Editors Note
There are many interesting conferences, workshops, and summer
schools in the coming year. For those who are attending the ASSA
meetings, we've summarized heterodox
programs and events. Especially, we look forward to meeting many of
you at the heterodox party at Roosevelt University! If you are planning
to participate in the AHE-FAPE-IIPPE joint conference in July (Paris),
see Calls for Panels/Streams.
Heterodox graduate students should also consider attending the AHE
Post Graduate Workshop on Advanced Research Methods in February
(London), the ASE Summer School in June
(Glasgow), and/or the Heterodox Summer School
in July (Poznan). For those entering the job market this year, here is a nice post with some job searching
tips from Peter Earl at the University of Queensland.
In the past, some heterodox communities (ICAPE, AJES, and HEN) together
with heterodox publishers (Dollars & Sense) have had a display
booth at the ASSA annual meetings. This year there will no heterodox
booth at the Hyatt Regency, the headquarter hotel, because of the
ongoing boycott (we believe heterodox economists will not cross the
picket line). Instead, Chris Sturr, the Dollars & Sense editor, has
arranged a display booth at the Workshop on Advanced Pedagogy and
Course Design at Roosevelt University on Jan. 5th and, possibly, at the
heterodox party and/or the URPE reception. Chris can be reached by
email at sturr@dollarsandsense.org.
Like many of you, we begin our intersemester break this week
and we will both be travelling--Tae Hee will see many of you at the
ASSA meetings, and Ted will head to Oregon for his sister's 60th
birthday celebration. We wish safe travels to you all, and we
look forward to continuing the efforts to expand and promote heterodox
economics.
In solidarity,
Tae-Hee Jo and Ted Schmidt, Editors
Email: heterodoxnews@gmail.com
Website: http://heterodoxnews.com
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Call for Papers
AHE-FAPE-IIPPE Calls for
Panel/Stream
5-9, July 2012 | Paris,
France | Conference Website
Heterodox Microeconomics
Organiser:
Fred Lee
I would like to organise a panel or a couple of panels that deal with
various topics in heterodox microeconomics. The topics can deal with
production and cost theory, business enterprise, modelling the economy
as a whole, determination of wage rates, prices, and profit mark ups,
the role of competition, concept of the going concern, investment
decisions, household consumption decisions, any micro stuff that
includes the names of Sraffa, Marx, Veblen, Galbraith, Fine, Kalecki,
Means, Andrews, etc., sticky prices/wages, market
governance—cartels, price leadership, government regulation,
theory of value, concept of the “labour market”, labour
process, and many other topics. If you are interested in presenting
such a paper, please e-mail me:
leefs@umkc.edu.
Further information about the conference can be found at the links
above.
Ontology and the
Transformation of Economics
Organisers:
Stephen Pratten, Tony Lawson
In recent years some heterodox economists have argued that explicit
ontological analysis and elaboration is key to the fruitful
transformation of economics. An emphasis on ontology helps to pinpoint
the nature and limitations of current approaches to economics Those
advocating the importance of ontological analysis demonstrate how it
can not only clarify the presuppositions and concerns that heterodox
traditions share in common but also helps identify those matters that
serve to differentiate them from one another. Sustained ontological
elaboration can also inform the search for methods appropriate for
investigating economic and social phenomena. Those promoting this
ontological turn have also been concerned to interrogate and elaborate
core social and economic categories such as institutions, technology,
gender and money. The current configuration of economic crisis and
heightened concern about the state of economics provides a timely
opportunity for further evaluation of the potential of ontological
analysis. We invite submissions under the general theme of
‘Ontology and the Transformation of Economics’ and welcome
contributions that seek to explore how ontology can contribute to
increasing the explanatory power, or general relevance, of the
discipline. We also welcome contributions that seek to draw out
implications of ontological theorising for issues in the history of
economic thought, the prospects for interdisciplinary projects, and any
other endeavour of interest to political economists. Abstracts should
be submitted to Stephen Pratten (
stephen.pratten@kcl.ac.uk)
by the end of January 2012.
Commodity
derivatives: Understanding the changing relations between finance and
production
Organisers:
Susan Newman and Lynne Chester
The apparent unstoppable expansion of finance through the proliferation
of increasingly esoteric and numerous financial instruments prompted a
view amongst critical scholars that finance has become decoupled from
the ‘real’ economy. A rich literature has emerged
emphasizing the centrality of finance and
‘financialisation’ in contemporary capitalism. This
literature has exposed changes in corporate structure and strategy in
favour of finance at the expense of productive investment, and the
expression of the process of financialisation in rising and volatile
food prices, instability of pension funds and widening inequality. This
panel seeks to extend and develop this discourse in terms of locating
finance as part of the structure of accumulation and understanding the
evolving forms in which finance and productive capital are intertwined,
particularly through commodity derivatives.
The origins of financialisation, and neoliberalism more broadly, have
been traced to the 1970s. Studies on the productive economy and
industrial organization in the 1990s and 2000s have emphasized the
fragmentation of production geographically by global production
networks, a shift in the form of competition from one based on price to
one based on knowledge, and a shift from Fordism to post-Fordism. How
do we understand the rise of commodities derivatives in these parallel
and interrelated processes of financialisation and global production
networks? How has the rise of commodities derivatives as an asset class
fed into the restructuring of commodity production and distribution?
How do we understand the processes that led to the rise of commodities
as an asset class? What is the relationship between commodity
derivatives and the commodification of nature? The panel is seeking to
explore these sorts of questions and we welcome contributions that seek
to draw out the changing relations between finance and production.
If you are interested in presenting a paper please email an abstract
(by 20 January 2012) to: Susan Newman (
newman@iss.nl
) and Lynne Chester (
lynne.chester@sydney.edu.au
).
Financilisation
Organizer Maria Dafnomili
Given the significance taken by the role of financialisation in
the current crisis, the IIPPE Financialisation Working Group encourages
contributions which examine the causes and consequences of the crisis
in the context of financialisation, as well as those which critically
engage with the concept of financialisation itself. Also welcome are
submissions which propose alternatives, policies and solutions both in
relation to the crisis and to the broader crisis in theoretical
economics.
In accordance with the general call for papers, contributions covering
the following areas are particularly encouraged:
- “The Role of Financialisation in the Capitalist World”.
This area aims to highlight the importance of financialisation and the
role that it has played in the last 30 years in the transformation of
capitalist relations of production and specifically the subsumption of
real accumulation to finance.
- The profound inability of mainstream economics to provide either
a satisfactory account of the ongoing crisis or to provide any
significant alternatives to the current status quo and the resulting
opportunities for heterodox economics and Marxist political economy to
provide such sound and progressive alternatives.
- The role and uses of alternative methodologies in the studies of
(international) financial markets and critique of mainstream economics
- How to locate the world economy and the neoliberal nation state
in the study of finance
- Manifestations and consequences of financialisation in
developing and emerging countries
- The financialisation of commodities and natural resources
- The European crisis and future role of the Euro
- A critical engagement with the term
“financialisation” itself, i.e. its contribution to the
literature, differentiation from other concepts such as globalisation,
neoliberalism etc.
In addition to submission of individual papers, we would particularly
encourage the submission of panel proposals of 2-4 presentation each.
Panels which collectively present the work of institutions or other
academic groups provide an excellent opportunity to showcase work in a
greater depth that is possible in single presentations. It is further
hoped that the conference will provide an opportunity to deepen links
between groups working on finance from a critical perspective.
Abstracts of individual papers (max. 250 words) or panel proposals
(max. 250 words plus abstracts of the individual papers) should be sent
to Maria Dafnomili (mdafnomili@econ.soc.uoc.gr) by the end of January
2012.
Marxist
Political Economy, WAPE
Organizers
Xiaoqing Ding and Alan Freeman
The World Association for
Political Economy (WAPE) invites scholars of Marx and Marxism to submit
papers on ‘Marxist political economy’ to be discussed at
the forthcoming Paris conference of the AHE, FAPE and IIPPE which will
be held from 5th-8th July. This large conference of critical and
heterodox economist is an excellent opportunity to develop, in
discussion with Marxists and those interested in Marx’s ideas,
knowledge and understanding of Marx’s ideas and their relevance
in the current turbulent world economic situation. Papers on any issue
relevant to the topic ‘Marxist Political Economy’ are
welcome.
Abstracts of 500 words or
less, with a title, indicative bibliography and the name and
institutional affiliation of the author, should be submitted to
Xiaoqing Ding at
wape2006@gmail.com
and to Alan Freeman at
afreeman@iwgvt.org
on or before 18th January.
Authors will be notified
of acceptance for inclusion in the WAPE panels by 25th January. Any
proposal not accepted can thus be sent to the organizers of the Paris
conference by their deadline of 31st January, to be considered for
inclusion in the general conference. WAPE seeks to collaborate with all
those attending the conference who contribute in the general area of
Marxist political economy, and invites those who have already submitted
proposals to contact it, with a view to working to arrange joint panels.
For other Calls previously announced, see here.
- Economics: Unfit for Purpose
- Pierre Bourdieu and his contribution to economics
- Marxist Political Economy Working Group, IIPPE
1st European Network for the
Philosophy of the Social Sciences Conference
September 21-23, 2012 | University of
Copenhagen
The European Network for the Philosophy of the Social Sciences (ENPOSS)
invites contributions to its inaugural conference. Contributions from
all areas within the philosophy of the social sciences are encouraged.
Moreover, contributions from both philosophers and social scientists
are welcome.
Keynote speakers:
-
Peter Hedström (University of Oxford)
-
Philip Pettit (Princeton University)
-
Stephen Turner (University of South Florida)
-
Björn Wittrock (Uppsala University)
Submissions:
- An abstract of no more than 1000 words suitably prepared for
blind reviewing should be submitted electronically.
- Opening for submissions: January 15, 2012. Information about how
to submit will be available shortly. Each abstract will be reviewed by
two members of the Scientific Committee. Members of this year’s
committee are: Anna Alexandrova, Kevin Binmore, Luc Bovens, Antonella
Carassa, Malinda Carpenter, Igor Douven, Jan Faye, Wulf Christian
Gartner, Francesco Guala, Harold Kincaid, Hartmut Kliemt, Martin Kusch,
Tony Lawson, Eleonora Montuschi, José Antonio Noguera, William
Outhwaite, Elisabeth Pacherie Julian Reiss, Kristina Rolin, Federica
Russo, Hans Bernard Schmid, Paul Sheehy, Dan Steel, David Teira,
Deborah Tollefsen and Erik Weber.
- Deadline for submission: March 15, 2012
- Date of notification of acceptance: May 15, 2012
Local organizers:
Julie Zahle and Finn Collin both from the Section of Philosophy,
University of Copenhagen.
Publication: Selected papers from the conference will be
published in an annual special issue of the journal Philosophy of the
Social Sciences. Further information:
http://enposs.eu/2011/11/call-for-papers/
1st
International Social Transformation Conference
July 10-12, 2012 | Split, Croatia | website
"Energy Currency: Energy as the
Fundamental Measure of Price, Cost and Value"
The current economic crisis has renewed interest in the need for
global monetary reform. Only after the fundamental causes of systemic
economic failures are eliminated will evolution towards a sustainable
and socially just global economy become feasible.
But how should the monetary system be reformed? What should new money
be like, what purposes should it meet and what functions should it
perform? The ultimate aim of the First International Social
Trasformation Conference on Energy Currency is to place the study of
alternative monetary systems within mainstream economic thinking and
put global monetary reform onto the political agenda.
Distinguishing features of the conference are its emphasis on
discussion and adopting a multidisciplinary approach. The organizers
hope this event to become a major international platform for dialogue
between specialists representing very different backgrounds and
perspectives, yet united by a common vision of the necessity and
possibility of better currency models. The main focus of the conference
will be the relationship between the dynamics of financial and energy
flows and the feasibility of an energy-backed international currency.
However, all kinds of alternative currency models will be debated with
equal interest and attention.
The organizers commit to use their networks of influence and media
support to ensure that the proceedings of the conference reach the
highest political authorities, primarily – the European
Commission and a number of national financial ministries.
Keynote speakers:
-
Margrit Kennedy
-
Tony Greenham
-
Josh Ryan-Collins
-
Pat Conatry
-
Shann Turnbull
Papers will be presented on a wide range of topics, including:
- Alternative monetary models
- Input-output models (embodied energy and water)
- Energy economics
- Sustainable money and sustainable economy
-
Complementary currencies
- Ethics of financial relations
- Economic philosophy of money
- Culture of money
Questions to be answered in the Conference Resolution:
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Why do we need an alternative monetary system?
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Should the money be nationalized or privatized?
-
Which scale is optimal for currency: local, national, global
or sectoral?
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Is commodity backing necessary for money?
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Is an energy unit better for economic accounting than
monetary unit?
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Global energy-backed supplementary currency: pro’s and
contra’s.
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How can modern technologies enhance the efficiency of
money?
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How will the economy react to the alternative currency?
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What are the best examples to benchmark?
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What steps are political authorities required to take to
implement the new currency model?
7th
International Marx & Engels Colloquium
July 24 - 27, 2012 | Marxist Studies
Center- Cemarx at University of Campinas, Brazil
The Marxist Studies Center (Cemarx) has started the call for papers for
the 7th International Marx & Engels Colloquium, which will be held
at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences (IFCH) at the
University of Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
Papers should be submitted by February 1st, 2012.
General Information:
The 7th International Marx & Engels Colloquium welcomes,
essentially, two types of papers: those that take the Marxist theory as
their subject of research in order to analyze this theory, criticize it
or develop it; and papers that utilize the Marxist theoretical
framework in empirical or theoretical researches which fit into the
event's Thematic Groups.
Researchers interested in submitting their papers should indicate which
Thematic Group they fit in. Occasionally, the 7th International Marx
& Engels Colloquium Organizing Committee might reallocate the
papers from one group to another. The 7th Colloquium’s
Thematic Groups are the following:
- TG 1 – Theoretical work of Marx and Marxism Critical
examination of Marx and Engels’ work and classical Marxism works
in the 19th and 20th centuries. The polemics stimulated by Marx's
theoretical work.
- TG 2 - Marxism Critical examination of the tendencies of Marxist
thought and their transformations. The theoretical work of Brazilian
and Latin American Marxists. The issue of renovation of Marxism.
- TG 3 - Marxism and Human Sciences Examination of the
Marxism’s influence on Economics, Sociology, Political Science,
Anthropology, History, International Relations, Law, Geography and
Social Work. Examination of the Marxist critique of Human Sciences and
the contributions of Human Sciences for the development of Marxism.
Marxist theoretical polemics and conceptual developments in these areas
of knowledge. The presence of Marxism in the Brazilian and Latin
American universities.
- TG 4 – Economy and politics in contemporary capitalis. The
Marxist approach of economical, political and social transformations of
capitalism at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st
century. New accumulation patterns of capital, new imperialist phase,
transformations of the State and capitalist democracy. The condition of
the dominant and dependent countries. Brazil and Latin America.
- TG 5 – Class relations in contemporary capitalism. The
Marxist approach to the transformations that have occurred within the
organization of work under capitalism and in relation to the structure
of classes. Laborers, working class, "new working class" and "middle
class". The petite bourgeoisie. The peasants in current capitalism. The
current debate on the decline of class polarization in the end of the
20th century and the beginning of the 21st century. The working classes
and the popular movements. The new configuration of the bourgeoisie.
The social classes in Brazil and Latin America. The Marxist concept of
social class and class struggle in contemporary capitalism.
- TG 6 - Education, capitalism and socialism. The relationships
between the educational system and capitalism according to the Marxist
perspective: training of workforce; education and social classes;
ideology and educational process; educational policy. The Marxist
analysis of education in Brazil and Latin America. The cultural
apparatuses of capitalism (universities, research centers). The
cultural centers created by the socialist movement. Analysis of the
innovative educational experiences in the societies emerged in the
revolutions of the 20th century. Marxist theory and education.
- TG 7 - Culture, capitalism and socialism. Capitalism and
cultural production: the new tendencies; plastic arts, literature and
cultural industry. Marxist analysis of culture in Brazil and Latin
America. Culture and socialism: the cultural movements in the societies
originated in the revolutions of the 20th century. Marxism and cultural
production.
- TG 8 - Socialism in the 21st century. Marxist analysis of
the 20th century Revolutions. The communist and socialist heritage of
the 19th and 20th centuries and the socialism of the 21st century.
Marxism and socialism. The issue of renovation of socialism. The theory
of transition to socialism. Workers and socialist transition. Strong
points and obstacles for the reconstruction of the socialist movement
in the 21st century.
Submission of papers
Papers should be submitted by February 1st. Researchers should fill in
the on line submission form at Cemarx's website (www.unicamp.br/cemarx).
Modalities of submission for the presentation of papers
1.Papers
The papers (in Spanish Portuguese or English) should have between
fifteen and twenty-four thousand characters (including spaces and
footnotes), consisting of maximum 10 pages in 12 points Times New Roman
font format . Submissions must not exceed this limit; otherwise, it
will be rejected. Papers should include proposed title, author’s
name and position (professor, lecturer, post-graduate student,
independent researcher). Papers should clearly define the subject which
will be examined,its theses and arguments, and make explicit the debate
(theoretical, historiographic or political) within which the paper is
inserted. Important! Papers should follow the citation rules displayed
at Cemarx's website. Registration fee: R$ 40.00.
2. Roundtables
A Roundtable is composed of a set of at least four papers included in a
TG. A small number of Roundtables will be accepted, privileging
submission made by groups or research centers, as well as scientific
and cultural associations. Papers of participants of the Roundtalble,
formatted according to the previous item, should be sent together with
a summary explanation of the table. The proposing institution has to
obtain the resources needed for participation of all components.
Registration fee (per component of the Roundtables): R$ 40.00
3. Posters
The 7th International Marx & Engels Colloquium is open for
participation of undergraduate students who can present scientific
initiation papers, whose subjects fit in one of the Thematic Groups of
the colloquium.
The abstract of the paper should have between three to five thousand
characters (including spaces and footnotes) in Times New Roman font
format, 12 points. The paper (in Spanish Portuguese or English) should
include proprosed title, author's name and the undergraduate course in
which he/she is enrolled. Papers should present the research's subject
and its main ideas and information. The poster submission format will
be published at Cemarx's website. Registration fee: R$ 20.00.
Notification of Acceptance
Accepted papers will be divulged at Cemarx's website by March 2012
according to the following schedule:
The results will be divulged at least three months before the beginning
of the event in order to allow all participants to apply for grants
from financial bodies and universities, as Cemarx will not be able to
finance the participants of the event.
9th
International Conference: Developments in Economic Theory and Policy
28-29 June, 2012 | Bilbao, Spain | website
The Department of Applied Economics V of the University of the
Basque Country and the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy,
Department of Land Economy, of the University of Cambridge, are
organizing the 9th International Conference Developments in Economic
Theory and Policy. The Conference will be held in Bilbao (Spain), the
days 28th and 29th of June 2012.
Although papers are invited on all areas of economics, there will be
three Plenary Sessions with Invited Speakers about the following topics:
- Economic Policies, Governance and the New Economics
- The Economics of the Financial Transactions Tax
- The Governance of Natural Resources
Suggestions for Organized Sessions are encouraged.
An Organized Session is one session constructed in its entirety by a
Session Organizer and submitted to the conference organizers as a
complete package. A proposal of an Organized Session must include the
following information:
- Title of the session, name and affiliation of the session
organizer, name and affiliation of the person who will chair the
session(if different than the organizer)
- Titles of the papers (3-4 papers), name, affiliation and contact
information of the authors
Besides Plenary, Organized and Normal Parallel sessions, there will
also be Graduate Student Sessions. In these sessions, students making a
MSc or a PhD programme can present their researches and discuss that of
other students. Participants in the Graduate Student Sessions will pay
a lower conference fee.
The deadline to submit papers and ‘Organized Sessions’ is
25th May 2012.
The Journal
Panoeconomicus will publish a special issue
with papers presented at the conference. Papers of high quality will be
considered for this special issue. All submitted papers will be
considered for this special issue. The selection of the paper will be
made by the Scientific Committee of the Conference. The final decision
about the papers to be published will be subject to a process of
anonymous evaluation.
For more information, you can contact with Jesus Ferreiro (
jesus.ferreiro@ehu.es) or
Maribel Garcia-del-Valle (
teresa.gvalleirala@ehu.es
) or visit the conference
website.
9th STOREP
Conference
June 1-3, 2012 | University of Padova,
Italy | website
"Federalism and Integration"
An abstract of about 300 words for a paper and 500 words for a session
(together with the abstracts of the papers for the session) should be
submitted at the latest by January 20, 2012 to: segretario@storep.org.
Notification of accepted and rejected abstracts will be made by
February 15, 2012.
Other important dates:
- April 20, 2012: Deadline per the registration for the Conference
(ealry fee)
- May 10, 2012: Deadline for sending full papers
- May 15, 2012: Deadline for late registration (late fee)
- June 1-3 2012: STOREP Conference
All relevant information concerning the registration fees, accomodation
and programme will be published soon on the
website of the association.
The main theme of the Conference is Federalism and Integration. The
economic thought facing local dimensions and global challenges.
Economic policy management in a context of interdependence among
several governing levels (local, regional, national, supranational) is
on the current agenda in Italy, in Europe and in the whole world. And
in the related debate on the competences to be assigned to such levels,
a preminent role is played by the constitutional principles of
federalism as an optimal balance between integration and
decentralization.
Proposals of papers on all fields of the history of economic thought
are also welcome: some plenary sessions on the main topic of the
conference will in fact be accompanied by parallel tematic sessions.
Young Scholar Award
The award is open to young scholars (under 35 years of age). In order
to be eligible, one is required to submit a Curriculum Vitae and a
paper any topic relevant to the history of political economy. The
authors of the selected papers will be awarded of the free Storep
Conference registration, included the social dinner and the annual
membership fee of the association. All applications, with CV and the
final version of the papers, should be sent to
segretario@storep.org no later
than April 20 2012. Applicants will be informed about the results of
the evaluation process by May 15 2012.
11th
Annual North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress
Thursday May 3rd, to Saturday May 5, 2012
| University of Toronto, Canada
"Putting Equality
Back on the Agenda: Basic Income and Other Approaches to Economic
Security for All"
Featured Speakers:
-
Richard Wilkinson, Co-Author of The Spirit Level: Why More
Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better
-
Armine Yalnizyan, Senior Economist with the Canadian Centre
for Policy Alternatives
Over the past 30 years, Canada, the United States, and many other
OECD countries have grown increasingly unequal. While the rich pull
farther and farther ahead, the poor and the middle class are struggling
just to maintain their income level. Evidence regarding economic
disparity suggests that income inequality is accompanied by a range of
significant negative consequences, and that these consequences are
present in greater numbers at every income level of a less equal
society when compared with a more equal society. In January, the World
Economic Forum named economic disparity one of the most significant
global risks.
Putting Equality Back on the Agenda will consider three central
questions:
1. To what degree is there a common public good in reducing
economic disparity among all citizens?
2. Is a basic income the best way to provide this public good?
3. How could a basic income best be structured and funded to meet
these goals?
The Eleventh North American Basic Income Guarantee Congress is
organized by Basic Income Canada Network in cooperation with the USBIG
Network. These North American affiliates of the Basic Income Earth
Network promote the option of a basic income, an unconditional
government transfer that would provide a basic but decent standard of
living to all. The congress brings together academics, students,
activists, policy analysts, government officials, low income people,
and others interested in exploring the merits of this proposal.
Plenary Speakers Include:
-
Richard Wilkinson, Professor Emeritus of Social Epidemiology
at the University of Nottingham Medical School and co-author of The
Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better;
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Armine Yalnizyan, Senior Economist with the Canadian Centre
for Policy Alternatives;
-
John Rook, Chair of the National Council of Welfare Senior
Associate with Housing Strategies, Inc;
-
Evelyn Forget, Professor, University of Manitoba Faculty of
Medicine; and
-
Trish Hennessey, Director of Strategic Issues for the
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Scholars, activists, and others are invited to propose papers or
presentations, organize panel discussions, or submit posters. Proposals
are welcome on the following topics:
-
What are the costs of economic disparity (economic, social
and political)?
-
What are the implications for pursuing (or not pursuing)
basic income options?
-
What are possible models for generating revenue to sustain a
basic income and what are their implications for economic disparity?
-
What are the practical issues for implementing a basic income
policy and what are their implications for economic disparity?
-
What communication and engagement strategies are necessary to
raise awareness about economic disparity and basic income in the public
sphere?
All points of view are welcome. Anyone interested in presenting,
organizing a panel, or displaying a poster should submit an abstract of
their proposal to the chair of the organizing committee at
basicincome2012@gmail.com.
Please include the following information with your proposal:
1. Name(s)
2. Affiliation(s)
3. Address
4. City, Province/State, Postal/Zip Code, and Country
5. Telephone
6. Email Address(es)
7. Paper/Presentation/Panel/Poster Title
8. Abstract of 50-150 words
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS: January 13th, 2012
Proposals for panel discussions should include a title, topic,
and description of the panel and the information above for each
participant. If the participants are not presenting formal papers, the
title of the paper and abstract may be omitted. Panels should be
limited to four presentations.
14th World
Congress in Social Economics
June 20-22, 2012 | University of Glasgow,
UK
"Towards an Ethical
Economy and Economics"
The on-going financial crisis continues to evolve from one centered on
the Western financial system to sovereign debt crisis, particularly in
the Euro-zone. This has brought into sharp relief the inadequacy of
standard approaches that emphasise the economy as inherently stable and
the incapacity of the current economic system to address its
fundamental problems. The crisis has also raised a host of ethical
issues revolving around the actions of governments, the financial
sector, communities, individuals, and, indeed, the economics
profession. The financial crisis has further revealed the reliance on
conventional notions of growth to sustain mass consumption and as a
vehicle for addressing recessionary pressures, largely ignoring
concerns over environmental sustainability and increasing inequalities.
Social economics, with its focus on the social values and relationships
that drive the market-based system, is well-placed to offer insightful
analyses of the present state of economies and of economics and to
offer an outlet for discussion of alternatives founded on the notion of
the economy as the process of social provisioning.
We welcome proposals for complete sessions and for individual papers -
conceptual, applied and empirical - related to the theme of the
conference as well as in all areas of social economics. Some topics for
discussion could include:
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What is meant by an 'ethical economics' and an 'ethical
economic system'?
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What does an increased awareness of the ethics of economic
activities imply for social relations and values and for economics?
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What are the manifestations of an 'ethical economy' in terms
of: corporate social responsibility; sustainable consumption; economic
organisation, such as co-operatives, and the structure of finance, such
as regulation, micro-finance, mutualisation and credit unions?
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What are the relationships between an 'ethical economy' and
social capital? Does a high incidence of social capital ensure an
'ethical economy' and economic activities? What does this mean for the
"third sector" and social enterprise? Does it relate to the UK Prime
Minister's (David Cameron) notion of the "Big Society"?
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What does an 'ethical economy' imply for economic
performance? What are the measures of performance and well-being in an
'ethical economy'? Would an 'ethical economy' be more equal? If so, in
what respects?
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What does an 'ethical economy' imply for the distribution of
income, wealth, and power both within a country and among countries?
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What are the relations between an 'ethical economy' and a
green economy?
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What are the social and ethical responsibilities of economics
and economists?
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What are the macroeconomic manifestations of ethical
considerations - what is an ethical fiscal policy? To what extent is
the conventional wisdom concerning sovereign debt crises misguided?
Abstract Submissions
To submit a proposal please send and abstract of about 400 words
for a paper and/or a proposal of about 600 words for a session, with
the abstracts of the session papers no later than February 1, 2012.
Please include the title of the session or the paper, the authors'
names and institutional affiliates, and contact information in the form
of an e-mail address for the corresponding author.
Submissions of Abstract Proposals should be made on the ASE
website no later than February 1, 2012, at
www.socialeconomics.org
Keynote Speakers
- Anthony "Tony" Atkinson, Department of Economics, Nuffield
College, University of Oxford
- Ben Fine, Professor of Economics, School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London
Please note that at least one author of each paper presented at
the World Congress must be a member of ASE. Membership information as
well as Additional Conference information and Registration information
can be found at
the ASE website.
Organising Committee
- Jane Clary College of Charleston
- Elba Brown-Collier Association for Social Economics
- Mark Hayes University of Cambridge
- Helena Lopes ISCTE-University Institute of Lisbon
- Robert McMaster University of Glasgow
- Fabio Sabatini Sapienza Universitá di Roma
- Martha Starr American University, Washington DC
Important Dates
- February 1, 2012 Deadline for Abstract Submission
- March 1, 2012 Notification of Accepted Abstracts
- April 15, 2012 Conference Registration Deadline
- May 15, 2012 Deadline for Submitting Full Papers
- June 20 , 2012 Opening Plenary Session and Reception, Tony
Atkinson, speaker
- June 21, 2012 Conference Dinner
- June 22 , 2012 Closing Keynote Address, The Cairncross Lecture,
Ben Fine, speaker
Association
for Core Texts and Courses 18th Annual Conference
3/29 – 4/1, 2012 | The Hilton
Milwaukee City Center Hotel, Milwaukee, WI |
website
"Liberal Arts Education and the World: Inquiring
into, Preparing for, and Living in the Real World through Core Texts"
Registration and Proposals are entered through the Online Conference
Registration Form at the bottom of this page. Each proposal—paper
or panel—must include name(s), institutional affiliation(s),
mailing and email addresses, and phone contact number(s) of
presenter(s). All proposals should include paper title(s) and a
one-paragraph abstract. PANEL PROPOSALS should organize a panel of
specific presenters with a title for the panel. No more than two panel
members from the same institution may be present on one panel, but
panel proposals with only two presenters are welcome. ACTC will form
panels out of individual submissions or complete panel submissions.
PROPOSAL DEADLINE IS DECEMBER 31, 2011.
All potential conferees are welcome to contact the Executive Director
of ACTC, J. Scott Lee, with questions about panels and proposals:
jscottlee@prodigy.net.
ACTC papers are short (seminar-essay style, 5 pages, double-spaced),
treat one core text for at least
¾-1 page, and develop the conference theme. The usual
presentation time allotted to each paper is 12-15 minutes. Lively
liberal arts discussions are a mark of ACTC conference panels. Thus,
papers tend to range over theoretical considerations, particular
interpretations, and classroom or programmatic practices—often
involving all of these. Panel proposals should bear these
characteristics in mind. Scholarly papers (up to 10 pages) may be
submitted for publication in our selected proceedings after the
conference, but only 5-page papers may be read at the conference. For
publication criteria, see
here.
More than 200 openings will be available for panel presentations. While
the submission of a complete paper is not required for acceptance on a
panel, every attendee whose paper proposal has been accepted is
expected to come to the conference with the completed paper.
Registration of your paper or panel proposal, or simply your intention
to attend the conference, may be done through the
ACTC
website. Submission before December 1 increases your chances of
acceptance.
Conference
on Oaths and Codes in Economics and Business
11 and 12 May 2012 | Groningen, The
Netherlands
- A selection of papers will be published in a special issue of Review
of Social Economy
- Deadline submission extended abstracts: 1 March 2012
- Organizer/Guest Editor: Boudewijn de Bruin (University of
Groningen)
- Invited Speakers: John Boatright (Loyola University Chicago)
George DeMartino (University of Denver)
Since 2010, members of the executive boards of all banks in the
Netherlands have had to sign an oath just as doctors swear the
Hippocratic Oath. This Banker's Oath is part of a code of ethics which
was developed to restore trust in banking after the economic crisis.
This initiative-unique in the world-has drawn international attention,
and suggestions about similar oaths and codes can be heard in various
countries. Accountants, financial advisers, actuaries, and controllers
have started reevaluating their professional codes of ethics. A group
of Harvard Business School graduates suggested the MBA Oath (Anderson
and Escher, 2010), while economist George DeMartino proposed the
Economist's Oath (Oxford University Press 2010). But can oaths and
codes work in fields fraught with conflicts of interests (Boatright
2008)?
The Economist's Oath is primarily addressed to economists working as
policy advisers, focusing as it does on methodological issues and
issues of social justice. An economist swearing the oath promises to
recognize that economics is an imperfect science, fraught with
uncertainty, lack of precision, and many competing theoretical
perspectives. The MBA oath contains the familiar themes from the
business ethics and CSR literature: integrity, truthfulness,
sustainability, accountability, stakeholders interests, and the
avoidance of unbridled self-interest. And the Banker's Oath is
primarily a promise to give the interests of clients a central place in
one's professional decisions.
Professional oaths and codes are gaining popularity. But in stark
contrast to the literature on corporate codes of ethics, surprisingly
little research exists on professional oaths and codes. Questions
include how the general public perceives oaths and codes; whether they
help professionals stay focused on their social functions; how they
influence behavior (if they do); whether they increase professionalism;
whether they are consistent with general moral duties; whether they
help moral deliberation or discussion within a profession; or whether
they lead to distrust and illusory quality guarantees.
The Review of Social Economy and the University of Groningen, The
Netherlands, devote a conference and a special issue to professional
oaths and codes. The conference will take place on 11 and 12 May 2012
in Groningen, The Netherlands. Invited speakers are John Boatright
(Loyola University Chicago) and George DeMartino (University of
Denver). A selection of papers presented at the conference, upon
passing double-blind peer review, will be published in a special issue
or Review of Social Economy. Guest editor is Boudewijn de Bruin
(University of Groningen).
We invite submission of extended abstracts of around 1,000 words
for conference presentations with a deadline of 1 March 2012. The topic
is professional oaths and codes in the broadest sense of the word,
including philosophical, economic, psychological, sociological
approaches. Submissions, and inquiries, should be sent to Boudewijn de
Bruin at
b.p.de.bruin@rug.nl
and Wilfred Dolfsma, corresponding editor Review of Social Economy, at
w.a.dolfsma@rug.nl.
IESE 2012
Conference: Mozambique - Accumulation and Transformation in a Context
of International Crisis
4-5 September 2012 | Maputo, Mozambique
IESE: Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos
Nowadays the international crisis is an omnipresent theme in news
items, in analyses and in debates on public policies, options and
priorities, and on corporate strategies, modes of production,
appropriation, distribution and use of surplus, but also on the
implications of climate change, the possibility and meaning of the
Development State, and the sustainability of the Welfare State.
Economies with noteworthy economic growth (such as that of Mozambique
and of several other countries in sub-Saharan Africa) have been rather
ineffective at reducing poverty, vulnerability and real inequality, in
modifying productive structures, in reallocating income between social
groups, and in reducing patterns of dependency and instability. At the
same time, we witness the emergence of new forms of political
organisation and new dynamics of demonstrations and expressions of
social struggle outside of the formal institutional framework, related
with waves of unemployment and social frustration, particularly among
young people. Are we looking at a crisis caused by “failings of
the State” reflected in lack of fiscal discipline, failure of the
social protection model, and/or by deregulation of finance capital? Or
is this a crisis of the social mode of accumulation and capitalist
reproduction which, naturally, is of a political nature and has
political implications and also affects models and options of the State
and of representation, affirmation and political struggle? Through this
conference, IESE intends to introduce new perspectives and approaches,
based on a political economy analysis, with relevance for Mozambique.
Without prejudicing other relevant questions, the papers proposed should
seek to develop problematics related with the following interrogations:
- How are the various dimensions of the crisis characterised, how
do they relate to each other and reinforce each other, and what impact
do they have on the options for social, economic and political
transformation and transition? To what extent the crisis is one of
financialization of global capitalist patterns of accumulation and what
are the implications for transition and transformation?
- To what extent does emerging from the crisis require fundamental
changes in the political and economic patterns of production,
accumulation, reproduction and redistribution of wealth, in what
directions could such changes occur, and through what political
processes could such a transition develop?
- What are the relevance, tendencies and dynamics of foreign
investment and its relationship with natural resources and domestic
processes of capital accumulation, and what are the implications for
transition and transformation? What is the role of emerging economies
in this process and what are the challenges and opportunities that they
represent in the process of change?
- What role can education play in the dynamics of crisis and
change?
- What challenges and pressures for employment and urbanisation
emerge from these processes of crisis and change, and what implications
do they have for options of social and economic transformation?
- How are the crisis of social security models and the social
inequalities that this crisis reveals (with regard to the control,
appropriation and redistribution of surplus) characterised, and how do
they tend to develop? What economic, social and political implications
can flow from them? Is this a demographic crisis or a crisis of the
mode of accumulation (or both)?
- How can social and economic pressures affect these mass social
movements, and what impact can such movements have on future options?
How to characterise these movements in Europe, the USA, the Middle
East, sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa? What do they have in common
and in what ways are they different? And what lessons are emerging from
these processes?
- How do climate change, and the social pressures resulting from
it, contribute to and how are they affected by the other dimensions of
the crisis, and what impact do they have on the options for political,
economic and social transformation?
Researchers interested in presenting papers at the conference are
invited to send a summary of their themes (in Portuguese or English),
in no more than 750 words to conferencia.crise@iese.ac.mz.
The summary should indicate the theme, the problematic, the methodology
and the basic sources of information, as well as information on the
institutional position of the candidate and his/her contact details.
The proposals may be individual or collective. All proposals will be
considered and submitted to a jury for selection. The themes should be
relevant for Mozambique, although they can have generic theoretical or
methodological foci, or may be based on case studies from other
countries. In addition to their presentation at the conference, the
approved papers will be published by IESE in its series of
“conference papers” and later some of them will be selected
for publication in a book. IESE may bear the transport and
accommodation expenses for some participants.
- Summaries of the proposed papers should be submitted to IESE by
10 April 2012.
- IESE will inform the candidates as to whether their proposals
have been approved by 15 May 2012.
- The definitive texts of the papers approved for the conference
should be delivered to IESE by 5 August 2012.
The Mark
Blaug Prize for Young Scholars
The
Erasmus Journal for
Philosophy and Economics is committed to supporting and encouraging
the work of Young Scholars in philosophy and economics. This new
academic prize is intended to promote and reward the best of such
scholarship. The prize is named in honour of Professor Mark Blaug
(1927-2011), a founder of the field of philosophy and economics who
made a tremendous scholarly contribution to many areas of the history
and philosophy of economics. Mark Blaug’s generosity and
commitment to Young Scholars was recognized by all who knew him. The
prize includes a cash sum of 500 Euros.
Entry Requirements:
To qualify for the Mark Blaug Prize the author has to be a Young
Scholar, defined as someone who is enrolled as a graduate student, or
graduated during 2010 or 2011. You may be asked for evidence of your
eligibility.
Young Scholars should submit a single-authored article for publication
in EJPE in the usual way before the end of December 2011, and mention
that you would like to be considered for the prize. Co-authored papers
where all authors are Young Scholars are also eligible. Prize
submissions should not include articles previously published or under
consideration elsewhere. For more information about submissions, see
the EJPE
Call for Papers.
Articles that pass peer-review and are accepted for publication will be
considered by a committee of experts and the winner will be announced
in April 2012
For more info, visit
http://ejpe.org/mark-blaug-prize
The Political Economy of
Natural Disasters
World Tensions/Tensôes Mundiais/Tensiones
Mundiales journal
The history of our planet has been punctuated by disasters such as
tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, flooding and nuclear incidents.
Corporate media deal with these phenomena through sensationalism,
attributing to nature the tragic consequences of what is often the
result of human action: the villain is nature. Such a perspective
avoids consideration of capitalist development in shaping natural
disasters. The takeover of ancestral lands and displacement/removal of
indigenous peoples to make way for hydroelectric plants in the Americas
or Africa rarely gain the attention and scrutiny of global news
outlets.
This recent “decade of disaster” has given rise to a new
scholarly literature on the effects of environmental crisis and
catastrophe; how they are represented through the global media,
neoliberal political and economic structures; and a growing consensus
on the reality of climate change. In other words, these events bring
into sharp relief the relationships between economic and ecological
crisis, social and environmental injustice, and questions of how we are
to live amidst uncertainty and ecological change.
Understanding the political economy of natural disasters draws
attention to two pressing realities. The first is the need to resituate
environmental “disaster” not as a series of external events
or “shocks” as Naomi Klein (2007) calls them, but as part
of a continuous and ongoing crisis. This idea is informed by
Klein’s notion of disaster capitalism: a predatory scheme that
“uses the destruction and fear created by catastrophe to engage
in radical social and economic engineering.” The broad insight
from Klein’s “shock doctrine” is that natural
disasters can be mobilised to generate “superprofits” that
perpetuate ongoing displacement and situated vulnerabilities for
communities that are in harm’s way. The second reality is the
need to think critically about what is “natural” about
natural disasters. Historical materialist perspectives emphasise
historically entrenched social and economic vulnerabilities that are
often hidden in the spectacle of extreme “acts of nature”
(Davis 1999). The political economy of natural disasters focuses on the
relationship between uneven development and social disinvestment,
neoliberal economic policies, environmental pollution and destruction,
how these amplify social and ecological crises in particular places and
how they impact upon livelihoods, ways of life and the biosphere.
In this issue of TM, we wish to examine the relationship
nature-society, establishing the close ties between these "natural
disasters" and the multifaceted processes of the construction of
nationalities. Nations are consolidated through struggle and occupation
of territory. In this sense, clinging to the "homeland" is one of the
formative elements of national sentiment, cultivated in the hymns that
exalt natural wealth, the beauty of the country, or the greatness of
the territory, however small and devoid of resources it may be. The
construction of nationalities is therefore often predicated on colonial
and capitalist understandings of nature that view it as an economic (or
aesthetic) resource. The political economy of natural disasters
lies at the heart of conflicts over resources within nation states and
within the increasingly problematic terrain of environmental crises
that transcend national borders. We aim to open up the discourse of
disaster to critical analysis and debate.
Therefore we seek theoretically informed and historically situated
papers that explore the practices of power and resistance that emerge
out of (and against) the contingencies associated with
“natural” disasters. We welcome contributions that approach
the topics from a variety of disciplines. Areas of interest may
include:
- The political economy of disaster capitalism
- The neoliberalisation of nature: resource conflicts, mining
- Indigenous knowledge and land rights
- Indigenous resistance to capitalist expansion
- Urban planning and demography under capitalism and natural
disasters
- What is natural about natural disasters?
- Environmental and climate justice in cities and regions
- Political economy, natural disasters and the media
- Environmental crisis, risk and vulnerability
- Living in the aftermath of environmental disasters
- Continuous crisis: rethinking the discourses and politics of
environmental disaster
- Political ecologies of disaster: poverty, environmental
transformation and uneven development
- Alternative knowledges and practices: resisting the
contingencies of disaster capitalism
- Legislation, international agreements and environmental policies
Articles and book reviews can be submitted using the guidelines
available
here. For a PDF copy of the CFP, or
further information, please contact one of the issue editors in the
language indicated:
Change language option for Portuguese
here.
Para la convocatoria en castellano, favor comunicarse con Taeli
Gómez
taelig@yahoo.es
Sheffield International
Development Network (SIDNet) Postgraduate Conference
March 16, 2012 | University of Sheffield | website
“The Challenges for Development
Studies”
SIDNet is an interdisciplinary network of staff and postgraduates from
across a number of University departments. This event aims to provide a
friendly academic atmosphere for postgraduate students from all over
the UK to share and discuss their current research in development
studies.
We are looking for papers that discuss in some way “The
Challenges for Development Studies”. Possible topics could
include, but are not limited to:
- Theoretical and methodological issues in Development Studies
- Neoliberalism, globalisation and the global financial crisis
- Participation, social justice and new forms of mobilisation (for
example the ‘Arab Spring’)
- Climate change and/or environmental issues
- The rise of China, India & Brazil and the changing world
order
- Migration, refugees and internally displaced people
- Human rights issues
Papers can be from any discipline and both works in progress and
completed research are welcome. The conference will be organised into
closely related panels, each comprising three to four presentations of
10-15 minutes in length followed by an open forum. We are keen to see
the participation of postgraduate students from different universities.
If you wish to present a paper, please submit an abstract of roughly
250 words to the organising committee (
development-studies@sheffield.ac.uk)
with the subject heading “SIDNet Conference Abstract”.
Abstracts for proposed papers need to be submitted by Friday 27th
January 2012.
If you wish to participate but not present, we need confirmation of
your intention to attend via the above email address, also by Friday
27th January 2012. There is a small charge of £10 for all
presenters and participants, payable on the day. Refreshments and lunch
will be provided. The keynote speaker is to be confirmed shortly.
The event is followed by an evening lecture and wine reception with
Caroline Moser, Professor of Urban Development at the University of
Manchester. Attendees of the conference are very welcome to attend this
event. More details to follow.
A PDF version of this call for papers is attached. Please feel free to
forward this email and/or attachment to anyone who might be interested.
For further information about SIDNet please don’t hesitate to
contact us at the above address or check the
website.
Society for Advancement of
Socio-Economics (SASE) 24th Annual Conference
June 28-30, 2012 | Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Cambridge, USA | website
A Comparative Political Economy of Securitization
Session organizers:
- Manuel B. Aalbers and Ewald R. Engelen, Amsterdam Institute for
Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam
Arguably, securitization – i.e. the technique of transforming
illiquid and opaque future streams of income into transparent, liquid,
fungible and hence tradable financial products – has been at the
root of the current financial crisis. Starting in the US, where
securitization triggered an unsustainable housing and debt bubble, the
fall of Lehman bank, through its international trading network,
subsequently dispersed a freefall of securitized assets throughout the
interconnected networks of financial intermediaries. While ostensibly a
deterritorializing technique, which projects an image of seemingly
universal applicability, there are also subtle geographies to the
permutations that securitization has undergone in its transfer to
different legal jurisdictions. We invite papers to explore the
political economy, history and geography of securitization. Varieties
of Capitalism, Worlds of Welfare Capitalism, Social Studies of Finance,
Critical Accountancy, and other perspectives on securitization are
welcomed. Studies of securitization outside the U.S. are particularly
encouraged.
Please e-mail
m.b.aalbers@gmail
for expressions of interest. Deadline for abstracts: January 9, 2012.
UCLA IRLE
Graduate Student Research Conference
March 13, 2012 | UCLA, USA
From Port Huron to Occupy Wall
Street: 50 Years of Student, Worker, and Social Justice Struggles
The Occupy Wall Street Movement has revitalized interest in the
consequences of social inequality and the forms of protest. The Occupy
movement is distinguishable from typical demonstrations by the
particular form of insurgent practice – the physical occupation
of ostensibly “public” spaces, often in of the explicit
policies and laws of the state. Yet the Occupy movement is but one in a
long lineage of US social movements over the last half century
utilizing insurgent, disruptive practices as an integral component of
strategy. For instance, a series of African-American, student-led
“sit-ins” in legally segregated spaces swept through the
South in the early 1960s; a few years later, farm workers in California
conducted strikes, pickets, and boycotts to improve their terms of
employment; and in the early 1990s, predominately immigrant, Latino
janitors in Southern California marched through the streets, halted
traffic, and struck to win union recognition. Globally, activists from
South Africa to Burma have likewise innovated.
Yet the context and political opportunities of social movements
have changed dramatically over the last several decades. Neoliberal
political reforms and the relative freedom of capital to circulate
around the globe have significantly altered the strengths and
vulnerabilities of particular movement targets, including firms, the
state, and educational institutions. And the post-9/11 geopolitical
landscape expanded the domestic purview of the state to regulate
protest. Mass movements in Chile, Egypt, Spain, the UK, and elsewhere,
mobilized around such deeply entrenched, widespread social issues
– forging alliances between a wide array of social actors
previously organized around parochial issues.
In 1962, the student authors of the Port Huron Statement called
on the university community to “make fraternal and functional
contact with allies in labor, civil rights, and other liberal forces
outside campus.” Students have played and continue to play an
important role in social movements from the Civil Rights Movement, to
the Egyptian revolution. “From Port Huron to Occupy Wall
Street” will feature graduate student research. Plenary speakers
will include Tom Hayden (main author of the 1962 Port Huron Statement
that launched Students for a Democratic Society) and other leaders of
insurgent movements of the last 50 years.
We invite graduate students to submit abstracts (250-500 words)
with a historical or contemporary focus that speak to one or more of
the following questions about movements in the US or elsewhere:
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What makes movement practices insurgent or disruptive? Why
are particular insurgent practices effective or not? What are the
sources of innovation with respect to insurgent practices?
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How does social context, including the “political
opportunity structure” – shape the form and efficacy of
insurgent practices? How has neoliberal globalization affected the
emergence, course, and consequences of such practices? How has the
growth of the security state affected the emergence, course, and
consequences of insurgent protest forms?
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What role does the nature and identity of movement
participants and allies play in insurgent social movements? How does
student participation shape movement dynamics? How do movements like
Occupy Wall Street shape and reconcile the wide range of
participants’ identities?
ABSTRACTS ARE DUE JANUARY 27. Please send abstract in a Word or
PDF file to
tilly@ucla.edu with
“Port Huron Abstract” in the subject line. Include graduate
school affiliation, and email.
World
Economics Association Online Conference on Economics in Society: The
Ethical Dimension
The WEA ’s inaugural online conference: “Economics in
Society: The Ethical Dimension ” is now open for free
registration. Visit
here (Call for papers and more).
Call for Participants
Heterodox
Programs/Events at ASSA 2012
Conference
Programs
Events
Thursday, January 5, 6:30 p.m. | Swissotel, Grand
Ballroom
Opening Plenary Session and
Reception
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Robert Shiller (Yale University): Finance and
the Good Society
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Presiding: Martha Starr (American
University)
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Reception Immediately Following
Friday 12:30 - 2:15 pm | Swissotel, Montreux 2
AFEE: Veblen-Commons Award
Luncheon
Recipient: Geoffrey Hodgson
Friday, Jan 6, 6:00 - 7:30 pm | Palmer House Hilton,
Wilson Room
URPE and RRPE Reception
Saturday, January 7, 7:45 a.m. | Swissotel,
Grand Ballroom Salon I
Presidential Breakfast and
Awards Presentations
Saturday, January 7, 7:00-10:00 pm | Roosevelt
University, 430 S Michigan Ave (click
to see a map).
Heterodox Party!
-
For more information on the Party, see
here.
AHE Post Graduate Workshop
on Advanced Research Methods 2012
10th-11th February 2012 | London Metropolitan
University, UK | website
Below is information about the
Methodology Workshop that the Association for Heterodox Economics is
sponsoring along with London Metropolitan University and the American
Journal of Economics and Sociology. This is the 6th methodology
workshop sponsored by the AHE (see the new AHE web site: http://www.hetecon.net for
information about the past workshops) and it is open to any and all UK
and overseas registered PhD students—support stipends are
available. Please inform your doctoral students about this unique
opportunity to learn about research methods other than just
econometrics and about how econometrics can be used along side other
research methods, including qualitative research methods. This is
particularly important for doctoral students interested in heterodox
economics, since they are generally not exposed to non-econometric
research methods which are quite important for carrying out good
heterodox research. For further information about the workshop, contact
Andrew Mearman whose e-mail address is given below.-- Fred Lee
Call for Participants
There are funded places available for UK and overseas registered PhD
students to cover UK travel, accommodation and subsistence expenses for
the above event. The workshop covers topics in research not typically
covered in economics training.
Workshop topics include:
- Reorienting economics to match method with social material
- Open system methodology in Economics
- Grounded theory in Economics
- Mixing quantitative and qualitative data
- Qualitative data analysis
Speakers:
- Dr. Andrew Brown (University of Leeds)
- Dr. Paul Downward (Loughborough University)
- Dr. Tony Lawson (University of Cambridge)
- Professor Fred Lee (University of Missouri – Kansas City)
- Dr Wendy Olsen (The Cathie Marsh Centre for Census and Survey
Research, Manchester University)
Further details (deadline for applications 1st January 2012).
For information on how to apply, and for further details, please
contact:
Dr Andrew Mearman
Email.
Andrew.Mearman@uwe.ac.uk
Bristol Business School
University of the West of England
BS16 1QY U.K.
ASE Summer School in Social
Economics
June 19-20, 2012 | Glasgow,
Scotland
The Association for Social Economics announces an exciting Summer
School workshop for graduate students and recent Ph.D.s. to be held in
conjunction with the World Congress of Social Economics in Glasgow,
Scotland. The Summer School begins the evening of June 19 and continues
on June 20, 2012. The World Congress opens the evening of June 20 and
concludes on June 22, 2012.
Aims: The Summer School brings together a small group of fellows
to discuss the central concerns of social economics as a springboard
for cutting-edge research and teaching. Social economics is centrally
concerned with questions of social, cultural and ethical values in
economic life and the study of these questions at philosophical,
theoretical, empirical and policy-related levels.
Summer School topics include aspects of: (1) Social economics, the
history of economic thought, and frameworks for thinking about ethics
and economics; (2) core topics in social-economics research (theory of
the individual, the role of social and cultural values in economic
life, inequality, poverty, needs, capabilities, social justice, human
flourishing); (3) contemporary topics and empirical research in social
economics (the social economy/third sector, social networks, fair
trade, socially responsible consumption and production, experimental
work on fairness, etc.); and (4) publishing outlets and strategies for
graduate students and recent Ph.D.s.
Eligibility: Fellows must be graduate students or recent Ph.D.s
in economics or related fields.
Awards: Fellows accepted to the Summer School will receive
complementary room and meals for the Summer School and the World
Congress, complementary registration to the World Congress, plus all
Summer School materials, a package worth up to $1,400. Some travel
stipends are also available on a competitive basis.
Fellow Obligations: Accepted fellows must become members of ASE
and submit a Summer School refundable deposit of $100 (that will be
returned upon completion of the World Congress). All fellows must
commit to participating in all sessions of the Summer School and to
staying for the entire World Congress.
Applications: Application forms will become active on-line on
February 1, 2012.
For questions please contact Jonathan Wight, jwight@richmond.edu
Summer
School of Heterodox Economics
2-6 July 2012 | Poznań, Poland | website
Organized by Dpt. of Economic Policy and Development Planning, Dpt. of
History of Economic Thought. Faculty of Economics, Poznań University of
Economics al. Niepodległości 10, 61-875 Poznań, Poland
The Summer School of Heterodox Economics will be held from 2nd to 6th
of July at the Poznań University of Economics. The purpose is to create
a space for exchange of experience and knowledge on paradigms
corresponding to non-classical approaches to economic analysis, such as
institutional economics, methodology of economics, post-keynesian
economics, evolutionary analysis, labour economics issues,
institutional change and other fields using institutional and
evolutionary approaches.
The course is open for PhD students and young researches as well as
MA students. In the mornings students will attend lectures given by
international scholars well known in the field of heterodox economics.
In the afternoons attendants will have the opportunity to present their
research projects, to gain feedback from key reviewers and eventually
to discuss them collectively with other participants and scholars.
APPLICATION
Applicants are kindly asked to submit their application form and a short
description of their PhD project or actual research work (no longer
than 800 words). Documents must be sent by email at: summerschool@ue.poznan.pl
- Deadline for application: 30th of March
- Successful candidates will be notified by: 15th of April
- Deadline for payment: 30th of April
ORGANIZATIONAL ISSUES
- Summer School Fee: 500 PLN/ 110 EUR.
- The fee covers participation, lunches and teaching materials.
The reading list will be available at the summer school website.
- Accommodation and travel costs are not included. Organization
committee can help in finding convenient accommodation.
For more information please see the website
or contact: Agnieszka Ziomek (agnieszka.ziomek@ue.poznan.pl) or
Paweł Łuczak (pawel.luczak@ue.poznan.pl).
Download the summer school program.
ESRC Seminar Series
‘Beyond Labour Regulation’: Constructing Research Agendas
Monday January 16th 2012. 10 am
- 5 pm | The Boardroom, College Building, Middlesex University | website
This ESRC Seminar Series hosted by Middlesex University has brought
together academics and practitioners to examine changing global
regulation of labour standards. The seminars were organised by a team
at Middlesex University including Professor Martin Upchurch, Professor
Richard Croucher, Elizabeth Cotton and Professor Joshua Castellino.
Professor Miguel Martinez Lucio Manchester University) and Dr. Conor
Cradden (University of Geneva) helped with organisation at the
Liverpool and Geneva seminars respectively. Our first seminar took
place at Middlesex University, London in January 2010 and examined the
problems of Contract and Agency labour. Participants included
academics, practitioners from General Union Federations, and activists
within global supply chains. The second seminar, on Migration and
Labour Regulation, was held in the Liverpool in the International
Slavery Museum in September 2010. Speakers included representatives of
major institutions concerned with migration and migrant workers,
migrant worker groups, and academics. Case studies were presented of
problems facing migrant workers from across the world. The third
seminar was on the problems of labour regulation caused by Private
Equity, and was held in June 2011 at the University of Geneva. Our
final seminar will be held at Middlesex University, London on January
16th 2012, and will attempt to bring together previous seminar
participants and others interested in collaborating with new research
to explore further areas of ‘beyond labour regulation’.
Research Agendas Seminar: Monday January 16th, 2012 | ‘What We
Should be Researching and Why’
Panel Discussion led by
- Miguel Martinez Lucio (Professor of International HRM at
Manchester University), and co-editor with Luis Enrique Alonso of
Employment Relations in a Changing Society, Palgrave, 2006.
- Kevin Doogan (Professor of European Policy Studies at the
University of Bristol), and author of New Capitalism, The
Transformation of Work?, Wiley, 2009
- Julie Froud (Professor of Financial Innovation at Manchester
University) and co-author of Financialization at Work, Routledge, 2008
- Joshua Castellino (Professor of Law at Middlesex University) and
co-author of Minority Rights in Asia, OUP, 2006
- Sonia McKay (Professor of European Socio-Legal Studies at London
Metroolitan University) and author of Refugees, recent migrants and
employment: challenging barriers and exploring path ways, Routledge,
2008
Plus Practitioner Forum, with invited speakers from NGOs, trade unions,
and policy organisations in the field of global labour regulation.
If you are interested in attending the seminar, please
contact Professor Martin Upchurch (m.upchurch@mdx.ac.uk)
or the Seminar Series administrator Denise Arden (d.arden@mdx.ac.uk). There is no
registration fee, refreshments for the all day seminar will be
provided, but please book places in advance.
Seminars of the Task Group
"Post-Keynesian Analyses and Modeling"
2012 | CEPN, PARIS 13
- Friday, February 24th: Bernard Vallageas (Sceaux U., France)
- Friday, March 30th: Edwin Le Héron (Sciences Po Bordeaux,
France)
- Friday, April 13th : Gennaro Zezza (Cassino U., Italy)
- Friday, May 20th : Tom Stanley (Hendrix Coll., USA & L.S.E,
UK)
- Friday, June 8th : Mark Setterfield (Trinity Coll., USA)
- Friday, June 22nd : Marc Lavoie (Ottawa U., Canada)
The attendance to the seminars is free. Most of these seminars will
take place at the MSH of Paris 13 (See here),
and most of them will be in English. Further information on the CEPN's website. You can also send an E-mail
to the coordinator: lang.dany@univ-paris13.fr
for further information.
Job Postings for Heterodox
Economists
Some tips for real-world
economists in the academic labour market in 2012
For those entering the job market this
year, here is a nice post with some job searching
tips from Peter Earl at the University of Queensland.
Duke University, USA
Post-Doc in
Marxist Theory | Program in Literature
The Program in Literature at Duke University invites applications for a
postdoctoral fellow in Marxist theory for the 2012-13 academic year. We
welcome candidates with doctorates in all disciplines and who
specialize in any aspect of Marxist theory. Fellows will teach two
courses related to their scholarship. Applicants must have completed
the PhD by August 2012 and be no more than 5 years past the PhD. The
annual stipend is $50,000 plus $5,000 in research funds. Candidates
should submit (electronically) a curriculum vitae, letter of
application, a one-page course proposal, a writing sample (20 pages
maximum), and 3 letters of reference. To submit materials follow the
link for 'postdoc application' at
http://literature.duke.edu.
Applications received by February 15, 2012 will be given full
consideration. Duke University is an Equal Employment
Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We value diversity in all of
its many facets and meanings.
For more info, visit
here.
Gallatin
School, New York University, USA
Assistant or Associate Professor
The Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York
University invites applications from scholars in the fields of Business
and Economics broadly understood for the position of tenure-track
Assistant or Associate Professor. The ideal candidate will be a scholar
who approaches business and economics from a social scientific
perspective (e.g. PhD in sociology, political science, economics,
anthropology or a scholar of business who engages the social science
literature), whose research and teaching would address the needs of
students interested in business, economics, and development, and enable
them to understand the functions of different economic systems and
their institutionalization. Important topics or subjects that this
scholar might work on include, for example, the social and political
function of debt; the creation and impact of different financial
systems on social structures; deficits and deficit spending; markets as
social structures (e.g., financial, capital, wage labor, informal
economies, ethnic economies); grounded analyses of economic theory
(e.g. behavioral economics, theories of entrepreneurship; how financial
systems and instruments are created and their effects; and cultures of
business).
The ideal candidate will have experience and a strong interest in
interdisciplinary teaching and in advising individualized B.A. and M.A.
research programs. Possible affiliations in other schools of NYU may
allow the candidate to work with doctoral students in the relevant
discipline.
Qualifications: Demonstrated excellence in teaching at the
university level. Ph.D. required.
Founded in 1972, Gallatin is an experimental college of 1,350
undergraduate students and 180 Masters students which forms a part of
the major research university of NYU. Its innovative, nationally
recognized B.A. and M.A. programs in individualized study encourage
students to develop an integrated, multidisciplinary program of study
that combines courses taken in the various schools of NYU with
independent studies, internships, and Gallatin’s own
interdisciplinary seminars, writing courses and arts workshops. The
School emphasizes excellent teaching, intensive student advising and
mentoring, and a unique combination of program flexibility and academic
rigor. For more information see
here:
LaGuardia
Community College, USA
Instructor, Assistant, or Associate
Professor - Economics
Job ID: 4922
GENERAL DUTIES
Performs teaching, research, and guidance duties in area(s) of
expertise as noted below. Shares responsibility for committee and
department assignments, performing administrative, supervisory, and
other functions as may be assigned.
FLSA--Exempt
CAMPUS SPECIFIC INFORMATION
The multidisciplinary Social Science Department is seeking an
economist with college teaching experience for a tenure-track position.
The successful candidate will teach a variety of day and evening
courses in Introductory Macroeconomics and Introductory Microeconomics
as well as other economics courses in the department. Faculty members
are expected to support departmental, divisional and college
initiatives, and to engage in professional development, research, and
scholarly activities.
LaGuardia Community College is part of the City University of New
York (CUNY) with access to the libraries, computer systems, senior
colleges and graduate school of that system. Conveniently located 15
minutes from Times Square in the rapidly developing community of Long
Island City in western Queens, LaGuardia has an enrollment of
approximately 17,500 students in academic programs. Sixty percent of
the student body is immigrant, coming from over 160 countries and
speaking 127 different languages. More than one in three LaGuardia
graduates enrolls in private and public four-year colleges within a
year of graduation. The College was named one of the top three large
community colleges in the United States by the Community College Survey
of Student Engagement in 2005. In 2006 LaGuardia received the MetLife
Foundation Community College Excellence Award for its innovation in
post-secondary education.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
For Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor designations:
Ph.D. degree in area(s) of expertise, or equivalent as noted
below. Also required are the ability to teach successfully, interest in
productive scholarship or creative achievement, and ability to
cooperate with others for the good of the institution.
For Instructor designation:
A Master's degree in area(s) of expertise, and/or active progress
toward a Doctorate, or equivalent as noted below. Also required are the
ability to teach successfully, interest in productive scholarship or
creative achievement, and ability to cooperate with others for the good
of the institution.
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
For Instructor designation:
A Master's degree in area(s) of expertise, with the expectation of
completion of the Ph.D. in the area of expertise by June 2013.
COMPENSATION
Instructor: $39,399 - $65,267
Assistant Professor: $51,195 - $74,133
Associate Professor: $62,665 - $88,418
For all ranks, salary commensurate with qualifications and experience.
BENEFITS
CUNY offers a comprehensive benefits package to employees and
eligible dependents based on job title and classification. Employees
are also offered pension and Tax-Deferred Savings Plans. Part-time
employees must meet a weekly or semester work hour criteria to be
eligible for health benefits. Health benefits are also extended to
retirees who meet the eligibility criteria.
HOW TO APPLY
To apply, log on to:
www.cuny.edu.
Click on "Employment" and scroll down to "Application for Employment."
Click on "Apply for a job online: Job Posting on CUNYfirst" and search
for the job posting. Applications must be submitted through CUNYfirst.
Applicants must upload one document which includes cover letter,
resume or curriculum vitae and the names and contact information of
three professional references. Current users of the site should
access their established accounts; new users should click the
appropriate link to register. Applications must be submitted through
CUNYfirst.
CLOSING DATE
February 10, 2012
JOB SEARCH CATEGORY
CUNY Job Posting: Faculty
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
We are committed to enhancing our diverse academic community by
actively encouraging people with disabilities, minorities, veterans,
and women to apply. We take pride in our pluralistic community and
continue to seek excellence through diversity and inclusion. EO/AA
Employer.
Rollins
College, USA
Assistant/Associate
Professor of International Business & Quantitative Methods
Department of International Business
The Department of International Business invites applications and
nominations for a tenure-track position in International Business with
expertise or a degree in quantitative field (statistics, quantitative
methods, operations management, decision sciences, mathematics, etc.),
beginning August 2012. Teaching load will normally comprise six
undergraduate courses annually. The ability to teach the survey
international business course would be an asset. The primary course is
Statistics for International Business, an accelerated introductory
course in quantitative methods that focuses on statistics, decision
sciences, mathematics, etc. while reinforcing basic International
Business concepts. There are also opportunities for electives in the
area of quantitative methods, operations management and international
business. The responsibilities of the position include academic
advising and service.
The undergraduate International Business (INB) program is distinct in
that it operates within a college of professional studies: it is not
part of a business school. The INB department offers a comprehensive,
liberal arts based, interdisciplinary approach to the study of
international business. All INB majors take courses in international
business, area studies, and a foreign language and must complete an
approved international business internship and study abroad experience.
We are highly committed to teaching and student-centered learning,
program development, and new educational technologies, in addition to
more traditional scholarship. The successful candidate will be
committed to the teaching of Quantitative methods, Business Statistics
and International Business in a liberal arts setting.
Qualifications
A terminal degree (Ph.D.; D.B.A.) and international professional or
academic experience are required; applicants expecting to complete the
academic requirements by summer 2012 will be considered.
Application Instructions:
Applicants must apply on-line through the web portal
here
and should upload current vita, cover letter describing their interest
in the position, a recent writing sample, and three reference letters.
Screening of applications will begin immediately and will continue
until the position is filled. Inquiries may be addressed to search
chair, Dr. Marc Sardy, at
msardy@rollins.edu.
Please do not send application materials directly to Dr. Sardy.
Through its mission, Rollins College is committed to creating a fully
inclusive, just community that embraces multiculturalism; persons of
color and other historically under-represented groups are therefore
encouraged to apply. The College's equal opportunity policy is
inclusive of sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and
Rollins offers domestic partner benefits.
SUNY New Paltz, USA
Lecturer - Economics
The Department of Economics at the State University of New York at New
Paltz invites applications from broadly trained economists for a
one-year, full-time lecturer position, to begin in Fall 2012.
Qualifications: Ph.D. in economics required; exceptional ABD candidates
with a firm completion date will be considered. Evidence of excellent
teaching required. Preferred areas of interest include macroeconomics,
microeconomics, American economic history, and Latin American economic
development. We especially encourage applications from individuals who
can bring diverse cultural and ethnic perspectives and experiences to
the campus and who can mentor all members of our diverse student body.
Responsibilities: The successful applicant will be expected to teach
four undergraduate courses per semester (approximately 27 credits for
the academic year), with a focus on economic theory and other core
courses. Specific courses may include American Economic Development
(General Education), Money and Banking, and Economic Development of
Latin America. We value the diversity of our students, faculty, and
staff and are especially interested in considering applicants with a
strong commitment to fostering a culturally diverse atmosphere.
New Paltz is a highly selective public college that is recognized
regionally for the strength of its academic programs. It is located in
the beautiful Hudson River Valley with easy access to New York City and
nearby cultural and recreational amenities.
Application: Please submit a letter of application; curriculum vitae;
student teaching evaluations and other evidence of teaching
effectiveness, a sample research paper, transcript, and three current
letters of recommendation to:
Chair, Economics Search
State University of New York at New Paltz
Department of Economics
600 Hawk Drive, JFT814
New Paltz, NY 12561
Please note Search # F11-23 on all materials submitted. Applications
will be accepted until the position is filled.
The State University of New York at New Paltz is an AA/EOE/ADA employer.
See position announcement at
http://www.newpaltz.edu/hr/displayjobs.cfm?type=Faculty
SUNY
Potsdam, US
Assistant
Professor | Economics
The SUNY Potsdam Economics Department
invites applications for a tenure track position at the Assistant
Professor level beginning fall 2012. Candidates should have a
commitment to outstanding teaching, teaching and research interests in
globalization and international economics, and inform their theoretical
and applied work by an understanding of economic history and the
history of economic thought. Teaching responsibilities are eight
courses per year; typically four sections of principles and four
elective courses.
SUNY Potsdam is a liberal arts college
with approximately 4,300 students and is distinguished by a strong
commitment to teaching, small classes and highly accessible faculty. We
look for excellent teaching skills, scholarly activities in one's
field, and a commitment to college service. The successful candidate is
also expected to contribute to the College's general education
curriculum and should be willing to participate in interdisciplinary
and multidisciplinary programs within the School of Arts and Sciences.
To apply for this position visit our
website
here,
job posting no. 0600290.
Conference Papers, Reports,
and Articles
The Future of Capitalism
Conference in honour of Geoff Harcourt
The Cambridge Journal of Economics organised a conference in honour of
Geoff Harcourt on the occasion of his 80th birthday in June 2011.
Podcasts, photos and abstracts can be found here.
PKSG Seminar
The podcast and slides by Cristina Marcuzzo and Murray Milgate on
“Re-embracing Keynes” from the Keynes Seminar on Tuesday 18
October are now available at here.
Heterodox
Journals
Erasmus
Journal of Philosophy and Economics, 4(2): Autumn 2011
Journal website: http://ejpe.org/
Download and print the
entire Autumn 2011 Issue
Articles:
- The scientific method of Sir William Petty [PDF] / James H. Ullmer
- Adam Smith and cultural relativism [PDF] / Samuel
Fleischacker
Special contribution:
- The economic entomologist: an interview with Alan Kirman [PDF]
Book reviews:
- Review of Alan Kirman’s Complex economics:
individual and collective rationality [PDF] / Stefan
Mendritzki
- Review of John B. Davis’s Individuals and identity in
economics [PDF] / Miriam
Teschl
- Review of Deirdre N. McCloskey’s Bourgeois dignity: why
economics can’t explain the modern world [PDF] / Henry Clark
- Review of George F. DeMartino’s The economist’s
oath: on the need for and content of professional economic ethics [PDF] / Julian Wells
- Review of Steven G. Medema’s The hesitant hand: taming
self-interest in the history of economic ideas [PDF] / David M. Levy
- Review of Mark Blaug and Peter Lloyd’s Famous figures and
diagrams in economics [PDF]
/ Loïc Charles
- Review of Paul Oslington’s Adam Smith as theologian [PDF] / Johan Graafland
- Review of Christian List and Philip Pettit’s Group agency:
the possibility, design, and status of corporate agents [PDF] / Carlo Martini
- Review of Edward Fullbrook’s Ontology and economics: Tony
Lawson and his critics [PDF]
/ Duncan Hodge
- Review of Pushpam Kumar’s The economics of ecosystems and
biodiversity: ecological and economic foundations [PDF] / John Livernois
Industrial and Corporate
Change, 20(6): Dec. 2011
Journal website:http://icc.oxfordjournals.org
Articles
- Peter W. Roberts, Steven Klepper, and Scott Hayward / Founder
backgrounds and the evolution of firm size
- Martin Srholec / A multilevel analysis of innovation in
developing countries
- Paul Almeida, Jan Hohberger, and Pedro Parada / Individual
scientific collaborations and firm-level innovation
- Saeed Moshiri and Wayne Simpson / Information technology and the
changing workplace in Canada: firm-level evidence
Special Section: Building Innovation Systems
- Jorge Niosi / Building innovation systems: an introduction to
the special section
- Franco Malerba and Richard Nelson / Learning and catching up in
different sectoral systems: evidence from six industries
- Martin Kenney / How venture capital became a component of the US
National System of Innovation
- Charles Edquist / Design of innovation policy through diagnostic
analysis: identification of systemic problems (or failures)
- Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie / The quality factor in
patent systems
- Jorge Niosi / Complexity and path dependence in biotechnology
innovation systems
- David C. Mowery / Learning from one another? International
policy "emulation" and university–industry technology transfer
Journal of the History of
Economic Thought, 33(4): Dec. 2011
Journal website: http://journals.cambridge.org/HET
Articles
- The Usda Graduate School: Government Training in Statistics and
Economics, 1921–1945 / Malcolm Rutherford
- Strange Bedfellows: Fr. John A. Ryan And The Minimum Wage
Movement / J. Daniel Hammond
- Ethics and the Science of Economics: Robbins's Enduring Fallacy
/ Amos Witztum
- The Concept of an Agricultural Surplus, from Petty to Smith /
Anthony Brewer
- John Stuart Mill and Nineteenth-Century Spain / Estrella
Trincado, José-Luis Ramos
- Development Economics and the “Russian Case”: The
Impact of Russia’s Realities and Thinkers in the
Mid-Twentieth-Century Debate on Economic Development / Ezequiel
Adamovsky
Book Reviews
- Roger E. Backhouse and Tamotsu Nishizawa, eds., No Wealth but
Life: Welfare Economics and the Welfare State in Britain,
1880–1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. xi,
244, $85.00. ISBN 978-0-521-19786-1. / Robert Sugden
- José Luís Cardoso and Pedro Lains, eds. Paying for
the Liberal State. The Rise of Public Finance in Nineteenth-Century
Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. xii, 310,
$85.00. ISBN 978-0-5215-1852-9. / Agnar Sandmo
Theses Abstracts
- Scientific Rigor and Social Relevance: The Two Dimensions of
Oskar R. Lange’s Early Economic Analysis (1931–1945)
/Roberto Lampa
- The Cardinalist Manifesto: The Epistemology of the Measurability
of Utility / Jonathan Andreas
- Economics and Diversity / Carlo D’ippoliti
Journal of
Philosophical Economics, V(1): Autumn 2011
Articles
-
Ethics and economics, today and in the past / James E. Alvey
-
From the search for natural laws to the discovery of
contingent rules in economics / Nicolas Postel
-
Finance contemporaine et postmodernisme: l’expression
d’un capitalisme tardif / Christophe Schinckus
-
The Christian ethics of socio¬economic development
promoted by the Catholic Social Teaching / Edgardo Bucciarelli, Nicola
Mattoscio, Tony E. Persico
-
An inquiry into the explanatory virtues of transaction cost
economics / Lukasz Hardt
-
Implications of the Foucauldian decentralization of economics
/ Zulfiqar Ali
Comments
Mother
Pelican: A Journal of Sustainable Human Development: Dec. 2011
Journal website: http://www.pelicanweb.org
Editorial Essay - A New World is Being Born
Articles:
- Demographic Challenges for Sustainable Development, IIASA
- On the Neo-liberal Economic/Business Model, Karman Mofid
- Economics Unmasked, Herman Daly
- Toward Ecological and Social Revolution, John Bellamy Foster
- Land and Power: The growing scandal, Bertram Zagema
- The Masculinity Conspiracy-Part 3: Sexuality, Joseph Gelfer
- Resilience to Climate Change in Central America and Mexico, ELAN
- Causal Efficacy & Sustainability Science, Lin-Shu Wang
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 Balance in Society
- Status of Gender Balance in Religion
Real World Economics Review,
58: December 2011
You can download the whole issue as a pdf document by clicking here
- Ethics in economics - Where is it? / Peter Radford download
pdf
- A problem-centered and student-centered approach to teaching
pluralist economics / Julie A. Nelson download
pdf
- The world in balance sheet recession: causes, cure, and politics
/ Richard C. Koo download
pdf
- Financial crisis, the international monetary system and the
challenge of the emerging economies / Jorge Rojas download
pdf
- Waiting for the next crash: the Minskyan lessons we failed to
learn / Randall Wray download
pdf
- Europe ’s non-solution: the ‘bazooka’ turned
on itself / Marshall Auerback download
pdf
- The Eurozone crisis: Looking through the financial fog / Jorge
Buzaglo download
pdf
- A new international Bretton Woods System? / Bill Lucarelli download
pdf
- Ethos and reform of finance systems, a tentative argument /
Jamie Morgan download
pdf
- Reform of finance education in US business schools / Robert R.
Locke download
pdf
- Neuroeconomics: A sceptical view / Robert McMaster download
pdf
- Other institutionalism for Development Studies / Fernando
García-Quero and Fernando López Castellano download
pdf
* WEA online conference: Economics
in Society: The Ethical Dimension
Review of Radical Political
Economics, 43(4): Dec. 2011
Journal website: http://rrp.sagepub.com
Articles
- Income Distribution, Irrational Exuberance, and Growth: A
Theoretical Model of the U.S. Economy / Rohit
- Who Are the Winners and the Losers? Transitions in the U.S.
Household Income Distribution / John J. Hisnanick
- Value Theory in an Incomplete Capitalist System: Reprioritizing
the Centrality of Social Labor in Marxist Political Economy / Bill Dunn
- Goodwin or Kalecki in Demand? Functional Income Distribution and
Aggregate Demand in the Short Run / Engelbert Stockhammer and Robert
Stehrer
- Market Socialism Is Not Market Capitalism: Remarks on Robin
Hahnel’s "Economic Justice" / Arthur DiQuattro
Symposium: The Pluralism Debate in Heterodox Economics
- The Pluralism Debate in Heterodox Economics / Frederic S. Lee
- Pluralism, Heterodoxy, and the Rhetoric of Distinction / Andrew
Mearman
- Pluralism, Academic Freedom, and Heterodox Economics / Robert F.
Garnett, Jr.
- Heterodox Economics, Tolerance, and Pluralism: A Reply to
Garnett and Mearman / Frederic S. Lee
What 'Radical' Means in the 21st Century
- What Is Coming Around the Corner? / Doug Dowd
Book Reviews
- Book Review: The Shock of the Old: Technology and Global History
Since 1900 / D. T. Cochrane
- Book Review: Economics for Everyone: A Short Guide to the
Economics of Capitalism / Amit Basole
- Book Review: Latin American Neostructuralism: The Contradictions
of Post-Neoliberal Development / Miguel D. Ramirez
- Book Reviews: China’s Global Strategy: Towards a
Multipolar World, The Chinese Workers after Socialism and Laid-off
Workers in a Workers’ State: Unemployment with Chinese
Characteristics / Zhiming Cheng
- Book Review: The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of
Economic Thought / Jeannette Wicks-Lim
Review of Social Economy,
69(4): December 2011
Journal website: http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rrse20/current
Presidential Address: Institutional Usury and the Banks | Betsy Jane
Clary
Articles
- Freedom of Choice and Poverty Alleviation / Ortrud Leßmann
- An Endogenous Growth Model with Human and Social Capital
Interactions / Tiago Neves Sequeira & Alexandra Ferreira-Lopes
- Is the CSR Craze Good for Society? The Welfare Economic Approach
to Corporate Social Responsibility / Atle Blomgren
Obituary
- Warren Samuels, 1933-2011 / Zohreh Emami
Book Reviews
- Less Pretension, More Ambition: Development Policy in Times of
Globalization / Matthias Olthaar
- Flexicurity and Beyond: Finding a New Agenda for the European
Social Model / Stefano Solari
- The Foundations of Non-equilibrium Economics / Torsten Heinrich
- The “Uncertain” Foundations of Post Keynesian
Economics: Essays in Exploration / M.G. Hayes
- The Economics of Hate / Amitrajeet A. Batabyal
Socio-Economic
Review, 10(1): January 2012
Journal website: http://ser.oxfordjournals.org
Special Issue: Corporate Social Responsibility
and institutional theory: new perspectives on private governance
- Stephen Brammer, Gregory Jackson, and Dirk Matten / Corporate
Social Responsibility and institutional theory: new perspectives on
private governance
- Daniel Kinderman / Free us up so we can be responsible! The
co-evolution of Corporate Social Responsibility and neo-liberalism in
the UK, 1977–2010
- Richard Marens / Generous in victory? American managerial
autonomy, labour relations and the invention of Corporate Social
Responsibility
- Nahee Kang and Jeremy Moon / Institutional complementarity
between corporate governance and Corporate Social Responsibility: a
comparative institutional analysis of three capitalisms
- Michael A. Witt and Gordon Redding / The spirits of Corporate
Social Responsibility: senior executive perceptions of the role of the
firm in society in Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and the USA
- Sebastian Koos / The institutional embeddedness of social
responsibility: a multilevel analysis of smaller firms' civic
engagement in Western Europe
- Luc Fransen / Multi-stakeholder governance and voluntary
programme interactions: legitimation politics in the institutional
design of Corporate Social Responsibility
- Thomas Conzelmann / A procedural approach to the design of
voluntary clubs: negotiating the Responsible Care Global Charter
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European integration at the crossroads:
Democratic deepening for stability, solidarity and social justice
This EuroMemorandum seeks to set out a critical analysis of recent
economic developments in Europe and to present the basis for possible
alternative policies. It is intended as a contribution to the critical
discussion in intellectual and social movements in Europe, and in
solidarity with all those struggling against the impact of the deeply
regressive, anti-social policies of the European authorities.
The English long version of this EuroMemorandum 2012 and the list of
signatories are available at our website (please take a look here). Summaries of the
EuroMemorandum are available at our website in Dutch, Finnish, French,
German, Greek, Hungarian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish and Polish. Long
versions in French, German and Spanish will be published soon.
GDAE News
- Research on capital flows
- Marlin Mine report released
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- 2012 Leontief Prize Winners
- Triple Crisis Blog on the G20
- Africa's Odious Debts
- Globalization Program News
- Recent Publications
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materials
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- Local banking conference: We need to find alternatives to the
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- ONS Well-being survey results: New statistics from the ONS
highlighted the negative impact of unemployment on individual
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- More Than Money: The report and literature review we completed
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New Publications
- Direct
Job Creation for Turbulent Times in Greece by Dimitri B.
Papadimitriou, and Taun Toay. Research Project Report, November 2011
- Is
the Recovery Sustainable? by Greg Hannsgen, and Gennaro Zezza.
Strategic Analysis, December 2011
- Toward
a Workable Solution for the Eurozone by Marshall Auerback. Policy
Note 2011/6
- Biopolitics
and Neoliberalism: The Future of the Eurozone by C. J.
Polychroniou. One-Pager No. 21, November 29, 2011
- Confusion
in Euroland by Dimitri B. Papadimitriou and L. Randall Wray.
One-Pager No. 20, November 23, 2011
- The
Future of the Eurozone Does Not Lie with Enlargement by C. J.
Polychroniou. One-Pager No. 19, November 16, 2011
- Distribution
and Growth: A Dynamic Kaleckian Approach by F. Patriarca and C.
Sardoni. Working Paper No. 697, November 2011
URPE
Newsletter, 43(1): Fall 2011
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World
Economics Association, 1(1), December 2011
The first issue of the World Economics Association Newsletter is
now available as a pdf file for download
here. Its 12 pages include messages and
articles from: C. P. Chandrasekhar, Ha-Joon Chang, Ping Chen, James
Galbraith, Richard Koo, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, Dani Rodrik, Stuart
Birks, Edward Fullbrook, John Weeks, Alan Freeman, Grazia
Ietto-Gillies, Yanli Huo, Pasuk Phongpaichit and Roberto Frenkel.
In future, all published issues of the Newsletter will be
archived for general access
here. Aside from the administrative
material in this issue, we hope that it gives an indication of the sort
of content that is sought. In particular, given the Association's
strongly pluralist and open focus, we are keen to see short
contributions of about 500 words highlighting points of theory or
policy from a range of perspectives, or giving a country focus. Short
articles in this issue are indicative of the material that will be
welcome.
Contributions or queries should be sent by email to me at
k.s.birks@massey.ac.nz . The
deadline for next issue of the Newsletter is the end of January 2012.
Thanks you for your interest in the World Economics Association. We
look forward to your active participation in the Association's
activities.
Kind regards,
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Heterodox Books and Book
Series
Book Series
Advances in Heterodox
Economics
Routledge book series 'Advances in Heterodox Economics', edited
by Wolfram Elsner and Peter Kriesler.
See the list of books in this series
here.
Contact the editors if you have ideas for books and book proposals at:
welsner@uni-bremen.de and
p.kriesler@unsw.edu.au
Advances in
Social Economics
Routledge book series, edited by John Davis (john.davis@mu.edu). For more
information, see here.
Perspectives
from Social Economics
Palgrave book series, edited by Mark White (profmdwhite@hotmail.com).
For more information, see here.
America
Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming our Wealth, Our Liberty, and Our
Democracy
By Gar Alperovitz
Dollars & Sense. Nov. 2011. 978-0-9847857-0-4 | website
As discontent with the economic and political status quo mounts in the
wake of the “Great Recession”, America Beyond Capitalism
is a book whose time has come. Alperovitz marshals years of research
into emerging “new economy” strategies to present a
comprehensive picture of practical bottom-up efforts currently underway
in thousands of communities across the United States. America
Beyond Capitalism is a call to arms, an eminently practical roadmap
for laying foundations to change a faltering system that increasingly
fails to sustain the great American values of equality, liberty, and
meaningful democracy.
Cognitive Capitalism,
Education and Digital Labor
Edited by Peters, Michael A. Bulut, Ergin.
2011. Peter Lang Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1-4331-0981-2 (pb) | website
The Failure of Capitalist
Production: Underlying Causes of the Great Recession
By Andrew Kliman.
Pluto Press. Nov. 2011. 9780745332390 (pb) |
website
Kliman's conclusion is simple but shocking: short of socialist
transformation, the only way to escape the ‘new normal’ of
a stagnant, crisis-prone economy is to restore profitability through
full-scale destruction of existing wealth, something not seen since the
Depression of the 1930s.
In Place of
Austerity: Reconstructing the economy, state and public services
By Dexter Whitfield
Spokesman Books. ISBN 978 085124 7939 (pb) |
website
In Place of Austerity uncovers the realities of commissioning,
localism, 'big society' empowerment fraud, and the systematic
undermining of public services and the welfare state. It perceptively
exposes the scale of disempowerment, dispossession and disinvestment,
and analyses the dominant rationale, which continues to underpin the
financialisation and personalisation of public services, accelerating
marketisation and privatisation on an unprecedented scale.
Karl Marx's 1844
Manuscripts: e-book
By Karl Marx
Lemmaesthetics. January 2010. ISBN : 0 9533446 0 6 (e-book) |
website
The unique feature of this e-book (and why it is in this format) is
that the hypertext and screen layout follows the original unusual
design and pagination created by Marx. For example a typical page
will be landscape in three columns, which is ideally seen on a PC
screen.
Life
Without Money: Building Fair and Sustainable Economies
Edited by Anitra Nelson and Frans Timmerman.
November 2011. Pluto Press .ISBN: 978-0-74533-165-2 (pb) |
Website
The book offers a new response to the failing money-based global
economy. The ten contributors argue that we need to dispense with
monetary values and relationships — yes, money per se — in
order to manage our world on the basis of humane and natural values.
Their diverse voices provide strategies for undercutting capitalism by
refusing to deal in money and offer money-free models of governance and
collective sufficiency.
Macroeconomics Beyond the
NAIRU
By Servass Storm and C.W.M. Nasstepad
Forthcoming January 2012. Harvard University Press. ISBN
9780674062276 (hb) |
Website
Economists and the governments they advise have based their
macroeconomic policies on the idea of a natural rate of unemployment.
Government policy that pushes the rate below this point—about 6
percent—is apt to trigger an accelerating rate of inflation that
is hard to reverse, or so the argument goes. In this book, Servaas
Storm and C.W.M. Naastepad make a strong case that this concept is
flawed: that a stable Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment
(NAIRU), independent of macroeconomic policy, does not exist.
Consequently, government decisions based on the NAIRU are not only
misguided but have huge and avoidable social costs, namely, high
unemployment and sustained inequality.
Skillfully merging theoretical and empirical analysis, Storm and
Naastepad show how the NAIRU’s neglect of labor’s impact on
technological change and productivity growth eclipses the many positive
contributions that labor and its regulation make to economic
performance. When these positive effects are taken into account, the
authors contend, a more humane policy becomes feasible, one that would
enhance productivity and technological progress while maintaining
profits, thus creating conditions for low unemployment and wider
equality.
Moderation and Revolution
By Andrea Micocci
Lexington Books. December 2011. 978-0-7391-6718-2 (hb) | website
In the intellectuality of capitalism there are two alternative ways to
conceive of reality: the moderate one, which mediates dialectically,
and the revolutionary one, which also comprises ruptures with
disappearance. The former conforms to, and helps shape, the metaphysics
of capitalism itself. The second is akin to the mode of progressing of
nature in general, and forms the basis for materialism. Moderate
positions tend to be intolerant because they do not recognize the
other, which is constantly compelled to mediate. Revolutionary
positions instead, recognizing the other, are tolerant and
intrinsically non-violent. In capitalism as we know it liberalism,
Marxism and anarchism would potentially be revolutionary. But they have
been transformed in moderate modes of thought, similar for instance to
nationalism, communitarianism, Christian ideas, fascism, socialism.
Thus capitalism has become an intolerant world that seems built to
block, by means of mediations, its own historical evolution. The
outcome is a fascistic economy and polity.
Download a flyer (with discount offer).
Regulating Corporate
Governance in the EU: Towards a Marketization of Corporate Control
By Laura Horn
Palgrave Macmillan. Nov. 2011. 9780230247505 (hb) | website
In the context of the financial and economic crisis, corporate
governance and regulatory supervision failures are at the centre of
public debates. Who controls the modern corporation, and why, has
become one of the defining social power relations in contemporary
capitalism. Regulation Corporate Governance in the EU fills a gap in
the extensive literature on corporate governance and highlights the
political nature of EU corporate governance regulation. Laura Horn
advances a critical political economy perspective focusing in
particular on political struggles and processes of the neoliberal
transformation of company law and corporate governance regulation. Her
findings about the marketization of corporate control are at the core
to a better understanding of the broader context of capitalist
restructuring in the European Union.
The Restructuring of
Capitalism in Our Time
By William K. Tabb
Columbia University Press. Dec. 2011. ISBN: 978-0-231-15842-8 (hb) | website
Actions taken by the United States and other countries during the Great
Recession focused on restoring the viability of major financial
institutions while guaranteeing debt and stimulating growth. Once the
markets stabilized, the United States enacted regulatory reforms that
ultimately left basic economic structures unchanged. At the same time,
the political class pursued austerity measures to curb the growing
national debt. Drawing on the economic theories of Keynes and Minsky
and applying them to the modern evolution of American banking and
finance, William K. Tabb offers a chilling prediction about future
crises and the structural factors inhibiting true reform.
Stabilising
an unequal economy? Public debt, financial regulation and income
distribution
Edited by Torsten Niechoj, Özlem Onaran, Engelbert Stockhammer,
Achim Truger, Till van Treeck.
Metropolis. Oct. 2011. ISBN 978-3-89518-878-7 | website
With the crisis the 'efficient market' consensus in academia and
politics has begun to crack. There has been, at least so it appeared
for a few months, a new consensus in economic policy that financial
markets need to be tightly regulated and that under some conditions
discretionary stabilisation policies can be necessary in the face of
negative aggregate demand shocks. But if there is to be veritable
"return of Keynesianism", it will require more thorough revisions and
in particular a rethinking of the role of inequality, which, as many
argue, contributed importantly to the global crisis.
In light of these remaining global problems, unequal national
economic outlooks, and the return of the austerity policies, the
initial success of the stabilisation policies put in place since 2008 -
09 may turn out to be insufficient. This raises the following
questions: Are the present policies merely stabilising an unsustainable
accumulation regime based on income polarisation and the dominance of
financial markets? What are the economic and political implications of
rising public debt? How can financial regulation contribute to
stability as well as equity? These questions are addressed, among
others, in this book.
Why the Economists Got It
Wrong: The Crisis and Its Cultural Roots
By Alessandro Roncaglia
Anthem Press. August 2010. ISBN 9780857289629 (pb) | website
Illustrates the development of the financial crisis and traces its
cultural origins in mainstream economics.
Why the World Economy Needs
a Financial Crash and Other Critical Essays on Finance and Financial
Economics
By Jan Toporowski
Anthem Press. December 2010. ISBN 9780857289803 (pb) | website
These essays explain why financial crisis breaks out, its social,
economic and cultural consequences, and the limitations of policy in
the face of economic stagnation induced by financial inflation.
The Working Class Majority:
America's Best Kept Secret, Second Edition
By Michael Zweig
Cornell University Press. Nov. 2011. 978-0-8014-7733-1 (pb) | website
Heterodox Book Reviews
A Great
Leap Forward: 1930s Depression and U.S. Economic Growth
By Alexander J. Field. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.
ix + 387 pp. $45 (hb), ISBN: 978-0-300-15109-1.
Reviewed for EH.Net
by Paul Rhode, Department of Economics, University of Michigan. Read
the review here.
The Haves
and the Have-Nots: A Brief and Idiosyncratic History of Global
Inequality
By Branko Milanovic. New York: Basic Books, 2011. xiv + 258 pp. $28
(hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-465-01974-8.
Reviewed for EH.NET by
Thomas N. Maloney, Department of Economics, University of Utah. Read
the review here.
Keynes on the Wireless
By John Maynard Keynes | Edited by Donald Moggridge.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. vi + 228 pp. $40
(hardcover), ISBN:978-0-230-23916-6.
Reviewed for EH.NET by
Wade E. Shilts, Department of Economics and Business, Luther College.
Read the review here.
Michal
Kalecki
By Julio G. López and Michaël Assous. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan, 2011. x + 258 pp. $110 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-4039-9937-5.
Reviewed for EH.NET by
Jan Toporowski, Economics Department, School of Oriental and African
Studies, University of London. Read the review here.
Marx and Philosophy Review
of Books
- Mckenna on Mészáros, Social Structure and Forms of
Consciousness II
- Krul on Eagleton, Why Marx Was Right
- Bohrer on Negri, Art and Multitude
- Sutton on Cook, Adorno on Nature
- Wainwright on Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks
And new list of books for
review.
Heterodox
Graduate Programs, Scholarships, and Grants
Cambridge
University, CPEST 3-Year Research Scholarship
This biennial scholarship competition is open to candidates who
have been accepted (or expect to be accepted by 30 September 2012) by
the University as Graduate Students beginning a Ph.D. programme in
economics and/or cognate studies in any Faculty or Department of the
University. This Scholarship is not open to current University Graduate
Students, either registered for the Ph.D. degree or on a probationary
track towards Ph.D. registration, who have already commenced their
three years of Ph.D. research. Students who are about to commence the
MPhil degree in the academic year 2012-13 for the purpose of advanced
training prior to undertaking Ph.D. research are also not eligible for
this Scholarship.
The Trust may offer the successful candidate either a full scholarship
or a fees-only award. The full scholarship covers payment of university
and college fees, and a maintenance grant (which for the academic year
2011/12 was £13,408). Applications are open to citizens of
European Union Countries and overseas students. The Trust is aware that
funding of graduate studies in economics and related disciplines for UK
citizens is very limited and particularly encourages well-qualified
candidates who are UK citizens to apply. However, decisions on the
award of the Scholarship will be on academic merit and on the relevance
of the proposed research to the aims of the Trust. The Trust reserves
the right to make no award if no suitable candidates present themselves.
The deadline for applications for the Scholarship is 16th March 2012.
Short-listed candidates will be interviewed in April or May 2012.
Application forms for the Research Scholarshipmay be obtained from the
Chairman of the Trustees, by email
cje@econ.cam.ac.uk
Central
European University, Budapest Ph.D Fellowships
Fully-funded PhD fellowships available at the Doctoral School of
Political Science, Public Policy, and International Relations at
Central European University, Budapest
We invite applications for the Political Economy Track of CEU’s
Doctoral Program in Political Science for the Academic Year 2011-2012.
The Political Economy track is designed to prepare students for a
career in academia and institutions of applied research. It is highly
competitive and welcomes applications from graduates of Political
Science, Economics, Sociology and related disciplines.
Central European University, a graduate institution accredited in the
United States and Hungary, invites applications for the PhD Program in
Political Science. The doctoral program is one of the largest, most
international and most competitive programs in Europe. Students,
typically coming from more than 30 countries, can choose supervisors
from more than 35 professors. The student faculty ratio in the classes
is 7 to 1. The Doctoral School is composed of five specializations:
Comparative Politics, International Relations, Political Economy,
Political Theory, and Public Policy.
The Political Economy track focuses on the theoretical and
empirical perspectives of the relationship between politics and
economics. Major topics include political and economic transformations
towards a more liberalized and globally integrated world economy,
regional and global variations of these transformations, and the
institutional forms of these transformations in specific fields such as
European integration, development and the welfare state in comparative
perspective. The aim of the track is to enable students to address
political science questions, such as the variance in institutional
settings and institutional change under the conditions of
internationalization, but from an interdisciplinary standpoint that
explores the connections between social and economic processes.
The doctoral candidates are actively introduced to research
networks in their field through participation in graduate conferences
and in major research projects. The Doctoral School collaborates with a
number of research centers including the Center for Ethics and Law in
Biomedicine, the Center for Media and Communication Studies, the Center
for the Study of Imperfections in Democracies, the Center for
Environment and Security, the Center for European Research and the Asia
Research Initiative.
Funding
Students admitted into CEU doctoral degree programs receive the
Full CEU Doctoral Fellowship for three years. The Full CEU Doctoral
Fellowship covers tuition and medical insurance and in addition, full
fellowship recipients are awarded a monthly stipend, around 750 €,
which covers educational and accommodation costs. Doctoral enrollment
may continue up to a maximum of six years. Numerous additional funding
opportunities exist, such as the Doctoral Research Support Grant
Program, the Erasmus Mobility Scheme, and various research and travel
funds. Further information on financial aid is available
here:
Career Paths
Upon completion of the program, alumni of the School typically continue
their career in higher education, policy analysis, the media, civil
service, international NGOs and research organizations. In terms of
employability a recent ranking of Political Science has ranked CEU
among the top universities world-wide. Additional information on
CEU graduates’ career paths is available
here.
Admissions
All applicants must meet the General CEU Admissions Requirements (see: www.ceu.hu/admissions/apply),
and submit:
- curriculum vitae;
- proof of relevant English language competency;
- a 1,500-word research proposal;
- a 500-word statement of purpose;
- two confidential letters of recommendation;
- relevant undergraduate and graduate transcripts and diplomas;
- a summary of the MA thesis.
- The deadline for applications is January 25, 2012, 24:00 Pacific
Standard Time (PST)
More information and inquiries
For further information on the Doctoral School’s academic
programs and courses, specific entry requirements, and a list of
faculty, visit the Doctoral School’s website and contact the Doctoral
School or email ds@ceu.hu
Masters
course in Green Economics
This first ever Masters course in Green Economics which will
particularly appeal to students who wish to follow a course of studies
with a Green Economics specialism. It will be run in conjunction with
and have professional accreditation from the Green Economics Institute.
The Green Economics theme of the Environmental Sustainability suite of
courses is the result of a unique collaboration between Birmingham City
University and the Green Economics Institute, using the
Institute’s world-leading expertise to bring cutting-edge
knowledge to the students.
All our students at all levels are encouraged to speak at our events
and to write for our publications and to publish in our prestigious
books and journals.
For more information, and to find full details of the courses and fees,
please email: greeneconomicsevents@yahoo.co.uk
or greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com
or visit our website.
Download flyer.
Max Planck
Institute: MPIfG Doctoral Fellowships at the IMPRS-SPCE
Call for Applications 2012
The International Max Planck Research School on the Social and
Political Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE) is operated jointly
by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies and the
University of Cologne. It invites suitable candidates to apply for up
to seven doctoral fellowships in economic sociology and political
economy.
Applicants must hold a Diplom or a Masters degree in political science,
sociology, organization studies or related fields. Degrees must be
received by September 2012. Fellowships will start on October 1, 2012,
and will be awarded for 15 months with the option of two additional
years. Working languages at the Research School are English and German.
The deadline for applications is March 15, 2012.
Doctoral fellows will participate in a graduate school program
including courses and summer school sessions and contribute to the
intellectual life of the Institute and the University.
Doctoral degrees are awarded by the University of Cologne. In addition,
students at the IMPRS-SPCE may acquire a French doctorate by entering a
joint doctoral program with Sciences Po in Paris (Co-tutelle).
For more information see the attached announcement or the MPIfG
website, where the application forms can be found.
Natural Resource Defense
Council Fellowship, USA
Water Economist Fellowship
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a national nonprofit
conservation organization, has an opening beginning in November 2011
for a two-year, full-time, economist in our Washington, DC office. The
Fellow will work with NRDC’s Water Program as part of a team
focused on implementing, defending, and strengthening the Clean Water
Act. S/he will also collaborate with other science fellows in
NRDC’s Science Center. This position is designed as an
opportunity to make practical contributions to the more effective use
of scientific and technical information in environmental policy
decision-making.
NRDC’s Water Program seeks to develop a major economic analysis:
a cost-benefit analysis of the Clean Water Act (CWA). The Fellow will
develop the research plan to quantify the costs and benefits of the
implementation of the CWA from its passage in 1972 to the present day,
to the fullest extent possible considering the time limitations of the
position. The plan will include the development of protocols for
quantifying the benefits delivered by the CWA that have not yet been
quantified and an analysis of the existing cost-benefit literature with
respect to CWA programs or particular regulations. The plan should
prioritize areas of research that are most likely to yield quantifiable
results (e.g., focusing on developing benefits estimates for targeted
geographic areas or for specific categories of benefits), so as to
result in the most comprehensive estimate possible within the
fellowship period. After the research plan is developed, the Fellow
will undertake the actual analysis and present her/his results in a
rigorous written piece. Throughout this process, the Fellow will be
assisted by an advisory committee of academics focused on economics and
natural system valuation; one of the Fellow’s first tasks will be
to work with NRDC Science Center and Water Program staff to recruit the
committee members.
The Fellow’s work will result in one or more peer-reviewed,
published articles in the academic literature. The Fellow will also use
NRDC’s outreach capacity and its relationships with government
decision-makers to communicate results as they are available. This will
ensure that the Fellow’s work will be relevant to critical policy
decisions soon after the beginning of her/his assignment. It will also
help to provide transparency to the process and results. We will also
seek other ways to disseminate the work, including presentations at
professional conferences.
NRDC seeks a PhD economist, with experience in cost-benefit analysis
and in valuing natural systems or other harder-to-quantify endpoints.
The ideal candidate will have applied traditional cost-benefit tools to
establish and apply valuation protocols for natural or similar
benefits, including establishing protocols to value real, but
difficult-to-quantify, benefits. The candidate will be entrepreneurial
in seeking out other experts in the field with whom to share ideas
about how to value these resources and to validate her/his own proposed
protocols. The successful applicant will have excellent writing skills,
enjoy working on an interdisciplinary team with people from different
professional backgrounds, and thrive in a fast paced environment.
The salary for this position is commensurate with experience. We offer
excellent benefits and a pleasant working environment. NRDC is an equal
opportunity employer, and we particularly encourage women and people of
color to apply. Interested applicants should forward a letter of
interest, which addresses: (a) why the fellowship is desired; (b) how
the candidate is qualified; (c) what issues interest the candidate; and
(d) how the candidate hopes the fellowship will affect her/his career
goals. Applicants should also submit a resume and a writing sample.
Interested applicants should email application materials by December
31, 2011 to
www.nrdc.org/jobs
No phone calls or faxes, please.
Heterodox Web Sites and
Associates
Green Money
Work Group (GMWG), UK
Established 20 October 2011, Last revised 9 December 2011
Implementation funding and resources wanted
Parties interested in contributing funds, other resources and/or
use/issue Green Money are invited to attend a round table discussion in
London on Monday February 13th 2012. Please register you interest with
Dr. Shann Turnbull sturnbull@mba1963.hbs.edu.
Objective
The objective of the Green Money Working Group (GMWG) is to establish a
sustainable global society by allowing renewable endowments of nature
to determine the value of money. Economic resources would then become
priced and so allocated according to the carrying capacity of the local
envionment. Kilo-Watt-Hours (kWhs) of electricity from renewable energy
resources provides a promising basis for introducing “Green
Money”.
More more information about GMWG, see this document.
New Website
for the Association for Heterodox Econmics
The AHE sub-committee that deals with the AHE website has been busily
working away for the last five months to produce a more up-to-date,
user-friendly, more information website. The Home page has a
welcome introduction from Bruce Philp as well as announcements about
the forthcoming AHE/IIPPE/FAPE 2012 Conference and AHE Methodology
Workshop—see below. It also includes a section “About
the AHE” which includes entries about its history and its
“Principles of Unity”; a section on its past conferences
and conference papers (work remains to be done); section on useful
links; section on governance which includes all the current AHE
sub-committees and their members; and a section on resources, which
includes historical and current material on the AHE methodology
workshop. The website is not complete. Material on teaching
resources will be posted once they are assembled; and material on the
RAE will be developed and assembled as well over the next couple of
months.
To make the web site really operational, we request that all AHE
members and associates go to User Account and register a user
account. It is through the user account that membership dues are
paid and you can gain access to past conference papers. Once we
have paypal up and running, membership dues can be paid online.
All who paid conference fees for the 2011 AHE conference in Nottingham
are currently members. Information about membership dues etc.
will be placed on the website and sent out in the near
future.
Please look the website over (especially the governance page since
there are probably some mistakes on it) and if you have any suggestions
about how to improve it, please use the “Contact Us” to
make your comments.
Sub-Committee for the AHE Website
Anders Ekeland
Alan Freeman
Fred Lee
Julian Wells
Visit the website: http://hetecon.net
People and
Nature
Please visit peoplenature.org,
a new site aiming to “promote discussion about human society and
its interaction with nature”. The focus is on developing
socialist ideas and interpretations of the people-nature relationship,
the way it is ruptured by capitalism and how it may be transformed by
movements towards communism.
Social Credit Secretariat
The Social Credit Secretariat is making available news items in the
form of a blog entitled: Understanding
Life and Debt.
Heterodox
Economics in the Media
Economists Push for a
Broader Range of Viewpoints in Their Field
The Chronicle of Higher
Education, December 13, 2011. Read the article
here (subscription required).
Ideas on
Fiscal Union Welcome but Inadequate
Letter in the
Financial Times
by Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer
here (registration required).
Steve Keen
interview on BBC's Hardtalk
A good interview with Keen talking Debt
Jubilee
here. (Youtube)
Heterodox
On-line Course
Global
Labour History, Athabasca University, Canada
Following the Great Recession, workers all over the world are
struggling against lay-offs and cuts in wages, benefits and public
services. To be successful, these struggles need to support each other
across borders so that workers and their unions in one country can
learn from experiences in other countries and together build a stronger
international labour movement.
The Labour Studies Program at Athabasca University offers a new
tool that aims at making at least a modest contribution to such
efforts, a new course on Global Labour History. Check it out
here. Be in touch if you have any questions about it
and tell others who might be interested.
In solidarity,
For Your
Information
Australian
Government Agency admits ban on Heterodox Economic Analysis
Story posted on Real World Economics Review Blog. Visit
here.
Mark Blaug
Memorial Gathering
There will be a memorial gathering of Mark Blaug's friends and
colleagues on the 19th of January 2012 between 6-9pm in the Reading
Room of the British Academy 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH.
All are welcome. Ruth Towse
Occupy
Student Debt Campaign
Join the Occupy Student Debt Campaign.
The recently launched campaign has generated international attention,
and attracted a steady flow of signatories to its Debtor's Pledge of
Refusal.
The campaign is a response to the student debt crisis and the
dependency of U.S. higher education on debt-financing from the people
it is supposed to serve. There is no justice in a system that openly
invites profiteering on the part of lenders. Education is a right and a
public good, and it should be properly funded as such.
The campaign consists of three pledges.
- A Debtor's pledge to refuse loan payments after a million others
have signed
- A Faculty pledge of support for the refusers
- A Non-debtors' (parents, public sympathizers) pledge of support
for the refusers.
The pledges are tied to four principled beliefs
- Student loans should be interest-free
- Tuition at all public colleges and universities should be
federally funded.
- Private and for-profit colleges and universities should open
their books
- The current debt burden should be written off.
Stephen
Marglin on Heterodox Economics: Alternatives to Mankiw's Ideology
Occupy Harvard Teach-In #1 12/7/2011. Watch Youtube video
here.