Issue 286 October 04, 2021 web pdf Heterodox Economics Directory
Some months ago, I used these lines to put out a call for volunteers willing to support this Newsletter. It was quite incredible (and also a little unexpected) to receive some enthusiastic replies. After some correspondences and inetrviews we selected two additional persons to complement an already astonishing group so that, together, we might become something truly awesome – an editorial team.
As the formal purpose of this editorial is to introduce this new team to you, let me just add that I myself will, of course, stay true to the task at hand and act as the main editor of our new team. Hence, in what follows the focus is on the other team members – formerly dubbed “editorial assistants” –, who are the hidden soul of this Newsletter.
As Bertrand Russell once said there are only two types of work: to move things around or to order others to move things around. In this context, it should be emphasized that in what follows we introduce the people, who do the real work and translate hundreds of pieces of information out of an overwhelming number of emails into a digestible Newsletter – every three weeks. These are the heroes that bring order into chaos (with just a little supervision ;-) and as main editor I am nothing but happy and relieved to have met these great colleagues on the way.
First hero to introduce is Niklas Klann, a BA student in Political Science at the University Duisburg-Essen. Niklas got into economics by means of one of his electives, which I happened to teach. Since then, he has developed some fascination for economic topics and has a deep interest for the underlying mechanisms governing growth, resource-use and distributional tendencies in modern capitalism with a special focus on the advent of AI. At the same Niklas is a highly concerned and active citizen and contributes to environmental and social movements. He is soon to enroll in Duisburg-Essen’s MA program in Socio-Economics and will hence remain attached to the field.
Next is Johanna Rath, who is a PhD student in Economics and research fellow at the Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE) at Johannes Kepler University Linz (Austria). There she contributes to the project “Spatial Competition and Economic Policies” (SPACE) funded by the Austrian science fund. She holds a BA in Economics and MSc in Political Economy from Karl-Franzens-University Graz (Austria) and is currently enrolled in an MA program entitled “Political, Economic and Legal Philosophy”. She was co-founder of the Students Network of Plural Economics at the University Graz and has been co-organizing events for the Network for almost 5 years. Her main research interests include institutions, especially the role of social norms in transitional processes as well as competition as a prime mode of social organization and processes of capital accumulation and (market) concentration.
Thirdly, our first newcomer is Alexander Cruz Maldonado, who received his baccalaureate and his master’s degree in Economics from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras where he also worked as a research assistant focused on topics of local economic development and inequality. From his research at the University of Puerto Rico, Alexander co-authored a paper on the increasing poverty trend in Puerto Rico from 2005 to 2012 and produced an award-winning research poster on the effects of the CAFTA-DR trade agreement on Puerto Rico’s economy. His most recent work, presented as the thesis project for his master’s degree, focuses on the major trends of economic thought which had developed in the US from the rise of neoliberalism in the 1980s and leading up to the 2008 Financial Crisis. Currently, Alexander works as a Senior Quantitative Analyst at a local bank in San Juan Puerto Rico.
Finally, and also new to the team, Alam G. Galicia-Robles (Mexico) studied Economics (undergraduate and master's degrees) from the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP). Since the beginning of his professional studies, he was attracted to the classical and Keynesian visions of economics. He also has a passion for urban and regional government fostered by entering working life in the governments of the city and state where he lives. For him a plural and open stance on the discipline is more appropriate than having a single dominant theory, as he was taught in his early years: "a heterodox economist has a longer and more burdensome path to take than those who decide to admit the dominant paradigm without any criticism: on the one hand he has to study and understand the mainstream and on the other, learn, reflect and propose something new from the heterodox trench". He joined the HEN team in 2021 as he really enjoys reading, editing, and collaborating for a bigger cause: the unorthodox community. For him, every person deserves dignity, respect and to be heard. From Latin America, he tells us: here we also do economics, here we also exist and resist.
The main aim of these changes in our organizational setup is to try to envisage the Newsletter more as a global collaborative effort, which is open for different perspectives and ideas. These people, so remote and close at the same time, make it possible for me to regularly read, explore, share, and learn more about issues in heterodox economics. Of course, there are also many core duties related to the Newsletter, which always require an additional hand ;-) In case you also want to support our work with your time, you can always send us an email and we can explore together how this might work out. In case you would prefer to support our efforts financially you can do so by donating here.
Many thanks and all the best,
Jakob
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20-22 April 2022 | Montevideo, Uruguay (hybrid structure proposed)
The 8th conference of the Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE) will be hosted by Universidad de la Republica in Montevideo, Uruguay. This edition's theme will be Doing HET from LAC: superiorities, empires, and all the rest. The aim is to stimulate researchers to reflect on the specificities of doing HET research from Latin America. Scholars of economic ideas from LAC are encouraged to engage the literature on imperialism and the superiority of economists to pursue their interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary and theoretical/empirical implications. We are also interested in receiving contributions reflecting a wide scope of approaches to the History of Economic Thought, and to social studies of science. Contributions exploring the diffusion of economic ideas through the work of leading scholars, politicians, or other relevant actors are particularly welcome (for example, addressing the long-run impacts of the Chicago School). As usual, proposals on all subjects in the history of economic thought are also welcome.
Given the uncertainty of the present circumstances, the meeting will have a combined virtual and in-person structure. Nonetheless, the organizers will monitor the situation attentively and the exact format will be broadly communicated by December 2021.
For more information or to submit individual paper proposals, please visit the conference page. To submit a thematic session proposal, please contact alahpe2021@fcea.edu.uy directly.
Submission Deadline: 15 November 2021 (individual paper proposals, 500 words) (session proposals, 1000 words)
14-15 July 2022 | Tokyo, Japan
The Asian Development Bank and the Asian Development Bank Institute will hold the inaugural Asian Economic Development Conference on 14–15 July 2022 in Tokyo. The objective of the conference is to promote the discussion of high-quality, frontline research on Asian development among social scientists, development practitioners, and policy makers.
The fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic threatens to undermine the decades of progress the region has made in raising living standards and eliminating poverty. The theme of the conference, “Inclusive, Sustainable Recovery in Asia and the Pacific,” will showcase cutting-edge research that explores how the efforts to rebuild after the crisis can also be opportunities to make development more inclusive and help achieve climate goals. Keynote speakers include Rema Hanna (Harvard University), Xin Meng (Australian National University), and Yasuyuki Sawada (University of Tokyo).
We invite submissions of unpublished empirical studies, survey articles, historical analyses, and policy-oriented research that advance the understanding of inclusive and sustainable growth in Asia’s recovery. Topics relevant to the theme include, but are not limited to, the following:
Interested authors must register and submit a paper 2022 here. The paper should include authors’ affiliations and contact information.
Submissions will be evaluated in terms of originality, analytical rigor, and policy relevance in the Asian context. Authors of accepted papers will be contacted by 15 March 2022. Authors of accepted papers will also have the opportunity to submit their papers for a Special Issue of the Asian Development Review(Guest Editor: Xin Meng, Australian National University).
Submission Deadline: 14 January 2022
9-11 July 2022 | Amsterdam, Netherlands
Conference Theme: Fractious Connections: Anarchy, Activism, Coordination, and Control
The Society for the Advancement of Socio-economics (SASE) is currently accepting submissions for mini-conferences for the 2022 annual conference. Preference will be given to proposals linked to the overarching conference theme, “Fractious Connections: Anarchy, Activism, Coordination, and Control”. Special consideration will also be given to proposals that cover areas currently underrepresented in SASE, notably race and ethnicity, migration, economic history, and heterodox economics – as well as submissions that provide a global perspective.
The overarching theme of the SASE 2022 conference will be to explore the paradox of Fractious Connections. This will be done through the lens of four key concepts that have received varying degrees of attention in comparative political economy: Anarchism, Activism, Coordination, and Control. The concept of Coordination in comparative political economy has received considerable attention in relation to debates around the Varieties of Capitalism. But has digital disruption undermined this coordination? The concept of Control has been used to understand the labor process; but how is this evolving in relation to digital surveillance at work and in politics? The concepts of Anarchy and Activism have, relatively speaking, received much less attention within the SASE community. Activism is frequently discussed within an Industrial Relations framework. While traditional male, manufacturing union membership has declined; a plethora of new forms of organizing for an emergent “gig” workforce has included the voices of younger, female, and ethnically diverse communities. We need to know more about these developments evolving outside established organizations. Anarchy is not often discussed in comparative political economy, although there is a vibrant discourse in international relations (Hedley Bull 1977), and in the work of Chomsky (1994). Understanding how disruptive digital practices have emerged anarchically exposes new structures and organization of power, opportunity, and oppression. Re-examining these concepts and developments relates back to the work of Granovetter in connecting the individual experiences with global societal structures to understand the paradoxical way fractious connections are evolving.
Before submitting a proposal, please consult the list of extant SASE networks. Proposals that would otherwise fit within a network will be expected to include an explanation as to why the topic should be discussed in a mini-conference format. You may also consult programs from past conferences to view mini-conference themes from previous years.
Proposals for mini-conferences must be submitted electronically to the SASE Executive Director (saseexecutive@sase.org) by 20 October 2021. For the full call for mini-conferences and a link to the application please visit the call page. For more information on the 2022 SASE Annual Conference please visit the conference page.
Application Deadline: 20 October 2021
September - November 2021 | online
The Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM) presents its 2nd Seminar in honor of Jaime Ros Bosch on economic development in Mexico. This is a seven-part series spread across September, October, and November and held on Thursdays. The event is co-organized by the Department of Economics at UNAM and the journal Investigación Económica.
The upcoming seminar itinerary is as follows:
For more information and for registration please contact Hideo Taniguchi (hideotaniguchi@comunidad.unam.mx).
5-7 October 2021 | online
The #DemocratizingWork team wishes to invite everyone to their first-ever Global Forum on Democratizing Work this week. The Forum is co-organized by the Open Society University Network's (OSUN) Economic Democracy Initiative (EDI) at Bard College. The Global Forum builds on the momentum generated by last year’s Democratizing Work manifesto, which was published in more than 43 newspapers, in 27 languages, and in 36 countries around the world. This year, the online Global Forum brings together over 380 speakers and 100 panels in 9 languages from all continents (except Antarctica) in a one-of-a-kind conversation. Each day focuses on one of the manifesto’s three principles: democratizing the workplace, decommodifying work and securing the right to decent employment, and decarbonizing the planet and tackling climate change.
As the Forum will be a completely immersive experience, registration is required to access the platform and is available via this link. You will fill-up the form to attend the conference and then will be asked to create an account on the website platform. If you have any questions during the process please don’t hesitate to reach out.
To ensure the Global Forum is accessible to all, registration is and will remain free of charge for everyone. However, the event in itself is not. Funding is coming from various universities and academic institutions (Harvard, Groningen, Louvain, Yale, Bard College, etc.) and is not corporate-funded. If you feel like you can afford to contribute to the conference and wish to know more, email the organizing committee at globalforum@democratizingwork.org to know more.
For more information please visit the conference web page.
19-20 October 2021 | Paris, France
This workshop is co-organized by the IN-MoCo research program of Pacte Social Sciences Research Center of Grenoble, IRISSO Paris Dauphine, as well as CEPN Université Sorbonne Paris Nord and it is dedicated to social sciences analyses of “monetary metamorphoses”. The workshop program includes 7 panels and one keynote session with Daniela Gabor (UWE), Benjamin Braun (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies), and André Orléan (EHESS).
Attendance is free, but advance registration is required. Please send an email mentioning which days you plan to attend to monnaieconference2021@gmail.com or contact the organizers: benjamin.lemoine@dauphine.psl.eu, jonathan.marie@univ-paris13.fr, and jean-francois.ponsot@univ-grenoble-alpes.fr. For more information please access the full program here.
Thursday afternoons 2.30-4pm | AGORA research centre, CY Cergy Paris Université, “Salle des Thèses” (Chênes 2, Cergy)/online
The following enumeration are Seminars about the History of Ideas and History of Knowledge, most of them will be at CY Cergy Paris Université, formerly the Université de Cergy-Pontoise.
Thursday 14 October 2021 (online):
Prof. Chandran Kukathas (Singapore Management University)
Presentation of his book Immigration and Freedom (Princeton University Press, 2021).
Discussant: Prof. David Owen (University of Southampton).
16 December 2021 (in Cergy):
Dr. Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche (University of Cambridge, CRASSH)
“Contested Rational Decisions. Economic Expertise in the Comparable Worth Controversy, 1979-1989.”
20 January 2022 (in Cergy):
Dr. Edmund Neill (New College of the Humanities, London)
“Contested conceptions of citizenship in Britain in the 1990s”.
17 février 2022: (in Cergy, in French)
Prof. Joanna Nowicki (CY Cergy Paris Université, LT2D)
Around the book La vie de l’esprit en Europe centrale et orientale après 1945, dictionnaire encyclopédique (éditions du Cerf, 2021).
17 March 2022 (in Cergy):
Dr. Christophe Salvat (CNRS, Centre Gilles Gaston Granger)
Presentation on ‘Applied Ethics and Artificial Intelligence’ & on L’utilitarisme (La Découverte, 2020)
14 April 2022 (in Cergy):
Dr. Stephen Davies (Institute of Economic Affairs)
On his book The Economics and Politics of Brexit (AIER, 2020)
Discussant: Prof. Aurélien Antoine (Directeur de l’Observatoire du Brexit)
19 May 2022 (in Cergy):
Prof. Teresa Ortiz-Gómez (University of Grenada)
"Genre et savoirs médicaux en Espagne et en Europe" (title to be confirmed)
16 June 2022 (online):
Prof. Paola Bacchetta (University of California, Berkeley)
"Le féminisme queer aux Etats-Unis" (title to be confirmed)
Organisers:
Prof. Emmanuelle de Champs, emmanuelle.de-champs@cyu.fr
Prof. Yann Giraud, yann.giraud@cyu.fr
Prof. Catherine Marshall, catherine.marshall@cyu.fr
Prof. Lissell Quiroz, lissell.quiroz@cyu.fr
To receive a zoom link please write Prof. Yann Giraud an email.
21-22 October 2021 | online
LSBU's Business School and the London Centre for Business and Entrepreneurship Research are pleased to present this two-day virtual conference 'Teaching Ethics to Economists: Challenges & Benefits'.
During the last 30 years, the conversation between economic theory and ethics has been restarted, after a period of interruption, generated by the positivist era in economics. We cannot ignore, in this revival, the role of the financial crisis, gender, and racial inequality and now the divisions revealed by the unequal impacts of the pandemic. An important contribution has been the call for a professional economic ethics led by DeMartino (2011) and DeMartino and McCloskey (2016). More recently, Dolfsma and Negru (2019) challenge the idea that ethics has no place in economics. Building on their ideas we ask: Is ethics important for the study of the economy and, if so, how should it be taught?
For the full two-day itinerary and registration please visit the event page.
The 4th Webinar Session of the ASE Webinar Series entitled "The Economics of Gender Disparities: A focus on the Labor Market & Immigration" with guest speakers Dr. Ying Zhen & Dr. Yunsun Huh from 24th September 2021 is now available online.
Dr. Zhen's study summarizes and analyzes the gender and racial discrimination that musicians face in the music labor market of the United States, with a focus of exploring the gender and ethnicity interactions’ effects on the economic return of musicians. This study is based on a survey of 1,227 musicians in the U.S. in 2018, which was conducted by the Music Industry Research Association (MIRA) and the Princeton University Survey Research Center, in partnership with MusiCares.
Dr. Huh's study explores selectivity, gender empowerment, and labor market decisions of bridal immigrants who migrated to South Korea through commercially arranged marriage. This special type of international migration only occurs to women and demonstrates the global reality of traditional gender norms, which define women’s role as a housewife and men’s role as a breadwinner. The study investigates how bridal immigrants are different from non-migrants in their home countries in terms of educational attainment. The study also measures their gender empowerment within the new family and its impact on the labor market participation of bridal immigrants in the host country.
If you were not able to attend this session live, you can view the recording here. For information about the ASE webinar series, please contact Dr. Iris Buder (irisbuder@isu.edu)
Job title: Full-time Assistant Professor
The Department of Economics at California State University, San Bernardino invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position. This position will be at the Assistant Professor level and will start in the Fall 2022 semester – classes start in the second half of August. Applicants must have a Ph.D. by August 2022. The Department is looking for applicants with research and teaching interests in heterodox economics, political economy, macroeconomics, or environmental economics. A concern with issues associated with Latin America would be a plus for an applicant but is not a requirement for the position.
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Applications must be received by November 1, 2021, to be guaranteed full consideration. Semi-finalists for the position will be contacted for interviews during the week of November 29. Interviews with all semi-finalist candidates will be conducted virtually in early-to-mid-December. To apply to this position please visit the posting site. For more information regarding the position, please contact the Recruitment Chair, Yasemin Dildar, at ydildar@csusb.edu.
Application Deadline: 1 November 2021
Job title: Assistant Professor - Tenure Track (Stratification Economics or related)
The Department of Economics in the Craig School of Business at California State University, Fresno invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position at the level of Assistant Professor. The Department is committed to economic pluralism and welcomes applicants from all economic perspectives to join a community of diverse students and faculty that supports sustainable economic development in Central California and beyond. Student learning outcomes assessment and service learning are important components of the university curriculum. Candidates are expected to have teaching and research interests in Stratification Economics or closely related fields. Faculty responsibilities include teaching upper-division undergraduate as well as principles of economics courses, research and publication, advising students, and service at all university levels. The successful candidates will be expected to work cooperatively with faculty and staff in the department and school. Specific assignments are dependent on departmental needs and the background of the individual.
Required Education
Required Experience
Preferred Experience
For more information and a link to the application please visit the job post page.
Application Deadline: 19 November 2021
Job title: Assistant Professor position in the field of Environmental Economics
The Department of Economics invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track, Assistant Professor position to begin July 1, 2022, in the field of Environmental Economics with a focus on climate change. An interdisciplinary perspective is welcome as the candidate is expected to contribute to our pathways programs, centers and Environment Studies program. Secondary fields of macroeconomics or econometrics are desirable, though not required. The successful candidate would ideally teach econometrics or introductory macroeconomics, in addition to courses in the field of expertise.
Candidates should submit: – 1) C.V.; 2) Job market paper; 3) 3 confidential letters of recommendation; 4) Transcript; 5) Teaching evaluations; 6) Teaching statement; and 7) Cover letter; using the links above.
Interested candidates can contact , Joana Avritzer (javritzer@conncoll.edu), or the department chair, Purba Mukerji (pmukerji@conncoll.edu), for questions about the positions or the College in general.
For further information please visit the website.
Application Deadline: 13 November 2021
Job title: Assistant Professor position in the field of Race and Race related inequality in the US
The Department of Economics invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track, Assistant Professor position to begin July 1, 2022, in the field of Race and Race related inequality in the US. A historical/political economic perspective is welcome. Secondary fields of macroeconomics or econometrics are desirable, though not required. The successful candidate would ideally teach econometrics or introductory macroeconomics, in addition to courses in the field of expertise.
Candidates should submit: – 1) C.V.; 2) Job market paper; 3) 3 confidential letters of recommendation; 4) Transcript; 5) Teaching evaluations; 6) Teaching statement; and 7) Cover letter; using the links above.
Interested candidates can contact Joana Avritzer (javritzer@conncoll.edu), or the department chair, Purba Mukerji (pmukerji@conncoll.edu), for questions about the positions or the College in general.
For further information please visit the website.
Application Deadline: 13 November 2021
Job title: 4 Professorships in the INRS-UQAT Joint Research Unit – Social Science, Indigenous Studies, Urban Studies, Digital Infrastructures
Indigenous Studies
As part of the creation of a joint research unit located at the Val-d'Or campus of the University of Quebec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue (UQAT), the Centre Urbanisation Culture Société of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) is seeking applications to fill one (1) professor-researcher position or Professor-researcher specializing in social sciences in the field of indigenous studies.
The UMR INRS-UQAT aims to consolidate a national and international leadership in Indigenous studies. Located at the Val-d’Or campus of the Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue, the UMR has the mandate of carrying out multidisciplinary research and delivering graduate training. INRS is committed to an equal employment opportunity program. Indigenous persons are particularly invited to apply and to identify themselves as such in their application so that the selection committee may take that information into consideration.
Please note that the working language for this position is French. Knowledge of English, as well as a third language, would be an asset. Candidates whose native language is not French are strongly encouraged to apply. The Centre will provide them with all the resources necessary to facilitate their learning of the French language.
For a detailed description of the tasks and requirements as well as the application information please visit the posting site.
Urban Studies
The Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) wishes to fill a new post of professor specializing in social sciences working on the theme of Social approaches to urban infrastructures linked to the Dynamics of urban environments axis of the scientific program of the Centre Urbanisation Culture Société. The successful candidate will collaborate in the multidisciplinary research program of the INRS Centre Urbanisation Culture Société, located in Montreal.
Please note that the working language for this position is French. For a detailed description of the tasks and requirements as well as the application information please visit the posting site.
Digital Infrastructures
As part of the creation of a joint research unit located at the Rimouski campus of the Université du Québec à Rimouski (UQAR), the Centre Urbanisation Culture Société of INRS is seeking applications to fill a position of professor-researcher specialized in social sciences in the field of digital infrastructures. Please find a link to the application here.
Social Science
Within the framework of the creation of a joint research unit located at the Rimouski campus of the Rimouski campus (UQAR), the Centre Urbanisation Culture Société of INRS is seeking applications for a applications to fill a position of professor-researcher specialized in social sciences specialized in social sciences in the field of the digital divide and numeracy. Please find a link to the Application here.
Application Deadline: 15 October 2021
Job title: Director of Applied Research
The Director of Applied Research leads the strategic development and execution of the applied research function at Prosperity Now, which seeks to identify and better understand both the barriers to prosperity in LMI communities and communities of color and the promising solutions and strategies to help households overcome those barriers. The Director serves as the spokesperson of applied research for Prosperity Now both internally and externally. The work
of the team includes:
Responsibilities:
Leadership
Team Management and Development
Portfolio Management:
Qualifications:
For Application please write Michelle Holder.
Job title: Assistant Professor of Economics
The Department of Economics invites applications for a tenure track assistant professor beginning September 2022, with Ph.D. completed by August 2022. We seek a macroeconomist (non-monetary), committed to excellence in undergraduate teaching and scholarly research, to join a community of diverse students and faculty, who come from all socio-economic, racial, ethnic and religious backgrounds, across the US and internationally.
In a cover letter applicants should carefully discuss areas of research interest. A separate teaching statement should address teaching philosophy and areas of teaching interest, as well as how the applicant foresees working with a diverse student body. Completed applications, including CV, three letters of recommendation, transcript, teaching statement, a writing sample, and official summaries of teaching evaluations must be received online at https://trincoll.peopleadmin.com to receive full consideration.
Virtual interviews will be conducted beginning November 10th with on-campus visits taking place in December. Trinity College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Women and minority candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. Contact Carol Clark, Search Committee Chair, at carol.clark@trincoll.edu.
Application Deadline: 1 November 2021
Job title: Assistant or Associate Professor, Economics
The Department of Economics at DU will seek to fill a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor starting September 2022. We are seeking a heterodox economist doing research in the areas of economic development and / or international trade, with a focus on gender in either area. Candidates must show promise of distinction in research and publications in these fields and must also show promise of excellent teaching ability in the areas they offer, as well as in our introductory courses “Economics: A Critical Introduction” (ECON 1020) and/or “Introduction to Micro- and Macroeconomics” (ECON 1030). Teaching these courses requires familiarity with economic history, the history of economic thought, philosophy of social science, and heterodox as well as mainstream perspectives on economic theory and policy. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to integrate content and issues relating to, and to work effectively with, ethnically diverse populations. The teaching load is five courses spread over three quarters.
Required Qualifications
For Assistant Professor position:
For Associate Professor position:
Preferred Qualifications
For Assistant Professor position:
For Associate Professor position:
Applications received by November 21st, 2021 will receive the best consideration. Applications received after this date may not be reviewed. Candidates must apply online through jobs.du.edu to be considered. Only applications submitted online will be accepted. For more information please visit the posting site.
Application Deadline: 21 November 2021
Job title: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Finance
A vacancy has arisen for the position of Lecturer / Senior Lecturer (Finance) within the Economics group at Hertfordshire Business School. The group is involved in teaching, research and student supervision in finance & economics. We are a collegiate group whose interests span the broad range of finance and economics from quantitative to political economy and institutional.
You will contribute to the teaching and module leadership of Finance and related modules on the undergraduate, postgraduate and executive programmes offered by the School and you will engage in scholarly and research activity in Finance. You will also undertake supervision of student projects, dissertations and theses up to Doctoral level.
In addition, at Senior Lecturer level you will play a lead role, where appropriate, in developing research objectives, projects and proposals and also play a lead role, where appropriate, in developing the external interface with business organisations and engaging with the School’s business development activities.
You will have expert knowledge in the Finance subject domain and can maintain and develop knowledge and skills as required for the position, as well as good personal, intellectual and communication skills, including clear and accurate written and spoken English. It is desirable that you have experience of student project and dissertation supervision and be willing to engage in doctoral level supervision where appropriate.
In addition, at Senior Lecturer level, you will have experience of teaching across a range of levels including executive and/or postgraduate as well as undergraduate level and you will have experience of module/programme management or other related duties. It would be desirable at Senior Lecturer level to have a track record of research and/or professional publication and/or experience of doctoral supervision and have relevant experience and enthusiasm to develop an external interface with business organisations.
For informal enquiries, please contact Frank Currie, Head of Economics Subject Group. (f.currie@herts.ac.uk or 01707 285470)
Application Deadline: 27 October 2021
Guosheng Deng & Elaine Jeffreys: Changing government in China through philanthropy: On socialist spiritual civilization, civilized cities and good communists
Nick Bernards: Child labour, cobalt and the London Metal Exchange: Fetish, fixing and the limits of financialization
Philip Roscoe & Paul Willman: Flaunt the imperfections: Information, entanglements and the regulation of London’s Alternative Investment Market
Julien Merlin, Brice Laurent & Yann Gunzburger: Promise engineering: Investment and its conflicting anticipations in the French mining revival
Liz Moor & Sam Friedman: Justifying inherited wealth: Between ‘the bank of mum and dad’ and the meritocratic ideal
Gary Lowery: Gestalt flip or gestalt flip-flop? The impact of the Great Crash on fiscal policy assumptions in the IMF
Tomáš Karger & Iveta Jansová: The six faces of ignorance in online piracy: How not knowing shapes the practices of media consumption
Samuel J.R. Mercer: Humanism and the sociology of post-work
Eckhard Hein: 'It is clear that this kind of deregulated capitalism will not survive in the end’
Trevor Evans: The twilight of neoliberalism in the USA?
Jan Priewe: Searching for new fiscal rules in the euro area: a new proposal
Jan Behringer, Sebastian Gechert, Hansjörg Herr, Jan Priewe, Heike Joebges and Andrew Watt: Editorial to the special issue
Peter Bofinger: The European Central Bank: the time is ripe for a major revision of its strategy
Luiz Fernando de Paula: The COVID-19 crisis and counter-cyclical policies in Brazil
Daniele Tavani: Path dependence, the COVID-19 crisis, and inequality in the United States
Laike Yang and Bo Xu: Can trade help with fighting the pandemic? Evidence from imports of Chinese medical products
Steven M. Fazzari and Ella Needler: US employment inequality in the Great Recession and the COVID-19 pandemic
Alicia Garcia Herrero: Post-COVID-19 Asia will grow strongly in 2021 but structural problems continue to pile up
Brendan Markey-Towler: Psychology of evolutionary economic behaviour
Ryunosuke Sonoda: The stabilizing effect of fiscal policies on the dynamics of effective demand and income distribution in Japan
Emre Ünal: Economic populism and institutional changes in wage–labor relations
Vipin P. Veetil: The pausing view of unemployment
Ruth Felder and Viviana Patroni: Informal Workers and the Politics of Working-class Transformation in the Americas
Gonzalo Durán and Karina Narbona: Precarising Formality: Understanding Current Labour Developments in Chile
Marcelo Manzano, José Dari Krein, and Ludmila C. Abílio: The Dynamics of Labour Informality in Brazil, 2003-2019
Maisa Bascuas, Ruth Felder, Ana Logiudice, and Viviana Patroni: Rethinking Working-class Politics: Organising Informal Workers in Argentina
Cristina Cielo and Elizabeth López Canelas: Reproductive Work, Territorial Commons and Political Precarity in Peripheral Extractive Sites in Ecuador and Bolivia
Abelardo Morales-Gamboa: The Fragility of the Labour Corridors to Costa Rica and the United States: Precarious Migrant Workers in Central America
Trevor Ngwane: Mall Attacks and the Everyday Crisis of the Working Class in South Africa
John Ross: What the 100th Anniversary of the CPC Means for Humanity
Hailiang Gu: The Process and Logic of China’s Socialist Market Economy from Mechanism to System
Joe Pateman: Mao Zedong, China and Black Liberation
Sean Sayers: What Is Marxism?
Marcello Musto: Marx’s Theory on the Dialectical Function of Capitalism
Damian Winczewski: Neo-chartalist or Marxist Vision of the Modern Money? Critical Comparison
Mark D. Steinberg: The New Socialist City: Building Utopia in the USSR, 1917–1934
Somenath Ghosh and Saumya Chakrabarti: Urbanization and Exclusion: A Study on Indian Slums
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by Salvador Santino Regilme | University of Michigan Press, 2021
Does foreign aid promote human rights? As the world’s largest aid donor, the United States has provided foreign assistance to more than 200 countries. Deploying global numerical data on US foreign aid and comparative historical analysis of America’s post–Cold War foreign policies in Southeast Asia, Aid Imperium provides the most comprehensive explanation that links US strategic assistance to physical integrity rights outcomes in recipient countries, particularly in ways that previous quantitative studies have systematically ignored. The book innovatively highlights the active political agency of Global South states and actors as they negotiate and chart their political trajectories with the United States as the core state of the international system. Drawing from theoretical insights in the humanities and the social sciences as well as a wide range of empirical documents, Aid Imperium is the first multidisciplinary study to explain how US foreign policy affects state repression and physical integrity rights outcomes in Southeast Asia and the rest of the Global South.
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Jane Holgate | 2021, Pluto Press
In Arise, Jane Holgate argues that unions must revisit their understanding of power in order to regain influence and confront capital. Drawing on two decades of research and organising experience, Holgate examines the structural inertia of today’s unions from a range of perspectives: from strategic choice, leadership and union democracy to politics, tactics and the agency afforded to rank-and-file members. In the midst of a neoliberal era of economic crisis and political upheaval, the labour movement stands at a crossroads. Union membership is on the rise, but the ‘turn to organising’ has largely failed to translate into meaningful gains for workers. There is considerable discussion about the lack of collectivism among workers due to casualisation, gig work and precarity, yet these conditions were standard in the UK when workers built the foundations of the 19th-century trade union movement. Drawing on history and case studies of unions developing and using power effectively, this book offers strategies for moving beyond the pessimism that prevails in much of today’s union movement. By placing power analysis back at the heart of workers' struggle, Holgate shows us that transformational change is not only possible, but within reach.
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by Aaron G. Jakes | 2020, Stanford University Press
Aaron Jakes offers a sweeping reinterpretation of both the historical geography of capitalism in Egypt and the role of political-economic thought in the struggles that raged over the occupation. He traces the complex ramifications and the contested legacy of colonial economism, the animating theory of British imperial rule that held Egyptians to be capable of only a recognition of their own bare economic interests. Even as British officials claimed that "economic development" and the multiplication of new financial institutions would be crucial to the political legitimacy of the occupation, Egypt's early nationalists elaborated their own critical accounts of boom and bust. As Jakes shows, these Egyptian thinkers offered a set of sophisticated and troubling meditations on the deeper contradictions of capitalism and the very meaning of freedom in a capitalist world.
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by Ilias Alami | 2020, Routledge
This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the messy and crisis-ridden relationship between the operations of capitalist finance, global capital flows, and state power in emerging markets. The politics, drivers of emergence, and diversity of these myriad forms of state power are explored in light of the positionality of emerging markets within the network of space and power relations that characterizes contemporary global finance. The book develops a multi-disciplinary perspective and combines insights from Marxist political economy, post-Keynesian economics, economic geography, and postcolonial and feminist International Political Economy.
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edited by Natasha Ginwala, Gal Kirn, and Niloufar Tajeri | 2021, Columbia University Press
The Night of the Dispossessed. Riots Unbound works on the intersection of the fields of political theory, urban and architectural perspectives, cultural and art research. The book departs from the hypothesis that riots, their historical forms, in our present times, and their & our future - are of massive urgency for all interested in the blind spots of dominant political theory and possible deeper social changes. They are extraordinary events that have been recurring with increasing frequency and that occupy a highly controversial space in the political imagination. Despite their often negative portrayals, it is undeniable that riots have played a pivotal role in the confrontation between authority and dissent. Recently, with the deepening crises of capitalism, racial violence, and communal tension, an "age of riots" has powerfully begun. As master fictions of the sovereign nation-state implode and the hegemonic silencing of the dispossessed reveals the cracks in governability, Nights of the Dispossessed brings together artistic works, political texts, critical urban analyses, and research projects from across the world in an endeavor to "sense," chronicle, and think through recent riots and uprisings—evoking a phenomenology of the multitude and surplus population.
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by Balihar Sanghera and Elmira Satybaldieva | Palgrave, 2021
This book explains and evaluates today’s economic, political, social and ecological crises through the lens of rentier capitalism and countermovements in Central Asia. Over the last three decades the rich and powerful have increased their wealth and political power to the detriment of social and environmental well-being. But their activities have not gone unchecked. Grassroots activism has resisted the harmful and damaging effects of the neoliberal commodification of things.
Providing a much-needed theorisation of the moral economy and politics of rent, this book offers in-depth case studies on finance, real estate and natural resources in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The authors show the mechanisms of rent extraction, their moral justifications and legitimacy, and social struggles against them.
This book highlights the importance of class relations, state-countermovement interactions and global capitalism in understanding social and economic dynamics in Central Asia. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in political economy, development studies, sociology, politics and international relations.
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by Richard Vague | Polity Books, 2021
In the US today, private sector loans are asphyxiating many households and businesses. The debt burden for individuals in almost every age group and for businesses of every size is increasing, portending ever slower economic growth. A debt jubilee will bring economic renewal.
Debt almost always outgrows GDP, and has reached very high levels in developed economies. This debt growth is an intrinsic, persistent feature of economic systems. Adverse private debt growth trends do not self-correct. The forces that bring debt growth are built into the system and the upward debt march continues. These trends rarely even partially self-correct—and then only as a result of a financial crisis. In 1951, total debt stood at 128% of U.S. GDP. By the end of 2019, total debt had doubled to 258%. Government debt grew from 74% to 108% of GDP, but we should be more concerned about private sector debt, which tripled from 54% to 150%. For the bottom 60%, from 1989 to 2019, their debt increased by 90% while their financial net worth has declined from 43% to 24%. In contrast, for the top 10%, their debt has increased by only 17% while their financial net worth has doubled from 158% to 335% of income. The imperative for debt amnesty is not the bleating of the unduly compassionate, but a hard-nosed assessment of the needs of the overall system. Productive, realistic forms of debt amnesty are necessary to maintain a well-functioning economy. This book shows why a debt jubilee is imperative to rebuilding US fiscal policy, and how it would work.
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edited by Çağatay Edgücan Şahin and Mehmet Erman Erol | Pluto Press, 2021
Decades of neoliberal authoritarianism have propelled Turkey into crisis. Regime change, economic disaster and Erdogan’s ambition to impose ‘one-man rule’ have shaken the foundations of Turkish political life, but what does this mean for workers?
Moving beyond the headlines and personalities, this book uncovers the real condition of the working class in modern Turkey. Combining field research and in-depth interviews, it offers cutting-edge analyses of workplace struggles, trade unionism, the AKP’s relationship with neoliberalism, migration, gender, agrarian change and precarity, as well as the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on workers.
Bringing together Turkish activists and scholars, this book is an inside look at the dynamics and contradictions of working-class resistance against Turkey’s neoliberal authoritarian regime; from worker self-management to organised labour and rural struggles.
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edited by Räthzel, Nora, Stevis, Dimitris, Uzzell, David | Palgrave, 2021
In this comprehensive Handbook, scholars from across the globe explore the relationships between workers and nature in the context of the environmental crises. They provide an invaluable overview of a fast-growing research field that bridges the social and natural sciences. Chapters provide detailed perspectives of environmental labour studies, environmental struggles of workers, indigenous peoples, farmers and commoners in the Global South and North. The relations within and between organisations that hinder or promote environmental strategies are analysed, including the relations between workers and environmental organisations, NGOs, feminist and community movements.
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An e-resource for Economics, Business and Policy programs from elgaronline.com
With this eBook collection, you will have access to some of the best writing on heterodox points of view from across the field including: Post-Keynesian, Institutional, New Institutional, Evolutionary, Radical and Marxian, Feminist, Public Choice and Austrian Economics. Volumes include important original reference works, key edited volumes and authored monographs covering important research findings, major figures and schools of thought, seminal events and enlightening critiques.
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The Covid pandemic has forced governments and central banks around the world to support their economies at an unprecedented scale. Despite, the fact that Covid is the second crisis in less than 15 years which triggered such large-scale fiscal and monetary policy intervention, the medium- and long-term effects of both policies are still poorly understood or underappreciated. Firstly, standard macroeconomic theory predicts a sharp rise in inflation because of expansionary policies, which however never materialised over the last 15 years. A list of prominent economists has highlighted this breakdown of inflation theory (Blanchard 2016, Ball and Mazumder 2018, Del Negro et al. 2020). Secondly, a well-established but in policy practice ignored fact is that fiscal and monetary policies are not neutral in terms of its effects on income, wealth and gender inequality. Which sector receives the stimulus has profound implications not only for the effectiveness of the stimulus but also for the distribution of jobs and incomes (De Henau and Himmelweit 2021, Onaran et al. 2021). Thirdly, unprecedented monetary expansion in the form of quantitative easing is seen as potentially suffering from serious unintended side effects in the form of exacerbating existing inequalities in the distribution of income and wealth as well as stimulating unsustainable debt accumulation (Evgenidis and Fasiano 2021, Mumtaz and Theophilopoulou 2017, Domanski et al. 2016).
This research will develop a novel theoretical framework to analyse the macroeconomic effects of large-scale fiscal and monetary interventions by synthesizing these three strands of the literature which previously have only been investigated in isolation.
We are seeking a fully-funded PhD student (3 years) to join the Institute for Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability. We are looking for a graduate with a Master’s degree in economics or similar social sciences. Your research will be expected to culminate with a PhD dissertation after 3 years.
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Year 1: £15,609 (FT) or pro-rata (PT) Year 2: In line with RCUK rate Year 3: In line with RCUK rate. In addition, the successful candidate will receive a contribution to tuition fees equivalent to the university’s Home rate, currently £4,500 (FT) or pro-rata (PT), for the duration of their scholarship. International applicants will need to pay the remainder tuition fee, currently £11,000, for the duration of their scholarship. This fee is subject to an annual increase.
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