Issue 119 |
September 5, 2011
Editors'
Note
A new semester has begun and the Newsletter is
now back on the regular three-week publication cycle. In this issue,
lots of interesting new calls for papers/participants are listed. To
highlight, there are two calls for papers challenging the crisis-prone
capitalist system: that is, Cambridge
Journal of Economics is asking you to submit enlightening papers on
"the Future of Capitalism" and there will be a conference in
Denmark with the theme of "Designing
and Transforming Capitalism."
The
ASSA administration has just announced a preliminary program for the
2012 Annual Meeting in Chicago. The registration and housing will
open on September 13. When registering, keep in mind that you should
select the Association for Social Economics membership box, otherwise
your registration fee goes to the AEA. Also note that most
heterodox sessions will be taking place at either Palmer House Hilton
(URPE and IAFFE) or Swissotel (ASE, AFEE, and IAFFE). During the ASSA
meeting, a Chicago-based heterodox economics department at Roosevelt
University is cordially inviting you to a heterodox party. Check this
out here.
A couple of editorial notes are worth mentioning. After announcing an on-line
heterodox economics course at the UMass-Amherst in the previous
issue, we received a query about advertising on-line courses. We are
happy to include such information in the Newsletter. Certainly it is a
new and great opportunity for heterodox economics to reach students who
otherwise have no chance to take it. Send us on-line course information
if you have one.
We often receive queries about announcing a new journal issue. We try
not to miss any, but it is hardly possible for us to keep up with all
the new issues. We do not actively look for the new issues, so ask that
the editors and/or publishers of heterodox journals notify us once a
new issue is published. And text format (html, doc, or rtf), rather
than a pdf or picture, is preferred.
Lastly, we are deeply saddened that Warren J. Samuels died on
August 17. It is a great loss to our entire heterodox economics
community. May he rest in peace.
In solidarity,
Tae-Hee Jo and Ted Schmidt, Editors
Email: heterodoxnews@gmail.com
Website: http://heterodoxnews.com
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Table
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Call for Papers
IX International Colloquium:
Inequality and Its Persistence
May 24-25, 2012 | Graz, Austria
The main objective of the meeting is to provide a platform for
productive exchanges of scholars working on economic and social
inequality. Both contributions from theoretical analysis and empirical
research are welcome. In addition the colloquium will discuss policy
issues theoretical and policy aspects of our related to the inequality
theme. The colloquium also aims to stimulate the exchange of ideas
across fields of inquiry from within the discipline of Economics, as
well as between it and related disciplines, so as to reinforce a
multi-disciplinary approach to the study of issue at hand.
The colloquium will be organized by the Graz Schumpeter Centre in Graz,
Austria, in collaboration with the Department of Economics of the
University of Brasilia.
Authors are requested to submit their papers by the end of March 2012.
Please send your papers electronically to: Johanna Pfeifer (
johanna.pfeifer@uni-graz.at)
and to Ricardo Azevedo Araujo (
rsaaraujo@unb.br).
Make sure that the title of the paper, an abstract (a maximum of 100
words), keywords and JEL classification are given on the first page.
Send your paper as a Word (not a PDF!) document (limited to 25 pages of
length, double-spaced); this makes it easy for us to compile a
conference volume. Papers must be typed in Times New Roman and pages
should be numbered consecutively. For further information contact
Márcia Castro (
marciacg@unb.br).
Cambridge
Journal of Economics: the Future of Capitalism
On 25 and 26 June 2011, a conference on "The Future of Capitalism'',
sponsored by the
Cambridge Journal of Economics (CJE), was held
at Robinson College, Cambridge, on the occasion of G.C. Harcourt's 80th
birthday, in recognition of his outstanding and dedicated service to
the Journal and to the economics profession.
The Editors intend to publish a special issue of the CJE on the
conference theme of "The Future of Captialism'' and seek submissions
from those present at the conference as well as anyone else wishing to
make a contribution to the conference objectives and topics.
The deadline for submission is 15 Feb. 2012
Download
Call for Papers, for more
information including the invited themes and topics, and instructions
to authors.
Designing and Transforming
Capitalism
Thursday/Friday 9-10 February 2012 | Aarhus University, Denmark |
Website
Confirmed keynote speakers: Luc Boltanski (France), Kathrine Gibson
Australia), Anne Balsamo (USA), Campbell Jones (New Zealand)
When all alternatives to capitalism
seem exhausted or abandoned, creative and transformative energies and
ideas descend upon capitalism itself. In practice and theory, in daily
life choices and organizational changes, in legislative initiatives and
academia, in initiatives taken by individuals and groups interesting
work is being done to explore and use a transformative approach to
capitalist processes trying to realize immaterial values, human
resources and utopias within a capitalist framework.
In Marxist and neo-Marxist as well as
liberal theories, capitalism seems to be the economic strong option
without alternatives and the accumulative logic of capitalism the only
possible way of economic thinking in contemporary societies.
Nevertheless we see lots of signs of non-accumulative logics ruling
traditional capitalist producers, consumers as well as traditional
critics of capitalism. Green capitalism addresses traditional
capitalism’s exploitative and instrumentalist approach to nature;
Corporate Social Responsibility tries to tackle social issues locally
and globally from within corporations; Social entrepreneurs are using
the capitalist business model to solve pressing problems such as
poverty or lack of clean water; designers are weaving creative
solutions into the commodities and practices of our every day life. It
seems to grow ever more difficult to distinguish between working within
capitalism or working in order to change capitalism as capitalism seems
to change from within rather than from without.
This conference addresses the question
of capitalism's transformative potentials and the limits to such
transformations, if any such exists? How malleable are the logics and
processes of capitalism? How is capitalism ceaselessly practiced and
constantly redesigned? We aim to bring together people working within
various fields often disconnected from each other but all centering
their work on empirical and theoretical studies of how people and
societies live with, deal with, negotiate, fight with and transform
capitalism.
The conference will have four streams,
each with its own set of themes. The listed themes are meant as
suggestive and non-exhaustive. We invite paper proposals within:
Political capitalism
(coordinators: Morten Raffnsøe & Mikkel Thorup)
- New forms of labor and their politics
- Everyday life in capitalism
- Work inside and outside the market
- New forms of political action inside and outside capitalism
- Transforming ownership, aims and organization in capitalism
- Political action in the market, civil society and the state
- Politics of leadership and performance management
- Accounting for money, love, ethics or happiness?
- Critical accounting
Civic Capitalism (coordinators:
Anne Ellerup Nielsen & Christian Olaf Christiansen)
- Corporate citizenship
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Ethical Capitalism
- Green Capitalism, Sustainability
- Stakeholder theories
- Sustainable investment
- Environmental development
- Social integration
Performative Capitalism
(coordinators: Louise Fabian, Jonas Fritsch and Per Blenker)
- Self-organized communities as business opportunities
- Cultural citizenship
- Global Culture Industry
- Hyper, trans, cross, Re-phenomena
- Green bodies and environmental (online/offline) activism
- Posthumanitarian developments in charity work and communication
- Affect and vulnerability as tools of anti-capitalist
mobilisation
- The commoditization of dissent
- Urban Interactions, Appropriations and Co-creativity in a design
perspective
Consumer Capitalism
(coordinators: Sophie Esmann Andersen & Carsten Stage)
- Anti-consumerism and consumer resistance
- Consumer movements, activism and cultural ideology
- Co-creation and co-creativity
- Consumer-citizenship or citizen-consumerism
- DIY consumer cultures
- Branded identities and brand hegemony
Please submit your abstract proposals (max 300 words) to Tina
Friis (
semtina@hum.au.dk).
Please indicate which stream your proposal refers to.Deadline for
paper proposal: October 15, 2011 (feedback on paper proposals November
1, 2011). The conference is organized by the Departments of Aesthetics
and Communication (Britta Timm Knudsen) and The Department of Culture
and Society (Mikkel Thorup), Faculty of Arts and The Department of
Language and Business Communication and Department of Management,
Faculty of Business and Social Sciences. Funded by The Aarhus
University Research Foundation (AUFF) and The Velux Foundation.
Oeconomicus
An all-student interdisciplinary journal of
economic issues
Oeconomicus is an interdisciplinary journal of economic issues written,
refereed, edited and published by current undergraduate, M.A., and
Ph.D. students in the social sciences. The focus of the journal is on
critical or heterodox approaches to issues of economic methodology and
theory, history of economic thought, economic history, political
economy, and economic policy. All heterodox traditions within the
social sciences including- but not limited to- Post Keynesian, Marxist,
Institutionalist, Austrian, Feminist, and
Poststructuralist/Postmodern—are welcomed in the journal.
Oeconomicus is sponsored by the Economics Club at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) and is published annually.
We are currently soliciting submissions for our 2010-11 issue and
welcome students at all levels to submit full-length articles, book
reviews, interviews, or comments. Submissions should be no more that
7500 words and in MS Word format. Submissions and enquiries should be
sent to the editors at
aib7d4@mail.umkc.edu.
The deadline for submissions is December 1st, 2011. For further
information about detailed instructions for authors, the journal, the
Economics Club and/or the UMKC Economic Department please visit our
website
http://cas.umkc.edu/economics.
Sincerely,
Avi Baranes
Devin Rafferty
Editors, Oeconomicus
Workshop: Innovation,
Philosophy, Scientific Realism and Methodology in Green Economics
Reworking the meaning of data, facts truth and
reality. Environmental, ecological and green economics understanding
and explaining the differences!
18th – 19th November 2011 | St. Annes College, Oxford, UK |
website
This workshop is an opportunity to find out more about the new brand of
economics - Green Economics - which is different from mainstream
economics and paves the way and gives hope for the future, case
studies, discussion and debate! Workshops in groups on green economics
model! Preparation for our COP 17 delegation to South Africa, Durban,
December, 2011.
Bookings are open now. Call for Papers is now open. Please enquire: for
registration fees and further details:
Download
Call for Papers.
Call for Participants
ASSA 2012
Preliminary Program, Registration, and a Heterodox Party
January 5-8, 2012 | Chicago, USA
The preliminary program is now available on the AEA website. Go to http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA
and click on preliminary program.
The 2012 ASSA Registration and Housing will open on September 13th.
Heterodox economics sessions will be taking place at
- URPE, IAFFE: Palmer House Hilton
- ASE, AFEE, IAFFE: Swissothel
Heterodox Party at the
Roosevelt University
The Roosevelt University Economics Department is happy to announce that
we will once again host a party at Roosevelt during the ASSA meetings
in Chicago. The party will be at Roosevelt (430 S Michigan) a brisk
walk or short cab ride from the conference hotels on Saturday, January
7 from 7 - 10 and we hope to have a local blues band. Save the date,
and bring your dancing shoes. Food will be provided. We look forward to
seeing you there.
For information, contact:
June Lapidus, Ph.D.
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Economics
Roosevelt University
430 S. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60645
jlapidus@roosevelt.edu
312.341.3765
Center for
Economic Stability Incorporated First Annual Meeting
The overall aims of CfESI are:
- To develop a realistic theory of economics that acknowledges the
inherent instability of capitalism–an instability that can be
both creative and destructive; and
- To develop and promote economic policies that lessen the
destructive instabilities of capitalism and enhance its creative
instabilities
The Japan
Society of Political Economy (JSPE) 59th Annual Conference
September 17 and 18, 2011 | Rikkyo
University, Tokyo, Japan
The Japan Society of Political Economy invites you to its 59th
annual conference “The Global Economic
Crisis and State: Alternative Approaches for Monetary and Fiscal
Policies” which take place on September 17 (Saturday) and
18 (Sunday), 2011, at Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan.
This year we will have three plenary sessions (2 in Japanese and
1 in English) and 21 parallel sessions (17 in Japanese and 4 in
English). 13 English papers will be presented. The program includes
English Sessions on:
-
2007-9 Global Crisis and the Future of Capitalism,
-
2007-9 Global Crisis and Developing Economies,
-
2007-9 Global Crisis and Beyond, and
-
2007-9 Global Crisis and State.
Plenary sessions are: (In English) Alain Lipietz “Fears and
Hopes: The Crisis of the Liberal-Productivist Model and its Green
Alternative”, (In Japanese) “Discussing the Great East
Japan Earthquake and the Nuclear Disaster”, and “The Global
Economic Crisis and State: Alternative Approaches for Monetary and
Fiscal Policies”
Contact: Prof. Nobuharu Yokokawa (Chairman of the JSPE Committee for
International Communication and Exchange) E-mail:
yokokawa@cc.musashi.ac.jp
Postal Address:
c/o Prof. Toshiaki Ohtomo, Department of Economics,
Rikkyo University,
3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuro,Toshima-ku,
Tokyo Japan
171-8501 Tel: +81-3-3985-2281
JSPE Website:
http://www2.rikkyo.ac.jp/web/jspe/callforpapers.html
http://www.jspe.gr.jp/drupal/en_cfp2011
London-bas
ed Grundrisse reading group
Making the Boom Pay... if
not now, when?
8 September, 2011 | Sydney, Australia
Presented by The Australia Institute and Catalyst
"The future is in our hands, and it will be defined by the way we
handle the current minerals boom. Get it wrong, and we falter. Get it
right and we set the nation up for decades to come." - Prime Minister,
the Hon. Julia Gillard, The Australian, 4 Feb 2011
So, are we getting it right or wrong? Join The Australia
Institute and Catalyst for a vital conversation about ways to ensure
the benefits of the boom flow through to all Australians, not just a
lucky few. This important conference, to be held in Sydney on
Thursday 8 September, brings together international and local speakers
to discuss the impact of the mining boom on the broader economy and how
to manage it better.
Speakers include international finance expert Ann Pettifor from
Advocacy UK, Ed Husic MP, Ged Kearney, Julian Disney, Saul Eslake, Tony
Maher, Jessica Irvine and Paul Cleary.
The Institute’s Executive Director Dr Richard Denniss will
pose the question, ‘does Australia ride on the miner’s
back?’, and offer his typically unconventional take on the
answer.
For more information on the program or speakers, click
here. To register, click
here.
Workshop in Honour of
Malcolm Sawyer
2pm-5pm, Wednesday October 5th, 2011 | University of Leeds, UK
The Economics Division at the University of Leeds is pleased to
announce a half-day workshop in honour of Malcolm Sawyer that will take
place on Wednesday October 5th 2011. The event will celebrate the many
contributions that Malcolm has made to the field through his long and
distinguished career and will culminate with a formal presentation of
the new book
Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Economic Policy:
Essays in Honour of Malcolm Sawyer. Confirmed speakers so far
include Philip Arestis and Jan Toporowski.
We will gather informally over light refreshments before the workshop
from 1pm to ensure a prompt start at 2pm. After the workshop we will be
holding a dinner where we can all relax in a more informal environment.
We would be delighted if as many of you as possible can attend.
A more accurate schedule of events for the day will be made available
nearer the time. Meanwhile, for further information, please contact
Matthew Greenwood (
mjgn@lubs.leeds.ac.uk)
and also copy in Giuseppe Fontana (
gf@lubs.leeds.ac.uk).
Workshop: Building Consensus
on Global Poverty
September 3-4, 2011 | Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature,
Oslo, Norway |
Website
We invite global poverty experts from all disciplines to
participate in "Building Consensus on Global Poverty", a workshop
hosted by Professor Thomas Pogge that will take place in Oslo on Sep
3-4 under the auspices of the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature
(UiO). The goal of this meeting is twofold: launching the
Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) network in Norway and launching
a new ASAP initiative called the Global Poverty Consensus Report.
Background: Academics Stand Against Poverty (ASAP) is a new
international organization of scholars and teachers that aims to
increase the impact of academics on global poverty through promoting
and supporting collaboration, public outreach and policy intervention.
ASAP members include moral and political theorists, economists,
environmental scientists, public health experts, and scholars from a
range of other disciplines.
The Global Poverty Consensus Report (GPCR), is a project aimed at
building an inclusive academic consensus on what ought and can be done
to alleviate global poverty -- a consensus that will feed into ongoing
international discussions about the replacement of the Millennium
Development Goals. For more information:
http://academicsstand.org/projects/gps.phpProfessor
Pogge will chair the workshop, and participants will be asked to
share their ideas for developing ASAP and the GPCR project. The main
results of our discussions in Oslo will be presented at a public event
on the evening of September 4th with Ashok Acharya, Alberto Cimadamore,
and Thomas Pogge, among others, participating as panelists.
The Oslo conference will be closely followed by a "twin"
conference in New-Delhi on Oct. 20th. This second meeting will be
dedicated to building and shaping the ASAP network in India as well as
to continuing the discussion started in Oslo on the Global Poverty
Consensus Report. Both conferences are co-sponsored by CSMN and CROP
(Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, UiBergen).
Place: University of Oslo, Blindern Campus (more precise details to
follow soon).
Time: Saturday, Sept. 3, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., with buffet and
reception to follow; Sunday, Sept. 4, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., with
dinner to follow.
Since there is limited seating available we will prioritize
registrants based on disciplinary diversity and time of registration.
For questions and registration contact: Knut-Eric Joslin
knuteric.n.joslin@gmail.com
Workshop: Financing the
Transforma tion to a Zero Carbon Economy
Thursday 8 September | Sydney,
Australia
You are invited to a workshop on campus with UK economist and
campaigner Ann Pettifor, as part of her
speaking tour of Australia.
Financing the transformation to a zero carbon economy: Why we can
afford more jobs and a better life.
Society of Heterodox Economists and Institute of Environmental
Studies workshop in collaboration with SEARCH Foundation3-4.30pm
Thursday 8 SeptemberRoom 220, Australian School of Business, UNSW
Kensington. RSVP:
bron@search.org.au
or (02) 9211 4164
Job Postings
for Heterodox Economists
Al Quds/Bard
Honors College, West Bank, Palestine
Part-time Instructors
The Economics/Finance at Al Quds/Bard Honors College in Abu Dis,
in the West Bank, is seeking part time instructors for two fall
courses: Introduction to Microeconomics, and Statistics for the Social
Sciences.
Instructors must have at least a Master's degree, and teaching
experience is preferred. AQB days off each week are Thursday and
Friday, so classes meet Saturday through Wednesday. The college
website
describes our mission, which emphasizes student-centered learning,
independent inquiry, writing, and critical thinking, and also describes
our programs and courses. The principal language of instruction is
English across the curriculum.
More information is available from Dr. Mehrene Larudee, head of the
Economics/Finance program, at
mehrenelarudee@gmail.com,
or 970-595-287-600.
Applications should include a CV, letter of interest, and names
and contact information for three references, and can be sent to Ms.
Raneen Rizek at
raneen308@gmail.com.
We will likely also be in need of instructors for one or more courses
in spring 2012.
Central
College, US
Assistant Professor, Economics Department
- TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT: Full time, tenure track appointment
beginning January 2012
- Chronicle of HE Link: http://chronicle.com/jobs/0000689365-01
- QUALIFICATIONS: A Ph.D. in economics or related field is
preferred, although outstanding ABD applicants will be considered.
Employment background in banking or finance is helpful, but not
required.
RESPONSIBILITIES: The successful applicant will contribute to the
liberal arts by teaching courses in introductory economics,
intermediate macroeconomics, international economics, and money &
banking, as well as courses in our general education curriculum. The
normal annual teaching load is 21-23 semester hours. Potential
applicants should be committed to undergraduate teaching, and have an
understanding of, and appreciation for, the liberal arts environment.
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS, ACCOUNTING AND BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: The
department consists of four distinct majors: accounting, economics,
business management and international management. In collaboration with
the Math and Computer Science Department, the department offers
interdisciplinary majors in Information Systems and Actuarial Science.
The department currently has 9 full-time faculty members: 2 in
accounting, 3 in economics and 4 in management. The economics
curriculum is integrated with the Management, Actuarial Science, and
Environmental Studies programs, and its faculty engages in
cross-disciplinary activities with numerous other departments.
Central College is a residential liberal arts college guided by
an ecumenical Christian tradition, serving over 1600 students. Founded
in 1853, the college is affiliated with the Reformed Church in America
and NCAA Division III athletics. The college maintains a long-standing
commitment to international education with nationally recognized
residential programs in eight locations: Paris; London; Vienna;
Granada, Spain; Leiden, The Netherlands; Bangor, Wales; Merida, Mexico;
and Hangzhou, China. More information is available at the Central
College Abroad web site.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE: Candidates should send (1) a letter of
application detailing your interest in teaching at a liberal arts
institution, (2) a current curriculum vitae, (3) a one-page statement
of teaching philosophy, (4) copies of graduate and undergraduate
transcripts, and (5) three letters of reference to: Dr. Mary E. M.
Strey, Vice President for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Faculty,
Central College, 812 University St., Pella, IA 50219. Full
consideration will be given to all applications received by 30
September. Candidates recommended for employment are subject to a
background investigation.
Central College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action
employer dedicated to creating a diverse community. Individuals from
underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply.
New School
for Social Research, USA
An Associate or Full Professor with tenure and a
tenure-track Assistant Professor of Economics
E00 Macroeconomics
D00 Microeconomics
J00 Labor and Demographic economics
J15 Economics of Minorities and Races
J16 Economics of Gender
O1 Economic Development
B5 Current Heterodox Approaches
L00 Industrial Organization
N00 Economic History
B00 History of Economic Thought
B4 Economic Methodology
The Department of Economics, The New School for Social Research and
Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts, is seeking an
Associate or Full Professor with tenure and an Assistant Professor,
tenure track. Salary will be commensurate with experience and
achievement. We seek scholars with a commitment to undergraduate and
graduate teaching and to continuing economic research productivity.
Applicants should conduct research in one or more of the fields listed
and be interested in broadening current economic theories to meet the
great challenges of the 21st century. We welcome applications from
scholars working in all traditions of economics.
To be considered please apply at: careers.newschool.edu.
Include a cover letter indicating knowledge of the unique profile
and history of The New School Economics Department, your c.v., a sample
paper, teaching evaluations, and three letters of reference.
Applications should be received by November 15th for full
consideration.
Contact: Economics Search Committee, Dept. of Economics, The New School
for Social Research, 6 E. 16th Street, Suite 1100, New York, NY 10003
or econsearch@newschool.edu.
For more information about the Department of Economics and Eugene Lang
College, see http://www.newschool.edu/NSSR/
and
http://www.newschool.edu/lang/. We encourage applications from
individuals who belong to groups underrepresented in
higher education. The New School is an equal opportunity employer.
The New School is committed to maintaining a diverse educational and
creative community, a policy of equal opportunity in all its activities
and programs, including employment and promotion. The New School does
not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national or ethnic
origin, citizenship status, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual
orientation, age, disability, veteran or marital status. Individuals
from groups historically under-represented in higher education are
encouraged to apply, as are international candidates.
Job approval is pending budgetary approval.
Texas
Christian University, US
Assistant Professor / Economics (A1
General Economics)
The Department of Economics at Texas Christian University invites
applications for a tenure--track position at the Assistant Professor
level beginning August 2012. The department is seeking the most
qualified candidate to fill the position but prefers someone with the
ability and desire to teach in any area of Applied Public Policy. The
research expectation may be satisfied by publications in any field.
Departmental representatives will be interviewing candidates at
the American Economic Association meetings. By November 15,
2011, interested individuals should submit a cover letter, vita and
letters of recommendation to the A1 Search Committee, TCU Department of
Economics. The department also welcomes evidence of effective
teaching.
Assistant
Professor / Economics (R1 General Urban and Regional Economics A1
General Economics)
The Department of Economics at Texas Christian University invites
applications for a tenure--‐track position at the Assistant Professor
level beginning August 2012. The department is seeking the most
qualified candidate with the ability and desire to teach in any area of
Urban and Regional Economics or
related field. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to
work with the Institute for Urban
Living and Innovation and support an Urban Studies minor. The research
expectation maybe satisfied
by publications in any field. Departmental representatives will be
interviewing candidates at the American Economic Association meetings.
By November 15, 2011, interested individuals should submit a
cover letter, vita and letters of recommendation to the Urban and
Regional Search Committee, TCU Department of Economics. The department
also welcomes evidence of effective teaching.
Candidate documents must be submitted
through the link
https://tcu.igreentree.com/CSS_Faculty.
Letters of recommendation can be emailed directly to Ms. Jacqulyn Curry
at
j.curry@tcu.edu.
TCU is an AA/EEO employer. Applications from women and minority group
members are especially encouraged.
University of Bayreuth,
Germany
Junior Professor (W1), The Philosophy
& Economics Programme
The position is offered for an initial period of three years and will
be extended by a further three years following a positive evaluation.
The successful candidate will have completed a PhD and will have an
aptitude for international level research and high quality teaching and
supervision.The academic responsibilities include teaching (seven hours
per week per semester) in our highly successful Philosophy &
Economics BA and MA programmes and undertaking innovative research. The
successful candidate is expected to play an instrumental role in the
development of a doctoral programme and will be especially engaged in
cooperation with the Department of Economics. As we are seeking to
recruit internationally no prior knowledge of German is required.
Teaching and administrative duties can be carried out in English,
although it is expected that a working knowledge of German will be
gained within two-years.
The University of Bayreuth is an equal opportunity employer and aims to
increase the number of female faculty members. Applications from female
candidates are, therefore, explicitly encouraged. The University of
Bayreuth was accredited as a Family Friendly University by the Hertie
Foundation in 2010. Persons with disabilities will be given priority if
equally qualified.
Please submit your application electronically comprising a letter
of application and a CV (including a list of publications, a record of
teaching experience, and the names and contact details of three
academic referees).
Your application should be sent to the Secretariat for Political
Philosophy (
claudia.ficht@uni-bayreuth.de)
quoting reference "W1/MethodEcon/2012" (please include this reference
in the e-mail subject line).
Applications should be addressed to the Dean of the Faculty of
Cultural Studies. The deadline for applications is 30 September 2011.
You can download a pdf version of this vacancy notice here:
University
of the West of England, Bristol, UK
Senior Lecturer, Department of Accounting,
Economics and Finance
The Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance at the
University of the West of England, Bristol, is seeking to appoint a
Senior Lecturer in Economics. The focus of the Economics Subject
Group’s teaching and research is economics that is applied and
relevant, with current specialisms and interest in Money, Banking and
Finance, Methodology and Heterodoxy, Evaluation Economics, Global Trade
and Emerging Economies. Successful applicants will be able to make a
significant contribution in these or related fields.
The precise area of expertise and blend of teaching/ research/
administration is not being specified but it is important to note that
at this level of appointment, role holders are expected to make a
significant contribution to the teaching and module leadership
activities of the Department and Faculty.
Applicants should have: Expertise in the discipline of Economics and
ability to contribute to the development of teaching; Demonstrable
potential to enhance the Subject Group’s research publications
profile; A good first degree in Economics (or closely associated
discipline; A postgraduate degree in Economics (or closely associated
discipline), preferably a PhD (or be close to completion) and above
all, an enthusiasm for both teaching and research scholarship.
Conference Papers, Reports, and Articles
Deadline is
September 19. See the Job advert
HERE.
Heterodox Journals
Cambridge Journal of
Economics, 35(5): Sep. 2011
Journal website: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3924/1
Articles
- Ilene Grabel / Not your grandfather's IMF: global crisis,
productive incoherence and developmental policy space
- Keith Cowling and Philip R. Tomlinson / Post the Washington
Consensus : economic governance and industrial strategies for the
twenty-first century
- Maria N. Ivanova / Money, housing and world market: the
dialectic of globalised production
- Michael Joffe / The root cause of economic growth under
capitalism
- Björn Gustafsson, Li Shi, and Ludmila Nivorozhkina / Why
are household incomes more unequally distributed in China than in
Russia?
- Nicholas Snowden / Inflationary price stability and the Great
Crash: an early analysis reconsidered
- Germà Bel / The first privatisation: selling SOEs and
privatising public monopolies in Fascist Italy (1922–1925)
- Therese Jefferson and John E. King / Michal Kalecki and critical
realism
Review Article
- Harvey Gram / Six titans of the Cambridge School: a review
article
The Economic and Labour
Relations Review, 22(2): July 2011
Journal website: http://www.asb.unsw.edu.au/research/publications/economiclabourrelationsreview
Special Issue: Minimum Labour Standards and
their Enforcement
- The Enforcement of Minimum Labour Standards: Back to the Future
in the Era of Neo-Liberal Globalisation / MichaelQuinlan &
Peter Sheldon
- Enforcing Labour Standards in Fissured Workplaces: The U.S.
Experience / David Weil
- Minimum Labour Standards Enforcement in Australia: Caught in the
Crossfire? / Miles Goodwin & Glenda Maconachie
- Modernising Employment Standards? Efficiency, Market Regulation,
and the Production of the Illegitimate Claimant in Ontario / Mary
Gellatly, John Grundy, Kiran Mirchandani, J. Adam Perry, MarkThomas,
LeahVosko
- Is it Possible to Decouple Foreign Workers’ Wages from the
Minimum Wage in Taiwan? / Jen-Te Hwang, Chieh-HsuanWang &
Chien-Ping Chung
- Assessing the Impact of Employment Regulation on the Low Paid in
Victoria, Australia / Sandra Cockfield, Donna Buttigieg, Marjorie
Jerrard, & Al Rainnie
- Collective Bargaining as a Minimum Employment Standard / Roy J.
Adams
Economy and Society
Virtual Special Issues with Free Access
Economy and Society is having its 40th anniversary in 2011 and
to celebrate we're releasing four virtual special issues over the
course of the year. The issues form a tribute to the wealth of
contributions to the journal over the last 40 years, and represent the
variety to be found in the archive, demonstrating its continued
relevence to today's research.
Two issues have been released so far focusing on Michel Foucault and
Governmentality and Rethinking Social Theory. A brand new issue on
Knowledge and Economy has just been released, and the articles are free
to read online until 30th September. Read
the Virtual Special Issues here.
Journal of Institutional
Economics
I am very pleased to announce that the Journal of Institutional
Economics (JOIE), published by Cambridge University Press, has been
selected by Thomson Reuters for these listings:
- Social Sciences Citation Index®
- Journal Citation Reports/ Social Sciences Edition
- Current Contents®/Social and Behavioral Sciences
This was also formerly referred to as “ISI Listing.”
It is the international equivalent of AAA credibility ranking for a
journal. In addition, Thomson Reuters began indexing with V.5 (1)
2009, which means that JOIE should have its first Impact Factor®
(IF) in June 2012 when the 2011 IFs (based on articles published in
2009 and 2010) are published. I wish to thank everyone involved with
JOIE, and all JOIE authors for their excellent submissions. Together
our hard work has given JOIE a new international profile. JOIE is now a
leading and established outlet for the development of institutional
economics.
Best wishes,
Geoff Hodgson
JOIE Editor in Chief
Mother
Pelican, 7(9): Sep. 2011
Theme: The Confluence of Gender Balance and
Energy Balance
Articles:
-
Editorial Essay ~ The Confluence of Gender Balance and Energy
Balance
-
Globalization and Integral Human Development - Eammon Keane
-
Loss of Confidence in the Current Order - Leonardo Boff
-
A Convenient Truth About Climate Change - David Lempert &
Hue Nguyen
-
Sleeping with the Enemy: Economists & Polluters - Mason
Gaffney
-
Are We Entering an Era of Concatenated Global Crises? - D.
Biggs et al.
-
Concerning the Testicular Logic of Biblical Hebrew - Roland
Boer
-
Toward a Post-Growth Society - James Gustave Speth
-
Gender Equity in Islam - Part 4: The Political Aspect, by
Jamal Badawi
Supplements:
-
Advances in Sustainable Development
-
Directory of Sustainable Development Resources
-
Strategies for the Transition to Clean Energy
-
Tactics for the Transition to Clean Energy
-
Status of Gender Equality in Society
-
Status of Gender Equality in Religion
Ola Financiera, 10:
Septiembre-Diciembre 2011
Analisis
- Estados Unidos dominado por las finanzas: vendrán tiempos
peores / Enrique Palazuelos
- La economía internacional de endeudamiento:
Dominación financiera y continuidad de la crisis
/ Gregorio Vidal
- El fracaso del neoliberalismo en el mundo y en la Unión
Europea / Vicenç Navarro
- El banco central como fondo de cobertura: La nueva
política económica del banco central / Jan Toporowski
- Problemas institucionales de las energías renovables en
México / Samuel I. Brugger J.; Ma. E. Nancy Dávila
M. y Manuel F. Llamas G.
Reseña
- La razón de los Indignados del 15-M / Sergio Cabrera
Morales
Clásicos
- La acumulación capitalista mundial y el
subimperialismo / Ruy Mauro Marini
Review of Radical Political
Economics, 43(3): September 2011
Journal website: http://rrp.sagepub.com/content/vol43/issue3/?etoc
David Gordon Memorial Lecture
- The 21st Century Crisis: Climate Catastrophe or Socialism /
Minqi Li
Articles
- Is the Fundamental Science of Macroeconomics Sound? / David
Colander
- Macroeconomic Theory After the Crisis / Amitava Krishna Dutt
- Workers' Participation in Management, Workers' Control of
Production: Worlds Apart / Christopher Gunn
- The Role of Workers in Management: The Case of Mondragon / Al
Campbell
- Global Restructuring, Social Distancing, and a Community-Based
Worker's Center Response / Minsun Ji
- Race in Early Tobacco Advertising: The Case of American Tobacco
Cards 1880-1911 / Jonathan P. Goldstein
What 'Radical' Means in the 21st Century
- Radical Economists in the 21st Century / Howard Sherman
- What is Radical in Neoliberal-Nationalist South Africa? /
Patrick Bond
Book Review Essay
- Power Relations and Economic Paradigms, or Why Post-Keynesian
Theory Is Not Dominant / Angelo Reati
Book Review
- Sustainable Capitalism: A Matter of Common Sense and
Capitalism As If the World Matters / Lynne Chester
- Toxic Loopholes: Failures and Future Prospects for
Environmental Law / Gus Bagakis
- Prosperity without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet
and Real World Economics: A Post-Autistic Economics Reader /
Demyan Belyaev
- Economic Literacy: Basic Economics with an Attitude / Brent
Kramer
- The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics /
Raphael Fischler
- Global Unions: Challenging Transnational Capital through
Cross-Border Campaigns and The New Urban Immigrant Workforce:
Innovative Models for Labor Organizing / Simon Black
- Grounding Globalization: Labor in the Age of Insecurity / Peter
Waterman
- Political Economy of Work / Robert M. LaJeunesse
- Globalization and the Welfare State / Ian Strachan
- How Much Money Does an Economy Need? Solving the Central
Economic Puzzle of Money, Prices, and Jobs / Marcelo Milan
- Economic Growth and Distribution / Stavros Mavroudeas
- The Origins of Capitalism and the Rise of the West / William T.
Ganley
- The Hardship of Nations: Exploring the Paths of Modern
Capitalism / Lynne Chester
- Capital as Power: A Study of Order and Creorder / Mehrene
Larudee
- Why Not Socialism? / Fabien Tarrit
- Unravelling Gramsci: Hegemony and Passive Revolution in
the Global Political Economy / Ian Bruff
- An Employment Targeted Economic Program for Kenya / Jayati Ghosh
- Karl Marx's Grundrisse: Foundations of the Critique of
Political Economy One Hundred and Fifty Years Later / Fred Moseley
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Confronting
Managerialism
How the Business Elite and Their Schools Threw
Our Lives Out of Balance
By Robert R. Locke and J.-C. Spender
8 September 2011 by Zed Books. ISBN:
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website
Confronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the crippling
influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business
school teaching and management practice. In doing so, Locke and Spender
show how business managers who were once well-regarded as custodians of
the economic engines vital to our growth and social progress now seem
closer to the rapacious ‘robber barons’ of the 1880s. In
effect, responsible management has given way to
‘managerialism’, whereby an elite caste of businessmen
disconnected from any ethical considerations now call the shots,
sending the lives of rest of us ‘out of balance’.
Institutions,
Human Development and Economic Growth in Transition Economies
By Pasquale Tridico
July 2011 by Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN: 9780230240681 (hb) |
website
Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the economies of Central and Eastern
European countries and Former Soviet Republics have developed in
different ways, with some considerably outperforming others. This book
explores the reasons behind this: the models of capitalism that each
country aimed at, the role of institutions and of institutional change
in development, and the main determinants of economic and human
development. Moreover, it also examines the relationship between
democracy and development, and questions whether democracy is a
prerequisite.
Historical Materialism Book
Series looking for new projects
The Historical Materialism Book Series is looking for book proposals of
the following type:
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- translations of works by non-anglophone Marxist writers
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apparatus
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Please send all proposals, with a full account of the proposed
structure and argument of the proposed volume (including estimated
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The HM Book Series is also looking for copy-editors and translators to
collaborate with the publishing programme. Please send your CV to the
aforementioned email.
Reassessing the Paradigm of
Economics
Bringing Positive Economics Back Into the
Normative Framework
By Valeria Mosini
July 2011 by Routeldge. Series:
Routledge INEM
Advances in Economic Methodology. ISBN 978-0-415-57511-9 (hb) |
website
The book exposes Friedman’s methodological argument for
attributing positive economics scientific status as a failure, and his
characterisation of economic freedom as a delusion; it identifies in
the emergence as the mainstream in economics of the neoclassical
synthesis, which borrowed from Walras’ the mathematical treatment
of equilibrium but not the ethical and social framework in which it was
inscribed, a development that facilitated the transition from the
Keynesian to the neoliberal paradigm.
Heterodox Graduate
Programs and Scholarships
Honours and Masters programmes in Development
Theory and Policy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
The Masters Program
The New Masters Programme (MCom) in Development
Theory and Policy will commence in January 2012. This exciting new
programme focuses on development economics and policy making. This is a
one year programme offered through the Wits School of Economic and
Business Sciences, designed and run by the Corporate Strategy and
Industrial Development (CSID) research programme. Successful students
will graduate with a Masters of Commerce in Development Theory and
Policy.
For further information, download Brochure.
The Honours Programme
The Honours Programme in Development Theory and
Policy will commence in January 2012. This exciting programme focuses
on applied economics and policy making. This is a one year programme
offered through the Wits School of Economic and Business Sciences,
designed and run by the Corporate Strategy and Industrial Development
Research Programme (CSID) within the school. Successful students will
graduate with Bachelors in Commerce with Honours specialising in
Development Theory and Policy.
For further information, download Brochure.
Heterodox Economics in the
Media
Palley: Euro bonds are not
enough: Eurozone countries need a government banker
August 31, 2011, Financial Times. By Thomas I. Palley.
Read the article here.
Queries from Heterodox
Economists
Call for Guest Lecturers,
City University London
I think it leavens a course to have a guest lecturer give an
alternative view – this has always worked very well in the past.
I list below the modules I take and the date and time this academic
year when I can fit in a guest lecture. I am afraid I have no budget
for this can cannot offer any fee or even expenses – a drink/meal
afterwards will have to suffice. Do get in touch if you are interested!
Regards -- Andy Denis
Autumn Term
Financial Economics (Final year undergraduate module,
taken by 40 students last year, on BSc Economics and BSc Financial
Economics). Thursday 17 November 2011, 15:00-16:50. Topic: something in
the area of alternative theories of finance. Could be Marxian, post
Keynesian, Austrian... Could focus on any area within financial
economics. The students will have looked at arbitrage, efficient
markets, risk & return, option pricing, corporate finance and Basel
III earlier in the term.
Spring Term
Topics in Applied Macroeconomics: Fiscal Policy (First
year undergraduate module segment taken by ~100 students on BSc
Economics and BSc Financial Economics). Friday 30 March 2012,
12:00-13:50. Topic: a critical perspective on the current UK
government’s fiscal strategy. Students will have heard about the
(elementary) theory of fiscal policy and the coalition
government’s fiscal strategy in the previous two weeks.
History of Economic Thought (Final year undergraduate
module, taken by 13 students last year, half from BSc Economics, half
from universities in other countries on an exchange scheme.) Monday 26
March 2012, 15:00-16:50. Topic: anything you would like to talk about
in the field of history of economic thought. Students will have looked
at Smith, Malthus, Ricardo, Walras, Marshall, Keynes and the Austrians.
History of Economic Thought, with special reference to
financial and monetary thought (postgraduate module prepared for
the new MA in Global Political Economy.) Tuesday 3 April 2012,
11:00-12:30. Topic: whatever you are interested in talking about in the
relevant field.
Money & Banking (Second year core undergraduate
module for BSc Financial Economics and elective for BSc Economics
– around 100 students expected.) A Monday, 11:00-12:50, late
March or 2 April. Topic: something in the area of alternative theories
of finance. Could be Marxian, post Keynesian, Austrian... Could focus
on any area within financial economics.
Dr Andy Denis
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Economics Department
City University London, London EC1V 0HB
+44 (0)20 7040 0257
Job
Creation and Taxing the Rich
Economy Connection [of URPE] received a question about raising taxes on
rich people and corporations, from Elaine Calos, who is working with
MoveOn. The goal is to find factual arguments about why it's ok to
raise taxes on the rich, who are supposedly the potential job creators.
Much has been written by URPE people, and others on the Left, about how
corporate/wealthy tax rates have gone down over the years, and about
how rich people don't even pay those lower taxes. And about huge
subsidies given to corporations. There has also been much written about
the manufacturing of the recent debt/deficit crisis, and also about the
depressing effect on the economy of cutting government expenditures on
programs that benefit working class and poor people.
Elaine approaches the question from a jobs angle: she has seen people
on right-wing talk shows arguing that rich people are the job creators
and that they won't create jobs if their taxes go up.
Does anyone know of accessible written material that would answer
some of the following questions, and provide statistics?
1. How much U.S. job creation has come from big business, in recent
years, as opposed to small business or individuals or various levels of
government? Some of this seems to be in BLS tables, but I'm not sure
exactly where to look.
2. How much
net job creation is going on through big
business; that is, how does job creation compare to jobs lost to
technology, mergers and acquisitions, and moving operations to other
countries? What about the loss of jobs in small businesses, as a direct
result of encroachment by WalMart and other chains?
3. Does fear of higher taxes have much to do with low hiring
(especially during a period of low interest rates)? Does anyone have
good quotes from business sources, and also statistics, on this?
[Most URPE people would probably think that businesses don't invest
unless they can foresee a profitable return -- as opposed to needing
more funds that could "trickle down" into hiring. In a recent URPE
post, Tim Koechlin noted a Wall St. Journal article surveying
businesspeople about why they aren't investing now (July 18 -- "Dearth
of Demand Seen Behind Weak Hiring"). Most of them cited demand
problems, rather than worrying about government policies -- which would
include tax policies -- as the reason they aren't hiring. (Some said
"hiring overseas was more appealing.") Plus, Greenspan and others have
noted elsewhere that there is a huge amount of cash sitting around in
banks and corporate coffers.]
4. To the extent that big business might be expected to create jobs,
what would those jobs actually be, and would they be any good?
(Corporations, like government, are reducing health and retirement
benefits, etc.) People talk about "low consumer demand" these days, but
much of what consumers buy is produced overseas. Not sure how much
Green production can be done without government financing.
Thanks,
Ruthie Indeck and Elaine Calos
[Send your response to Ruthie Indeck,
soapbox@comcast.net]
Seeking
Funding for Fair Trade Research
Hello;
I need help for finding funding for further research on indigenous
women producers: conducting impact and comparative studies of economic
and QoL impacts. I'm seeking about $10,000 - $15,000 (ideally) to
cover a summer's worth of Fair Trade research in Bolivia and Peru. I
can write up a formal proposal with all costs, travel, per diem,
transportation, etc. I have funded my own study of indigenous women
working in Fair Trade over 15 years for my doctoral research. My
completed dissertation is "Comercio Justo and Justice - the effects of
Fair Trade on Bolivian Indigenous Women" I am writing several
academic journal articles about my findings and am presenting my
findings at several international economic conferences/meetings
(Mexico, Canada, Washington, DC, Amherst, MA, Chicago...). My
work is interdisciplinary - economics and anthropology. I want to
continue this study in three ways - making comparative studies of
semi-rural Andean women and trade.
- Expand the study to Peruvian knitters as a comparative study
across countries (but not cultures) - I have personally worked with
Peruvian knitters for 5 years.
- Examine the new constitutional Bolivian Fair Trade model and its
local impact (and comparing it to the local impact of the global fair
trade model on the same population - semi-rural Andean women).
- Compare Bolivia's informal economy production with Fair Trade
production (semi-rural Andean women knitters). I worked for two
years as a consultant and business developer at Bolivia's Chamber of
Small Business (CADEPIA) within Bolivia's informal sector and have
engaged with trade in that sector for 15 years.
I need funding for these studies - where can I find some?
I would love to conduct my studies from May - August 2012.
I then want to continue publishing the work academically - but also to
write a book about it too.
Suggestions?
Thanks!
Tamara Stenn, DA
Keene State College
Adjunct Professor: Integrative Studies, Fair Trade, Economics
SCI 183, Mailstop 2001
Keene, NH 03435-1301
Cell: 802-579-3386
tstenn@keene.edu
For Your Information
Doug
Henwood: David Graeber Interview on LBO
Website:
LBO Archices, August 13
Interview
In the second half of the show Doug Henwood conducts a fascinating
interview with anthropologist David Graeber, author of 'Debt: The First
5,000 Years' on the nature of debt. In the interview Graeber dismisses
the neoclassical view of money as a commodity; vindicates Innes and the
Chartalist/State theory of money and discusses how the current system
in which international institutions are geared toward extracting debt
for creditors has 'gotten it backwards' and will more than likely fall
apart only to be replaced with a system geared toward debt-relief.
Heterodox
Syllabi by URPE
If you are looking for ideas for your non mainstream courses about now,
the syllabi section on the URPE Website continues to slowly expand. 17
new ones just went up from last Spring (OK, I am a bit slow ....),
giving us about 80, with 5 in Spanish. Check them out, you will find
some very interesting material there. Open the main page www.urpe.org, then "Resources for
Teachers, Researchers & Activists" in the left column, then
"Syllabi" in the left column.
In late November I will send out a note asking for syllabi you
have from this Fall (giving you some time to get the bugs out ....),
but those of you who actually get everything into finished form before
classes start can send them to me (English or Spanish) anytime (
al@economics.utah.edu), and I
will put them into a file until I upload them all in early November.
Submitted by Al Campbell via URPE
listserve
Warren J.
Samuels (1933-2011)
Warren Samuels passed away yesterday [August 17] at his home in
Gainesville, Florida. Warren was an eminent historian of economic
thought, whose work ranged across the field’s breadth. His first
published works in the field were a pair of articles on the
physiocratic system (published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics)
that served to reshape thinking about the physiocratic view of the
economic role of the state. On the other end of the time spectrum, he
was a pioneer in doing and encouraging work on the history of post-war
economics. This breadth of scholarship is exemplified nicely in the
book that he completed not long before his death, Erasing the Invisible
Hand: Essays on an Elusive and Misguided Concept in Economics, which
was brought to completion with the assistance of Marianne Johnson and
will be released by Cambridge University Press in September.
We’ve suffered a great loss as an intellectual community in his
passing.
Many of you knew Warren well, so there is no need to rehearse
at length his publications or his forays into many other areas of
economics. Warren was one of the first historians of economics to treat
the history of economics as a branch of intellectual history. This was,
for him, a part of the larger intellectual conversation about the role
of governments and markets in modern society that was his lifelong
pursuit. His well-known studies of policy in classical economics (The
Classical Theory of Economic Policy) and in Pareto (Pareto on Policy)
were major contributions to that discussion. His perspective had a
significant effect on the students who studied with him over the years,
and on those of us who were the recipients of his comments and advice
at conferences and via correspondence.
From the outset of his career, Warren recognized the importance
to the intellectual historian of correspondence, course notes,
unpublished manuscripts, public lectures, etc. What we now collectively
refer to as archival materials. Not only did he promote the use of
these materials in historical research, but he also amassed an
extensive personal collection of these materials, which he began to
publish in 1989 in archival supplements to Research in the History of
Economic Thought & Methodology. The very first supplement contained
the notes he had obtained from economist Robert L. Hale and Sinologist
Homer H. Dubs of John Dewey’s course on Moral and Political
Philosophy at Columbia University. The second supplement contains the
only authorized publication of Frank Knight’s infamous lecture on
“The Case for Communism.” Warren and George Stigler went
back and forth for some time regarding the publication of that piece!
Dewey and Knight were, perhaps not surprisingly, two of Warren’s
intellectual heros. The materials he amassed will continue to be
published in the research annual for many years to come. His collection
of photographs of economists is already available online from the
Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University.
Warren was also a tireless editor of volumes that touched upon
almost any aspect of his wider interests. I have lined up on my
bookshelf over 80 volumes that he edited on the history of economics,
economic methodology, or recent economic thought. Mine is probably not
a complete set! All of these were undertaken to encourage scholarship
in areas that interested him (and, by extension, which he thought would
interest others). Many of them are also the means by which he
encouraged the work of young scholars.
We all experienced his generosity to students, young scholars
and anyone else who wanted to join the great conversation. His goal and
passion was to broaden and enrich that conversation, and he was as
happy to engage a young scholar as he was a Nobel laureate. To that
end, he and Sylvia made a substantial contribution to the History of
Economics Society to endow its Young Scholars program.
Among the many professional societies to which he belonged, the
History of Economics Society was always the one closest to
Warren’s heart. He was a founding member of the Society, and
served as its 8th President. The Society honored him in 1997 with its
Distinguished Fellow award; two years earlier he was the recipient of
the Association for Evolutionary Economics Veblen-Commons Award. He was
the long-time editor of the Journal of Economic Issues and the founding
editor of Research in the History of Economic Thought &
Methodology.
I wish to acknowledge the helpful advice I received from Jeff
Biddle, Marianne Johnson and Steve Medema.
Ross Emmett
James Madison College
Michigan State University
From the Association for Social
Economics:
August 23, 2011
With great sadness, we report that Warren Samuels passed away August 17
at home in Gainesville, Florida. Warren was a highly respected and
extensively published historian of economic thought, economic
methodologist, and expert on the economic role of government. He was a
long-time member of the Association for Social Economics, a member of
the editorial board of the Review of Social Economy, president of the
ASE in 1988, and a 1997 Divine Award recipient. In his honor the ASE
awards the Warren Samuels Prize at the Allied Social Sciences
Association meetings in January for the best paper on social economics
presented at the meetings.
Warren Samuels was author or co-author of many books and scholarly
papers, edited or co-edited a tremendous number of volumes, including a
considerable amount of unpublished, archival materials, edited or
co-edited Journal of Economic Issues, Research in the History of
Economic Thought and Methodology, and the Journal of Income
Distribution, was on the editorial boards of 22 journals, and edited or
co-edited many book series. For the last number of years he worked at
compiling and organizing every reference and interpretation of the
invisible hand concept. Erasing the Invisible Hand: Essays on an
Elusive and Misguided Concept in Economics will appear with Cambridge
University Press in September.
Warren will be remembered for his generosity and kindness towards those
with whom he worked and interacted, for his tolerance, humanity, and
concern for others, and for his intellectuality, openness, honesty, and
his commitment to pluralism in economics. Many individuals and
organizations benefited from his support, and the economics profession
was fortunate to count him a member.
Warren
J. and Sylvia J. Samuels Young Scholars Fund
Following the passing of Warren Samuels, his family has requested
that, in lieu of flowers, individuals wishing to do so may make a
contribution to the History of Economics Society's Warren J. and Sylvia
J. Samuels Young Scholars Fund. As many of you know, Warren and Sylvia
endowed this fund with a generous gift to the Society several years
ago.
Contributions can be sent to Neil Niman, HES Treasurer, at the
following address: Department of Economics, University of New
Hampshire, 15 Academic Way, Durham, NH 03824
