From the Editors
It is time to make a plan for your coming summer/winter time.
In this Newsletter, you will find many interesting conferences,
workshops, and summer schools in Japan, Argentina, Germany, Canada,
Brazil, Australia, Portugal, Italy, UK, and USA.
In response to the previous editorial, we have
received a couple of letters. An academic economist at
the University of London wrote that heterodox economists should
“use the law to force economics departments to hire heterodox
economists.” In South Korea, the number of publications in
SSCI-indexed journals is critical for economists to get academic
positions. Dong-Min Rieu (Chungnam National University) and Seongjin
Jeong (Gyeongsang National University and the Editor of Marxism 21) wrote that:
“This is an additional
hindrance for radical economists to get academic jobs, because most
listed journals do not accept papers from the Marxist perspective.
Therefore, the editorial committee of MARXISM 21 has begun to form an
initiative to make it into an SSCI-indexed journal. In this regard, it
will be very much helpful if you examine and cite articles in MARXISM
21 more when you contribute your papers in academic journals.”
Changing the academic landscape is a hard nut to crack.
However, small things can lead to a big change. Such things include
participating/organizing heterodox conferences, subscribing heterodox
journals, citing heterodox papers, recommending your library to
subscribe heterodox journals and to purchase heterodox books, hiring
young heterodox economists, and so on (see “100 Words on Heterodox
Economics” for more actions to advance heterodox
economics).
In solidarity,
Tae-Hee Jo and Ted Schmidt, Editors
Email: heterodoxnews@gmail.com
Website: http://heterodoxnews.com
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Table of Contents
Letters
Call for Papers
Call
for Participants
Job
Postings for Heterodox Economists
Conference
Papers, Reports, and Articles
Heterodox
Journals
Bulletin
of Political Economy, 4(1): June 2010
Cambridge
Journal of Economics, 35(2): March 2011
Capital & Class, 35 (1): Feb. 2011
Economic
Systems Research, 23(1): March 2011
Journal of
Agrarian Change
Journal of Economics Issues, 45(1): March 2011
Journal
of Post Keynesian Economics, 33(2): Winter 2010-11
MARXISM 21, 8(1): Spring 2011
Mother Pelican, 7(3): March 2011
Oeconomicus,
11: 2009-2010
real-world economics review, 56: March 2011
Heterodox
Newsletters
Heterodox
Books and Book Series
Heterodox
Book Reviews
Heterodox Graduate Programs, Scholarships, and
Grants
Heterodox
Web Sites and Associates
Heterodox Economics in the Media
For
Your Information
Letters
Use the law to force
economics departments to hire heterodox economists
I have always found strange that heterodox economists justifiedly
complain about their victimization at the hands of the fundamentalist
mainstream, but do absolutely nothing effective about it. A few years
back, I proposed to the AHE to use the law to force economics
departments to hire heterodox economists, which would have been not
very difficult (and currently even easier), as all colleges and
universities, in their statutes, make a big deal about the very
principle of academic life: academic freedom. It would be extremely
easy to prove in a court of law that without pluralism academic freedom
cannot be exercised, becoming an empty concept and principle. To this
proposal, they replied to me: "well you see, we are a learned
institution, so we don't deal with such matters". Maybe they still
believed in Father Christmas, thinking that an approach becomes
mainstream by sheer weight of argument. I decided to give up my legal
pursue, thinking that heterodox economists deserve all they get.
Sincerely,
An academic economist from the University of London
Radical
economists and SSCI-indexed Journals
In South Korea and many other countries, publishing a paper in a listed
journal (specifically, SSCI: Social Science Citation Index &
SCOPUS) is becoming a crucial condition for young scholars to get
positions in colleges and universities.
This is an additional hindrance for radical economists to get academic
jobs, because most listed journals do not accept papers from the
Marxist perspective. Therefore, the editorial committee of MARXISM 21 has begun to form an initiative to
make it into an SSCI-indexed journal. In this regard, it will be very
much helpful if you examine and cite articles in MARXISM 21 more when
you contribute your papers in academic journals.
Please feel free to contact the editorial committee of MARXISM 21 at marxism21@hanmail.net.
Thanks in advance for your cooperation.
Dong-Min Rieu
Guest editor
MARXISM 21 special issue
Seongjin Jeong
Editor
MARXISM 21
Call
for Papers
The Capitalist Mode of
Power: Past, Present, Future
The Second Annual Forum on Capital as Power
20-21 October 2011, York University, Toronto
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 30, 2011
The annual conference series organized by the Forum on Capital as Power
brings together a diverse range of radically minded people interested
in exploring the concept of power as a basis for re-thinking and
re-searching value, capital and accumulation. As the name of our forum
suggests, we think that the Capital as Power framework pioneered by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler
offers a promising new, but by no means the only, alternative for
pursuing radical and innovative research in political economy. By
conceptualizing capital as the symbolic quantification of power, and
capitalism as a mode of power, this framework challenges the
foundational bifurcations between politics/economics,
‘real’/‘nominal’ and state/capital upon which
conventional theories of capitalism rest. And by re-casting
accumulation as a process of differential capitalization, this
framework also offers research tools for empirically exploring
capitalism; something that liberal and Marxist theories, anchored
respectively in problematic units of ‘utility’ and
‘abstract labour’, have difficulty providing. This combined
focus on theoretical-empirical research is, for us, of paramount
importance. It points the way to a more democratic form of knowledge
production. And it corresponds with what we believe should be a guiding
maxim of radical praxis: that in order to change the world, we first
have to adequately interpret and explain it.
As with all new frameworks, the Capital as Power approach is still very
much open to elaboration and refinement, as well as contestation. Our inaugural conference in 2010
marked a positive step in this regard. It generated enthusiastic
discussion and debate, it produced exciting new insights and new
research related to the Capital as Power approach, and it yielded
original material for forthcoming publications. But there is still
ample scope for further inquiry: is a focus on Capital as Power able to
account for the historical origins and spread of capitalism? Is it
amenable to contemporary comparative research in different geographical
and social contexts? What can a focus on Capital as Power tell us about
the possible future trajectories of the global capitalist order? What
kind of democratic and humane alternatives to the existing order does
it envision? And in what ways does Capital as Power intersect and
overlap with other power-centered approaches to political economy?
With these questions in mind, our second annual conference invites
contributions from those who critically engage with, extend or
operationalize the Capital as Power approach in their own research. We
also welcome contributions by those who present other power-centered
alternatives to existing theories of capitalism. Contributions might
address, but are not necessarily restricted to, the following areas:
- Capitalist power and the labour process;
- The emergence of the modern state as a locus of capitalization;
- The role of capitalist power in contemporary crises of real
estate, sovereign debt or natural resources;
- The intersection of the capitalist mode of power with other
modes of power;
- Capital as Power from regional and comparative perspectives;
- The role of entertainment, leisure and consumption from a
capitalist perspective;
- Capitalist power over the biosphere;
- Alternative visions for the future, including alternative,
democratic accounting systems.
Please send abstracts of 250 words to the following address by June 30,
2011: capitalaspower2011@gmail.com
Organizing Committee: Joseph Baines (York University), Sandy Brian
Hager (York University) and Mladen Ostojic (York University)
Congreso AEDA 2011:
Consolidación del modelo productivo. Propuestas para la nueva
década
29, 30 y 31 de agosto en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Download 2nd Call for papers.
The Daniel Singer Prize
The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation congratulates Sheila
Cohen, winner of the 2010 Singer Prize for her essay Starting All Over
From Scratch? A Plea for ‘Radical Reform’ in Our Own
Movement.
We invite submissions to the 2011 competition. The $2,500 prize will be
awarded for an original essay in English, Spanish or French of not more
than 5,000 words, which explores the question:
“In some Western countries, right-wing
populism has been able to channel much of the anger caused by the
financial crisis and its effects. Why has the Left been marginalized?
How can this be overcome?”
Submissions must be received by July 31, 2011, and the winner announced
in December 2011. Essays can be sent either by post or e-mail to:
The Daniel Singer Millennium Prize Foundation
PO Box 2371, El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA
danielsingerfdn@gmail.com
Download Flyer.
First Seminar in Austran and
Heterodox Economics
Research Group in Macroeconomics and Economic Policy MACRÓPOLIS
8th to 11th of August, 2011
The Research Group in Macroeconomics and Economic Policy,
MACRÓPOLIS, is organizing his First Seminar in Austrian and
Heterodox Economics which will be held at the Faculty of Economic
Sciences of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, in Bogota, from
August 8th to 11th, 2010.
We would like to invite undergraduate and graduate students, professors
and professionals to submit Austrian and Heterodox papers (Behavioral,
Evolutionist, Ecologic, Institutionalist, Marxist, Neuroeconomic,
Postkeynesian, Sraffian, etc), both theoretical and empirical, that are
related with the following topics:
- Business Cycles Theory
- Methodology and Epistemology in Economics
- Economic Policy
- Modern Theory of the Firm
- Entrepreneurship Theory
- Monetary Policy and Theory
- Macroeconomics History
- History of Economic Thought
- Economics Development
Submission details
- 1. Submission of abstracts: from March 15th to June 10th, 2011.
- 2. Submission of accepted papers: until July 16th, 2011.
- 3. The papers can be written in English or Spanish.
- 4. The papers must be presented in Word or PDF formats, and must
have the following characteristics: a maximum extension of
11.000-13.000 words, including notes and references; simple space
between lines; 13 points-sized Garamond font; letter-sized paper with 3
cm margins.
- 5. The author’s personal information must be included as a
symbol footnote stating: author’s name, occupation, academic
level and, necessarily, his/her e-mail.
- 6. No more than two (2) papers allowed per author.
- 7. The abstracts and accepted papers should be sent to:
macropolis@gmail.
KEY SPEAKERS
The event will include conferences given by:
Peter G. Klein
Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley
B. A. (Honors), Economics, Universidad of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Professor, Universidad of Missouri
Lawrence H. White
Ph. D., Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
M. A., Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
A. B. (magna cum laude), Economics, Harvard University
Professor, George Mason University
Adrian Ravier
Ph. D. (summa cum laude), Applied Economics, Rey Juan Carlos University
M. A., Economics and Business Management, Escuela Superior de
Economía y Administración de Empresas
B.A., Economics, Buenos Aires University
Professor, Swiss Management Center University and Francisco
Marroquín University
Steering Committee
Gustavo Adolfo Junca Rodríguez (UNAL)
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Jonathan Ronny Moreno Medina
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Grupo de Investigación en Macroeconomía y Política
Económica MACRÓPOLIS macropolis@gmail.com
FRIEDRICH-EBERT-STIFTUNG,
PERSPEKTIVEN FUER WIRTSCHAFTLICHEN UND SOZIALEN FORTSCHRITT
30. NOVEMBER 2011 (IN GERMAN)
Was ist Wohlstand? Was sind die zukünftigen Quellen des Wachstums?
Können Wertschöpfung und Pro-duktivität im
Dienstleistungssektor ebenso wachsen, wie dies in der Industrie
möglich war? Welche Be-deutung sollen die Binnennachfrage und der
Export zukünftig für unser Wachstum haben? Wie lässt
sich Wachstum und Ressourcenverbrauch entkoppeln? Wie können reale
Investitionen statt Finanzinvestitio-nen befördert werden?
Mit den bisherigen wirtschaftspolitischen Vorstellungen und
Empfehlungen können diese Fragen nur be-grenzt beantwortet werden.
Gefragt sind neue, innovative Ideen und Ansätze. Gemeinsam mit
Ihnen will sich die Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung folgenden Fragen
nähern:
1) Was ist
Wohlstand/gesellschaftlicher Fortschritt?
2) Was sind die Quellen des Wachstums der Zukunft?
3) Wie werden aus Finanzinvestitionen (mehr) reale Investitionen?
Ziel ist es, eine Auseinandersetzung mit den vorherrschenden
wirtschaftspolitischen Axiomen anzuregen und so neue, innovative Ideen
und Konzepte zu entwickeln und zu befördern.
Im Rahmen eines Kongresses voraussichtlich am 30. November 2011 sollen
diese Fragen in drei Foren diskutiert werden. Erwünscht sind
Beiträge von NachwuchswissenschaftlerInnen, welche die
Fragestellun-gen theoretisch beleuchten, möglichst empirisch
erfassen und praxisrelevante Lösungen aufzeigen. Die Beiträge
werden von namhaften Persönlichkeiten aus Politik, Wissenschaft
und Wirtschaft ausgewählt und auf der Veranstaltung kommentiert.
Ferner besteht die Möglichkeit, die Ergebnisse in kleinem Rahmen
mit Entscheidungsträgern zu diskutieren – unter anderem mit
Sigmar Gabriel, Parteivorsitzender der SPD, Prof. Dr. Peter Bofinger,
Mitglied des Sachverständigenrates, Prof. Dr. Gustav Horn,
Direktor IMK, sowie weite-ren Wissenschaftern und Praktikern.
Darüber hinaus werden die ausgewählten Beiträge in einem
Sam-melband veröffentlicht.
Bitte senden Sie einen aussagefähigen Abstract (maximal 2500
Zeichen inkl. Leerzeichen) bis zum 30. April 2011 an:
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Die eingereichten Abstracts werden von einer Auswahlkommission
begutach-tet und pro Fragestellung acht Exemplare für die
Ausarbeitung ausgewählt. Wir werden Sie bis Ende Mai über das
Ergebnis informieren. Abgabetermin des im Anschluss von Ihnen
anzufertigenden vollständigen Beitrags (ca. 37.500 Zeichen inkl.
Leerzeichen) ist der 28. August. Im Anschluss entscheidet die
Auswahl-kommission, welche der Arbeiten auf der Veranstaltung
präsentiert werden und wie mit den verbleiben-den verfahren wird.
In diesem Zusammenhang würden wir gegebenenfalls mit
Änderungsbedarf auf Sie zukommen. Vorstellung der
ausgewählten Beiträge ist voraussichtlich der 30. November
2011.
Weitere Informationen zum Projekt und zur Tagung finden Sie in
Kürze unter: www.fes.de/wiso
International
Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education
A forthcoming special issue on the theme: Economics
Education in India: Past, Present and Future
Deadline for Proposals: April, 1 2011
Deadline for Papers: July 1, 2011
Decisions announced: July 30, 2011
Publication Date: September 2011 in Vol. II, No 3 of the IJPEE
Guest Editor for this issue:
The International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education invites
papers (approximate length 6000 words) on any aspect of economics
education in India. The aim of this IJPEE special issue on India is to
assess the adequacy of economics education in India from an Indian
perspective. While the preponderant focus is at the university level,
we also invite papers that discuss economics education at the secondary
level. More specifically, we invite papers along the following themes:
- What is the current state of economics education in India? Is it
adequate to meet the needs of its citizens and to help build the
nation?
- What are the influences of the past on current economics
education?
- What is the role of neoclassical economics in Indian economics
education?
- What is the role of alternative schools of economics such as
Classical Political Economics, Marxian Economics, Sraffian Economics,
Kaldorian / Kaleckian Economics, Institutional and Green Economics in
Indian economics education?
- Does economics education vary according to regional, cultural
and religious differences?
- What is the extent of pluralism in Indian economics education?
- Does pluralism enhance or hinder the learning of economics?
- Empirical testing of the adequacy of Indian economics education.
- Adequate testing of economics knowledge within the context of
pluralism.
- Discussion of economics education at the high school level.
- Unique features of Indian economics education.
- Specific suggestions to re-conceptualise economics education in
India.
Papers must be received by July 1, 2011 to be considered for this
special issue. Interested authors please submit a proposal to Sudipta
Bhattacharyya , Department of Economics and Politics, Visva-Bharati
University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. (sudipta.bh@gmail.com,
sudipta.bhattacharyya@visva-bharati.ac.in)
IV International Congress of
the Brazilian Keynesian Association (AKB) 2011
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 3-5 August 2011
The Brazilian Keynesian Association (AKB) is organizing his 4th
International Congress which will be held in the Institute of Economics
at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
3-5 August 2011. The Congress general theme is ‘Financial System
and the International Economy Post-Crisis’. The Congress will
have two special sessions: ‘Strategies for economic growth after
the crisis – global and Brazilian economy’ and
‘Spread of Keynesianism in Brazil: in honor to Prof Fernando
Cardim de Carvalho’, and the participation of Luiz Carlos
Bresser-Pereira, Fernando Cardim de Carvalho, Jan Kregel, and Malcolm
Sawyer as special guests. There will be a mini-course on
‘Perspectives for the Financial System After the Crisis’,
with Fernando Cardim de Carvalho and Jan Kregel. We would like to
invite you to submit papers to our Congress. The submissions shall be
broadly related to the following topics:
- International Economics and Finance.
- Financial System and Financing of the Economy.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Policies.
- Economic Growth and Income Distribution.
- Industrial Organization and the Behavior of the
Mega-Corporations.
Submission details:
- i. Submission dates: until May 13, 2011 (deadline),
- ii. The papers can be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
- iv. The author should send the file with the paper (with his/her
name and affiliation) to Prof Fernando Fernando-Filho’s email: ferrari@ufrgs.br
- v. Each author can not submit more than 2 (two) papers;,
- vi. The print papers must have the following characteristics:
the name of the author and his/her affiliation; they must be written in
Microsoft Office Word 97 (or compatible); the maximum number of pages
is 25, abstract included, the space between lines is simple and the
font and the size of letters have to be, respectively, Times New Roman
and 12 pt,
- vii. The fees, cost for transportation and accommodation are at
the expense of participants.
- viii. The papers of the congress will be available in both the
AKB website and in the CD congress (Proceedings of the IV Congress of
AKB).
Scientific Committee and Other Details
The Scientific Committee is Fernando
Ferrrari-Filho (UFRGS), Marco Flavio Resende (UFMG) and Paulo Gala
(FGV-SP). Additional details about the Congress can will appear in the
AKB website (
http://www.ppge.ufrgs.br/akb),
as soon as the Steering Committee, Luiz Fernando de Paula (UERJ),
Fernando Ferrari Filho (UFGRS) and Andre Modenesi (UFRJ) has some news.
Or just send an email to us:
associacao.keynesiana@gmail.com
Download Call for Papers.
IV Jornadas de
Economía Crítica
Llamado a Presentación de Ponencias
25, 26 y 27 de agosto, Córdoba, Argentina
La actual coyuntura nacional, latinoamericana e internacional nos llama
a reflexionar. A nuestro alrededor se evidencian innumerables
conflictos en el sistema económico mundial, desde la crisis de
la deuda soberana con foco en Europa (a poco tiempo de la crisis del
sistema financiero mundial con epicentro en Estados Unidos) hasta las
revueltas que se riegan por África y Oriente Medio. Por otra
parte, no podemos dejar de destacar que, a diez años de las
jornadas del 19 y 20 de diciembre de 2001, resulta ineludible discutir
qué aspectos de los ámbitos político,
económico y social exponen rupturas o continuidades con los
patrones anteriores.
En tanto, ¿qué tiene para decir la Economía
Política como Ciencia, sobre estos hitos de la historia
argentina y mundial? ¿Puede desprenderse de las cadenas que el
orden imperante le ha arrojado encima, de los prejuicios de la doctrina
degradada que se nos enseña en las Universidades, de las trabas
que enfrentan los movimientos sociales para a la vez reproducirse como
trabajadoras/es y desarrollar una conciencia liberadora? Y más
aún, si la Economía Política es capaz de colaborar
en algo con la urgencia de una porción cada vez mayor de las/os
trabajadoras/es del mundo por hacerse de medios para subsistir,
¿qué es lo que debe aportar: políticas para el
desarrollo, alternativas al desarrollo, o un cambio de paradigma
respecto de lo que es el desarrollo? ¿Con qué actores y
otras Ciencias debe relacionarse la Economía Política,
para avanzar conceptualmente hacia una teoría que nos permita
comprender y transformar nuestra realidad?
Las IV Jornadas de Economía Crítica (JEC) se proponen
consolidar el espacio de discusión abierto hace ya 5
años, para que estudiantes, graduadas/os, docentes,
investigadoras/es y profesionales en Ciencias Económicas y
Sociales puedan reflexionar, debatir e interpretar su realidad. Nuestra
intención aborda todo el espectro del pensamiento y accionar
sociales, políticos y económicos críticos,
combinando los aportes teóricos de cada disciplina con la
dinámica propia de las organizaciones sociales.
Las JEC han tenido un importante crecimiento desde su primera
edición en 2007 en La Plata, pasando por la organización
del IV Coloquio Internacional de la SEPLA en 2008, las II JEC en 2009
en Bahía Blanca, el Encuentro Nacional de Discusión de
Planes de Estudio en 2010 en Mar del Plata, cuya etapa más
reciente fueron las III JEC en Rosario en 2010 -además de
numerosas actividades llevadas a cabo por cada regional organizadora.
Sin embargo, el mayor éxito de este espacio de análisis,
discusión y formación pluralista y abierto reside en la
riqueza de sus intercambios, en la contundencia de sus críticas
y aportes a las Ciencias Sociales y en el entusiasmo que han ayudado a
construir los centenares de participantes en reuniones y debates
realizados en estos años -sintetizados en las más de 600
personas que asistieron a las últimas JEC y en los 180 trabajos
allí presentados-; sumado al número cada vez mayor de
personas que se comprometen voluntariamente en su organización y
difusión.
En efecto, las JEC se proponen continuar abriendo nuevos horizontes y
caminos para la Economía Política, en un ámbito
donde la ortodoxia dominante (en la academia y en las instituciones
educativas) pretende atiborrarnos de ahistoricidad, de pensamiento
único y monolítico, de herramientas que poco sirven para
explicar la realidad y actuar sobre ella. Hoy nos encontramos en camino
hacia una verdadera red de economistas críticos, que colabore en
trascender (en el tiempo y en el espacio) las limitaciones que enfrenta
en nuestro país y continente el desarrollo de la Economía
Política como Ciencia.
Las IV JEC tendrán lugar en la Facultad de Ciencias
Económicas de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Av.
Valparaíso s/n Ciudad Universitaria). Los días jueves 25,
viernes 26 y sábado 27 de agosto de 2011, de 9:00 a 20:00 hs.
aproximadamente, se abrirán para el debate varias instancias,
entre las cuales se incluyen paneles de presentación de
ponencias, mesas abiertas, talleres de formación y actividades
especiales, tal como en las Jornadas pasadas.
Como siempre, invitamos especialmente a jóvenes estudiantes o
graduados recientes -cuyos aportes la ortodoxia suele menospreciar-, a
enviar sus ideas, trabajos y/o tesinas de grado o postgrado y (desde
ya) a participar de todos los ámbitos de debate.
Las JEC son gratuitas y abiertas a todo el que quiera participar. Se
entregarán certificados de asistencia y exposición. 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 Córdoba.
Toda información disponible se publicará en jornadaseconomiacritica.blogspot.com.
Por cualquier consulta o sugerencia, escribir a jornadaseconomiacritica@gmail.com.Las
IV Jornadas de Economía Crítica son organizadas por la
Escuela de Economía Política de la UNLP (EEP-UNLP),
Escuela de Economía Política de la UBA (EsEP-UBA), Red de
Estudios de Economía Política de la UNR, Regional
Bahía Blanca de la UNS, Grupo de Economía Scalabrini
Ortiz de la UNMdP, Regional Córdoba de la UNC, y la Escuela de
Pensamiento Crítico de la UNQ (EPeC-UNQ).
For more information, visit: http://www.jornadaseconomiacritica.blogspot.com/
Japan Society of Political
Economy: 59th Annual Conference
"The Global Economic Crisis and State:
Alternative Approaches for Monetary and Fiscal Policies "
September 17 (Saturday) and 18 (Sunday), 2011 | Rikkyo University,
Tokyo, Japan | website
The Japan Society of Political Economy (JSPE) is an interdisciplinary
association devoted to the study, development, and application of
political economy to social problems. Japan has been an important
laboratory for developing and debating ideas about capitalism and its
dynamics. On the one hand, many political economists in Japan have
chosen to work with diverse approaches to political economy – the
French Regulation school, the Cambridge Keynesian models,
institutionalist and historical schools, and so on. On the other hand,
Japan has given rise to several distinct strands of Marxian political
economy such as the Uno School. JSPE has been the largest organization
of heterodox economists in Japan since its founding in 1959. Its annual
meetings have provided important occasions for debate among diverse
points of view. Beginning in October 2001, the JSPE began inviting
non-Japanese economists to make presentations and engage in debates at
these annual meetings. (For more information see its homepage: http://www.jspe.gr.jp/en_front)
JSPE invites proposals for the English sessions in the following
categories.
English Sessions I: Topics relating to the plenary session such
as: (1) The Global Economic Crisis and State: Alternative Approaches
for Monetary and Fiscal Policies, (2) Mechanisms of the Crisis and
their Consequences, (3) Regimes of Capitalism, (4) Global
Reconfigurations of Capitalism, and (5) The Future of Capitalism.
English Sessions II: All proposals reflecting the tradition and
analytical perspective of JSPE which include (1) environment, (2)
gender, (3) inequality, (4) regional economies and (5) research agenda
are welcome.
Submission Procedures and the Deadline:
Proposals should reach the JSPE Committee for International
Communication and Exchange (Jspecice@jspe.gr.jp) by 11
June 2011 at the latest.
When submitting your proposal, please include:
1. The title of proposed paper and the
category of the session;
2. Name and academic affiliation;
3. E-mail and postal address;
4. An abstract (up to 200 words).
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 27June.
Cost: Attendants will pay their conference fee (6000 yen per person
including the conference buffet), as well as their own transportation,
accommodation and other personal expenses.
Contact: Prof. Nobuharu Yokokawa (Chairman of the JSPE Committee for
International Communication and Exchange) E-mail: yokokawa@cc.musashi.ac.jp
Postal Address: c/o Prof. Toshiaki Ohtomo, Department of Economics,
Rikkyo University, 3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo Japan
171-8501 Tel: +81-3-3985-2281
JSPE website: http://www2.rikkyo.ac.jp/web/jspe/
JHET: Call
for Thesis Abstracts
The Journal of the History of Economic Thought would like to invite
scholars who have defended their PhD thesis in January 2009 or more
recently to submit an abstract of approximately 800 words for
publication. Please follow the journal style (consult a recent issue)
and include the title of your thesis, your primary supervisor, the
university from which you graduated, your date of graduation and the
language in which your thesis is written (if not English).
You can submit on-line at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jhet
Please make sure to choose thesis abstracts on the drop-down
menu.
The Mark
Blaug Prize in Philosophy and Economics
The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE) is proud to
announce a new prize intended to promote and reward the work of Young
Scholars in philosophy and economics.
The prize is named in honour of Professor Mark Blaug, a founder of the
field of philosophy and economics who has made a tremendous scholarly
contribution to many areas of the history and philosophy of economics.
Mark Blaug's generosity and commitment to Young Scholars starting out
in this field is recognized by all who know him.
The prize includes a cash sum of 500 Euros.
Entry Requirements
- To qualify for the Mark Blaug Prize the author has to be a Young
Scholar, defined as someone fulfilling one of the following conditions
as of January 1st 2011:
-currently
enrolled as a graduate student, or
-received a doctoral degree in the preceding
12 months
Entrants should submit a single-authored article for publication in
EJPE before the end of December 2011, and mention that you would like
to be considered for the prize. Co-authored papers where all authors
are Young Scholars are also eligible. Prize submissions may not include
articles previously published or under consideration elsewhere. For
information about submissions, see EJPE’s Call for Papers: http://ejpe.org/call-for-papers/
Articles that pass peer-review and are accepted for publication will be
considered by a committee of experts and the winner will be announced
in April 2012.
For more information, visit http://ejpe.org/mark-blaug-prize/
Materialist Feminisms in an
age of Neoliberalism
or, Would the critique of patriarchal capitalism
please stand up?
A special issue of the online journal Politics and Culture (politicsandculture.org)
***Please Note: In addition to article-length contributions, we also
solicit shorter interventions, provocations, or position papers
(1500-2000 words) for two themed discussions 1) experiences and
direction from elders in this work and 2) experiences and demands from
junior scholars.
Liberal inclusion. Globalization and neoliberal crisis. Neoconservative
backlash. We know that feminism has had many lives. We are especially
attuned to the forms of imperialist, settler and liberal
“feminism” that have motivated a great many social
projects, most recently the ostensible concern over the status of women
in Afghanistan that has played so well as a rationale for war. And yet,
we live amidst a rapidly accelerating culture of neoliberal
individualism, combined with the virulent cult of persecuted white
masculinity that marks the neoconservative shift, the backlash against
supposed minority gains, and the dogged attack by the state and
corporate elite on the material and social protections won through
decades of struggle. The need for anti-capitalist feminist foment has
never been so dire.
From early noted thinkers such as Lucy B. Parsons, Rosa Luxembourg and
Emma Goldman, to Marxist Feminist scholars such as Maria Mies,
Mariarosa Dalla Costa and Giovanna Dalla Costa, Angela Davis and Sylvia
Federici, to anti-racist and anti-colonialist scholars such as bell
hooks, Himani Bannerji, Patricia Monture Angus, Vandana Shiva, Chandra
Talpade Mohanty, Andrea Smith, to theorists such as Zillah
Eisenstein, Wendy Brown, and Nancy Fraser, "structuralist" or
"materialist" feminisms draw a lineage that views economics, capitalism
and political struggles specifically through the lenses of gender, race
and class, and anti-imperialist, anti-patriarchal, anti-heteronormative
and anti-racist agendas. While the distinctions are far too subtle and
complex to enumerate here, critical to Marxist, socialist, anarchist,
materialist and other kinds of structuralist feminism is the notion
that ending gender-based oppression requires (among other things) a
reckoning of capitalist, colonial and patriarchal histories and
organizations of power. We invite a forward-looking conversation that
draws trajectories in the body of work we might broadly think of as
structural or materialist feminisms.
Topics for consideration may include:
- in a neoliberal age in which the ecological collapse wreaked by
capitalism's rapacious appetite appears as an urgent horizon framing
cultural politics, what is to be gained or lost by prioritizing gender
as a category of analysis? What is the task ahead for materialist
feminism?
- the contemporary backlash
- where is the work of structural feminism taking place? Do you
observe or practice it in the university, in the streets, in your
creative work, in your everyday life relations and survival?
- identity politics vs. anti-capitalist struggle: whose schism?
- women and the gift, women for the land, women and the spirit
- queer materialisms
- Is there a materialist feminism outside of struggle? And is
there a struggle?
- From “Marxist feminism” to transnational,
anti-imperialist, anti- racist, anti-capitalist, anti-colonial
feminist? There is a story that has been told many ways many times and
yet not told nearly enough: history and future of structural feminisms?
Revisiting feminist theory, women’s studies,
institutionalization, ghettoization, backlash, disciplinarity
****In addition to article-length contributions, we also solicit
shorter interventions or provocations (1500-2000 words) for two themed
discussions 1) experiences and direction from elders in this work and
2) experiences and demands from junior scholars.
Please send 200 word abstracts and/or short queries to Alyson McCready (alyson.mccready@gmail.com)
or Mary Ellen Campbell (campbeme@mcmaster.ca)
by April 1st, 2011. Submissions will be expected May 15th, 2011.
PROKLA:
KRITIK DER WIRTSCHAFTSWISSENSCHAFTEN
HEFT 3, SEPTEMBER 2011 (IN GERMAN)
Mit der zunehmenden Bedeutung des Klassenkampfes würde die
„Totenglocke der wissenschaftlichen bürgerlichen
Ökonomie“ läuten, ab etwa 1830 sei an die Stelle
„uneigennütziger Forschung“ die „bezahlte
Klopffechterei“ getreten – so Marx im Nachwort zur 2.
Auflage des „Kapital“. Doch zeigte seine eigene
Auseinandersetzung mit der Geschichte ökonomischer Theorie, dass
dieses Urteil eine grobe Vereinfachung war: wissenschaftliche
Einsichten fanden sich auch nach 1830, und die bezahlten Klopffechter
des Kapitals, die man heute in jeder Talkshow erleben kann, gab es auch
schon zu Beginn des 19. Jahrhunderts. Die Frage nach dem
Verhältnis von wissenschaftlicher Analyse der kapitalistischen
Verhältnisse einerseits und der interessegeleiteten Konstruktion
und Verwendung ökonomischer Theorien andererseits muss immer
wieder von Neuem gestellt werden.
Dass die herrschenden Wirtschaftswissenschaften im 21. Jahrhundert auf
der Höhe des real existierenden Kapitalismus wären,
lässt sich ernsthaft kaum vertreten. Nicht weil sie die letzte
Finanzkrise nicht vorhergesehen hätten, sondern weil ihnen die
theoretischen Instrumente fehlen, auch nur im Nachhinein diese und
andere Krisen angemessen zu verstehen.
Der Vorwurf der Realitätsferne an die Adresse der dominierenden
neoklassischen Theorie ist alles andere als neu. Selbst der
Popper-Schüler Hans Albert erhob ihn in den frühen 1960er
Jahren gegenüber einer Wissenschaft, die sich in der Konstruktion
von eleganten Modellen gefiel, in denen sämtliche Akteure sich
stets rational verhielten und die Wirtschaft ein System von Anpassungen
und wiederkehrenden Zuständen des Gleichgewichts darstellte, das
allenfalls von außen gestört werden konnte – er
bezeichnete diese Form der Realitätsverweigerung als
Modellplatonismus“. Dass sich die Situation auch vier Jahrzehnte
später, trotz mancher modelltheoretischer Erweiterung (die
umstürzende Entdeckung, dass in der Ökonomie nicht nur
Märkte, sondern auch Institutionen eine Rolle spielen, wurde mit
einem Nobelpreis belohnt), nicht grundsätzlich anders darstellt,
motivierte die vor einigen Jahren von Frankreich ausgehende Bewegung
für eine „postautistische Ökonomie“ – ohne
allerdings im ökonomischen Mainstream nennenswerte Wirkungen zu
hinterlassen. Genauso wenig Wirkung hatte die an Piero Sraffas Werk
anschließende Debatte der 1960er und 70er Jahre gehabt, die
zeigte, dass zentrale Aussagen der Neoklassik nur in der Phantasiewelt
einer „Ein-Gut-Ökonomie“ Bestand haben.
Nachdem die deregulierten Finanzmärkte 2008 in eine massive Krise
geraten waren, sahen sich die USA und Deutschland genötigt, die
größten Konjunkturpakete ihrer Geschichte zu verabschieden.
Der Glaube an die ominösen „Selbstheilungskräfte der
Märkte“ war erschüttert und für manche schien es
schon so, als werde die Neoklassik vom Keynesianismus entthront.
Inzwischen sieht es nicht mehr danach aus, und es wäre zu
diskutieren, ob dies nur an den institutionellen
Kräfteverhältnissen oder nicht auch an inhaltlichen Defiziten
keynesianischer und postkeynesianischer Strömungen liegt.
An den Universitäten dominiert nach wie vor die Neoklassik, wo sie
sogar für eine Neugewichtung der Schwerpunkte des Faches
Wirtschaftswissenschaften sorgte: gegenüber einer
Makroökonomie, die im Verdacht steht, den Weg des reinen
(Markt)Glaubens ein Stück weit zu verlassen, gewann die
Mikroökonomie beständig an Boden. Damit einhergehend
etablierten sich neuere Ansätze, wie etwa die behavioral
economics, die den überholten homo oeconomicus mit etwas
realistischeren Attributen versieht, wobei zu fragen ist, ob diese
Erweiterungen bloße Modernisierungsphänomene sind oder
tatsächlich neue Einsichten liefern. Parallel dazu hat auch
die Betriebswirtschaftslehre an Bedeutung zugenommen.
„Kundenorientierung“, „Intrapreneurship“,
„Corporate Identity“ oder „Guerilla-Marketing“
werden als Patentrezepte verkauft, komplexe Realitäten werden auf
Kennzahlen reduziert, was selbst in kapitalistischen Unternehmen
zuweilen Zweifel am Nutzen dieser Art von Ausbildung aufkommen
lässt. Der Tendenz zur „Verbetriebswirtschaftlichung“
weiter gesellschaftlicher Bereiche (siehe PROKLA 148) wird damit noch
immer Vorschub geleistet.
Grundlegende Einwände gegen die herrschende Ökonomik –
etwa feministische Kritiken an der (scheinbaren) Geschlechtslosigkeit
der Ökonomie, die Diskussion der ökologischen Grenzen des auf
„Wachstum“ fixierten Kapitalismus oder die weltweit
destruktiven Auswirkungen von Freihandel und deregulierten Märkten
– spielen in der herrschenden Wirtschaftswissenschaft jedenfalls
keine große Rolle. Um eine kritische Diskussion der herrschenden
Volkswirtschaftslehre und ihrer Modernisierungsbemühungen soll es
jedoch in dem geplanten Heft der PROKLA gehen. Mögliche Themen
können sein:
- Wissenschaftshistorische und -soziologische Fragen: Wie
reproduziert sich die Vorherrschaft der Neoklassik über
Lehrstuhlbesetzungen, Lehrbücher, Sachverständigenräte,
Wirtschaftspresse usw.?
- Wie weitreichend ist die Kritik am homo oeconomicus durch
Ansätze der behavioral economics, z.B. durch die behavioral
finance?
- Sind die jüngsten Management-Konzepte lediglich
Modeerscheinungen, produzieren sie in erster Linie Legitimation oder
reflektieren sie tatsächliche Veränderungen in der
kapitalistischen Betriebsweise ? Wie entwickelte sich der
Keynesianismus seit den 1930er Jahren – sowohl
ökonomietheoretisch als auch hinsichtlich des Gesellschaftsbildes?
- Wie geht die neuere ökonomische Theorie damit um, dass ihre
Grundannahme effizienter Märkte sich gerade auf den
Finanzmärkten so gründlich blamiert hat?
- Sind Umbrüche in der Theoriebildung erkennbar, welchen
Einfluss haben neuere feministische Kritiken innerhalb und
außerhalb der etablierten Wirtschaftswissenschaft?
- Welchen theoretischen Stellenwert haben neuere ökologisch
orientierte Kritiken an der herrschenden Volkswirtschaftslehre?
Die Redaktion lädt zur Einsendung von Exposés von 1-2
Seiten bis zum 25. März 2011 ein. Die fertigen Aufsätze
müssen bis zum 20. Juni 2011 vorliegen und sollten einen Umfang
von 50.000 Zeichen (inkl. Leerzeichen, Fußnoten,
Literaturverzeichnis) nicht überschreiten.
Zusendungen bitte per E-Mail an: redaktion@prokla.de
und dorothea.schmidt@hwr-berlin.de
Real World Economics Review:
"Social Complexity of Informal Value Exchange"
Call for contributions on the Social Complexity of Informal Value
Exchange: A special issue or section of an issue of
Real World Economics Review
Whilst traditionally Economics focuses on markets where the mechanisms
of price and economic rationality might dominate, we call for
contributions that consider a wider class of social phenomena.
That is target systems which:
- involve the passing of value in a more general sense, such as
traditional value-transmission systems, informal sharing between
friends, alternative currencies, general sytems to regulate and support
cooperation, as well as more traditional markets
- might crucially involve other social mechanisms such as social
networks, group membership, social norms, reputation, friendship,
altruism, kinship, semantically rich communication etc. as well as
those of price
- require research approaches that differ from those traditionally
used in economics including agent-based simulation, qualitative
approaches, ethnography, virtual worlds etc.. as well as those of
analytic mathematics
These contributions are intended to form a special issue of the
“Real-World Economics Review”. This means that submissions
must be:
- Of interest to the wide audience that reads RWER
- To be of a non-technical nature, accessible to an informed and
enquiring member of the public
- To illustrate any abstract points with worked examples
- To be in pure text (txt), PDF, or Word 2003/7 (.doc) format
- To be emailed to me, Bruce Edmonds (bruce.edmonds@gmail.com)
by June 15th 2011.
Contributions will be initially reviewed by a small program committee
selecting for:
- Importance in terms of the novelty and significance of their
insight and ideas
- We are looking for carefully considered pieces, while
unconventional views are actively sought, we are not interested to
polemic per se
- Interest to and accessibility for a fairly general audience
- Relevance to the call in the sense that it goes beyond
traditional economics in some of the widenings (a), (b) and (c) listed
above (not necessarily all of them).
Final editorial control remains in the hands of the general
RWER editor, Edward
Fullbrook. The
RWER has
a very large readership, so such a special issue could be influential
beyond the normal confines of academia. We are looking forward to your
contributions.
Bruce Edmonds, David Hales, Mario Paolucci and Juliette Rouchier
URPE/IAFFE
at ASSA 2012
Chicago, Illinois January 6-8, 2012
Joint URPE/IAFFE sessions using feminist and radical political economy
approaches
Once again, URPE (Union of Radical Political Economics) and IAFFE
(International Association for Feminist Economics) plan to co-sponsor
up to three sessions at the ASSA annual meeting in 2012. I will be
coordinating these for IAFFE and working closely with URPE panel
coordinators for the ASSAs (Fred Moseley and Laurie Nisonoff) and IAFFE
panel coordinator (and president-elect) Rosalba Todaro.
I welcome proposals on feminist and radical political economic theory
and applied analysis. The number of panels allocated to heterodox
organizations is very limited. The joint IAFFE/URPE panels are
allocated to URPE. Please note that anyone who presents a paper must be
a member of URPE or IAFFE at the time of submission of the paper or
panel proposal. Preference will be given to presenters who are members
of both organizations.
Proposals for individual papers should include the title, the abstract,
and the author's name, institutional affiliation, phone, email and the
completed registration form included below. I will also need to know
about your (and any co-authors) membership status in URPE and/or IAFFE.
Please send these proposals materials to randy.albelda@umb.edu.
Proposals for complete sessions are possible. If you want to propose a
panel, please contact me at randy.albelda@umb.edu.
If you are interested in/willing to be a chair or discussant, please
let me know. The deadline for proposed papers for joint
URPE/IAFFE panels is April 4, 2011.
Contact urpe@labornet.org or
413-577-0806 for URPE membership. Contact iaffe.org
for IAFFE membership information. We will confirm membership prior to
accepting proposals. URPE is very serious about this and will cancel
panels in which any members (besides chairs or discussants) are not
URPE or IAFFE members.
Please note that the date, time, and location of sessions is assigned
by ASSA, not URPE or IAFFE. You should receive word from me that your
paper/session was accepted by mid-June. ASSA will not assign dates and
times until much later in the summer.
Regards,
Randy Albelda
Download Program Registration Form.
Call for
Participants
AFIT 2011 Conference
April 13-16, 2011 | Salt Lake City, USA
In conjunction with Western Social Science Association 53rd Annual
Conference
Conference Program
Capital Against Capitalism: a conference
of new Marxist research
Saturday, June 25 · 9:00am
- 5:30pm | Central Sydney
Keep Saturday evening free to discuss an Australasia Historical
Materialism conference in 2012/2013
Keep updated on the Facebook event page: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=104092856334915
More information contact: Elizabeth Humphrys (lizhumphrys [at] gmail.com) or Jonathon
Collerson (jonathoncollerson [at] gmail.com)
9.00 – 9.15 Welcome
9.15 – 10.45 Plenary 1 – AUSTRALIAN LABORISM
- Speaker: Rick Kuhn
- Respondents: Geoffrey Robinson and Tad Tietze
10.45 – 11.00 Morning tea
11 – 12.30 Workshop 1A – MARXISM AND THEOLOGY
- Roland Boer: ‘The Religion of Everyday Life’:
Capital as Fetish
- Tamara Prosic: Orthodox Christian Theology and Social Change
- Remy Low: Religion and Revolutionary Praxis: Theologies of
liberation in retrospect and prospect
Workshop 1B – READING 'CAPITAL' IN OUR OWN TIME
- Tom Barnes: From 'surplus populations' to informal labour: Is
- 'Capital' relevant to class formation in the Global South?
- Paul Rubner: Deciphering the Dialectic in Marx’s 'Capital'
- Mike Beggs: Zombie Marx and modern economics
12.30 – 1.15 Lunch
1.15 – 2.15 Workshop 2A – SOCIAL CHANGE
- Jess Gerrard: Hegemony, Class and Culture
- John Pardy: Patterns of schooling in Australia: Toward a
historically materialist explanation.
Workshop 2B – TALKING REVOLUTION
- Mark Steven: The Silliest Insurrection: On Marxism and the Marx
Brothers
- David Lockwood: Marxism and the Bourgeois Revolution
2.15 – 3.45 Workshop 3A – MARXISM AND LAW
- Jess Whyte: Leaving the ‘Eden of the innate rights of
man’: Marx’s Critique of Rights
- Richard Bailey: Strategy, rupture, rights: law and resistance in
Australian immigration detention
- David McInerney: To read and speak the law: Althusser on
Montesquieu
Workshop 3B – ACCUMULATION OF VALUE
- Marcus Banks: How does workfare produce value?
- Humphrey McQueen: Labour time
- Ben Reid: Is there Australian Exceptionalism? Scenarios for
capital accumulation and crises after the second great contraction
3.45 – 4.15 Afternoon tea
4.15 – 5.15
Plenary 2 – MARX'S CAPITAL
- Speaker: Nicole Pepperell
- Respondent: Dave Eden
5.15 – 5.20 Wrap up
2nd CES “Critical
Economics” Summer School
Environmental Values and Public Policies
Lousã, Portugal | 12th-15th of July 2011
The CES “Critical Economics Summer School”, launched in
2009, brings together in annual meetings economists and other social
scientists to discuss topics of shared interest. This series of summer
schools aims at promoting a forum for critical research on the economy
and in economics. The school is primarily intended for PhD students and
post-doctoral researchers as well as young scholars.
This second edition of the Summer School is devoted to analyze how the
growing relevance of environment, recognized as a “good”
and as a “problem” of our societies, challenges public
policy instruments and procedures that allow government policy on
environmental issues to be made material and operational. These
instruments and procedures are significantly relying on economic
theories and expertise. The creation of environmental markets is one
clear example of the importance of economic theory in shaping societal
answers to the environmental crisis. The problem with economics applied
to the environment is that economics has a specific and limited
definition of the value of the environment. Through exploring the
dimension of environmental value pluralism with insights coming from
sociology and philosophy, we want to discuss the limits of existing
economic instruments and procedures and explore alternative pathways
(included conflict and participation) allowing for the taking into
account of the various ways in which environments matter to people and
to their communities.
The speakers will be invited to discuss three main topics:
1) Environmental values and valuation
We are interested in exploring economic valuation as one of the
possible ways to value the environment. Philosophical and sociological
approaches to the issue of the plurality of forms of valuing
environment are here discussed. We are interested as well in the issue
of how the plurality of forms of valuing environment can be composed in
public decision processes, especially through deliberation.
2) Environmental markets
We are interested in exploring the socio-technical construction of
environmental markets, and the instruments relying on environmental
markets (like CBA), entering into the details of the operations of
commensuration that are needed in order to create them and their limits
in terms of neglecting value pluralism.
3) Public decision and the environment: participation and conflict
We are interested in discussing the complexity of public decision
processes concerning environmental issues and the place for
participation and conflict as active contributions to the reshaping of
public policies.
Guest lecturers include John O’Neill from the University of
Manchester (Manchester, UK), Laurent Thévenot from the Ecole des
Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris, France) and Clive Spash from
the Vienna University of Economics and Business (Vienna, Austria). CES
Lecturers include José Maria Castro Caldas, João
Rodrigues, Laura Centemeri, Stefania Barca.
Course language wil be English.
Interested PhD students, post-docs and early stage researchers are
encouraged to apply by submitting a curriculum vitae and a two-page
abstract of the proposed paper, together with the author’s
contact details (Name, affiliation, email address) to criticaleconomics2011@ces.uc.pt.
Deadline for submissions is April 15th 2011.
Acceptance will be communicated by email by May 1st 2011.
Final papers are due by July 7th 2011.
More info: http://www.ces.uc.pt/cessummerschool/pages/en/environmental-values-and-public-policies.php
EAEPE Summer School 2011
4-9 July, 2011 | University of Roma Tre, Dpt. of Economics, Faculty of
Economics. Via Silvio D’Amico 77, 00145 Rome, Italy.
Local organisers: Pasquale Tridico and Sebastiano Fadda
The European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) is
glad to announce the 2011 EAEPE SUMMER SCHOOL which will be held at the
University of Roma Tre from 4 to 9 July 2011. The Summer School is open
to PhD students and young researchers working in particular in the
field of institutional economics and evolutionary analysis with a
special focus this year on Institutions, Financial crisis, Keynesian
economics and Labour economics, Unemployment. However, in the spirit of
the EAEPE research areas, many other fields are relevant such as human
development, environmental economics, methodology of economics,
institutional history, comparative economics, varieties of capitalism,
transition economies, institutional change, innovation and technology
and all other fields using institutional, multidisciplinary and
evolutionary approaches. Lecturers are international scholars well
known in the field of institutional economics. Advanced PhD students
and young researchers are asked to present their work. Lectures will be
held in the morning, and in the afternoon advanced PhD students and
young researchers will present their work getting comments and
suggestions from experts in the field.
Summer School Fee (which includes lunches): 100 €
For more information, download Flyer.
ESRC
Research Seminar Series: The Governance of Eco-City Innovation
Friday, 20 May 2011, 10 am - 4 pm | University of Westminster, London
Speakers: Simon Joss (University of Westminster), Peter Newman
(University of Westminster), Sue Riddlestone (BioRegional), Mark
Roseland (Simon Fraser University, Canada), Yvonne Rydin (University
College London)
The first in this series of five one-day events (spring
2011–autumn 2012) will bring together researchers, policy experts
and practitioners to discuss contemporary international eco-city
developments in theory and practice. The seminar will trace the
historical evolution of eco-cities within the context of changing
(sustainability) policy frameworks; and will discuss recent
innovations, ranging from new developments (such as Masdar, Tangshan
Caofeidian, Treasure Island) to ‘retro-fits’ (such as
Freiburg, Vancouver, Vaxjo). The analysis will address relevant
theoretical perspectives and methodological issues concerning the
governance of eco-city innovation; as well as consider policy
implications at local, national and international levels.
Participants are invited to present papers/posters, take part in
round-table discussion and engage in networking. Early career
researchers (doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers) can access
a competitive travel bursary scheme.
RSVP: for more information, and to register, visit the following link: www.westminster.ac.uk/ecocities-esrc
The Richmond University
Colloquium: Understanding the Global Financial Crisis
Friday, 25 March 2011, 17 | Young Str., London W8 5EH (High Str.
Kensington)
The Richmond University (RU) Colloquium in Public & International
Affairs (RUCIPA)
Event supported by the RU MA in IR and the Journal of Balkan and Near
Eastern Studies (Routledge, quarterly)
Programme
10.30am Registration
11.00 Welcome Address by Prof Alex Seago, Richmond University
11.15 Prof Stephen Haseler, London Metropolitan University and Global
Policy Institute
“The second banking crisis” (Chair: Dr.
Preslava Stoeva, RU)
11.45 – 12.15 Discussion
12.15 – 13.45 Lunch
13.45 Prof Engelbert Stockhammer, Kingston University, “Neo-
liberalism, income distribution and the
causes of the crisis” (Chair: Prof Wolfgang Deckers, RU)
14.30 Prof Costas Lapavitsas, SOAS, “World crisis, world money:
the Euro-crisis and Marxist monetary
theory” (Chair: Dr. Sabine Spangenberg, RU)
15.15 – 16.00 Discussion
16.00 – 16.15 Coffee/Tea
16.15 Prof Robert Wade, LSE, “The future of global financial
governance” (Chair: Dr. Mike Keating, RU)
17.00 – 17.15 Discussion
17.15 – 18.15 Round Table Discussion with Lapavitsas, Haseler,
Wade, Stockhammer
chaired by Vassilis K. Fouskas (RU)
Further information and booking from:
jelena.pivovarova@richmond.ac.uk, 0207-3688437
Visit the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Job
Postings for Heterodox Economists
Corporate Strategy and
Industrial Development (CSID), South Africa
Senior Research Fellow
Job Description
This position is full-time on a two
year contract with the possibility of renewal. Responsibilities will be
divided between i) teaching postgraduate level courses and ii).
Research, research management and some mentoring of junior staff.
Research
CSID is based in the School for
Economic and Business Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand
in Johannesburg South Africa. CSID has established itself as a leading
research programme in South Africa in its areas of specialisation. We
have links with progressive economists’ networks internationally
and are involved in international research projects. We also have
research partnerships with major role-players in South African
Government and civil society.
Our main research themes are:
- Industrial development, and industrial policy
- Economic structure, competition policy and regulation
- Macroeconomic environment affecting industrial development
- Employment and labour markets
- Global financialization and corporate change
CSID aims to provide high level, academic research for industrial and
economic policy makers in South and southern Africa.
Teaching and Training
CSID is involved in curriculum
development and teaching for specialist courses in industrial and
economic development and political economy. We teach postgraduate
economics programmes aimed at training economic policy researchers and
policymakers. We are committed to the development of young African
researchers. To this end we employ a number of junior researchers who
are studying towards their Masters, providing them with hands on
research experience and mentoring.
The position of senior researcher will involve:
The position will involve teaching in CSID’s postgraduate courses
in the School of Economic and
Business Sciences. Senior researchers would also be involved in the
following:
- Participation in our existing research projects and interaction
with policy stakeholders.
- Development of future research projects and input into the
direction of research.
- Management and development of junior researchers.
Required Qualifications
The successful applicant must hold a
PhD in Economics or related field or be close to completion. Candidates
without a PhD will be considered if they have a minimum of 4 years
experience in economics teaching and economic related research.
Quantitative skills are desirable.
Please send your CV and a cover letter to Sajida.Durwan@wits.ac.za by 31
March 2011
The Democratic Staff of the
Joint Economic Committee of the U.S. Congress
Economist
The Democratic Staff of the Joint Economic Committee of the U.S.
Congress seeks staff economists with a serious interest in public
policy research. Subject areas of interest, but not required, include
macroeconomics, agriculture or manufacturing policy. Successful
candidates will have strong writing skills. The position requires
independent research, as well as working closely with other economists
on the staff, in the federal government and academics throughout the
country. A full-time, professional staff position is being offered, but
single-year appointments will be considered. A Ph.D. in economics or
ABD with commensurate work experience is required.
The Joint Economic Committee’s mission is to review economic
conditions and make recommendations to Congress about a broad range of
policy issues. The Committee holds hearings, conducts original research
and analysis, and advises Members of Congress on economic policy. For
more information on the work of the Democratic staff of the Committee,
please visit our website at http://jec.senate.gov.
If interested, please submit a cover letter, resume, references and two
short writing samples to jobs@jec.senate.gov
with the subject line “Economist.” This office is an equal
opportunity employer; we do not discriminate on the basis of race,
color, gender, age, religion, disability, national origin, uniformed
service, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender identity or
expression.
Policy Analyst/Advisor: The Democratic Staff of the Joint Economic
Committee of the U.S. Congress seeks a Policy Analyst and/or a Policy
Advisor with experience analyzing a broad range of economic issues. A
successful candidate will have a serious interest in public policy
research and strong communication skills. The position(s) require
working closely with staff economists on research projects, reports,
and preparation for hearings. The position of Policy Analyst requires a
Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Public Policy or a related field,
and a minimum of 2 years work experience. The position of Policy
Advisor requires strong academic credentials, including a PhD in
economics or a related field, or an advanced degree with comparable
work experience. Capitol Hill experience is also a plus.
The Joint Economic Committee’s mission is to review economic
conditions and make recommendations to Congress about a broad range of
policy issues. The Committee holds hearings, conducts original research
and analysis, and advises Members of Congress on economic policy. For
more information on the work of the Democratic staff of the Committee,
please visit our website at http://jec.senate.gov.
If interested, please submit a cover letter, resume, references and two
short writing samples to jobs@jec.senate.gov
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is an equal opportunity employer; we do not discriminate on the basis
of race, color, gender, age, religion, disability, national origin,
uniformed service, genetic information, sexual orientation, or gender
identity or expression.
Gettysburg
College, USA
Full Time Visiting Positions
The Economics Department seeks candidates for one or more full-time
1-year visiting positions beginning in August 2011. There is the
possibility of a second year extension. Teaching responsibilities
include History of Economic Thought, Political Economy, and
Introductory Economics and/or upper-level courses using the candidate's
expertise. We are also interested in candidates in Environmental,
International, Development, Race, Poverty, Gender, and/or Labor
Economics Economic History. Ph.D. or A.B.D. preferred.
Gettysburg College is a highly selective liberal arts college located
within 90 minutes of the Baltimore/Washington metropolitan area.
Established in 1832, the College has a rich history and is situated on
a 220-acre campus with an enrollment of 2,600 students. Gettysburg
College celebrates diversity and welcomes applications from members of
any group that has been historically underrepresented in the American
academy. The College assures equal employment opportunity and prohibits
discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender,
religion, sexual orientation, age, and disability.
Review of applications will begin immediately; position open until
filled. Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, writing sample,
and three reference letters to: Sue Holz atsholz@gettysburg.edu and
include Visiting-Position in subject line.
Postal Address:
Sue Holz
Department of Economics
Gettysburg College
300 North Washington Street
Gettysburg, PA 17325
Phone: (717) 337-6670
Fax: (717) 337-6638
Email Address: sholz@gettysburg.edu
Marymount
Manhattan College, USA
Assistant Professor of International Studies
The Department of International Studies at Marymount Manhattan College
invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in
International Studies beginning in September 2011.
Required: a Ph.D. in International Political Economy or related field,
or a firm dissertation defense date; a commitment to an
interdisciplinary approach; interest in one or more of the following
areas: international political economy, economic and social
development, economics of gender, human rights, migration, cultural
geography, human security, political theory, and international
humanitarian law. A focus on Africa, with field experience, is strongly
preferred.
Responsibilities: teaching, successful pursuit of a scholarly agenda,
and departmental and college service.
Applications should include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, samples
of scholarship, syllabi, and three letters of recommendation. For full
consideration, all application materials should be received by March
20, 2011. Electronic submission is preferred. Please send to: mbackus@mmm.edu.
If materials cannot be sent electronically, please mail to: Dr. Ghassan
Shabaneh, Search Committee Chair, International Studies Department,
Division of Social Sciences, Marymount Manhattan College, 221 East 71st
Street, New York, NY 10021.
Roanoke College, USA
One-Year Visiting Position in Economics
The Department of Business Administration and Economics seeks qualified
candidates to apply for a one-year visiting position in economics at
the Assistant Professor level. The teaching load is 3/3, consisting of
one senior-level course in the history of economic thought, principles
of micro- and macroeconomics, and possibly one additional field course.
The typical class size for principles is 25 students and for upper
level courses is 15-20. Strong preference will be given to candidates
who demonstrate proficiency in undergraduate teaching.
Roanoke College is a nationally ranked residential liberal arts college
affiliated with the Lutheran Church (ELCA), located in the beautiful
Roanoke Valley of Virginia. A Phi Beta Kappa institution, Roanoke
College is an equal opportunity employer and actively seeks diversity
among its faculty, staff, and students; women and members of
underrepresented groups are especially encouraged to apply.
Please submit a complete application by March 31 for fullest
consideration. The position will remain open until filled. A complete
application includes a cover letter addressing teaching qualifications,
an official transcript, one letter of recommendation describing
teaching effectiveness, two additional references, and a current vita.
Submit applications to Garry Fleming, Search Committee Chair,
Department of Business and Economics, Roanoke College, Salem, VA 24153.
The Center for Responsible
Lending
The Center for Responsible Lending, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research
and policy organization that promotes responsible lending practices and
access to fair terms of credit for low-wealth families, is looking for
a Research Director and Senior Researcher. Information about the
positions can be found at: http://www.responsiblelending.org/about-us/careers/.
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Conference
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Centre for Development
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expertise at the School of Oriental
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research and training on crucial development issues.
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Heterodox
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Bulletin
of Political Economy, 4(1): June 2010
- Endogenous Growth Theory Twenty Years On: A Critical Assessment
/ SERGIO CESARATTO
- The Neoricardian Theory of Economic Integration / GUIDO MONTANI
- Exploitation and Productiveness: The Generalised Commodity
Exploitation Theorem Once Again / ROBERTO VENEZIANI & NAOKI
YOSHIHARA
- An Input-Output Analysis of Macroeconomic Effects of
Infrastructure Investment: The Case of Attiki Odos Motorway in Greece /
ATHENA BELEGRI-ROBOLI, MARIA MARKAKI & PANAYOTIS G. MICHAELIDES
And
Cambridge Journal of
Economics, 35(2): March 2011
Journal website: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3924/1
- Sheila C. Dow / Cognition, market sentiment and financial
instability
- Nuno Martins / Can neuroscience inform economics? Rationality,
emotions and preference formation
- Edward Lorenz and Bengt-Åke Lundvall / Accounting for
Creativity in the European Union: A multi-level analysis of individual
competence, labour market structure, and systems of education and
training
- Jon C. Messenger / Working time trends and developments in
Europe
- Jorge Bielsa and Rosa Duarte / Size and linkages of the Spanish
construction industry: key sector or deformation of the economy?
- Patrick Spread / Situation as determinant of selection and
valuation
- Amitava Krishna Dutt / The role of aggregate demand in
classical-Marxian models of economic growth
- Mario Cimoli and Gabriel Porcile / Global growth and
international cooperation: a structuralist perspective
- Sandro Montresor and Giuseppe Vittucci Marzettiv / The
deindustrialisation/tertiarisation hypothesis reconsidered: a subsystem
application to the OECD7
- Katarina Juselius / Time to reject the privileging of economic
theory over empirical evidence? A reply to Lawson
- Engelbert Stockhammer and Erik Klär / Capital accumulation,
labour market institutions and unemployment in the medium run
Capital
& Class, 35 (1): Feb. 2011
Journal website: http://cnc.sagepub.com/
- Brian O'Boyle and Terrence McDonough / Critical realism, Marxism
and the critique of neoclassical economics
- Tom Brass / Unfree labour as primitive accumulation?
- Farhang Morady / Who rules Iran? The June 2009 election and
political turmoil
- Dan Jakopovich / The construction of a trans-European labour
movement
- Adam Hanieh / The internationalisation of Gulf capital and
Palestinian class formation
- Jim Shorthose / Economic conscience and public discourse
- Hugo Radice / Cutting government deficits: Economic science or
class war?
- Andrew W. Neal / Book reviews: Mark Neocleous Critique of
Security, Edinburgh University Press: Edinbugh 2008; 256 pp: 0748633294
£19.99 (pbk), 0748633286 £60 (hbk)
- P. Kerim Friedman / Book reviews: Pierre Bourdieu Political
Interventions: Social Science and Political Action, Verso: London,
2008, 400 pp: 978-1844671908 £19.99 (pbk)
- Maurizio Atzeni / Book reviews: Marcus Taylor (ed.) Global
Economy Contested: Power and Conflict across the International Division
of Labour, Routledge: London, 2008; 251 pp: 978-0415775496 £22.99
(pbk)
- Mario Novelli / Book reviews: Andreas Bieler, Ingemar Lindberg,
and Devan Pillay (eds.) Labour and the Challenges of Globalisation:
What Prospects for Transnational Solidarity? Pluto Press: London, 2008;
330 pp: 9780745327570 £65 (hbk); 9780745327563 £19.99 (pbk)
- Mehmet Gürsan Şenalp / Book reviews: Susanne Soederberg
Global Governance in Question: Empire, Class and the New Common Sense
in Managing North-South Relations, Pluto Press, 2006; 206 pp:
0745320694 £17.99 (pbk): 0415951445 £60 (hbk)
- Paul C. Lewis / Book reviews: Jamie Morgan Private Equity
Finance: Rise and Repercussions, Palgrave: London, 2009; 309 pp:
978-0230207103 £60 (hbk)
- Peter Ives / Book reviews: Christian Marazzi Capital and
Language: From the New Economy to the War Economy (trans. Conti G,
intro. Hardt H), Semiotext(e), 2008; 165 pp: 9781584350675 £9.95
(pbk)
- Guy Lancaster / Book reviews: David R. Roediger How Race
Survived U.S. History: From Settlement and Slavery to the Obama
Phenomenon, Verso: London, 2008; 256 pp: 9781844672752 £14.99
(hbk)
- Ian Bartle / Book reviews: Tuna Baskoy The Political Economy of
European Union Competition Policy: A Case Study of the
Telecommunications Industry, Routledge: London, 2008, 242 pp:
9780415965255 £60 (hbk)
- John Callaghan / Book reviews: Roberto Mangabeira Unger What
Should the Left Propose? Verso: London, 2006, 112 pp: 9781844670482
£15 (hbk)
- Lucy Ferguson / Book reviews: Isabella Bakker and Rachel Silvey
(eds.) Beyond States and Markets: The Challenges of Social
Reproduction, Routledge: London, 2008; 206 pp: 00415775861 £23.99
(pbk); 0415775854 £80 (hbk)
- John Player / Book reviews: Paula Allman On Marx: An
Introduction to the Revolutionary Intellect of Karl Marx, Sense
Publishers: Rotterdam, 2007; 100 pp: 9789087901929 £10 (pbk)
- Werner Bonefeld / Book reviews: Ricardo Bellofiore and Roberto
Fineschi (eds.) Re-Reading Marx: New Perspectives after the Critical
Edition, Palgrave: London, 2009; 239 pp: 9780230202115 £60 (hbk)
Economic Systems Research,
23(1): March 2011
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09535314.asp
- Balance Sheet Economics of The Subprime
Mortgage Crisis / Masako Tsujimura; Kazusuke Tsujimura
- The Life Cycle Environmental Impacts of
Consumption / Edgar G. Hertwich
- Estimation of Symmetric Input-Output
Tables: An Extension to Bohlin and Widell / Nicola J. Smith; Garry W.
McDonald
- Aggregation Versus Disaggregation in
Input-Output Analysis of the Environment / Manfred Lenzen
- Projection of Supply and Use Tables:
Methods and Their Empirical Assessment / Umed Temurshoev; Colin Webb;
Norihiko Yamano
Book Review
- The Dynamics of Regions and Networks in
Industrial Ecosystems / Ines Costa
Journal of Agrarian Change
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Journal of
Economics Issues, 45(1): March 2011
Journal website: http://www.mesharpe.com/mall/results1.asp?acr=jei
- The Credit Crisis and Recession as a Paradigm Test / Dirk J.
Bezemer
- Governance and Growth in Developing Countries / Azmat Gani
- A Game Theory Interpretation of the Post-Communist Evolution /
Dimiter Ialnazov, Nikolay Nenovsky
- Why Do People Work? Individual Wants Versus Common Goods /
Helena Lopes
- It's the Institutions, Stupid! Why U.S. Health Care Expenditure
Is so Different from Canada's / Antoon Spithoven
- The Social History of Quantifying Inflation: A Sociological
Critique / Matthew Hayes
- The Network Firm as a Single Real Entity: Beyond the Aggregate
of Distinct Legal Entities / Virgile Chassagnon
- Mainstream Economic Rhetoric, Ideology and Institutions / Rojhat
B. Avsar
- The Eclipse of the Uncertainty Concept in Mainstream Economics /
Geoffrey M. Hodgson
- Karl Polanyi's Institutional Theory: Market Society and Its
"Disembedded" Economy / Michele Cangiani
- Beyond Legal Relations: Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld's Influence on
American Institutionalism / Luca Fiorito, Massimiliano Vatiero
- Veblen and Higher Learning: The Trial Balance / Gautam Mukerjee
Journal of
Post Keynesian Economics, 33(2): Winter 2010-11
Journal website: http://www.mesharpe.com/mall/results1.asp?ACR=PKE
- Can Post Keynesians make better use of behavioral economics? /
Therese Jefferson, J. E. King
- Comments on "can Post Keynesians make better use of behavioral
economics?" / Matthew V. Fung
- Behavioral economists should make a turn and learn from Keynes
and Post Keynesian economics / Paul Davidson
- Indian Currency and beyond: the legacy of the early economics of
Keynes in the times of Bretton Woods II / Anna M. Carabelli, Mario A.
Cedrini
- On the role of relative prices and capital flows in
balance-of-payments-constrained growth: the experiences of Portugal and
Spain in the euro area / Carlos Garcimartin, Luis A. Rivas, Pilar
Garcia Martinez
- External financial liberalization and growth in emerging
countries: a panel data estimation using a new index (1990-2004) /
Cesar Rodrigues van der Laan, Andre Moreira Cunha, Tiago Wickstrom
Alves
- Financial integration and macroeconomic adjustments in a
monetary union / Vincent Duwicquet, Jacques Mazier
- The impact of labor market deregulation on productivity: a panel
data analysis of 19 OECD countries (1960-2004) / Robert Vergeer, Alfred
Kleinknecht
MARXISM
21, 8(1): Spring 2011
Special Issue: Marxian theory of exploitation
Guest Editor: Dong-Min Rieu
- Takao Fujimoto / Reflections on the Concept of Exploitation
- Dong-Min Rieu / Subjectivism and Individualism: A note on
the Marxian theory of exploitation
- B. Gloria Martinez Gonzalez and Alejandro Valle Baeza /
Differences in Surplus-value Rates between Developed and Underdeveloped
Countries: An analysis based on differences in productivity and capital
composition
- Paul Cockshott and Heinz Dieterich / The Contemporary Relevance
of Exploitation Theory”
This issue also includes another English article,
- Hiroshi Ohnishi and Atushi Tazoe / Profit and
‘Preferential Growth of the First Sector’ in the Marxian
Optimal Growth Model
These papers are electronically available at http://nongae.gnu.ac.kr/~issmarx/eng/eng_index.php#
Mother
Pelican, 7(3): March 2011
Energy Transition, Homo Economicus, and Homo
Ecologicus
Journal website: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv07n03page1.html
Oeconomicus, 11: 2009-2010
Articles
- Behind the Veil of Money: An Inquiry into the Institution of
Money / Will Fisher (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
- Cap and Trade: Critical Observations on Market Making and a
Better Way Forward / Devin Rafferty (University of Missouri-Kansas
City)
- The Rise of Managed Money Capitalism within a World System: The
Case of Mexico and the United States / Karol Gil-Vasquez (University of
Missouri-Kansas City)
- From Economic Man to Playing Man: New Perspectives on
Entrepreneurship in Civil Society / Fredrik O. Andersson (The Midwest
Center for Nonprofit Leadership and The Institute for Entrepreneurship
& Innovation, H.W. Bloch School of Business and Public
Administration, University of Missouri – Kansas City)
- The American Economy as a House of Cards / Chris Keyser
Book Reviews
- Keynes: The Return of the Master (By: Robert Skidelsky) Reviewed
by: Devin Rafferty (University of Missouri-Kansas City)
real-world
economics review, 56: March 2011
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- An outline for right to economic development in the Arab world /
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- Efficient Markets Hypothesis: What are we talking about? /
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- The economist as social engineer: Maxi-max decision, utopia, and
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- Understanding the problems of mathematical economics: A
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- Iceland ’s meltdown: The rise and fall of international
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Website: http://econsoc.mpifg.de/newsletter/newsletter_current.asp
- The Financial Crisis and the End of All-Purpose Money by Keith
Hart
- Economic Governance in the Eurozone: A New Dawn? by Brigitte
Young
- The Euro Trouble and the Global Financial Crisis by Christoph
Deutschmann
- Should Crisis-Hit Countries Leave the Eurozone? by Peter North
- The Level of Financial Literacy of Russians: Before and During
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- # No.12: The Implementation of Minimum Wage: Challenges and
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- # No.11: Principles of Minimum Wage Policy - Economics,
Institutions and Recommendations; March 2011; by Chiara Benassi
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- Money
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- A
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- Measuring
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- Financial
Keynesianism and Market Instability by L. Randall Wray, Working
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- The
Dismal State of Macroeconomics and the Opportunity for a New Beginning
by L. Randall Wray, Working Paper No. 652, March 2011
- Unit
Labor Costs in the Eurozone: The Competitiveness Debate Again by
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The hidden subsidy to British banks
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errornomics
By David Wells
Why mainstream economics will always be a dangerously ideological
pseudo-science & what can be done about it with some suggestions
for a better, more scientific model.
For more information, see the author's sketch
Financial
Liberalization and Economic Performance: Brazil at the Crossroads
By Luiz Fernando de Paula
November 2010. Routledge. Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World
Economy
Hardback: 978-0-415-46009-5 | website
The Institutionalist
Movement in American Economics, 1918–1947: Science and Social
Control
By Malcolm Rutherford
Cambridge University Press. Feb. 2011. ISBN: 9781107006997 (hb), 424
pages. Series: Historical
Perspectives on Modern Economics | website
This book provides a detailed picture of the institutionalist movement
in American economics concentrating on the period between the two World
Wars. The discussion brings a new emphasis on the leading role of
Walton Hamilton in the formation of institutionalism, on the special
importance of the ideals of "science" and "social control" embodied
within the movement, on the large and close network of individuals
involved, on the educational programs and research organizations
created by institutionalists, and on the significant place of the
movement within the mainstream of interwar American economics. In these
ways the book focuses on the group most closely involved in the active
promotion of the movement, on how they themselves constructed it, on
its original intellectual appeal and promise, and on its institutional
supports and sources of funding. The reasons for the movement's loss of
appeal in the years around the end of World War II are also discussed,
particularly in terms of the arrival of Keynesian economics,
econometrics, and new definitions of "science" as applied to economics.
Living
Standards and Social Well-Being
Edited by Deborah Figart, John Marangos
October 2010. Routledge. ISBN: 978-0-415-58918-5 (hb), 176 pages | website
Too many of the world’s citizens face impoverished living
standards. The economic and financial crises have made matters worse.
The viewpoint of Living Standards and Social Well-Being is that the
fundamental objective for an economy is provisioning, not simply
efficiency. The chapters in this volume examine how economies across
the globe come to understand what constitutes a living and how they can
improve living standards, including balancing paid work with family
life and civic responsibility.
The authors provide historical, theoretical, and empirical studies of
moving economies at the macro level and households at the micro level
toward improved living standards. It is argued that achieving
well-being and decent living standards, through work and welfare state
policies, is a social responsibility. Such improvements could be
delivered through basic income policies, family support, job
guarantees, decent work, shorter work weeks, and support from social
welfare. These issues are important for economics and the other social
sciences and in particular for social economics.
This book was published as a special issue of the Review of Social
Economy.
Marx dalla
totalità alla moltitudine (1841-1843)
By Ernesto Screpanti,
It is now available for download free of charge. To download click on
http://www.econ-pol.unisi.it/quaderni/collana/screpanti13/presentazione.html
Women's
Employment and the Capitalist Family
By Ben Fine
December 1st 2010 by Routledge. Series in Routledge Revivals Hardback:
978-0-415-61410-8: £70.00 | website
First published in 1992, Women's Employment and the Capitalist Family
is an analysis of the contemporary political interest in the position
of women. The author critically assesses much of the literature
examining the rapidly changing lives of women and contributes to it by
offering an explanation of women's labour-market participation. In
particular, the book deals with the domestic labour market debate, the
role of patriarchy theory, gender and labour-market theory, periodising
the capitalist family and the specific position of working women in the
British economy. Despite the theoretical stand-point, the book avoids
technicalities and is accessible to a wide, interdisciplinary audience.
Heterodox
Book Reviews
Intellectual
Capital: Forty Years of the Nobel Prize in Economics
By Thomas Karier. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
xiii + 351 pp. $35 (hardback), ISBN: 978-0-521-76326-4.
Reviewed for EH.Net by Donald E. Frey, Department of Economics, Wake
Forest University.
Read the review here.
Heterodox Graduate
Programs, Scholarships, and Grants
The Centre
of Scientific Culture "A. Volta": 20 Fellowships
The Centre of Scientific Culture "A. Volta" — which has
established a scientific cooperation structure called Landau
Network-Centro Volta — with the contribution of the Cariplo
Foundation, both having among their goals the promotion of scientific
and technological research in various areas of basic and applied
sciences,
invite applications for 20 fellowships to be awarded as follows:
- 1) 18 fellowships reserved to full professors and/or scientists
of world-wide renown from the Russian Federation (CIS) to be spent at
Universities and Research Centres of Lombardia Region
- 2) 2 fellowships reserved to full professors and/or scientists
of world-wide renown from European Countries (excluding Italy) for the
research area on studies of the principal topics related to
technological and/or cultural transfer to be spent at Universities and
Research Centres of Lombardia Region
Applicants must fulfil the following requirements:
- Russian citizenship or other New Independent States citizenship
for item 1)
- European countries citizenship (excluding Italy) for item 2)
- Didactic and/or research activities in scientific, cultural and
technological fields at a University or research institution from the
country of origin (or own country)
- Knowledge of English language
The fellowship gross salary shall amount to € 6.800. With this
salary, fellowship winners shall have to cover their travel expenses,
an international health insurance for the period of their stay in
Italy, board and lodging in Italy. They shall undertake to spend at
least two months at the Italian hosting Institute in Lombardia Region
and to cooperate in research and didactic activities. Scientific
publications that may derive from the research activity performed
during the fellowship period shall explicitly mention the support
received from the Cariplo Foundation and could be used by the
Foundation itself for further publications.
Candidate selection will be at the unquestionable judgement of a
Commission chaired by the President of the Cariplo Foundation or one of
his delegates and made up of a member as nominated by the Russian
Academy of Sciences, a member of the Landau Network-Centro Volta and a
member of the Centre of Scientific Culture "A. Volta".
No particular form is needed for applications, which must be submitted
just in an electronic format to the
following e-mail address:
E-mail: fanny.consolazio@centrovolta.it
Object: Cariplo/Landau Network fellowship 2010/2011 application
The application deadline is March 31, 2011. Applications, together with
the documentation listed below, may be sent by fax (+39.031.570174) or
e-mail. Fellowship winners shall receive notification by April 20,
2011. The starting date of the fellowship period of minimum two months
shall be set in agreement with the hosting
Institutions starting from May 9, 2011. The fellowship period must be
concluded within December 15, 2011. A reduction of the whole period of
the stay will imply a proportional reduction of the amount of the
fellowship.
Candidates must forward with the application the following documents:
- Curriculum Vitae and list of publications
- Acceptance letter from a professor or researcher from the
hosting Institute
- Any further titles or letters from referees.
Acceptance letter and referee letters may be sent also by fax directly
to Landau Network-Centro Volta.
DFID/ESRC
Growth Programme: Pre-Call Announcement
The ESRC are pleased to announce a pre-call for a new funding scheme in
partnership with DFID. The DFID-ESRC Growth Programme will be
administered by ESRC and is in addition to the existing ESRC/DFID
scheme.
£8.91 million has been provisionally allocated for collaborative
research projects under this programme up to 30 research projects are
expected to be funded. We intend to announce a call for proposals in
March 2011.
Research must be relevant to the countries of DFID interest, being
primarily low-income countries, and including large parts of
Sub-Saharan Africa. The focus of this research programme is on economic
growth, and the development and use of policy-relevant knowledge.
However, a number of cross-cutting issues are important, and proposals
that contribute to these will be welcomed. These include strengthened
governance in fragile and conflict-affected states, the empowerment of
women, and adapting to the affects of climate change.
There will be three themes under the call. The three themes are:
Agriculture and Growth Research; Finance and Economic Growth; and
Innovation, Diffusion and Economic Growth in Low Income Countries For
more information about this competition, and the scope of this call,
please see link attached:
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Middlesex University
Business School
A limited number of scholarships are available to study in our doctoral
programme at Middlesex University Business School. Economics is one of
the areas of study (along with Business, Finance, Management or Law),
and heterodox economists are welcome. The scholarships are for a
period of four years starting in September/October 2011, subject to
satisfactory progress. They are for full-time studies and cover a
maintenance award, fee payments and research support costs. Current
maintenance payment is £13,590pa. The scholarships are free of
both tax and national insurance contributions. For more information on
the research areas, key researchers, and how to apply please visit:
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New
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The Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society has
created a new research grant opportunity for use of Hagley Library
resources and revised its grant application procedures. In addition to
its existing research and dissertation grant programs, the Center now
invites applications for one-week exploratory research grants that are
intended to determine if Hagley library collections are useful for a
particular project. Applications for all grants now must take place
through our web-based system that can be accessed through our grants
and fellowship page, http://www.hagley.org/library/center/grants.html.
More information on our grants programs is included below. Questions
about our grant procedures may be directed to Carol Lockman, clockman@Hagley.org.
Hagley Exploratory Research Grants
These grants support one-week visits by scholars who believe that their
project will benefit from Hagley research collections, but need the
opportunity to explore them on-site to determine if a Henry Belin du
Pont research grant application is warranted. Priority will be given to
junior scholars with innovative projects that seek to expand on
existing scholarship. Applicants should reside more than 50 miles from
Hagley, and the stipend is $400. Application deadlines: March 31, June
30 and October 31
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These research grants enable scholars to pursue advanced research and
study in the collections of the Hagley Library. They are awarded for
the length of time needed to make use of Hagley collections for a
specific project. The stipends are for a maximum of eight weeks and are
pro-rated at $400/week for recipients who reside further than 50 miles
from Hagley, and $200/week for those within 50 miles. Application
deadlines: March 31, June 30 and October 31
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This fellowship is designed for graduate students who have completed
all course work for the doctoral degree and are conducting research on
their dissertation. Applications should demonstrate superior
intellectual quality, present a persuasive methodology for the project,
and show that there are significant research materials at Hagley
pertinent to the dissertation. This is a residential fellowship with a
term of four months. The fellowship provides $6,500, free housing on
Hagley's grounds, use of a computer, mail and internet access, and an
office. Application deadline: November 15
Heterodox
Web Sites and Associates
Economics
and Ethics
An occasional examination of economic theory, practice, and policy,
informed by philosophical ethics (and a dash of whimsy)
Founding members:
Website: http://www.economicsandethics.org/
Heterodox Economics in
the Media
The Big
Danger In Cutting The Deficit by John Harvey
Forbes, 3-18-2011. Read the article here.
For Your
Information
BBC Radio Programmes on
History of Economics
BBC Radio has just begun a short series on the history of economics.
The series is called The Story of Economics, and is introduced by
Michael Blastland. The first programme was today (March 16th) followed
by two further ones (on 23rd and 30th March) at 4.30 local UK time
(GMT). These programmes include bite-sized contributions from
historians of economics. You can "listen again" to each programme
(it is available for the following 7 days after its initial airing; and
you don't need to register to listen at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/schedules/fm)
Bibliography of Buddhist
Economics by Laszlo Zsolnai
I produced a bibliography which collects important titles in the
intersection of Buddhism, ethics, psychology and economics. It
represents a body of knowledge which can serve as a good background for
exploring and developing Buddhist economics scholarship.
The bibliography can be downloaded by visiting the webpage here: http://laszlo-zsolnai.net/content/bibliography-buddhist-economics
Laszlo Zsolnai
Professor and Director
Business Ethics Center
Corvinus University of Budapest
http://laszlo-zsolnai.net
http://ethics.uni-corvinus.hu
En mémoire de Gilles Dostaler
Un court texte que m'a fait passer l'ami de Gilles, Robert Nadeau:
En mémoire de Gilles Dostaler
Gilles Bourque, Bernard Élie, Robert Nadeau, Jean-Marc Piotte et
Stéphane Pallage - Professeurs, Université du
Québec à Montréal Le Devoir, 7 mars 2011 , p. A 6
Gilles Dostaler peut être considéré comme l'un des
historiens de la pensée économique les plus importants
non seulement au Québec, au Canada, mais également dans
le monde universitaire international.
Gilles Dostaler ne pouvait dissocier ses recherches de son implication
sociale et politique. Dès ses années de collège,
il a été un intellectuel engagé et actif dans les
débats de la société. Dans les années
soixante, il fut d'abord membre du comité de rédaction de
Parti pris, une revue mensuelle animée par de jeunes
intellectuels qui eut un impact considérable à cette
époque. Il fut l'un des premiers à lier la montée
du mouvement nationaliste à la formation de la nouvelle classe
moyenne canadienne, conséquence du développement des
institutions du fordisme et de l'État providence.
Il s'est joint à la revue Socialisme québécois
dans les années 1960, revue créée en 1964.
Après avoir milité au RIN, il fut l'un des fondateurs du
CIS (Comité pour l'indépendance et le socialisme), groupe
voué à la promotion de l'indépendance du
Québec et de l'idée du socialisme démocratique. Il
fut aussi l'un des organisateurs de McGill français, cette
manifestation devenue célèbre qui s'inscrivait dans un
mouvement plus large réclamant la création de nouvelles
institutions universitaires francophones à la suite duquel
furent créés l'Université du Québec
à Montréal et le réseau de l'Université du
Québec.
Jeune économiste, il s'impliqua très activement dans les
associations coopératives d'économie familiale (ACEF),
premières organisations de défense des consommateurs au
Québec.
Discours alternatif
Après des études doctorales à Paris, il devint
professeur au département de sociologie de l'UQAM (1975) avant
de passer au département des sciences économiques (1979).
Durant la deuxième moitié des années 1970, il fut
vice-président et président du Syndicat des professeurs
de l'Université du Québec, et président du
comité de la grève des professeurs de 1976. Il fut aussi
membre du bureau fédéral de la Fédération
nationale des enseignantes et enseignants du Québec (1976-1978),
membre du Comité de coordination des Cent en 1980, comité
qui donna naissance à l'éphémère Mouvement
socialiste dirigé par Marcel Pepin.
À la fin des années 1970, Gilles Dostaler fut l'un des
fondateurs de l'Association d'économie politique (AEP) et en fut
le premier président. L'AEP avait comme objectif de diffuser un
discours économique «alternatif» et critique de la
pensée économique
«néo-libérale» qui devenait alors de plus en
plus dominante.
Plus récemment, Gilles Dostaler fut très actif dans la
mise en place du Collectif économie autrement, poursuivant ainsi
sa volonté d'assurer la diffusion de discours économiques
«alternatifs» et critiques dans les débats qui
animent la société.
Une production scientifique reconnue internationalement
La production scientifique de Gilles Dostaler est imposante: pas moins
de dix livres traduits en plusieurs langues, une trentaine d'articles
dans les meilleures revues de son domaine, une autre trentaine de
chapitres de livres, la direction d'une dizaine d'ouvrages collectifs
et des collaborations régulières à plusieurs
revues. Depuis 2002, il signait dans la revue française
Alternatives économiques une série passionnante sur les
grands auteurs de l'économie.
Ces dernières années, les travaux de Gilles Dostaler ont
porté sur la pensée de John Maynard Keynes.
Économiste, philosophe, philanthrope, Keynes a inspiré
les politiques interventionnistes des années 1930 pour sortir de
la grande dépression. Outre La Pensée économique
depuis Keynes (avec Michel Beaud), en 1993 aux Éditions du
Seuil, Gilles Dostaler a consacré plusieurs ouvrages à la
pensée de Keynes, notamment Keynes et ses combats (Albin Michel,
2005) traduit en plusieurs langues, dont l'anglais, l'espagnol,
l'arabe, le japonais; Capitalisme et pulsion de mort (avec Bernard
Maris), également publié chez Albin Michel en 2009, et
Keynes par-delà l'économie, chez Thierry Magnier en 2009.
Ces livres, qui ont connu un rayonnement impressionnant, sont d'une
vibrante actualité.
Renouvellement de la problématique
Pour Gilles Dostaler, on ne peut comprendre la formation de la
pensée d'un auteur qu'en étudiant chaque aspect de sa
vie. Dans le cas de Keynes, il n'a rien laissé de
côté. Il a eu un accès privilégié
à ses archives au King's College de Cambridge, a lu chacune de
ses lettres, épluché ses agendas, ses écrits de
jeunesse, étudié ses contradictions, ses amours, sa
sexualité.
Gilles Dostaler a véritablement révolutionné la
méthodologie de l'histoire de la pensée
économique. La nouvelle approche qu'il a mise au point
progressivement dans de très nombreuses études consiste
à articuler en une synthèse globale deux modèles
d'analyse différents, dont voici une brève
présentation.
Le premier de ces modèles consiste en une reconstitution
contextuelle des théories économiques: chaque
économiste ayant contribué de manière un tant soit
peu originale à l'évolution de la pensée
économique ne peut être rendu pleinement intelligible,
selon ce que postule Gilles Dostaler, que si le contexte social,
politique et culturel dans lequel il a oeuvré est minutieusement
reconstruit.
La pensée d'un seul économiste ne peut être
comprise que si l'on scrute son environnement intellectuel (en
s'intéressant, par exemple, à ses fréquentations
intellectuelles, à ses goûts culturels, à ses
liaisons politiques) que si l'on retrace méticuleusement son
parcours (les questions qu'il s'est posées, les lectures qu'il a
faites, les personnes marquantes qu'il a rencontrées), que si
l'on cherche à le comprendre globalement, c'est-à-dire
non seulement comme un penseur, mais avant tout comme un être
humain.
En second lieu, Gilles Dostaler entend tirer rigoureusement parti des
outils mis au point dans l'analyse épistémologique
contemporaine. Pour Gilles Dostaler, chacune des grandes étapes
marquant l'évolution de la pensée économique ne
peut être expliquée que si l'on reconnaît qu'elle se
produit avec comme toile de fond une rupture parfois fondamentale avec
les modes de pensée antérieurs. L'enjeu devient alors de
tenter de comprendre pourquoi Marx est en rupture radicale avec Ricardo
et les classiques, pourquoi Keynes rompt aussi bien avec les classiques
qu'avec les néoclassiques, et pourquoi enfin un
économiste comme Hayek, préoccupé plus que tout
autre par les limites cognitives de l'acteur économique, en
vient à mettre en relief de manière quasi obsessionnelle
l'impraticabilité d'une économie centralement
planifiée.
L'homme
Tous ceux qui le connaissent peuvent témoigner que,
derrière le chercheur rigoureux, on retrouvait un homme attentif
et attachant, un homme engagé, militant depuis toujours pour une
société meilleure, un homme qui aimait la vie dans toutes
ses dimensions.
Le cancer contre lequel il s'est battu ne lui avait rien enlevé
de son plaisir de vivre avec une grande intensité à
chaque instant. S'il aimait s'immerger dans les archives d'illustres
auteurs, Gilles Dostaler aimait tout autant prendre un bon repas ou se
mesurer à un saumon d'une rivière de Gaspésie. Il
était aussi un grand amateur de tauromachie. La chasse et la
pêche sont des arts qui lui permettaient de s'inscrire dans
l'équilibre entre l'homme et la nature et lui rappelaient
à quel point nous sommes petits face au monde qui nous
héberge.