Issue 321 January 08, 2024 web pdf Heterodox Economics Directory
"Your intention is obviously counter-cultural, and god knows the current culture has to be changed."
(Robert Solow in an early letter to the founders of the Review of Keynesian Economics)
While the above quote is more than a decade old – indeed, the Review of Keynesian Economics has already seen the publication of its 11th Volume – the gist of Solow's statement is still well-suited to describe the current state of our discipline. Also, the founding of the Review of Keynesian Economics closely resembles a long-term historical trend of 'heterodox journal diaspora', that probably started in the 1960s (which witnessed the emergence of the Journal of Economic Issues as well as the Review of Radical Political Economics as first responses to increasing mainstream closure and ignorance).
While the creation of heterodox outlets is of huge importance to push to the inner development of heterodox thinking and theorizing, any successful counter-culture requires not only such a safe base, but also some means to create broader networks and, at least occasionally, wide visibility. In this context, we can observe that heterodox scholars occasionally manage to achieve such visibility by publishing in highly regarded interdisciplinary journals with a strong base in the natural sciences such as Science or Nature (examples can be found here, here, here, or there; the latter is an especially recent one).
Given the slow pace of change within the economic discipline, such exit options could probably be more widely appreciated by heterodox scholars of diverse strands – and also contribute to speeding up change within economics as such more 'general' contributions are not so easily ignored by the mainstream as a publication in a classic heterodox outlet.
In closing, one can observe that this additional exit option could well be related to the fact that the disciplinary boundaries between heterodox economics and the natural sciences become less tight. I remember that, twenty years ago, it was much more difficult to convince colleagues from the natural sciences that much of standard economics acts as a barrier to social progress. However, against the backdrop of how mainstream economics addresses the issue of ongoing climate heating, the intuition that something is fundamentally at odds with economics has become more widely accepted across all branches of science. As a consequence the problem-driven boundaries of (inter)disciplinary academic conversation are shifting, which provides new, and probably much-needed, opportunities for instilling a – much-needed – "counter-culture".
All the best and a happy new year,
Jakob
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4-7 September 2024 | Kadir Has Üniversitesi, İstanbul, Türkiye
While the capitalist world economy has always been in a process of continuous change, it is now undergoing many large and rapid changes similar in scope to the process of the birth of neoliberalism almost half a century ago. This is strikingly manifested in the de facto abandonment of two very influential, albeit far from ever universally applied, pillars of neoliberal ideology: “free markets” and a “minimalist state”. They are being openly rejected by governments throughout the Global North in favour of advocating and implementing both greatly increased protectionism, and greatly increased direction of the economy (in the interests of capital) by the state.
At least two major developments are important drivers of this change. The first is the new technologies that promise capitalists huge profits, thereby motivating huge investments, which have the potential to dramatically alter both capitalism’s labor and accumulation processes. Three of the most important of these technological changes that have been unfolding at an exponentially accelerating rate over the last decade are the human biological technologies, artificial intelligence, and the pressingly essential non-carbon renewable energy technologies.
The second major development has been unfolding for at least the last 40 or 50 years, the changed relation between the developed Global North and the less developed Global South as parts of the global capitalist system. It is widely accepted by advocates of a better world that value still flows out of the Global South to support the higher standards of living in the Global North. The way imperialism extracts this value, however, is clearly very different from that indicated in the classical radical theories of imperialism which were developed a hundred years ago. Dependency Theories and World System Theories, developed in the 1970s and 1980s, then greatly enriched the classical theories with insights from the very different post WWII capitalist world system. But the relative “decline of the North and the rise of the South” over the last 50 years, including in particular the rise of “the Asian economies” over the last few decades, has put the issue of the nature and role of Imperialism in today’s world economy back on radical political economy’s research agenda of “urgent issues”.
IIPPE calls for submissions to its 2024 Annual Conference. Presentations on all aspects of political economy are welcome. New participants committed to political economy, interdisciplinarity, history of economic thought, pluralism in economic and social thinking, and/or their application to policy analysis and activism are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract.
SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
All proposals must be submitted through Whova (our conference platform), and either to a specific Working Group or to the Committee on Activism. If your proposal does not fit into any of these groups, select the “Programme Committee” option. You can find more information on our working groups at: http://iippe.org/working-groups/. The working groups make the primary decisions on Panel structures and content.
You can submit ONE of the following type of proposals:
An individual can only offer one submission whether book discussion, roundtable, or a co-presentation. Please do not submit two proposals from one person. It is, however, allowed to submit an activist proposal in addition to any of the other forms of proposals.
In past years we have had a three-day conference with a single workshop the day before for those that wanted to attend that topic. Starting this year we will have a four day conference where the first day September 4 will be a number of all-day workshops that one can chose between, while all the panels and plenaries will as in the past be on the last three days September 5 – 7. We encourage everyone to come for the full four days since the workshops are a chance to address some issue in greater depth than any paper or panel can, but of course if you are not interested in the investigated topics you will come for only the three days of panels and plenaries.
a. Proposal for an individual paper:
You can submit your proposal filling the required information in the following link: Submit proposals here
The submission of proposals takes the form of issuing a ‘ticket’. On the first page it is necessary to change the quantity of ticket to 1 and then click ‘next’ to proceed. On the second page, fill in the required information and submit your abstract/proposal. You will receive a confirmation email as soon as completed.
b. Proposal for a Panel or Stream of related Panels:
After submitting your individual paper proposal, please send an email to the Coordinator of the Working Group where you would like to run your proposed panel or stream of paenls. You can find the names and emails of those coordinators here: http://iippe.org/working-groups/. For submission of proposed panels to the Committee on Activism contact (committeeonactivism@gmail.com), and for the Programme Committee contact Ourania Dimakou (conference@iippe.org). Include in your email to the coordinator all relevant information for the proposed panel or stream of panels (panel title(s), the titles of all papers in each panel, name of the presenter of each paper being proposed).
Recall that after your email proposal for a panel or stream has been sent to the Working Group Coordinator, you must ensure that each person who is listed to present a paper in the proposed panel (or stream of panels) has made an individual submission as in point 2) a. It is very important that you follow up with each presenter within a week to make sure they have made their individual submissions. Otherwise, the panel or stream of panels may not be able to be considered.
c. Activist Proposal, documentary films, art projects, etc.
When proposing in the proposal portal select the category “Committee on Activism” and fill in the rest of this form. Make it clear in the field “Short abstract of your paper/proposal” what exactly you are submitting, e.g. a proposal for film screening, visual art project, round table discussion, and/or panel, etc. Whenever possible, add a link to your website or project. For more information contact (committeeonactivism@gmail.com).
In case several co-authors will jointly present a single paper, they will share a single time slot on a given panel. Each co-presenter must submit the same proposal title and abstract individually to the Whova platform. Again, do not put two people’s names into the same name field. Also, the conference programme will list only presenters, not co-authors who do not present.
After completing your submission, you will receive a confirmation email with regards to the successful submission of your proposal. If you do not receive an automatic email within a day, please email conference@iippe.org
All proposals will be reviewed by the Working Group Coordinator(s) it was submitted to. About one month after the final proposal submission deadline you will receive notification if your proposal has been accepted or not. If it is accepted, you will receive an email with more information about the conference and the registration procedure.
All presenters must be members of IIPPE. Annual membership fees are:
Membership fee and conference fees must be paid together at the point when registering for the conference.
Conference fees:
Activists and auditors are exempted from the Conference fees but must pay the membership fee of €30. They can also join the lunches and the two end-of-day social receptions at the conference for an additional €50.
The proposal submission platform is now open and will close on Friday night, February 2, 2024.
Successful submissions will be confirmed by three weeks after the close of the proposal window, Sunday night, February 25.
The deadline for registration will be indicated after and with the acceptance of proposal and posted with the opening of the registration portal, and is excepted to be about for March 31.
The preliminary programme will be available to view on the Whova conference platform from about 1 July, 2024.
WORKING GROUPS
Working Groups form the backbone of IIPPE. The groups are at various stages of development, with each running itself subject to conforming to the broader IIPPE aims. So far, activities that have been organised by IIPPE working groups include workshops, panels at conferences, online debates, and exchange of literature and other resources. The IIPPE working groups have brought together researchers from across disciplines, institutions and countries. A number of working groups are planning working paper series and other collaborative work. IIPPE is looking to expand the diversity and scope of the working groups, and we welcome suggestions and offers to organise new working groups, as well as collaboration with other working groups from outside the initiative. Those interested in this should contact individual working groups or, for more general inquiries and for those interested in setting up new groups, please contact the overall coordinator of the working groups, Bruno Bonizzi.
The Changing World Economy, and Today’s Imperialism Call for Papers: Neoliberalism and Contemporary Capitalism Working Group
The IIPPE Neoliberalism and Contemporary Capitalism Working Group brings together researchers interested in the material basis of neoliberalism, its national varieties, and alternatives to it. As the contemporary form of global capitalism, neoliberalism is based on the systematic use of state power to impose a hegemonic project of recomposition of the rule of capital in each area of economic and social life, under the ideological veil of ‘non-intervention’. This is guided by the current imperatives of the international reproduction of capital, with the financial markets and the interests of the US capital to the fore. Politically, by insulating markets and transnational investors from popular demands, and through the imperative of labour control to secure international competitiveness, neoliberalism also severely curtails democratic possibilities. Neoliberalism has also created an income-concentrating dynamics of accumulation that has proven resistant to efforts by Keynesian and reformist interventions.
The neoliberal transition in the world economy has been closely associated with ‘globalisation’ and with it, new modalities of imperialism. Yet despite these global drivers, the neoliberal project has reconstituted economic and social relations differently in distinct countries – rather than being globally homogenising. This calls attention to the national and local specificities of actually existing forms of neoliberalism. This interaction between the global and national as well as local is key to understanding today’s imperialism and changing world economy, which are the general theme of the IIPPE conference in 2024. Accordingly, the Neoliberalism and Contemporary Capitalism Working Group invites paper and panel proposals that fit in with the general theme of the IIPPE conference and the working group’s research agenda. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Submit a Paper or Panel Proposal 2024 here. Please make sure to select the Neoliberalism Working Group when submitting your proposal
Submission Deadline 15 March 2024
Call for Paper from the Political Economy of China’s Development Working Group
The Political Economy of China’s Development Working Group invites you to submit proposals for individual papers or themed panels related to our lines of inquiry into the (systemic) interaction between China and world development. Is China’s plan for further modernisation and development for “common prosperity” able to effect a systemic change in the world economy? What are the impacts of China’s continuous development on world capitalism and on the shape of the international order? What lessons can be drawn from China’s path to modernisation for other developing countries? Is China’s Belt and Road Initiative an opportunity or a trap for the Global South?
We welcome contributions on the following themes:
We welcome panel proposals and single paper proposals. If you are proposing a panel, all papers need to be submitted individually via the link below and sent also by email to the working group coordinator with the titles of all papers. If you have any questions, please contact the China working group coordinator Sam-Kee Cheng (iippechina@gmail.com)
IMPORTANT: Please state clearly that you submitting to this call by selecting Political Economy of China’s Development in your submission.
The proposal submission platform is now open. Click the below link to submit: https://whova.com/portal/registration/iippe_202409/t2674tb7
Successful submissions will be confirmed by three weeks after the close of the proposal window, Sunday night, February 25.
Submission Deadline: 2 February 2024
Joint Stream: Agrarian Change in Contemporary Africa
The Agrarian Change and African Radical Political Economy Working Groups invite proposals for individual papers or panels in a joint stream at IIPPE's 2024 Annual Conference (Istanbul, Turkey, 4-7 September). The 2024 conference focuses on “the issue of the nature and role of imperialism in today’s world economy”, in the context of the relative decline of the North and the rise of the South over the last 50 years.
In bringing together the interests and focus of both groups, we welcome papers and panels that relate to, within an African context: agrarian change, land questions and struggles over nature and natural resources; agro-industry, food regimes and attempts for radical transformations in rural zones and agrarian settings (e.g. projects of food sovereignty); interrelations of rural and urban areas, people, and struggles; class dynamics and the political economy of inequality, exploitation and social oppression including by gender, race, ethnicity and caste. We are also particularly interested in the analysis of social and labour mobilization in times of increasing authoritarianism, imperialism, and against the backdrop of the current multiple crises of capitalism, including the climate crisis.
The Agrarian Change Working Group promotes investigation of the social relations and dynamics of production, property and power in agrarian formations and their processes of change, both historical and contemporary. It encourages work within a broad interdisciplinary framework, informed by theory, and serves as a forum for serious comparative analysis and scholarly debate. The African Radical Political Economy Working Group seeks to promote intellectual and practical exchange between scholars and activists of African political economy, and those who share an interest in radical approaches to political economy, acknowledging the power dynamics in capitalism and often with a critical Marxist perspective. In accordance with IIPPE, it seeks to reflect on and address the relationship between political economy and activism, from the importance of understanding the world in order to change it, to more direct forms of engagement with contemporary struggles and alliances.
Proposals should be submitted online by 2 February 2024 by following this link:
https://iippe.org/iippe-annual-conferences/2024-iippe-annual-conference/
Please tick the Agrarian Change Working Group or the African Radical Political Economy Working Group when you make the submission and then indicate clearly under the title or abstract tab that you are submitting to this joint call.
If you are proposing a panel, all papers need to be submitted individually and the relevant working groups should be informed:
Agrarian Change Working Group: Jens Lerche (jl2@soas.ac.uk) and Leandro Vergara-Camus (leandro.vergara-camus@uontario.ca)
African Radical Political Economy Working Group: Elisa Greco (eligreco@yahoo.com), Ben Radley (borr20@bath.ac.uk), Bettina Engels (bettina.engels@fu-berlin.de)
Submission Deadline: 2 February 2024
Joint Stream: Global Commodity Systems in Contemporary Africa
The Commodity Studies and African Radical Political Economy Working Groups invite proposals for individual §papers or panels in a joint stream at IIPPE's 2024 Annual Conference (Istanbul, Turkey, 4-7 September). The 2024 conference focuses on “the issue of the nature and role of imperialism in today’s world economy”, in the context of the relative decline of the North and the rise of the South over the last 50 years.
The Commodity Studies Working Group aims to bring together researchers from both Marxist and heterodox economic traditions interested in developing and critically applying new methodologies and frameworks in the analysis of commodity production, exchange and consumption in the contemporary world economy. The Group is particularly interested in bringing together a diverse range of researchers from different economic traditions to: provide a forum for conversation and joint work to the mutual benefit of us all; to develop a range of activities to advance the perspectives of political economy across this field of enquiry; and to extend the work of the Group within the wider research community, including in relation to progressive development policy and social movements. The African Radical Political Economy Working Group seeks to promote intellectual and practical exchange between scholars and activists of African political economy, and those who share an interest in radical approaches to political economy, acknowledging the power dynamics in capitalism and often with a critical Marxist perspective. In accordance with IIPPE, it seeks to reflect on and address the relationship between political economy and activism, from the importance of understanding the world in order to change it, to more direct forms of engagement with contemporary struggles and alliances.
In bringing together the interests and focus of both groups, we welcome papers and panels that explore the contemporary political economy dynamics of commodity extraction/production and exchange from an African perspective. Areas of particular interest include (but are not limited to): the evolving nature of imperialism and imperialist value extraction in Global Commodity Chains (GCCs) located on the continent; the implications of financialisation for domestic, regional, or global commodity chains operating in Africa; the relationship in Africa between commodity systems, industrialisation, and structural transformation; the mobilisation and organisation of and/or by African workers labouring in commodity chains. Analysis at any scale (from local to global, including multi-scalar) and in any industry (or across any industries) is welcome.
Proposals should be submitted online by following this link: https://iippe.org/iippe-annual-conferences/2024-iippe-annual-conference/
Please tick the Commodity Studies Working Group or the African Radical Political Economy Working Group when you make the submission and then indicate clearly under the title or abstract tab that you are submitting to this joint call. If you are proposing a panel, all papers need to be submitted individually and the relevant working groups should be informed:
Commodity Studies Working Group: Susan Newman (susan.newman@open.ac.uk) and Sophie Van Huellen (sophie.vanhuellen@manchester.ac.uk); African Radical Political Economy Working Group: Elisa Greco (eligreco@yahoo.com), Ben Radley (borr20@bath.ac.uk), Bettina Engels (bettina@zedat.fu-berlin.de)
Submission Deadline: 2 February 2024
Joint Stream: Social Reproduction Crises in Contemporary Africa
The Social Reproduction and African Radical Political Economy Working Groups invite proposals for individual papers or panels in a joint stream at IIPPE's 2024 Annual Conference (Istanbul, Turkey, 4-7 September). The 2024 conference focuses on “the issue of the nature and role of imperialism in today’s world economy”, in the context of the relative decline of the North and the rise of the South over the last 50 years.
The Social Reproduction Working Group seeks to create a forum for research and activism on social reproduction, which refers to all work and material practices needed to reproduce (human) life and capitalist relations. Its work covers all social reproduction approaches, including those informed by Marxist feminism of the 1970s, contemporary Social Reproduction Theory and other approaches foregrounding social reproduction through a focus on exploitation and oppression, intersecting inequalities, well-being and depletion, finance and debt, social provisioning and resistance.
The African Radical Political Economy Working Group seeks to promote intellectual and practical exchange between scholars and activists of African political economy, and those who share an interest in radical approaches to political economy, acknowledging the power dynamics in capitalism and often with a critical Marxist perspective. In accordance with IIPPE, it seeks to reflect on and address the relationship between political economy and activism, from the importance of understanding the world in order to change it, to more direct forms of engagement with contemporary struggles and alliances.
In bringing together the interests and focus of both groups, we welcome papers and panels that explore the contemporary political economy dynamics of Social Reproduction from an African perspective. Areas of particular interest include (but are not limited to): the overlaps between social reproduction crises on the continent and migration patterns; the implications of the ecological crises on social reproduction; gendered patterns of exploitation and marginalisation in the domestic sphere and in the workplace; gendered struggles and gender-based social movements emerging on the continent. Analysis at any scale (from local to global, including multi-scalar) and in different contexts – rural, urban and so forth - is welcome.
Proposals should be submitted online by 2 February 2024 by following this link. https://iippe.org/iippe-annual-conferences/2024-iippe-annual-conference/
Please tick the Social Reproduction Working Group or the African Radical Political Economy Working Group when you make the submission and then indicate clearly under the title or abstract tab that you are submitting to this joint call.
If you are proposing a panel, all papers need to be submitted individually and the relevant working groups should be informed:
Social Reproduction Working Group: Sara Stevano (ss129@soas.ac.uk); Hannah Bargawi (hb19@soas.ac.uk)
African Radical Political Economy Working Group: Elisa Greco (eligreco@yahoo.com), Ben Radley (borr20@bath.ac.uk), Bettina Engels (bettina.engels@fu-berlin.de)
Submission Deadline: 2 February 2024
Call for papers, panels and streams African Radical Political Economy Working Group
The African Radical Political Economy Working Group invites proposals for individual papers or panels in a joint stream at IIPPE's 2024 Annual Conference (Istanbul, Turkey, 4-7 September). The 2024 conference focuses on “the issue of the nature and role of imperialism in today’s world economy”, in the context of the relative decline of the North and the rise of the South over the last 50 years.
The Working Group seeks to promote intellectual and practical exchange between scholars and activists of African political economy, and those who share an interest in radical approaches to political economy, acknowledging the power dynamics in capitalism and often with a critical Marxist perspective. In accordance with IIPPE, it seeks to reflect on and address the relationship between political economy and activism, from the importance of understanding the world in order to change it, to more direct forms of engagement with contemporary struggles and alliances.
Speaking to the themes of this year’s conference call, we invite proposals for papers and panels that explore the contemporary political economy dynamics that are affecting the continent.
Areas of particular interest include (but are not limited to): the multi-faceted impacts of imperialism in Africa, new and old theories of imperialism; anticolonial African Marxist thought; the social, political and economic impacts of multiple ecological crises on the continent; social movements, struggles and resistance against capitalism and imperialism; the return of recession, debt, and structural adjustment; financialisation; work, labour regimes and workers’ struggles; extractivism new and old; so-called green transitions. Analysis at any scale (from local to global, including multi-scalar) and in different contexts – rural, urban and so forth - is welcome.
Proposals should be submitted online by 2 February 2024 by following this link.
https://iippe.org/iippe-annual-conferences/2024-iippe-annual-conference/
Please tick the African Radical Political Economy Working Group when you make the submission and then indicate clearly under the title or abstract tab that you are submitting to this group.
If you are proposing a panel, all papers need to be submitted individually and the coordinators of the working group should be informed:
#African Radical Political Economy Working Group: Elisa Greco (eligreco@yahoo.com), Ben Radley (borr20@bath.ac.uk), Bettina Engels (bettina.engels@fu-berlin.de)
Submission Deadline: 2 February 2024
3-6 June 2024 | Boston, USA, University of Massachusetts Boston
The Association for Social Economics (ASE) is excited to announce its 17 World Congress for Social Economics on June 5 & 6, 2024 and Summer School in Social Economics on June 3 & 4 at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, USA.
The theme for the World Congress is “Social Economics in a time of interlocking crises”. Please see the full Call for Papers and submit your paper or session proposals. We are accepting submissions of individual papers and complete sessions. These can be theoretical, methodological, historical, empirical, or policy oriented. We welcome all papers addressing the interests and concerns of social economists. The submission deadline is March 1, 2024 with notification by March 15, 2024.
A Summer School workshop for graduate students and recent PhDs will be held in conjunction with the 17th World Congress. The Summer School begins in the afternoon of June 3 and continues on June 4. The Summer School brings together a small group of participants 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 participants must be graduate students or recent Ph.D.s (priority to applicants who received their PhD since 2021) in economics or related fields. Accepted participants will receive complimentary registration to the World Congress and a one-year ASE membership. ASE will award 25 Ingrid Rima Fellowships to selected Summer School participants. In addition to complimentary registration to the World Congress and a one-year ASE membership, Ingrid Rima Fellows will receive a complimentary room for the Summer School and the World Congress, as well as a stipend towards travel costs. The Summer School application deadline is March 1, 2024. For information on the application process, please see the application for the summer school and fellowship.
For questions about either the World Congress or the Summer School, please contact Organizing Committee Co-Chairs, Leila Davis (Leila.davis@umb.edu) or Harry Konstantinidis (Konstantinidis@umb.edu).
Submission Deadline: 1 March 2024
The 20th International Conference of the Charles Gide Association will take place at Sciences Po Bordeaux on June 20, 21 and 22, 2024 on the theme: “Solidarity” – the full call can be obtained from a past issue of the Newsletter.
The deadline to submit a paper and/or session has been extended to JANUARY 20, 2024. For further information, visit the website.
Proposals for papers and sessions have to be submitted on the Conference website. For further information, please contact the Organizing Committee at email.
14-18 July 2024 | Santiago, Chile
The History of Economics Society will hold its 51st meeting (and 50th anniversary of the founding of the Society) from July 14 to 18, 2024 at the Universidad del Desarrollo, in Santiago, Chile.
The Annual Conference of the History of Economics Society is one of the most important international gatherings of historians of economics. The conference provides an opportunity to meet with friends and colleagues, to learn about new research in the field, and to talk with journal and book editors and bloggers.
This will be the first time the History of Economics Society hosts its annual meeting in Latin America! We are excited about it. Santiago is easily connected to most European and American cities. Please remember it will be winter in the Southern Hemisphere, but temperatures usually range between 5-10C (40-50F). Chile is home to the Atacama Desert, Torre del Paine in Patagonia, and Easter Island, as well as many other natural and cultural attractions.
We are also happy to announce our 2024 plenary speakers: Geoffrey Sayre-McCord (Morehead-Cain Alumni Distinguished Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill and director of the PPE Society) and a celebration of Adam Smith at 301 with Sandra Peart (University of Richmond), Maria Alejandra Carrasco (Universidad de los Andes-Chile), and Leonidas Montes (director of Centro de Estudios Públicos and Professor at Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez).
An early bird registration fee of $150 will be available until May 31, 2024 midnight US Central time. The fee for regular attendants registering after this date will be $200. We are glad to offer discounted registration fees for students (early bird: $50/regular: $100) and scholars with insufficient institutional support (early bird: $100/regular: $150).
We invite individual paper and session submissions through this link. For more information and upcoming news about the conference, please visit our website.
Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2024
19–21 September, 2024 | Paderborn University
Topic: Solidarity
At the fifth conference, we are focussing on a key topic of our time: solidarity. Given the multiple crises of our time, solidarity appears to be a key solution on the one hand. On the other hand, especially in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have observed a veritable proliferation of the discourse on solidarity (Susemichel & Kastner, 2021, p. 7). As with any inflationary use of a term, the object rapidly lost its value: neither did the applauded care workers experience concrete solidarity by means of better working conditions and wages, nor did the global distribution of vaccines follow this premise - instead, countries of the Global South were systematically disadvantaged. This is another reason why solidarity, as sociologist Stephan Lessenich wrote before the pandemic, threatens to become a 'social feel-good category' without much consequence due to the harmlessness of its invocation, which does not commit us to anything (ibid., p. 8).
This shows the ambiguity of the concept of solidarity. On the one hand, it can refer to large anonymous groups, but on the other hand, it can also refer to small, non-anonymous groups, thereby changing its meaning and function (Dallinger, 2009). In addition, solidarity, in the sense of its three conditions according to Bayertz (1998), is always particular and exclusive due to its normative charge. This means that if we cannot do without solidarity, the question arises as to how it can be critically conceived from an interdisciplinary perspective.
We would like to encourage a new and critical examination of solidarity in and through media and communication studies: As a potential for solving the aforementioned global multiple crises (financial, ecological, political and social) and the associated intensification of inequality and experiences of alienation (Sevignani, 2017, p. 6). To this end, we want to address the topic of solidarity at our conference on different, interlocking and partly overlapping levels:
Focus I: Solidarity as a subject of academia: Here we present and discuss current critical research on the topic of solidarity.
Focus II: Solidarity as a form of academia: Here we practise solidarity and explore the scope for solidarity-based co-operation between critical research and society.
Focus III: Solidarity in the production of academia: Here we reflect on the conditions of our daily work as scholars and discuss solidarity in teaching and research.
These focus areas are not to be understood as self-contained subject areas. Instead, the boundaries between the term’s meaning, its respective reference level and the phenomena assigned to the concept of solidarity with their effects and concrete practices are blurred.
Focus I: Solidarity as a subject of academia Solidarity in and through media? Between co-operative and exclusionary public spheres
Solidarity - especially in the tradition of the labour movement - means organised togetherness and standing up for one another with the aim of mutual support.
We ask ourselves whether this emancipatory claim is also relevant for other social movements in mediatised and digitalised worlds: Is the positive reference to solidarity as a value and practice suitable for communication and media studies that understands itself critically, even in the face of publicly implemented processes of de-solidarisation, phenomena of exclusionary solidarity (see e.g. Sorce et al., 2022) and ideology-critical reservations or an emptying of the term? How do (media-mediated) expressions of solidarity relate to co-operative practices?
Focus II: Solidarity as a form of academia
We ask ourselves about the meta-level, i.e. we reflect on our role and our self-image as scholars and as a network: What is the relationship between critical theory and practice? What normative perspectives are there on the collaboration between critical media and communication studies and actors beyond academia?
Focus III: Solidarity in the production of academia Conditions of critical media and communication studies
Critical studies do not simply appear. It needs people, material and symbolic resources, networks, etc. in order to reproduce it, renegotiate it again and again and apply it to current conditions (Demirović, 2015, p. 171). Scholars in gender and postcolonial studies have been under attack for some time now. At the same time, attempts are being made to discredit research (for example in the field of gender studies) using the label of academic freedom. Added to this are the precarious working conditions of (critical) academics and the lack of solidarity-based counter-strategies, while social inequalities at universities continue (#ichbinhanna, #ichbinreyhan, #campusracism). In this track, we would like to explore the possibilities and problems of critical media and communication studies:
These are some suggestions and many more questions are possible. We particularly encourage student or activist-practice-related contributions (please indicate in your submission)
Formats
Depending on the level, different formats of dialogue are available:
We invite suitable actors to each of these formats:
For presentations, it is sufficient to submit an abstract, for all other formats the following applies: With this conference, we provide the space, and the rest will happen based on “do it yourself ” or “do it together”. Come to the organisation team with an idea or a concrete plan and we will see together whether and how we can implement it at the conference.
Abstracts and peer review process
Abstracts should be between 250 and 500 words long. If an empirical study is to be presented, the abstract must clearly state a) whether it is based on your own data and b) what stage the study is currently at (in planning, being carried out, being analysed, completed). In addition to a summary of the content of the presentation, the abstracts should emphasise the relevance to the conference theme and the relevance and originality of the research question. The reviewers will also be guided by these aspects.
The proposals will be reviewed in an open peer review process. Fair Use Policy: Each submitter will automatically be included in our reviewer pool and, upon submission, assumes the obligation to review other submissions to this conference. The conference organisers reserve the right to consider the overall concept of the conference when selecting papers.
Deadline
We kindly ask you to submit your proposal by e-mail no later than 15 March 2024. Please send us your contribution in electronic form (*.doc, *.docx, *.rtf, no PDF!) to info@krikowi.net. Information about the conference
The conference is organised by the Critical Communication Studies Network in co-operation with the Department of Media Studies at Paderborn University. It will begin on Thursday evening, 19 September 2024, and end on Saturday afternoon, 21 September 2024. Information on the venue, accommodation, etc. will be announced in good time in the invitation and on the Critical Communication Studies Network website.
Documentation of the conference
We are considering various tools for the documentation of this conference:
Please find further information and the whole Call here.
Submission Deadline: 15 March 2024
15-16 May 2024 | Leeds, UK
This event is jointly organized by the University of Leeds (UK), EDC Paris Business School, and CY Paris Cergy University.
Human civilization faces an existential threat in the 21st Century from ecological breakdown and anthropogenic climate change. To tackle these threats there have been various international efforts carried out under the auspices of the United Nations and especially since the early 1990s the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The first UNFCCC Conference of the Parties convention took place in Berlin in 1995. The Paris Agreement of 2015 signals a further development in global cooperation to tackle the problem of climate change. Paris was a major symbolic milestone, involving agreement from major emitters and most sovereign nations to work to reduce carbon emissions, ideally to maintain average global temperatures to 1.5° C above pre-industrial levels, but if not then 2° C. Each country has set “Nationally Determined Contributions” (NDCs) and set out plans to (in some cases eventually) achieve reductions in accordance with these NDCs. Moreover, many countries have subsequently committed to achieving net-zero emissions by mid-century. The critical question today focuses on the adequacy of targets and policies to achieve them. Technology transfer, rapid investment, and abundant finance are widely considered crucial, though many other questions remain regarding “just transition” and other issues. In any case, it seems highly likely that achieving targets will require a major shift in socioeconomic and financial activity. Clearly, there is great need for academic engagement across the sciences and social sciences.
It is also important to keep in mind that climate policy does not occur in a vacuum. Societies and economies already have existing infrastructure, economic foci, and ingrained structures. Transitions risks conflicts with some of these, exacerbating manifest problems, which in turn may reduce public commitment to change and fragment any emerging political consensus. The recent cost of living crisis induced by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is only the latest and most high-profile of possible problems. With all of this in mind, contributions to the conference are expected to yield formative findings which will have profound implications for a wide range of stakeholders including policymakers, corporate decision-makers, national and supranational organisations, and civil society.
We cordially invite academics, practitioners, and policymakers to submit proposals and papers covering these and related issues.
Possible topics include, but not limited to :
Please visit the EFS conference page for more information about the event, list of speakers, accommodation details, and more topic ideas. Please note that prior registration is required for participation, the link is available on the web page.
Submission deadline: 30 March 2024
Registration deadline: 30 April 2024
The multifaceted long run challenges facing Europe and the world today, and in the years to come, require new and ambitious public policies. At the same time, it is crucial to identify, develop and use sound methods to assess the impact, efficiency and success of these policies. Both theoretical and empirical analysis are needed, to provide sound advice for the development of Cost-Benefit Analysis (henceforth, CBA) models that can be applied in different sectors and used to inform policy-making.
Against this backdrop, papers for the Special Issue should focus particularly (but not exclusively) on CBA for policy design and impact evaluation in the following broad areas:
Guest Editors:
Call for papers available here.
Submission Deadline: 1 March 2024
16-19 July 2024 | Queen Mary, University of London
BUIRA (British Universities Industrial Relations Associations) Annual Conference
From the shift to remote and hybrid work to the resurgence of unconditional welfare transfers and industrial action, the world of work experienced some of the most dramatic changes in decades as a result of the economic and public health measures implemented over the last three years (Dobbins et al. 2023). Despite the World Health Organisation declaring the end of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2023, some of these new work arrangements remain and the rapidly escalating climate crisis compounds the challenges regarding the role and the future of industrial relations.
In the post-pandemic era, we witnessed rising industrial action across sectors and countries after decades of idleness, while grassroots unions also emerged in many sectors. With rising consumer prices and tight labour markets, the context may seem favourable to unions (Visser 2023). At the same time, the right to strike is under threat in many countries. Against this background, a key challenge for labour movements going forward is the extent to which the comeback of strike activity can be sustained and what forms of strikes and mobilisation is more efficient in the current socio-political environment (Kallas 2023; Massenkoff & Wilmers 2022). As discussed extensively in the 2023 BUIRA conference, temporary and on-demand work has been rising rapidly across the world, thus, industrial relations scholars should actively investigate how mobilising and organising strategies work differently across sectors.
Amid the escalating climate crisis, unions also face the question of how to balance their demands between the necessary green transition and job protection (ILO, 2015; Crawford and Whyte, 2023; Morena et al, 2020). In other words, paraphrasing Freeman and Medoff (1984): What should unions be doing in the age of climate crisis? This question is of transnational importance as climate action requires coordinated efforts. In this respect, the role of international organizations like the ILO and ITUC will be of great importance (Clarke & Sahin-Dikmen 2023). Yet, the impact of workplace changes differ across socio-economic status, gender, race, and class that are often specific to each country’s or sector’s context (Milkman et al. 2021; Kelly et al. 2023). Therefore, local unions should remain key stakeholders.
Building on the discussion surrounding linkages between industrial relations and critical race/intersectional theory that started in the 2022 BUIRA conference (Lee and Tapia 2021), this year’s conference aims to initiate a more thorough discussion on how industrial relations scholars can help address these structural inequalities that will inevitably emerge in the context of the green transition. Consequently, a theme that will become increasingly important in the upcoming years is how unions can become more inclusive and actively cooperate with broader social movements, like Black Lives Matters, Climate Justice Now!, and the Extinction Rebellion, among others (Terriquez et al. 2021).
The organising committee of the 2024 BUIRA Annual Conference invites papers that reflect on the future of industrial relations, labour movements, and work in the era of the climate crisis and attacks on unions. In particular, authors are encouraged to address questions related to the following themes:
We also invite papers that reflect on contemporary issues that go beyond the aforementioned questions, in particular:
We encourage authors to reflect on the policy implications and relevance of their work.
All submissions should be made via our submission site.
Submission Deadline: 14 February 2024
30-31 May 2024 | Paris, France
This conference is organized by PHARE at University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne and LIPHA at University of Paris-Est Créteil.
In an article published exactly 30 years ago, Paul Romer presents two stories about the origin of the so-called "endogenous growth" approach (Romer, 1994). Two "myths", according to Romer himself, that give "meaning and structure" to the work on endogenous growth. The two myths illustrate, according to Romer, the anchoring of this approach in both empirical (the "convergence controversy", as Romer calls it) and theoretical problems (namely, the application of imperfect competition frameworks to the question of growth).
The major stages in this history (from its origins to the end of the 1990s) have, since Romer, been well known and even included in textbooks. Although the first endogenous growth models date back to the 1960s, with articles by Kaldor and Mirlees (1962), Arrow (1962), Frankel (1962) and Uzawa (1965), it wasn't until the 1980s that this literature really took off. Three generations of models followed one another. The first took up the principle of the AK production function, already present in the 1960s, and developed from the work of Romer (1986). The second generation of models distinguishes between physical capital and the capital of ideas generated by innovative activity. Pioneering models include those by Lucas (1988), Romer (1990), Grossman and Helpman (1991) and Aghion and Howitt (1992). These models were then criticized by Jones (1995), who pointed to the absence in the data of the scale effect on which they were based. A third generation of models then developed, which retained the principle of an endogenous explanation for technical progress, but abandoned the scale effect (Brzezinski and Dzielinski, 2009; Howitt, 2008).
This history is insufficient. In his book Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations, David Warsh (2006) has already discussed several elements behind Romer’s article. Nonetheless, several points about the endogenous growth literature at large remain obscure and require further work by the community of historians of economic thought. The conference will address the following issues:
The conference aims at identifying better the debates that have structured this field of research over the years, and the importance of the cleavages that may exist between its players (models used, policy recommendations, empirical methods). More reflexive work will also be welcome, putting contemporary literature on endogenous growth into perspective with older works such as those by Smith, Marx or Schumpeter, as well as with post-Keynesian or Sraffian heterodox literature on growth or development economics. Work on the philosophical presuppositions or the vision of wealth in endogenous growth theories is also necessary to begin the work of evaluating this literature in the light of contemporary challenges.
A selection of papers from the conference will be published in Cahiers d'économie politique in May 2025. Proposals for articles, in French or English, should not exceed 10,000 words, and should be accompanied by an abstract (90 to 100 words), 4 to 6 keywords, and 1 to 4 JEL codes (Journal of Economic Literature classification). The title, abstract, and keywords must appear in both French and English.
Authors should send their anonymized proposal, together with a file indicating their name, institution, title and abstract of the article, keywords and JEL classification, as a separate attachment, to the following two addresses: cahiers_eco_po@laposte.net and goulven.rubin@univ-paris1.fr. Authors are asked to follow the instructions available on the journal's website.
Deadline for submission of proposal: 15 January 2024
4-7 July 2024 | Nau Bostik, Barcelona, Spain
Conference Theme: Class strugle and the construction of alternatives in the era of disaster capitalism
In the third decade of the 21st century, Capital has already displaced a significant portion of surplus value and profit generation processes from the productive industrial sector to new sectors (speculative-financial, real-estate, tourism, private appropriation and concentration of essential goods – energy, water, telecommunications, etc.). This transformation in the organization of wealth appropriation is accompanied by immediate and disastrous consequences for the future of humanity: wars for the control of energy resources, dismantling of social rights, acceleration of ecological collapse, permanent stock market crashes, increased control and violation of rights through the digital traceability of our lives and bodies, etc. All of this shapes a new historical context of social instability, in which the far-right constitutes the political form best suited for capitalism to maintain order and the system’s permanence.
Consequently, we enter a new hostile era in which building alternative political projects is increasingly difficult. It is in this situation that the objective of the third edition of the International Conference Historical Materialism Barcelona is to think about how to confront the current dynamics of capitalist accumulation and the rise of the far-right in its multiple forms worldwide, as well as to articulate social struggles and alternatives that ensure a dignified life for future generations.
Read the full CfP here: https://historicalmaterialismbcn.net/presentation-historical-materialism-bcn-2024/
Activists and researchers are encouraged to submit their paper proposals by 29 February: https://historicalmaterialismbcn.net/paper-proposals
Submission Deadline: 29 February 2024
HEI - History of Economic Ideas will publish a special issue in memory of its founder, Professor Riccardo Faucci (1945-2023), who passed away last October. The issue will be published at the end of next year as HEI XXXII/3/2024.
Faucci’s 45-year scientific career covered a broad range of topics in the history of economic thought. Three main lines of research can be identified:
To honor his scholarship, we invite original submissions on any topic related to one or more of these research areas. Additionally, the special issue will include an English translation of Faucci’s final academic lesson, delivered at his retirement in 2015.
Unlike HEI’s standard procedures, submissions for this special issue must be sent directly to the editor via the journal's email (hei@ec.unipi.it). Papers must not exceed 9000 words and must be received by June 1st. The submission should be in either Word or PDF format, in anonymous form with a separate cover page and a 100-word abstract. Note that adherence to HEI’s stylistic guidelines is not required at this stage.
Editorial decisions will be communicated to authors by August 15th, and accepted papers must be finalized by October 15th. In recognition of Faucci’s lifelong commitment to supporting younger generations of scholars in the history of economic thought, submissions by authors under the age of 35 will be given priority in the selection process. Authors must indicate if they qualify as a young scholar.
Submission Deadline: 1 June 2024
The world is fractured by a series of conjunctural and interweaving crises. Climate breakdown, geopolitical tensions, renewed conflicts, financial instability, unprecedented global inequality, rising costs of living, and the enduring impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic are ravaging lives and economies around the world, affecting most profoundly the poorest and most marginalised communities. These events have led Tooze (2022) to declare the present conjuncture as the ‘age of polycrisis’. Polycrisis denotes the causal interaction of crises across global systems, where a crisis in one global system has knock-on effects that cascade or spill over into other global systems, creating or worsening crises there (Lawrence et al., 2022). Moreover, a polycrisis can be understood as a set of multiple crises that are not caused by one another, but rather have different origins and yet come together in one space and time to impact in significant ways the operation and organisation of economies. Creating feedback loops, crises interact in (un)forseeable ways, emerge from a range of causal pathways, and have diverse effects (Hobson, 2022; Davies and Hobson, 2022).
The notion of polycrisis and its reverberations across, within, and beyond the global economy are now gaining increasing traction within the field of economic geography broadly (Leyshon, 2023; Dixon et al., 2023; Kogler et al., 2023; Barnes, 2023; Yeung, 2023). However, the interrelations of the polycrisis with global production networks have yet to be fully explored within the literature. Despite this, as a “concatenation of systemic risks…greater than the sum of its contributory parts” (Dixon et al., 2023), the polycrisis has already shaped and will continue to (re)shape the reconfiguration of global production networks. Most importantly, the polycrisis has amplified profound fault lines in the functioning of global production networks and exposed the fragility of a business model characterised by high interdependencies between lead firms, geographically dispersed suppliers, and a highly disposable labour force (Smith, 2015; Coe, 2021). Thus far, most research on the reconfiguration of global production networks in this context has focused on discrete crisis moments, rather than the complex manifestation of multiple crises. The proposed special issue therefore takes up Barnes’s (2023:1-2) call to appreciate “the full extent and power of the existential threatening changes that are unfolding and are propelling the world's polycrisis”. It explores the potentially sweeping and radical changes for the operation and conceptualisation of global production networks.
In the current context of polycrisis, global production networks are displaying volatile characteristics that are likely to re-shape their organisation and operation into the future. For example, the polycrisis has fuelled an increasing emphasis on the reshoring and regionalisation of production as an alternative to reliance on fragile and disrupted global production networks (e.g., Gong et al., 2022). In the USA, this is also associated with the management of geopolitical risks through the concept of ‘friend-shoring’. The underlying notion is that locating suppliers in proximity to markets could alleviate risks of disruptions (Hamilton, 2023). Second and relatedly, suppliers are devising new strategies including diversification of production to locations beyond their national borders in order to align with lead firms’ re-shoring and near-shoring plans. Third, labour is profoundly implicated in and impacted by the current polycrisis. Workplaces are one of the front lines of the polycrisis as production networks are reconfigured with consequences for levels of employment and the conditions of work. In an extreme example, over 450 million people working in global supply chains are estimated to have lost jobs, faced reduced income and or were furloughed due to the Covid-19 pandemic alone (Human Rights Watch, 2020). Others have identified the worsening of working conditions in global production networks through, for example, increased use of forced labour (e.g., Hughes et al., 2023). Fourth, with continuing trade tensions and disputes between China and the West, a significant portion of production is likely to be diversified away from China, either wholesale, or more likely through so-called ‘China+1’ strategies. Here, firms seek another secure production base in addition to China, which remains important in part due to its huge domestic market. This is likely to create both opportunities and challenges for other sourcing countries, with some losing out on investments. Finally, global production is pushing the climate beyond critical warming levels (War on Want, 2023), with new strategies being advocated for more sustainable production, embedded in concepts of decarbonising, de-growth, recycling, upcycling, and circularity (Coe and Gibson, 2023). Climate change instils an urgent “need to de-carbonise production and restructure supply chains if we are to mitigate global warming” (Potts, 2023) but there is little consensus on if or how this change will or should be meted out.
It is these critical questions that this Special Issue (SI) of JoEG seeks to address. We welcome theoretical, conceptual, and empirical papers addressing but not limited to following questions:
What are the emerging disruptions and reconfigurations in the way global production networks are organised? How likely are global production networks to persist in future and in what ways is the polycrisis reshaping the organisation of global production and trade relations?
What are the new trends of sourcing and production evident during the polycrisis (i.e., re-location, re-shoring, near-shoring and the shifting geography of production contracts)? What do these trends tell us about the new economic geographies of production networks? Who stands to gain and who will lose?
How are workers implicated in a range of struggles over livelihoods and conditions of employment in the age of polycrisis? What do we know of workers’ varied roles in reproducing, resisting, and transforming the impacts of the polycrisis on their conditions of existence?
How do we ensure a just and equitable transition of climate-changed production networks? What is potential of adaptation strategies such as recycling, de-carbonising, upcycling and circularity? How do these new ways of undertaking business in production networks intersect with their social and economic performance and the geographies of economic activity? Who are the winners and losers from these changes?
Is the polycrisis a transformative moment for global production networks, fundamentally reshaping the era of hyperglobalisation? If so how can we reconceptualise, reimagine, and rethink global production networks in the age of polycrisis? Or, conversely, does it represent simply a series of wrinkles in the progression of business-as-usual global capitalism?
Paper development workshop (fully funded)
The guest editors will organise a fully funded, residential paper development workshop in Brighton, UK ahead of the submissions to JoEG. Aim of this workshop is to help strengthen the contributions and refine the overall coherence of the special issue ahead of the final submission to JoEG. All interested contributors are thus required to submit their abstracts for the workshop. We welcome submissions from women, early career researchers, and underrepresented communities. Participants for this workshop will be selected based on the quality, relevance, and contribution of the paper as outlined in their abstracts. Selected participants will be asked to submit a shorter, draft version of their paper (around 4,000-5,000 words) ahead of the paper development workshop. Participants will receive feedback on their papers by the guest editors as well as by the other participants in the workshop. Papers of all participants of the workshop will be submitted to JoEG.
Instructions to submit the abstract
Please submit your abstract to S.Wickramasinghe@sussex.ac.ukcopying sabina.lawreniuk@nottingham.ac.uk
Important: Please send your abstract to both emails indicated above.
Important deadlines
Submission Deadline: 15 February 2024
26-28 June, 2024 | Barcelona, Spain
The presentations and symposia accepted by the Scientific Committee will be divided into the following sections: a) Self-determination; b) Technique; and c) Power. The three axes around which the conference is structured are intended to cover a wide range of topics related to Lenin’s thought, as well as to the debates that derive from them, both within the framework of Marxist Studies and in relation to the history of contemporary political thought.
Taking into account these lines of work, the Organizing Committee launches this Call for Papers to the national and international academic community. Those interested in presenting a paper or a symposium must send their proposal before March 4th 2024 to the email address submissions@leninconference.cat. The documentation, in Word format or similar, must include:
For presentations
For symposia
Proposals are accepted in any Romance language and in English. Once received, the documentation will be anonymized and delivered to the Scientific Committee, which will evaluate it through peer review. The final resolution will be notified by email.
You can find information in the next link.
Application Deadline: 24 March 2024
10-12 June 2024 | Lima (Peru), Lund (Sweden), and Dodoma (Tanzania)
THE co-organizers of POLLEN24, the annual conference of the Political Ecology Network, which will take place simultaneously in the cities of Lima (Peru), Lund (Sweden), and Dodoma (Tanzania) from June 10 to 12, 2024 invite you. The conference is organized in collaboration between the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), the University of Dodoma, the University of Copenhagen, and the University of Lund.
POLLEN24will have a hybrid format where participants will be physically present at one of the three venues and will have shared key sessions among them. With this format, we aim to strengthen the dialogue on contemporary socio-environmental challenges in Africa, Europe, and Latin America, as well as between academia, professionals, and social movements. For more details, please visit our official website in the following link: https://pollen2024.com/.
The call for papers and panels deadline is on January 15th. We are actively seeking funds to cover the expenses of representatives from social movements in the region. We also hope to secure some funds for neighboring regional researchers. We will publish this information on the website before the Call for Communications closes.
Please consider sharing this call among your networks or research groups, and write to pollen2024@gmail.com if you have any questions.
You can also publish the description of your panel on the POLLEN website by sending an email to politicalecologynetwork@gmail.com.
Submission Deadline: 15 January 2024
27-29 June, 2024 | University of Limerick,Ireland
We are pleased to announce the 36 annual SASE conference, "For Dignified and Sustainable Economic Lives: Disrupting the Emotions, Politics and Technologies of Neoliberalism", to be held in person at the University of Limerick from June 27-29 2024.
The call for papers and panels is now open and the hard deadline for submitting to our SASE Alternatives to Capitalism Research Network (Network I) is January 19 2024. Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE)
Conference theme:
Submit to our network “Alternatives to Capitalism” Research Network I
Alternatives to Capitalism Research Network I
The broad aim of this research network is to advance the international, comparative and interdisciplinary study of capitalism and its alternatives, and thereby contribute to debates on the future of capitalism, the commons, prefigurative politics, social movements and collective action, real utopias, radical politics, and heterodox economic thinking. The main area of enquiry is to explore how long-standing and emerging social actors are challenging and supplanting conventional capitalistic modes of production, consumption, and reproduction by engaging in collective action of various sorts. We are especially interested in research that helps us to understand: Who are the emancipatory subjects that are embodying alternatives to capitalism? What are the emancipatory strategies enacted by these subjects and to what extent are they viable, achievable, and scalable? And in what ways does the State and the market co-opt, repress, or facilitate alternatives in the socio-economic, political, and geographic contexts in which they are embedded? Our past annual gatherings in Berkeley (2016), Lyon (2017), Kyoto (2018), New York (2019), online (2020, 2021), and Amsterdam (2022) have given rise to a new book series titled ‘Alternatives to Capitalism in the 21 Century’ published by Bristol University Press.
Submissions are made through Oxford Abstracts on the SASE website.
We welcome individual submissions (max. 1000 words), pre-formed panels (up to five presenters + 1 moderator/discussant), roundtable discussions (typically about 4-5 roundtable participants), and book salons (one newly published book and 2-4 discussants).
To date, our network has featured a range of fantastic panels and events such as book salons with Professor Nancy Fraser and Jacobin founding editor Bhaskar Sunkara, roundtable discussions with the Democracy Collaborative’s Next System Project, and special events such as visits to worker and cohousing cooperatives in Berkeley, and a documentary film screening of ‘Occupy, Resist, Produce – Scop Ti’ with Professor Dario Azzelini and artist Oliver Ressler.
You can submit your proposals using the online system by going to https://sase.org/event/2024-limerick/#submissions, creating an account in Oxford Abstracts and following the instructions. Early Bird registration fees are normally available until April 15, 2024.
Early career scholars are eligible to apply for the Early Career Workshop. If selected, the conference fee cost and membership fee will be waived. For more info click here: https://sase.org/events/conference-submission-and-award-guidelines/
The SASE Network I Co-founders and Co-chairs: Torsten Geelan (University of Copenhagen, tg@soc.ku.dk) & Lara Monticelli (Copenhagen Business School, lm.bhl@cbs.dk)
Abstract Deadline: 19 January 2024.
22-23 February 2024 | Białystok, Poland
The Forum for Institutional Thought Association (FMI) and the World Interdisciplinary Network for Institutional Research (WINIR) invite scientists, PhD students, entrepreneurs, politicians, activists and students to submit abstracts presenting their research for the Second Edition of the International Conference Forum for Institutional Thought, Institutions and Survival: Challenges for Sustainability.
The objective of this conference is to create a scientific platform for the multiplication and dissemination of knowledge in the field of institutional economics among representatives of research and teaching staff as well as PhD students and students from various academic centers, politicians, activists, entrepreneurs from Poland and abroad, with a special focus on:
The areas explored through the prism of the maturation of institutions, through the factors determining the evolutionary emergence of institutions both as effects of intra-socially reproduced transactional relations and as exogenous legislative or regulatory influences of the state, are a potential source for arriving at important contemporary answers to questions about the shape of the social order.
The revolutions experienced by modern man generate a natural need for new insights and deeper inquiries. Showcasing the instrumentality provided on the ground of institutional research as part of the conference event being prepared can contribute to the initiation of many interesting reflections, discussions, and research. A special role in this process is to be played by the lectures of the conference's special guests and the discussions of the panelists, whose strength of argumentation and intensity of delivery are expected to have a significant impact on the objectives set by the conference organizers.
The lectures by each of the invited guests are designed as an important platform for reflecting on the notion of the economy as an evolving information-processing system, centered on the institutions and legal relations that bring together the authority spread across contemporary society. A particular strand of these reflections will be devoted to the situation of Central and Eastern Europe undergoing the experiment of post-socialist institutional transformation. The study of the social sciences, through which metanarratives viewed from different perspectives permeate, is often an insufficient offer for young intellectuals reaching for alternative explanations of the foundations of contemporary social structures and the factors that define them.
The conference will focus on the following themes:
Participation in the conference is free of charge. For registration and/or abstract submissions, please use the following link. For more information, please visit the conference webpage.
Deadline for submissions: 23 January 2024
18-19 June 2024 | Brussels, Belgium
Social housing has historically emerged as a response to "The Housing Question". While the definition of social housing varies from one country to another, it is generally conceived as housing that is not or not-fully commodified. Its primary aim is to offer an affordable and secure tenancy option, serving as an alternative to both private rental housing and mortgaged homeownership. Social housing is designed to address the housing needs of populations, with a focus on meeting human and social needs rather than pursuing market-driven goals.
For a significant period, social housing has faced challenges such as the stigmatization of its tenure and communities, reduced delivery, privatization, commodification, marketization, and the residualization of remaining stock. However, in recent years, a new threat has emerged: the financialization of social housing.
The delivery of new social housing is increasingly assessed through the lens and value system of real estate, with a significant focus on financial viability for the market. This often involves the engagement of private developers, public-private partnerships (PPPs), Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) and similar entities. Moreover, existing social housing is now viewed as a financial product, involving practices like using derivatives, issuing social housing bonds, assessing the ratings of these financial products, and the participation of various social housing actors in these financial instruments. Furthermore, in some countries, new social housing is developed and/or managed by market-driven actors rather than nonprofit landlords. The idea and practice of "market social housing" not only raises questions about its compatibility, possibly seen as an oxymoron, but also runs the risk of being treated as "just another asset class."
In this workshop and special issue, we aim to explore the emerging forms of the financialization of social housing. We will delve into the tensions between social housing as a common/public/social good and its status as a financial asset. Furthermore, we will examine the changing role of the state in adopting a financialized approach to delivering social housing.
We welcome papers that will address the following themes:
Please send a 150-300 word abstract to the organizers of the workshop, Manuel B. Aalbers (manuel.aalbers@kuleuven.be), Rory Hearne (Rory.Hearne@mu.ie) and Lidia Manzo (Lidia.Manzo@unimi.it) by February 19, and include a short bio (80-125 words, but please not more) of all authors.
Before the end of February 2024 we will let you know if your abstract is accepted for the workshop, which will take place on June 18 (afternoon) and June 19 (morning) in the centre of Brussels, easy to reach by train, bus and plane. There is no fee for the workshop, but there is also no funding to support travel and accommodation. Once we have all the abstracts, we plan to submit a special issue proposal, most likely to one of the interdisciplinary housing journals in the field.
Abstract Deadline: 19 February 2024.
2 May 2024 | Chicago, Illinois, USA
An Interdisciplinary Conference at the University of Chicago
Contemporary economic developments have led many to reflect upon the current nature of the global economy and its distinction from earlier and more traditional forms of capitalism. Labels like “crony capitalism,” “managerialism,” or “neoliberalism” have, in the past decades, been introduced to describe the present situation. But some contemporary voices have raised the provocative question of whether we are still in capitalism at all. Sociologists and political scientists like Joel Kotkin and Jodi Dean as well as economists such as Michael Hudson and Yannis Varoufakis have begun to speak of a resurgence of novel forms of “feudalism”—“neo-feudalism” or “techno-feudalism.”
The purpose of this conference is to bring humanists and social scientists together to reflect on the nature of the contemporary situation and to evaluate the applicability of the concept of “neo-feudalism” to the present moment. Is “neo-feudalism” in fact what Lenin might call simply the “latest stage of capitalism,” or do we already find ourselves in a nascent post-capitalist situation?
Proponents of the concept of “neo-feudalism” do not mean to suggest that western societies are literally devolving into a pre-capitalist feudal regime. As an economy based fundamentally upon fees, “feudalism” indicates the preponderance of rent-seeking over the industrial profits which classically defined capitalism. Accordingly, proponents of the concept of “neo-feudalism” point to the high degree of monopolization, high overhead costs, and the contemporary dominance of non-productive sectors and activities in the economy — above all, the finance, insurance, and real estate (FIRE) sector. So, they suggest, a novel political economy is emerging in which characteristically feudal features have reappeared in prominent ways.
In addition to the more obvious cases of housing rentals and individual debt peonage, other contemporary examples of a fee-based economy include modern, tech-based services such as Netflix, Spotify, Amazon Prime, zip-cars, divvy-bikes, Airbnb, databases and servers (Facebook/Google). The concept of “neo-feudalism” suggests that the economic ruling class increasingly consists of financialized corporations and asset management companies (e.g., Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street, Blackstone), rather than traditional feudal landlords or industrial capitalists. These companies are not immediately involved in industrial production of commodities, but passively receive the income to which they are entitled by ownership of real or financial assets in question.
Others, however, are skeptical of the concept of “neo-feudalism” and see these economic changes as consistent with more traditional models of a capitalist economy. Hence advocates of that notion raise a basic question: Does the modern economy fit that mold in a new way, or have more “traditional” models become obsolete?
While a rigid dichotomy between the humanities and social sciences is often taken for granted, we invite accounts which extend beyond customary disciplinary boundaries. The effects of the purported transition away from capitalism are not confined to the domain of economic life, and we welcome attempts to understand the present situation from any number of perspectives, whether through political theory or humanistic media such as art, literature, poetry or film.
We invite submissions from various disciplines to address the following possible (but not exhaustive) topics:
Please submit an abstract by email with the subject “conference abstract” in the header. Please make sure to remove any form of personally identifying information from the file and send it to futureofcapitalism.neofeudalism@gmail.com.
Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2024
5-7 June 2024 | Nottingham, UK
This workshop is organized by scholars from Nottingham Trent University and University of Nottingham.
The threat of ecosystem collapse and the threat of extinction of human life and large parts of non-human life force scholars to explore strategies of response. The commons and a variety of growth critiques are two strands of thought for radical socio-ecological transformation that have become increasingly influential over the last few decades. Both strands of thinking entail the potential to alleviate the existential crises of our times.
The commons can be understood as a social practice of governing material and immaterial resources that do not belong to the state or the market, but to a community of users, the commoners. These commoners create institutions to self-govern resources for the collective benefit through the collective ‘doing in common’, i.e. commoning. Scholarship on the commons emphasises the value of the commons as a potent and desirable alternative to capitalist economies based on extraction and exploitation (Ostrom 1990; Bollier 2003 and 2014; De Angelis 2017).
Growth critiques have also become a focal point in various academic disciplines, and increasingly in social and ecological movements (e.g. Krenak 2023). Growth critiques have operated, since the early 1970s, under a range of terminologies – including degrowth (Georgescu-Roegen 1971; Gorz 1980), prosperity without growth (Jackson, 2017), post-growth (Soper 2020; Jackson 2021), doughnut economics (Raworth), the circular economy (Stahel 2019), and eco-socialism (Foster 2000, Saito 2017). Debates have recently turned from making the case for the urgency of growth critique (Kallis et al. 2020) to discussing strategic pathways to organise a future beyond growth (Soper 2020; Hickel 2021; Schmelzer et al. 2022; Barlow et al. 2022; Göpel 2023). In May 2023, more than 20 European MEPs initiated a four-day conference, recognising on the highest political level the need to think Beyond Growth.
Over the last 2-3 decades literature in both fields (commoning and growth critique) has increased remarkably in size and relevance. Degrowth scholars typically point to commoning as a core value. Hickel (2021), Kallis (2018), and Schmelzer et al. (2022) argue that commoning constitutes a pathway and “central component of a degrowth economy” (Schmelzer et al. 2022, p. 217). Scholarship on commoning has so far largely abstained from explicitly engaging with growth critique. Recently, some scholars have made attempts to build bridges by bringing both concepts into dialogue with each other (Euler & Gauditz 2017; Helfrich & Bollier 2019; Great & Bollier 2020; Spanier et al. 2023; Euler 2019; Wittel & Korczynski 2023). However, a more systematic dialogue has not yet emerged.
It is high time for these bodies of literature but also for these movements to come together to develop a social force, see their shared direction and logic, and thereby increase their potential to initiate a transition to a post-capitalist world. Initiating a convergence of both fields is more than an academic exercise. This workshop will focus strongly on activism and explore pathways to increase their influence in the public sphere.
In the workshop, we will consider a range of questions concerning the relationship between growth critique and commoning, including but not restricted to:
The deadline for the submission of a 250-word abstract in the form of a provocation is 15 January 2024. Submit abstracts with a very short bio to andreas.wittel@ntu.ac.uk.
Deadline for submissions: 15 January 2024
7-8 March 2024 | Madrid, Spain
This is a Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) event hosted by the Economic Development and the Keynesian Economics working groups.
Over the last decades, innovation has gained increasing importance, both in academia and in public discourse, due to its relevance in promoting catch-up, economic growth, and productivity, among other factors. However, the approaches to how innovation is promoted and diffused vary significantly, not only across different schools of thought that address this issue but also in terms of geography and culture. Since the emergence of the endogenous growth theory (Romer, 1986), the importance of capital accumulation has shifted to knowledge accumulation to promote a catching up process, however, the public policy orientation has been divergent in terms of who to promote the knowledge creation.
After the adoption of the Washington Consensus, the Global South has intended to promote innovation through the incorporation to the global economy, such as free trade and capital mobility (Lall, 1994). Nevertheless, the productivity gap with the global north has not narrowed; on the contrary, technological disparities with high-income countries have increased. Departing from a different perspective, some authors have point out that, innovation cannot be considered as a process independent from the demand-side (Dosi, 1997), from regional and geographical particularities (Nelson, 2004), or from institutional framework (Cimoli, 1988). In essence, this discussion is far from being closed, which leaves some room for more alternatives for a much broader agenda, rethinking the meaning and role of innovation in economic activity and the economic policies promoting it, as well as its linkages with the sectoral structure of the economy. This calls as well for a debate on industrial policy and its role in promoting innovation and shaping the economic structure, which has been neglected since the 1980s.
The goal of this workshop is to encourage this debate. Our primary goal is to enable a comprehensive exploration of various perspectives on economic innovation and the economic policies that enable it in order to enhance our understanding of its role in economic development and promoting international collaboration in academic research and knowledge exchange. In this manner, this workshop intends to gather young and senior scholars working on this field, so that young scholars can present their work, receive productive feedback, and get in touch with colleagues working on similar topics.
This event is scheduled to take place on March 7th and 8th 2024 at Universidad Complutense de Madrid and aims to facilitate inclusive discussions among a diverse group of participants, including doctoral students from Spain and the broader region, as well as participants from the global south. Furthermore, each day will start with a special session with keynote speakers, followed by the student sessions where the participant will have the chance to present their research and receive contributions.
The keynot speakers:
The selected participants will receive accommodation and a partial travel stipend. Applications including short motivation letters and abstracts (max 200 words) are expected by January 31st, 2024. We invite to young scholars to send proposal on the following topics:
The accepted participants will be announced by February 7th.
Please use the following link for the application form.
Deadline for submissions: 31 January 2024
3 June - 6 June 2024 | Boston (USA)
The Association for Social Economics (ASE) is excited to announce its 17 World Congress for Social Economics on June 5 & 6, 2024 and Summer School in Social Economics on June 3 & 4 at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, USA.
The theme for the World Congress is “Social Economics in a time of interlocking crises”. Please see the full Call for Papers and submit your paper or session proposals. We are accepting submissions of individual papers and complete sessions. These can be theoretical, methodological, historical, empirical, or policy oriented. We welcome all papers addressing the interests and concerns of social economists.
A Summer School workshop for graduate students and recent PhDs will be held in conjunction with the 17th World Congress. The Summer School begins in the afternoon of June 3 and continues on June 4. The Summer School brings together a small group of participants 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 participants must be graduate students or recent Ph.D.s (priority to applicants who received their PhD since 2021) in economics or related fields. Accepted participants will receive complimentary registration to the World Congress and a one-year ASE membership. ASE will award 25 Ingrid Rima Fellowships to selected Summer School participants. In addition to complimentary registration to the World Congress and a one-year ASE membership, Ingrid Rima Fellows will receive complimentary room for the Summer School and the World Congress, as well as a stipend towards travel costs. The Summer School application deadline is March 1, 2024. For information on the application process, please see the application for the summer school and fellowship.
For questions about either the World Congress or the Summer School , please contact Organizing Committee Co-Chairs, Leila Davis (Leila.davis@umb.edu) or Harry Konstantinidis (Konstantinidis@umb.edu). Conference Organizing Committee: Leila Davis, Chris Jeffords, Harry Konstantinidis, Christine Ngo, Zoe Sherman
Application Deadline: 1 March 2024
12-13 February 2024 | Liège (Belgium)
On 12 and 13 February 2024, as part of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, the European Social Economy Meeting will be held in Liège.
These 2 days dedicated to inclusive, green and digital transitions will be the meeting place for practitioners, scientists, political decision-makers and all stakeholders.
Program and line-up will feature:
Participation is open to all, find out more on website.
Radical Americas, a UCL Press publication, and UKLAH is very pleased to announce the hybrid conference Socialism and Indigeneity in the Americas conference, which takes place on Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th January 2024. The in-person event will take place at the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies; a Zoom link will be distributed to virtual participants shortly before the event takes place.
This hybrid event is free, and all are welcome to attend.
Register for day 1: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hybrid-socialism-and-indigeneity-in-the-americas-day-1-tickets-781358433107?aff=oddtdtcreator
Register for day 2: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hybrid-socialism-and-indigeneity-in-the-americas-day-2-tickets-781365664737?aff=oddtdtcreator
Day 1 programme
Day 2 programme
This event is supported by the Society for Latin American Studies, UCL Commonwealth Fund, UCL Press and UCL Institute for Advanced Studies. The event is organised in association with Radical Americas, a UCL Press publication, and UKLAH.
Here is a little blurb for our social media posting: Join us in an engaging discussion with Dr. Pete Vechsuruck, where we explore the areas of macroeconomics, economic growth, and income inequality. We also discuss Dr. Vechsuruck's background growing up in Thailand, what led him to pursue a PhD in Economics at the University of Utah, and his role within the ASE.
If you are interested in taking part in the ASE podcast series, please email Iris Buder at irisbuder@isu.edu
Link to Podcast: https://youtu.be/4c_DChBM81o
Episode 37: The History of Counting Where Few Have Looked Before
In this episode, Maria talks to her co-author and team member, Cecilia Lanata-Briones, of a new project on the history of national accounting in what we call the Global South today. Cecilia talks about her thesis on the history of the cost-of-living index in Argentina, a recent co-edited book and our new project.
To check out some of Cecilia’s work, see two of her articles linked below:
You can listen to this episode on any podcast app or visit the podcast website.
We are delighted to announce our most recent episode of Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast. This week, we are joined by past host Scott Scheall (Arizona State University) about his work on the methodology of the Austrian School of economics, the problem of policymaker ignorance, and podcasting. Check it out!
Graduate Teaching Assistants in Economics
For this coming spring term, which starts on the 29 January 2024, the Economics Department at City, University of London are recruiting graduate teaching assistants in many subjects, including History of Economic Thought and Development Economics.
Please contact Claudia.jefferies.1@city.ac.uk for further information.
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) provides independent, evidence-based knowledge and science, supporting EU policies to positively impact society.
The current vacancy is with Unit B5 – Circular Economy and Sustainable Industry of the Directorate B – Fair and Sustainable Economy of the JRC in Seville.
The Unit:
The current vacancy is in the team supporting the implementation of the EU Industrial Emissions Directive, known as the European Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control (European IPPC Bureau, EIPPCB). The main task of the EIPPCB is to steer the exchange of information on Best Available Techniques (BAT) to draw up and regularly review BAT reference documents (the so-called BREFs) for large agro-industrial installations. This includes drafting the environmental norms that such installations must comply with. In addition, the EIPPCB has been given the responsibility of setting up and operating the new EU INnovation Centre for Industrial Transformation & Emissions (INCITE). INCITE aims to accelerate the greening of industry through the identification and evaluation of emerging techniques for decarbonisation, depollution, resource efficiency and circular economy.
The EIPPCB is a growing multicultural and multinational team of 20 highly motivated talents.
WE OFFER
The JRC offers a unique opportunity to support EU policies, in a vibrant and multidisciplinary work environment. Exchanges with experts from Member States, industry associations, environmental non-governmental organisations and other services of the European Commission are part of the day-to-day activities.
The selected candidates will be part of a multicultural, dynamic, very interactive and wellstructured team, but must have a high degree of self-organisation and be able to perform many tasks independently. Internet-based collaboration tools are provided, and are used extensively.
Working at the JRC is family-friendly.
WE PROPOSE
We propose four (4) positions of Project Officers – Sustainable Industry to reinforce the European Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control Bureau (EIPPCB).
The selected candidates will steer the exchange of information on Best Available Techniques (BAT) in the framework of Directive 2010/75/EU on industrial emissions2 (IED, currently under revision) to draw up and review BAT reference documents (BREFs) for large agro-industrial installations), including (but not limited to) the following areas:
The selected candidates will be in charge of a wide range of tasks including, but not limited to:
WE LOOK FOR
Four new colleagues passionate about working at the forefront of science and EU industrial sustainability policy, with a solid technical background and experience in environmental assessment of technologies, industrial processes, or economic activities.
The ideal candidates should:
Essential:
The candidates must have completed a PhD or must have gained at least 3 years of professional experience in a relevant field, e.g. chemistry, engineering, environmental sciences, energy and climate, industrial processes, after university studies of at least 4 years attested by a diploma.
Additionally, the candidates must have a very good level of written and spoken English (C1 level) and knowledge of at least one other EU language.
Highly desirable:
1. Job-related or research experience of at least 3 years in an agro-industrial sector covered under the Industrial Emissions Directive (e.g. cement, chemicals, metals, glass, paper production) or in mining, livestock rearing, landfills, batteries production in giga-factories. This includes: • experience in industrial, chemical and process engineering, environmental issues and regulation of industry and of environmental policy in the EU; • familiarity with the Industrial Emissions Directive and the concepts contained therein.
2. Knowledge and experience of at least 1 year in managing large projects, managing contracts and working with (sub)contractors.
3. At least 1 year of experience in a multicultural and international environment.
Benefits
The JRC provides high-quality working conditions in a dynamic environment. Working in a multidisciplinary and multicultural team, the successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to support EU policies and contribute to JRC’s research agenda. The JRC encourages interactions with policy makers, academics and other leading stakeholders active in the field, including participation in (international) conferences and workshops.
Indicative basic salary: 3943,39 - 5711,77 € (applicable as of 1st of January 2023) For more detailed information please consult: Working Conditions
Eligibility criteria
You can apply if:
HOW TO APPLY
If you are already on a valid CAST FG IV reserve list, or you have already applied to one of the calls below, you can directly submit your application at http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=AX with the reference 2023-SVQ-B5-FGIV-024456 .
If not, before applying to this position, you must register for one of the two following:
Note that each of the calls above has different minimum eligibility requirements and different selection tests.
The JRC cultivates a workplace based on respect for other people and the environment, and embraces non-discriminatory practices and equality of opportunity. In case of equal merit, preference will be given to the gender in minority.
WE ARE
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) provides independent, evidence-based knowledge and science, supporting EU policies to positively impact society.
The current vacancy is with the Unit Economic and Financial Resilience of the Directorate for Fair and Sustainable Economy. The unit contributes to the development of European Union policies based on top-class research on economic and financial resilience.
The Unit provides scientific evidence to support policy making in the areas of: macroeconomic surveillance and forecasting; sustainable and digital finance, financial stability; analysis of foreign direct investments and multinational enterprises; wellbeing, fairness and resilience.
In its efforts to consolidate efforts on using models and data to assess financial risks and opportunities related to digitalization, sustainability and climate-related policy, the Unit is looking for a researcher with strong quantitative skills and a solid expertise in data analysis, modelling and econometrics applied to finance (broadly defined), notably including banking, insurance and financial markets.
WE OFFER
The JRC offers a unique opportunity to support EU policies, in a vibrant and multidisciplinary work environment. Exchanges with scientists, other experts and other services of the European Commission are part of the day-to-day activities.
The new colleague will be part of a multicultural, dynamic, very interactive and well-structured team, but must have a high degree of self-organisation and also be able to demonstrate proactiveness and the ability to perform tasks independently.
Working at the JRC is family-friendly.
Please see also Working at the Commission – conditions and environment (europa.eu).
WE PROPOSE
The new colleague will develop quantitative analyses on current and emerging topics in financial regulation, financial stability and corporate finance, notably including digital and sustainable finance, for the purpose of informing and supporting the policy process within the Commission.
He/she will:
WE LOOK FOR
We are looking for a highly motivated researcher with strong quantitative skills and a solid expertise in data analysis, modelling and econometrics applied to finance (broadly defined), notably including banking, insurance and financial markets.
The ideal candidate must have (essential requirements):
The ideal candidate will also demonstrate:
HOW TO APPLY
If you are already on a valid CAST FG IV reserve list, or you have already applied to one of the calls below, you can directly submit your application at http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=AX with the reference 2023-IPR-B1-FGIV-024416.
If not, before applying to this position, you must register for one of the two following:
Note that each of the calls above has different minimum eligibility requirements and different selection tests. The JRC cultivates a workplace based on respect for other people and the environment, and embraces non-discriminatory practices and equality of opportunity. In case of equal merit, preference will be given to the gender in minority.
WE ARE
The Joint Research Centre (JRC) provides independent, evidence-based knowledge and science, supporting EU policies to positively impact society.
The current vacancy is with Unit B5 – Circular Economy and Sustainable Industry of the Directorate B – Fair and Sustainable Economy of the JRC in Seville.
The Unit:
The main policies supported are: Ecodesign for Sustainable Products, the EU Ecolabel, Green Public Procurement, and the Energy Label.
The main tasks of the Product Bureau are:
WE OFFER
The JRC offers a unique opportunity to support EU policies, in a vibrant and multidisciplinary work environment. Exchanges with experts from Member States, Industry Associations and other services of the European Commission are part of the day to day activities. Working at the JRC is family friendly.
The candidate will be part of a multicultural, dynamic, very interactive and well-structured team, but must have a high degree of self-organisation and be able to perform many tasks independently. Internet-based collaboration tools are provided, and are used extensively.
WE PROPOSE
We are looking for a Project Officer – Science for Policy for Sustainable Products. The selected candidate will carry out research and analysis in support of policy making in the field of sustainable products policy. The selected candidate will be in charge of a wide range of tasks including, but not limited to:
WE LOOK FOR:
A new colleague passionate about working at the forefront of science and EU sustainability policy, with a solid technical background and experience in environmental assessment of products, technologies, economic activities or organisations.
The ideal candidate should:
Essential:
Highly desirable:
Languages: ENGLISH
Level: Excellent
Research Field: Economics
Benefits
The JRC provides high-quality working conditions in a dynamic environment. Working in a multidisciplinary and multicultural team, the successful candidate will have a unique opportunity to support EU policies and contribute to JRC’s research agenda. The JRC encourages interactions with policy makers, academics and other leading stakeholders active in the field, including participation in (international) conferences and workshops.
Indicative basic salary: 3943,39 - 5711,77 € (applicable as of 1st of January 2023
Eligibility criteria
You can apply if:
Selection process
If you are already on a valid CAST FG IV reserve list, or you have already applied to one of the calls below, you can directly submit your application at http://recruitment.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?type=AX with the vacancy code 2023-SVQ-B5-024360
If not, before applying to this position, you must register for one of the two following:
Note that each of the calls above has different minimum eligibility requirements and different selection tests.
Additional comments
The JRC cultivates a workplace based on respect for other people and the environment, and embraces non-discriminatory practices and equality of opportunity. In case of equal merit, preference will be given to the gender in minority.
Job title: Post-doctoral researcher in ‘Macroeconomic Modeling of the Energy Transition’ (Cod. Assegno / STS-19-2023)
The University School of Advances Studies IUSS Pavia is currently inviting applications for a post-doctoral researcher position to work on ‘Macroeconomic modelling of the energy transition’ under the supervision of Prof. Alessandro Caiani.
The position is part of a research project (NEWS - SteeriNg financE toWards green technologieS: a hybrid experimental-computational macro approach) run in collaboration with the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Prof. Francesco Lamperti) and the University of Bologna (Prof. Emanuele Campiglio). The project is funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN 2022 PNRR).
Job description
The research seeks to construct a macroeconomic Agent-Based Model that explores the dynamics of technological diffusion and financial investment. Its primary focus is to investigate the influence of finance in facilitating the transition from established fossil fuel-based energy technologies to renewable alternatives. The study aims to evaluate the impact of different policies in promoting the diffusion of a sentiments among investors favorable to green technologies, thereby contributing to speed up the transition. Collaborating with the research unit at the University of Bologna, the model design and calibration will be conducted alongside a laboratory experiment aimed at capturing climate-related beliefs and understanding their impact on investment behavior. Scenarios for climate and innovation policies aimed to trigger and sustain a rapid low-carbon transition will be developed in collaboration with the research unit at the Sant’Anna School of Pisa.
The position will last 18 months, with the possibility of extension, and the selected candidate will be expected to start in March, 2024. The gross annual salary is € 26000 (1913€ net-per month). The salary is exempt of taxation but subject to pension contributions. No teaching is required. We expect the postholder to be based in Pavia. The knowledge of the Italian language is welcome but not a prerequisite.
Job qualifications and requirements
The features of the ideal candidate include:
IUSS Pavia
IUSS Pavia is a University Institute with a Special Status devoted to research and higher education, providing educational and training paths to highly selected students from the University of Pavia and the University of Milan, based on a strong interdisciplinary approach. IUSS is the national coordinator and headquarter of the First National PhD Program in Sustainable Development and Climate Change.
The selected candidate will join the research centre on Climate change impAct studies for RISk MAnagement (CARISMA). The CARISMA team is composed by STEM and Social scientists working in the prism of climate change on data analysis and modelling of Earth System and Economic System processes; impact assessment of extreme natural events and anthropogenic activities on human and natural environments; risk assessment and management of natural and anthropogenic hazards; and formulation/proposal of new economic, political and legal models of sustainable development.
Pavia
Located in Lombardy Region, only 30 kilometres south of Milan, the City of Pavia is a medium-sized, uncrowded city where everything you need is reachable within a fifteen-minute walk. The main facilities of IUSS are situated in the city centre, at the magnificent Palazzo del Broletto, constructed in the 12th century, and in the modern facilities at Piazzale Marelli, in close proximity to the railway station. Pavia hosts 24000 University students and offers a lively, genuine, cooperative and safe environment with a high quality of life. Pavia is the Capital of the fertile Province of Pavia, which is known for a variety of agricultural products -including wine, rice, cereals and dairy products- and is situated at the heart of Italy’s manufacturing district. Founded in Roman times, from 568 to 774 Pavia became the Capital of the Lombard Kingdom, and its fascination remains intact with the centre’s maze of narrow streets, ancient churches and elegant buildings, all bordered by the Ticino river. In addition to enjoying the advantages and services of nearby Milan, Pavia is close and well connected to major tourist attractions of Northern Italy: the Ligurian coast, the lakes of Como and Garda, the mountain range of the Alps.
Contacts: For all enquiries, please write to alessandro.caiani@iusspavia.it Link to the selection procedure: https://www.iusspavia.it/it/node/2212
Deadline for applications: 12 February 2024
Job title: Post-doctoral researcher in ‘Input-Output and Agent Based models for the evaluation of climate risks’ (Cod. Assegno / STS-14-2023)
The University School of Advances Studies IUSS Pavia is currently inviting applications for a post-doctoral researcher position to work on ‘Input-Output and Agent Based models for the evaluation of climate risks’ under the supervision of Prof. Alessandro Caiani.
The position is part of the PRIN 2022 research project ECliPTIc (Evaluating Climate Physical and Transition Risks in Italy) run in collaboration with the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Prof. Francesco Lamperti).
Job description
The research seeks to construct production network models based on inter-regional input-output tables to quantify climate-related physical and transition risks. The project will start with a geographical focus on Italy but aims at developing tools with a general scope applicable to different countries. In particular, we aim to develop models to address the following questions.
The position will last 1 year, with an extension for an additional year subject to a positive evaluation by the supervisor, and the selected candidate will be expected to start in March, 2024. The gross annual salary is € 23150 (1704€ net-per month). The salary is exempt of taxation but subject to pension contributions. No teaching is required. We expect the postholder to be based in Pavia. The knowledge of the Italian language is welcome but not a prerequisite.
Job qualifications and requirements
The features of the ideal candidate include:
IUSS Pavia
IUSS Pavia is a University Institute with a Special Status devoted to research and higher education, providing educational and training paths to highly selected students from the University of Pavia and the University of Milan, based on a strong interdisciplinary approach. IUSS is the national coordinator and headquarter of the First National PhD Program in Sustainable Development and Climate Change.
The selected candidate will join the research centre on Climate change impAct studies for RISk MAnagement (CARISMA). The CARISMA team is composed by STEM and Social scientists working in the prism of climate change on data analysis and modelling of Earth System and Economic System processes; impact assessment of extreme natural events and anthropogenic activities on human and natural environments; risk assessment and management of natural and anthropogenic hazards; and formulation/proposal of new economic, political and legal models of sustainable development.
Pavia
Located in Lombardy Region, only 30 kilometres south of Milan, the City of Pavia is a medium-sized, uncrowded city where everything you need is reachable within a fifteen-minute walk. The main facilities of IUSS are situated in the city centre, at the magnificent Palazzo del Broletto, constructed in the 12th century, and in the modern facilities at Piazzale Marelli, in close proximity to the railway station. Pavia hosts 25000 University students and offers a lively, genuine, cooperative and safe environment with a high quality of life. Pavia is known for a variety of agricultural products -including wine, rice, cereals and dairy products- and is situated at the heart of Italy’s manufacturing district. Founded in Roman times, from 568 to 774 Pavia became the Capital of the Lombard Kingdom, and its fascination remains intact with the centre’s maze of narrow streets, ancient churches and elegant buildings, all bordered by the Ticino river. In addition to enjoying the advantages and services of nearby Milan, Pavia is close and well connected to major tourist attractions of Northern Italy: the Ligurian coast, the lakes of Como and Garda, the mountain range of the Alps.
Contacts: For all enquiries, please write to alessandro.caiani@iusspavia.it Link to the selection procedure: https://www.iusspavia.it/it/node/2202
Deadline for applications: 31 January 2024
Job Title: Post-doctoral researcher in ‘Input-Output and Agent Based models for the evaluation of climate risks’ (Cod. Assegno / STS-13-2023
The University School of Advances Studies IUSS Pavia is currently inviting applications for a post-doctoral researcher position to work on ‘Input-Output and Agent Based models for the evaluation of climate risks’ under the supervision of Prof. Alessandro Caiani.
The position is part of the PRIN 2022 research project ECliPTIc (Evaluating Climate Physical and Transition Risks in Italy) run in collaboration with the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Prof. Francesco Lamperti).
Job description
The research seeks to construct production network models based on inter-regional input-output tables to quantify climate-related physical and transition risks. The project will start with a geographical focus on Italy but aims at developing tools with a general scope applicable to different countries.
The grant-holder will be in charge of the Engineering aspects related to the evaluation of physical impacts, such as the estimates of sectoral vulnerability curves to quantify direct damages and inoperability times, the geo-localization of productive plants, the representation of key infrastructures, and the design of flooding scenarios.
The position will last 1 year, with an extension for an additional year subject to a positive evaluation by the supervisor, and the selected candidate will be expected to start in March, 2024. The gross annual salary is € 27200 (€ 2002 net-per month). The salary is exempt of taxation but subject to pension contributions. No teaching is required. We expect the postholder to be based in Pavia. The knowledge of the Italian language is welcome but not a prerequisite.
Job qualifications and requirements
The features of the ideal candidate include:
IUSS Pavia
IUSS Pavia is a University Institute with a Special Status devoted to research and higher education, providing educational and training paths to highly selected students from the University of Pavia and the University of Milan, based on a strong interdisciplinary approach. IUSS is the national coordinator and headquarter of the First National PhD Program in Sustainable Development and Climate Change.
The selected candidate will join the research centre on Climate change impAct studies for RISk MAnagement (CARISMA). The CARISMA team is composed by STEM and Social scientists working in the prism of climate change on data analysis and modelling of Earth System and Economic System processes; impact assessment of extreme natural events and anthropogenic activities on human and natural environments; risk assessment and management of natural and anthropogenic hazards; and formulation/proposal of new economic, political and legal models of sustainable development.
Pavia
Located in Lombardy Region, only 30 kilometres south of Milan, the City of Pavia is a medium-sized, uncrowded city where everything you need is reachable within a fifteen-minute walk. The main facilities of IUSS are situated in the city centre, at the magnificent Palazzo del Broletto, constructed in the 12th century, and in the modern facilities at Piazzale Marelli, in close proximity to the railway station. Pavia hosts 25000 University students and offers a lively, genuine, cooperative and safe environment with a high quality of life. Pavia is known for a variety of agricultural products -including wine, rice, cereals and dairy products- and is situated at the heart of Italy’s manufacturing district. Founded in Roman times, from 568 to 774 Pavia became the Capital of the Lombard Kingdom, and its fascination remains intact with the centre’s maze of narrow streets, ancient churches and elegant buildings, all bordered by the Ticino river. In addition to enjoying the advantages and services of nearby Milan, Pavia is close and well connected to major tourist attractions of Northern Italy: the Ligurian coast, the lakes of Como and Garda, the mountain range of the Alps.
Contacts: For all enquiries, please write to alessandro.caiani@iusspavia.it Link to the selection procedure: https://www.iusspavia.it/it/node/2201
Deadline for applications: 29 January 2024
Job Title: Assistant professor of Economics (macro and international)
Monmouth University is searching for an assistant professor of economics (macro and international). Monmouth is a private university located on the Jersey Shore.
Position Summary:
The Leon Hess Business School at Monmouth University is seeking qualified applicants for an assistant professor tenure-track position in Economics starting in the fall 2024 semester. Additional expertise in international economics is also desirable.The Leon Hess Business School at Monmouth University is AACSB accredited and has over 35 full-time faculty members. There are over 1000 full-time undergraduate students in business and over 200 students in the MBA program.This is an in-person, on-campus, non-remote position.For additional information about the department, please go to:https://www.monmouth.edu/business-school/departments/economics-finance-real-estate
Required Skills or Software:
Other Requirements:
Preferred Qualifications:
Teaching experience in international economics and macroeconomicsI am chairing the search committee, so please feel free to contact me with any questions (rscott@monmouth.edu). There is no closing date, but its recommended to apply by February 1 for full consideration.
Here’s a link to the job ad: https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37584463/assistant-professor-in-economics/
Job title: Assistant Professor of Economics; Full-Time Academic (Permanent, Tenure Track or Tenured)
St. Mary’s College of Maryland is accepting applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Economics for Fall 2024 with specializations in Labor Economics and Statistics. Candidates must be able to teach Labor Economics, Economic Statistics, and Econometrics; time series analysis and machine learning methods are valued. A Ph.D. in Economics and a record of high-quality research and teaching are required. Faculty teach three courses per semester, advise program majors, supervise senior projects, and fulfill departmental and college-level service responsibilities. An interest in attracting and retaining students from underrepresented groups is desirable. Salary range $95k - $110k.
Please visit our HR website for complete position details. Applications are being accepted online through interfolio. Questions may be directed to: Amy Henderson at abhenderson@smcm.edu.
Application review begins immediately and continues until the position is filled. Employment will be contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check. St. Mary’s College of Maryland is a public Carnegie Baccalaureate, Arts and Sciences institution and is designated as Maryland's public honors college. SMCM is an AA/EOE.
JOE ID Number: 2023-02_111473427
Date Posted: 12/08/2023
JEL Classifications:
J0 -- General
C1 -- Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
C8 -- Data Collection and Data Estimation Methodology; Computer Programs
Application deadline: 12 January 2024
Job Title: Assistant Professor in Political Economy & Finance
The core tasks of the successful candidate will be teaching (0.6 fte) and research (0.4 fte). You will occasionally fulfil organizational tasks and committee work in the wider context of the Department of Political Science.
You will conduct empirical research in political economy of finance or financial markets. Your research may focus on the international financial institutions such as IMF or the World Bank, but also on private governance on finance, from the perspective of state-market relations. It is an added plus to approach such questions empirically from a global perspective rather than specific regional expertise. Preferably your research connects well to that of others in our department, to facilitate collaboration based on your expertise.
You are asked to teach introductory and advanced courses in political economy in the BA and MA programmes of the Department of Political Science. The specialization Political Economy is particularly prominent in de MA programme. Occasionally, you can also teach a course that is part of the core curriculum of the BA program. You can also be asked to teach in an interdisciplinary BA or (Res)MA-programme associated with the Department of Political Science.
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What do you have to offer
Job Application
Does this profile sound like you? A complete application must be submitted to University of Amsterdam’s online recruitment portal. It should include:
These five components should be combined into one single pdf document. For further information and Application please visit the website.
Application Deadline: 31 January 2024
Job Title: Post-doctoral researcher in ‘Green finance and experimental economics’
The Department of Economics of the University of Bologna is currently inviting applications for a post-doctoral researcher position to work on ‘Greenfinance and experimental economics’.
The position is part of a research project (NEWS - SteeriNg financE toWards green technologieS: a hybrid experimental-computational macro approach)run in collaboration with the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies (Prof. Francesco Lamperti) and the School for Advanced Studies in Pavia (Prof. Alessandro Caiani). The aim of NEWS is to study the behavioural and institutional factors affecting investors’ expectations about the green transition and to investigate how public policy can support the crowding-in of investments in green technologies and their rapid diffusion. The project is funded by theItalian Ministry of University and Research (PRIN 2022 PNRR).
Job description
The postholder will develop high-quality academic research on the links between financial investment decision-making and the low-carbon transition. The main planned activity is the design and conduct of laboratory experiments aimed at capturing climate-related beliefs and understanding their impact on investment behaviour. The results of the experiment will also inform the development of climate macroeconomic models planned within the NEWS project.
The position will last one year, with possibility of extension, and will need to be filled by July 2024. Earlier starting dates can be discussed. The gross annualsalary is €27.258. The salary is exempt of taxation but subject to pension contributions. No teaching is required. We expect the postholder to be based in Bologna. The knowledge of the Italian language is welcome but not a prerequisite.
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The features of the ideal candidate include:
University of Bologna
The University of Bologna (UniBo) is the oldest university in the world and regularly features among the top international academic institutions. With 33 departments and a population of 85,000 students from Italy and abroad, it is among the largest universities in Europe. Its main campus is based in Bologna, a vibrant city with a high quality of life and world-class social services. Bologna has a large airport and is connected to the high-speed railway network. The Department of Economics (DSE) of UniBo is a leading academic institution in several fields of economic research, with a large and expanding environmental economics cluster. The DSE is also a founding member of the Research Institute on Global Challenges and Climate Change (Alma Climate). Both UniBo’s International Desk and Emilia-Romagna region service it-ER offer information and support to incoming international students and staff.
Contacts: For all enquiries, please write to emanuele.campiglio@unibo.it. Apply here: https://bandi.unibo.it/ricerca/assegni-ricerca?id_bando=67625
Deadline for Applications: 29 February 2024
The ESHET Council is inviting nominations for the Awards that will be announced at the next annual Conference in Graz, Austria, 9-11 May 2024.
1/ The BEST MONOGRAPH AWARD is for the best book (not necessarily written in English) in the history of economic thought published during 2022 or 2023. The author can be from any part of the world. The winner will be invited to attend the Society Conference that follows the announcement of the prize to deliver the Jérôme-Adolphe Blanqui Lecture. Note that, in supplement, the Council can also give a BEST SCHOLARLY EDITION AWARD.
2/ The HISTORY OF ECONOMIC ANALYSIS AWARD is for the best article (not necessarily written in English) in the history of economic thought, published in the issue of a scientific journal during 2022 or 2023. Candidates can be from any part of the world. The winner will be invited to attend the Society Conference that follows the announcement of the prize, and will receive 500 euro.
3/ The ESHET YOUNG RESEARCHER AWARD. This prize recognizes scholarly achievements of historians of economic thought at an early stage of their career. The prize is awarded to scholars below the age of 40 at the time of the annual conference in recognition of outstanding publications in the history of economic thought. It consists of 1,000 euro and a waiving of the conference fee when the prize is awarded.
4/ The GILLES DOSTALER AWARD is an award created in the memory of Gilles Dostaler, thanks to the generosity of his widow Marielle Cauchy. This prize recognizes scholarly achievements of young research fellows working on one of Gilles Dostaler’s many fields of interest — e.g., Marx and Classical political economy, Keynes, Hayek, critical approaches to free markets theories, relationships between economics, politics, philosophy and ethics, etc. It is awarded to scholars below the age of 35 at the time of the annual conference in recognition of an outstanding article not necessarily already published or published within the two previous years. It consists of 500 euro and a waiving of the conference fee when the prize is awarded.
Nominations should be sent as soon as possible, but not later than 30 December 2023 to the Chair of the relevant panel:
Please note also the following points.
1/ Self-nominations are not accepted for any of the prizes.
Nominations for the book and article prizes should include:
(i) Full bibliographic details of the book or article.
(ii) A short statement (in English) of why the book or article merits being considered for a prize.
(iii) An electronic copy of the book or article, if this is available.
2/ Nominations for the Young Researcher Award should include:
(i) A short resume stating the achievements of the candidate.
(ii) A CV with list of publications.
Subsequently each nominee will be asked to submit to the Council three publications on which s/he wishes to be judged.
The final decision on each of the prizes will be made by the Council of ESHET in Liège.
Rules for Awards
- No current member of the Council, Executive Committee or Senate is eligible for an academic prize or grant awarded by ESHET.
- Nobody can receive more than one award of the Society for the same work.
- Any member of an awarding committee needs to declare the extent of his/her institutional connections and/or extent of collaboration with the persons eligible for academic prizes.
The Centro di Ricerche e Documentazione “Piero Sraffa” is pleased to announce that the Pierangelo Garegnani Thesis Prize 2023 has been awarded ex aequo to Dr Pedro Siqueira Machado (The Open University, UK) and Dr Riccardo Zolea (Università Roma Tre).
Please find all details on the Centro Sraffa website.
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George Liodakis: Transcending Socio-Ecological Crisis by Means of the State or Revolution?
Ipsita Chatterjee: Marx’s “Species Being” as an Ontological Revolution Against the “Green City/Global City” Agenda: Two Possible Moments of Reclaiming “Species Life”
Antonia Schuster, Ilona M. Otto: Understanding Socio-metabolic Inequalities Using Consumption Data from Germany
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José Luis Oreiro, João Pedro Heringer Machado: The decelerating pace of China’s rate of economic growth:a new-developmentalist approach
Antonio Corrêa de Lacerda: Reindustrialization and Development of Brazilian Economy
Liam Stanley, Tom McGrath, Tom Hunt: The social meaning of wealth taxes
Matt Barlow: Export taxes in Argentina: Embedded ideas of state interventionism
Sarah Bracking, Maud Borie, Glenn Sim, Theo Temple: Turning investments green in bond markets: Qualification, devices and morality
Chris Hurl & Alia Nurmohamed: Building walls within walls: Making value defensible in Public Private Partnerships
Andrea Muehlebach: Life as debt, or debt to life? Water, finance and infrastructure
Brian Silverstein: Economizing chemical compounds: The production of qualities in Turkish olive oil
Maurizio Meloni & Galib Bashirov: The ‘government of men’: Moving beyond Foucault’s binaries
Eckhard Hein and Gennaro Zezza: ‘I see my research and my teaching as trying to understand the world in which we live, to paraphrase Keynes’ — Interview with Steven Fazzari
Eckhard Hein: Varieties of demand and growth regimes – post-Keynesian foundations
Bruno Amable: Nothing new under the sun: the so-called ‘growth model perspective’
Karsten Kohler, Benjamin Tippet, and Engelbert Stockhammer: House price cycles, housing systems, and growth models
Ryan Woodgate: FDI-led growth models: Sraffian supermultiplier models of export platforms and tax havens
Michael Schedelik, Andreas Nölke, Christian May, and Alexandre Gomes: Dependency revisited: commodities, commodity-related capital flows and growth models in emerging economies
Ümit Akcay and Benjamin Jungmann: Growth regimes, dominant social blocs and growth strategies: towards varieties of export-led growth regimes and strategies in Turkey and Poland
Eckhard Hein, Gennaro Zezza: ‘I see my research and my teaching as trying to understand the world in which we live, to paraphrase Keynes’ — Interview with Steven Fazzari
Ümit Akcay, Eckhard Hein, Benjamin Jungmann, Ryan Woodgate: Editorial to the special issue: Frontiers in Growth Regimes Research I: Theoretical Perspectives and Conceptual Issues
Eckhard Hein: Varieties of demand and growth regimes – post-Keynesian foundations
Bruno Amable: Nothing new under the sun: the so-called ‘growth model perspective’
Karsten Kohler, Benjamin Tippet, Engelbert Stockhammer: House price cycles, housing systems, and growth models
Ryan Woodgate: FDI-led growth models: Sraffian supermultiplier models of export platforms and tax havens
Michael Schedelik, Andreas Nölke, Christian May, Alexandre Gomes: Dependency revisited: commodities, commodity-related capital flows and growth models in emerging economies
Ümit Akcay, Benjamin Jungmann: Growth regimes, dominant social blocs and growth strategies: towards varieties of export-led growth regimes and strategies in Turkey and Poland
Bram De Rock & Guillaume Périlleux: Time Use and Life Satisfaction within Couples: A Gender Analysis for Belgium
Gitanjali Sen & Dhanushka Thamarapani: Keeping Girls in Schools Longer: The Kanyashree Approach in India
Sarah F. Small: Patriarchal Rent Seeking in Entrepreneurial Households: An Examination of Business Ownership and Housework Burdens in Black and White US Couples
Sheela Sinharoy, Yuk Fai Cheong, Greg Seymour, Jessica Heckert, Erin R. Johnson & Kathryn M. Yount: The Time-Use Agency Scale: Development and Validation of a Measure for Ghana and Beyond
Astrid Agenjo-Calderón:The Sustainability of Life Approach: A State of Affairs
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Lara Maestripieri: Women’s Involuntary Part-Time Employment and Household Economic Security in Europe
Lisa Hanzl & Miriam Rehm: Less Work, More Labor: School Closures and Work Hours During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Austria
Ishaan Bansal & Kanika Mahajan: COVID-19, Income Shocks, and Women’s Employment in India
Contents of issue 1:
Bruno Huberman: Why the Brazilian Jewish Left Is Not Anti-Zionist: The politics of the Zionist Left as Counter-revolutionary Gatekeepers in Brazil
Benjamin Balthaser: Not Your Good Germans. Holocaust Memory, Anti-Fascism, and the anti-Zionism of the Jewish New Left
Peter Drucker: Far-Right antisemitism and Heteronationalism: Building Jewish and Queer Resistance
Leandros Fisher: “For Israel and communism”? Making sense of Germany’s Antideutsche
Cihan Özpınar: Containing Muslims: Europe’s lower-strata working-class Muslims and the weaponisation of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia
Sune Haugbølle: Global Palestine Solidarity and the Jewish Question
Miriyam Aouragh: Visual reverberations: Antisemitism and the erasure of Revolutionary pedagogy
Contents of issue 2:
Jean-Pierre Couture: The French Debate on Zur Judenfrage: From an Anachronistic Trial to the Crisis of Secularism
Michael Löwy. Translated by Inez Hedges: Franz Kafka and Antisemitism: The historical context of Der Prozess
Igor Shoikhedbrod: Revisiting the ‘Jewish Question’ and Its Contemporary Discontents
Enzo Traverso. Translated by David Fernbach: Auschwitz and Hiroshima:Günther Anders
Ishay Landa: Rootism, Modernity, and the Jew: Antisemitism and the Reactionary Imaginary, 1789-1945
Neil Levi: Power, Politics, and Personification: Toward a Critique of Postone’s Theory of Antisemitism
Harry Bloch, John Hawkins: Note from the Editors
Matthew Smith: Adam Smith on Growth and Economic Development
Lisa Hill: Adam Smith’s New Science of Welfare and Happiness
William Oliver Coleman: Adam Smith’s Case against the British Empire
Selwyn Cornish, Alex Millmow, John Hawkins: ‘Go East, Young Man’: A Conversation with Selwyn Cornish AM
Thomas Ferguson & Mario Seccareccia: Alain Parguez and His Contributions to Political Economy: Introduction
Massimo Cingolani: Parguez, the Monetary Circuit, and the Spread of Financialisation
Riccardo Bellofiore: Against the Streams: Alain Parguez and the Theory of the Monetary Circuit
Louis-Philippe Rochon, Gregorio Vidal, Wesley C. Marshall: The Legacy of Alain Parguez and his Ongoing Research Agenda: Capitalism, the Financial Circuit and the State
John Smithin: Profit, Interest, and Wages in the Monetary Circuit
Mario Seccareccia: Government Deficit Spending and Inflation: Alain Parguez and the Post-Keynesians
Éric Berr, Virginie Monvoisin: Monetary Circuit Theory, Stock-Flow Consistent Modeling and Parguez’s Analysis
Slim Thabet: The Circuit in the History of Economic Thought: The Contribution of Ibn Khaldûn
Esther Leemann, Cari Tusing: Indigenous collective land titling and the creation of leftovers: Insights from Paraguay and Cambodia
Olivia del Giorgio: A framework for understanding land control transfer in agricultural commodity frontiers
Kubra M. Altaytas: Agrarian change in neoliberal Turkey: Insights from privatization of the sugar industry
Gerardo Otero: Blaming the victim or structural conditioning? COVID-19, obesity and the neoliberal diet
Paramjit Singh, Mukesh Kumar: How to differentiate peasant classes in capital-intensive agriculture?
Xiaojun Feng: Control, exploitation and exclusion: Experiences of small farmer e-tailers in agricultural e-commerce in China
Farai Mtero, Nkanyiso Gumede, Katlego Ramantsima: Emerging patterns of accumulation in land redistribution in South Africa
Eric Vides-Borrell, Pierre Gasselin, Bruce G. Ferguson, Luciana Porter-Bolland, Tiffany Dangla-Pelissier, Simon Ayvayan, Rémy Vandame: Agricultural intensification increases farmers' income but reduces food self-sufficiency and bee diversity: Evidence from southeast Mexico
Mary V. Wrenn: Multi-Level Marketing: A Neoliberal Institution
Olivier Mesly & Nicolas Huck: Financial Market Paradigm Shifts and Consumer Financial Spinning
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Clara Jean & Vincent Lefrere: Use of Personal Data for Monetization Purposes: The Case of Mobile Applications
Jamie Morgan: The Economics of Tax Behavior: The Absence of a Reflexive Ethical-Economic Agent
Andrew Mearman, Sebastian Berger & Danielle Guizzo: What is Heterodox Economics? Insights from Interviews with Leading Thinkers
Alex Stewart: Academic Snobbery and the Prospects for Heterodox Economics
Geoffrey M. Hodgson: Thorstein Veblen and Socialism
Luca Fiorito & Massimiliano Vatiero: On the Origins of American Business Leaders: Frank W. Taussig, Carl S. Joslyn, and the “Brain Trust” of American Eugenics
José Maltaca & Felipe Almeida: Connections Between Thorstein Veblen’s Institutionalism and Celso Furtado’s Mature Writings
Simon Derpmann: Bringing Money to the Market: The Ambiguity in Polanyi’s Third “Fictitious Commodity”
Zengping He: How Is Money Driven? The Case in Shanghai (1949–1950)
Morris Altman: Mental Models, Decision-Making, Bargaining Power, and Institutional Change
Cristhian Seiler & Víctor Ramiro Fernández: Fragmented State in a Neo-Developmental Experience: Examining Limits in Argentine Industrial Policy
Arne Heise: Minimum Wages, Employment, and the “Harmony of Illusions”
Scott Alan Carson: Institutions, Gender, and Net Nutrition during Economic Development: The United States from 1860s–1930s
Jai S. Mah: COVID-19 and Global Distributive Justice
Selin Köksal Araç & Serap Çabuk: How Do Ethically Minded Consumers Explain Intention-Behavior Gap? Barriers to Ethical Purchasing in Turkey
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William Van Lear: Reflections on Goldberg and Torras’s “Explaining Stagnant Living Standards in a Generalized Asset Growth Context”
Robert Goldberg & Mariano Torras: Our Response to Van Lear’s “Reflections” on our Article
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Robert W. Dimand: IRVING FISHER, RAGNAR FRISCH, AND THE ELUSIVE QUEST FOR MEASURABLE UTILITY
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Sergio Parrinello: Rejoinder to Bellino and Nerozzi
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Tony Lawson: Towards a relational economics
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Richard Norgaard: Unlimited limits and the challenges of living in reciprocity with nature
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Randall Wray and Yeva Nersisyan: Demographics, the economy and the environment: An MMT approach
Victor Beker: On ecology and economics
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Matteo Deleidi, Santiago José Gahn & Riccardo Pariboni: Activity Levels and the Flexibility of the Degree of Capacity Utilisation in the US
Daniela Tavasci & Luigi Ventimiglia: The Prospects of the Italian Economy in the Centenary of Paolo Sylos Labini's Birth
Theofanis Papageorgiou & Panayotis G. Michaelides: Abstraction in the Marxian Oeuvre: Tendencies, Laws and Dialectics
Alban Mathieu: International Political Economy and Exchange Rate Regime: A Question of Sustainability
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Emiliano Brancaccio & Fabiana De Cristofaro: In Praise of ‘general laws’ of Capitalism: Notes from a Debate with Daron Acemoglu
Juan Barredo-Zuriarrain: Credit-Fueled Demand and Shrinking Aggregate Supply: A Study on the Hyperinflation in Venezuela
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Natalia Bracarense & Paulo Afonso Bracarense Costa: Green Jobs: Sustainable Path for Environmental Conservation and Socio-Economic Stability and Inclusion
Louison Cahen-Fourot, Gaël Plumecocq et Franck-Dominique Vivien: Réinterroger le capitalisme contemporain : vers une écologie politique de l'écologie
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Cesar L. Escalante, Penghui Gao, William Secor: Loan packaging decisions for beginning African American and other socially disadvantaged farmers
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David M. Zimmer: The effects of infant daycare on later‐in‐life employment outcomes
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By Hagen M. Krämer, Christian R. Proaño, and Mark Setterfield | Edward Elgar, 2023
After more than four decades of real income stagnation, ever-increasing inequality and household financial distress, this book explores how the very fabric of our society is under threat. It argues that although capitalism is imperfect, it can be improved, and harnessing its forces of production to more suitable social relations of production is key to that improvement.
Highlighting the concept of ‘social capitalism’ and ensuring that it is consistent with our underlying theoretical vision of how capitalism works, chapters address the need for an alternative theory of economic policy-making by combining elements of Marx, Keynes, and Schumpeter (MKS). Applying their emphasis on distributive conflicts, effective demand, and innovation, the MKS system provides an in-depth description of capitalist dynamics and how they reflect observed capitalist history. Based on this approach, Capitalism, Inclusive Growth, and Social Protection suggests that an unregulated capitalistic system is inherently unstable, generates social inequality and is ultimately unviable.
This comprehensive book is an excellent resource for scholars concerned with alternatives to prevailing economics who wish to examine more intensively the current problems of capitalism. The analysis will also be of great value to policy makers and representatives of civil society.
Please find a link to the book here.
Edited by Sara Hsu | Edward Elgar, 2023
Beginning with the 2008 global crisis in the United States, and particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic shook economies around the world, academics, practitioners, and other experts have become increasingly sensitised to the potential for financial and economic fragility to result in a systemic breakdown. Presenting a synopsis of lessons learnt from financial crises arising out of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, each entry examines a unique past issue to help to develop future outcomes, operating as a touchstone for further research.
This Encyclopedia is vital for those who wish to learn from the past in preparation for economic turbulence ahead. With wide coverage of causes, events and outcomes, it offers an insightful sample of financial crises in various regions and times throughout modern history.
This authoritative work will be incredibly useful for students and scholars of finance management, policy and economics.
Please find a link to the book here.
By Joan Martínez-Alier | Edward Elgar, 2023
This ground-breaking book makes visible the global counter-movement for environmental justice, combining ecological economics and political ecology. Using 500 in-depth empirical analyses from the Atlas of Environmental Justice, Martínez-Alier analyses the commonalities shared by environmental defenders and offenders respectively.
Each narrative emphasizes the diverse vocabularies, iconographies, and valuation languages of poor and Indigenous activists without losing sight of the global scale of climate action and biodiversity loss. Revealing the circularity gap at the centre of the industrial economy, the book focuses on the frontiers of commodity extraction and waste disposal. Alongside exploring protagonists and geographies of resistance, chapters delve into corporate irresponsibility, unequal trade, and feminist neo-Malthusianism. Although grassroots movements for socio-economic sustainability are deeply diverse, there are global patterns of action and empowerment.
This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of environmental social sciences and humanities, anthropology, geography, international relations, and ecology. It will also help activists engaged in the movements for environmental justice.
Please find a link to the book here.
Edited by Rob Hunter, Rafael Khachaturian & Eva Nanopoulos |
This book builds on the recent revival of interest in Marx and Marxism, calling for a renewal and refinement of Marxist state theory. It aims to provoke and encourage new debates and critiques that build on—but also update and extend—the rich tradition of Marxist analyses of the capitalist state, including the well-known debates of the 1970s. The chapters present a dynamic and diverse constellation of arguments and perspectives on a range of topics, from general re-appraisals of the capitalist state to investigations of contemporary challenges—including digitalisation, the ecological crisis, the coronavirus pandemic, social reproduction, and critical political economy. What they share is a commitment to an understanding of the specifically capitalist character of the modern state and its significance for any serious discussion of the causes of our current age of global catastrophe and the overcoming of capitalist social relations.
Please find a link to the book here.
Edited by Fernando Toledo and Louis-Philippe Rochon | Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023
This ground-breaking book analyses the severe monetary policy challenges facing Latin American countries. Contributors reflect on how these issues should be addressed by policy-makers, identifying the need for a synergic response from regional central banks.
Arguing that the challenges currently faced by regional central banks are intrinsically related, this book examines the risks generated by an international climate of uncertainty. It explores how to address inflationary pressures, output contraction, external vulnerabilities, tightness in advanced central banks’ monetary policies, nominal dollar appreciation, and falling commodity prices. Chapters focus on key elements of monetary policy, including transmission channels, exchange rates, international reserves, sustainable finance, and income inequality, to give an alternative view on the position of regional central banks in the global financial system.
Monetary Policy Challenges in Latin America will be an invaluable resource for students and scholars of monetary policy, development economics, banking, and political economy. It will also be essential reading for policy-makers seeking new perspectives on monetary policy.
Please find a link to the book here.
By Luis Suarez-Villa | Routledge, 2023
Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism is a major contribution to our understanding of how technology oligopolies are shaping America’s social, economic, and political reality.
Technology oligopolies are the most powerful socioeconomic entities in America. From cradle to grave, the decisions they make affect the most intimate aspects of our lives, how we work, what we eat, our health, how we communicate, what we know and believe, whom we elect, and how we relate to one another and to nature. Their power over markets, trade, regulation, and most every aspect of our governance is more intrusive and farther-reaching than ever. They benefit from tax breaks, government guarantees, and bailouts that we must pay for and have no control over. Their accumulation of capital creates immense wealth for a minuscule elite, deepening disparities while politics and governance become ever more subservient to their power. They determine our skills and transform employment through the tools and services they create, as no other organizations can. They produce a vast array of goods and services with labor, marketing, and research that are more intrusively controlled than ever, as workplace rights and job security are curtailed or disappear. Our consumption of their products—and their capacity to promote wants—is deep and far reaching, while the waste they generate raises concerns about the survival of life on our planet. And their links to geopolitics and the martial domain are stronger than ever, as they influence how warfare is waged and who will be vanquished.
Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism’s critical, multidisciplinary perspective provides a systemic vision of how oligopolistic power shapes these forces and phenomena. An inclusive approach spans the spectrum of technology oligopolies and the ways in which they deploy their power. Numerous, previously unpublished ideas expand the repertory of established work on the topics covered, advancing explanatory quality—to elucidate how and why technology oligopolies operate as they do, the dysfunctions that accompany their power, and their effects on society and nature. This book has no peers in the literature, in its scope, the unprecedented amount and diversity of documentation, the breadth of concepts, and the vast number of examples it provides. Its premises deserve to be taken into account by every student, researcher, policymaker, and author interested in the socioeconomic and political dimensions of technology in America.
Please find a link to the book here.
By Neil Davidson | Haymarket Books, 2023
While it is widely agreed that neoliberalism arose in the wake of the global economic crisis of the 1970s, there remains much debate about how to understand its significance and even how to define it. Is it best seen as an ideology of free market fundamentalism, a series of policy decisions gutting the public sector and breaking unions, or as an era of capitalist development with its own logic.
Bringing his considerable intellectual breadth and characteristic generosity to bear on this question, Neil Davidson shows that to truly appreciate what is unique about neoliberalism, and what marks it out as a continuation of capitalism more generally, it is necessary to examine its social dimensions. What Was Neoliberalism? holds fast to Davidson’s conviction that thoroughly understanding the past means being better prepared for the struggles of the future.
Please find a link to the book here.
The interdisciplinary themed pathway engages with a broad range of societal challenges emerging at the intersection of gender equality, social inclusion, and justice; and uses multi-disciplinary perspectives to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment. Students are supervised by world-leading social scientists in key disciplines including economics, sociology, criminology, education, psychology, development studies, business, politics, and law, with leading experts from associated disciplinary areas of literature, history, languages, art and design introducing a valuable arts and humanities perspective to the social science programme (see details of supervisors below).
Potential applicants need to apply through the UBEL website and should read carefully the guidance given there.
Our research initiatives in this area are co-ordinated by the Centre for Communities and Social Justice, within the broader Institute for Inclusive Communities and Environments, Centres of Inequalities and Centre for Vulnerable Children and Families, within the Institute for Lifecourse Development, Centres for Research in Employment and Work and Centre of Political Economy, Governance, Finance and Accountability at the Greenwich Business School and the Gender and Social Difference group within the world-leading Natural Resource Institute.
Our research is highly inter and transdisciplinary with work on gender and intersectionality addressing: gendered human rights, gender based violence, employment, income and wealth inequality; care economy, green economy; food systems and nutrition s; governance and rights of/to land and nature ; climate change and environmental sustainability; ‘race’, intersections of ‘race’, ethnicity, class, disability, Indigeneity, LGBTQIA+ inequalities care work, migration and gender economics; reproductive rights and global health; children, families and communities, crime and deviance, social reproduction, political ecology and cultural studies. We also offer training in feminist, intersectional decolonizing and global south research methodologies including research co-production, participatory action research and creative, art-based practices.
A key indicator of the excellence and research impact of Intersectional Gender Inequalities research is the engagement of UoG staff on government advisory panels. For example, Onaran was invited by the Korean Development Institute in 2017-18, the Brazilian government funded research institute of Applied Economics Forsythe was invited to participate in the Global Food Security Summit in November, and an invited speaker on GBV and food systems with UN women and FAO.
We have a large pool of potential supervisors. Some of these, especially Ade-Ojo, Jameson, Monks, Onaran, Pacella, Reynolds, Vacchelli are experienced supervisors having supervised multiple PhDs to completion. Others listed may be newer to PhD supervision, including ECRs, but have highly relevant research experience and interests.
For discussion on proposed projects for a UBEL application, please contact at most two of the named supervisors below, following the guidance on the UBEL website, well ahead of the application deadline. Ozlem Onaran is available to answer questions by candidates interested in a PhD with a focus on feminist economics.
The deadline for preliminary applications via the UBEL website for entry in September 2024 is 15 January 2024. We are also committed to equality, diversity and inclusion, increasing and widening the participation of groups that are traditionally under-represented in PhD research and scholarship.
We currently have 19 PhD students working on social science topics related to gender and intersectional gender inequalities. These students benefit from the wider facilities and opportunities enjoyed by UoG 500 students, including a flourishing Doctoral Society.
Under University of Greenwich regulations, each research student is supervised by a team of three supervisors. Further details of potential supervisors are given below, please visit their webpages for a fuller account of their research interests.
Application Deadline: 15January 2024.
The Mint Magazine is a magazine that focuses on a critical evaluation of current economics as well as related dominant practices in economic policy and business. It regularly features heterodox approaches, is now entering it's fifth year of activity and can be accessed here.
Some articles in the Mint Magazine can be accessed for free (e.g. this interesting piece) and also institutional subscriptions can be made. The latter is recommended for departments with a heterodox orientation to support researcher and students with staying on track with recent economic and policy issues.
Franz Prante (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany) and Karsten Kohler (University of Leeds, UK) have created a new website that provides free pedagogical resources for the simulation of macroeconomic models in the open-source programming languages R and Python.
The platform will be useful for students of economics, academics who teach macroeconomics, academics in other fields who want to get an understanding of macroeconomics, and anyone who wants to develop their coding skills, considering that R and Python are two of the major open-source programming languages that are widely used nowadays in academia as well as the public and private sector.
As the platform covers macroeconomic models of different degrees of complexity, it provides resources for students from the second-year undergraduate level up to the PhD level. The platform’s resources can be utilised in the teaching of macroeconomics courses where they will contribute an interactive element that hones intuition, e.g. in seminar sessions. In times of increased cross-disciplinary research, the platform will also help researchers outside of economics to understand key ideas in macroeconomics. For example, in fields such as engineering, environmental sciences, and epidemiology, numerical simulations are commonly applied. The platform’s simulation approach to macroeconomics thus provides a point of contact with those disciplines, thereby facilitating interdisciplinary research collaborations.
Please find a link to the website here.
Because of numerous discussions inside the heterodox economics community on the escalation of violence in Gaza, we decided to link related statements of heterodox associations and related interest-groups in the following. The Heterodox Newsletter as a scientific community service takes no stance in the associated debates, but we try to reflect ongoing discussions within the community. Feel free to write us a Mail to add those we have overseen!
The School of Political Economy (SPE) was established in 2019 to provide high-quality tertiary-level courses in economics and political economy. The approach taken is pluralist and interdisciplinary with an even-handed approach being taken to competing approaches. Class sizes are small yet course fees charged are modest. Over 700 people have undertaken SPE's courses since 2019, with people regularly doing the same courses two or three times because they continue to get so much out of them in terms of both learning and enjoyment. There is a ten-day, no questions asked, money back guarantee in place to allow people to assess whether a course suits their needs and expectations. Teaching staff are highly experienced and well qualified. Come and experience economics and political economy taught as it should be.
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