From the Editors
We have received three interesting and
informative letters in response to the Editorial in the previous issue (June 30,
2010). See our new section, Letters to the
Editors, in the Newsletter. As indicated by Marco Novarese, the
Director of NEP (New Economics Papers), the issue of "Publishing,
Ranking, and the Future of Heterodox Economics" was analytically
discussed by notable heterodox economists in the special
issue of On the Horizon (2008). We urge you to take a close
look at alternative and effective ways to make heterodox economic
researches more visible and accessible.
In a slightly different line, we would like call your attention to
recently published two
working papers on how a government-driven research assessment can
negatively affect heterodox economic research. To quote Harry Bloch:
There is a large and growing community of
heterodox economic scholars producing a substantial body of interesting
and important research. Yet, the advent of a national research
evaluation under ERA [Excellence in Research in Australia] poses great
challenges to this community. The output of heterodox economics
research will be woefully understated and heterodox economists are
likely to be undercounted. When the output is counted it will be as
part of the "other economics" classification, which is likely to
achieve a poor performance score. Thus, heterodox economics will be
further marginalized and tarnished with a low quality reputation (pp.
12-3).
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The evidence of growing heterodox economics is found right here in the
Newsletter. As usual, this issue contains many interesting calls for
papers, conferences and workshops, job postings, and new books. I (Jo)
should mention (since I'm participating) that there will be a workshop
on "Social Provisioning, Embeddedness, and Modeling the Economy"
organized by the American Journal of Economics and Sociology
(and Fred Lee) in September. Check this out!
One last note: As we have announced earlier, we are in the process of
updating the Heterodox Economics Directory.
We assume that there are schools, journals, associations, websites, etc
that are useful, but not yet listed in the Directory, for the heterodox
economics community. If you have such an information item, please send
it us by the end of August.
In solidarity,
Tae-Hee Jo and Ted Schmidt, Editors
Email: heterodoxnews@gmail.com
Website: http://heterodoxnews.com
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Table of Contents
Call
for Papers
1st International Conference
on Cooperative Social, Economic and Cultural Capabilities
16-17 April 2011 | Kish Island, Iran | Conference website: http://www.icci2011.ir
Conference objective
- To promote and develop cooperatives in different countries;
- To identify and introduce social, economic and cultural
capabilities of cooperatives;
- To encourage healthy competition for the purpose of promoting
cooperatives’ outputs;
- To introduce successful practical models in terms of methods,
procedures and management tools internationally with the aim of helping
other cooperatives improve their status.
- To review recent research findings in the field of cooperative
to improve knowledge transfer and provide a context for a
knowledge-based development
Conference timetable
- Submission of abstract: 21 March- 15 August 2010
- Notification of abstract acceptance: 6 September 2010
- Submission of full paper: 7 September- 7 November 2010
- Notification of paper acceptance: 21 November 2010
- Start for registration (conference and workshops): 14-15 April
2011
For more information, visit the conference website at http://www.icci2011.ir
Download the conference flyer.
2nd
International Workshop on Managing Financial Instability in Capitalist
Economies
Reykjavik, Iceland | September 23 - 25, 2010 | Website: http://mafin2010.ru.is
Researchers are invited to submit a paper to the Second International
Workshop on Managing Financial Instability in Capitalist Economies
(MAFIN 2010), to be held in Reykjavik (Iceland), on September 23-25,
2010.
Aims and scope
The purpose of this workshop series is
to discuss new modeling paradigms in financial economics to understand
the causes of the great financial crisis and design new public
intervention policies aimed at recovering a capitalist economy from
deep recession caused by a credit crunch or collapse in assets value.
The MAFIN 2010 edition will be particularly focused on the following
topics:
- Agent-based modeling and simulation of endogenous financial
instability
- Institutional and evolutionary economics perspectives to
financial crises
- Systemic risk in a credit network economy
- Sovereign debt crises and European monetary union management
Researchers are also invited to submit papers to related topics, such
as behavioral finance and economics, evolutionary political economy,
financial Keynesianism and financial fragility, financial engineering
and innovation, financial regulation, statistical physics approach to
economics and econophsyics.
Invited Speakers:
- Stefano Battiston*, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Silvano Cincotti, University of Genova, Italy
- Doyne Farmer*, Santa Fe Institute, USA
- Hardy Hanappi, University of Technology Vienna, Austria
- Willi Semmler, New School for Social Research, USA
- Brigitte Young, University of Muenster, Germany
(* to be confirmed)
Submissionns:
An anonymous extended abstract (min 2
pages) or an anonymous short paper (max 6 pages) should be submitted in
PDF format by sending an email to:
mafin2010@ru.is
The deadline for the submission of extended abstracts or short papers
is July 23, 2010.
An anonymous version without any author information should be sent in
order to guarantee a double-blind review. Author(s) information must be
included in the body of the email. Submitted papers will be selected
for presentations by Scientific Committee members after a double-blind
review process.
Important dates:
- July 23, 2010 Submission deadline
- August 20, 2010 Notification of acceptance
- September 3, 2010 Registration deadline
- September 23 - 25, 2010 Workshop
- December 3, 2010 Deadline for submission of final papers for
workshop proceedings
Venue:
The workshop will be held at the new
Reykjavik University premises in Nauthólsvík.
Address:
Reykjavik University
Menntavegur 1
IS 101 Reykjavik
Iceland
Proceedings:
- A selection of papers presented at MAFIN 2010 will be published
as regular papers in a topical issue of the Journal Advances in Complex
Systems (ACS) by World Scientific.
- The papers will be selected on the basis of high quality and
originality, and will have not to be already published elsewhere. The
selection will be based on a new full review process (at least two
reports) coordinated by Guest Editors.
- Guest Editors will be Marco Raberto and Enrico Scalas.
- The deadline for submission of final papers for the ACS topical
issue is December 3, 2010..
Acknowledgements:
The workshop is funded by the European
Science Foundation under COST Action IS0902 on "Systemic Risks,
Financial Crises and Credit - the roots, dynamics and consequences of
the Subprime Crisis"
Contact:
3rd Seminar of Heterodox
Microeconomics
"Monopoly, Transnational Firms,
Theory and Practice"
14-16 October, 2010 | Faculty of Economics, UNAM, Mexico
The Third Heterodox Microeconomics Seminar aims to become a space
for discussion and analysis of microeconomics from a non conventional
theoretical perspective, and thus contribute to the development of
research, communication and discussion among the community of scholars
from the fields of theory of the firm, monopoly, transnational
corporations, industry, consumers, market, and the microeconomic
foundations of macroeconomics.
The heterodox microeconomics embrace different fields of knowledge
and approaches to microeconomics topics, these came from diverse school
of thought as: Pos-Keynesian, Evolutionist, Marxist, Regulationist,
Institutionalism, Ricardian, Neo-Austriac, etc This year, we have as
special speaker one of the most recognized pos Keynesian: the Dr.
Frederic Lee from UMKC, USA. The conference languages are English and
Spanish.
The conference invites submissions on or before August 15th., 2010
according with the conference title. Papers selected for inclusion in a
theme will be peer reviewed by the theme organizers.
The closing date for theme submissions is October 1st. 2010,
the same as that for papers.
For more information, visit http://www.economia.unam.mx/smh/english/
III Jornadas de
Economía Crítica
Estado, políticas económicas y acumulación de
capital
Llamado a Presentación de Ponencias
14, 15 y 16 de Octubre del 2010, Rosario, Argentina | Website: jornadaseconomiacritica.blogspot.com
Se invita a estudiantes, graduados y docentes, investigadores y
profesionales en Ciencias Económicas y Sociales a participar de
las III Jornadas de Economía Crítica (JEC). El texto
completo del llamado, así como las condiciones de
presentación de ponencias, pueden leerse en nuestro blog.
Las III JEC se desarrollarán en la Facultad
de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario
(Bv. Oroño 1261). Los días jueves 14, viernes 15 y
sábado 16 de octubre de 2010, a partir de las 9 Hs y hasta las
20 Hs aproximadamente, contaremos con paneles de presentación de
ponencias, mesas abiertas de debate y actividades especiales, tal como
ocurrió en las ediciones anteriores de estas Jornadas.
Las JEC son gratuitas y abiertas a todo el que
quiera participar. Se entregarán certificados de asistencia y
exposición. Por otra parte, las regionales organizadoras se
encargarán de ofrecer medios de transporte al costo desde las
distintas ciudades del país. Más adelante comunicaremos
también alternativas de alojamiento en Rosario.
Todos los detalles se publicarán enjornadaseconomiacritica.blogspot.com.
Por cualquier consulta, escribir a jornadaseconomiacritica@gmail.com.
Fechas importantes
- Presentación de resúmenes:Hasta el viernes 16 de
Julio
- Presentación de ponencias: Hasta el
viernes 27 de Agosto
- Preinscripciones de asistentes: Hasta el
viernes 1 de Octubre
Ejes temáticos:
- Las dimensiones de la crisis mundial y el estado de los espacios
de integración regionales.
- Intervención estatal y políticas públicas:
¿qué hemos aprendido en América Latina?
- Argentina: estructura social, conflictos políticos y la
dinámica de la acumulación (global, sectorial, regional).
- Desarrollo económico, mercado de trabajo,
distribución del ingreso, patrones de producción y
consumo: alcances y limitaciones de los conceptos tradicionales en la
economía.
- La problemática del género y su relación
con lo económico.
- Pedagogía y Economía: hacia el pluralismo de
contenidos y metodologías.
Se enfatiza que no es requisito que la ponencia se encuadre
estrictamente en estos ejes (que son tentativos y no excluyentes),
mientras su contenido sea afín con la finalidad de las Jornadas
de Economía Crítica de promover alternativas
teóricas a las ideas neo- y nuevo-clásicas.
Preguntas o sugerencias acerca de los objetivos de la conferencia, el
formato o contenido de las ponencias, otros temas relacionados con el
programa, transporte o alojamiento en Rosario u otras cuestiones: jornadaseconomiacritica@gmail.com.
Organizan:
Escuelas de Economía
Política de las Universidades Nacionales de La Plata (UNLP) y
Buenos Aires (UBA) / Colectivo Viceversa Bahía Blanca
(UNS) / Red de Estudios de Economía Política Rosario
(UNR) / Grupo de Economía Scalabrini Ortiz Mar del Plata (UNMdP)
/ Regional Córdoba (UNC)
Mesas de debate organizadas hasta el momento
JUEVES 14/10 – 19 Hs:
Mesa 1 | Dimensión político-económica de la Crisis
- Dr. Atilio Borón (a confirmar)
- Dr. Alejandro Valle Baeza
- Lic. Eduardo Crespo
VIERNES 15/10 – 14 Hs:
Mesa 2 | El Estado y las políticas públicas en el
desenvolvimiento de la economía Argentina
- Lic. Claudio Katz
- Dr. Alberto Bonnet
- Dr. Juan Santarcángelo
- Cdor. Sergio Arelovich
VIERNES 15/10 – 19 Hs:
Mesa 3 | Determinación de salarios y políticas de ingreso
en la Argentina actual
- Dr. Rubén Lo Vuolo
- Dr. Julio César Neffa
- Dra. Adriana Marshall
- Dr. Agustín Salvia
Crisis of Capital, Crisis of
Theory: A Call for New Interrogations
York University, Toronto, Canada | October 29-31, 2010
A New Student Organized Conference in Heterodox Political Economy
Organized by the Forum on Capital as Power
Extended Deadline for Submissions: July 31, 2010
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Herman Schwartz
Recent events have given political economists plenty to talk about: the
bursting of the real estate 'bubble'; the bail-out of Wall Street; the
'nationalization' of the American and European banking sectors; the
demise of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers; the collapse of global
exports; the 'death of laissez-faire'; the record profits of Goldman
Sachs; a 'jobless recovery'; etc. Despite this proliferation of events
and processes that have come to be known as the Great Recession, there
is far from universal agreement on the relevant facts, let alone their
meaning and implications. Moreover, among the abundant commentary on
these events, little of it is truly radical in the sense that it
uproots conventional wisdom.
Not only were most orthodox and heterodox political economists unable
to foresee the crisis and adequately explain its particularities and
implications, they continue to employ concepts and categories that are
highly dubious, if not flatly refuted. Therefore we believe that there
is great need for new ideas, new concepts and new analyses.
The problems are numerous. When we speak of 'financial bubbles
bursting', we often imply a return to 'real value' and 'equilibrium',
but what do these concepts mean? What is a financial crisis? In light
of the Cambridge Controversy and its consequences for mainstream and
Marxist value theory, do we have an understanding of value that helps
us make sense of the central process of the political economy: the
accumulation of capital? And with accumulation put into question, what
are the implications for other concepts political economists take for
granted: the market, the state, globalization, empire, neoliberalism
and financialization, to name just a few?
We take the global financial crisis as an opportunity to question every
concept and every category. To this end, we consider the work of
Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler, particularly Capital as Power
(2009), to be exemplary but not definitive. Now is the time for those
who share dissatisfaction with both mainstream and critical conceptions
of political economy to come together. Now is the time to re-think and
re-search our understanding of capital accumulation and globalization.
We wish to inaugurate a new conference series that radically
interrogates the study of political economy. We wish to question the
basic concepts of capital, capitalism, and ultimately, power: hence,
Forum on Capital as Power. We invite both panels and individual papers
relating to the full scope of topics discussed above, including those
that wish to constructively and critically engage with the work of
Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler. Please send an abstract of no
more than 250 words to casp.york@gmail.com.
The deadline for submission is July 31, 2010.
FULL TEXT: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/281/
The Hyman P. Minsky Summer
Seminar 2011
June 18 – 26, 2011 | Levy Economics Institute
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College is pleased to announce
that it will hold the 2nd Minsky summer seminar June
18-26 2011. The Seminar will provide a rigorous discussion of both the
theoretical and applied aspects of Minsky’s economics, with an
examination of meaningful prescriptive policies relevant to the current
economic and financial crisis.
The summer seminar will be of particular interest to graduate
students, recent graduates and those at the beginning of their academic
or professional careers. The teaching staff will include well-known
economists concentrating on and expanding Minsky’s work.
Applications may be made to Susan Howard at the Levy Institute (howard@levy.org),
and should include a current curriculum vitae. Admission to the Summer
School will include provision of room and board on the Bard College
Campus. A limited number of small travel reimbursements of $100 for US
fellows and $300 for foreign fellows, respectively, will be available
to participants.
Due to limited space availability, the deadline for applications is
March 31, 2011.
The summer seminar program will be organized by Jan A. Kregel,
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray.
For more information, please visit http://www.levyinstitute.org.
Marxist
Perspectives on Irish Society
October 22nd - 23rd 2010 at the University of Limerick
The Limerick Marxist Reading Group is to hold its first annual
conference October 22nd - 23rd 2010 at the University of Limerick. We
are seeking papers that offer Marxist perspectives on any aspect of
modern Ireland, particularly those dealing with:
• Ireland and the World System
• Partition, Religious Sectarianism, the Peace Process
• The Labour Movement
• The Capitalist State
• Community Activism
• Racism
• Church and State
• Publicly Funded Education
• National and International Capital
• Civil Disobedience and Social Control
• The Capitalist Media
• Cultural Politics
• Public/Private Partnerships
• Children in State and Religious Institutions
• The Role of Finance Capital
• Unemployment, Poverty, Inequality
• Ecology, Environmentalist Movements
• Gender Inequality
• FDI Dependent Development
• Ireland’s Experience of Boom and Bust
• Emigration, Immigration
• Rights of LGBT Community
• Ideological Change in Ireland
• Language, Literature
• Socialist and Left Currents
• Minority Rights
Deadline for abstracts: July 30, 2010. All proposals to be sent to limerickmarxistreadinggroup@live.ie
Please note that it is the intention of the committee to publish
selected conference proceedings in some
form. Successful contributors may be asked to resubmit their conference
paper as a referenced article.
Submissions of proposals should include:
- Paper title
- Presenter's name and contact information, institution, research
- interests and a short 50 word
- biography.
- Brief abstract (no more than 500 words)
All paper presentations should be no longer than 20 minutes. Organised
by the Limerick Marxist Reading Group – further details available
at http://limerickmarxistreadinggroup.webs.com
Download the call for papers.
Conferences,
Seminars and Lectures
AJES Workshop: Social
Provisioning, Embeddedness, and Modeling the Economy
I am hosting a small workshop at UMKC to examine the themes of social
provisioning, embeddedness, and modeling the economy in an integrative
fashion. It will take place on September 24-26, 2010. The papers in the
workshop will focused on the following:
Social provisioning process: as the definition of economics, the
history of the concept, and implications for conceptualizing economic
theorizing and modeling the economy as a whole.
Embeddedness: deals with the notion of what social embeddedness
means and its use for theoretical analysis in economics and for
modeling the economy as a whole.
Modeling the economy as a whole: integrating input-output
analysis, social fabric matrix, social accounting matrix, social
surplus approach, social structures of accumulation, system dynamics,
ecology and resources, gender, state money, and stock-flow models into
a coherent model of the economy as a whole which can be used for
theoretical and applied work at both the macroeconomic and
microeconomic level of the economy.
The workshop is open to anyone who wants to come and contribute to the
discussion. There are costs involved with regard to food. Anyone who is
interested in coming, please e-mail me ajes@umkc.edu.
For more information about the workshop, please click here.
Fred Lee
Editor, American Journal of Economics and Sociology
Department of Economics
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
USA
E-mail: ajes@umkc.edu
Annual UK History of
Economic Thought Conference
16-17 September 2010 | Kingston University
Conference website: http://business.kingston.ac.uk/het2010
For over forty years the UK HET conference has been the principal
annual event in Britain for historians of economic thought to present
and discuss their current research.
Global
Labour University Conference: Labour and the Global Crisis
14-16 September 2010 | Berlin, Germany
Call for Participants
The Global Labour University will hold an International Conference at
the Berlin School of Economics and Law in Berlin, Germany, from 14-16
September 2010.
*LABOUR AND THE GLOBAL CRISIS: SHARING THE BURDEN (!) SHAPING THE
FUTURE (?)*
*Analysis, Short-Term Stabilisation and Long-Term Options*
For further details, programme and registration form see: http://www.global-labour-university.org/233.html
Green
Economics Institute, 5th Annual Conference
Mansfield College, Oxford University | 3 days from 29th - 31st July
2010-
Greening the Economy and Green Jobs
Come and find out more about what Green Economics really means, how it
is creating a more topical, helpful and effective economic approach
which is both refreshing and holistic with a much wider scope.
Green Economics is currently spreading fast around the globe and being
adopted by governments, NGOs and industry as well as global
institutions and it is important to keep up to date with this
remarkable innovation. It offers a beacon of hope in the current
economic downturn; bringing together, economics, social science and
physical science methodology with new ideas about institutions and the
science surrounding issues such as climate change, nature, the planet
and its systems. The economics of social and environmental justice.
This year's conference theme is Greening the Economy and Green Jobs. It
will focus on reducing our carbon and helping to solve, issues
surrounding the economic downturn through greening the economy and the
creation of green jobs. This conference will consider the seismic
changes in world governance and power that are happening around
eco-technology, geo-engineering, lifestyle changes needed for a low
carbon economy, as well as huge changes happening in the discipline of
economics itself. The conference will cover Progress in Green
Economics, Reforming Economics and Economics up to 2050. Also addressed
will be Green Economics Solutions to: geo-engineering,
eco-technologies, green transport, green construction, green
investment, pensions crisis, changes in demography, environmental
refugees, water and HEP crisis, energy crisis, economic crisis, equal
opportunities, gender equity and women's unequal pay and how green
economics can help find an ending to world poverty.
A range of inspirational talks from a group of keynote speakers from
all continents globally including Nigeria, Beijing and Italy, BRIC and
PIGGS. Delegates will also have the opportunity to take part in
innovative workshops. This conference will encourage people across the
globe to develop new kinds leadership talents and find new ways of
contributing to their jobs, their organisations and the world.
Please enquire if you wish to reserve a place, or if you want to speak.
Full bound conference proceedings are provided to all fully paid up
participants. If you would like to speak or submit a paper please email
us to enquire.
If you require any further information or would like to book a place
please email us at greeneconomicsevents@yahoo.co.uk
or visit the website www.greeneconomics.org.uk
IIPPE Conference 2010
The web site for the IIPPE Conference is now active. Please go to http://www.iippe.org/wiki/First_International_Conference_in_Political_Economy.
We hope to complete details of the streams/panels shortly together with
a programme of the sessions which will be both posted on the web and
circulated directly to participants.
Migrant Workers’
Rights in the Global Economy
Thursday September 2nd 2010 | International Slavery Museum, Liverpool,
UK
This one-day seminar, funded by the Economic and Social Research
Council, is the second in the Middlesex University series examining
emerging issues of global labour regulation. The seminar will be held
at the International Slavery Museum (http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/ism/)
in Liverpool’s dockside on Thursday September 2nd 2010 from 10am
until 5.30pm.
Migration is an integral part of an increasingly internationalised
economy. Around 3 per cent of the world’s population, just less
than 200 million people, now live and work outside of their own
country. This number has been growing at just less than 3 per cent in
each year. The increased tendency for people to migrate to work and
live has been spurred by changes in the world economy and the effects
of structural economic change, or through war and civil upheaval, or
environmental damage. Trade liberalisation and market de-regulation has
also increased the propensity to migrate, as new geographical patterns
of production have emerged. Yet labour migration is not a central
concern of international agencies such as the WTO, the IMF or the World
Bank. Migrant workers and their families are vulnerable to exploitation
and racism, and labour market imbalances can result from migration in
both sending and receiving countries.
The purpose of this seminar is to examine migration from a rights
–based perspective. We hope to explore aspects of civil, human
and social rights of migrant workers as well as labour and economic
rights. Migrant labour is thus viewed from within perspectives of
forced, slave and child labour as well as economic labour. As such the
seminar welcome the participation of those academics, practitioners and
migrant worker activists who wish to develop new agendas for regulating
migrant labour through a variety of agency and policy initiatives.
The seminar will be divided into two sessions. The first, thematic
session, will examine alternative perspectives on migrant workers
rights. The second session will present case studies from different
world regions.
If you are interested in participating in the seminar please register
your interest with Denise Arden at d.arden@mdx.ac.uk
. Lunch and refreshments are provided and the seminar is free to
attend, but registration in advance is necessary. More information can
be obtained from the seminar organisers, Professor Martin Upchurch (m.upchurch@mdx.ac.uk) and
Professor Miguel Martinez Lucio (Miguel.MartinezLucio@mbs.ac.uk).
Mini
Symposium on the History of Postwar Economics
20-21 August, São Paulo, Brazil
The Department of Economics at the University of So Paulo (USP) is very
pleased to organize the mini-symposium on the history of postwar
economics, which is open to anyone who wishes to attend it. This event
aims to bring together renowned international and local scholars in the
field of history of economics to discuss important aspects of the
development of economics after World War II. The speakers are E. Roy
Weintraub (Duke University), Mary Morgan (LSE and University of
Amsterdam), and Marcel Boumans (University of Amsterdam).
The event will take place in So Paulo, Brazil, on August 20-21, 2010,
and it will be both streamed live on internet and recorded (in order to
make the videos freely available on internet afterwards). For further
information about the event and about the recording (to be posted
later), please check the symposium webpage at http://www.usp.br/feaecon/hope/
PRIMER SEMINARIO DE
ECONOMÍA POSTKEYNESIANA Y HETERODOXA
August 10-12, 2010 | Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia
Conference program, registration information can be found here:
http://www.fce.unal.edu.co/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=610&Itemid=1
Recovering Together? Fiscal
Pressures, Federalism and Social Policy
August 16-18, 2010 | International Institute on Social Policy, Queen's
Univeristy, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
The Theme:
As the Canadian economy recovers, the context for social policy
development will be powerfully shaped both by fiscal pressures and by
intergovernmental relations. Fiscal pressures will grow more intense.
On one side, income support programs will bear a heavy burden during a
slow return to pre-recession employment levels, and long-standing
pressures on health care and educational programs will continue to
grow. On the other side, governments will seek to unwind the levels of
spending associated with the stimulus.
Managing these fiscal pressures will strain intergovernmental relations
which have always been central to social policy. Many programs are
framed and financed through intergovernmental agreements, and
coordination is a constant challenge where governments operate separate
programs in the same sector. In recent years municipal governments have
also come to play a bigger role. Multilevel governance will be central
to the recovery, and debate over the issues involved will build as we
approach the renewal of important federal-provincial fiscal agreements
in 2014.
Canada went through a major fiscal crunch in the 1990s and
intergovernmental relations were severely strained by the experience.
Tensions were generated between the federal and provincial governments,
and between provincial and municipal governments. We need to avoid a
repeat of those experiences this time. QIISP 2010 is designed to learn
the lessons from our recent past and anticipate the challenges we will
confront over the next five years. Hence our question: How do we
recover together?
For the Conference Program and other information, visit the Conference
website at http://www.queensu.ca/sps/events/qiisp/2010/
Conference
Papers, Reports, and Articles
AHE 2010 Conference Papers
July 2010 | Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV, France
Conference papers are available here:
http://ocs.sfu.ca/hetecon/index.php?conference=AHE&schedConf=AHE2010&page=schedConf&op=presentations
Behind the
Headlines: the Political Economy of the Crisis
A workshop organised by the Political Economy Research Group and School
of Economics at Kingston University on 15 June 2010
On-line versions of the papers and presentations of the workshop can
now be found at http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/item.php?updatenum=1381
Debate sobre Crisis Europea:
Say otra vez
"Las premisas teóricas de la Carta y los antiguos-liberales" by
Antonella Stirati - 16 de julio 2010
En su artículo "Un
Suicidio al ritmo de tango argentino" en el Sol 24 horas del 27 de
junio (y en un modo más agresivo y poco argumentado en su blog
noisefromamerika) Bisina y Boldrin formulan muchas críticas a la
"Carta
de los Economistas"[1] y atacan los supuestos teóricos de la
argumentación, definiéndolos de improbables e
inconsistentes, basado en errores lógicos triviales. Sobre esto
puede ser útil hacer un poco de claridad, ya que los autores
atacan a una teoría “subconsumista” imaginaria o que
por lo menos refleja versiones decimonónicas de esta
teoría, y por otra parte defienden su punto de vista con
argumentos bastante arcaicos.
Las cosas que diré para explicar las premisas
de los argumentos presentados en la carta son conocidas por los
economistas académicos que fueron formados en Italia, y desde
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demasiado interesados en enfrentar las cuestiones de fondo, pero se
espera ser útil para los lectores curiosos sobre el debate y la
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Research Evaluation and
Heterodox Economics: the case of Australia and Italy
GDAE Working Papers
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Holes in the Keynesian
Arguments against Neoliberal Austerity Policy—It Is not
“Bad” Policy, It Is Class Policy
By Ismael Hossein-Zadeh, author of The
Political Economy of U.S. Militarism (Palgrave-Macmillan 2007),
teaches economics at Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa. (July 22,
2010). Email: ismael.zadeh@drake.edu
Instead of calling the recent G-20’s brutal austerity declaration
(issued at the conclusion of its annual summit in Toronto last month)
an orchestrated declaration of class war on the people, many
progressive/Keynesian economists and other liberal commentators simply
call it “bad policy.” While it is true that, as these
commentators point out, the Hooverian message of the declaration is
bound to worsen the recession, it is nonetheless not a matter of
“bad” policy; it is a matter of class policy.
Download the article.
The Great Mortification:
Economists’ Responses to the Crisis of 2007–(and counting)
By Philip Mirowski
Available at http://www.iasc-culture.org/publications_article_2010_Summer_mirowski.php
Job
Postings for Heterodox Economists
Bucknell
University (US): Assistant Professor
Job Summary: Bucknell University is seeking to fill a tenure track
position at the Assistant Professor level in the Department of
International Relations, beginning in August 2011.
Minimum Requirements: A strong grounding in economics is essential.
Qualified applicants will have no more than four years of full-time
teaching experience beyond the completion of the doctorate and will
have a degree in one of the following disciplines: International
Relations, Political Science, Economics, or Political Economy. Other
relevant interdisciplinary PhD degrees will be considered. We are
seeking an International Political Economist with a Latin American
regional specialization, as well as a specialization in Globalization
and Sustainability/Global Resources. An ability to teach international
economics would be an important advantage. Interest in developing
interdisciplinary courses that would appeal to a broad university
audience is encouraged.
Preferred Qualifications: Ph.D. at time of appointment is preferred. An
ability to teach international economics would be an important
advantage. Interest in developing interdisciplinary courses that would
appeal to a broad university audience is encouraged.
Special Instructions to Applicants: Bucknell University values a
diverse college community and is committed to excellence through
diversity in its faculty, staff, and students. An Equal
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer, Bucknell University especially
welcomes applications from women and minority candidates.
Applications must be made online at: www.bucknell.edu/jobs. Online
applications require a cover letter, CV, a teaching portfolio
(including teaching philosophy, sample syllabi, and course
evaluations), research portfolio (including a statement on the
candidate's scholarly agenda and one writing sample), and three letters
of reference. Please send a transcript to Emek Ucarer, Department of
International Relations, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 17837. All
application materials must be received by November 15, 2010.
Online App. Form:
https://jobs.bucknell.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=51721&jtsrc=www.high
eredjobs.com&jtrfr=www.peopleadmin.com&adorig=PA
Catholic
University of Lille (France): Assistant Professor Ethics and Economics
Date of appearance: July 19, 2010
Application Deadline: September 30, 2010
Starting date : October 2010
Contact: Fabrice Le Lec, CREE -- Catholic University of Lille at fabrice.lelec@icl-lille.fr
The Ethics and Economics Research Center ('CREE') of the Catholic
University of Lille wishes to hire an assistant professor in the filed
of economics and ethics. Applicants are expected 1) to hold a PhD in
economics, philosophy or related topics at the starting date of the
contract 2) to show ability to publish in international journals, in
particular in the following fields: ethics and finance, theories of
justice, ethics and public economics, corporate social responsibility,
the normative consequences of behavioral economics, sustainable
development. Some knowledge of the Social Doctrine of the Catholic
Church would be appreciated. A working command of French is required.
Hamburg University
(Germany): Research Associate
From 1st of October 2010 onwards, the position of a research associate
in economics, particularly public and political economics and
macroeconomics is available for a period of 3 years. Good kowledge of heterodox economics is necessary.
Kowledge of econometrics is desirable.
Application deadline: August 8, 2010
Contact:
Institute for Women’s
Policy Research (US): Two Positions
1. Communications Manager
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) seeks an
energetic, creative and resourceful Communications Manager to be
responsible for IWPR’s outreach, media relations, identity
management, marketing and publications, events coordination,
dissemination, communications and outreach activities including press
relations, producing and disseminating print and online informational
materials, and tracking outcomes of outreach and dissemination efforts.
The Communications Manager will play a key role in developing
IWPR’s outreach and dissemination strategies, and in its effort
to improve conditions for women by sharing its information with a
growing audience of advocates, policy makers, thought leaders, and
members of the public. The Communications Manager will work with the
Communications Fellow in coordination with other IWPR staff to carry
out of all communications responsibilities. The Communications Manager
will report to the Executive Director.
2. Communications Fellow
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) seeks an
energetic, creative and resourceful Communications Fellow to serve as a
general communications assistant on a variety of communications and
outreach activities including press relations, print and online
products, and dissemination of IWPR products. The Communications Fellow
will work with the Communications Manager in coordination with other
IWPR staff to assist with the carrying out of all communications
responsibilities, and in its effort to improve conditions for women by
sharing its information with a growing audience of advocates, policy
makers, thought leaders, and members of the public. The Communications
Fellow will report to the Communications Manager.
To Apply:
Email a cover letter, a resume, two
1-5 page writing samples, and three references with contact information
to
jobs@iwpr.org. | Applicants may
also mail application materials to:
Recruiter - Communications Manager /
Fellow
Institute for Women's Policy Research
1200 18th Street NW, Suite 301
Washington, DC 20036
Please note that only complete applications will be considered.
Applicants will be contacted only if selected for an interview.
Questions may be addressed to Recruiter via E-mail at jobs@iwpr.org
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Penn State
University - Altoona (US)
ECONOMICS/ACCOUNTING (Fixed-Term Position)
The Pennsylvania State University, the Altoona College invites
applications for a one-year fixed-term faculty position in
Economics/Accounting. Possible course topics include introductory level
economics as well as beginning and advanced topics in accounting. The
position requires a Master of Science degree or Ph.D. in Economics
and/or Accounting or a related field, and is a fixed term appointment
at the level of instructor beginning in Fall 2010. Candidates should
have a strong commitment to undergraduate education.
Applicants should send a letter of application establishing their
qualifications, a current vita, transcripts, and a minimum of three
letters of reference. Applicants are strongly encouraged to submit
their applications and accompanying materials electronically to businessandengineering@psu.edu
in Word or PDF formats. Review of applications will begin immediately
and continue until the position is filled. Non-electronic inquiries,
applications, and additional materials should be sent to:
Chair, Economics/Accounting FT1 Search Committee
Penn State Altoona College
Position D-32434
3000 Ivyside Park
Altoona, PA 16601-3760
For additional information about Penn State Altoona, please visit our
web page at http://www.altoona.psu.edu
University
of Gothenburg (Germany): Post-Doctoral Position
Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg
JEL classification(s): A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P,
Q, R, Z
To be found at: http://www.inomics.de/node/3719
Description:
Applications
are welcome for a three-year post-doctoral position in Economics at the
Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg. Applicants should
hold a recent PhD in Economics, or be close to finishing their thesis.
Our
department provides a stimulating environment with many young
researchers and a rapidly growing research output. Research potential
is our key selection criterion for the advertised position. The
successful candidate will be expected to carry out research suitable
for publication in leading or highly ranked field and general economics
journals.
Interested
candidates should email their applications to postdoc@economics.gu.se. The
application should include a detailed CV with a list of
publications/working papers, one job market paper, and the names and
addresses of two referees. Additional material might be
requested. The application must be received no later than
September 1, 2010.
Salary
takes the form of a tax-exempt scholarship at a competitive level.
Additional funds are available for travel and shorter visits to
other departments. The Department will also encourage involvement in a
limited amount of teaching and supervision, the terms of which will be
agreed later.
Interviews
and research presentations by shortlisted candidates will be organized
at the end of September, in the Department or via a video link. It is
highly desirable that the position is taken up before the end of 2010,
but there is some flexibility.
The
Department of Economics encourages equality and diversity. Women and
minority candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
More
information can be obtained from Måns Söderbom, email: mans.soderbom@economics.gu.se,
mobile: +46732096444. General information about the Department of
Economics at the University of Gothenburg can be obtained at www.economics.gu.se.
Current research in the department includes History of Economic Thought.
See: http://www.economics.gu.se/
- click on Research, then History of Economic Thought.
University of Vienna: a Full
Professor of Economics
The Faculty of Business, Economics and Statistics of the University of
Vienna announces the position of a Full
Professor of Economics (Development Economics) (full time,
permanent position under private law). The University of Vienna intends
to increase the number of women on its faculty, particularly in
high-level positions, and therefore specifically invites applications
by women. Among equally qualified applicants women will receive
preferential consideration.
The Candidate should have worked successfully in Development Economics
and/or International Economics and should be ready for
interdisciplinary collaboration in relevant areas of economic, social
and cultural development.
It is the duty of this position to coordinate the teaching in Economics
for Bachelor and Master students in “International
Development”, a study which is jointly organized by the Faculties
of Economics, Business and Statistics, the Faculty of Social Sciences
and the Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy. In
addition, some teaching for students in “Economics” is
required.
Successful candidates will have the following qualifications:
- PhD and post-doctoral experience at a university or other
research institution. (Austrian or equivalent international academic
degree in the relevant field)
- Outstanding research and publication record, with an excellent
reputation as an active member in the international academic community
¬(Habilitation (venia docendi) or equivalent international
qualification in the relevant field is desirable)
- Experience in designing, procuring and directing major research
projects, and willingness and ability to assume the responsibility of
team leadership
- Experience in university teaching, and willingness and ability
to teach at all curricular levels, to supervise theses, and to further
the work of junior academic colleagues
- The University of
Vienna expects the successful candidate to acquire, within three years,
proficiency in German sufficient for teaching in Bachelor programmes
and participation in committees
The University of Vienna offers
- Attractive terms and conditions of employment with a negotiable
and performance-related salary, associated with a retirement fund
- A “start-up package” for the initiation of research
projects
- An attractive and dynamic research location in a city with a
high quality of life and in a country with excellent research funding
provision
- Support for relocation to Vienna, where appropriate
Candidates should send an application containing at least the following
documents:
- Academic curriculum vitae
- Brief description of current research interests and research
plans for the immediate future
- List of publications together with
a) specification of five key
publications judged by the applicant to be particularly relevant to the
advertised professorship together with an explanation of their relevance
b) PDF versions of these five publications provided either as email
attachments or through URLs of downloadable copies (PDF versions of
monographs need only be provided if easily available.)
- List of talks given, including detailed information about
invited plenaries at international conferences
- List of projects supported by third-party funds
- Short survey of previous academic teaching and list of
supervised PhD theses
Applications in German or English should be submitted per e-mail
(preferably as pdf attachments) to the Dean of the Faculty of Business,
Economics and Statistics (dekanat.wiwi@univie.ac.at)
no later than October 1st, 2010 with
reference 6/2010.
The Information Technology
and Innovation Foundation (US)
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation is seeking to hire
an economist to work on a project on American Economic Renewal Through
Innovation. The ideal applicant has at least a Master's degree in
economics, understands and appreciates the need for active government
policies to assure continued productivity growth and international
economic competitiveness, and is familiar with the real economy of
firms, industries and institutions, as well as with conventional
economic theory.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Conduct a policy research program focusing on U.S. global
economic competitiveness, including manufacturing innovation, and tax
and budget policies to support it.
- Write policy reports, blog posts, op eds, and other policy
materials on industrial competitiveness.
- Speak at forums.
- Organize policy conferences, roundtables, and other events on
the national innovation and competitiveness policy.
Qualifications Requirements:
- A minimum of a Master's Degree, ideally in Economics and with a
focus on the economics of growth and/or environmental economics.
- An ability to write for policy audiences and an understanding of
the public policy process.
- An understanding of conventional neo-classical economics, but
also an appreciation of its fundamental limitations as a guide for
policy to spur growth and industrial competitiveness.
- An understanding of the process of technological innovation and
real-world economic activity.
ITIF is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy think tank committed
to articulating and advancing a pro-productivity, pro-innovation and
pro-technology public policy agenda in Washington and the states. We
believe that innovation is central to spurring economic growth and
addressing key societal challenges and that public policies should
actively work to support innovation and national economic
competitiveness. ITIF works to help policy makers around the world
understand the critical importance of innovation. We focus on
technology policy issues such as broadband, e-commerce and
e-government, privacy and copyright, research policy, trade and
innovation, green energy innovation, and others. We produce
publications, hold events, meet with policy makers, speak at forums and
engage in other activities to shape technology policy.
ITIF offers a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits. Send
resume with cover letter, writing sample, and salary requirements to:
Director of Personnel, ITIF, 1101 K. Street, NW, Suite 610, Washington,
DC, 20005. Fax (202) 638-4922; or email mail@itif.org.
View our website at www.itif.org.
Heterodox
Journals
Challenge, 53(4):
July-August 2010
Website: http://mesharpe.metapress.com/link.asp?id=P08554682574
- Letter from the Editor / Jeff Madrick
- The Great Recession of 2008-2009 and the Blue-Collar Depression
/ Andrew Sum, Ishwar Khatiwada, Joseph McLaughlin, Sheila Palma
- The Index of Economic Well-Being / Lars Osberg, Andrew Sharpe
- The State of the World Bank / Robert Wade
- Toward a Progressive Macroeconomic Explanation of the Recession
/ Howard Sherman
- The Rise of Stealth Inflation / D. L. Losman
- Does F.A. Hayek's Road to Serfdom Deserve to Make a Comeback? /
Andrew Farrant, Edward McPhail
- My Economic Education / S. M. Miller
- The Futility of Force / Mike Sharpe
New Political Economy, 15(2): June 2010
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13563467.asp
Themed Articles: The Political Economy of Climate Change
- The Brave New World of Carbon Trading / Clive L. Spash
- Markets, Morality and Climate Change: What, if Anything, is
Wrong with Emissions Trading? / Simon Caney
- Uncertainty Markets and Carbon Markets: Variations on Polanyian
Themes / Larry Lohmann
- Understanding Carbon Offset Technologies / Heather Lovell; Diana
Liverman
- Climate Change, Human Well-Being and Insecurity / W. Neil Adger
Commentary
- The Political Economy of the MDGs: Retrospect and Prospect for
the World's Biggest Promise / David Hulme; James Scott
Global Monitor
- The International Labour Organization / Guy Standing
Feature Review
- The Shadows of Consumption: Consequences for the Global
Environment Peter Dauvergne (The MIT Press, 2008) / Nicky Gregson
Journal of
Economic Methodology, 17(2): June 2010
Journal website: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/RJEC
Special Issue on Neuroeconomics: Hype or Hope?
This Special Issue of the Journal of Economic Methodology brings
together a selection of papers presented at the Conference
Neuroeconomics: Hype or Hope?, which was hosted by the Erasmus
Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE) in November 2008 in
Rotterdam. The conference speakers comprised ardent advocates and
practitioners of neuroeconomics, outspoken critics and skeptics, and
philosophers and methodologists taking a stance somewhere in between
these extremes. The central question was whether neuroeconomics is a
flimsy fad that is likely to pass without leaving a discernible trace
in economics, or a promising new field with the potential to enrich and
improve economic theory.
Read the Introduction to this Special Issue free online at: www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g922967699.
For more information, and to order this single issue for the special
price of £20/US$33/€22, go to: www.tandf.co.uk/journals/spissue/rjec-si.asp.
Review of
Political Economy, 22(3): July 2010
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09538259.asp
- Macroeconomic Policy Mix, Employment and Inflation in a
Post-Keynesian Alternative to the New Consensus Model / Eckhard Hein;
Engelbert Stockhamme
- Positive Externalities and R&D: Two Conflicting Traditions
in Economic Theory / Sinclair Davidson; Heath Spong
- Gender, Distribution, and Balance of Payments Constrained Growth
in Developing Countries / Stephanie Seguino
- On the Impossibility of Reducing the Surplus Approach to a
Neoclassical ‘Special Case’: A Criticism of Hahn in a
Solowian Context / Emiliano Brancaccio
- The Infeasibility of Free Trade in Classical Theory: Ricardo's
Comparative Advantage Parable has no Solution / Ron Baiman
- Pareto's ‘Chronicles’ in Relation to his Sociology
/Michael McLure
Book Reviews
- Wealth and Life: Essays on the Intellectual History of Political
Economy in Britain, 1848–1914 / Terry Peach
- General Equilibrium, Capital and Macroeconomics: A Key to Recent
Controversies in Equilibrium Theory / Emiliano Brancaccio
- The Origin and Development of Financial Markets and
Institutions: From the Seventeenth Century to the Present / Cameron M.
Weber
- Reason and Rationality / Gene Callahan
- Welfare, Right, and the State: A Framework for Thinking /
Tae-Hee Jo
revista de
economia critica, 9: primer semestre 2010
Journal website: http://revistaeconomiacritica.org
- La desregulación política del mercado de trabajo
en España (1984-1997): Un programa de investigación /
Jorge Sola Espinosa
- La industria del automóvil en España:
Globalización y gestión laboral /Josep Banyuls y
Raúl Lorente
- La crisis en femenino plural /Àngels Martínez i
Castells y Annalí Casanueva Artís
- Estrategias alternativas en los debates sobre género y
desarrollo / Idoye Zabala
- La energía en Navarra, 1984–2006. Una mirada desde
la sostenibilidad /Alejandro Arizkun Cela
- NOTAS SOBRE LA CRISIS
- La economía crítica frente a la crisis / Bibiana
Medialdea
- Diagnóstico de la crisis y respuestas desde la
economía feminista /Amaia Orozco
- Entre la mitología rota y la reconstrucción: una
propuesta económico-ecológica / Óscar Carpintero
- Capitalismo Español: La inevitable crisis de un modelo
insostenible /Albert Recio
INTERVENCIONES
- In memoriam de Jörg Huffschmid, economista / Miren
Etxezarreta
- Tras Copenhague. El cruce de caminos / Miquel Ortega
Cerdà
- Las presiones ambientales: Población, abundancia y
tecnologías /Jordi Roca Jusmet
CLÁSICOS U OLVIDADOS
- Presentación del texto. La actualidad de Hyman P. Minsky.
Luis Fernando Lobejón
- La hipótesis de la inestabilidad financiera. Hyman P.
Minsky
RECENSIONES
- Federico Aguilera Klink, La Nueva Economía del Agua.
CIP-Ecosocial & Catarata, Madrid, 2007 / Esther Velázquez
Alonso
- Carlos Prieto (coord.), María Arnal, María
Caprile, Jordi Potrony, La calidad del empleo en España. Una
aproximación teórica y empírica. Ministerio de
Trabajo e Inmigración, Madrid 2009 / Albert Recio
Heterodox
Newsletters
Development
Viewpoint
European
Electronic Newsletter in Economic Sociology, 11(3): July 2010
In this issue:
- Note from the editor
- A Grammar of Performance by Florence Jany-Catrice
- Unemployment, A Social Construction by Nadya Araujo
Guimarães, Didier Demazière, Helen Hirata and Kurumi
Sagita
- The Solidarity Economy by Jean Louis Laville
- The "Social Construction of the Market" by Louis Augustin-Jean
- Solidarity and Social Networks by Anna Cristina Braga Martes and
Dimitri Fazito
- Issues of Chinese Economic Sociology by Laurence Roulleau-Berger
- Interview with Marion Fourcade
- Book Reviews
- PhD Projects in Economic Sociology
Download the Newsletter here: http://econsoc.mpifg.de/newsletter/newsletter_current.asp
Global Labour Column
IDEAs:
June 1, 2010 to June 30, 2010
Website: www.networkideas.org
or www.ideaswebsite.org
Featured Articles
News Analysis
IDEAs Working Paper Series
IWPR: Women
and Social Security Alert, No. 30: July 2010
Website:http://womenandsocialsecurity.org/Women_Social_Security/alerts.htm
New Research
- Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Report: The
Impact of Social Security Cuts on Retiree Income
- Older Women’s League Video: Social Security: The American
Promise
- Insight Center Policy Brief: "Social Security at 75:
Building Economic Security, Narrowing the Racial Wealth Divide"
- Generations United Fact Sheet: The Benefits of Social Security
for Children
In the News
- Jacob Lew Nominated for Director of the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB)
Upcoming Events
- Hearing on Social Security at 75 Years: More Necessary Now than
Ever – July 15, 2010
Levy News,
July 2010
- 19th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference Proceedings:
After the Crisis: Planning a New Financial Structure
- The
Great Crisis and the American Response, James K. Galbraith, Public
Policy Brief No. 112, 2010
- Detecting
Ponzi Finance: An Evolutionary Approach to the Measure of Financial
Fragility, Éric Tymoigne, Working Paper No. 605, June 2010
- Three
Futures for Postcrisis Banking in the Americas: The Financial Trilemma
and the Wall Street Complex, Gary A. Dymski, Working Paper No. 604,
June 201
- Does
Excessive Sovereign Debt Really Hurt Growth? A Critique of This Time Is
Different,
- by
Reinhart and Rogoff, Yeva Nersisyan and L. Randall Wray, Working
Paper No. 603, June 2010
- Fiscal
Responsibility: What Exactly Does It Mean?, Jan Kregel, Working
Paper No. 602, June 2010
nef e-Letter: July 2010
National Insurance waiver won't fill the jobs gap
How to make the Big Society work
Redefining poverty
The hidden costs of takeaway food
Recent Publications
Policy
Pennings
Heterodox
Books and Book Series
Local
Economic Development in the 21st Century: Quality of Life and
Sustainability
By Daphne T. Greenwood and Richard P.F. Holt
M.E. Sharpe. April 2010. 232 pp. Publisher website.
This book provides a comprehensive look at local economic development
and public policy with special emphasis on quality of life and
sustainability. It draws extensively on case studies at state and local
levels, and includes both mainstream and alternative perspectives in
dealing with economic growth and development issues.
The volume clarifies the contributions of economic theories and
empirical research to the policy debates, and the relationship of both
to quality of life and sustainability. It considers the impact of state
and local tax systems on the level and structure of economic growth and
development; and the relationship between economic growth and
development and state revenues, expenditures, and regulatory policies.
The book also explores the relationship between income inequality,
poverty, and economic opportunity; as well as strategies to incorporate
quality of life indices and sustainable development issues in the
policy debates
Download the book flyer.
Marxism
and World Politics: Contesting Global Capitalism
Edited by Alexander Anievas
April 2010 | Routledge. Paperback: 978-0-415-47803-8. £25.99
Read More: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415478038/
Mexico’s
Economic Dilemma: The Developmental Failure of Neoliberalism
By James M. Cypher and Raúl Delgado Wise
Rowman and Littlefield, June 2010 | ISBN: 978-0-7425-5660-7 | Hardback,
pp. 209 | Publisher website
“This is surely the best treatment of modern Mexican economic
history and the development of an unending crisis. Mexico’s close
linking to the U.S. through NAFTA produced an acute vulnerability to
the Great Crisis, and thus Mexico’s current condition ought to be
an acute embarrassment to the architects of neoliberal
globalization.” -- James K. Galbraith
“Mexico is in the midst of a deep socioeconomic crisis. In order
to understand what has happened, an alternative political economy
approach is needed….Cypher and Delgado Wise provide just that.
…The book is well-written, firmly based on ample and solid
empirical evidence, and supported by painstaking field research and a
thorough review of the relevant literature. It is an eye-opener and a
must… -- Osvaldo Sunkel, Universidad de Chile & ECLAC
Download the book cover.
Políticas
de comunicación en el capitalismo contemporáneo:
América Latina y sus encrucijadas
Susana Sel. [Coordinadora]
CLACSO. Junio de 2010,. Colección Grupos de Trabajo. ISBN
978-987-1543-40-3 | Publisher website.
Daniel Hernández. Oliver Reina. Marcos Danta. Martha
Roldán. Marco A. Gandásegui, hijo. Diego Segovia. Glenn
Postolsky. Hernán Reyes Aguinaga. Susana Sel. Hélio Lemos
Sõlha. Francisco Sierra Caballero. Daniela Monje. Lázaro
I. Rodríguez Oliva. [Autores de Capítulo]
Este libro tiene lugar en medio de luchas por cambiar el modelo
concentrado de la comunicación en varios países de
América Latina. La confrontación política en tanto
expresión de la lucha de clases marca esta etapa en la
región. En un contexto de crisis económica, los procesos
sociales muestran distintas alianzas de fracciones que se expresan en
gobiernos que, aún en sus amtices, se diferencian del proyecto
neoliberal de los ´90. Un proceso amenazado, entre otros, por el
plan Colombia, las bases estadounidenses en Cuba y el golpe de estado
en Honduras (2009). Los medios de comunicación son determinantes
en la producción de contenidos simbólicos, y
también son centrales en la estructura socioeconómica
mundial tanto por el volumen de capital movilizado como por su
función de articular el consumo creciente, indispensable para el
funcionamiento del capitalismo contemporáneo. Desde el campo
popular, la comunicación comunitaria, popular y alternativa que
desde hace décadas viene consolidándose, intenta extender
no sólo la palabra sino los límites institucionalizados
que se mantienen aún en las democracias representativas de la
región y las leyes que los facilitan. Es en la complejidad de
esta confrontación que los investigadores del Grupo de Trabajo
Comunicación Mediatizada, Capitalismo Informacional y
Políicas Públicas del Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias
Sociales, abordan la constitución de fuerzas sociales así
como las políticas gubernamentales en varios casos
latinoamericanos. En este segundo libro colectivo, intentan aportar con
sus análisis críticos a las luchas populares que se
libran en la región por el derecho a la comunicación
Sparking A Worldwide Energy
Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-petrol World
Edited by Kolya Abramsky
AK Press, June 2010. Paperback. ISBN: 9781849350051. $16.50 (online
order) | Publisher website.
As the world's energy system faces a period of unprecedented
change, a global struggle over who controls the sector?and for what
purposes?is intensifying. The question of "green capitalism" is now
unavoidable, for capitalist planners and anti-capitalist struggles
alike. From all sides we hear that it's time to save the planet in
order to save the economy, but in reality what lies before us is the
next round of global class struggle with energy at the center, as the
key means of production and subsistence.
There are no easy answers in this battle for control of the world's
energy system. Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution is not a
book of sound bites. It unpacks the seemingly innocent terms "energy
sector" and "energy system" by situating the current energy crisis,
peak oil, and the transition to a post-petrol future within a
historical understanding of the global, social, economic, political,
financial, military, and ecological relations of which energy and
technology are parts. The authors probe the systemic relationships
between energy production and consumption and the worldwide division of
labor on which capitalism itself is based?its conflicts and
hierarchies, its crisis and class struggles.
With over fifty chapters written by contributors from approximately
twenty countries, Sparking A Worldwide Energy Revolution forms
a collective map of the most dynamic struggles within the energy
sector.
Rosa
Luxemburg and the Critique of Political Economy
Edited by Riccardo Bellofiore
Routledge. June 2009: 216pp | Hardback: 978-0-415-40570-6 £70.00
DISCOUNTED PRICE
£56.00 €66.00 | Website
This book analyzes the important contributions of Rosa Luxemburg to
economic theory as well as devoting some space to her background as a
left social-democratic politician and her personality. The book's main
focus of attention is the theory of capitalist development and the
theory of the crash, but its connection with the theory of value, the
theory of the monetary circuit, the theory of distribution and the
theory of international finance are also explored. The contributors to
the volume come from different theoretical
perspectives, both from within and outside the Marxian
tradition-Post-Keynesians, Kaleckians and Circuitists are all included.
Routledge
Advances in Heterodox Economics
Edited by Wolfram Elsner (University of Bremen) and Peter Kriesler
(University of New South Wales) | Series website
Over the past two decades, the intellectual agendas of heterodox
economists have taken a decidedly pluralist turn. Leading thinkers have
begun to move beyond the established paradigms of Austrian, feminist,
Institutional-evolutionary, Marxian, Post Keynesian, radical, social,
and Sraffian economics—opening up new lines of analysis,
criticism, and dialogue among dissenting schools of thought. This
cross-fertilization of ideas is creating a new generation of
scholarship in which novel combinations of heterodox ideas are being
brought to bear on important contemporary and historical problems.
Routledge Advances in Heterodox Economics aims to promote this new
scholarship by publishing innovative books in heterodox economic
theory, policy, philosophy, intellectual history, institutional
history, and pedagogy. Syntheses or critical engagement of two or more
heterodox traditions are especially encouraged.
Published Titles
- Ontology and Economics: Tony Lawson and his Critics |
Edited by Edward Fullbrook, December 2008
- Currencies, Capital Flows and Crises: A Post Keynesian
Analysis of Exchange Rate Determination | John T. Harvey. December
2008
- Radical Economics and Labor | Edited by Frederic Lee and
Jon Bekken. January 2009-09-04
- A History of Heterodox Economics: Challenging the Mainstream
in the Twentieth Century | Frederic Lee. March 2009
- Heterodox Macroeconomics | Edited by Jonathan P.
Goldstein and Michael G. Hillard. May 2009
- The Marginal Productivity Theory of Distribution: A Critical
History | John Pullen. June 2009
- Informal Work in Developed Nations | Edited by Enrico A.
Marcelli, Colin C. Williams and Pascale Jossart. July 2009
- The Foundations of Non-Equilibrium Economics: The Principle
of Circular and Cumulative Causation | Edited by Sebastian Berger.
July 2009
- The Handbook of Pluralist Economics Education | Edited
by Jack Reardon. July 2009
In Production
- The Coming of Age of Information Technologies and the Path
of Transformational Growth: A Long Run Perspective on the 2000s
Recession | Davide Gualerzi. Planned Publication: September 2009
- Cultural Economics and Theory: The Evolutionary Economics of
David Hamilton | William M. Dugger, William Waller, David Hamilton,
and Glen Atkinson. Planned Publication: September 2009
- The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery: Social
Learning in a Post-disaster Environment | Emily Chamlee-Wright.
Planned Publication: March 2010
Under Contract
- A Critique of Environmental Economics | Robin Hahnel
& Kristen Sheeran. Due in May 2010 (publishing November 2010)
- The Culture of Markets | Virgil Storr. Due in Jan 2011
(publishing July 2011)
L’attualità del
Capitale. Accumulazione e impoverimento nel capitalismo globale
Il Poligrafo, Padova, 2010 | pp. 406, euro 27.00 | isbn
978-88-7115-686-6 | website
Marx's Capital influenced the intellectual and political debate of the
last two centuries as few other works have done, and was also the
object of innumerable attempts at refutation. One of the most common
criticisms is that this work is valid only insofar as it is concerned
with the first stages of ‘wild’ capitalist development in
England and has been falsified by the evolution of mature capitalism in
the West.
This book considers the contemporary relevance of Marx’s Capital
reading it in the light of his writings on colonialism – a large
quantity of letters and articles on Ireland, India, China, Russia and
the US – and shows that it examined capitalism, already in its
first ‘English form’, as an ever-expanding international
system that
included a ‘centre’ and a ‘periphery’. This
system is very similar to the one of the 20th and 21st centuries, whose
laws of development –the law of progressive impoverishment of the
working class in particular – must be understood not in a
national or European context, but in relation to the capitalism’s
process of worldwide expansion.
Only by analysing the antagonism between capital and wage labour on a
global scale can we identify both the internal contradictions of the
last phase of capitalist 'globalisation' and the causes of the recent
economic crisis. These processes highlight the extraordinary power of
anticipation of Marx’s Capital both with regard to its analysis
and with regard to its perspectives of struggle and social emancipation.
Free Trade
Doesn’t Work
By Ian Fletcher
Audiobook version of Free Trade Doesn’t Work is available here: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&field-keywords=free+trade+doesn%27t+work&x=0&y=0
ZED Books New Titles
- Reclaiming
the F Word: The New Feminist Movement, by Catherine Redfern and
Kristin Aune
- The
Essential Nawal El Saadawi: A Reader, edited by Adele Newson Horst
- The
End of Certainty: Towards a New Internationalism, by Stephen Chan
- Why
Doesn't Microfinance Work? The Destructive Rise of Local Neoliberalism,
by Milford Bateman
- The
Lord's Resistance Army: Myth and Reality, by Tim Allen and Koen
Vlassenroot
- The Aid
Triangle: Recognizing the Human Dynamics of Dominance, Justice and
Identity, by Malcolm MacLachlan, Stuart C. Carr and Eilish
McAuliffe
- The
Rise and Fall of Neoliberalism: The Collapse of an Economic Order?,
edited by Kean Birch and Vlad Mykhnenko
- Taking
Aim at the Arms Trade NGOS, Global Civil Society and the World Military
Order, by Anna Stavrianakis
Heterodox
Book Reviews
Marx and
Philosophy Review of Books
- John McSweeney on Negri
- Owen Hulatt on Ranciere
- Robert Farrow on work
- Gerry Gold and Steven Harris on ecological economics
- David Marjoribanks on Amartya Sen
-
And a new list of books for review.
www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/
Three books on J.M. Keynes:
"Keynes, Recovered"
Reviewed by Jonathan Kirshner, "Keynes, Recovered."
The Boston
Review, May/June 2010. Read review
here.
Heterodox
Web Sites and Associates
GREThA
(Groupe de Rescherche en Économie Théorique et
Appliquée)
GREThA is a joint research unit between Bordeaux IV University and
CNRS. The unit gathers more than 40 permanent active researches, with
an activity of constant research and scientific production.
Research Programmes
A: Space and Industry
B. Environment, welfare and development
C: Structures and finance market
GRETha working papers are available though REPEC:
http://ideas.repec.org/s/grt/wpegrt.html
To know more about GRETha, visit
http://gretha.fr and
download a flyer.
Heterodox Economics in
the Media
Debate on US
Federal Deficit and Government Spending
U.K. Bust
Needs Big Spender: Victoria Chick and Ann Pettifor
Bloomberg. July 13, 2010. Read the article
here.
John Week's Commentary
- Growth and Deficits: It's not rocket science
- Public Control of Banking
Read his commentary here:
http://jweeks.org/Current_Commentary.html
For Your
Information
Crisis of Capitalism: David
Harvey's Lecture in Animation
Dcoumentary: John Maynard
Keynes - Life - ideas - Legacy
Description: A documentary on John Maynard Keynes by Mark Blaug.
Created: 2010-05-07 14:25
Collection: Post Keynesian Economics Study Group
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Mark Blaug
Language: eng (English)
View the video here: http://sms.cam.ac.uk/media/761745
Documentary Film: Maybe I
Should Have
Tale from the Economical Wonder Iceland
Website: http://www.argoutfilm.com
"The documentary film Maybe I Should Have tells the story of Gunnar, an
average Icelandic citizen, who thought he lived in one of the world's
richest and uncorrupted countries. Then one day his world comes
crumbling down when, in only a few days time, the three larges banks in
Iceland go bankrup like a collapsing domino."
Download an article on the film.
URPE Video
Page on Economic Crisis, and Left Forum Audios
October 2009 Brooklyn URPE Conference Videos
- Some of them can also be viewed on an URPE page on Blip TV: http://urpe.blip.tv/ (see episode
archive).
- Topics covered many theoretical and practical aspects of the
current economic crisis, as well as strategies and experiences in
fighting back.
March 2010 Left Forum Audios
Audio recordings from two URPE sponsored panels at the 2010 Left Forum
are available here:
http://www.urpe.org/conf/lf/LFproceed.html
The two panels were:
- "The Crisis and Capital Accumulation: Is the Role of the State
Changing?" With Armagan Gezici, Jerry Joffe, Terrence McDonough, and
Rina Garst (chair)
- "Alternative Perspectives on Marxist Crisis Theory and the
Current Economic Crisis" Sponsored by: Union for Radical Political
Economics and Science & Society With Julio Huato, David Kotz, David
Laibman, Fred Magdoff, and Paddy Quick (chair)
- Audio recordings of Left Forum panels on Iran from various
years, sometimes sponsored by URPE and sometimes sponsored by
independent URPE members, are available here:
http://www.urpe.org/ec/Iran_Crisis.htm
Visit the URPE Resources section of our website – this section is
growing!
http://www.urpe.org/res/resourceshome.html
HAGLEY Prize in Business
History
The Hagley Museum and Library and the Business History Conference
jointly offer an annual prize for the best book in business history,
broadly defined. The next Hagley Prize will be presented at the annual
meeting of the Business History Conference in St. Louis, Missouri,
March 31 to April 2, 2011.
The prize committee encourages the submission of books from all
methodological perspectives. It is particularly interested in
innovative studies that have the potential to expand the boundaries of
the discipline. Scholars, publishers, and other interested parties may
submit nominations. Eligible books can have either an American or an
international focus. They must be written in English and be published
during the two years (2009 or 2010) prior to the award.
Four copies of a book must accompany a nomination and be submitted to
the prize coordinator: Carol Ressler Lockman, Hagley Museum and
Library, P.O. Box 3630, 298 Buck Road, Wilmington, DE 19807-0630. The
deadline for nominations is December 31, 2010.
William
Waters Grant 2010/2011 (ASE)
Applications due Nov. 1
The Association of Social
Economics offers a research grant in the amount of up to $5,000 to
promote research in social economics and the social economy. Possible
topics include, but are not limited to: the role of social values in
economic life, economic policy and social well-being, social capital,
social norms, social networks, human capabilities, workplace policies
and social justice, corporate social responsibility, socially
responsible investment, microfinance, ethics and economics, poverty,
inequality, and policies related to health, education, and welfare.
In order to advance the careers of promising new scholars in
particular, applicants for the Waters grant *must* be graduate students
in PhD programs who have not yet completed their dissertation, or
faculty members (tenured or untenured) below the rank of Associate
Professor (or its equivalent outside the U.S.).
All application materials must be received by November 1, 2010. For
further information and application materials, please see:
http://www.socialeconomics.org/division.php?page=william_waters_grant.
Inaugural Distinguished
Fellows of HETSA announced
At the recently held 23rd Annual Conference of the history of economic
thought society of Australia held at the University of Sydney three of
the founding members of that society were hounred by being announced as
the first distinguished fellows of that society, which was first
established in 1981.
They were Emeritus Professor Peter Groenewegen
(University of Sydney), Associate Professor (Emeritus) John Pullen (University of New England) and
associate professor (emeritus) Ray Petridis
(University of Notre
Dame, Fremantle). All three gentlemen played a leading part, amongst
others, in the formation of HETSA.
They were also honoured for their promotion of the history of economic
thought in the economics curriculum at Australian universities. The
Proceedings of the Conference are freely available at the HETSA
website.
William Lazonick wins the
2010 Schumpeter Prize
William Lazonick's
book, Sustainable
Prosperity in the New Economy?, has won the 2010 Schumpeter
Prize. See the press release.
Letters to the Editors
A Letter from Argentina
What Ömer Özak pointed out
is, generally speaking, true. It's very difficult for economists in
developing countries (such as Argentina) to get access to international
journals. Mostly, we must take advantage of whatever local journals may
exist. Luckily, more of them (and good ones) have been appearing in
Argentina in recent years. At the same time, we have had the
opportunity to take part in several heterodox Seminars and Congress -
led by the "Jornadas de Economía Crítica" (http://jornadaseconomiacritica.blogspot.com/,
which is organised by groups of students, researchers and teachers from
several cities around the country and has had a huge success so far
regarding both the quality of the debates that take place and the
attendance) and the "Jornadas de Economía Política"
(organised by a local University, Universidad Nacional de General
Sarmiento, where there were a lot of great debates as well).
I am taking part in the organisation of the Jornadas de Economía
Crítica, so you should probably take my opinion with caution and
just ask any heterodox argentinean economist... and I'm sure the answer
will be better than mine. The Jornadas de Economía
Crítica have just published a second press release, which I
copy below my signature in this e-mail. If you could please publish it
in the next Newsletter, we would appreciate it.
Secondly, students and teachers from 7 Universities in different cities
in Argentina meeted at Mar del Plata (Argentina) in April to discuss
the current situation of the teaching of economics around the country,
emphasizing on the role that the curriculum (program of contents)
plays. Our education in Economics has a lots of flaws, many of which
are shared with other countries in the world - namely, that orthodox
economics is in many cases the only school of thought we are tought. A
document came out from these meeting, which states and criticizes this
situation and points the way for future political action towards a more
pluralist and critical education. This document (in Spanish for the
time being, although we can translate it if someone wants to read it in
other languages) can be read here: http://jornadaseconomiacritica.blogspot.com/2010/05/encuentro-de-discusion-de-planes-de.html
Moreover, in Argentina - more exactly, at the Universidad de Buenos
Aires - there has been an exchange of articles between two marxist
teachers, Juan Iñigo Carrera and Rolando Astarita. It began when
Iñigo Carrera wrote a small article for an heterodox economics
magazine called "Economistas Para Qué?" (which would be
translated as "Economists - what for?"), answering the very same
question that gives title to the magazine. This is a regular section of
this magazine, which is by now on its 4th number and publishes
summaries of researchs conducted by argentinean heterodox economists.
You can see some of its contents (and ask for any of them to be sent by
e-mail, if you are interested) here: http://baseuba.com.ar/contenido.asp?id=84
and http://baseuba.com.ar/contenido.asp?id=110.
As I was telling you, Iñigo Carrera and Astarita went on to
debate which conditions are required for a student to be part of the
working class. It was quite a debate, and the mutual responses so far
are published online here (in spanish, for the time being): http://baseuba.com.ar/contenido.asp?id=114
and http://baseuba.com.ar/contenido.asp?id=123.
The website belongs to the student political group that publishes the
magazine, called BASE. Once again, the discussions are only in Spanish
at the moment.
Hope these pieces of information are of some use and you can help us
promote all these activities and papers.
The aim, of course, is to give heterodox economists in Argentina and
Latin America some places where they can belong - debate, publish, form
their own opinions, and participate in whatever way suits each of us
best.
Best regards and thanks for all the work and effort you put into the
Heterodox Newsletter!
July 13, 2010
Martín Kalos
On Heterodox Textbooks
All true regarding cost of heterodox materials. Also a case of
economies of scale, in contradiction to the prediction of D/S analysis.
(Unit cost is lower when "fixed" setup costs are amortized over more
units, but of course that is explained away as "other things equal"
absent an "increase in supply." But when lately have we seen the price
of a textbook drop when more instructors and institutions adopt it?)
Something else that would help would be a comprehensive Principles
textbook (or two, or three) that would meet state-mandated course
descriptions (coverage of most standard neoclassical '"theory,"
actually philosophical speculation at best), PLUS alternative views.
Both D&S and GDAE publish good hetero texts, but possibly a little
over the heads of many students at community colleges (as is Cohn's Re-Introducing Macroeconomics),
and possibly not meeting many mandatory content standards. The CCs are
where the majority of principles students are, and the only exposure to
economic theory that most of them will ever get.
I'll give Colander credit for trying, and I don't doubt his comments
regarding the sales volume needed to keep a book in publication
(confirmed by my McGraw-Hill rep, a diligent and honest sales rep of
the old school). One way to beat those numbers would be less bling.
Some publishers of mainstream claptrap are already pursuing this route.
Why not Sharpe, or Norton, or -- hey, wait, Lenin's alleged comment
about freedom of the press: Why DON'T "we" own one? Could we start a
sub-movement? How do D&S and GDAE get theirs published, besides
Sharpe?
Thanks for helping to keep us moving forward.
June 30, 2010
Scott A. Weir
On On-line Publications
You probably know this volume edited by Fred Lee
http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1747139&show=html
On line publications emerged as a good way for circulating heterodox
research and in many cases on line dissemination is free. So it may be
a good way, for example, for people living in developing countries, as
I and other colleagues wrote here:
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=78985
I'm the director of Nep, and we have many
heterodox lists: http://nep.repec.org
Thanks for your attention.
July 2, 2010
Marco Novarese