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Issue-20, December 5, 2005
From the Editor
I have just read a series of articles
that evaluated economics research in Europe. The articles emerged
from a project to rank economics departments throughout Europe
undertaken by the European Economic Association. The Council of the
EEA took the view that the project was important because of the
“poor governance structures and inappropriate incentives that still
characterized so many European universities. The results [of the
project] should help all those attempting to evaluate and develop
research capacity, including officials in charge of overseeing and
funding universities, and university officers trying to assess the
quality of their economic departments (p. 1240).”
The grounds for ranking departments were publications in
neoclassical core journals. In fact one of the studies in the
project stated that a European economist that did not have the
equivalent of one AER paper with a single coauthor over a ten-year
period was not qualified to supervise a Ph.D. student because he/she
lacked a certain level of intellectual prowess. Since publications
in the JPKE, JEI, ROSE, RRPE, ROPE, CJE, C&C, FE, Metroeconomica,
any history of economic thought journal, and any other heterodox
journal did not count at all, perhaps many if not most of the
members of EAEPE, AHE, and CSE, and other heterodox economists in
Europe (and in the United States as well) are not really qualified
to supervise PhD students, at least in the eyes of their
neoclassical colleagues!
In any case, a ranking of European economic departments emerged from
the project that ensured that only neoclassical departments are
ranked and ranked highly. Since European funding officials use these
rankings when making funding decisions because these are the only
rankings they have, not publishing in core neoclassical journals is
detrimental to heterodox European economists and their departments.
More generally, there have been very many ranking studies of
economic journals and departments in the US, UK, Europe, Australia,
and elsewhere and they generally are all based on publications in
neoclassical core journals and hence result in pro-bias ranking of
neoclassical departments; and these rankings have been used to
cleanse economic departments of heterodox economists. In this
context, it is surprising that heterodox economic associations, such
as EAEPE, URPE, AFEE, ASE, AHE, ASHE, and CSE, have not sponsored
ranking projects, since the issue of ranking journals and
departments that is the single biggest threat facing heterodox
economists in Europe and elsewhere around the world.
Perhaps heterodox economists could energize their associations to do
something pro-active such as promoting a cooperative project on
ranking with other heterodox associations and perhaps with heterodox
economic journals. To do nothing is to let mainstream economics
dominate and eliminate heterodox economics.
Fred Lee
Neary, J. P., Mirrlees, J. A., and Tirole, J. 2003. “Evaluating
Economic Research in Europe: An Introduction.” Journal of the
European Economic Association 1.6 (December): 1239 – 1249.
In
this issue:
-
Call
for Papers
-
Empire and Beyond Conference, University of Leeds, UK
- EACES 9th Bi-annual
Conference
- How Class Works- 2006
- Food and History:
Health, Culture, Tourism and Identity
- Reclaiming the Economy:
the Role of Cooperative Enterprise, Ownership and Control
- One-day Conference-
Retail Trading in Britain
- Feminist Economics
- Conferences, Seminars
and Lectures
- URPE at the ASSA in Boston
- Occasional
Seminar in the History and Philosophy of Economics
- Fourth Australian
Society of Heterodox Economists Conference
- Seminar on the
History of Postwar Social Science
- International
Conference on Institutional, Social & Radical Economics
- Job Postings for Heterodox
Economists
- Rollins College, Winter
Park, Florida
- University of
Manitoba
- Florida
International University
- The University of
Science and Arts of Oklahoma
- Reader/Professor
in Europe and Globalisation
- Senior Economist
/ The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) / Washington,
DC, USA.
- London School of
Economics- Development Studies Institute (DESTIN)
-
Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles
- Smith vs.Darwin- Jamie Galbraith
-
Heterodox Journals and Newsletters
- European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
- Econ Journal
Watch
- La Lettre de la
Régulation n°53 Septembre 2005 est parue.
- INTERVENTION.
Journal of Economics
- Global Footprint
Network Newsletter
- The Talking
Economics Bulletin-
www.talkingeconomics.co.uk
- Friends of
Business History
-
Heterodox Books and Book Series
- Eileen Stillwaggon / AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty
- Economic
Compulsion and Christian Ethics
- The Evolutionary
Foundations of Economics
- God and the Evil
of Scarcity: Moral Foundations of Economic Agency by Albino Barrera
(Providence College)
-
For Your Information
- Environmental Policy Update #2: Formulating Effective Energy Policy
- Revaluing Peasant
Coffee Production: Organic and Fair Trade Markets in Mexico
Call for Papers
Empire and Beyond Conference,
University of Leeds, UK
7-8 April 2006
Organised by The Conference of Socialist Economists, publishers of the
journal Capital and Class
In the last decade or so global capitalism has undergone a radical
transformation in a number of contradictory ways:
• Powerful imperialist states seem increasingly willing to cast away old
‘containment’ policies in favour of direct military operations around
the world
• These very same imperialist states have also increasingly justified
their military plunders under a new ideology of ‘universal human
rights’, ‘global right’, and the like
• Nation states around the world centralise power in order to
co-ordinate and mediate a number of local, national and global social
networks
• The emergence of protectionist policies in the US coupled with a drive
to marketise the rest of the world through neo-liberal policies has had
profound consequences including increasing inequalities, poverty,
political corruption, state crime and economic crises
• Neo-liberal capitalism has thus intensified uneven patterns of
development across the globe
• Powerful technologies have emerged that discipline people through
seemingly anonymous networks of power
• New rhetoric by global organisations like The World Bank that stresses
the need for ‘ordinary’ people to take control of their lives within
their communities whilst pushing national governments to maintain
neoliberal economic policies
• New modes of global, national and local resistance have arisen to
challenge capitalist globalisation
The Left has provided some of the most cogent analyses of these
processes, the work of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri arguably being
one of the most well known. However, these debates are still ongoing and
the re-election of George W. Bush demonstrates the urgency for those on
the Left to press forward the debate on these issues within the labour
movement and amongst groups working for a progressive, radical and
emancipatory politics.
To help continue and facilitate these debates the Conference of
Socialist Economists is holding a two-day conference at Leeds University
around the theme of Empire and Beyond. Issues to be discussed include:
• Empire and beyond: new imperialism for old?
• The restructuring of the state
• The state debate revisited
• New modes of governance and discipline
• Economic crises
• The political economy of neo-liberalism
• The relevance of post-structuralism for Marxist theory
• Anti-capitalist movements & networks of global resistance
• Human rights, democracy and the West
• Technology, environmentalism and globalisation
• Uneven and combined development: the South and globalisation
• The changing nature of the labour movement and class politics
• Globalisation and its impact upon (popular) culture
• The nature of socialism today
Please submit an abstract to present a paper or a proposal for a panel
(3 to 4 speakers discussing an issue or theme) to
cseconf@gn.apc.org
EACES 9th Bi-annual Conference
Hosted by European Association for Comparative Economic Studies-
Brighton Business School
When? Thursday 7 - Saturday 9 September 2006
Where? University of Brighton, UK
Topic? "Development Strategies - a comparative view"
All prospective participants are encouraged to submit proposals for
papers and/or panel
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 January 2006
Acceptance of submitted abstracts: 30 April 2006
Submission of final papers: 30 June 2006
Prospective participants should send an email containing:
• title of the proposed papers and/or panel
• abstract not exceeding 300 words
• personal contact information, ie name, title, institutional
affiliation, position and email address to
Marcello Signorelli signorel@unipg.it and
Jens Hölscher j.holscher@brighton.ac.uk
For detailed information:
EACESJensNov05.pdf
How Class Works- 2006
A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook, June 8-10, 2006
The Center for Study of Working Class Life is pleased to announce the
How Class Works - 2006 Conference, to be held at the State University of
New York at Stony Brook, June 8 - 10, 2006. Proposals for papers,
presentations, and sessions are welcome until December 15, 2005
according to the guidelines below. For more information, visit our Web
site at www.workingclass.sunysb.edu.
Purpose and orientation: The conference seeks to explore ways in which
an explicit recognition of class helps to understand the social world in
which we live, and ways in which analysis of society can deepen our
understanding of class as a social relationship. Presentations should
take as their point of reference the lived experience of class; proposed
theoretical contributions should be rooted in and illuminate social
realities. All presentations should be accessible to an
interdisciplinary audience.
While the focus of the conference is in the social sciences,
presentations from other disciplines are welcome as they bear upon
conference themes. Presentations are also welcome from people outside
academic life when they sum up social experience in a way that
contributes to the themes of the conference. Formal papers will be
welcome but are not required.
Conference themes: The conference welcomes proposals for presentations
that advance our understanding of any of the following themes.
The mosaic of class, race, and gender. To explore how class shapes
racial, gender, and ethnic experience and how different racial, gender,
and ethnic experiences within various classes shape the meaning of
class.
Class, power, and social structure. To explore the social content of
working, middle, and capitalist classes in terms of various aspects of
power; to explore ways in which class and structures of power interact,
at the workplace and in the broader society.
Class and community. To explore ways in which class operates outside the
workplace in the communities where people of various classes live.
Class in a global economy. To explore how class identity and class
dynamics are influenced by globalization, including experience of
cross-border organizing, capitalist class dynamics, international labor
standards.
Middle class? Working class? What's the difference and why does it
matter?
To explore the claim that the U.S. is a middle class society and
contrast it with the notion that the working class is the majority; to
explore the relationships between the middle class and the working
class, and between the middle class and the capitalist class.
Class, public policy, and electoral politics. To explore how class
affects public policy, with special attention to health care, the
criminal justice system, labor law, poverty, tax and other economic
policy, housing, and education; to explore the place of electoral
politics in the arrangement of class forces on policy matters.
Pedagogy of class. To explore techniques and materials useful for
teaching about class, at K-12 levels, in college and university courses,
and in labor studies and adult education courses.
How to submit proposals for How Class Works - 2006 Conference
Proposals for presentations must include the following information: a)
title; b) which of the seven conference themes will be addressed; c) a
maximum 250 word summary of the main points, methodology, and slice of
experience that will be summed up; d) relevant personal information
indicating institutional affiliation (if any) and what training or
experience the presenter brings to the proposal; e) presenter's name,
address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address. A person may present in at
most two conference sessions. To allow time for discussion, sessions
will be limited to three twenty-minute or four fifteen-minute principal
presentations. Sessions will not include official discussants.
Proposals for sessions are welcome. A single session proposal must
include proposal information for all presentations expected to be part
of it, as detailed above, with some indication of willingness to
participate from each proposed session member.
Submit proposals as hard copy by mail to the How Class Works - 2006
Conference, Center for Study of Working Class Life, Department of
Economics, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384 or as an e-mail attachment
to michael.zweig@stonybrook.edu.
Timetable: Proposals must be postmarked by December 15, 2005.
Notifications will be mailed on January 16, 2006. The conference will be
at SUNY Stony Brook June 8- 10, 2006. Conference registration and
housing reservations will be possible after February 15, 2006. Details
and updates will be posted at
http://www.workingclass.sunysb.edu.
Conference coordinator:
Michael Zweig
Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life Department of Economics
SUNY Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384
631.632.7536
michael.zweig@stonybrook.edu.
Please note, all paper presenters will need to register for the
conference and pay a discounted presenter s fee for the day(s) they
would like to attend.
Food and History: Health, Culture,
Tourism and Identity
2nd Conference Announcement and Call for Papers - Extension to Deadline
University of Central Lancashire, Preston, 29 June 1 July 2006
We have received a lively and interesting response to the first
announcement and call for papers for this conference, but the first
deadline now seems to us to have been too early, so we have decided to
extend the deadline to 10 January 2006.
'Food and eating practices are at the centre of the new concern in
western societies about the body, self-control, health, risk,
consumption and identity' (Deborah Lupton). This international,
interdisciplinary conference, organised by the Faculty of Health and
Department of Humanities at the University of Central Lancashire, seeks
to explore these issues in original ways and in historical perspective
through plenary and parallel sessions. It brings together methodologies
drawn from the humanities and the medical sciences to interpret and
challenge current myths about the history, production and consumption
of! food and to explore the roles of taste, texture, and technology in
constituting id entities and marketing experiences in this sphere.
Within this framework a strand dealing with the relationships between
tourism, food and history will run through the conference, under the
auspices of the International Commission for the History of Travel and
Tourism.
We invite papers which address physiological, psychological and
political aspects of food, health, history, tourism and identity, as
well as examining issues relating to food production, regulation and
marketing, and analysing representations of and responses to food,
health, history and tourism in cultural practices and media outlets,
whether these focus on literature, film, television or the arts.
Participants are encouraged to interpret these proposals generously and
to adopt interdisciplinary approaches, as befits the traditions of this
University of Central Lancashire conference series. The language of the
conference will be English.
Abstract guidelines
Abstracts of 2-300 words should be sent as e-mail attachments in the
first instance to the conference administrator, Liz Kelly:
ejkelly@uclan.ac.uk
The deadline for submissions is 10 January 2006
Intending participants should supply, on a separate page, author's name,
work address with telephone, fax and e-mail, job title and abstract
title. Papers will be made available in advance on the conference
website www.uclan.ac.uk/food and where appropriate on the International
Commission for the History of Travel and Tourism website at
www.ichtt.org
In order to facilitate this process participants are asked to send
copies of their paper to the conference organiser at least two weeks in
advance of the conference opening.
Who should attend:
Participation and attendance are encouraged from academics and
practitioners across a spectrum of disciplines, from the health
professions through food, history and tourism studies to literary,
cultural and media studies. Papers are welcomed from all strata of the
academic profession, including postgraduates and research assistants,
and plenary speakers will be of international standing
Reclaiming the Economy: the
Role of Cooperative Enterprise, Ownership and Control
An International Conference on Cooperative Forms of Organization
Joint Sponsors:
Welsh Institute for Research into Cooperatives, UWIC Business School,
Society for Cooperative Studies, OU Cooperatives Research Unit,
Cooperatives-UK, Cooperative College and Collective for Alternative
Organisation Studies, Leicester University.
Venue:
Cynoced Campus, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff, 6-8 September
2006.
Aim:
This international conference is designed to explore the profile of
cooperative forms of organization with a view to establishing a
multidisciplinary research agenda which serves the mutual interests of
both academics and practitioners.
To this end, we invite submissions from academics, co-operators,
managers and policy makers with either a practical or research interest
in co-operative organization. With such a range of perspectives, we
anticipate that the various contributions will reflect a mix of
international, national and local experience about both the social
practice of co-operation and the theoretical concerns which inform such
practices.
Conference Organization:
The conference will combine plenary sessions with conventional academic
presentations and ‘theory-practice’ workshops.
Academic Presentations:
The precise conference streams will emerge from submissions. However, we
anticipate papers that will organize themselves within the following
themes:
1. Institutional forms of cooperative organization.
2. How cooperative ownership, governance and control regulate work, the
economy and social activity.
3. The relationship between cooperatives and other sections of the
social economy and/or multi-stakeholding forms of organisation.
4. Cooperatives’ relationship with the public and private sectors.
5. Cooperative history and culture
6. Cooperatives as a radical and/or international alternative social
movement.
7. The link between cooperative organization and ecological
sustainability.
‘Theory-practice’ workshops:
To articulate a creative dialogue between academic, practitioner and
policy-making perspectives we propose to include ‘theory-practice’
workshops which will be ‘practice-driven’. Again, the precise themes
will emerge from submissions, but suitable topics might include:
1. Priorities for cooperative development over the next 10 – 20 years.
2. Cooperative management and governance, work organisation and trade
unions
3. New directions: ethical consumption (fair trade, sustainability), the
knowledge economy
4. Financing social enterprises and cooperatives
5. Cooperation in the ‘knowledge economy’.
6. Cooperatives and Public Services provision.
7. Developments in the retail cooperative sector and its supply chain
Submission Process:
All submissions and conference communications will be conducted by
email. Papers are invited from academics, practitioners
and/policy-makers on any of the foregoing topics. Prospective
contributors should send an abstract of approx. 800 words to the
conference organisers by 10th February 2006. Notification of acceptance
will be given by 7th March 2006 and full papers are required by 30th
June 2006.
Abstracts should be typed using double spacing and include:
- the title of the paper;
- the name(s), and affiliation(s) of the author(s) and,
- an author contact address, e-mail and telephone/fax number
Copies of submissions should be sent as an email attachment (saved as a
Word document or a text file) to: mscott-cato@uwic.ac.uk. If email is
not available postal submissions may be sent to Molly Scott Cato, UWIC
Business School, Colchester Avenue, Cardiff, CF23 9XR.
Wales Institute for Research into Co-operatives
Wales’s first national research unit on the social economy was
established in April 2000 with the aim of providing strategic and
applied research covering all aspects of the social economy. It is based
at the Business School of the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff.
For more information see our website:
http://www.uwic.ac.uk/ubs/research/wirc/
One-day Conference- Retail Trading
in Britain
20 September 2006
University of Wolverhampton
Half a century since the publication of J.B. Jeffery’s Retail Trading in
Britain, 1850-1950, CHORD (the Centre for the History of Retailing and
Distribution) invites proposals for papers and sessions exploring
Jeffery’s legacy and discussing new approaches to the history of the
British retail trade. Papers from all disciplinary perspectives and
historical periods (including before 1850 and after 1950) are welcome.
Themes and issues might include (but are not limited to):
The 'primitive' nature of pre-1850 retailing? The retailing
'revolution'.
The 'development of co-operative, multiple shop and department store
methods of trading'
Supermarkets, hypermarkets and self-service
Urban and rural retailing. Networks of distribution and credit
The independent shopkeeper. Formal and informal retailing
Catalogues, mail order and the internet
Advertising and marketing
Retailing, consumption and consumer society
The dead-line for proposals (incl. 200 words abstract) is 31 March 2006.
Proposals should be sent (preferably electronically) to:
Dr. Laura Ugolini, HAGRI/HLSS, MC233, MC Building, University of
Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB.
E-mail: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk
Conference web-page:
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/2006conf.html
CHORD web-pages:
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/chord.html
Feminist Economics
A Special Issue on: Aids, Sexuality, and Economic Development, Guest
Edited by Cecilia Conrad and Cheryl R. Doss
For more information visit
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rfeccfp.pdf
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Conferences, Seminars and
Lectures
URPE at the ASSA in Boston
The complete schedule for URPE events at the URPE at ASSAs is now posted
on its web site,
www.urpe.org. The latest URPE Newsletter is also posted. CHECK URPE
OUT!!!
Occasional Seminar in the History
and Philosophy of Economics
17:00, Friday 6 January 2006
Speaker: Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, Rome, La Sapienza
Topic: "Keynes and Cambridge"
Venue: CPNSS Seminar Room, T206, Second Floor, Lakatos Building,
LSE,Portugal Street, off Kingsway, London WC2A
Fourth Australian Society of
Heterodox Economists Conference
The Conference Program is now available via the Program Link:
http://she.web.unsw.edu.au/Conference_2005/program.html
Abstracts should be available shortly
Please note that the location of this year's conference has changed. It
is now in the Centre of Campus, in the Central Lecture Block: MAP
http://she.web.unsw.edu.au/Conference_2005/location.htm
Conference Website :
http://she.web.unsw.edu.au/Conference_2005/
Seminar on the History of Postwar
Social Science
Philippe Fontaine and Roger Backhouse are organising a monthly seminar
on the History of Postwar Social Science, to take place at LSE
starting in January 2006. Details are available at
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/CPNSS/events/HistoryofPostwarSocialScience.htm
The seminars arranged so far are:
Tuesday, 17 January 2006 5:00-6:30 pm
A. H. Halsey- Nuffield College, University of Oxford
British 20th Century Sociology in International and Interdisciplinary
Context
Tuesday, 28 February 2006, 5:00-6:30 pm
Adam Kuper- Brunel University
Alternative Histories of British Social Anthropology
Tuesday, 14 March 2006, 5:00-6:30 pm
Roger Backhouse- University of Birmingham
Economics in the Postwar Period
Tuesday, 25 April 2006, 5:00-6:30 pm
Ron Johnston- Bristol University
Sixty Years of Change in Human Geography
Tuesday, 30 May 2006, 5:00-6:30 pm
Michael Kenny- University of Sheffield
The History of Political Science in Britain: Issues and Turning Points
Tuesday, 6 June 2006, 5:00-6:30 pm
History of Postwar Social Science
Mitchell G. Ash- University of Vienna, Austria
Psychology in History after 1945: Expansion, Fragmentation,
"Americanization"
International Conference on
Institutional, Social & Radical Economics
“The Great Capitalist Restoration, Disembedded Economy & Nurturance Gap
—A Festschrift Celebration for James Ronald Stanfield” ** at the ASSAs
(**Veblen-Commons Award Recipient 2006)
Boston, 5 January 2006, 9.00-5.30*
Room - ‘Adams A’, Hilton Boston Back Bay Hotel (40 Dalton Street, 3rd
Floor)
Day before most ASSA meetings – Hotel Details -
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/ASSA/Boston_Housing_Map.pdf (ASSA
Hotel No 10)
4 January Pre-Conference Dinner (Informal) 6.30-9.00pm (Apropos
Restaurant, Sheraton Hotel, 39 Dalton St)
5 January Conference Itinerary – ‘Adams A’ Room, Hilton Boston Back Bay
Hotel
9.15 – 9.30 Coffee, Tea & Orange Juice
9.30– 10.40: The Colorado School
Ronnie Phillips, Colorado State University, “The Colorado School of
Institutional Economics”
John Marangos, Colorado State University, “The Political Economy of
Institutions and Transitional Economies”
10.50-12.00: Polanyi-Stanfield, Globalisation and Cultural Conflict
Doug Brown, University of Northern Arizona, “The Polanyi-Stanfield
Contribution: Re-embedded Globalization”
Arno Tausch, Ministerial Advisor to Austrian Government, “Beyond
Cultural Warfare: Polanyi, Europe, and the Muslim World”
Lunch 12.00-1.15pm (Provided) -- “Mass. Ave Deli Buffet”
1.20-2.30: Nurturance, the Economic Surplus and Post-Neoliberal
Governance
William Waller, Hobart and Smith College, “Nurturance and the Art of
Living: The Caring Economics of J. Ron Stanfield
Mary Wrenn, Weber State University, “The Economic Surplus as a Fund for
Social Change and Post-Neoliberal Governance”
2.45 – 4.00: Ron Stanfield & Socioeconomic Progress
Phil O’Hara, Curtin University, “The Contribution of James Ronald
Stanfield to Institutional, Social and Radical Economics”
Ron Stanfield, Colorado State University, “The Great Capitalist
Restoration and Human Progress: A Somewhat Personal View”
4.15 – 5.30: Celebratory Drinks and Food
[See you also at the Veblen-Commons Award Luncheon (details from AFEE in
December)]
* Everyone is welcome to attend the conference. There are no conference
fees. The conference is hosted by the Global Political Economy Research
Unit. If you are interested in contributing a paper to the festschrift
book, etc, contact ronfestschrift@yahoo.com or philohara1@yahoo.com For
a record of Ron Stanfield’s academic contributions see:
http://pohara.homestead.com/files/JRS-CV.doc
For formatted invitation see:
http://pohara.homestead.com/files/stanfield.doc
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Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
Rollins College, Winter Park,
Florida
A0 General Economics
Rollins College, one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in
Florida, is a small (1,725 students), comprehensive, liberal arts
college located in Winter Park, FL, that emphasizes innovative and
quality teaching in small classes. The College's Department of Economics
seeks two tenure track Assistant Professors beginning fall 2006.
Teaching load is three courses per semester, including core courses in
the major and electives. Successful candidates should have Ph.D. in
Economics in hand or expected by August 2006, and should have
demonstrated excellence in teaching multiple courses. The Department
seeks generalists in economics who are committed to quality teaching and
research, enjoy engaging colleagues of diverse perspectives, and are
eager to participate in our department's curricular reform project
focusing on the content and teaching of the economics major. Department
is interested in, but not limited to, candidates with a developed
interest in behaviorist or experimentalist economics, game theory,
economics pedagogy, area studies, economic history, history of economic
thought, political economy, feminist economics, philosophy of social
sciences, and non-mainstream economics. Applicants should send current
curriculum vitae, a recent writing sample, three letters of reference,
and a cover letter describing their teaching experience and their
interest in the position. Review of applications will begin in early
December and continue until the positions are filled. Interviews will be
held at the Boston AEA meetings in January. Through its mission, Rollins
College is firmly committed to creating a just community that embraces
multiculturalism; persons of color and women are therefore encouraged to
apply. CONTACT: Prof. Eric A. Schutz, Chair; Faculty Position Search;
Department of Economics; 1000 Holt Ave. - 2751; Rollins College; Winter
Park, Florida 32789. Applications may be sent electronically to eschutz@rollins.edu.
A0 General Economics
C0 Statistics
Rollins College, one of the oldest institutions of higher learning in
Florida, is a small (1,725 students), comprehensive, liberal arts
college located in Winter Park, FL, that emphasizes innovative and
quality teaching in small classes. The College's Department of Economics
seeks a non-tenure track Lecturer beginning fall 2006. The position is
renewable and with full benefits. Teaching load is three or four courses
per semester, including statistics and other core courses and possibly
electives in the Economics major. Successful candidates should have at
least a masters degree, and should have demonstrated excellence in
teaching multiple courses. Applicants should send current curriculum
vitae, a recent writing sample, three letters of reference, and a cover
letter describing their teaching experience and their interest in the
position. Review of applications will begin in early December and
continue until the position is filled. Candidates may be interviewed at
the Boston AEA meetings in January. Through its mission, Rollins College
is firmly committed to creating a just community that embraces
multiculturalism; persons of color and women are therefore encouraged to
apply. CONTACT: Prof. Eric A. Schutz, Chair; Faculty Position Search;
Department of Economics; 1000 Holt Ave. - 2751; Rollins College; Winter
Park, Florida 32789. Applications may be sent electronically to
eschutz@rollins.edu.
University of Manitoba
Department of Economics- Faculty of Arts
Canadian Economic Policy The Department of Economics at the University
of Manitoba invites applications for a full-time tenure-track
appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in the area of Canadian
Economic Policy. This appointment would be effective July 1, 2006. The
successful candidate who holds a PhD will be appointed at the rank of
Assistant Professor.
The successful candidate who is scheduled to complete their doctoral
dissertation shortly after July 1, 2006 will be initially offered a term
appointment at the rank of Lecturer until their PhD is completed.
The rank and salary will be commensurate with the qualifications and
experience of the chosen candidate, but this is an entry-level position.
Responsibilities will include undergraduate and graduate teaching and
examination in the core components of the departmental program, graduate
supervision, a productive research program, and
service- related activities. Applications are welcome from candidates
working in all schools of thought, ranging from mainstream to heterodox
economics. The University of Manitoba encourages applications from
qualified women and men, including members of visible minorities,
Aboriginal peoples, and persons with disabilities.
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and
permanent residents will be given priority. Applications for this
position must include a letter of application and a curriculum vitae.
As well, three confidential letters of reference must be received
directly from the applicant’s referees. Candidates should also include a
sample of scholarly writing and evidence of effective teaching, such as
teaching evaluations and sample course outlines. Applications and
letters of reference should be sent to Professor Wayne Simpson, Head,
Department of Economics, 501 Fletcher Argue Building, University of
Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB., R3T 5V5, Canada. Tel: (204) 474-9274; Fax
(204) 474-7681. The deadline for receipt of applications is January 15,
2006. Further information concerning the Department and the University
may be obtained from
http://www.umanitoba.ca/faculty/arts/economics or by e-mailing your
questions to simpson@ms.umanitoba.ca.
Application materials, including letters of reference, will be handled
in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
Act (Manitoba).
Florida International University
Research Associate with the Research Institute on Social and Economic
Policy (RISEP), Florida International University.
RISEP is looking for a research associate. We are hoping to fill the
position anytime between now and January 2006. Job description is below.
JOB DESCRIPTION: Research Associate with the Research Institute on
Social and Economic Policy (RISEP) at Florida International University.
This is a 12 month position at Florida International University funded
entirely from “soft” money raised through grants from foundations and
other funders. If we are successful in continuing to raise funds, the
job will continue in future years, although this is not guaranteed. It
is housed on the University Park campus of Florida International
University. The person filling this position must have an automobile for
purposes of transportation.
The RISEP Research Associate’s primary responsibility is to conduct
social science research related to RISEP’s mission of addressing issues
of concern to working class and low income individuals and communities,
as directed by the institute’s director and project manager. The
research associate must be able to extract and download databases from
various sources and perform quantitative analysis on them. Familiarity
with at least one of the standard social science database programs such
as STATA, SPSS, NVivo, etc., is required. Familiarity and ability to use
the GIS mapping system is a plus, but is not required. Definitely
suitable for a recent Masters or PhD recipient.
The research associate must also be able to conduct social science
surveys, to input and maintain data from such surveys, and perhaps also
oversee others conducting surveys. He or she must also be able to
interview others to obtain more detailed information, and to write up
the results. The research associate also must be able to write or
co-write research reports for the institute.
The research associate must be able to interact in a productive manner
with those who will be providing information for research projects or
those helping to guide the research questions being asked. Thus, ability
to relate positively to government or economic development or other
information source officials, labor leaders, community organizing group
leadership, faith-based community organizing group leaders, and the like
is important. Likewise, the research associate will be required to
conduct research and write reports as part of a team, so “teamwork
skills” are important.
Salary: Commensurate with experience; competitive.
Those interested in applying should forward a resume and cover letter to
Bruce Nissen either electronically (nissenb@fiu.edu) or by snail mail:
Bruce Nissen, Florida International University, LC 311, University Park,
Miami, FL 33199.
The University of Science and Arts
of Oklahoma
The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma invites applications for
a tenure-track economics position at the Assistant Professor rank,
beginning August 2006. The successful candidate will teach both
introductory and upper-division coursework leading to a B.A. degree in
economics and will team-teach in USAO’s interdisciplinary general
education core curriculum. Possible interdisciplinary coursework
includes Political and Economic Systems and Theories, American
Civilization, and World Thought and Culture.
A Ph.D. in Economics or related field preferred, but ABDs will be
considered. Applications from all economic traditions are welcomed. The
successful candidate will display evidence of excellence in teaching,
intellectual breadth, and a desire to teach in an interdisciplinary,
liberal arts environment.
The University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma is the state’s public
liberal arts college. Founded in 1908, the University has a long history
of providing an interdisciplinary, liberal arts curriculum at an
affordable price. For five consecutive years USAO has been ranked by US
News as the best public comprehensive baccalaureate institution in the
Western United States and listed as a best value. The University has
recently received significant infusions of new state funding and is in
the process of substantially raising its admission standards. USAO is
located 35 miles southwest of Oklahoma City in Chickasha, a city of
16,000 residents who enjoy a low cost of living.
For application information, see the USAO website at http://www.usao.edu/employment/.
In addition to this “official” job posting, I’d add that USAO is a very
unique college and a wonderful place to work. The University is small,
with about 1500 students. Our general education core is unique in the
state, and is very different from most other liberal arts colleges. The
mandated set of Interdisciplinary Studies (IDS) courses spans all 4
years, and much of the 49 hour core is team-taught. The state Regents
for Higher Education have recently committed to making USAO a premiere
public liberal arts university, allowing us to substantially raise
admission standards and internal academic standards. The Economics
program is small—I’m the only economist—but it’s very much integrated
into the rest of the Social Sciences. I teach not only economics courses
but an IDS course with a political scientist and an American Civ course
with a historian. This is a great place for a heterodox economist. If
anyone would like more information on the University or the job opening,
you can email me at jlong@usao.edu.
Reader/Professor in Europe and
Globalisation
Available from March 2006
Reader Salary: £38,076 - £47,151 per annum inc.
Professor Salary: from £43,560 per annum min. + up to 10% performance
related pay
The Institute for the Study of European Transformations (ISET) and the
Working Lives Research Institute (WLRI) are seeking to make a joint
senior appointment to provide academic leadership in the key area of
Europe and Globalisation. We are looking for a labour market specialist,
preferably with expertise on transnational migrations, who will be keen
to develop interdisciplinary approaches, identify funding opportunities
and lead funding applications and projects.
You will have a strong academic background in economics, ideally
combined with sociology, political science or social policy, as well as
a strong research profile and publication record, which you will be
expected to develop further. Successful experience in funding
applications and research project management is essential.
For an informal discussion please contact the Director of ISET,
Professor Mary Hickman (mary.hickman@londonmet.ac.uk) or the Director of
WLRI, Professor Steve Jefferys (s.jefferys@londonmet.ac.uk).
Please quote the reference: 942PN
Closing date for receipt of applications: 13 December 2005
Interviews will take place in January 2006
Terms and Conditions are under review
Applications are welcome from any candidates with appropriate
qualifications/experience.
For more information go to
link or email: recruitment@londonmet.ac.uk
Please note we do not accept CVs. It is necessary to complete the full
application form.
Senior Economist / The
International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) / Washington, DC, USA.
DESCRIPTION:
The International Center for Research on Women (ICRW) seeks a
senior-level economist to play a leadership role in its Poverty
Reduction and Economic Governance (PREG) team. ICRW is a nonprofit
organization that conducts policy-oriented research, provides technical
assistance, and undertakes strategic communications and advocacy
activities to improve the economic, health and social status of women in
the developing world.
The Senior Economist will play a leadership role in the PREG team to
develop research, technical assistance and policy-advocacy on issues of
poverty reduction and economic governance.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Ph.D. or equivalent in economics, preferably with a specialization in
development, labor or agricultural economics or related topic;
- Minimum of seven years of research, program and/or policy experience
on gender and development issues;
- Proven track record in securing resources;
- Strong research skills;
- Strong leadership capabilities;
- An ability to be creative and work collaboratively.
- Strong writing and presentation skills essential.
SEE FULL DESCRIPTION AT:
http://icrw.org/html/jobs/pregdir.htm
TO APPLY:
Please submit cover letter, resume, salary requirements and a writing
sample to:
Senior Economist
Director, Human Resources
ICRW
1717 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Suite 302
Washington, DC 20036
You may also e-mail this information to: (jobs@icrw.org) or fax it to
(202) 797-0020, attention ''Human Resources.'' Website:
http://icrw.org/html/jobs/pregdir.htm
London School of Economics-
Development Studies Institute (DESTIN)
Lecturer (Asst Prof) in the Political Economy of Development
Starting date: 1 October 2006
Salary: £26,700 - £39,300 pa incl (Salary is subject to qualifications
and experience)
The position is tenure track.
Qualifications: You should have a PhD (or be able to deliver a copy of
your completed thesis if requested) and significant research experience
in the developing world. You should also be able to demonstrate
knowledge of political economy and development theories and an aptitude
to engage in interdisciplinary postgraduate teaching and research
supervision.
More information on DESTIN is available at
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/DESTIN/.
For a full application pack, please see
www.lse.ac.uk/jobsatLSE. If you cannot download the pack, please
email recruitment@lse.ac.uk, quoting reference number AC/05/12.
Closing date for receipt of applications is 20th January 2006.
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Heterodox
Conference Papers and Reports and Articles
Smith vs.Darwin- Jamie Galbraith
For an interesting article on the
invisible hand, see the attached
article by Jamie Galbraith.
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Heterodox Journals and
Newsletters
European Journal of the History of
Economic Thought
Volume 12 Number 3/September 2005 is now
available on the journalsonline.tandf.co.uk web site at
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk.
The following URL will take you directly to the issue:
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=T0PG63152462
This issue contains:
The Sraffa-enigma: Introduction, p. 373
Luigi L. Pasinetti
URL of article:
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=U846Q627U515P7V3
Piero Sraffa: emigration and scientific activity (1921 – 45) * p. 379
Nerio Naldi
URL of article:
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=V31581X43228123G
Sraffa and the Marshallian tradition*, p. 403
Annalisa Rosselli
URL of article:
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=LX62014M492Q2480
Piero Sraffa at the university of Cambridge *, p. 425
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo
URL of article:
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=X2U75R1J236863J2
On a turning point in Sraffa's theoretical and interpretative position
in the late 1920s *, p. 453
Pierangelo Garegnani
URL of article:
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=Q0711470L1652783
Removing an 'insuperable obstacle' in the way of an objectivist
analysis: Sraffa's attempts at fixed capital * p. 493
Heinz D. Kurz, Neri Salvadori
URL of article:
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=N00863534G59187Q
Joint production: Triumph of economic over mathematical logic?*, p. 525
Bertram Schefold
URL of article:
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=G615R526884WXP3T
Michio Morishima and history: an obituary, p. 553,
Takashi Negishi
URL of article:
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=M2NM5602Q342473P
If you are not a current subscriber to this publication, you can request
a free sample issue at:
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk/link.asp?id=csi;104706
More information can be found at
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rrsecfp.pdf
Econ Journal Watch
Econ Journal Watch is shifting its
publication by one month. Henceforth, the triannual journal will appear
in January, May, and September. We are making the transition by delaying
the next issue until January 2006, which will be marked as the start of
the new volume (vol. 3, no. 1).
www.econjournalwatch.org
La Lettre de la Régulation n°53
Septembre 2005 est parue.
Elle est diffusée électroniquement et a
conservé son format de 6 pages avec un point théorique et des
informations sur les publications et les activités de l'association.
Vous y trouverez un point théorique de :
La construction sociale des marchés
Benjamin Coriat (CEPN-IIDE, UMR CNRS 7115, Univ. Paris 13) coriat@club-internet.fr
Olivier Weinstein (CEPN-IIDE, UMR CNRS 7115, Univ. Paris 13) weinstei@seg.univ-paris13.fr
http://web.upmf-grenoble.fr/regulation/Lettre_regulation/lettrepdf/LR53.pdf
http://www.theorie-regulation.org
LES POINTS THEORIQUES SONT TRADUITS EN ANGLAIS
Vous pourrez également trouver les précédentes Lettres de la régulation
sur le site.
Nous vous rappelons ci-après les points théoriques des 12 derniers mois.
Lettre N°52
Les crises financières contemporaines : entre nouveauté et répétition
Robert Boyer (EHESS, CNRS, CEPREMAP-ENS) robert.boyer@ens.fr
Mario Dehove (CEPN-Univ. Paris Nord) mdehove@ccomptes.fr
Dominique Plihon (CEPN-Univ. Paris Nord) dplihon@aol.com
Lettre N°51
Les régulations du capitalisme financier
Michel Aglietta, FORUM (université Paris X – Nanterre) et Cepii aglietta@cepii.fr
Antoine Rebérioux, FORUM (université Paris X – Nanterre)
antoine.reberioux@u-paris10.fr
Lettre n°50
Taxes, benefits and the distribution of incomes
John Morley, Univ. of Nottingham, Business School john.morley@pandora.be
Terry Ward, Alphametrics, Cambridge and Applica, Brussels
tw@alphametrics.co.uk
INTERVENTION. Journal of Economics
In March 2004, the premier issue of "INTERVENTION. Journal of Economics"
was published. Now the forth issue of our German-English journal is
available.
INTERVENTION sees itself as a forum for heterodox approaches in economic
theory and policy. The aims are mutual exchange and the discussion of
different perspectives from different economic schools off the economic
mainstream. The journal comes out on a half-yearly basis in March/April
and October/November, respectively.
The "Articles" section of the current issue features peer-reviewed
contributions by Eduard Gracia, Gunther Tichy, and Arne Heise.
Additionally, the issue includes in its "Forum" section contributions on
different countries and regions: development in Africa, economic growth
in China, offshoring in the U.S., and the British economy. Also included
is an assessment of the new collective agreement of public services in
Germany, a contribution on the Rationality Hypothesis in economics, and
an interview with Amit Bhaduri. The article by Jan Priewe on China's
continuing growth as well as the text on offshoring in the U.S. by
Charles Whalen may be downloaded for free at
http://www.journal-intervention.org. There you can also find further
information on the journal as well as subscription information.
links to the free downloads:
Contents:
http://www.journal-intervention.org/go/contents_2-05.html
Editorial:
http://www.journal-intervention.org/go/editorial_2-05.html
Contribution Priewe
http://www.journal-intervention.org/go/Priewe_2-05.html
Contribution Whalen:
http://www.journal-intervention.org/go/Whalen_2-05.html
Global Footprint Network
Newsletter
http://www.footprintnetwork.org
European Environment Agency Launches "The
European Environment - State and Outlook 2005" - Global Ecological
Limits a Central Theme
November 29, 2005
Today in Brussels the European Environment Agency (EEA) released its
much awaited report
The European Environment - State and Outlook 2005,
featuring the Ecological Footprint, which shows that it takes 2.1 times
the biological capacity of Europe to support Europe.
Jacqueline McGlade
"In formulating policy today, Europe ...has an obligation to look beyond
... its own borders," states Jacqueline McGlade, Executive Director,
European Environment Agency. "Europe cannot continue down the path of
achieving its short-term objectives by impacting disproportionately on
the rest of the world's environment through its Ecological Footprint."
Michael Meacher
EEA commissioned Global Footprint Network and its partners, Stockholm
Environment Institute, New Economics Foundation and WWF International to
prepare a special subreport on Europe's interaction with the global
environment, which in turn informed the State and Outlook 2005 report.
Michael Meacher, MP and former UK Minister of Environment, emphasizes
the importance of this analysis, stating that "Understanding our
ecological demand and its reach beyond national boundaries allows us to
get prepared for the future. It is not that different from our financial
expenditures. If we don't track them, we waste them; if we overdraw our
'ecological accounts,' we are undermining our future."
Europe's well-being and economic performance depend on healthy
ecosystems. Europe's stewardship of its own lands has been relatively
stable for the past 40 years, and the large rise in European consumption
has been fed mainly by non-domestic resources. In 1961, Europe's
consumption exceeded its own biocapacity by just a few per cent; by
2002, Europe was using more than twice its own biocapacity.
Georgina M. Mace
Georgina M. Mace, Director of Science, Zoological Society of London
summarizes it this way: "In a global economy, wealthy urban centres get
much of their supply from far away. They depend on ecosystems they have
never seen. Hence, overused and failing ecosystems, even if distant,
become a threat to the well-being of these very urban centres."
Europe (defined as the 25 EU countries plus Switzerland) is the largest
economy in world history, and its consumption has never been greater. In
her speech, Jacqueline McGlade said, "Europeans' consumption may be half
of that of people living in the USA, but it is double that of people
living in Brazil, India and China."
In 1961, the population of European nations made up over 12 percent of
world population with a demand on global ecological capacity of just
under 10 percent. By 2002, Europe's population comprised only 7 percent
of the world total but its demand on global ecological capacity doubled,
to nearly 20 percent.
What are the opportunities for Europe today? McGlade explained that
"Many of our envrionmental problems are rooted in the way we use our
land, the way we trade and the way we consume." The report lays out an
economic policy framework for addressing these issues focusing on:
• shifting taxes away from labor and investment and toward pollution and
the inefficient use of materials and land;
• economic reforms shifing subsidies that are applied to transport,
housing and agriculture; and
• subsidies encouraging sustainable practices and efficienty
technologies.
Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker
Similarly, Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Chairman of the German Bundestag
Environment Committee and author of the book Factor Four says "It helps
to look into the truth mirror. But what can we do to stop exporting
Footprints that devastate the outside world? Well, technologies and
habits are available to reduce the size of our Footprints by a factor of
two or even four without jeopardising the quality of our European life."
Stay tuned for more from EEA and Global Footprint Network
Global Footprint Network's contribution to the State and Outlook 2005 is
only one part of this large and comprehensive report. Stay tuned for an
upcoming stand alone excerpt of the report (current working title: More
than Two Europes: The European Footprint) scheduled for publication by
the EEA next year. This excerpt will explore in greater detail the
Footprint implications of European trade flows, social trends, and
policies for decoupling economic performance and ecological impact and
will discuss options and scenarios for reducing Europe's Footprint.
As part of the research and analysis for the State and Outlook 2005
report, the EEA funded Global Footprint Network's update of its National
Biocapacity and Footprint Accounts, the underlying dataset which serves
as the basis for all Footprint analyses worldwide. A summary of the new
Accounts are available on EEA's website.
To download the State and Outlook 2005 report, go
here.
Methodological Standards Available for Public Review
A critical component of wide adoption of the Ecological Footprint is the
development of methodological standards to ensure that Footprints are
comparable wherever they are calculated in the world. Check our home
page starting on Friday, December 2nd, for our first set of standards
available for public review.
The Talking Economics Bulletin-
www.talkingeconomics.co.uk
1) Financial Literacy, Talking Economics
Monthly Dec 05, Editorial
2) Associative Economics Events in the UK and abroad
3) Gold and Beyond - What Underpins Money?
4) Rare Albion: A Monetary Allegory (The Further Adventures of the
Wizard from Oz), a review by Stephen Vallus
(For detailed information:
The
Talking Economics Bulletin.pdf )
www.talkingeconomics.com
The associative approach to economics is based on the idea that economic
life is the shared responsibility of every human being. Talking
Economics is about making this responsibility conscious and finding ways
to give it effect.
www.talkingeconomics.co.uk
The Centre for Associative Economics, Forge House, The Green, Chartham,
Canterbury, CT4 7JW, 01227 738207
Friends of Business History
Electronic newsletter of "Friends of
Business of History" is available at
http://www.friendsofbusinesshistory.com/
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Heterodox
Books and Book Series
Eileen Stillwaggon / AIDS and the
Ecology of Poverty
Why does AIDS policy ignore much of what is known about epidemics and
why they spread? HIV/AIDS flourishes where people are dying of myriad
other diseases that are almost unknown among affluent populations. AIDS
and the Ecology of Poverty draws on conventional epidemiology, which
recognizes that people who are malnourished, burdened with parasites and
infectious diseases, and who lack access to medical care are vulnerable
to other diseases, regardless of whether they are transmitted by air,
water, food, or sexual contact. HIV/AIDS is no exception. This book
delivers a telling critique of the behavioral explanation of epidemic
AIDS and the stereotypes that lie beneath it. It also shows how the
methodologies applied in recent epidemiology and health economics are
based on a one-risk-fits-all model that ignores the greater
vulnerability of poor people and gives rise to policies that are narrow,
shortsighted, and dead-end.
Eileen Stillwaggon combines the insights of economics and biology to
explain the epidemic spread of HIV/AIDS in poor populations in
developing and transition countries. Drawing on a wealth of scientific
evidence, the author demonstrates that the HIV/AIDS epidemic cannot be
stopped in isolation. She offers pragmatic solutions to economic,
social, and health problems that beset poor populations and contribute
to the spread of HIV/AIDS. The message of this book is optimistic
because the solutions to almost all of the co-factor conditions and
infections that promote HIV are already known, and the institutions that
make those solutions available to poor people already exist.
"Imaginative, innovative, integrative and critical in the best scholarly
tradition: an outstanding contribution to debates about HIV/AIDS in poor
countries and communities. This book should be read by all working in
the field, but above all by those working in prevention." Tony Barnett,
London School of Economics
“Through the dark first quarter century of the AIDS epidemic, the world
has been waiting for this brilliant book. It shows in detail how flawed
analysis, ineffectual policies and demeaning stereotypes resulted in a
narrow focus on changing individual sexual and drug-using behaviour, but
failed to incorporate the underlying poverty determinants of
malnutrition, other illnesses, and parasitic infections. Millions of HIV
infections would have been averted if AIDS interventions had addressed
the issues raised in this book. Millions of AIDS deaths would never have
occurred. To redeem the future, policy and practice must extend beyond
current fire-fighting measures and engage with the underlying causes of
the AIDS epidemic through simple and low-cost solutions such as those
proposed in this book.” M. J. Kelly, S.J., former Professor of
Education, University of Zambia, Lusaka
“Dr. Stillwaggon makes a clear and compelling case why poverty reduction
must be a central and integrated component of strategies to stem the
spread of HIV/AIDS. She documents why addressing the social and
biological context in which the epidemic spreads is essential. Sadly,
impoverished communities without access to clean water, adequate food
and primary health care experience firsthand the validity of her
analysis.” Kathryn Wolford, President, Lutheran World Relief
"Stillwaggon's analysis delves into the sociocultural and economic
aspects of why the global AIDS pandemic is inextricably linked to the
global crisis of poverty. She proves with empirical evidence that
poverty is the enabling environment or petri dish for rapid HIV
transmission. Our global response to this pandemic must urgently take
heed of Stillwaggon's call for a new paradigm of action. Poverty spreads
HIV/AIDS and HIV/AIDS spreads poverty and we must respond accordingly."
Dr. Paul Zeitz, Executive Director, Global AIDS Alliance
About the Author: Eileen Stillwaggon is Associate Professor of Economics
at Gettysburg College. She was educated at Georgetown, Cambridge, and
American Universities. Her research includes work in Tanzania, Zimbabwe,
South Africa, Argentina, Ecuador, Dominican Republic, Lithuania, and on
the Ute Reservation in Utah.
Economic Compulsion and Christian
Ethics
Series: New Studies in Christian Ethics (No. 24), Albino Barrera
Providence College, Rhode Island
Markets can often be harsh in compelling people to make unpalatable
economic choices any reasonable person would not take under normal
conditions. Thus workers laid off in mid-career accept lower paid jobs
that are beneath their professional experience for want of better
alternatives. Economic migrants leave their families and cross borders
(legally or illegally) in search of a livelihood and countless Third
World families rely on child labor to supplement meagre household
incomes. These are examples of economic compulsion, an all-too-frequent
state of affairs in which people are driven to make choices under acute
economic duress. These economic ripple effects of market operations have
been virtually ignored in ethical discourse because they are generally
accepted to be the very mechanisms that shape the market's much-touted
allocative efficiency. Albino Barrera argues that Christian thought on
economic security offers an effective framework within which to address
the consequences of economic compulsion.
• Barrera addresses the adverse effects of market operations on
individuals from the viewpoint of Christian ethics
• The author provides a Christian perspective on the community's duty to
support those lacking economic security
• Clearly written by an author qualified in both economics and theology,
it is a timely contribution to an increasingly lively area of
interdisciplinary debate
Contents
Preface; Part I. Nature and Dynamics of Economic Compulsion: 1. Markets
and coercive pecuniary externalities; 2. Regressive incidents of
unintended burdens; Part II. Setting the Moral Baseline and Shaping
Expectations: 3. Economic security and God’s twofold gift; 4. Retrieving
the biblical principle of restoration; Part III. Contemporary
Appropriation: 5. Economic rights-obligations as diagnostic framework;
6. Application: the case of agricultural protectionism; 7. Summary and
conclusions.
The Evolutionary Foundations of
Economics
Edited By: Kurt Dopper- Universität St
Gallen, Switzerland
It is widely recognised that mainstream economics has failed to
translate micro consistently into macro economics and to provide
endogenous explanations for the continual changes in the economic
system. Since the early 1980s, a growing number of economists have been
trying to provide answers to these two key questions by applying an
evolutionary approach. This new departure has yielded a rich literature
with enormous variety, but the unifying principles connecting the
various ideas and views presented are, as yet, not
apparent. This volume brings together fifteen original articles from
scholars - each of whom has made a significant contribution to the field
- in their common effort to reconstruct economics as an evolutionary
science. Using meso economics as an analytical entity to bridge micro
and macro economics as well as static and dynamic realms, a unified
economic theory emerges, offering an entirely new approach to the
foundations of economics.
Contents: Prolegomenon:
1.
Evolutionary economics: a theoretical framework Kurt Dopfer; Part I.
Ontological Foundations: 2. The rediscovery of value and the opening of
economics Ilya Prigogine; 3. Synergetics: from physics to economics
Hermann Haken; 4. Darwinism, altruism and economics Herbert A. Simon; 5.
Decomposition and growth: biological metaphors in economics from the
1880s to the 1980s
Geoffrey M. Hodgson; 6. Path dependence in economic processes:
implications for policy analysis in dynamical systems contexts Paul A
David; 7. Is there a theory of economic history? Joel Mokyr; Part II.
Framework for Evolutionary Analysis: 8. Toward an evolutionary theory of
production Sidney G. Winter; 9. Learning in evolutionary environments
Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Marengo and Giorgio Fagiolo; 10. Evolutionary
theory of the firm Ulrich Witt; 11. The self-organizational perspective
on economic processes: a unifying paradigm John Foster; 12. Evolutionary
concepts in relation to evolutionary economics J. Stanley Metcalfe; 13.
Economics and the science of evolutionary complex systems Peter Allen;
14. Perspectives on technological evolution Richard R. Nelson; 15.
Complex dynamics in economic organisms Ping Chen; 16. Evolutionary
theorizing on economic growth Gerald Silverberg and Bart Verspagen;
Bibliography.
God and the Evil of Scarcity:
Moral Foundations of Economic Agency by Albino Barrera (Providence
College)
(University of Notre Dame Press, November
2005, ISBN: 0-268-02193-7; $22 paper).
In his celebrated Essay on Population, Thomas Malthus raised the puzzle
of why a benevolent Creator would permit material scarcity in human
existence. This book argues that precarious, subsistence living is not
an immutable law of nature. Rather, such a chronic, dismal condition
reflects personal and collective moral failure. In this carefully
researched study, Barrera argues that scarcity serves as an occasion for
God to provide for us through each other and that there are strong
metaphysical and scriptural warrants for enacting progressive social
policies for a better sharing of the goods of the earth.
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For Your Information
Environmental Policy Update
#2: Formulating Effective Energy Policy
A supplement for the second edition textbook
Harris, Environmental and Natural Resource Resource Economics: A
Contemporary Approach (2nd ed., Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
Now available as a FREE download for classroom use at:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/textbooks/env_nat_res_economics.html
Exam copies of the second edition text can also be ordered from the
website.
Environmental Policy Update #2: Formulating Effective Energy Policy
analyzes the provisions of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, criticisms of
the Act, and alternative policy options. It includes discussion
questions for students. The update can be used in conjunction with
Chapters 13 (Energy) and 18 (Global Climate Change) in the Harris text,
or as a stand-alone reading for class discussion. It serves as a
complement to Environmental Policy Update #1: Gasoline Prices and Energy
Supplies, also available from the website.
The second edition of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A
Contemporary Approach has been updated in response both to developments
in environmental theory and policy, and to comments and suggestions
based on classroom use. New material in the second edition includes:
● Expanded treatment of economic valuation techniques
● More on “green” national income accounting, including green GDP in
China
● New material on the impact of AIDS and declining fertility rates
● Topic boxes on agricultural pollution and organic agriculture
● New data on mineral price trends and energy subsidies
● More on fisheries policies, “Clear Skies” debate, and toxic waste
management
● New data and policy developments on global climate change
● Updated data series and new appendices on basic economic theory
Updates and exam copies available at:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/textbooks/env_nat_res_economics.html
(please remember to update your web page to be able to download the
second update)
Revaluing Peasant Coffee Production: Organic and Fair Trade Markets in
Mexico
The emergence of significant new markets for organic and “fairly traded”
products has been hailed as an important part of the effort to address
the chronic poverty suffered by many small-scale coffee producers in the
developing world. With 20-25 million producers around the world
suffering from a prolonged crash in coffee prices, the premiums in these
niche markets may offer a way out of crisis.
A new study of Mexican organic and Fair Trade coffee markets offers both
hope and caution for these new market-based responses to the coffee
crisis. In their new report, “Revaluing Peasant Coffee Production:
Organic and Fair Trade Markets in Mexico,” researchers Muriel Calo and
Timothy A. Wise, find that:
• Organic coffee premiums are too low to adequately cover the 2-3-year
conversion to organic production;
• Fair Trade markets, with their guaranteed prices, can bring producers
to profitability and are playing a crucial role in cross-subsidizing the
conversion to organic production;
• Even for producers with access to niche markets, coffee prices alone
still fail to compensate producers for their labor and their social and
environmental contributions.
• Only a minority of producers are likely to gain access to niche
markets, so government intervention in international coffee markets will
be crucial to solving the coffee crisis.
While the study suggests that niche markets alone are unlikely to
provide a comprehensive solution to the coffee price crisis, they have
an important role to play in promoting more sustainable livelihoods and
in beginning to revalue the environmental, economic, and cultural
contributions of small-scale farmers in an increasingly global economy.
“Revaluing Peasant Coffee Production: Organic and Fair Trade Markets in
Mexico” is available online at:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/rp/RevaluingCoffee05.pdf
For more on GDAE’s Globalization and Sustainable Development Program:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/policy_research/globalization.html
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