Editors'
Note
Given the crisis in economics and economic crisis, we are
receiving more and more "calls for action," so we have created a new
section, "Call for Support." In this section you will find a
petition in support of a Financial
Transactions Tax, an economists' statement
of support for OWS, and a call to Occupy University by a graduate
student at UMKC (among others). In this digital age, these are
easy but significant ways for heterodox economists to display their
activism and support. We encourage our readers to support any and
all of these calls.
''Rethinking economics in a time of economic
distress'' was the theme of the ICAPE conference that took place at the
University of Massachusetts at Amherst few weeks ago. About 200
heterodox economists including 40 graduate students attended the
conference. In addition to the size of the conference, it was certainly
a well-organized, intellectually stimulating conference. If you missed
this excellent conference, you can download papers from here.
Finally, we'd like to call your attention to the passing of Mark Blaug on
November 18th. Blaug's Economic Theory in Retrospect (1962)
challenged us to provide rigorous alternatives; as he said, "it takes a
new theory, and not just the destructive exposure of assumptions or the
collection of new facts, to beat an old theory."
In solidarity,
Tae-Hee Jo and Ted Schmidt, Editors
Email: heterodoxnews@gmail.com
Website: http://heterodoxnews.com
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Call
for Papers
Critical
Perspectives on International Business
Three Special Issue Calls for Papers
History of
'Economics as Culture' 4th workshop
March 9th, 2012 | University of Cergy-Pontoise
(near Paris, France)
Deadline for submissions: December 15, 2011.
This is to remind you that we are organizing on behalf of the H2S
(History of Social Science) group, Economix (CNRS UMR 7235) and THEMA
(CNRS UMR 8184), the fourth annual workshop on the “history of
‘economics as culture’ (Histoire culturelle des savoirs
économiques)” to be held Friday, March 9th, 2012 at the
University of Cergy-Pontoise (near Paris, France). Since its first
installment in 2009, this workshop is bringing together scholars from
different disciplines such as economics, history, art and literary
theory, science and technology studies – this list is not
exclusive – to discuss, from an historical vantage point, the
place of economics in our culture.
Below are some suggestions of topics that exemplify what will be at
issue:
- Discussions of the interactions between art, literature and
economics; for example how artists, writers have articulated more or
less elaborate representations of what was the economy and/or political
economy and/or some part of these.
- Studies of the interactions between cultural or artistic objects
such as magazines, books, maps, photographs, paintings, graphs and
economic thinking. Also, we encourage scholars to consider economic
texts as cultural items, reflecting upon the consequences their form
had on their reception.
- The depiction of economics as part of cultures (political,
commercial, scientific, etc.) of past (including very recent past)
societies; in particular, discussions of economic representations (or
culture) of specific social groups such as merchants, workers,
businessmen, etc.
The workshop will comprise of 5 or 6 papers containing genuine and
unpublished research. If you have an interest in these topics, please
send us a proposal of no more than 1000 words or a draft paper of what
you want to present before December 15, 2011 at the following address: historyofeconomicsasculture@gmail.com
If you are interested in the subject but are unable to send a proposal,
feel free to contact us at the same address for further
discussion/information. Also, last year program is available here.
How Class Works 2012
Conference
June 7-9, 2012 | SUNY Stony Brook, US
The Center for Study of Working Class Life is pleased to announce
the How Class Works – 2012 Conference, to be held at the State
University of New York at Stony Brook, June 7-9, 2012. Proposals for
papers, presentations, and sessions are welcome until December 12, 2011
according to the guidelines below. For more information, visit our Web
site at <
www.workingclass.sunysb.edu>.
Purpose and orientation: The conference seeks to explore ways in
which an explicit recognition of class helps to understand the social
world in which we live, and ways in which analysis of society can
deepen our understanding of class as a social relationship.
Presentations should take as their point of reference the lived
experience of class; proposed theoretical contributions should be
rooted in and illuminate social realities. Presentations are welcome
from people outside academic life when they sum up social experience in
a way that contributes to the themes of the conference. Formal papers
will be welcome but are not required. All presentations should be
accessible to an interdisciplinary audience.
Conference themes: The conference welcomes proposals for
presentations that advance our understanding of any of the following
themes.
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The mosaic of class, race, and gender. To explore how class
shapes racial, gender, and ethnic experience and how different racial,
gender, and ethnic experiences within various classes shape the meaning
of class.
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Class, power, and social structure. To explore the social
content of working, middle, and capitalist classes in terms of various
aspects of power; to explore ways in which class and structures of
power interact, at the workplace and in the broader society.
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Class and community. To explore ways in which class operates
outside the workplace in the communities where people of various
classes live.
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Class in a global economy. To explore how class identity and
class dynamics are influenced by globalization, including experience of
cross-border organizing, capitalist class dynamics, international labor
standards.
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Middle class? Working class? What's the difference and why
does it matter? To explore the claim that the U.S. is a middle class
society and contrast it with the notion that the working class is the
majority; to explore the relationships between the middle class and the
working class, and between the middle class and the capitalist class.
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Class, public policy, and electoral politics. To explore how
class affects public policy, with special attention to health care, the
criminal justice system, labor law, poverty, tax and other economic
policy, housing, and education; to explore the place of electoral
politics in the arrangement of class forces on policy matters.
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Class and culture: To explore ways in which culture transmits
and transforms class dynamics.
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Pedagogy of class. To explore techniques and materials useful
for teaching about class, at K-12 levels, in college and university
courses, and in labor studies and adult education courses.
How to submit proposals for How Class Works – 2012
Conference:
Proposals for presentations must include the following
information: a) title; b) which of the eight conference themes will be
addressed; c) a maximum 250 word summary of the main points,
methodology, and slice of experience that will be summed up; d)
relevant personal information indicating institutional affiliation (if
any) and what training or experience the presenter brings to the
proposal; e) presenter's name, address, telephone, fax, and e-mail
address. A person may present in at most two conference sessions. To
allow time for discussion, sessions will be limited to three
twenty-minute or four fifteen-minute principal presentations. Sessions
will not include official discussants. Proposals for poster sessions
are welcome. Presentations may be assigned to a poster session.
Proposals for sessions are welcome. A single session proposal
must include proposal information for all presentations expected to be
part of it, as detailed above, with some indication of willingness to
participate from each proposed session member.
the How Class Works - 2012 Conference, Center for Study of
Working Class Life, Department of Economics, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY
11794-4384.
Timetable: Proposals must be received by December 12, 2012. After
review by the program committee, notifications will be mailed on
January 17, 2012.
The conference will be at SUNY Stony Brook June 7-9, 2012.
Conference registration and housing reservations will be possible after
February 20, 2012. Details and updates will be posted at
http://www.workingclass.sunysb.edu.
Book: Information Technology
and Computers and the Modern Economy
Call for contributions to a book
Edited by: Cretson Dalmadge and Dale McHardy
Main Objective:
This publication seeks to provide a thorough analysis of benefits,
limitations, challenges and dilemmas related to the recent astonishing
revolution of information technology and computers, and to critically
examine the impact of this revolution on modern economies and
societies. It is expected to be the most comprehensive publication in
this area up to-date.
For more information, download
Publication Outline or contact editors
at E-mail:
dalmadgec@wssu.edu,
dmchardy@bahamasdevelopmentbank.com,
or
dalemchardy@hotmail.com
International Cooperative
Research Conference 2012
21 – 23
June 2012 | Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand | website
Building a Better World The Role of Cooperatives
and Mutuals in Economy and Society
This conference is organised the New
Zealand Association for the Study of Cooperatives and Mutuals in
conjunction with Victoria University of Wellington and the New Zealand
Cooperatives Association. Anyone is welcome to attend the conference,
whether you intend to present a paper or not.
Purpose: The United Nations has
declared 2012 as the International Year of Cooperatives. This
conference is part of a series of activities aimed at understanding and
promoting the cooperative business model. In addition, it is intended
to identify and promote ongoing research on cooperatives. It will also
serve as an initiative to build a community of experts and interested
parties for ongoing collaboration, dialogue and research on
cooperatives.
Place: Rydges Hotel (75 Featherston
Street), located near the Pipitea Campus, Victoria University of
Wellington, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand. Wellington is
the bustling cosmopolitan capital of New Zealand. Located in the
North Island, it is the centre of government, business, and the arts,
and the home to a vibrant academic community and culture.
Submission of papers (for more details
go to Abstracts page): This is an invitation for papers to be presented
at the conference. Potential participants are requested to submit
a one-page abstract of their conference paper by 15 February 2012 and
should attach a CV.
You will be informed by 29 March 2012
if your paper has been accepted. We welcome submissions from
graduate students. Keynote speakers (confirmed):
- Michael L. Cook, Robert D. Partridge Professor of Cooperative
Leadership Division of Applied Social Science University of Missouri,
Columbia, Missouri, USA
Plenary panels:
1. Cooperative
Banking in the Context of the Global Finance Crisis
2. The
Sustainability of Producer Cooperatives in New Zealand and Beyond
Left Forum 2012
March 16-18 2012 | Pace University, US | website
Occupy The System: Confronting Global Capitalism
Beginning with the celebrated Arab Spring and the explosive revolts in
Greece and beyond uprisings against dictators, crony capitalism,
corporate greed and neo-liberal state austerity regimes have spread
across the globe. Tactical innovation in the new movements from Tahrir
Square to Madison, Wisconsin are breaking down old barriers in the
fight for a better future for the world’s people and the planet.
Although it has been a long time coming, the Occupy Wall Street
movement’s message is clear: one percent of people living in the
wealthiest nation in the world have grabbed most of the country’s
wealth and used it to corrupt politics, while unemployment, mortgage
foreclosures, strangling student debt and rising poverty grip the rest
of the population. The world is changing, the people are rising, and
new possibilities for the Left are emerging.
Against this inspiring background, the Left Forum will host its annual
conference at Pace University on the weekend of March 16-18, 2012. As
it has done for many years, the conference will gather civil
libertarians, environmentalists, anarchists, socialists, communists,
trade unionists, black and Latino freedom fighters, feminists, anti-war
activists, students and people struggling against unemployment,
foreclosure, inadequate housing and deteriorating schools from among
those active in the U.S. and many other countries, as well. We will
again share our activities and perspectives with special attention to
all that has changed in 2011 and what it means for the prospects of
progressive change in 2012 and beyond.
Once a year, the Left Forum creates a space to analyze the great
political questions of our times. Activists, intellectuals, trade
unionists, movement-builders and others come together to identify new
strategies for broadening the anti-corporate capitalist movement. In
the wake of a persistent crisis of the international economic and
political system, a new left politics in the United States and around
the world is taking shape. Will the mass movements in Egypt, Greece,
Latin America, the United States and elsewhere further extend their
participatory democratic, community-building, non-capitalist, and
caring forms of struggle into the institutions of everyday life? Will
the movements confront and disrupt the complicity of neo-liberal state
elites with corporate capital? Are there alternatives to the
increasingly brutal capitalist system on the horizon? Join us in
exploring such questions and moving forward left agendas for social
change.
- Early registration discounts are available for a limited time
(e.g., students: $10)
- For information on panel submissions go to "www.leftforum.org", click "submit
panels button."
- To see panels from last year’s conference go to "www.leftforum.org", click "past
events" and choose a particualr conference yea.
- All queries should be directed at leftforum@leftforum.org
The London
Conference in Critical Thought
June 29th and
30th, 2012 | Birkbeck College, London, UK | website
In collaboration with the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, the
London Conference in Critical Thought (LCCT) is designed to create a
space for an interdisciplinary exchange of ideas for scholars who work
with "critical" traditions and concerns. We welcome work from the
humanities and social sciences, including but not limited to papers
drawing upon continental philosophy, critical legal theory, critical
geography and the Frankfurt School. The LCCT aims to provide an
opportunity for those who frequently find themselves at the margins of
their department or discipline to engage with other scholars who share
theoretical approaches and interests. Interdisciplinary and
inter-institutional, the conference hopes to foster emergent critical
thought and provide new avenues for critically orientated scholarship
and collaboration.
Scholars working in philosophy, literature, geography, law, art, and
politics departments have already proposed panels and/or streams for
the conference. These address issues as diverse as animality,
sovereignty, human rights, cosmopolitanism, the city, and the
relationship between text and space. Through these streams participants
are encouraged to engage with a variety of thinkers including Kant,
Deleuze, Marx, Lacan, Foucault, Spinoza and Derrida, to name a few.
If you would like to present a paper as part of an existing
stream/panel, propose a new stream/panel or contribute to the general
stream please see our website for details. The deadline for stream
proposals is the 15th of January, 2012, and the deadline for paper
proposals is the 19th of February, 2012. The conference will be open
for registration as of April 2012 and is free for participants.
The London Conference in Critical Thought is co-hosted by the Birkbeck
Institute for the Humanities for the inaugural year of 2012.
Œconomia:
“Economics and literature: beyond praise and disparagement”
Since the nascent of political economy in 17th century, and even
before, literature has been both a place for broadcasting and
challenging economic ideas through idealizing fables and pastiches. In
turn, economists could borrow from literature some ways to present
their own ideas or to criticize alternative doctrines. The purpose of
this special issue is to reflect on the transformations of the
frontiers between economics and literature: to investigate how
literature can reflect economic ideas and arguments and to see how
economics and economists have dealt with literary presentations of
economic ideas.
Regarding the complex links between economics and literature, it is
quite certain that very different national traditions can be
identified. For instance, it is sometimes said that the 1848 Revolution
in France established a clear-cut divorce between economics and
literature. Similar breaking points may have occurred at different
times in different countries. Later on, economists that were against
the use of mathematical symbolism and reasoning would be labeled
“économistes littéraires”. From this last
phrase, one is allowed to think that, from the marginalist revolution
onward, not only literature had become of no use to the development of
political economy but also that it was now something incompatible with
its development as a science.
Things are probably not that simple, since the boundaries of literature
itself have necessarily changed in parallel with the transformations of
society, and that what could be expected from literature at the end of
19th century, after the burst of modernity, was quite different from
what could be expected in the end of 17th century. Literature has
always evolved in relation to the development of society and human
knowledge, taking as its own raw material the representations of the
world expressed in all fields of science and philosophy. Therefore,
literature has always redefined its own boundaries as it was
progressively facing the development of political economy, moral
philosophy and political thought as organized discourses. Again, it
would have to cope with the rise of other social sciences in the 19th
century, and more largely with the institutionalization of the
production of knowledge and the rise of disciplinary boundaries.
Therefore, the interplay between economics and literature is twofold.
On the one hand, political economy progressively developed as an
autonomous discourse, where arguments, ways of thinking, proofs,
debates, contradictions, examples, commentaries, hypotheses,
conclusions, have been progressively normalized in such a way that
literature would no longer appear as an adequate means for broadcasting
its own discourse and representations of the world. On the other hand,
as political economy was progressively organizing itself as a
discipline, literature would reflect in a different way upon the
development of economics, either to ridicule its logical and abstract
way of thinking, or to condemn its development as a « dismal
» science, or possibly to make it a source for literary
inventions and novelty.
Œconomia – History /Methodology/Philosophy, plans to
publish papers dealing with this subtle and moving links between
economics and literature. It welcomes articles dealing with a
particular work, author, national tradition, or providing a broader
view of the relations between economics and literature through the
study of specific genres and sub-genres (farces, comedies, pamphlets,
fables, novels, philosophical novels, essays, utopias, etc.) and the
way it is bound to reflect upon the transformations of economics.
Articles dealing with original economic ideas from well-known writers
are also welcome. Authors are invited to submit an article (in English
or in French) at: http://www.editorialmanager/oec.
For any complementary question, please contact us at info@weboeconomia.org Editors
should retain the right not to go ahead with the special receive enough
papers of sufficient quality. If there are some strong enough, then
they could be published as stand-alone papers.
Panel/Stream Proposal for
AHE/FAPE/IIPPE Conference
July 5-8th, 2012 | Paris,
France
1. Economics: Unfit for Purpose
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. Call for paper can be seen
here or
here.
2. Pierre Bourdieu and his contribution
to economics
I would like to inform you of a conference that will be held in
Paris, France, 5-8 July 2012, and jointly organised by the Association
for Heterodox Economics (AHE), the French Association of Political
Economy (FAPE), and the International Initiative for Promoting
Political Economy (IIPPE). The conference theme is "Political Economy
and the Outlook for Capitalism" and aims at bringing together scholars
from all strands of political economy and heterodox economics in order
to discuss their future and the recent developments in the global
economy and in economic science following the global economic crisis.
For this conference, as coordinator of the IIPPE social capital working
group, I would like to propose a panel with a general theme on the
contribution of Pierre Bourdieu in economics. Pierre Bourdieu
(1930-2002) is a French sociologist, who has used the concept of social
capital, along with forms of cultural and symbolic capital, to explain
the reproduction of capitalist social structures and power relations.
Also, he is known for his personal engagement in social struggles
against neoliberal globalisation, and his active participation in the
movement for intellectual autonomy and the protection of public
interest.
Almost a decade after his death, and in the midst of the worst
recession that the world has experienced since WWII, Bourdieu's works
and views on neoliberalism, the role of academia, and the need for
resistance at a global scale are today more relevant than ever before.
I think that the conference offers a great opportunity to discuss the
difficulties of our times and Bourdieu's contribution in this regard. I
thus invite you to submit papers and ideas for a panel that will focus
on Bourdieu's work. Abstracts should be submitted to Asimina
Christoforou (
asimina@aueb.gr) by
the end of January 2012.
3. Marxist Political Economy
Working Group
The Marxist Political Economy Working Group of IIPPE is seeking
submissions for the third IIPPE international conference to be held in
Paris, France, 5-8 July 2012. Serving as one of the IIPPE’s main
areas of commitment, Marxist political economy sustained a strong
presence during the past conferences, and is expected to do so in the
coming event, not least under the current overall theme,
‘Political economy and the outlook for capitalism’.
As a working group, we are planning to organise (streams of) panels
around some specific themes. However, we do not exclude papers beyond
these proposed topics, and will do our best to arrange forums for
discussion for any papers falling within the bounds of Marxist
political economy. In addition, we also encourage contributors whether
individually or collectively to propose their own panels/streams.
Abstracts for papers should be submitted to Gong H. Gimm (
ghgimm@gmail.com) and/or Heesang
Jeon (
hidarang@gmail.com) by
the end of December, 2011. For panel proposals, they should reach us by
15 December, 2011.
The two panels/streams we propose are: (1) Knowledge,
Contemporary Capitalism and Value Theory; and (2) Value Theory and the
World Economy.
(1) Knowledge, Contemporary Capitalism and Value Theory
The unprecedented scale and scope of technological developments
in the last sixty years have brought about the need to reconsider the
role of knowledge, especially science and technology, and its location
within contemporary capitalism. Many theories, hypotheses and
nomenclatures have been proposed to address this need, including but
not limited to the knowledge economy, post-industrial society,
cognitive capitalism theory, new growth theory and so on. We are
seeking contributions from diverse perspectives, especially those
critically engaging with the approaches mentioned above, ranging from
abstract theoretical work studying the role of knowledge in economic
theories to case studies of specific industries or activities. In
particular, we welcome contributions drawing from Marx’s value
theory, on the following topics:
-
Worker Skills and the Value of Labour Power
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Labour Process Theory and Software
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Cognitive Capitalism
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Critique of New Growth Theory
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Intellectual Property Rights and Value Theory
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Knowledge and Creative Destruction
(2) Value Theory and the World Economy
As with its predecessors since Marx’s time, the current
economic crisis is also a crisis of economics. And the helplessness of
today’s mainstream economics is most dramatically revealed in its
inability to recognise the nature of capitalism as a world economy.
This is one of the main reasons Marxist political economy is gaining
popularity these days. But what is the Marxist theory of the world
economy?
Whilst it is true that generations of Marxist political economists from
Lenin and Luxemburg to Brenner and Harvey, as well as Marx himself,
have keenly aspired to address that aspect of capitalism, still there
is plenty of room for further development and controversy.
Theoretically, this is mainly because it has been extremely difficult
to extend Marx’s well-founded but highly abstract value theory in
light of the relatively concrete phenomena prevailing at the
‘world’ level. To perform this task adequately, it is
necessary to confront a series of problems to be resolved before even
being able to face the main task: the peculiarities of Marx’s
‘method’; the relationship between the stages in
Marx’s intellectual development, not least the interpretation of
his notorious ‘Six-Book Plan’ which assigns a specific
place to the world economy/market; and the conceptualisation of the
mode of production and its periodisation at the world economy level;
and so on. Some stimulus and complexity arises as formerly unpublished
manuscripts and notebooks of Marx containing important hints about how
he regarded the world economy are made available. On the other hand,
the world economy itself has been changing with unprecedented rapidity
and complexity since around the time Marx wrote Capital, posing new
sets of problems to each generation of Marxists over and over again.
While this has contributed to producing various (quasi-)Marxist
theories of the global concerning imperialism, dependency, uneven and
combined development, world systems, unequal exchange etc., it also
seems to have impeded a fully fledged deliberation about how the world
economy can be located within Marx’s mature value theory. Against
this background, we propose to hold a panel/stream under the theme
‘Value Theory and the World Market’, and look for
contributors. Papers, either theoretical or empirical, may deal with
specific Marxist theories of the global, or focus upon any
methodological problems arising in extending value theory, or any
specific topic at the ‘world’ level such as crisis,
financialisation, the relationship between the national, the local, and
the global etc.
Further details on the conference are available
here and on the panel proposal
here.
Revue de
la régulation: The Political Economy of Asia
This call for papers seeks to establish an echo chamber in a generalist
journal for old and new studies of the political economy of Asia.
Although one can argue that heterodoxy has triumphed in Asia, it is
also unquestionably the region of the world in which the concept of
developmental
state has the most meaning (Chalmers Johnson,
Japan: Who
Governs? – The Rise of the Developmental State, 1995). At the
height of the Washington Consensus, the World Bank recognized--albeit
through gritted teeth--the beneficial role played by various regional
governments in the
Asian Miracle (1993).
For twenty years, China’s market-based socialism has given it
increasing prominence in the region’s economy, changing the
game-plan by raising the stakes considerably. China’s ascendancy
in turn raises the question of whether the state-versus-market debate
in Asia has not ended, leaving the field open to other questions that
are both more circumscribed and more relevant. In research terms, the
extraordinary power of Chinese development should not overshadow the
variety of economic systems and institutional forms that make up the
region, a vast zone that encompasses South Asia, Southeast Asia, and
East Asia.
Several research strands seem to us to energize this theme:
1. The Role of Governments
Pioneering studies by Evans, Rueschemeyer and Skocpol (
Bringing the
State Back In, 1985), Jomo (
A Question of Class, Class, Capital,
the State, and Uneven development in Malaya, 1988), Wade (
Governing
the Market, 1990), Amsden (
Asia’s next Giant, South Korea
and Late Industrialization, 1992) and more recently Ha-Joon Chang (
Institutional
Change and economic Development, 2007) are not widely known in
France, or are at least too seldom cited outside of publications
specifically focused on Asian development. Furthermore, these authors
have participated in the rise of non-Northian institutionalism in
contemporary American, British, and Asian political economics. Their
studies articulate sociological, economic, political, and historical
research in a different way than does the more youthful research of
French scholars in the field, despite certain similarities. In any
event, a comparative synthesis such as these authors have performed has
not yet been published by French-language researchers.
Case studies of the “developmental state” in Asia could
also contribute, especially longitudinal studies of political
economies, particularly of the role of central planning in Asia –
for example in India, Malaysia, etc.
The 1997 crisis and the different responses of governments to the
IMF’s recommendations and conditions could be compared to recent
public reactions to the effects of the subprime crisis. The consequent
disengagement or engagement of governments in economic activity also
raises numerous questions that deserve attention.
Finally, the study of the different national bureaucracies and the
on-going transformation of the instruments of power due to the
globalization of norms of public management (whose actual vectors have
yet to be established), but also of the spread of norms originating in
the Chinese model, constitute a field that is ripe for exploration.
2. Entrepreneurship and Political Power
How Asian capitalisms are portrayed is a recurrent, pluridisciplinary
theme is a perspective that has been stimulating to the regulationist
movement. Asia is a region in which, in order to illustrate the close
combination of institutional, political, and sociological factors,
singular forms of capitalism were identified very early on. These
include Crony Capitalism, which reveals the collusion between political
classes and business people, and State capitalism.
The role of political patronage in economies is an additional wide-open
research field (for example in Malaysia since the 1990s:
Malaysia’s
political economy: politics, patronage and profits, T. Gomez et
Jomo, 1999). Studies could also fruitfully pursue lines of inquiry
derived from B. Hibou’s powerful recent theoretical advances in
Anatomie
de la domination (2011) as well as from the contributions of the
entrepreneurial class as described by Guiheux in
Les grands
entrepreneurs privés à Taiwan –
La main
visible de la prospérité (2002).
3. The National Consequences of Regional Integration
The rapidity of the integration of emerging Asian economies into
globalization, their diversity in terms of standard of living, size,
and specialization, and their close inter-relationships raise new
research questions. The evolution of the japanese relative position is
also to be questioned. Such questions could be expressed in terms of
regional integration, as has been done by Yang (
Sub-regional
Economic Integrations, 2011), J. Ravenhill (
The New East Asian
Regionalism, a political domino effect, 2010). Contributions to
knowledge of these topics is interesting to the extent that it
emphasizes links to local development across countries, which is
important because local development is a dimension of the diversity of
singular economic systems.
4. The Effects of Chinese Power
As Boyer (
How Does China's Growth and Innovation Strategy Affect the
World Economy? 2010) and Yang (
China’s Move to
Preferential Trading, 2009) have shown, China’s dominance
unquestionably deserves separate treatment in terms of regional and
global integration. The local effects of the new Chinese power are
numerous and occasionally highly sensitive in nature. Whether its
influence is expressed through trade, investment, multinational
corporations, economic cooperation, or through the spread of new
economic and political norms, China is currently among the strongest
vectors of economic and social change in the region.
5. The Rapid Changes in Asian Societies
Finally, our knowledge about the political economy of contemporary Asia
could be enhanced by investigations of other changes in Asian
societies. Such subjects might include improvements in living
standards, the dynamics of social inequalities, migration, ecology,
urbanization, as well as on-going transformations of agrarian societies
(a non-exhaustive list intended as suggestions).
Articles submitted should be no longer than 10000 words (inclusive of
notes, references and any annexes including tables and figures).
Articles must be sent to
regulation@revues.org.
Please address your article before May 2012 the 25th.
Directors: Pierre Alary and Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux
See this CFP in French
here.
Call for
Participants
2011 Australian Society of
Heterodox (SHE) Economists Conference
5-6 December 2011 | Sydney, Australia
Details of conference, conference program, and registration are
available from conference website.
Download the full
program.
13th Annual Summer Institute
for the Preservation of the History of Economics
June 29-July 2, 2012 | University of Richmond, USA
The 13th annual Summer Institute for the Preservation of the History of
Economics will be held at the University of Richmond, June 29-July 2,
2012. The Institute offers a forum for graduate students and
distinguished scholars to present work in progress or more polished
papers to a lively audience. Our mission is to help young scholars
connect in a workshop setting with young and eminent scholars in the
field. Past speakers include Brad Bateman, Mauro Boianovsky, Marcel
Boumans, James Buchanan, Dave Colander, Evelyn Forget, Dan Hammond,
Samuel Hollander, Kevin Hoover, M. Ali Khan, Anthony Laden, David Levy,
Charles McCann, Deirdre McCloskey, Steve Medema, Phil Mirowski, Leon
Montes, Mary Morgan, Maria Pia Paganelli, Sandra Peart, Malcolm
Rutherford, the late Warren Samuels, Eric Schliesser, Gordon Tullock,
Anthony Waterman, and Roy Weintraub.
For the 2012 session, we invite proposals on any topic in the history
of economic thought. New participants are welcome, as are
recommendations and submissions from any and all interested parties. We
welcome suggestions and proposals in any area of the History of
Economics. Some possible topics are listed below.
We hope to organize a day examining the Thomas Jefferson Center, 50
years on. Calculus of Consent, Growth of Industrial Production in the
Soviet Union and In Search of a Monetary Constitution all appeared in
1962. Do we gain insight into the Virginia School by looking at them as
a whole?
Second, we are interested in 19th century economists who were also
logicians - Whately, Mill, Whewell, Jevons, "Lewis Carroll," Neville
Keynes. What insight about their economics do we gain by considering
their logic?
Also of interest is the economics textbook landscape of the 1940s and
later. The review of Tarshis's text by Rose Wilder Lane had the
consequence of presenting Samuelson's texts with a unique market
position. Are there other examples of the "public intellectuals"
changing the classroom instruction of economics?
The late William Niskanen held that the Council of Economic Advisors
has had a scandal free existence and might serve as a template for
expertise in a political context. The economists are selected for short
terms after which they return to their previous community. How does the
CEA compare with the institutions in which economists make a career?
James Buchanan plans to participate, as he has in past years.
We anticipate that the Institute will be able to offer modest honoraria
for presenters and students. Participation by upper-level undergraduate
and graduate students in economics or related disciplines is
encouraged. The History of Economics Society has assisted in the past
with conference expenses for students.
Conference events include good coffee and continental breakfasts,
lunches, as well as one or two working dinners. Details about travel,
housing and other matters will be posted early in 2012.
Please send expressions of interest and paper proposals or queries to:
The
American Road to Capitalism: Studies in Class-Structure, Economic
Development and Political Conflict, 1620-1877
December 8th, 2011 7:30 PM | website
BOOK PARTY / FORUM: Charles Post with Vivek Chibber & David
McNally.
Many US historians assume that capitalism either “came in the
first ships” or was the inevitable result of the expansion of the
market. Unable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social
labor in the antebellum US, most historians of the US Civil War have
privileged autonomous political and ideological factors, ignoring the
deep social roots of the conflict. This book, now short-Listed for the
2011 Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize, applies theoretical
insights derived from the debates on the transition to capitalism in
Europe to the historical literature on the US to produce a new analysis
of the origins of capitalism in the US, and the social roots of the
Civil War. Author Charles Post is Associate Professor of Sociology at
Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY. He has published in New
Left Review, Journal of Peasant Studies, Journal of Agrarian
Change,Against the Current and Historical Materialism.
Sliding scale: $6/$10/$15
Free for Brecht Forum Subscribers
Symposium:
Adam Smith - Lessons for the Left
20th January 2012 | University of Brighton, UK
It is now well established that Adam Smith’s purloining by
the Neo-liberal Thatcherites in the 1980s represented a partial and
superficial interpretation of his work, based on a particular reading
of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. This
initiative, forming the intellectual basis for a concerted political
and intellectual attack on social democracy and welfare politics, used
Smith as the foundation for a return to free-market economic thinking
and the construction of a neo-liberal hegemony over the terms of
economic growth and development that privileged low labour costs and
high investment opportunities for capital.
Despite a recognition of the inherent dangers of this economic policy
– short term speculative gain against longer term economic
stability; vulnerability to the ebbs and flows of finance capital and
global economic trends; the impoverishment of working people and
conflictual approach to their representation in parties, unions and
protest movements; the construction of a market instrumentalist culture
that sees moral and social worth primarily in economic utility –
it remains a dominant discourse. From Margaret Thatcher’s
free-market/strong state approach to political economy to Gordon
Brown’s ‘Smithian sympathy’ in economic policy, Smith
is part of an intellectual parlance that sustains a consensus within
mainstream politics that binds mainstream debate into a notion of the
market economy that is minimally and residually social; and in
particular, that is conditional on the performance of the market rather
than on moral principles and democratic political goals for state,
economy and society.
Adam Smith’s work is so much richer, however, than this partial
articulation suggests, and Smith remains a potent source for discussion
and debate, particularly on the Left. This symposium seeks to explore
what the Left might learn and take from Smith in articulating new forms
of critical political economy and of moral and political criticism and
resistance.
The day will comprise of four sessions led by academics developing
recent and current work on Adam Smith and what the Left can learn from
him:
- David Cassasas Marques (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona,
Spain)
- Mark Thomas (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
- Anita Rupprecht (University of Brighton, UK)
- Paul Reynolds (Edge Hill University, UK)
This symposium is organised on behalf of
CAPPE by Paul Reynolds, Reader in
Sociology and Social Philosophy, Edge Hill University with Professor
Bob Brecher, Director of CAPPE. The cost of the symposium is £25
(and £10 Unwaged/students) which includes lunch. Cheques should
be made out to Paul Reynolds (Adam Smith Symposium) and posted to 17
Lea Crescent, Ormskirk, Lancashire L39 1PG.
Cambridge
Union Society: "Expansionary Fiscal Contractions"
29th November, 7:30
pm | Cambridge union society Main chamber, UK
The Centre for Financial History in association with the Cambridge
University History Society (Clio) presents: ‘Expansionary fiscal
contraction and the 1981 Budget’. Our panel of experts will put
the government’s current policy of austerity in the context of
the most controversial Budget in recent British history. In 1981, Mrs
Thatcher’s Chancellor, Sir Geoffrey Howe, raised taxes in the
depths of the worst recession since the 1920s, prompting 364 economists
to write in an open letter to The Times that there was ‘no basis
in economic theory’ for the government’s policies which
threatened ‘social and political stability’. Today, George
Osborne tells us that ‘there is no alternative’ to the
government’s spending cuts. Is he right? Was Mrs Thatcher right
in 1981?
Speakers:
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Sir Adam Ridley was a member of the Government Economic
Service from 1964 to 1975, Economic Adviser to the Conservative Party
Shadow Cabinet from 1974 to 1979, Assistant Director and Director of
the Conservative Research Department from 1974 to 1979 and Special
Advisor to the Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1979 to 1985.
-
Sir Tim Lankester joined HM Treasury in 1973 after a period
at the World Bank. In 1981, he was Mrs Thatcher’s Private
Secretary. Sir Tim has also served as an Executive Director of the
World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. He recently retired as
President of Corpus Christi College, Oxford having also served as the
Director of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the
University of London.
-
Dr Anthony Hotson joined the Bank of England in 1978 and
worked in the Economics Division, Governors’ Office and Money
Markets Division. After serving as Assistant Commissioner of the
Building Societies Commission in 1987 he was employed by McKinsey &
Company and then at UBS Warburg as Managing Director and head of the
Financial Institutions Group.
-
Ben Ashby is Managing Director and head of credit research at
HSBC. Prior to joining HSBC, Mr Ashby spent several years at JP Morgan
where he was head of European financials credit research and then a
credit trader in JP Morgan’s proprietary positioning business. Mr
Ashby is an alumnus of the Judge Business School and Jesus College.
The event will be chaired by Dr Bill Janeway, senior advisor at
Warburg Pincus and Founder, Cambridge Endowment for Research in
Finance.
Demokratie!
Welche Demokratie? Postdemokratie kritisch hinterfragt
1 – 2 Dec. 2011 | Linz Wissensturm
Conference on post-democracy with Colin Crouch (in German)
Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of Economy, Johannes Kepler
University Linz, Austria
Weitere Infos unter:
http://www.icae.at/wp/category/tagungen/2011-demokratie-1-2-12/
Donnerstag, 1.12.2011 | Wissensturm
19:00 Uhr: Eröffnung und Festvortrag
- Eröffnung der Tagung durch Walter Ötsch, Eva
Schobesberger (Stadt Linz), Johann Mayr (Stadt Linz) und Josef Moser
(Arbeiterkammer Oberösterreich)
- Festvortrag mit Diskussion von Colin Crouch: Postdemokratie und
das Überleben des Neoliberalismus trotz der Krise
- Koreferent: Anton Pelinka
Freitag, Vormittag, 2.12.2011 | Wissensturm
09:00 - 10:00 Uhr: Bob Jessop
- Is democracy still the best possible political shell for
capitalism?
- Koreferent: Wolfram Elsner
10:30 - 11:30 Uhr: Arne Heise
- Vom ‚Nationalen Keynesianischen Wohlfahrtstaat‘ zum
‚Globalen Nozickschen Minimalstaat‘ oder: Die
Transformation der Gesellschaft in der Demokratie und einige offene
Fragen
- Koreferentin: Katrin Hirte
11:30 - 12:30 Uhr: Jürgen Nordmann
- Die neoliberale Oligarchie. Zum aktuellen Verhältnis von
Besitz und Macht in der Demokratie
- Koreferent: Arne Heise
Freitag, Nachmittag, 2.12.2011 | Wissensturm
Session 1
14:00 - 15:00 Uhr: Ingolfur Blühdorn
- Postdemokratische Wende: Was meint ein soziologisch starker
Begriff von Postdemokratie und was kann er leisten?
- Koreferentin: Marie Kajewski
15:00 - 16:00 Uhr: David Salomon
- Der Bürger als Edelmann? Zur Kritik liberaler und
postdemokratischer Konstitutionen des politischen Subjekts
- Koreferentin: Katrin Hirte
16:30 - 17:30 Uhr: Marie Kajewski
- Das unberührte Herz der Bürger. Wie erweckt man
politische Leidenschaft?
- Koreferent: Jürgen Nordmann
Session 2
14:00 - 15:00 Uhr: Karin Fischer
- Demokratisierung von oben: Von der neoliberalen Diktatur zur
Markt-demokratie. Das Beispiel Chile.
- Koreferent: Jürgen Nordmann
15:00 - 16:00 Uhr: Dario Azzellini
- Von der repressiven Formaldemokratie zur partizipativen und
protagonistischen Demokratie - Venezuelas steiniger
Transformations-prozess gegen Eliten, Markt und Neokolonialismus
- Koreferent: Klaus Dörre
16:30 - 17:30 Uhr: Wolfgang Plaimer
- Postdemokratie in Österreich? Am Beispiel von politischen
Entscheidungsprozessen
- Koreferent: Walter Ötsch
17:30 - 18:30 Uhr: Klaus Dörre
- Neue Wirtschaftsdemokratie – ein Konzept
gesellschaftlicherTransformation
- Chair: Walter Ötsch
Development Within or
Against Capitalism
29 November 2011, 5:00 PM | School of Oriental
and African Studies, Russell Square: Room: G50
University of London
Speaker: Ben Selwyn (University of Sussex): Development Within or
Against Capitalism: A Critical Engagement with Amartya Sen's
'Development as Freedom'
Global
Health, Political Economy and Beyond
Wednesday 7th December 2011 | Department
of International Politics, City University London, UK
Programme
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
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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
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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
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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
Hyman P.
Minsky Summer Seminar 2012
June 16 – 24, 2012 | Levy Economics
Institute, Bard College, US
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College is pleased to
announce that it will hold the 3rd Minsky summer seminar June 16-24,
2012. The Seminar will provide a rigorous discussion of both the
theoretical and applied aspects of Minsky’s economics, with an
examination of meaningful prescriptive policies relevant to the current
economic and financial crisis.
The summer seminar will be of particular interest to graduate students,
recent graduates and those at the beginning of their academic or
professional careers. The teaching staff will include well-known
economists concentrating on and expanding Minsky’s work.
Applications may be made to Susan Howard at the Levy Institute
(howard@levy.org),
and should include a current curriculum vitae. Admission to the Summer
School will include provision of room and board on the Bard College
Campus. A limited number of small travel reimbursements of $100 for US
fellows and $300 for foreign fellows, respectively, will be available
to participants.
Due to limited space availability, the
deadline
for applications is March 31, 2012.
The summer seminar program will be organized by Jan A. Kregel, Dimitri
B. Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray.
For more information, please visit
www.levyinstitute.org
International Symposium
“Women, Gender Equality and Economic Crisis”
1 – 2 December 2011| Athens, Greece
Centre for Gender Studies, Panteion University of Social and Political
Sciences (Athens), European Work and Employment Research Centre
(Manchester Business School), EDDA – Centre for Excellence
(Iceland)
INVITATION
The global financial crisis is far from over and indeed is currently
undergoing an upsurge, accompanied by a change in the character of
economic policies that are being implemented to tackle it. Up until now
the gender dimensions of the crisis have been widely overlooked while
the promotion of gender equality as a societal goal has lost momentum.
We therefore invite you to an international symposium on “Women,
Gender Equality and Recession” in which the gendered impact of
the crisis will be debated, especially in the fields of work,
employment, the family, and the welfare state. The symposium will take
place in Athens, at Panteion University of Social and Political
Sciences, on the 1st and 2nd December 2011.
Please find attached
the programme of the
symposium.
Contact information:
Centre for Gender Studies
Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
134, Syngrou Avenue, 17671 Athens, Greece
Tel. 0030-210-9210177
E-mail :
genderpanteion@gmail.com
Samir Amin
at Nottingham University
December 1, 2011 | Centre for the Study of Social
and Global Justice (CSSGJ), Nottingham University, UK
Samir Amin, the internationally renown political economist, will
be involved in two events at the Centre for the Study of Social and
Global Justice (CSSGJ) at Nottingham University.
1. Author meets Audience session: discussion of three of Samir
Amin’s books by CSSGJ members with a reply by the author.
- Sara Motta on ‘Eurocentrism’.
- Jon Mansell on ‘The Liberal Virus’.
- Andreas Bieler on ‘Global History’.
Time and Place: Thursday, 1 December at 12 noon in B62, Law and
Social Science Building.
2. CSSGJ Annual Lecture 2011: Samir Amin - ‘The Trajectory of
Historical Capitalism’.
- Thursday, 1 December, 5.30 to 7 p.m. in B62, Law and Social
Science Building.
- These meetings are open to the wider public and everybody is
welcome to attend.
For more information, please contact Andrew Gibson at
Andrew.Gibson@nottingham.ac.uk
St
Catharine's Political Economy Seminar
Nov. 30, 2011
The next St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar in the series on then
Economics of Austerity, will be held on Wednesday 30 November - Andrew
Gamble will give a talk on 'Debts and Deficits: the political debate in
the UK'. The seminar will be held in the Rushmore Room in St
Catharine's from 6-7.30pm (please note the change from the usual
venue). All are welcome.
Professor Andrew Gamble is Professor and Head of Department at the
Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of
Cambridge. His research interests include: the political economy of the
British state, and the historical, institutional and ideological
contexts which have shaped it; the main doctrines of political economy
and their relationship to the ideologies of the modern era; theoretical
and applied issues in political economy, such as ownership,
stakeholding, corporate governance and assets and human capital. His
recent book, The Spectre at the Feast, is an analysis of the politics
of recession and capitalist crises. Further information is at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Gamble
URPE Summer
Conference 2012
August 10-13, 2012 | Epworth Center in High
Falls, New York
The 2012 URPE Summer Conference will be planned in cooperation with the
Occupy movement. It will take place from August 10-13, 2012 at the
Epworth Center in High Falls, New York. Put it on your calendar!
Utrecht-Nijmegen Workshop in
history and methodology of economics
19 December 2011 | Utrecht University, The
Netherlands
We are pleased to announce the Utrecht-Nijmegen workshop in history and
methodology of economics that we plan to organize on an annual basis.
This year's workshop will be held in Utrecht on monday 19 December in
the Academy building of Utrecht University, adjecent to the Dom church.
Venue: Academiegebouw, Domplein 29, 3512 JE Utrecht (in the building
follow directions to ‘Opzoomerkamer’) The Academiegebouw is
a 10 minutes walk from Central Station.
Program:
9.00-9.30 welcome and short introduction by Harro Maas
9.30-10.30
- Floris Heukelom (Radboud University Nijmegen): The Incorporation
of von Neumann and Morgenstern’s behavioral axioms in Economics
and Psychology.
10.30-11.30
- Federico D’Onofrio (Utrecht University): What is a Typical
Farm: observations in terms of typologies in Italian agricultural
economics 1900-1930.
11.45-12.45
- Maarten Biermans (University of Amsterdam): The Boundaries of
the Market: Appraising the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda.
13.45 -14.45
- Nima Madjzubi (Radboud University Nijmegen): The 'expected' in
'expected utility': uncertainty as the stabilizer in the first
experimental measurements of 'utility'.
14.45-15.45
- Andrej Svorencik (Utrecht University): The first-price auction
controversy that raged visibly to non-experimentalists on the pages of
the American Economic Review in 1992.
16.15-17.15
- Marcel Boumans (University of Amsterdam): A methodology for
inexact sciences.
Attendants are welcome to join for drinks and dinner after the workshop
(venue to be announced).
For information, please contact Harro Maas (harro.maas@gmail.com) or Floris
Heukelom (f.heukelom@fm.ru.nl
). If you plan to attend, please contact Harro so that he can arrange
for lunch.
Workshop: Economic Crises in
Historical Perspective
Friday, December 9, 2011. 4:30pm - 7pm |
University of Salento, Rectorate Building, Conference Room, Piazzetta
Tancredi 7 Lecce, Italy
- G. Faccarello (Panthéon-Assas University): "Strong
reactions to the first industrial crises: the many births of Christian
political economy".
- Discussant M. Mosca (University of Salento - Lecce)
- H.-M. Trautwein (Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg),
"In search for macroeconomic consensus after the Great Depression:
Hicks, Haberler and Lundberg".
- Discussant M.C. Marcuzzo (La Sapienza University of Rome)
- M. Dal-Pont Legrand (University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis and
GREDEG CNRS) and H. Hagemann (Hohenheim University): "Equilibrium and
the business cycle analysis"
- Discussant N. Salvadori (University of Pisa)
The workshop is open to all. Please contact manuela.mosca@unisalento.it
Job
Postings for Heterodox Economists
Hofstra University, USA
Assistant Professor, Economics
The Department of Economics invites applications for an
anticipated tenure-track position at the assistant professor level,
beginning September 2012. Besides courses related to her/his
research, the successful applicant is expected to teach intermediate
microeconomics, and, periodically, either mathematical economics or
econometrics. We are especially interested in candidates whose
teaching interests include health or environmental
economics. Our ideal candidate has a strong teaching and
research record. Ph.D. at the time of employment is
required. Teaching excellence, productive scholarship, and active
service are the criteria for promotion and tenure. Normal
teaching load is three courses per semester. Salary and benefits
are competitive. Hofstra University is a private university in
the New York metropolitan area.
The Department represents and welcomes a variety of approaches to
economics. Hofstra University is an equal opportunity employer,
committed to fostering diversity in its faculty, administrative staff
and student body, and encourages applications from the entire spectrum
of a diverse community.
Submit cover letter, CV, dissertation abstract, teaching
evaluations (or comparable evidence of teaching effectiveness), one
research sample, and three letters of recommendation, via email to
econsearch@hofstra.edu.
Apply by December 15 for fullest
consideration. We will be conducting preliminary
interviews at the ASSA meetings in Chicago. For further
questions, contact Robert Guttmann, Chair, Department of Economics,
Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11549.
Lewis &
Clark College, USA
Visiting Professor, Macroeconomics
The LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE Department of Economics invites
applications for a one-year visiting position starting August 2012,
with responsibility to teach five courses, including principles of
economics, statistics, intermediate macroeconomics, and a field course
in macroeconomics. Commitment to excellence in undergraduate teaching
is required. Completed Ph.D. at time of appointment preferred.
To apply submit a letter of application, curriculum vita, evidence of
successful teaching, and three references under separate cover (hard
copy or electronic). Review of applications will begin immediately and
continue until the position is filled. The department will be
interviewing at the January 2012 ASSA meeting. CONTACT: Chair,
Department of Economics, Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine
Hill Road, Portland, OR, 97219. Email: Economics (econ@lclark.edu). Lewis & Clark
College, a private liberal arts college with 1,750 undergraduates, is
an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages the applications of women
and minority candidates.
Visiting Professor, Microeconomics
The LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE Department of Economics invites
applications for a one year visiting position, with the expectation of
renewal for one further year assuming good performance, starting in
August 2012. Five course teaching load. Preference for Public Economics
or Behavioral Economics. Commitment to excellence in undergraduate
teaching is required. Completed Ph.D. at time of appointment preferred.
To apply submit a letter of application, curriculum vita, evidence of
successful teaching, and three references under separate cover (hard
copy or electronic). Review of applications will begin immediately and
continue until the position is filled. The department will be
interviewing at the January 2012 ASSA meeting. CONTACT: Chair,
Department of Economics, Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine
Hill Road, Portland, OR, 97219. Email: Economics (econ@lclark.edu). Lewis & Clark
College, a private liberal arts college with 1,750 undergraduates, is
an Equal Opportunity Employer and encourages the applications of women
and minority candidates.
Portland
Community College, USA
Two Full-Time Positions in Economics
Portland Community College (PCC) has two full-time, permanent, openings
in economics. Teaching is the primary responsibility for a candidate
hired to fill a position. While primary teaching responsibilities
include Introduction to Economics and Principles of Micro and
Macroeconomics, other teaching opportunities may include Labor Markets:
Economics of Gender, Race, and Work; Contemporary World Economic
Issues: International Economics; and Introduction to Political Economy.
Please see the advertisement below or click on the following link. https://jobs.pcc.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1322378992740
If anyone has questions not addressed in the advertisement, please feel
free to contact me, thanks.
Regards,
Justin A. Elardo, PhD
Portland Community College
elardo_justin@hotmail.com
Simon
Fraser University, Canada
Limited Term
Assistant Professor Position in International Development, School for
International Studies
Home of the influential Human Security Report Project, and of
innovative graduate and undergraduate teaching programs, the School for
International Studies invites applications from candidates in any
social science discipline, for a two-year limited term position at the
Assistant Professor level, in the field of International Development,
starting in August 2012. The successful candidate will be expected to
teach on economic development at both graduate and undergraduate
levels, and must also be ready to teach foundation courses in
International Studies. Candidates will be expected to have expertise
regarding a region of the developing world. In addition an ability to
employ and teach mixed – quantitative and qualitative –
methods will be an advantage.
Applicants should have a doctoral degree (or expect to complete in
2012), promise of excellence in research, and good teaching potential.
Applications will be treated in confidence and should include a letter
of application with a statement of interest and research and teaching
ability, curriculum vitae, and a list of publications. Applicants
should also arrange for three reference letters to be sent
independently. Applications will be reviewed beginning December 1,
2011, until the position is filled.
All materials should be sent electronically to:
Ellen Yap, School
Manager, School for International Studies.
Simon Fraser
University
515 West Hastings
Street
Vancouver, BC
V6B 5K3 Canada
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians
and permanent residents will be given priority. Simon Fraser University
is committed to the principle of equity in employment and offers equal
employment opportunities to qualified applicants.
The position is subject to budget
approval. Under the authority of the University Act, personal
information that is required by the University for academic appointment
competitions will be collected. For further details see the collection
notice
here.
SUNY Purchase College, USA
Assistant Professor in Behavioral Economics
We invite applications for one tenure-track position in Economics
at the Assistant Professor level, with teaching and research expertise
in Behavioral Economics and possible secondary fields in Economic
Development or History of Thought. Teaching responsibilities include,
among others, developing courses in and related to Behavioral or
Development Economics or History of Thought, and overseeing senior
projects. Evidence of teaching excellence and refereed publications, or
the promise thereof, is required.
The Economics Program at Purchase is heterodox, moving in
exciting new directions in which this position will play an integral
role. Excellence in teaching with a strong commitment to contributing
to the Economics core courses, especially history of thought,
econometrics, microeconomics, or macroeconomics is essential, as is the
potential to maintain an active research program. A Ph.D. degree in
Economics by August 2012 is required. Preference will be given to
candidates who are committed to excellence in teaching, fostering the
creative process, and active collaboration with colleagues, in an
open-minded environment that celebrates individuality and diversity.
Candidates are required to attach a cover letter, CV. statements
of research interests (attach as Other Document 1), teaching
philosophy, and representative publications (attach as Other Document
2) to the online Faculty Profile application. In addition, applicants
are required to go to the following website:
https://jobspurchase.slideroom.com
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Conference
Papers, Reports, and Articles
Conflicts
in the Licensing Process for TransCanada's Keystone XL Pipeline
Dear Colleagues:
Because people from numerous countries are involved in the effort to
stop the Keystone XL pipeline from being built from Canada to the Gulf
of Mexico, I thought the attached report and conflict digraph might be of use if some
of you are involved. I prepared the report for Nebraska Senators, as
they had been called for a special session of the Unicameral to divert
the pipeline from the Nebraska Sandhills region over the Ogalala
aquifer, but its concern is much broader than Nebraska. I did not write
an executive summary but the news article from the Lincoln Journal Star is a
good summary of the report.
F. Gregory Hayden, Ph.D.
Professor of Economics
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Email: ghayden1@unl.edu
Congreso Internacional:
Crisis de la Teoría Económica y Políticas
Alternativas ante la Crisis Global
November 11, 2011 | Facultad de
Economía-UNAM, Mexico
(Follow the links below for presentations in video)
Research on
Money and Finance (RMF) Report: Breaking Up? A Route Out of the
Eurozone Crisis
The latest report by the Research on Money and Finance (RMF) group on
the eurozone crisis, entitled <Breaking Up? A Route Out of the
Eurozone Crisis>, has just been posted on the RMF website.
Appreciate if you can forward it on to any interested friends,
colleagues, listservs, etc. We would welcome any feedback/comments.
Heterodox
Journals
American
Journal of Economics and Sociology, 70(5): Nov. 2011
Journal website:
http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0002-9246
Editor's Introduction / Frederic S. Lee
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
- Social Provisioning Process and Socio-Economic Modeling /
Tae-Hee Jo
- A Simple Model of the Surplus Approach to Value, Distribution,
and Growth / Scott Carter
- Demand, Structural Interdependence, and Economic Provisioning /
Gary Mongiovi
- Modeling the Economic Surplus in a SAM Framework / Erik K. Olsen
- Integrating the Social Structure of Accumulation and Social
Accounting Matrix with the Social Fabric Matrix / F. Gregory Hayden
- Social Structures of Accumulation: A “Punctuated”
View of Embeddedness / Terrence McDonough
- Comparing Pension Systems in the Circular Flow of Income /
Andrew B. Trigg and Jonquil T. Lowe
- Modeling the Economy as a Whole: An Integrative Approach /
Frederic S. Lee
Challenge, 54(6): Nov.-Dec.
2011
Journal website: http://www.mesharpe.com/mall/results1.asp?ACR=CHA
- Letter from the Editor / Jeff Madrick
- The Ongoing Euro Crisis / Philip Arestis, Malcolm Sawyer
- How Tax Distortion in the Global Economy Weakened the Obama
Stimulus / Howard Wachtel
- The Wrong Deficit: Jobs, Good Deficits, and the Misguided
Squabble over the Debt Ceiling / Tim Koechlin
- Was Galbraith Right?: The Great Crash, 2008, and Galbraith's
Prescience / Stephen Dunn
- Economic Crisis and the Fiscal Challenge of the State / William
Van Lear
- Soldiering Through History to Find Out the Good That Economics
Can Do / Susan M. Cohen
- Improving Community College Outcome Measures / Louis Jacobson
- The First Blossoms and Thorns of the Arab Spring / Mike Sharpe
Critical Perspectives on
International Business, 7(4): 2011
Journal Website:
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?issn=1742-2043
- Reflections on seven years of critical perspectives on
international business: An extended editorial / George Cairns, Joanne
Roberts
- R&D subsidiary embedment: a resource dependence perspective
/ Christopher Williams, Brigitte Ecker
- Responsibility and the local: the prospects for critical
management in Turkey / Ozan Nadir Alakavuklar, Martin Parker
- Michailova and Jormanainen, “Knowledge transfer between
Russian and Western firms: whose absorptive capacity is in
question?”: A reply / Igor Gurkov
- “Not with the mind alone”: A critique of
“Knowledge transfer between Russian and Western firms: whose
absorptive capacity is in question?” by Snejina Michailova and
Irina Jormanainen / Nigel J. Holden
- A commentary on “Knowledge transfer between Russian and
Western firms: whose absorptive capacity is in question?” by
Snejina Michailova and Irina Jormanainen / Charalambos Vlachoutsicos
- A commentary on “Knowledge transfer between Russian and
Western firms: whose absorptive capacity is in question?” by
Snejina Michailova and Irina Jormanainen / Victoria Shabrova
- Knowledge transfer and absorptive capacity in Russian-Western
business settings: Reflection on commentators' critique / Snejina
Michailova
Economics and Philosophy,
27(3): Nov. 2011
Journal website:
http://journals.cambridge.org/EAP
Articles
- Freedom to Choose and Democracy: The Empirical Question / Robin
Harding
- External Validity and Libraries of Phenomena: A Critique of
Guala's Methodology of Experimental Economics / Martin K. Jones
- Transcendental Arguments and Interpersonal Utility Comparisons /
Mauro Rossi
- A Paradigm Shift in Theorizing About Justice? A Critique of Sen
/ Laura Valentini
Reviews
- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Economics, Harold Kincaid
and Don Ross (eds), Oxford University Press, 2009, xviii + 670 pages. /
Emrah Aydinonat
- The Idea of Justice, Amartya Sen, The Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press, 2009, 467 pp. / Luigino Bruni
- Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages,
and Well-Being, George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton, Princeton
University Press, vi + 185 pp. / John B. Davis
- Making the Social World: The Structure of Human Civilization,
John R. Searle, Oxford University Press, 2010, 224 pages. / Frank
Hindriks
- Pleasures of Benthamism. Victorian Literature, Utility,
Political Economy, Kathleen Blake, Oxford University Press, 2009, 267
pages. / Bruna Ingrao
- Economic Methodology: Understanding Economics as a Science,
Marcel Boumans and John B. Davis (with contributions from Mark Blaug,
Harro Maas and Andrej Svorencik), Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, x + 209
pages. / Mark Peacock
Forum for
Social Economics, 40(3): 2011
Journal website:
http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/12143
- The New Division of Labor in the Globalized Economy:
Women’s Challenges and Opportunities / Valeria Sodano
- The Local Economy Movement: An Alternative to Neoliberalism? /
John Posey
- Short Changing the Value of Democracy for Economic Development
in Africa / Berhanu Nega
- The Economic Problem of Happiness: Keynes on Happiness and
Economics / Anna Maria Carabelli & Mario Aldo Cedrini
- Economics, Democracy, and the Distribution of Capital Ownership
/ Robert Ashford
Journal of
Post Keynesian Economics, 34(1): Fall 2011
Journal website:
http://www.mesharpe.com/mall/results1.asp?ACR=PKE
- In the land of the blind the one-eyed are king: how financial
economics contributed to the collapse of 2008-2009 / Edward E. Williams
- Cyclical patterns of employment, utilization, and profitability
/ Ben Zipperer, Peter Skott
- On the U.S.-Chinese trade dispute / Imad Moosa
- Capital stock and unemployment in Canada / Ana Rosa
Martinez-Canete, Alfonso Palacio-Vera
- Was it really a Minsky moment? / Timur Behlul
- Chamberlin and Robinson: their realism revisited and revised /
John F. M. McDermott
- Publisher's Note: Welcoming Jan A. Kregel as Coeditor of the
Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
Mother
Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development, 7(11): Nov. 2011
Journal website:
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv07n11page1.html
Theme:
Mitigation & Adaptation Strategies
for Climate Change
Articles on the following topics:
- Role of the Social Sciences in Sustainable Development
- Population Growth: 7 Billion
- Peak Oil: A Chance to Change the World
- Why We Must Tax Carbon, Not Subsidize It
- Resource Scarcity, Fair Shares, and Development
- History of the The Masculinity Conspiracy
- Payments for Ecosystem Services & Climate Change
- Prejudice against Muslims and Islam
Supplements
- Advances in Sustainable Development
- Directory of Sustainable Development Resources
- Strategies for the Transition to Clean Energy
- Tactics for the Transition to Clean Energy
- Status of Gender Balance in Society
- Status of Gender Balance in Religion
Moneta e
Credito, 64(255): 2011
Journal website:
http://scistat.cilea.it/index.php/MonetaeCredito/
PSL
Quarterly Reveiw, 64(258): 2011
Journal website:
http://scistat.cilea.it/index.php/PSLQuarterlyReview
Heterodox
Newsletters
Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives
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Global Labour Column
Levy News
New Publications
- Conference Proceedings, 20th
Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference on the State of the US and World
Economies: Financial Reform and the Real Economy. April 13--15,
2011, New York City
- Debtors'
Crisis or Creditors' Crisis? Who Pays for the European Sovereign and
Subprime Mortgage Losses?, Jan
Kregel, Public Policy Brief No. 121
- Resolving
the Eurozone Crisis---without Debt Buyouts, National Guarantees, Mutual
Insurance, or Fiscal Transfers, Stuart Holland, Policy Note 2011/5
- Twin
Strategies to Resolve the Eurozone Crisis---without Debt Buyouts,
Sovereign Guarantees, Insurance Schemes, or Fiscal Transfers, Stuart
Holland, One-Pager No. 18, November 4, 2011
- Greece
in the Aftermath of the Debt Haircut: More Austerity, a Deeper Slump,
and the Surrender of National Sovereignty, C.
J. Polychroniou, One-Pager No. 17, November 1, 2011
- Time
Use of Mothers and Fathers in Hard Times and Better Times: The US
Business Cycle of 2003--10, Gunseli Berik and Ebru Kongar, Working
Paper No. 696, November 2011
- Orthodox
versus Heterodox (Minskyan) Perspectives of Financial Crises: Explosion
in the 1990s versus Implosion in the 2000s, Jesús
Muñoz, Working Paper No. 695, November 2011
- Reducing
Economic Imbalances in the Euro Area: Some Remarks on the Current
Stability Programs, 2011--14, Gregor Semieniuk, Till Van Treeck,
and Achim Truger, Working Paper No. 694, October 2011
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Heterodox
Books and Book Series
THE ALLURE OF CAPITALISM: An
Ethnography of Management and the Global Economy in Crisis
By Emil A. Røyrvik. Berghahn Books. September 2011.
978-0-85745-185-9 (hb) | website
The “managerial revolution,” or the rise of management as a
distinct and vital group in industrial society, might be identified as
a major development of the modernization processes, similar to the
scientific and industrial revolutions. Studying
“transnational” or “global” corporate
management at the post-millennium moment provides a suitable focal
point from which to investigate globalized (post)modernity and
capitalism especially, and as such this book offers an anthropology of
global capitalism at its moment of crisis. This study provides
ethnographically rich descriptions of managerial practices in a set of
international corporate investment projects. Drawing also on historical
and statistical data, it renders a comprehensive perspective on
management, corporations, and capitalism in the late modern globalized
economy. Cross-disciplinary in outlook, the book spans the fields of
organization, business, and management, and asserts that now, in this
period of financial crisis, is the time for anthropology to yet again
engage with political economy.
The
Delusions of Economics: The Misguided Certainties of a Hazardous
Science
By Gilbert Rist. Zed Books. Nov. 24, 2011. ISBN: 9781848139220 (pb) | website
In The Delusions of Economics, Gilbert Rist presents a radical critique
of neoclassical economics from a social and historical perspective.
Rather than enter into existing debates between different orthodoxies,
Rist instead explores the circumstances that prevailed when economics
was 'invented', and the resultant biases that helped forge the
construction of economics as a 'science'. In doing so, Rist
demonstrates how these various presuppositions are either obsolete or
just plain wrong, and that traditional economics is largely based on
irrational convictions that are difficult to debunk due to their
'religious' nature. As a result, we are prevented from properly
understanding the world around us and dealing with the financial,
environmental, and climatic crises that lie ahead. Provocative and
original, this essential book provides incontrovertible proof that the
construction of a new economic paradigm - pluralistic, ecologically
compatible, grounded in reality - has now become a necessity.
Diversité et
Industries Culturelles
Sous la direction de Philippe Bouquillion et Yolande Combès
Collection : Question contemporaine. Série Les industries de la
culture et de la communication. ISBN : 978-2-296-54789-6
La diversité culturelle est omniprésente dans les
débats contemporains sur les industries culturelles et leurs
mutations. Elle est notamment mobilisée pour accompagner les
stratégies d’acteurs économiques, tout
particulièrement les majors transnationales, ou pour
légitimer les interventions des États ou
d’institutions comme l’Unesco. L’expression
“diversité culturelle” est donc très
polysémique. À travers chaque proposition de
définition de la diversité culturelle est promue une
représentation particulière des rapports entre culture et
marché, des politiques culturelles et des enjeux de la
mondialisation.
Download Flyer.
Economic
Policy and Human Rights: Holding Governments to Account
By Radhika Balakrishnan and Diane Elson. Zed Books. Nov. 10. ISBN:
9781848138476 (pb) | 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.
Energy and the Wealth of
Nations: Understanding the Biophysical Economy
By Hall, Charles A. S., Klitgaard, Kent A. Springer. 2012. ISBN
978-1-4419-9397-7 (hb) | website
For the past 150 years, economics has been treated as a social science
in which economies are modeled as a circular flow of income between
producers and consumers. In this “perpetual motion”
of interactions between firms that produce and households that consume,
little or no accounting is given of the flow of energy and materials
from the environment and back again. In the standard economic
model, energy and matter are completely recycled in these transactions,
and economic activity is seemingly exempt from the Second Law of
Thermodynamics. As we enter the second half of the age of oil,
and as energy supplies and the environmental impacts of energy
production and consumption become major issues on the world stage, this
exemption appears illusory at best.
Financial
Instability And Economic Security After The Great Recession
Edited by Charles J. Whalen. Edward Elgar. December 2011. 978 0 85793
483 3 (hb) | website
This timely book rethinks economic theory and policy by addressing the
problem of economic instability and the need to secure broadly shared
prosperity. It stresses that advancing economics in the wake of the
Great Recession requires an evolutionary standpoint, greater attention
to uncertainty and expectations, and the integration of finance into
macroeconomics. The result is a broader array of policy options –
and challenges – than conventional economics presents.
Lives on the Left: A Group
Portrait
Voices of Sartre, Lukács, Chomsky, Harvey and others in
conversation with New Left Review.
Edited by Francis Mulhern. Verso Books. Nov. 2011. ISBN:
9781844676996 (pb) | website
The extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form,
by turns tenacious and glancing, elliptical or sustained, combining
argument and counter-argument, reflection, history and memoir with a
freedom normally denied to its subjects in conventional writing
formats. Lives on the Left brings together sixteen such
interviews from New Left Review in a group portrait of
intellectual engagement in the twentieth century and since.
Oil: A Time
Machine - Journey Beyond Fanciful Economics and Frightful Politics
By Cyrus Bina. Linus
Pulications. Nov. 2011. 2nd edition. ISBN: 1-60797-242-5 |
website
This book is a systematic study of oil in its historical stages, as a
time machine. This is a groundbreaking theoretical (and empirical)
innovation in step with The Economics of the Oil Crisis (1985). This
volume unites separate domains of economics, politics, and
international relations into an organic whole, capturing domestic,
foreign, and global environmental policies. As a specific exploration
in political economy, this book is about the evolution of a commodity
that eventually transformed into the pervasive, almost mystical force
that it is today.
The Political Ideas of
Thorstein Veblen
By Sidney Plotkin and Rick Tilman. Yale University Press. September 26,
2011. ISBN: 9780300159998 (pb) | website
Thorstein Veblen is best known for his authorship of The Theory of the
Leisure Class and The Theory of Business Enterprise, which made him a
celebrated figure in the fields of economics and sociology at the turn
of the twentieth century. In this book, Sidney Plotkin and Rick Tilman
argue that in addition to his well-known work in these fields Veblen
also made important—and until now overlooked—statements
about politics.
While Veblen's writings seldom mention politics, they are saturated
with political ideas: about the relationship among war, executive
power, and democracy; about the similarities between modern executive
positions and monarchy; about the political influence of corporate
power; about the symbolism of politics; and about many other issues. By
demonstrating the deep relevance of Veblen’s writings to today's
political troubles, The Political Ideas of Thorstein Veblen offers an
important reconsideration of a major American thinker.
Heterodox
Book Reviews
Marx and Philosophy Review
of Books
New reviews just published online in the Marx and
Philosophy Review of Books
- Choat on Badiou's Second Manifesto
- Mckenna on Sayers, Marx and Alienation
- Lawrence on Myers on The Politics of Equality
- Marshall on Anderson, The New-Old World
- Dillet on Philosophy in France in the 60s
- Regilme on Agamben, Badiou, et al. on the state of Democracy
- Smith on graphic Introductions to Capitalism and Marxism
New list of books for review and new search engineall at www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/
Heterodox Graduate
Programs, Scholarships, and Grants
Fellowships
at CSSGJ/Nottingham University
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 2011 and May-June 2011.
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.
For further information, visit here.
Global Labour University
Program
Last date for applying: November 30, 2011. The Global Labour
University is currently accepting applications to its 'Engage'
programme on Labour Policies and Globalisation. Trade Unionists are
invited to apply by November 30, 2011.
The Engage programme is a policy oriented course that combines academic
learning with practical trade union work. The course consists of two
components: the first part is an academic training programme that takes
place over 3,5 months and is taught at the Berlin School of Economics
and Law and the University of Kassel. The academic programme is then
followed by two months of field work during which participants develop
a policy project/campaign with a national or international trade union
organisation.
The 2012 course has two thematic priorities:
- 1. The role of multinational companies in the global economy,
and trade union strategies and campaigns of cross border solidarity and
networking. This theme is implemented in cooperation with Global Union
Federations.
- 2. Global income security through minimum wages and social
transfers. This theme is implemented in cooperation with the ITUC and
the ILO.
For further information, application form and scholarships, visit: http://www.global-labour-university.org/216.html
Heterodox
Web Sites and Associates
Brazilian Institutional
Economics Website
I am a Brazilian member of EAEPE and
AFEE. Working with other Brazilian colleagues and former students, we
have set up a website about institutional economics in Portuguese,
targeting the Brazilian community of undergraduate and graduate
students. It also lists works by Brazilian institutionalist scholars.
You can visit it on
http://economiainstitucional.weebly.com/
Huáscar Pessali
Economics of Crisis
Economics of Crisis is
an international consortium of scholars, created to promote the sharing
of information and ideas, with regard to the impact of financial crises
and natural disasters on countries and social groups. Members are
economists and policy specialists on every continent.
Progressive
and Radical Programs in Economics, Sociology, and Politics
I have compiled the list of schools and programs received, you can find
them on our website at:
http://www.criticalsociology.org/radical_ed/index.html
As you can see by this list, it includes programs that are both fully
developed around critical scholarship and schools that only have a few
critical scholars who work with students. This will list be constantly
updated as new information arrives, and I hope it serves as a central
clearing house as students seek a more relevant graduate education.
Best regards,
Prof. David Fasenfest
Dept of Sociology
Wayne State University
Editor, Critical Sociology
crs.sagepub.com
Heterodox Economics in the
Media
Economics is lost: it must
rediscover life's values
By Victoria Chick in
The Guardian,
Nov. 18. Read the article
here.
John
Maynard Keynes Knew What Occupy Wall Street Tells Us Today: "Banks and
bankers are by nature blind"
By James K. Galbraith in
Alternet, November 11, 2011.
Read the article
here.
Nobel in Economics: The
Politics of ‘Imperialization’
By
Sudipta Bhattacharyya in Progoti, Nov. 18,
2011. Read the article here.
Heterodox
On-line Courses
Gender in
the Economy, Colorado State University, Spring 2012
The Department of Economics at Colorado State University is pleased to
announce that it will offer an undergraduate, three credit on-line
course on “Gender in the Economy” from January 17 –
May 4. Course topics include labor markets, marriage and the family,
globalization, wealth and poverty, and environmental issues. For more
information go to
http://www.online.colostate.edu/courses/ECON/ECON211.dot.
Call for
Support
Defend the Occupation!
Posted on November 21, 2011
This is an urgent call to everyone who has used or been involved with
this growing and evolving space and believes that it is important.
Please explain to the New School administration why this occupation
matters to you. Make sure they hear our side of the story! This is the
most important way that you can help us hold the building.
Tim Marshall, Provost: marshalt@newschool.edu
David Van Zandt, President: vanzandt@newschool.edu
For more information, go to here.
Economists' Statement in
Support of Occupy Wall Street
The statement has been posted online at
http://econ4.org/statement-on-ows.
If you know other economists who might like to add their names to the
signatories, please forward the link to them.
In solidarity,
Jerry Epstein
Jim Boyce
EuroMemorandum 2012
Dear colleagues, friends and supporters of the EuroMemo Group
With this email we are sending you the EuroMemorandum 2012:
European integration at the crossroads:
Democratic deepening for stability, solidarity and social justice
This EuroMemorandum draws on discussions and papers presented at the
17th Workshop on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe, organised by
the EuroMemo Group, on 16-18 September 2011 in Vienna, Austria.
This EuroMemorandum seeks to set out a critical analysis of recent
economic developments in Europe and to present the basis for possible
alternative policies. It is intended as a contribution to the critical
discussion in intellectual and social movements in Europe, and in
solidarity with all those struggling against the impact of the deeply
regressive, anti-social policies of the European authorities. The first
part outlines the key economic, social and environmental developments
in Europe; the second part is a critique of the policies adopted by the
European authorities; and the third part is a contribution to the
critical debate about possible alternatives. This EuroMemorandum will
be published together with a list of signatories in early December,
prior to the European Council in December.
Therefore,
if you are in broad agreement with the main lines of
argument of this year's EuroMemorandum, please express your support.
In order to submit your declaration of support to the EuroMemo Group,
please fill in the declaration of support at the end of this email or
in the attachment, and send it back by Wednesday,
7 December 2011
via email to
euromemo@uni-bremen.de or by fax to ++49-(0)69-4305-1764.
Thank you very much for your support, best wishes,
Trevor Evans, Marica Frangakis, Werner Raza, Diana Wehlau and Frieder
O. Wolf
Download the
Declaration
of Support.
Occupy University Heterodox
Economics Movement
Nov. 9, 2011
To my fellow heterodox economists,
I am hearing stronger and more angry responses to the Occupy movement
by average working Americans who see "hippies and homeless" with an
angry and aggressive approach. I have many friends and family in
Portland and apparently that's all they see occupying public space.
Regardless of my opinion of this, I am concerned that this is what the
media is portraying and what people seeing. I would hate to see a
chance to make some real changes lost because people can't get on board
with what they portray to be lazy, immoral complainers. Again, I don't
agree with this, I am simply bringing up the opinions that have been
expressed to me.
This is where we come in. I see a gap that I feel we, as heterodox
economists, should be responsible to fill. We need to educate people.
We need to start reading groups (Marx, Veblen, Keynes etc.). We need to
provide and disseminate the information that people are lacking. Many
hard working Americans spend the little time they have off work with
their family and friends and put little effort into finding out the
truth about what's happening in the world, the economy, and politics.
They get their information from the mainstream media (owned by large
corporations). I think it is our job to provide information that can
help people make a decision about supporting the Occupy movement or
getting more involved and informed in order to make a change.
I am writing to you all because I would like to start an Occupy
university movement network with other heterodox economic departments.
We are just beginning at UMKC and meeting next week. I propose that our
purpose not be to simply make our presence known, occupy public spaces
and disrupt the flow, but EDUCATE! I propose that we all agree to
occupy a common space on our campuses during all open hours of that
building. We should work on writing fliers and organize meetings,
teach-ins and reading groups, and canvass neighborhoods with our
fliers. I think if we can serve as a disseminator of information and
represent academia, we can reinvigorate and push the movement for
change forward. I propose that we organize our own occupy university
movements but we work as a network for support, sharing material,
sharing effective strategy, and any helpful information. I know each
group must decide on their own approach, but I propose that we have a
goal to serve as teachers and disseminators of information in order to
help grow the movement. The reason is because I see so many people put
off and unsupportive of the occupy movement that essentially agree with
the problems that need to be solved.
In Solidarity,
Laura Cardwell
UMKC Graduate Student-Economics
ldm6gc@mail.umkc.edu
Petition for Financial
Transactions Tax
The continuing instability in the world economy is at least
partly due to the fact that financial markets are still out of control.
Wall Street traders are reaping billions on short term speculation,
while our economy remains stagnant. As an economist, I know that
building a strong, sustainable economy depends on doing something about
a bloated and unruly financial sector.
To help get markets back under control, one important policy tool is a
targeted tax on Wall Street trading. Please join me in signing this
petition to keep pressure on Congress to pass such a tax. [To sign the
petition, go to
here]
The Wall Street Tax serves at least three important economic policy
goals.
First, the Wall Street Tax would raise much-needed tax revenue2 without
raising taxes on workers at all. Ten-year estimates range from $400
billion (the Harkin-DeFazio bill introduced last month) to $1.3
trillion in new tax revenue. That revenue can be used to grow our
economy and create jobs.
Second, like a vice tax on cigarettes or gambling, the Wall Street Tax
discourages activity that is unhealthy for our financial markets.
Traders make billions on speculation that leads to quick rises and
steep drops in the market that have little to do with how well the
economy is doing. This can lead to huge bubbles in oil prices3, or it
can send stock prices plummeting based on a computer glitch. With a
tax, we discourage that sort of short-term trading.
Finally, the tax would make financial markets more efficient by helping
businesses raise capital without all of the inefficiencies that come
from an oversized financial sector. The multi-million dollar bonuses of
Wall Street executives are a direct drain on the rest of the economy.
The money that is currently wasted in the financial sector could
instead be used to help businesses grow and create jobs.
Will you sign the petition?
Wall Street is putting up enormous opposition to this tax, because it
would change the way Wall Street does business, forcing it to serve the
productive economy by lending to businesses, homeowners, and students,
rather than playing games with complex financial instruments.
Great Britain has had a tax on stock trades for hundreds of years4, and
the London Stock Exchange remains strong and vibrant. Germany, the
industrial world's leading exporter, is considering a similar tax too.5
While it may seem like a tax faces a stiff headwind here in the United
States, good policy can make for good politics. And, importantly, a
robust push for such a tax in the United States could strengthen
efforts in Europe where progress might be more imminent. Indeed,
European leaders have cited a lack of such a push here in America as a
reason for their own inaction.
I hope you can join me in supporting the Wall Street Tax.
Please sign the petition
to Congress.
Thanks for all you do.
Sincerely,
Dean Baker Ph.D
Economist
Co-Director, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Petition to the Italian Parliament
Nov. 15, 2011
Dear friends,
We submit to your kind attention a petition addressed to the Italian
Parliament and to the political parties with some proposals concerning
the current economic policy situation. We are asking for signatures
from both our Italian and foreign colleagues and we shall publicise the
petition both on the Italian and foreign mass media after a significant
number of signatures is collected. Past experience suggests that these
documents can become a reference point, even over the long period, for
that part of public opinion that is sceptical of the dominant point of
view. All signatures, including ours, will be put in strict alphabetic
order. We kindly ask you to send your approval to
Cesaratto@unisi.it, or
Ciccone@uniroma3.it, or
astirati@uniroma3.it . We
apologies if you receive more than one request (we do not have any
secretarial support).
The petition and the signatures (regularly updated) will be posted
here.
Thanks for your cooperation.
- Nicola Acocella (La Sapienza Rome)
- Roberto Artoni (Bocconi, Milan)
- Paolo Bosi (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia)
- Sergio Cesaratto ((Università di Siena) Cesaratto@unisi.it
- Roberto Ciccone (Università di Roma3) Ciccone@uniroma3.it
- Marcello De Cecco (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa)
- Domenico Mario Nuti (La Sapienza Rome)
- Riccardo Realfonzo (Università del Sannio)
- Antonella Stirati (Università di Roma3) astirati@uniroma3.it
Queries from Heterodox
Economists
Survey on
teaching and research about social class
I am conducting an informal survey of academics across the disciplines
about how they and their academic fields view the study of and teaching
about social class. Even if your work doesn't focus on class, please
consider completing this survey:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/699HKN6
Also, if you belong to a listserv or network of scholars in your
field, please consider forwarding this message to them. I'd like
to get responses from a wide range of participants.
Many thanks,
Sherry Linkon
Co-Director, Center for Working-Class Studies
Youngstown State University
sllinkon@ysu.edu
For Your
Information
Mark Blaug (1927 - 2011)
We are very sad to report that Mark
Blaug passed away on November 18, 2011.
Mark Blaug (3 April 1927, The Hague, Netherlands – 18th November
2011, Dartmoor, United Kingdom), was a British economist (naturalised
in 1982), who has covered a broad range of topics over his long career.
In 1955 he received his PhD from Columbia University in New York under
the supervision of George Stigler. Besides shorter periods in public
service and in international organisations he has held academic
appointments in – among others – Yale University, the
University of London, the London School of Economics and the University
of Buckingham. He was visiting Professor in the Netherlands, University
of Amsterdam and Erasmus University in Rotterdam, where he was also
co-director of CHIMES (Center for History in Management and Economics).
Mark Blaug has made far reaching contributions to a range of topics in
economic thought throughout his career. Apart from valuable
contributions to the economics of art and the economics of education,
he is best known for his work in history of economic thought and the
methodology of economics. Concerning methodological issues and the
application of economic theory to a wide range of subjects from
education to human capital, the "philosophy of science and the sweep of
intellectual progress are fitting subjects to accommodate the breadth
of Mark Blaug's interest." (from Wikipedia)
See also "Weekly
Philo economics: Mark Blaug (1927-2011)" by Eric Schliesser
For Pierangelo Garegnani
25 Nov 2011 | Source: Revista Circus
The present document contains the transcription of the speeches which
have been read at the funeral ceremony for Pierangelo Garegnani on
Wednesday, 19th October 2011, at the Cimitero Staglieno in Genova.
According to the will of the family, Pierangelo Garegnani was
remembered by Aldo Tortorella, the intellectual and former member of
the Italian Parliament who was a close friend of Pierangelo since
youth, and by Roberto Ciccone, among the most representative and
closest pupils of his. The telegram sent by Giorgio Napolitano,
President of the Italian Republic, to Pierangelo’s wife in honour
of his memory was also read. Mention was given of some messages of
condolences among many others which have reached the Centro Sraffa, and
an extract from the message sent by Heinz Kurz was read. The ceremony
ended with the reading of a short poem by a poet Pierangelo Garegnani
particularly loved, Anna Achmatova, selected by Pierangelo’s wife.
Read this document.
Pierangelo
Garegnani, l’economista controcorrente
By Fabio Petri in Economia e Politica, 30 Ottobre 2011. Read the
article here.
Are Radical Journals Selling
Out?
An
article in
The Times Higher Education,
November 3, 2011
Alternative Syllabi for
Intro Economics: A response to Harvard Walkout
I thought that readers of Heterodox Economics Newsletter would
like to know about this interview I did with INET on my Grapes of Wrath
course, which I've taught in intro to econ courses since 1996. INET
invited my
comments in light of the Mankiw-student walk-out at Harvard. (Other
contributors include Duncan Foley, Stephen Marglin and Bruce Caldwell.)
For more info, visit
here.
Stephen T. Ziliak
Roosevelt University
Documentary on "The 1%"
This documentary made by Jamie Johnson about the richest 1%. It
is available in
eight parts on Youtube:
Occupy Bremen
Two youtubes of a speech (in two parts in German) by Professor Wolfram
Elsner at the 'Occupy Bremen' demonstration on November 11.
URPE
History on URPE Website
We have changed the URPE history page, adding seven articles that
discuss URPE history from various points of view. They are listed
below. Please take a look at it at
http://urpe.org/about/history.html.
We are looking for additional articles and reminiscences about URPE
history, and my contact email is
lvanderslice@verizon.net.
Thanks! Lane Vanderslice
Veblen-Commons Award
This year's winner of the Veblen-Commons Award is Dr. Geoff Hodgson.
There will be the AFEE Luncheon on Friday, January 6, at 12:30 to
2:15pm in Swissotel Room Montreaux 2, Chicago, USA