Heterodox Economics Newsletter

Issue 333 October 07, 2024 web pdf Heterodox Economics Directory

Wealth is in many ways a key topic in heterodox economic research: for one, it is a key source of social stratification and determines the class position of individuals and households. For another, the distribution of wealth is highly unequal, which creates socio-economic power asymmetries, that give rise to differential returns, which often reinforce existing inequalities. This latter observation holds on the level of households, but also on the level of nations, where rich nations can often easily acquire key assets in foreign countries biasing the distribution of future returns in their favor. And, finally, wealth is also economically powerful: the investments undertaken out of private wealth are not only a key driver of economic growth, but also shape the developmental trajectory of nations.

Observations like these motivate much of my research on wealth inequality: For about a decade now I, together with some highly cherished colleagues (like Rafael Wildauer, Ines Heck and Anna Hornykewycz), use the data supplied by the Household Finance and Consumption Survey (HFCS) of the European Central Bank to provide plausible empirical accounts of wealth concentration in Austria and Europe and to assess the potential revenue of a tax on net wealth for the top 1-3% of the population (see., e.g., here, here or here).

This year we got lucky and could publish our estimates right before the national elections took place – and indeed our estimates pointed to significant revenues (about 1-3% of GDP, depending on the exact definition of tax brackets), which gave some credibility to those parties that were pushing for wealth and inheritance taxes. In times of rising inequality and surging inflation, one could expect that voters have some sympathy for such proposals. However, as the results of our national elections indicate voters did not favor 'taxing the rich', but, rather, preferred a version of 'hunting the poor' by voting for right-wing populists, who promised to save on refugees and foreign-born citizens. This is a pity as we have to concede that it is much more difficult to come up with plausible economic solutions and suggestions in a discursive climate that is fuelled by rage, disappointment, and hate. In such a climate numbers will drown in narratives and, seemingly, those pushing for more equality need some improved narratives ;-)

On quite a different level wealth inequality in Africa was the key topic of a SummerSchool I organized jointly with Howard Stein and Resty Naiga at Makerere University in Kampala two weeks ago (see also my last editorial). As expected, I could learn a lot from both, presenters as well as students, about how wealth inequality dynamics play out in diverse parts of Africa. A quite general finding was that the formalization of land ownership – that is, transferring communal into private property – is a key issue of contention in many countries. It comes with several drawbacks that often challenge the assertion that formalized ownership is more secure and reliable. Rather, we saw how formal ownership can lead to an overburdening of households with (one-time) fees and (reoccurring) taxes that often undermine land accumulation by local households and families. These costs will eventually create a too high bar for many as income from agricultural production is often too small and volatile to cover the associated costs, which forces people to sell the very land, whose ownership they just formalized.

This amounts to a specific notion of poverty traps, where existing assets are not enough to earn the income needed for sustaining and preserving these assets. For me this pattern illustrates that the notion of cumulative advantage, which is often used to describe 'rich-get-richer' effects, could be completed by a notion of cumulative disadvantage, where downward spirals affect those households that have too few assets to cover the basic costs associated with these assets (see, e.g., here for an applied example). All this illustrates how cumulative (dis)advantage as a shared cornerstone of heterodox economics is a quite general concept that can explain many aspects of wealth dynamics in many different socio-economic contexts.

Best,

Jakob

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Table of contents

Call for Papers

6th Congress on Economic and Social History (Berlin, March 2025)

18-20 March 2025 | Humboldt University Berlin, Germany

Conference Theme: "War and Conflict"

Organizers: Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (GSWG) and Wirtschaftshistorischer Ausschuss im Verein für Socialpolitik (VfS)

The Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte (Society for Social and Economic History) and the Wirtschaftshistorischer Ausschuss as part of the Verein für Socialpolitik (Economic History Committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik) are jointly organizing their 6th Congress on Economic and Social History. We cordially invite submissions to this conference.

The conference will include contributions on the core topic as well as an open part with sections on topics that are not predetermined. The core theme is "War and Conflict."

We live in a world in which the number of wars and conflicts is increasing enormously. In particular, the intensity of military conflicts that take place in our vicinity or that can have a significant impact on Central Europe's economy and society has reached a new dimension in recent years. Trade flows are being redirected, migration flows are intensified, relative prices are shifting, production methods and consumption are changing. But how exactly do these processes work? In this situation, economic and social history is particularly challenged to use qualitative and quantitative analyses to explore what insights can be gained from earlier war and conflict situations. The historically oriented sub-disciplines of the economic and social sciences have a particular responsibility to provide answers to key questions of the present based on a sound understanding of the past.

Submissions related to the core theme may cover the period from the Middle Ages to the recent past and examine the above-mentioned topics from the perspective of individuals, groups, companies, or states. In addition to case studies, comparative contributions and those using new methods of digital history are particularly welcome.

The organizers invite submissions of individual papers and sections in German or English on both the core topic and the open part.

For each contribution, the following information is requested in a single PDF file: Title of the paper; abstract of the paper (max. 200 words); name and short CV of the author(s); contact information.

For the first time, the GSWG is awarding travel and accommodation grants of up to €100 per person. The requirements are:

  1. You are invited to present your paper at the Congress.
  2. You have not yet successfully completed your doctorate on 15 November 2024.

Proposals should be submitted until 15 November 2024 to: GSWG@ur.de

Submission Deadline: 15 November 2024

Conference on "The Great Transition: Reviving post-capitalist solidarities" (Montreal, May 2025)

29 May - 1 June 2025 | Montreal, Canada

"The Great Transition: Reviving post-capitalist solidarities"

With the collaboration of Alternatives and Historical Materialism Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Quebec, Canada - May 29 to June 1, 2025

The Great Transition collective is calling on all those interested in building a fairer future to propose activities for the fifth edition of its international conference. The event aims to foster reflection on ways to strengthen left forces, social movements, and activist groups, both in their practices and in their theoretical analyses. This edition is also part of the World Social Forum of Intersections 2025 (WSFI), which calls for alliances, joint mobilizations and the decompartmentalization of our movements struggles.

To find out more about how to take part and submit a proposal for a paper, panel, round table or other activity by consulting the call for papers, actions and workshops. The deadline for submissions is October 13, 2024 at 11:59PM. If you have any questions, please contact us at info@thegreattransition.net.

Submission Deadline: 13 October 2024 (11:59pm)

History of Political Economy: Special Issue on “The Wealth of Nations at 250”

The Journal History of Political Economy (HOPE) calls for papers for a Special Issue on “The Wealth of Nations at 250”.

From the year of its publication to the present day, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations has never ceased to arouse passion and interest among its many readers, admirers, and detractors. This book has provoked intense controversy, as well as the most antithetical interpretations and appropriations. While the debates surrounding Smith’s thought have been continuous, their content has evolved with the great stakes of each era, as well as with the gradual discovery of new primary material.

So much so that each generation has, in a way, made its own Adam Smith. Celebrations for the centenary of The Wealth of Nations revealed the 19th-century Smith as the forerunner of both deductive and inductive economic science, in the midst of the methodological dispute between the classical and historical school. In response to the challenge posed by the well-known ‘Adam Smith problem’, The Wealth of Nations’ sesquicentennial and bicentennial have shaped the 20th-century Smith invoked by some in defense of purely rational self-interested agents, and by others as a portraitist of individuals moved primarily by emotions and feelings.

On the occasion of the upcoming 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations, this special issue aims to shed new light on this book by giving us a glimpse of what the controversial Smith of the 21st century might look like.

Submission Process

Full papers (including a short abstract) should be submitted no later than 1 July 2025 to the Guest Editor: michele.bee@unisalento.it After a pre-selection process, submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by anonymous referees in accordance with the regular procedures of History of Political Economy (HOPE). The issue is scheduled for publication as the 5th regular issue of HOPE in 2026.

Submission Deadline (full papers): 1 July 2025

International Conference on "Cyborg Worker 2.0: The Past, Present and Future of Automated Labour" (Brussels, February 2025)

13-14 February 2025 | Brussels, Belgium

The conference “Cyborg Workers 2.0: The Social and Environmental Costs of Big Tech” will be hosted by the European Trade Union Institute (ETUI) in Brussels, Belgium (in February, 13 and February, 14, 2025). The deadline to submit abstracts is November, 1, 2024.

The conference builds on conversations and interventions launched at the international conference, “Cyborg Workers: The Past, Present, and Future of Automated Work,” which took place at the Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in June 2023.

The main goal and ambition of the conference is to challenge the framing of mainstream discussions about automation of work and to deepen our understanding of the transformation of work by technology, particularly regarding the social and environmental costs of Big Tech. We welcome perspectives from historians, philosophers, and scholars from the social sciences.

Keynote lectures will be delivered by Ursula Huws (University of Hertfordshire) and Jason Resnikoff (University of Groningen).

Abstract Submission

Please submit your proposal of no more than 400 words as well as a short bio of no more than 150 words, via this Google form. For co-authored papers, please identify a first author. If accepted, the first author will be presenting the co-authored paper at the conference.

We will send out acceptance notifications by mid-November. We will prioritize notifying participants who will need a visa to travel to Brussels. Please let us know in the Google form if you will need a visa so we can prepare supporting documentation in a timely manner.

We also strive to make limited funds available to accepted participants (first authors) to cover travel and accommodation expenses. Preference will be given to scholars from the Global South. We will be in touch about the details with accepted participants.

Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact Richard A. Bachmann (North America and Global South Contact) at ribachm@umich.edu or Michele Santoro (Europe Contact) at santoromichele7047@gmail.com.

Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 November 2024

Interventions économiques/Papers in Political Economy: Special Issue on "New Trade Linkages, Old Trade Disconnects"

Special Issue on "New Trade Linkages, Old Trade Disconnects: Drivers, governance and effects of integrated trade policies in a fragmented world economy"

A Special Issue of Interventions économiques/Papers in Political Economy edited by Jean-Baptiste Velut (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Louise Dalingwater (Sorbonne Université), Richard Ouellet (Université Laval) and Gabriel Siles-Brügge (University of Bristol).

Introduction

The China shock, the rise of nationalism, the climate crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic and the Russian invasion of Ukraine all have a common denominator for the international trading system: these systemic shocks have all led to a major rethinking of trade policies and their relations to other policy spheres. To begin with, the meteoric ascent of China as the world’s first manufacturing producer and exporter has been a tectonic shift in world politics and economics, with dramatic socio economic effects that have been – and continue to be – felt across industrialized countries (Autor et al. 2013; Autor 2023; Autor 2024). This has had three notable consequences for trade linkages. First, the China shock(s) have redefined the links between domestic and international politics by discrediting trade liberalization and free market policies, leading to a resurgence of economic interventionism in multiple forms, not least with new industrial policies (Bulfone, 2023; Criscuolo et al., 2022; McNamara, 2023; Velut 2024). Second, and in parallel, the dislocating effects of Chinese competition have been widely instrumentalized for electoral purposes and connected protectionist discourse with anti-immigrant rhetoric (Noland, 2020; Polaski et al. 2020; Velut, 2018). These new trade-migration linkages have contributed to normalize and legitimize nationalist narratives. Third, the return of great power competition have contributed to a new – or more accurately renewed – “geopoliticization or “securitization” of trade where security and national interests are intricately interconnected. This intensifying geo-economic competition has translated into a diversification of trade policy instruments, a decentering process away from traditional free trade agreements (FTAs) that includes an ever expanding list of export restrictions, the tightening of investment screening and the proliferation of sectoral “mini-deals” ranging from critical mineral agreements to memoranda of understanding and strategic partnerships (Cernat, 2023; Ferdi De Ville, Simon Happersberger, & Harri Kalimo, 2023; Garcia-Duran, Eliasson & Costa, 2023; Claussen, 2023). The Russian invasion of Ukraine has reinforced the prominence of the trade-security nexus and contributed to the diversifying of trade policies, not least with an unprecedented array of economic sanctions ranging from import bans to export restrictions and asset freezes.

In other words, the “polycrisis” of the twenty-first century (Tooze, 2021) has disrupted both the logic and conduct of trade policies and, most fundamentally, their “embeddedness,” i.e. their linkages with other social and economic policies (Kolben & Rioux, 2023). The legitimation of government intervention and the diversification of trade policy instruments have engendered new ideational collages, institutional arrangements and political economies whose underpinnings and stakes need to
be better understood. When issues don’t link: in search of trade disconnects Far from being the inevitable or natural convergence of an ever-expanding trade agenda, policy linkages and spillovers are the tip of the iceberg of a contested political economy. On the one hand, business interests have long striven to broaden the scope of trade negotiations in new regulatory fields from investment and trade facilitation (e.g. Chase, 2003; Ravenhill, 2016) to intellectual property rights (Sell & Prakash 2004; Muzaka 2009) and digital trade (Azmeh, Foster & Echavarri 2020). On the other, civil society groups have played a key role in harnessing trade liberalization to labor and environmental standards in trade agreements, whether in the EU (Ahnlid, 2013; Hannah, 2016), the US (Destler & Balint 1999; Aaronson, 2001; Aggarwal, 2013; Kay & Evans, 2018), Canada (Boulanger, Rioux, Zini, 2021), New Zealand or Chile to name just a few policy innovators (Velut et al., 2022). This literature has, however, focused on successful attempts to connect issues, but devoted less attention to failed attempts to link policy spheres, i.e. trade disconnects and silos. The latter can be defined as “persistent deliberative forms of exclusion that explicitly or implicitly marginalize certain political actors and policy issues through a combination of discursive, institutional, interscalar, and countermobilizing processes.” (Velut, 2023, p. 251; see also Velut, Siles-Brügge & Dalingwater, 2022).

In other words, the study of trade disconnects shed light on the dynamics of repression that prevent specific issues and policy stakeholders from boarding on the trade policy vessel. Who governs trade linkages? From exclusive club to inclusive processes The questions of international trade linkages and disconnects are inherently linked to the politics of inclusion and exclusion in trade policymaking, not simply in terms of economic redistribution, but also as a matter of representation and deliberation (Goff, 2021a; Velut, Siles-Brügge & Dalingwater, 2022). Civil society input has been central for the inclusion of social and environmental provisions in trade agreements. Today, a growing number of countries including Canada, New Zealand, Switzerland and Chile are calling for more inclusive trade policies that broaden the traditional range of trade policy stakeholders (industries, unions) and take into consideration the interests of women, indigenous populations, small-and-medium enterprises (SME), subnational governments or cultural actors in policymaking (Broschek & Goff, 2020; DeVille & Gheyle, 2022; Goff 2021a & 2021b; Lequesne & Paquin, 2017; Schiavon, 2019; Velut et al., 2022). Whether these stakeholders are better served through institutional mechanisms (co-optation), social mobilization (contestation) or a mix of both is an open question in both scholarly and political circles. In addition, many questions remain about the potential conflicts between the top-down dynamics of security linkages and the bottom-up pressures to further democratize trade policies. Thus, understanding the political economy of trade linkages is crucial to shed light on the synergies, tensions and potential conflicts between what “procedural” and “substantive” democracy or fairness in trade policy (Miller, 2010; see also Stiglitz 2006; Martens & Orbie 2018). These links between processes and outcomes, causes and effects, have extended throughout the entire spectrum of the policy process – from the negotiating table to the reality on the ground. Facing political pressure from both leftwing and far-right constituents, decisionmakers have devoted increasing attention to the implementation and enforcement phase of trade policies. This “enforcement turn” in trade policies is not only clear in the US and EU, but again, among a growing number of trade powers seeking to ensure that social and environmental provisions in trade agreements have concrete effects on the ground (Hoekman & Bondi 2022; Boulanger, Rioux & Zini 2021; Velut et al. 2022). It is, therefore, all the more urgent to decipher the consequences of integrating or re-embedding trade policies and to disentangle the multiple factors that can help nation-states reach so-called “non-trade” policy objectives through trade, be they environmental, social, cultural or strategic. It is also of utter importance to explain how these different goals interact or conflict with one another, e.g. whether new security imperatives might jeopardize trade and sustainability objectives (Orbie 2021; Garnizova & Velut, forthcoming) or the extent to which trade and environmental linkages might conflict with economic development. More broadly, given the prominent resurgence of nationalism, one may wonder whether unilateral or regional approaches to trade links can still be multilateralized (Bacchus 2022), and whether trade law will be subject to new conflicting interpretations under a “spaghetti bowl” crystallizing deglobalization trends. This special issue invites contributions from a wide range of fields (political science, International Relations, law, economics, sociology, area studies etc.) to decipher the drivers, governance and consequences of new or resurgent trade policy linkages – or conversely, the obstacles to new policy marriages – i.e. the determinants of trade disconnects. Papers can be country-specific or comparative studies contrasting the ways in which countries or groups of countries govern trade linkages (or perpetuate trade disconnects). The purpose is to share multidisciplinary perspectives on the multiple ramifications of trade policies in some of the following policy spheres and beyond:

Submission schedule and process

Submission Deadline (abstracts): 15 October 2024

URPE @ EEA (New York City, February 2025)

21-23 February 2025 | Sheraton Times Square Hotel, New York City

URPE members are invited to submit entire organized sessions or individual papers to URPE for our participation in this year's 51 Eastern Economics Association Annual Conference to be held in New York February 21 – 23, 2025 (see Eastern Economic Association conference website https://www.ramapo.edu/eea/ for more information). In its nineteenth year, URPE @ EEA is continuing to provide a forum for URPE members and economists across the heterodox spectrum to meet and engage with each other, andcontinue to develop the frontiers of radical political economy.

If you have any questions on these meetings contact Al Campbell at al@economics.utah.edu.

Workshop on "Austrian economics and political-cultural contexts of bold ideas: The Mises Vienna Private Archive and Interwar Vienna" (Graz, February 2025)

17-18 February 2025 | University of Graz, Graz, Austria

Workshop on "Austrian economics and political-cultural contexts of bold ideas: The Mises Vienna Private Archive and Interwar Vienna"

The workshop will take place from 17th to 18th February 2025 at the University of Graz, Austria.

While at the workshop first results of our screening of the Mises Vienna Archive will be presented, we welcome contributions on the pertinent development of Mises’ thought and its multifaceted contexts, including his development as an economist, social theorist, homo politicus, and “student of civilization”.

Proposals for papers (between 350 and 500 words) should be submitted by email to Mises2025EJHET@gmail.com no later than 28 Nov 2024. Authors whose proposal is accepted will be invited to send a full paper by 12 February 2025. A selection of papers will be discussed during our workshop in Graz (Austria). We are planning a Special Issue or Symposium on Mises in EJHET. Submission deadlines will be announced shortly after the workshop. Of course, submitted papers will then be reviewed by anonymous referees in line with the regular procedures of the journal. For further information, please contact Lukas Starchl under mises2025ejhet@gmail.com.

The Scientific Committee: Alexander Linsbichler (Linz/Vienna), Stefan Karner (Graz) Hansjörg Klausinger (Vienna), Richard Sturn (Graz)

Submission Deadline: 28 November 2024

YSI Pre-IASS Conference Workshop on Adam Smith: Towards the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations (Lecce, March 2025)

27 March, 2025 | Università del Salento, Lecce

2026 marks the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Seeking to build on the momentum of Smith’s 2023 tercentenary, this major anniversary invites scholars to revisit his groundbreaking work of political economy. The YSI History of Economic Thought working group will organize a one-day workshop on 27 March 2025 ahead of the International Adam Smith Society (IASS) annual conference in Lecce, Italy (28-30 March 2025). This is an excellent opportunity for young scholars working on Smith to be able to discuss their work in detail with peers and senior Smith scholars.

The workshop’s title “Towards the 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations”, deliberately leaves space for a broad range of approaches to re-interpreting Smith’s great work, including, but not limited to:

Participants will be asked to pre-circulate some written material two weeks prior to the date of the workshop. This could be a full paper, if available, or shorter draft material (suggested 4000-9000 words). Participants will also need to be registered for the main IASS conference (you can submit your abstract by clicking here). We are aiming to cover costs for travel to and from the conference (including travel from outside Italy), and accommodation for the night before the workshop. We will provide accommodation for the night before and night of the workshop, at least, and for further nights of the conference, if possible. We will not cover conference fees.

Scholars presenting at this workshop and the subsequent conference will be invited to submit their papers for publication in a special issue of the Adam Smith Review marking the 250th anniversary. In addition, up to three workshop participants will be invited to the International Institute of Research of the University of Chicago in Paris to complete their papers following the conference. They will benefit from Faculty support and a workspace, providing the optimal conditions to prepare their papers for publication.

If you are interested in attending the workshop you should:

We will let applicants know the outcome by 31st November.

For further information, click here, or contact any of the workshop organizers:

Application Deadline: 15 November

YSI Summer School on "The Sraffa-Keynes Approach: History, Theory and Applications" (Bengaluru, April 2025)

2-5 April 2025 | Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, India

The Economic Development Working Group of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) of the Institute for New economic Thinking (INET) and Azim Premji University, Bengaluru is organizing a four-days long summer school, titled “The Sraffa-Keynes Approach: History, Theory & Applications”. The summer school will take place at the Azim Premji University campus in Bengaluru.

This summer school follows in the footsteps of two past events that were organized in relation to Sraffa’s economics in India, also supported by the Economic Development Working Group of INET-YSI. In 2024, a 3-day workshop was organized on the ‘Indian Reception to Sraffa’ and in 2022, a 2-day workshop was organized on ‘Understanding Economic Theory and Development in a Sraffian Framework’, both at the University of Hyderabad.

The summer school has the following objectives:

Instructors in this summer school include Tony Aspromourgos (University of Sydney, Australia), Zico Dasgupta (Azim Premji University), Santiago Gahn (Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano, Italy), Maria Cristina Barbieri Góes (University of Bergamo, Italy), Arjun Jayadev (Azim Premji University), Goddanti Omkarnath (University of Hyderabad), Riccardo Pariboni (University of Siena, Italy), Antonella Stirati (Roma Tre University, Italy), Alex M. Thomas (Azim Premji University), Limakumba Walling (University of Hyderabad) and Srishti Yadav (Azim Premji University).

The summer school invites applications from two sets of scholars – (a) the advanced-level students, who have engaged with Sraffa’s economic thought who wish to present their work and obtain feedback (Stream 1) and (b) graduate students who wish to be introduced to the Sraffa-Keynes approach and intend to employ the method in their future work (Stream 2).

In Stream 1, a maximum of 7 people will be selected. And in Stream 2, a maximum of 32 people will be selected. They will receive travel stipends, on-campus accommodation and food during the 4 days. The selected participants are expected to arrive at the venue by April 1st (Tuesday) evening and depart by April 6th (Sunday) morning.

Application Process

Stream 1: The young scholars applying for stream 1, i.e., advanced students who wish to present their work that engages with the Sraffa-Keynes approach and get feedback from senior scholars need to submit an abstract by November 31st 2024. All papers must include an abstract of no more than 750 words. If selected, full articles must be submitted by the deadline.

Stream 2: Graduate students who wish to be introduced to the Sraffa-Keynes approach and plan to employ it in their future work need to submit a 700 to 1000 words-long letter of motivation by November 31st, 2024. The letter should specify their research interests and how this summer school may be useful for them to develop their future work.

For more information please visit the YSI website or the official website of Azim Premji University.

Deadline for submission: 30 November 2024

Call for Participants

4th School of Advanced Studies in the Reappraisal of the Surplus Approach

Centro Sraffa is glad to announce that the Call for applications for the fourth edition of the School of Advanced Studies in the Reappraisal of the Surplus Approach is now online.

The School welcomes applications by PhD students at any stage of their PhD as well as post-doc researchers. Candidatures by undergraduate and Master students will be considered only if their profile is exceptionally strong.

Participants will be introduced to the analyses of the Classical economists and to the modern research conducted within the reappraisal of their theoretical framework. The activity will embrace different topics, ranging from the theory of value and distribution to the study of economic growth, also dealing with applied analyses and policy issues.

The registration fee is 130€ and includes teaching materials, coffee breaks and lunches. Centro Sraffa, with the contribution of the Bank of Italy, grants scholarships for a small number of participants, who will be awarded a contribution to travel and/or staying expenses. Participants may also apply for financial support from Young Scholar Initiative of INET (Institute for New Economic Thinking). Please find more information in the Call for applications.

Important dates:

7th Workshop on New Developmentalism (São Paulo, December 2024)

6-7 December 2024 | São Paulo, Brazil

7th Workshop on New Developmentalism, hosted by the Center for Studies on New Developmentalism of the São Paulo School of Business Administration – Getulio Vargas Foundation – São Paulo, Brazil, a partnership between CND-FGV and YSI-INET

Workshop Topic: "New Developmentalism Theory, twenty years later: Next advances and propositions"

The Center for Studies on New Developmentalism of the Sao Paulo School of Business Administration at Getulio Vargas Foundation is pleased to invite interested candidates to participate in the 7th Workshop on New Developmentalism: New Developmentalism Theory, twenty years later: Next advances and propositions, which will be held in São Paulo, Brazil, on December 6 and 7, 2024.

The program will include, on the first day: a) a mini-course on new developmentalism in which the latest developments of the ND theory will be presented, b) a keynote speech by a renowned international specialist in macroeconomic development and c) two discussion panels with specialists from Brazil and Latin America.

This call for papers applies to the second day of the Workshop. Submissions of papers are welcome on the following subjects:

For Registration please visit the official website. The seminar is sponsored by a partnership between CND-FGV and YSI-INET. For more information, please access our website here.

Webinar on "Fixing the crises in Capitalism and Democracy" (December, London/online)

12 December 2024 | online/London, UK

Round Table Discussion: "Fixing the crises in Capitalism and Democracy"

A round table discussion will take place on Thursday, December 12 by London based Financial Services Club with Oxford Emeritus Professor Colin Mayer, CBE, 2024 author of Capitalism and Crises: How to fix them, Martin Wolf CBE, Financial Times Chief Economics Commentator, 2023 author of The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism, and Dr Shann Turnbull, Principal of the International Institute for Self-governance and 1975 author of Democratising the wealth of nations.

Speakers

Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000 for services to financial journalism. Mr Wolf won the Overseas Press Club of America’s prize for “best commentary on international news in any medium” for 2013 and the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award at the Gerald Loeb Awards. He was a member of the UK’s Independent Commission on Banking in 2010-11 His most recent publication is The Crisis of Democratic Capitalism (London and New York: Allen Lane, 2023).

Colin Mayer is Emeritus Professor of Management Studies at the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford and Visiting Professor at the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, the Centre for Economic Policy Research and the European Corporate Governance Institute, an Emeritus Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, an Honorary Fellow of Oriel College, Oxford and St Anne’s College, Oxford, and he has an Honorary Doctorate from Copenhagen Business School. He was co-chair of the Scottish Government Business Purpose Commission, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Oxford Playhouse, the UK Government Natural Capital Committee, the UK Competition Appeal Tribunal and the International Advisory Board of the Securities and Exchange Board of India. He was chairman of Oxera Ltd. between 1986 and 2010 and a director of the energy modelling company, Aurora Energy Research Ltd between 2013 and 2020. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2017 New Year Honours. Between 2017 and 2021, he led the British Academy enquiry into “the Future of the Corporation” and his most recent book Capitalism and Crises: How to Fix Them is published by Oxford University Press

Dr Shann Turnbull is the founding principal of the International Institute for Self-governance based in Sydney Australia. He is a Founding Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors responsible for its constitution possessing provisions for State based self-governance. After a Harvard MBA, Shann became a serial entrepreneur founding over a dozen firms, including two public mutual funds and three publicly traded corporations. He became a founding author/presenter of the first educational qualification in the world for company directors. The United Nations published a summary of his 1975 book on Democratising the Wealth of Nations. He was invited to Prague in 1990/91 and Beijing in 1991 to advise on stakeholder privatization. He authored Australian Parliamentary reports on Aboriginal self-determination in 1977/8. His 2001 PhD from Macquarie University created a methodology to establish the science of governance of any specie and introduced to social scientists the self-governing concept of Tensegrity. He is a prolific author on using the self-governing practices of biota to reform the theories and practices of capitalism.

For more information and registration please visit the official website.

Workshop on elites in the climate change transformations (Hybrid, November 2024)

You are welcome to register for digital participation in the workshop Elites and climate change transformation, 20-21 November 2024.

DAY 1 CONCEPTUALIZING ECONOMIC ELITES IN THE CLIMATE CHANGE TRANSFORMATION

13.15-17.00

Session 1 Economic Elites in Socio-Ecological Transformations, 13.25-14.15

Presentation: Max Koch

Comment: Ian Gough, Shamus Khan, Ingrid Robeyns

Session 2 Presentations and self-presentations of economic elites, 14.30-15.20

Presentation: Håkan Johansson

Comment: Anu Kantola, Axel Vikström

Session 3 Attitudes towards wealth and wealthy lifestyles, 15.50-16.40

Presentation: Kajsa Emilsson

Comment: Niklas Harring, Maria Nordbrandt Bergström

Final discussion, 16.40-17.00

DAY 2 POSSIBILITIES AND OBSTACLES FOR REGULATING THE WEALTHY/THE POLLUTER ELITE

09.15-12.00

Session 1 Deservingness of the rich – Ecological ceiling and climate emergency as new arguments for limiting wealth?, 9.25-10.15

Presentation: Jayeon Lee & Lovisa Broström

Comment: Richard Bärnthaler, Stefan Gössling, Beth Stratford

Session 2 Mixed-method study of public support for maximum income policy, 10.30-11.20

Presentation: Jayeon Lee & Kajsa Emilsson

Comment: Tijs Laenen, Patrick Sachweh

Final discussion, 11.30-12.00

Invited expert commentators:

Richard Bärnthaler, University of Leeds, Ian Gough, London School of Economics, Stefan Gössling, Linnæus University, Niklas Harring, University of Gothenburg, Anu Kantola, University of Helsinki, Shamus Khan, Princeton University, Tijs Laenen, Tilburg University/KU Leuven. Maria Nordbrandt Bergström, Uppsala University, Ingrid Robeyns, Utrecht University, Patrick Sachweh, University of Bremen, Beth Stratford, University College London, Axel Vikström, Lund University.

RESEARCHERS IN THE PROJECTS: Max Koch, Lund University (PI)Håkan Johansson, Lund UniversityKajsa Emilsson, Lund UniversityJayeon Lee, University of Gothenburg (PI)Lovisa Broström, University of Gothenburg

This workshop is arranged as a part of two research projects funded by FORMAS:Economic Elites in the Climate Change Transformation: Practices, justifications and regulations of unsustainable lifestyles in Sweden at Lund University. Regulating the Polluter Elite: Exploring policy measures limiting carbon footprints of the rich at University of Gothenburg.

REGISTER FOR PARTICIPATION!

You can participate in Lund or register for digital participation in the workshop Elites and Climate Change Transformation.

For participation in person in Lund (commitment for full participation required), please write a separate email tojayeon.lee@socwork.gu.se.

Register for digital participation at: https://sunet.artologik.net/gu/elitesandclimatechangetransformation

After presentations and comments from invited experts there will be time for joint discussion in each session where digital participants are invited.

YSI-Azim Premji University Summer School on The Sraffa-Keynes Approach: History, Theory & Applications (India, April 2025)

Description

The Economic Development Working Group of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) of the Institute for New economic Thinking (INET) and Azim Premji University, Bengaluru is organizing a four-days long summer school, titled “The Sraffa-Keynes Approach: History, Theory & Applications”. The summer school will take place at the Azim Premji University campus in Bengaluru.

This summer school follows in the footsteps of two past events that were organized in relation to Sraffa’s economics in India, also supported by the Economic Development Working Group of INET-YSI. In 2024, a 3-day workshop was organized on the ‘Indian Reception to Sraffa’ and in 2022, a 2-day workshop was organized on ‘Understanding Economic Theory and Development in a Sraffian Framework’, both at the University of Hyderabad.

The summer school has the following objectives:

Instructors in this summer school include Tony Aspromourgos (University of Sydney, Australia), Zico Dasgupta (Azim Premji University), Santiago Gahn (Università degli Studi Niccolò Cusano, Italy), Maria Cristina Barbieri Góes (University of Bergamo, Italy), Arjun Jayadev (Azim Premji University), Goddanti Omkarnath (University of Hyderabad), Riccardo Pariboni (University of Siena, Italy), Antonella Stirati (Roma Tre University, Italy), Alex M. Thomas (Azim Premji University), Limakumba Walling (University of Hyderabad) and Srishti Yadav (Azim Premji University).

The summer school invites applications from two sets of scholars – (a) the advanced-level students, who have engaged with Sraffa’s economic thought who wish to present their work and obtain feedback (Stream 1) and (b) graduate students who wish to be introduced to the Sraffa-Keynes approach and intend to employ the method in their future work (Stream 2).

In Stream 1, a maximum of 7 people will be selected. And in Stream 2, a maximum of 32 people will be selected. They will receive travel stipends, on-campus accommodation and food during the 4 days. The selected participants are expected to arrive at the venue by April 1st (Tuesday) evening and depart by April 6th (Sunday) morning.

HOW TO APPLY

Stream 1: The young scholars applying for stream 1, i.e., advanced students who wish to present their work that engages with the Sraffa-Keynes approach and get feedback from senior scholars need to submit an abstract by November 31st 2024.

All papers must include an abstract of no more than 750 words.

If selected, full articles must be submitted by the deadline.

Stream 2:

Graduate students who wish to be introduced to the Sraffa-Keynes approach and plan to employ it in their future work need to submit a 700 to 1000 words-long letter of motivation by November 31st, 2024. The letter should specify their research interests and how this summer school may be useful for them to develop their future work.

Important dates

Deadline for submission: 30th November 2024

Acceptances: 7th December 2024

Deadline for full papers: 15th March 2025

Please visit the links below for more information:

https://ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/ysi-apu-summer-school-on-the-sraffa-keynes-approach-history-theory-applications/

https://azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/events/2025/the-sraffa-keynes-approach-history-theory-and-applications

Submission Deadline: 30 November 2024

Conference Papers, Reports, and Podcasts

Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast: episode 82

We are delighted to announce our most recent episode of Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast. This month we chat with Laetitia Lenel (Professor of Cultural History of the Economic, University of Duisburg-Essen) to discuss some of her recent work on the role of narratives in economics. You can listen to it here.

Job Postings

European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Austria

Job title: Researcher in Social Protection and Inclusion

The European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, a UN-affiliated intergovernmental organization in Vienna, has a vacancy in its expanding Social Protection and Inclusion Research Team for a researcher to work on a broad range of issues in social protection and inclusion, and related social policy in an international comparative perspective in the UNECE region.

The European Centre offers the possibility for researchers to develop and grow in a working environment that emphasises excellence, interdisciplinary co-operation between colleagues inside and outside the European Centre, a multicultural working environment and autonomy at work.

We offer flexible working hours and a remuneration package compatible with expertise and demonstrated experience.

We would welcome candidates to send their CV and letter of motivation by 28 October 2024 at the latest.

For more information, please check out the job profile.

Application Deadline: 28 October 2024

Arizona State University, US

Job Title: Tenure Track on political thought, American constitutional or political thought, economic thought, or statecraft

The School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership (SCETL) at Arizona State University invites applications for one or two positions, at the assistant, associate, or full professor rank, in any of our four scholarly tracks political thought, American constitutional or political thought, economic thought, or statecraft with an anticipated start date in August 2025.

About The School of Civic and Economic Thought and Leadership

U.S. News and World Report has repeatedly ranked Arizona State University (ASU) as the most innovative university in the country ahead of Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute for Technology. Contributing to that no. 1 ranking is the School ofCivic & Economic Thought and Leadership, which aims to create a new kind of leader by blending tradition and innovation, and blending liberal arts and civic education. SCETL plays a leading role in the intellectual and civic life of ASU and the various communities that it serves. Because the academic mission of the School is to renew the nexus of classical liberal arts education and American civic education in a leading public university, the School’s courses aim to prepare thoughtful citizens and civic leaders for America’s constitutional republic, in civil society or public affairs, regarding domestic and international realities.

The School of Civic & Economic Thought and Leadership (SCETL), entering its eighth year, is a growing academic and civic enterprise with an undergraduate major and minor, undergraduate PPE certificate, an M.A. degree in Classical Liberal Education and Leadership, an ambitious speakers program – the Civic Discourse Project – and two Centers for research and public outreach. The Center for American Civics focuses on civic education, especially American political and constitutional thought, for a broad public and for higher education and particularly for K-12 schools. The Center for the Study of Economic Liberty pursues national and international research on economic thought, debates about markets, and policies affecting economic liberty. See https://scetl.asu.edu/ for more information about the School.

About The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is the academic heart of Arizona State University, committed to improving communities on a local, national and global scale. We support the professional development and growth of our faculty and staff in their cutting-edge research to advance these aims. Within The College, our faculty engage with a large, multicultural, and curious student body, guiding them as they grow into socially aware, critical thinkers and writers able to succeed in a wide range of careers and to address the challenges of the twenty-first century. Advancing the success of our students remains our top priority. To learn more about The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, please visit https://thecollege.asu.edu.

About Arizona State University

ASU exemplifies a new prototype for the American public research university. As articulated in the ASU Charter, ASU is a comprehensive public research university, measured not by whom it excludes, but by whom it includes and how they succeed; advancing research and discovery of public value; and assuming fundamental responsibility for the economic, social, cultural and overall health of the communities it serves.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Application Instructions

Applications will continue to be accepted on a rolling basis for a reserve pool. Applications in the reserve pool may then be reviewed in the order in which they were received until the position is filled.

Candidates will be asked to create or use an existing Interfolio Dossier to submit the following application materials:

  1. Cover letter outlining research, teaching, and interest in SCETL’s mission
  2. Curriculum Vitae
  3. Up to three representative publications.
  4. The names and contact information (email address and phone number) of three (3) professional references..

Application Deadline: 24 October 2024

Colorado State University, US

Job title: Tenure-track Assistant Professor of Political Economy

The Department of Economics at Colorado State University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor in Political Economy. The Department values pluralistic approaches and the application of rigorous methods to the study of pressing economic problems, both in research and teaching. The successful candidate will have expertise in Post-Keynesian, Marxian, Feminist and/or Institutionalist approaches. Preference will be given to topics dealing with the Economics of Race and Gender, Inequality and Poverty, Macroeconomic Inequality, and/or Development and Imperialism. The successful candidate will have a demonstrated ability or potential to conduct research and teach undergraduate and graduate courses in Political Economy. The Ph.D. must be completed by the time the appointment begins on 16 August 2025.

The Department values both strong teaching and research, offering programs of study leading to B.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Economics with graduate fields in political economy, development, international, public, environmental, and regional economics. The program offers multiple courses, both graduate and undergraduate, in Political Economy. The successful candidate will be appointed untenured and at the rank of Assistant Professor. Tenure requires both scholarly accomplishment and excellence in teaching. Candidates who can advance the department’s commitment to diversity and inclusion through research, teaching, service or other professional activity are encouraged to address these goals in their application.

This position offers a defined contribution retirement plan, full benefits, and sabbatical leave. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, but full consideration will be extended to those applications received by November 1st, 2024.

CSU is an EO/EA/AA employer and conducts background checks on all final candidates. The Department of Economics strives to create and support a diverse and inclusive environment appreciating and valuing the uniqueness of the individual.

The College of Liberal Arts is a community of arts, humanities, and social science scholars who create and extend knowledge and artistry that develops reflective citizens and confident leaders. We value diversity and inclusion in the workplace, aspiring to a productive environment in which everyone feels valued, where their talents are fully utilized, and where all individuals can bring their full selves to their role. We promote the CSU Principles of Community – Inclusion, Integrity, Respect, Service, and Social Justice – https://inclusiveexcellence.colostate.edu/resources/principles-of-community/. We therefore encourage applications from all individuals who share these values, and we prioritize a fair and equitable search process that strengthens a diverse, creative, and effective community.

Application Procedure: Applications will be accepted until the position is filled; to ensure full consideration, complete applications should be received by November 1st, 2024. Applicants should submit (online at: https://jobs.colostate.edu/postings/151110): 1) a cover letter describing your suitability for the position including if relevant a brief statement on how diversity and inclusivity inform or shape your research, teaching, service, or other professional activity; 2) curriculum vitae; 3) research statement; 4) evidence of demonstrated or potential teaching effectiveness (teaching statement, syllabi, teaching evaluations, letters of observation); 5) job market paper; and 6) the names and contact information of three professional references. Please note that a complete application consists of the requested materials and three confidential letters of reference. Your references will be emailed a request for a letter immediately upon submission of your application. As such, applicants should allow sufficient time for their letters to be submitted by November 1st, 2024 to ensure full consideration. Application materials of semi-finalist candidates, including letters of reference, will be made available for review by the entire faculty in the Department of Economics.

Questions about the position can be directed to Alexandra.Bernasek@colostate.edu. For more information please visit the official website.

Application Deadline: 1 November 2024

Eastern Oregon University, US

Job title: Fixed Term Instructor of Economics

This job posting is for an introductory position in economics (non-tenure track, but with potential for conversion) at a small heterodox-friendly public institution. Eastern Oregon University is a beautiful campus in the western mountains surrounded by an embarrassment of recreational opportunities. Boise, ID is 2 hrs by automobile and Portland is 4.5 hrs. The state of Oregon has very generous public benefits.

Eastern Oregon University is Oregon's designated Rural University. So, a candidate that is working on rural issues, such as poverty, the environment, resource use, economic sustainability and development, all in the context of dynamic change due to market dynamics, climate change, energy use, agriculture, land use planning, input-output modeling, recreation, or any number of other interests that the candidate might want to teach. The program is relatively new, but will likely be moving in an environmental/natural resource direction and would benefit from an institutionalist (among others) perspective on this. The College of Business at Eastern Oregon University (EOU) is now accepting applications for a full time, fixed term, Instructor in Economics to join our dynamic undergraduate business instructional team. The Economics degree at EOU promotes a pluralistic approach to understanding economic issues, teaching core mainstream approaches while leaving room for understanding complex social and economic issues from a variety of important multidisciplinary viewpoints.

Special consideration will be given to those candidates that have an interest, experience and understanding of regional economic issues, including environmental or resource economics, economic impact analysis and economic value analysis from both the neoclassical and the Institutional (with a focus on social and historical factors that go beyond simple economic impact) framework of analysis. The Eastern Oregon Center for Economic Information is a research arm of the College of Business and the Economics department that works on projects that directly impact our region, including a socioeconomic analysis for an ongoing forest revision project in conjunction with county leadership, non-profit agencies and the U.S. Forest Service. This position will value both theoretical and applied research, but most importantly a great teacher of economics.

This is a 9-month, full-time, fixed-term position that is eligible for the full spectrum of comprehensive benefits. There is potential for this position to be renewed to meet continuing program needs.

Responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications

Prefered Qualifications

Application Process

Applicants should submit

  1. A letter of interest that addresses relevant expertise and teaching experience.
  2. A current curriculum vitae
  3. One-page statement of teaching philosophy.
  4. Names, telephone numbers, and email addresses of three professional references.

Candidates are encouraged to review the values and principles of Eastern Oregon University.

Application Deadline: open until filled

London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

Job title: Assistant Professor at Department of Economic History

LSE is committed to building a diverse, equitable and truly inclusive university. For this post, we particularly welcome applications by women and ethnic minorities.

Salary is competitive with Departments at our peer institutions worldwide and not less than £61,446 pa inclusive. The Department of Economic History is inviting applications for an entry-level career-track Assistant Professorship in the History of Economics to further enhance its strengths in research and teaching.

Outstanding junior candidates whose research engages with the history of economics, broadly defined, are encouraged to apply. We are particularly interested in candidates whose research connects the history of economic ideas to the economic history of the same time and place, including the impact of economic ideas on policies and practical changes/outcomes within economies, and/or the effect of historical economic change on economic thought. We value diversity of research methodology and invite applications from candidates working on any time period or geographical area.

The other criteria that will be used when shortlisting for this post can be found on the person specification, which is attached to this vacancy on the LSE’s online recruitment system. 

Application

To apply for this post, please go to the official website. If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email Jennie Stayner, j.c.stayner@lse.ac.uk. The closing date for receipt of applications is 9th December 2024 (23.59 UK time). We are unable to accept any late applications. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to NEWS+unsubscribe@eh.net.

Application Deadline: 9 December 2024

Morehouse College, US

Job title: Economics Tenure Track Position

The Department of Economics at Morehouse College invites applications for a tenure track position in economics beginning in the Fall semester of 2025. Applications are open to candidates who have a Ph.D. degree and have a strong interest in teaching U.S. Economic History and Economic Thought.

Required Qualifications

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Physical Demands

Morehouse College has a 3/3 teaching load. The position responsibilities will include teaching introductory courses in economics (both Microeconomics and Macroeconomics), Economic doctrines (taught typically in the spring semester), and Economic History of the U.S. (taught typically in the fall semester).

Successful candidates should have an active research portfolio and be prepared to engage with diverse students across a liberal arts curriculum. The candidates should identify their strengths and experiences in assisting Black men and men of color from diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds towards the accomplishment of curricular goals. Also, the successful candidate will support the College’s general education and the core requirements of the Department of Economics curriculum.

Morehouse College has a 3/3 teaching load. The position responsibilities will include teaching introductory courses in economics (both Microeconomics and Macroeconomics), Economic doctrines (taught typically in the spring semester), and Economic History of the U.S. (taught typically in the fall semester).

Application

Required Documents:

  1. Cover Letter
  2. Unofficial Transcript
  3. Curriculum Vitae
  4. Required 2 Recommendation Letters
  5. Letter of Interest
  6. Statement of scholarship and teaching interests

For more information please visit the official website.

Application Deadline: 31 January 2025

Skidmore College, US

Job title: Skidmore College Economics Assistant Professor Rank

The Department of Economics at Skidmore College invites applications for a tenure-track position at assistant professor rank, beginning in the fall of 2025. Applicants must possess a strong desire to teach and pursue research in a liberal arts environment in a department with a reputation for excellent teaching. The successful candidate will teach both electives and required courses in microeconomics and econometrics. Expertise in health economics is strongly preferred. Other fields of interest are industrial organization and environmental economics. Your cover letter should address those fields in which you are prepared to teach.

The college offers excellent research support. The standard teaching load is 5 courses (18 credits) per year, normally with 2 – 3 preps. New faculty receive a course release in their first year and are eligible for a pre-tenure sabbatical.

We are especially interested in candidates who have experience with diverse populations who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through their research, teaching, and/or service. We invite you to discuss any relevant aspects of your candidacy in your cover letter or a separate statement.

Skidmore College is a highly selective liberal arts college with a student body of roughly 2,400 located near the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains, in Saratoga Springs, New York. Skidmore College is distinguished by a curriculum balanced in the natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and pre-professional programs and offers more than 40 majors.

Education: Ph.D. in Economics, although advanced ABDs may be considered.

Required documents needed to apply: Candidates should submit a cover letter explaining their ability to contribute in the areas described above; a curriculum vitae; one research paper; names and contact information for three references; a research statement; a teaching statement and/or evidence of teaching capability; and a statement on potential contributions to our efforts related to fostering an environment of diversity and inclusion if not addressed in the cover letter. To learn more about and apply for this position please visit us online at: http://jobs.skidmore.edu

Pay Rate: $99k-$110k

Pay Ranges: The hiring rate for the successful candidate will be determined considering the following criteria:

Skidmore College is committed to being an inclusive campus community and, as an Equal Opportunity Employer, does not discriminate in its hiring or employment practices on the basis of gender, race or ethnicity, color, national origin, religion, age, disability, military or marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, domestic violence victim status, predisposing genetic characteristics or prior arrest or conviction record or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.

Employment at Skidmore College is contingent upon an acceptable background check result. For more information and application please visit the official website.

Application Deadline: 15 November 2024

Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain

Job title: 4-year PhD position on precariousness and mental health

IGOP researcher Lara Maestripieri has launched a call for PhD students who want to join the OUTIP project which aims to study the impact of precariousness on the psychological well-being of young people through an intersectional analytical framework.

The project involves research in the project, under the supervision of Prof. Mireia Bolibar and Lara Maestripieri, and in collaboration with other members of the OUTIP team. Do not hesitate to contact lara.maestripieri@uab.cat if you need more information regarding the position. Read more about the position and the project here: https://tauler.seu.cat/pagDetall.do?idEdicte=520319&idens=11 (code of the project: PID2023-147403NB-I00).

Job description

The successful applicant will become part of the research team PID2023-147403NB-100. In close collaboration with the principal investigator and the rest of the research team, the selected candidate will be able to: i. develop a doctoral thesis on a topic related to the project, ii. assist in the development of the research project, iii. present and publish related publications with the results of the research, iv. help organise and participate in the conferences, dissemination events and seminars of the project. In particular, we expect the applicant to be involved in the following research activities:

Profile of the candidate

We are looking for a person with a master's degree in social sciences, primarily sociology or political science, with an interest in developing a doctoral thesis in the field of social sciences, preferably in sociology. We will value both the theoretical and methodological preparation of the candidate and, in particular, their competence in data collection techniques and analyses with a quantitative and qualitative approach and the ability to frame a research object within broader theoretical debates. Our ideal candidate has skills in both approaches and knows how to carry out quantitative and qualitative research with a relative level of autonomy. People with research experience with mixed methods will be particularly valued, as well as those candidates with research experience around the topic of precariousness and youth. Competence in English will also be assessed, which is the official working language of the research group of this project, given that the composition of the team is international, with the collaboration of the Politecnico di Milano (Italia), Université of Geneva (Switzerland) and the Fundació 1Maig (Spain). Competencies in Spanish or Catalan are not required at the outset. Still, we expect that the selected person acquires this language competence throughout their pre- doctoral career to develop autonomously their qualitative fieldwork. Candidates' competence with qualitative and quantitative data analysis software will also be assessed, such as STATA, SPSS, R or Atlas.Ti and N-Vivo.

Presentation of the proyect PID2023-147403NB-I00 (OUTIP)

The general objective of OUTIP is to study the impact of precariousness on the psychological well- being of Spanish youth, considering the mediating role of vulnerability through an intersectional analytical framework. This project conceives precariousness as perceived insecurity based on a subjective assessment of current labour and/or economic conditions. Opting to apply this notion of precariousness allows us to unite two currents of literature (job precariousness and economic insecurity), developed mainly independently despite having points in common in their research object. The first original point of this project is to analyse the impact of precariousness on psychological well-being, considering at the same time its dimensions of insecurity related to work and the economy. As a second original contribution, we argue that youth's increased vulnerability to mental health problems depends on various economic and social determinants as well as specific individual circumstances. Vulnerability mediates between precariousness and psychological well-being and will be conceived from an intersectional gender perspective. We focus on young people because the stage of the life course they are in makes them particularly vulnerable to precariousness and mental health problems.

This project addresses the following research questions:

OUTIP will take a mixed methods approach to address these questions among the population of 20-34 year olds. We will conduct an original longitudinal survey to explore the influence of labour market precariousness and economic insecurity on subjective feelings of precariousness over time (2 waves, 18-month span). A second research action will address the most vulnerable profiles of young people and explore difficult-to-intercept meanings through a survey. We conduct 20 biographical interviews to reconstruct the life course of young people and understand the intersectional complexity of their vulnerability. This will allow us to understand if specific intersections of inequalities magnify the person's exposure to the negative consequences of precariousness on psychological well-being. The policy implications of the empirical evidence gathered within the project will be disseminated through personalised actions to the public, civil society associations and policymakers.

Application Deadline: 14 October 2024

University of Denver, US

Job title: Assistant Prof on Feminist perspective on Trade and/or Development

The Department of Economics at the University of Denver (DU) seeks to fill a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor starting September 2025. We are seeking a heterodox economist doing research in the areas of economic development and / or international trade who approaches these topics from a feminist perspective. Candidates must show promise of distinction in research and publications in these fields, and must also show promise of excellent teaching ability in these areas as well as in our introductory courses “Economics: A Critical Introduction” (ECON 1020) and/or “Introduction to Micro- and Macroeconomics” (ECON 1030). Teaching courses in our department requires familiarity with economic history, the history of economic thought, philosophy of social science, and heterodox as well as mainstream perspectives on economic theory and policy. The teaching load is five 4-credit-hour courses per academic year spread over three quarters. Full information is available here.

Essential Functions

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

The person we hire to fill this position will:

Required Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Working Environment

1. Standard office environment.
2. Unexpected interruptions occur often, and stress level is moderate to high.
3. Noise level is quiet to moderate.

Physical Activities

1. Ability to sit in front of a computer for an extended period of time.
2. Ability to sit or stand in front of a classroom for an extended period of time.
3. Occasionally required to move about the office/campus with the capability of transporting objects up to 20 lbs.

Work Schedule
While the University's administrative offices are open Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm, faculty schedules vary from term to term and are based on courses taught, service commitments, and research agendas. The University's academic calendars are posted on the registrar's website (the law school is on a semester system and has a different academic calendar).

Application Deadline
For best consideration, please submit your application materials by 4:00 p.m. (MST) December 2, 2024.

Special Instructions
Candidates must apply online through jobs.du.edu to be considered. Only applications submitted online will be accepted.

Salary Grade:
The salary grade for this position is UC.

Salary Range:
The salary range for this position is $82,000-$90,000

The University of Denver has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what the University may pay for the position at the time of posting. The University may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal salary equity considerations, and available market information, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.

Benefits:
The University of Denver offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO pass. The University of Denver is a private institution that empowers students who want to make a difference. Learn more about the University of Denver.

Please include the following documents with your application:

1. CV
2. Cover Letter
3. Job Market Paper / Writing Sample
4. Research Statement outlining candidate’s research program
5. Teaching Statement covering both teaching philosophy and experience
6. Statement on the candidate’s connection to and knowledge of heterodox economics, and how that connection is reflected in their scholarly work and teaching
7. Statement on how the candidate supports Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion through their scholarly work and teaching
8. Letters of Recommendation will be collected for candidates who advance to the first interview stage. References will be contacted through the system and will be invited to upload a letter of recommendation via a link provided by the system.

Application Deadline: 2 December 2024

University of Lausanne, Switzerland (1/2)

Job title: tenure-track Assistant Professor in History of Economic Thought

The University of Lausanne, Institute of Political Studies, is calling for applications to a tenure-track Assistant Professor in History of Economic Thought.

Profile

Teaching (45%)

Six hours teaching / week, at Bachelor (BA) and Master (MA) level, including:

A release from two hours teaching / week will be granted during the tenure track period. The person recruited will supervise Master dissertations and PhD theses.

Research (45%)

The person recruited will pursue their own research in the history of economic thought. They must be willing to play an active role in the Walras-Pareto Centre for the history of economic and political thought (CWP), which is dedicated to interdisciplinary studies in economic and political thought, as well as the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) and the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (SSP). They will seek external research funding, notably from the Swiss National Science Foundation
(SNSF).

Administrative responsibilities (10%)

In accordance with statutory requirements and in the name of collegiality, the post-holder will take on any administrative tasks that may be assigned to them by the Research Centre, Institute, Faculty or University level decision-making bodies.

Institutional environment

The post is in the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) and the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences (SSP) at the University of Lausanne. Starting date: 1st August 2025 (open to negociation).

Application

Candidates are invited to submit their application via the online recruitment platform in PDF format, including:

Only applications submitted via the online system will be considered. Further information can be obtained from: recrutement-enseignant.ssp@unil.ch References: a maximum of three names with e-mail addresses is sufficient. There is no need to contact them at this stage of the application process; we will do so if necessary.

Deadline for applications: 31 October 2024

University of Lausanne, Switzerland (2/2)

Job title: Associate Professor in History of Political Thought

The University of Lausanne is calling for applications for a Associate Professor position in History of Political Thought.

Profile

Teaching (45%)

Six hours a week of teaching throughout the year at Bachelor’s (BA) and Master’s (MA) level:

The post-holder will supervise Master’s dissertations and PhD theses. A release from two hours’ weekly teaching / year will be granted during any pre-tenure period.

Research (45%)

The post-holder will pursue their own research in the history of political thought. They will be expected to produce international-level academic research publications. The post-holder will work in collaboration with the Walras-Pareto Centre for the History of Economic and Political Thought (www.unil.ch/cwp). They will also seek external funding, in particular from the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF).

Administrative responsibilities (10%)

In accordance with statutory requirements and in the name of collegiality, the post-holder will take on any administrative tasks that may be assigned to them by the Institute, Faculty, University or university decision-making bodies.

Institutional environment

The post is located in the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) and the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences. Starting date: 1 August 2025 – or to be agreed

Application

Candidates are invited to submit their application via the online recruitment platform, including:

Only applications submitted via the online system will be considered. References: a maximum of three names with e-mail addresses is sufficient. There is no need to contact them at this stage of the application process; we will do so if necessary. Further information can be obtained from: recrutement-enseignant.ssp@unil.ch

Deadline for applications: 31 October 2024

Awards

Call for Nomination: William R. Waters Research Grant

The William R. Waters Research Grant was established in 1999 in honor of William R. Waters, editor of the Review of Social Economy for many years and President of ASE in 1987. The purpose of the William R. Waters Research Grant Program is to inspire scholars to organize their research in social economics and social economy along the lines suggested by William Waters in his 1988 presidential address to the Association for Social Economics:

“The major concern of social economics is explaining the economy in its broadest aspects; that is, showing how human beings deal with the ordinary business of using human and physical resources to achieve a level of material comfort. Explanation includes cultural, political, and ethical details as they are needed for a full understanding. As in any economics, there are three parts to social economics. First is the philosophical base of the social economist, which may or may not be a reflection of the philosophical base or ethos of the society he/she is studying. Social economics (or any economics) builds upon it. It is the hard core as in the recent popular literature of the philosophy of science. The second part of the discipline is a description of the significant characteristics of the economy. The economist must observe the multiplicity of economic reality and abstract those characteristics that are substantive. The two together, the philosophical premises and the empirical observations, will determine the third part of the discipline, social economic policy. Policy formulation is thus a mix of the first two.”
William R. Waters, presidential address, “Social Economics: A Solidarist Perspective,” Review of Social Economy, 1988, p. 113 ff.

The research grant is for promising graduate students in Ph.D. programs who have not yet completed their dissertation, those holding post-doctoral positions, and for new faculty members who have not yet been granted tenure or who are tenured but have not yet achieved the rank of Associate Professor (or its equivalent outside the US). The current amount of the annual grant is up to $5000.

To apply for the current round of grant funding, the following materials need to be submitted by 5pm Eastern Standard Time on Wednesday October 30, 2024:

  1. A completed cover sheet.
  2. A 4 to 5 page narrative (in 12 pt Times New Roman font single-spaced) explaining the following:
    1. The purpose of the project: What will be learned from the research to be undertaken, and what will be its contribution to knowledge? What are the expected outputs from the work?
    2. A description of the research project to be undertaken, including the issues to be examined, the research methods to be employed (this needs to be sufficiently detailed), and why this constitutes innovative work in comparison to the available evidence in the field.
    3. The relationship of the project to social economics: What conceptual frameworks, topical concerns, and/or empirical methodologies drawn from social economics will be used in the present project? How is the project expected to contribute to social economics?
    4. The plan of work: Include a timetable for the project, resources to be used, travel plans, etc.
    5. The estimated budget: Indicate all costs that would be covered by the grant (e.g., travel expenses, research costs, summer stipend, etc.)
  3. An up-to-date curriculum vitae.
  4. Two letters of recommendation: For students, one letter should be from their dissertation advisor.

The winner of the Waters grant will be announced at the ASE Presidential Breakfast at the ASSA Meetings in January 2025.
All application materials including letters of recommendation should be uploaded to the google folder here. If there are any questions, please write to the committee chair Farida Khan at fkhan@uccs.edu.

Winners' Announcement: AFEE 2025 Election and Awards Update

First, the winners of the 2025 AFEE Awards. Nominations were made by the 2024 AFEE Awards Committee, whose members are Lynne Chester (chair), The University of Sydney, Australia, Nina Eichacker (University of Rhode Island, USA), Franklin Obeng-Odoom (University of Helsinki, Finland), Luke Petach (Belmont University, USA), and Luwei Zhao (Kunming University of Science and Technology, China). Thanks to the chair and committee for their work. The report of the committee was submitted to the AFEE Board and approved.

A full description of these awards’ remit are available at https://afee.net/committees/ Summarized, the Veblen-Commons award is for scholarly contributions, the Clarence Ayres award for a promising international scholar, the James Street award for a Latin American scholar, and the Service award for sustained efforts to ‘in aid of organizations and programs that enhance institutional economics.’

Winners' Announcement: Elinor Ostrom Prize

2024 Elinor Ostrom Prize

The 2024 Elinor Ostrom Prize was awarded on 21 September 2024 at the WINIR Conference on Institutional Resilience & Recovery (Pittsburgh, USA). The announcement was made by Esther-Mirjam Sent, JOIE’s Co-Editor-in-Chief.

The Elinor Ostrom Prize has been established in 2014 in honour of the Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom(1933-2012), who was an enormously creative scholar and a pioneer of the interdisciplinary field of institutional research.

Ostrom’s most famous work focused on the problem of managing and maintaining common-pool resources, but she also applied her ideas to problems of political governance and climate change. Her theoretical work on rules is of paramount importance. In her last decade she became increasingly interested in how rule-systems (or institutions) evolve. Her articles published in the Journal of Institutional Economics(JOIE) are among the journal’s most-cited papers.

A prize of£1500, funded by Millennium Economics Ltd. (the owner of JOIE), is awarded each year for the best full-length article published in JOIE in the preceding calendar year. Each annual prize competition is judged by an international committee of experts in the field of institutional research.

This year’s winner is Jon Murphy (Nicholls State University, USA) for his outstanding article:

Cascading Expert FailureJournal of Institutional Economics 19(1): 52-69.

2024 Ostrom Prize Committee

Maria Brouwer, Daniel Cole, Christopher Coyne, David Dequech, Abigail Devereaux, Brett Frischmann, Roger Koppl, Robbert Maseland, Sheilagh Ogilvie, Edella Schlager.

More information about the Elinor Ostrom Prize can be found at https://winir.org/elinor-ostrom-prize/.

Journals

Cambridge Journal of Economics 48 (5)

Roberto Lampa: Full employment as a condition of crisis: Kalecki’s Marxian critique of Keynes and the Fabians (1942–45)

Stefano Fiori: Truth or coherence? How Adam Smith used philosophical sources to explain how paradigms change

Alain Marciano, John Meadowcroft: Asymmetrical, symmetrical and artifactual man: group size and cooperation in James Buchanan’s constitutional economics

Giulio Palermo: Counter-power: a Marxist view—an ontological enquiry

Anna Grandori, Bruno Varella Miranda: Polyarchy and societas: an extended continuum of discrete structural alternatives

Adam Fforde: Fundamental implications of the neglect of servicisation by development economists

Franck Bailly, Benjamin Dubrion: What politics does to the economic analysis of the employment relationship: a critical perspective on personnel economics

Hyun Woong Park, Dong-Min Rieu: A note on the two approaches to the distribution of surplus value

Ecological Economics 226

David Hauser, Daniel Bregulla: Saving the world voluntarily: Experimental evidence of gain-loss framing on voluntary pro-environmental behavior

Ivan Savin, Jeroen van den Bergh: Reviewing studies of degrowth: Are claims matched by data, methods and policy analysis?

I. López-Ercilla, L. Rocha-Tejeda, S. Fulton, M.J. Espinosa-Romero, ... F.J. Fernández Rivera-Melo: Who pays for sustainability in the small-scale fisheries in the global south?

Foroogh Salekpay, Jeroen van den Bergh, Ivan Savin: Comparing advice on climate policy between academic experts and ChatGPT

Katharina Hembach-Stunden, Tobias Vorlaufer, Stefanie Engel: Threshold ambiguity and sustainable resource management: A lab experiment

Idriss Fontaine, Sabine Garabedian, Hélène Vérèmes: Tropical cyclones and fertility: New evidence from developing countries

B. Dyca, GJ. Carsjens, A. Endl, K. Gugerell: Beyond the surface: An analysis of the institutional regime in the extractive industries in Sweden and Spain

Nona Nenovska, Eric Magnin, Nikolay Nenovsky: Slavcho Zagorov (1898–1970), A forgotten pioneer of energy and ecological economic

Eva Preinfalk, Birgit Bednar-Friedl, Jakob Mayer, Christian Lauk, Andreas Mayer: Sustainability transitions in the agri-food system: Evaluating mitigation potentials, economy-wide effects, co-benefits and trade-offs for the case of Austria

Christopher A. Kennedy: Energy constraints on macroeconomic paradigms

Eric Azevedo, Pedro Pintassilgo, David Dantas, Fábio Gonçalves Daura-Jorge: A bioeconomic model for a multispecies small-scale fishery system

Wassili Lasarov, Stefan Hoffmann, Robert Mai, Joachim Schleich: Carbon footprint tracking apps: The spillover effects of feedback and goal-activating appeals

Fabio Galeotti, Astrid Hopfensitz, César Mantilla: Climate change education through the lens of behavioral economics: A systematic review of studies on observed behavior and social norms

Felix Kölle, Dorothea Kübler, Axel Ockenfels: Impartial policymakers prefer to impose carbon pricing to capping, especially when combined with offsets

European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies 21 (2)

Special Issue on "Inflation, distributional conflict and just transition"

Editorial to the special issue: Tom Bauermann, Jan Behringer, Sebastian Gechert, Torsten Niechoj, Özlem Onaran, and Andrew Watt: Inflation, distributional conflict and just transition

Eckhard Hein: Inflation is always and everywhere … a conflict phenomenon: post-Keynesian inflation theory and energy price driven conflict inflation, distribution, demand and employment

Marc Lavoie: Questioning profit inflation as an explanation of the post-pandemic inflation

Servaas Storm: The art of paradigm maintenance: how the New Keynesian ‘Science of Monetary Policy’ tries to deal with the inflation of 2021–2023

Lilian Rolim: Inflation and income distribution in Brazil from a Kaleckian perspective*

Leila Davis: Profits and markups during the post-COVID-19 inflation shock in the U.S. economy: a firm-level lens

Christian Schoder and Remzi Baris Tercioglu: A climate-fiscal policy mix to achieve Türkiye’s net-zero ambition under feasibility constraints

Journal of the History of Economic Thought 46 (3)

Matthew T. Panhans: The Rise, Fall, and Legacy of the Structure-Conduct-Performance Paradigm

Victor Cruz-e-Silva: Sense and Sensibility: A History of the Early Brazilian Cost-of-Living Indexes in Pursuit of a Minimum Wage, 1935–1939

Luca Fiorito and Valentina Erasmo: Between Sumner and Galton: A Further Look at Albert Galloway Keller’s Sociology

Adrien Faudot and Nikolay Nenovsky: Edgard Milhaud and the Case for Establishing an International Clearing Union in the 1930s: A Forgotten Forerunner of Keynes?

Pierre Januard: Probability, Prudence, Danger: Thomas Aquinas on the Building of the Lexicon of Risk

Erik W. Matson: Hume on the Protestant Ethic and the Rise of English Commercial Spirit

Metroeconomica 75 (3)

Matteo Mazzarano, Simone Borghesi: Searching for a Carbon Laffer Curve: Estimates from the European UnionEmissions Trading System

Kensuke Ohtake: A micro‐founded comparison of fiscal policies between indirect and direct job creation

Luca Gori, Francesco Purificato, Mauro Sodini: Green quality choice in a duopoly

Gilberto Tadeu Lima, André M. Marques: Demand and distribution in a dynamic spatial panel model for the UnitedStates: Evidence from state‐level data

Arslan Razmi: Conflict fuels inflation but the tinder lies elsewhere: Eclectic structuralist thoughts in a developingeconomy context

Giancarlo Bertocco, Andrea Kalajzić: Schumpeter and the post‐Keynesian monetary theory

Stephen Thompson: Is the supermultiplier stable?

Arrigo Opocher, Ian Steedman: Full household equilibrium

Stefano Deriu, Claudio Socci, Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, Giuseppe Ciccarone, Ludovica Almonti: Assessing the regional impacts of a multi‐hosting mega sport event: The case of EURO 2020 in Rome

María Malmierca-Ordoqui: Fiscal and macroprudential policy coordination for stabilization purposes

Review of International Political Economy 31 (5)

Fabio Bulfone: Selling the jewels: patient capital, state-business relations, and the privatization of strategic utilities in Italy and Spain

Fabian Pape & Charlotte Rommerskirchen: Co-working in the collateral factory: analyzing the infrastructural entanglements of public debt management, central banking, and primary dealer systems

Elizabeth Meehan: The political origins of corporate transparency: forging strange coalitions through information rules and policy entrepreneurship

Pelin Kılınçarslan: Banks as the new family: the transition from informal to formal borrowing in Turkey

Alexis Montambault Trudelle: Tools of regime stability: the political economy of sovereign wealth funds in Gulf rentier states

Heather-Leigh Ba & Ömer Faruk Şen: Explaining variation in national cryptocurrency regulation: implications for the global political economy

Ramaa Vasudevan: The gold-exchange standard in colonial India: foreshadowing the monetary hierarchy of the international state-credit standard

Adam Blanden: ‘A sense of the systemic’: the Bank of England and the language of inclusive capitalism

Yuan Wang & Hong Zhang: Individual agency in South-South policy transfer: China and Ethiopia’s industrial park development

Carola Westermeier: The digital euro: a materialization of (in)security

Katie Kedward, Daniela Gabor & Josh Ryan-Collins: Carrots with(out) sticks: credit policy and the limits of green central banking

Huei-Jyun Ye: A lost variation found: negotiations and research on international cooperation

Books and Book Series

Crude Capitalism: Oil, Corporate Power, and the Making of the World Market

by Adam Hanieh | 2024, Verso Books

This expansive history traces the hidden connections between oil and capitalism from the late 1800s to the current climate crisis. Beyond simplistic narratives that frame oil as 'prize' or 'curse', Crude Capitalism uncovers the surprising ways that oil is woven into the fabric of our modern world: the rise of an American-centered global order; the breakdown of Empire and anti-colonial rebellion; contemporary finance and US dollar hegemony; debt and militarism; and the emergence of new forms of synthetic consumption. Much more than an energy source or transport fuel, oil has a foundational place in all aspects of contemporary life - no challenge to the fossil fuel industry can be effective without taking this fact seriously.

Crude Capitalism maps the varied geographies of oil, including the rise of OPEC, the importance of revolutionary and Post-Soviet Russia, the crucial role of African upstream reserves, and the new petrochemical circuits that link the Middle East, China, and East Asia. The book provides an original and fine-grained empirical analysis of corporate ownership and control, including refining and petrochemicals.

By exposing these structures of power and placing oil in capitalism, the book makes an essential contribution to debates around oil-dependency and the struggle for climate justice.

Please find a link to this book here.

Development Ethics: Political Economy and Morality

by Nikos Astroulakis and Nikolaos Karagiannis | Springer International Publishing, 2024

This book provides a fresh perspective on international development. By integrating ethical concepts and moral philosophy with political economy, Nikos Astroulakis and Nikolaos Karagiannis explore three levels of ethical analysis: meta-ethical, normative ethical, and applied ethical. This approach underscores the importance of ethics in shaping development goals and strategies tailored to an individual society.

The book uses a framework rooted in heterodox political economy to redefine what it means to be a “good society.” It challenges conventional economic models and proposes development ethics as a compelling alternative. Readers will discover new ways to understand the purpose of development and innovative methods to evaluate its success. Development Ethics explains how ethical principles can transform development policies, making it an essential read for those committed to building a more just and equitable world.

Please find a link to the book here.

Gender and the Dismal Science: Women in the Early Years of the Economics Profession

by Ann Mari May | Columbia University Press, 2022

The economics profession is belatedly confronting glaring gender inequality. Women are systematically underrepresented throughout the discipline, and those who do embark on careers in economics find themselves undermined in any number of ways. Women in the field report pervasive biases and barriers that hinder full and equal participation—and these obstacles take an even greater toll on women of color. How did economics become such a boys’ club, and what lessons does this history hold for attempts to achieve greater equality?

Gender and the Dismal Science is a groundbreaking account of the role of women during the formative years of American economics, from the late nineteenth century into the postwar period. Blending rich historical detail with extensive empirical data, Ann Mari May examines the structural and institutional factors that excluded women, from graduate education to academic publishing to university hiring practices. Drawing on material from the archives of the American Economic Association along with novel data sets, she details the vicissitudes of women in economics, including their success in writing monographs and placing journal articles, their limitations in obtaining academic positions, their marginalization in professional associations, and other hurdles that the professionalization of the discipline placed in their path. May emphasizes the formation of a hierarchical culture of status seeking that stymied women’s participation and shaped what counts as knowledge in the field to the advantage of men. Revealing the historical roots of the homogeneity of economics, this book sheds new light on why biases against women persist today.

Please find a link to the book here.

How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy

by Cédric Durand; Translated by David Broder | 2024, Verso Books

The rise of the IT industry in the nineties promised a new era of freedom and prosperity. It didn’t deliver. Certainly, algorithms are everywhere, but capitalism is no more civilised than ever.

In fact, in the hands of private corporations, the digitalisation of the world drives us towards a darker future. The return of monopolies, the dominance of a few platforms, the blurred distinction between the economic and the political all epitomise a systemic mutation. Information and data networks push the digital economy in the direction of the feudal logic of rent, dispossession, and personal domination.

How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-feudalism offers a fresh genealogy of the Silicon Valley consensus and its contradictions. It disentangles the principles of an emerging systemwide rationale. Large firms compete in cyberspace to gain control over data, and ordinary people are increasingly at the mercy of tech giants. In this new economic order, capital is moving away from production to focus on predation.

Please find a link to the book here.

Principles of Macroeconomics: A Simplified Approach

by Nikolaos Karagiannis , Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi | 2024, Kendall Hunt Publishing

The textbook Principles of Macroeconomics: A Simplified Approach introduces pre-college and university students, who are in the first years of their studies, to the fundamental concepts and principles of Macroeconomics.

The text is focused on five modules. Following the introduction of microeconomic terms of macroeconomics, the text looks at the gross domestic product (GDP), growth and growth-related issues, inflation, and employment/unemployment (Module 1); basic macroeconomic relationships, aggregate demand and aggregate supply (Module 2); money, the banking system, the central bank, and the money creation process (Module 3); macroeconomic policy instruments, the impact of fiscal policy, and the role of monetary policy (Module 4); and the world of international trade and finance (Module 5).

Please find a link to the book here.

Principles of Microeconomics: A Simplified Approach

by Nikolaos Karagiannis , Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi | 2024, Kendall Hunt Publishing

The textbook Principles of Microeconomics: A Simplified Approach introduces pre-college and university students, who are in the first years of their studies, to the fundamental concepts and principles of Microeconomics. The text is focused on five modules, looking at choice, the scarcity problem, opportunity cost, production possibilities frontier and specialization (Module 1); demand, supply and equilibrium, and price elasticity of demand and supply (Module 2); production, cost, and revenue (Module 3); perfect competition, in the short and long run, and imperfect market structures (Module 4); and market failures, as well as government action to address them (Module 5).

Please find a link to the book here.

Heterodox Graduate Programs, Scholarships and Grants

Diversity Scholar Pre-Doctoral Fellowship at Ithaca College

The department of Economics at Ithaca College seeks a PhD candidate Diversity Scholar. We are open to candidates from any field in Economics with an interest in teaching from a lens of equity and inclusion – both in terms of pedagogy and in terms of content. The successful candidate will teach one introductory level course in the fall and an upper division elective in the spring. Scholars will receive a $43,260 stipend, $5,000 in travel/professional development support, relocation reimbursement, office space, health benefits, and access to Ithaca College and Cornell University libraries.

Our department is committed to mentoring in the areas of pedagogy, student support techniques, successful completion of the dissertation, and professional development.  Candidates from underrepresented groups whose exclusions from the academy have been longstanding and who have demonstrated a commitment to minoritized communities in their teaching, service and/or research are strongly encouraged to apply. For full information about this position or to apply please follow this link. If you have any questions, please email Shaianne Osterreich (Chair) at sosterreich@ithaca.edu.

Fellowships for PostDocs in development economics from low- and middle-income countries

The Faculty of Business and Economics at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen advertises 2 Stephan Klasen Fellowships for postdoctoral researchers in development economics from low- and middle-income countries.

Prof. Dr. h.c. Stephan Klasen, Ph.D. was a German development economist who has made lasting contributions to the economics of poverty, inequality and gender in low- and middle-income countries. The Stephan Klasen Fellowship was established by the University of Göttingen on the occasion of Stephan Klasen’s farewell lecture to honor his achievements for development economics research in Göttingen and his commitment for the training of young scholars. The fellowship period is April 1st, 2025 through March 31st, 2026. Fellows are expected to relocate to Göttingen for the period of the fellowship.

Candidates from low- and middle-income countries according to the OECD DAC list of ODA recipients are eligible to apply. Candidates are further required to hold a PhD in development economics (or similar) before the start date of the fellowship. We are looking for early career researchers who completed their PhD within the past five years. Based on your specific conditions (please indicate, e.g., rearing of small children, severe illness, disability etc.), longer periods will be considered. At least one of the two fellowships will be awarded to a female candidate. Disabled persons with equivalent aptitude will be favored. The university has committed itself to being a family-friendly institution and supports their employees in balancing work and family life.

Further details are provided here: www.uni-goettingen.de/klasen-fellowship Please send application documents in one single pdf file and in this order: 1. Cover letter
addressing research plans for the near future and policy relevance of your work, 2. CV with contact details of at least two academic references, 3. one publication or working paper that is representative for your work. Applications should be submitted to bewerbungen@wiwi.uni-goettingen.de.

Applications close 1st November 2024.

International Network for Economic Method (INEM) Call for Proposals: Frontiers in Philosophy of Economics

Call for Proposals: Frontiers in Philosophy of Economics

The executive board of the International Network for Economic Method (INEM) is pleased to announce the call for proposals under the theme 'Frontiers in Philosophy of Economics.' We invite scholars, researchers, and practitioners to submit proposals that advance our understanding and visibility of the philosophy of economics. We would like to encourage debates about new topics in philosophy and methodology of economics and/or advance novel approaches or perspectives on the ongoing discussions. We also encourage scholars at various stages of their careers, including specifically early-career scholars, to apply. We especially welcome applications from scholars affiliated to institutions outside Western Europe and the USA.

We support organisation of events or initiatives that advance the following goals:

1. Provide novel perspectives on ongoing discussions or neglected areas of philosophy and methodology of economics

We seek proposals that develop innovative approaches in well-established areas or neglected domains within philosophy and methodology of economics. We encourage submissions of workshops, lectures, conferences, seminars, symposia or novel formats that:

Proposals that foster inclusion and support for early career scholars and underrepresented groups are particularly encouraged.

  1. Enhance the visibility of INEM as an institutionalised scholarly network and of philosophy and methodology of economics at allied societies.

We welcome submissions that aim to increase the visibility and impact of INEM and of philosophy and methodology of economics as a scholarly field within related academic domains and professional societies. We seek proposals for:

We particularly encourage proposals that foster inclusion and support for early career scholars and underrepresented groups.

  1. Increase the visibility of INEM and philosophy and methodology of economics as a scholarly field outside of Western Europe and the US/Canada

We welcome submissions that aim to increase the visibility and impact of INEM and philosophy and methodology of economics in regions outside of INEM's traditional reach, i.e., Western Europe and the US/Canada. Those would be proposals for:

We particularly seek proposals of this sort that also foster inclusion and support for early career scholars and underrepresented groups.

Submission Guidelines

Submissions should include the following: Description of the topic of the project, planned activities, preliminary schedule, scholars involved and their role and explanation of how the project fulfils the goals of this call. Description of the proposal should be between 1,000 and 1,500 words.Detailed budget for the whole project period. Please submit one file in PDF format via email to inem.econmethodology@gmail.com Selected proposals will receive funding support up to 4000 USD. The amount of funding will depend on the scope and needs of the project. We can fund the costs of rental of a seminar room, travels to the event of invited speakers or underfunded scholars, accommodation of invited speakers or underfunded scholars, coffee breaks and snacks, social dinner, and promotional materials, among other things. For any anticipated costs not listed here, please seek clarification using the contact information below. We will support both in-person and hybrid events. In justified cases the costs of purchasing equipment for organizing hybrid events can be covered. Early-career scholars are PhD students and scholars who obtained their PhD after January 2020. Selection of proposals will be by members of the INEM Board. Applicants will be notified of the selection results by mid-December 2024.

For more information please visit the official website.

Submission Deadline: 1 November 2024

Scholarships for PhD program "EQUALFIN - Finance and inequality in times of polycrisis" (Berlin)

The EQUALFIN doctoral program at FU Berlin and HTW Berlin aims to address the interaction between the financial system and socio-economic inequality at the national and global levels as well as new conflicts of objectives arising from the financing of the ecological transformation at the macro- and micro-economic levels. The research will be methodologically pluralistic, multi-paradigmatic, and interdisciplinary. The cooperative doctoral program is designed as an innovative pilot project between the FU Berlin and the HTW Berlin. The Graduate School EQUALFIN is currently offering PhD fellowships, funded by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung.

The PhD scholarships start between June and September 2025, and the application deadline is November 2, 2024. Among the eligibility requirements are:

For more detailed information, please refer to the call of applications here.

If you are interested in the program, we encourage you to contact the program speakers (barbara.fritz@fu-berlin.de and heike.joebges@htw-berlin.de) and potential supervisors by sending them an abstract of your doctoral project as soon as possible. They will be happy to advise you on the preparation of your planned research project.g

Should you have any questions regarding the application documents or formalities, please do not hesitate to contact carmen.marull@fu-berlin.de. For more information and application please visit the official website.

Application Deadline: 2 November 2024

Calls for Support

Verso Books calls for support

Verso Books needs your help to launch its Autumn 2024 list of books after the bankruptcy of one its most trusted partners.

For more than fifty years Verso Books has been an essential radical publisher, publishing landmark books by Benedict Anderson, Judith Butler, Noam Chomsky, Mike Davis, Norman Finkelstein, Nancy Fraser, Walter Rodney, and Edward Said. Our world is changing quickly, from environmental collapse to the rise of right-wing political movements and new economic crises. What has not changed is Verso’s 50-year commitment to radical publishing—publishing books that challenge capitalism, patriarchy, and imperialism and provide a glimpse into the radical future we can build together.

Since its founding Verso has been supported by book sales, allowing the company to remain independent as the book business has been taken over by international conglomerates.

But Verso now faces an unprecedented threat to its existence. In July we were informed that our UK distributor of many years, Marston Book Services, along with its parent company United Independent Distributors and its other subsidiaries, was beginning the process of filing for bankruptcy. The company entered administration on July 25, impacting not only Verso but a long list of independent publishers.

You can find more information and support Verso Books on kickstarter.