends this approach
to the study of social life. Read More
Capitalism
and Class in the Gulf Arab States
By Adam Hanieh
Palgrave-Macmillan. July 2011. ISBN: 978-0-230-11077-9 (hb) | website
The six Arab states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) play an
increasingly prominent role in the global economy and throughout the
broader Middle East region. This book analyzes the recent development
of Gulf capitalism through the aftermath of the 2008 economic crisis.
Situating the Gulf within the evolution of capitalism at a global
scale, it presents a novel theoretical interpretation of this important
region of the Middle East political economy. Accompanied by an
extensive empirical analysis of all sectors of the GCC economy, the
book argues that a new capitalist class,Khaleeji Capital, is forming in
the Gulf--with profound implications for the Middle East as a whole
Creative
Industries and Economic Evolution
By Jason Potts
Edward Elgar 2011. ISBN 978 1 84720 662 6 (hb). New Horizons in
Institutional and Evolutionary Economics series |
website
The creative industries are key drivers of modern economies.
While economic analysis has traditionally advanced a market-failure
model of arts and culture, this book argues for an evolutionary market
dynamics or innovation-based approach. The book explores theoretical
and conceptual aspects of an evolutionary economic approach to the
study of the creative economy. Topics include creative businesses and
labour markets, social networks, innovation processes and systems,
institutions, and the role of creative industries in market dynamics
and economic growth.
Environmental
and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach
By Jonathan M. Harris
Cengage Publishing, 2006, 2nd edition.
Now available on-line free
of charge. |
website
The second edition of this text (Cengage Publishing, 2006) from the
Tufts University Global Development And Environment Institute is now
out of print. A third edition is in process, but will not be available
this year. In the meantime the FULL TEXT with INDEX, GLOSSARY, and an
UPDATED VERSION of Chapter 18 on Global Climate Change is available for
free download for instructors and students at:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/education_materials/ENRE_Reg.html
For those who prefer the hard copy, new and used copies of the second
edition are still available from online booksellers. In addition to
Amazon and Barnes and Noble, copies can be obtained at
AbeBooks (scroll down for second
edition) and at
Textbooks.com.
Bookstores may be able to order wholesale through
MBSBooks.
On-line support materials for both
instructors
and
students
are still available at
CENGAGE
Learning.
Updated data, Power Points, and chapter modules representing
work-in-progress on the third edition will be posted before the next
academic year on the text website at:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/textbooks/env_nat_res_economics.html.
The Foundations of
Institutional Economics
By K. William Kapp
Edited by Sebastian Berger and Rolf Steppacher
May 2011. Routledge. Hardback: 978-0-415-58655-9 |
website
This is a ground-breaking book about the foundations of institutional
economics. K. William Kapp presents the economic role of institutions
for economic development, capital formation and technological dynamics
in an easily accessible and comprehensive manner. As a front-rank 20th
century institutional economist, Kapp pulls together arguments from a
variety of sources, including Thorstein Veblen, John Kenneth Galbraith
and Gunnar Myrdal, all of which emphasize the crucial role of
institutions. The author cements institutional economics as a distinct
and coherent framework of analysis to effectively address urgent
socio-economic problems, such as environmental disruption and
sustainable development.
Read More
Heterodox Macroeconomics:
Keynes, Marx and Globalization
Edited by Jonathan P. Goldstein and Michael G. Hillard
Routledge. New in Paperback: 978-0-415-66597-1 |
website |
e–Inspection
Copy
Heterodox Macroeconomics offers a detailed understanding of the
foundations of the recent global financial crisis. The chapters, from a
selection of leading academics in the field of heterodox
macroeconomics, carry out a synthesis of heterodox ideas that place
financial instability, macroeconomic crisis, rising global inequality
and a grasp of the perverse and pernicious qualities of global and
domestic macroeconomic policy making since 1980 into a coherent
perspective. It familiarizes the reader with the emerging unified
theory of heterodox macroeconomics and its applications.
Read More
Inequality and Power: the
Economics of Class
By Eric A. Schutz
This book considers class as a form of power in the sense of
domination or rule, and offers an analysis of its foundations in terms
of mainstream (neoclassical) economics. It elucidates the various
socio-economic power structures involved in the class system of today's
market society - employers' power, business power, professionals'
power, and cultural and political power. Focusing upon how excessive
economic inequality (i.e., in the distribution of income and wealth)
both arises from and undergirds the class system, the book examines
what is wrong with class from the viewpoint of distributive justice and
socio-ecological sustainability. After outlining the "class based"
theory of the trend of increasing inequality of these times, it
concludes with some thoughts on mitigating class-based economic
inequality. The book is appropriate for undergraduate or graduate
students in economics or other social sciences, philosophy, etc.
Instituciones,
desarrollo y regiones: El caso de Colombia
Jairo Parada Corrales
May 2011, Ediciones Uninorte. ISBN 978-958-741-137-9 |
Website
Esta obra, dirigida a estudiantes, profesores e investigadores de
Economía, Historia, Derecho y Ciencia Política,
así como a profesionales en distintas áreas, contiene un
examen de la relación entre instituciones, desarrollo y regiones
en Colombia, bajo una mirada totalmente diferente a lo que se conoce en
el país comúnmente como economía institucionalista.
El autor analiza las instituciones bajo la perspectiva teórica
del economista norteamericano Thorstein Veblen, y los modernos enfoques
evolucionarios de corte darwiniano, algo desconocidos en los medios
académicos del país y latinoamericanos. Examina,
además, cada uno de los períodos de la evolución
institucional colombiana y dirige su mirada a tres regiones
específicas: la Costa Caribe, Antioquia y Cauca-Valle.
Intern
Nation: How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy
By Ross Perlin
Verso Books. May 2011. ISBN: 9781844676866 (hb) |
website
Ross Perlin has written the first exposé of this world of
drudgery and aspiration. In this witty, astonishing, and serious
investigative work, Perlin takes the reader inside both boutique
nonprofits and megacorporations such as Disney (which employs 8,000
interns at Disney World alone). He profiles fellow interns, talks to
academics and professionals about what unleashed this phenomenon, and
explains why the intern boom is perverting workplace practices in
locations all around the world.
Macroeconomics
of Growth Cycles And Financial Instability
By Piero Ferri
2011 Edward Elgar. ISBN 978 1 84980 916 0 (hb) |
website
In light of the recent economic crisis and in keeping with Hyman
Minsky’s analysis of financial instability, this book considers
the important interaction between cycles and growth, via the interplay
between demand, supply and real-world financial issues.
A Modern Guide To Keynesian
Macroeconomics And Economic Policies
Edited by Eckhard Hein and Engelbert Stockhammer, Kingston
University, UK
2011 Edward Elgar. ISBN 978 1 84980 140 9 (hb) |
website
‘For more than a decade, most macroeconomists convinced
themselves they were witnessing a “Great Moderation”. Many
Keynesians saw instead the accumulation of a fragility and potential
instability that have become dramatically manifest since 2007. The
premise of this book is that the financial crisis and Great Recession
necessitate a revival of Keynesian macroeconomics, emphasizing the
central roles of effective demand, money and finance in modern
capitalism. Comprising essays on all aspects of macroeconomic theory
and policy, the book will prove invaluable for scholars and graduate
students seeking to acquaint themselves with the frontiers of modern
Keynesian macroeconomics.’ – Mark Setterfield, Trinity
College, US
The Political Economy of the
European Social Model
By Philip B. Whyman, Mark Baimbridge and Andrew Mullen
Routledge, April 2011. ISBN 978-0-415-47629-4 (hb) |
website
This book seeks to analyse the development of the European Union (EU),
which was founded upon the principle of the free movement of capital,
goods, services and people in 1957. Its central thesis is that, from a
practical and theoretical point of view, such a basis is fundamentally
at odds with the creation of an interventionist regime that the
construction of a social Europe would require.
Read More
Post
Keynesian Macroeconomic Theory, 2nd Edition
A Foundation for Successful Economic Policies for
the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Paul Davidson
Edward Elgar 2011. ISBN: 978 1 84980 979 5 (HB) 978 1 84980 980 1
(PB) |
website
In this updated and revised edition of Post Keynesian
Macroeconomic Theory, Paul Davidson explains how and why contemporary
macroeconomic textbooks fail to incorporate Keynes’s liquidity
and financial analysis framework to explain the importance of money and
financial markets in the real world of experience. This important text
develops Keynes’s analytical framework for both closed and open
economies and provides policy guidance for the global economy of the
21st century. In particular, it deals with problems such as inflation,
financial contagion, global unemployment, outsourcing, trade patterns,
and developing an international financial system which encourages
expansionary growth among all trading partners while avoiding sovereign
debt problems. Using this textbook in macroeconomics courses will
provide students with a study of macroeconomics that will be useful and
productive.
Rethinking Gramsci
Edited by Marcus E. Green
New York: Routledge, 2011. ISBN: 9780415779739 |
website
This edited volume provides a coherent and comprehensive assessment of
Antonio Gramsci's significant contribution to the fields of political
and cultural theory. It contains seminal contributions from a broad
range of important political and cultural theorists from around the
world and explains the origins, development and context for Gramsci's
thought as well as analysing his continued relevance and influence to
contemporary debates.
It demonstrates the multidisciplinary nature of Gramscian thought to
produce new insights into the intersection of economic, political,
cultural, and social processes, and to create a vital resource for
readers across the disciplines of political theory, cultural studies,
political economy, philosophy, and subaltern studies.
Revolt and
Crisis in Greece: Between a present yet to pass and a future still to
come
AK Press and Occupied London. April 2011. 378 pp ISBN:
9780983059714 |
website
How does a revolt come about and what does it leave behind? What impact
does it have on those who participate in it and those who simply watch
it? Is the Greek revolt of December 2008 confined to the
shores of the Mediterranean, or are there lessons we can bring to bear
on social action around the globe?
Revolt and Crisis in Greece: Between a Present Yet to Pass and a Future
Still to Come is a collective attempt to grapple with these questions.
A collaboration between anarchist publishing collectives
Occupied London and AK Press, this timely new volume traces
Greece’s long moment of transition from the revolt of 2008 to the
economic crisis that followed. In its twenty chapters, authors from
around the
world—including those on the ground in Greece—analyse how
December became possible, exploring its legacies and the position of
the social antagonist movement in face of the economic crisis and the
arrival of the International Monetary Fund.
In the essays collected here, over two dozen writers offer historical
analysis of the factors that gave birth to December and the
potentialities it has opened up in face of the capitalist crisis. Yet
the book also highlights the dilemmas the antagonist movement has been
faced with since: the book is an open question and a call to the global
antagonist movement, and its allies around the world, to radically
rethink and redefine our tactics in a rapidly changing landscape where
crises and potentialities are engaged in a fierce battle with an
uncertain outcome.
Unemployment, Recession And
Effective Demand: The Contributions of Marx, Keynes and Kalecki
By Claudio Sardoni
Edward Elgar. 2011. ISBN 978 1 84844 969 5 (hb) | website
In the midst of the current world economic crisis, many claim there is
a necessity to return to the Marxian and Keynesian traditions in order
to better understand the dynamics of market economies. This book is an
important step in that direction. It presents a critical examination of
the foundations of macroeconomics as developed in the traditions of
Marx, Keynes and Kalecki, which are contrasted with the current
mainstream. Particular attention is given to the problem of market
forms and their relevance for macroeconomics.
The
Vitality of Critical Theory (Current Perspectives in Social Theory,
Volume 28)
By Harry F. Dahms
Emerald Group Publishing. May 2011. ISBN: 9780857247971; ISSN:
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The common theme of the essays included in this volume is that the
critical theory of the Frankfurt School is as important today as it was
at its inception during the 1930s, and perhaps more so. What are
the distinguishing features of this tradition? How is it critical of
other approaches in the social sciences, and especially in sociology
– and yet also complementary with many of these approaches?
The vanishing point of critical theory is not the replacement of
diverse endeavors to illuminate the nature of modern society. Rather,
its purpose is to bundle overly fragmented perspectives that have been
developed in theoretical sociology. The goal is to facilitate the
spelling-out of a narrative about the modern condition that is
conducive to recognizing rigorously and confronting practically the
contradictory and increasingly irreconcilable tensions and fault lines
that are burdening and obstructing efforts to foster qualitative social
changes, around the globe.
Essays included address the problematic analysis of political
economy at the center of the early Frankfurt School, and the subsequent
neglect of political economy; the continuing importance of alienation
and reification as focal points of critical theory; differences in
modes of critical theorizing during the twentieth century (with special
emphases on Lukács, Adorno, Habermas, and Postone);
globalization as an analytical and normative challenge critical
theorists are uniquely positioned to confront; and the most problematic
feature mainstream approaches in the social sciences have in common.
Law and the
Postcolonial: Ethics, Politics, & Economy -- Book Series Request
Series edited by Prof Denise Ferreira da Silva, Queen Mary
University of London; Dr Mark A. Harris, La Trobe University and Dr
Brenna Bhandar, University of Kent
Law and the Postcolonial: Ethics, Politics, & Economy seeks
to expand the critical scope of racial, postcolonial, and global theory
and analysis, focusing on how the global juridico-economic apparatus
has been, and continues to be, shaped by the Colonial and the Racial
structurings of power. It includes works that seek to move beyond the
previous privileging of culture in considerations of racial and
postcolonial subjectivity to offer a more comprehensive engagement with
the legal, economic and moral issues of the global present.
The following categories of works have been identified which would fit
with the aims and objectives of the series:
1. Architectures, Apparatuses, and Procedures: with a focus on the
legal-economic institutions, frameworks, agreements, and processes,
including multilateral agreements, the state, international financial
institutions, International NGOs, etc.
2. Dispossession, Displacement and Obliteration: with a focus on the
various strategies of appropriation of land and resources, exploitation
of labour, processes that create forced and voluntary displacement of
populations, or threaten or cause the eradication of local population.
3. Occupation, Intervention, and Detention: with a focus on
policing strategies and the related moral statements that sustain them,
including humanitarian interventions, military occupations, the
criminalization and detention of migrant works; the criminalization of
economically dispossessed urban populations and racial and ethnic
collectives.
4. Grammars, Discourses, and Practices: with the focus on
structures and mechanism of symbolic representation, and related moral
(including religious), and legal frameworks, such as the Human Rights
framework, with particular attention to how they enable the
articulation of political subjects.
This interdisciplinary series welcomes exclusively theoretical essays
that engage with the conceptual and analytical questions detailed above
and discussions of how particular conceptual approaches can
illuminate existing processes and help in the study of the global
landscape. In addition monographs and edited volumes, using qualitative
and quantitative methods with a strong theoretical grounding, which
deal with these questions and processes are also welcomed.
To discuss or propose an idea for a book, please contact the series
editors:
Heterodox Book Reviews
The Moral
Rhetoric of Political Economy: Justice and Modern Economic Thought
By Paul Turpin. New York: Routledge, 2011. xv + 163 pp. $115
(hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-415-77392-8.
Reviewed for EH.NET (June 2011) by Donald
E. Frey, Department of Economics, Wake Forest
University. Read the review here.
The New Lombard Street: How
the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort
By Perry Mehrling. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. xii
+ 174 pp. $30 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-691-14398-9.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Douglas K.
Pearce, Department of Economics, North Carolina State University. Read
the review here.
Marx and
Philosophy Review of Books
- Mitchell on communism
- Angier on Sheldon Wolin’s Democracy Inc.
- Steele on ancient modernism
- Lotz on Feenberg
- Hall on Cohen and justice
- Marco Boffo on Hardt and Negri and Carchedi
- Devin Zane Shaw on Rancière, The Politics of Literature
- Kate Drabinski on Cudd and Holmstrom, Capitalism, For and
Against
- Mirko Hall on Steiner, Walter Benjamin
- Seth Chaiklin on Marx’s Scientific Dialectics
- Brian Morris on The Idea of Communism
- Gregson on Lebowitz’s The Socialist Alternative
- Daniels on Nussbaum’s Not for Profit
- Cunliffe on Red Plenty
- Stalmaszczyk on Gramsci and language
- Paul on How to Read Marx’s Capital
And a new list of books for review all at www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/
To receive notices of comments, discussion and new reviews when they
appear join the Marx and Philosophy Society email list (http://lists.topica.com/lists/mpslist).
Book Reviews for Review of
Radical Political Economics
The book list for the Review of Radical Political Economics has
recently been updated. Please check it out
Book
Reviews for Capitalism Nature Socialism
Capitalism Nature Socialism, an
international journal of socialist ecology, would like to have the
following books reviewed:
- Capital and its discontents: Conversations with radical thinkers
in a time of Tumult by Sasha Lilley
- The Politics of Combined and Uneven Development by Michael Loewy
- Resistance Against Empire by Derrick Jensen
- Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and
Resistance by David McNally
- In and out of crisis: The Global financial meltdown and Left
Alternatives by Greg Albo, Sam Gindin and Leo Panitch
- The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth by J.
B. Foster, B. Clark and R. York
- India's New Economic Policy by W. Ahmed, A. Kundu and R. Peet
(eds.)
- Agriculture and Food in crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and
Renewal by F. Magdoff and B. Tokar.
- Planning for Balance: Making the Choice for a Safer Future by M.
Jablonowski.
If interested in reviewing any of these books, please send your CV
and a writing sample to the book review editor, Costas Panayotakis(cpanayotakis@yahoo.com).
Since CNS is a scholarly journal, you should have a doctoral degree or
be in the final stages of getting one(ABD status).
The normal length of book reviews is about 900 words, but they
can be longer if they discuss more than one of the books above.
Best,
Costas Panayotakis
Book Editor, Capitalism Nature Socialism
Book Reviews for the Economics of Peace and Security
Journal
Please email the book review editor, Dr. Basel Saleh(
bsaleh@radford.edu), for more
information.
Book Reviews for Critical
Sociology
The book review section will now begin focusing on
publishing more comprehensive review essays. Such essays of
approximately 5,000 words in length generally examine three to four
books of a similar topic through a scholarly lens. For example, we
currently have four titles that examine the economic crisis from a
critical/left perspective. They are:
1. McNally, David. Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of
Crisis and Resistance
2. Lilley, Sasha. Capital and its Discontents: Conversations with
Radical Thinkers in a Time of Tumult
3. Albo, Greg, Sam Gindin, and Leo Panitch. In and Out of Crisis: The
Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives
4. Calhoun, Craig and Georgi Derluguian. Business as Usual: The Roots
of the Global Financial Meltdown
Alternatively, a review essay may draw on a single book title and
discuss its relevance along a broad framework such as
contemporary scholarship, or in light of recent events, or its utility
in an activist setting, etc.
In addition, Critical Sociology welcomes review essays concerned
with contemporary media and cultural productions, including but not
limited to fiction, cinema, and independent music. These review essays
should meet the same criteria set out for book review essays, discussed
above.
If you are interested in writing a book review essay for the
journal or proposing a potential review essay of your own, please
contact the book review editor, George Sanders, at the following
e-mail:
If you are interested in writing a culture review essay
(concerned with fiction, cinema, music, photography and the graphic
arts, etc.) for the journal or proposing a potential review essay of
your own, please contact the media and culture editor, Graham Cassano,
at the following e-mail:
Book
Reviews for Historical Materialism
A very complete list of books for review on the HM's
website
HERE.
Heterodox
Graduate Programs and Scholarships
MA in
Global Political Economy at City University London
This new MA provides a contemporary take on the analysis of global
economic relations, the workings of the global financial system, state
strategies and processes of regulation. You will develop an in-depth
understanding of how the economic system works and address critical
issues in international development and policy-making.
You take two core modules - in Global Political Economy, and Global
Governance - plus optional modules in global finance, development,
policymaking & diplomacy, migration, civil society and
international institutions.
Fore more information, visit http://www.city.ac.uk/courses/postgraduate/global-political-economy
MA
Economics (Political Economy) at Kingston University
The School of Economics of Kingston University will offer from autumn
2011 a unique programme in the UK: an MA Economics (Political Economy).
This is one of the very few Political Economy courses in an economics
department.
The degree combines a solid foundation in standard economic theory and
quantitative techniques with a specialization in Political Economy. It
covers a broad range of political economy approaches, including
Marxian, post-Keynesian and Institutionalist theories, and provides an
opportunity to study contemporary issues such as the causes of the
financial and economic crises and economic and social inequality.
Taught modules include Paradigms in Political Economy, Advanced
Political Economy, and Rise of Capitalism. We also intend to grow a PhD
programme in the same area in the future. The School of Economics hosts
a Political Economy Research Group (see link below).
Political
Economy Research Group (PERG)
The Political Economy approach highlights the role of effective
demand, institutions and social conflict in economic analysis and
thereby builds on Austrian, Institutionalist, Keynesian and Marxist
traditions. Economic processes are perceived to be embedded in social
relations that must be analysed in the context of historical
considerations, power relations and social norms. As a consequence, a
broad range of methodological approaches is employed, and cooperation
with other disciplines, including history, law, sociology and other
social sciences, is necessary.
More on
http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/perg
and
PERG Newsletter
MA in
Economics for Transition Schumacher College, Dartington
From September 2011, Schumacher College, Dartington will be offer
a new MA degree course in "The Economics for Transition: Achieving low
carbon, high well-being, resilient economies". This pioneering
postgraduate programme has been developed by nef, Schumacher College
and the Transition Network, and is offered through the Business School
at the University of Plymouth.
The programme is designed to support a new generation of leaders and
activists to create an economy fit for the challenges of the 21st
century. It will be attractive to people at different stages in their
life seeking to make a positive contribution to the economics of
transition through enhancing their knowledge; acquiring practical
skills for sustainable living, working and ecological citizenship; and
sharing experiences with people from all over the world.
Heterodox Web Sites and
Associates
Economics of Imperialiam
Queries
from Heterodox Economists
Frederic Lee: "Need some
help with references"
Dear Colleagues,
I am working on a paper that is a response to heterodox
critics. In particular, one of the comments that the critics make
is that heterodox are largely ignorant of mainstream economics and are
virtually clueless about what is going on at the frontiers of
mainstream economics. They make the statement without presenting
any evidence. I find the claim baseless, but before I go public
with my response, I would in fact like to have some evidence that
heterodox economists actually do know something about mainstream
economics and its frontiers. Therefore, I would like to know what
surveys, articles, and/or books that critically engage mainstream
theory and its frontiers have been written/published from
2000-2011.
I am interested in critically engaged publications that fall in the
following JEL areas and especially in the areas of C, G, H, K, L, O, P,
Q, R:
B – History of economic thought, methodology, and heterodox
approaches
C – Mathematics and quantitative methods
D - Microeconomics
E - Macroeconomics and monetary policy
F – International economics
G – Financial economics
H – Public economics
I – Health, education, and welfare
J – Labor and demographic economics
K – Law and economics
L – Industrial organization
O – Economic development, technological change, and growth
P – Economic systems
Q – Agricultural and natural resource economics;
environmental and ecological economics
R – Urban, rural, and regional economics
I am also interested in critically engaged publications that deal
with the following mainstream frontier areas:
Agent-based Complexity Economics
Behavioral Economics
Evolutionary Economics
Experimental Economics
Game Theory
Neuroeconomics
If you have the time and know of any relevant critical engagement
publications, I would be grateful if you could send me the references.
Professor Frederic S. Lee
Editor, American Journal of Economics and Sociology
Department of Economics
University of Missouri-Kansas City
IIPPE in
Brief - Issue 6 – Call for Contributions
We are seeking contributions for the next issue of the
International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy newsletter due
out in July 2011. These can be:
We are also interested in short summaries of papers from the
conference or general reflections on the Istanbul conference.
Please send contributions to susanamynewman@googlemail.com
John King: "Pluralist
Economics Department?"
The Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations at
Oxford University recently described his department thus, in an alumni
magazine: “We are self-avowedly pluralist in our teaching and
research with enough of us to operate on the ‘zoo
principle’ – two of everything” (Stephen Whitefield,
‘Welcome’, INSPIRINGS, Trinity Term 2011, p. 4).
Is there a Department of Economics anywhere in the world in 2011 that
could say the same? Peter Riach tried it at De Montfort University in
the UK in the 1990s, but he could only afford one of each species, and
it all ended in tears.
John King
La Trobe University, Australia
For Your Information
AFEE at ASSA
and UNITE-HERE Boycott
Dear AFEE Colleagues:
As many of you know, UNITE-HERE (representing hotel workers) has asked
ASSA participants to boycott certain hotels (including the Hyatt
Chicago, the ASSA headquarters hotel) during the ASSA 2012 meetings in
Chicago. After considering the information and recommendations from a
special committee convened to advise the board on this issue, the Board
voted to formally request that the AEA/ASSA not schedule any AFEE
sessions in one of the boycotted hotels, and to create an alternate
registration site. In response to this request, the AEA/ASSA agreed not
to schedule any AFEE sessions in one of the boycotted hotels. In
addition, if the dispute with the Hyatt has not been resolved by
January, the AEA/ASSA will have an alternate site for PRE-REGISTERED
participants to pick up their materials. On-site registration will,
however, continue to take place in the Hyatt.
Best regards,
Janice Peterson
Cambridge Excludes Keynesians from conference on Keynes
Commentary by Anne Pettifor at
Primeeconomic blog HERE.
Defend the
Jan van Eyck Academy
For many years the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht has been an
international centre for critical and radical theory. The Dutch
government has recently proposed drastic changes to cultural funding.
These changes will directly endanger the JvE and other Dutch
post-academic institutions.
Please support the campaign to defend the JvE by sending an email to
<
janvaneyck-adefendablespace@janvaneyck.nl
Comments can be read at <
janvaneyck-adefendablespace.tumblr.com>
For more information about the innovative activities of the JvE, see
http://www.janvaneyck.nl
Finance Documentaries
Finance Documentaries is the go-to website for watching finance
documentaries on the net. Already we have over 45 finance documentaries
listed on the website, and we are actively growing that number with
plenty of new interesting and insightful documentaries. Whether you are
interested in investment banking, trading, hedge funds, private equity,
the financial crisis, banking reform, central banking, or even
eco-investing, there is a documentary here for you to watch.
Petition: Make Wall Street
Pay
Sign a petition to the president
HERE to make Wall Street Pay for the
crisis. started by US Solidarity Economy Network. Also,
check out this somewhat spontaneous performance during a discussion of
the documentary
Inside Job at Wellesley College.
Video
Petition: American Economic
Association Double-Anonymous Reviewing
The American Economic Association (AEA) has announced that, as of
July 1, 2011, it will institute single anonymous
(“single-blind”) reviewing for the twenty-seven journals it
produces. In single-anonymous reviewing, referees will know the
identities of authors, but authors will not know the identities of
reviewers.There is evidence to suggest that double-anonymous
(“double-blind”) reviewing helps women, minorities,
scholars from other countries, and junior scholars and improves the
quality of papers accepted. Double-anonymous reviewing has been
established as a norm among journals worldwide to promote peer review
systems that adhere as much as possible to ideals of fairness and
impartiality.
For further information, please contact this same email address.
The following have already signed this petition:
George Akerlof, University of California, Berkeley
Kenneth Arrow, Stanford University
Barbara R. Bergmann, University of Maryland and American
University
Marianne A. Ferber, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Heidi Hartmann, Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Myra H. Strober, Stanford University
World Economics Association:
Update
The introduction of the WEA was a resounding success as over
3,500 members from 110 contries registered in one week (see press
release
HERE). Currently, there are over
4,800 members from 120+ countries.
Read an article about the WEA's
Assault on the Establishment
by Olaf Storbeck posted at the Real-World Economics Reveiw Blog
Here.
The launch of the WEA is now entering it second phase. We are asking
for you to help by spreading the word through your organization’s
email list and website. Here are some basic facts.
Membership in the WEA is free and quick. To join go to http://worldeconomicsassociation.org/index.php
and enter name, country and email address.
The WEA welcomes as members, non-economists interested in economics and
its relationship with their own field of interest.
Here
is the WEA Manifesto.
Here
is the list of Founding Members.
The WEA will initially publish online three quarterly journals and host
online conferences. Online subscriptions are free to members (a fee
will be charged for print copies). The anticipated size of the
WEA’s membership means that its journals will have one of the
largest readerships of any in the world. These journals and their
editorial boards are listed below.
The WEA is registered as a Community Interest Company in the UK, a
not-for- profit institution. It has no institutional or major private
donors behind it. Instead it relies on small donations from its members.
We hope that you will spread some of this information through your
network. Any help you can give will be much appreciated by many people.
Sincerely,
Edward Fullbrook
organizer
Videos of the conference
"The Future of Global Governance"
Now available on our website: http://www.yorku.ca/lefutur/.
The conference was held at York University, Toronto on 25 May 2011,
featuring the following speakers:
- Isabella Bakker, Professor of Political Science at York
University, Toronto.
- Upendra Baxi, Emeritus Professor of Law in Development,
University of Warwick.
- Janine Brodie, Canada Research Chair in Political Economy and
Social Governance at the University of Alberta.
- Claire Cutler, Professor of International Relations and
International Law at the University of Victoria.
- Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor Emeritus of
International Law at Princeton University.
- Stephen Gill, Distinguished Research Professor of Political
Science, Communication and Culture at York University.
- Patrick J. Monahan, Vice-President Academic and Provost of York
University.
- Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia
University.
- Mamdouh Shoukri, President and Vice-Chancellor of York
University.
- Scott Sinclair, Senior Research Fellow with the Canadian Centre
for Policy Alternatives, Ottawa.
