Issue 116 |
May 22, 2011
Editors'
Note
We are very excited to announce that the
World Economics Association, heterodox and pluralist in its bones, has
just launched. About 2,000 people have joined WEA since May 16. If
you
have not joined, go to the WEA website (http://www.worldeconomicsassociation.org)
and become a member now (membership is free). With your support and
participation, we can move the economics discipline beyond market
fundamentalism. In this very respect, we'd like to draw your attention
to a
special issue call for papers ("Market-Fundamentalist Economics") by an
interdisciplinary journal, On the Horizon. Guest Editors of
this special issue (Tae-Hee Jo, Lynne Chester, and Mary C. King) are
inviting papers that "highlight how practitioners of heterodox
economics might differently advise policy makers around the globe to
proceed, and how those policy programs might be supported by a
re-formulated economic narrative which, in turn, would be shaped by
re-designed economics curriculum, different approaches to pedagogy and
funding for far wider research agendas, if heterodox economists were to
receive the kind and level of support currently enjoyed solely by
mainstream neoclassical economists." One of the reasons that we,
heterodox economists, should raise our voice against market
fundamentalism is the takeover of academic institutions by businessmen.
This is not new. Even Thorstein Veblen recognized the danger of such
takeover a century ago. See what
has happened in the economics department at Florida State University.
On a slightly different line, we want heterodox economics associations
to protest immediately the holdings of ASSA 2012 Chicago meetings in
hotels "which do not respect the rights of workers to fair wages, good
benefits, and decent working conditions." To no one's surprise,
according to the Paddy Quick's (URPE) email, the American Economics
Association does not care about this.
A piece of good news for the readers of the Heterodox Economics
Newsletter. M.E. Sharpe, one of major publishers of heterodox books
and journals, has kindly offered 20% discount on all of their print
titles. For more information, see here.
Lastly, we are going to take a 7-week-long break. TJ will be traveling
and TS will try to catch up on some of his own work. The next
issue of the Newsletter will be published on July 11. We may not be
able to respond to your email during this period.
All our best wishes,
Tae-Hee Jo and Ted Schmidt, Editors
Email: heterodoxnews@gmail.com
Website: http://heterodoxnews.com
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Table
of Contents
Call for Papers
Call
for Participants
Job
Postings for Heterodox Economists
Conference
Papers, Reports, and Articles
Heterodox
Journals
Cahiers
d’économie politique (Papers in Political Economy) 60: 2011
Cambridge
Journal of Economics, 35(3): May 2011
Economy and Society: vitual special issue
Erasmus
Journal for Philosophy and Economics 4(1): Spring 2011
Feminist Economics, 17(2): April 2011
International
Review of Applied Economics, 25(2): March 2011
International
Review of Applied Economics, 25(3): May 2011
International Review of Applied Economics, 25(4):July
2011
Journal of
Critical Globalization Studies, 4: 2011
Journal of Economic Methodology, 18(1): March 2011
Moneta e Credito, 64(253): 2011
Mother
Pelican, 7(5): May 2011
Ola Financiera, 9: Mayo-agosto 2011
PSL Quarterly Review, 64(256): 2011
Review of
Radical Political Economics, 43(2): June 2011
Review of
Social Economy, 69(2): June 2011
Heterodox
Newsletters
Heterodox
Books and Book Series
Heterodox Graduate Programs and Scholarships
Heterodox
Web Sites and Associates
For Your
Information
Call
for Papers
10th
Conference of the Australian Society of Heterodox Economists
The relevance, contribution and future of
Heterodox Economics
5-6 December 2011 | the Coogee Crowne Plaza Hotel, Sydney | website
Over the last 10 years, the annual SHE Conference has provided a vital
forum for the discussion of alternatives to mainstream economics. The
Conference provides a broad pluralistic and interdisciplinary forum to
discuss issues of importance to heterodox economists.
For 2011 the SHE Conference theme is The relevance, contribution and
future of Heterodox Economics
Topics of interest to this overarching theme include: the failure of
neoclassical economics to predict, explain or find solutions to the
global financial and economic crises; the current climate and energy
crisis, nationally and internationally; the relationship of economists
to policymaking and decision-makers; the teaching of heterodox
economics; and, research evaluation and the impact of ERA ratings and
rankings.
Registration details will be announced later and be available at: http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/research/societyofheterodoxeconomists/SHEconference/Pages/default.aspx
Submission details:
Submissions are invited for single papers, complete sessions and
symposia (comprising more than one session) relevant to the
over-arching conference theme, or which discuss issues of importance
from perspectives which differ from, or critically examine, mainstream
economics.
Single papers:
All papers should include a 250 word abstract that clearly states the
issue being addressed, its main points and argument. It should be
stated, at the time of submission, if you require your paper to be
refereed and if you wish your paper to be considered for a symposium.
The deadline for refereed papers is Monday 10 October 2011.
The deadline for non-refereed papers is Monday 31 October 2011.
Complete sessions:
We welcome proposals for complete sessions. Session proposals should be
sent to p.kriesler@unsw.edu.au
and include the following information:
• A short title
• A description of the session which should be no more than one
page
• The names of the proposed participants in the session
• An abstract for each paper to be included in the session
• The name and email address of the session organiser
The deadline for complete sessions is Friday 15 July 2011.
Symposia:
We encourage proposals for symposia which address a single topic or
issue. The SHE Conference Committee will work with symposia organisers,
when constructing the conference program, to ensure a coherent list of
sessions for each symposium, and schedule these so that participants
can follow a symposium across more than one session. Symposium
proposals should be submitted to p.kriesler@unsw.edu.au and
include the following information:
- A short title (no more than 5 words)
- A short description of the type of paper that would be suitable
for inclusion in the symposium
- The name and email address of the symposium organiser
The deadline for symposium proposals is Friday 15 July 2011.
Deadlines:
The SHE Conference Committee will consider all proposals for papers,
sessions and symposia, and will notify you of the acceptance or
rejection of your proposal.
- Complete session proposals are due by Friday 15 July 2011 and
will be notified by Monday 25 July 2011.
- Symposium proposals are due by Friday 15 July 2011 and will be
notified by Monday 25 July 2011.
- The deadline for refereed papers is Monday 10 October 2011.
- The deadline for non-refereed papers is Monday 31 October 2011.
17th
Workshop on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe
European
integration at the crossroads: Deepening or disintegration?
16-18 September 2011 | the C3-Center for International Development in
Vienna/Austria
This year’s EuroMemo Group conference will be held in Vienna from
16-18 September 2011. The conference will open on the afternoon of
Friday, 16 September with the customary plenary on the State of the
Union. We are pleased to announce the two key speakers:
- The Political State of the Union, Birgit Mahnkopf (Berlin School
of Economics and Law)
- The Economic State of the Union, Ozlem Onaran (Middlesex
University, London)
We would like to invite you to attend the conference and to submit
proposals for papers for one of the four workshops shown below. These
should address the key themes of EU policy in each area.
Workshop 1: Austerity policies – Coordinator: Marica Frangakis
Austerity policies are being imposed in a number of EU member states,
most notably in the euro area periphery and in Central and Eastern
Europe. This workshop aims to examine developments in specific
countries, giving special emphasis to the degradation of social
protection systems and of labour market institutions, and the
implications for youth unemployment and the organization of
old-age security.
Workshop 2: The future of the eurozone – Coordinator: Trevor
Evans
Developments of the past year raise the danger of a disintegration of
the eurozone. As some members states struggle to deal with rising
levels of public and private debt, the EU has promoted new governance
measures that look set to exacerbate the situation. Contributions are
invited that address macroeconomic imbalances, debt and the banking
crisis, monetary policy and the role of the ECB, the European Stability
Mechanism, and the Pact for the Euro.
Workshop 3: The EU and the world – Coordinator: Werner Raza
Developments in neighbouring Mediterranean countries highlight just one
of the international challenges faced by the EU. This workshop seeks
papers that address the issues of migration, trade policy, EU
development policies, as well as, more generally, the role of the EU in
global governance, in particular the G20.
Workshop 4: Energy, climate change and sustainability, after
Fukushima – Coord.: Frieder O. Wolf
The crisis in Japan dramatically focused public attention on the
pressing urgency for a fundamental change in energy policy. Papers are
invited that will address the challenge of developing policies that
promote social, economic and environmental sustainability.
Proposals for papers together with a short abstract (maximum 250 words)
should be submitted by 30 June. If accepted, completed papers should be
submitted by 1 September.
If you would like to participate in the workshop, please copy the
registration form below into an email and reply by the 30 June 2011 to euromemo@uni-bremen.de:
- that you would like to participate and
- whether you wish to offer a paper for one of the workshops.
The provisional programme is attached. Please note that there will be a
conference fee collected at the venue (20 Euro / 10 Euro for students).
The C3-Center for International Development is located in the centre of
Vienna, close to the “Altes AKH”-campus of the University
of Vienna. Information sheets with details about travel arrangements
and hotel bookings are attached. A contingent of rooms has been
reserved at three hotels in Vienna. Please use the attached form to
make your own bookings. Please be aware that early booking is strongly
recommended to secure a room at one of the hotels.
Download Provisional
Conference Program | Registration Form | Hotel Reservation Form
AFIT
Student Scholars Award Competition
The Association for Institutional Thought (AFIT) proudly announces the
Seventh Annual AFIT Student Scholars Award Competition. The aim of AFIT
is to encourage undergraduate and graduate students in Economics and
Political Economy to pursue research in topics within the Institutional
Economics framework.
Awards will be made to the three best papers. Winners are expected to
present their research during a special session at the Annual Meetings
of AFIT, held during the Western Social Science Association’s
54th Annual Conference at the Hyatt Regency, Houston, April 11-14, 2012.
Winners will each receive:
- $300 prize
- One year student membership in AFIT
- Paid WSSA Conference Registration
- Paid admission to the AFIT Presidential Address Dinner
Winning papers must be presented at the special AFIT session in order
to be eligible for the prize. Prizes will be presented during the AFIT
Presidential Address Dinner.
Application Procedures and Deadlines
Papers must be between 15-25 pages in length, including references and
appendices. They should be submitted electronically (preferably in Word
format) by December 15, 2011 to:
Daniel A. Underwood
Professor, Economics & Environmental Science
Peninsula College
1502 East Lauridsen Blvd.
Port Angeles, WA 98362
USA
E-mail:
dunderwood@pencol.edu
Winners will be notified by 1/15/12.
For more information about AFIT, visit our website at site atwww.associationforinstitutionalthought.org/
Download Call for Papers.
Economics
and Labour Relations Review: Carbon Markets - Inherent Limitations
and the Role of Complementary Policies
Special Symposium to be published in Economics and Labour Relations
Review 2012
Symposium Editors: Paul Twomey and Neil Perry
CALL FOR PAPERS
The ascendancy of the use of market principles to address the problem
of climate change has seen emissions trading schemes and carbon tax
regimes dominate the policy agenda in a number of regions including
Australia, Europe and North America. In recent high level discussions
of the Climate Change Committee in Australia, the role of complementary
instruments or policies to assist in moving Australia towards a low
carbon economy have even been argued to be unnecessary once a carbon
price is in place. In this context, the Economics and Labour Relations
Review intends to publish a symposium during 2012 on the inherent
limitations of the use of carbon markets (including the underlying
capitalist logic) and the role or necessity of alternative and
complementary policies to address the issue of climate change. We are
seeking contributions that specifically address the current policy
discussions in Australia or elsewhere.
NOTES TO CONTRIBUTORS
The primary focus of Economic and Labour Relations Review is on
contemporary issues, developments and policymaking in the fields of
economics and labour relations and we seek contributions that are
accessible to policy makers and thus relatively non-technical. Academic
contributions will undergo blind peer review by two referees and
submissions are due on September 1, 2011 with the intended date of
publication being January 2012.
If you are interested in contributing, please contact:
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for further details on the technical requirements for submission.
Eighth Annual Historical
Materialism Conference
10–13 November 2011 | Central London
Deadline extended to June 1
Feminist
Economics: Engendering Economic Policy in Africa
Guest Editors: Caren A. Grown, Abena D. Oduro, and Irene van Staveren
In recent years, feminist economists and gender and development
scholars have drawn attention to the adverse effects in Africa of
policies associated with the Washington Consensus, including trade
liberalization, strict anti-inflationary policies, and privatization of
government functions. As these policies particularly disadvantage women
and the poor, a variety of voices have emerged critiquing their
underlying assumptions and renewing efforts to promote alternate
pathways to gender equity, well- being, and sustainable economic
development.
The special issue, planned for online publication in 2014 and print
publication in 2015, will bring together new research aimed at
challenging and improving economic policies in Africa. More generally,
the special issue will provide a forum for feminist economists and
scholars in relevant disciplines to analyze the interrelationships
among macroeconomic reforms, gender inequalities, and the microeconomic
channels that affect the well-being of women, their families, and their
communities. The special issue will welcome both theoretical and
empirical contributions, and analyses that rely on diverse research
methodologies, including statistical analysis. Feminist Economics
especially welcomes submissions from African scholars as well as others
from the Global South.
Contributions may cover diverse topics, including but not limited to:
- Gender and poverty dimensions of macroeconomic policy, aid,
and/or debt
- Enhancing food security and reducing livelihood risks using
social protection
- Ensuring equitable growth and development in post-conflict
economies
- Property rights and how they affect the ownership of assets by
women and men
- Microfinance and the debate over its efficacy for women’s
empowerment
- The care economy and the role of social policy
Deadline for abstracts:
Please direct queries and abstracts (500 words maximum) to the Guest
Editors, Caren Grown (cgrown@american. edu), Abena D. Oduro
(aoduro@ug.edu.gh), and Irene van Staveren (Staveren@iss.nl), no later
than 1 September 2011.
If the Guest Editors approve an abstract, the complete manuscript will
be due 1 April 2012 and should be submitted to Feminist Economics
through the submissions website (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rfec).
Questions about these procedures may be sent to
feministeconomics@rice.edu, +1.713.348.4083 (phone) or +1.713.348.5495
(fax).
Visit the journal’s editorial website: www.feministeconomics.org
Download Call for Papers.
First Seminar in Austrian
and Heterodox Economics
8 to 11 August, 2011 | Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota,
Colombia
Research Group in Macroeconomics and Economic Policy MACRÓPOLIS
Call for papers:
The Research Group in Macroeconomics and Economic Policy,
MACRÓPOLIS, is organizing his First Seminar in Austrian and
Heterodox Economics which will be held at the Faculty of Economic
Sciences of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, in Bogota, from
August 8th to 11th, 2010.
We would like to invite undergraduate and graduate students, professors
and professionals to summit Austrian and Heterodox papers (Behavioral,
Evolutionist, Ecologic, Institutionalist, Marxist, Neuroeconomic, Post
Keynesian, Sraffian, etc), both theoretical and empirical, that are
related with the following topics:
- Business Cycles Theory
- Methodology and Epistemology in Economics
- Economic Policy
- Modern Theory of the Firm
- Entrepreneurship Theory
- Monetary Policy and Theory
- Macroeconomics History
- History of Economic Thought
- Economics Development
Submission details
- Submission of abstracts: from March 15th to June 10th, 2011.
- Submission of accepted papers: until July 16th, 2011.
- The papers can be written in English or Spanish.
- The papers must be presented in Word or PDF formats, and must
have the following characteristics: a maximum extension of
11.000-13.000 words, including notes and references; simple space
between lines; 13 points-sized Garamond font; letter-sized paper with 3
cm margins.
- The author’s personal information must be included as a
symbol footnote stating: author’s name, occupation, academic
level and, necessarily, his/her e-mail.
- No more than two (2) papers allowed per author.
- The abstracts and accepted papers should be sent to:
macropolis@gmail.
KEY SPEAKERS
The event will include conferences given by:
Peter G. Klein
Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Berkeley
B. A. (Honors), Economics, Universidad of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Professor, Universidad of Missouri
Lawrence H. White
Ph. D., Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
M. A., Economics, University of California, Los Angeles
A. B. (magna cum laude), Economics, Harvard University
Professor, George Mason University
Adrian Ravier
Ph. D. (summa cum laude), Applied Economics, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
M. A., Economics and Business Management, Escuela Superior de
Economía y Administración de Empresas
B.A., Economics, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Professor, Swiss Management Center University and Francisco
Marroquín University
Steering Committee
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International
Conference on Economic Philosophy
21-22 June 2012 | Lille , France
Organizers: Sciences Po Lille and the journal Papers in Political
Economy (Cahiers d'économie Politique) |
website
Supported by: CLERSE, University Lille 1 and Association Charles Gide
for the History of Economic Thought
What is economic philosophy? The expression is well known. In France,
in Europe and worldwide, reviews, research centers and academic
programs refer to it. But what does it mean? Does she have an object, a
method and references which would really distinguish her from economic
theories? Is it just another name to indicate what we formerly called
doctrine? Is it more or something different than what we today call
economic epistemology? And what place does economic philosophy occupy
next to other fields of philosophy? These questions and some other seem
to have enough relevance for the Papers in Political Economy/ Cahiers
d’Economie Politique (
www.cahiersdecopo.fr)
to organize a conference on these with the aim of a special issue.
In first estimate three possible meanings can be distinguished - as so
many orientations for proposals. At first, there would be an economic
philosophy in the way where there is an underlying philosophy in any
positive science under the shape of an envelope which supports her or
which hinders her. The study of this economic philosophy - as
philosophy of the economy - would then consist in bringing to light the
decisive notions from which the economic analysis draws its resources
or on which on the contrary she has to operate an epistemological
rupture.
There would then be an economic philosophy in the sense that the
economic notions of optimum, collective well-being and social choice
result in questions relative to the freedom of the agents and to the
justice of their mutual relations. Economics would appear as a body in
two complementary parts – a positive side or examination of the
empirical conditions assuring the maximum efficiency of the actions
relative to the production of wealth in a given society; a
normative side or description of the ideal conditions under which these
results assure the moral satisfaction of the members of this society.
Economic philosophy would be this normative part. It would thus be
another name for welfare conomics, theory of social choice or
economic theory of justice.
Finally, there would be an economic philosophy in the sense that the
essential notions constitutive of the field of economy and economics
are the objects of an analysis pushed until its term. Economists know
this level of inquiry on fundamental concepts of their domain under the
title of pure theory. Pure theory is not the positive knowledge about
how an economic device compared to others works at best. Nor does she
normatively question the ideal conditions under which the economy can
be just. Pure theory rises
up to the upper floor of the so-called real or abstract definitions
which command the deployment of economics in the coherence and
relevance of its various parts.
But is it enough to say? Shouldn’t we go further than this
orientation under the only review of the possible meanings of an
expression? Shouldn’t we also understand an economic philosophy
as the banner of a great philosophic tradition to unify economic
theoretical propositions - as it is to see with political or moral
philosophies? It would then be necessary to speak about Aristotelian,
Hegelian or Marxist economic philosophy, economic philosophy inspired
by J.S.Mill, the Vienna Circle or Wittgenstein or influenced by Hayek
or evolutionism - all incentives for proposals.
PROPOSALS
An abstract (no more than 500 words) of the proposed contribution
should be submitted by E-mail to
philoeco@sciencespo-lille.eu
in English or French, with a brief curriculum vita, postal and email
addresses.
DEADLINES
15 October 2011: submission deadline
03 December 2011: meeting of the program committee
17 December 2011: notification to applicants
14 May 2012: full paper submission deadline
For more information, please contact:
philoeco@sciencespo-lille.eu
A selection of papers will be published in a special issue of the
Cahiers d’Economie Politique-Papers in Political Economy;
Organizers’ intent is to publish other papers in a separated
publication
International Journal of
Pluralism and Economics Education: Economics Education in India
Economics Education in India: Past, Present and
Future
Deadline for Abstract: May, 31 2011
Deadline for Papers: July 1, 2011
Decisions announced: July 30, 2011
Publication Date: September 2011 in Vol. II, No 3 of the IJPEE
Guest Editor for this issue:
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 special issue on India is to
assess the adequacy of economics education in India from an Indian
perspective. While the preponderant focus is at the university level,
we also invite papers that discuss economics education at the secondary
level. More specifically, we invite papers along the following themes:
- What is the current state of economics education in India? Is it
adequate to meet the needs of its citizens and to help build the
nation?
- What are the influences of the past on current economics
education?
- What is the role of neoclassical economics in Indian economics
education?
- What is the role of alternative schools of economics such as
Classical Political Economics, Marxian Economics, Sraffian Economics,
Kaldorian / Kaleckian Economics, Institutional and Green Economics in
Indian economics education?
- Does economics education vary according to regional, cultural
and religious differences?
- What is the extent of pluralism in Indian economics education?
- Does pluralism enhance or hinder the learning of economics?
- Empirical testing of the adequacy of Indian economics education.
- Adequate testing of economics knowledge within the context of
pluralism.
- Discussion of economics education at the high school level.
- Unique features of Indian economics education.
- Specific suggestions to re-conceptualise economics education in
India.
Papers must be received by July 1, 2011 to be considered for this
special issue. Interested authors please submit a proposal to Sudipta
Bhattacharyya , Department of Economics and Politics, Visva-Bharati
University, Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. (sudipta.bh@gmail.com,
sudipta.bhattacharyya@visva-bharati.ac.in)
On the
Horizon: Beyond Market-Fundamentalist Economics
Subtitle: An Agenda for Heterodox Economics to
Change the Dominant Narrative
June 2012 Special Issue of On the Horizon
Guest Editors: Tae-Hee Jo, Lynne Chester, and Mary C. King
Call for Papers
The financial crisis of 2008 threw in sharp relief the inadequacy of an
increasingly market fundamentalist, mainstream neoclassical economics
to accurately explain the economy or to provide guidance to policy
makers that will lead to widely-shared prosperity and human wellbeing.
Critical understandings of market dynamics and alternative approaches
are found in the spectrum of heterodox economics. In 2008, On the
Horizon (OTH) published a special issue (Vol. 16, No. 4) on heterodox
economics, “Publishing, Refereeing, Rankings, and the Future of
Heterodox Economics.”
In an upcoming special issue, OTH will go further, to highlight how
practitioners of heterodox economics might differently advise policy
makers around the globe to proceed, and how those policy programs might
be supported by a re-formulated economic narrative which, in turn,
would be shaped by re-designed economics curriculum, different
approaches to pedagogy and funding for far wider research agendas, if
heterodox economists were to receive the kind and level of support
currently enjoyed solely by mainstream neoclassical economists.
For inclusion in this special issue, we are interested in a range of
possible papers that conceptualize the policy, teaching, and research
arenas to reshape the dominant economic narrative and break the
hegemony of market-fundamentalism that would result from substantially
strengthened support of all heterodox traditions. Scholars may
choose to focus on the contribution of a particular school of economic
thought, or draw from a number of heterodox frameworks, and similarly
may focus on one nation or many.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
1. The Policy Program
- What policies would heterodox economists—or practitioners
of Institutionalist, Marxist, Feminist, Post Keynesian and other
traditions—advise policy makers to support with respect to
energy, the environment, trade, employment, family policy, finance,
education, health care, military efforts and other pressing issues?
- How might recommended policies vary for more and less affluent
nations?
- How would we suggest meeting the challenges of sustainability,
raising world-wide living standards while reducing negative
environmental and social impacts?
- Are policy ideas influential only if they come from elite
academic institutions? Are there other institutional
interconnections that reinforce accepted policy ideas and how might
heterodox economists seek to reframe these institutions and their
relationships?
- How have overlooked insights gained currency in the past?
What role does the media play in the acceptance or dismissal of
economic ideas?
- How can heterodox economists use cultural practices,
organizational processes and technological parameters to change the
standard dominant economic narrative?
2. Heterodox economics in universities and schools: Curriculum
and pedagogy
- What would a heterodox economics curriculum look like? Are
there examples of appropriate curriculum for elementary and secondary
education, as well as universities?
- Does heterodox economics call for different pedagogical
approaches than those central to market-fundamentalist mainstream
neoclassical economic teaching methods?
3. What would be the impact of significantly increased funding for
research in heterodox economics?
- If heterodox economists had access to private sector/non-profit
philanthropic funds of the order of magnitude of INET/Rockefeller
Foundation and public funding of the order of the NSF/RAE, could
the profession be changed in terms of research, teaching, economics
department composition, conferences, etc.?
- What would the research agendas comprise? Would
methodological changes occur? What kinds of metrics might be
used?
4. Is the division into heterodoxy and orthodoxy unique in the
discipline of economics, perhaps because of its political centrality?
Are there lessons from other disciplines in the social sciences?
- What are the consequences for the economics discipline of the
dismissal of heterodox ideas by orthodox economists?
- What are the ways that heterodox economics can achieve more
widespread acceptance of pluralism?
Papers
One-page proposals are to be submitted to the guest editors (oth.heterodox.econ@gmail.com)
and papers should be submitted online at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/oth.
Submitted papers undergo a peer-review process.
Papers are expected in well-supported essay style, between 1000 and
5000 words, including abstracts, key words, and references. Please see
the general guidelines for authors on the journal site http://www.emeraldinsight.com/oth.htm.
Important Dates
- One page proposals due: August 1, 2011
- Acceptances announced: August 15, 2011
- Draft Papers due: November 1, 2011
- Final Papers due: February 1, 2012
- Publication: June 2012
Contact Information
Guest Editors
- Tae-Hee Jo, SUNY Buffalo State College, USA
- Lynne Chester, The University of Sydney, Australia
- Mary C. King, Portland State University, USA
About Journal
On the Horizon focuses on the increasingly complex intersection
of forces that are impinging on education and learning and to which
educators, human resource professionals and all committed to human
potential must respond. Areas of interest include the changing needs of
an increasingly global society, the economics and business of education
delivery, changing policies and practices affecting curriculum content,
certification and intellectual property, and rules and regulations
governing institutions. Fore more information, visit the Journal
website: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/products/journals/journals.htm?id=oth
Download Call for Papers.
Workshop: Teaching Political
Economy
September 16, 2011: 10:30am-6pm | University of Warwick
Political economy is a form of inquiry and a field of research that
cross-cuts different social science disciplines and this workshop seeks
to explore the many different ways in which political economy is
taught, be it in: international relations, politics, geography,
business studies, heterodox economics, social anthropology and
sociology. Our aim is to exchange ideas and innovative practices
through dialogue, not devise a definitive way of teaching political
economy.
This one-day workshop will work through the following topics:
- Different methods of teaching political economy
- Teaching key topics: trade, finance, development and the
environment
- Moving beyond the traditional essay question and innovations in
teaching
Participants are NOT required to present a paper; instead they are
encouraged to bring their course outlines, teaching resources
(newspaper articles, films, blogs etc.), assignments, essay questions,
seminar topics, simulations. Providing there is sufficient amounts The
Political Economy Institute at the University of Manchester has offered
to create an online repository of these resources.
Confirmed participants: Kees van der Pijl (Sussex), Richard Woodward
(Hull), Earl Gammon (UAE), Matthew Watson (Warwick), Phoebe Moore
(Salford)
As key players on the front-line of teaching, we encourage
post-graduate student participation and are able to offer travel
expenses (on a first come, first serve basis).
Spaces are limited, so please contact Johnna Montgomerie (j.montgomerie@manchester.ac.uk)
or Ben Richardson (B.J.Richardson@warwick.ac.uk)
to register.
Please Note: The IPEG Annual workshop is taking place at Warwick on
September 14-15, see: www.bisa-ipeg.org
for further details
Call for
Participants
AHE 2001 Conference
Registration is now open:
http://www.ntu.ac.uk/nbs/news_events/events/102273.html?campaignid=aheconference2011
Cambridge
Development Studies Seminar
Wednesday 25 May from 10 am until 1 pm at Mill Lane Lecture Room 9
Lance Taylor, Murray Milgate, Andrew Gamble and Gabriel Palma will
discuss “Contemporary Keynesian perspectives on Keynes”.
Further details
attached.
Marx and
Philosophy Society Eighth Annual Conference: Marx and Aristotle
Saturday 4 June 2011, 9.30 am - 6.00 pm | Institute of Education,
University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1
Main speakers:
- Jon Pike (Open University) 'From each according to their ability
...': Marx, demandingness and Neo-Aristotelianism
- Scott Meikle (Glasgow) Marx's second theory of value in chapter
1 of Capital
- Tony Burns (Nottingham) Marx and natural law
Parallel graduate panels:
(1) Jan Kandiyali (Sheffield) Karl Marx and the abolition of
social roles
Yannig Luthra (UCLA) A puzzle about production and self-realization
Steve Thomas (KCL) Alasdair MacIntyre's Marxist humanism
(2) Daniel Burnfin (KU Leuven) Aristotle, the value-form and real
abstraction
Guido Schulz (Sussex) The fetish character of the commodity and
fetishism
Andrew Davenport (Sussex) Marxist International Relations and the
problem of the political
£15 waged, £10 unwaged (provides annual membership of
the Society)
To reserve a place in advance please email David Marjoribanks at
dm275@kent.ac.uk
Nearest tube stations: Russell Square, Tottenham Court Road
PKSG
Keynes's Seminar
The Garden Room, Robinson College
- Tuesday 24 May: Roger Backhouse, University of Birmingham: On
Post Keynesian economics and the economics of Keynes | Discussant:
Roberto Scazzieri, University of Bologna
- Tuesday 7 June: Bruce Littleboy, University of Queensland: GLS
Shackle: Can we reconcile the irreconcilable?
For more information, visit Post Keynesian Economics Study Group.
The Sixth
Forum of the World Association for Political Economy
Responses to Capitalist Crisis: Neoliberalism and
Beyond
May 27 to May 29, 2011 | University of Massachusetts Amherst,
MA, USA
Conference program is available here: http://urpe.org/conf/wape/wape2011/wape.html#schedule
St.
Catharine's Political Economy Seminar
Wednesday 25 May | Ramsden Room, 6:00-7:30
David Miles, Monetary Policy Committee: Monetary Policy and Financial
Stability
Please contact the seminar organisers Philip Arestis pa267@cam.ac.uk and Michael Kitson, m.kitson@jbs.cam.ac.uk in the
event of a query.
Symposium:
Getting out of the crisis: the role of Income Distribution
June 9-10, 2011 | Paris
See the program here.
If you intend to be part of this conference's audience, just send an
E-mail to lang.dany@univ-paris13.fr
so we can organize the coffee breaks. The dinner and the lunch will be
strictly reserved to the speakers and discussants.
Workshop of Market Square:
Evidence-based policy and the real world - a difficult match?
25 May 2011 in the Cambridge Judge Business School, University of
Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG.
Organized by the Cambridge Business & Society Interdisciplinary
Research Group
Please find the programme below. Keynote speakers are Professor Nancy
Cartwright (London School of Economics), Dr Michele Clara (UNIDO
-Development Policy Unit), and Dr Michael Joffe (Imperial College
London).
Please note that places are limited and registration is essential. For
registration or any enquiries please email Ella Hewitt (e.hewitt@jbs.cam.ac.uk). The
fee is £10(includes lunch and coffee/tea). Please note that we
can only take cash or a cheque (payable to the University of Cambridge)
on the day.
Program
9.30 - 10.00 Coffee and registration
10.00 - 12.00 The Making of Evidence-Based Policy
- Chair: Ivano Cardinale (University of Cambridge)
- Nancy Cartwright (London School of Economics)
- Padmini Ram (University of Cambridge)
- Trevor Lin (University of Oxford)
12.00 - 13.00 Lunch
13.00 - 15.00 Public Policies and State Capability
Traps
- Chair: Antonio Andreoni (University of Cambridge)
- Michele Clara (UNIDO, Development Policy Unit)
- Mihaly Fazekas (University of Cambridge)
- Osvaldo Feinstein (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
15.00 - 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 - 17.30 Evidence-Based Policy in Practice
- Chair: H-S Anna Kim (University of Cambridge)
- Michael Joffe (Imperial College London)
- Yael Litmanovitz (University of Oxford)
- Becky Staples (University of Cambridge)
17.30 - 18.00 Final roundtable
- Chair: Roberto Scazzieri (University of Bologna)
- Nancy Cartwright (London School of Economics)
- Michele Clara (UNIDO, Development Policy Unit)
- Michael Joffe (Imperial College London)
18.00
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Workshop on
Wage-led Growth
14 JUNE 2011 | Kingston University London
The Political Economy Research Group, School of Economics Kingston
University is organizing a workshop Wage-led growth – An
alternative to finance-led capitalism?
Date: 14 June 2011 , 09:00 to 18:00
Location: JG0003 Penrhyn Road Campus Kingston KT1 2EE
Fee: Free, advance registration essential
Neoliberalism has led to a polarization in the distribution of
income and given rise to a finance-led growth model that collapsed in
the worst crisis since the 1930s. Wage-led growth has recently been
proposed as an alternative policy strategy. It aims at linking wage
growth to productivity growth and inflation. Growing wages could then
generate high demand by fuelling consumption. But such a strategy could
also ignite the growth of the capital stock if consumption demand has
second round effects on investment, and if wage growth induces
technological change and productivity growth. Thus, for a wage-growth
policy to be successful, it needs be embedded in an economic policy
regime that gives a greater role to labour unions and restrains the
financial sector. The Workshop will introduce recent research on
wage-led growth and provide a forum for critical discussion.
Programme:
http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/item.php?updatenum=1738
Job
Postings for Heterodox Economists
Monash University,
Melbourne, Australia
IEP Research Chair in Peace Economics,
The University
Monash University has a bold vision – to deliver significant
improvements to the human condition. Distinguished by its international
perspective, Monash takes pride in its commitment to innovative
research and high quality teaching and learning.
The Opportunity
Monash is seeking an outstanding appointee to provide academic
leadership and fulfil the role of the IEP Research Chair in Peace
Economics. This senior research position focuses on the relationship
between economics and positive peace-building outcomes for the global
challenges we face today.
The successful appointee will be an international-level researcher who
can provide strong leadership in peace economics, foster excellence in
research and be an inspiring communicator. Specifically, the Chair will
be an acknowledged expert in some or all of the fields of: econometrics
and development economics, peace and conflict studies.
Working closely with the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) this
position will have a dual reporting line to the Dean, Faculty of Arts
and the Dean, Faculty of Business and Economics, to promote
collaboration and foster cross-disciplinary research. The IEP Research
Chair in Peace Economics will play a leading and coordinating role in
promoting research aimed at better understanding causal links for
peace, and consequences of peace.
Applicants must have: a research doctorate in the relevant discipline;
an international reputation for quality research; a record of obtaining
external research grants and of successful supervision of postgraduate
research students; proven excellence in teaching; and highly developed
skills of leadership, communication, networking and management.
Appropriately qualified women are encouraged to apply.
The Benefits
A competitive remuneration package will be negotiable for an
outstanding candidate. Relocation travel, removal allowance and salary
packaging are available. Monash offers a range of professional
development programs, support for research, study and overseas work,
generous maternity leave and flexible work arrangements.
Duration
The appointment will be for a fixed term of up to five years.
Enquiries only to
Professor Rae Frances, Dean, Faculty of Arts, Monash University,
telephone +61 3 9905 2100.
Applications
Applications close Monday 30 May 2011
The position description (including the selection criteria) and
information on how to apply can be found at www.monash.edu/jobs/
The University reserves the right to appoint by invitation.
NNU AFL-CIO, Oakland, CA,
USA
NNU AFL-CIO Educators and Researchers hiring immediately,
permanent based in Oakland, CA. We will train
experienced instructors to teach political economy and other topics to
registered nurses. Also hiring researchers experienced in power
structure research.
EDUCATOR AND RESEARCHER
The National Nurses United (NNU) AFL-CIO, the nation’s largest
nurses’ union and professional association, seeks experienced
Educators and Researchers. Educators should be capable of
teaching college level material to working adults and Researchers
should be familiar with power structure research. We will train
skilled professors, instructors, and graduate student instructors to
teach about the political economy of healthcare restructuring and the
clinical and technological impacts of healthcare restructuring on both
patients and the Registered Nurses who provide their care.
We will devote significant time to training skilled educators in
Oakland, California so they can learn about critical healthcare issues
and assist in developing labor oriented educational programs nationwide
for Registered Nurses.
The NNU, AFL-CIO is organizing the movement for Registered Nurse power
to transform the market-driven healthcare industry in the United States
into a health care system driven by patient needs. The NNU has
negotiated the best Registered Nurse (RN) collective bargaining
contracts in the nation and was responsible for California’s RN
Safe Staffing Law - the first of its kind nationwide. NNU provided
critical leadership in the AFL-CIO’s decision to endorse a
single-payer healthcare system based on “updating and expanding
Medicare benefits” for all Americans.
Educator
After appropriate orientation, the Educator will design and teach one
day courses on health care restructuring, issues impacting nursing
practice and basic principles of political economy for Registered
Nurses. This is not a traditional labor educator position. The ideal
Educator Candidate will have:
- At least one advanced degree.
- Top rate research skills.
- Experience in working closely with others as part of a
successful team.
- An ability to work under pressure and ability to meet deadlines
is essential.
- Proven competence in qualitative social research.
- Familiarity in teaching successful intensive
workshops.
- The ability to teach complex material in a way that is
accessible to a broad audience is essential.
- Demonstrated experience at teaching complex global issues of
political economy is helpful.
- Highly desirable attributes include familiarity and a
background in political/economy, the epistemological problematic
inherent in computerized expert systems and the impact on worker
control, workplace power and skill, labor process studies, complex
organizational analysis, the philosophy of science generally, and the
social aspects of technological design and implementation.
- Educator positions require an ability and willingness to travel
and educate Registered Nurses in a national movement for healthcare
justice.
Please be prepared to submit a Résumé, Cover letter,
Writing sample, and an Outline of a one day educational workshop when
you apply. Also, please prepare a 3 page or less description of the
best training session, class or workshop you have conducted and the
audience you were reaching. You will be asked to attach these as
separate documents in PDF or Word formats.
Researcher
The ideal Researcher Candidate will have:
- Experience in power structure research
- Familiarity with corporate research and/or corporate campaigns
- Strategic research skills
- An understanding of market concentration and complex
organizational issues
- Background in evaluating and reviewing corporate
statements
- Demonstrated commitment to social justice
-
Research positions will probably be based in Oakland, California.
For further information, visit here.
Excellent salary and benefits package including medical, dental and
pension. Full family coverage including domestic partner. NNU is
committed to Equal Opportunity, and considering applicants of all ages,
races, sexual orientations, national origins, ethnicities, and
religions. We urge people of color and women, experienced educators of
all backgrounds to apply.
Conference
Papers, Reports, and Articles
Valuing the Invaluable.
Rethinking and respecting caring work in Canada
"Valuing
the Invaluable. Rethinking and respecting caring work in Canada,"
by Salimah Valianit
Heterodox
Journals
Cahiers
d’économie politique (Papers in Political Economy) 60:
2011
Journal website: http://www.cahiersdecopo.fr/en/
The entire issue is available at www.cairn.info/revue-cahiers-d-economie-politique-2011-1.htm
Articles :
- Benoît Walraevens , « Corruption des travailleurs et
éducation dans les sociétés selon Adam Smith
»
- Cyrille Ferraton & David Vallat, « Une approche
politique du crédit populaire : Pierre-Joseph Proudhon et le
crédit mutuel »
- Laurent Baronian , « La monnaie dans les Grundrisse
»
- Guy Bensimon, « La stabilité de la
hiérarchie des salaires et l'expression des quantités de
travail en unité commune »
- Abdelaziz Berkane, « Un essai de typologie des
comportements économiques : le cas de la tradition
théorique autrichienne »
- Ludovic Ragni, « La méthode mathématique
chez Walras et Cournot : comparaison et enjeux de discorde »
Reviews and bibliographical notes :
- Jonathan Marie : Christian Tutin, Une histoire des
théories monétaires par les textes, Flammarion, Paris,
collection « Champs classiques », 2009, 508 p.
- Nicolas Rieucau : Arnaud Orain et Philippe Le Pichon (dir.),
Graslin. Le temps des Lumières à Nantes, Presses
universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 2008, 326 p. Contributions de Gilles
Bienvenu, Alain Delaval, Gilbert Faccarello, Yvon Le Gall, Philippe Le
Pichon, Arnaud Orain, Daniel Rabreau, Samuel Rajalu, Guy Saupin ; avec
un texte de J.-J.-L. Graslin, Dissertation de Saint-Pétersbourg
(1768)
- Éric Pommier : Hans Jonas, “Philosophical Essays:
From Ancient Creed to Technological Man”, University of Chicago
Press, Chicago, 1974, 349 p. Hans Jonas, Le Principe, trad. Jean
Greisch, Champs Flammarion, Paris, 1998 [réédité
en 2008], 470 p.
Editing economic ideas : « L’édition complète
des Œuvres de Jules Dupuit l’économiste »
- -Philippe Poinsot : Breton, Yves et Klotz, Gérard
(éd.), Œuvres économiques complètes de Jules
Dupuit, Economica, Paris, 2009, 1350 p.
-
Cambridge Journal of
Economics, 35(3): May 2011
Journal website: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3924/1
Articles
- Christian Bessy and Daniel Szpiro / The provisions in a labour
contract: technology and the market
- Tony Edwards / The nature of international integration and human
resource policies in multinational companies
- Maria Sagrario Floro and John Messier / Is there a link
between quality of employment and indebtedness? the case of urban
low-income households in Ecuador
- Dirk Czarnitzki, Hanna Hottenrott, and Susanne Thorwarth /
Industrial research versus development investment: the implications of
financial constraints
- Arslan Razmi / Exploring the robustness of the balance of
payments-constrained growth idea in a multiple good framework
- Christian R. Proaño, Peter Flaschel, Hans-Martin Krolzig,
and Mamadou Bobo Diallo / Monetary policy and macroeconomic stability
under alternative demand regimes
- Eckhard Hein, Marc Lavoie, and Till van Treeck / Some
instability puzzles in Kaleckian models of growth and distribution: a
critical survey
Notes and Comments
- Theodore Mariolis and George Soklis / On constructing
numeraire-free measures of price–value deviation: a note on the
Steedman–Tomkins distance
- Gerhard Michael Ambrosi / Keynes' abominable Z-footnote
Economy and
Society: vitual special issue
In celebration of Economy and
Society’s 40th anniversary in 2011, a series of virtual
special issues are being released containing a variety of articles
which demonstrate the journal’s continued relevance to
today’s research.
Following the first issue on Michel Foucault and Governmentality, a new
issue on Rethinking Social Theory has just been added. Both issues
contain a selection of articles which are free to read online.
Start reading
now.
Erasmus Journal for
Philosophy and Economics 4(1): Spring 2011
-
Strength and riches: Nicholas Barbon’s new politics of
commerce / GEOFFREY C. KELLOW
-
Against the pragmatic justification for realism in economic
methodology / SIMON DEICHSEL
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Puzzled by realism: a response to Deichsel / USKALI MÄKI
-
Anti-realism or pro-something else? Response to Deichsel /
TONY LAWSON
SPECIAL CONTRIBUTION
BOOK REVIEWS
-
DAVID COLANDER on Roger E. Backhouse's "The puzzle of modern
economics: science or ideology?
-
DAVID M. FRANK on Paul W. Glimcher's "Foundations of
neuroeconomic analysis"
-
IRENE VAN STAVEREN on Robert Garnett, Erik Olsen, and Martha
Starr (eds) "Economic pluralism"
-
JOSEPH HEATH on Debra Satz's "Why some things should not be
for sale"
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CHRISTOPHER J. BERRY on Willie Henderson's "The origins of
David Hume’s economics"
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JOOST W. HENGSTMENGEL on Johan J. Graafland’s "The
market, happiness, and solidarity: a Christian perspective"
CALL FOR PAPERS
- EJPE welcomes academic articles on all areas of philosophy and
economics. See http://ejpe.org for
details of the submission process and criteria.
- Young scholars are encouraged to apply for the Mark Blaug
Prize in Philosophy and Economics: http://ejpe.org/mark-blaug-prize/
- Recent PhD graduates in a relevant field who would like the
opportunity to describe their research to EJPE's inter-disciplinary
readership are invited to submit a short summary of their thesis for
publication.
Feminist
Economics, 17(2): April 2011
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/rfec
Articles
- Multiplying Themselves: Women Cosmetics Sellers in Ecuador |
Erynn Masi de Casanova
- Gender and Network Formation in Rural Nicaragua: A Village case
study | Ben D'Exelle; Nathalie Holvoet
- Lights and Shadows of Household Satellite Accounts: The case of
Catalonia, Spain | Cristina Carrasco; Mònica
Serrano
- The Fertility and Women's Labor Force Participation puzzle in
OECD Countries: The Role of Men's Home Production | Joost de Laat;
Almudena Sevilla-Sanz
- Does Informal Eldercare Impede Women's Employment? The Case of
European Welfare States | Andreas Kotsadam
Book Reviews
- The Gender Impact of Social Security Reform, by Estelle James,
Alejandra Cox Edwards, and Rebeca Wong. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 2008. 216 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-226-39200-4 (hbk.). US$35.00 |
Barbara R. Bergmann
- Taxation and Gender Equity: A Comparative Analysis of Direct and
Indirect Taxes in Developing and Developed Countries, edited by Caren
Grown and Imraan Valodia. New York: Routledge, 2010. 352 pp. ISBN-13:
978-0-415-49262-1 (hbk.). US$140.00 | Frances Woolley
- Gender, Ethnicity and Employment: Non-English Speaking
Background Migrant Women in Australia, by Rowshan Haque and M. Ohidul
Haque. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag, 2008. 220 pp. ISBN-13
978-3-7908-1999-1 (hbk.). US$119.00. | Cordelia W.
Reimers
- Gender and Well-Being in Europe: Historical and Contemporary
Perspectives, edited by Bernard Harris, Lina Gálvez, and Helena
Machado. Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 2009. 298 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-7546-7264-7
(hbk.). US$99.95 | Ailsa McKay
- Gender and Agrarian Reforms, by Susie Jacobs. New York:
Routledge, 2009. 256 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-415-37648-8 (hbk.). US$120.00 |
Susana Lastarria-Cornhiel
- Sciences From Below: Feminism, Postcolonialities, and
Modernities, by Sandra Harding. Chapel Hill, NC: Duke University Press,
2008. 296 pp. ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-4259-5 (hbk.). US$84.95; ISBN-13:
978-0-8223-4282-3 (pbk.). US$23.95 | Suzanne Bergeron
International Review of
Applied Economics, 25(2): March 2011
Journal website:http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02692171.asp
- Inflation targeting in Brazil / Philip Arestis; Fernando
Ferrari-Filho; Luiz Fernando de Paula
- Capital flight from sub-Saharan Africa: linkages with external
borrowing and policy options / Léonce Ndikumana; James K. Boyce
- North-South terms-of-trade trends from 1960 to 2006 / Bilge
Erten
- Dual equilibrium and growth cycle in Argentina / Jose Luis
Nicolini-Llosa
- The inter-relationship between capital structure and dividend
policy: empirical evidence from Jordanian data / Basil Al-Najjar
- Saving behaviour: evidence from Portugal / Maria Teresa Medeiros
Garcia; Carlos Barros; António Silvestre
Book Reviews
- The internationalization of production systems. Implications for
firms, labour and countries: The global environment of business /
Grazia Ietto-Gillies
- Cumulative causation: The foundations of non-equilibrium
economics / Jonathan Michie
International
Review of Applied Economics, 25(3): May 2011
Journal website:http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02692171.asp
- Poverty, inequality and ethnic minorities in Vietnam / Katsushi
S. Imai; Raghav Gaiha; Woojin Kang
- Advertising and labour supply: why do Americans work such long
hours? / Keith Cowling; Rattanasuda Poolsombat; Philip R. Tomlinson
- A directional analysis of Federal Reserve predictions of growth
in unit labor costs and productivity / Hamid Baghestani
- Access to credit and informality among micro and small
enterprises in Ethiopia / Gemechu Ayana Aga; Barry Reilly
- Does sport make you happy? An analysis of the well-being derived
from sports participation /Paul Downward; Simona Rasciute
- Temporal variation of capture of anti-poverty programs: rural
public works and food for work programs in rural India / Raghbendra
Jha; Sambit Bhattacharyya; Raghav Gaiha
- Performance of European insurance firms in the single insurance
market / Adnan Kasman; Evrim Turgutlu
International
Review of Applied Economics, 25(4):July 2011
Journal website:http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02692171.asp
- Incentives to self-employment decision in Sweden / Altin
Vejsiu
- The interplay between labor market rigidity and
volatility-growth nexus / MichaĆ Brzozowski
- R&D subsidies and private R&D expenditures: evidence
from Italian manufacturing data / Oliviero A. Carboni
- Skilled and unskilled wage dynamics in Italy in the 1990s:
changes in individual characteristics, institutions, trade and
technology / Anna Maria Falzoni; Alessandra Venturini; Claudia
Villosio
- An empirical investigation into the gravitation and convergence
of industry return rates in OECD countries /Andrea Vaona
Journal of Critical
Globalization Studies, 4: 2011
Special Issue on "Crisis"
Journal website: http://www.criticalglobalisation.com/current.html
- The Idea of Crisis, Editorial by Amin Samman
ARTICLES: CRISES OF ECONOMIC IDEOLOGY
- International Political Economy and the Crises of the 1970s: The
Real 'Transatlantic Divide', by Julian Germann
- Everyday Neoliberalism and the Subjectvity of Crisis:
Post-Political Control in the Era of Financial Turmoil, by Nicholas
Kiersey
- 'Grey in Grey': Crisis, Critique, Change, by Benjamin Noys
DIALOGUE: IDEOLOGIES OF ECONOMIC CRISIS
- Value and Crisis: Bichler and Nitzan versus Marx, by Andrew
Kliman
- Kliman on Systemic Fear: A Rejoinder, by Shimshon Bichler and
Jonathan Nitzan
- Marx, Systemic Fear and Capitalists' Convictions: A Reply to
Bichler and Nitzan, by Andrew Kliman
COMMENTARY
- Egypt and the Failure of Realism, by Joe Hoover
- Political Semantics of the Arab
Revolts/Uprisings/Riots/Insurrections/Revolutions, by Nathan Coombs
REVIEWS
- Pathologies of Capital: David Harvey's ‘The Enigma of
Capital’, by Matthew Morgan
- Analogies of Crisis: Harold James' ‘The Creation and
Destruction of Value’, by Liam Stanley
- Timing the Event: Antonio Calcagno's ‘Badiou and Derrida:
Politics, Events and their Time’, by Hannah Proctor
Journal of
Economic Methodology, 18(1): March 2011
Articles
-
Scientific realism as a challenge to economics (and vice
versa) / Uskali Mäki
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How validity travelled to economic experimenting / Floris
Heukelom
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Acceptance of unsupported claims about reality: a blind spot
in economics / Ole Rogeberg; Hans Olav Melberg
-
Imagining the imaginable: a reinterpretation of the function
of economists' concern about structural isomorphism in economic
theorizing /Szu-Ting Chen
Book Review Symposium
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Making philosophy of economics relevant / Harold Kincaid
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Theory-centrism in experimental economics / Francesco Guala
-
Comments on 'Error in Economics: Toward a More Evidence-Based
Methodology' by Julian Reiss / John E. DiNardo
-
Theory, generalisations from cases and methodological maxims
in evidence-based economics: Responses to the reviews by DiNardo, Guala
and Kincaid Pages / Author Julian Reiss
Moneta e
Credito, 64(253): 2011
Journal website: http://scistat.cilea.it/index.php/MonetaeCredito/issue/view/27/showToc
- In ricordo di Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa / Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
- Ancora sulla crisi / Alessandro Roncaglia
- Uscire dalla crisi finanziaria statunitense: la politica domina
l’economia nella Nuova Economia Politica / Jan Kregel
- La crisi della macroeconomia / Terenzio Cozzi
- Politiche di sostegno della domanda in presenza di elevato
debito pubblico /Paolo Bosi, Carlo D’Adda
- Vecchi e nuovi problemi nell’impiego delle politiche di
bilancio /Antonio Pedone
- Note bibliografiche: Alacevich M. (2007), Le origini della Banca
Mondiale. Una deriva conservatrice (Veronica Anelli)
- Pubblicazioni ricevute
Mother Pelican, 7(5): May
2011
Editorial Opinion: The Coupling of Gender Equality & Clean
Energy
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Conscious Leadership for Sustainability, Barrett C. Brown
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Urgent Appeal to Change the Mindset, Roberto Bissio
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Do We Need a Scientific Revolution?, Nicholas Maxwell
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From Footprints to Thoughtprints, Stephen K. Goobie
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Ignorance or Compassion?, Heiner Benking
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Biological Diversity: A Common Heritage, Priyan D. Rajan
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Sustainability and Economics 101, Susan Santone
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How we live, David & Helga Orton
This issue also includes the following supplements:
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Advances in Sustainable Development
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Directory of Sustainable Development Resources
-
SDSIM 1.5 to 2.0, Human Development, and Clean Energy
-
Status of Gender Equality in Society
-
Status of Gender Equality in Religion
Ola
Financiera, 9: Mayo-agosto 2011
Journal website: http://www.olafinanciera.unam.mx/new_web/09/index.html
(articles available)
Análisis
- Gobernabilidad y riesgo financiero en la era neoliberal / Gary
Dymski
- La “fuga” de capitales. El escenario global
(2002-2010) / Jorge Gaggero
- La Reserva Federal frente a la crisis y sus efectos sobre el
sistema financiero global / Wesley Marshall
- Programas anticrisis y déficit fiscal en Estados Unidos /
César Duarte
- La gran contracción de Estados Unidos: Crisis estructural
o financiera? / James M. Cypher
Reseña
- Crédito y mercados financieros en la era de las finanzas
/ Eugenia Correa
Clásicos
- Caracterización del proceso del subdesarrollo / Sergio de
la Peña
PSL
Quarterly Review, 64(256): 2011
Journal website:http://scistat.cilea.it/index.php/PSLQuarterlyReview/issue/view/28/showToc
- A multi-faceted financial crisis / Alessandro Roncaglia
- Financialization in the Light of Keynesian Theory /Amit Bhaduri
- Resolving the US financial crisis: politics dominates economics
in the New Political Economy / Jan Kregel
- The tax system and the financial crisis/ Vieri Ceriani, Stefano
Manestra, Giacomo Ricotti, Alessandra Sanelli, Ernesto Zangari
Review of Radical Political
Economics, 43(2): June 2011
Journal website: http://rrp.sagepub.com
Articles
- Rethinking the Dynamics of Abusive Relationships: The
Implications of Violence and Resistance for Household Bargaining /
Stephanie Paterson
- The Limits of Radical Institutionalism: A Marxian Critique of
Thorstein Veblen’s Political Economy / Devin Penner
- A Macroeconomic Structure of Employment: Rural-Urban Conflict in
a Kaleckian Framework / Saumya Chakrabarti
- Casino Capitalism with Derivatives: Fragility and Instability in
Contemporary Finance / Rex A. McKenzie
- Social Dividend Based on Overproduction / Aimin Dang
- Subcontracting and the Creation of Inequality in the Dutch
Clothing Industry 1980-1992 / Dirk H. M. Akkermans
- Book Review Essay: Superior Alternatives: Three Takes on the
Failure of Neoliberalism / Tim Koechlin
- Book Review: Monetary Economics: An Integrated Approach to
Credit, Money, Income, Production and Wealth. Wynne Godley and Marc
Lavoie; Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2007. xliii,
530 pp / Angelo Reati
- Book Review: American Empire and the Political Economy of Global
Finance. Ed. Leo Panitch and Martin Konings; New York: Palgrave
MacMillan, 2008 / Steven Sherman
- Book Review: Coping With Facts: A Skeptic’s Guide to the
Problem of Development. Adam Fforde; Williamsburg, MA: Kumarian Books,
2009 / Philip Martin
- Book Review: Never Good Enough: Health Care Workers and the
Promise of Job Training. Ariel Ducey; Ithaca, NY and London, UK: ILR
Press of Cornell University Press, 2009. xi, 300 pp. $19.95 pb /
Eve Spangler
Review of Social Economy,
69(2): June 2011
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/00346764.asp
- Market Empowerment of the Patient: The French Experience /
Philippe Batifoulier; Jean-Paul Domin; Maryse Gadreau
- Intentions, Trust and Frames: A Note on Sociality and the Theory
of Games / Vittorio Pelligra
- Economics and the Supreme Court: The Case of the Minimum Wage
Pages / Edward James McKenna; Diane Catherine
Zannoni
- A Critical Evaluation of Competing Conceptualizations of
Informal Employment: Some Lessons from England / Colin C.
Williams
Book Reviews
- The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Society Stronger /
Betsy Jane Clary
- Inequality, Consumer Credit and the Saving Puzzle / D. Marshall
Meador
- Ethical Dimensions of the Economy: Making Use of Hegel and the
Concepts of Public and Merit Goods / Halcyon Louis
- Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can
Reduce Public Vulnerability / Sunita Reddy
- Knowledge Sharing among Scientists—Why Reputation Matters
for R&D in Multinational Firms / Wilfred
Dolfsma
- The Development Economics Reader / Feisal Khan
- New Frontiers of Social Policy: Inclusive States: Social Policy
and Structural Inequalities | New Frontiers of Social Policy: Assets,
Livelihoods, and Social Policy | New Frontiers of Social Policy:
Institutional Paths to Equity: Addressing Inequality Traps / Tim
MacNeill
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Higher unemployment likely as economy
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“All of the signs in the GDP report point to an economy
that remains below potential because it lacks sufficient
spending,” Bivens continued in an analysis of the new GDP data.
“Given this data on slow spending growth and decelerating wage
pressures, it is odd indeed that boosting economic growth is not a
higher priority among Washington policymakers.”
People’s Budget achieves savings and
protects the social safety net
Last week’s snapshot, The People’s Budget: A
Responsible Budget Plan, by EPI Policy Analyst Rebecca Thiess, compared
three major budget plans that seek to address federal budget issues:
President Obama’s budget framework, House Budget Committee
Chairman Paul Ryan’s plan, and the People’s Budget put
forth by the Congressional Progressive Caucus and analyzed and scored
by the Economic Policy Institute. Thiess noted that while Obama’s
plan would reduce deficits from around 10% of gross domestic product
(GDP) today to an estimated 2% by the end of the decade and
Ryan’s plan claims to bring deficit levels to 1.6% of GDP by
2021, the People’s Budget would achieve small budget surpluses by
2021.
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- Q and A with Professor Lisa Adkins, Professor of Sociology in
the School of Humanities and Social Science, University of Newcastle,
NSW. Lisa discusses her recent work on time and value.
- Three research snapshots. Jocelyn Pixley discusses her work on
the sociology of money and provides a wonderful overview of the
development of economic sociology in Australia – before it was
called that, and Norbert Ebert outlines the ‘precarious work
societies’ research program at Macquarie and , Ian McDonald,
Professor of economics at the University of Melbourne, writes about his
work on behavioural economics and happiness.
- Our post-graduate profiles feature Paul Priday whose research
examines gender and business, with a focus on masculinity and Anuja
Cabraal whose research draws on the work of Amartya Sen to examine
microfinance, capabilities, and social capital.
- And finally, courtesy of Scribe publications we feature an
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A Modern
Guide to Keynesian Macroeconomics and Economic Policies
Edited by
Eckhard Hein and Engelbert Stockhammer
Edward Elgar. April 2011. 392 pp. 978 1 84980 140
9-Hardback |
website
For more
than a decade, most macroeconomists convinced themselves they were
witnessing a “Great Moderation”. Many Keynesians saw
instead the accumulation of a fragility and potential instability that
have become dramatically manifest since 2007. The premise of this book
is that the financial crisis and Great Recession necessitate a revival
of Keynesian macroeconomics, emphasizing the central roles of effective
demand, money and finance in modern capitalism. Comprising essays on
all aspects of macroeconomic theory and policy, the book will prove
invaluable for scholars and graduate students seeking to acquaint
themselves with the frontiers of modern Keynesian
macroeconomics.’ – Mark Setterfield, Trinity College, US
Credit,
Money And Macroeconomic Policy: A Post-Keynesian Approach
Edited by Claude Gnos and Louis-Philippe Rochon
May 2011,
Edward Elgar. 368 pp Hardback 978 1 84844 067 8 | website
‘The volume Credit, Money and Macroeconomic
Policy edited by Claude Gnos and Louis-Philippe Rochon, represents a
most important contribution to the understanding of the nature and role
of credit and money in modern economies. It deals with some of the most
pressing issues of our time; as such it constitutes an invaluable guide
for the comprehension of the effects of the last twenty years of
inflation targeting policies.’
– Giuseppe Fontana, University of Leeds, UK
and University of Sannio, Italy
Critical
Enthusiasm: Capital Accumulation and the Transformation of Religious
Passion
By Jordana Rosenberg
April 2011, Oxford University Press. ISBN13:
9780199764266 | website
Economic Collapse, Economic
Change: Getting to the Roots of the Crisis
By Arthur MacEwan and John A. Miller
M.E. Sharpe. June 2011. 248 pp. 978-0-7656-3068-1 - Paperback - List
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This thoughtful book offers a widely accessible account of the recent
economic collapse and crisis, emphasizing the deep nexus of economic
inequality, undemocratic power, and leave-it-to-the-market ideology at
its root. Based on their understanding of the origins of the crisis,
the authors propose a program for reform that is equally dependent on
popular action and changes in government policy.
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The Economics of Financial
Turbulence: Alternative Theories of Money and Finance
By Bill Lucarelli
May 2011, Edward Elgar. 192 pp Hardback 978 1 84980 878 1 |
website
This challenging book examines the origins and dynamics of
financial–economic crises. Its wide theoretical scope
incorporates the theories of Marx, Keynes and various other Post
Keynesian scholars of endogenous money, and provides a grand synthesis
of these theoretical lineages, as well as a powerful critique of
prevailing neoclassical/monetarist theories of money.
Environment
and Economy
By Molly Scott Cato
March 2011 by Routledge.
Paperback: 978-0-415-47741-3. Series: Routledge
Introductions to Environment | website
As environmental issues move to the centre of the political debate,
more attention is being focused on the role our economy has played in
creating the ecological crisis, and what a sustainable economy might
look like. In spite of the success of the environmental movement in
drawing attention to the crisis facing us, there has been comparatively
little attention focused on the way the operation of the global economy
contributes to this crisis.
Environment and Economy begins by introducing readers to the pioneers
of this field, such as Fritz Schumacher and Paul Ehrlich, who first
drew attention to the disastrous consequences for our environment of
our ever-expanding economy. Part II of the book describes the main
academic responses to the need to resolve the tension between economy
and environment: environmental economics, ecological economics, green
economics, and anti-capitalist economics. Part III is structured around
key themes including an introduction to economic instruments such as
taxes and regulation; pollution and resource depletion; growth;
globalisation vs. localisation; and climate change. Each key issue is
approached from a range of different perspectives, and working policies
are presented in detail.
Written in an accessible style, this introductory text offers students
with an engaging account of the way that the various traditions of
economic thought have approached the environment, bringing them
together for the first time in one volume. The text is complimented by
boxes, case studies and recommended reading for each theme addressed.
The First Great Recession of
The 21st Century: Competing Explanations
Edited by Óscar Dejuán, Eladio Febrero, and Maria
Cristina Marcuzzo
May 2011, Edward Elgar. 272 pp Hardback 978 1 84980 745 6 |
website
The 2008–10 financial crisis and the global recession it created
is a complex phenomenon that warrants detailed examination. The essays
in this book utilise several alternative paradigms to provide a
plausible explanation and a credible cure. This book provides this
important analysis in great detail and from different theoretical
perspectives, presenting a clearer understanding of what went wrong and
expounding misinterpretations of current theories and practices.
Good Governance in The 21st
Century: Conflict, Institutional Change and Development in the Era of
Globalization
Edited by Joachim Ahrens, the late Rolf Caspers, and Janina Weingarth
May 2011, Edward Elgar. 392 pp Hardback 978 1 84542 971 3 |
website
This book explores the interdependences of economic globalisation,
political tensions, and national policymaking whilst analysing
opportunities for governance reform at both national and international
levels. It considers how governance mechanisms can be fashioned in
order to both exploit the opportunities of globalization and cope with
the numerous potential conflicts and risks.
Handbook on the Economics of
Conflict
Edited by Derek L. Braddon and Keith Hartley
April 2011. Edward Elgar. 544 pp. ISBN: 978 1 84844 649 6 (hb) |
website
The Handbook on the Economics of Conflict conveys how economics can
contribute to the understanding of conflict in its various dimensions
embracing world wars, regional conflicts, terrorism and the role of
peacekeeping in conflict prevention.
Heterodox Analysis of
Financial Crisis And Reform: History, Politics and Economics
Edited by Joëlle Leclaire, Tae-Hee Jo, and Jane Knodell
May 2011, Edward Elgar. 192 pp Hardback 978 1 84980 156 0 |
Website
‘This valuable collection offers a stimulating range of heterodox
views on the global financial crisis and proposals for reform of the
financial system, nationally and internationally. The perspective of
the authors is broadly Post Keynesian, sometimes with a radical or an
institutionalist twist. Vigorously argued, clearly presented and
largely non-technical, these essays provide a great deal of food for
thought.’
– John King, La Trobe University, Australia
Institutions and Regulation
For Economic Growth?: Public Interests versus Private Incentives
Edited by Emiel F.M. Wubben
May 2011, Edward Elgar. 232 pp Hardback 978 1 84980 890 3 |
website
Realizing institutions and regulations that foster economic growth is
an essential asset for contemporary economies. This book investigates
practices and options for steering individual and firm behaviour that
prevents unacceptable externalities and boosts public interests. These
multi-dimensional interactions are investigated in three areas;
innovativeness, especially in terms of IP rights; food safety
requirements and the impact on EU-competitiveness; and economic
stability, particularly within the banking industry. The book provides
complementary views and offers clear and relevant conclusions.
Law, Economics and
Evolutionary Theory
Edited by Peer Zumbansen, Osgoode Hall, and Gralf-Peter Calliess
May 2011, Edward Elgar. 384 pp Hardback 978 1 84844 823 0 |
website
‘Zumbansen and Calliess have done a wonderful job in assembling
papers from the leading scholars in the field, who draw on evolutionary
approaches for explaining developments in both economics and the law.
Anybody interested in issues of institutional change will be inspired
by the wealth of ideas and the diversity of perspectives.’
– Stefan Voigt, University of Hamburg, Germany
Modern Political Economics:
Making Sense of the Post-2008 World
By Yanis Varoufakis, Joseph Halevi, Nicholas Theocarakis
May 17th 2011 by Routledge. Paperback: 978-0-415-42888-0 |
website
Once in a while the world astonishes itself. Anxious incredulity
replaces intellectual torpor and a puzzled public strains its antennae
in every possible direction, desperately seeking explanations for the
causes and nature of what just hit it. 2008 was such a moment. Not only
did the financial system collapse, and send the real economy into a
tailspin, but it also revealed the great gulf separating economics from
a very real capitalism. Modern Political Economics has a single aim: To
help readers make sense of how 2008 came about and what the post-2008
world has in store.
This dynamic new book delves into every major economic theory and maps
out meticulously the trajectory that global capitalism followed from
post-war almost centrally planned stability, to designed disintegration
in the 1970s, to an intentional magnification of unsustainable
imbalances in the 1980s and, finally, to the most spectacular
privatisation of money in the 1990s and beyond. Modern Political
Economics is essential reading for Economics students and anyone
seeking a better understanding of the 2008 economic crash.
Regulating
for Decent Work: New directions in labour market regulation
Edited by Sangheon Lee and Dierdre McCann
July 2011. International Labour Organization. 364 pp. ISBN:
978-92-2-124559-9 |
website
Regulating for Decent Work is an international and
interdisciplinary response to the neoliberal ideologies that have
shaped labour market regulation in recent decades.
The volume identifies central themes in the contemporary regulation of
labour, including the role of empirical research in assessing and
supporting labour market interventions, the regulation of precarious
work and the emergence of new types of labour markets. The book
advances the academic and policy debates on post-crisis labour
regulation by identifying new challenges, subjects and theoretical
perspectives. In contrast to the dominant deregulatory approaches, it
calls for labour market regulation to be reinvigorated.
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For Your Information
Appeal
of teachers and researchers
«Renewing the research and teaching in
finance, economics and management to better serve the common
good»
(Genève-Fribourg-Zürich March 2011)
(1) The authors of this appeal are deeply concerned that more than
three years since the outbreak of the financial and macroeconomic
crisis that highlighted the pitfalls, limitations, dangers and
responsibilities of main-stream thought in economics, finance and
management, the quasi-monopolistic position of such thought within the
academic world nevertheless remains largely unchallenged. This
situation reflects the institutional power that the unconditional
proponents of main-stream thought continue to exert on university
teaching and research. This domination, propagated by the so-called top
universities, dates back at least a quarter of a century and is
effectively global. However, the very fact that this paradigm persists
despite the current crisis, highlights the extent of its power and the
dangerousness of its dogmatic character. Teachers and researchers, the
signatories of the appeal, assert that this situation restricts the
fecundity of research and teaching in economics, finance and
management, diverting them as it does from issues critical to society.
(2) This appeal is public and international and may be seen as part of
a broader framework of convergent initiatives. Under current
conditions, the academic world cannot be expected to train the open,
innovative, responsible minds that are required for facing current and
future challenges. This situation is restricted neither to Switzerland
nor to Europe. Research on economics, finance, and management ought to
contribute to the common good and avoid complacent analysis about the
supposed benefits that the economic system may derive from of
financialization of economic and social activities driven by the
alleged benefits of financial innovation and speculation.
(3) Professors, lecturers and researchers have been entrusted by
society with the task of serving the society through their search for a
better understanding of reality. Only in this context does academic
freedom have a real meaning. Such freedom entails a responsibility and
not a mere license. Today the major priorities for research in finance,
economics and management should be to examine their foundations as well
as the implications of these foundations for practice in light of the
events that led to the financial crisis. Only on the basis of such an
examination will it be possible to design policies and remedies which
lead to a balanced functioning of the economy.
(4) It is imperative to go beyond discussions between specialists with
a similar cast of mind. Inevitably such discussions are likely to fall
short of a critical examination of premises. The present situation
requires the opening of the disciplines of economics, finance and
management to a fundamental questioning, free of the trammels of the
dominant conceptual framework, which is required for their
regeneration. However, such efforts face strong resistance within the
academic world and must therefore seek external support. Affirmation of
the need of the disciplines of economics, finance and management for
plurality of approaches entails debate concerning these
disciplines’ epistemological, ethical and anthropological
foundations.
(5) As trustees of the confidence of citizens and as producers of ideas
that influence attitudes, behaviours and policies, we wish to draw the
attention of public opinion and politicians to the fact that the
conditions required for the responsible carrying-out of our mission are
missing. This appeal is addressed, on the one hand, to students,
researchers early in their careers, colleagues and economic actors and,
on the other hand, to those with essential roles in the management of
academic education and research such as rectors, presidents and deans
of academic institutions, and administrators of research funding. All
these parties have role to play in to ensuring the fulfilment of
conditions for a fundamental regeneration of our disciplines and for
the required return to Intellectual pluralism.
(6) Teachers of higher education, the signatories of this appeal, wish
to suggest some courses of action that would promote such pluralism,
the only defence against the risk of blinkered dogmatism and the
misguided loss of intellectual and political direction which is the
result of this dogmatism. These courses of action include:
Undertaking a critical retrospective review of recent teaching and
research in economics, finance and management with the aim of raising
awareness concerning the relevance to society of work in disciplines
which are supported by public funding. Academic freedom cannot be a
justification for teachers and researchers to ignore their broader
social responsibility.
Actively promoting interdisciplinarity at institutional level through
the encouragement of enhanced communication, of opening dedicated
institutional spaces and fostering links between academics in different
disciplines.
(7) Conditions have to be created to make intellectual pluralism a
reality at all levels of the academic hierarchy through measures such
as the following:
Consideration should be given when recruiting new academic personnel to
their interest in broader socio-economic problems as well as in issues
bearing on the equity, stability and sustainability of the economic and
financial system.
The criteria for the evaluation of research should be expanded to
include practical relevance and willingness, manifested in
publications, to tackle interdisciplinary themes. Such an expansion
would counterbalance existing criteria which attribute overwhelming
importance to the number of publications in a limited number of highly
rated, monolithic journals.
(8) Subjecting prevailing main-stream thought to reasoned criticism is
a scientific duty. Such criticism makes possible progress towards the
goal of intellectual pluralism in the disciplines of economics, finance
and management, an intellectual pluralism which is essential to the
capacity of these disciplines to enrich public debate and to clarify
the nature of policy choices.
The colleagues from teaching and research and all interested
persons, who read this appeal and would like to sign it, can do this on
this blog by clicking on the following link: http://www.responsiblefinance.ch/appeal/sign-for-call.
For any comments on this appeal please use the following field.
You can also send your signatures and comments to: manifeste@obsfin.ch.
Billionaire's
role in hiring decisions at Florida State University raises questions
"A conservative billionaire
who opposes government meddling in business has bought a rare
commodity: the right to interfere in faculty hiring at a publicly
funded university."
See the full article
here.
INET Lance
Taylor Interview
Lance Taylor, author of the
new book “Maynard’s Revenge: The Collapse of Free Market
Macroeconomics,” in his new
INET interviewlays out Keynes’ key
insights about uncertainty and how aggregate demand generates output
and not the other way around. He notes that economists had turned away
from those insights and argues that the recent crisis vindicates
Keynes. Taylor, the Professor of International Cooperation and
Development at the New School for Social Research, also applies
Keynesian thinking to examine the role of inequality in the crisis and
to other current issues.
Taylor talks about why the relatively short spurt of fiscal stimulus in
the United States will not be enough to help drive the economy back
into high growth and needed job creation. He also criticizes the
popular notion that government debt is analogous to household debt.
You can engage all these ideas by watching a
full version of the
interview on video or watch individual segments on each idea and
more.
Teaching
Development Grants, UK
The Higher Education Academy is offering bid-based development
grant funding to stimulate evidence-based research and encourage
innovations in learning and teaching that have the potential for
sector-wide impact.
Over the next year there will be a total of £1.5 million of
funding available for individual grants, departmental grants and
collaborative grants.
Phase One
The first phase begins with an open call for individual grant scheme
bids. There is a total of £315,000 available in this phase with a
maximum of £7,000 per project. £28,000 is ring fenced
for new academic staff (anyone with less than five years experience in
a full time permanent post). A further £28,000 is ring fenced for
HEA Fellows who have never had a teaching development grant before.
Bids are invited from anyone responsible for the student learning
experience who is working in higher education institutions in Wales,
Scotland, Northern Ireland or England that subscribe to the Higher
Education Academy. The themes for this call are:
- internationalisation
- employability.
Closing date for phase one bids is 15 June 2011.
For full details, including how to apply, visit http://www.heacademy.ac.uk/funding
Union
boycott of Hyatt Hotel and the 2012 ASSA meetings in Chicago
The 2012 ASSA meetings are scheduled to
take place in Chicago in January 2012, and the Union for Radical
Political Economics wants everyone to know that several hotels there
are currently involved in a labor dispute with UNITE-HERE. UNITE-HERE
is calling for a boycott of the Hyatt Hotel, the hotel at which ASSA
registration and many sessions will take place. In addition, there are
two hotels at which sessions are scheduled which are currently listed
as at "risk of dispute," namely Palmer House (a Hilton property) and
the Chicago Hilton. No ASSA sessions are scheduled for the Congress
Plaza where a strike is currently taking place. (For an account of the
dispute with Hyatt see
www.hotelworkersrising.org/hyatt/)
URPE wrote to the Orley Ashenfelter, President of the American Economic
Association (AEA), in January, asking for the ASSA meetings to be moved
to another city, as was done by the American Sociological Association.
(Although the letters ASSA stand for "Allied Social Science
Associations," and URPE is officially one of those "associations," in
practice the ASSA is run by the American Economic Association. ) The
letter was referred to John Siegfried, Secretary-Treasurer of the AEA,
who replied that the meetings would not be moved, but that URPE
sessions would not be scheduled for any of the hotels that "are on
either the boycott or risk of dispute list."
UNITE-HERE is asking other organizations which are part of the ASSA to
similarly protest the holdings of conference meetings in hotels which
do not respect the rights of workers to fair wages, good benefits, and
decent working conditions. UNITE-HERE also suggests that people write
as individuals expressing their support for the union and its boycott
to Dr. Ashenfelter (email:
c6789@princeton.edu
).
URPE will keep people informed as we get nearer to January on any
developments in this matter, on the union plans, and on how we can best
support the union.
Paddy Quick, URPE Mailinglist, May 20, 2011
Launch of
World Economic Association (WEA)
We, the 141 economists from the 40
countries listed below, invite you to join the World Economics
Association which we are launching today (May 16).
Two commitments listed in our
Manifesto
sum up the project.
1. To plurality. The Association will encourage the free exploration of
economic reality from any perspective that adds to the sum of our
understanding. To this end, it advocates plurality of thought, method
and philosophy.
8. To global democracy. The Association will be democratically
structured so as not to allow its domination by one country or one
continent.
The creation of the WEA addresses an obvious gap in the international
community of economists – the absence of a truly international,
pluralist association. Today’s digital technology makes it
feasible to close this gap quickly and cheaply through a bottom-up,
grass-roots approach.
The WEA has been legally constituted in the United Kingdom as a
“Community Interest Company”, a special legal category
(with an asset lock) for non-profit organizations whose purpose is to
serve the public interest.
Membership of the World Economics Association is free. To join, all
that you need to do is go
here
and then enter your name, email address and country and then click. You
will also be given the option of providing us with a few professional
details, but none of these are required. You will receive an email
confirming your membership of the WEA . You will also be given the
opportunity to make a donation to the running of the WEA . We want to
emphasize that the WEA has no major donors, neither institutional nor
individual, behind it.
The WEA will initially publish three journals, two of them new. Online
access will be free to members, with print copies available to
libraries and individuals for a fee. The WEA ’s very large
membership from which to draw papers will ensure a high standard of
scholarship. The general-purpose flagship journal will be the World
Economics Journal. The other new journal, Economic Thought , will focus
on the history, methodology and philosophy of economics. The Real-World
Economics Review will henceforth be published under the umbrella of the
WEA . If you wish, you may read a
document detailing the structures and
procedures, which include an open review process, for the journals.
From its website, the WEA will also run online conferences.
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