From the Editors
First of all, we'd like
to draw your attention specifically to a new working paper series in
Heterodox Microeconomics (NEP-HME). In their letter to heterodox
economists, Fred Lee and Carlo D'Ippoliti note that:
Our aim is to complement the NEP-PKE (Post Keynesian
Economics) list edited by Karl Petrick (kpetrick@wnec.edu) which,
despite the name, in fact ranges across all heterodox schools of
macroeconomics. With our heterodox microeconomics list, we wish to
collect all new working papers and unpublished works belonging to any
non-orthodox tradition, including (but not limited to) the
radical-Marxist, Post Keynesian-Sraffian, feminist, Institutional,
evolutionary, and social economics.
For more details, read the letter below and join the list
today!
It is apparently the
season of new calls for papers. There are many exciting heterodox
conferences and workshops taking place around the world. Just to
mention, ICAPE has
announced its 3rd International Conference at the University of
Massachusetts-Amherst in November 2011. The general theme of the
Conference is ''Re-thinking Economics in a Time of Economic Distress.''
In the spirit of pluralism, the ICAPE Conference is open to all
heterodox thinkers and approaches.
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 to Heterodox Economists
Call for Papers
Call
for Participants
Job
Postings for Heterodox Economists
Conference Papers, Reports, and Articles
Heterodox Journals
Economics and
Philosophy, 27(1): Mar. 2011
Economy and
Society, 39(4): Nov. 2010
European
Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 17(5): Dec. 2010
European Journal of the History of Economic Thought,
18(1): Feb. 2011
Feminist Economics, 16(4): Oct. 2010
Feminist
Economics, 17(1): Jan. 2011
Historical Materialism, 18(3): 2010
Journal of Economic Methodology, 17(4): Dec. 2010
Industrial and
Corporate Change, 20(1): Feb. 2011
International
Journal of Political Economy, 39(3): Fall 2010
International
Review of Applied Economics, 24(6): Nov. 2010
Local Economy, 25(8): Dec. 2010
Mother Pelican
, 7(2): Feb. 2011
New Political Economy, 16(1): Feb. 2011
New Political Economy, 15(4): Dec. 2010
Review of
Social Economy, 68(4): Dec. 2010
Socialism and
Democracy, 24(3): Nov. 2010
Heterodox
Newsletters
Heterodox
Books and Book Series
Heterodox Graduate Programs and Scholarships
Heterodox Web Sites and Associates
Heterodox Economics in the Media
Queries
from Heterodox Economists
For Your Information
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Letters to Heterodox
Economists
Launcing
NEP-HME (Heterodox Microeconomics) List
January 31, 2011
Dear Heterodox Economists,
In many countries pressure to increase the visibility of our research
is steadily increasing: research evaluation, selective funding schemes,
and economists' career opportunities increasingly depend upon
bibliometric indicators - for the better or the worst. At the same
time, the financial and economic crisis shows that there is a large
need for a reform of mainstream economic thinking and for the
establishment of non-orthodox communities. A way to partially cope with
both trends is through the internet. With a colleague at University of
Rome ‘La Sapienza,’ Carlo D'Ippoliti, we are working to
increase the visibility of heterodox research in RepEc, a free online
database of economic research providing access to full papers, rankings
and bibliometric information.
We have recently launched a NEP list called
NEP-HME (heterodox microeconomics).
NEP (New Economic Papers) lists are thematic newsletters collecting all
new working papers and unpublished works periodically added to the
RepEc database. They are sent out for free to all who subscribe here:
http://nep.repec.org/.
Our aim is to complement the
NEP-PKE (Post Keynesian Economics)
list edited by Karl Petrick (
kpetrick@wnec.edu)
which, despite the name, in fact ranges across all heterodox schools of
macroeconomics. With our heterodox microeconomics list, we wish to
collect all new working papers and unpublished works belonging to any
non-orthodox tradition, including (but not limited to) the
radical-Marxist, Post Keynesian-Sraffian, feminist, Institutional,
evolutionary, and social economics.
We strongly invite you to subscribe to both newsletters, in order to
stay informed on the latest research developments across all areas of
heterodox economics and to strengthen the build-up process of a more
inter-connected heterodox community. To subscribe to NEP-HME and
NEP-PKE go to
http://nep.repec.org/
and click on NEP-HME and NEP-PKE where you will be able to subscribe to
both newsletters. You can also send an e-mail directly to Karl, Carlo,
and me saying that you want to subscribe to the NEP-HME and/or NEP-PKE.
The NEP-HME newsletter will come out weekly or so.
We also encourage you to make all your work visible and available
through RepEc (which is a free service). To do so, you either must have
your institution's papers indexed in RepEc (instructions to do are
available here:
http://ideas.repec.org/stepbystep.html)
or you can upload a single paper here:
http://mpra.repec.org/.
With Karl, we strive to collect all papers that do not fit the tight
boundaries of the mainstream economics. However, in order to facilitate
our work and to be sure that we do not miss your papers, we encourage
you to signal that you would like your paper to be included in the NEP
heterodox lists by using at least one appropriate JEL code. The primary
JEL code is B5-Current Heterodox Approaches, which will identify papers
for inclusion in our micro newsletter or Karl’s macro newsletter.
If you want your paper to be included in our micro newsletter, then
additional JEL codes need to be listed, such as C67, D, H, I, J, K, L,
M, N8, R2, and Z1.
Using JEL codes is still not common practice in many institutions'
paper series, but we strongly encourage you to use at least some
unorthodox codes in order to boost the visibility of the heterodox
community. If there is a feeling that this may reduce the chances of
publication in some journals, you can select different JEL codes for
the article you submit.
One final note, NEP includes 85 areas covering all kinds of areas in
economics. There are a couple that include heterodox working papers:
NEP-CBE: Cognitive and Behavioural Economics edited by Marco Novarese (
marco@novarese.org)
NEP-HAP: Economics of Happiness edited by Viviana Di Giovinazzo (
viviana.digiovinazzo@unimib.it)
NEP-SOC: Social Norms and Social Capital edited by Fabio Sabatini (
fa.sabatini@gmail.com)
Please write us concerning any query or comment concerning NEP-HME, as
well as to propose new ideas on how to strengthen connections and
inter-linkages between heterodox schools and individuals.
Sincerely,
Fred and Carlo
Fred Lee –
leefs@umkc.edu
Carlo D’Ippoliti –
carlo.dippoliti@uniroma1.it
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Letter.
Call
for Papers
AFEE at
ASSA 2012: Roots and Implications of the Great Crisis
January 6-8, 2012 | Chicago, USA
"Roots and Implications of the Great Crisis"
Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE) invites proposals for
individual papers and complete panels on the theme of Roots and
Implications of the Great Crisis. For four years the world has been
passing through the most serious economic crisis of our lifetimes. The
theme of the 2012 annual meetings will be the causes and consequences
of this event, with an emphasis on institutional and evolutionary
perspectives. All proposals reflecting the analytical traditions of the
Association for Evolutionary Economics will be considered, but papers
exploring global, international and comparative aspects of the crisis
-- especially in empirical terms – are strongly encouraged, as
are proposals that address the following questions:
- What were the principal institutional failings – in
regulation, in accounting, in law, in the structure of markets, in
international governance – that worked to generate the crisis?
- What is the relationship between the financial sector, the real
sector, and the natural or physical environment in determining the
prospects for economic performance going forward?
- What is the relationship between crises in the US, in Europe and
elsewhere?
- What is the relationship between inequality and the crisis, and
what have been the consequences of the crisis for the distribution of
incomes, wealth and power?
- What experiences in the institutional history of economic
reforms are most relevant to our current experience and why?
- Why has the crisis failed (so far) to spur new thinking and
institutional reform in economics, among economists and those who make
policy? What forms should new thinking and institutional change take?
The deadline for submission of proposals for papers and sessions
is
April 10, 2011. Submissions via e-mail are strongly
encouraged. When sending your email, clearly identify it as an AFEE
paper or panel submission in the subject line. If receipt of your paper
or panel proposal has not been acknowledged within two weeks of
submission, please contact the Program Chair. Authors will be informed
whether their proposals have been accepted by May 19, 2011.
Proposals for panels may contain up to five papers, and must include
relevant details of all papers to be presented (see below). Constraints
imposed by the Allied Social Science Association severely limit the
number of sessions allocated to AFEE. AFEE and the Program Chair each
deeply regret that it will be necessary to turn down a number of
proposals.
Presentations should be no more than fifteen minutes in length so as to
leave time for discussion. To be considered for publication in the June
2012 Journal of Economic Issues, the text of your paper cannot exceed
2,850 words, plus up to four pages total of references, tables and
figures. The deadline for submission for the June JEI is December 11,
2011. JEI submission details will be provided to authors whose
proposals are accepted for the conference. All criteria for the
submission of papers, including deadlines, will be strictly enforced by
the editor.
At least one of the authors of any paper must be a member of AFEE.
Visit
www.afee.net or contact
coordinator@afee.net or
erhake@catawba.edu for membership
information.
The following information must be submitted for each paper:
a) Name(s) of author(s)
b) Professional affiliation(s)
c) Email address of corresponding author
d) Mailing address of corresponding author
e) Title of proposed paper
f) Abstract of no more than 150 words
g) Your willingness to serve as a discussant or session chair (specify
field)
I look forward to hearing from you.
Program Chair: James K. Galbraith
Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
The University of Texas at Austin
Drawer Y, University Station
Austin, Texas 78712
Email:
Galbraith@mail.utexas.edu
Phone: 512-471-1244.
Download
Call for Papers.
AHE 2011
Conference: Economists of Tomorrow
13th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics
6th-9th July 2011 | Nottingham Trent University, UK |
Conference website
"Economists of Tomorrow"
Second and Final Call for Papers
Presenters include: George DeMartino, Lynne Chester, Peter Earl, Alan
Freeman, Fred Lee, Ioana Negru, Steven Pressmen, Molly Scott Cato.
In more than ten years the AHE has established a reputation as a major
national and international forum for the discussion of alternatives to
mainstream economics, and for the interdisciplinary and pluralistic
nature of its discussions. It also plays an ongoing role in
strengthening the community of heterodox economists, and in the
development of heterodox economic theories on various themes through
the dissemination of ideas and arguments.
The esteem of the economics profession has reached an all-time low in
the wake of the global financial crisis that most mainstream economists
failed to predict. In this context we have a particularly important
role to play as heterodox economists, many of whom were aware that the
crisis was imminent and who also have a range of proposals for stable
and sustainable economic and social structures.
For 2011 the AHE Conference theme is Economists of Tomorrow. This
reflects the fact that, the world over, we are focused on challenging
the hegemonic domination of our profession by just one approach
embedded in mainstream economics, the neoclassical approach. The clear
failure of neoclassical economics to predict, explain or find solutions
to the global financial and economic crises makes it vulnerable. It is
our intention to use this opportunity to further expand and strengthen
the case for pluralism within the economics profession. To this end we
invite further abstracts for consideration.
Extended deadline for abstracts:
Monday, 21st February 2011
Extended deadline abstracts will be notified:
Monday, 7th March 2011
- Details on how to (electronically) submit full papers will
accompany this notification.
Refereed papers are to be submitted: Thursday, 12th May 2011
Non-refereed papers are to be submitted: Thursday 26th May 2011
- Papers from presenters who fail to register for the Conference
by this deadline will be withdrawn.
Deadline for presenters’ registration: Monday 13th June
2011
The international character of the conference has been a vital factor
in its growing success. Scholars requiring documentation in support
of visa or funding applications should indicate this at the time of
submitting an abstract, so we can deal with such issues quickly.
Conference registration fees, all transportation and accommodation
costs are at the expense of participants. Nevertheless, the AHE
Organising Committee is able to allocate some limited funding to assist
participants from outside the US and European Union, whose proposal is
accepted. If you wish to apply for help with your conference costs
please contact the organising committee via AHEConference@ntu.ac.uk.
Details Regarding Submission
The conference invites further submissions of single papers. All
participants must submit an abstract electronically to AHEConference@ntu.ac.uk. The
abstracts for papers, which must be no longer than one page, should
include a brief informative title, a clear statement of the issue the
proposed paper will address, its main points, and its argument. The
second and final call for abstracts has a deadline of Monday 21st
February 2011. Your abstract must state if you wish your paper to be
considered for a specific theme or not (see below), and if you require
it to be refereed. You must provide contact and affiliation details for
all authors. If your paper is submitted in the name of more than one
author, please indicate who will receive correspondence. The authors of
successful abstracts will be notified, and must provide a complete
paper by Thursday 12th May 2011 (refereed papers) or Thursday 26th May
2011 (non-refereed papers). Both abstracts and papers must either be in
Word or PDF format.
Any paper in the field of heterodox economics will be considered. These
may, or may not, be related to the following themes:
(1) Economics and ethics (plenary theme);
(2) Social classes, today and tomorrow;
(3) The nature of work in the globalised economy;
(4) Co-operative economics;
(5) Withstanding regulatory capture: a pluralist code of conduct for
heterodox economists;
(6) The economics of education and the education of economics;
(7) Finance, value and futurity;
(8) Quantitative Marxism and capitalist dynamics.
Queries relating to the conference should be directed to AHEconference@ntu.ac.uk.
To keep up-to-date with AHE activities subscribe to the AHE-ANNOUNCE
mailing list (www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=AHE-ANNOUNCE)
and visit www.hetecon.com.
Up-to-date information about the 2011 Conference can be found at www.ntu.ac.uk/AHEConference2011
Download Call for Papers.
AJES Speical Issue 2012:
Measuring the Contribution of Dissident Scholarship
A Special Issue of the
American Journal
of Economics and Sociology
Call for Papers
Peer review provides the foundation for academic research, and yet peer
review and esteem can potentially be a self-reinforcing process. Common
training in a dominant paradigm can make academics prone to
group-think. The self-referential tendency is exacerbated in the social
sciences and humanities where theories are evaluated based on
interpretations of events and experiments cannot be used to explode
shared fallacies. Non-mainstream economics alleges that this
self-referential potential has been realized, and further that
conventional metrics of quality scholarship based on citations and
reputation essentially assume and fail to demonstrate the superior
quality of the mainstream.
The failure of conventional measures to demonstrate the superiority of
mainstream economics does not prove the comparable worth of
non-mainstream economics. Documentation of mainstream economics’
flaws protected by self-referential peer review and demonstration of
the value of non-mainstream economics has proved elusive, perhaps due
to the extent of circularity. This special issue solicits innovative
attempts to assess the contribution of non-mainstream economics and
economists. Subjective evaluation by non-mainstream economists of the
value of their research seems hopelessly self-serving, indicating the
need for new metrics to measure the contribution of dissidents relative
to the mainstream. Papers employing a wide range of methods are
encouraged, including historical and contemporary case studies,
quantitative approaches, and comparison of economics literature and
other literatures.
Authors interested in submitting a paper are encouraged to contact the
Guest Editor. Papers should be submitted to the
AJES website, by
February 15, 2012.
Guest Editor:
Daniel Sutter, University of Texas – Pan
American,
dssutter@utpa.edu
Download
Call for Papers.
Capital
Against Capitalism: A conference of new Marxist research
Saturday 25 June 2011 | Central Sydney
It seems significant, and hardly coincidental, that the impasse that
politics fell into after the 1960s and 1970s coincided with the eclipse
of Marx and the research project of historical materialism. Social
democracy, various left-wing melancholies and/or the embrace of dead
political forms has stood-in for these absent names. Returning to Marx,
to Capital and to the various traditions tied-up with these names may
present a way to cut across this three-fold deadlock.
We invite papers responding to contemporary politics from a range of
historical materialist perspectives. We want to bring together the
theoretical discussions and debates occurring in Capital reading
groups, PhD study circles, and Marxist political organisations and
networks. Our conjuncture – its manifold crisis – urges new
analyses, new strategic orientations and the engagement of activists
and academics alike on these questions.
Conference structure
The conference will involve two plenaries and four workshops. There
will be space for 12 workshop papers about, or connected to, the
conference theme. We are happy to receive proposals for themed
workshops of three papers, with the caveat that we may need to alter
suggested panels or reject individual papers to ensure overall
timetabling.
In our opening plenary, Rick Kuhn will overview the argument of his new
book, with Tom Bramble, Labor's conflict: big business, workers and the
politics of class (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Geoff Robinson
and Tad Tietze will act as respondents. The final session will be a
keynote address from Nicole Pepperell on the key ideas of her PhD
thesis and forthcoming book on Marx’s Capital (to be published by
Brill, as part of the Historical Materialism Book Series, later this
year).
In all sessions there will be time for contributions from conference
participants. To maximise discussion at the conference, each first
plenary and workshop speaker will have 15 minutes to overview their
paper.
Proposals for papers
Proposals for papers should be submitted by 15 March 2011 to
Elizabeth Humphrys (lizhumphrys [at] me.com)
and Jonathon Collerson (jonathoncollerson [at] gmail.com). Authors should also indicate
whether they would be submitting a written paper for refereeing. Papers
should be 1500, and no longer than 1800 words. Refereed conference
papers will be published, potentially also as a special issue of an
academic journal. We reserve the right to reject papers if we have too
many to fill the allocated slots, or they are deemed unsuitable, but we
will do our best to accommodate everyone.
Key Dates
- 1 February - Call for papers
- 15 March - Abstracts due
- 1 May - Papers due for refereeing; conference timetable released
- 1 June - Feedback to authors
- 25 June - Conference
Other details
The conference will be held in Central Sydney, in easy reach of public
transport and in an accessible location. There will be a small
conference fee, of approximately $20-$30 on average, to cover the cost
of lunches and travel costs for the interstate speakers. Full details
to follow. If you require childcare please contact us to discuss this
by 1 June 2011. The conference organisers will not be arranging
billeting, but please contact us if you are unable to arrange your own
accommodation option. As the conference has no outside funding source,
we will be unable to cover travel costs for workshop presenters.
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Elizabeth Humphrys and Jonathon Collerson (obo the organising group)
The
Capitalist Mode of Power: Critical Engagements with the Power Theory of
Value
Call for Contributions
Editor: Tim DiMuzio, Lecturer, University of Wollongong,
Australia
The 2009 publication of Nitzan and Bichler’s Capital as
Power: A Study of Order and Creorder has unsettled both
heterodox and mainstream theorists of political economy, while igniting
debate across the social sciences. Building on decades of research,
their book offers not only a provocation to all political economists,
but also a new approach to studying capital and capitalist sociality as
a mode of power.
This collection, edited by Tim DiMuzio, aims to bring together scholars
and practitioners interested in critically appraising and engaging with
the work of Nitzan and Bichler, as well as researchers who use a power
theory of value in their own work.
Contributions should be no longer than 8,000 words, including notes and
references. Style should conform to Cambridge guidelines found here. Papers should be original (i.e.
not published elsewhere), unless the author has explicit permission
from the copyright holder to republish the piece in this volume.
Contributions will be evaluated on their merit, as well as on how well
they fit within the larger project.
Deadline for Submissions: June 1, 2011
Submissions are to be sent to: tdimuzio@hotmail.com
Subject Heading: Original Submission CASP
The volume will be organized around the three main themes outlined
below.
Themes
Theme 1: Historicizing the Emergence of Capital as Power
While Nitzan and Bichler have provided a sketch of the historical rise
of the capitalist mode of power, there is considerable room for further
historical investigation. Contributions to this section could address
the following questions, but are not limited to them:
- How far and in what ways does Nitzan and Bichler’s account
of capital as a mode of power upset or contribute to the
transition-to-capitalism debates led by Dobb, Sweezy, Brenner and Wood?
Is the capitalist mode of power a break from, or continuous with,
earlier forms of society and economy?
- How was the emergence of wage labour related to the early rise
of capital as power?
- What is the historical relationship between technology and
sabotage, and how has this relationship developed and shaped the
capitalist mode of power?
- How is the evolution of accounting related to the rise of
capital as power?
- How far and in what ways have Hindu-Arabic numbers facilitated
the process of quantification and capitalization?
- Can the emergence of capital as power be accounted for by
focusing solely on Western states and agents of social change?
- What is the relationship between capitalization and the modern
nation state?
- How might we rethink the rise of the modern transnational
corporation in light of the power theory of value?
- How did the institution of the national debt spread and deepen
historically and what does it portend for the future of capitalization?
- What were the first major capitalized entities? What kind of
power was capitalized and why is this important?
- How was the process of capitalization institutionalized in
historical struggles?
- What is the historical relationship between the rise of
capitalization as a dominant power process and the discovery and use of
fossil fuels?
-
Theme 2: New Explorations and the Power Theory of Value
The second theme of this edited collection considers original and
unique contributions that apply the framework of capital as power in
general and a power theory of value in particular to the study of the
global political economy. Although papers in this section may have a
historical dimension, their emphasis will be on asking /new/ questions
and shedding /new/ light on aspects of capitalist society.
Theme 3: Critical Engagements with Capital as Power
The third theme of the volume will consider contributions that
critically appraise and engage with the framework of capital as power
and the power theory of value. Some questions that might be asked in
this vein are:
- What are the theoretical and practical limitations of using the
framework of capital as power to understand the global political
economy?
- Are there methodological shortcomings in the power theory of
value?
- Do Nitzan and Bichler offer a convincing critique of
neoclassical and Marxian political economy?
- What does the framework of capital as power mean for
neo-Gramscian assessments of the global political economy?
- How useful is the power theory of value for understanding (post)
modern capitalism?
- What type of new research is needed to better understand capital
as a mode of power? Should the research agenda of political economy be
reconstructed – and if so, how?
- How does the power theory of value understand exploitation and
alienation, and what are the theoretical and practical consequences of
these conceptualizations?
- How might we imagine different forms of resistance and social
organization that counter or capital as an all-encompassing mode of
power?
Conference
on Networks
September 9, 2011 | University of Cambridge
Interested individuals are invited to submit papers for a Conference on
Networks, to be held at the Faculty of Economics in Cambridge on
September 9, 2011. This conference is being organized as part of the
ESRC Seminars in Networks which is coordinated by Professors Marcel
Fafchamps, Andrea Galeotti, and Sanjeev Goyal.
Individuals interested in presenting a paper at the conference should
submit an extended abstract or a complete paper by March 31, 2011 to
Sharon Swann at
ss243@cam.ac.uk
Submissions from younger faculty and doctoral students are especially
welcome. We hope to inform contributors of accepted papers by April 15,
2011. The ESRC will cover travel expenses for participants whose papers
have
been accepted.
EAEPE Conference 2011
Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary
Political Economy Conference
Vienna, 27th-30th of October 2011
Schumpeter's Heritage: The Evolution of the
Theory of Evolution
EAEPE's annual conference 2011 will celebrate the 100th birthday of
Joseph Alois Schumpeter's book "The Theory of Development". Keynotes
will be provided by Stanley Metcalfe and Richard Nelson. The conference
invites all scholars to submit their contribution on the conference
theme of this year, and on usual topics covered by EAEPE's research
areas.
Abstracts for papers to be presented can be submitted electronically at
www.eaepe.org. Each submission
should specify either one of EAEPE's research areas or indicate that it
contributes to the conference theme. The structure of the conference
theme can be described as follows:
Track 1: The Evolving History of Economic Thought
Track 2: The Place of Innovation in Production
Track 3: The Political Economy of Finance
Track 4: From Observation to Formalism - and back
Track 5: Death or Redesign of Capitalism
Track 6: To Fresh Pastures: Global Governance, Environment, Democracy
Design
Abstracts should have a length of at least 600 words, and should
provide name, email and (if possible) affiliation(s) of the author(s).
The conference will take place at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in
the centre of Vienna. Many other scientific associations will cooperate
in this celebration of Schumpeter's work (the International Schumpeter
Society, the Gazer Schumpeter Gesellschaft, the Viennese Schumpeter
Gesellschaft, the Verein fur Socialpolitik,..).
Important Dates
- Abstract submission: 01-02-2011 till 31-03-2011
- Notification of Acceptance: 31-05-2011
- Full Paper submission: 18-07-2011 till 18-10-2011
- For any information on the conference, please contact the local
organizer (Hardy Hanappi, Conference Chair EAEPE 2011) at schumpeter2011@econ.tuwien.ac.at.
For any other assistance (website, registration, etc.), please contact
EAEPE at info@eaepe.org.
Scientific committee:
Kurt Dopfer; Hardy Hanappi (Conference
Chair); Horst Hanusch; Werner Hölzl; Oliver Kessler; Jackie
Krafft; Klaus Kubeczko; Heinz Kurz; Michael Landesmann; Herbert Matis;
Klaus Nielsen; Pascal Petit; Dieter Stiefel; Andreas Reinstaller;
Ulrich Witt.
Education
and Social Change in Latin America
University of Nottingham, UK | 1st - 2nd July 2011
A two day workshop organised in collaboration between MERD
(Marxism and Education: Renewing Dialogues) CSSGJ (Centre for
the Study of Social and Global Justice, University of Nottingham)
Centre for Education for Social Justice (Bishop Grosseteste
University College, Lincoln)
The role of education is increasingly important in the construction of
new forms of anti-capitalist politics in Latin America. This is
evidenced by the centrality of popular education and other forms of
struggle influenced by radical education philosophy and pedagogy, and
by social movements in their construction of new forms of participatory
politics and mass intellectuality. It is also evidenced in the creation
of formal and informal educational programmes, practices and projects
that develop varieties of critical pedagogy and popular education with
both organised and non-organised marginalised and excluded communities.
Particularly, noticeable in this regard is the centrality of education
in the Bolivarian Republic ofVenezuela and the move towards 21st
Century socialism. At the heart of the politicisation of education are
the questions of whose knowledge counts in the process of social
transformation and political change and if the ways in which such
transformative knowledge is created impact upon the struggle to develop
worlds beyond capitalism in the 21st century.
This workshop invites papers which develop theoretically grounded
empirical analysis about the politicisation of education in the
continent.
Key questions to be addressed are:
- How is education politicised in contemporary anti-capitalist
struggles?How has neoliberalism closed down as well as opened up
terrains of educational struggle?
- What differences are there between the role of education in 20th
century socialism and 21st century socialism?
- How does Marxism shape such practices of radical pedagogy and
how do such practices transform Marxism?
- How does the focus on popular education in new forms of popular
politics influence and reflect the type of politics developed?
- What is the role of autonomous education in social movements in
the construction of anti-capitalism?
- What is the relationship between formal
‘progressive’ educational programmes and the politics of
knowledge and education in informal community/social movement settings?
- What can we (outside of the region) learn from Chavez’s
concept of Venezuela as a ‘giant school’ and other radical
pedagogies and educational practices in Latin America?
- What is the role of popular educators within formal schooling in
these processes?
Selected papers will be published in an edited collection with Palgrave
Macmillan in their Marxism and Education Series.
Contact Sara Motta at
sara.motta@nottingham.ac.uk
and Mike Cole at
mike.cole@bishopg.ac.uk
if you are interested in helping organise the workshop or would like
any further information. Please submit your paper proposal by March 1st
2011
5th 'Dijon' Post Keynesian
Conference
Roskilde University in Roskilde Copenhagen Denmark | 13-14 May 2011
Submission deadline extended to February 15th.
For more information, see Call for Papers.
Critical Political Economy
Research Network at ESA 2011 Conference
7-10 September 2011 | Geneva, Switzerland
Session organized by the
Critical
Political Economy Research Network of the European Sociological
Association at the 10th ESA Conference
Conference theme:
‘Social relations in
turbulent times’. Critical Political Economy sessions theme:
‘Varieties of capitalism in crisis?’
The continued fall-out from the economic crisis has led to continuous
debate about the impact of this systemic shock to the world economy.
For instance, evidence could be amassed to support or refute the
argument that it has had a significant impact on the future of
capitalist diversity. On the one hand, it has generated common systemic
pressures everywhere – the most salient being the recurrent
fiscal crises of different national states – but on the other,
there have been important differences in the national responses to the
crisis – compare for example Germany and the United States.
In the field of political economy, a much-discussed approach has been
the varieties of capitalism literature. Conceived here as wider than
just the paradigmatic Varieties of Capitalism framework and inclusive
of a general institutionalist orientation when studying national
political economies, a weakness in this work has been the low priority
placed on the wider social relations which institutions are inevitably
part of. Therefore, although much progress has been made in the past 15
years, the ability of the varieties of capitalism literature to account
for the developments of the past few years – and thus its more
general explanatory capacity – is open to question.
As such, the phrase ‘Varieties of capitalism in crisis?’
has two distinct but connected meanings. For this reason, the CPE RN is
interested in receiving abstracts which consider the evolution of
empirical capitalisms – we expect our sessions to focus on but
not be exclusively concerned with Europe, be it at the national,
regional or supranational level – and/or conceptual issues
related to the study of capitalist diversity. We seek contributions
from scholars with an interest in political economy research, whatever
their disciplinary affiliation (sociology, political science,
economics, geography, anthropology, ethnology, development studies,
area studies, history, etc.). Hence we aim to attract a diverse range
of junior and senior researchers, from postgraduate students to
professors.
NETWORK OVERVIEW: The network was established in 2005 as a platform to
promote and facilitate research aimed at understanding recent
transformations of capitalism and capitalist societies in the European
Union and Europe. Its purpose is to reassert political economy
perspectives in European social science, and to promote critical and
emancipatory scholarship. We are avowedly interdisciplinary in our
outlook, and seek to bring together researchers employing a range of
critical political economy perspectives.
HES Conference 2011
June 16-20, 2011 | the University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, USA
The 2011 History of Economics Society
Conference will be held over June 16-20 at the University of Notre
Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.
Please join us, and add your voice to the historical contemplation of
economic thought and action by submitting a paper or proposing a
session. We now have an on line electronic paper submission
system for the conference. It can be accessed at:
https://notredame-web.ungerboeck.com/logon/log_p1_logon.aspx?oc=10&cc=SPKRLOGON&AppSessionID=ffkfh9ej5fhmfg9&SPAmode=SUB
It will prompt you to provide a title, paper abstract (not longer than
200 words), and the name of at least one other scholar whom you have
contacted to propose as discussant before February 7, 2011.
It also has allowance for you to propose a session: For each paper, it
will prompt for a session title, abstract, and a list of at least two
other scholars you have contacted to put together a focused session,
either as presenters or discussants. You can also Send them to hesconf@nd.edu by the deadline of
February 7, 2011. Papers subsequently chosen will need to be submitted
to our office by April 11 in order to be made available on the
conference website.
The Conference will host a number of special plenary sessions:
currently, there are plans to convene a plenary on the use of history
to discuss the role of economists in the Great Recession; and special
sessions on economists and the state, the Cold War and the social
sciences, and the production of economic knowledge outside academia and
in business schools. Sessions which incorporate journalists,
professional historians, science studies scholars, perspectives from
outside the United States, and members of other disciplines are
especially welcome. We are also attempting to arrange a special
screening of the film Inside Job on the first night of the conference,
in pursuit of a new class of multimedia presentations.
The HES also provides special support for a limited number of Young
Scholars [YS] to present papers at the conference, by providing free
registration, banquet ticket and a year’s membership in the
Society. If you wish to have your paper considered for the YS program,
the above web site will prompt you to provide details as to the date of
your last degree along with your abstract, and an option to indicate
you wish to be considered for the YS Proposal. A Young Scholar must
currently be a PhD candidate, or have been awarded the PhD in the 2
years preceding the conference. The deadline for application is
February 7, 2011.
Information on transportation, accommodations, and area attractions is
also available at http://hes2011.nd.edu
. Registration is available at: http://notredame-web.ungerboeck.com/coe/coe_p2_details.aspx?eventid=6303&sessionid=ff2fhkejpfhmff7
.
If you encounter any problems will paper/session submission or have any
other questions about the conference, please feel free to email me at hesconf@nd.edu or Conference
Secretary Tori Davies at davies.7@nd.edu
.
HOPE
Conference 2012: The Economist as Public Intellectual
April 2012 | Duke University, USA
Organized by Tiago Mata and Steven G. Medema
The annual HOPE (History of Political Economy) conference for 2012 will
take place in April of that year at Duke University, Durham, NC. The
conference fits within the series of annual conferences that, starting
in 1989, have addressed topics in the intellectual and social history
of political economy.
The 2012 Conference will examine how economists in the USA and the UK
have taken up the role of public intellectual during the twentieth
century, i.e. addressing the public with analysis or deliberation over
questions of political or cultural concern.
The "public intellectual" is a concept that evades definition as it has
been shared and disputed by historians, political scientists, and
sociologists, with contrasting approaches and interests. For the
purpose of our conference we use the concept of “public
intellectual” as a marker to investigate the strategies adopted
by economists to intervene in the “public sphere”. Our
contention is that economists have been a force in the dynamics of
public debate along two dimensions:
- 1. Economists have shaped the public's imagination of the
economy, its prospects, its history, its institutions.
- 2. Economists have transformed the public's conception of its
identity, as consumer, as investor, as taxpayer, as citizen.
While the first theme might lead us to engage with economic history and
policy history literatures, the second theme brings us closer to the
concerns of political sociology and social history. All demand careful
study of individual cases of public intellectuals in economics that pay
attention to their biographies, their conceptions of the role of the
scholar in society, and to their interactions with the public.
The history of economics in the twentieth century offers a moving
background against which these subjects find multiple configurations,
several aspects of which are important for our purposes: the
transformation of economics from a literary discipline to a
mathematical and statistical science; the consolidation of some schools
of economic thought and doctrine and the demise of others; the
influence of the second world war and the expansion of universities;
the fortunes of social and economic policy in western States; the Cold
War; the labour movement and later social movements; the elevation of
economics in public discourse as a result economic events, such as the
Great Depression, the Arab Oil embargo and attendant recession and the
current economic crisis; and the increased public importance of
entities such as the President’s Council of Economic Advisors and
the Chairman of the Federal Reserve; and the expansion of the domain of
economics into other social science fields.
Some of the authors who might be studied as examples of “public
intellectuals” are: Henry George, Irving Fisher, J. M. Keynes,
Lionel Robbins, Walter Lippmann, F.A. Hayek, Milton Friedman, J.
K.Galbraith, Paul Samuelson, Paul Sweezy, Herbert Stein, Daniel Bell,
Noam Chomsky, George Schultz, and Gary Becker. We welcome suggestions
of others. Alternatively, one might consider a focus on publications
that have become synonymous of public intellectual work and within
which revealing comparisons might be found: Commentary, Public
Interest, National Review, New York Review of Books, London Review of
Books, Partisan Review, Nation, New Republic, New Statesman, among
others.
We welcome submissions consistent with the above mentioned themes. All
proposals should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than one
page sent to t.mata@duke.edu
and/or steven.medema@ucdenver.edu
by
March 1st, 2011.
International Confederation
of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE) 2011 Conference
Nov. 11-13, 2011 | University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA |
Webiste
Re-thinking economics in a time of economic
distress
The 2007-08 financial crisis and subsequent economic downturn have
raised many questions about how well prevailing economic approaches
identify and explain pressing economic problems and suggest sound ways
to solve them. Exploring what needs to change in economics and
identifying productive paths forward are the central themes of
ICAPE’s 3rd international research conference. Founded in 1993,
ICAPE is an association of associations committed to promoting healthy
diversity in approaches to producing economic knowledge. For the 2011
conference, we invite proposals for papers or sessions from all strands
of scholarship that examine topics of cross-cutting interest for
creating a more robust, socially-valuable body of economic knowledge.
Potential topics could include (but are not limited to):
- Macro models & complex-systems: Path dependencies,
endogenous cycles, emergent properties
- Minskian analyses of financial fragility & implications for
financial policy
- Fiscal policy in the 21st century: Deficits & global bond
markets
- Stresses and strains in the international financial system:
Currencies, governance, emerging powers
- Ecological sustainability as a central concern in economic
analysis
- Enriching economics through perspectives of race, gender,
ethnicity, and class
- Human-capabilities and development practice
- Bringing the state back in to development strategy
- Measuring economic performance differently: Alternatives to GDP
- Ethics and the economics profession
- Economic education after the financial crisis: What needs to
change?
- Grass-roots economic change: Community economies, local
currencies, living wages, urban farming
- Heterodox economics and social provisioning
- Pluralism as a strategy for building a more robust economic
knowledge
- Social and behavioral approaches to individual economic
behavior: Is homo economicus dead?
- The economics of war and peace
Innovations in all strands of unconventional economic theory:
Evolutionary, ecological, complexity, institutional feminist, Austrian,
Marxian, Post-Keynesian, behavioral/psychological, social, radical
political economy, critical realism, general heterodox.
The conference will be held at the U. Mass. Campus Center beginning on
Friday morning, Nov. 11, 2011, and ending midday on Sunday, Nov. 13.
Plans for the plenary sessions, details on registration, a list of
local hotels and other lodging options, along with basic travel
information, will be available soon on the ICAPE website:
www.icape.org
Submissions:
The deadline for submitting proposals is
April 30, 2011. We
welcome proposals for individual papers, full sessions, and
roundtables. For individual papers, please include: Your name, your
title and affiliation, an abstract of 300 words or less, 3 keywords,
and contact information (address, phone, email). For full sessions of
papers, panels, and other formats, please include the above for each
contribution, as well as a title for the session, chair, discussants,
and the name and contact information of the session organizer. To
submit proposals, please go to:
https://editorialexpress.com/conference/ICAPE2011,
and follow the instructions given there.
Contact information:
For further information or questions, please contact ICAPE executive
director Martha Starr (
mstarr@american.edu)
or executive secretary Erik Olsen (
olsenek@umkc.edu).
Organizing committee:
Martha Starr (American University),
Erik Olsen (University of Missouri-Kansas City), Ioana Negru (Anglia
Ruskin University), Giuseppe Fontana (University of Leeds), Mwangi wa
Githinji (U. Mass.-Amherst), Andrew Mearman (University of West
England), Bruce Pietrykowski (U. Michigan-Dearborn), Virgil Storr
(George Mason University)
Advisory Committee:
Gerald Epstein (U. Mass.-Amherst),
David Colander (Middlebury College), John Davis (Marquette &
Amsterdam Universities), Edward Fullbrook (Real-World Economics), Rob
Garnett (Texas Christian University), Stephanie Seguino (University of
Vermont)
IIPPE Conference (and
Working Group on Financialisation)
20-22 May 2011 | Istanbul, Turkey
We are writing to you in our capacity as convenors of the IIPPE Working
Group on Financialisation. We would like to encourage you to consider
submitting either a paper or a complete panel proposal to the working
group for consideration for inclusion in the Second International
Conference in Political Economy in Istanbul on 20-22 May 2011 (please
see general call for papers attached).
In the context of the failure of mainstream economic theory to provide
meaningful explanations for, or solutions to, the ongoing financial
crises, the Financialisation Working Group hopes to repeat the success
of the previous conference in Crete by bringing together a
distinguished collection of academics with a reputation for producing
high-quality critical work on the various aspects of finance in
contemporary capitalism.
In accordance with the general call for papers, contributions covering
the following areas are particularly encouraged:
- he weakness and inability of mainstream economics –
including recent theoretical developments such as behavioural finance
– to satisfactorily account for financial crises
- The resulting challenges to heterodox economics and Marxist
political economy
- The role and use of alternative methodologies in the studies of
financial markets and critique of mainstream economics
- How to locate the world economy and the (neoliberal)(nation)
state in the study of finance
- The relationships between finance and accumulation and social
and economic reproduction
In addition, the IIPPE Financialisation Group welcomes submission of
papers within the remits of its core areas of research
- Manifestations and consequences of financialisation in
developing and emerging countries
- The (shifting) role of developing and emerging countries in the
world economy
- The European crisis and future role of the Euro
- Alternative theoretical and methodological approaches to the
financial system
In addition to submission of individual papers, we would particularly
encourage the submission of panel proposals of 2-4 presentation each.
Panels which collectively present the work of institutions or other
academic groups provide an excellent opportunity to showcase work in a
greater depth that is possible in single presentations. It is further
hoped that the conference will provide an opportunity to deepen links
between groups working on finance from a critical perspective.
Abstracts of individual papers (max. 250 words) or panel proposals
(max. 250 words plus abstracts of the individual papers) should be sent
to jm60@soas.ac.uk and ak82@soas.ac.uk by the 15th
February 2011.
Download IIPPE Call for Papers.
International
Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education
Symposium on "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
Symposium Editor:
Sudipta Bhattacharyya, Department of Economics and Politics,
Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. (sudipta.bh@gmail.com,
sudipta.bhattacharyya@visva-bharati.ac.in)
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 symposium 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
symposium. 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)
Download Call for Papers.
Japanese Society for Post
Keynesian Economics Conference: Economics in Financial Crisis
March 22-23,2011 at Meiji University (Tokyo, Japan) | Conference Website
The Japanese
Society for Post Keynesian Economics
Deadline of submission of abstract to the international seminar: Feb
10, 2011 (extended)
Contact to Prof. Takashi Yagi (Meiji University) confyagi@kisc.meiji.ac.jp
Prof. G.C.Harcourt will give the follwoing Lectures:
1) March 22, 16:00-17:00 at Liberty Hall (Ground Floor of Liberty
Tower, Meiji University)
- Topic: The Crisis in Mainstream Economics
- Welcome Party will start at 18:00- at 23th Floor of Liberty
Twoer, Meiji University
- Prof. Hirofumi Uzawa will join the lecture and the Party.
2) March 23, 16:00-17:00 at Liberty Hall (Ground Floor of Liberty
Tower, Meiji University)
Additional Lectures by Professor G.C. Harcourt
1) March 26, 16:00-17:00 at Nishogakusha University
- Topic: Post-Keynesian policies for modern capitalism
2) March 28, 13:30-14:20 at Meiji University,
- Topic: Ricardo and Cambridge
- Invited lecture for the International Conference on Money,
Finance and Ricardo,
- March 28-29, 2011 at Meiji University,Building : Academy Common.
Room 309B
- This conference is organized by the Ricardo Society (in Japan).
Organizer:
Organizing Committee :
Denzo Kamiya (Keio University)
Toichiro Asada (Chuo University)
Manabu Kasamatsu (Waseda University)
Ryuzo Kuroki (Rikkyo University)
Kazunori Watanabe (Nishogakusha University)
Yukitoshi Yamada (J.F.Oberlin University)
Marx and Philosophy Society 8th Annual Confernce
Call for graduate panel papers
Saturday 4 June 2011, Institute of Education, University of London | Conference website
'Marx and Aristotle'
Main speakers:
- Jon Pike (Open University)
- Tony Burns (Nottingham)
- Scott Meikle (Glasgow)
The Marx and Philosophy Society aims to encourage scholarly engagement
with, and creative development of, the philosophical and foundational
aspects of Marx's work. The society welcomes contributions from any
philosophical or political position.
Papers on any topic consonant with the general aims of the Society (not
necessarily on the specific conference theme) are invited from
postgraduate students for a panel at the conference. Papers should be
planned to last for approximately 20 minutes. Please submit abstracts
of up to 300 words by 25th February 2011 to David Marjoribanks at dm275@kent.ac.uk.
Marxist
Literary Group Institute on Culture and Society
June 20-24, 2011 | the University of Illinois at Chicago
Special Topic: “What Is Revolution?”
Deadline for Proposals: March 1, 2011
The Marxist Literary Group’s 2011 Institute on Culture and
Society (2011 MLG-ICS) will convene this summer (June 20-24) on the
campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago. As always, any
submission that engages seriously with Marxist thought will be
considered, including, but not limited to, Marxist considerations of
literature or literary considerations of Marxism. This year’s
special topic will be “What is Revolution?” What is class
struggle? Can there be one without the other, as horizon or
precondition? How does radical social change take place? Is it
necessary to have a theory of revolution, or is it better to pursue an
intelligent opportunism? Does Marxism require revolution? Does
revolution require class? What would a plausible political subject, or
a plausible subject of history, look like today? Does our present
moment hold any revolutionary possibility? What contemporary movements,
possibilities, and practices hold promise (or do not)? Is there a
plausible relationship today between aesthetic practices and the end of
capitalism (as we know it)? How does one represent what is only
possible, not actual? Is “struggle” another name for the
possible? What is the relationship between politics as such and the
economic as such? What is the relationship between politics and
thinking, between revolution and philosophy? These questions and others
will be the focus of this year’s Institute. Selected papers will
be invited for submission to Mediations (mediationsjournal.org).
Recent years’ programs can be accessed at mlg.eserver.org/the-institute.
The Institute on Culture and Society is run in consecutive sessions,
and the discussion is most fruitful when participants stay for the
entire Institute. Housing is available on campus, and every effort is
made to keep the cost of attendance low. Graduate student participation
is subsidized by the Marxist Literary Group. Proposals are welcome for:
- Traditional panels
- Individual presentations
- Roundtables
- Film Screenings
- Performances
- Reading Groups
All proposals except panel proposals should be a maximum of 250 words
in length, and should include title, author, and author’s
affiliation. Panel proposals should include for each proposed paper a
250-word abstract, including title and affiliation, as well as a title
and 100-word rationale for the session itself. Please send submissions
(plain text or commonly used file format) by March 1, 2011 to: 2011mlgics@gmail.com
New
Frontiers in European Studies: UACES Student Forum Conference
30 June – 1 July 2011 | University of Surrey
The UACES Student Forum is organising its Twelfth Annual Conference, on
30 June – 1 July 2011 at the University of Surrey. This two day
conference aims to provide a friendly environment in which postgraduate
students can gain experience of presenting research and develop
contacts with other researchers in their field. The conference is aimed
at research students of all levels and proposals are welcome from all
students working in the field of European Studies within various
disciplines. Some established academics and/or postdoctoral researchers
will also be present to provide feedback and there will be a number of
keynote speakers who have contributed extensively to the development of
European Studies.
There is no registration fee to attend the conference but delegates
would be expected to pay for a conference dinner on the 30th June
(optional to attend) with a budget of about £25.
Thanks to an extra funding provided by the European Commission, two
nights accommodation for all selected participants will also be covered
(on the 29th and 30th of June), and travel within the UK to the
conference will be refunded, up to a maximum of £100. If
travelling from outside the UK and travel is expected to cost more than
this, then please contact: Tomas Maltby: tomas.maltby@manchester.ac.uk
In order to submit abstract proposals for both panels and papers please
complete the Paper Submission Form (which can be downloaded from http://www.uacesstudentforum.org/)
and then submit by clicking the `Submit by Email' button in the
top-right corner of the document. The deadline for submission of
proposals is 15 March 2011. Successful applicants can expect to
hear back by the beginning of April.
Postgraduate students may propose a paper individually. The Student
Forum Committee will organise papers proposed in this manner into
panels. We also encourage students to form pre-organised panels by
using the Student Forum’s Euroresearch mailing list to contact
other paper-givers. Panels should contain one Chair (who is not
presenting a paper) and three paper-givers. The proposals should
include a summary of the overall theme and objective of the panel
(max.200 word) along with a 200-word abstract for each of the three
papers in the submission form. Proposals should be submitted by the
Convenor (usually the chair or a paper-giver) of the panel with the
agreement of all other participants. The panel submission form can be
downloaded from http://www.uacesstudentforum.org/.
As a condition of the travel and accommodation grant, please note that
all presenters who have been selected are required to provide a working
paper in advance of the conference. The deadline for the submission of
papers is the 20th June 2011. Papers should be no more than 8000 words
(including footnotes). There will also be potential avenues for
publication, primarily (but not exclusively) through the Journal of
Contemporary European Research http://www.jcer.net/ojs/index.php/jcer/index
The organisers of the UACES Annual Conference, to be held in Cambridge
(See the UACES website: http://www.uaces.org/events/conferences/cambridge/)
recommend that students planning to attend and present there, first
attend and present at the Student Forum Twelfth Annual Conference in
Surrey.
Further details of the conference will be posted on the Student Forum
website - http://www.uacesstudentforum.org
as they become available.
For further information about abstract submissions please contact:
The University Association for Contemporary European Studies can be
found at http://www.uaces.org/
Private
Equity, Corporate Turbulence and Labour Regulation
Monday June 13th 2011 | University of Geneva, Switzerland
ESRC/Middlesex University One Day Workshop
Concerns over the role of private equity in shaping corporate behaviour
were already apparent in the years immediately preceding the Great
Financial Crash of 2008. In 2006 alone buy-outs of businesses by
private equity organisations amounted to US$ 725bn. – equivalent
to the economies of Argentina, Poland and South Africa combined. One
quarter of all takeovers before the financial crash were financed by
such private equity. Major household names, such as Nabisco, Carrefour,
Gate Gourmet and EMI have already fallen to such venture capital.
Private equity finance depends on leverage, or the ability to borrow
money to raise more finance. There is thus a dependence on debt, which
enormously increases the risk of such investment. Up until the
financial crash such risky ventures produced huge returns for the
financiers, but after the crash such debt led to huge losses. Harvard
University, for example, lost millions of dollars from its funds after
it had mistakenly switched to private equity investment as an
alternative to stocks and bonds. The result was lay-offs and
redundancies of workers to cover the cost, a pattern of events being
repeated elsewhere for workers whose employing organisation is
dependent on debt finance. Such ‘short-termism’ appears
built in to the private equity model, as the financiers seek immediate
gains from their investments at the cost of longer term corporate
stability. Employees and their unions are faced with continuous
episodes of restructuring as corporations are treated as ‘bundles
of assets’ and plants are sold off to make profits or avoid
losses. Productive investment in a company becomes less likely, as it
is an additional cost to the remote owners. Workers suffer from
increased job insecurity as off-shoring and contracting-out is
encouraged, while industrial relations and collective bargaining become
a casualty of corporate instability and ‘invisible’
employers. This seminar will discuss and debate the continuing problems
of private equity finance and corporate turbulence by bringing together
academics and practitioners from trade unions, government bodies,
employers and NGOs to discuss policy initiatives. The seminar is
convened by Middlesex University, London and funded by the UK’s
Economic and Social Research Council. It is part of a series of
seminars examining global labour regulation in the international
economy. Previous seminars reviewed problems arising from the
increasing use of contract and agency labour, and migrant workers.
Overview speakers include:
Professor John Grahl (Middlesex University) on Restructuring
under the Rule of the Capital Markets: the case of private equity? and
Professor Geoff Wood (Sheffield University), Professor Marc
Goergen (Cardiff University) and Professor Noel O'Sullivan
(University of Sheffield) with a data presentation on The Employment
Consequences of Private Equity Acquisitions: The Case of Institutional
Buy-Outs.
Plus speakers from International Trade Union Federations on the trade
union response. If you wish to contribute a paper to this seminar, or
wish to attend as a delegate please contact below. We are particularly
keen to hear case study presentations on labour-related problems
flowing from private equity and institutional buy-outs. Some financial
assistance may be available for selected presenters to cover costs of
travel and accommodation.
For more information, and registration at the Seminar, please contact
Professor Martin Upchurch, Middlesex University, London, UK (m.upchurch@mdx.ac.uk) or Denise
Arden (d.arden@mdx.ac.uk).
Further information on the seminar series can be found at Beyond Labour
Regulation blog http://www.globalworkonline.net/blog/private-equity-corporate-turbulence-and-labour-regulation/
Rescuing America: Strategies
and Policies against Neoliberalism
Call for Book Chapters
Nikolaos Karagiannis, Swapan Sen, and Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi are the
editors of the book Rescuing America: Strategies and Policies
against Neoliberalism, Routledge Advances in Heterodox
Economics, 2012. Editors are calling for contributions for this book
Contributors:
12-15 distinguished economists and social and political scientists
mainly from the USA (outside the mainstream schools of thought).
Main Objective:
This multidisciplinary volume seeks to thoroughly examine at
theoretical and, especially, policy levels the current state of the US
economy, society and polity. With important contributions by known
heterodox economists and radical social and political scientists, the
manuscript seeks to criticize the failed neoclassical/neoliberal
perspectives and to offer alternative strategies and policies to the
country’s socioeconomic impasse and misery.
Target Readership (Market and Competition):
The book is intended to serve as an important text for
multidisciplinary policy-oriented courses in Social and Economic
Studies at undergraduate and graduate levels. Therefore, universities
and colleges are expected to be an important segment of the market. In
addition, the manuscript can be of great assistance to academics,
government agencies, executives, policy makers, politicians, diplomats,
consultants and the general public.
It has to be mentioned here that: 1. there are no competitors since
there are no multidisciplinary books of this type related to the
contemporary USA; and 2. the edited volume discusses a wide range of
very challenging and thought-provoking theoretical and policy issues,
and offers much-needed pragmatic recommendations. The above two, and
perhaps other, are significant strengths of this project.
The paper with an abstract to be submitted to the editors on or before 28
February 2011 to the e-mail addresses: karagiannisni@wssu.edu , sadjadizm@wssu.edu , sens@wssu.edu .
For further details, please download “Book Guidelines”.
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 (or fill out the form
attached). 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 Panel Participation Form.
SCEME
Workshop: Economic Methodology After the Crisis
(What) Have we learned? New
perspectives on the political economy of finance and regulation
May 9th – 11th, 2011 | The PhD School, Université Paris
VIII
The workshop is linked to the First Annual Conference of the the
COST Action "Systemic Risks, Financial Crises and Credit", which will
be open to all participants.
The PhD School aims at bringing together established scholars and
young PhD students from disciplines such as political science,
sociology, and economics. Participants are invited to present their
work and to receive comments from both junior and senior
scholars. Although the three days of the school will be dedicated
to economists, sociologists, and political scientists, respectively,
the same questions may be addressed from different disciplinary
perspectives. Encouraging methodological diversity, we are interested
in a variety of approaches to the study of finance and regulation,
including for instance evolutionary institutional approaches, network
analysis, agent-based approaches, discourse analysis, etc. Participants
are particularly encouraged to apply with papers on the following
topics:
- Recent developments in financial regulation (e.g., Basel III)
- How to identify and deal with systemic risk?
- Old and new ideas for a functional and/or social finance
- Causes and consequences of financialization
- The performativity of economic theories and models
- Varieties of Capitalism before and after the crisis
Small travel grants for PhD students are available. In order to
apply for participation as well as for funding you only need to send
your abstract by the deadline (see below). Applicants who do not need a
travel grant are kindly asked to communicate this to the organizing
committee. The abstracts will be reviewed and selected anonymously by a
scientific committee consisting of the invited scholars and the
organizing committee. Abstracts should state the main research question
and indicate the basic research strategy of the project. Abstracts
should be no longer than 500 words, final papers no longer than 8000
words.
- Deadline for submission of abstracts: February 28th 2011
- Successful candidates will be notified by: March 14th 2011
- Deadline for submission of paper: May 1st 2011
-
Please send your abstracts to: costis0902.phd@gmail.com
Call for
Participants
AFIT 2011
Annual Conference
April 13-16, 2011 | Salt Lake City, USA
"Institutionalism and Building Heterodox
Economics "
See the program here (web) or download it here (pdf).
For further details, visit the AFIT website: http://www.associationforinstitutionalthought.org/
Everyone who participates in the AFIT Conference has to register
for the WSSA meetings as well. See the following links for WSSA
registration as well as for accommodation information: http://wssa.asu.edu/
Cambridge Realist Workshop
Critical Labour Studies 7th
Symposium
19th and 20th February 2011 | The Manchester Museum , The
University of Manchester
See the Program here.
Critical
Realism Research Seminars, London
An interdisciplinary critical realist research seminar series in
legal, political and educational theory and practice in its social
context.
Spring Term 2011
- 14th Feb, Alex Callinicos, ‘Marxism and Critical
Realism’
- 21st March, Kathryn Dean, ‘Capitalism and Analytical
Thinking: A Dialectical Account’
Seminars take place in London, Institute of Education Committee Rm 1,
at 5:30pm. Institute of Education, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1H 0AL
Contacts:
ESPANet/RECWOWE Summer
School: Welfare States of Eastern and Western Europe
June 27-July 5, 2011 | Central European University in Budapest
The school targets PhD-students who have started or are about to start
a project related to welfare and social policy in Eastern and Western
Europe. Topics that will be addressed are the comparative analysis of
welfare state and social policy reform, role of social actors, policies
for work and welfare reconciliation, social protection, welfare regimes
and labor markets. The course also aims to address methodological
issues of comparative research in East and West European welfare and
social policy.
The Summer School offers lectures with discussion, assignments and
workshops given by European scholars from various disciplines such as
sociology, social policy, political science and economics. In addition,
students will have the opportunity to present their PhD-projects and to
discuss them in small groups with other participants and scholars.
Application deadline: March 20, 2011
More information is in the attached flyer, and can also be found on
this website:
http://www.summer.ceu.hu/02-courses/course-sites/welfare/index-welfare.php
.
Download Call for Applicants.
International
Conference on Greening Financial Institutions
September 08 - 09, 2011 | Karlsruhe, Germany
We are pleased to inform you that a Two Day International Conference on
Greening Financial Institutions will be held from September 08 - 09,
2011 in Karlsruhe, Germany. This event will bring together senior
executives of financial institutions, academia, regulators, economists,
financial analysts, investment brokers, sustainable development
practitioners, representatives of governmental organisations and
international development agencies and other relevant stakeholders to
discuss key emerging issues including: climate change and the emergence
of the green economy; how is the transformation from high to low carbon
and sustainable economy affecting financial sector; and initiatives
needed to prepare financial institutions for the next economy - the
green economy.
Further to the knowledge sharing on greening financial institutions;
the upcoming conference also provides an excellent networking
opportunity with the members of financial community, international
agencies, governmental and non-governmental institutions, academia,
sustainable development practitioners and other relevant stakeholders
in Europe and beyond.
You are cordially invited to attend this international event and/ or
nominate the member(s) of your institution.
For further information, please see the event details here.
London
Seminar on Contemporary Marxist Theory
2011 Seminar Series
9th February, 5pm | King's College London, Strand Campus, S2.28
Alberto Toscano (Goldsmiths, University of London): Marxism: A Realism
of the Abstract?
2nd March, 5pm | King's College London, Strand Campus, room TBA
Gérard Duménil (Université de Paris X Nanterre):
Explaining the crisis of neoliberalism: Neither the falling profit rate
nor mere financial craze
23rd March, 5pm | King's College London, Strand Campus, room TBA
Esther Leslie (Birkbeck College): Flat Screens and Liquid Crystals: On
the Politics of Aesthetics and
Vice Versa
4th May, 5pm | King's College London, Strand Campus, room TBA
Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS): Three Cheers for Marxist Monetary Theory: The
Eurozone through the
Prism of World Money
18th May, 5pm | King's College London, Strand Campus, K.3.11
Raked Lecture Theatre
Gail Day (University of Leeds): Dialectical Passions: Art Theory, Art
History and Marxism
For further information, please contact:
- Alex Callinicos, European Studies, King's: alex.callinicos
[at]kcl.ac.uk
- Stathis Kouvelakis, European Studies, King's: stathis.kouvelakis
[at] kcl.ac.uk
- Costas Lapavitsas, Economics, SOAS: cl5 [at] soas.ac.uk
- Peter Thomas, Politics and History, Brunel: PeterD.Thomas [at]
brunel.ac.uk
Nicole
Pepperell speaking on Marx's Capital: Birbeck and Melbourne
February 18th | Birkbeck, UK,
The Birkbeck Capital (Volume 1) Reading Group's next meeting on Friday
February the 18th at 6:30 pm will feature Nicole Pepperell (author of a
forthcoming book on Marx's Capital and of the blog roughtheory.org and researcher at
the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology).
Her paper will discuss, among other things, Marx’s
“standpoint of critique” – that is, whether and how
Marx is able to engage immanently with the object of critique. It will
touch lightly on the narrative structure of the first four chapters of
Volume I of Capital and give us the latest on Nicole's research for her
forthcoming book. Nicole will speak for 45 minutes and this will be
followed by 45 minutes discussion. There will be some wine served up.
Could you let samdolbear@gmail.com
know know if you would like to attend? The room we have booked may need
to be upgraded if lots of people are coming… The event’s
open to all.
February 22, 2011. Tuesday 6-8 pm | RMIT University,
Melbourne, Australia
Talk: “The Higher Realms of Nonsense: Unpacking Capital's
‘Greatest Difficulty’”
Place: The New School, Room 529, 80 Fifth Ave., NYC
North American Basic Income
Guarantee Conference: Models for Social Transformation
Tenth Annual North American Basic Income Congress
Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers, New York, NY | February 25 –
27, 2011
Models for Social Transformation
The Tenth Annual North American Basic Income Conference: Models for
Social Transformation will take place in New York City on Friday,
February 25 through Sunday February 27, 2011. This conference will be a
joint event of the USBIG Network, and BI/RG Canada. It will be held in
conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Eastern Economic Association
(EEA). Attendees at the USBIG conference are welcome to attend any of
the EEA’s events.The deadline for proposals for the Tenth Annual
North American Basic Income Guarantee (NA-BIG) Conference was November
5, 2010. The NA-BIG Conference: Models for Social Transformation will
be held in conjunction with the annual conference of the Eastern
Economic Association (EEA) at the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers
for February 25-27, 2011.
The NA-BIG Conference began in 2002 as the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee
Network Conference. It expanded in 2010 when the U.S. and Canadian
Basic Income Networks decided to hold joint conferences on alternating
years in each country. USBIG and BI/RG Canada remain separate networks,
which separate newsletters, websites, membership, and events, but we
come together yearly for this event.
This year’s conference will include in a plenary dialogue on
“left and right views of the basic income guarantee,”
featuring Stanley Aronowitz, of the City University of New York, author
of The Jobless Future; and Charles Murray, of the American Enterprise
Institute, author of In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State.
Other speakers confirmed so far include Brazilian Senator Eduardo
Suplicy and Alfredo L. De Romana, of the University of Paris I (the
Sorbonne), author of Sharing Nature: Noncommodity Goods, Optimal
Reallocation of Endowments, and the Redefinition of Economic
Methodology.
Anyone who attends the NA-BIG conference is welcome to attend any of
the EEA’s sessions. Everyone who attends and/or presents at the
NA-BIG must register with EEA. USBIG participants, who are not
economists, can register for $75, slightly more than half the regular
price of $135. NA-BIG who are economists should become full members and
pay the full price. The EEA has set up a special online payment system.
For economists: http://eeaorg.myshopify.com/products/usbig-registration-academic
For non-economists: http://eeaorg.myshopify.com/products/usbig-registration-non-academic
For more info about the EEA conference go to: www.ramapo.edu/, or contact: eea@ramapo.edu.
For more information about the NA-BIG Conference go to www.usbig.net. For any questions
contact Karl Widerquist at Karl@Widerquist.com.
PKSG Keynes
Seminar
15 February at 5.30 pm in the Auditorium Lounge at Robinson College,
Cambridge.
Michael Osborne will speak on “The modern On the
significance of Sraffa's reswitching: some long-standing financial
puzzles and their joint resolution”
Andrew Trigg will discuss Michael Osborne's paper.
For further details visit http://www.postkeynesian.net/keynes.html
Research Seminar of Monetary
History Group
Friday, 15th April 2011 - 2:00 - 5:30 p.m.| The
Centre for Contemporary British History at King's College London.
Venue: History Seminar Room, 8th floor, Strand building.
1st Seminar: Dr Peter Wardley (University of the West of England):
"Strategy, structure and divisional oversight: re-organisation,
mechanisation and "centralisation" in the British interwar Banking
industry"
2nd Seminar: Dr Ali Kabiri (City University): "Monetary Expansion and
new valuation tools, the 1920s New York Stock Exchange boom"
Details: Professor Richard Roberts, Centre for Contemporary British
History at King's, College London. richard.roberts @ kcl.ac.uk ; Professor Forrest Capie,
f.h.capie @city.ac.uk ; and Dr Richard
Saville, richardsaville @waitrose.com
, to whom RSVP, or to Centre for Contemporary British History, King's
College, London.
SOAS Money and Development
Seminar
Feb. 9, 2011, 5 PM | the School of Oriental and African Studies
(SOAS), Main Building, Room 243 (post-graduate common room)
We are pleased to invite you to another a special event at the SOAS
Seminar Series on Money and Development (
http://www.soas.ac.uk/economics/events/md/)
Our speaker for the seminar will be
Claire Giordano of the Banca
d'Italia who will speak on 'Economic Theory and Banking Regulation: The
Italian Case (1861-1930s)'
This will be followed by drinks to celebrate the publication of
Jan
Toporowski's new collection of essays, 'Why the World Economy Needs
a Financial Crash and Other Critical Essays on Finance and Financial
Economics'
Copies of the book will be available. An early review is given in
http://blog.enlightenmenteconomics.com/blog/_archives/2011/1/18
Download
Flyer.
Progressive London
conference discussion on economic strategy
The terrible 4th quarter 2010 UK GDP figures show the
urgent need for alternatives to the Tory economic agenda. This
discussion will be a key focus at the Progressive London conference on
19 February at which Ken Livingstone will speak.
Mick Burke, from Socialist Economic Bulletin, will discuss economic
policy together with other leading economists and commentators
including Professor Victoria Chick, Emeritus Professor of Economics at
University College London, Duncan Weldon, and Sinead Pentony, Head of
Policy - TASC Ireland.
There will be a broad range of leading representatives of the anti-cuts
movements including Len McCluskey, Gen Sec Elect Unite, Frances O'Grady
TUC Deputy Gen Sec, Clifford Singer from False Economy, Daniel Garvin
from UK Uncut and Mark Wallinger from Save the Arts.
There is an alternative - Progressive London Conference , 19th
February 2011, Congress House, Great Russell St, London WC1H 10am-5pm.
Conference
on "Taking Control"
12th March 2011 | SOAS, University of London
Keynote: Professor Jodi Dean
Other speakers include: Professor Peter Hallward, Dr Alberto Toscano,
Dr Paul Blackledge
This conference is concerned with control. On what it means today
– under globalised late capitalism – to take or be in
control of institutions, whether political, economic, or academic. We
are concerned with theorising how to take control, and on what to do
when we take it. We want to focus not on the dangers of control –
since the corrupting effects of power have been amply theorized –
but rather on what it means to take responsibility and effect change,
and what this change could be. That is, how can a vision for society be
enacted in practical terms?
What is the role of democratic participation in this process of
mastering social change? And how do we remain accountable as we take
control. Does taking control mean working against, within or beside the
existing institutional structure? This question remains under-theorised
in contemporary critical political theory – which often remains
limited to the critique of the status quo. Without the impulse to take
responsibility and take control, this critique becomes meaningless
– it results in a de facto acceptance. Where projects like the
‘Idea of Communism’ stop, this conference seeks to take the
next step. It must be situated along work such as the Turbulence
Collective’s ‘What it means to win’ volume and
Erik-Olin-Wright’s ‘Envisioning Utopias’. We are
clear that the idea of communism remains important and a project to be
fought for. However in the strategic question we are at an impasse, how
to take control and implement a new communism? The vanguard model seems
discredited, but the model of the multitude seems non-committal, a mere
waiting for things to gradually come together, resulting in a de facto
withdrawal from the social. Even more than this impasse, in times of
late capitalism the very meaning of what being in control entails is no
longer clear. We want to move from thinking about the idea of communism
to implementing it.
The event is free to attend but registration is essential. Please email
takingcontrol2011@gmail.com
Organised by ES: Philosophy Research Collective. With support from the
Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS Department of
Politics, Goldsmiths
For more information see http://takingcontrol2011.wordpress.com
St Catharine's Political
Economy Seminar
The next St Catharine's Political Economy Seminar in the series on the
economics of austerity, will be held on Wednesday 9 February - Karim
Abadir will give a talk on: 'Is the Economic Crisis Over (and
Out)?' The seminar will be held in the Ramsden Room (St Catharine's)
from 6-7.30pm. All are welcome.
Karim Abadir is Professor of Financial Econometrics at the Business
School at Imperial College, London. He was previously at the University
of York, where he was Professor of Econometrics and Statistics as well
as Head of the Statistics Group. Prior to that he held positions at the
University of Exeter, the American University in Cairo and at Lincoln
College, University of Oxford. Further details at: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/people/k.m.abadir
URPE at EEA 2011
New York City | February 25 - 27
Find the program here.
The Winton
Institute for Monetary History Seminar Series
"Financial Crises and Policy Through History"
The Winton Institute for Monetary History,based at the Ashmolean
Museum, has organised a series of seminars which will continue to take
place fortnightly during the Hilary term. Each of the seminars will
focus on the theme of financial crises in the past, and draw out the
lessons that can be learnt about the prevention of such crises and the
effectiveness of the policy responses which were designed to deal with
them.
The seminars are free and open to all, but it would be helpful if those
who wish to attend would kindly inform us beforehand [winton.institute@ashmus.ox.ac.uk],
in order to ensure that a sufficient number of chairs are available in
the Heberdon Coin Study Room (at the Ashmolean Museum) for participants.
Wednesday 9 February- 5.00-6.30pm
Mr Duncan Needham (University of Cambridge): 'Financial Deregulation in
the early 1970s: Competition and Credit Control, the Secondary Banking
Crisis and 'Practical Monetarism' in Britain'
Wednesday 23 February - 5.00-6.30pm.
Mr Nicholas Dimsdale (University of Oxford): 'The Great Australian
Banking Crisis of 1893'
Wednesday 9 March - 5.00-6.30pm
Professor John Turner (Queens University Belfast): 'British
Banking Structure and Stability over the Long-Run'
Further details about the Institute and about our seminar programmes
can be found on our website: www.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/winton.
Workshop on
“Understanding the Global Financial Crisis”
Friday, 25 March 2011 | 17 Young Str., London W8 5EH (High Str.
Kensington), The Richmond University Colloquium in Public &
International Affairs (RUCIPA)
Programme
10.30am Registration
11.00 Welcome Address by Prof Alex Seago, Richmond University
11.15 Prof Bülent Gökay, Keele University, “Global
fault-lines three years after: An analysis of the 2008 global economic
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, Wade,
Stockhammer and Gökay chaired by Prof Stephen Haseler, London
Metropolitan University and Global Policy Institute
Further info from: Jelena.Pivovarova@Richmond.ac.uk,
Tel: 0207-3688437
Supported by www.globalfaultlines.com
and the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies (quarterly,
Routledge)
Job
Postings for Heterodox Economists
Christian
Aid, UK
Senior Advisor on Economic Justice
Indian
Institute of Technology, India
Assistant Professors and Associate Professors in
Economics
Application Deadline on Feb 15, 2011
Applications are invited for the posts of Assistant Professors and
Associate Professors in Economics at the Department of Humanities and
Social Sciences (HSS), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur.
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION:
Development Economics; Financial
Economics/Finance/Computational Finance; Economic History/Economic
Thought; Econometrics; Infrastructure Economics; Network Economics;
Experimental Economics; Behavioural Economics; Health Economics; Labour
Economics; Agricultural Economics
Excellent candidates in other relevant areas will also be considered.
Minimum Qualification (for all faculty positions): Ph.D. with first
class or equivalent (in terms of grades, etc.) at the preceding degree
in the appropriate branch, with a very good academic record throughout
(For complete information see
http://www.iitk.ac.in/dofa/recruitment2009/).
In addition, for:
Associate Professor: 6 years teaching/research/industrial
experience of which at least three years should be at the level of
Assistant Professor or equivalent.
Assistant Professor: For a fresh Ph.D. the position will be on
contract basis for first three years, after the completion of which it
can be regularized. For those with three or more years of
teaching/research/industrial experience, regular appointment can be
made. Period of probation in regular appointment will be one year.
Application forms (DOC) for all the above positions can be downloaded
from
http://www.iitk.ac.in/dofa/recruitment2009/appointment.doc,
or filled (on-line)
http://202.3.77.124/onewfacultyonline/
or can be obtained from Dean of Faculty Affairs, on request.
Applications (hard copy or in electronic form) should be submitted to
Dean of Faculty Affairs, IIT Kanpur, Kanpur 208 016, India.
For more details, check
http://www.iitk.ac.in/dofa/recruitment2009/
or write to Prof. K.K. Saxena (
kks@iitk.ac.in)/Prof.
L. Krishnan (
mailto:lk@iitk.ac.in)
St. Thomas University,
Canada
Assistant Professor,
Department of Economics
The Department of Economics has an entry-level,
10-month limited term appointment, at the rank of Assistant Professor,
to begin August 1, 2011, pending budgetary approval.
St. Thomas University is an undergraduate, liberal
arts institution whose roots are in the faith and tradition of the
Roman Catholic Church. With an enrolment of 2,400, its students
graduate with Bachelor of Arts, Applied Arts, Education, and Social
Work degrees. The faculty members are distinguished teachers,
researchers and scholars, and the university holds four Canada Research
Chairs.
The successful candidate will have a strong background
in undergraduate teaching using heterodox approaches. Teaching areas
will include introductory economics; and potential secondary areas may
include history of economic thought, ecological economics, regional
economics, or economics of government.
A PhD or imminent completion is preferred. Equivalent
professional experience will also be considered. Applicants are to
submit a curriculum vitae, samples of scholarly work, evidence of
teaching effectiveness (teaching portfolio preferred), and arrange to
have three letters of reference sent directly to Dr. Andrew Secord,
Chair, Department of Economics, St. Thomas University, Fredericton, NB,
E3B 5G3.
Closing date: February 28, 2011, or when position is
filled. Applicants are responsible for ensuring that their completed
applications, including letters of reference, are received by this
date.
An equal opportunity employer, St. Thomas University
is committed to employment equity for women, Aboriginal peoples,
members of visible minority groups, and persons with disabilities. The
university welcomes applications from all faiths and backgrounds. All
qualified candidates are encouraged to apply however, Canadians and
permanent residents will be given priority.
Conference Papers, Reports,
and Articles
Cambridge Marshall Society
75th Anniversay Lecture Podcast
The podcast of Jesper Jespersen’s lecture to the Cambridge
Marshall Society on the 75th anniversary of Keynes’s General
Theory is now available at
www.postkeynesian.net
Heterodox Journals
Economics and Philosophy,
27(1): Mar. 2011
Journal website: http://journals.cambridge.org/EAP
Articles
- WHAT IS MONEY? AN ALTERNATIVE TO SEARLE'S INSTITUTIONAL FACTS /
J. P. Smit, Filip Buekens, Stan du Plessis
- ‘BUT CAN'T WE GET THE SAME THING WITH A STANDARD
MODEL?’ RATIONALIZING BOUNDED-RATIONALITY MODELS / Ran Spiegler
Discussion Note
- BETTER NEVER TO HAVE BEEN BELIEVED: BENATAR ON THE HARM OF
EXISTENCE / Campbell Brown
Reviews
- Non-Bayesian Decision Theory. Beliefs and Desires as Reasons for
Action, Martin Peterson. Theory and Decision Library, Springer, 2008.
ix + 170 pages / Mikaël Cozic
- Decision Theory and Rationality, José Luis
Bermúdez. Oxford University Press, 2009. 189 pages / Igor Douven
- The Social Epistemology of Experimental Economics, Ana Cordeiro
dos Santos. Routledge 2010. xi + 210 pages / Martin Jones
- The Right to Exploit: Parasitism, Scarcity, Basic Income, Gijs
van Donselaar. Oxford University Press, 2009. ix + 195 pages / Robert
Mayer
- Philosophy of the Social Sciences: Philosophical Theory and
Scientific Practice, edited by C. Mantzavinos. Cambridge University
Press, 2009. ix + 333 pages / Michiru Nagatsu
- Intergenerational Justice, edited by Axel Gosseries and Lukas H.
Meyer. Oxford University Press, 2009. ix + 419 pages / Jesper Ryberg
- The Bounds of Reason: Game Theory and the Unification of the
Behavioral Sciences, Herbert Gintis. Princeton University Press, 2009.
xviii + 281 pages / Peter Vanderschraaf
Economy and Society, 39(4):
Nov. 2010
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/03085147.asp
- Money's eyes: the visual preparation of financial markets /
Michael Pryke
- Time and the constitution of markets: internal dynamics and
external relations of stock exchanges in Fiji, Ghana and Iceland / Erik
W. Larson
- Resilient subjects: uncertainty, warfare and liberalism / Pat
O'Malley
- Science governance and the politics of proper talk: governmental
bioethics as a new technology of reflexive government / Kathrin Braun;
Alfred Moore; Svea Luise Herrmann; Sabine Könninger
- Governance and governmentality: a discussion in the context of
UK private pension provision / Patrick John Ring
Review article
- Biopolitics for philosophers / Maurizio Meloni
European Journal of the
History of Economic Thought, 17(5): Dec. 2010
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09672567.asp
Special Issue: Technological Change and Economic
Analysis
Preface / Harald Hagemann; Heinz D. Kurz; Persefoni Tsaliki; Lefteris
Tsoulfidis
Articles
- Stories about economics and technology / Robert M. Solow
- Cliometrics and technological change: a survey / Nicholas Crafts
- Technological progress and economic analysis from Petty to Smith
/Hugh Goodacre
- 'Universal opulence': Adam Smith on technical progress and real
wages / Tony Aspromourgos
- Technical progress, capital accumulation and income distribution
in Classical economics: Adam Smith, David Ricardo and Karl Marx / Heinz
D. Kurz
- Marx on technical change in the critical edition / Regina Roth
- Marshall's treatment of technological change in Industry and
Trade / Peter Groenewegen
Original Articles
- Measuring productivity increase by long-run prices: the early
analyses of G.R. Porter and R. Giffen / Arrigo Opocher
European
Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 18(1): Feb. 2011
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09672567.asp
Articles
- Democritus's economic ideas in the context of classical
political economy / Panayotis Michaelides; Ourania Kardasi; John Milios
- The Anglo-Irish context for William Edward Hearn's economic
beliefs and the ultimate failure of his Plutology / Gregory C. G. Moore
- From the Great Depression to Bretton Woods: Jacob Viner and
international monetary stabilization (1930-1945) / Sebastiano Nerozzi
- A social innovation or a product of its time? The Rehn-Meidner
model's relation to contemporary economics and the Stockholm school /
Lennart Erixon
- The remarkable transformation of the UV curve in economic theory
/ Peter Rodenburg
Book reviews
- La pensée économique allemande / Keith Tribe
- The Return to Keynes / G. C. Harcourt
- Michal Kalecki / J. E. King
Feminist
Economics, 16(4): Oct. 2010
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13545701.asp
- Visible Hands - Invisible Women: Garment Production in Turkey /
Saniye Dedeoğlu
- The Temporary Leave Dilemma: Lone and Partnered Mothers in
Sweden / Anna Amilon
- Trade Liberalization and Gender Wage Inequality in Mexico /
Lilia Domínguez-Villalobos; Flor Brown-Grossman
- Is Australia Really a World Leader in Closing the Gender Gap? /
Angela Barns; Alison Preston
- Same Work, Different Pay? Evidence from a US Public University
/Melissa Binder; Kate Krause; Janie Chermak; Jennifer Thacher; Julia
Gilroy
- Gender Roles and the Division of Unpaid Work in Spanish
Households / Almudena Sevilla-Sanz; Jose Ignacio Gimenez-Nadal;
Cristina Fernández
- Women Workers in the Maquiladoras and the Debate on Global Labor
Standards / Edmé Domínguez; Rosalba Icaza; Cirila
Quintero; Silvia López; Åsa Stenman
Book Reviews
- The Gendered Impacts of Liberalization: Towards “Embedded
Liberalism”? / Marjorie Griffin Cohen
- Live Wire: Women and Brotherhood in the Electrical Industry /
Barbara R. Bergmann
- Public Policy for Women: The State, Income Security, and Labour
Market Issues / Randy Albelda
- Unpacking Globalization: Markets, Gender, and Work / Nicky Pouw
Feminist Economics, 17(1):
Jan. 2011
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13545701.asp
- Reforming the Gender-Related Development Index and the Gender
Empowerment Measure: Implementing Some Specific Proposals /Stephan
Klasen; Dana Schüler
- Gender Equity and Prostitution: An Investigation of Attitudes in
Norway and Sweden / Niklas Jakobsson; Andreas Kotsadam
- Does Gender Influence the Provision of Fringe Benefits? Evidence
From Vietnamese SMEs / John Rand; Finn Tarp
- Women's Sexual Orientation and Labor Market Outcomes in Greece /
- Nick Drydakis
- Gender Differences in Childcare: Time Allocation in Five
European Countries / Inmaculada García-Mainar; José
Alberto Molina; Víctor M. Montuenga
- The Gender Gap in Citations: Does It Persist? / Marianne A.
Ferber; Michael Brün
Book Reviews
- Greed, Lust and Gender: A History of Economic Ideas / Sakuntala
Narasimhan
- Empowering Migrant Women: Why Agency and Rights are Not Enough /
Linda McDowell
- Frontiers in the Economics of Gender / Jane
Humphries
- The Development Economics Reader / Caren Grown
- Paid Care in Australia: Politics, Profits, Practices / Kristin
Dale
- Institutions for Social Well-Being: Alternatives for
Europe / Eileen Trzcinski
Historical
Materialism, 18(3): 2010
Journal website: www.brill.nl./hima
Article
- Gene Ray / Dialectical Realism and Radical Commitments: Brecht
and Adorno on Representing Capitalism
Symposium on Lars Lih’s 'Lenin Rediscovered'
- Paul Blackledge / Editorial Introduction
- Ronald Grigor Suny / Reconsidering Lenin: What Can Be Said about
'What Is to Be Done?'
- Robert Mayer / One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: On Lars
Lih’s Lenin
- Chris Harman / Lenin Rediscovered?
- Alan Shandro / Text and Context in the Argument of Lenin’s
'What Is to Be Done?'
- Paul Le Blanc / Rediscovering Lenin
- Lars T. Lih / Lenin Disputed
Interventions
- Matteo Mandarini / Critical Thoughts on the Politics of
Immanence
- Mario Tronti / Workerism and Politics
Review Articles
- Paul Flenley on Oktyabr’skaya Revolyutsiya i Fabzavkomy
[The October Revolution and Factory-Committees] edited by Steve A.
Smith, and Oktyabr’skaya Revolyutsia i Fabzavkomy, Volume 3,
Second Edition and Oktyabr’skaya Revolyutsiya i Fabzavkomy:
Materialy po istorii fabrichno-zavodskikh komitetov, Volume 4, edited
by Yoshimasa Tsuji
- Jeffery R. Webber on Fernando Ignacio Leiva’s Latin
American Neostructuralism: The Contradictions of Post-Neoliberal
Development
- David Parker on Heide Gerstenberger’s Impersonal Power.
History and Theory of the Bourgeois State
Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism
- Dick Boer / The Imaginary
Journal of
Economic Methodology, 17(4): Dec. 2010
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1350178x.asp
Articles
- Terence Hutchison and Frank Knight: a reappraisal of their
1940-1941 exchange / John Hart
- Two puzzles regarding the replacement ratio in the context of
renewal theory / George C. Bitros
Financial Crisis Symposium
- Introduction: Methodological implications of the financial
crisis / Kevin D. Hoover
- Should the financial crisis inspire normative revision? / Don
Ross
- The economics profession, the financial crisis, and method /
David Colander
- Implications for models in monetary policy / Stan du Plessis
Book Reviews
- Identity economics: towards a more realistic economic agent?/
Miriam Teschl
- Is spontaneous order a value-free descriptive methodological
tool?/ N. Emrah Aydinonat
Industrial and Corporate
Change, 20(1): Feb. 2011
Journal website: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3924/5
- Guido Buenstorf and Christina Guenther / No place like home?
Relocation, capabilities, and firm survival in the German machine tool
industry after World War II
- Marco Corsino and Roberto Gabriele / Product innovation and firm
growth: evidence from the integrated circuit industry
- Jens Frøslev Christensen / Industrial evolution through
complementary convergence: the case of IT security
- Federica Ceci and Andrea Masini / Balancing specialized and
generic capabilities in the provision of integrated solutions
- Yen-Heng Henry Chen / Trade, industrial structure, and brand
- Hao Tan / Cyclical industrial dynamics in the global IT sector:
origins and sequencing
Special Section: The Organization, Economics, and
Policy of Scientific Research
- Cristiano Antonelli, Chiara Franzoni, and Aldo Geuna / The
organization, economics, and policy of scientific research: what we do
know and what we don't know—an agenda for research
- James D. Adams and J. Roger Clemmons / The role of search in
university productivity: inside, outside, and interdisciplinary
dimensions
- Francesco Lissoni, Jacques Mairesse, Fabio Montobbio, and
Michele Pezzoni / Scientific productivity and academic promotion: a
study on French and Italian physicists
- Stijn Kelchtermans and Reinhilde Veugelers / The great divide in
scientific productivity: why the average scientist does not exist
- Mauro Sylos Labini and Natalia Zinovyeva / Stimulating
graduates' research-oriented careers: does academic research matter?
International Journal of
Political Economy, 39(3): Fall 2010
Journal website: http://www.mesharpe.com/journal_info/ijp.htm
- Changes in Central Bank Procedures During the Subprime Crisis
and Their Repercussions on Monetary Theory / Marc Lavoie
- Fiscal Policy: The Wrench in the New Economic Consensus /
Pavlina R. Tcherneva
- Excessive Liquidity and Bank Lending in China: A Modern Money
Perspective / Xinhua Liu, L. Randall Wray
- Portfolio Shifts, Asset Price Declines, and Liquidity Lock:
Understanding the 2007-2009 Financial Crisis / William Van Lear
- Banco del Sur and the Need for Downstream Linkages: The Role of
National Publicly Owned Banks / Wesley C. Marshall
International Review of
Applied Economics, 24(6): Nov. 2010
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cira
- Interest linkages between the US, UK and German interest rates:
should the UK join the European Monetary Union? / William D. Bryant;
Roselyne Joyeux
- Are business cycles stationary fluctuations around a
deterministic trend? Empirical evidence from 79 developing countries /
Paresh Kumar Narayan; Seema Narayan
- What is wrong with aggregate production functions. On Temple's
'aggregate production functions and growth economics' / Jesus Felipe;
J. S. L. McCombie
- Aggregate production functions, growth economics, and the
part-time tyranny of the identity: a reply to Felipe and McCombie /
Jonathan Temple
- Investment and the rate of profit in a financial context: the
French case / Mickaël Clévenot; Yann Guy; Jacques Mazier
- A contribution to estimate a benchmark capital stock. An optimal
consistency method / J. M. Albala-Bertrand
- Outsourcing and structural change. Application to a set of OECD
countries / Sandro Montresor; Giuseppe Vittucci Marzetti
Local
Economy, 25(8): Dec. 2010
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/journal.asp?issn=0269-0942&linktype=44
Special Issue: Industrial Policy
Viewpoint
- Economic Success Requires Effective Industrial Policy/ Glenn
Athey
- No City Left Behind? Place-Based Industrial Policy After the
Recession / Neil Lee
Features
- Industrial Policy / Dominic Williams
- Necessity as the Mother of Intervention: The Industrial Policy
Debate in England / Simon Lee
- Innovation Policy as Industrial Policy: Some Lessons from
Hamburg's Regional Innovation System / Tim Vorley; Jen Nelles
- Towards the Resilient Region?/ Stuart Dawley; Andy Pike; John
Tomaney
- The French Regional Industrial Clusters Policy: Lessons from the
Lyon Urban Trucks and Bus Cluster / Delphine Guisard; Christian Le Bas;
Pascal Nief
In Perspective
- Obama's Innovation Policy: Can the New Directions Hold?/ Erik R.
Pages
- Diversifying the Economic Base of a Rural Local Economy Reliant
on Extractive Industries and Dealing with Recession: The Example of a
Local Industrial Policy in Northern Michigan / Dennis J. West
- Community Capitalism: The Local Response to the Need for
Economic Growth and Diversification / Ron Kitchens
Review Article
- Europe 2020 / David Walburn
Mother Pelican , 7(2): Feb.
2011
A Journal of Sustainable Human Development
Technological Innovation for Human Development
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Articles
- Page 1. Technological Innovation for Human Development
- Page 2. 2011: The year we’ll hit 7 billion, by Lisa Hyman
- Page 3. A Conversation on Happiness, by Derek Ross
- Page 4. Human Dignity and Diversity Training, by Susan Clark
- Page 5. Globalization and Collective Violence, by Thomas Scheff
- Page 5. Impact of Increased Global Food Prices, by Sara
Gustafson
- Page 6. The Biology of Globalization, by Elisabet Sahtouris
- Page 7. Technology Breakthrough with a Fatal Flaw, by Promode
Kant
- Page 7. Ethical Analysis-Cancun Climate Negotiations, by Donald
Brown
- Page 8. Sex and Nonviolence, by Symon Hill
- Page 9. A Synopsis of Socioeconomic Democracy, by Robley George
Supplements
- Supp1. Advances in Sustainable Development
- Supp2. Directory of Sustainable Development Resources
- Supp3. Sustainable Development Simulation (SDSIM) Version 1.4
- Supp4. Budapest Call for Climate Justice (World Council of
Churches)
New
Political Economy, 16(1): Feb. 2011
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cnpe
- Globalisation, Inequality and the Economic Crisis / Nuno Martins
- Globalisation and Models of State: Debates and Evidence from
Ireland / Peadar Kirby; Mary Murphy
- The Private Regulation of Labour Standards and Rights in the
Global Clothing Industry: An Evaluation of Its Effectiveness in Two
Developing Countries / Tugce Bulut; Christel Lane
- The Rise of Finance and the Decline of Organised Labour in the
Advanced Capitalist Countries / John Peters
- The Political Economy of Market and Regulatory Reforms in
Turkey: The Logic and Unintended Consequences of Ad-hoc Strategies /
Üm t Sönmez
Commentary
- An Andean Avatar: Post-Neoliberal and Neoliberal Strategies for
Securing the Unobtainable / Anthony Bebbington; Denise Humphreys
Bebbington
Review Essay
- Bloody African 'Development' / David Moore
New
Political Economy, 15(4): Dec. 2010
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cnpe
Winner of the 2009-10 NPE graduate student prize paper competition
- Our Dream is a World Full of Poverty Indicators: The US, the
World Bank, and the Power of Numbers / Liam Clegg
Articles
- The New Financial Development Paradigm and Asian Bond Markets /
Lena Rethel
- Globalisation and Institutional Change in the State-Led Model:
The Case of Corporate Governance in South Korea / Nahee Kang
- The Outsourcing of Manufacturing and the Rise of Giant Global
Contractors: A Marxian Approach to Some Recent Transformations of
Global Value Chains / Guido Starosta
- How Political Institutions Determine Corporate Governance
Reforms: The Polity, Law and Corporate Practices in the Case of
Switzerland / Gerhard Schnyder
Commentary
- Norman's Lament: The Greek and Euro Area Crisis in Historical
Perspective / Kenneth Dyson
Global Monitor
- The Joint Vienna Institute / André Broome
Review of Social Economy,
68(4): Dec. 2010
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00346764.asp
Presidential Address
- Freedom to Choose and Choice X-inefficiencies: Human and
Consumer Rights, and Positive and Normative Implications of Choice
Behavior / Morris Altman
Articles
- Is Inequality Harmful for the Environment? An Empirical Analysis
Applied to Developing and Transition Countries / Matthieu Clement;
Andre Meunie
- Costs of Mistrust between Ethnic Majority and Minorities:
Evidence from Israel / Miki Malul; Mosi Rosenboim; Tal
Shavit
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- Identity and Environmentalism: The Influence of Community
Characteristics / Ann Owen; Julio Videras; Stephen Wu
Book Reviews
- Economic Rights: Conceptual, Measurement, and Policy Issues /
Stefano Solari
- Economic Representations: Academic and Everyday / Bhaskar
Mandal
- Wired for Survival: the Rational (and Irrational) Choices We
Make, from the Gas Pump to Terrorism / Benhua Yang
- The Fattening of America: How the Economy Makes Us Fat, If It
Matters, and What to Do About It / Nazmi Sari
- Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Technological Change / Ryan
van Lamoen
- Culture and Economics: On Values, Economics and International
Business / Lukasz Mamica
Socialism and Democracy,
24(3): Nov. 2010
Journal website: www.sdonline.org
Special Issue: "Marx for Today"
Edited and Introduced by Marcello Musto
Part I Re-reading Marx in 2010
- Kevin Anderson / Not Just Capital and Class: Marx on
Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
- Paresh Chattopadhyay / The Failure of Twentieth-Century
Socialism and Marx’s Continuing Relevance
- Michael Lebowitz / Change the System, Not Its Barriers
- George Comninel / Emancipation in Marx’s Early Work
- Marcello Musto / Revisiting Marx’s Concept of Alienation
- Terrell Carver / Marx and the Politics of Sarcasm
- Victor Wallis / " Lesser Evil" as Argument and Tactic, from Marx
to the Present
- Rick Wolff / In Capitalist Crisis, Rediscovering Marx
Part II Marx’s Global Reception Today
- Francisco Sobrino / Marx in Hispanic America
- Armando Boito and Luiz Eduardo Motta / Marx in Brazil
- Paul Blackledge / Marx in the Anglophone World
- Jean-Numa Ducange / Marx in France
- Jan Hoff / Marx in Germany
- Gianfranco Ragona / Marx in Italy
- Vesa Oittinen / Marx in Russia
- Daiping Hu / Marx in China
- Seongjin Jeong / Marx in Korea
- Hiroshi Uchida / Marx in Japan
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The Prime network is made up of a group of economists aware that
conventional or ‘mainstream’ economic theory has proved of
almost no relevance to the ongoing and chronic failure of the global
economy. We note the outstanding failure of current economic policy to
provide society at large with work; or with policies to deal with the
gravest threat facing us all: climate change. We are angered by the
failure of mainstream economics to challenge the finance sector and
believe this can be explained in part by its blind spot for the role of
credit in the economy, and by the fatal error of drawing macroeconomic
conclusions from microeconomic reasoning. As a result, economists,
commentators and policymakers are repeatedly embarrassed by economic
outcomes.
For further information, visit
http://www.primeeconomics.org/
Heterodox Economics in
the Media
The Good,
The Bad, and The Ugly in the President's State of the Union Address: L.
Randall Wray
Read the article here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/l-randall-wray/the-good-the-bad-and-the-_1_b_814777.html
Happy Anniversary, Mr.
Keynes: Victoria Chick and Ann Pettifor
Economics'
Newset Thinking Comes from the Old Masters
Obamanomics:
Escalation of Reaganomics: Ismael Hossein-zadeh
http://www.counterpunch.org/zadeh01282011.html,
Counterph, Jan 28-30, 2011
Queries
from Heterodox Economists
An Appeal from Verso Books - Help Us Revive Some
Classics
Dear Comrades and Friends,
At Verso, we are engaged in a long term project to make all of our
out-of-print back list titles available again — both on our new
website, and on Amazon and in bookstores etc. We are making
considerable progress, but some titles from the 1970s and 1980s are
proving very difficult to track down.
As I am sure you will agree, now is politically a great time to put
some these important books back into circulation so that younger
generations of readers can have access to them — at the moment,
they are rare and only available occasionally through second-hand
booksellers.
If you have any of them on your bookshelves, we ask that you might
consider donating one or more of the titles on the list below so that
we may scan in the text to create a new print on demand edition (this
digital printing innovation allows out of print titles to be sold on an
individual basis as they are ordered, without the need for large print
runs and warehousing.) In return, we'll send you a copy of the new
edition, and one other Verso book of your choice.
Books need to be clean and in reasonably good condition with no pen or
pencil markings inside. It doesn't matter if the pages have darkened
slightly.
We have tried to include references to the most up to date edition of
each title.
The publication dates
listed below may differ by a year or so from those printed in the
actual book.
If you think you have one or more titles to donate, please send an
email to
clara@versobooks.com
with the following details:
- Titile
- ISBN
- Binding (Hardcover / Paperback)
- Publication year
- Your full mailing address
Please allow us some time to collate responses and reply to your email.
Thank you in advance for your support.
All best wishes,
Clara
Clara Heyworth
Marketing Manager
Verso Books
20 Jay Street, Suite 1010
Brooklyn, NY 11201
T: 718-246-8160
C: 718-207-2308
E:
clara@versobooks.com
http://versobooks.com/
Download
List of Books to donoate.
How do you
teach the history of economics ?
Dear Colleagues,
Would you be willing to share your approach to teaching the history of
economics? We would very much like to see your syllabi/course outlines,
assignments, classroom activities, handouts, and any other teaching
materials. We are collecting these materials to enhance the teaching of
the history economics and make it easier for new instructors to offer
courses.
The materials will be used in two ways:
1) Ross Emmett and Avi Cohen are writing the history of economics
chapter for the Elgar International Handbook on Teaching and Learning
Economics (edited by Gail Hoyt and Kim Marie McGoldrick). Chapters are
supposed to "offer advice to instructors who might be teaching these
field courses to undergraduates for the first time or who have perhaps
been teaching for a while but would like to refresh their courses."
2) Tiago Mata, Rob Van Horn and Bruce Caldwell are pulling together
"Resources for Teaching the History of Economics" on Duke’s
Center for the History of Political Economy’s website (
http://econ.duke.edu/HOPE/CENTER/home.php
). The purpose of the website is to further the teaching of the history
of economics by making teaching materials widely available. These
website resources will replace similar resources Ross Emmet had
collected years ago for the now defunct EH.NET website that used to
host the HES List (now the SHOE -- Societies for the History of
Economics -- List).
We look forward to receiving more materials. Thank you in advance
for sharing your teaching materials, and thanks to those who have
already sent Avi teaching materials. If you would, please forward this
note to colleagues who are not on SHOE, but who might be interested in
contributing teaching materials.
Please send all materials or web links to
avicohen@yorku.ca.
Survey on Public Policy
(Canada)
Bryan Evans, a professor at
Ryerson, is conducting research on how labour and government engage on
public policy. His project is being funded by the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council. He would like to survey people from
organizations in Ontario, Saskatchewan or BC that routinely engage with
the provincial government on labour policy.
If you meet these criteria and are willing to participate, please
e-mail
b1evans@politics.ryerson.ca.
Of course, individual responses will be confidential and only aggregate
results will be published.
For Your Information
Economists
Issue Statement on Capital Controls and Trade Treaties
Source:
GDAE website
Full
Statement |
Press
Coverage |
Spanish
Version
Initiated by the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts
University (GDAE) and the Washington, DC-based
Institute for Policy Studies (IPS),
this economist statement calls for the United States to recognize that
capital controls are legitimate prudential financial regulations that
should not be subject to investor claims under U.S. trade and
investment treaties.
Following a number of official and academic findings that show capital
controls are legitimate tools to prevent and mitigate financial crises,
an increasing number of governments around the world are using capital
controls and other macro-prudential measures in responsible ways to
deal with heightened international financial instability. Meanwhile,
the Obama administration is seeking approval of a trade pact with South
Korea and is in the
final
phase of a review of the U.S. “model” bilateral
investment treaty, which they say will be the basis for new deals with
India, China, and several other countries. The United States is also
negotiating the “
Trans-Pacific
Partnership Agreement,” which is intended to be a trade
agreement “for the 21st century.”
These initiatives offer a real opportunity to apply lessons from recent
financial crises and make U.S. trade policy more consistent with
economic theory and practice.
Download
the Letter in PDF Format
Read more on GDAE's work on
Capital
Controls and
Trade
Treaties
Learn more about
IPS's work on
Capital Controls
Read
Press
Coverage of the Initiative
EuroMemorandum 2010-11
Available Online
Over 400 economists from across Europe signed to express their support
for the 2010-11 EuroMemorandum, 'Confronting the Crisis: Austerity or
Solidarity'. The English text, together with the list of signatories,
has now been posted on the EuroMemo Group's new web site,
www.euromemo.eu. The long version
of the EuroMemorandum is also vailable in Spanish, as well as
translations of the shorter summary into German, Dutch and Danish.
Translations of the full text into German, French and Greek are in the
process of being completed and will be posted as they become available.
IAFFE: Rhonda Williams Prize
(call for applicants)
Sponsored by Routledge/Taylor and Francis, publisher of Feminist
Economics
In memory of Rhonda Williams, associate editor of Feminist Economics
from 1994 to 1998, the International Association for Feminist Economics
(IAFFE) has established a prize to help scholars from underrepresented
groups in IAFFE, whose work reflects Rhonda Williams' legacy of
scholarship and activism, attend the annual IAFFE conference and
present a paper. The prize is oriented towards
junior untenured
scholars and activists.
Amount: $1000 to be awarded at the IAFFE conference in Hangzhou, China,
June 24-26, 2011. (Conference information is at
http://www.iaffe.org/pages/conferences/conference-archives/2011-conference-archives/2011-annual-conference/.)
The funds are intended to partially defray travel costs to attend the
annual conference. Subject to availability, some additional travel
funds may be available if recipients have no other access to travel
support. If eligible, applicants are also encouraged to apply for an
IAFFE travel scholarship to the conference.
Application Deadline: Extended to
March 15, 2011.
Criteria: The recipient's work in activism, advocacy, or scholarship
should demonstrate a commitment to one or more of the following issues:
* Inequalities based on race,
ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or nationality.
* Interrelationships among racism, sexism, homophobia, and classism.
* Connections between scholarship and activism.
Special consideration will be given to applicants from groups not well
represented in IAFFE and those with limited access to travel funds from
their home institutions or international funders. This prize is
targeted to junior scholars and activists, rather than to graduate
students, though the latter are also welcome to apply.
The recipient of the prize must present at the IAFFE conference and
submit the manuscript to Feminist Economics within a reasonable period
after the conference. The paper will undergo an expedited review
process, but publication is not guaranteed.
Application Process:
Applications should be sent to Marlene Kim, Chair, Rhonda Williams
Prize, at
Marlene.Kim@umb.edu
and should include:
(1) A cover letter/email that includes
a statement of (a) the connection between the applicant's experience
and the Rhonda Williams legacy as described in the criteria above; and
(b) how the applicant would bring diversity to IAFFE and how the
applicant would like to be engaged with IAFFE in the future.
(2) A curriculum vitae or resume, labeled
"resumeRWS<applicantlastname>"
(3) A draft of a full paper (not an abstract or outline) for the 2011
IAFFE conference, scheduled for June 24-26, 2011 in Hangzhou, China
(label file "paperRWS.2011<applicantlastname>."
Please send all files in Microsoft Word or in PDF Acrobat format.
Please be sure that all materials are sent. Applicants who omit any of
the three items listed above may not be considered for the prize.
For applicants who haven’t yet registered for the annual
conference because they need funding, the prize winner will be allowed
to register for the annual conference and will be included in the
conference program after being notified of the prize.
If you are not an IAFFE member for 2011, please send in your membership
application prior to submission of your prize application.
Please direct any questions to Marlene Kim, Chair, Rhonda William
Prize,
Marlene.Kim@umb.edu,
or (617) 287-6954.
Simon
Clarke's Books Available for Free Download
I have reclaimed the copyright on the following out-of-print
books and made them available as.pdf files on Google books with a
Creative Commons license, so you are free to copy them for
non-commercial use.
- Marginalism and Modern Sociology
- The Foundations of Structuralism: A Critique of
Lévi-Strauss and the Structuralist Movement
- Keynesianism, monetarism, and the crisis of the state
- New Forms of Employment and Household Survival Strategies in
Russia
Kindle versions of the first four books can also be purchased at
minimum price on Amazon. Other published and unpublished works can be
accessed at
my website.
Video:
Bank bailouts explained
By the people who broght you Quantitative
Easing Explained
Watch the video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yipV_pK6HXw
Radio
Intereriew: David McNally on the Economics and Politics of Crisis and
Resistance
David McNally, author of
Global
Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance analyzes
the global financial meltdown as a systemic crisis. He argues that
– far from having ended – the crisis has ushered in a whole
period of worldwide economic and political turbulence. Analyzing the
massive intervention of the world’s central banks to stave off a
Great Depression, he shows that, while averting a complete meltdown,
this laid the basis for recurring crises for poor and working class
people: job loss, increased poverty and inequality, and deep cuts to
social programs, as well as the intensification of racism and attacks
on migrant workers.
Only real resistance to corporate power and corporate policies can
change this. David traces new patterns of social and political
resistance – from housing activism and education struggles, to
mass strikes and protests.
Edward Elgar: News for
Authors, Editors, and Book Contributors
Thomson Reuters Book Citation Index
We are excited to announce that Edward Elgar Publishing is one of the
first publishers to agree to include book titles in the new Thomson
Reuters Book Citation Index. Here is an article from 'Information
Today' that gives more information about the Book Citation Index:
http://goo.gl/PPyIT
Historically only leading journals and conference proceedings have been
included in the citation index which is accessed through the Thomson
Reuters' Web of Knowledge research platform by 20 million users across
3,800 research institutions in 90 countries.
We expect that this initiative will increase the visibility of Elgar
books and help to ensure that citations to your work in our books is
fully recognized.
The Book Citation Index is due to launch in late 2011 and we have
already submitted all our electronic book files back to 2007 for their
consideration. Reprinted material, textbooks and reference works such
as dictionaries will not be included however we expect all of our
Research Handbooks, authored monographs and original edited collections
to be.
The new Thomson Reuters Citation Index represents a real opportunity
for book authors and contributors to demonstrate the value of a high
quality research book. It is essential that you cite your books
immediately in order to maximize their impact.
More details are contained in the
attached leaflet.
Google Editions
We would also like to take this opportunity to tell you that we are
working with Google to include Elgar books in their recently launched
eBook store. It is currently available only in the USA but will be
rolled out worldwide at sometime in the near future.
In Google's own words "Google eBooks is all about choice, so you can
use just about any device you own to read any book, anywhere." For more
details see this video on Google:
http://books.google.com/help/ebooks/overview.html
or check out the eBookstore at:
http://books.google.com/ebooks
