Issue 337 January 06, 2025 web pdf Heterodox Economics Directory
While preparing this issue of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter I recognized that this is the first issue in the second quarter of the 21st century. This means that in our last issue I closed the first quarter with a humor-focused editorial, which seems quite apt, retrospectively ;-). I also received some neat additional suggestions for cartoonsas a respone, which I collected here, and even found one of my subscribers has published a book on the subject(!), which I also included in this issue's section on books and book series. Relatedly, this latter section on books also contains some intriguing items on finance from a heterodox perspective (here and here), institutional economics (here and here) and market power (here) that seem like ideal candidates for your new year's reading list.
In terms interesting readings I should add that I recently spotted this paper, which provides an empirical discussion of hysteresis in US labor markets even referencing some Post-Keynesian sources (occuring 'prominently' in footnote 1 ;-) in AEJ: Macroeconomics. At first glance the paper looks interesting and well-executed. Moreover, it also indicates how paradigmatic confinements between traditions are slowly shifting and that it is possible to publish material containing heterodox concepts in key mainstream outlets today if the empirics are solid and somehow in accordance with mainstream econometric conventions.
While it will not save the world, I see such developments as an opportunity to productively interact with those subsets of mainstream economics, that are open-minded enough to engage with arguments and concepts that run counter classical textbook rationales. Quite naturally, doing so can only be a complement (and never a substitute ;-) to work on expanding, strengthening and diversifying heterodox resarch networks as the latter provide the backbone for an "Economics for humans" (copyright Julie Nelson, see here) that hopefully will one day dominate our profession ;-)
In closing this review of potential readings, I should probably point out that the Heterodox Economics Directory has received an update during the winter break, which hopefully accomodates all the feedback we have received during the past months. We will continue to implement rolling updates in the now online 7th edition of the Directory to better and more quickly reflect changes in the rich institutional landscape of heterodox economics.
All the best and have a great 2025,
Jakob
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17-20 June 2025 | Sciences Po Bordeaux
The conference will combine plenary sessions with parallel themed workshops. To encourage exchanges with non-French-speaking colleagues, communications in English are welcome.
AFEP is a general scientific association which objective is to promote pluralism in economics. The annual AFEP conference is an important moment for the association and for the community of French economists. It allows the pluralism of theories, methods and objects to come alive. Beyond that, the conference encourages dialogue and interdisciplinarity within the humanities and social sciences. This is why proposals for papers other than economics (sociology, management, anthropology, geography, regional planning, political science, history, philosophy, law, etc.) are welcome and encouraged.
In the spirit of openness that characterizes the pluralist approach promoted by AFEP, the conference remains open to all themes and approaches.Therefore, proposals that do not explicitly address the theme of the conference are welcome and will be considered by the scientific committee. Proposals for thematic workshops (open or closed) will also be highly appreciated.
Economic dependencies, political asymmetries, ecological crises, trade tensions and armed conflicts: at a time when the world is facing global challenges on an unprecedented scale, and humanity is more than ever in need of cooperation, the contradictions of contemporary capitalism are revealed in an exacerbated way. They shape international relations, intensify global inequalities and sharpen environmental concerns. To understand these complex dynamics of dependence and exploitation, but also of resistance and alternatives in international economic relations, we need to strengthen and broaden critical research in political economy, in particular by fully integrating perspectives and knowledge from the global South, and by mobilizing contributions from other disciplines in the human and social sciences.
With this in mind, the 2025 AFEP Conference will examine the tensions and transformations running through global capitalism, in a context marked by interconnected economic, ecological, social and political crises. This event will highlight the divergent trajectories between the North and South, revealing dynamics of dependence and exploitation, but also of resistance and alternatives. At a time when geopolitical, economic and social borders are often violently redefined, the aim is to explore power asymmetries, environmental fractures and heterodox alternatives, particularly from and with the South.
In order to grasps persistent uneven development and capitalism’s polarizing tendencies, adopting a global perspective is essential. Yet research into economic phenomena remains largely dominated by paradigms derived from central capitalisms, marginalizing the knowledge, experiences and imaginaries of the global South. As a result, academic communities are severed from one another. The result is a weakening of our ability to grasp the tensions that unfold from the global to the local, and vice-versa, and to effectively and inclusively address the multiple challenges that arise from them - all the more so at a time of ecological imperative. This situation also deprives us of the possibility of identifying and, where appropriate, seizing on alternative ideas and systems, in a multitude of sectors and at macro, meso and micro levels.
These conclusions call for a more comprehensive perspective. Rarely, particularly in the face of the environmental imperative, has scientific analysis called so strongly for the adoption of global reading grids. This heuristic need is in line with the ambition to promote pluralism in economics, which implies thinking of the economy as a whole, taking into account space, history, institutions, social relations and links with the living. This means broadening the field of knowledge to include perspectives that are often ignored or marginalized. In particular, we need to recognize and promote economic approaches from the global South, which enable us to revitalize our analysis of the mechanisms reproducing inequalities forged during the colonial period. Dependency theory provided an anti-imperialist and anti-colonial perspective on the dynamics of exploitation and structural constraints in “peripheral” countries. More recently, research has been reinvesting this approach, while others are exploring new ways of thinking about the relationship between the economy and the living world, based on ontologies specific to the South: these are inspired, among other things, by reflections on agri-food systems, the commons, post-development, degrowth, decolonial ecology, feminism, the social economy and informalities. These works criticize the dynamics of power and the logics of exclusion that historically structured economics. Decolonizing economics thus becomes not only a moral duty but also an invitation to scientifically rethink our understanding of contemporary economic systems.
Four streams – knowledge, imaginaries, power and method – structure this call for papers:
1. The decolonization of economic knowledge. This stream invites researchers to study the dynamics of (de)varlorization and (de)centralization of knowledge, with a specific focus on colonization’s lasting impact. The aim is to discuss the dominant paradigms in economics and propose alternatives based on a diversity of experiences, practices, institutions and economic policies, from both the North and the Global South. Placing decolonization at the heart of the debate, this stream intends to explore a series of questions: To what extent do historical power relations continue to influence economic thinking and development policies? Has the colonial legacy left us with blind spots concerning global redistributive trade-offs and the underlying economic mechanisms? This questioning also extends to the teaching of economics, a discipline still largely resistant to the integration of critical perspectives. What hinders the emergence of plural and inclusive approaches? What are the best ways of transforming economics teaching to include a diversity of viewpoints and experiences?
2. The battle for imaginaries and economic alternatives. This stream intends to study the dominant economic narratives, which are often shaped by a western-centered vision associating modernity, progress and rationality with the development of capitalism. This perspective normalizes the violent, exploitative processes that accompanied the emergence of capitalism. An all-encompassing perspective on the economy then invites us to consider the following questions: What are the counter-narratives emerging from post-colonial countries? Drawing, for example, on degrowth theories or Buen Vivir/Sumak Kawsay programs in Ecuador, what alternative visions emerge from these counter-narratives? To what extent do these approaches, which highlight other forms of socio-economic organization (popular economies, commons, etc.), offer avenues for rethinking the global economic order beyond traditional capitalist institutions? What is the role of economists, statistical institutions, experts, scientists and economic public policy in the construction and dissemination of these dominant narratives on the global economic order?
3. Power, dependencies and global inequalities. This stream aims to explore how power relations shape global economic structures, and how these dynamics of domination can be contested or transformed. This reflection will draw on interdisciplinary and critical approaches to political economy. Several questions may guide the discussions: What are the interconnections and fractures that influence divergent economic trajectories between countries and regions? How is unequal development perpetuated despite decolonization? What constraints does the global economy impose on contemporary actors in the North and South? How are these agents attempting to overcome these constraints, and what are their proposals for promoting a fairer, more harmonious world order?
4. Critical methodologies for the study of capitalisms and development. This stream examines and compares methods for analyzing contemporary capitalisms and development dynamics, while taking into account the limits of traditional methodological approaches. With this in mind, the following questions, among others, will be explored: How can mixed, inter-disciplinary, trans-disciplinary and comparative methods offer a better understanding of structural inequalities and hidden dynamics within global capitalism? To what extent do the contributions of political science, sociology, anthropology and other humanities and social sciences enrich the toolbox of political economy? How can interdisciplinary and international collaborations be strengthened?
“AFEP considers that the promotion of academic pluralism in economics (ideas, themes, methods) requires the promotion of pluralism of points of view. It therefore promotes the inclusion and equal treatment of all people. This diversity of demographic characteristics and geographical origins is also required for reasons of justice”. (complete charter here).)
Three types of submission are possible:
"Each workshop coordinator is asked to pay attention to gender parity and the diversity of the people chosen to participate”
June 17 is reserved for PhD researchers’ presentations and will be the subject of a specific call. For more information: doctorants@assoeconomiepolitique.org
Deadlines
For further information and Application please visit the website.
17-20 September | Middle East Technical University-METU, Ankara, Türkiye
For a quite a number of years now the mainstream mass media has run a constantly increasing number of stories on the world immigration crisis. Nearly all of them are either part of some aspect of the mainstream’s political agenda, such as immigration from Venezuela or the Ukraine (and the minimal coverage of the refugees from devastated Palestine), or as part of its pervasive ‘at least your social problems are not this bad’ coverage of real human tragedies. The plenary presentations at this conference to the contrary will discuss this crisis simultaneously from three perspectives: the (unnecessary) massive human tragedy that it is, the component of world capitalism’s current policrisis that it is, and the crisis it constitutes for world capitalism.
This is the first time in IIPPE’s 15-year history of conferences in political economy that we have had immigration as the theme. The nature of this crisis in capitalism indicates that it will not be the last time that we will address it. Absent any major restructuring of the world social order, this crisis can only continually deepen over the years and decades ahead to hard-to-even-imagine dimensions.
This is the “Proposal Submission Portal Open” Call for proposals for presentations at the conference on any aspects of political economy. Submissions may be made as
Like last year, proposals will be made electronically to the WHOVA platform. The Proposal Submission Portal is open as of today, with a deadline for proposals of about February 1, 2025.
To submit a proposal, go to the home page of IIPPE, https://iippe.org/. The top of the main column of the home page has a link to a page with the Call followed by detailed instructions for submitting a proposal of any of the four types. Embedded in those instructions is a link that takes you to the WHOVA platform where you actually submit your proposal. Reminders will go out in early January and when the proposal submission portal will be closing around February 1.
Neoliberalism and Contemporary Capitalism Working Group Call for Proposals
The IIPPE Neoliberalism and Contemporary Capitalism Working Group brings together researchers interested in the material basis of neoliberalism, its national varieties, and alternatives to it. As the contemporary form of global capitalism, neoliberalism is based on the systematic use of state power to impose a hegemonic project of recomposition of the rule of capital in each area of economic and social life, under the ideological veil of ‘non-intervention’. This is guided by the current imperatives of the international reproduction of capital, with the financial markets and the interests of the US capital to the fore. Politically, by insulating markets and transnational investors from popular demands, and through the imperative of labour control to secure international competitiveness, neoliberalism also severely curtails democratic possibilities. Neoliberalism has also created an income-concentrating dynamics of accumulation that has proven resistant to efforts by Keynesian and reformist interventions.
Capitalism has historically accelerated the spatial mobility of human beings. Immigration, whether internal or international, has accordingly become a significant component of capitalist development. Neoliberalism globalisation in particular has further, and significantly, exacerbated immigration as more and more territories have experienced the capitalist transformation of social relation, and been incorporated into the global capitalist economy. This calls attention to numerous different areas of research related to the link between contemporary capitalism (neoliberal globalisation) and patterns of immigration. Accordingly, the Neoliberalism and Contemporary Capitalism Working Group invites paper and panel proposals that fit in with the general theme of the IIPPE conference and the working group’s research agenda. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following:
If you have any questions, please email one of the coordinators of the Neoliberalism and Contemporary Capitalism Working Group:
Call for Activist Presentations, Documentary Films and Artist Talks
The Activism, Film and Media working group at the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE) seeks submissions of activist presentations, documentary films and artist talks for the annual conference.
IIPPE is one of the largest international networks of heterodox political economists with a critical approach to neoliberal capitalism. The IIPPE Activism, Film and Media working group provides a platform through which academics, activists, filmmakers and artists who are working for a more just and equal world can meet, share and discuss their work and establish collaborations.
The Activism, Film and Media programme runs in parallel with the academic conference and is open to a variety of formats, including film screenings, discussions, performances or more conventional academic papers. Projects and initiatives are sought that offer a critical engagement with economics, capitalism and politics more broadly. This includes but is not limited to ecological, decolonial, feminist, labour, antiracist and marginalised perspectives, and contributions relating to the conference theme of migration are particularly encouraged.
Documentary filmmakers and video artists are invited to submit work of up to 90 minutes duration, to be screened followed by a discussion. Please include a preview link with the abstract. Activist presentations or workshops may be of a similar duration. Films which do not have English as their main language must have English subtitles.
Work will be screened as a digital video file, and the creator of the work or a representative with significant involvement in research or production must be present for the discussion session. Contributors from outside Europe are strongly encouraged to participate, for whom a number of slots for virtual presentations will be made available.
Further information and the submission link can be found at https://iippe.org.
For questions, please contact activism.film.media@gmail.com.
There are no conference fees for Committee on Activism presenters, but presenters will need to pay the IIPPE membership fee of €30, and will be able to join the lunches and the conference meet-and greet social mixers with an additional €50.
Political Economy of China’s Development Working Group
The Political Economy of China's Development Working Group invites proposals for individual papers or themed panels related to lines of inquiry into the (systemic) interaction between China and the US-led world capitalist system. The US-led system has been in stagflation and increasing political instability which resulted in wars and massive human tragedy around the world. Is China's plan for further modernisation and development for a "global community of shared future" able to effect a systemic change in the world economy? What are the impacts of China's continuous development on world capitalism and on the shape of the international order? What lessons can be drawn from China's path to modernisation for other developing countries? Is China's Belt and Road Initiative an opportunity or a trap for the Global South?
This year, joint panel(s) with the Varieties of Socialism Working Group are being held. The option for joint panel can be selected if papers fall under the themes of both groups.
Contributions on the following themes are welcome:
Panel proposals and single paper proposals are welcome. If proposing a panel, all papers need to be submitted individually via the link below and sent also by email to the working group coordinator with the titles of all papers. For questions, please contact the China working group coordinator Sam-Kee Cheng (iippechina@gmail.com)
IMPORTANT: Please state clearly that the submission is for this call by selecting Political Economy of China's Development in the submission.
Submission Details:
The proposal submission platform is now open and will close on Friday night, February 1, 2025. Click the link below to go to the instructions for submitting a proposal, read them carefully to not spoil the proposal, and then the link the WHOVA proposal submission platform is embedded in the instructions. The instructions are here.
Submission Deadline for all: 1 February 2025
17–20 September | Ankara, Türkiye
The Activism, Film and Media working group at the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPPE) seeks submissions of activist presentations, documentary films and artist talks for the annual conference.
IIPPE is one of the largest international networks of heterodox political economists with a critical approach to neoliberal capitalism. The IIPPE Activism, Film and Media working group provides a platform through which academics, activists, filmmakers and artists who are working for a more just and equal world can meet, share and discuss their work and establish collaborations.
The Activism, Film and Media programme runs in parallel with the academic conference and is open to a variety of formats, including film screenings, discussions, performances or more conventional academic papers. Projects and initiatives are sought that offer a critical engagement with economics, capitalism and politics more broadly. This includes but is not limited to ecological, decolonial, feminist, labour, antiracist and marginalised perspectives, and contributions relating to the conference theme of migration are particularly encouraged.
Documentary filmmakers and video artists are invited to submit work of up to 90 minutes duration, to be screened followed by a discussion. Please include a preview link with the abstract. Activist presentations or workshops may be of a similar duration. Films which do not have English as their main language must have English subtitles.
Work will be screened as a digital video file, and the creator of the work or a representative with significant involvement in research or production must be present for the discussion session. Contributors from outside Europe are strongly encouraged to participate, for whom a number of slots for virtual presentations will be made available.
Further information and the submission link can be found at https://iippe.org.
For questions, please contact activism.film.media@gmail.com.
There are no conference fees for Committee on Activism presenters, but presenters will need to pay the IIPPE membership fee of €30, and will be able to join the lunches and the conference meet-and greet social mixers with an additional €50.
Submission deadline: 1 February 2025
17-19 September 2025 | University of Bayreuth, Germany
The organisators are delighted to host the 17th Biennial INEM Conference taking place September 17th-19th, 2025, with support by the International Network for Economic Method (INEM).
Proposals for contributed papers and symposia are invited in all areas of the philosophy and methodology of economics. Submissions that combine philosophy and methodology of economics with other perspectives, such as history and sociology of economics, decision theory, ethics, and political philosophy, are particularly encouraged. Contributions in Africana philosophy and economics, social ontology, feminist approaches, and postcolonial approaches are also welcome. Submissions from early-career scholars and from regions outside Western Europe or the US/Canada are especially encouraged. A limited number of remote presentations can be accommodated. Speakers at the conference will have the opportunity to submit their full papers to a special issue of the Journal of Economic Methodology.
Submission Procedure:
Submissions should be prepared for anonymous review and submitted via https://inem2025.sciencesconf.org. Abstracts for contributed papers should be between 700–1,000 words. Indications of interest in presenting remotely should be included in the submission. A symposium typically consists of 3 or 4 papers that address a shared theme within a 1.5-hour time slot. Symposium proposals should include a short summary of the topic and motivation for the symposium (250–300 words) along with abstracts of the symposium papers (500–900 words each). Book symposiums or proposals for alternative formats will also be considered.
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Deadlines: 1 March 2025
18-20 June 2025 | King’s College, London (Waterloo Campus), London (UK)
We invite submissions of papers and panels for the 27th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics. This is an event organised in collaboration with the Department of International Development at King’s College London.
The AHE conference seeks to support scholarship, reflection, and debate on innovative and diverse heterodox and radical understandings of the global political economy. In the midst of multiple crises, including environmental breakdown, genocide, mental health crises, rise of authoritarianism, and crises of social reproduction, heterodox and radical approaches to economics and political economy are crucial for grappling with the challenges we face. We welcome submissions that challenge conventional economic paradigms, offer alternative frameworks for understanding and navigating these complex crises, and actively work towards radical social change.
We have a series of streams running this year that you can submit your papers and/or panels to. You can see a full overview of the streams below. Please read the stream description carefully before submitting.
Paper submission:
Submit abstracts for individual papers (max 300 words) by February 14th 2025 and be a part of the dialogue shaping the future of heterodox economics. We particularly encourage applications from underrepresented groups in the economics discipline including, but not limited to women, people of colour, scholars from the Global South. Limited travel support is available for selected early career scholars from the Global North and South. Early career scholars include PhD students as well as those who received their PhD no more than 2 years prior to the date of the conference and are not currently in a full-time, tenured position. When submitting your abstract, please indicate if you would like to be considered for the bursaries.
Panel submission:
A panel typically consists of 3-4 presentations on a similar theme, but we are also open to panel submissions in non-standard formats (e.g. round table or workshop).
Fred Lee Prize:
If you are an early career researcher and interested in having your paper considered for the Fred Lee Early Career Prize, please indicate this on the paper submission form. You will be asked to send your full paper by May 1st, 2025 with the subject line “Early career prize submission” at heteconevents@gmail.com. Eligible scholars for the prize include PhD students as well as those who received their PhD no more than 2 years prior to the date of the conference and are not currently in a full-time, tenured position.
Overview of Streams
1. From Factory Floors to Economic Prosperity: Role of Manufacturing in the Development of Global South:
Stream coordinators: Amr Khafagy and Bhabani Nayak
Industrialisation remains the primary driver of development and growth, with the manufacturing sector contributing to two-thirds of the observed growth episodes over the past fifty years (UNIDO, 2024). Manufacturing-led growth is generally more sustainable and yields more equitable outcomes compared to other sectors. However, the size of the manufacturing sector has been declining in nearly all countries. While deindustrialisation may be an expected outcome for high-income economies after achieving advanced levels of industrialization, premature deindustrialisation has constrained the growth potential of underdeveloped economies and deepened core-periphery dependencies. Moreover, with the rapid degradation of the environment, the Global South faces increasing pressure to balance the goals of degrowth with the necessities of industrialisation which is crucial for development and economic sovereignty. This stream seeks to attract both theoretical and policy-oriented submissions that address the challenges of industrial development in underdeveloped economies. We welcome contributions that critically examine the following topics, though the panel is open to other relevant themes as well:
Global Production/Finance and Labour:
Stream coordinators: Ewa Karwowski and Samuel Moore
This is a multidisciplinary stream centering around critical political economy and focusing on the dynamics and interactions of global production, labour, money and finance in a globalised and unequal world economy characterized by hierarchies and recurring social and economic crises. We are particularly interested in the dynamics of contemporary capitalism, specifically the processes of financialisation, global production networks and value chains and labour relations and regimes in distinct countries, across regions and periods, (spatial) processes of capital accumulation and overlapping inequalities, and their implications for development.
History of Heterodox Economics:
Stream coordinators: Danielle Guizzo and Marco Vianna Franco
This stream warmly welcomes submissions on any aspect of the history of heterodox economics, notably (but not limited to):
We welcome a diversity of methods of inquiry, data, and schools of thought or perspectives.
Imperialism and Dependency in the 21st Century:
Stream coordinator: Fabio de Oliveira Maldonado
More than two decades into the 21st century, there is a renewed interest in the relationships between imperialism and dependency. This interest has not only gained fresh momentum in universities and institutions in underdeveloped countries but has also been reintroduced into research agendas at universities and institutions in developed countries. This stream aims to bring together research dedicated to understanding the contemporary manifestations of imperialism and dependency across their economic, social, political, and environmental dimensions. Issues such as financialization, the role of transnational corporations, the hyper-concentration and centralisation of the Economy 4.0, environmental exploitation, and the perpetuation or deepening of global inequalities are examined in their relation to the dynamics of imperialism and dependency. In this context, the stream seeks to foster theoretical reflections that engage both with classical readings and with recent perspectives on imperialism and dependency, including their derivative categories and analytical developments. This stream proposes to explore the following questions:
Thus, this stream aims to contribute to the deepening of debates on imperialism and dependency, with both practical and theoretical implications for the critique of political economy and its role in understanding and overcoming the challenges currently facing humanity.
International Financial Subordination:
Stream coordinators: Isaac Abotebuno Akolgo, Bruno Bonizzi, Carla Coburger, Aissata Diallo, Annina Kaltenbrunner, Kai Koddenbrock and Jeff Powell
The global monetary and financial system is a hierarchical system characterised by the relations of power, dependency, and domination. Ultimately, these manifest themselves as value transfers and constraints on agency of those actors operating in subordinate spaces. Since the establishment of the “international financial subordination” research agenda, an emerging literature has sought to uncover specific manifestations of subordination. Contributions are highly interdisciplinary, drawing on economic geographers and sociologists’ focus on the spatially and socially variegated financial practices, scholars of critical macro-finance’s work on institutional and policy configurations as well as existing scholarship on dependency theory and structuralism. Nevertheless, more work is needed to investigate specific financial relations, practices and mechanisms which constitute the concrete reality of financial subordination. Furthermore, the evolving international context, with a resurgence of forms of “state capitalism”, the fragility of multilateral institutions and the restructuring of global production into “resilient” value chains, is reshaping existing forms of financial subordination. This stream invites contributions from a range of perspectives and methodological approaches. We particularly welcome contributions that explore the following issues:
New Technologies in Context: Socioeconomic Impacts and Dynamics of Technical Change:
Stream coordinators: Juan Grigera and Elena Papagiannaki
In this dedicated stream we explore the disruptive role of emerging technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, automation, and digital platforms, in reshaping economies, societies, and labour markets. We welcome theoretical and empirical contributions addressing themes such as:
Political Economy and Ecological Crisis: ‘Green’ Contradictions and Radical Alternatives:
Stream coordinators: Lorena Lombardozzi, Angus McNelly, and Marco Vianna Franco
With 2024 on track to be the warmest year on record, confronting the contradictions inherent in the ecological crisis is more urgent than ever. Recent climate negotiations at the United Nations Conference of Parties (COP), hosted by oil-producing Azerbaijan, which witnessed walk outs from developing countries, were heated and demonstrated the disputed and contradictory nature of tackling climate change. Exactly what the ecological crisis is; which components and associated feedback loops are more pressing (e.g. carbon emissions, biodiversity collapse, etc.); who decides what is (or not) to be done; and who the winners and losers will be are all hotly contested issues. Moreover, empirical evidence on the socio-economic impacts of the so-called green transition across different contexts remains scant. Bearing these elements in mind, this stream warmly welcomes contributions that address theoretical, critical, and practical aspects of how economies might be (re)conceptualised to avert or cope with the impending ecological crisis, especially from radical, heterodox, or interdisciplinary perspectives. We welcome a range of methodological approaches, including historical, critical, conceptual and applied. We also welcome empirical works including but not limited to: The role of the state and green industrial policy; global energy markets; the political economy of hydrocarbons; green energy systems; financialisation and the de-risking state; green grabbing, green colonialism and/or green extractivism – the role of multilateral institutions in Green Transition; Ecofeminist, indigenous, and abolitionist movements ‘from below’; the distributional effects of green transition; and labour in the green transition.
We encourage women, first-gen academics, people of colour, early-career scholars, and scholars based in the Global South to submit their work.
Political Economy of Palestine:
Stream coordinator: Luis Cortés and Gabriel Rivas
The ongoing genocidal violence in Gaza and the West Bank is part of a long-standing historical process of Palestinian expulsion and dispossession. This stream aims to critically examine various economic perspectives on the current crisis and its deeper historical roots. Depending on the range of topics and papers submitted, the stream could consist of a single panel or multiple panels. A panel will explore diverse concepts of settler-colonialism. These analyses may focus solely on Israel and Palestine or adopt a comparative approach, examining other settler-colonial societies, and the potential papers can discuss the economic characterization of these arrangements, the form in which they are profitable (or not), the property and financial relations implicit in them, amongst other topics. The discussion can also extend to the Nakba particularly, discussing its specificity or the form in which it is part of a more general process (such as primitive accumulation, for example). One potential panel will delve into the more recent economic structures of the Oslo Accords. The Palestinian Authority, its relationship with Israel. In this case, it will be encouraged to delve into the national difference, the way in which it is enforced institutionally, either through case studies (at a sectoral level, or in particular industries) or through other approaches, in order to intervene in the political debates on a one-state versus two-state solution. Another panel would investigate the economic processes involved in the ongoing genocide, or in connected political processes from an economic approach. Topics might include the weapons trade, the role of humanitarian aid, ecocide, the erosion of international humanitarian law by Western countries, and the role and effectiveness of international boycott campaigns targeting Israel. By foregrounding economic perspectives, this stream seeks to enrich the economic approaches on the subject, which has largely been dominated by more cultural and political narratives.
Quantitative Political Economy:
Stream coordinators: Tomas Rotta, José Coronado, Patrick Mokre, and Josephine Baker
This stream brings together papers that employ quantitative and computational methods within the field of Political Economy. It embraces a wide range of theoretical traditions, including (but not limited to) Marxian, Keynesian, Kaleckian, Sraffian, feminist, critical race theory, and radical ecology.
We encourage submissions on topics such as (but not limited to) development economics, ecological economics, inequality, exploitation, unequal exchange, colonialism, decolonialisation, imperialism, socialism, economic planning, innovation, and technical change.
We expect submissions to feature a substantial quantitative or computational component, such as mathematical modelling, simulations, econometrics, Bayesian statistics, entropy and info-metrics (information theory), input-output analysis, machine learning, network analysis, or artificial neural networks.
Submissions must be theoretically grounded in Political Economy.
We anticipate hosting at least two panels, each comprising four papers, but we warmly welcome additional submissions.
Social Studies in Economics: Sociology, Methodology, and Policy:
Stream coordinators: Danielle Guizzo and Nastassia Harbuzova
This stream warmly welcomes submissions dealing with aspects of social studies in heterodox and critical economics from a sociological, methodological or policy-based perspective (including policy conceptions or conceptualisations, applications, and the politics of these processes).
We welcome papers dealing with the following topics (but not limited to):
The Changing Global Political Economy of Finance:
Stream coordinators: Mona Ali, Nina Eickhacker, Ann Davis, and Ramya Vijaya
This stream will invite papers addressing the systemic inequalities embedded in the global financial architecture and the forces of instability that are increasingly threatening its viability in its current form. Interconnected crises of sovereign debt burdens, climate finance along with new dynamics of resistance to globalization, increasing frequency of wars, and the rise of political parties of right-wing populism are challenging the existing political economy of global finance. The ongoing waves of debt distress from the COVID 19 crisis and the differential fiscal space available to countries in the global north versus the global south to manage crises have spurred debate about systemic global inequalities. From calls to reform the highly concentrated sovereign credit ratings industry to the new UN tax convention for international tax cooperation, there has been some momentum towards recognizing the need for an overhaul. At the same time countries, particularly in the global south continue to be confronted by the deeply entrenched austerity practices and conditionalities imposed through for example the IMF debt sustainability framework, and the current credit ratings methodologies that have yet to calibrate for climate financing and other longer term social infrastructure and fiscal space needs. Meanwhile the norms of free trade, which had been ascendant since 1945 are being increasingly challenged, with tariffs, protectionism, industrial policy, AI applications, and new forms of money like crypto and CBDCs. The primary sponsor of the global trading system and its key currency, the US, may also have less predictable policies with the incoming Trump administration, including corporate taxes, trade agreements, and climate change subsidies. The threats of instability will be an ongoing challenge to financial institutions and investment decisions. Such global economic instability may feed back into politics, undermining the resilience of indebted nation states and already fractured electorates.
Feminist Economics:
Stream coordinators: Sheba Tejani, Ines Heck, Irina Herb, and Holly Isard
This stream explores feminist economic perspectives on the multiple and intensifying global crises reshaping economies and societies, including climate breakdown, genocidal violence, surging economic inequality, the erosion of democratic institutions and rise of authoritarian populism. These crises demand urgent rethinking of traditional economic frameworks, and feminist political economy provides critical tools for imagining and creating more equitable and sustainable futures. We welcome contributions on topics including but not limited to the following:
Contributions may draw from diverse disciplines, methodologies, and geographic contexts, fostering a rich dialogue on transformative feminist praxis. We especially welcome contributions on conception, pregnancy and birth under capitalism which will be reviewed by Irina Herb and Holly Isard.
General Stream on Heterodox Economics:
If you believe your submission does not fit on any of the above streams, you can submit to AHE’s general stream on heterodox economics.
Submissions can be done through AHE's website.
Submission Deadline: 14 February 2025
20-23 November 2025 | The Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, Illinois
“History is indeed little more than the register of crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind” or so wrote Edward Gibbon some two centuries ago. Over time we have come to interpret this tendency less as the result of individual errors and more as a result of large-scale historical processes that depend on emergent and structural forces outside of the direct control of any one individual. Previous eras may have thought of these effects through the lens of tragedy, fate, or paradox. In the present, we might consider at least some subset as the result of the complexity of social organization.
Complexity makes exact predictions difficult, but progress has been made in understanding and identifying, and even analyzing and modeling emergent phenomenon, interdependence in systems, network properties, feedback loops, multiple chains of causation, and dynamic processes. How can we put complexity science and its tools to work to improve our understanding of historical processes, unintended consequences, cultural evolution, social coordination, and social change?
The 2025 Program Committee welcomes individual papers and panels on all aspects of social science history. It is especially interested in papers and panels that apply concepts and tools for studying complex processes to history. Topics of particular interest include the following:
Information on how to submit proposals can be found online at the SSHA website: https://ssha.org/conference/
Program Committee:
For questions, email Jeremy Land at executivedirector@ssha.org
Submission Deadline: 1 March 2025
24th - 25th April 2025 | Aalborg University,
Conference theme:Navigating the Polycrisis: Post Keynesian perspectives on contemporary economic challenges
Full details of the conference program will be published later.
Abstracts and conference participation
For those interested in presenting at the conference please note:
The payments and registration system is now available to the general public.
Fees and proceedings
The fees for participating in the conference proceedings will be as follows:
PhD seminar
Welcome drinks
23rd April 2025, Wednesday. Further information regarding welcome drinks will be made available soon.
Conference days
Conference dinner
Information will be provided later.
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Submission Deadline: 1 February 2025
Athens (Greece), September 24 -26, 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) represents a transformative technology that has in recent years generated positive expectations for a more prosperous, inclusive and sustainable future. At the same time, it has raised scepticism and concerns about the long-term, unintended, and possibly irreversible consequences for increasing the concentration of power, inequalities, job displacement, undermining of democracy, and ethical and security issues.
The analysis of the multifaceted impact of AI requires a multidisciplinary approach involving economists, sociologists, policy makers, ethicists, technologists, and others, to ensure that AI is developed and deployed in ways that benefit society.
The aim of this conference is two-fold:
In pursuit of these aims, the conference wishes to address key academic topics including:
We welcome studies on the implementation of AI, emphasizing both the benefits and threats for specific cases, such as healthcare, education, smart cities, agriculture, climate action and sustainability, and the financial sector.
We particularly encourage submissions that address inclusion, race and gender issues transcending the above and other directly related topics.
Keynote speakers: Susan Aaronson & Phoebe V Moore.
Local Organisers: Laboratory of Industrial and Energy Economics, National Technical University of Athens Department of Business Administration, University of Thessaly
Abstract and Special Session Submission
Please submit a Special Session proposal no later than December 31, 2024, or an abstract of an individual paper not later than February 15, 2025. All proposals must be submitted through the conference website.
Following the usual format, prospective participants are invited to submit a proposed paper related either to the theme of the conference or one of the diverse EAEPE Research Areas (RA) as well as the Special Sessions. Abstracts (300-750 words) for proposed individual papers or for a RA or Special Session should include the following information: authors’ names, email addresses and, affiliations, and name and code of the relevant RA. Following notification of acceptance, you will be invited to submit the full paper. Please note that only one presentation per author is permitted; additional papers can be submitted by the same author but will need to be presented by a registered co-author, if accepted by the scientific committee.
Proposals for a Special Session should include the following information:
Special Session proposals are eligible for funding if submitted by Research Area Coordinators and involve at least two different research areas with all related coordinators. Each research area cannot be involved in more than one funding request. The evaluation depends on:
For more information and abstract submission, please visit the website.
Submission Deadline: 15 January 2025
26 - 28 June 2025 | Paris
The last "International Marx Congress" took place in Paris in 2010. Since then, no international conference explicitly framed within Marxism has been organized in the Francophone world, where various intellectual and political currents could meet and engage in discussions over several days. The aim of the first "Historical Materialism Paris" conference, scheduled for June 26 to 28, 2025, is to bring to light and debate the most intellectually innovative and politically urgent Marxist research. This event is part of the series of conferences organized by *Historical Materialism* journal, first in London, and then in Ankara, Athens, Barcelona, Beirut, Berlin, Cluj, Istanbul, Melbourne, Montreal, New Delhi, New York, Rome, Sydney, Toronto, and also an online-version for South-East Asia.
In the meantime, the world hasn't fundamentally changed, but some of the main trends already in motion have intensified. The process of the de-democratization of states has radicalized, highlighting the entanglement of neoliberalism with authoritarian forms of political domination. The rise of neofascist movements and the fascization of traditional right-wing forces have accelerated on a global scale. Geopolitical tensions between major powers have hardened, with the 2022 invasion of Ukraine signalling the possibility of a broader military conflict. The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 revealed new global threats to humanity and exposed the deterioration of public health systems. The genocidal war waged by the Israeli state against Gaza since October 2023, with the support of Western imperialism, has illuminated the persistence of colonialism in its most criminal forms. Finally, the deepening ecological crises—2023 being the hottest year since the pre-industrial era and 2024 expected to surpass that—contrast sharply with the inaction of bourgeois governments and are leading toward catastrophe.
However, the recent period has not only been marked by the rise of reactionary forces, militarism, and catastrophe; it has also witnessed popular uprisings, mass protest movements, and new alliances between movements that have challenged the dominant order: from the occupations of public squares in 2011 to support for Palestinian resistance, the resurgence of class conflict, the sharpening of anti-racist struggles, the revival of feminist practices, and the radicalization of ecological movements.
Intellectually, Marxism has undeniably regained an audience among the critical fringes of the intellectual field and in emancipatory movements, connecting with their most dynamic sectors, despite the absence of mass communist organizations. The long period of Marxism's decline has ended, a period marked by the counter-revolutionary offensive that strongly shaped the intellectual landscape in France during the 1980s and 1990s. At that time, Perry Anderson referred to Paris as the "capital of intellectual reaction in Europe," and Pierre Bourdieu described it as the era when the "latest fashion" was to be "disillusioned with everything, starting with Marxism."
Participants are invited to submit panels or abstracts (maximum 300 words) in French or English by 15 February 2025, focusing on the following themes (indicating one or more themes in which their proposal fits). The website for submitting proposals can be found here. To make contact: paris@historicalmaterialism.org.
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Submission deadline: panels or abstracts (maximum 300 words) in French or English by 15 February 2025.
22-23 May 2025 | Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, Roskilde Denmark
Workshop rationale
While social thinkers have begun to explore the role of speculative fiction in understanding financial abstractions and employing it as a tool for social diagnosis, its potential applications within social and cultural theory—particularly in examining the role of speculative finance in contemporary society—remain curiously under-explored. Highlighting this gap is essential, given the widespread presence of speculative finance in the realms of economics (Durand, 2017), urbanism (Goldman, 2023), culture (Bahng, 2018), climate (Bracking, 2019), and society (Haiven & Berland, 2014; Shonkwiler, 2017; Vint, 2019; Komporozos, 2022). However, the inherently abstract nature of speculative finance poses a significant challenge for effective representation. In response, speculative fiction emerges as a distinct and powerful critical lens through which to examine our contemporary financialized existence (Shaviro, 2019).
This two-day workshop seeks to investigate the dialectical relationship between speculative fiction and speculative finance, positioning speculative fiction as a critical framework for analyzing the latter. While most discussions of capitalist temporality emphasize the commodity as the paradigmatic social form, this workshop explores why such frameworks are increasingly inadequate for understanding the dynamics of contemporary capitalism. These dynamics are now dominated by the logic of speculation—a social form that is principally unthinkable without reference to the current temporality. The workshop will explore how the logic of financialization relies on fictions that materialize the worlds it envisions, and how speculative fiction subverts what I call ‘the perceived rationalization of finance,’ revealing the predatory abstraction and structural violence embedded within financial systems. It will thus foster a deeper understanding of how speculative finance seeks to narrow and constrain future possibilities, and how speculative fiction challenges its ongoing attempts to shape all aspects of political and social life in economic terms.
I invite cross-disciplinary contributions—papers, discussions, dialogues, and artistic performances—that examine intersections between speculative finance and speculative fiction. Submissions from sociology, political economy, cultural studies, politics, critical finance studies, and speculative/science fiction studies are welcome, particularly those using speculative fiction to critique and reveal the complexities of financial systems, enriching our understanding of contemporary financialization. Papers might address, but are not limited to, the following questions:
Please submit abstracts of 300–500 words, along with a brief bio, to riza@ruc.dk. The workshop welcomes both early-career scholars (including PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers) and established academics whose work critically engages with the financialized status quo and envisions alternative futures through the lens of speculative fiction. Selected participants will receive one night of accommodation in Copenhagen. If you require financial assistance for travel, please indicate this in your submission.
Special issue: It is hoped that the workshop will result in a special issue that explores the logical and structural relationship between speculative fiction and speculative finance. The target journals will be determined during the discussions at the workshop.
Organizer:Ali Rıza Taşkale is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University, Denmark. His research has been published in journals and magazines such as Los Angeles Review of Books, Utopian Studies, Distinktion, Thesis Eleven, Rethinking Marxism, Northern Lights, New Political Science, Contemporary Political Theory, Third Text, Theory, Culture & Society, and Journal for Cultural Research. His book, Post-Politics in Context, was published by Routledge in 2016. Currently, he serves on the editorial board of Distinktion, overseeing special issues and the forum exchange section. His ongoing project examines the logical and structural relationship between speculative fiction and speculative finance.
For further information and application please visit the website.
Key dates:
1st International Conference on Multi-Agent Data-driven Modelling in Economics (MADME 2025), May 29-30, 2025, Cà Foscari University of Venice, Italy
http://unive.it/madme2025
Keynote speakers:
We are pleased to announce that submissions are now open for Multi-Agent Data-driven Modelling in Economics 2025 (MADME 2025), which will take place on 29-30 May 2025 in Venice.
We invite researchers and professionals to submit their contributions on the main topics of the conference:
Detailed information is available on the website: http://unive.it/madme2025. Feel free to contact us if you have any questions. We look forward to your contributions!
Submission Deadline: 31 January 2025.
Oslo, Norway, 24-27 June 2025
The 18th Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics (ISEE) and the 11th International Degrowth Conference are held jointly in August 2025 in Oslo, Norway. The related call for papers is organized around several thematic tracks. These tracks represent key areas of focus for the degrowth movement and academic discourse. The main thematic concepts for the call for papers include:
Each individual may only submit one abstract as presenting main author/contributor
Under this call, you can submit an abstract for a short presentation that you want to give during a parallel session at the conference. Please submit your abstract i) either to one of the 10 predefined thematic tracks, or ii) to one of the open Special sessions. Submissions on topics not explicitly listed are also welcomed and may be entered under “other”.
All parallel sessions will be held during a time slot of 1.5 hours (90 minutes). Each parallel session will have a chair who is responsible for the session.
Parallel sessions are divided into the two categories of Regular sessions and Special sessions.
Poster session
You may submit an abstract describing a poster to be presented at the Poster session during the conference. Posters will achieve great visibility as they will be on public display for the duration of the event, and a digital version of each poster will be displayed on the conference website. Especially during the Poster session of the conference, the authors will have the opportunity to explain their work and answer questions from the audience. We encourage participants to be creative in preparing the posters, and to explain their work in a good and dynamic way. SUBMISSION OF AN ABSTRACT We welcome both academic and non-academic presentations. Regardless of format, we encourage all contributors to reflect on how their work links theory and practice.
The language of abstract submission must be English. Each abstract can have more than one author/contributor. At least one of the authors/contributors needs to be physically present at the conference.** While each individual can only submit one abstract as the presenting main author/contributor, there is no limit to the number of contributions in which they can feature as non-presenting co-authors.
All submissions must include the following details:
Evaluation All submissions will undergo a blind peer-review process. Proposals will be evaluated according to the following criteria:
Results of Evaluation Once the reviewing process has concluded, submitters will receive the result of their evaluations, including the reviewer comments. If the reviewer(s) suggest that the abstract should be revised, a final abstract should be submitted within 10 days after receiving the comments. If such revisions are not done, it will be regarded as a withdrawal of the contribution. The presenting authors of accepted abstracts must register and pay the registration fee before the deadline set by the organizers (the deadline will be in Mid-April 2025). If the registration has not been done by the registration deadline, it will be regarded as a withdrawal of the contribution. If there is any change regarding the presenting author of an accepted abstract, it must be communicated to the organizers as soon as possible, and the new presenter must register and pay within the same deadline.
Time limitation on abstract presentations We are experiencing very high interest in contributing to the conference. For example, we received more than 140 Special session submissions. By setting a limit of 15 minutes on abstracts presented in any regular session (and maximum 4 presentations per session), we aim to accommodate a broad variety of presentations and facilitate fruitful exchanges.
Hybrid/digital aspects of the conference For Regular sessions, one of the authors/contributors needs to be physically present for the presentation. It will thus not be possible to submit an abstract for a fully digital presentation. However, some of the Special sessions may welcome digital presentations (read the description for each session to find out). Moreover, we aim to make several sessions in each parallel slot digitally available for anyone to watch online, without any conference fee. Therefore, we ask all presenters to indicate whether they accept that their presentation is streamed to a digital audience via the conference webpage. We aim to set up a digital forum for those following the conference online, and a system to ensure that online comments and questions are considered and addressed in the streamed sessions.
You can submit your abstract here: https://www.conftool.pro/isee-degrowth2025/
Submission Deadline: 20 January 2025 (at 23:59 CET)
The Brazilian Journal of Political Economy will publish a special number on the Dutch disease. Some questions that may inspire the author:
Papers and projects
Projects (maximum 200 words) should be sent to the Brazilian Journal of Political Economy until March 31, 2025. (The journal will not inform the reasons for possible rejection).
The deadline to send the papers (maximum 40.000 characters) of the approved projects is October 31, 2025. They will be examined by two referees. The limit for the review of the literature is 52.000 characters.
The approved papers will be published in the April 2026 number of the journal. All projects and papers must be written in English.
For further information click here.
Deadline: March 31, 2025.
10-12 September 2025 | Prague University of Economics and Business, Prague, Czechia
We are pleased to announce that the WINIR Conference on Institutions, Entrepreneurship & Shared Prosperity will be held at the Prague University of Economics and Business in Prague, Czechia, from Wednesday 10 to Friday 12 September 2025.
The conference will be preceded by a WINIR Young Scholars Workshop on Tuesday 9 September 2025. There will be an optional tour on Saturday 13 September 2025.
We expect to launch the Young Scholars call in early January and the main conference call in late February.
More information coming soon.
Seasonal greetings and all the best for the New Year!
18-19 April 2025 | University of Wisconsin-Madison (hybrid), US
In its prime, economic sociology was premised on the moral and communal contours of economic life, with research centered on questions of embeddedness, relational work, and performativity. But in recent years, the limits of these perspectives have become apparent. Many now rehearse the same tired stories of social capital or accumulate still more evidence of our “financialized” lives. An ungenerous critic might allege the field has functioned as the reluctant left wing of market fundamentalism or yet another cultural turn devoid of material politics.
As previous agendas grow stale, the field is increasingly rudderless. Economic sociology today lacks a well-defined object of study. There is no consensus as to what questions, if any, it seeks to answer. Worse yet, it is politically impotent — effectively divorced from policymaking and lacking any real capacity to transform the world. This does not bode well if the world in question happens to be on fire.
Yet there may be reason for cautious optimism. As global leaders sound the death knell of neoliberalism, so too have scholars begun re-engaging the macrosociological. In response to decades of tax evasion and capital flight, they are exploring central banking and democratic finance. In response to the climate crisis, they are grappling with questions of state power and green planning. And in response to technological transformations, they are interrogating platform capitalism and digital currency.
What is now urgently needed is an agenda capable of weaving together these threads. The WINIR-WSES Workshop on The Future of Economic Sociology seeks to contribute to this goal by drawing together a variety of presentations under a new theoretical framework. Our contention is that economic sociology’s perennial topics — markets, money, law, firms, states, and the like — must be conceptualized not as sites of cultural exchange but as a matrix of institutions and protocols. Drawing on the best of economic sociology, political economy, and institutionalisms old and new, we are interested in mapping the “rules of the game.” Because it is only by attending closely to these rules that we might begin to ponder how to change them.
We are specifically seeking presentations on...
Economic sociology as a tool for world-building, détournement, blueprints, real utopias; possible topics include:
Economic sociology as a tool for power-mapping, class analysis, reconnaissance; possible topics include:
Keynote Speaker:
Benjamin Bradlow (Princeton University, USA)
This two-day event is organized in collaboration with the Wisconsin School of Economy Sociology (WSES) based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Submissions should include a paper title and abstract, sent no later than January 15, 2025. If applicants would like to request a small amount of travel assistance, they can indicate this in their submission (allocation will be need-based, priority will be given to graduate students and junior faculty). Organizers plan to release a finalized program by late January 2025. Submissions and any other questions can be sent to Gabriel Kahan (gkahan2@wisc.edu) and James Rosenberg (rosenberg24@wisc.edu).
Registration: free, open to all
Submission Deadline: 15 January 2025
13-14 March 2025 (online), 19-21 March 2025 (in person) | Cascais, Portugal
Over the past year, the Ergodicity Economics group has had fascinating interactions with the Adaptive Behavior and Cognition (ABC) group, whose work focuses on bounded rationality, ecological rationality, and social rationality. The EE2025 conference is intended to foster further interactions, under the theme “Good decisions,” with Gerd Gigerenzer as the keynote speaker.
However, this theme is not meant to be restrictive, and as always, the EE organizers are especially excited about hearing from people they don’t know yet. Previous conferences have included contributions from economics, physics, medicine, psychology, machine-learning, neuroscience, finance and other disciplines.
An online meeting (13-14 March) will be followed by an in-person workshop with a smaller group (19-21 March). The focus will be on notions of rationality in the behavioral sciences, and on how the ergodicity concept can inform these notions. The conference is co-organized with Gerd Gigerenzer, director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin. Gigerenzer and his colleagues have actively researched issues of rationality for some decades, and connections between the EE community and theirs have been established this past year.
For registration and more information, please visit the conference website.
Deadline to express interest in in-person event: 12 January 2025
15-16 May 2025 | Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
The organization of society is based on institutions constituted by rules that are negotiated in complex social processes. Rules can be enforced coercively (by force or law) but also consensually (by cultural norms, common sense, ideologies that are accepted, internalized, and may become perceived and felt as truth). Either way power and power relations are paramount for the distinct configurations of rules at play. One central institution in neoliberal society is competition. In the neoliberal era, (market) competition regulates the allocation of resources, and its rules are said to ensure a fair outcome by equalizing opportunities. As part of the interdisciplinary research project EIROC1 we focus on the rules of competition to facilitate interdisciplinary discussions; this also allows us to question the equalizing nature of competition not least in the current state of an unequal, globalized society, looking at global exchange relationships, the European Unions way to sustainability and access to housing. In these contexts and more generally, we want to ask: What is defined as a rule and how does this definition affect outcomes? Who makes the (market) rules? How do we need to rethink our understanding of rules and institutions? We invite scholars from different disciplines working on these questions to present at our workshop. We particularly invite contributions from critical (social) theories (e.g. feminist theory, dependency framework, state and regulation-theoretical approaches) and empirical contributions that address the complexity of how power structures operate within institutions at micro, meso and macro levels that often seem intangible. The workshop aims to discuss how these insights can be translated into a framework for the interdisciplinary study of rules sensitive to this complexity of power structures. To do so, we invite three experts in the field of critical competition research to facilitate the workshop: Carina Altreiter (Austrian Chamber of Labour, Vienna), Claudius Gräbner-Radkowitsch (Europa University Flensburg) and Stephan Pühringer (University of Linz) will provide participants with valuable feedback.
We welcome
Submission of Abstracts: 200 words; via e-mail to laura.porak@jku.at and theresa.hager@jku.at The workshop will take place the 15th and 16th of May in Linz, Austria (Johannes Kepler University of Linz) and is supported by SASE’s (Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics) Women and Gender Forum.
There are no workshop fees; however, unfortunately, accommodation and travel expenses cannot be covered by the workshop organizers.
Deadline: 1 March 2025
18-19 February 2025 | RomaTre University, Rome, Italy
On the occasion of the IAERE 2025 General Conference, which will take place at the Department of Economics of Università Roma Tre (Rome), the Keynesian Working Group is pleased to invite PhD students and early-career researchers to participate in the YSI Workshop “Wide Ranging Economics Perspectives for Sustainability,” scheduled for 18–19 February 2025.
The workshop provides an opportunity for young scholars and researchers to engage in a rich dialogue on the critical role of economic studies in addressing ecological challenges. Economics plays a pivotal role in shaping urgently needed policies in the spirit of socio-economic and environmental sustainability, aiming to achieve Net Zero Emissions and avert the climate catastrophe. By analysing the complex, non-linear, and multidirectional interactions between economy, society, and natural systems in a context of tighter planetary boundaries, the workshop aims to deepen understanding and propose actionable solutions to support a just and sustainable future.
For these reasons, submissions of modelling contributions (Agent-Based, Stock-Flow Consistent, Input-Output, as well as other and new approaches) and theoretical or empirical works are strongly encouraged.
Contributions are welcomed on topics related (but not limited) to:
Program details:
The workshop will feature a keynote speaker, include presentations from all selected participants, and ensure the presence of discussants to provide valuable feedback to early-career researchers.
Keynote speaker: Antoine Godin – Senior Economist at the French Agency for Development (AFD), CEPN – Université Sorbonne Paris Nord.
Participation Details:
Participation is free of charge. Accommodation and travel reimbursements are available for a limited number of participants. Requests for accommodation and travel reimbursement should be indicated in the submission.
To participate, the form provided should be filled out.
Selection will be guided by the quality and relevance of research proposals, with a commitment to fostering gender balance and embracing geographical diversity.
Deadlines: 13 January 2025
The December episode of our radio show Economics for the People is dedicated to celebrating the 50th anniversary of our partners at Dollars & Sense Magazine. Dollars & Sense is a national magazine published six times per year, focusing on left-wing analysis of economic issues for a mass audience. Their 50th anniversary edition asked five authors to imagine the US economy 50 years into the future. In our feature, we spoke with Yvonne Yen Liu about Huey P. Newton's concept of intercommunalism and Emily Kawano about the solidarity economy. In the Dollars & Sense Debrief, Chris Sturr interviews David Bacon about what a just immigration system would look like in the future. Please visit their website to make a donation to keep them going at dollarsandsense.org.
You can listen to the podcast here: https://kkfi.org/program-episodes/ep15-50th-anniversary-celebration-for-dollars-and-sense-magazine/
Job title: Lecturer in Economics
About the Role
The Lecturer in Economics is expected to teach undergraduate modules across the spectrum of economics, including micro- and macroeconomics, international economics, econometrics and quantitative approaches to economics. Economics at Goldsmiths is taught in a pluralist fashion, and candidates must be able to demonstrate teaching experience, knowledge of the context and methodology of applied techniques, and an ability to creatively combine mainstream and heterodox approaches within a pluralist teaching approach.
About the Candidate
You will have a good first degree and a PhD (or equivalent) in economics or related disciplines. Preference will be given to applicants who have completed their PhD; those who have submitted at the point of application or are about to submit could be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Benefits
We have generous benefits – an agile working environment, 28 days’ annual leave plus 6 paid closure days (4 at Christmas and 2 at Easter) plus all Bank Holidays, great transport links, a defined benefit pension scheme, support for professional development and a broad range of wellbeing initiatives such as staff choir, running club and creative writing classes.
Goldsmiths, University of London is passionate about advancing equality and celebrating diversity.
For further information and application please visit the website.
Application Deadline: 24 January 2025
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellow - History of Capitalism
Department/Area:
The History of Capitalism Project at Harvard Business School and Harvard University identifies and supports outstanding scholars whose work responds to the growing interest in the study of global capitalism from a historical perspective.
One History of Capitalism Fellow will be appointed for the academic year 2025-2026 and will be provided time, guidance, office space, and access to Harvard University facilities. Fellows should be prepared to devote their time to productive scholarship and must undertake sustained projects of new research or other original work. They will be expected to be in residence and participate in the vibrant community of historians of business, capitalism, and political economy at Harvard Business School and in the Harvard community more broadly.
Position Description:
This appointment is set to begin July 1, 2025 and run through June 30, 2026.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis but should be submitted by January 18, 2025 to ensure full consideration.Harvard Business School is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Basic Qualifications:
A Ph.D. (or comparable professional school degree) is required.
PLEASE NOTE: If you have obtained your Ph.D. in the past 12 months you must be able to provide a certificate of completion from the degree-granting institution OR a letter from the institution’s Registrar stating all requirements for the degree have been successfully completed and should verify the date the degree has been conferred. No exceptions.
Additional Qualifications:
Application Details:
Applications will be accepted until positions are filled.
Please apply here via the Harvard system. Please do not contact lab faculty. All applications must include the following:
Candidates may be asked to undergo an assessment as part of the interview process.
Additional Information:
These are term positions starting July 2025 (start date flexible) through June 30, 2026, with the possibility of renewal based on funding and performance. Relocation funding not provided.
This role is offered as a hybrid (some combination of onsite and remote) where you are required to be onsite at our Boston, MA based campus. Specific days and schedule will be determined between you and your manager.
Please note that we will be conducting interviews virtually (phone and/or Zoom) for selected candidates.
Culture of Inclusion: The work and well-being of HBS is profoundly strengthened by the diversity of our network and our differences in background, culture, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, and life experiences. Explore HBS work culture.
For further information click here.
Contact Email: kdestadler@hbs.edu
Deadline: Applications are accepted on a rolling basis but should be submitted by January 18, 2025 to ensure full consideration.
Job title: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor/ Tenure-Track or Tenure-Levels Associate Professor
Job Description
The University of Missouri-Kansas City Department of Economics announces a tenure-track or tenure-eligible position at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor anticipated to begin August 2025. The position requires candidates to be prepared to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in heterodox macroeconomics. Expertise in monetary theory and policy is desirable, as well as the ability to contribute to teaching required and elective courses.
Appointment to the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor requires completed Ph.D. We value candidates committed to improving access to higher education for historically underrepresented students.
This is a 9-month full-time, ranked, tenure-track/tenure eligible faculty position with benefits beginning in Fall 2025 semester.
The UMKC Department of Economics offers BA, MA, and PhD degrees. UMKC’s urban location provides excellent opportunities for research and community engagement. Additional information can be found on the department’s website.
Minimum Qualifications
A Ph.D. in Economics or a closely related field is required at time of employment.
ABD candidates with an expected degree completion date before August 1, 2025 also will be considered; please provide expected date of award in your application.
Anticipated Hiring Range
Salary is negotiable and commensurate with rank, experience, scholastic achievement, success in funded research, and credentials.
Application Instructions
For consideration, you must apply online.
Please complete the online application form and provide:
Please combine all application materials into one PDF or Microsoft Word document and upload as your resume attachment. Limit document name to 50 characters and do not include any special characters (e.g., /, &, %, etc.).
Additionally, three letters of professional recommendation (including current contact information for reference) should be submitted to the UMKC Department of Economics.
Application Deadline
Review of applications begins 11/18/2024 and continues until the position is filled. First-round interviews will be conducted in December 2024 via video conference. Finalists will be invited for a campus visit in Spring Semester 2025.
Job title: Postdoc in Macro-Financial Modelling of Biodiversity Risk
Join the EU Horizon NATURE 3B project in September 2025 as a postdoctoral researcher to shape the future of biodiversity finance. You’ll contribute to develop a Stock-Flow Consistent behavioural model and a stress-test model to analyse the impacts of biodiversity loss on macro-financial risks, conduct asset-level biodiversity stress testing, and propose macroprudential policies to manage biodiversity risks in Europe. Collaborate with leading scholars, central banks, and financial regulators to mainstream biodiversity risk assessment into risk management and drive policy impact.
Your job
As part of the Horizon Europe project NATURE 3B (Including NATURE in decision making of central banks, investment benchmarks & bond issuers), you will work with the Utrecht University School of Economics (U.S.E.) team under the lead of Professor Irene Monasterolo. Next to the project, you will also be a member of the Finance Section at U.S.E.
Your key responsibilities include:
1. developing quantitative tools such as a Stock-Flow Consistent behavioural model and biodiversity stress tests to assess biodiversity risks and their macroeconomic and financial stability impacts;
collaborating with top scholars from leading institutions (e.g., University of Oxford, University of Venice) and engaging with central banks, regulators, the European Commission and the NGFS network;
2. driving impact by informing macroprudential policies, financial regulations, and investors for managing biodiversity risks in Europe;
3. contributing to academic output through publishing high-quality research with the team;
supporting the project dissemination activities by participating in relevant conferences, workshops, and seminars.
Your qualities
We are looking for a motivated postdoc with the following qualifications:
1. a PhD in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Physics, or a related field;
2. proven experience with macro-financial and financial risk modelling, using either Stock-Flow Consistent models, or Agent-Based models, or network models;
familiarity with climate finance; interest in biodiversity finance;
3. strong coding skills in Matlab and Python;
4. ability to work in teams, deliver quality and relevant work, manage tasks independently, and meet deadlines;
5. ability to write and present research for academic and policy audiences;
6. fluency in English and willingness to travel within Europe for conferences and meetings.
Location: You are expected to work from Utrecht, with access to facilities and a dynamic international research environment.
We offer:
1. a temporary position for 24 months, starting in September 2025.
2. a working week of 28 hours and a full-time gross salary between €4,537 and €6,209 in the case of full-time employment (salary scale 11 under the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities (CAO NU));
3. 8% holiday pay and 8.3% year-end bonus;
4. a pension scheme, partially paid parental leave and flexible terms of employment based on the CAO NU.
Link to further information: https://inomics.com/job/postdoc-in-macro-financial-modelling-of-biodiversity-risk-1546897
Application Deadline: 15 January 2025
Job title: Post-doctoral Position in the Program of Ethics, Politics, and Economics
The Program on Ethics, Politics, and Economics sponsors interdisciplinary teaching and research in the Social Sciences and Humanities at Yale. The program offers two postdoctoral positions to support outstanding scholars starting their academic careers. We seek scholars whose work spans disciplinary boundaries and integrates empirical, analytical, and normative concerns to shed light on substantial social problems.
We welcome applications from new PhDs in political science, economics, philosophy, business, and related social sciences working on furthering our understanding of complex social realities from an interdisciplinary perspective. This year, we are particularly interested in supporting scholars who are examining political economy problems.
The positions allow new PhD’s to develop a strong research program in a stimulating collegial environment alongside faculty across the social sciences and humanities at Yale University. In addition to conducting their research, postdocs are expected to teach one interdisciplinary undergraduate seminar, be available to meet undergraduate students of the EP&E major, and assist with advising majors on their senior essays.
Positions are for one year, renewable to two, at a salary of $70,000 with Yale health benefits. Applicants should have completed PhD requirements by September 2025.
Applications should include the following:
Please submit application materials electronically to Interfolio at http://apply.interfolio.com/160735. The review process will begin January 5, 2025. We will continue to accept applications until the position has been filled. Please direct inquiries to Ana De La O, Director of Ethics, Politics, and Economics, ana.delao@yale.edu.
The editors and editorial board of Review of (née Research in) the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (RHETM) are delighted to announce the third Students’ Work-In-Progress Competition.
The Students’ Work-In-Progress Competition offers an opportunity for students to work with RHETM’s experienced editors and editorial board members to bring an in-progress draft to fruition and to publish the final manuscript in RHETM. Their editorial team will select up to five (5) promising submissions and then work with the authors to bring their essays up to the journal’s exacting publication standards.
Eligibility:
Only papers authored by students are eligible. Authors with their PhD in hand at time of submission are not eligible. All authors on a co-authored paper must be students.
Any and all topics related to economic methodology, the history of economics, or the philosophy of economics, all broadly construed, are eligible.
Papers must be true works-in-progress. They will consider papers that have been presented at conferences. However, papers that have been previously submitted for possible publication are not eligible. Papers cannot have benefitted from a previous round of refereeing.
Prizes:
Unfortunately, they cannot offer cash prizes this year. However, the winning papers will be published in late 2025 as a symposium in RHETM.
Review Process:
As with their standard review process, they will perform an internal review to determine an initial list of candidates. They will then work with their editorial-board members to select those papers worth dedicating close attention and care to bringing to fruition. Then they will work with the remaining authors to make their papers publishable. The winners of the competition will be determined at the end of this process. The winners will be the best papers that survive this gauntlet.
Submission Details:
Submit works-in-progress here: https://rhetm.org/submissions/. Be sure to select “Symposium Paper” when prompted for article type.
Please contact the co-editors of RHETM with any questions about the Students’ Work-In-Progress Competition:
- Scott Scheall – sscheall@uaustin.org
- Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak - csuprinyak@aup.edu
Deadline: March 31, 2025
Wallace Marcelino Pereira, Fabricio J. Missio, Frederico Gonzaga Jayme Jr.: Modern services, real exchange rate and economic growth
Víctor Manuel Cuevas Ahumada, Ignacio Perrotini Hernández: Consumer goods and services inflation in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic
Hugo C. Iasco-Pereira, André Roncaglia, Marcelo Curado: Os Estruturalistas Latino-Americanos e as Teorias da Inflação Inercial
Pedro Lange Machado: Global financial orders and credit rating agencies: disruptions and adaptations
Daisy Caroline Nascimento Pereira, Guilherme Jonas Costa da Silva: Technological progress, human capital, and employment rate: an empirical analysis using P-ARDL models from 1960-2019
Luiz Antonio de Oliveira Lima: Putnam, Sen e Smith: Uma reflexão crítica sobre a Teoria Econômica Neoclássica
Carlos Aguiar de Medeiros, Esther Majerowicz: Contemporary industrial policy and challenges to South America and Brazil
Luciano Alencar Barros, Carlos Pinkusfeld Bastos: Comparative analysis of different heterodox interpretations about the end of the “Golden Age” of Western capitalism
Célio Hiratuka, Antônio Carlos Diegues: Artificial Intelligence in the development strategy of contemporary China
Silvio Luiz de Almeida, Leda Maria Paulani: O Silêncio Eloquente: por que as teorias do desenvolvimento calam sobre o racismo?
Adriano Vilela Sampaio, Mauricio Andrade Weiss, Paulo Van Noije: The COVID-19 crisis and its initial impacts on emerging countries: an analysis based on the exchange rate pressure index
Ledson Luiz Gomes da Rosa, Norberto Montani Martins: Regulation, Innovation and Coevolution in Financial Systems: An Analysis of the Impact of Restricted Effort Offering Regulation on Long-Term Financing in Brazil (2009 – 2021)
Tatiana Silveira Camacho, Guilherme Jonas Costa da Silva: Instant payments and brazilian pix: lessons from the indian experience in the 2010’s
Roberto Rodrigues, Elisangela Araujo: Preference for liquidity and financial investments of individuals in Brazil: an analysis by investor segments (2014-2021)
Jacob Tche: Keynesian and post-Keynesian models on banks in Africa
Jan Klink, Gabriel Santos Carneiro, Bruno Castro Dias da Fonseca: Modern Monetary Theory: Criticisms Through the Lenses of the Original Institutional Economics and the Non-Mainstream Macroeconomic Debate
Giuliano Manera Longhi, Adriano José Pereira, Paulo Ricardo Feistel: The Twin Deficits and the New Cambridge Approach: estimating the private expenditure equation for Brazil (2001-2018)
Diego Garcia Angelico, Giuliano Contento de Oliveira: Capital controls: the recent reorientation of mainstream economics and the structuralist- Keynesian approach
João Pedro de Freitas Gomes, Ruth Pereira di Rada, Matias Rebello Cardomingo, Luiza Nassif-Pires, Clara Brenck: O que a análise dos tributos diretos no topo da distribuição nos informa sobre a desigualdade racial no Brasil?
Larissa Naves Deus Dornelas: PEC 65/2023 and the overlooked relationship between the Central Bank and the National Treasury
House Organ
Daniel Faber: Trump’s Election Victory, the Climate Crisis, and the Working Class: What Does this Mean for the Future?
Symposium on Matthew Huber's Climate Change as Class War
Daniel Faber: Climate Change as Class Struggle in America: Matthew Huber and the Challenges Confronting the Ecological Left
Peter A. LaVenia Jr. & Larry Alan Busk: Degrowth or Class Struggle? A Critique of Matthew Huber’s Climate Change as Class War
Simon Pirani: Socialism and Electricity: Renewables and Decentralisation Versus Nuclear
Ecofeminist Praxis
Selina Gallo-Cruz & Chelsea Renea Morton: On Continuity and Exceptionality in Our Present Crisis: A Conversation with Silvia Federici
Racial Capitalism and Political Ecology
Ian Ross Baran: Black Revolutionary Movements & Environmental Justice: Strategizing for Total Liberation
Eco-Marxist Perspectives on Ecological Socialism
Lotte Schack: Roots or Branches: The Climate Crisis and Other Injustices
David Schwartzman: My Response to Roos and Hornborg, Technology as Capital: Challenging the Illusion of the Green Machine
Poetry
Jeremy Jacob Peretz: Shitstems Rhythms Forest River Chant Down
Nata Duvvury, Bilge Erten & Smita Ramnarain: Feminist Perspectives on Conflict, Disaster, and Violence against Women: Introduction to the Special Issue
Jayanthi Thiyaga Lingham: Dispossession after War: A Feminist Political Economy Perspective
Tomer Stern & Bilge Erten: Women's Participation in the Arab Spring Protests and the Prevalence of Domestic Violence: Evidence From Egypt
Iqbal Hossain, Dana Bazarkulova & Janice Compton: Effects of Conflicts on Labor Market Outcome and Intimate Partner Violence: Evidence from Nepal
Prarthna Agarwal Goel, Joyita Roy Chowdhury, Yashobanta Parida & Balakrushna Padhi: Does Natural Disaster-Induced Male Unemployment Increase Violence Against Women? Empirical Evidence from India
Adan Silverio-Murillo, Fernanda Marquez-Padilla & Jose Balmori-de-la-Miyar: Earthquakes and Crimes Against Women
Padmaja Ayyagari, Giulia La Mattina & Lei Lv: Natural Disasters and Acceptance of Domestic Violence
Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi: Regional Refugee Response Plans and Violence Against Women: A Comparative Analysis of the Humanitarian Situations in Ukraine and Venezuela
David Bassens, Janelle Knox-Hayes, Karen Lai, Fenghua Pan & Dariusz Wójcik: Finance in the age of geoeconomics: intersections of finance, production, and digital technology
Ben Mkalama & Stefan Ouma: To whom does the money go? Mapping the uneven financial geographies of venture capital in ‘Silicon Savannah’, Kenya
Maud Borie & Sarah Bracking: Authorising green finance with claims to science: research avenues to move beyond sciencewashing
Olivia Taylor & Paul Gilbert: Mapping the ‘business of development’: the geography of UK for-profit development contractors
Franz Flögel & Tereza Hejnová: Regional banks and economic resilience: the impact of the global financial crisis and COVID-19 on countries with decentralised and centralised banking systems
Gordon L. Clark, Mads Hoefer & Stefania Innocenti: Geographical variations in risk tolerance and the use of financial instruments: evidence from a multi-jurisdictional survey
Stefanos Ioannou: Community belongingness and small business banking in Scottish islands
Joe Penny & Amy Horton: Race, resistance and the speculative city: reflections from London
Antoine Ducastel: Dismantling or greening the fossil-fuel energy regime? Decarbonation struggle and the making of electricity capital in Guadeloupe
Ilias Alami, Jack Taggart, Heather Whiteside, Ruben Gonzalez-Vicente, Imogen T. Liu & Steve Rolf: Quo vadis neoliberalism in an age of resurgent state capitalism?
Daniel A. Shtob: Climate change and municipal bonds across scales: credit ratings and the challenges of emergent risk in small localities
Rowland Atkinson, Katie Higgins & Jonathan Bourne: The global urban elite: the sources of wealth and residential networks of the super-rich in 10 cities
Callum Ward, Frances Brill, Laura Deruytter & Andy Pike: Local state financialisation: future research directions for an emergent conjuncture
Dan Cohen, George Hodges & Tinyan Otuomagie: Building the de-risking state: power, policy and Canada’s Social Finance Fund
Andreas Nölke: Private institutions in infrastructural geoeconomics: limits to the rise of emerging economies in global finance
Maira Magnani, Daniel Sanfelici, Félix Adisson & Ludovic Halbert: Assetising Brazilian logistics: power, spaces and scales under asset management capitalism
Claire Parfitt: ESG integration and its derivative logic of ethics: exposing the limits of sustainability capitalism
Michael Samers & Yujia He: A combinatory approach to understanding the relationship between artificial intelligence and financial labour markets
James Christopher Mizes, Martine Drozdz, Sinan Erensü, Ozan Karaman & Mathilde Moaty: Unbanking urban real estate: critique in purgatory
Gordon Kuo Siong Tan: Carbon credits meet blockchain – cryptocarbon projects and the algorithmic financialisation of voluntary carbon markets
Shuai Shi & Ruiyang Wang: The uneven geography of venture capital investment in China
Kate Booth & Grace Martini: Insurance in a changing climate: from commonsense to catastrophe
C. S. Ponder, Dana Brown & Sandy Wong: Confronting private equity in healthcare: challenges and opportunities for relocalising the US health sector
Gertjan Wijburg, Richard Waldron & Thibault Le Corre: Financialising affordable housing? For-profit landlords and the marketisation of socially responsible investment in rental housing
Sugam Agarwal & Smruti Ranjan Behera: The spatial footprint of financial assistance to poor households in India: a district-level analysis
William Bratton & Dariusz Wójcik: Acute proximity and the acquisition of specialised financial knowledge: evidence from sell-side equity research and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic
Felicia Liu & Anne Monier: Funding climate action but financing climate destruction? An exploration of hybridity in climate philanthropy and investments
Adam D. Dixon: State capitalist impulses: the rise, fall, and rise again of sovereign wealth funds in Ireland
Andreas Dimmelmeier: The financial geography of sustainability data: a mapping exercise of the spatial dimension of the ESG information industry
Gordon L. Clark: Knowledge, hoarding and rent-seeking behaviour in the Anglo-American asset management industry
Johannes Petry: China’s rise, weaponised interdependence and the increasingly contested geographies of global finance
Michiel van Meeteren & David Bassens: Financial geography has come of age: making space for intradisciplinary dialogue
Ben Derudder, Anirudh Govind & Peter J. Taylor: City connectivity in the office networks of the world’s largest banking firms
Colin Chia & Eric Helleiner: Central bank digital currencies and the future of monetary sovereignty
Diliara Valeeva: Global interlock ties of financial firms: insights from network analysis
Heather Whiteside: Neoliberal state capitalism as the ‘real subsumption’ of public enterprise?
Ariane Dupont-Kieffer, Robert W. Dimand, and Sylvie Rivot: Introduction to Economists at War: How World War II Changed Economics (and Vice Versa)
Harald Hagemann: German-Speaking Émigré Economists in Great Britain and the Analysis of the German War Economy
Michele Alacevich: Economic Responses to Nazi Aggression in Europe: Albert Hirschman and Paul Rosenstein-Rodan on the Economic Sovereignty of Central and Eastern Europe
Alan Bollard: Japanese Wartime Economics and Economists
Robert W. Dimand: Koopmans, Dantzig, and the Wartime Origins of Activity Analysis
Hsiang-Ke Chao and Hsiao-ting Lin: The Political Economy of Lauchlin Currie's Land Tax Policy in Wartime China
Nikolay Nenovsky and Tsvetelina Marinova: World War II and Socialist Integration: In Search of the Theoretical Foundations for Building the Socialist Bloc (1940–64)
Adriana Calcagno and Pedro Garcia Duarte: World War II and Industrialization Policies in Latin America: The Cases of Argentina and Brazil
Marcel Boumans: Analysis without Theory: How the Statistical Research Group Shaped Milton Friedman's Economic Methodology
Katia Caldari and Muriel Dal Pont Legrand: Economic Expertise at War: A Brief History of the Institutionalization of French Economic Expertise (1936–46)
Antonella Rancan: Wartime Economics in Italy: National Accounting and Economic Planning
François Allisson: Charles Bettelheim and World War II, or The Making of a Planning Doctor
Elisa Botella-Rodríguez, Ángel Luis González-Esteban: Can food sovereignty be institutionalised? Insights from the Cuban experience
Angus Lyall, Gabriela Ruales: Land Grab Double Binds: Peasant Farmers and/in the Ecuadorian Mining Boom
Jacobo Grajales, Oscar Toukpo: Making green cocoa: Deforestation, the legacy of war, and agrarian capitalism in Côte d'Ivoire
Burak Gürel, Kadir Selamet: The rise and fall of community development in rural Turkey, 1960–1980
Ramesh Sunam, Fraser Sugden, Arjun Kharel, Tula Raj Sunuwar, Takeshi Ito: Unpacking youth engagement in agriculture: Land, labour mobility and youth livelihoods in rural Nepal
Tim Thornton: Beyond Green Growth, Degrowth, Post-Growth and Growth Agnosticism
Zamela Gina: Childcare Wages
Zac Edwards: Liquid Capital: Water Marketisation as an Accumulation Strategy
Al Rainnie, Darryn Snell and Mark Dean: A ‘New’ Capitalism? The State and Restructuring
Tom Conley: Social Democratic Neoliberalism: Reconsidering the Hawke and Keating Governments
David Richardson: Taxing Tech Companies
Edgars Martínez Navarrete, Richard Stahler-Sholk: Indigenous Autonomies in Latin America in the Face of Contemporary Capitalism: Overview, Perspectives and Dilemmas, Part 1
Gustavo Moura de Oliveira, Massimo Modonesi: Independence and Emancipation: Latin American Theorizations on the Concept of Autonomy
Fernando David Márquez Duarte: You Can Sit with Us, but under Our Terms: The Recognition of Indigenous Self-Determination by Nation-States throughout the Abya Yala
Young Hyun Kim: Indigenous Politics of Emancipatory Education in Bolivia: The Role of the Escuela-Ayllu of Warisata
Carlos Benitez Trinidad, Poliene Soares dos Santos Bicalho: From Disappearance to Hope: The Construction of the Brazilian Indigenous Movement’s Imaginary (1974-1977)
Lia Pinheiro Barbosa, Peter Michael Rosset: Conceptions and Practices of Autonomy among Indigenous and Peasant Movements in Latin America
Jorge Garcia-Arias, Javier Cuestas-Caza: Pluriversal Autonomies Beyond Development: Towards an Intercultural, Decolonial and Ecological Buen Vivir as an Alternative to the 2030 Agenda in Abya Yala/Latin America
Nicholas Copeland: Development and Indigenous Ecopolitics in Post-Peace Guatemala
Erwin Dekker et Pavel Kuchař: The Knowledge Gap in Economics: What Does the Public Know about the Economy and What Do Economists Know about the Public?
Elias L. Khalil: The Utility Incommensurability Thesis: The Analytics of Preferences à la Adam Smith
Guilherme Nunes Pires: De Te Fabula Narratur: Marx and Systemism
Filippo Pietrini: Exploring the Language of Consumption
Symposium on Lisa Herzog’s "Citizen Knowledge. Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy"
Cyril Hédoin: Introduction to the Symposium on Lisa Herzog’s Citizen Knowledge. Markets, Experts, and the Infrastructure of Democracy
Gijs van Maanen: Knowledge, Data, and the Governance of ‘Boring Things’: Gardening with Lisa Herzog
Samuel Ferey: Consumers, Citizens and Experts: Towards a Mixed Epistemic Constitution?
Antoinette Baujard: Citizen Knowledge and the Debate on Information in Welfare Economics in Perspective: Beyond the True-False and the Positive-Normative Entanglements
Lisa Herzog: Response to Comments
Editorial: New Estimates of Poverty in India
C. A. Sethu, L. T. Abhinav Surya and C. A. Ruthu: Poverty in India: The Rangarajan Method and the 2022–23 Household Consumption and Expenditure Survey
Gopinath Ravindran: Early Colonial Tenancy Reform and Agrarian Change in Malabar
Akinwumi A. Adesina, Innocent Musabyiamana, Colm Foy, Solomon Gizaw, and Martin Fregene: Technologies for Agricultural Transformation and Food Security in Africa
John Harriss: Remembering CTK: Professor C. T. Kurien (1931–2024)
Venkatesh Athreya: Professor C. T. Kurien: A Personal Tribute
Venkatesh Athreya: Challenging Times for the Sugarcane Economy of Western Uttar Pradesh
Arun Kumar: The Destruction of Agriculture and Mass Starvation in Palestine
Takashi Kurosaki: Poverty and Agrarian Relations in Pre-War Japan: A Reading of The Soil
Stavros A. Drakopoulos: The Conceptual Resilience of the Atomistic Individual in Mainstream Economic Rationality
Giuliano Toshiro Yajima: Beyond Job Guarantee: The Employer of Last Resort Program as a Tool to Promote the Energy Transition
Lúcio Otávio Seixas Barbosa & Douglas Alencar: A Post-Keynesian Framework for Exchange Rate Equilibrium: Simulations for the Brazilian Economy
Lilian N. Rolim & Carolina Troncoso Baltar: The Brazilian Economic Regimes and the Possibility of a Regime Switch
Deepankar Basu, Julio Huato, Jesus Lara Jauregui & Evan Wasner: World Profit Rates, 1960–2019
Filippo Gusella & Anna Maria Variato: Financial Instability and Income Inequality: Why the Minsky–Piketty Connection Matters for Macroeconomics
Rishabh Kumar: What You See Is … . Not All There Is: Global Income Inequality From a Quasi-Marxist Perspective
Jessica Reale: Merchants of Debt at the Extreme Overnight: Re-Considering Monetary Theories via Rollover-Induced Interbank Frictions
Leopoldo Gómez-Ramírez & María Padilla-Romo: Uneven Effects, an Evolutionary Model of Poverty Traps After Trade Liberalization
Kun Duan, Plamen Ivanov & Richard Werner: Deciphering the Chinese Economic Miracle: The Resolution of an Age-Old Economists’ Debate — and its Central Role in Rapid Economic Development
Silvia Leoni: A Historical Review of the Role of Education: From Human Capital to Human Capabilities
Angela Ambrosino, Mario Cedrini & John B. Davis: Economics Imperialism and Economic Imperialism: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Pedro S. Machado: Globalization of Production and Absolute Advantage in a Classical Approach
Riccardo Zolea: A Note on Capital in a Functional Analysis of the Traditional Banking Industry
Giorgio Colacchio, Guglielmo Forges Davanzati & Andrea Pacella: Augusto Graziani on Italian Economic Development (1950–1970)
Carlos Berzosa Alonso-Martinez: El Nobel de economía premia a tres investigadores por sus estudios sobre la prosperidad y pobreza de las naciones
José Ángel Moreno Izquierdo: ¿Son estrictamente privadas las sociedades anónimas?
Joaquín Romano Velasco, María de las Mercedes Molpeceres Abella: Globalización como estrategia de desarraigo ecosocial. Una mirada desde La Gran Transformación
Álvaro Ramón Sánchez: La transición energética española como una huida hacia adelante del capital
Federico Bachmann: La empresa y el Imperio ante la actual crisis de hegemonía. Reflexiones en torno a las transformaciones del capitalismo mundial
Rodrigo Laera: Heterodoxia económica, pluralismo y paridad epistémica
Luis Cárdenas del Rey: Fundamentos de macroeconomía Kaleckiana para la enseñanza
José Manuel Naredo: ¿Es machista el enfoque económico ordinario?
Paula Rodríguez Modroño: Barbara Bergmann, una divulgadora económica, crítica y comprometida
Barbara R. Bergmann: Feminismo y economía
Donna Baines, Susan Braedley & Tamara Daly: “Decent care work: politics, policy, and resistance” an introduction to the theme
Pat Armstrong: Feminist political economy: a promising approach to care
Janna Klostermann & Laura Funk: Bounding the boundless: gendered work hierarchies and “boundless work” in Ontario longterm care homes
Sandra Martain: Extreme exploitation—workplace violence in the aged care market
Derek J. Patterson: Indigenous women and domestic work in Canada: regulating social reproduction and domination
Alexandre Veilleux: COVID-19 and disaster capitalism in Phuket, Thailand
Carlo Zappia: Uncertainty goes mainstream: Savage, Koopmans and the measurability of uncertainty at the Cowles Commission
Jean-Marc Ginoux & Franck Jovanovic: Relaxation oscillations in the history of business cycles from 1928 to 1941
Pavlo Blavatskyy: A XIVth century approach to the points problem
Fabio Masini & Albertina Nania: Italy, 1982: the case for Ecu-denominated Treasury bonds
Ivan Mitrouchev: Normative and behavioural economics: a historical and methodological review
Christian Gehrke: George Grote’s manuscript essay on “Foreign trade”
Rogério Arthmar & Juan Castañeda: Neoclassical economics on the edge: Fisher, Knight, and the theory of interest in the 1930s
Alberto Tena Camporesi: The “negative income tax” as a steering mechanism: the semantic field of the NIT around Milton Friedman in his pre-monetarist period (1939–1948)
André Lapidus: Hugo Grotius on exchange and price
by Ben Fine, with Kate Bayliss, Mary Robertson and Alfredo Saad-Filho | 2024, Brill
Drawing upon comprehensive research across five countries, including case studies of housing, water, and health, comprehensive theoretical and empirical accounts are offered of the impact of financialisation on economic and social reproduction, alongside the corresponding material cultures of neoliberalism. Economic is understood as embedded within social reproduction, with neoliberalism, as the current stage of capitalism, fundamentally underpinned by, but not reducible to, the financialisation of everyday life. Considerable emphasis is placed upon the variegated outcomes attached to the neoliberalisation of social reproduction, as highlighted by the comparative study of economic and social provisioning across different countries and sectors.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Marilane Oliveira Teixeira, Margarita Olivera e Clarice Menezes Vieira | 2023
O livro Economia Feminista no Brasil: Contribuições para Pensar uma Nova Sociedade, organizado por Marilane Oliveira Teixeira, Margarita Olivera e Clarice Menezes Vieira, propõe uma abordagem crítica e transformadora da economia, destacando o papel das mulheres e as interseções entre gênero, raça, classe e colonialismo. A obra reúne contribuições de renomadas pesquisadoras brasileiras e é um marco no campo da economia feminista, ampliando o debate sobre a desigualdade e apontando caminhos para uma sociedade mais justa.
Dividido em duas partes, o livro aborda inicialmente fundamentos teóricos e históricos que sustentam a economia feminista. Artigos como o de Marilane Teixeira e Cristina Pereira Vieceli exploram a reprodução social e os trabalhos de cuidado não remunerados, desafiando as teorias econômicas tradicionais que invisibilizam tais atividades. Outros capítulos examinam o papel do capitalismo patriarcal e racista na perpetuação de desigualdades, ressaltando a importância de perspectivas decoloniais e ecofeministas.
A segunda parte trata de questões contemporâneas, como a crise do cuidado, a condição das mulheres no mercado de trabalho e os impactos da pandemia. Autoras como Liana Bohn discutem o envelhecimento populacional e as demandas crescentes por cuidados, enquanto estudos sobre o “pink tax” revelam como produtos voltados para mulheres frequentemente têm preços inflacionados, reforçando disparidades econômicas.
A obra também destaca o avanço das políticas públicas de cuidado em países da América Latina, como o Sistema Nacional de Cuidados do Uruguai, defendendo a necessidade de modelos que compartilhem responsabilidades entre Estado, mercado e famílias. No Brasil, o livro propõe a construção de sistemas integrados que promovam a equidade de gênero e enfrentem os desafios estruturais do patriarcado e do racismo.
Publicado em parceria com a Fundação Perseu Abramo e a Rede Brasileira de Economia Feminista (REBEF), o livro é mais que uma coletânea de textos acadêmicos; é um convite à ação. A obra visa consolidar a economia feminista no Brasil, estimulando a inclusão dessa abordagem nos currículos universitários e na formulação de políticas públicas.
Para Marilane Teixeira, pesquisadora do Cesit/Unicamp e uma das organizadoras, o livro é um marco na luta pela visibilidade das contribuições das mulheres na economia e na construção de uma sociedade centrada no bem-estar humano. Este é um passo significativo na desconstrução de paradigmas que excluem e marginalizam vozes femininas, promovendo uma ciência econômica mais inclusiva e conectada com a realidade social.
O lançamento do livro reforça a importância de iniciativas acadêmicas e coletivas para repensar os fundamentos econômicos e construir novas perspectivas de desenvolvimento sustentável e inclusivo.
Please find a link to the free book here.
by Christopher Stiffler | 2023, Independent
Ever wonder if you would have majored in Economics if your Econ 101 Professor wasn't totally boring? This book will answer that question for you.
Teaching the concepts of Econ 101, the writing relies heavily on analogies, examples, anecdotes, cartoons, and parables or what the author refers to as the in-other-words words. The teaching style sees the examples and stories as gifts to the memory-challenged, uninterested and/or hung over.
Here's an example of the boring way---moral hazard describes a correlation between the incidence of the insured event and the possession of insurance for that event. Yuck! But if you add....in other words "people with fire insurance are more likely to burn down their house" then students understand the previously arcane topic.
The book is designed to teach the material covered in a standard Microeconomics 101 course using cartoons and relatable examples. The topics include opportunity cost, supply and demand, elasticity, behavioral economics, monopolies, perfect competition, game theory, externalities, public goods, asymmetric information, and Keynesian economics
Please find a link to the book here.
by James Boyce | 2024, Anthem Press
'Economics for People and the Planet' brings together recent essays by James K. Boyce on the environment, inequality, and the economy.
Part One, Rethinking Economics and the Environment, challenges some common assumptions, including the beliefs that economic growth is incompatible with environmental sustainability, capitalist firms single-mindedly pursue profits, and human beings are inherently bad for nature.
Part Two, Environmental Injustice, opens with the author’s 2017 Leontief Prize lecture, and discusses how inequalities in the distribution of wealth and power shape both the distribution of environmental harm and the magnitude of environmental degradation.
Part Three, The Political Economy of Climate Policy, addresses the pre-eminent environmental challenge of our time, highlighting how progressive climate policies not only can benefit future generations worldwide but also can improve health and economic well-being today in the countries adopting them.
The audiobook version of Economics for People and the Planet features new chapters on the Green New Deal and the environmental costs of inequality. Foreword by Manuel Pastor.
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Edited by Jan A. Kregel | 2024, Anthem Press
The title of this book may seem to confuse two separate disciplines – finance and macroeconomics. However, it is based on the fact that finance and macroeconomics were integrated, at least in their formative years. It is a natural extension of a line of research that dominated monetary theory in the early part of the 20th century. Economists such as Keynes, Robertson, Hawtrey, Fisher, Hayek and Schumpeter sought to blend the analysis of business cycles with their (often first-hand) experience of money and financial markets. The result was a monetary theory that provided the fertile background to what came to be called macroeconomics. However, in the post-war period, the monetary aspects of this theory dropped out of sight in the neo-classical synthesis and hydraulic Keynesianism. Post-Keynesians such as Davidson and Minsky have done much to try to restore the monetary aspects of the theory, but the other – more technical– aspects of financial analysis have been ignored. Paradoxically, these aspects now form an integral part of the curriculum of finance and business departments and are the tools of the trade in financial analysis. This book aims to show how these tools of financial analysis were initially part of the early investigations of macroeconomics and how they maybe used to provide a realistic analysis of the behavior of modern financial economies.
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by Ann Mari May | 2022, Columbia University Press
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.
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by James I. Sturgeon | 2025, Polity
Institutions are the controlling force at the center of any economy. They organize and control all economic activity from markets to producers, consumers to governments, and more. Institutions determine how fundamental economic questions such as, what, how, and for whom, are answered. Thus, scientific analysis of economic activity requires a deep and systematic understanding of institutions.
This much-needed text provides students with a comprehensive introduction to the increasingly influential field of Institutional economics. Across its ten chapters, it unpacks the history, theory, applications, policies, and methods of Institutional economics, carefully blending theoretical, conceptual and empirical elements that together illuminate the complexity of the modern economy. Topics covered include production, consumption, class and distribution, development, value theory, and specific institutions including the corporation, property, labor, and government. Each chapter concludes with selected questions or issues posed as a basis for class discussion and further research.
Written in a lively and accessible style for students new to the topic, this book is set to become the go-to resource for classes on institutional economics across the world.
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by Luis Suarez-Villa | 2024, Routledge
Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism is a major contribution to our understanding of how technology oligopolies are shaping America's social, economic, and political reality.
Technology oligopolies are the most powerful socioeconomic entities in America. From cradle to grave, the decisions they make affect the most intimate aspects of our lives, how we work, what we eat, our health, how we communicate, what we know and believe, whom we elect, and how we relate to one another and to nature. Their power over markets, trade, regulation, and most every aspect of our governance is more intrusive and farther-reaching than ever. They benefit from tax breaks, government guarantees, and bailouts that we must pay for and have no control over. Their accumulation of capital creates immense wealth for a minuscule elite, deepening disparities while politics and governance become ever more subservient to their power. They determine our skills and transform employment through the tools and services they create, as no other organizations can. They produce a vast array of goods and services with labor, marketing, and research that are more intrusively controlled than ever, as workplace rights and job security are curtailed or disappear. Our consumption of their products – and their capacity to promote wants – is deep and far reaching, while the waste they generate raises concerns about the survival of life on our planet. And their links to geopolitics and the martial domain are stronger than ever, as they influence how warfare is waged and who will be vanquished.
Technology and Oligopoly Capitalism's critical, multidisciplinary perspective provides a systemic vision of how oligopolistic power shapes these forces and phenomena. An inclusive approach spans the spectrum of technology oligopolies and the ways in which they deploy their power. Numerous, previously unpublished ideas expand the repertory of established work on the topics covered, advancing explanatory quality –to elucidate how and why technology oligopolies operate as they do, the dysfunctions that accompany their power, and their effects on society and nature. This book has no peers in the literature, in its scope, the unprecedented amount and diversity of documentation, the breadth of concepts, and the vast number of examples it provides. Its premises deserve to be taken into account by every student, researcher, policymaker, and author interested in the socioeconomic and political dimensions of technology in America.
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by Shingo Takahashi | 2024 Routledge
Takahashi reconstructs the key blocks of one of the founders of the Institutional school, John R. Commons’ theories of the evolution of capitalism and of institutional change by taking the concept of transaction as a central point of departure.
Commons’ theories continue to influence modern economics and in this book, Takahashi scrutinizes his construction of transaction and its features and offers a reinterpretation of Commons’ institutional economics and transaction economics. He then explores how Commons’ analysis of going concerns (e.g. firms) has broader and deeper applications that extends to monetary policy, labour policy, and the business cycle. Takahashi examines how Commons and Veblen’s dynamic theories share cumulative causation. He closes by positing that Commons’ transaction economics seeks “reasonable capitalism” through a virtuous cycle of reasonable value and generation of good business ethics.
This book will be attractive to researchers of institutional economics, political economy, heterodox economics, as well as the history of economic thought, law and ethics.
Brunel University of London is inviting applications for a fully funded doctoral studentship analysing The Wapping Post, a newspaper set up by striking print workers and journalists during the Wapping Dispute 1986-7.
The award is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the doctoral training programme called TECHNE.It is a collaborative doctoral award working with the Marx Memorial Library (MML).
The project
The Wapping Post lies within the News International Dispute Archive of the Marx Memorial Library Printworkers’ Collection. Almost half a million copies of the Wapping Post were written, produced and distributed during and just after the dispute involving printworkers and journalists sacked by Rupert Murdoch’s News International in 1986. The research project will investigate 1) the production practices of the Wapping Post, 2) analyse its modes of representation and innovation, 3) compare the Wapping Post’s coverage of the strike with other publications within the trade union movement and the left as well as the dominant press media, 4) situate the Wapping Post in the context of the then contemporaneous debates led by the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom on media accountability and democracy.
Details of award
The Techne CDA Studentship will fund a full-time studentship for 3.5 years (42 months), with an option to extend this by up to a further 6 months for placement/career enhancement activity. The studentship will consist of a stipend in line with UKRI levels including London Weighting, the current level is £21,237 for 24/25 and will be paid for 42 months. Fees are paid at the home rate directly to the University. If you are an international student then the difference will be waived.
Supervisory team
The first supervisor is Professor Michael Wayne whose research interests and expertise include British political and media cultures since the breakdown of the post-war social democratic consensus in the 1980s. The second supervisor is Dr Alison Carrol, a historian with research expertise on British and European politics and socialist political cultures. The student will also be supervised by Meirian Jump, the Director of the Marx Memorial Library whose archive specialism is in labour movement collections. The collaboration with the MML is expected to include contributing to public engagement activities, such as the 2026-7 40th anniversary of the dispute.
Eligibility
Required candidate experience:
In addition, it would be advantageous to have:
How to apply
Application process
Expressions of interest should consist of the following:
Expressions of interest (consisting of the above) should be sent to Michael.wayne@brunel.ac.uk no later than Monday, 6 January 2025. Interviews will be held the week beginning 20 January 2025.
Following the interview, the chosen candidate will be invited to complete an application, in conjunction with the supervisory team, for final submission to TECHNE by 20 February 2025.
Further information
For more information on TECHNE see: https://www.techne.ac.uk/
For more information on the project, potential applicants are advised to contact Professor Michael Wayne.
Application Deadline: 6 January 2025
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, founded in 1986 through the generous support of Bard College trustee Leon Levy, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy research organization. The Levy Institute is independent of any political or other affiliation, and encourages diversity of opinion in the examination of economic policy issues while striving to transform ideological arguments into informed debate.
The graduate program, established in 2014, features one-year M.A. and two-year M.S. degrees in Economic Theory and Policy. The program is designed to offer a solid foundation in both neoclassical and alternative economic theory, policy, and empirical research methods. Small class sizes and personal interactions with scholars create a close community allowing students to be uniquely embedded and engaged in the internationally cited and recognized research at the Institute.
Apply Now: https://www.bard.edu/levygrad/
Master of Science
The two-year MS is designed to prepare students for a career in non-governmental and civil society organizations, academia, government agencies, and financial, non-financial, and multilateral institutions. The program offers unprecedented opportunities to participate in advanced research alongside Institute scholars.
Master of Arts
The one-year MA concentrates on alternative approaches to economic theory, and offers a complement to an advanced degree.
Scholarships:
- The Wynne Godley Scholarship is awarded to a student interested in macroeconomic modeling with specificity in stock-flow consistent modeling.
- The Hyman P. Minsky Scholarship is awarded to a student interested in banking, finance, financialization, and the impacts of fiscal and monetary policy.
- The Scholarship in Institutional Economics, established in memory of John F. Henry, is awarded to a student interested in research in political economy, historical and evolutionary analysis of modern market economies, and history of economic thought.
- The Scholarship in Gender studies, established in memory of Nilüfer A. Cagatay, is awarded to a student interested in incorporating gender awareness in the study of macroeconomy.
Early Decision Deadline: January 15, 2025
Regular Decision Deadline: April 15, 2025
The School of Political Economy (SPE) was set up on 2019 in response to ongoing difficulties in reforming the economics curriculum. SPE provides a high-quality, yet affordable option for students (and anyone else) who is otherwise stuck with narrow and problematic economic instruction. Enrollments are now open for Term 1, 2025 with the ever-popular subject SPE101 An Introduction to Political Economy and Economics running for the 20th time. Further information can be accessed via the SPE website, including some newly added testimonials from SPE alumni. These brief videos demonstrate how well SPE courses are received by those both with, and without prior knowledge of political economy and economics, visit: https://schoolofpoliticaleconomy.net/testimonials/