From the Editor
First thing first: the
Newsletter now has its own e-mail address:
umkcheterodoxnews@umkc.edu. If you are
sending material to be included in the
Newsletter, please send it to that address.
As a result of being the editor of the AJES, I
have stepped down as the series editor of the
Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics book
series. The editorship of the series has been
transferred to Wolfram Elsner (University of
Bremen,
welsner@uni-bremen.de ) and Peter Kriesler
University of New South Wales,
p.kriesler@unsw.edu.au ). Send all
manuscript inquiries to them.
I recently ran across the following web site
which might be of interest for many of you:
Critical Political Economy Research Network of
the European Sociological Association
http://criticalpoliticaleconomy.blogspot.com/.
You heterodox economists in Europe might want to
check it out.
The Newsletter has lots of interesting items:
the AHE and ICAPE call for papers, job adverts,
a paper by the inestimable Jim Devine,
information about the Center for Global Justice
web site, and some really interesting books and
book reviews. In the FYI section there is a
video by some Turkish students on attending an
economics class in mainstream economics—the
background music is not too bad either.
Finally, I would like to make you aware of the
ASE plenary session at the ASSA which welcomes
all heterodox economists to attend.
Association for Social Economics
ASE/ASSA Meetings
http://www.socialeconomics.org/divison.php?page=assa_program_2010
January 2-5, 2010
Atlanta, GA
Opening Plenary Session and Reception
Saturday 2, 6:30 p.m.
Hilton Atlanta, Grand Ballroom A
JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ
Columbia University
Homo economics: The Impact of the Economic
Crisis on Economic Theory
Betsy Jane Clary, College of Charleston,
Presiding
Reception Immediately Following
Fred Lee
In
this issue:
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Call for Papers |
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- 12th Conference
of the Association for Heterodox Economics
- 3rd International ICAPE Conference
- Forum for Social Economics
- The Spirit of Innovation IV- International Conference
- Managing Economic Transition (MET) Network
- A special issue of Sustainability
- Social Studies of Finance Workshop
- 11th Biennial Conference of the International Society for
Ecological Economics
- RGC 2010 Conference in New Orleans
- Thoughts on Economic Development, China and the West
- Seminar on Fertility and Poverty: micro and macro linkages
- Strikes and Social Conflicts in the Twentieth Century |
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Conferences, Seminars and Lectures |
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- Séminaire Hétérodoxies du Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne
- The Future of Capitalism
- Crisis what Crisis: Forward to the Past?
- Cambridge Realist Workshop - Michaelmas Term 2009
- The Recession of 2008. Do Economists ever agree on
Analysis and Prescriptions?
- THE GLOBALISATION LECTURES
- LANZAMIENTO DE AEDA EN ROSARIO
- Association for Institutional Thought [AFIT]
- 8th Society of Heterodox Economists Conference on December
7 and 8, 2009
- Return of History: From Consensus to Crisis
- Sixth Historical Materialism Annual Conference
- One Year on from the Panic of 2008- Whither Financialised
Capitalism?
- NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO CREATE LIVING-WAGE JOBS, MEET HUMAN
NEEDS, & SUSTAIN THE ENVIRONMENT |
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Job Postings for Heterodox Economists |
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- Kingston
University
- The New School for Social Research
- Howard University
- Trinity College
- University of Michigan
- Drew University
- University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA
Franklin & Marshall College |
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Heterodox Conference Papers and
Reports and Articles |
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- What is Good for Goldman Sachs is Good
for America: The Origins of the Current Crisis
- 2009 Neo Kaldorian Model
- The 2009 Uprising in Iran: The Need to Dispel Prevailing
Misconceptions
- The Persistent Fall in Profitability Underlying the
Current Crisis: New Temporalist Evidence" by Andrew Kliman
- "Green shoots, profits, and great depressions (or
recessions)"
- Symposium: The ‘British School’ of International Political
Economy Selected articles |
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Heterodox Journals and Newsletters |
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- The Friends of Associative Economics
Bulletin
- Historical Materialism
- Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
- eInsight
- ECONOMIA DELLE FONTI DI ENERGIA E DELL’AMBIENTE
- Review of Political Economy
- The Center for Global Justice
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Heterodox Books and Book Series |
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- TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY MACROECONOMICS:
CONSUMPTION, INVESTMENT, AND CLIMATE CHANGE
- The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What Working People Need
to Know
- Money And Households In A Capitalist Economy
- After the Crash
- Work after Globalization
- Socialist Register 2010 - Morbid Symptoms: Health under
capitalism
- Economic Pluralism
- Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics
- The World Bank and the post-Washington Consensus in
Vietnam and Indonesia
- The Political Economy of Monetary Circuits Tradition and
Change in Post-Keynesian Economics
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Heterodox Book Reviews |
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- Book Review in THE ECONOMIST of three
books about Keynes
- Akerlof & Shiller, Animal Spirits: A Misnomer for Their
Sound Economics by Mario Nuti
- The Political Economy of the World Bank: The Early Years
- A History of Heterodox Economics
- Animal Spirits
- New Deal Banking Reforms |
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Heterodox Graduate Program and PhD
Scholarships/Research Fellowships |
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- Ghent University |
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For
Your Information |
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- The 2009 FEE Prizes in Austrian
Economics
- Vous avez dit “systčmes régionaux d’innovation” ?
- Did You Mean “Regional Innovation Systems
- Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE)
- Video on “Revolutionizing Economic Thought,”
- The Nobel prize for economics may need its own bailout
- Signatories
- Green Jobs Conference
- "Science is a Sacred Cow" :A Video from Ankara, Turkey
- New Political Economy
- PRESS RELEASE: The Financial Crisis: How Economists Went
Astray
- Darling Alicia: The Love Letters of Alicia Kaner and
Stephen Merrett
- Venezuela: The Battle for Workers' Control
- PERI announces SAFER |
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Call for Papers
12th Conference of
the Association for Heterodox Economics
The Economy of Tomorrow
7-10 July, 2010
Hosted by the Research Unit in Theoretical and Applied Economics –
GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113)
Université de Bordeaux, France
http://www.hetecon.net
The Twelfth Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics
(AHE) will be held at the University of Bordeaux – France – from
Wednesday 7th to Saturday 10th July 2010. This year’s Conference
theme is The Economy of Tomorrow.
Long run processes have exacerbated the contradictions of the world
economic system leading to a crisis in all spheres including social,
political, financial and environmental. The economic crisis that
opened in 2008 increases our awareness that economies and societies
must change radically in all these spheres in the 21st Century,
though views of the changes required, and their depth, will differ.
This conference will provide a forum for discussion on current and
future changes needed in developed and developing economies in all
these spheres. The following areas, closely intertwined in theory
and in policy action, are of special interest but this is not an
exhaustive list and do not preclude other topics approached with a
holistic perspective:
1. Social aspects: for example income distribution, labour markets,
pensions, the nature of work, poverty, human development, welfare;
2. Financial aspects: for example financialization, capital
mobility, corporate governance, taxes on international monetary
transactions, financial innovations and possible reforms;
3. Environmental aspects: for example models of production and
consumption, eco-innovations, environmental governance, alleviation
or adaptation to global warming, and new cities;
4. North-South relations: for example the trajectories of emerging
countries, potential for a new world order, international trade,
development aid, development cooperation;
5. The reform of economics: for example pluralism in research and
teaching, evaluation and metrics, innovation and creativity, and the
relation between economists and decision-makers.
The conference invites submissions on or before 7th March 2010 which
either accord with the conference title; or which otherwise deal
with topics of ongoing interest in heterodox economics. To download
the flyer in
pdf
doc
formats.
3rd International ICAPE Conference
The International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in
Economics (ICAPE) announces its 3rd International Conference:
“Failing Economies, Failing Economics: Rebooting Economics after the
Crash”
3-5 June 2010
Western New England College, Springfield, Massachusetts
ICAPE and the organizers of “Failing Economies, Failing Economics:
Rebooting Economics after the crash” invite proposals for papers
that discuss or demonstrate the value of economic pluralism in the
light of the recent global economic crisis. ICAPE wishes to invite
papers on all aspects related to the financial and economic crisis,
including:
- The crisis and aspects of policy making;
- The impact of the crisis on the developed and the developing
world;
- The economic crisis and the impact upon the economics profession;
- The economic crisis and the teaching of economics.
Papers are invited from all domains of pluralism: economic theory
and philosophy, economic institutions and policies, or economic
education. More specifically, we suggest the following themes:
- Pluralism developments in heterodox economic theory;
- Neoliberalism and pluralism in economics;
- Pluralism and the science of economics.
Themed sessions are also welcomed.
Panels will be organized around thematic topics, with an eye to
encouraging dialogue among authors whose papers address similar
issues from different points of view. In this fashion, we hope to
promote critical engagement and mutual learning among conference
participants.
Submission for proposals:
All papers and panel proposals should be submitted to:
Fred Lee
Executive Director, ICAPE
E-mail: umkcicape@umkc.edu;
leefs@umkc.edu
Proposal deadline: January 4th, 2010
Notification deadline: January 25th, 2010
For individual paper proposals, please include the following:
Paper Title
Brief abstract (200-250 words)
Your name (s) and contact addresses (including institutional
affiliation)
For Panel proposals (3-4 papers), please include: the panel title, a
brief description of the panel’s focus, a brief abstract (200-250
words) for each paper, and each panelist’s name, contact address,
and institutional affiliation. You are encouraged (but not required)
to designate a session chair.
Also, you are encouraged to propose a format for your session,
including non-traditional formats such as roundtables, workshops, or
presenter/audience dialogues.
Proposal deadline: January 4th, 2010
Notification deadline: January 25th, 2010.
Conference Fees and Registration
The conference will be held over three days, beginning on Friday
morning, June 3, 2010, and ending midday on Sunday, June 5.
The conference fee covers Friday and Saturday lunches, a conference
dinner Friday evening, tea/coffee breaks throughout the conference,
and all printed conference materials.
More details regarding the conference fees and details of payment
will be available soon, on the website:
www.icape.org
Lodging and Travel Information
A list of local hotels and other lodging options, along with basic
travel information, will be available soon on the ICAPE website:
www.icape.org.
Contact information
For further information about the conference or ICAPE, please visit
the ICAPE website ( www.icape.org
) or contact the Conference Organizer Karl Petrick at
kpetrick@wnec.edu or by
telephone at 1-413-782-1601.
Forum for Social Economics
Editor-in-Chief:
John Marangos, Ph.D. , Associate Professor, Department of Economics,
University of Crete, Greece
Description:
Sponsored by the Association for Social Economics,
The Forum for
Social Economics applies social economic analysis to practical
policy issues and the implications of alternative policy
perspectives concerning the social economy. Papers contribute to our
understanding of past or current socioeconomic issues that have
contemporary relevance for economists, social scientists,
policymakers, and business professionals.
This journal publishes work that addresses economic issues within
the context of the wider ethical, cultural, and natural environment.
Papers often transcend established disciplinary boundaries. In
addition, the journal explores issues relevant to the teaching of
economics, with an emphasis on approaches to teaching social and
heterodox economics.
The "Explorations in Social Economics" section, a feature of the
journal, publishes alternative views on emerging issues written by
distinguished scholars.
Associate Editor:
Mark D. White, Department of Political Science, Economics, and
Philosophy, College of Staten Island/CUNY, Staten Island, NY, USA
Editorial Board:
Anne M. de Bruin, Department of Commerce, Massey University at
Albany, Auckland, New Zealand; Grainne Collins, Employment Research
Centre, Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences and
Philosophy, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; Laura Ebert, Marist
College, School of Management, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA Wolfram Elsner,
Institute for Institutional and Innovation Economics - IINO,
Department of Economics, University of Bremen, Germany; John F.
Henry, University of Misssouri, Department of Economics, Kansas
City, MO, USA; Alan Hutton, Division of Public Policy, Caledonian
Business School, Glasgow Caledonian University, Scotland, UK; Roel
Jongeneel, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Policy,
Wageningen University, The Netherlands; Charles J. Whalen, Cornell
University, Geneva, NY, USA / Utica College, NY, USA; Paul P. Wojick,
St. Olaf College, Northfi eld, MN, USA springer.com Forum for Social
Economics
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Aims and scope
The Forum for Social Economics is an international journal sponsored
by the Association for Social Economics. For 35 years the Forum has
published high quality peer-reviewed papers. The primary focus of
the Forum is on applying social economic analysis to practical
policy issues and/or the implications of alternative policy
perspectives encompassing the social economy. The Forum is a
pluralistic journal publishing work that addresses economic issues
within wider ethical, cultural or natural environmental contexts,
and is sympathetic to papers that transcend established disciplinary
boundaries. Papers should make a contribution to past or current
socioeconomic issues that have contemporary relevance to economists,
social scientists, policy makers and business.
The journal welcomes stimulating original articles that are clearly
written and draw upon contemporary policy-related research.
Preference is given to non-technical articles of topical and
historical interest that will appeal to a wide range of readers. The
journal is also interested in serving as an avenue for issues
regarding teaching economics, in particular teaching approaches to
social and heterodox economics.
Papers will pass a double-blind referee process supervised and
subject to the final approval of the Editor. The „Explorations in
Social Economics“ section of the journal is an informative solicited
opinion piece by a distinguished scholar presenting alternative
views on emerging issues.
The Forum invites graduate students to submit research papers. Proof
of graduate student status should be provided with the submission.
While the students‘ papers will go through the regular review
process and be held to the same standards for acceptance as other
submissions, the panel of reviewers will serve a mentoring role to
advise the student to strengthen the paper.
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The Spirit of
Innovation IV- International Conference
“Environment, Innovation and Sustainable Development: Towards a new
technoeconomic paradigm?”
http://www.ceisd2010.enveng.tuc.gr
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for detailed information.
Managing Economic Transition (MET)
Network
24st Research Seminar: “Crisis in Transition” organised jointly with
Centre for the Study of Economic and Social Change in Europe,
SSEES, University College London & European Association for
Comparative Economic Studies Call for Abstracts / Papers
The 24st MET Workshop will be held at UCL, London On Friday, 8th of
January 2010
All papers on macro and micro aspects of economic transition and
economic integration in CEE, fSU and China are welcome.
HOWEVER: We are particularly interested in comparative research on
the factors that made the impact of the current crisis more serious
in some countries than in the others, including the institutional
setup.
Abstract or Paper Submission
Abstracts or Papers should be submitted to: Hannah Spikesey as
attached file to the
following e-mail addresses:
h.spikesley@ssees.ucl.ac.uk
Submission deadline: Papers received after 31 October will not be
considered .
A final decision on the programme will be delivered within about two
weeks after.
Organising Committee: Dr. Jens Holscher, Dr. Julia Korosteleva,
Prof. Tomasz Mickiewicz,
Prof. Slavo Radosevic
A special issue of Sustainability
Call for Papers: Special Issue "Economic thought, Theory and
Practices for Sustainability" - A special issue of Sustainability
(ISSN 2071-1050).
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/economic_thought
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 March 2010
Guest Editor
Prof. Dr. Brian Chi-ang Lin
Department of Public Finance, National Chengchi University, 64,
Section 2, Chih-nan Road, Taipei 11605, Taiwan
E-mail: calin@nccu.edu.tw
To date, our modern, growth-oriented societies have been
characterized by serious phenomena such as environmental degradation
and growing economic inequality. Take climate change for example.
Reacting to this phenomenon, governments all over the world have
begun to implement energy preservation and carbon emission reduction
policies, and so on. These governments have recognized that, to
address such hazards, economic planning is necessary; governments
are obligated to initiate various cooperative and institutional
mechanisms to internalize individual choices, to coordinate various
needs and interests, and to ensure an equal chance of participation
for people of all levels of society.
This special issue seeks to offer a timely collection of scholarly
papers that address the aforementioned challenges. Despite the fact
that an economic school of sustainability (or sustainable
development) has not yet appeared, concepts or ideas of
sustainability have long been documented in the economics
literature. Ecological economist Herman Daly, for instance, traced
his analysis of the steady-state economy (SSE), a sustainable
economy, back to classical economist John Stuart Mill’s notion of
the stationary state.
By means of reviewing classical thought, we will be able to develop
fresh conceptual and theoretical outlooks on the properties of
sustainability compatible with the socioeconomic progress of this
century. Also, an examination of some ancient economies will be
instrumental to the construction of a modern version of
sustainability. Take the conventional tribal economy for example.
Most indigenous tribes have practiced a simple lifestyle for
thousands of years. Self-sufficient indigenous tribes characterized
by small-scale economic activities can be regarded to some extent as
a prototype for a sustainable economy.
Sustainability has emerged as one of most pressing issues in the
twenty-first century since it has been recognized that everyone has
a stake in Our Common Future. We welcome original papers that
provide theoretical breakthroughs, empirical advances, or further
reflections on economic thought with endeavors for enhancing
sustainability.
Submission Information
All papers should be submitted to
sustainability@mdpi.org.
To be published continuously until the deadline and papers will be
listed together at the special issue website.
Submitted papers should not have been published nor be under
consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are refereed
through a peer-review process. A guide for authors is available on
the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is a new
international, peer-reviewed, quarterly open access journal
published by Molecular Diversity Preservation International.
Article Processing Charges (APC) for publication in this Open Access
journal are waived for well-prepared manuscripts submitted by 30
June 2010. English correction or formatting fees of 250 CHF (Swiss
Francs) will be charged in certain cases for those paper accepted
for publication, that require extensive additional formatting and/or
English corrections.
- Sustainable Development
- Economic Thought
- Economic Planning
- Institutions
- Institutional Change
Social Studies of Finance Workshop
“Reembedding
Finance”
Paris, Université de Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense,
Thursday 20th and Friday 21st May 2010
Call for Papers
The subprime financial crisis has recently shown the limits of an
abstract and disembodied view of financial markets and their
so-called “efficiency”. A new interdisciplinary field of research –
often known as “Social Studies of Finance” – has been purposefully
tackling these limitations, and has developed with a view to “reembedding”
financial practices into the social world. This collective dynamic
of interdisciplinary research (gathering areas such as sociology,
economics, history, anthropology, political science, management
studies, geography and so forth), is grounded on a stiff conviction:
the need to study financial activities as forms of social life.
Showing how financial reality is embedded in social networks,
culture, technology, scientific knowledge and institutional contexts
can renew our understanding of finance.
While in France research in the Social Studies of Finance has been
particularly active and structured through the activities of an
association holding a regular seminar (the Social Studies of Finance
Association or “Association d’études sociales de la finance”), the
label “Social Studies of Finance” has been evolving, on an
international level, with a neat inclination towards topics such as
the scientific and technical embeddedness of finance, especially
through the “performativity program”. However along with this
thriving program, numerous studies in social networks analysis have
shed light on various aspects of the social embeddedness of finance.
Similarly, contributions in cultural geography or in globalization
studies have examined at length the social aspects of
financialization. Anthropological perspectives on financial markets,
meanwhile, seek to scrutinize the moral and cultural frameworks
underlying financial transactions. New institutionalism, through its
various versions, has emphasized the legal and political
organization that underpins financial markets and thus thoroughly
contributing to the “reembedding” of finance within the social
world. Heterodox perspectives in economics have also entered into a
fruitful dialogue with more sociologically-inclined approaches.
The purpose of this conference, a Parisian initiative of the Social
Studies of Finance Association, is to provide a venue for a
productive dialogue between different perspectives to be found in
the Social Studies of Finance, to think about their respective
contributions, their commonalities, their differences and the
opportunities of hybridization they may bring to light, stressing
their relevance in the current historical context.
The organizers of the workshop are looking for suggestive
contributions in the field of the Social Studies of Finance.
Potential contributors should submit an abstract proposal containing
roughly 500 words, indicating clearly the original contribution of
the corresponding paper. The submission deadline for abstracts is
January 15th, 2010. Notice of acceptance or rejection will be sent
by early February 2010, completed papers will be due on April, 15th
2010.
The conference is to be held at the Nanterre Campus of the
Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense.
Organizing Committee
This Workshop is supported by researchers from different disciplines
who are members of the Social Studies of Finance Association.
- Yamina Tadjeddine, EconomiX, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La
Défense, assistant professor in economics.
- Olivier Godechot, Center Maurice Halbwachs, CNRS-ENS-EHESS,
researcher in sociology.
- Fabian Muniesa CSI, Mines ParisTech (CNRS UMR 7185), researcher in
sociology.
- Sabine Montagne IRISSO, CNRS-Paris-Dauphine (UMR 7170), researcher
in economics.
- David Martin, Negocia, CCIP, assistant professor in sociology.
- Horacio Ortiz, LAIOS/IIAC (EHESS-CNRS, UMR 8177), associated
research in anthropology.
- Marc Lenglet, European Business School, assistant professor in
management.
- Pierre de Larminat, Center Maurice Halbwachs, CNRS-ENS-EHESS,
Université de Reims, PhD student in sociology.
Scientific Committee
The scientific committee is composed of the organizing committee and
the following external scientific experts:
- Mitchel Abolafia, State University of New York
- Michel Aglietta, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense
- Donald MacKenzie, University of Edinburgh
- Philippe Steiner, Université Paris Sorbonne – Paris IV
- Karel Williams, University of Manchester
Contact and Organization
Website of the SSFA:
http://ssfa.free.fr/
Correspondence:
reembeddingfinance@gmail.com
11th Biennial Conference of the
International Society for Ecological Economics
Call for Papers
Dear colleagues,
I am preparing a discussion session for the 11th Biennial Conference
of the International Society for Ecological Economics "Advancing
Sustainability in a Time of Crisis" that will take place in
Bremen/Oldenburg (Germany) on 22-25 August 2010 (
www.isee2010.org ).
The general topic of the session will be «Sources of knowledge for a
sustainable decision-making». The session will discuss what kinds of
knowledge and expertise need be taken into account in
decision-making and governance systems if we want them to ensure
sustainability in the long term. How does scientific advice have to
be sought for? What are possible controversies around
“science-based” policies? What is the relevance of the “local”
knowledge? To which extent and in which forms can “public”
participation in decision-making enhance sustainability?
If some of you are interested in attending this conference and
presenting theoretical considerations and/or case studies from
particular countries related to this theme, please contact me as
soon as possible so that we could co- ordinate the submission of
abstracts. An abstract of up to 400 words would be needed from every
panellist.
Sincerely
Demyan Belyaev
E-Mail:
demyan.belyaev@urz.uni-heidelberg.de
RGC 2010 Conference in New Orleans
February 18-20, 2010
Hampton Inn Hotel
Gravier Conference Room
Downtown in the French Quarter Area
Daily Complimentary Hot Breakfast
Organized and Sponsored by the journal Race, Gender & Class
The 2010 Conference registration is $125 for students and $175 for
non-students.
All attendees and presenters are expected to register.
Call for Participants and Organizers
Conference Theme
Race, Gender & Class Issues and the Obama Presidency
The 2010 RGC Conference will address the state of RGC with respect
to President Obamas Government. Our three-day conference will
include plenary sessions, concurrent panels, and social events. We
will post additional information about the conference as soon as
possible on the RGC website at http://www.suno.edu/Race_Gender_
Class/
To submit a paper or a panel proposal (only electronically) and/or
to volunteer to serve as an RGC Conference organizer, please contact
Dr. Jean Ait Belkhir at
jbelkhir@suno.edu
Proposal deadline December 1st, 2009
Please check the Race, Gender & Class website for updated
information at http://www.suno.edu/Race_Gender_ Class/
We hope to see you at the RGC 2010 Conference in New Orleans!
Please forward this Call to colleagues you think may be interested.
The journal Race, Gender & Class was founded in 1993 by Dr. Jean Ait
Belkhir, Associate Professor of Sociology, Southern University at
New Orleans and University of New Orleans.
Thoughts on Economic Development,
China and the West
Call for Papers
The Centre of Economic Development Research (CEDR) at Wuhan
University, China, in cooperation with the European Society for the
History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and with the Society for the
Chinese History of Economic Thought (SCHET) organizes a joint
conference on
Thoughts on Economic Development, China and the West
11-12 October 2010, Wuhan
Chinese traditions of economic thinking are at least as old as their
European counterparts, and in various periods Chinese ideas
influenced economic thinking in the West, particularly in the age of
physiocracy. Different strands of Western political and economic
thought have, on the other hand, made a strong impact on the
development of the Chinese society and economy during the 20th
century, in the transition from empire to republic, in the emergence
of the people's republic, and in the ongoing process of economic
transformation. This conference will take stock of the development,
cross-fertilization and contextual adaption of economic ideas in
China and the West. The focus is set on theories about economic
order and development in China. Other relevant contributions, in
particular about the development of development economics and growth
economics, are also welcome.
Paper proposals submitted for the conference should thus preferably
address one or more of the following themes:
- Chinese Economic Thinking before the 20th Century
- Chinese Economic Thinking in the 20th Century
- Dissemination of Western Economic Ideas in China
- Dissemination of Chinese Economic Ideas in the West
- Economic Thinking in and about the Chinese Transformation Process(es)
- The Development of Development Economics and Growth Economics
Proposals of papers plus abstracts of no more than 800 words each
should be submitted electronically before 31 March 2010 to Ma Ying
(yingma9494@126.com) and Hans-Michael Trautwein
(michael.trautwein@uni-oldenburg.de). Applicants will be informed
about a decision concerning the acceptance of their proposals before
30 April 2010. First versions of the accepted papers will have to be
submitted in full by 1 August 2010. Some travel grants will be made
available by the organizers.
Scientific committee: Profs. Guo Xibao, Ma Ying (CSDE), Yan Qinghua
(SCHET), Harald Hagemann, Cristina Marcuzzo, Hans-Michael Trautwein
(ESHET)
Seminar on Fertility and Poverty: micro and macro linkages
Centre for Global Health, Population, Poverty, and Policy
Seminar on Fertility and Poverty: micro and macro linkages
28-29 January 2010 at the University of Southampton
Background
Poverty reduction is a core target of the international development
agenda. The 1994 International Conference on Population and
Development brought the importance of sexual and reproductive health
(SRH) to the attention of policy-makers worldwide. The subsequent
neglect of SRH, and its exclusion from the Millennium Development
Goals have, however, resulted in a patchy evidence base concerning
the links between poverty and SRH. Interest on the links between
poverty and fertility waned in the mid-1990s, when it became clear
that global fertility decline was under way – even in sub-Saharan
Africa. However, a recent resurgence in studies related to failing
family planning programmes has emerged due to evidence of stalling
fertility decline in some countries. At
the macro level, poverty – manifested in low investment in basic
social services such as education and health – can have significant
implications for reproductive health and fertility trends. Low
levels of health investment keep mortality levels high, and failing
to provide the contraceptive services
needed to achieve fertility decline keeps fertility higher than it
might be otherwise. At the micro level, some researchers have
proposed that large families are a result of poverty, due to the
need for security in old age but the evidence for this ‘insurance
policy’ hypothesis is lacking. Poverty may however impede access to
SRH services if couples have to pay for contraceptive commodities,
which then leads to unwanted pregnancies. There is a need to
synthesise these issues and to propose a coherent future research
agenda that focuses on existing gaps in knowledge of the
fertility-poverty link as well as methodological challenges.
Papers are being invited that address the following:
i) New evidence on the linkages between fertility and poverty (at
both macro and micro levels)
ii) Barriers to contraceptive use and safe abortion amongst those
living in poverty
iii) Evidence on the intergenerational flow of wealth and high
fertility as insurance for old-age security hypothesis
iv) Interventions and strategies for meeting high unmet need for
family planning among the under-served that have worked (e.g. male
involvement, voucher schemes, social marketing)
v) Methodological advances in measuring unmet need for family
planning
This is one in a series of four seminars on “Poverty and Sexual and
Reproductive Health: Towards Unravelling the Vicious Circle” where
academics and practitioners will meet to review evidence from
cutting edge research in the field and to identify gaps for further
scientific research, policy, and practice. We are inviting scholars
and practitioners to attend this exciting two-day seminar to be held
at the University of Southampton. We also encourage applications
from early career researchers and PhD students. Limited bursaries
are available for UK-based early career fellows with
innovative and high quality presentation.
To apply please submit an abstract of up to 250 words by 16th
November to rl@soton.ac.uk.
Successful applicants will be sent invitation letters by 1st
December 2009. For more information about our forthcoming seminars
please visit
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/socsci/ghp3/Events/
Collaborators of the seminars series:
London School of Economics, London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, City University,
Loughborough University, and University of Warwick.
Strikes and Social Conflicts in the
Twentieth Century
Call for Papers
International Conference
Strikes and Social Conflicts in the Twentieth Century
Lisbon, 17, 18, 19 March, 2011
The Institute of Contemporary History (New University of Lisbon),
the International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam), The
Archive Edgard Leuenroth (Unicamp/Brasil), the Centre for the Study
of Spain under Franco and Democracy (Autonomous University of
Barcelona) and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme (France) start the
call for papers for the International Conference on Strikes and
Social Conflicts in the Twentieth Century that will take place in
Lisbon between 17 and 19 March 2011.
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here for detailed information.
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Conferences, Seminars
and Lectures
Séminaire
Hétérodoxies du Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne
La prochaine séance du Séminaire se tiendra avec :
Frank VAN DE VELDE
(CLERSE – IFRESI – Université Lille I)
Le capitalisme est-il intrinsčquement instable ?
Formes de capitalisme et Dynamique économique
Discutant : Michael Assous (Phare, Université Paris1)
Mardi 27 octobre 2009 ŕ 16h00
Maison des Sciences Economiques
106 Boulevard de l’Hôpital, 75 013 PARIS (Métro Campo Formio)
Salle des Conférences (6čme étage)
Ci-joint le texte de la communication (le site étant momentanément
indisponible)
Prochaines séances :
* 3 novembre 2009 (ŕ 17h exceptionnellement) avec El-Mouhoub MOUHOUD
(LEDa et IRISES, Université Paris Dauphine) et Dominique PLIHON
(CEPN – Université Paris XIII)
Le savoir et la finance : liaisons dangereuses au cśur du
capitalisme contemporain
* 24 novembre 2009 (16h) avec Franck-Dominique VIVIEN (Université de
Reims) et Valérie BOISVERT (IRD) :« La convention sur la diversité
biologique : quelle lecture institutionnaliste ? »
The Future of Capitalism
A Public Debate Hosted by KCL Capital Reading Group and KCL Business
Society
Supported by the Centre for European Studies, King's College London
THE FUTURE OF CAPITALISM:
THE ROOTS OF THE CURRENT ECONOMIC CRISIS AND THE PROSPECTS FOR THE
SYSTEM AS A WHOLE
ALEX CALLINICOS, Professor of European Studies, King's College
London, and author of The Revolutionary Ideas of Karl Marx
MARTIN WOLF, Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times, and
author of Fixing Global Finance
6.30 P.M. MONDAY 2 NOVEMBER
GREAT HALL, KING'S COLLEGE LONDON, STRAND, LONDON WC2R 2LS
for more information contact
KCLreadingCapital@gmail.com
Crisis what Crisis: Forward to the
Past?
*Critical Labour Studies: 6th Symposium 2009
Venue: The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of
London
Saturday 21st/Sunday 22nd November 2009
Statement of Intent
It is clear to researchers and activists, both in the trade union
movement and universities, that global capitalism is increasingly
shaping the worlds of work and employment.
Click here
for detailed information.
Cambridge Realist Workshop -
Michaelmas Term 2009
Another year (in fact this is our 20th year), and yet another
programme for the Cambridge Realist Workshop.
Please note, though, that this year brings some significant changes.
First, the location has changed. We will no longer be meeting at
CRASSH. Instead we will be meeting in Clare College, which is in
Trinity Lane. More specifically we will be meeting in the Latimer
room, which is in the Old Court. For a 3-Dmap see:
http://www.clare.cam.ac.uk/livingincollege/3-DMap.htm
Second, instead of meeting weekly, we will be meeting fortnightly,
starting on the second week of term. This means that the first
meeting is not tomorrow but Monday, October 19. As usual the
seminars will start at 8pm, but drinks will be available from 7:30
pm.
The programme for the coming term (which has a clear ontological
flavour) is as follows:
Monday October 19,
Speaker: Tony Lawson (Economics, Cambridge)
Topic: What is and Why Bother with Social Ontology?
Monday November 02,
Speaker: Andrew Gamble (Politics, Cambridge)
Topic: The Nature of Crisis
Monday November 16,
Speaker: Ha-Joon Chang (Economics and Development, Cambridge)
Topic: The Nature of Development: Hamlet without the Prince of
Denmark
Monday November 30,
Speaker: Paul Lewis (Kings College London)
Topic:The Nature and Significance of Emergent Properties:The Case of
FA Hayek
For more information go to:
http://mail.live.com/default.aspx?&ip=10.13.2.8&d=d1040&mf=0
or, for those who have access:
http://www.talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/18031?layout=with_related&term=current
More on the first talk of Monday October 19, 2009
Tony Lawson will introduce the subject of social ontology,
explaining his terms/categories, and allowing that many of those
present may have little familiarity with the subject. Lawson will be
arguing that a turn to social ontology is highly desirable, and
likely essential, to modern social theorising. The talk will be self
contained, but a background chapter from Lawson’s Reorienting
Economics is attached. Further background material can be downloaded
from the following sites:
An early position paper of the Cambridge social ontology group:
http://www.csog.group.cam.ac.uk/A_Conception_of_Ontology.pdf
A currently (temporarily) free download of a recent Lawson paper in
the Cambridge Journal of Economics, touching on ontology, academic
economic and the crisis:
http://cje.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/33/4/759
A recent interview with Lawson in the Erasmus Journal for Philosophy
and Economics that focuses on social ontology:
http://ejpe.org/pdf/2-1-int.pdf
And some other connected papers:
http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/faculty/lawson/downloads.htm
These, to repeat, are merely background material/readings.
The Recession of 2008. Do Economists
ever agree on Analysis and Prescriptions?
The European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) and
the University of Castilla La Mancha (UCLM) are jointly organizing a
Workshop on:
“The Recession of 2008. Do Economists ever agree on Analysis and
Prescriptions?
The current financial and economic crisis has been stimulating some
very important and interesting debates. On the one hand, there have
been several attempts to compare it with previous crisis, especially
with the Great Depression of 1929. On the other hand, the current
crisis has also stimulated lively debates about the current state of
economic analysis and its effectiveness in providing adequate
accounts of the crisis.
Hence, the current crisis has not only
highlighted the changing nature of our economic reality, but also
the usefulness of taking a longer view when approaching economic
analysis.
The potential contribution of the history of economic ideas seems to
be extremely relevant on both accounts.
This Workshop is aimed at analyzing the current financial and
economic crisis from a history of economic thought perspective. The
papers presented may offer an overview of the crisis or focus on
specific issues. They may refer to the global economy or to a single
region or country. The may dig on the causes, the consequences or
policy recommendations.
The Workshop will take place in the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas
y Empresariales de Albacete (University of Castilla ¬ La Mancha,
Spain) on the 21 and 22 January, 2010. Albacete is a small but well
connected city. It can be reached by train from Alicante (1:15
hours), Valencia (1:30 hours) and Madrid (2 hours).
The seminar has been organized in three parts:
1. Thursday evening (16-18; 18:30-20:30): Presentation of four
selected papers.
2. Friday early morning (9-11): Parallel sessions.
3. Friday late morning (11:30-13:30): Presentation of two selected
papers.
The papers should be sent to
mariaangeles.tobarra@uclm.es before 21 November 2009.
Participants will receive confirmation of acceptance before 21
December 2009. The Committee will indicate the six papers selected
at plenary sessions. They are supposed to cover a broad array of
streams in the history of economic thought.
We aim to publish a book gathering together the 10 best papers.
Apart form the six papers presented at plenary sessions, the
Committee will select four additional papers among those discussed
in parallel sessions.
There are no registration fees for the
Workshop. ESHET and UCLM will provide three grants (of 350 euros
each) to PhD students who don’t have any other source of finance and
present good papers.
For further information visit
http://www.uclm.es/actividades/2009/workshopESHET-UCLM.
Scientific Committee:
O. Dejuan (chair),
E. Febrero.
H. Hagemann,
M.C. Marcuzzo
P. Teixeira.
THE GLOBALISATION LECTURES
2009-2010
Organised by the Department of Development Studies School of
Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) University of London
Convenor: Prof. Gilbert Achcar
Tuesday 27 October, 6:30pm – Logan Hall, Institute of Education
CRISES AND THE UNIPOLAR MOMENT
PROF. NOAM CHOMSKY
Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology (MIT) Co-sponsored by the Centre for International
Studies and Diplomac (SOAS)
Information at
http://www.soas.ac.uk/events/event52739.html
Wednesday 25 November, 6:30pm – Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
THE AMERICAN EMPIRE IN LIGHT OF THE GLOBAL CRISIS – A DEBATE BETWEEN
PROF. ALEX CALLINICOS
Director of the Centre for European Studies, King’s College London
PROF. LEO PANITCH Distinguished Research Professor, York University,
Toronto
Wednesday 27 January, 6:30pm – Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
FOR A GREEN AND JUST WAY OUT OF THE GLOBAL CRISIS
DR. SUSAN GEORGE
Board Chair of the Transnational Institute (tni.org)
Wednesday 3 March, 6:30pm – Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
HUMANITARIANISM AT THE RISK OF IMPERIALISM
DR. RONY BRAUMAN
Former President of 1999 Nobel Peace Prize winner Doctors without
Borders (MSF, Paris)
LANZAMIENTO DE AEDA EN ROSARIO
Lunes 19 de octubre de 2009 – 17:30hs
Sede de Gobierno de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario
Salón de los Espejos
Maipú 1065 – Rosario
PROGRAMA
17.30 hs. Acreditaciones.
18.00 hs. Apertura a cargo de Virginia Fernández.
18.15 hs. Primer Panel:
“Evolución de la industria argentina: transformaciones y desafíos”
Expone: Paula Espańol
“Cambio de régimen y dilemas del largo plazo. La economía argentina
entre 2003 y 2007”
Expone: Matías Kulfas
19.00 hs. Café.
19.15hs. Segundo Panel
“Cambios en la distribución del ingreso por categoría ocupacional en
el Gran Rosario; 2003-2007”
Expone: Oscar Sgrazzutti
“Cambio de época y política endógena. Una mirada desde las Ciencias
Sociales”
Expone: Oscar Madoery
20.00 hs. Presentación de AEDA y cierre de la actividad
Exponen: Ivan Heyn – Paula Espańol – Matías Kulfas
Se solicita confirmar asistencia a
correoaeda@gmail.com
www.congresoaeda.com.ar
Association for Institutional Thought
[AFIT]
2010 CALL FOR PAPERS
The 31st annual meeting of AFIT will be held
April 14-17, 2010
Reno, Nevada
Grand Sierra Resort
In conjunction with the Western Social Science Association (WSSA)
52nd Annual Conference
Theme for the 2010 Conference: Toward a Socially Embedded Economy
Institutional economics starts from the view that economy or
material provisioning is an instituted process and that institutions
should be the basic unit of economic analysis (as opposed to the
maximizing representative agent) because they act to both control
and empower individuals and social groups and give rise to
correlated and often predictable patterns of human behavior. The
Association for Institutional Thought provides an excellent platform
for the delivery of papers in a broad range of areas, including but
not limited to macro and monetary economics, political economy,
labor, regulatory and environmental economics, economies in
transition, history of thought, institutional selection and
evolutionary theory, healthcare, trade and globalization, poverty
and inequality, and the economics of sports. The Association invites
contributions that employ non-standard models or techniques of
investigation and analysis. AFIT sessions are well-attended, and
presenters can expect to receive valuable comments on their work.
Proposals for complete panels (including discussant(s)) are welcome.
Click
here for detailed information.
8th Society of
Heterodox Economists Conference on December 7 and 8, 2009
Registration and accommodation details are available from the
Conference website
http://www.economics.unsw.edu.au/nps/servlet/portalservice?GI_ID=System.LoggedOutInheritableArea&maxWnd=_Economics_SHE_2009Conf
SHE WEBSITE:
http://she.web.unsw.edu.au
Return of History: From Consensus to
Crisis
CASE- CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC RESEARCH
Cordially invites you to attend
Return of History: From Consensus to Crisis
bi-annual international conference
The “Return of History: From Consensus to Crisis” 2009 International
Conference will be held November 20-21st at the Falenty Center in
Warsaw. Distinguished panelists from around the world will discuss
the global macroeconomic and financial crisis in the following four
thematic sessions.
Session 1: The role of countercyclical fiscal policy: historical
experience and contemporary challenges
Session 2: The financial crisis: lessons for monetary policy
Session 3: Twenty years after: from transition to crisis
Session 4: Energy security in Europe and other regions
Confirmed speakers include: Wing Thye Woo, Anders Aslund, Leszek
Balcerowicz, Eric Berglof, Karel Lannoo and Jacek Rostowski, among
many others. For a complete list of conference speakers and detailed
agenda please visit the conference website
www.caseconference.eu.
CONFERENCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. As the conference is quickly
approaching, we encourage you to register at
http://www.caseconference.eu/registration.php.
We look forward to hosting another successful international
conference and to greeting you in Warsaw in November.
[conference flyer]
http://www.case.com.pl/plik--27112374.pdf?nlang=710
Sixth Historical Materialism Annual
Conference
‘Another World is Necessary: Crisis, Struggle and Political
Alternatives’
27–29 November 2009
at the School of Oriental and African Studies and Birkbeck College,
London, WC1 In association with Socialist Register and the Isaac and
Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize Committee
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/hm/conference2009.htm
The annual Historical Materialism conference is organised by the
editorial board of Historical Materialism in association with the
Deutscher Memorial Prize committee and the Socialist Register. The
conference has become an important event on the Left, providing an
annual forum to discuss recent developments on the agenda of
historical-materialist research and has attracted an increasingly
high attendance over the past four years. The Editorial Board of
Historical Materialism welcomes attendance and active engagement in
discussion with panellists from new as well as prior participants
with an interest in critical-Marxist thought.
Click
here for detailed information.
One Year on from
the Panic of 2008- Whither Financialised Capitalism?
7 November 2009
09.00-18.00
SOAS, London
For more information, contact
rmf@soas.ac.uk
Click
here
to download the flyer.
NATIONAL
CONFERENCE TO CREATE LIVING-WAGE JOBS, MEET HUMAN NEEDS, & SUSTAIN
THE ENVIRONMENT
As you know, 30 million people are unemployed or underemployed, and
millions more who work full-time are working poor. Our country had a
chronic problem. Now we have a crisis. Even those who see "green
shoots" of recovery warn of high joblessness long after the
recession is over. This is the time to address both the chronic and
acute problems.
A coalition of religious, labor, social welfare, anti-poverty
organizations and individuals is hosting a national conference in
New York City this November 13-14 to arouse public awareness and
action on behalf of the jobless and in support of the right to a
living-wage job for all. We propose creating living-wage jobs that
fill other social needs--infrastructure repair, elder- and
child-care, affordable housing--as well as address the imperative of
an ecologically sustainable economy Our proposal is based on work by
the National Jobs for All Coalition and the Chicago Political
Economy Group. A goal of the Conference is to ignite similar events
around the nation and ultimately action in Washington, DC
* Plan to attend the conference and register now
* Visit our conference website at http://www.JobsConference.org
* Inform individuals and organizations likely to be interested
* Add a link to the conference to your web site
* Volunteer to help
* Send a contribution to help pay for out-of-town attendees who will
take the leadership in their cities and towns
* Send us your suggestions
Confirmed speakers include:
Bill Quigley, Legal Director, Center for Constitutional Rights and
Loyola University School of Law
Gary Dorrien, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics, Union
Theological Seminary, New York, NY, and Professor of Religion,
Columbia University
Philip Harvey, Professor of Law and Economics, Rutgers School of Law
Peter Knowlton, President of the United Electrical, Radio and
Machine Workers of America (UE), Northeast Region, and
Vice-President on the General Executive Board of the UE National
Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics and founding Co-Director of
the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
Elce Redmond, South Austin Community Coalition, Committee for New
Priorities and Executive Committee, Chicago Job With Justice
Lillian Roberts, Executive Director, District Council 37, AFSCME,
AFL-CIO
Holly Sklar, policy advisor, Let Justice Roll Living Wage Campaign,
author, Raise the Floor: Wages and Policies That Work for All of Us
James Thindwa, labor and community activist, and former Executive
Director of Chicago Jobs With Justice.
Deborah Weinstein, Executive Director, Coalition on Human Needs,
Washington, DC
Chuck Bell, Conference Chair, Trudy Goldberg, Chair NJFAC , Mel
Rothenberg, Chicago Political Economy Group, Marcel Welty,
Conference Coordinator
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Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
Kingston University
Arts & Social Sciences
An outstanding individual is sought to lead the School of Economics
at Kingston University, London, into the next stage of its
development. You will be expected to develop and facilitate the
research performance of the School as well as build on existing
strengths in undergraduate and postgraduate recruitment. You will
have a world-class research profile in any aspect of Economics as
well as an ability to foster the work of others. You will have a
track record of managerial experience and be able to work
collegiately with staff at all levels. This is an excellent
opportunity for an individual committed to creating pedagogical and
research excellence in London in the context of a vibrant and
progressive Faculty.
Post open until filled: review of applications begins 30th November
2009. For informal discussions contact the Dean of Arts and Social
Sciences: Professor Martin McQuillan, Tel: 020 8417 2112
For further information and to apply online, please visit our
website at
www.kingston.ac.uk/jobs. Alternatively you can email
recruitment@kingston.ac.uk for an application pack, or if
you do not have access to the internet, please call the recruitment
line on 020 8417 3153, quoting reference 09/329.
The School's declared research tracks include "political economy",
so in principle a candidate with strengths in this area ought to be
in the running if they meet the other criteria.
The New School for
Social Research
The New School, New York, NY
C1 Econometric and Statistical Methods: General
B5 Current Heterodox Approaches
The Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research, and
Eugene Lang College are seeking applicants for one assistant
professor, tenure-track appointment. We seek scholars with a
commitment to undergraduate and graduate teaching and to continuing
economic research productivity. Responsibilities include active
participation in the undergraduate and graduate curriculum of the
university. We have a strong interest in candidates with a
demonstrated strength in econometrics and with an interest in some
field of political economy or heterodox economics. Salary will be
commensurate with experience and achievement.
For more information about the Department of Economics and Eugene
Lang College, see
http://www.newschool.edu/NSSR/ and
http://www.newschool.edu/lang/. We encourage applications
from individuals who belong to groups underrepresented in higher
education. The New School is an equal opportunity employer. We
welcome applications from scholars working in all traditions of
economic analysis.
Please send inquiries, including a recent C.V., a writing sample,
teaching evaluations, and three letters of reference, to:
econsearch@newschool.edu.
Contact: Economics Search Committee, Dept. of Economics, The New
School for Social Research, 6 E. 16th Street, Suite 1100, New York,
NY 10003.
Howard University
CO Econometrics, Mathematical Economics
DO Microeconomics
EO Macroeconomics
Subject to final budgetary approval, the Department of Economics has
three openings at the rank of assistant professor. Ideal candidates
should expect to have the Ph.D. completed by August 1, 2010.
For one position, a strong preference will be given to candidates
with research and teaching interests in microeconomic theory and
game theory and in empirical microeconomics including health
economics and urban economics. Those with other research interests
in applied microeconomics will also be considered. Candidates must
be able to teach advanced graduate level microeconomic theory and
industrial organization courses.
For one position, a strong preference will be given to candidates
with research and teaching interests in macroeconomic theory and
monetary economics. Candidates must be able to teach the advanced
graduate level macroeconomic theory, monetary economics and
international economics courses.
For one position, a strong preference will be given to candidates
with research and teaching interests in econometrics, mathematical
economics and game theory. Candidates must be able to teach
econometrics, mathematical economics and game theory at the advanced
graduate level and the ability to guide doctoral research using
applied macro-econometrics and applied micro-econometrics.
For all position, the department seeks applicants with an active
research agenda and an ability to develop a strong publication
record.
Applicants must have the ability to teach effectively at the
undergraduate and graduate levels and provide evidence of strong
teaching skills.
Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, a sample research paper,
evidence of teaching effectiveness, and letters from three
references.
Contact: Search Committee, Department of Economics, Howard
University Academic Support Building B Room 302, 2400 Sixth Street,
N.W.
Washington, DC 20059.
Howard University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity
Employer, committed to a diverse faculty, staff, and student body.
Women and minority candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For
information about the Economics Department at Howard University, see
http://www.coas.howard.edu/economics/faculty.html
Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2009. Applications
must be complete by December 11, 2009. We will be attending the ASSA
meetings in Atlanta.
Trinity College
Department of Economics
G -- Financial Economics
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor
The Department of Economics invites applications for a tenure track
position in financial economics at the assistant, associate or full
professor level beginning September 2010. The position requires a
Ph.D. or degree completed by August 2010. Applicants should be
committed to excellence in undergraduate teaching and scholarly
research in a liberal arts college. Teaching duties include
financial economics, core economics courses, and other courses in
the candidate's field(s) of specialization. The teaching load is
five courses per year, with a one-semester leave every fourth year.
In a cover letter applicants should carefully discuss areas of
research and teaching interest. Applicants should submit a cover
letter, curriculum vitae, writing sample(s), graduate transcript,
and at least three letters of recommendation. Priority will be given
to completed applications received by November 1, 2009. Trinity
College is an equal opportunity /affirmative action employer. Women
and minority candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. CONTACT:
Carol Clark, Co-Chair, Department of Economics, Trinity College,
Hartford, CT 06106 (
carol.clark@trincoll.edu ).
University of Michigan
The Center for Afroamerican & African Studies (CAAS) at the
University of Michigan seeks to hire a tenure-track junior faculty
member specializing in environmental and resource issues in
sub-Saharan Africa. The preferred focus would be on sustainable
development and Asia-Africa relations. We encourage applications
from social science disciplines including economics. The successful
candidate will be expected to develop an interdisciplinary research
agenda with three members of a cluster hire. Information on the
hiring initiative is located at
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/clusterhire.
This position is 100% within CAAS, with possible ?dry appointments?
elsewhere. Candidates are expected to teach four grad and/or
undergrad courses per year, including core and new courses. Send
applications including a cover letter, CV and three references to:
Chair, EISD Search Committee, Center for Afroamerican & African
Studies, University of Michigan, 4700 Haven Hall, 505 S. State
Street, Ann Arbor, MI. 48109. Letters should address your
qualifications and interest in the research cluster. Application
reviews will begin November 1, 2009. Candidates will be interviewed
at the ASSA meetings in Atlanta in January, 2010. Women and
minorities are encouraged to apply. The University of Michigan is
supportive of the needs of dual career couples and is an equal
opportunity/affirmative action employer.
Drew University
Drew University, a highly selective liberal arts college located 30
miles outside New York City, invites applications for a tenure-track
assistant or associate professor in Macroeconomics beginning
September 2010, pending budget approval. PhD. required at time of
appointment.
Courses will include: intermediate macroeconomic theory, a
macroeconomic policy course, and an additional course in the area of
specialization.
Because the occupant of this position will be responsible for
co-directing Drew's Wall Street Semester and will also have a role
in the new Business Studies Major, familiarity with financial
institutions and experience in program administration is preferred.
Candidates with an interest in History of Economic Thought are
particularly encouraged to apply. Applicants should submit a letter
of application, curriculum vitae, three letters of reference, a
statement of teaching philosophy, evidence of teaching
effectiveness, and a job paper or published article. Application
deadline: December 1, 2009. In order to enrich education through
diversity, Drew University is an AA/EO employer.
Applications may not be submitted electronically. Send completed
applications to:
Prof. Marc Tomljanovich, Chair
Economics Search Committee
Drew University
36 Madison Ave.
Madison, NJ 07940
University of Massachusetts Boston,
Boston, MA
Q5 - Environmental Economics
R0 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
I2 - Economics of Education
F22- Economics of Immigration
The Department of Economics invites applications for two anticipated
tenure track openings at the Assistant Professor level, beginning
Fall 2010 (subject to budgetary approval). One position is in
environmental economics; the other is in urban/regional development,
preferably related to human resource development, such as in
education or immigration. A successful applicant will have teaching
and applied research records in these areas. We are interested in
candidates who include heterodox political economy, feminist
approaches, applied policy analysis, or innovative methodologies in
their research. An interest in international comparisons of
environmental or urban/regional issues would also be valued.
Candidates should have a successful teaching record and the capacity
to contribute to undergraduate general education, the economics
major and, possibly, graduate instruction. Evidence of successful
teaching with diverse students is highly desirable.
Candidates must have completed the Ph.D. by September 1, 2010.
Evidence of progress towards an excellent scholarly record is
necessary.
Review of applications will begin on November 15, 2009, and continue
until the position is filled. We anticipate preliminary interviews
at the ASSA meetings in Atlanta.
Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, a sample of written
work, and three current letters of recommendation. Please include in
your letter of application an explanation of how your work would
complement the heterodox nature of the department. UMass Boston is
an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Title IX employer.
CONTACT: Personnel Committee, Department of Economics, University of
Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125-3393.
Franklin & Marshall College
Visiting Instructor/Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics
Franklin & Marshall College
Lancaster, PA
Faculty - Liberal Arts - Economics
Posted: 10/16/2009
Application Due: 12/11/2009
Type: Full Time
The Department of Economics at Franklin & Marshall College invites
applications for a three-year position at the Visiting Instructor or
Visiting Assistant Professor level, beginning Fall 2010 and pending
administrative approval. Teaching experience is required. Teaching
load is 3/2 and may include participation in the College's general
education program. The teaching responsibilities will include
teaching Introduction to Economic Principles and/or the Introduction
to Economic Perspectives, statistics, and an elective course chosen
in consultation with the Department. We especially welcome
applicants who can offer a data rich course on the US economy and
the global economy, covering a broad range of areas. We strongly
recommend visiting our web site at
http://www.fandm.edu/economics.xml for more information
about our department. Salary and benefits are competitive and
commensurate with qualifications.
Candidates should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae,
graduate transcript, three letters of recommendation, a teaching
statement, a research statement, and teaching evaluations to Tami
Lantz, Department Coordinator, Department of Economics, Franklin &
Marshall College, P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, PA 17604. Applications
may be submitted electronically by email to tami.lantz@fandm.edu.
Please reference three-year visitor position in your letter of
application.
Franklin & Marshall College is a highly selective liberal arts
college with a demonstrated commitment to cultural pluralism. EOE
Application information:
Postal Address: Tami Lantz, Department Coordinator
Economics Department
Franklin & Marshall College
P.O. Box 3003
Lancaster, PA 17604-3003
Phone: (717)-291-3916
Fax: (717)-291-4369
Online App. Form:
http://www.fandm.edu/x14477.xml
Email Address:
tami.lantz@fandm.edu
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Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles
What is Good for Goldman Sachs is
Good for America: The Origins of the Current Crisis
Robert Brenner
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/issr/cstch/papers/BrennerCrisisTodayOctober2009.pdf
2009 Neo Kaldorian Model
People may be interested in an article I just finished, which
presents a simple economic model with some insights into the 2008-9
crisis. It's based on a 1940 model by Nicholas Kaldor and describes
a steep recession ("falling off a cliff," in Warren Buffett's
phrase) as a jump between equilibria. Following Hyman Minsky and
Michal Kalecki, I suggest that under capitalism, such a fall off the
cliff is more likely to the extent that we see sustained prosperity
(as with the so-called "Great Moderation" of 1985-2006). Once the
economy falls off the cliff, it's very difficult to climb back up
the cliff without government stimulus. A PDF version of the article
can be found at:
http://myweb.lmu.edu/jdevine/JD-2009-neoKaldorianModel.pdf.
Any and all comments are welcome.
Jim Devine, a.k.a. James G. Devine | Professor of Economics Loyola
Marymount University | Los Angeles, CA 90045 jdevine at lmu.edu
| 310 338-2948
The 2009 Uprising in Iran: The Need
to Dispel Prevailing Misconceptions
The Centre for Development Policy and Research is pleased to
announce the publication of Development Viewpoint #39, “The 2009
Uprising in Iran: The Need to Dispel Prevailing Misconceptions.” The
author, Elaheh Rostami-Povey, a member of the London Middle East
Institute and the Centre for Gender Studies, SOAS, argues that the
reality of the struggle and the nature of the opposing sides in Iran
are more complex than commonly portrayed in the Western press,
political circles and academia. The struggle there can certainly not
be painted, she asserts, as a contest between two polar opposites,
such as ‘the modern versus the traditional’ or ‘the West versus
Islam’. The mass democracy movement tends to support, for example,
an Islamic state, Iran’s nuclear programme and the country’s growing
influence in the region, and is staunchly opposed to any imperial
domination or external meddling in the country’s affairs.
Click
here to download.
The Persistent Fall in Profitability
Underlying the Current Crisis: New Temporalist Evidence" by Andrew
Kliman
http://akliman.squarespace.com/persistent-fall
"Green shoots, profits, and great
depressions (or recessions)"
commenting on the views of different economists on the present
crisis.
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/tapia_granados/files/green_shoots_a5_-_2_columnas.pdf
It is neither very long nor very academic, but I hope it can be
stimulating. Comments are welcome.
José A. Tapia Granados, MBBCh, MPH, Ph.D.(Econ) Assistant Research
Scientist, The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research.
Symposium: The ‘British School’ of
International Political Economy Selected articles
Now FREE online access
The symposium on the so-called 'British school' of international
political economy builds on the debate that has recently emerged
around Benjamin J. Cohen's International Political Economy: An
Intellectual History. In tandem with the special issue from Review
of International Political Economy (www.tandf.co.uk/journals/RRIP),
which reflected at length on the 'American school' of IPE, this
issue seeks to bring together a collection of essays by some of the
leading figures in the field. The symposium aims to debate what
might be meant by a 'British school of IPE', to reflect on its
present condition and think about its likely future directions. We
think that the essays together constitute a lively, engaging and
robust debate and have already attracted wide interest. To see the
table of contents for the Symposium and to view the free access
articles please see the following link:
www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g915170775
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Heterodox Journals and
Newsletters
The Friends of Associative Economics
Bulletin
The Friends of Associative Economics Bulletin provides an overview
of what is going on around the world in the associative economics
movement. The bulletin is viewable as a webpage at
www.cfae.biz/fae-bulletin/09Oct/
October 2009
1) The Geo-Political Context of Economics
2) Upcoming Events
3) Associate! October 2009
Click
here for detailed information.
Historical Materialism
Research in Critical Marxist Theory
Volume 17 Issue 3
2009
CONTENTS
Articles
Massimo de Angelis and David Harvie
‘Cognitive Capitalism’ and the Rat-Race: How Capital Measures
Immaterial Labour in British Universities
Iain Pirie
The Political Economy of Academic Publishing
Maria Turchetto
Althusser and Monod: A ‘New Alliance’?
Reflections on ‘Gewalt’ (contd.)
Vittorio Morfino
The Syntax of Violence. Between Hegel and Marx
Archive
David Fernbach
Editorial Introduction to Paul Levi’s Our Path: Against Putschism
and What Is the Crime: The March Action or Criticising It?
Paul Levi
Our Path: Against Putschism
Paul Levi
What Is the Crime: The March Action or Criticising It?
Interventions
Alberto Toscano
Partisan Thought
Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho
Twixt Ricardo and Rubin: Debating Kincaid Once More
Jim Kincaid
The Logical Construction of Value Theory: More on Fine and
Saad-Filho
Review Articles
Christian Hřgsbjerg
on Frank Rosengarten’s Urbane Revolutionary: C.L.R. James and the
Struggle for a New Society and Brett St Louis’s Rethinking Race,
Politics, and Poetics: C.L.R. James’ Critique of Modernity
Robert T. Tally Jr
on Loren Goldner’s Herman Melville: Between Charlemagne and the
Antemosaic Cosmic Man: Race, Class, and the Crisis of Bourgeois
Ideology in the American Renaissance Writer
Seongjin Jeong
on Iain Pirie’s The Korean Developmental State: From Dirigisme to
Neo-Liberalism
Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism Peter Thomas Catharsis
Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
Volume 32 Number 1 / Fall 2009 of Journal of Post Keynesian
Economics is now available on the mesharpe.metapress.com web site at
http://mesharpe.metapress.com/link.asp?id=H767U41K14PW
This issue contains:
- Keynesian macroeconomics as the rejection of classical axioms
Steven M. Fazzari
- Davidson on Keynes: the open economy dimension
Robert A. Blecker
- Keynes and the real world: Davidson, money, and uncertainty
Virginie Monvoisin, Louis-Philipe Rochon
- Central themes of Paul Davidson's John Maynard Keynes
Robert W. Dimand
- Reply to contributors to the discussion of the central themes of
John Maynard Keynes
Paul Davidson
- Paradoxes in Lucas's 1988 model with variable returns
Giulio Guarini
- Money supply endogeneity under a currency board regime: the case
of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Shirley J. Gedeon
- Thirlwall's law and the long-term equilibrium growth rate: an
application to Brazil
Gustavo Britto, John S. L. McCombie
- Mainstream economics: searching where the light is
Rogier De Langhe
eInsight
Welcome to to the eInsight Economics Update. Our key experts
summarise some of the most interesting developments and economic
indicators below, providing you with useful and timely reflections
on the economy as it continues to evolve and respond to
circumstances. We hope you find it interesting and welcome your
comments.
Trade Deficit Falling
Over the course of the recession the UK has seen its balance of
trade deficit fall - that is, the gap between what the UK imports
and what it exports has been declining. This is directly linked to
the recession through a number of mechanisms.
Firstly, the fall in the value of sterling has made foreign goods
sold in the UK more expensive from the perspective of UK consumers.
As such individuals have shifted their consumption towards
UK-produced goods and services.
Read more...
LIBOR and Base Rate
At the peak of the financial crisis, the divergence of LIBOR and
Base Rate was cited as a major symptom of the freezing up of credit.
In November 2008 the gap between LIBOR and Base Rate peaked at 2.5
per cent. Since then it has been declining and now stands at 0.08
per cent - some way below the historic average. So, if the gap
between LIBOR and Base Rate is an indicator of the health of the
financial system, why do credit conditions remain so tight?
Read more...
Mortgage Interest Rates
Whilst the Base Rate remains at an all-time low of 0.5 per cent,
average mortgage interest rates continue to be stubbornly high. The
gap that has opened up between average tracker and SVR rates over
Base Rate - at around 3.4 per cent - is an historic high. Fixed
rates have also spiked in recent months, with an average fixed rate
now at 5.7 per cent. This is a truly exceptional margin over Base
Rate.
The previous section discussed one of the reasons that rates are so
high - there is simply not the available capital in the system with
which to lend. Banks are under-capitalised and face a major task in
rebuilding their balance sheets.
Read more...
Public Sector Debt
The Government's Sustainable Investment Rule aimed to hold public
sector debt (the total amount owed by the government to the private
sector) at around 40 per cent, over the course of the economic
cycle. The latest data shows debt to actually be 57 per cent of GDP
and growing. Forecasts from the 2009 Budget show the debt level
increasing to 80 per cent by 2014.
The UK debt level has grown due to the nationalisations of several
major banks, in the process staving off the worst of the financial
crisis. More recently, the Bank of England's programme of
quantitative easing has been buying up vast quantities of government
debt. This is effectively monetising public sector debt, converting
it directly into new money that is immediately available for
spending - not too far off from printing money to fund spending.
Read more...
ECONOMIA DELLE FONTI DI ENERGIA E
DELL’AMBIENTE
Journal of environmental economics and policy
Special Issue on Heterodox environmental economics
The Special Issue hosts papers of the Nobel Prize Elinor Ostrom and
of Xavier Basurto, Damien Bazin, René Kemp, Jouni Paavola, Arild
Vatn, and Gerardo Marletto.
http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/sommario.asp?IDRivista=10
Review of Political Economy
Volume 21 Issue 4 is now available online at informaworld
( http://www.informaworld.com
).
This new issue contains the following articles:
Original Articles
Retirement Policies and the Life Cycle: Current Trends and Future
Prospects
Author: William A. Jackson
The Tragedy of the Commons: Institutions and Fisheries Management at
the Local and EU Levels
Author: Rouba Al-Fattal
Method, Structure and Argument in Edith Penrose's Theory of Growth
Author: Carol M. Connell
The Impact of Unions on Labor's Share of Income: A Time-Series
Analysis
Author: Rudy Fichtenbaum
RICARDO: Standard Commodity : : MARX:
Author: Bruce B. Roberts
The Center for Global Justice
What's New on the CGJ Website?
Our website has three new articles in Spanish by Cuban historian
Armando Cristóbal:
* “Notas Sobre el Estado Moderno y la Nacion Politica” at
http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/articles/estado_nacion.html
* “El Socialismo y la Resistencia al Capitalismo: La construcción de
un Estado nuevo: una necesidad” at
http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/articles/socialismo_capitalismo.html
* “Una Nueva Ciencia Politica ante la Problematica del Estado-Nacion”
at
http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/articles/estado-nacio.html
Plus an article on the financial crisis by U.S. economist Jeff Faux
“La Crisis: Esta Produciendo un Nuevo Orden Global?” at
http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/articles/crisis_global_y_en_america.html
On the English side of the website you will find:
“The Economic Recovery is an Illusion: The Bank for International
Settlements (BIS) Warns of Future Crises”
by Andrew Gavin Marshall linked to
www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=15501
“Neoliberal Globalization: Expropriation from Above”
by Betsy Bowman
The mature stage of capitalism is one of stagnation, not growth.
Capitalism is a contradictory system that can survive only through
growth but which stagnates because of its very growth. Put simply,
there is simply too much stuff produced; this is what is called a
crisis of overproduction. But all the money is in a very few hands
and thus the vast majority has no money to buy the stuff produced.
This is called a crisis of overaccumulation…. Read more at
http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/articles/neoliberal_globalization.html
“The Political Economy of the ‘Illegal’ Immigrant”
by Steve Martinot
One could say that [‘illegal’ immigrants] form a vast "reparations"
operation seeking to
compensate for the damage done to their home economies by US
investment –
in other words, repatriating what had been taken from them. It is
therein
that the justice of the immigrant situation lies…. In these terms,
what the anti-immigrant movement seeks to preserve is the injustice
of having taken the wealth from Latin America…. Read more at
http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/articles/ilegal.html
In the index of articles we have added Mexico as a subject. You can
find there all our articles on Mexico:
*Barham: NAFTA 12 Years Later: Free -Trade Treat, or Trans-National
Trick?,
*Bowman & Stone: Tolantongo: Model Resort Cooperative?
*Bowman: A Women's Co-op Battles Globalization
*Bowman: TIERRA, LIBERTAD . . . AND COOPS! in Hidalgo, Mexico
*Caldera : “Campesino Resistance in Mexico”
*Carmona: Popular Education for Rural Women in Mexico: The National
School for Leadership Training
*Caffentzis: Si Se Puede Insurrection: A Class Analysis
*DuRand: Neo-Liberalism on a Global Scale: The Case of Mexico
*DuRand: The Exhaustion of Neo-Liberalism in Mexico
*DuRand: Peńón de los Bańos: A Community in Resistance to
Neo-liberal Globalization
*DuRand: Mexican Immigration and Globalization: The Big Picture
*DuRand: Mexico-U.S. Migration, Part I
*DuRand & DuRand: Mexico-U.S. Migration, Part II
*DuRand & Latch: Up a River without Water
*Esteva: The "Other Campaign" and the Left: Reclaiming an
Alternative (external link)
*Faux : “Obama’s Mexican Challenge”
*Faux: “So Far From God, So Near to Wall Street”
*Gandy: Mobilizing Latin American Women for the Fightback against
Globalized Oppression: The Role of Religion in Mexico
*García & Zarate-Hoyos: Nahua women in Alto Balsas, Mexico :
Administering and Generating Remittances for Human Development
*González Díaz: Social Organization as a Process for Change:
Cooperatives of Yucatán and Campeche
*Graham: Peńón de los Bańos
*Kozma: Intolerable Killings: Ten years of abductions and murders in
Ciudad Juárez and Chihuahua
*Krinsky: The Struggle of Four Indigenous Communities in Chiapas’
Lacandon Jungle: August 2006
*Lundren & Trigg: Weaving for Survival: Mujeres Productoras de
Cienegilla
*Monteagudo: Philosophers, Caracoles and Letizia: A visit to Chiapas
*Marcos: Decolonizing Feminism: the Indigenous Women’s Movement in
Mexico
*Millán: Mujeres Productoras: Women Producers of Cochineal and Nopal:
“Ya Tsedi Behńa” (The Power of Women)
*Orosco: Pilgrimage, Penitence, and Revolution: Mexican Cultural
Resources for Nonviolent Resistance in the Thought of Cesar Chavez
*Ortega: Groundwater Quality at the Independence Basin in Central
Mexico: Implications for Regional Development
*Pacheco: I Came Because They Told Me My Son Was Lost: Migration of
Wirrárika Women from Eastern Mexico to the Northern Border and the
U.S.
*Sánchez González: Gender and natural resources: Maya women and the
Agrarian Land Reform in Mexico
*Yasui: Mujeres Productoras, Rural Women Working Together
*Yasui: 50 Years of Foreigners in San Miguel de Allende
*Zapata: THE FEMINIST MOVEMENT IN MEXICO: From Self-Awareness Groups
to Transnational Networks
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Heterodox
Books and Book Series
TWENTY-FIRST
CENTURY MACROECONOMICS: CONSUMPTION, INVESTMENT, AND CLIMATE CHANGE
Edited by Jonathan M. Harris and Neva R. Goodwin (Edward Elgar
Publishing, 2009)
The authors and editors of this volume challenge traditional
assumptions about economic growth, and develop the elements of a
reoriented macroeconomics that takes account both of environmental
impacts and of social equity. Policies including carbon trading,
revenue recycling, and reorientation of private and social
investment are analyzed, providing insight into new paths for
economic development with flat or negative carbon emissions. These
issues will be crucial to macroeconomic and development policies in
the twenty-first century.
Now available at 35% discount -- for more information and to order:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/twentyfirst_century_macro.html
For this volume and other new climate change work from GDAE go to:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/
The ABCs of the Economic Crisis: What
Working People Need to Know
by Fred Magdoff and Michael D. Yates
The economic crisis has created a host of problems for working
people: collapsing wages, lost jobs, ruined pensions, and the
anxiety that comes with not knowing what tomorrow will bring.
Compounding all this is a lack of reliable information that speaks
to the realities of workers. Commentators and pundits seem more
confused than anyone, and economists—the so-called “experts”—still
cling to bankrupt ideologies that failed to predict the crisis and
offer nothing to explain it.
Click here for
detailed information.
Money And
Households In A Capitalist Economy
A Gendered Post Keynesian–Institutional Analysis
Zdravka Todorova, Assistant Professor of Economics, Wright State
University, Dayton, OH, US
Publisher's website:
http://www.e-elgar.com/bookentry_mainUS.lasso?id=13178
Click here
to download the flyer.
After the Crash
Designing a Depression-FreeEconomy
Selected works of MASON GAFFNEY
Edited and with an Introduction By
CLIFFORD W. COBB
After the Crash: Designing a Depression-Free Economy is the latest
book in the series Studies in Economic Reform and Social Justice
from The American Journal of Economics and Sociology. The book
analyzes in a unique way the causes of the current crash by showing
how such events derive from real estate bubbles and their
interactions with banks and other lenders. Mason Gaffney, explains
the current economic crisis, by developing a general theory of
capital. His theory draws on the previous findings of Knut Wicksell,
and demonstrates for readers how excessive investing in durable
capital of slow payback can destabilize and then freeze our modern
economy, which requires constant circulation and renewal of capital
to function properly. Combining that analysis with observed cycles
of land speculation, Gaffney shows how a “perfect storm” formed and
now has overwhelmed the economy.
After the Crash offers a distinctive framework for analyzing
macroeconomic issues, which can offer a useful counterpoint to
Keynesian, monetarism, rational expectations theory, and general
equilibrium analysis. It reviews sympathetically the function of
banks and deposit creation and warns against banks’ monetizing
speculative and volatile land values by using them as collateral.
Finally, this book criticizes orthodox economists for conflating
land and capital in their thinking and their theories, and
trivializing the value of land in their data sources. Click
here to
download the content.
Work after Globalization
Building Occupational Citizenship
Edward Elgar Publishing Lt., London, 2009.
Guy Standing
Professor of Economic Security
University of Bath, UK
And Professor of Labour Economics
Monash University, Australia
This is an
important book. It shifts emphasis from the role of capital to
the creativity of labour in the creation of value in the real
economy. A central role is accorded to each and all of the skills
and occupations which contribute to the construction of an economy
and a civic culture governed by the public interest. Guy Standing
has made an original contribution to the validation of human
creativity in the economic process. The work owes an acknowledged
debt to the vision of Karl Polanyi.ť Kari Polanyi Levitt, McGill
University, Montreal, Canada
Karl Polanyi's The Great Transformation marked the rise of
industrial citizenship, which hinged on fictitious labour
decommodification. Since the 1970s, this has collapsed and a Global
Transformation is under way, in which inequalities and insecurities
are becoming unsustainable. Guy Standing explains that while a
struggle against paternalism is essential, the desirable egalitarian
response to the problems caused by globalization is a strategy to
build occupational citizenship. This is based on a right to
universal economic security and institutions to enable everybody to
develop their capabilities and work whilst respecting the ecological
imperatives of the 21st century. The book also explores a phasing
out of labour law and re-orientation of collective bargaining
towards collaborative bargaining, highlighting the increased
importance of the relationship between groups of workers and
citizens as well as between workers and capital.
Click
here for detailed information.
Socialist Register 2010 - Morbid
Symptoms: Health under capitalism
I am writing to tell you that the new Socialist Register website is
now fully up and running, featuring SR 2010 on
Morbid Symptoms: Health under capitalism alongside our amazing
archive of all 700+ essays we've published since 1964. We're sure
you will want to check it out at
http://socialistregister.com.
This is first year the Register is being published simultaneously
online and in print and it is the first time that all the essays
ever published in the Register are available in one electronic
archive. We are sure you agree this is a big deal, and given how
much the world needs the Socialist Register that you will want to do
all you can to make it successful. I would very much hope that you
will personally subscribe now (from the home page go to the
Subscriptions tab and click on the Merlin order link at the bottom -
at Ł25 it's value for money.
I also would appreciate your concerted help to make effective a
major subscriptions campaign we are undertaking. At the very least,
could you immediately contact the appropriate people at your library
and ask them to take out an institutional subscription to the
Register. Many of these librarians will be getting a version of the
attached flyer, but we know that librarians are only likely to act
on this when requests are made from faculty and other users. I would
really appreciate hearing from you as to your librarian's response.
Economic
Pluralism
Edited by Robert F Garnett Jr, Erik Olsen, Martha Starr
http://www.routledge.com/books/Economic-Pluralism-isbn9780415777032
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
The leading edges of economic thinking in the early 21st century are
marked by a nascent pluralism - a positive valuing of difference and
complexity - regarding the nature and evolution of human behaviour
and economic organization. Economic Pluralism brings these pluralist
sensibilities to the fore. Its twenty original essays explore the
value and difficulties of pluralism in economic theory, philosophy,
institutions, and education.
These twenty original essays reflect the maturity and breadth of
pluralist scholarship in economics today. The first eight chapters
(including essays by Tony Lawson, Diana Strassmann, Frederic Lee,
and David Colander) stake out contentious positions on how and why
pluralism matters in economic inquiry. The remaining chapters
explore the meaning and consequences of pluralism in economic
education, institutions, and policies.
This volume provides a unique "second generation" discussion of
pluralism in economics. Its twenty original essays include
contentious disagreements about where and why pluralism matters in
economic inquiry as well as creative explorations of pluralism and
its consequences in economic systems and in graduate and
undergraduate economic education. It is certain to spur further
debate over the scope and value of economic pluralism for the 21st
century. This volume would be of most interest as a supplementary
text for graduate or undergraduate courses that include units on
heterodox economics or economic philosophy.
Routledge Advances in Heterodox
Economics
The Coming of Age of Information Technologies and the Path of
Transformational Growth
By Davide Gualerzi
Read more
Cultural Economics and Theory
The evolutionary economics of David Hamilton
Edited by David Hamilton, Glen Atkinson, William M. Dugger, William
T. Waller Jr.
Read more
The Foundations of Non-Equilibrium Economics
The principle of circular and cumulative causation
Edited by Sebastian Berger
Read more
Informal Work in Developed Nations
Edited by Enrico Marcelli, Colin C. Williams, Pascale Joassart
Read more
The Handbook of Pluralist Economics Education
Edited by Jack Reardon
Read more
The Marginal Productivity Theory of Distribution
A Critical History
By John Pullen
Read more
Heterodox Macroeconomics
Keynes, Marx and globalization
Edited by Jonathan P. Goldstein, Michael G. Hillard
Read more
A History of Heterodox Economics
Challenging the mainstream in the twentieth century
By Frederic Lee
Read more
Radical Economics and Labour
Essays inspired by the IWW Centennial
Edited by Frederic Lee, Jon Bekken
Read more
Currencies, Capital Flows and Crises
A post Keynesian analysis of exchange rate determination
By John T. Harvey
Read More
Ontology and Economics
Tony Lawson and His Critics
Edited by Edward Fullbrook
Read More
The World Bank and the
post-Washington Consensus in Vietnam and Indonesia
Inheritance of Loss By Susan Engel (Routledge, Publication Date:
11th August 2009)
http://www.routledgeeconomics.com/books/The-World-Bank-and-the-post-Washington-Consensus-in-Vietnam-and-Indonesia-isbn9780415547437
This book explores the history, structure and current operations of
the World Bank, which despite being the largest development
organisation and the largest development research body in the world
with tremendous direct and indirect influence on developing
economies, has rarely received the critical attention its importance
merits. The book’s unique contribution is twofold: it provides an
original analysis of the interaction between economic theory,
political practice and the Bank’s development praxis as well as two
detailed, grounded studies of the Bank’s lending practices.
The book starts with a detailed examination of the development
theory and practice of the World Bank from its Keynesian origins to
the current shift through the Washington Consensus to the so-called
post-Washington Consensus. The second part is a detailed analysis of
the Bank’s lending practices in two countries, Vietnam and
Indonesia. The case studies extensively utilise World Bank sources —analysing
the Project Appraisal Documents for some 113 loans. They also draw
on the secondary literature and on interviews with World Bank staff,
government officials, academics and NGOs in both countries. The case
studies enable the development of empirically-based conclusions
regarding the impact of Bank policies on the economic and social
development of two important Southeast Asian nations making possible
an assessment of the extent to which the rhetoric of the
post-Washington Consensus has been incorporated into the Bank’s
lending practices.
The Political Economy of Monetary
Circuits Tradition and Change in Post-Keynesian Economics
Edited by: Jean-François Ponsot , Sergio Rossi
This collection of essays in the tradition of monetary circuit
theory, also known as monetary theory of production, elaborates on
the foundations of modern monetary macroeconomics. It contributes to
a new approach to monetary analysis, which provides original
insights into the complex fields of money, banking, and finance. The
contributors, all prominent experts in these fields, explain a
number of economic activities, such as production, consumption,
investment, and fixed capital accumulation, in terms of monetary
circuits, providing a deeper understanding of the working of
contemporary economic systems. This book offers an original analysis
of the fundamental factors that led to the current global economic
and financial crisis. It will be of great interest to students,
postgraduates and scholars in monetary economics, as well as to
practitioners and decision makers involved in monetary, banking and
financial policies. Click
here to download
the flyer.
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Heterodox Book Reviews
Book Review in
THE ECONOMIST of three books about Keynes
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14539560
Akerlof & Shiller, Animal Spirits: A
Misnomer for Their Sound Economics by Mario Nuti
http://dmarionuti.blogspot.com/2009/09/akerlof-shiller-animal-spirits-misnomer.html
Animal Spirits - How Human Psychology Drives The Economy, and Why It
Matters for Global Capitalism, by George A. Akerlof and Robert J.
Shiller, was published earlier this year by Princeton University
Press, Princeton and Oxford, 2009. It is a timely book, as it
addresses the questions of why most economists failed to foresee the
current global crisis, to provide explanations for its occurrence
and to suggest effective remedies to counteract it. But above all it
is a refreshingly original, formidable set of economic propositions,
corrosive and at the same time constructive, with pointed and
valuable policy implications.
Click here to
read the review.
The Political Economy of the World
Bank: The Early Years
Michele Alacevich, _The Political Economy of the World Bank: The
Early Years_. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. xvi +
197 pp. $30 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8047-6066-9.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Louis Galambos, Department of History, Johns
Hopkins University.
Click here to
read the review.
A History of
Heterodox Economics
A HISTORY OF HETERODOX ECONOMICS: CHALLENGING THE MAINSTREAM IN THE
TWENTIETH CENTURY, Frederic S. Lee, Routledge, 2009.
Reviewed by Michael J. Murray, Central College
Click here to download
the review.
Animal Spirits
Review of ANIMAL SPIRITS: HOW HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY DRIVES THE ECONOMY,
AND WHY IT MATTERS FOR GLOBAL CAPITALISM
Reviewed by Esmeralda Gassie, Graduate Centre of Business,
University of Limerick, Ireland
Click here
to download the review.
New Deal Banking
Reforms
NEW DEAL BANKING REFORMS AND KEYNESIAN WELFARE CAPITALISM, Ellen D.
Russell, New York: Routledge, 2007. ix+148 pages. $95 (cloth), ISBN:
978-0-415-95661-1.
Reviewed by David A. Zalewski, Providence College
Click here to
download the review.
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Heterodox Graduate Program and PhD Scholarships/Research Fellowships
Ghent University
The Department of philosophy and moral sciences Ghent University
http://www.philosophy.ugent.be/
has a vacancy for a PhD researcher in connection with the research
professorship of Prof. Dr. Eric Schliesser. The area of interest is
open with a slight preference for candidates interested in history
and philosophy of science, early modern philosophy, philosophy and
history of economics, and the role of sympathy in moral
sciences/ethics.
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Eric Schliesser.
Starting date: between June 1 and October 1, 2010.
Period: four years.
Salary: approx. 1700 EUR/month (net).
Profile of the candidate:
- Independent, passionate thinker.
- Entrepreneurial attitude.
- Master's degree in philosophy (or equivalent in exact science,
economics, history, or Latin with strong interest in philosophy).
- Able to read, speak and write in English fluently.
Task of the researcher:
The research has to result in a PhD thesis.
The researcher will present the fruits of his/her research at
international conferences. S/he will be expected to publish
regularly research results in international, refereed journals.
The researcher is expected to organize at least one international
conference on the topic of her dissertation. S/he is expected to
spend some of his/research time with top-experts at universities
abroad. The researcher is expected to be an active participant in
the exciting intellectual life of the department and to be eager to
keep developing philosophically.
Applications
If you are interested in this position, send an email with your
dissertation proposal (ca. 1000 words), a CV and list of
publications (if any) to Eric Schliesser (
nescio2@yahoo.com ), no later
than 30 December 2009.
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Heterodox
Web Sites and Associations
Three websites from Canada
http://www.socialistproject.ca/
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/
http://socialeconomy.info/en/english
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For Your Information
The 2009 FEE
Prizes in Austrian Economics
TURPE REALITY TOUR: WALKING THE COLOR LINE: ATLANTA, GEORGIA
January 2, 2010 2:00-4:00 pm
In The Souls of Black Folk, as he reflected on the history of the
South and the nation at the dawn of the 20th century, W. E. B. Du
Bois stated: “The Problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of
the color line.” Now that the twentieth century has concluded, it is
clear that Du Bois was right. The writings of Du Bois from his base
at Atlanta University will be the start for an interpretive
historical tour of the color line in Atlanta. Sites to be visited
include the Atlanta University complex where W. E. B. Du Bois wrote
The Souls of Black Folk and where the student protests that attacked
the color line in downtown restaurants in 1960 were organized and
marches begun; the County Courthouse, City Hall, and the Georgia
Capitol, all sites of segregation and protest; Auburn Avenue, the
center of black business; and the Martin Luther King National
Historic Site, including his tomb, birth home, the church where he
preached (Ebenezer Baptist), and the location where he had his
office as head of the SCLC (Prince Hall Mason’s Building). Our tour
leader will be Prof. Timothy Crimmins of Georgia State University.
Price: $25.00 or $15.00 for students. Send your check by December 1,
2009 to:
Hazel Dayton Gunn
Department of City & Regional Planning
106 W. Sibley Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
( hg18@cornell.edu )
Tour participants will be sent information on where to meet in
Atlanta in December.
Vous avez dit “systčmes
régionaux d’innovation” ?
Chčre Madame, cher Monsieur,
Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer que l’éditorial d’octobre du
Réseau de Recherche sur l’Innovation, « Vous avez dit “systčmes
régionaux d’innovation” ? A propos de la “schizophrénie territoriale”
des décideurs politiques français », est disponible ici :
http://rrifr.univ-littoral.fr/?p=165
Did You Mean “Regional
Innovation Systems
Dear Madam, Dear Sir
We are pleased to inform you that the editorial for October from the
Research Network of Innovation « Did You Mean “Regional Innovation
Systems” : About the “Territorial Schizophrenia” of French
Policy-Makers », is available here :
http://rrien.univ-littoral.fr/?p=117
Institute of Public Enterprise
(IPE)
Dear Sir/Madam,
As you are aware, the Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE),
Hyderabad, is a non-profit educational society established in 1964.
It is devoted to Education, Training, Research and Consultancy for
business enterprises in the public and private sector. IPE is the
premier Business School at Hyderabad and is recognized as a “Centre
of Excellence” by the Indian Council of Social Science Research
(ICSSR), Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of
India, New Delhi, for doctoral studies. To know about our institute
you can go through our website
www.ipeindia.org
We at IPE are publishing two journals namely : The Journal of
Institute of Public Enterprise and the Journal of Economic Policy
and Research, which are widely circulated in India and abroad. In
this connection, we would like to invite articles from Professors
and Research Scholars etc., of your department.
The articles may deal with empirical analysis, historical analysis
and situational analysis, on themes pertaining to Public Enterprises
policy and public systems, Public Enterprises v. Private Enterprises
etc. The articles may broadly cater to functional disciplines like
Strategic Management, Finance, HRD, IT, Marketing, Logistics and
other inter-related sector specific topics like infrastructure,
Airports, Roads, Ports Bridges Power (Energy), Telecommunications
etc. Sections of Theses of any completed M. Phil.,/Ph. D, from your
department, covering the period from 2006 to 2009 if any, may be
extracted and forwarded. For the articles selected, honorarium would
be given.
For further clarifications you may kindly contact 040 27095480
between 10.00 am and 4.30 pm, Monday to Friday. You may forward the
soft copies of the articles to the e-mail
journalipe@ipeindia.org
or journalepr@ipeindia.org
Dr.K.Trivikram,
Associate Professor &
Programme Co-ordinator [M.B.A. (P.E)],
Institute of Public Enterprise (IPE),
OU Campus,
Hyderabad - 500 007.
Video on “Revolutionizing
Economic Thought,”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04GzSjrm_7M
The Nobel prize for economics
may need its own bailout
Facing a similar crisis of legitimacy, the prize needs to prove it
is much more than an award for stockmarket speculators
Jayati Ghosh
guardian.co.uk
The economics award is usually the last of the Nobel prizes to be
announced. Correctly so, for it was also the last to be created –
and strictly speaking is not even a real Nobel prize. The five
original awards, first given out in 1901 for literature, peace,
medicine/physiology, physics and chemistry, were intended by Alfred
Nobel to recognise contributions that enhanced the quality of human
life, through scientific advance, literary creativity or efforts at
bringing about peace.
Click
here to read the article
Signatories
Statement against Government of India’s planned military offensive
in adivasi-populated regions: National and international signatories
http://sanhati.com/excerpted/1824/
Green Jobs Conference
http://www.greenjobsconference.org This is a green jobs
conference that is upcoming in the United States.
"Science is a Sacred Cow" :A
Video from Ankara, Turkey
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/3427955/229_b_children_on_revolt/
We shot this short video with a group of undergradaute students at
Ankara University in 2007. It was a little cinema workshop in one of
the History of Economic Thought courses offered by the Economics
Department of Ankara University, in which people wanted to shoot
short videos about the current state in economics. In this work,
students want to show how boring the economics classes are: they
leave the classroom one after another until the last one throws
Samuelson's Economics (1948) into trash. The video lasts less than 6
mins. The soundtrack is Supertramp's "School" from "Crime of the
Century (1974). The quotation in the very begining of the video (in
Turkish) is from a short passage by Anthony Standen Science is a
Sacred Cow (1950). A cow, sitting in front of the Faculty building,
is the amblem of the Faculty of Political Sciences, Mekteb-i Mulkiye.
("Inek" (=Cow") is the Turkish equivalent of "nerd.")
New Political
Economy
Graduate Student Prize Paper Competition Ł500 prize
New Political Economy (
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/CNPE ) is pleased to invite submissions
to the 2009/10 Graduate Student Prize Paper Competition. We welcome
submissions from graduate students working across the field of
political economy, from all relevant disciplinary backgrounds and on
any topic consistent with the overall aims and remit of the journal.
The prize is Ł500 (GB sterling) and publication of the paper in New
Political Economy.
For a pdf file of the poster and full terms and conditions of the
competition please see the following link:
www.tandf.co.uk/journals/pdf/competitions/cnpe.pdf
PRESS RELEASE: The Financial
Crisis: How Economists Went Astray
From Professor Geoffrey M. Hodgson
g.m.hodgson@herts.ac.uk
www.geoffrey-hodgson.info
The Business School, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield,
Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, UK
The Financial Crisis: How Economists Went Astray
Two Nobel Laureates and over 2000 Signatories Uphold that Economists
have Mistaken Mathematical Beauty for Economic Truth
On 2nd September 2009, Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman wrote in the New
York Times that in the run-up to the 2008 financial crash “the
economics profession went astray because economists, as a group,
mistook beauty, clad in impressive-looking mathematics, for truth.”
An online declaration in support of a fuller extract from Krugman’s
article (see the text below) has received over 2000 signatures in
little over a month. This is already higher than all earlier appeals
for the reform of economics, since and including the June 2000
petition by students at the École Normale Supérieure (France's
premier institution of higher learning) protesting against the
excessive mathematical formalisation of their curriculum and its
neglect of economic realities. This petition received 1545
signatures and prompted the French Minister of Education to set up
formal enquiry.
Krugman joins a line of Nobel Laureates, including Ronald Coase,
Wassily Leontief and Milton Friedman, who have argued that
economists has become largely transformed into a branch of applied
mathematics, with inadequate contact with the real world. On the
online website, Krugman’s words are supported by Nobel Laureate
Douglass North.
The narrow training of economists – which concentrates on
mathematical techniques and the building of empirically uncontrolled
formal models – has been a major reason for the failure of the
economics profession to appreciate market vulnerability and warn of
the serious risks in the financial system. In their pursuit of
tractable models, economists have made over-simplified and misguided
assumptions concerning of human agents, markets and other
institutions, rather than engaging adequately with the complexities
of the real world.
Mathematics is very important and useful, but it should be a servant
to economics, and not its master. Real-world substance should
prevail over mathematical technique. To help avoid further failings,
governments in the USA, Europe and elsewhere should look into the
state of economics and the way economics is taught.
Of the 2000-plus signatories of the current online appeal, 62% have
PhDs, 20% are from the USA, and 10% from the UK.
As well as Nobel Laureate Douglass North, other prominent
signatories include leading international academics and researchers
such as Masahiko Aoki, Tony Aspromourgos, Michael Bernstein,
Margaret Blair, Mark Blaug, Daniel Bromley, John Cantwell, Ha-Joon
Chang, Victoria Chick, Keith Cowling, Kurt Dopfer, Gregory Dow,
Ronald Dore, Giovani Dosi, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Peter Earl, Jan
Fagerberg, Olivier Favereau, Duncan Foley, John Foster, Geoffrey
Harcourt, Arnold Heertje, Joseph Henrich, Stuart Holland, Will
Hutton, Peter Kellner, Arjo Klamer, Mark Lavoie, Richard Lipsey,
Brian Loasby, Mark Lutz, Ronald Martin, William McKelvey, Deirdre
McCloskey, Stanley Metcalfe, Julie Nelson, Richard Norgaard, Luigi
Pasinetti, Peter Richerson, Erik Reinert, Barkley Rosser, Kurt
Rothschild, Bridget Rosewell, Robert Rowthorn, Malcolm Rutherford,
Paolo Saviotti, Malcolm Sawyer, Esther-Mirjam Sent, Mark Setterfield,
Gerald Silverberg, Laurence Shute, Robert Skidelsky, Peter Skott,
Ronald Stanfield, Arthur Stinchcombe, Thomas Weisskopf, Sidney
Winter and Stefano Zamagni.
All 2000-plus signatories endorse the following words by Paul
Krugman:
"Few economists saw our current crisis coming, but this predictive
failure was the least of the field’s problems. More important was
the profession’s blindness to the very possibility of catastrophic
failures in a market economy ... the economics profession went
astray because economists, as a group, mistook beauty, clad in
impressive-looking mathematics, for truth ... economists fell back
in love with the old, idealized vision of an economy in which
rational individuals interact in perfect markets, this time gussied
up with fancy equations ... Unfortunately, this romanticized and
sanitized vision of the economy led most economists to ignore all
the things that can go wrong. They turned a blind eye to the
limitations of human rationality that often lead to bubbles and
busts; to the problems of institutions that run amok; to the
imperfections of markets – especially financial markets – that can
cause the economy’s operating system to undergo sudden,
unpredictable crashes; and to the dangers created when regulators
don’t believe in regulation. ... When it comes to the all-too-human
problem of recessions and depressions, economists need to abandon
the neat but wrong solution of assuming that everyone is rational
and markets work perfectly." (New York Times, September 2nd, 2009.)
Additional supporters can sign the petition on
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/revitalizing_economics?e
(If you do not wish to make a contribution, then exist immediately
when the web page changes.)
Darling
Alicia: The Love Letters of Alicia Kaner and Stephen Merrett
(Stephen Merrett is a
longstanding member of the community of heterodox economists)
The Love Letters of Alicia
Kaner and Stephen Merrett
Edited by Vernee Samuel
A collection of enchanting love letters written between 1966–67 by
Stephen Merrett, a young British academic based in Delhi and Alicia
Kaner, an Argentinian student. The reader is swept along as they
flirt, fight and fall in love on the page. The letters also offer a
witty and perceptive insight into politics, culture and family life
in India, Argentina and Britain.
Click
here to download the flyer.
Venezuela: The Battle for
Workers' Control
Caracas, October 30, 2007: Produced as part of Centro Internacional
Miranda's Transformative Practice and Human Development, directed by
Michael Lebowitz.
* Wokers' Control: Theory and Experiences
* Building the Triangle of Socialism
Click here to view the video presentation:
http://www.leftstreamed.ca/#ls26
PERI announces
SAFER
http://www.peri.umass.edu/safer/
Dear Friends & Colleagues,
Over a year after the bankruptcies that brought the U.S. and the
world economies to the brink of collapse, the U.S. financial system
is just as inefficient and unfair - and potentially just as unstable
- as it was on George W. Bush's watch. Millions of Americans
continue to lose their homes and their jobs, while wealthy Wall
Street financiers continue to skim billions of dollars off a
financial system largely propped up by $12 trillion in taxpayers'
money for bailouts, subsidies and loan guarantees. Meanwhile,
massive armies of lobbyists for financial institutions have
descended on Capitol Hill and the White House to prevent genuine
reform of the system. The upshot is that the power of the money
lobby has allowed financiers to continue many of the same risky and
lucrative practices that crashed the system, crushed people's dreams
and threaten to do so again.
We do not have to tolerate these financial antics any longer. Labor
unions, grassroots groups, some legislators and many citizens are
working hard to make the financial system part of the solution
rather than an ongoing problem facing the American people. In
addition, there are economists and other analysts who are playing a
role in this struggle, who understand many of the steps required to
create a productive and fair financial system. But their ideas have
not been widely disseminated among the public or gotten a fair
hearing by the Obama Administration.
In response, we have assembled the Economists' Committee for Stable,
Accountable, Fair and Efficient Financial Reform (SAFER). SAFER is
bringing together economists and other analysts to develop, present
and promote major financial reforms that will help restore economic
health to American families. Among SAFER's analysts are those who
have long experience studying financial matters, have worked in the
financial markets, and/or have served in government agencies that
regulate financial institutions and markets. SAFER plans to act as a
focal point and clearinghouse for developing and disseminating these
ideas so they can play a larger role in the debate on financial
restructuring and reform.
On the SAFER website you can read more about the participants,
download the first set of SAFER policy briefs, read Congressional
testimony by SAFER members, read about our participation in the
media, and download background research. We look forward to hearing
your thoughts on our work, and working with you to create meaningful
financial reform.
Gerald Epstein and Jane D'Arista, SAFER Coordinators
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