Contributions can be made to both the
Refereed (peer reviewed) or Non - Refereed streams. Refereed papers
will be included in a printed volume of conference proceedings (which
will constitute a referred conference paper under Australian government
rules). The deadline for both types of abstracts is: Monday 12th July
2010 5pm.
Margaret Schabas is a Peter
Wall Distinguished Scholar in
Residence 2010-11. Funding for the workshop is provided by the
Distinguished Scholar in Residence Program. The Departments of
Economics and of Philosophy (UBC) provided additional funding.
Prior registration is mandatory, but there is no fee. Contact
Tyler DesRoches
tylerdes@interchange.ubc.ca
for more information and to register.
Human
Capital for Sustainable Economies
May 27th to 28th, 2010
at Karlsruhe, Germany
A two-day International Conference on Developing Human Capital for
Sustainable Economies will be held from May 27th to 28th, 2010 in the
"green" city of Karlsruhe, Germany. This event will bring together
academia, senior executives of public and private organisations, chief
human capital officers, business executives and corporate advisors,
economists, policy makers, environmental management experts,
sustainable development practitioners, representatives of international
development agencies and other relevant stakeholders to discuss key
emerging issues including: global warming and the emergence of the
green economy; how is the transformation from high to low carbon and
sustainable economy impacting human capital management; and effective
initiatives needed to develop and manage human capital for the next
economies – the green economies.
Further to the knowledge sharing on greening human capital; the
upcoming event also provides an excellent networking opportunity with
members of international agencies, governmental and non-governmental
institutions, senior corporate and hr executives, academia, economists,
sustainable development practitioners and other relevant stakeholders
in Europe and beyond.
You are cordially invited to attend this international event and/ or
nominate the member(s) of your institution.
For further information, please see the event details :
http://www.etechgermany.com/HCConference.pdf
Tel.: 0049-721- 476 89 16
Fax.: 0049-721- 476 89 53
Email:
mail@etechgermany.com
Web:
www.etechgermany.com
Sincerely,
Organizing Team
Marx
Memorial Library events
Monday
8th March 2010. Lecture
starts at
6.30pm.
Clement
Attlee and the Founding of the Welfare
State
Francis Beckett talks about Clem Attlee with reference to his biography
on him. Attlee was a subtle and skilful political operator - swift,
decisive, ruthless and cunning. Inspired by the squalor of the living
conditions, he had seen in the East End of London, he was determined to
put an end to poverty - with the result that his government
revolutionised British society. The welfare state and the National
Health Service were created, and money was found to build new schools
and expand higher education - even at a time just after the Second
World War when Britain was virtually bankrupt.
Monday
15th March 2010. Lecture
starts at
6.30pm.
Why
Work? Marx and Human Nature
Why work? Most people say that they work only as a means to earn a
living. This instrumental view is also implied by the hedonist account
of human nature which underlies utilitarianism and classic economics
and which has been influential in recent
‘analytical’
Marxism. In this talk Professor Sean Sayers will argue that
Marx’s concept of alienation involves a more satisfactory
theory
of human nature that is rooted in Hegel’s philosophy.
According
to this, we are productive beings and work is potentially a fulfilling
activity. The fact that it is not experienced as such is at the basis
of Marx’s critique of capitalist society.
Monday
22nd March 2010. Lecture
starts at
6.30pm.
Marxism
and the challenge of Post Liberalism
Professor John Hoffman explores Marxism in the Post Liberal age. He
explores the recent crisis within both Marxism and Capitalism, the
changing role of the nation state and work, and suggests that contrary
to the received wisdom that the days of Neo-Liberalism are numbered.
The future belongs to Marx.
Monday
29th March 2010. Lecture
starts at
6.30pm
Pushkin,
the Russian Autocracy and Rebellion
Professor Robert Chandler, the author of a recent book on the greatest
of Russian poets, looks at the politics of Pushkin. In particular, he
examines the Decembrist movement which led to Russia’s first
revolution and the interplay between the intelligentsia, the army and
wider society in the thrall of tsardom.
Monday
19th April 2010. Lecture
starts at
6.30pm
Ghost
Dancers – The Last Generation of
Miners: Lecture and Book
Launch
David Douglass launches his new book Ghost Dancers – The Last
Generation of Miners a definitive history of the great coal strike of
1984/5, exploding prevailing myths around that epoch period, and
correcting all the inaccuracies of dozens of books previously penned by
academics and journalists. Ghost Dancers is inspired by the last stand
of the Native American Indians in their efforts to retain their culture
and dignity, and the Durham Miners Gala as a mining equivalent of that
same endeavour. This book records the last stand of the last generation
of pitmen and their communities.
For more information, visit:
http://www.marx-memorial-library.org/
Alternatives
to Capitalism:
Self-Management in the Spotlight
April 2010, Barcelona, Spain.
Comissió del Centenari de CNT (1910 - 2010).
Comissió
Permanent de Barcelona, CNT-Barcelona
Within the framework of the CNT-AIT centenary (1910-2010), a series of
conferences brought together under the name of “Alternatives
to
Capitalism: Self-management in the spotlight” will take place
in
Barcelona. These conferences will be held throughout april 2010. The
contents will be organized in three blocks of lectures: theoretical,
historical and a broader one, based in more current experiences.
The theoretical block draws up a program of lectures on how the
capitalist system works, focusing on the present moment of economic and
social crisis. Anarcho-syndicalist proposals facing the crisis will
also be debated. This theoretical perspective is completed with several
papers which shall offer a wide vision of economic and social
literature on the subject of socialism and libertarian-communism models.
The historical block tries to put forward two strong models that may
serve as an alternative to the capitalist system. On the one hand, that
of the anarchist collectivization during the Spanish Civil War
(1936-1939), for which lectures will be included to explain how it
worked in the different regions where it was implemented (Catalonia,
the Valencian Community, Aragon, Castile, Andalusia). On the other
hand, explanations will be offered on the Yugoslav co-management model
(1950-1990) with the purpose of assessing this experience both in the
light of a possible model for the development of impoverished countries
and from the limits imposed on socialism by the five-year plan, the
market and the One Party State, along with a strictly libertarian
vision of the whole process.
With the present block we intend to gain an insight on different
organizational experiences that fight against capitalism nowadays from
a self management point of view. In this sense, the contribution of the
CNT-AIT (labour and socioeconomic aspects) is included, as well as
those of other specific anarchist organizations (socio-political
aspect), of some models of cooperatives with a radical perspective
(labour and socioeconomic management aspect) or of cultural and study
centres (cultural aspect). Finally there’s place for
initiatives
linked to local and municipal fields, such as those of squat social
centres and apartments, municipalism or local assemblies (local
political aspect). Finally, from a wider geographical, and in some
cases, thematic point of view, live experiences from other places in
the world will be debated, such as social movements in Latin America,
Chiapas, Brazil (Landless Workers Movement, MST), Argentina
(enterprises recovered by their workers), Venezuela and Greece.
Organizing : CNT Barcelona
Collaborating:
Fundación Anselmo Lorenzo – FAL (
http://www.cnt.es/fal)
Institute of Economic and Self-management Sciences – ICEA (
http://iceautogestion.org)
Fundació d'Estudis Llibertaris i Anarcosindicalistes
–
FELLA (
http://www.nodo50.org/fella)
Download
Program.
Systematic
Mixed Methods
Research: What, Why, and How?
An Open Workshop, June 15, 2010. 10 am to 4 pm, University of
Manchester, UK
Programme includes
Dr.
Axel Marx on
random samples vs. the small-N reality of the regulation of the global
footware industry (a study of causal modelling using Qualitative
Comparative Analysis);
Prof.
David Byrne
on his new work about modelling causes in epidemiology and health;
Wendy Olsen
on systematic mixed-methods
research, and case-study material from economics, the psychology of
well-being and other topics. 7 Speakers in all.
A masterclass lasting one hour will involve small group work.
The
NVIVO (qualitative) and fsQCA (causal) software will be demonstrated.
There is a small charge for the day.
See
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/events/mixedmethods2010/
for more details.
How
Class
Works 2010
June 3-5, 2010, SUNY Stony Brook, USA
The full schedule for the How Class Works - 2010 conference is now
posted at <
http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/conference/2010/>
together with registration and housing information.
The conference includes over 200 presentations exploring the many ways
in which class dynamics shape our social, cultural, and political
experiences. It brings together graduate students and senior
scholars, labor and community organizers and activists, to extend the
knowledge and community of working class studies.
Presenters are coming from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada,
Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, New Zealand, Portugal, Nigeria,
South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, the UK, and the US.
The opening plenary session will feature Larry Cohen, international
president of Communications Workers of America: "Economic Crisis,
Political Paralysis: What's the Working Class to Do?"
Thursday
June 3 at 7 p.m. Other plenary sessions will address right
wing
populism, charter schools, and contingent academic labor.
I invite you to check out the program and register for the
conference. Limited financial aid is available. I
hope to
welcome you to Stony Brook in June.
with best wishes
Michael
Michael Zweig
Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life
Department of Economics
State University of New York
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384
631.632.7536 |
michael.zweig@stonybrook.edu
Spring
Alternative Summit:
For Another Europe of Knowledge
Thursday 25 March 2010. European Parliament. Wiertz Street/Wiertzstraat
60 B-1047 Brussels
Room 7C050. 10:00-12:30 AM / 2:00-6:00 PM (Arrival from 9:00 AM)
Site Internet:
http://printemps2010.eu
Website:
http://spring2010.eu
On 25-26 March 2010, the Spring Summit of the Heads of State and
Government of the European Union will mark the 10 years of the Lisbon
Strategy, which frames the policies currently conducted in the Member
States so as to ‘modernise’ the national research
and
education system (primary, secondary and higher education, lifelong
learning). The Council will present an assessment of this Strategy and
then project it over the next decade, complying with the agenda
“Europe 2020” prepared by the European Commission
(see
http://ec.europa.eu/eu2020/index_fr.htm)
The declared ambition of a
‘knowledge-based
society’ should be encouraged when its objective is to
promote
education and research as public goods, when it ensures that knowledge
is available to all, and when it allows citizens to express a reasoned
critical analysis of the scientific and technical choices which are
proposed to them.
But the current orientation is
different, and
reduces this prospect to the creation of a ‘knowledge
market’ whose harmful influence can be seen everywhere.
Scientific and institutional independence is weakened. The public
research system is being dismantled and the grip of business tightened.
Tuition fees are increased. Studying and working conditions are
becoming increasingly precarious and citizens are pushed aside from the
technical and scientific decisions that affect their lives. Instead of
being met, the promise of a 3% of G.D.P investment in research ends up
with dire budget cuts.
In the past few years, large-scale
mobilizations of
increasing intensity have been initiated by students, workers in
education and research, and by social movements in general, all around
Europe. These protests strongly express a demand for a public education
and research sector which will not surrender to competitive market
forces nor be driven by the utilitarian views imposed by short-sighted
policy-makers.
That is why we are organizing
an Alternative Summit on 25 March 2010 in the European Parliament in
Brussels. You are warmly invited to participate actively in this day of
exchanges and debates to build together another project AGAINST the
marketization of scientific and educative activities, against the
reduction of knowledge to technological innovation and mere adaptation
to the labour market, FOR an emancipatory and democratic service in the
field of Higher Education and Research.
For details see attached invitation: in
French
and in
English.
MicroCafé:
Seminars
on the History and Philosophy of Microeconomics
The departments of economics at Bocconi University and the University
of Milan joitly organize a new seminar series in the History and
Philosophy of Microeconomics. The series' title is
"MicroCafé".
All interested scholars are invited to participate; papers will be
circulated in advance. Seminars start on March 10, 2010, and take place
every fortnight on Wednesday between 5.00-6.30 PM at Bocconi
University, Department of Economics, Via Röntgen 1, 20136
Milan,
fifth floor, seminar room E4-SR04, unless otherwise specified. Each
seminar will be followed by an informal "happy hour" discussion. For
more information contact
francesco.guala@unimi.it
or
ivan.moscati@unibocconi.it
Spring
2010 schedule:
10 March: Luigino Bruni (University of Milan-Bicocca)
The Virtues of the Market (with R. Sugden)
24 March: Cristina Bicchieri (University of Pennsylvania)
When Equality Trumps Reciprocity
Special time and venue : 12.15, University of Milan, Dept. of
Economics, via Conservatorio 7, 2nd floor, seminar room
14 April: Franco Donzelli (University of Milan)
Edgeworth vs. Walras on Equilibrium and Disequilibrium
28 April: Francesco Guala (University of Milan)
Reciprocity: Weak or Strong? What Punishment Experiments Do Not
Demonstrate
5 May: Ivan Moscati (Bocconi University)
From the Classical to the Representational Notion of Measurement in
Utility Theory
19 May: Paola Tubaro (University of Greenwich)
Agent-based Computational Economics: a Methodological Appraisal
9 June: Marco Dardi (University of Florence)
Rationality as Consistency
Job
Postings for Heterodox
Economists
Balliol
College, Oxford
Visiting Research Fellowships 2010-11 and Oliver Smithies Lecturerships
Closing date: Friday 16 April
Balliol College invites applications from scholars of outstanding
distinction or promise to be Oliver Smithies Lecturers at Balliol
College, Oxford, for the academic year 2010-11. Appointments can be
from one week to an academic year and are intended primarily to give
scholars (with their own funding) from outside the UK the opportunity
to pursue their research as a member of the College.
Details can be found here:
http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/vacancies/academic-vacancies-at-balliol
Conference
Papers, Reports,
and Articles
The
Crisis
of Financialised Capitalism: Highlighting the Urgent Need for Public
Banks
By Costas Lapavitsas, Economics Department and Research on Money and
Finance, SOAS
This report exposes the systematic failure of private banking as a
central dimension of the general trend of the
‘financialisation’ of capitalism that precipitated
the
global financial crisis of 2007-2009. Rejecting piecemeal reforms, he
argues for replacing private banks with public banks so that they could
divest themselves of the speculative and crisis-prone functions of
investment banking and provide the basic credit, monetary services and
development finance necessary to serve broad popular interests.
Click here to download:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/cdpr/publications/dv/file57201.pdf
U.S.
BITs
and Financial Stability
By Kevin P. Gallagher
GDAE's Kevin P. Gallagher has written a "FDI Perspectives" brief for
the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International
Investment.
In the brief Gallagher argues that US trade and investment rules could
constrain the ability of the US and its investment partners to
effectively prevent and mitigate financial crises. Gallagher
calls for three substantial reforms that the Obama administration,
which is currently in the process of revising its investment rules,
should consider. Without such reform, foreign investors could
play a role in causing financial crises and preventing measures to
mitigate crises. [Read
“U.S. BITs and Financial
Stability”]
Read more on
Reforming U.S. Investment Treaties
Read more on
Foreign Investment for Development
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Globalization and Sustainable
Development
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Crisis Blog
Greece-bashing
is hiding the obvious: monetary union urgently needs economic union
By Ronald Janssen
The article looks at the debate surrounding the Greek budget deficit
crisis and the country’s position in the monetary union. It
is
argued that, while many commentators have been involved in
‘Greece bashing’, its situation is far from being
unique.
The article concludes with a series of recommendations to protect
Europe (and European workers) from the ‘global
casino’
whose rules are still inspired by neoliberal ideas, and implemented by
Wall Street watchdogs. The author, Ronald Janssen, works as an economic
adviser in Brussels.
Please find the full article at the following links:
http://column.global-labour-university.org/2010/01/greece-bashing-is-hiding-obvious.html
Global Labor Column website:
http://column.global-labour-university.org/
Climate-Resilient
Industrial Development Paths: Design Principles and Alternative Models
By Lyuba Zarsky
GDAE Working Paper 10-01 February 2010
In conjunction with the International Institute for Environment and
Development (IIED)
Zarsky compares three distinct development models and suggests that the
so-called “new developmentalist” model, with its
overarching objective of building endogenous productive capacity and a
strong role for government in industrial development, make it the most
robust of the three models as a starting point for the design of
climate-resilient development paths. Without these two elements, it is
highly unlikely that developing economies will develop on a low-carbon
trajectory or significantly reduce their vulnerability to intensifying
climate instability. Much additional work is needed, however, to
develop the theory and praxis of climate resilient development paths.
Download Paper:
“Climate-Resilient
Industrial Development
Paths”
How
Should
the Economy be Regulated?
By Richard A. Rosen, Ph.D. Tellus Institute. Boston, Massachusetts. May
22, 2009
When thinking about how the economy should be regulated we need to make
a totally fresh start. This is because very little creative thinking
about this critical subject has occurred for several decades.
Specifically, the current economic crisis is a stark reminder of how
outmoded regulatory structures are in relation to the current structure
and function of the financial industry, though problems of the
financial industry are not the sole or even main cause of the broader
economic crisis. But even in the absence of a crisis, rethinking the
fundamentals of economic regulation would be long overdue.....
Download
Paper.
Heterodox
Journals and
Newsletters
Agenda:
A Journal of Policy
Analysis and Reform, 16(4): 2009
Articles are available here: http://epress.anu.edu.au/agenda/016/04/pdf_instructions.html
Analysis
- David L. Anderson and John Tressler /
The
‘Excellence in Research for Australia’ Scheme: A
Test Drive
of Draft Journal Weights with New Zealand Data
- Anthony J. Makin / Fiscal
‘stimulus’: A loanable funds critique
Argument
- Henry Ergas / An Excess of Access: An
Examination of Part IIIA of the Australian Trade Practices Act
- Sinclair Davidson / A
‘no-returns
tax system’ for Australia: Some inconvenient facts
Symposium:
The Sydney University Political Economy Dispute
- Peter Groenewegen / ‘The
book
cannot stand on its own as an accurate portrait’
- Rod O’Donnell / The
Permanent Need
for Political Economy
- John Hawkins / ‘By the end
of the
book I was none the wiser’
Retrospect
- Ross Guest / Seeking the elusive town
and
gown dialogue: The inaugural Australian Economic Forum
Reviews
- George A. Akerlof and Robert J.
Shiller,
Animal Spirits. How Human Psychology Drives The Economy, And Why It
Matters For Global Capitalism (Princeton University Press, 2009) by
Selwyn Cornish
- Vernon Smith, Rationality in
Economics:
Constructivist and Ecological Forms (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
by Declan Trott
American
Journal of
Economics and Sociology
Journal website:
http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0002-9246&site=1
The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (AJES) was founded in
1941, with support from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, to provide
a forum for continuing discussion of issues emphasized by the American
political economist, social philosopher, and activist, Henry George
(1839-1897). The AJES welcomes any submission that
critically investigates the social
provisioning
process utilizing different theoretical and methodological approaches
found in economics and sociology.
Download
AJES
subscription flyer.
Cambridge
Journal of
Economics, 34(2): March 2010
Journal
website: http://cje.oxfordjournals.org/
- Philip Arestis and Ajit Singh /
Financial
globalisation and crisis, institutional transformation and equity
- Gary A. Dymski / Why the subprime
crisis
is different: a Minskyian approach
- Howard Stein / Financial
liberalisation,
institutional transformation and credit allocation in developing
countries: the World Bank and the internationalisation of banking
- William Milberg and Deborah Winkler /
Financialisation and the dynamics of offshoring in the USA
- Philip Arestis and Asena Caner /
Capital
account liberalisation and poverty: how close is the link?
- Prabirjit Sarkar and Ajit Singh /
Law,
finance and development: further analyses of longitudinal data
- David Clark and David Hulme /
Poverty,
time and vagueness: integrating the core poverty and chronic poverty
frameworks
- Alexander von Kotzebue and Berthold
U.
Wigger / Private contributions to collective concerns: modelling donor
behaviour
- Mario Cimoli, Gabriel Porcile, and
Sebastián Rovira / Structural change and the BOP-constraint:
why
did Latin America fail to converge?
Critical
Perspectives on
International Business
Critical perspectives on international business (CPoIB) has won
Emerald's inaugural Best New Journal Award. Full details of the award
can be found at:
http://info.emeraldinsight.com/about/news/story.htm?id=2107
In recognition of the award CPoIB will be
freely
available until the end of March 2010.
To access the
journal visit its website at:
www.emeraldinsight.com/cpoib.htm
I hope you will take this opportunity to explore the current and
previous issues of the journal.
I encourage you all to consider CPoIB as an outlet for your research.
The journal welcomes critical contributions concerning international
business in all its manifestations. In addition to research
papers the journal publishes position papers that raises issue for
consideration, stimulate debate and suggest important directions for
future research. Review essays and book reviews are also welcome.
Special issue proposals are especially
welcome.
CPoIB has already published a number of highly successful special
issues including the first collection of academic papers reflecting on
the 2008 financial crisis - published in April 2009.
Papers should be submitted
through the
Manuscript Central online submission system at:
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cpoib
Please contact me if you have an idea for a paper or special issue that
you would like to discuss.
Best wishes.
Joanne.
Email:
Joanne.Roberts@ncl.ac.uk
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/nubs/staff/profile/joanne.roberts
Critical
Theory and Social Justice (CTSJ), 1(1): 2010
Journal Website:
http://scholar.oxy.edu/decalages/vol1/iss1
About
the Journal
Since the publication in 1965 of For Marx and Reading Capital, the work
of Althusser has continued to provoke discussion, debate and
controversy throughout the world. The posthumous publication of
thousands of pages of texts and correspondence has not only led to an
increased interest in the work of Althusser, it has altered our sense
of both the scope and meaning(s) of his work. In addition to the late
writings, the mass of material from the sixties and seventies gathered
in the Fonds Althusser at the Institut Mémoire de
l’Édition Contemporaine has deprived
much—but not
all—of the commentary of the seventies and eighties
of its
relevance and interest. At this point, the known Althusser is dwarfed
by the unknown. We feel that the time for a reconsideration
of
Althusser, free from the often sterile debates of the past, has come.It
is possible and necessary to read Althusser, a different Althusser with
a different oeuvre, in a new way. At the same time we recognize that
while it is standard practice to refer to Althusser in many
disciplines, from film studies to sociology, there are few places to
publish studies of Althusser’s texts themselves. It is for
this
reason that a very diverse group of scholars from different countries
and disciplines came together to establish Décalages, an
online
peer-reviewed journal in which work focused on Althusser in the
broadest sense—readings of his texts, as well as the texts of
those who worked with him, comparative analyses, applications of his
theory—would appear, thus encouraging debate and discussion.
We
would also provide space in every issue for reviews of the latest
scholarship on Althusser. Finally we will include an archives section
in which we will publish previously unpublished texts by Althusser.
Aims
and scope
Our objective is to establish a global community of those working on
Althusser. Every essay submitted will be carefully peer-reviewed not
with the aim of imposing a single interpretation of Althusser, but
precisely to strengthen the diversity of views and encourage discussion
and debate. For the present we seek articles in French, Spanish,
Italian and English. We will also consider translating texts published
in one of these langauges into another language to make it accessible
to a new audience. Anyone wishing to submit an article to be published
in a language other than the four named above, should contact the
editor prior to submission. In addition to receiving online submissions
of articles, we are always interested in reviewing proposals for
translations, reviews and special issues. Please contact the editor.
Warren Montag (
montag@oxy.edu)
: Occidental College
Archives
- Sur la
révolution culturelle2 / Anonyme [Attribué
à Louis Althusser]
- On the Cultural Revolution4
/ Anonymous tr. Jason E. Smith
[Attributed to Louis Althusser]
Articles
- Mil Fisuras. Arte y Ruptura
a partir de Althusser / Aurelio
Sainz Pezonaga
- El Althusser
Tardío: ¿Materialismo del Encuentro o
Filosofía de la Nada? / Warren Montag tr. Aurelio Sainz
Pezonaga
- Zizek y Althusser. Vida o
muerte de la lectura
sintomática. / Mariana de Gainza
- II riconoscimento delle
maschere. Soggettività e
intersoggettività in Leggere «II
Capitale» /
Cristian Loiacono
- On the Emptiness of an
Encounter: Althusser’s Reading of
Machiavelli / Filippo Del Lucchese tr. Warren Montag
- Escatologia à la
cantonade. Althusser oltre Derrida /
Vittorio Morfino
- El Materialismo
Tardío de Althusser y el Corte
Epistememológico / Giorgos Fourtounis Tr. Aurelio Sainz
Pezonaga
Book Reviews
- Recension à
Jean-Claude Bourdin (coord.), Althusser : une
lecture de Marx / Andrea Cavazzini
- Review of Louis Althusser
and the traditions of French Marxism /
Matt Bonal
Journal
of Post Keynesian
Economics, 32(2): Winter 2009-10
- South America and a new
financial architecture /
Jean-François Ponsot, Louis-Philippe Rochon
- The Ecuadorian proposal for
a new regional financial
architecture / Pedro Páez Pérez
- Regional currencies and
regional monetary zones in Latin
America: what prospects? / Claude Gnos, Virginie Monvoisin,
Jean-François Ponsot
- Financing economic
development in Latin America: the Banco del
Sur / Wesley C. Marshall, Louis-Philippe Rochon
- Beyond the original sin: a
new regional financial architecture
in South America / Alcino F. Camara-Neto, Matías Vernengo
- Common currency and
economic integration in Mercosul / Luiz
Carlos Bresser-Pereira, Marcio Holland
- Economic integration and
development in Latin America:
perspectives for Mercosul / Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho
- Subregional financial
cooperation: the South American experience
/ José Antonio Ocampo, Daniel Titelman
- Thirlwall's law and the
two-gap model: toward a unified "dynamic
gap" model / Mario García-Molina, Jeanne Kelly
Ruíz-Tavera
- The applicability of the
employer of last resort program to
Brazil / Zoraide Bezerra Gomes, André Luís Cabral
de
Lourenço
- Imports and the
income-expenditure model: implications for
fiscal policy and recession fighting / Thomas I. Palley
Journal des Economistes et des Etudes
Humaines
The Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines is back. It is now
available online at
http://www.bepress.com/jeeh.
For over twenty years, The Journal des Economistes has been a leading
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Invited articles:
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Nefesh-Clarke
- The New Economy Challenge:
Implications for Higher Education /
David Korten
- Building Cultures of Peace
/ Riane Eisler
- The MDGs and Beyond:
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- Business Responds to
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Articles
- Have Differences in Credit
Access Diminished in an Era of
Financial Market Deregulation? / Christian Weller
- The Moral Imperative and
Social Rationality of
Government-Guaranteed Employment and Reskilling / Jon D.
Wisman
- Empowering Firm Owners by
Separating Voting from Buying and
Selling Shares / Tsjalle van der Burg; Aloys Prinz
- Human Costs of
Post-communist Transition: Public Policies and
Private Response / Alexei Izyumov
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- Less Than Two Dollars a
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- Deporting Our Souls:
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Joanne Flavel
- A History of Scottish
Economic Thought / Author: Rudi Verburg
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- Note from the editor
- Economic and Agrofood
Studies in Brazil | by John Wilkinson
- For a Brazilian Sociology
of Finance | by Roberto Grün
- Innovation and the
Development Agenda | by Glauco Arbix
- Social Movements and NGOs
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- Southern Cities:
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- Heterodox Reflections on
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John
Maynard Keynes: The Making of a Revolution
by Finn Olesen
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller. December 15, 2009. Paperback: 200
pages.
ISBN-10: 3639183053 | ISBN-13: 978-3639183054
With the publication of The Economic Consequences of the Peace in 1919,
John Maynard Keynes had his international breakthrough. At once, he was
known to the general public in USA, UK, and Europe as a very famous
economist. With the book A Treatise on Money, published in 1930, he
tried to get on the road to a new macroeconomic understanding. He hoped
with his book to have been able to offer a more satisfactory analysis
of the ongoing economic crisis. However, his macroeconomic reasoning in
Treatise was still rather old-fashioned as his analysis was restricted
to the understanding of the quantity theory of money. The new and
revolutionary analysis of a modern monetary macro economy had to await
the publication of his masterpiece: The General Theory of Employment,
Interest and Money in February 1936. With this book, Keynes gave way to
not only a new theoretical revolution but he also offered some
guidelines to a new economic methodology. After his dead in 1946, the
Post Keynesians continued the work of Keynes and later on took on
themselves the task of developing an alternative to what became the
mainstream macroeconomic theory.
Theories
of Value from Adam
Smith to Piero Sraffa
By Ajit Sinha.
Routledge. March 2010. ISBN: 978-0-415-56320-8. Pages: 368, Edition:
Hardback. Price: INR 895/USD 95/GBP 55
''Ajit Sinha’s Theories of Value from Adam Smith to Piero
Sraffa
exemplifies the best characteristics of proper scholarship. Sinha has
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understanding of the secondary literature. He has definite points of
view which are always established by deep analytical
arguments
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splendid example for all those interested in the best ways of
understanding the relevant links between the past of our discipline and
the present.'' --- G.C. Harcourt
This book presents a comprehensive account of more than 200 years of
controversy on the classical theories of value and distribution. The
author focuses on four, perhaps most critical, classics, viz., Adam
Smith’s Wealth of Nations, David Ricardo’s
Principles of
Political Economy, Karl Marx’s Capital and Piero
Sraffa’s
Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities. The book highlights
several significant differences in the theories of the four authors as
it searches for the ‘classical standpoint’ that
separates
them from the ‘moderns’. It throws fresh light on
some old
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literature surrounding it. It is unique in its organisation as it first
presents the author’s close reading of the theories of value
and
distribution in the four classics and then critically engages with the
major alternative interpretations and criticisms of the theories
discussed therein.
Bringing original insights on theoretical positions, the book
challenges canonical interpretations so as to discuss and analyse the
flaws and weaknesses, in addition to the already obvious strengths, of
widely celebrated theories. The theories discussed here emerge from
questions like: what role does demand or human psychology play in the
determination of value in classical theory? Do classical economists
determine the distribution of income within the context of a theory of
prices and resource allocation? What role does the notion of
‘equilibrium’ play in classical theory and the
theory of
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Capitalism
& The Dialectic: The Uno-Sekine Approach to Marxian Economy
by John R Bell
Pluto
Press, October 2009. ISBN
hardcover 97807745329349 |ISBN paperback
9780745329338
Capitalism & the Dialectic introduces the approach pioneered by
Japanese economist, Kozo Uno and refined perhaps most dramatically by
Thomas Sekine. This approach progressively increases its comprehension
of capitalism by moving sequentially through three distinct levels of
analysis. In the theory of pure capitalism, Uno and Sekine reproduce
the logic that capital and its society-wide market employ in the
attempt to reproduce material economic life. By adhering to Marx's
Hegelian dialectical method more consistently than did Marx, they are
able to correct and complete Capital and to provide a convincing
defence of value theory. The stages theory of capitalism's historical
development recognizes that in any historical society capital must also
contend with more intractable use-values than the light cotton-type
goods that are contemplated by pure theory (and that did indeed
dominate British liberal capitalism). In theorizing each of the stages
capitalism (mercantilism, liberalism, imperialism), the Uno-Sekine
perspective recognizes that stage-specific economic policies must be
advanced to tame use-value to the point that the market can operate
effectively to reproduce economic life. Subsequent empirical studies
are informed by these two levels of theory. The Uno-Sekine approach
does not overlook the possibility that a society might still strive to
be capitalist after use-value resistance has become so great that no
bourgeois policy can provide the market with sufficient
support
to allow it to successfully regulate economic life.
Contents
Part 1 Dialectical Theory of Capitalism: Circulation
1 Commodity,Value, Money and Capital
Forms
Part II Dialectical Theory of Capitalism: Production
2 Capitalist Production
3 Circulation and Reproduction of Capital
Part III Dialectical Theory of Capitalism: Distribution
4 Theory of Profit
5 Business Cycles
6 Rent, Commercial Credit
7 Interest-Bearing Capital Closes the
Dialectic
Part IV Capitalism and History
8 Stages Theory of Capitalist Development
9 Conclusion: Capitalists Beyond
Capitalism
Author’s site :
http://capitalismandthedialectic.com
The
Competent Public Sphere:
Global Political Economy, Dialogue and the Contemporary Workplace
By John Michael Roberts, Brunel University, London, UK.
Palgrave, 2009. Hardback: 9780230008731. 216 pp. £50.
Drawing on Marxism and engaging with theorists such as Mikhail Bakhtin,
Gilles Deleuze, and Slavoj Zizek, John Michael Roberts argues that a
new expressive ideology has coalesced within the contemporary workplace
around the theme of 'competence'. The 'competence' agenda encourages
management and workers to build networks of trust, cooperation and
dialogue between one another. By examining the competent public sphere
as it appears in the global economy, the author takes to task the
competence agenda, relates this agenda to the hegemony of global
finance and to the fetishism of the new economy, exposes the dilemmas
and contradictions of the competence agenda, and through everyday
examples from the UK and USA illustrates how competence is played out
and resisted in the contemporary workplace. This book provides a
fascinating critical account of how the way we work today is debated
and discussed by management and workers.
Table of Contents:
1. Introducing Competence and the Public Sphere.
2. The New Economy.
3. The New Economy as the Fetish of Financialisation.
4. The Competent Public Sphere of the New Economy.
5. Democracy and Participation in the Competent Public Sphere.
6. Silencing the Thematic Utterances of Workers.
7. Trade Unions, Participation, and the Proletarian Public Sphere.
8. Conclusion: Towards a Socialist Public Sphere.
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Academic
Repression:
Reflections from the Academic Industrial Complex
Edited by Peter McLaren, Steven Best, and Anthony J. Nocella, II.
AK Press. Paperback. ISBN: 9781904859987.
Publisher website:
http://www.akpress.org/2010/items/academicrepression
Since 9/11, the Bush administration has pressured universities to hand
over faculty, staff, and student work to be flagged for potential
threats. Numerous books have addressed the question of academic freedom
over the years; this collection asks whether the concept of academic
freedom still exists at all in the American university system. It
addresses not only overt attacks on critical thinking, but
also—following trends unfolding for decades—engages
the
broad socioeconomic determinants of academic culture.
This edited anthology brings together prominent academics writing
hard-hitting essays on free speech, culture wars, and academic freedom
in a post-9/11 era. It's a powerful response to attacks on critical
thinking in our universities by well-respected scholars and academics,
including Joy James, Henry Giroux, Michael Parenti, Howard Zinn, Robert
Jensen, Ward Churchill, and many more.
Democracy
and Other Neoliberal Fantasies: Communicative Capitalism and Left
Politics
By Jodi Dean
Duke University Press. November 2009. 224pp. £14.99. PB
9780822345053
Democracy and Other Neoliberal Fantasies is an impassioned call for the
realisation of a progressive left politics in the United States.
Through an assessment of the ideologies underlying contemporary
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capitulations to conservatives and its failure to take responsibility
for the extensive neo-liberalisation implemented during the Clinton
presidency. She argues that the left’s ability to develop and
defend a collective vision of equality and solidarity has been
undermined by the ascendance of ‘communicative
capitalism,’
a constellation of consumerism, the privileging of the individual self
over group interests and the embrace of the language of
victimisation. Dean insists that any reestablishment of a
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victimisation, confronting the marriage of neo-liberalism and democracy
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Economics
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By Moshe Adler
The New Press. HC | $24.95 | 240 pages. ISBN 978-1-59558-101-3
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Freedom
Not
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By Kenneth Surin
Duke University Press. February 2010 448pp £16.99 PB
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The neoliberal project in the West has created an increasingly
polarised and impoverished world, to the point that the vast majority
of its citizens require liberation from their present socio-economic
circumstances. Marxist theorist Kenneth Surin contends that innovation
and change at the level of the political must occur in order to achieve
this liberation, and for this endeavour Marxist theory and philosophy
are indispensable. Freedom Not Yet analyses the nature of our current
global economic system, particularly with regard to the plight of
less-developed countries, and shows the possibilities of creating new
political subjects necessary to establish and sustain a liberated
world. Freedom Not Yet investigates the philosophical possibilities for
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exploitation and the regimes of power that support it, in order to seek
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Nobody
Called Me Charlie :
The Story of a Radical White Journalist Writing for a Black Newspaper
in the Civil Rights Era
by Charles Preston
Monthly Review Press, January 2010. 304 pp. ISBN: 978-1-58367-202-0.
$21.95 cloth
“For people interested in a hard-bitten first-hand account of
racism, radicalism, and the media, I couldn’t recommend a
better
book. For aspiring sports writers, the sections on Preston’s
efforts to apply his politics to the sports page should be must-reading
in every sports journalism program in the country. This is hidden
history at its finest.”—Dave Zirin, author of A
People’s History of Sports in the United States
“When Charles Preston crossed America’s color line
after
World War II, his journey took him on a path few had traveled. A white
man and a communist, he went to work for a black newspaper in
Indianapolis during the 1940s, when integration began changing the
country. His memoir offers a fascinating and rare perspective on
African American society, blending insight with a sense of
life’s
daily intimacies.”—Robert Ruck, Senior Lecturer,
Department
of History, University of Pittsburgh; author of Sandlot Seasons: Sport
in Black Pittsburgh
In the 1940s, at the height of segregation, Charles Preston became the
unlikely newest worker at a black owned-and-operated newspaper.
Preston, a white man and, unbeknownst to most of his colleagues, member
of the Communist Party, quickly came face to face with issues of race
and injustice that would profoundly impact his life and change the way
he understood society in the United States.
This fictionalized account of his experience tells readers what it was
like to be the only white worker, and a communist at that, at a black
newspaper, while unflinchingly depicting the racism that was so common
and accepted in the 1950s. This book draws us into a world few white
people knew about, not in a voyeuristic but in a deeply human way. The
quotidian elements of daily life—at work, at home, in the
neighborhood—are described with humor and pathos, but this
account rises above mere anecdote. It takes on the central question of
this nation’s history: can a truly human and humane society
be
built on a foundation of profound and pervasive racial inequality? Of
course, the answer is no.
Yet how do we make such a society? Or put another way, how must white
people try to live their lives and how must they connect with their
black brothers and sisters, personally and politically, to make a world
in which the horrible scars of racism are healed once and for all? The
answer that shines through Preston’s book—whether
he is
writing (and reporting) about work, local politics, the civil rights
struggle, housing, education, entertainment, travel, sports, business,
child-rearing, friendship, or intimate relationships—is that
whites must do what he did: give up their whiteness. This is a book you
will not forget.
Charles S. Preston was born in 1911 and grew up in the small town of
Anderson, Indiana. Radicalized by the events of the Great Depression,
he and his wife Lucy joined the Communist Party in New York City. In
1943, they and their young son Gregor moved to Indianapolis, where
Charles went to work for the Indianapolis Recorder, the
nation’s
third oldest black newspaper. He worked there until the 1960s, gaining
the rich experiences that are the basis of this book. He spent most of
the rest of his life as a journalist, his commitments to socialism and
racial solidarity undiminished.
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Striving
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By Margaret Sherrard Sherraden and Amanda Moore McBride
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In Striving to Save, Margaret Sherrard Sherraden and Amanda Moore
McBride examine savings in eighty-four working families with low
incomes, including fifty-nine families who participated in a
groundbreaking program of matched savings and financial education.
In-depth interviews with these families, along with savings and survey
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La
fábrica del
conocimiento. La universidad-empresa en la producción
flexible
By Carlos Sevilla.
8 de marzo. Colección: Ensayo. ISBN: 978-84-92616-56-5.
Páginas: 168 págs. 17 €
Publisher website:
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“Ni fábrica de precarios, ni escuela de
elites”. En
esta doble negación se encuentra contenida buena parte de la
problemática referida a la crisis actual de la universidad
pública. Esta crisis es, a la vez, una crisis financiera,
institucional y de su tradicional función
hegemónica. La
transición de la universidad de masas a la
universidad-empresa
ha abierto un ciclo de conflictividad estudiantil transnacional sin
precedentes desde los movimientos estudiantiles del 68. Esta
transición está creando unas oportunidades
políticas inéditas.
En este libro se aborda la segunda ola de reformas derivadas del
“proceso de Bolonia” resumidas en la triada
neoliberal:
financiación competitiva,gobernanza corporativa,
transferencia
de los resultados de la investigación al entorno productivo.
En
este proceso hacia la universidad-empresa, la dualización
del
mercado de trabajo se traslada a la academia.
Asistimos también a un feliz renacimiento, el del despertar
de
la crítica de la institución universitaria al
calor de
las movilizaciones estudiantiles que han actuado como reveladoras de
las profundas mutaciones de la universidad, de la subjetividad
estudiantil y del trabajo intelectual.
Heterodox
Book Reviews
Revisiting
Keynes: Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren
Lorenzo Pecchi and Gustavo Piga, editors,
Revisiting
Keynes:
Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren.
Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 2008. xi + 215 pp. $30 (cloth), ISBN: 978-0-262-16249-4.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Linda K. Carter, Department of Economics, Baylor
University. Read the review here:
http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/1483
The
Intellectual Foundations
of Alfred Marshall’s Economic Science: A Rounded Globe of
Knowledge
Simon Cook,
The Intellectual
Foundations of Alfred Marshall’s
Economic Science: A Rounded Globe of Knowledge.
Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2009. xviii + 331 pp. $90 (hardcover),
ISBN: 978-0-521-76008-9.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Katia Caldari, Department of Economics and
Management, University of Padova. Read the review here:
http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/1485
Heterodox
Graduate Program
and PhD Scholarships/Research Fellowships
University
of Manchester
PhD programme in Quantitative Social Science and Social Statistics
Centre for Census & Survey Research (CCSR) and Social
Statistics
Discipline Area
CCSR is a multidisciplinary research centre in the School of Social
Sciences. Part of Manchester's top-rated Sociology submission in the
most recent Research Assessment Exercise, CCSR is world renowned for
cutting edge research under the broad banner of Quantitative Social
Science.
Social Statistics is the newest discipline area within the School of
Social Sciences and one of very few such groupings in the UK. The
discipline is committed to high quality research, and collaboration
with other disciplines within the university, to improve the
methodological rigour and range of quantitative enquiries in social
science.
We welcome applications in a wide range of topics, including:
* Census & Survey Research
* Longitudinal Data Analysis
* Multilevel Modelling
* Confidentiality & Privacy
* Social Network Analysis
* Health Inequalities
* Work & Employment
Fully-funded
studentships commencing September
2010
Five studentships are available; from the Economic & Social
Research Council These prestigious awards include fees and an annual
stipend of up to £16,290 and an additional allowance for
research
expenses.
For more information please visit
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/phd
To discuss your proposal please contact Margaret Martin (
ccsr@manchester.ac.uk)
For information on how to apply contact Vicky Barnes (
vicky.barnes@manchester.ac.uk)
To apply online visit
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/postgraduate/howtoapply
Middlesex
University
Business School Doctoral Research Studentships 2010
Applications are invited from highly motivated and academically
excellent UK/EU or overseas candidates for a number of research
studentships in any area of Business, Economics, Management or Law,
available for a September/October 2010 start.
They are offered on a full-time basis and cover a maintenance award,
fee payments and research support costs. The Scholarships are for four
years, subject to satisfactory progress. The level of the maintenance
element of the Scholarships is linked to the level of corresponding
awards made by UK research councils and is subject to regular review. A
maintenance payment from 1 Oct 2010 currently is £13,290 per
annum. The Scholarships are free of both tax and national insurance
contributions.
In addition to work on the doctoral research project, successful
applicants will be expected to contribute to associated activities
within the School.
"Heterodox
students are encouraged to
apply for this studentship."
Application deadline:
April
2, 2010
For more informaion, visit
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/research/applications/fees/bs2010/
Heterodox
Web Sites and
Associates
Association
for Institutional Thought (AFIT)
AFIT has launched a new website. The address is
www.associationforinstitutionalthought.org
or
www.institutionalthought.org.
The new website is still under construction and more contents will be
filled soon. And consider becoming a member of AFIT! If you have any
question, contact AFIT Secretary-Treasurer, Dr. Mary Wrenn at
marywrenn@weber.edu.
Queries
from Heterodox Economists
Call
for
Discussants: Issues in Heterodox Microeconomics
Dear Colleague,
I am in the process of organizing a session on "Heterodox
Microeconomics'' for the URPE/ASSA 2011 annual meeting in Denver, USA.
To propose a complete session, we need four papers and two discussants.
We already have four papers (see below), but we still need two
discussants. If you are interested in being a discussant for this
session, please contact me at
taeheejo@gmail.com.
Details
for the URPE/ASSA 2011 can be found here:
http://urpe.org/conf/assa/assacall.html
- Frederic Lee (Univ. of
Missouri-Kansas City) and Tae-Hee Jo
(Buffalo State College), "Surplus Approach and Heterodox Economics''
- Michael Murray (Central
College), "Adolph Lowe's Production
Theory''
- Jamee Moudud (Sarah
Lawrence College), "The Oxford Economists'
Research Group and the Implications for Economic Development''
- Tuna Baskoy (Ryerson
University), "Market Governance in Post
Keynesian Economics"
Best regards,
Tae-Hee Jo
email:
taeheejo@gmail.com
web:
http://faculty.buffalostate.edu/joth
Economics
Curriculum Survey: The evolution of economics teaching in Australia
As part of a PhD that looks at the evolution of economics teaching in
Australia, I am building a database up a database on the Australian
university economics curriculum. I am particularly interested in
documenting the existence of subjects in the following areas:
1. Heterodox Economics
2. History of Economic Thought
3. Development Economics
4. Economic History
5. Post-Neoclassical Mainstream Subjects (For example Behavioural and
Experimental Economics).
I am also interested to hear of any teaching in economics that has
occurred outside of faculties of business. If you teach such subjects
or know of anyone that does it would be of great help to hear from you.
My email is
t.thornton@latrobe.edu.au
Many thanks
Tim Thornton
Associate Lecturer/PhD Student
School of Economics & Finance
La Trobe University
Bundoora VIC 3086
Australia
Phone: +61 3 9479 1416
Fax: +61 3 9479 2181
Email:
t.thornton@latrobe.edu.au
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/lawman/staff-profiles/view-profile?uname=tthornton
For
Your Information
John
Loxley, the Winner of
the John Kenneth Galbraith Prize 2010
Throughout
his adult life John Loxley has worked to combine economic analysis,
research, and publishing of the highest quality, with a deep personal
commitment to social change and building the social change movements
which will be the engine of change. It isn't enough for progressive
thinkers to simply put the ideas out there and hope that someone does
something about them. We all have a responsibility to use whatever
resources, platforms, and leverage we may have in our respective
positions, to further in concrete ways the development of the movements
and campaigns that will be essential in actually achieving the change
that we envision. John Loxley, to me, embodies that necessary duality
between intellectual work and nitty-gritty movement-building.
His academic research in the fields of development economics,
international monetary and financial systems, and community economic
development, have been recognized internationally as making a
substantial contribution to progressive thought in those fields.
However, it is more through his enduring and important personal
commitment to activism that John has really left a lasting benefit for
social change efforts in Canada and around the world. Despite his
deserved international reputation, John never shied away from getting
his hands dirty in the trenches of social change activism and
organizing. He has been consistently and heavily engaged in a range of
different social change initiatives, projects, and organizing --
ranging from his work with the North-South Institute and international
debt justice initiatives, to his work co-founding the Choices coalition
in Winnipeg and through it inspiring the Alternative Federal Budget
(which this year will mark its 15th edition -- an impressive and
consistent record), to his personal involvement in a range of
grass-roots economic development initiatives with First Nations
communities in northern Manitoba. John is always respectful and
collegial with his fellow social-change activists, and never "lords
over" them on the strength of his intellect and reputation. Â
He
personally practices what he preaches, through his ongoing passion for
and contribution to social change.
In addition to his personal research agenda and his personal
involvement in a wonderful range of activist struggles and initiatives,
John has also made a priority over the years of helping to build the
University of Manitoba's economics department into a well-regarded,
collegial, and open-minded academic program. This involves his unique
ability to reach across normal ideological divides in the interests of
building an inclusive, diverse, respectful, and workable department
that fills a totally unique niche in Canada's academic economic world.
I don't know anyone in Canada who better embodies the spirit of
engaged, activist intellectual work that we seek to honour with this
award, than John Loxley.
Jim Stanford
Greenspan,
Friedman, and Summers win Dynamite Prize in Economics
Feb. 22, 2010
Alan Greenspan has been judged the
economist most responsible for causing the Global Financial Crisis. He
and 2nd and 3rd place finishers Milton Friedman and Larry Summers have
won the first–and hopefully last—Dynamite Prize in
Economics.
In awarding the Prize, Edward Fullbrook, editor of the Real World
Economics Review, noted that “They have been judged to be the
three economists most responsible for the Global Financial Crisis. More
figuratively, they are the three economists most responsible for
blowing up the global economy.”
The prize was developed by the Real World Economics Review Blog in
response to attempts by economists to evade responsibility for the
crisis by calling it an unpredictable, “Black Swan”
event.
In reality, the public perception that economic theories and policies
helped cause the crisis is correct.
The prize winners were determined by a poll in which over 7,500 people
voted—most of whom were economists themselves from the 11,000
subscribers to the real-world economics review . Each voter could vote
for a maximum of three economists. In total 18,531 votes were cast.
Fullbrook cautioned that not all economics and economists were bad.
“Only ‘neoclassical’ economists caused
the GFC. There
are other approaches to economics that are more realistic—or
at
least less delusional—but these have been suppressed in
universities and excluded from government policy making.”
“Some of these rebels also did what neoclassical economists
falsely claimed was impossible: they foresaw the Global Financial
Crisis and warned the public of its approach. In their honour, I now
call for nominations for the inaugural Revere Award in Economics, named
in honour of Paul Revere and his famous ride. It will be awarded to the
3 economists who saw the GFC coming, and whose work is most likely to
prevent another GFC in the future.”
In total 18,531 votes were cast. The vote totals for the
other
finalists were:
Fischer Black and Myron
Scholes
2,016
Eugene
Fama
1,668
Paul
Samuelson
1,291
Robert
Lucas
912
Richard
Portes
433
Edward Prescott and Finn E.
Kydland
403
Assar
Lindbeck
375
The poll was conducted by PollDaddy. Cookies were used to prevent
repeat voting.
For further information and interviews email: pae_news@btinternet.com
See
the
announcement at the Real-World
Economics Review
Blog:
Links
to articles that appeared in the Financial
Times, the
Huffington Post, the
Business Insider and
the New York Times.
Manifesto
for the freedom of
economic thought
Dear
colleague,
I
have recently wrote a "Manifesto for the
freedom of economic thought" together with other members of the Paolo
Sylos Labini Association.
Up to
now more than 600 economists (mostly
Italian) have sign it. If you would like to join us, just follow this
link: http://www.syloslabini.info/online/?page_id=1322
There
is also room for critical comments, of
course!
I
look forward to hearing from you.
Best
regards, Marcella
Online
Debate about Free Trade
Organized
by
WorldTradeLaw.net and the Cato Institute, a libertarian think-tank in
Washington.
"On the free trade side will be Dan
Griswold of the Cato Institute, who has a recent book out called Mad
about Trade: Why Main Street America Should Embrace Globalization.
On the protectionism side will be Ian Fletcher, whose book Free
Trade Doesn't Work: What Should Replace it and Why."
The opening statements of our debate are here:
Peitition:
Breaking the grip of budget hysteria in the UK
Public
debate about economic policy in the UK is mesmerised by the budget
deficit, with the three main political parties, the media and most
commentators competing over the timing and severity of measures to
reduce it. The dominant view is that the deficit must be cut quickly
and that this will involve swingeing cuts in public expenditure and
some increase in taxation. Yet output has fallen 6 per cent below its
pre-recession peak and unemployment has risen from 5 to 8 per cent of
the workforce.
The
lessons of the Great Depression and John
Maynard Keynes seem to have been forgotten: when private sector
spending on consumption and investment falls, public sector spending
must be increased to maintain effective demand and prevent
unemployment. Current policy proposals increase the danger of a
double-dip recession and a new prolonged era of high unemployment,
unused resources and human misery.
The
key economic problems are not the size and
sustainability of the budget deficit: they are our unsustainable way of
life and the shortage of jobs, especially for young people. Most of the
increase in the deficit stems from falling tax revenues and rising
social security bills caused by the recession itself and will be
reversed when the economy recovers. The government must, of course,
maintain control over its finances, but it should use them to inspire
public confidence in our future economic prospects. On all these
counts, our best hope lies in a Green New Deal designed to promote
social justice and environmental sustainability.
Sign
petition here: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/budgetdeficithysteria/
Videos
of
London Memorial Meeting for Daniel Bensaid
http://ecosocialism.blip.tv/posts?view=archive&nsfw=dc