Proposals should be reached the JSPE Committee for International
Communication and Exchange (Jspecice@jspe.gr.jp) by 13 June 2010 at the latest. When submitting
your proposal, please include: (1) the title of proposed paper and the
category of the session; (2) name(s) and affiliation; (3) E-mail and
postal address; (4) an abstract (up to 200 words). Notification of
acceptance will be sent by 27June.
Attendants will pay their conference fee (5000 yen per person
including the conference buffet), as well as their own transportation,
accommodation and other personal expenses.
Prof. Nobuharu Yokokawa (Chairman of the JSPE Committee for
International Communication and Exchange) E-mail: yokokawa@cc.musashi.ac.jp
Postal address: Musashi University, Toyotama-kami 1-26-1, Nerima-ku,
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Les pratiques
d'évaluation des chercheurs: pistes de réflexions pour
l'économie
L'Association Française d'Economie Politique Vous invite le 11
mai 2010 de 19h-21h à un séminaire sur Les pratiques
d'évaluation des chercheurs : pistes de réflexions pour
l'économie
- Didier Torny, INRA et David Pontille, EHESS, Sociologues
:"De Business Week à l'AERES : fabrications et usages des
classements en économie et gestion"
- Florence Audier, Université Paris 1, Economiste :
"L'évaluation et les listes de revues"
Suivi d'un débat avec notamment :
- Sandrine Michel, Economiste CNU 05
- Frédéric Lebaron, Sociologue
- Pascal Petit(ancien président de la section 05 du CNRS,
introduira les débat.
Le séminaire aura lieu à l'Université Paris
Diderot Paris 7, Halles aux farines, Salle 027C, rue Françoise
Dolto, Paris 13è (quartier grands moulins de Paris)
http://www.univ-paris-diderot.fr/sc/site.php?bc=PRG&np=ACCUEIL&g=m
The Question of Class: An
Ongoing Challenge to Art History
A Conference in Honour of Andrew Hemingway
Saturday 19 June 2010 | Gustav Tuck Lecture Theatre, University College
London
Organisers: Warren Carter and Frederic J. Schwartz
10.00 Introduction
- Fred Schwartz (University College London)
10.15 Landscape/Class/Ideology
Chair: Tom Gretton (University College London)
- Alan Wallach (College of William & Mary): "Toward a Social
History of Mid-Nineteenth Century American Landscape Painting"
- Alex Potts (University of Michigan): "The Shifting Terrain of
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Art Histories"
12.15 Lunch
13.15 Marxism & Modernism
Chair: Warren Carter (University College London)
- Gail Day (University of Leeds): "Realism, Totality, and the
Militant Citoyen: Or, What Has Lukacs To Do With Contemporary
Art?"
Respondents:
- Esther Leslie (Birkbeck, University of London)
- Michael Corris (Sheffield Hallam University)
- Jody Patterson (Ecole Normale Supérieure)
- Barnaby Haran (University College London)
15.15 Tea
15.15 Marxist Historiography & Art History
Chair: Matthew Beaumont (University College London)
- Steve Edwards (Open University): "Forms of History"
Respondents:
- Caroline Arscott (Courtauld Institute)
- John Roberts (University of Wolverhampton)
- Fred Schwartz (University College London)
- Fred Orton (University of Leeds)
17.45 Valediction
Pete Smith (Thames Valley University)
18.00 Closing Remarks
- Tamar Garb (University College London)
Admission is free and all are welcome, but spaces must be reserved.
Please contact Warren Carter (
w.carter@ucl.ac.uk)
by Wednesday 9 June.
Sistema Financeiro e
Desenvolvimento no Brasil: do Plano Real a Crise Financeira
O Centro de Estudos de Conjuntura e Politica Economica do Instituto de
Economia da UNICAMP, convida para o lancamento do livro Sistema
Financeiro e Desenvolvimento no Brasil: do Plano Real a Crise
Financeira. Para maiores detalhes acesse
http://www.iececon.net/eventos.htm
Job
Postings for Heterodox Economists
City
University London: a Research Felow
The Centre for Comparative Social Surveys in the School of Social
Sciences at City University is responsible for the design and
co-ordination of the 34-nation European Social Survey (ESS). The
Director of the Centre, Professor Roger Jowell, is the Co-Founder and
Principal Investigator of the ESS, but the London office has a present
complement of a further six people who are collectively responsible for
the development and implementation of further rounds of the European
Social Survey and the implementation of its
‘infrastructure’ programme.
The Centre is looking to recruit a Research Fellow who will work on a
variety of tasks within the Centre including a contribution to the
coordination and design of future rounds of the ESS, analysis of
various components of the ESS methodology programme, contributions
towards forthcoming grant proposals, data analysis as part of Centre
publications, questionnaire design and other tasks as appropriate. The
post holder should expect to work on a variety of tasks rather than
having a specific portfolio or specialism and is therefore expected to
have good overall experience of survey design, methodology and analysis.
For further details click
here.
The closing date for applications is
17 May 2010
International
Institute of Social Studies (The Hague) of Erasmus University
Rotterdam: Two Positions
The International Institute of Social Studies has two academic
positions in the fields of:
A) Agriculture and Rural Development
B) Children and Youth Studies
The Staff Group on Rural Development, Environment and Population
studies, in which successful candidates will work, is engaged in
teaching, research, advisory work and institutional capacity building
on rural and human development, with a focus on agricultural and rural
development, poverty, socio-economic security, population studies, and
child and youth studies. Teaching and research by academic staff is
marked by a commitment to the central role of equitable, broad-based
and sustainable development. The group is also actively engaged in
methodology teaching at both MA and PhD levels.
We are looking for candidates that will bring innovative research and
teaching capacity in these fields. Experience with (field-based)
research methods and gender analysis, and one of the following regional
specializations (Sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, and Indonesia) will
be considered as a welcome addition.
While both appointments are envisaged at (Senior) Lecturer level,
appointments at Associate Professor level can be considered, but only
in the case of a more senior and exceptionally good candidate.
For the complete profile and more information on appointment and
application please visit our website
www.iss.nl.
Download the
Summary of Two Positions,
and detailed description on the
Agriculture and Rural
Development position and the
Children and Youth Studies
position.
Global
Development and Environment Institute (GDAE): a Graduate Research
Assistant
The Global Development and Environment Institute (GDAE), an
interdisciplinary research institute administered by the Fletcher
School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at Tufts, is
seeking a graduate research assistant to work part-time during the
summer and the 2010-11 school year.
The research assistant will be part of GDAE's Globalization and
Sustainable Development Program, assisting with Timothy A. Wise’s
research on smallholder agriculture and sustainable rural development.
Tasks will include literature reviews, data-gathering and analysis, and
policy analysis.
Qualifications:
* Background in economics, trade,
agricultural policy, and rural development
* Ability to perform bibliographic searches and clearly write up the
results
* Experience in designing and manipulating Excel spreadsheets
* Strong writing and organizational skills
* Ability to work independently
* Proficiency in written and spoken Spanish a plus.
This paid position involves 10-15 hours per week, possibly more over
the summer. The ideal candidate will be available for both summer and
school-year work, but applications are welcome for either alone. All
graduate students are encouraged to apply, though preference will be
given to Tufts students and those with work-study awards. Interested
students should send a short email cover letter to:
tim.wise@tufts.edu, along with
attached copies of a resume, a representative writing sample, and a
suitable reference.
Kingston University:
Lecturers in Economics
Kingston University is currently advertising three lectureships in
economics (closing date for applications is 12 noon on Tuesday, June
8). Potential applicants should pay particular attention to the third
sentence of the second paragraph of the official advertisement, as
appended below; details also from:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABB479/lecturer-in-economics/.
One can apply online via
www.kingston.ac.uk/jobs
The School of Economics web-site at
http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/schools/economics/
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Kingston University -- Lecturers in Economics
We wish to appoint three lecturers in Economics for autumn 2010. The
successful candidates should be active researchers likely to have a
strong profile in the Research Excellence Framework, and will
contribute to the delivery and development of teaching at both
undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
We are seeking candidates with particular expertise in one or more of
the following areas: Development Economics; Maths/Stats/Econometrics;
Business Economics. Some knowledge of labour economics would also be
beneficial. Candidates who can demonstrate a commitment to the
pluralist teaching of economic theory are also encouraged to apply, as
are those who can offer research expertise in one or more fields of
heterodox economics. Our priority themes for the development of
research activity are Trade and Development, Money and Finance, and
Political Economy.
Informal inquiries about the post may be made to the director of
studies, Dr. Julian Wells (
j.wells@kingston.ac.uk)
or the acting head of school, Mr Nick Butler (
n.butler@kingston.ac.uk).
For further information, or to apply online, visit our website
www.kingston.ac.uk/jobs or
alternatively call the recruitment line on 020 8417 3153 quoting
reference 10/141
If you are a textphone user, please dial 18001 followed by the
recruitment line number to access the Typetalk service.
University
of Colorado Denver, Beijing Campus: a Lecturer
The University of Colorado Denver is seeking an individual to teach the
history of economic thought at its Beijing campus in the spring of
2011. The basic details of the appointment are as follows.
- Term: Late February – May.
- Load: Four courses—either four sections of history of
economic thought or two sections of history of thought and two sections
of some other field course (e.g., public finance, financial economics,
...). Class sections have approximately 30 students enrolled in them.
- Compensation: $23,000. Dorm-style housing for a single
individual is provided at no cost to the faculty member. A nicer
apartment (including kitchen facilities) is available for approximately
$150 per month, and a two-bedroom apartment for approximately $300 per
month.
Individuals should have a PhD in economics or be at the “all but
dissertation” stage. If you are interested in this position,
please send Professor Steve Medema an email at
steven.medema@ucdenver.edu.
Conference
Papers, Reports, and Articles
Falsas
Salidas. La producción sojera y la mirada ecologista
Por Guillermo Cadenazzi
Artículo publicado en el
diario Página 12 del día 11 de abril de 2010
En la última edición
de Cash, Norma Giarracca y Miguel Teubal, dos reconocidos intelectuales
críticos del avance sojero y defensores del pequeño
capital en el agro, publicaron una nota respondiendo a una entrevista
del suplemento económico a Gustavo Grobocopatel.
La respuesta de los autores refleja
un debate muy en boga en los últimos años, principalmente
desde el conflicto de 2008, acerca del avance y desarrollo de la
producción sojera. Este debate se centra en dos puntos
principales, que se suelen plantear de manera equivocada: por un lado,
la crítica ecologista o conservacionista a la producción
sojera; y por el otro, la creencia de que a través de la defensa
del pequeño productor y del conservacionismo, se
producirían más alimentos y más baratos.
Continue reading Click here to continue reading
Interés, Miseria y
Democracia
Por Alcino Ferreira Camara Neto Matias Vernengo
Posted on
Revista
Circus, 23/04/2010
Introducción
Brasil se ha estancado en los últimos años, incluso antes
de la crisis actual, de no haber participado en la expansión los
primeros años del siglo XXI (a pesar de la recientemente
abortada aceleración del crecimiento, la media de crecimiento en
Brasil desde 2002 hasta 2008, fue cercana al 3,8% y se mantuvo por
debajo del crecimiento hasta la crisis mundial con aproximadamente
4,5%), también conocido como el de Bretton Woods que
revivió beneficiando a muchos países en desarrollo, ni
las dos últimas décadas del siglo XX, debido a que En
última instancia, el crecimiento no es esencial para la
acumulación de capital. Construimos en la periferia un
paraíso capitalista del capitalismo rentista.
Nuestra elite globalizada y cosmopolita se mantuvo con un esquema de
consumo compatible con el centro capitalista. Y si nuestro atraso y
estancamiento relegan la miseria más abyecta gran parte de
nuestra población, una sociedad con un pasado colonial y la
esclavitud, esto no hace perder el sueño de nuestras elites. [
continue reading]
Heterodox
Journals
Cambridge
Journal of Economics, 34(3): May 2010
Journal website: http://cje.oxfordjournals.org
- Renee Prendergast / Accumulation of knowledge and accumulation
of capital in early ‘theories’ of growth and development
- Tony Aspromourgos, Daniel Rees, and Graham White / Public debt
sustainability and alternative theories of interest
- Marcello Basili and Carlo Zappia / Ambiguity and uncertainty in
Ellsberg and Shackle
- Uwe Jirjahn / Works councils and employment growth in German
establishments
- Ciaran Driver and Paul Temple / Why do hurdle rates differ from
the cost of capital?
- Federico Lucidi and Alfred Kleinknecht / Little innovation, many
jobs: An econometric analysis of the Italian labour productivity crisis
- Anthony M. Endres and M. Donoghue / Defending Marshall's
‘masterpiece’: Ralph Souter's critique of Robbins’
Essay
- Jaques Kerstenetzky / Alfred Marshall on big business
NOTES AND COMMENTS
- Derick Boyd / Comment: The nature of the ADAS model based on the
ISLM model
- Andrew B. Trigg and Jochen Hartwig / Marx's reproduction schemes
and the Keynesian multiplier: a reply to Sardoni
- Claudio Sardoni / A rejoinder to Trigg and Hartwig
Cultural
Logic: An Electronic Journal of Marxist Theory and Practice: 2008/2009
New Double Issue 2008/2009
Articles
- Stephen C. Ferguson II / "Contractarianism as Method: Rawls
contra Mills"
- Melissa Hull Geil / "Shakespeare and the Drama of Capital"
- Nigel M. Greaves / "Intellectuals and the Historical
Construction of Knowledge and Identity : A Reappraisal of
Gramsci’s Ideas on Leadership"
- Sven-Eric Holmström / "New Evidence Concerning the 'Hotel
Bristol' Question in the First Moscow Trial of 1936"
- Nicola Masciandaro / "Consciousness, Individuality, Mortality :
Basic Thoughts about Work and the Animal/Human Boundary"
- John H. McClendon III / "The African American Philosopher : The
Missing Chapter in McCumber on McCarthyism"
- J. C. Myers / "Traces of Utopia: Socialist Values and Soviet
Urban Planning"
- Garry Potter / "Humanism and Terror: Merleau-Ponty’s
Marxism"
- J. Jesse Ramirez / "Rage Against the Dying of the Light :
Herbert Marcuse and the Politics of Death"
- Jacek Tittenbrun / "Between Subjectivism and Individualism : A
Critical Appraisal of the Austrian Case for Private Ownership"
Reviews
- Lukas MacKenzie / Mark S. Blumberg, Basic Instinct : The Genesis
of Behavior
- Lukas MacKenzie / Michael Tomasello, Constructing a Language : A
Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition
Poetry
- Bruno Gulli / "Hölderlin's Window"
- Howard Pflanzer / "The Endless War"
Articles
- Jeffrey Cabusao / "The Social Responsibility of Filipino
Intellectuals in the Age of Globalization and Empire: An Interview with
E. San Juan, Jr. and Delia D. Aguilar"
- Alzo David-West / "The Literary Ideas of Kim Il Sung and Kim
Jong Il : An Introduction to North Korean Meta-Authorial Perspectives"
- Barbara Foley / "Rhetoric and Silence in Barack Obama’s
Dreams from My Father"
- Grover Furr / "Evidence of Leon Trotsky's Collaboration with
Germany and Japan"
- Bülent Gökay and Darrell Whitman / "Mapping the
Faultlines : A Historical Perspective on the 2008-2009 World Economic
Crisis"
- Dave Hill / "Culturalist and Materialist Explanations of Class
and “Race” : Critical Race Theory, Equivalence/Parallelist
Theory, and Marxist Theory"
- Michele Frucht Levy / " 'For We Are Neither One Thing Nor The
Other' : Passing for Croat in Vedrana Rudan’s Night"
- Gregory Meyerson / "Post-Marxism as Compromise
Formation"(Foreword by E. San Juan, Jr.)
- Michael Joseph Roberto / "Crisis, Revolution, and the Meaning of
Progress : The Poverty of Philosophy and its Contemporary Relevance"
- Spyros Sakellaropoulos and Panagiotis Sotiris / "Peter
Gowan’s Theorization of the Forms and Contradictions of US
Supremacy : A Critical Assessment"
- E. San Juan, Jr. / "An African American Soldier in the
Philippine Revolution : An Homage to David Fagen"
- Daniel F. Vukovich / "Uncivil Society, or, Orientalism and
Tiananmen, 1989"
Reviews
- Paul M. Heideman / Michael E. Brown, The Historiography of
Communism
- David Schwartzman / Eileen Christ and H. Bruce Rinker, eds.,
Gaia in Turmoil : Climate Change, Biodepletion and Earth Ethics in an
Age of Crisis
Poetry
- Christopher Barnes / Selected Poems
Economy and
Society, 39(1): Feb. 2010
Journal website:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713685159~db=all
- Economization, part 2: a research programme for the study of
markets / Koray Çalışkan; Michel Callon
- Reconceptualizing financial innovation: frame, conjuncture and
bricolage / Ewald Engelen; Ismail Erturk; Julie Froud; Adam Leaver;
Karel Williams
- Economics and the 'nonsense' of law: the case of the Chicago
antitrust revolution / William Davies
- Creating flows of interpersonal bits: the automation of the
London Stock Exchange, c. 1955-90 / Juan Pablo Pardo-Guerra
- Visualizing the invisible hands: the shadow economy in North
Korea / Hyung-min Joo
Review article
- Reviving multiculturalism, reviewing representation / Wendy
Martineau; Judith Squires
Economy and Society, 39(2):
May 2010
Journal website:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713685159~db=all
- Neo-liberal biopolitics and the invention of chronic
homelessness / Craig Willse
- Calculating without numbers: aesthetic governmentality in
Delhi's slums / D. Asher Ghertner
- Nature as adversary: the rise of modern economic conceptions of
nature / Earl Gammon
- Socialism, knowledge, the instrumental valuation principle and
the enhancement of individual dignity / Andrew Cumbers; Robert
McMaster
- A new mentality for a new economy: performing the homo
economicus in Argentina (1976-83) / Daniel Fridman
Review article
- The calling of the human sciences / Charles
Turner
El Aromo, 54:
Mayo-Abril de 2010
Journal website:
http://www.razonyrevolucion.org/ryr/
SUPLEMENTOS
Gabinete de Educación Socialista
Observatorio Marxista de Economía
Laboratorio de Análisis Político
Taller de Estudios Sociales
Si no desea recibir más información escribir a
info@razonyrevolucion.org
European Journal of Economic and Social Systems,
23(1): 2010
- The 2007-2009 Economic and Financial Crisis. An Analysis in
Terms of Monetary Circuits (La crise économique et
financière de 2007-2009. Une analyse en termes de circuits
monétaires) / LOUIS-PHILIPPE ROCHON, SERGIO ROSSI
- Low Wages, Private Indebtedness, and Crisis. A
Monetary-Theoryof-Production Approach (Bas salaires, endettement
privé et crise. Une approche par la théorie
monétaire de la production) / GUGLIELMO FORGES DAVANZATI, GUIDO
TORTORELLA ESPOSITO
- Home Equity Extraction, Growth, and the Subprime Crisis within
the Theory of the Monetary Circuit (« Home Equity Extraction
», croissance et crise des « subprimes » dans le
cadre de la théorie du circuit monétaire) / RÉMI
STELLIAN
- Du surinvestissement au surendettement des ménages From
Over-Investment to Households’ Over-Indebtedness / JEAN-LUC
BAILLY
- Financing for Retirement and the 2007-2009 Unwinding of the
Financial Sector (Le financement des retraites et l’effondrement
du secteur financier en 2007-2009) / NADIA F. PIFFARETTI
- The Origins of the 2007-2009 Economic and Financial Crisis. Some
Thoughts in the Tradition of Keynesian Monetary Theory (Les origines de
la crise économique et financière de 2007-2009. Quelques
réflexions dans la tradition de la théorie
monétaire keynésienne) / STEFANO FIGUERA
- Keynes’s Lost Distinction Between Industrial and Financial
Circulation of Money (La distinction perdue de Keynes entre la
circulation industrielle et financière de la monnaie) / JESPER
JESPERSEN
- Vickrey, Keynes, and Kalecki. Three Approaches for a
Post-Keynesian Perspective on Crisis and Capitalism (Vickrey, Keynes et
Kalecki. Trois approches pour une lecture postkeynésienne de la
crise et du capitalisme) / CARIME AYATI
The
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 17(2):May 2010
Journal website:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09672567.asp
Articles
- Rabbinical perspectives on money in seventeenth-century Ottoman
Egypt / Daniel A. Schiffman
- Money, exchange and division of labour in Rousseau's economic
philosophy / Claire Pignol
- The future of the working classes: a comparison between J.S.
Mill and A. Marshall / Arrigo Opocher
- Function, mind and novelty: organismic concepts and Richard M.
Goodwin formation at Harvard, 1932 to 1934 / Mauro Caminati
- 'Public goods' before Samuelson: interwar Finanzwissenschaft and
Musgrave's synthesis / Richard Sturn
- Stabilizing consumer choice: the role of 'true dynamic
stability' and related concepts in the history of consumer choice
theory / D. Wade Hands
Book reviews
- Keeping Faith, Losing Faith: Religious Belief and Political
Economy /Ian Steedman
- Carl Menger entre Aristote et Hayek. Aux sources de
l'économie moderne /Keith Tribe
- The General Theory of Economic Evolution /Rita M. Strohmaier
- Mathematical Economics and the Dynamics of Capitalism, Goodwin's
Legacy Continued /Wolfgang Eichert
- Joan Robinson /Harvey Gram
- Piero Sraffa / Susan Pashkoff
- The Political Economy of Work / Enrico Sergio Levrero
- Free Riding / Richard Sturn
ephemera:
theory & politics in organization, 9(4): Nov. 2009
Journal website (articles are available here):
http://www.ephemeraweb.org/journal/index.htm
Editorial
- Armin Beverungen, Stephen Dunne and Casper Hoedemaekers / The
university of finance
Articles
- Morgan Adamson / The human capital strategy
- Dick Forslund and Thomas Bay / The eve of critical finance
studies
- Ishani Chandrasekara / Why is finance critical? A dialogue
with a women's community in Sri Lanka
Talk
- Stefano Harney / Extreme neo-liberalism: an introduction
Roundtable
- Dick Bryan and Michael Rafferty / Sydney Forum on the financial
crisis: an introduction
- John Roberts / Faith in the numbers
- Randy Martin / Whose crisis is that? Thinking finance otherwise
- Martijn Konings / The ups and downs of a liberal conciousness,
or, why Paul Krugman should learn to tarry with the negative
- Dick Bryan and Michael Rafferty / Homemade financial crisis
- Melinbda Cooper and Angela Mitropoulos / The household frontier
- Fiona Allon / The futility of extrapolation: reflections on
crisis, continuity and culture in the 'Great Recession'
Reviews
- Elizabeth Johnson and Eli Meyerhoff / Toward a global autonomous
university
- Francesca Bria / A crisis of finance
Journal of
Post Keynesian Economics, 32(3): Spring 2010
- The return of fiscal policy / Philip Arestis, Malcolm Sawyer
- Social preferences and fiscal policies: an analysis of the
composition of public expenditures in the European Union / Jesús
Ferreiro, M. Teresa García-del-Valle, Carmen Gómez
- The Spanish fiscal policy during the recent "great recession" /
Felipe Serrano
- Conversation or monologue? on advising heterodox economists /
Matías Vernengo
- How to win friends and (possibly) influence mainstream
economists / David Colander, Richard P. F. Holt, J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
- Explaining persistent cycles in a short-run context: firms'
propensity to invest and omnipotent shareholders / Sébastien
Charles
- A Keynesian-Kaleckian model of investment determination: a panel
data investigation / Constantinos Alexiou
- New Keynesians versus Post Keynesians on the theory of prices /
Jordan Melmies
- International monetary asymmetries and the central bank / Angel
García Banchs, Luis Mata Mollejas
International Socialism
Journal, 126: April 2010
Journal website:
http://www.isj.org.uk/
Analysis
- The radical left and the crisis
- Venezuela at the crossroads: Voices from inside the revolution /
Luke Stobart
- Crisis and conflict in Pakistan / Sartaj Khan & Yuri Prasad
- Climate politics after Copenhagen / Jonathan Neale
- The changing face of racism / Richard Seymour
- CLR James and the Black Jacobins / Christian Høgsbjerg
- 25 years after the Great Miners’ Strike / Jack Robertson
- Tony Cliff: Deflected permanent revolution in Africa / Leo
Zeilig
- Rethinking imperialism: past, present and future / Gilbert
Achcar
- Conceding the Russian Revolution to liberals / Kevin Murphy
Book reviews
- Getting the “Change We Need” / Brian Richardson
- Fighting for women’s liberation today / Siân Ruddick
- Socialism through devolution? / Tim Evans
- Refusing to be pessimistic / Dan Swain
- Resisting revisionism / Matthew Cookson
- Apologising for the Chilean coup / Nathaniel Mehr
- Vote for Prisoner 9653 / John Newsinger
- Finance and capitalism in Europe / Christakis Georgiou
- A true reflection of the system / Ken Olende
PelicanWeb's Journal of
Sustainable Development, 6(5): May 2010
Journal website:
http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n05page1.html
Feature article: Sustainable Development in the Gaian Perspective
Outline:
1. Humanity and the Human Habitat
2. The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
3. Synopsis of Self-Determination Theory (SDT)
4. Looking Ahead to the Forthcoming MDG Summit
5. List of References and Online Databases
Supplements:
- Supplement 1: Advances in Sustainable Development
- Supplement 2: Directory of Sustainable Development Resources
Radical Philosophy, 161:
May/June 2010
Journal website:
http://www.radicalphilosophy.com
- Claudia Aradau, The Myth of Preparedness
- Eric Alliez, What is – or What is Not – Contemporary
French Philosophy, Today?
- Stuart Elden, Reading Schmitt Geopolitically
- Kolja Lindner, Marx's Eurocentrism: Postcolonial Studies and
Marx Scholarship
- Lynne Segal, Feminism Did Not Fail
- Andrew McGettigan on Brecht and Benjamin's Chess Games
- Toni Prug, Student Control in Croatia
- Stuart White, Colin Ward, 1924-2010
- Esther Leslie on The German Issue and Gudrun Ensslin's Letters
- Alex Callinicos on Cohen's Why Not Socialism?
- Chris Wilbert on Brett Buchanan's Onto-Ethologies
- Mark Fisher on Jim McGuigan's Cool Capitalism
- Antonio Venezia on Joe Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza
- Matthew Charles on Wizisla's Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht
Review of Political Economy,
22(2): April 2010
Journal website:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09538259.asp
- Assessing Microcredit in Bangladesh: A Critique of the Concept
of Empowerment / Nahid Aslanbeigui; Guy Oakes; Nancy Uddin
- Financialisation and Rising Shareholder Power in
Kaleckian/Post-Kaleckian Models of Distribution and Growth / Eckhard
Hein; Till Van Treeck
- A Battle of Forensic Experts is not a Race to the Bottom / Roger
Koppl; E. James Cowan
- Labour Supply, Employment and Unemployment in Macroeconomics: A
Critical Appraisal of Orthodoxy and a Heterodox Alternative / Malcolm
Sawyer; David Spencer
- Inflation in Argentina during the Second Peronist Period
(1973-76): A Post-Keynesian Interpretation / Jonathan Marie
Book Reviews
- The Structure of Post-Keynesian Economics. The Core
Contributions of the Pioneers / Angelo Reati
- Toward Globalization with a Human Face / Collin G. Matton
- Keynes and his Battles / Dany Lang
- Poverty, Work and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order
/ Robert H. Scott III
- Ideology and the International Economy. The Decline and Fall of
Bretton Woods / Maria Alejandra Madi; Jose Ricardo Gonçalves
Variant,
37: Spring/Summer 2010
Journal website:
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- Editorial
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- On bullshit in cultural policy practice & research /
Eleonora Belfiore
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- Launch of ‘Friends of Belge’ : An Appeal for
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- Print Creations Comic & Zine reviews / Mark Pawson
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- Comment : "Art Workers Won’t Kiss Ass" / Owen Logan
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- Overidentification and/or bust? / Stevphen Shukaitis
- Learning to Breathe Protest / Salong, Interflugs, Academy of
Refusal, 10th Floor
- ‘We have decided not to die.’ On taking and leaving
the University / Marina Vishmidt
- The Tyranny of Rent / Neil Gray
Heterodox Newsletters
Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives: April/May 2010
- The third round of negotiations for the Canada-EU Comprehensive
Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) are taking place in Ottawa this
week (April 19-23). In Negotiating
From Weakness, an analysis of the proposed proposed agreement, CCPA
senior research fellow Scott Sinclair warns that the proposed agreement
poses a serious threat to Canada’s procurement policies and a
broad range of public services such as waste, drinking water, and
public transit. The proposed rules would entrench commercialization,
especially public-private partnerships; prohibit governments from
obliging foreign investors to purchase locally, transfer technology or
train local workers; and make it far harder for governments to reverse
failed privatizations. Click here
to read the full report. And for an opportunity to see the news
conference for the Trade and Justice Network, click here.
- The Fraser Institute released a report claiming that the average
Canadian family’s tax bill has increased by a whopping 1,624%
since 1961. The report was widely distributed by several media outlets
despite the fact it's conclusions were based on misleading
calculations.In a reponse entitled Fraser
Institute Tax Index: Half a Century of Fuzzy Math, CCPA research
associate Erin Weir shows how average taxes in the report were
overstated, and how new public services that account for tax increases
were ignored. Click here
to read the full commentary.
- Iglika Ivanova, Public Interest Researcher at the CCPA’s
BC Office, also writes a scathing response to the Fraser Institute's
report. In Have
taxes really changed all that much over the past century?, Iglika
notes that the Fraser Institute did not even adjust their numbers for
inflation, nor consider that incomes grew over the last half a century,
accounting for a rise in tax revenue. Click here
to read Iglika's full commentary.
-
Success
is No Accident, by CCPA Research Associate David Macdonald,
federal underfunding and understaffing of safety inspectors are putting
federal jurisdiction employees in harm’s way. The study provides
several recommendations for improving federal workplace safety.
Click here
to read the full report
-
Canada’s
Regulatory Obstacle Course, CCPA Senior Economist Marc
Lee’s analysis of the federal government’s new Cabinet
Directive on Streamlining Regulation (CDSR), suggests that the
government’s poor record on workplace safety is not an isolated
case but may reflect an across-the-board weakening of the federal
regulatory process. Click
here
for the full report.
Development Veiwpoint
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April 2010
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In this issue:
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Histories Newsletter
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Global Labour Column
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La Lettre
du CEPN, N° 6: Mars 2010
Centre d'Economie de Paris Nord
In this issue:
- Questions et débats : La rupture méthodologique de
Keynes: une approche post-keynésienne, by Angel Asensio, Dany
Lang
- Entretien : Questions à Marc Lavoie
- Les activités du CEPN
- Agenda
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Political Economy
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Policy Pennings
Réseau de Recherche
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Editorial:
La Finance : D’une
bulle à l’autre, par Denis Langlet (ingénieur
dans un grand groupe international et membre du RRI)
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Books and Book Series
The Future of Money: From
Financial Crisis to Public Resource
By Mary Mellor
Pluto Press 2010. ISBN: 9780745329949. 208pp. Release Date: 09 Apr
2010. £13.99
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As the recent financial crisis has revealed, the state is central to
the stability of the money system, while the chaotic privately-owned
banks reap the benefits without shouldering the risks. This book argues
that money is a public resource that has been hijacked by capitalism.
Mary Mellor explores the history of money and modern banking, showing
how finance capital has captured bank-created money to enhance
speculative ‘leveraged’ profits as well as destroying
collective approaches to economic life. Meanwhile, most individuals,
and the public economy, have been mired in debt. To correct this
obvious injustice, Mellor proposes a public and democratic future for
money. Ways are put forward for structuring the money and banking
system to provision societies on an equitable, ecologically sustainable
‘sufficiency’ basis.
This fascinating study of money should be read by all economics
students looking for an original analysis of the economy during the
current crisis.
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Routledge Frontiers of
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Edited by Ping Chen
March 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-55475-6. Routledge.
The Principle of Large Numbers
indicates that macro fluctuations have weak microfoundations;
persistent business cycles and interrupted technologies can be better
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By Toichiro Asada, Carl Chiarella,
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March 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-54837-3. Routledge
This book investigates the interaction
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This book asks how a more liberating
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The book contains thirty original articles dealing with important
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Theory as
History: Essays on Modes of Production and Exploitation
By Jairus Banaji
Brill Academic Pub, 2010.
Historical Materialism Book
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The essays collected here straddle four decades of work in both
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and essays in agrarian history that range widely from Byzantine Egypt
to 19th-century colonialism. The essays demonstrate the importance of
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historical materialism. An introductory chapter ties the collection
together and shows how historical materialists can develop an
alternative to Marx's 'Asiatic mode of production'.
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Book Reviews
Marx and
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New reviews just published online in the Marx and
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Ted Benton on The Ecological Revolution
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Mary Evans on Simone de Beauvoir
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Nick Gray and Meade McCloughan on Karl Marx and
Contemporary Philosophy
-
Ishay Landa on Marx’s Philosophy of Nature, Action
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Rajeev Sehgal on Work
And new list of books for review.www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/
Racial
Integration in Corporate America, 1940-1990
Jennifer Delton,
Racial Integration in Corporate America, 1940-1990.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. vi + 313 pp. $25
(paperback), ISBN: 978-0-521-73080-8.
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New Socialist: Ideas for
Radical Change
We are a network of socialists in the Canadian state. Some
of our efforts go into publishing this website and, on an irregular
basis, the print magazine New Socialist.
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Heterodox Economics in the
Media
Economics in
Crisis: What Do We Tell the Students?
by Kamran Mofid and Steve Szeghi | Published on Saturday, April 24, 2010 by Share The World's Resources (STWR)
The profession of economics requires a revolution
in thinking if it is to play a constructive role in solving the
multiple and multi-dimensional crises that so engulf our world, our
species, and the fabric of human community. We are running out of time [Read the article]
Fiscal Sustainability
Teach-in, Washinton D.C., April 28, 2010
Also visit here to listen sessions:
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L. Randall Wray on the
Federal Reserve
Making the
International Monetary Fund Accountable to Human Rights
April 23, 2010. Huffington Post
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here:
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Petition to Save the Centre
for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Middlesex University
The petition:
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-middlesex-philosophy.html
The abrupt closure of the Philosophy programmes at
Middlesex University is a matter of national and indeed international
concern. Not only does it flatly contradict the stated commitment of
Middlesex University to promote 'research excellence', it represents a
startling stage in the ongoing impoverishment of Philosophy provision
in the UK.
The Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (http://www.web.mdx.ac.uk/crmep/)
at Middlesex makes a significant and distinctive contribution to the
teaching of philosophy in the UK. Its set of MA programmes is currently
the largest in the UK, and Philosophy is the most prestigious and
highest research-rated subject at Middlesex University.
The CRMEP is now widely recognised as one of the most important centres
for the study of modern European philosophy anywhere in the
English-speaking world. Building on its grade of 5 in the 2001 Research
Assessment Exercise, in the 2008 RAE Middlesex was rated first in
philosophy among post-1992 universities, with 65% of its research
activity judged ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally
excellent’.
More importantly, work carried out at the CRMEP is characterised by a
unique emphasis on broad cultural, artistic and intellectual contexts,
and a marked sense of social and political engagement.
Middlesex Philosophy is one of only a handful of programmes left in the
UK that provides both research-driven and inclusive post-graduate
teaching aimed at a wide range of students, specialist and
non-specialist. It also happens to generate a substantial amount of
revenue for the University, currently contributing close to half of its
total income to the University's central administration.
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There is a piece by Nina Power about this appalling news in the
Guardian's Comment is Free section:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/29/philosophy-minorities-middleqsex-university-logic
Times Higher Education have also run a piece:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=411435&encCode=622597773BC14721875JTBS737226611.
To express support and to help with the campaign email
savemdxphil@gmail.com and
please join the facebook group. PLEASE CIRCULATE THIS NEWS WIDELY -
closure at Liverpool and cuts at KCL and elsewhere have been avoided
due to protests. It IS possible to stop the demented venal idiocy of
university management.
If you would like to show Dean Esche what you think of this decision
then you can email him at
e.esche@mdx.ac.uk,
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Visit the Petition
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Writing
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socialist ecology, would like to have the following books reviewed:
- Hester Eisenstein's Feminism Seduced: How Global Elites Use
Women's labor and ideas to exploit the world
- Istvan Meszaros' The Structural Crisis of Capital
- Paul Burkett's Marxism and Ecological Economics
- Ananya Roy's Poverty Capital: Microfinance and the Making of
Development
- Heather Gautney, Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson and Neil Smith's Democracy,
States, and the Struggle for Global Justice
- Heather Rogers' Green Gone Wrong: How our economy is
undermining the environmental revolution; and
- Miriam Pawel's The Union of their dreams: Power, Hope, and
Struggle in Cesar Chavez's Farm Worker Movement
If interested in reviewing any of these books, please send your CV and
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Since CNS is a scholarly journal, you should have a doctoral degree or
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of book reviews is about 900 words, but they can be longer should the
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The Journal of the
History of Economic Thought and History of Economic Ideas
The
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Marketing
Pharmaceutique
Protégez-vous,
April 2010.
Nos médicaments coûtent une fortune
et certains ne sont guère plus efficaces que des placebos.
Pourtant, nous en consommons toujours davantage.
En 2009, les Canadiens ont dépensé 30 milliards de
dollars en médicaments. C'est quatre fois plus qu'il y a 20 ans.
En effet, l'industrie pharmaceutique a plus d'un tour dans son sac pour
vendre ses pilules. Et puisque ce sont les médecins qui
prescrivent tous ces comprimés, aucun effort n'est
ménagé pour les séduire. Une armée de
représentants pharmaceutiques multiplie les visites
auprès des professionnels de la santé pour les convaincre
de prescrire leurs pilules à leurs patients. Pour que le charme
opère, plusieurs essais cliniques sont biaisés et taisent
les résultats défavorables aux médicaments.
Parfois, les effets secondaires ne sont étudiés et
découverts qu'après la mise en marché du produit.
Ce dossier lève le voile sur la grande manipulation de
l'industrie pharmaceutique.
Download the
report and also see "
The Ghost of Medical
Research",
GEN News, May 2010 (courtesy of Dr.
Marc-André Gagnon at McGill University)
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UMass
Amherst Economics online courses
Below are descriptions of the three introductory-level courses that
UMass Amherst Economics will offer online in summer 2010. Each course
will be offered twice: the first session runs 8 June - 13 July; and the
second session runs 14 July - 17 August. These courses, developed by
UMass faculty and taught by UMass Ph.D. students, are a particularly
good opportunity for progressive undergraduates at schools with
orthodox econ departments. To watch clips related to the courses, see
http://www.youtube.com/user/UMassEconomics
For more information, please contact:
Michael Ash
Department of Economics
University of Massachusetts Amherst
mash@econs.umass.edu
1. Introduction to Microeconomics (Economics 103)
http://www.umassulearn.net/classes/summer-2010?clid=6663&view=class
Professor Gerald Friedman describes the course:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kkny-klmb4
2. Introduction to Macroeconomics (Economics 104)
http://www.umassulearn.net/classes/summer-2010?clid=6665&view=class
3. Introduction to Political Economy (Economics 105)
http://www.umassulearn.net/classes/summer-2010?clid=6667&view=class
Professor James K. Boyce introduces Social Wealth:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbZgT-uSFMM
Books
published by the Post Keynesian Economics Study Group
By kind permission of the publisher, Edward Elgar, the full text of
the two volumes of Beyond Keynes (2002) can be downloaded below free of
charge in accordance with the terms of use of this website.
Individual chapters from the three earlier books will be scanned and
added to the website in electronic form upon request (please allow some
time for this to be done), with thanks to the Marshall Library of
Economics, Cambridge, for this service.
David
Harvey, The Enigma of Capital
27th April at Kings College London.
See the video here:
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Documentary:
"American Casino"
YouTube video clip:
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Postcast: The Greek Crisis
– A debate
Event Date: 5 May 2010 | Birkbeck, University of London
Speakers:
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