Editors'
Note
We live in interesting times…
Last week a group of Harvard
students walked out of Greg Mankiw’s economics course in
protest against a perceived conservative bias and lack of alternative
explanations. What strikes me [TS] about this incident is the fact that
first-year students are aware there are alternatives to the mainstream.
Also, last week, Paul Krugman penned an editorial about how the
“Blogosphere” has created an atmosphere where anyone and
everyone can engage in economic thought, whereas previously one had to
have a particular pedigree from a prestigious academic department as
entrée into the club. By the way, Krugman does say this is a
good thing.
These events stimulate me to reiterate a point I made in this space
about a year and a half ago, the need for heterodox economists to
become more engaged in the electronic public arena. Certainly leading
heterodox economists are gaining more access to mainstream media (see the group that Sen. Bernie
Sanders brought together to help reform the Fed), and they are engaging
in debates with leading mainstream economists (like Krugman) in the
blogosphere, but there is another level of discussion that needs to
take place—we need to go deeper.
I haunt a few political web sites where I find myself constantly
engaged in debates with conservative posters. One thing I’ve
noticed over the past several years is the growing popularity of
Libertarian/Austrian views. Even the mainstream media talk of a renewal
of the Keynes-Hayek debate. Somehow the Austrians have been aggressive
at getting their message out to the public, and not at the top of the
media chain either; rather, they seem to have a bottom up internet
strategy—the internet IS a powerful media tool. While we need to
continue to get our message out via mainstream media outlets, we also
need to engage the public in these same public internet spaces. We all
don’t have to blog, but we all should connect and debate online.
People are searching for alternatives; the students at Harvard want
alternatives; OWS is looking for alternatives (btw, please see URPE's request about participation at
OWS). Heterodox economics IS the economics of the 99%; it’s
as simple as that.
In solidarity,
Tae-Hee Jo and Ted Schmidt, Editors
Email: heterodoxnews@gmail.com
Website: http://heterodoxnews.com
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AFIT Seventh 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:
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$300 prize
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One year student membership in AFIT
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Paid WSSA Conference Registration
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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:
Daniel A. Underwood
Professor, Economics & Environmental Science
Peninsula College
1502 East Lauridsen Blvd.
Port Angeles, WA 98362
USA
Winners will be notified by 1/15/12.
For more information about AFIT, visit our
website.
Comparison, Analysis,
Critique: Perspectives on the Diversity of Contemporary Capitalism(s)
10-11 February 2012 | Goethe University
Frankfurt
The observation that there is significant diversity within
capitalism is an old one, but recently it has been mostly associated
with the so-called comparative capitalisms, notably the Varieties of
Capitalism literatures. These institutionalist perspectives on
capitalist diversity have acquired a hegemonic status within
comparative political economy research in and after the 2000s. In
contrast, the critical political economy literature helped contribute
to its own marginalisation in this field by neglecting the rich history
of scholarship on historically and geographically specific forms of
capitalism. It is against this background that this project seeks to
engage with comparative capitalisms research from a series of
alternative perspectives rooted in the broad and pluralistic field of
critical political economy. Through this we also hope to strengthen and
improve the dialogue between critical political economy scholars from
different disciplinary, philosophical and geographical traditions.
With the support of the Assoziation für kritische
Gesellschaftsforschung and the International Political Economy working
group of the British International Studies Association we will hold a
conference at Goethe University Frankfurt from 10-11 February 2012. The
proceedings of the event will feed into two publications: a
German-language volume to be published in autumn 2012 with Verlag
Westfälisches Dampfboot ; and a special issue of a peer-reviewed
English-language journal in 2013. The two publications will be oriented
to tackling most effectively the gaps and omissions in German- and
English-language scholarship on the topic, respectively.
Perspectives from which interventions could be framed include
critical institutionalism, regulation theory, materialist state theory,
structural Marxism, feminist political economy, transnational
historical materialism, dependency and world systems approaches,
postcolonial studies, critical geography, uneven and combined
development. This list is not exhaustive, however, and we seek
contributions from scholars with an interest in critical political
economy research, whatever their paradigmatic background and
disciplinary affiliation (sociology, political science, economics,
geography, anthropology, ethnology, development studies, area studies,
history, etc.). Moreover, we invite both junior and senior researchers
to contribute. Given the nature of the intervention that we seek to
make, we expect participants to be committed to completing a full paper
shortly after the conference.
Proposals of about 400 words , outlining the central
theoretical-conceptual arguments and empirical support, should be sent
to the organisers of the Frankfurt event under
ian.bruff@manchester.ac.uk,
m.ebenau@qmul.ac.uk, and
a.noekle@soz.uni-frankfurt.de,
by Friday 11 November 2011 at the latest. A decision on the proposals
will be made by Wednesday 23 November. Papers presented can be in
English or German and will be translated if necessary for their
inclusion in either or both of the publications.
Best wishes,
Ian Bruff (University of Manchester),
Matthias Ebenau (Queen Mary, University of London), and
Andreas Nölke (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt)
Critical
Labour Studies: 8th Symposium 2012
18th-19th February 2012 | The University
of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK
The Fire Station, £30 to attend, includes parking, lunch
and coffee
Call for papers and sessions still open.
It is clear to researchers and activists, both in the trade union
movement and universities, that global capitalism is increasingly
shaping the worlds of work and employment. The imposition of this
neo-liberal orthodoxy has many profound implications, not least that
states seek to both de-legitimise workers' opposition and marginalise
their organisations. However, just as capitalism has embraced
neo-liberal strategies, there has emerged a new politics of resistance
that is varied and diverse, embracing: trade union and socialist
organisations, green and ecological protest movements, anti-war
activists, feminists, human rights campaigners and NGOs. It is against
this background that the Critical Labour Studies (CLS) symposium has
aimed to bring together researchers and activists to discuss key
features of work and employment from a radical and labour-focused
perspective. We recognise that while left academic researchers
participate in the usual round of mainstream conferences, the scope for
focused radical debate around these themes is actually quite limited.
Through CLS we have developed an open working group and discussion
forum that engages with many of the challenges facing researchers and
trade unionists within the current environment of work and employment.
By 'labour', we anticipate, in the traditions of radical researchers
over the ages, a broad understanding of social, economic and political
agendas. To date, themes have included: race, identity and organising
migrant workers, global unionism and organising internationally, the
new politics of production, privatisation, outsourcing and offshoring,
restructuring and alternative/inclusive research methodologies. The
list of themes and questions that concern us continues to develop over
time, and the intention will be to reflect this evolving agenda at this
year's symposium. An ancillary objective is to engage in
genuinely critical debate, rescuing this term from its co-option by
mainstream agendas.
Building on the successes of the past six years, the forthcoming
symposium will be structured as a series of plenary sessions. Each will
be organised around a particular theme with speakers and discussants,
followed by a broad discussion. It has been an important principle of
CLS that the conference is not based on the convention of academic
conferences with specific papers being presented in separate streams.
Rather our intention has been to deepen discussion and debate, and to
bring together researchers and labour/ union movement activists (where
possible) in joint sessions. All sessions are genuinely open and
inclusive and involve a broad range of participants, from established
academics to early-career researchers, and from established trade union
officials to shop-floor representatives and grass-roots activists. The
distinctive organising principles of CLS are, therefore, to assist
unions and workers in dealing with the challenges faced in the
neo-liberal world of work and employment. Ultimately, discussion of
strategies and tactics are related
to the broader aim of creating a socialist society.
This event is supported by Historical Materialism, Capital and
Class, and the BUIRA Marxist Study Group
History of
Economics Society 2012 Annual Conference
June 22-25, 2012 | Brock University, St.
Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Please join us, and take part in the historical contemplation of
economic thought and action.
To propose a paper: Please send a title, a paper abstract (not longer
than 200 words), and the name of at least one other scholar whom you
have contacted to propose as a discussant, to <HES2012@brocku.ca> by February
17, 2012.
To propose a session: For each paper, send a title, an abstract, and
the names of at least two other scholars you have contacted to put
together a focused session (either as presenters or discussants), to
<HES2012@brocku.ca> by
February 17, 2012.
Papers chosen for the conference should be submitted by May 25 to be
made available on the conference website.
The HES provides special support for a limited number of Samuels
Young Scholars [YS] to present papers at the conference, by
providing free registration, banquet ticket, a year's membership in the
Society, and a subsidy for travel and accommodation costs. If you wish
to have your paper considered for the Young Scholar program, please
provide details about the date of your last degree along with your
abstract, and indicate that you wish to beconsidered for the YS
Program. A Young Scholar must currently be a PhD candidate, or have
been awarded the PhD in the 2 years preceding the conference. The
deadline for application is February 17, 2012.
Historical Materialism
Conference 2012
May 11-13, 2012 | York University,
Toronto
“SPACES OF CAPITAL, SPACES OF
RESISTANCE”
Following on the successes of the two previous North American
Historical Materialism Conferences at York University (2008 and 2010),
we are pleased to issue a call for papers for our third conference. In
light of the continuing instability of global capitalism and the
mounting resistances from Egypt to the Occupy Movement, our over-riding
theme will be “Spaces of Capital, Spaces of Resistance.”
But we welcome all contributions that contribute to critical knowledge
on the activist and scholarly Left and the development of historical
materialism as a living research program. We specifically welcome
papers dealing with:
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The Spaces of Power;
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Critical Theory and the Politics of Liberation;
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Capital and its Discontents;
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Modes and Movements of Resistance.
We welcome individual submissions as well as panel proposals. For
individual papers, please send an abstract of no more than 250 words.
Panel organizers should submit a 100-word panel abstract along with
individual paper abstracts of no more than 250-words for each paper to
be presented as part of the panel. We will formulate the conference
itinerary based upon the broad themes generated through the submission
process. Proposals will be accepted until January 15, 2012 by email to
historicalmaterialism12@gmail.com
We apologize, but cannot accommodate requests to present on
specific days, so please be prepared to attend the full three days of
the conference.
In the Same
Boat? Shipbuilding and ship repair workers: a global labour history
(1950-2010)
This project intends to study shipbuilding labour around the
world from World War II until the present from a global history
perspective. We will track the relocation of production and analyse its
consequences to workforces in Europe, North and South America, and in
East Asia from the 1980s onwards.
We are still missing overviews for Japan, the Netherlands,
France, USA, and Norway. Please read
the project
description carefully, and also take note of the framework
document, according to which all national overviews will be written. We
welcome one more overview from South Korea and also one from China.
However, the call for papers is open to researchers from all around the
world.
Mark Blaug Prize in
Philosophy and Economics
The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics invites
submissions for the 2011 Mark Blaug Prize from Young Scholars on the
methodology, history, and ethics of economics. The prize includes a
cash sum of 500 Euros. For more information visit
http://ejpe.org/mark-blaug-prize/
International Journal of
Pluralism and Economics Education
A forthcoming special issue on
the theme:
"Implementing a New Financial and
Economics Education Curriculum After the Crisis: A Call for Action"
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Deadline for full papers: May 1, 2012
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Decisions announced: July 1, 2012
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Final version of full papers due by: August 30, 2012
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Publication date: September 2012 in Vol. III, No. 3 of the
IJPEE
Guest Editors for this issue:
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Sergio Rossi, Department of Economics, University of
Fribourg, Boulevard de Pérolles 90, CH-1700 Fribourg,
Switzerland, E-mail:
sergio.rossi@unifr.ch
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Rationale for the Special Issue:
Our profession has much to learn from the financial crisis. What
we learn and how we learn it will determine how we move forward in
making the world more humane and equitable. Economics education must
change in order to make economics useful once again in solving the
world’s economic problems. What will a new curriculum look like?
The International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education
invites papers (approximate length 6000 words) on implementing a new
financial and economics education curriculum. The objective of this
IJPEE special issue is to provide educators and policy makers with
specific suggestions on implementing curriculum reform. While the
preponderant focus is at the university level, we also invite papers
that discuss economics education at the secondary level. More
specifically, but not exclusively, we invite papers along the following
themes:
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Specific suggestions to implement a new financial and
economics education curriculum including revisions to existing courses
and/or new courses, along with relevant readings and syllabis.
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Specific suggestions for new pedagogical techniques.
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What lessons can the past teach us in developing a new
curriculum?
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How can history of economic thought suggest reforms for the
curriculum?
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What is the role of pluralism in the new economics
curriculum?
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Will curriculum reform vary by culture and geographical
region?
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Can dialoguing between the social sciences improve the
economics curriculum?
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Have other social sciences improved their curriculum as a
result of the crisis?
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Specific discussion of the failure of the current curriculum.
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What elements of the current curriculum are worth saving?
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Suggestions for reforming the secondary economics education
curriculum.
Interested authors are most welcome to direct queries to the
Guest Editors. Early submissions are most welcome. Authors should
submit their manuscripts to the Guest Editors in Word format and
according to the style guidelines available at
http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=31.
Call for Event Proposals:
International Political Economy Group
Dear Political Economy/International Political Economy scholars,
I will be submitting the annual request for BISA funding for the
International Political Economy Group (IPEG) of British International
Studies Association (BISA) http://www.bisa-ipeg.org/
by the 5th December, in my role as the IPEG Convener.
I am writing now to invite proposals for workshops/conferences/events
that fall within the following themes, for consideration for inclusion
in my funding proposal to BISA.
I am particularly interested in proposals that encourage PhD and early
career research, and/or events proposed around the following themes as
led by PhD researchers, and early career researchers.
Themes: (please ensure these are explicitly put into an IPE/GPE context)
- Gender issues
- Methods/research
- Health
- Technology
- (other themes, with justification for inclusion i.e. perceived
gap in IPE/political economy literature)
Please send me proposals that include:
- Organiser name(s) and affiliation(s)
- Likely date(s)
- Potential contributors
- Location
- Conference/workshop/event title and theme (an abstract/summary)
I will circulate proposals to anonymous readers if I receive more than
a handful.
Looking forward to these. The deadline is Tuesday 28th November. Any
incomplete versions sent to me may not be considered, and any
incomplete versions sent after that date will definitely not be
considered.
Many thanks, Phoebe.
Dr. Phoebe V. Moore-Carter
p.moore@salford.ac.uk
Lecturer in International Relations & International Political
Economy
Programme Leader, MA in International Relations and Globalisation
(MAIRG)
MAIRG coursefinder http://www.salford.ac.uk/courses/international-relations-and-globalisation?mode=ov
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Profile http://www.espach.salford.ac.uk/page/Phoebe_Moore
http://www.seek.salford.ac.uk/profiles/PMOORE.jsp
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One Hundred
Years of Theory of Economic Development, Joseph Alois Schumpeter
November 24, 2011 | UNAM, Mexico
Mexico National University Faculty of Economics invites the
community of scholars and students from different higher education
institutions and all stakeholders to participate in the conference that
will take place on November 24, 2011 at the premises of the Faculty of
Economics at UNAM. This event aims to celebrate the centenary of
the publication of the book Unfolding Theory by Joseph Alois Schumpeter
Económicoescrita and disseminate the various developments and
insights that have arisen around his work. Stakeholders are
invited to submit papers to the main theme of the title of this
event.
The deadline for receiving documents is the day November 17,
2011. We would appreciate to send their proposals with regard to:
Event Coordinators
Dr. Gustavo Vargas Sánchez Treviño
Panel/Stream
Proposal for AHE/FAPE/IIPPE Conference 2012
Economics: Unfit for Purpose
July 5-8th, 2012 | Paris
The current crisis and recession have cruelly exposed the
inadequacies of mainstream economics in all of its versions to a wide
and, at times, incredulous audience. Yet, there is very little sign
that significant changes are underway within the mainstream to
acknowledge let alone to take account of its continuing inadequacies.
Indeed, it is such a lack of critical introspection and capacity to
confront external realities that have marked the discipline over the
period of neoliberalism and beyond. Whilst such inadequacies have long
been recognised, criticised and, to a large extent, addressed by
heterodox economists, the latter continue to be marginalised within the
discipline. Nonetheless, the current circumstances offer a timely
occasion on which to revisit the nature of the mainstream and to argue
for alternatives, not least for the new generations of students and
scholars who will be informed by the huge gap between the concerns of
the discipline and the nature of its object of enquiry, the economy.
In this vein, we call for submissions under the general theme of
"Unfit for Purpose", especially seeking contributions that deal with
the main fields or methods of economics but without wishing to exclude
more specialised topics. Ideally, contributions should explain how and
why the discipline became the way it is, what is wrong with it, and
what are the alternatives. Abstracts should be submitted to Ben Fine (
bf@soas.ac.uk) and Dimitris Milonakis (
milonakis@econ.soc.uoc.gr)
by end of January, 2012, but preferably earlier. For conference details
visit
here.
URPE at Left Forum
Those of you who made it to last year's Left Forum know it was an
exciting and motivating event. Those who didn't (and also those who
did) should think about if they might come to 2012's Left Forum. You
can see more information about the Left Forum at their Website, www.leftforum.org.
This is a first call for people to propose or begin to think about
forming panels for URPE at the Left Forum. The only information out now
is that it will be on March 16 - 18, 2012, and again as it has been in
recent years, at Pace. The final deadline for panels is listed as
January 6, but it helps the organizers if we can submit panels by
December or even late November. So please start to think about this if
you might be interested, and contact any of the 4 of us from URPE
working on this if you have any questions, or if there is anything we
can assist you with in organizing and building some panel you would
like to see happen and take part in.
In solidarity,
4th Latin American and
European Meeting on Organization Studies
March 27-30, 2012 | Axixic, Mexico
Interweaving Organizations and
Institutions: Challenges of Participation, Cooperation and Governance
The 4th LAEMOS meeting invites you to submit proposals to discuss
different topics on organization studies related to the general theme
of ‘Interweaving Organizations and Institutions’ and other
topics of the long-term EGOS and LAEMOS research agendas.
Organizations are central actors in the design, application and
defense of social rule systems in terms of their internal arrangements
and also in terms of the interactions with the environment, taking
stances that can promote or hinder necessary institutional change. At
the same time organizations are institutions as rule systems that are
adapted continuously to the changes in their environment. In that
sense, we talk about ‘Interweaving Organizations and
Institutions’.
Nowadays many organizations encounter a growing need to relate
themselves simultaneously to different environments that are changing
rapidly. Multiple efforts to connect and integrate different
organizational spaces distributed in diverse institutional environments
emerge from new forms of participation, cooperation and governance.
These dynamics evolve along existing and changing institutional
frameworks and arrangements that guide the individual and collective
actors with sets of internal and external rules often only partially
compatible.
Depending on the specific institutional textures, the process of
organizational integration is usually complex in terms of definition,
membership and co-ordination. New patterns of engagement, activism and
mobilization are leading to new forms of participation and governance
in organizations and new forms of relationship with their environment.
Although in many cases we can also observe how power asymmetries and
the lack of clear conditions for participation lead to the growth of
fragile varieties of organization that contribute to the persistence of
rigid, dysfunctional and hostile institutional settings.
The analysis of these processes can be put forward taking into
account many different lines and streams of research, as expressed in
the following list of sub-themes with its corresponding convenors:
- National institutions and cross-border organisations (Ludger
Pries, Alejandro Mercado, Martina Maletzky, Martin Seeliger)
- The politicised multinational company: the role of actors and
institutions (Mike Geppert, Karen Williams, Cathrine Filstad, Otavio
Rezende)
- Reinventing the university: challenges beyond the neoliberal
reforms (Eduardo Ibarra-Colado, Luis Porter, Angélica
Buendía)
- International organizations within the framework of organization
studies (David Arellano, Laura Zamudio)
- Communities and entrepreneurship: local processes of innovation
and contest (Ignasi Martí, Saulo Dubard Barbosa, Bernard Leca)
- Regulation and public sector reform. Organizational
implications. (Jorge Culebro, Per Lagraeid)
- Institutional arrangements for collective public action (Claudia
Santizo, Lourdes Amaya)
- Knowledge management in public research organizations
(José Luis Sampedro, Claudia Díaz, Marco Jaso, Federico
Stezano)
- Social Appropiation of knowledge and technology transfer
(Adriana Martínez)
- Humanism in institutions and organizations (Oliver Kozlarek)
- Institution(s) and organization(s). A complicated coexistence.
(Gerardo Romo, Rigoberto Soria)
- Institutionalizing participation: stakeholders and beyond
- Informality in organizations, markets and society
- The impact of violence on governance and organizational
development
The general purpose of this Meeting is to strengthen the LAEMOS
philosophy of open discussion of diverse problems of organization with
a specific reference to the interconnectedness of Latin American and
European societies. The general theme of the Meeting pretends to focus
on some aspects of this general objective through a wide variety of
theoretical and empirical contributions to the analysis of the shared
problems of local, regional, national, international, global and
transnational developments.
We invite you to submit your abstract for LAEMOS 2012
electronically to
www.laemos2012.org until
October 31st. Each submission should specify one of the outlined
sub-themes. We will also accept abstracts without a specification of
sub-themes that will be selected and regrouped in additional
sub-themes.
Deadlines
Abstract submission (max 1,000 words): October 31st, 2011
Notification of acceptance: November 30th, 2011
Submission of full paper (max 6,000 words): February 28th, 2012
Registration: from December 1st, 2011
Fees
General registration fee
Students 60 euros / 1080 pesos
Professors Researchers 120 euros / 2160 pesos
Public 180 euros / 3240 pesos
General registration fee (early registration before february 1st)
Students 50 euros / 900 pesos
Professors Researchers 100 euros / 1800 pesos
Public 150 euros / 2700 pesos
Registration fees include:
- Participation in all work sessions
- Program sheets
- Summary Book and CD-ROM with all the papers presented
- Participation and paper presentation certificates, when
applicable
Additional fees: Conference dinner
Axixic means "The place where water splashes" in the Aztec
language Nahuatl. It is a picturesque small town located in a beautiful
landscape just outside the metropolitan area of Guadalajara on the Lake
of Chapala, which is with an extension of almost 100 km one of the
biggest lakes in Mexico. Axixic combines rural tranquility with the
proximity of Guadalajara as one of the vibrating urban centers of
contemporary Mexico, and its prehispanic history with the presence of a
large community of immigrants with diverse backgrounds that have
participated actively to create new forms of social organization.
Besides its natural and cultural treasures, it is the sense of
coexistence of local and global worlds that makes Axixic a very special
place for LAEMOS 2012.
For additional information on LAEMOS 2012, also on pre-conference
initiatives like the EGOS workshop for PhD students and early career
scholars, please check the web page (
www.laemos2012.org) or contact
the organizers at
info@laemos2012.org.
Organizing committee:
- Bruno Gandlgruber (UAM, Mexico, general coordination)
- Lourdes Brindis (UAM, Mexico, secretary)
- Gerardo Romo (UdG, Mexico)
- Lourdes Amaya (UAM, Mexico)
- Angélica Buendía (UAM, Mexico)
- Jorge Culebro (UAM, Mexico)
- Claudia Díaz (UAM, Mexico)
- Marco Jaso (UAM, Mexico)
- José Luis Sampedro (UAM, Mexico)
- Federico Stezano (UAM, Mexico)
- Alejandro Vega (UAM, Mexico)
Scientific committee
- David Arellano
- Nils Brunsson
- Alex Faria
- Mike Geppert
- Eduardo Ibarra-Colado
- Oliver Kozlarek
- Per Lagraeid
- Fernando Leal
- Ignasi Martí
- Renate Meyer
- Gerardo Patriotta
- Ludger Pries
- Claudia Santizo
- Silviya Svejenova
- Eero Vaara
4th
Standing Group Biennial Conference New Perspectives on Regulation,
Governance and Learning
27-29 June 2012 | University of Exeter, UK
Deadline for paper and panel proposals: 21 November 2011
We would like to invite proposals for panels or individual papers
for the 2012 Conference of the Standing Group, to be held at the
University of Exeter. The biennial conference is the main
interdisciplinary academic conference on regulation. Conference
highlights include the Giandomenico Majone Prize for the best
conference paper by a junior member of the profession (
http://regulation.upf.edu/index.php?id=giandomenico_majone_prize),
as well as specialist panels, guest speakers and keynote lectures.
We are interested in receiving proposals relating to any aspect
of the field of regulatory studies. Our main interest is to promote
high-quality research, rigorous research regardless of methodological
approach. We welcome proposals from accounting, anthropology,
economics, law, organizational studies, political theory, public policy
analysis, political science and sociology as well as interdisciplinary
proposals. We are seeking both theoretical-conceptual-critical papers
on regulation (as mode of governance, type of policy, legal instrument,
pattern of political conflict, and constitutional choice) and
substantive contributions covering topics such as independent
regulatory agencies, the regulation of risk, climate change and
sustainability, regulatory innovations, and regulation in specific
sectors of policy. Proposals on multi-level regulation and diffusion
are also welcome. We are flagging up the topic of learning in the title
of the conference both in relation to the progress made across social
science disciplines on understanding and measuring learning and because
there is an objective need to learn in an age of austerity. The costs
and benefits of regulation are particularly important in years of
budgetary contractions, but so are the wider effects of regulation on
trust, behavior, human rights and distribution. Panel and Paper
proposals pls use the online forms at
http://www.exeter.ac.uk/reggov2012/
If you are proposing a paper, please submit an abstract of no
more than 200 words using the online form. If you are proposing a full
panel please note that all proposed panels should have a minimum of
three papers and a maximum of five, plus an (optional) discussant. All
panel proposals should be completed using the online form, including an
abstract for each paper. The conference will be hosted by the
Department of Politics and the Centre for European Governance(
http://centres.exeter.ac.uk/ceg/)
at the University of Exeter.
The deadline for paper and panel proposals is Monday, 21 November
2011.
Exeter Academic Conveners: Claudio Radaelli, Director, Centre for
European Governance and Department of Politics; Claire Dunlop, Centre
for European Governance and Department of Politics; John Dupré,
Egenis ESRC CentreAlison Harcourt, Centre for European Governance and
Department of Politics; Christos Kotsogiannis, Centre for European
Governance and Business School; Leone Niglia, Centre for European
Governance and School of Law
Further information on the ECPR Standing Group on Regulation
& Governance and the Standing Group’ Steering Committee can
be obtained at
http://regulation.upf.edu/.
15th SCEME
Seminar in Economic Methodology
12 -13 September, 2012 | Tilton House,
Sussex, UK
A Europe starving and
disintegrating before their eyes: Reappraising Keynes's Economic
Consequences of the Peace
The Scottish Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME) in
association with the Post Keynesian Economics
Study Group (PKSG) and Brighton Business School would like to
invite proposals for contributions to the
fifteenth seminar in the methodology of economics series.
Topic
Almost a century ago, the Treaty of Versailles marked a new
departure in international relations by instituting
the League of Nations as the first intergovernmental body
explicitly dedicated to peace and stability. At the
same time, the Treaty has remained one of the most controversial
intergovernmental agreements in history.
Keynes, as the principal representative of the British Treasury
at the negotiations, famously resigned from
the delegation, retiring to Cambridge to write arguably the most
eloquent contemporary critique of the Treaty.
The Economic Consequences of the Peace became a best-seller
virtually overnight and remains a lynch pin
in the secondary literature on the significance of Versailles in
the build up to the Second World War. Equally,
Keynes's Consequences have remained a powerful testament to his
idiosyncratic prose and its influence.
Seminar contributions are welcome from any perspective shedding
light on The Economic Consequences of
the Peace and its reception and impact, both from a historical
and methodological perspective.
Organisation
The two-day seminar (Wednesday afternoon to Thursday evening)
will take place in Tilton House, Keynes's
former country home, and Charleston Farmhouse, country residence
of the Bloomsbury circle where Keynes
wrote the Consequences. The attendance fee (which includes
accommodation and catering) will be in the
order of £300.00.
Submit a proposal:
Proposals should take the form of a one-page outline of the
intended contribution, and should be sent,
21st IAFFE Annual Conference
27-29 June, 2012 | Facultat de Geografia i Història Universitat
de Barcelona, Spain
Human Well-being for the 21st
Century: Weaving Alliances from Feminist Economics
The 2012 IAFFE conference theme, "Human Well-Being for the 21st
Century: Weaving Alliances from Feminist Economics", will be conducive
to discussions on the effects of the global crisis as well as policy,
action and alliances from a feminist economics perspective. In addition
to regular presentations, we invite everyone to organize sessions and
present papers analyzing the multiple aspects of the crisis and to
shape feminist responses to the challenging questions facing the world
today.
Submissions: Proposals must be submitted on-line via the
IAFFE website. Submissions can be made for panels or individual papers.
Participants are limited to one formal paper presentation and one panel
discussion. Additional co-authored papers are allowed so long as they
are presented by the other co-author. Please see the
IAFFE website for detailed
submission guidelines, as well as the limits for individual
participation in panels and paper presentations.
Deadline for Submission: The deadline for submissions is
February 1, 2012. Acceptances announced by early March.
Conference Site: The conference will be held at the
Facultat de Geografia i Història, Universitat de Barcelona,
Barcelona, Spain.
Travel Grants: Travel grants may be available; please see
the IAFFE website for updated information.
For more information visit us at
www.iaffe.org If you do not have
internet access, please contact IAFFE’s conference coordinator,
Brent Martin at 1.402.472.3372
25th HETSA
Conference
July 5-8, 2012 | Melbourne, Australia |
website
The Future of the History of Economic Thought
The History of Economic Thought Society of Australia will celebrate its
25th jubilee conference in Melbourne in July, 2012. Please note the
conference will take place from Thursday, 5 July till Saturday, 8 July
in the historic Royal Society of Victoria Building, 1-9 Victoria
Street, Melbourne. (It’s just a stone throw from where this year
conference, hosted by RMIT University, took place). For those
interested the 41ST Australian Conference of Economists starts on the
9TH July at Victoria University.
There are currently two Keynote speakers for our conference. Susan
Howson from the University of Toronto, and a member of the editorial
board of the History of Economics Review, will give a keynote address
on the writing of her magnificent biography on Lionel Robbins which has
just been published. Deirdre McCloskey, Distinguished professor of
economics at the University of Illinois in Chicago, will speak on
‘How ideology changed 1600-1848 and why it mattered’.
Next year’s conference will have a session on the education of
Australian economists and Max Corden, Joe Isaac and another honoured
guest will feature here. The theme of this year’s conference will
be ‘The Future of the History of Economic Thought’.
Consequently we hope to have as many young Australian-based HET
scholars to give papers on their research topics. In that regard please
avail your research students of this opportunity and the concessional
registration price.
The Royal Society of Victoria building is adjacent to Mantra on the
Park,
333 Exhibition Street,
Ph 03 96682500
They have rooms available to us at the following special rates for the
following nights July 4-7:
- One bedroom $179 per night
- Two Bedroom $299 per night
Note that the Conference is in the Melbourne CBD on the edge of
Carlton. Accommodation is plentiful and easy to get. Log onto
www.wotif.com where you will find a
quite good selection of hotels in every price range.
The conference dinner will take place on the Friday evening with a
guest speaker.
The welcoming cocktail reception will take place on Wednesday evening,
4 July at HETSA house, 84 St David Street, Fitzroy. This is my personal
residence.
- HETSA members: $300.00
- Non-members: $360.00
- HETSA members retired: $200.00
- Students: $150
Please contact me if you have any concerns or inquiries, and, most
particularly, regarding the submitting of abstracts for next
year’s conference. Further details will be on the web page at
HETSA.org.au
Alext Milmow,
A.millmow@ballarat.edu.au
34th Annual North American
Labor History Conference
October 18-20, 2012 | Wayne State
University Detroit, Michigan
INSURGENCY AND RESISTANCE
The Program Committee of the North American Labor History
Conference invites proposals for sessions, papers, and roundtables on
“Insurgency and Resistance” for our thirty-fourth annual
meeting. Throughout history, workers have engaged in insurgency and
resistance from factories to fields, from plantations to plants, from
mines to mills, and in cities and in the countryside. Power and
authority have been contested on a variety of terrains, both inside and
outside of traditional labor structures. More recently, conflicts have
erupted in Latin America, the Arab world, southern Europe, China, and
across North America.
The program committee encourages submissions from international,
comparative, and interdisciplinary perspectives. We welcome the
integration of public historians with community and labor activists,
using a variety of formats (workshops, roundtable discussions, book
talks, and multimedia presentations). We encourage thematic sessions
that cross borders, both disciplinary and geographical, especially
those dealing with race, gender, class, and empire.
Please submit papers and panel proposals (including a 1 paragraph
abstract and a brief vita or biographical statement for all
participants) by March 23, 2012, to:
Professor Francis Shor, Coordinator
North American Labor History
Conference
Department of History
Wayne State University
3094 Faculty Administration Building
Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: 313-577-2525; Fax: 313-577-6987
Call for Participants
Business as usual? The
global economic and environmental crisis: practical and educational
responses
An Interconnections Panel Discussion
Thursday, 17 November, 17:30 to 19:30, Lord
Ashcroft Building (LAB 307), Anglia Ruskin University, UK
Speakers: David Arkell, Dr Bronwen Rees, Ed
Bentham, Dr Ioana Negru, Dr Jack Reardon
As our planet plunges into economic and environmental crisis, how can
our business and educational institutions respond? It is clear that the
usual solutions are at best no longer working, at worst contributing to
the crisis.
This panel discussion introduces the work of those people who are
seeking transformation in education and business throughout the globe.
It provides and opportunity for public interdisciplinary and
practitioner forum for those of us seeking to take responsibility for
transforming ourselves and working towards the long-term sustainability
of the planet.
The panel discussion is open to all staff and students from all
disciplines. There is no need to book in advance, but places are
allocated on a first come, first served basis.
For further information please get in touch with Dr Bronwen Rees.
Cambridge Realist Workshops
Date: Monday November 14,
Stuart Birks (Massey University, New Zealand): Economic Theory:
Consistentcy and Rhetoric
Date: Monday November 28,
Speaker: Ha-Joon Chan (Cambridge): Institutions and Economic
Devopment: Theory, History and Policy
For more information go to:
or, for those who have access:
Day in honor of Gilles Dostaler
Saturday, November 26,
2011
The laboratory PHARE
(Pole History of Economic Analysis and Representations), University of Paris
1, and the Journal
of Political Economy -
Papers in Political Economy, organized with the LED (Dionysian Economics
Laboratory), University of Paris 8 Saint Denis, the LEREPS (Laboratory for Studies and Research on Economics,
Policy and social Systems),
University of Toulouse1, University
of Quebec at Montreal (UQAM),
the Association for the Development of Keynesian Studies (ADEK) Alternatives
Economiques Editions Albin
Michel and a day
in honor of Professor
Gilles Dostaler (UQAM Montreal) who passed away January 26.
This day will be held
Saturday, November 26 at
the Maison des Sciences Economiques (106-112 boulevard de l'Hôpital
75013, metro Campo Formio)
For organizational reasons
that everyone will
understand, we ask those attending to this day to RSVP as soon as possible
(no later than November 10,
and earlier if possible):
- First email catherine.martin@univ-paris1.fr
- the other by sending a
check for 10 euros in
the expenses of lunch and cocktails at the order of
Catherine Martin
at the following address: Catherine Martin, 72 rue Monge, 75005 Paris.
Program:
9h15-11h00
- Christian Tutin (Université Paris Est Créteil) :
« La fascination Hayek ? »
- Carlo Benetti (Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La
Défense) : « Objectivitéphysique et théorie
économique : Sraffa, Marx et Gilles Dostaler ».
- Jérôme de Boyer (Université Paris Dauphine)
: « L'étalon-or dans la pensée néoclassique
prékeynésienne.
- Cristina Marcuzzo (Université La Sapienza, Rome):
«From speculation to regulation: Keynes and primary commodity
markets. »
- Abel Brodeur (Ecole d’Economie de Paris) : « Malthus
et Keynes. »
11 h00-11h30 : pause café
11h30-13h00
- Michel Beaud (Université Paris 7) : « Gilles
Dostaler : une lecture. »
- Ramon Tortajada (Université Pierre Mendès France,
Grenoble) : « Lecture de Keynes par Dostaler. »
- Edwin Le Héron (IEP Bordeaux) : «Le regard de
Gilles Dostaler sur J.M. Keynes: une histoire de rouge.»
- Ghislain Deleplace (Université Paris 8) :
«L'enquête de Gilles Dostaler sur le Docteur Maynard et
Mister Keynes.
13 h00-14h30 : pause déjeuner (buffet sur place à la MSE)
14h30-16h30
- Gilles Bourque (UQAM Montréal) : « Le politique
dans l'oeuvre de Gilles Dostaler.»
- Fançois Morin (Université de Toulouse1) :
«En ligne de mire : le néolibéralisme. »
- Daniel Diatkine (Université d’Evry) : «
Gilles Dostaler et la pratique de l’histoire de la pensée
économique.»
- Stéphane Pallage (UQAM Montréal) : «Gilles
Dostaler, le collègue, l'homme, l'ami. »
- Christian Chavagneux (Alternatives Economiques) : «
Gilles, un collaborateur d’Alternatives Economiques.»
- Louis Bernard Robitaille (Journaliste - Ecrivain) : «
Gilles Dostaler, souvenirs des années de formation.»
- Catherine Martin (Université de Paris 1) : «Gilles
Dostaler et Bloomsbury. »
- Témoignages de collègues et d’amis qui ne
pourront être présents.
16h30-17h30 : Cocktail.
Demystifying the Economic
Crisis: An evening with Paul Mattick
Tuesday November 8th - 6pm | The New
School University, Lang Cafeteria - 65
West 11th Street (between 5th and 6th avenues), New York, NY 10011
Paul Mattick is author of Business as Usual: The Economic
Crisis and the Failure of Capitalism (2011)
To what do we owe the misery and economic hardship currently
sweeping the globe, giving birth to a number of social movements
including that of Occupy Wall Street? Reckless banks? Human greed?
Amoral politicians? Financial speculation? Partial answers at best,
bourgeois obscurities at worst. Come join in a discussion which seeks
to expand the discourse circulating throughout the current US
occupation movement.
Open to both New School students, faculty, and the general public.
Global
Health, Political Economy and Beyond
7th December 2011 | Department of
International Politics, City University, UK
Schedule:
13.30 – 13.45 Welcome
Sophie Harman and Anastasia Nesvetailova, City University
13.45 – 15.30: Global Health
- The Social Ineffectiveness of the Global Pharmaceutical System,
Valbona Muzaka, University of Southampton
- Entropic Failure, Global Health and the Limits of Philanthropy,
Linsey McGoey, University of Essex
Discussant:
Ronen Palan, University of Birmingham
15.45 – 17.30 Political Economy
- Trade, Aid, and Agriculture: Promoting Rural Development
in Swaziland, Ben Richardson, University of Warwick
- Trade in Health and Health in Trade: the Shifting Geopolitics of
Trade and its Implications for Health, James Scott, University of
Manchester
- Complex Social Networks in Global Health Policy: Patterns and
Effects, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, LSE
Discussant:
Stefan Elbe, University of Sussex
17.30 – 17.45 Wrap-up and Going forward
Sophie Harman and Anastasia Nesvetailova, City University
For more information and registration, contact:
Dr Sophie Harman, Senior Lecturer
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Department of International Politics
City University
Tel: 020 7040 4511
Labour
Market Evolution: The Challenges and Options for a 21st Century Economy
29 November | Whitlam Institute, Sydney,
Australia
On 29 November the Institute, in partnership with the University
of Western Sydney School of Economics and Finance, will be presenting
the half day symposium, Labour Market Evolution, at the
InterContinental Hotel, Sydney. The symposium offers the
opportunity to take a step back and consider ideas and options for
maintaining a strong labour market with a sustained commitment to full
employment that better balances the imperatives for economic growth and
equity, and address the notion of well-being as a goal of economic
policy.
Tuesday 29 November 2011
8:30am registration for a 9:00am start
Lunch concludes at 2:00pm
InterContinental Sydney, 117 Macquarie St
While awaiting final confirmation of our keynote speakers, we do
want to give you the opportunity to book your place. Those confirmed to
speak include:
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Sandra Parker, Deputy Secretary Employment, Department of
Education, Employment and Workplace Relations
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Professor Phil Lewis, Director, Centre for Labour Market
Research, University of Canberra
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Tim Lyons, Assistant Secretary, Australian Council of Trade
Unions
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Professor Phillip O'Neill, Director, Urban Research Centre,
University of Western Sydney
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Lisa Fowkes, Consultant working in workforce participation
and NFP management
We only have 70 places available, so do make sure you register
early. Individual tickets are $250.00 and Corporate tables of 8 are
$3000.
Bookings can be made through our
website
or by returning the registration form included below. If you require
any further information please just give me a call on 02 9685 9187 (DL
02 9685 9386).
I do hope you will be able to accept the invitation.
A lecture
series: The Moral and Social Order
A lecture series sponsored by the Templeton Project: God’s Order,
Man’s Order and the Order of Nature. In collaboration with the
LSE Choice Group
8 February 2012, CPNSS, 5.30pm
Professor Peyton Young, Department of Economics, Oxford: 'The Dynamics
of Social Innovation'
14 May 2012, 5.30pm
Professor Geoffrey Hodgson, Business School, University of
Hertfordshire: ‘What are Institutions?’
21 May 2012
Professor Garry Runciman, Trinity College, Cambridge: ‘The
Surprising Coherence of Human Institutions’
TBC
Professor Avishai Margalit, Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
Registration: R.Robinson1@lse.ac.uk
London Seminar on
Contemporary Marxist Theory
9th November, 6pm | King's College London, Strand
Campus, Room S-3.18
David McNally (York University, Toronto)
"Monsters of the Market.
Zombies, Vampires and Global Capitalism"
The global economic and financial crisis has witnessed a
deepening of interest in different forms of critical and radical
thought and practice. Following a successful series in 2010/11, the
London Seminar on Contemporary Marxist Theory in 2011/12 will continue
to explore the new perspectives that have been opened up by Marxist
interventions in this political and theoretical conjuncture. It
involves collaboration among Marxist scholars based in several London
universities, including Brunel University, King's College London, and
the School of Oriental and African Studies. Guest speakers - from both
Britain and abroad -will include a wide range of thinkers engaging with
many different elements of the various Marxist traditions, as well as
with diverse problems and topics. The aim of the seminar is to promote
fruitful debate and to contribute to the development of more robust
Marxist analysis. It is open to all.
Marxism and Education:
Renewing Dialogues XV
Saturday November 26th 2011 | Institute of
Education, University of London
Education, Crisis and Society
Speakers to include: Alex Callinicos and Dave Hill
A Day Seminar 10.30 – 4.30, Saturday November 26th 2011
Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way,
WC1, Committee Room 1
The seminar is free but places are limited. To reserve a place
contact Alpesh Maisuria at:
amaisuria@ioe.ac.uk
Convenors: Tony Green, Alpesh Maisuria
New agendas in social
movement studies
November 26th, 2011 | NUI Maynooth
This conference brings together 21 presenters from Ireland,
Britain, Italy, Belgium and the US working on movements ranging from
alternative food movements to the World Social Forum, from Shell to Sea
to SlutWalks and from Irish Ship to Gaza to children’s rights
advocacy. It showcases some of the best work in the field by new,
established and independent scholars alike. The conference seeks to
encourage real research which does not simply restate common
assumptions but tries to make real contributions to wider debates about
social movements, the thinking of movement practitioners, and public
understanding of the nature of society and democracy.
The keynote speaker, Dr Cristina Flesher Fominaya (University of
Aberdeen), has been researching and participating in European social
movements since the early 1990s. She has carried out research on
anti-globalisation networks, Spanish Green parties and the British
anti-roads movement, and is also known for her work on the politics of
memory around terrorist attacks such as 3/11 in Madrid and 9/11 in New
York. A founding editor of the social movement journal Interface
http://interfacejournal.net,
she is co-chair of the Council for European Studies’ European
Social Movements Research Network.
Practicalities
The conference is free and open to the public with no advance
booking required. Tea and coffee will be provided but participants
should bring their own lunch or buy it in Maynooth. We cannot organise
accommodation directly but there are various possible hostels, hotels
and B&Bs both in Maynooth and in Dublin. Registration is at the
conference from 9.30 on in the Auxilia Building, North Campus (see the
map at
http://www.nuim.ie/location/maps/NUIM-Map-booklet-v3.pdf
Auxilia is building #47 in the lower right corner).
Ralph Miliband and
Parliamentary Socialism
Friday 25th November 2011 | LSE, UK | website
This conference marks the 50th anniversary of Ralph
Miliband’s Parliamentary Socialism – a critique of the
Labour Party that shaped a generation of scholars and activists. The
book argues that Labour’s belief in the centrality of
parliamentary politics often undermined the very movements that were
needed to bring about real change. With protest on the rise, and Labour
seeking a new way forward, the conference aims to reassess
Miliband’s arguments and their contemporary relevance.
Conference Programme
Venue: Morishima Conference Room, 5th floor, Lionel Robbins
Building, LSE
1.00pm onwards Arrival
1.30-2.30pm The Argument and Its Impact
- Speaker: Tariq Ali (author and activist)
- Chair: Robin Archer (LSE, Sociology)
2.45-4.00pm Parliamentary and Extra-parliamentary Politics
- Speaker: Hilary Wainwright (Editor, Red Pepper)
- Discussant: Martin McIvor (Editor, Renewal)
4.15-5.30pm Labour and Capitalism
- Speaker: Robin Blackburn (Verso and Essex, Sociology)
- Discussant: Bob Hancke (LSE, European Institute)
Public Event
Venue: Hong Kong Theatre, Clement House, LSE
6.30-8.00pm Whatever Happened to Parliamentary Socialism? Taking
Ralph Miliband Seriously Today
- Speaker: Leo Panitch
- Chair: Robin Archer
Prof Panitch is a Canada Distinguished Research Professor in
Comparative Political Economy, editor of the Socialist Register, and
the author of numerous books and articles including The End of
Parliamentary Socialism and In and Out of Crisis. He wrote his PhD at
the LSE under the supervision of Ralph Miliband.
St Catherine's Political
Economy Seminars
Wednesday, 09 November, 2011 | Cambridge
University, UK
Photis Lysandrou, Professor of Global Political Economy, London
Metropolitan Business School. His current research interests include
the areas of global finance and the economics of the financial crisis.
His most recent paper, due to be published in the forthcoming winter
issue of the Journal of Post Keynesian Economics is on the primacy of
hedge funds in the subprime crisis.
The title of the seminar is: The Impossibility of Debt
Intolerance and the 90% Debt Threshold: A Critique of the UK Coalition
Government's Central Rationale for Fiscal Consolidation.
CEPN
Seminar Series
The task group “
Post-Keynesian
analyses and modeling” of the CEPN is happy to announce
the list of its seminars
4th Season, 2011-2012.th Season, 2011-2012 | Paris
- Friday, December 2nd: Tony Lawson (Cambridge U., UK)
- Friday, February 24th: Bernard Vallageas (Sceaux U., France)
- Friday, March 30th: Edwin Le Héron (Sciences Po Bordeaux,
France)
- Friday, April 13th : Gennaro Zezza (Cassino U., Italy)
- Friday, May 20th : Tom Stanley (Hendrix Coll., USA & L.S.E,
UK)
- Friday, June 8th : Mark Setterfield (Trinity Coll., USA)
- Friday, June 22nd : Marc Lavoie (Ottawa U., Canada)
The attendance to the seminars is free. Most of these seminars
will take place at the
MSH of Paris 13 and most
of them will be in English. Further information on the
CEPN's website and most of
them will be in English. You can also send an E-mail to the
coordinator:
lang.dany@univ-paris13.fr for
further information.
Interdisciplinary workshop
on the evolution of social norms
15-16 December 2011 | Henley-on-Thames,
Henley Business school, Greenland campus | website
The workshop will bring together researchers from academia and
industry to discuss theoretical (development, influence of attitudes,
etc.) and methodological issues (mathematical modelling of group
dynamics, actor-based modelling, social-network analysis) concerning
the evolution of social norms. The main objective of the workshop is to
help define the future research agenda exploring opportunities for
cross-disciplinary research in this field. Especially we would like to
define new problems in mathematics that can help tackle the research
questions emerged from social sciences. Furthermore we would like to
incite exchange between private sector R&D and academia mostly
learning more about medium and long term issues and methodologies
currently used from private sector participants and state-of-the-art in
theory and methodology in their respective fields from academic
participants.
We seek submissions of short abstracts, where the scope of the
workshop includes (but is not limited to):
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Privacy as a social norm: did privacy stop to be a social
norm (as announced by Mark Zukerberg, the founder of Facebook in
January 2010)? Do adolescents have a different notion of privacy to
adults? When are individuals ready to bargain their privacy levels for
expected benefits – loyalty cards, curtailment of smart-meters in
Netherland because of privacy concerns, new European regulatory
positioning, the UK Cabinet Office action on access to consumer data?
-
Change in the social interaction etiquette: simultaneous
interaction with several interlocutors over different channels seems to
have become socially acceptable, (i.e. to talk and SMS, or give an
opinion and tweet at the same time). What are the effects of
inconsistent behaviour across different communication channels
(politely conversing while sending an informal text etc.)?
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Mathematical models of social norms emergence and development
through local interactions, evolving social networks, communicability,
agent-based models of group and inter-group polarisation.
The authors of accepted abstracts will be able to give 30 min
presentations of their work.
Important Dates:
- Submission of abstracts: 17 November 2011
- Notification of acceptance: 25 November 2011
- 15-16 December 2011: Workshop dates
Confirmed key-note speakers:
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Mason Porter, University of Oxford
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Sharad Goel, Yahoo research
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Elisa Bellotti, University of Manchester
Organisation committee:
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Marina Della Giusta, School of Economics, University of
Reading
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Rachel McCloy, School of Psychology, University of Reading
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Danica Vukadinovic Greetham, School of Mathematical and
Physical Sciences, University of Reading
LSE
Political Theory Group Political Philosophy Seminar
Time: 16:00-18:00
This year we will meet in CON.1.06 (1st floor Connaught House,
entrance from the Aldwych, between Kingsway and Houghton Street). A
campus map is available
here:
See also
here for more information:
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27th October: Prof. Joseph Carens (Toronto) : The Ethics of
Refugee Admissions (title TBC)
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17th November: Dr. Gunnar Bjornsson (Gothenburg/Linkoping):
Shared Obligations
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1st December: Dr. John Filling (Oxford): Marx and the
Production-Organism
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19th January: Prof. Ian Carter (Pavia)
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2nd February: Prof. Robert Goodin (Essex)
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February 16th: TBC
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1st March: Prof. Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen (Aarhus)
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15th March: Dr. Miranda Fricker (Birkbeck)
Post Keynesian Economics:
Achievements, Limitations, Future
Tuesday, 8 November 2011, 5.30 –
7.30 pm | Kingston University, UCL, Room 433, 16 Taviton St, WC1H 0BW
A panel discussion to launch a new book - A Modern Guide To
Keynesian Macroeconomics And Economic Policies (edited by Eckhard
Hein and Engelbert Stockhammer).
The world economy is its deepest crisis since the Great
Depression – and mainstream economics can neither explain the
crisis nor offer a way out of it. After the second world war the
Keynesian approach offered a vision of a more prosperous society and
provided tools for macro management. However Keynesian economics
has become absorbed into rational individual /rational expectations
approach or been marginalised. What has Keynesianism to offer today? A
Modern Guide To Keynesian Macroeconomics And Economic Policies (edited
by Eckhard Hein and Engelbert Stockhammer; Edward Elgar 2011) offers a
state-of-the art survey of Post Keynesian macroeconomics as an
alternative to mainstream economics. It highlights the central role of
effective demand, fundamental uncertainty and distributional conflict
in determining economic outcomes. What are the achievements and
limitations of post-Keynesian economics? Can it offer an
alternative paradigm for macroeconomics?
Panel members include:
- Engelbert Stockhammer, Kingston University
- Victoria Chick, UCL
- John Weeks, SOAS
- Simon Mohun, Queen Mary University
- Mark Hayes (chair), Cambridge University
Seminar Series on the
History and Methodology of Economics
The third session of the
Seminar
Series on the History and Methodology of Economics at Cedeplar will
take place on Thursday, November 10th, at 2:30pm. Our guest this time
will be Prof.
Ana
Maria Bianchi, from FEA-USP.
Ana Maria will talk about the current state of research and education
in the history and methodology of Economics in Brazil. As usual, the
seminar is open to all interested.
SHE
Conference Online Registration
We finally have the SHE Conference on-line registration working.
TO register for this year’s conference, please follow the link
here:
SHE Online registration.
There are also links for accommodation near the Conference venue
on the Conference website. We have a special Conference deal with the
Crowne Plaza, which should be on the website soon. In the meantime I am
happy to pass on the details if anyone request them.
SHE Conference Website.
Social Class: Participation
and Representation in the Creative Industries
Tuesday 13 December | City
University London, UK
3.00 pm - 5.30 pm, Room D104, First Floor, Social Sciences
Building, City University London, corner of Whiskin Street and St John
Street. Directions at
www.city.ac.uk/visit
There has recently been heightened interest in how issues of
social class are portrayed in media and entertainment. A particular
concern is that the British working classes and some of the most
impoverished and excluded from society are now subjected to
unprecedented ridicule and hostility in mainstream culture. Alongside
this, over the last two decades a series of problems in the creative
labour market have become more apparent, with casualised labour,
precarious working conditions and low or unpaid entry positions
restricting access opportunities and narrowing the make-up of the
sector's workforce. While both have been subjects of interest and study
in their own right, as yet there have been relatively few attempts to
analyse the possible relationship between these two trends. This
seminar will begin to address this, interrogating the existing
research, assessing whether and in what ways cultural production
reflects the nature of cultural producers, and to explore the kinds of
policy response that should follow.
The event is organised in collaboration with the Cultural
Equalities Group.
Chair: Kate Oakley, Head, Centre for Cultural Policy and
Management, City University London
Speakers:
-
Owen Jones - author 'Chavs: The demonization of the working
class'Martin Spence - Assistant General
-
Secretary, BECTU
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David Wright - Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, University
of Warwick, and co-author of 'Culture, Class, Distinction'
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Dinah Caine - Chief Executive, Skillset
Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come,
first-served basis. If you want to attend, please email Kate Oakley (
kate.oakley.2@city.ac.uk)
The
Critique of Political Economy in a Time of Crisis
November 2011 | Department of
Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
The Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London
invites you to two talks exploring the contemporary legacy of Marx's
work.
November 8
Massimiliano Tomba - Revisiting
the Grundrisse and the 'Fragment on Machines'
6.30-8.00, RHB Room 137
Massimiliano Tomba is the author of books on Bruno Bauer and
critique, Walter Benjamin's critique of violence, politics in Kant and
Benjamin, and, most recently, Marx's concept of time. He teaches at the
faculty of historical and political sciences at the University of
Padua.
14 November
Anselm Jappe - Abstract Labour
as the Origin of Commodity Fetishism
6.30-8.00, RHB Room 137
Anselm Jappe is the author of Guy Debord, Les aventures de la
marchandise and, most recently, Credit à mort.
LSE European Institute
public lecture
Thursday, 5-7pm , 15 December 2011 | COW 1.11, Cowdray
House, LSE |
website
"The Economic Crisis and the
Crisis in Economics: implications for Mediterranean Europe"
- Speaker: Professor John Komlos
- Chair: Dr Joan Costa Font
Great Meltdown of '08 shook the foundations of our global
economy. Will it shake the foundations of economic science as well?
What are the fundamental flaws in conventional economic theory that is
leading us into a "doom loop."John Komlos is Professor Emeritus of
Economics from University of Munich and Visiting Professor at Duke
University.
University
of Leeds Public Lectures by John Holloway
Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, Professor John Holloway is
spending some time as a visiting professor at the School of Geography,
University of Leeds in 2011 and is teaching at the MA in Activism and
Social Change. For more information about John’s work visit these
sites:
here
and
here.
The lectures are free and open to the public and there is no need
to book. A previous lecture that John gave in Leeds can be watched
here.
For more information about these lectures and John’s visit,
see
here or contact Sara Gonzalez:
s.gonzalez@leeds.ac.uk or
0113 343 6639
What Does
Rosa Luxemburg Have to Say to Today's Anti-Capitalist Movements?
November 10th | London
7.30 pm Thursday 10 November, Brockway Room, Conway Hall, Red
Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL (5 mins Holborn Tube).
"[In the 1905 Russian Revolution] there fermented throughout the
whole of the immense empire an uninterrupted economic strike of almost
the entire proletariat against capital – a struggle which caught,
on the one hand, all the petty bourgeois and liberal professions,
commercial employees, technicians, actors and members of artistic
professions – and on the other hand, penetrated to the domestic
servants, the minor police officials and even to the stratum of the
lumpenproletariat, and simultaneously surged from the towns to the
country districts and even knocked at the iron gates of the military
barracks." -- Rosa Luxemburg, 'The Mass Strike'
Speaker:
Peter Hudis, co-editor of 'The Letters of Rosa
Luxemburg' (Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg Vol. I) 2011. With
comments by Kevin Anderson, author of 'Marx at the Margins', David
Black, author of 'The Philosophic Roots of Anti-Capitalism', and
Heather Brown, author of 'Marx on Gender and the Family' Sponsored by
the
International
Marxist-Humanist Organization and
Hobgoblin Online.
Eighth
Annual Historical Materialism Conference
10–13 November 2011 | Central
London| website
Spaces of Capital, Moments of
Struggle
To register in advance and benefit from a reduction, go to
here.
Job Postings
for Heterodox Economists
Editor's
Note: Recently we created a new page under the Heterodox Economics
Newsletter website. On Job Postings page, you can see recent job
openings announced in the Newsletter.
**
Center for Economic Studies,
U.S. Census Bureau, Washington DC, USA
Lead
Research, Data Center Administrator 20233
The U.S. Census Bureau seeks a Ph.D.
economist, with an established record of empirical research, to serve
as Lead Research Data Center Administrator (GS-14). Research Data
Centers (RDC) are secure Census Bureau facilities where qualified
researchers with approved projects can perform statistical analysis on
selected internal microdata from the Census Bureau and other
statistical agencies. The Lead RDC Administrator oversees the research
activities carried out in the nationwide RDC network. This person works
with researchers from academia and other government agencies in
developing research proposals, ensures that research activities comply
with the Census Bureau’s data stewardship policies, tracks the
progress of research projects, and supervises the administrators of the
various RDCs. The candidate is also expected to carry out a
research program using Census Bureau microdata on businesses and/or
households, present research at professional conferences, and publish
in scholarly journals.
Email an application letter, CV, and a
research paper demonstrating strong empirical skills to Randy Becker at
randy.a.becker@census.gov
by December 2011. U.S. citizenship is required. The Census Bureau is an
equal opportunity employer. The position is subject to budgetary
approval.
Earlham College, USA
Earlham College has a full time, one semester position available
for this coming Spring Semester. The teaching load is three courses and
we are flexible about the courses offered though we have some
preference for “Labor Economics”. We are open to area study
courses, Women and the Economy, or any other specialty that we
typically don’t regularly offer.
Earlham is a small residential Quaker liberal arts college in
Richmond Indiana. Earlham College continues to build a community that
reflects the gender and racial diversity of the society at large, and,
therefore, we are particularly interested in inviting and encouraging
applications from African Americans, other ethnic minorities, and
women. Earlham also is eager to solicit applications from members of
the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Earlham is an Affirmative
Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
Send a letter or email of interest a.s.a.p. to:
Professor of Economics
EC Drawer 41801 National Rd
WestRichmond, IN 47374
Kingston
University, UK
Anniversary Chairs, Faculty of Arts &
Social Sciences | website
The Political science disciplines, and that there is a welcome
for interdisciplinary work in the faculty: see for example the
recently-introduced MA Economics (Political Economy) and the projected
MA Philosophy, Politics, Economics.
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston is now the
fastest growing research environment in the UK, following a
multi-million pound investment in Professorial staff, early career
researchers and doctoral students. Committed to providing an
exceptional student experience at undergraduate and postgraduate level,
we aim to have all of our subjects recognised in the top quartile for
research and teaching by 2020.
Anniversary Chairs These chairs recognise the Faculty's continued
commitment to strengthening its research portfolio. We are seeking
world-class scholars who have achieved distinction in their fields to
build further on our academic success, enrich our teaching and increase
our ability to offer outstanding research that makes a positive
contribution to the contemporary world. The positions are available
competitively across the following departments: English Literature and
Language, Media Studies, Creative Writing, Journalism, Modern
Languages, Music, Drama, Dance, Film and Television Studies,
Philosophy, Education, Economics, Sociology, Criminology, Psychology,
History, Politics, and International Relations. Applications are also
welcome from those working in interdisciplinary areas.
It is expected that successful candidates will take up their
posts in the calendar year 2012. Salaries will be negotiated within the
Professorial scale. For more information, visit
here.
Portland
State University, USA
Assistant Professor, School of Urban
Studies and Planning
The Nohad A. Toulan School of Urban Studies and Planning (TSUSP)
in the College of Urban and Public Affairs (CUPA) at Portland State
University seeks applications for a tenure-track assistant professor
beginning Fall 2012. Candidates must have an earned doctorate (or be in
the final stages of their degree) in economics, applied/agricultural
economics, regional science, or a related field. The successful
candidate will demonstrate a deep and vigorous commitment to working in
an interdisciplinary context with colleagues from an array of
disciplines on urban-related challenges.
We seek applicants from various applied micro fields
(urban/regional, transportation, state and local finance, environment,
energy, renewable resources/conservation, labor/demographics, welfare,
and heterodox approaches). The successful candidate will be required to
teach students enrolled in our degree programs: 1) undergraduate major
in Community Development 2) professional Master of Urban and Regional
Planning, 3) Master of Real Estate Development, (4) Master of Urban
Studies, and 5) PhD in Urban Studies. Specializations in our graduate
programs include urban planning, community development, economic
development, transportation, environment, land use, regional science,
social demography, and gerontology.
The successful candidate is expected to develop a strong record
of scholarship, civic engagement, and externally funded research.
Faculty conduct research through the University's many research units,
including: the Center for Urban Studies, Center for Transportation
Studies, Northwest Institute for Applied Economics, Population Research
Center, the Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies, and the Center
for Real Estate. Other schools in CUPA are the Mark O. Hatfield School
of Government, which includes Criminology and Criminal Justice,
Political Science, and Public Administration, and the School of
Community Health. In total, the College of Urban and Public Affairs has
more than 70 full-time faculty members. Portland State
University’s motto—“Let knowledge serve the
city”—guides its mission of engagement and leadership in
Portland and the Pacific Northwest.
The starting annual salary for this position will be commensurate
with qualifications and experience. The excellent benefits package
includes fully paid healthcare; fully employer paid retirement
contributions; and reduced tuition rates for employee, spouse or
dependents at any of the Oregon University System schools.
Applicants should submit a curriculum vita, three reference
letters, and a letter of application that briefly outlines research and
teaching interests, and interest in the multidisciplinary fields of
urban studies and/or planning.
Send to:
Dr. K.J. Gibson, Search Committee Chair
Portland State University
P.O. Box 751
Portland, OR 97207-0751.
Review of applications will begin December 1 and continue until
finalists are identified. This is a nine-month appointment; the
anticipated start date is September 17, 2012. For further information,
please email Dr. Gibson at
gibsonk@pdx.edu or call
503-725-8265.
Portland State University is an Affirmative Action/Equal
Opportunity Institution and welcomes applications from diverse
candidates and candidates who support diversity.
Seattle
University, USA
Assistant Professor, Institute of Public
Service | Financial Management and Analysis
The Institute of Public Service [IPS] invites applications for a
tenure track Assistant Professor in its Master of Public Administration
and Bachelor of Public Affairs Program starting September 2012. Founded
in 1974, IPS educates working professionals and undergraduates for
positions of responsibility in the public service.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in public
finance or financial analysis, and be responsible for teaching
financial management courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels,
with opportunities to teach courses such as applied economics,
government finance, budgeting, or elective courses of the
candidate’s choosing. An earned doctorate or other appropriate
terminal degree is required in the areas of public administration,
public affairs, public policy, or closely related fields (such as
political science or economics).
The successful candidate is expected to teach courses, develop a
strong program of research, and contribute to academic life in the
Institute. Most IPS faculty members have experience as practitioners
and with teaching adult learners. Seattle University places a high
value on social justice and supports its faculty in the pursuit of
related research and teaching interests.
Seattle University, founded in 1891, is a Jesuit Catholic
university located on 48 acres on Seattle’s Capitol Hill. More
than 7,500 students are enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs
within eight schools. U.S. News and World Report’s “Best
Colleges 2011” ranks Seattle University among the top 10
universities in the West that offer a full range of masters and
undergraduate programs. Seattle University is an equal opportunity
employer.
Applicants should submit materials at
https://jobs.seattleu.edu,
including a cover letter, curriculum vitae, writing sample, statement
of teaching effectiveness and contact information for three references.
Review of applications will begin November 30, 2011. For further
information please email inquiries to Janelle Wong at
wongja@seattleu.edu
Siena
College, USA
Assistant
Professor, Economics
JEL Classifications:
- I: Health, Education, and Welfare
- J3: Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
- J16: Economics of Gender
- O1: Economic Development
- R: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
Deadline Information: All applications received prior to
November 24, 2011 will be considered for an ASSA meeting interview.
The Economics Department at Siena
College is accepting applications for one tenure track position
beginning fall 2012. The ideal applicant should have teaching and
research interests in a range of fields, including a willingness to
teach required intermediate courses to majors. The Department of six
faculty members is housed within the AACSB accredited School of
Business. We seek applicants with a passion for the highest quality
undergraduate teaching, including heterodox approaches, applied fields,
and interdisciplinary work. Domestic and international field
experiences, mentoring undergraduate research, and innovative teaching
approaches are strengths.
Teaching experience and a completed
Ph.D. by fall 2012 are expected. Qualified female and minority
candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Application should include
cover letter, c.v., teaching portfolio to include statement of teaching
philosophy and a summary of student evaluations, job market paper,
graduate transcript, and three letters of recommendation which can
attest to teaching effectiveness. Electronic submission through
Interfolio is required.
Siena College is an Equal Opportunity
Employer and encourages applications from all qualified candidates. To
further this goal, we request that you complete the Equal Employment
Opportunity Data Form located at
www.siena.edu/eeo
.
Posting number for this position is
R769.
Simmons College, USA
Assistant
Professor, Economics
The Department of Economics at Simmons
College seeks a tenure-track assistant professor beginning fall 2012.
The successful candidate will teach intermediate microeconomics and
principles, combine research and teaching in a subset of applied
microeconomics fields (especially Industrial Organization, Public
Economics, Labor Economics, Environmental Economics, and/or Health
Economics), and support the Department’s interdisciplinary
contributions to programs in Public Policy, Environmental Science, and
Public Health. Candidates should have a Ph.D. in economics (strong ABDs
will be considered) and a commitment to excellence in teaching. The
college also values interest and skill in (1) online course
design/delivery and (2) teaching adult learners as well as traditional
undergraduate students. Simmons is committed to excellence in education
and employment through diversity.
To apply, go to
https://jobs.simmons.edu, click
“Search Postings,” select position title, and follow
directions to submit cover letter, curriculum vitae, graduate
transcript, statement of teaching philosophy, statement of research
interests, evidence of teaching excellence, and a sample of scholarly
work. Three letters of reference should be sent to
HR@simmons.edu.
Applications will be reviewed until the
position is filled. The Department will interview selected candidates
at the January 2012 ASSA meetings. Contact: Professor Masato Aoki,
Department Chair,
masato.aoki@simmons.edu.
St. Francis
College, Brooklyn, USA
Adjunct
Economics Professors
Invites applications to teach
Principles of Microeconomics as Adjunct Economics Professors during the
Spring 2012 semester. Applicants must have as a minimum an MA in
Economics. Resumes should be sent to:
Paddy Quick
SUNY Potsdam, USA
Assistant
Professor of Economics
The SUNY Potsdam Economics Department
invites applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant
Professor level beginning fall 2012. Candidates should have a
commitment to outstanding teaching, teaching and research interests in
globalization and international economics, and inform their theoretical
and applied work by an understanding of economic history and the
history of economic thought. Teaching responsibilities are eight
courses per year; typically four sections of principles and four
elective courses.
SUNY Potsdam is a liberal arts college
with approximately 4,300 students and is distinguished by a strong
commitment to teaching, small classes and highly accessible faculty. We
look for excellent teaching skills, scholarly activities in one's
field, and a commitment to college service. The successful candidate is
also expected to contribute to the College's general education
curriculum and should be willing to participate in interdisciplinary
and multidisciplinary programs within the School of Arts and Sciences.
UMASS-Amherst, USA
1.
Associate or advanced Assistant Professor, Economics:
The University of Massachusetts Amherst Economics Department
invites applications for a tenure-system position starting Fall 2010,
preferably at the Associate or advanced Assistant level, although
outstanding candidates at the beginning Assistant level will be
considered. Appointment is contingent on budgetary considerations. We
seek expertise relating to: (1) public goods and the common good; (2)
economic opportunity; and (3) power, institutions, behavior and
economic performance. Scholars from all fields of economics and closely
related disciplines are encouraged to apply. A completed Ph.D. is
strongly preferred, although ABD with a firm completion date will be
considered. Candidates will be judged on their scholarly research and
will as teaching.
See
here for more information. To apply electronically
(strongly encouraged), submit cover letter, CV, three letters of
reference or contact information for references, a recent research
paper, and, if possible, evidence of teaching effectiveness at
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/858.
Letters of reference and complete
applications can also be submitted by postal mail to Chair, Search
Committee, Department of Economics, Thompson Hall, University of
Massachusetts Amherst, 200 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003-9277. Review of
applications will begin on November, 15, 2011. Candidates may interview
at ASSA (Chicago) and are encouraged to use AEA signaling.
2. Assistant
Professor, W.E.B. Du Boise Department of Afro-American Studies and
Department of Economics:
The University of Massachusetts Amherst W.E.B. Du Bois Department
of Afro-American Studies and Economics Department invite applications
for a tenure-track position starting Fall 2010, at the Assistant level.
The primary appointment will be in Afro-American Studies with an
adjunct appointment in Economics. Teaching, graduate-advising
responsibilities, and service will be divided between the two
departments.
We seek expertise relating to: (1) Stratification Economics with
an emphasis on racial stratification and discrimination (2) Economics
of Identity; (3) African American Economic History; and/or (4)
Environmental Economics. Scholars from economics and closely related
disciplines are encouraged to apply. A completed Ph.D. is strongly
preferred, though ABD with a firm completion date will be considered.
Candidates will be judged on their scholarly research as well as
teaching.
Letters of reference and complete
applications can also be submitted by postal mail to Co-Chairs, Search
Committee, W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies, 329 New
Africa House, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 180 Infirmary Way,
Amherst, MA 01003-9289. Review of applications will begin on December
15, 2011. Candidates may interview at ASSA (Chicag) and are encouraged
to use AEA signaling.
3. Assistant Professor, Departments of
Economics and History:
The Departments of Economics and History of the University of
Massachusetts Amherst invite applications for a tenure-track assistant
professorship starting Fall 2010. Depending on qualifications, the
scholar will be appointed to a tenure-track position in either History
or Economics with an adjunct position in the other department. Teaching
and graduate-advising responsibilities will be divided between the two
departments. The position requires expertise relating to work and labor
relations seen through the lens of South Asia or the South Asian
Diaspora. We seek a scholar who can teach about South Asian labor and
its interconnections to the globalizing world in ways that capture the
effect of these processes on the lives of workers, their families, and
their communities and how they have shaped the process of
globalization. Candidates will be judged on their scholarly research as
well as teaching. Scholars from history, economics or closely related
disciplines are encouraged to apply. A Ph.D. completed by 1 September
2012 is strongly preferred, although ABD with a firm completion date
will be considered.
See
here and
here
for more information.
To apply electronically (strongly encouraged), submit cover
letter, CV, three letters of reference, a recent research paper, sample
syllabi, and, if possible, evidence of teaching effectiveness at
https://academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/979.
Letters of reference and complete applications can also be submitted by
postal mail to Co-Chair, Joint History-Economic Search Committee,
Department of History, Herter Hall, 161 Presidents Drive, University of
Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003. Applications must be received by 4
November 2011. The search committee will conduct interviews at the AHA
and ASSA annual meetings.
UMass Amherst is a member of the Five College consortium along
with Amherst, Hampshire, Mount Holyoke, and Smith Colleges, and is also
a member of the Academic Career Network, a resource for dual career
couples. The University of Massachusetts is an Affirmative Action/Equal
Opportunity employer. Women and members of minority groups are
encouraged to apply. We are committed to fostering a diverse faculty,
student body, and curriculum.
University
of Richmond, USA
John
Marshall Visiting Research Fellow for 2012-13
The John Marshall International Center for the Study of
Statesmanship at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the
University of Richmond is accepting applications for the position of
John Marshall Visiting Research Fellow for 2012-13.
The Marshall Fellow will be in residence at the University of Richmond
in order to pursue his or her own advanced research in political
economy as it relates to the theory and practice of statesmanship.
Educational requirements: Ph.D. in economics, history,
philosophy, or political science.
Applications for the fellowship are encouraged from those who have just
finished or who are about to finish their doctoral dissertations. More
advanced scholars on sabbatical leave who wish to be at the University
of Richmond in order to pursue their research will also be considered.
The successful applicant must meet all position requirements at the
time of selection.
The University of Richmond is a nationally ranked liberal arts
university offering a unique combination of undergraduate and graduate
degree programs in arts and sciences, business, leadership studies, law
and continuing studies. The nation’s first school of leadership
studies, a top-12 business school and a nationally recognized
international education program enhance a strong liberal arts
curriculum. Inaugurated in 1992, the Jepson School of Leadership
Studies is an independent academic unit of the University and offers
students the opportunity to major or minor in Leadership Studies. With
the aim of educating students for and about leadership, the Jepson
School offers an intellectually challenging liberal arts curriculum
delivered by means of a rigorous and innovative pedagogy.
Applications should be sent electronically to
https://www.urjobs.org/ link
and include a letter of application, a curriculum vita, three letters
of reference, a one-page research plan, and a writing sample.
Review of applications will begin on December 1, 2011 and
continue until the position is filled.
The University of Richmond is committed to developing a diverse
workforce and student body and to supporting an inclusive campus
community.
University
of Nottingham, UK
Visiting Research Fellows
The Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ),
University of Nottingham, is excited to announce two one month visiting
fellowships between February-March 2012 and May-June 2012.
This opportunity is available to academics, activists, community
educators and others who believe that they could benefit from a stay
with us at the Centre and believe they could fruitfully help us to
continue to develop our work.
See
here for further information.
Conference Papers, Reports,
and Articles
African
Association for Promoting Political Economy (AAPPE)
Launch Meeting Report
The African Association for Promoting Political Economy (AAPPE)
was launched on the 13th of July, 2011, in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
during the conference « Dynamiques de croissance au sein de
l’UEMOA » (12-14 of July 2011), organised by the West
African Economic and Monetary Union, WAEMU. The conference gathered
together over one hundred Africanist researchers and offered an
unprecedented opportunity for taking this initiative. In the first
instance, administrative support will be provided by the «
Economic Analysis and Research » wing of the Strategic Planning
Unit of the WAEMU Commission, although it remains entirely independent
of the latter.
AAPPE aims at the construction, consolidation, renewal and
promotion of economic analyses by virtue of pluralistic methodological
and theoretical foundations, being open across different schools of
economic thought and to inter-disciplinary collaboration with other
social and human sciences. It seeks to recapture the spirit of the
traditional project of classical political economy in straddling what
are now the separate disciplines constituting social science. Such an
intellectual endeavour has today largely been thwarted by the unduly
narrow, technical focus of mainstream economics, and its corresponding
pretensions of emulating the natural sciences. This has rendered it
generally unsuitable for providing the relevant discourse and knowledge
required for the understanding of capitalist and developing economies,
especially those of Africa. More specifically, after thirty years of
structural adjustment, it is imperative to re-establish more critical
and constructive approaches to the economic and social progress of the
African continent.
Contact to register interest in AAPPE: Kako NUBUKPO
e-mail:
knubukpo@uemoa.int
ICAPE 2011
Conference Papers
November 11-13. 2011 | UMass-Amherst
Heterodox Journals
Cambridge Journal of
Economics 35(6): Nov. 2011
Journal website:
http://cje.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol35/issue6/index.dtl
Articles
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Amit Bhaduri, A contribution to the theory of financial
fragility and crisis
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Georgios Argitis and Yannis Dafermos, Finance, inflation and
employment: a post-Keynesian/Kaleckian analysis
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Vincent Brown and Simon Mohun, The rate of profit in the UK,
1920–1938
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Ayça Akarçay Gürbüz, Comparing
trajectories of structural change
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Diego Lanzi, Capabilities and social cohesion
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J. Rubery, Towards a gendering of the labour market
regulation debate
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Saverio M. Fratini and Enrico Sergio Levrero, Sraffian
indeterminacy: a critical discussion
REVIEW ARTICLE
Enterprise and Society
12(4): Dec. 2011
Introduction, Philip Scranton
DISSERTATION SUMMARIES
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The Science of Difference: Developing Tools for
Discrimination in the American Life Insurance Industry,
1830–1930, Dan Bouk
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Eric S. Hintz, The Post-Heroic Generation: American
Independent Inventors, 1900–1950
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Kara W. Swanson, Body Banks: A History of Milk Banks, Blood
Banks, and Sperm Banks in the United States
ARTICLES
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Sean Patrick Adams, How Choice Fueled Panic: Philadelphians,
Consumption, and the Panic of 1837
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Christopher Jones, The Carbon-Consuming Home: Residential
Markets and Energy Transitions
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Neveen Abdelrehim, Josephine Maltby, and Steven Toms,
Corporate Social Responsibility and Corporate Control: The
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, 1933–1951
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Stuart W. Leslie, The Strategy of Structure: Architectural
and Managerial Style at , Alcoa and Owens-Corning
Journal of Institutional
Economics 7(4): Dec. 2011
Research Articles
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Institutions and economic development: theory, policy and
history, HA-JOON CHANG
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Institutions first, PETER BOETTKE, ALEXANDER FINK
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Of markets and men: comments on Chang, MARIA BROUWER
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Can an unwilling horse be made drink? YOUNG BACK CHOI
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Look how far we have come, CHRISTOPHER CLAGUE
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Culture, institutions and economic growth, EELKE DE JONG
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Institutional change and economic development: concepts,
theory and political economyAMITAVA KRISHNA DUTT
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Institutions and development: what a difference geography and
time make!, KENNETH P. JAMESON
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Institutions really don't matter for development? A response
to Chang, PHILIP KEEFER
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Institutions and development: the primacy of microanalysis,
MWANGI S. KIMENYI
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How to make institutional economics better,ROBBERT MASELAND
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Institutions and development: generalizations that endanger
progress, JEFFREY B. NUGENT
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Institutions and growth: the times-series and cross-section
evidence, JAIME ROS
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Development, institutions and class, DAVID F. RUCCIO
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What should be the standards for scholarly criticism?, MARY
M. SHIRLEY
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Which institutions matter? Separating the chaff from the
wheat, ARIELLE JOHN, VIRGIL HENRY STORR
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Deconstructing the dominant discourse: Chang on institutions
and development, JOHN JOSEPH WALLIS
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Reply to the comments on ‘Institutions and Economic
Development: Theory, Policy and History’, HA-JOON CHANG
Metroeconomica 62(4): Nov.
2011
Articles:
- COMPETITION AND THE STRATEGIC CHOICE OF MANAGERIAL INCENTIVES:
THE RELATIVE PERFORMANCE CASE, Alessandra Chirco, Marcella Scrimitore
and Caterina Colombo
- SHAPE OF WAGE–PROFIT CURVES IN JOINT PRODUCTION SYSTEMS:
EVIDENCE FROM THE SUPPLY AND USE TABLES OF THE FINNISH ECONOMY, George
Soklis
- SEARCH AND STOCHASTIC DYNAMICS IN THE OLD KEYNESIAN ECONOMICS: A
RATIONALE FOR THE SHIMER PUZZLE, Marco Guerrazzi
- PARADIGM DEPLETION, KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION AND RESEARCH EFFORT:
CONSIDERING THOMAS KUHN'S IDEAS, João Ricardo Faria, Damien
Besancenot and Andreas J. Novak
- A SIMPLE MEASURE OF PRICE-LABOUR VALUE DEVIATION, Theodore
Mariolis
- INTERNATIONAL CLIMATE AGREEMENTS UNDER INDUCED TECHNOLOGICAL
CHANGE, Miyuki Nagashima, Hans-Peter Weikard, Kelly de Bruin and Rob
Dellink
- CAN (AND SHOULD) MONETARY POLICY PURSUE A ZERO REAL INTEREST
RATE, PERMANENTLY?, Tony Aspromourgos
- EXTERNAL SHOCKS AND THE URBAN POOR, Pierre-Richard Agénor
TRADE, NON-SCALE GROWTH AND UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT, Hiroaki Sasaki
- WHY ARE GOODS CHEAPER IN RICH EUROPEAN COUNTRIES? BEYOND THE
BALASSA–SAMUELSON EFFECT, Leon Podkaminer
- PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION CREDIT IN A CONTINUOUS-TIME MODEL OF
THE CIRCUIT OF CAPITAL, Paulo L. dos Santos
Heterodox Newsletters
Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives
Economic Policy Institute
Economic
Sociology Newsletter, 13(1): Nov. 2011
Read the whole newsletter
here.
Table of Contents:
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Note from the editor
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Interview with John Nye
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New Institutional Economics: A State-of-the-Art Review for
Economic Sociologists by Rinat Menyashew, Timur Natkhov, Leonid
Polishchuk, and Georgiy Syunyaev
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"New Institutional Economics" versus "Economics of
Conventions" by Olivier Favereau
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Petering Out or Flaming Up? New Institutional Economics in
East-Central Europe by János Mátyas Kovács
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Call for Papers
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Announcement
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Book Reviews
Global Labour Column
GDAE Policy Brief: Nov. 2011
IDEAs:
Oct. 2011
Levy News
New Working Papers:
PERI In Focus: Oct. 2011
Heterodox Books and Book
Series
Book
Series: Economia Política e Sociedade by Autêntica Editora
Series editor: João Antonio de Paula, Cedeplar at
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
For more information: Contact João Antonio de Paula, Cedeplar at
jpaula@cedeplar.ufmg.br
| Website.
Economic
Policy and Human Rights: Holding Governments to Account
By Radhika Balakrishnan and Diane Elson
Zed Books, November 2011. Paperback ISBN: 9781848138742 |
website
Economic Policy and Human Rights presents a powerful critique of
three decades of neoliberal economic policies, assessed from the
perspective of human rights norms. In doing so, it brings together two
areas of thought and action that have hitherto been separate:
progressive economics concerned with promoting economic justice and
human development; and human rights analysis and advocacy.
Focussing on in-depth comparative case studies of the USA and
Mexico and looking at issues such as public expenditure, taxation and
international trade, the book shows that heterodox economic analysis
benefits greatly from a deeper understanding of a human rights
framework. This is something progressive economists have often been
skeptical of, regarding it as too deeply entrenched in 'Western' norms,
discourses and agendas. Such a categorical rejection is unwarranted.
Instead, human rights norms can provide an invaluable ethical and
accountability framework, challenging a narrow focus on efficiency and
growth.
A vital book for anyone interested in human rights and harnessing
economics to create a better world.
Financial Assets, Debt and
Liquidity Crises: A Keynesian Approach
By Matthieu Charpe, Carl Chiarella, Peter Flaschel, Willi Semmler
Cambridge University Press, August 2011 (HB) ISBN-13:
9781107004931 |
website
The macroeconomic development of most major industrial economies
is characterised by boom-bust cycles. Normally such boom-bust cycles
are driven by specific sectors of the economy. In the financial
meltdown of the years 2007–9 it was the credit sector and the
real-estate sector that were the main driving forces. This book takes
on the challenge of interpreting and modelling this meltdown. In doing
so it revives the traditional Keynesian approach to the
financial–real economy interaction and the business cycle,
extending it in several important ways. In particular, it adopts the
Keynesian view of a hierarchy of markets and introduces a detailed
financial sector into the traditional Keynesian framework. The approach
of the book goes beyond the currently dominant paradigm based on the
representative agent, market clearing and rational economic agents.
Instead it proposes an economy populated with heterogeneous, rationally
bounded agents attempting to cope with disequilibria in various markets.
First the Transition, then
the Crash: Eastern Europe in the 2000s
By Gareth Dale
Pluto Press September 2011, ISBN: 9780745331157 |
website
The 1989-91 upheavals in Eastern Europe sparked a turbulent
process of social and economic transition. Two decades on, with the
global economic crisis of 2008-10, a new phase has begun. This
book explores the scale and trajectory of the crisis through case
studies of the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine
and the former Yugoslavia. The contributors focus upon the
relationships between geopolitics, the world economy and class
restructuring.
The book covers the changing relationship between business and
states; foreign capital flows; financialisation and asset price
bubbles; austerity and privatisation; and societal responses, in the
form of reactionary populism and progressive social movements.
Challenging neoliberal interpretations that envisage the transition as
a process of unfolding liberty, the dialectic charted in these pages
reveals uneven development, attenuated freedoms and social
polarisation.
Global Crises and the Crisis
of Global Leadership
Edited by:,Stephen Gill, York University, Toronto
Cambridge University Press, October 201. ISBN: 9781107674967 |
website
This groundbreaking collection on global leadership features
innovative and critical perspectives by scholars from international
relations, political economy, medicine, law and philosophy, from North
and South. The book's novel theorization of global leadership is
situated historically within the classics of modern political theory
and sociology, relating it to the crisis of global capitalism today.
Contributors reflect on the multiple political, economic, social,
ecological and ethical crises that constitute our current global
predicament. The book suggests that there is an overarching condition
of global organic crisis, which shapes the political and organizational
responses of the dominant global leadership and of various subaltern
forces. Contributors argue that to meaningfully address the challenges
of the global crisis will require far more effective, inclusive and
legitimate forms of global leadership and global governance than have
characterized the neoliberal era.
iktisat (Economics -
Foundations of Alternative Economics)
By Hasan Gürak
Language: Turkish
Genesis Kitap, Ankara, August-2011, 272 PP. ISBN: 9786055410087|
website
The purpose of the book is to present some realistic alternative
approaches to the conventional unrealistic doctrines of orthodox
economists. It is not claimed to present perfectly realistic
alternatives to orthodox doctrines. Shortcomings and mistakes are
inevitable and many ideas or models presented need deeper and more
refined analysis. Therefore, I hope that the alternative approaches
presented here shall not be rejected with prejudice on ideological
grounds.
Political Economy After
Economics: Scientific Method and Radical Imagination
By David Laibman
Routledge, July 2011. Pp. 236. HB ISBN: 978-0-415-61929-5 |
website
Chapter by chapter, this book examines a wide range of economic
problems, among others: technical change and the rate of profit, value
and price formation in capitalist economies, classical (as opposed to
textbook) approaches to supply and demand, rationing and price control,
the impact of government policy on economic activity, and the nature
and role of incentives in a model of socialist planing that is both
central and decentralized. In each case, it is shown that formal
economic-theory methods can be used to support, rather than to obscure,
the core insight of critical political economics: the
“economy” is really an aspect of a deeper system of social
relations, with huge implications for power, conflict and social
transformation.
This re-incorporation of economics into political economy is one
(small, but not insignificant) element in a larger project: to place
all of the resources of present-day social-scientific research at the
service of increasing democracy, in an ultimate direction toward
socialism in the classic sense. An economics-enriched political economy
is, above all, empowering; working people in general can calculate,
build models, think theoretically, and contribute to a human-worthy
future, rather than leaving all this to their “betters.”
Remaking
Scarcity: From Capitalist Inefficiency to Economic Democracy
By Costas Panayotakis
Pluto Press, September 2011 (Paper) ISBN: 9780745330990 |
website
The dominant schools of neoclassical and neoliberal economics tell
us that material scarcity is an inevitable product of an insatiable
human nature. Against this, Costas Panayotakis argues that scarcity is
in fact a result of the social and economic processes of the capitalist
system.
The overriding importance of the logic of capital accumulation
accounts for the fact that capitalism is not able to make a rational
use of scarce resources and the productive potential at the disposal of
human society. Instead, capitalism produces grotesque inequalities and
unnecessary human suffering, a toxic consumerist culture that fails to
satisfy, and a deepening ecological crisis.
Remaking Scarcity is a powerful challenge to the current
economic orthodoxy. It asserts the core principle of economic
democracy, that all human beings should have an equal say over the
priorities of the economic system, as the ultimate solution to scarcity
and ecological crisis.
Heterodox Book Reviews
Debunking
Economics: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?
By Steve Keen, New York, NY: Zed Books, 2011. 554 pp.; ISBN-13:
978-1848139923.
Reviewed for Heterodox Economics Newsletter by Tanweer Ali, Empire
State College, State University of New York. Read the review here.
Debt: The
First 5,000 Years
By David Graeber. Brooklyn, NY: Melville House. 2011. 544 pp. ISBN:
9781933633862.
Reviewed for Heterodox Economics Newsletter by Ryan A. Dodd, Gettysburg
College. Read the review here.
Instituciones,
Desarrollo y Regiones: El Caso de Colombia
By Jairo Parada-Corrales, Ediciones UniNorte, Barranquilla,
Atlántico, Colombia, 2011.
Reviewed for Heterodox Economics Newsletter by William R. Baca-Mejia,
University of Missouri-Kansas City. Read the review here.
Postmodern
Imperialism: Geopolitics and the Great Games
By Eric Walberg, Atlanta, GA: Clarity Press, 2011. 283 pp; ISBN
978-0-9833539-3-5.
Reviewed for Heterodox Economics Newsletter by Sara Bencic, Denison
University. Read the review here.
Monetary
Theory and Policy from Hume and Smith to Wicksell
Arie Arnon, Monetary Theory and Policy from Hume and Smith to
Wicksell: Money, Credit, and the Economy. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2010. xxii + 424 pp. $99 (hardcover), ISBN:
978-0-521-19113-5.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Thomas M.
Humphrey, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond (retired). Read the review here.
Heterodox
Graduate Programs, Scholarships, and Grants
London
School of Economics MSc scholarships
The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method at the
London School of Economics offers two MSc scholarships. The scholarship
entitles the recipient to a tuition fee waiver and £3000 towards
academic needs. It is open to both Home/UK/EU students and Overseas
students. The Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method was
founded by Sir Karl Popper. It is internationally renowned for a type
of philosophy that is both continuous with the sciences and socially
relevant. The Department was ranked 1st in the world for Philosophy of
Social Science and joint 2nd in the world for Philosophy of Science by
the Philosophical Gourmet Report 2009. It offers four Master
programmes, and the Scholarship is available for all programmes.
- MSc in Philosophy of Science
- MSc in Philosophy and Economics
- MSc in Philosophy of the Social Sciences
- MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy
Dr Charlotte Werndl
Lecturer
Department of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method
London School of Economics and Political Science
Five
College Fellowships
Participating Colleges: Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount
Holyoke College or Smith College
http://www.fivecolleges.edu/academic_programs/academprog_fellowship.html
Five College Fellowships offer year-long residencies for doctoral
students completing dissertations. The program supports scholars from
under-represented groups and/or scholars with unique interests and
histories whose engagement in the Academy will enrich scholarship and
teaching. This year we expect to award four fellowships for 2012-13.
Each Fellow will be hosted within an appropriate department or program
at Amherst College, Hampshire College, Mount Holyoke College or Smith
College. (At Smith, recipients hold a Mendenhall Fellowship.)
Applications are to the program, not to a specific hosting campus.
This is a residential fellowship. Fellows are provided research
and teaching mentors and connected through the consortial office to
resources and scholars across the five campuses, which include UMass
Amherst. The office also supports meetings of the Fellows throughout
the year. The fellowship includes a $30,000 stipend, a research grant,
health benefits, office space, housing or housing assistance, and
library privileges at all five campuses belonging to the consortium.
While the award places primary emphasis on completion of the
dissertation, most fellows teach at their hosting institution, but
never more than a single one-semester course.
Center for
the History of Political Economy Fellowships
The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University is
now accepting Fellowship Applications for the 2012-2013 academic year.
For a complete description of the Fellowship Program and how to apply,
please visit the Center website at:
http://hope.econ.duke.edu/
For full consideration, applicants should have their completed
applications in by January 1, 2012. Please feel free to forward this
message to any interested parties.
Bruce Caldwell
Director, Center for the History of Political Economy
Heterodox Web Sites and
Associates
Center for the History of
Political Economy
I am delighted to announce that we have just gone live with the
new Center for the History of Political Economy website. It contains
information about our various Center programs, including our workshops,
HOPE lunches, conferences, the fellowship program, opportunities for
visiting scholars working in the archives, our Summer Institute and
Summer in the Archives program, and much more. The site has been months
in preparation and there are still a few areas where we are adding
content, but I hope you will take the opportunity to have a look (and
please do add us to your bookmarks: this address replaces all previous
addresses for the site):
http://hope.econ.duke.edu/
We plan to add new material on a regular basis, and to spotlight
different areas of the website to assist everyone in making good use of
it.
In closing, I'd like to add a special word of thanks to Tiago
Mata, who oversaw the development of the site from start to finish, and
to Rob Van Horn and Avi Cohen, who are constructing the Course
Materials Resources portion of the site.
Bruce Caldwell
Center Director
Heterodox Economics in the
Media
Wanted: Worldly Philosophers
By Roger E. Backhouse And Bradley W. Bateman, New York Times, Nov. 5,
2011.
Read the article
here.
Queries from Heterodox
Economists
Letter to
Governor Cuomo on Fracking in NYS
I've been trying to identify economists and policy analysts who would
be willing to sign on to letter to Governor Cuomo that points out the
shortcomings of the socio-economic analysis prepared to support the
Department of Environmental Conservation’s Supplemental Generic
Environmental Impact Statement (SGEIS) on hydrofracking. Ideally, we
would have a healthy list of New York-based economists and
practitioners willing to sign. But we've had trouble finding people
familiar with the subject matter.
Anyone interested, please contact:
David Gahl, Deputy DirectorEnvironmental Advocates of New York
353 Hamilton Street
Albany, NY 12203
(t) 518.462.5526 ext. 234
(f) 518.427.0381
(c) 518.487.1744
New Editors Needed -
Debatte: Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
The Journal is looking for new members to join its core editorial
team. We would like people to fill the following roles:
Articles Editor - This would involve organising peer review of
submitted articles and preparing issues of the journal for submission
to the publishers. It could also involve other intiatives such as
planning special issues or symposia.
Commissioning Editor - This would involve commissioning
topical articles and collecting documents for publication from the
countries covered by the journal for our `Forum' section. It would be
based on liasing with the various editorial board members who have
contacts and interests in those countries.
Managing Editor - This would involve organising editorial
board and editorial working group meetings, circulating minutes and
liasing with the publishers Taylor and Francis with regard to promoting
the journal. This role might suit a graduate student wishing to gain
experience in academic journal production.
The editorial board meets three times a year in London with three
further editorial working group meetings scheduled in the intervening
months.
Debatte seeks to provide a radical critical analysis that is
sympathetic to democratic, labour, feminist and ecologist movements of
contemporary economic, social, cultural and political developments in
the region bounded by Germany in the west and Russia in the east. For
further details about the journal see
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cdeb
Open Letter to the European
Commission on Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities research in the
new FP, 2014-2020
Dear colleagues, with this message we would like to invite you to
sign an Open Letter addressed to the European Commissioner for Research
and Innovation (
www.eash.eu/openletter2011),
alerting her to the vital insights that Socio-economic Sciences and
Humanities (SSH) contribute to address Europe’s and the
world’s Grand Societal Challenges.
In view of legislative decisions to be taken on the next
100-Billion-worth EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020 (2014-2020), the
letter stresses the necessity for a varied and strong research
programme in the Socio-economic Sciences and Humanities (SSH): it
argues that neglecting such potential contributions as SSH research
risks undermining the EU strategy to develop innovative, inclusive and
sustainable societies. Yet, there still is a distinct danger of
insufficient funding in Horizon 2020 for research areas such as
cultural change, demography, education, the economy and globalisation,
identity politics and social cohesion, and many others. For background
information on these matters see:
www.eash.eu/openletter2011.
The Open Letter initiative has grown out of deliberations among a
number of European umbrella organisations in the area of SSH, and seeks
to bring to the attention of the European Commission and national
governments the concerns of the largest research community in Europe.If
you agree, that a substantial and independent SSH-centered research
programme should be included in all future European Framework
Programmes, we invite you to sign the Open Letter online at
www.eash.eu/openletter2011.
Please also kindly spread this invitation to sign in your
institutions and among your networks.First results of this initiative
will be presented to Commissioner Geoghegan-Quinn on 10 November 2011.
We hope to be able to point to a high number of signatures as an
expression of a groundswell of support and concern among SSH
communities. The collection of signatures will, however, continue after
this specific date, as the legislative decision process will last for
longer.
Thank you in advance for signing and for supporting this
initiative. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions:
SSH-letter@net4society.eu.On
behalf of the Inter-agency Task Group on SSH.
Sir Roderick Floud (Chair ESF Standing Committee for the Social
Sciences)
Professor Milena Zic-Fuchs (Chair ESF Standing Committee for the
Humanities)
For Your Information
Tributes to Pierangelo
Garegnani
Free Book on Free Trade
This is just to let you know that free copies of my book
Free Trade Doesn’t Work are
available to anyone who writes me to ask for one.
Ian Fletcher, Senior Economist
Coalition for a Prosperous America
URPE: Participating in
Occupy Wall Street
Please respond if you are interested in any of the ideas below,
or if you have more information.
It has been exciting to see how many URPE members, and people who
are part of the broader URPE community, have given teach-ins or open
forums, or engaged in one-on-one discussions on their own at Liberty
Square. If you want to see who the presenters have been, and what their
topics were, go to
http://www.nycga.net/.
Then Click on Events in the navigation bar at the top, and fill in the
search categories starting with Sept. 17. (URPE people have also been
active in other parts of the country, including Boston.)
Several of us living close to NYC have been exploring ways URPE
can facilitate this involvement organizationally.
The NYC General Assembly currently includes 62 working groups (in
various stages of development and definition) that meet to plan
different aspects of life at Liberty Square, and ways to expand their
activities beyond that area and to collaborate with other
progressive/radical groups. Click on Groups at the link above to see
them. New groups are constantly appearing, and existing groups are
constantly changing.
The Empowerment and Education committee coordinates talks (open
forums, teach-ins and workshops); a few of us have been to meetings.
They are working on additional projects that are still in formation,
like starting a Nomadic University, through which teachers would give
free classes in various parts of NYC. There is a study group
subcommittee -- not sure what that does. Additional groups could be
venues for URPE people wishing to participate. Alternative Economics is
mostly focusing on coops, but is also interested in general economics
education. There is a free library that accepts books. There is a group
for outreach to universities. And more . . .
TYPES OF TALKS
(There is no amplification -- all talks are done with the Human
Microphone)
There are currently 3 formats that I know of, and they generally
take place either at Liberty Square or nearby. (There is talk of
expanding or moving them to Washington Square Park but this hasn't
happened yet.)
1. Open Forum
This takes place every day from 6:00 to 7:00. It is more formally
organized than the other formats. "The Open Forum is daily sharing of
ideas and topics related to the occupation. Speakers should frame the
discussion around the big ideas and not any specific organization,
campaign or project. Anything that might seem to promote a political
party, platform, project, cause or organization or could be seen as
recruiting should be avoided. No handing out of fliers or circulating
of sign up sheets for specific organizations, projects or causes. You
can however hand out informational materials as long as they are not
affiliated with an organization. Presenters can set up a table and
invite people to come by after the forum." People should speak for
15-20 minutes (leave time for Human Mic to repeat what you say) and
then encourage debate and discussion. There is a detailed protocol on
setting up open forums -- publicizing them, arranging for taping,
letting people know about it in the Square before the event, etc.
Please read
this carefully if you are considering doing
an open forum.
2. Teach-ins
These are primarily to impart and discuss information. The time
slots are 12-2, 2-4, or 4-6.
The requirements are much looser than for open forums. You can
pretty much talk about what you want, and divide the time between
talking and discussion the way you want to. They suggest that you do
the same preparation as above, to get an audience and taping, but it's
more optional.
3. Workshops
These are like teach-ins but more hands-on and participatory, to
teach a skill.
TO GET ON THE CALENDAR:
For Open Forums, you can email me at
soapbox@comcast.net. (I joined
the Empowerment and Education Committee, so I can put events on the
calendar after running them by others on the committee -- haven't tried
it yet, though!) Send possible dates and times, plus a brief bio, and a
title and short description of the talk. And read the Hosting Protocol
above, to see how to prepare. For Teach-ins or Workshops, send an email
with Proposal in the title to:
occupy101@gmail.com (It would be great to hear about it if you do
this. If you don't hear back, let me know and I can follow up.)
POSSIBLE TOPIC SUGGESTIONS FROM OCCUPIERS -- OR CHOOSE YOUR OWN
TOPIC
Some ideas for Open Forums:
- The 2007/2008 financial crisis explained
- Inflation effects explained
- Government debt: who do we owe, when is it due, how heavily do
we rely on other countries to fund us, what are the limitations, how
will this affect our future, etc.
- US budget: current budget-making process
- Health care and economy. The cycle of money within the current
Healthcare System (Medical Schools, Doctors, Pharmaceutical Companies)
- How does stock exchange work
- Iceland 2008-2011 financial crisis and measures for resolution
- Basic Banking: what do banks do for us and what does our money
do for them? Projected profits from recent scale-up in fees (if
available)
- Bailout: what were the economic arguments for this? Will
Americans ever recuperate their “loan”?
- Obama’s September $447 billion job package: is this a
solution?
- Welfare: how does it work, how can you access it and how long
can you rely on it?
- The stimulus package: What was it? How were the almost $800
billion allocated and did we or can we expect to see any real results?
- How to save your money (how much should you save, how can you
keep it safe, what are the alternatives to banks?)
- The economic impact of the wars
YOU ALSO CAN PARTICIPATE BY JOINING A GROUP, SETTING UP A TABLE,
OR ENGAGING IN CONVERSATIONS.
