Issue 339 February 17, 2025 web pdf Heterodox Economics Directory
When checking all the (quite numerous ;-)) items for this issue of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter, I was most distracted by the leading article in the recent issue of Industrial and Corporate Change, which is about the role of rational heuristics in pricing strategies. In my humble opinion this fine paper connects two areas of research that are somehwat underresearched (maybe also underappreciated) in the heterodox community, although they supposedly carry some relevance.
One such area is the rational heuristics apporach itself, which is an alternative approach towards a theory of purposeful decision-making under uncertainty, that draws on the basic idea that people employ mental shortcuts (that reduce complexity and capture reliable patterns) instead of optimization routines when aiming to achieve some goal (see here for a primer). Today, this approach has greater prominence in psychology and management than in economics (for exceptions see here or here). Nonetheless, the rational heuristics approach stands on the shoulders of a heterodox giant, as Herbert Simon's classic paper on "A behavioral model of Rational Choice" is widely conceived as an early key contribution to this approach. Simon's classic introduces the well-known notion of 'satisficing', where a rational choice is construed as a decision that allows for reaching or surpassing a certain aspiration level, which is dubbed an 'aspiration-level heuristic' in the successive literature.
We supposedly use such heuristics or mental shortcuts a lot. This editorial is an instance of the application of such a heuristic, as it is based on my intuition that items that distract me a lot are probably (hopefully?) also inspiring for others. As this approached has worked somewhat well in the past it has developed into quite a routine. Similarly, most daily consumption choices can be represented as routines emerging from past applications of an aspiration-level heuristic, while more complex consumer-decision are more complex exactly because either one's aspiration or the fit between available products and aspiration is unclear in some way. To me it seems fair to say, that the rational heuristics approach allows for an evolutionary and cognitively plausible take on modeling and conceptualizing instrumental rationality in socio-economic contexts that can capture the intuition underlying other behavioral arguments in diverse strands of heterodox economics: Building on a shared understanding of uncertainty, the rational heuristics approach is compatible with concepts like social emulation (as in Veblen), a constant marginal propensity to consume (as in Keynes), rent-seeking ('predatory') behavior (as in Veblen or Smith) or parochial altruism and associated issues of social identity (a la Bowles/Gintis) .
Aside from being a possible umbrella concept suitable for collecting and synthesizing key ideas across heterodox schools and traditions, the rational heuristics approach is also a suitable candidate to challenge standard interpretations of experimental findings in behavorial economics. As many of you might have noticed, there is a tendency in behavioral economics to interpret deviations from the standard model as a bias, that is associated with the subjects (instead of being associated with theory, measurement or method!), as, e.g., in the term 'status quo bias'. However, the status quo bias – that is, the repeated experimental finding that people assign (slightly) higher values to things they already own – could also be constructively explained by a rational heuristics approach as something I already own (and know its properties) is associated with less uncertainty than something I might acquire (which requires me to form some uncertain expectation) – a pattern that could translate into a stable evolutionary heuristic. Similarly, the repreated finding that people 'overweigh' (some) small probabilities associated with huge costs, while 'underweighing' others could be explained as an interaction between a complexity reduction heuristic (which leads us to ignore some risks) and an evolutionary instinct to avoid a 'gambler's ruin', i.e. a catastropic event. The latter mimics a precautionary heuristic, namely MaxiMin-approach to rational choice (leading us to emphasize some risks, see, e.g., here for more details).
Having said a lot about rational heuristics as the first research field the beforementioned paper speaks to, let me quickly add two thoughts about the second field, which is price theory. As the paper takes second-hand cars as its empirical case, there is little connection at first sight to the classic heterodox notion of conceiving prices as sum of wages and markups (and, maybe, material inputs). However, the potential application of rational heuristics concepts to better illuminate concrete pricing strategies in contexts of oligopolistic competition, that are often said to be governed mainly by strategic considerations (see, e.g., here and here), could very well be a fruitul case of application. Such a take could add a more explicit behavioral dimension to recent debates on inflation determinants in heterodox economics (as conducted here, here or here).
All the best,
Jakob
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7-10 July 2025 | ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Brussels, Belgium
Conference Theme: "Discourse and the imaginaries of past, present and future societies: media and representations of (inter)national (dis)orders"
The 6th DiscourseNet Congress (DNC6) focuses on the discursive construction of social and political imaginaries. It offers a forum to discuss how social actors imagine and articulate past, present and future societies in a world marked by multiple and overlapping crises.
DNC6 welcomes contributions of authors who explore ontological, theoretical, and methodological aspects of imaginaries that may (re)shape our societies. We also welcome analyses and case studies of specific imaginaries circulating in our mediatized societies. These may focus on linguistic, textual, narrative, visual, multimodal, and/or ideological articulations of social and political imaginaries.
This conference is open to discourse scholars from all disciplines, as well as to other scholars in the humanities and social sciences working on (aspects of) the imaginaries that allow us to make sense of and shape our realities. DNC6 offers an interdisciplinary forum for discussing imaginaries and the discursive construction of old and new (inter)national (dis)orders.
Panel on "Economic imaginaries and socio-ecological transformation"
Panel organizers: Stephan Pühringer (JKU Linz) & Lukas Bäuerle (JKU Linz & Universität Hamburg)
Under the conditions of technoscientific capitalism, imaginaries of sustainability are inextricably linked to and dependent upon ‘economic imaginaries’ (Jessop 2010). This is true not only of what is meant by ‘sustainability’, but also of the transformative pathways to more sustainable grounds. The specific characteristics of the relationship between economic and sustainable imaginaries are not fixed but rather subject to ongoing – and seemingly deepening – conflicts, as can be observed, for example, in the Green Growth vs. Degrowth debate.
In modern times, the academic discipline of economics has proven to be the most significant supplier of economic imaginaries. The emerging field of the Social Studies of Economics has developed a comprehensive understanding of the discipline’s general characteristics, including epistemic practices and rationales (Aistleitner, Kapeller, and Steinerberger 2019), its social structures (Lundberg and Stearns 2019), and its pivotal role in socio-political processes of economization (Maesse et al. 2021). Recently, the field has begun to assess the underlying imaginaries with which economics frames, shapes, limits and enables different projects for socio-ecological transformation (SET). One significant source of inspiration are attempts to stratify transformative policies and practices along conflicting economic paradigms (Wilgosh, Sorman, and Barcena 2022; Hausknost et al. 2017; Saitō 2024). On the one hand, the panel seeks to provide a space to explore case studies that unpack economic imaginaries from specific SET-related projects (e.g. in politics, academia, education, media, etc.). On the other, it aims at discussing to stratify and compare different transformative visions against the backdrop of underlying economic rationales. Alas, empirical as well as conceptual approaches are welcome to the session, as are contributions from all relevant disciplinary backgrounds (e.g. Sociology, STS, Socioeconomics, Sustainability Studies).
If you are interested in contributing to this panel, please submit your abstract directly through the online form while putting the name of our panel in the respective field. Contributions from a wide array of backgrounds are very welcome (e.g. Sociology, STS, Socioeconomics, Sustainability Studies)!
Deadline: 28 February 2025
21 to 23 November 2025 | Porto, Portugal
It is with great pleasure that we come to your contact to inform you that the Call for Papers for the 6th International Marxist Feminist Conference is now out. This year's Conference will develop under the motto "Decolonise Bodies, Territories and Practices" and will take place from the 21 to 23 November in Porto, Portugal. Please find the Conference description and the guidelines for abstract submissions at the MARXFEM Conference webpage and at transform! europe website. The call for papers is also available in Portuguese, Spanish and Italian. May more information be needed, please don't hesitate in contacting the organisers at [contact@marxfemconference.com].
The idea of an international marxist-feminist conference was originally brought into being, and was since then continuously organized, by the feminist section of the Berliner Institut of Critical Theory (InkriT) around the German sociologist and philosopher Frigga Haug. It was held in Berlin (Germany) for the first time in 2015, followed by an increasingly international second congress in Vienna in 2016, and the third one in Lund (Sweden) in 2018, the fourth one was held online (from Basque country) in 2021 and the last one was held in Warsaw in 2023.
The 6th International Marxist Feminist Conference will be held in Porto (Portugal), on 21 – 23 November 2025. This Conference will be organized and funded by: transform! europe EUPFhttps://www.transform-network.net, along with the Rosa Luxemburg Foundationhttps://www.rosalux.de/en/ , Foundation Iratzar https://iratzar.eus/es/erreportajeak/como-pensamos-lo-que-seremos and the Fundacja Naprzódhttp://fundacja-naprzod.pl/
CONFERENCE DESCRIPTION
At a time characterised by militarism, in which the far right and fascism are on the rise and gaining power, violence – material and symbolic – is becoming widespread and normalised, threatening our lives and taking away our rights.
We need to resist and respond to these dark times. We do not abandon the project of a just life for all and that is why we mobilise to build an anti-capitalist feminist project. We summon intelligence, imagination, solidarity, sharing and ways of collectively producing knowledge and action as tools of resistance and of combating all forms of oppression and inequality. This conference seeks to be part of the answer. It therefore wants to join forces, share knowledge and ideas, weave networks of solidarity and restore hope by taking and claiming the floor. Daring to build a common project – feminist, anti-racist, decolonial, anti-capitalist and ecological – is the challenge we face.
We have defined three axes of debate for this conference:
• Decolonise bodies and reclaim them as self-determined territories, through fighting all oppressions that alienate, commodify and objectify them.
• Decolonise territories by denouncing and combating the processes of violent occupation, appropriation, and expropriation, as well as the processes of dehumanisation and death.
• Decolonise practices by critically reflecting on and transforming ways of doing and thinking.
To think, reflect and transform ways of life, renewing Marxism as an analytical and transformative tool, through multimodal articulations between the political, the economic, the social and the cultural; between the public and the private; between the local and the global, in the most diverse contexts is our challenge. Our aim is to create international networks and strengthen webs of solidarity so that our coming together signifies resistance, hope and a commitment to the present and the future. This conference will welcome a variety of methodologies and formats for participation, because they reflect the diversity and complexity of the responses that have been trialled and which have contributed to the re-signification of politics and the emergence of new political subjects. A paper, a video, a performance, an artistic intervention, a workshop, conversation circles, theoretical reflections, or practical experience – all contributions, in your own name or on behalf of a collective, are welcome.
CONFERENCE AXES
Decolonising bodies
Critical analysis of global practices of colonisation, i.e. objectification, commodification, exploitation and violence against our bodies, and debate and definition of common strategies to counter such forms of colonisation.
Decolonising territories
Critical analysis of feminist theories and practices of decolonisation. What proposals do you have for reconfiguring interpersonal and institutional relations, cities and urbanism, regions, countries and the land?
Decolonising practices
Critical analysis and reflection on the insufficiency of liberal feminism as an emancipation project. Critical analysis and reflection on the importance, difficulties and need to affirm anti-capitalist feminism as the proposal for global transformation. How to build an anti-capitalist, decolonial, ecological and anti-racist/anti-fascist feminism? Which paths to collective emancipation?
Submissions of works:
We invite you to submit a description of the work to be presented at the Conference with title, author(s) and a short bio/affiliation as text file (up to 450 words), audio file or video file (preferably no longer than 5 minutes). Please indicate which of the axes and category(ies) the proposed work should fit into. If special requirements – in terms of space, technical specifications or other – are necessary for the presentation of the work at the conference, please specify this when submitting the proposal.
Please send your proposals, preferably written in English, Portugese or Spanish, to: [apps@marxfemconference.com]
Submission Deadline: 8 March 2025
5-6 September 2025 | The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, Washington, DC (USA)
While workers and other subordinate groups are always operating under conditions that limit their range of action—that is, circumscribing the kinds of protest demands or action repertoires that are considered normative or acceptable—there are historical periods and geographical spaces in which the environment is especially hostile to collective action from below.
Our premise is that we have entered one of these especially hostile periods on a global scale. As such, there is an urgent need to examine and draw lessons from instances in which subordinated groups navigated through, organized in, protested against, and at times, successfully transformed the “hostile environments” in which they were embedded.
Important lessons can be drawn from examining both historical and contemporary instances. Historically, the first half of the twentieth century can be seen as a period of widening/deepening “hostility” on a global scale, with the spread of fascist movements and labor repressive colonial regimes. Likewise, the current global resurgence of fascist and far right regimes and movements in new forms can be understood as marking another period of widening/deepening hostility.
Hostile environments are not limited to these two time periods. Indeed, spatial-temporal unevenness has been a central feature of historical capitalism. For example, in the decades after the Second World War, the apartheid regime in South Africa and military dictatorships in Latin America and East Asia existed at the same time that the right of workers to strike and form independent trade unions were at their height in many core countries. Equally important, workers in the same location (e.g., within the same country, city, workplace) are regularly divided between those who are ruled through consent and those who feel the brunt of the hostile environment—with distinctions drawn along lines of gender, migration/citizenship, race/ethnicity, urban/rural, etc.
Finally, and importantly, even in the darkest periods in world history, there have been local pockets of hope in which successful mobilizations around (and advances of) labor rights and social justice have prevailed. Here, as examples, we might think of the settlements established by enslaved people who had escaped from bondage (marronage); or Rojava, the autonomous polyethnic socialist regime established in northeast Syria in the midst of the Syrian Civil War; or strikes and strike waves under military dictatorships or even those under hostile neoliberal environments.
The 7 IASCC (International Association of Strikes and Social Conflicts) conference welcomes the submission of abstracts for papers related to the broad theme of strikes and social conflicts. In line with this year’s conference theme, we especially welcome abstracts for papers focused on:
We also encourage the submission of abstracts that focus on the following specific aspects of the overall conference theme:
We welcome papers that are contemporary or historical as well as papers that are single case, comparative or global in perspective. We encourage all paper presenters to grapple with and make explicit the lessons of their analysis for our present-day hostile environment(s).
For further information please click here.
Submission deadline: 15 March 2025
22 – 24 May 2025 | University of Bradford, JSB, Small Hall and D1/2/3
Join us for the African International Conference 2025, a premier platform for scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and innovators to converge and delve into the critical issues shaping the African continent.
The African International Conference 2025 invites submissions of abstracts, case studies, and policy briefs that address the following thematic areas:
Thematic Areas:
Call for Abstracts /Papers
We encourage submissions that offer fresh perspectives, innovative research, and practical solutions to Africa's challenges.
https://www.bradford.ac.uk/social-sciences/african-international-conference/
Submission Guidelines: Send Abstract to: Africa-Conference@bradford.ac.uk
Submission Guidelines
Please submit by Friday 7 March 2025. You should include:
The conference planning committee welcomes individual submissions and co-authorship that does not exceed four presenters for each panel.
Each person is limited to two presentations in the conference as an individual or co-presenter and no more than two presenters for a paper or poster.
Key Activities:
Join us at the African International Conference 2025 to contribute to a vibrant and impactful dialogue on the future of Africa.
Conference Papers Publication
Conference Chairs: Prof Stephen Rimmer and Dr Colins Imoh
Submission Deadline: 7 March 2025
24-26 September 2025 | Athens, Greece
Conference Theme: "The Janus face of AI. Opportunities and threats"
The EAEPE Annual Conference 2025 is taking place from 24-26 September in Athens. The call for the main conference is available on the official website or in this issue of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter. Please note, that the deadline for abstract submissions was extended to 1 March 2025.
Special Session "Institutional Perspectives on the Social Costs of Economic, Social, and Ecological Transitions"
organized by the EAEPE research areas [C] Institutional Change & [M] Social Economics
In the era of Polycrisis, political economists and policymakers increasingly embrace socio-economic and “green” transitions to face climate change, inequality, and the rise of AI. These major transitions profess sustainability but may generate a variety of social costs. Social costs appear along various dimensions. They may be linked to economic dimensions such as mass unemployment in declining industries or investment disparities at various geographical scales. Other arising social costs are more institutional in nature, such as distorted justice, transparency, and accountability and an erosion of participation due to power imbalances brought about new digital tools and technologies. The ecological dimension of these social costs manifests for instance in inequalities caused by resource extractivism. As for a more political dimension of social costs, examples include right-wing populism, societal resistance and unrest.
Addressing the social costs related to major societal transitions requires understanding the institutional dimensions of these transitions. Institutional mechanisms must allow for “just” transitions, prioritising social justice, fairness, and inclusion. This suggests institutions that are problem-solving and “instrumental” rather than “ceremonial”. By fostering a pluralist dialogue, this joint session of Research Areas C - Institutional Change and M - Social Economics examines the social costs of major socio-economic, ecological, and digital transitions of our day through an institutional lens. It invites contributions from different approaches and perspectives exploring analytical and policy challenges in shaping those into fair and just transitions.
We invite contributions to the institutional perspectives of the social costs of major transitions and related policy challenges. The questions to be addressed are, but not limited to:
We aim to bring together the session’s papers in a special issue in an academic journal, such as The Forum for Social Economics or The Review of Evolutionary Political Economy, subject to usual review process. For further information please click here.
Call for Abstracts for the Joint Session “Demographic challenges & population ageing: trends, vulnerabilities, risks, policies”
organized by Research Area [JAES] (Joint AFEE-EAEPE Sessions) &Regional Development Institute (Panteion University)
At the 2025 EAEPE conference to be held in Athens (Greece) we invite papers to the session jointly organized by RA [JAES] and RDI entitled: “Demographic challenges & population ageing: trends, vulnerabilities, risks and policies”.
According to the United Nations 2024 World Population Prospects, population growth, population ageing, urbanization and international migration are four major demographic trends shaping our world. Changes in the size, age structure and spatial distribution of populations bring both challenges and opportunities that must be addressed to achieve inclusive and sustainable development.
Population ageing is influenced by the decline in fertility rates, on the one hand, and the continuing improvement in survival to older ages (longevity), on the other hand. Though the demographic outlook of countries appears quite diverse, not only across countries, but also across regions within countries, it is estimated that the percentage of the global population aged 65 and above is expected to rise from 10% in 2022 to 16% in 2050.Population ageing is expected to have significant repercussions in all sectors of the economy, including labour and financial markets, public finances, the demand for goods and services, such as housing, health care, long-term care services, transportation, and social protection. In many countries, there will be further fiscal and political pressures related to public systems of health care, pensions, and social protection for a growing older population. Prospects are certainly not optimistic for a global economy suffering from multiple crises, uncertainty, risks, vulnerabilities, and precariousness.
To address these challenges some have suggested a shift from the public sector (e.g., pay-as-you-go pension schemes, public health care systems etc.) to the private finance, banking, insurance and health sector. However, it is often the case that population ageing can be more severe in ‘left-behind’ regions or regions caught in a ‘development trap’, and markets may fail to resolve such discrepancies; actually, markets may exacerbate inequalities. Alternative views stress the importance of promoting public and social infrastructure, especially in less developed regions, to improve the living standards of the ageing population. Loneliness, or the alienation and isolation, of older persons is an acute social problem, which must also be addressed. On the other hand, we may need to focus on supporting younger persons by offering incentives to them and their families to stay in less developed regions. In relation to the theme of the conference, we could also explore the potential of AI technology in dealing with demographic challenges.
AIMS & RESEARCH QUESTIONS
The aim of our session is to bring together research and scholars from around the globe to discuss the future of Europe and of the global economy in view of the demographic challenges and population ageing through the lens of innovative methods and alternative approaches. We also aim to publish papers from the special session in relevant journals. We invite presentations on themes such as (but not limited to) the following:
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION
Related abstracts (300-750 words) should be submitted electronically at the conference website before February 15, 2025 (submissions will open on January 15, 2025)
https://eaepe.org/conference2025overview/ On the electronic form authors are reminded to select the option RA [JAES] which refers to “Research Area for joint AFEE-EAEPE Sessions”
Submission Deadline (extended): 1 March 2025
18-20 June 2025 | King’s College London (Waterloo Campus), London, UK
Please note that the deadline for papers and panel submissions for the 27th AHE Annual Conference has now been extended until 21 February 2025.
The conference will be taking place on June 18-20, 2025 at King’s College, London (Waterloo Campus), in London (UK). This is an event organised in collaboration with the Department of International Development at King’s College London.
To submit an individual paper (max 300 words abstract), Submit your paper here.
For a panel submission (a closed panel with 3-4 presentations), Submit your panel here.
You can find more information about the conference on the webpage.
Extended Submission Deadline: 21 February 2025
2-3 October 2025 | Sciences Po Paris, France
The concept of sufficiency has gained traction in both public and scholarly debates in recent years as an organizing principle to direct the ecological transition. However, few evaluations of sufficiency policies exist to date, and even less is known about sufficiency elsewhere in the world. Sufficiency is a fast-evolving field for policy innovation in many emerging economies, which are tasked with addressing the significant environmental footprints of growing consumer classes. To understand how current and future sufficiency policies can be better designed and implemented across contexts, learning from diverse global experiences is crucial. This roundtable will bring together around 30 researchers and practitioners at Sciences Po to have an open, in-depth, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary dialogue on policies for sufficiency in emerging economies.
Organizers: Manisha Anantharaman (Sciences Po), Yamina Saheb (World Sufficiency Lab & Sciences Po), Mallory Zhan (Sciences Po)
To express interest in participation, interested parties should submit an abstract (500 words max) evaluating policies or policy proposals for sufficiency in an emerging economy.
For further information click here.
Submission Deadline: 1 March 2025
November 2025 | UNAM – Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Ciudad de México
Historians of economics working on topics directly related to public policy are increasingly dealing with institutions, practices, and instruments that involve complex philosophical questions regarding notions of objectivity, human values, diversity, gender, tractability, democracy, etc. These are topics where the philosophy of economics has advanced greatly in the last couple of decades, but these results have only partially permeated historical research. Similarly, while historical work has been useful in informing philosophical inquiry, a large number of historical episodes and evidence remain unknown to philosophers of economics. The many common questions and challenges involved in studying the analysis and implementation of public policy suggest that an increased communication between historians and philosophers of economics could produce new and valuable insights on these topics. Furthermore, we believe this intellectual exchange can lead to useful and appealing commentary on important contemporary policy debates, and contribute to raising the visibility of both the history and the philosophy of economics.
This workshop aims at fostering this conversation between both communities. We invite applications from young scholars working on public-policy-related topics from a historical or a philosophical perspective who are interested in learning from the recent work of scholars in the other community. We are particularly interested in scholars working on topics such as, but not limited to:
The workshop is organized by the YSI - History of Economic Thought Work Group, the Latin American Society for the History of Economic Thought (ALAHPE), the International Network for Economic Method (INEM), and will take place at UNAM's Colegio de Estudios Latinoamericanos on 25 November, 2025. The deadline to apply is 28 February, 2025. Applicants will receive a response by the end of March at the latest. Accommodation for the workshop and the ALAHPE conference (26-28 Nov.) will be provided free of charge, and funding to cover the transportation costs of participants will also be available on a case by-case-basis—depending on the country of residence.
To apply to the workshop please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/iQqUeywNyUkEvCgGA. Note that applying to the workshop and applying to the ALAHPE conference are separate procedures.
If you have doubts or questions of any kind please email the workshop organizers:
Special Issue on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Mexican Central Bank.
Events such as the Great Depression of 2008 and the economic crisis of 2020 have forced academics and policy makers to revisit policy tools that until recently were considered archaic and unnecessary to stimulate economic dynamics. Such is the case, for example, of industrial policy. This policy stands out because recovering it implies taking a step back in the globalization process that seemed irreversible; it also entails the essence of a policy of state intervention in the economy. In this context, industrial policy means implementing an active and expansionary fiscal policy, guiding development and growth.
However, in addition to these policy, it is urgent to make use of additional tools to achieve more quickly and effectively various additional goals such as distributive equity and sustainability, among others. In particular, we refer to monetary and financial policy, which is implemented by central banks, and which for decades has remained attached to the script imposed by the inflation targeting model, with highly controversial results. In this context, and on the occasion of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Mexico's Central Bank in 2025, Problemas del Desarrollo invites scholars and those interested in the subject to send their research proposals on the following general, but not exclusive, topic:
The role of the Central Bank in economic growth and development: a critical reflection.
Proposals must adhere to the journal's Editorial Guidelines and will follow the usual peer review process. This initiative is headed by Dr. Matías Vernengo, member of the Editorial Committee of this journal. Proposals will be received via the Submissions section of the journal's web page. You must specify that the article proposal is addressed to the special issue. Any questions or clarifications should be sent to the journal's e-mail address (revprode@unam.mx).
Deadline for receipt of manuscripts: 31 March 2025
19-20 June 2025 | Sciences Po, Paris, France
Ecological crises, starting with climate change, are expected to generate a new wave of social risks that will challenge welfare states across the globe. These so-called “social-ecological risks” are poised to alter both the incidence and distribution of existing social risks. They originate both directly from biophysical transformations, such as extreme weather events and other environmental hazards, and indirectly from the distributive effects of environmental policies, which disproportionately affect certain social groups.
These social-ecological risks are also bound to transform the traditional landscape of social policy. The current ecological crisis is already placing pressure on welfare institutions for a profound recalibration, similar to the changes prompted by the so-called “new risks” in the post-industrial transition (Bonoli, 2005). While the entrenched silos separating the governance of social and environmental policies may hinder such recalibration, existing policies could, in many cases, provide protection against social-ecological risks.
A growing body of scholarship has begun to explore the social-ecological nexus, establishing a vibrant research community. However, significant gaps remain in our understanding of social-ecological risks and the public policy responses to address them. What are the ecological and social risks of our time? Who is at risk? How are ecological issues and policies reshaping the nature and distribution of social risks? How are welfare states protecting against social-ecological risks and contributing to social-ecological transitions? Are there new policies to be developed to cope with social-ecological risks?
This workshop seeks to promote an interdisciplinary discussion on social-ecological risks and policies. We invite contributions offering theoretical, conceptual, and empirical insights, based on qualitative, quantitative, and mixed-methods approaches. We particularly welcome cross-national comparative studies, single-country case analyses, and interdisciplinary perspectives.
Key Themes
Workshop details
Scholars interested in social-ecological risks and policies are encouraged to submit their applications and, if selected, will have the opportunity to present their research work and engage in thought-provoking discussions with expert peers. We look forward to receiving contributions from scholars, especially early-career ones, across disciplines, including social policy, political economy, environmental studies, sociology, economics, philosophy, and related fields.
Submission guidelines: Abstracts of no more than 700 words (with information about the authors’ contact, position, and affiliation) should clearly outline the research question, methodology, and (expected) findings or theoretical contributions. Application should be sent tomatteo.mandelli@sciencespo.fr
Application Deadline: 24 February 2025
26-27 September 2025 | York University, Toronto
Claims about the importance of Marxism typically and understandably focus on its historic role in analyzing political, social and economic life. This conference will assess the impact and importance of Marxism in the context of the wider intellectual realm, and how central theory is to its very existence. We seek papers by scholars from across disciplines, including but not limited to anthropology, economics, human geography, political science, social psychology, sociology and others, including Area studies and interdisciplinary fields. Their papers should demonstrate the intellectual power of Marxist thought, especially in relation to the serious problems and issues facing humanity.
The collection of the conference papers will offer a chance for interdisciplinary analyses with the goal of strengthening Marxist thought. We believe that Marxism cannot be an intellectual island and that it must be in a critical and productive dialogue with non-Marxist bodies of work. We invite participants to compare Marxist and non-Marxist approaches to a wide range of issues, and to articulate how being informed by a Marxist approach can produce a unique, important, and essential analysis of pressing political, economic, social-cultural and ecological issues that are generally missing outside of Marxism. We believe that this will serve to help clarify the power of a Marxist analytical frame.
The conference will be an in-person, two-day event. In a comradely spirit, presenters should participate in the entirety of the conference. We especially encourage young, working class, and marginalized scholars to present their research at the conference. We expect to publish many of the papers presented at the conference in the form of one or two edited books and/or special issues organized for Left journals.
For further information please click here.
Submission deadline: 15 March 2025
11-14 March 2025 | Iuav University of Venice
The claim that ecological collapse represent one of the main great challenge of the 21st century has now become a truism. It is no longer a belief held by groups associated with ecological militancy: mainstream media, international organizations, multinational corporations, and areas traditionally far removed from what is usually understood as ecological sensibilities have, for a decade now, shown clear awareness of the urgency of the climate problem. Nevertheless, as the data note, the awareness about, for example, the climate problem is not matched by real effective political action on the global scale capable of countering it. This conference aims to make a Marxist-oriented critical rereading of the reasons that prevent the production of effective actions capable of meeting what currently appears to be the fundamental need of humanity: a radical socio-ecological transformation.
Building on a debate that is well established in European and non-European areas, this conference aims to establish the first opportunity for international discussion in Italy on the relationship between Marxism and the fundamental questions related to the environment and ecology. More specifically, the question concerns the possibility for Marxist thought to critically illuminate the contradictions that prevent a comprehensive interpretation of the relations between society and nature. Through the perhaps overused name "anthropocene," the conference aims to focus the discussion on the fractures and tensions that characterize the present era and to screen them in the light of Marxist thought.
For further information please click here.
30 July 2025 | University of Helsinki, Finland
An invitation has been extended to early career researchers to submit their applications for the bi-annual workshop, which has established itself as an institution and springboard for young scholars in political economy. The event will take place in Helsinki: Critical Political Economy early career scholar writing workshop on Thursday 30 July 2025. Supported by CPERN and the Conference of Socialist Economists/Capital and Class University of Helsinki
The day before the 2025 CPERN workshop will feature a writing workshop for early career scholars (PhD students and recently completed PhDs). This presents an opportunity for those working on securing their first publication. Participants will be paired with a more established scholar in the field of critical political economy to receive detailed feedback aimed at facilitating the writing and publication process.
The workshop receives support from the Conference of Socialist Economists, which publishes the journal, Capital and Class, and can provide limited funding to support travel and accommodation.
Interested parties should send a brief note detailing:
Submissions should be sent to cpernRN06@gmail.com.
Submission Deadline: 23 March 2025.
29.06.2025 - 12.07.2025 | Kasos, Greece
The Institute for the Radical Imagination is pleased to announce the 2025 Marxist Summer School. The Marxist Summer School is designed to enable those new to historical materialism and more advanced participants to address fundamental questions, concepts, and texts in an intensive way and in an inclusive, non-sectarian, and congenial setting. There will be one daily mid-day seminar session, 12-2 each week, and one evening session every other day, 7-9, (held in the Kasos municipal library) where participants will collaborate on close readings of texts and address some of the core political problems of our times. The seminars for 2025 are:
Reading Marx: The 18th Brumaire; The Civil War in France; Critique of the Gotha Program
During six evening seminars spread over the entire two weeks of the Summer School, we will engage in a systemic reading of three of Marx's most compelling and pertinent historically grounded political texts. Covering the key political moments of the 1848 events and upheavals, the Paris Commune, and the rise of German social democracy, we will engage in close readings of these texts with an eye toward understanding how Marx's insights help us to better understand the political situation that is unfolding around us.
In particular, substantive questions to be explored include the relevance of the class position and origins of political elites, the role of violence in revolutionary politics, forms of organization and their selectivity’s, the experimental practice of communism, the state form and its class functions, the revolutionary potential of cities, the ways that the dominant classes form political alliances, the relation of anarchism to communism, the pitfalls of economism and nationalism, and the authoritarian and oligarchic forms of the capitalist state. In addition to these three readings from Marx, key insights from important readers of these texts (Rosa Luxemburg, Nicos Poulantzas, Henri Lefebvre) will be brought in to the discussion.
The Riddle of Organization: Power and Insurgency in Times of War
From the emergence of early socialism and trade unions to the most recent anti-racist, feminist and queer struggles, from the Bolshevik revolution to the recent experiences of left-wing governments, the “question of organization” has been a key concern of Marxist theory and praxis in its many strands. If in its own time Marx emphasized the shift from the “weapons of critique” to the “critique of weapons,” Mario Tronti notably argued that “organization” is an essential “weapon” the oppressed can mobilize to transform the world.
However, the nature, form, and strategy of such a “weapon” have been far from self-evident, sparking intense debates that remain central to critical theorists and activists today. Over the last decades, the question of organization has become a riddle. Should a revolutionary organization operate with the discipline and efficiency of a military vanguard, or should it, like an artistic vanguard, prefigure the future life of freedom and equality? Should it be guided by professionals or led by the masses themselves? Should it aim to seize central power through insurrection or gradually build hegemony within the state’s main apparatuses? Should it be hierarchical or democratic, centralized or reticular, vertical or horizontal?
The “question of organization” is particularly compelling today, as capital responds to its multiple crises by weaponizing war, genocide, and ecological disasters. Addressing both theoretical contributions and practical experiences of organizing, this seminar will explore the “question of organization” in its historical and contemporary dimensions. By engaging with classic debates, artistic contributions and recent analyses of social movements, it seeks to illuminate different forms of organizing that remain vital in today’s struggles for liberation. We do not have solutions to offer, but we remain convinced that the problem of organization is one of the crucial issues we have to address today. Reading will include works by classical Marxist thinkers as well as Rodrigo Nunes, Kristin Ross, and others.
Automated Capitalism: Networks, Machines, Materialism
Alan Turing’s fear in 1951 that “once the machine thinking method has started at some stage we will have to expect the machine will take control”, seems like wishful thinking today. Instead of robot rulers we are still stuck with the capitalist class, an ever more exploitive and oligarchical capitalist class that has managed to monopolize and commodify our attention and turn us into serialized producers and consumers of data. In particular, the algorithmic dance on oligopolistic social media and ecommerce platforms has been at the forefront of “hacking democracy” assertions: responsible for fake news and disinformation architectures, symptomatic populism-radicalism-violent extremism, reproducing gender, race, class and other discriminatory bias in employment, health, education; as well as digital labor and gig economy problematics on the future of work and intensification, hence giving birth to new concerns of data justice, tech giant whistle-blowing, digital rights, data inequality and environmental impact of computation, even resistance movements to any Intelligent Machines whatsoever.
In this seminar we will examine the broader sociopolitical and economic impact of AI and how it continues and intensifies the deeper tendency within capitalism for automation and the deskilling of labor. Departing from Marx's seminal insights on automation in the famous 'Fragment on Machines' in The Grundrisse, we will examine how this most recent moment in capitalist automation has impacted the temporal character of bourgeois societies, the emergence of platform capitalism, the attempt to further capital's autonomy from living labor and social constraints, the intensification of alienation, and the decline of social democracy and the rise of the societies of control. Reading will include works by George Caffentzis, James Steinhoff, Bernard Stiegler, and Matteo Pasquinelli.
The Marxist Summer School is open to everyone with intellectual drive and revolutionary zeal and does not require any previous preparation. Students can register on the Institute website. There is a non-refundable registration fee of $700, and an additional $1000 is due by the end of May. The tuition includes a single occupancy hotel room (there can be reduced rates for those who want to share a room) and one communal meal each day. There will be a maximum of 30 students in total – some financial aid may be available for students on a need basis.
For further information, contact Peter Bratsis: pbratsis@gmail.com
29 June - 4 July2025 Alcáçovas, Portugal
In a capitalist system, a substantial amount of work often remains hidden, undervalued, or even goes uncompensated. This is frequently seen in tasks referred to as "labour of love" or dismissed as non-work. A key component of this invisible labour is associated with social reproduction, which includes the essential activities involved in nurturing life
and maintaining the well-being of individuals and communities daily and across generations. Such work encompasses caregiving, household management, and emotional support — tasks that are vital for upholding the fabric of society but are often overlooked and unrecognised.
Perspectives on social reproduction represent a comprehensive field that aims to highlight the significance of often-neglected forms of reproductive labour for capital accumulation. These perspectives examine the complex relationships between economic exploitation, socially oppressive systems, and value-generating processes. They have been crucial in demonstrating that historical capital accumulation relied heavily on the exploitation of women, enslaved individuals, and colonies, who have typically been categorised as unproductive labourers within Marxist theory. Since the late 1960s and 1970s, Marxist feminist activists and scholars have examined the contradictory relationship between capitalism and social reproduction.
They have highlighted the conflict between capitalism’s economic demands and the needs of social reproduction. This interplay between market and non-market relationships within
capitalist development was vividly illustrated by the London-based art collective See Red Women’s Workshop. In their famous 1976 poster titled “Capitalism Also Depends on Domestic Labour,” they creatively depicted the connection between the reproduction of human beings and the production of factory goods. The poster shows women working on a metaphorical household conveyor belt, from which human beings flow directly to a factory conveyor belt. This imagery emphasises the concept of an invisible social factory made up of unseen, atomised, and unpaid female workers, essential for the continuous production and reproduction of the labour force. Similarly, later international campaigns advocating for and against wages for housework aimed to challenge the perception of social reproduction as a voluntary and affective activity while advocating for the development of collective modes and infrastructures of care.
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in activist, artistic, and theoretical engagement with social reproduction approaches across various social movements and
disciplines. This interest builds on earlier traditions of social reproduction feminism and feminist political economy. The growing focus on this framework is closely linked to its
relevance in critically examining the interconnected crises that have emerged since the 2008 Great Recession. It effectively highlights how people's lives and livelihoods have been transformed, particularly regarding provisioning, caregiving, and the social interactions essential for fostering individual well-being and maintaining social connections.
THE SCHOOL
The school adopts a broad methodological approach because our topic encompasses multiple dimensions of life. We will gather for five days to engage in critical discussions about social reproduction across four primary dimensions: community, activism, art, and theory. The school is designed to be a space for mutual learning, where participants are encouraged to contribute to our understanding of the present while collectively envisioning an emancipated future. The summer school will be a valuable platform for graduate
students, researchers, artists, community organisers, and anyone interested in social reproduction to explore vital questions emerging from this field critically. We invite participants to engage with the following questions:
HOW
Over the course of five days, we will gather to share food, space, and experiences to stimulate meaningful discussions. Participants who prefer working with text will have the opportunity to present their papers and engage in conversations with fellow activists, artists, and theorists in the field. We strongly encourage interdisciplinary dialogues and believe that the integration of art, activism, and community organising represents valuable and exciting modes of knowledge production. We will host sessions where art, activism, and theory are closely connected. The primary working language for this event will be English.
WHERE
The Summer School will take place at Oficina Rua do Relógio. Oficina Rua do Relógio is a social and cultural space. Born in Alcáçovas, at Rua do Relógio, in a house that was until then a family home of Mr. João Ilhéu. A house and a shoemaker's workshop turned into a space for various crafts. People gather in this workshop. People with a desire to learn, to make and to share. To make with the local people and to bring people to the place. Alcáçovas is a small village in the Alentejo region of Portugal, known for being the site where a historical peace treaty was signed between Portugal and Spain at the end of the 15th century. This authentic gem features beautiful vernacular architecture, a Renaissance palace with charming gardens, and a famous cowbell industry that is recognised as an intangible cultural heritage. The village also boasts a renowned pastry tradition. Surrounding Alcáçovas are scenic villages and cities, including Évora, a UNESCO World Heritage site just 30 minutes away, which is well worth a visit. We invite you to submit a one-page cover letter outlining your interest in the summer school and a short mini-bio, plus an abstract of your project, topic, concern, or essay (maximum of 800 words) by March 31, 2025 by email: coop@oficinaruadorelogio.com
The organising team is working towards making participation free of charge, aside from travel costs, and we will provide further details on this topic in due course. In the meantime, do not hesitate to send us your proposal for participation and join us in Alcáçovas!
Application Deadline: 31 March 2025
25-27 June 2025 | Jyväskylä, Finland
University of Jyväskylä invites graduate students using the methods of social science history to attend a two-day summer school in Jyväskylä in June 25–27, 2025.
The annual social science history summer school in Jyväskylä is designed to support doctoral research in the empirical historical social sciences, especially economic and social history projects. We will address the basic assumptions and underlying logics of empirical research, as well as work with examples to support student projects. The goals of the workshop are (1) to examine the steps required to frame an empirical research question guided by theory, (2) to consider the range of research methodologies used by social scientists, (3) to address some strengths and limitations of each, and (4) to practice some of the steps involved in research design and implementation.
We offer postgraduate students the opportunity to develop their knowledge of research methods and to test methodological choices in their dissertation research with top researchers and teachers in the field of social science history. The Summer School in Social Science History has become an annual tradition after getting excellent feedback from participants who have found the Summer School useful for their research and a great forum for networking.
All topics of research are welcome. Students in the early stages of their PhD work benefit most from the summer school guidance.
The summer school consists of a workshop, lectures on methods, and individual guidance. We expect each participant to prepare a paper in advance reflecting on their own methodological choices. The paper may be intended as part of the dissertation manuscript or a separate presentation. The course will moreover introduce literature for participants to explore in advance. Summer school offers an excellent opportunity to meet other postgraduate students, as well as senior scholars in the field. Our social program will enable you to discover the summery city of Jyväskylä and its life and beautiful surroundings.
The teacher at the summer school is Professor Anne E. C. McCants (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States) along with teachers of the Department of History and Ethnology at the University of Jyväskylä.
How to apply
You can submit your application in our web pages. In the application form, you are asked to write a short abstract of your research topic (150-200 words). In addition, you need to enclose an application letter (400-500 words) that includes a brief description of your methodological choices and challenges and a short personal introduction (CV) including the phase of your doctoral dissertation and name of your supervisor(s).
For further information, please contact summerschool-hela@jyu.fi.
Application Deadline: 4 April 2025
February 21-23 2025 | Sheraton Times Square Hotel in New York City
We are pleased to present the full program for the 2025 EEA Conference. The conference will run Friday, February 21, 2025 to Sunday, February 23, 2025 at the Sheraton Times Square Hotel in New York City. In addition to our full slate of sessions we will also be hosting three events that we encourage you to attend:
URPE at EEA 2025 Program
Friday, February 21, 8:00 am to 9:20 am. Riverside Suite
URPE Panel 1. Microeconomic Political Economy Studies
URPE Panel 7. Public Sector Political Economy
URPE Panel 2. Development Economics I.
URPE Panel 8. Keynesian Political Economy
URPE Panel 3. Development Economics II. Rural and Artisanal Work
URPE Panel 9. Money, Its Nature, and Its Effects
URPE Panel 4. Development Economics III. Periphery/Core
URPE Panel 10. Monetary Policies
URPE Panel 5. Economic Development in Asia
URPE Panel 11. Finance
URPE Panel 6. Development Dilemmas: Inequality, Investment, and the International Monetary Fund
URPE Panel 12. Financial Macroeconomics and Keynes
Saturday, February 22, 8:30 am – 9:50 am. Riverside Suite
URPE Panel 13. Climate Change
URPE Panel 19. Capitalism, Democracy and Violence
URPE Panel 14. Developing Alternatives to Capitalism and Moving Beyond Neoclassical Subject
10-12 April 2025 | University of Geneva, Italy
The climate crisis is undeniable, yet the current political and economic frameworks—rooted in austerity and conventional market practices—are insufficient for an urgent ecological transition. Mainstream approaches often fall short, constrained by outdated paradigms and resistance to new ideas. This is surprising given the wealth of research and innovative solutions from academic institutions and organizations that propose alternative funding methods. These solutions often struggle for recognition because they challenge the status quo. Yet bold, unconventional ideas are essential in this global emergency to secure a sustainable, liveable future.
Many institutions, organizations, and economists are already pushing these boundaries and developing progressive ideas for funding the transition. The challenge now is to connect these efforts, encourage collaboration, and amplify their impact. Students and young scientists play a crucial role as the next generation of economists, bridging academia and on-the-ground organizations. Their fresh perspectives and energy drive new ideas into action. In partnership with the Young Scholar Initiative, the Young Scholar Sessions provide a platform for students and PhD candidates to present their work and engage in discussions. By including topic experts, these sessions promote knowledge exchange across generations and between researchers and practitioners.
The “Rethinking Economics” conference aims to create a space to address this pressing crisis from different perspectives, share knowledge, and connect ideas. With the theme “How to Fund the Ecological Transition?”, the first edition of this conference will address one of the most pressing issues of our time. Taking place in Geneva – an international centre for politics, economics, and sustainability – the conference aims to bring together students, academics, institutions, and organizations to share approaches on how to fund such a transition.
To apply, please follow the instructions on the following website.
Application Deadline: 9 March 2025
The Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute announces three new episodes of the New Thinking in Political Economy series, featuring authors discussing their recent research:
In the first episode, Distinguished Research Professor Shirin Rai from SOAS, University of London, and Research Associate Dr. Jayanthi Lingham from the Centre for Care discuss Rai's book "Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring" with Dr. Remi Edwards. Listen here.
The second episode features Dr. Maha Rafi Atal from the University of Glasgow discussing her co-authored article "Adam Smith: His continuing relevance for contemporary management thought" (2024) with Dr. Remi Edwards. The conversation explores Smith's insights on contemporary political economy challenges related to global corporations. Listen here.
In the third episode, Professor Ben Clift and Dr. Karoline Kuzemko from the University of Warwick join Dr. Remi Edwards to discuss their 2024 paper "The social construction of sustainable futures: how models and scenarios limit climate mitigation possibilities." Listen here.
For Apple users please click here.
In September 2024, De America Soy and Repensando Economia UFMG hosted the fourth Escuela Latinoamericana de Economía Heterodoxa (ELEH) in Belo Horizonte.
Over five days, 80 participants from across Latin America came together to exchange ideas on the region's economic and social development. Highlights included keynotes from Clara Mattei and Brazilian Treasury official Debora Freire.
Missed it? Catch all the talks, panels, and discussions on De America Soy's YouTube channel!
Job title: Lecturer in Politics of Development
Job id: 106185. Salary: £44,105 - £46,121 per annum including London Weighting Allowance.
Posted: 30 January 2025. Closing date: 20 February 2025.
Business unit: Social Science & Public Policy. Department: Department of International Development.
Contact details: Professor Laura Camfield. laura.camfield@kcl.ac.uk
Location: Strand Campus. Category: Academic & Teaching.
About the role
We are seeking a candidate who has an outstanding early career profile of publications and grant capture, with an excellent record of teaching and administration. They will have disciplinary knowledge of development politics, and broad regional expertise. They should be able to teach the second year module Democracy, Authoritarianism and the State in Development and one other, tbc, and supervise undergraduate and postgraduate students. Our successful candidate will be methodologically proficient within their discipline and demonstrate evidence of high-quality relevant research and teaching in international development.
Key responsibilities include:
The above list of responsibilities may not be exhaustive, and the post holder will be required to undertake such tasks and responsibilities as may reasonably be expected within the scope and grading of the post.
This post will be responsible to the Head of the Department of International Development. This is a full-time role, and you will be offered a one year fixed term contract, starting 1st September 2025.
About you
To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:
Essential criteria
Desirable criteria
Downloading a copy of our Job Description
Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the next page after you click “Apply Now”. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process.
Further information
We pride ourselves on being inclusive and welcoming. We embrace diversity and want everyone to feel that they belong and are connected to others in our community.
We are committed to working with our staff and unions on these and other issues, to continue to support our people and to develop a diverse and inclusive culture at King's.
We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the advert. Please do not submit any other materials as these will not be considered. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.
To find out how our managers will review your application, please take a look at our ‘How we Recruit’ pages.
Interviews are due to be held in March 2025
We are able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK.
If you encounter any issues using the "Apply now" button, you can email your application to HR@kcl.ac.uk
Application Deadline: 20 February 2025.
Job title: Post-Doctoral Associate
We are inviting applications for a Post-doctoral Associate in the Division of Social Science at NYU Abu Dhabi from individuals who have or will soon receive a PhD in one of the social sciences or a related discipline. The appointment will begin September 1, 2025, subject to final budget approval and is available for up to three years.
The post-doctoral associate will spend half their time on independent research, and half their time on collaborative research with Professor Christopher Paik. The collaborative research will focus on statehood, state capacity, or development in a historical context. As such, a candidate with a background in any of the following fields should apply: economic history, cultural economics, global historical sociology, historical political economy and comparative politics. Within these fields, candidates who are interested in historical statehood and state capacity, political fragmentation and social attitudes, territoriality and nomads, historical legacies of cultural interaction, or colonialism are ideal. The ideal candidate will have expertise in formal modelling and/or research methods including (but not limited to) geospatial and statistical analysis, large language models, and machine learning.
The position does not require teaching, but it may be possible to get teaching experience for compensation. You would join a group of over 20 post-doctoral fellows and 70 faculty in the Division of Social Science.
For consideration, applicants must submit a cover letter, curriculum vitae with full publication list, statement of research interests, and two letters of reference, all in PDF format. If you have any questions, please email Professor Paik at cp92@nyu.edu. Applications will be accepted until March 31, 2025.
About NYU Abu Dhabi
NYU Abu Dhabi is a degree-granting research university with a fully integrated liberal arts and science undergraduate program in the Arts, Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Engineering. NYU Abu Dhabi, NYU New York, and NYU Shanghai, form the backbone of NYU’s global network university, an interconnected network of portal campuses and academic centers across six continents that enable seamless international mobility of students and faculty in their pursuit of academic and scholarly activity. This global university represents a transformative shift in higher education, one in which the intellectual and creative endeavors of academia are shaped and examined through an international and multicultural perspective. As a major intellectual hub at the crossroads of the Arab world, NYUAD serves as a center for scholarly thought, advanced research, knowledge creation, and sharing, through its academic, research, and creative activities.
Application Deadline: 31 March 2025
Job Title: Post Doctoral Research Fellow/ Programme Manager
The Critical Research on Industrial Livestock Systems (CRILS) Network aims to connect academics with practitioners (a broad term for non-academic collaborators - civil society and NGOs, campaigners, activists and artists, investigative journalists, food systems workers, legal scholars, policymakers etc) to develop a critique of the drivers and negative externalities of industrial animal agriculture and understand its global political economy. CRILS is particularly interested in working with partners in the global South.
The network is seeking a creative and ambitious early career researcher (political economy, political ecology, human geography, anthropology, critical public health or similar disciplines) with project management/campaigns/organising skills to lead the network's activities, including convening in-person and online workshops, leading the research Working Groups, and developing local networks.
Visit https://jobs.rvc.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=PPS-0371-24 or crils.org for more information. Contact mtak@rvc.ac.uk or crilsnetwork@rvc.ac.uk to enquire.
Application Deadline: 28 February 2025
Job title: Director for National Jobs for All Network
The Institute on Race, Power, and Political Economy at The New School and the National Jobs for All Network (NJFAN) are seeking an exceptional, action-driven leader to serve as the Director of the National Jobs for All Network. This is an extraordinary opportunity for a visionary leader to guide the development of a roadmap designed to ensure the right to work for all.
Reporting to the Founding Director of The Institute and the NJFAN Board of Directors’ Executive Committee, the Director will create a forward-oriented community – and roadmap for change to re-craft a political economy that promotes economic justice for all through full employment via a federal job guarantee. The Director shall direct all NJFAN activities except for lobbying as defined under the Internal Revenue Code and interpreted by the Internal Revenue Service. The Director will be provided with an annual job performance evaluation by the Executive Committee.
The successful candidate will have a demonstrated commitment to economic justice-related work as well as experience in leading and executing high quality programs. The candidate for this role must be a self-starter who also enjoys working in collaborative teams and recognizes they are joining a project in its early phases of growth and opportunity and beginning a new chapter which builds upon NJFAN's long history of economic justice activism.
The position will be term-limited, with an initial term of 3-years and a start date as soon as possible. This is a full-time grant funded position with continued funding for the role contingent upon additional grant funding.
For more information about the position and to apply, please visit here.
Job title: Early career researcher
The project Research Evaluation and Epistemic Change (REEC), funded by the BMBF Germany, is looking for a doctoral researcher to join its team in Spain. REEC is a three-country collaborative project led by Professor Jochen Gläser (TU Berlin) in Germany. Dr Thomas Franssen (Leiden University) and Dr Richard Woolley (INGENIO CSIC-UPV) lead the project’s comparative research in the Netherlands and Spain respectively. The project is planned to commence in February 2025 and runs for 42 months.
Position
A position is open to a new full-time PhD researcher based at INGENIO (Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV)) in Valencia, Spain, who wishes to develop their dissertation based on the data collected in the project. Masters graduates or those close to completing their MSc are invited to apply.
Tasks
The aim of Research Evaluation and Epistemic Change is to identify the influence of governmental research evaluations on the dynamics of scientific innovation processes in scientific communities and to compare it to other influences such as field-specific internal evaluation practices. To this end, country-comparative and field-comparative case studies on scientific innovation processes in physics, biology and history will be conducted. The early career researcher will contribute to the conceptual development, empirical design and realisation of the empirical studies (which will include observations, semi-structured interviews, bibliometric analyses, and qualitative content analyses). Specifically, they will carry out the empirical investigation in Spain.
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
Interested candidates should send a short CV and brief cover email to Richard Woolley (ricwoo@upv.edu.es).
Job title: Principal Investigator in Sustainable Transformation, Transdisciplinary Research, and Wellbeing
The research collective (VUB & ULB) SWIFT (Sustainable World Initiative & Fellowship for Transformation) is happy to launch an open call for a five-year, full-time postdoc position on Sustainable transformations and Wellbeing. This resarch Chair (the postdoc + 2 PhD students) will be situated within the VUB-HOST and the Urban Socio-Ecological Transformation (USET) research hub, an will be jointly coordinated by Professors Cathy Macharis (VUB) and Wouter Achten (ULB-SONYA).
The Chair will lead pioneering research that addresses the evolving dynamics of scientific practices within ecological, social, and institutional contexts. This position is integral to exploring the following key research questions:
The full description can be found, and dossiers can be submitted via the webpage of the Chair on Sustainable Transformation and Wellbeing.
Application Deadline: 1 March 2025
An ESRC White Rose DTP Collaborative Studentship is available in the School of Earth and Environment, with the project title ‘Exploring the socio-ecological potentials of essential provisioning systems in OECD nations’.
Collaborative Partner: New Economics Foundation (NEF)
ESRC Pathway: Space, Place, Environment and Liveability (SPEL)
Closing Date for Applications: 17:00 (UK Time) 14 March 2025
This project tackles the critical challenge of aligning human need satisfaction with ecological sustainability. Research highlights the importance of collective provisioning systems (CPS) in essential sectors – such as education, housing, healthcare, transportation and utilities – in meeting societal needs (eg health and social participation). CPS, organised through public, community, or cooperative arrangements, prioritise social equity and universal access over individual payment ability. Studies link CPS to improved well-being and reduced environmental impacts, eg through shared infrastructure and economies of scale. However, empirical evidence on CPS’s ecological effects, as well as on successful implementation conditions, remains limited.
Research Question 1: How does the mitigation potential of CPS in emissions and resource use in OECD nations compare to individualised, privatised, or market-driven systems across essential sectors?
Research Question 2: Which design and governance principles enable CPS to minimise resource use and emissions while ensuring inclusive, adequate need satisfaction, and how can these principles inform policy and practice?
OECD countries, responsible for 36% of global consumption-based emissions in 2022 (57% in 1990) must drive transformative change. This project contributes by focusing on:
A systematic narrative review will be followed by a Quantitative Analysis (including Input-Output Analysis and multivariate regression) and a Qualitative Analysis (in-depth case studies) leading to the development of policy recommendations.
A 3-month Research in Practice placement will be provided at the New Economics Foundation (NEF), providing an immersive experience of think tank working and skills in strategic policy communication.
This project integrates ecological economics, social policy, urban and regional planning, and governance studies. Partnering with NEF ensures effective bridging of research, community innovation and policymaking, fostering transformative impacts.
Duration of the Award:
1+3.5 Studentships: Full-time (4.5 years) or part-time (7 years 10 months);
+3.5 Studentships: Full-time (3.5 years) or part-time (5 years 10 months);
+3.75 Studentships: Full-time (3 years 9 months) or part-time (6 years 3 months).
Full-time awards will be made for one year in the first instance and will be renewed each year, subject to satisfactory academic progress. Part-time awards will be made for 24 months (two calendar year) in the first instance and will be renewed each year, subject to satisfactory academic progress.
Funding
Other Conditions
Selection Process
After a School selection process, applicants will be informed as to whether they are being nominated for an ESRC WRDTP Studentship. The White Rose Academic Quality Committee will review the nominations and decide on the final list of awards. The University will use the data provided in the application form for internal selection and statistical purposes and publish the names of the successful applicants within the University. The final outcome is expected towards the end of April 2025.
How to apply
Stage 1
First of all apply for a research programme of study by completing the application form. You should clearly state that you are wishing to apply for the ESRC WRDTP Collaborative Studentship and give the project title – ‘Exploring the socio-ecological potentials of essential provisioning systems in OECD nations’.
In order to be considered for the studentship, you must submit all the required supporting documents for your application of study (listed on the website for the School/Faculty) in which you are applying to study.
Stage 2
Once you are in receipt of your 9-digit Student Application ID, complete the online ESRC studentship application form
Before completing the studentship application form, you are strongly advised to read the Guidance for Applicants and Assessment Criteria, which provide further information about how to complete the form and how your application will be assessed.
After receipt of your Studentship application, the relevant Admissions Team will provide further advice on your suitability for either a 1+3.5, +3.5 or a 3.75 studentship and advise whether you should undertake the MA Social Research (Interdisciplinary) programme.
As an international research-intensive university, we welcome students from all walks of life and from across the world. We foster an inclusive environment where all can flourish and prosper, and we are proud of our strong commitment to student education. Across all Faculties we are dedicated to diversifying our community and we welcome the unique contributions that individuals can bring, and particularly encourage applications from, but not limited to Black, Asian, people who belong to a minority ethnic community, people who identify as LGBT+ and people with disabilities. Applicants will always be selected based on merit and ability.
Entry requirements
Applicants must meet the entry requirements of their nomination School - for the School of Earth and Environment, see https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/see-research-degrees/doc/entry-requirements. The ESRC also stipulates that for all studentships, students must have qualifications of the standard of a good honours degree at first- or upper second-class level, from a UK academic higher education institution, or through a combination of qualifications and/or experience, be able to demonstrate equivalence. In the majority of cases, students will have undertaken an undergraduate course at a recognised UK higher education institution or equivalent international qualification. Prior qualifications may be enhanced to meet these requirements by the acquisition of at least one satisfactorily completed academic year of full-time study or its part-time equivalent towards a UK higher degree, if applying for an award without an undergraduate degree. Applicants must satisfy the nominating School's entry requirements AND the ESRC's minimum threshold.
Applicants with a background in Ecological Economics; Politics, Philosophy and Economics; Political Economy; Social Policy; Urban and Regional Planning; and Governance Studies are particularly encouraged to apply.
English language requirements
The University of Leeds minimum English language entry requirement for research postgraduate research study is an IELTS of 6.0 overall with at least 5.5 in each component (reading, writing, listening and speaking) or equivalent. The test must be dated within two years of the start date of the course in order to be valid. For the School of Earth and Environment English Language requirement - see https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/see-research-degrees/doc/entry-requirements
Contact details
For further information about the application process, please contact the Faculty of Environment Admissions Team, email: ENV-PGR@leeds.ac.uk
For further information about the project, please contact Richard Baernthaler, email: r.barnthaler@leeds.ac.uk
Application Deadline: 14 March 2025
Job title: PhD 2 positions at Economic and Environmental History Group
I am looking for 2 fully funded 4-year PhD students for a project entitled “Tragedy of the Tropics: Colonialism, Commodities and Commons in Southeast Asian Deforestation since 1850”. This project aims to gain a better understanding of the structural conditions that have hindered, and continue to hinder, the transition to more sustainable land and forest use and to assess the factors affecting long-run changes in deforestation rates at the local level. Project members will use GIS (Geographic Information Systems) and digitized colonial topographic and vegetation maps to develop new spatial estimates of forest area in Southeast Asia across different benchmark years since ca. 1850. The project investigates how developments in global trade, the implementation of colonial and post-colonial policies, changes to local land rights and patterns of socio-economic and political inequality have impacted deforestation in the long run.
One PhD student will be hired to reconstruct and analyse deforestation since 1850 for Malaysia and the other for the Philippines. A third project, executed by myself and international collaborators, deals with Indonesia. The projected is executed with the Economic and Environmental History Group at Wageningen University in the Netherlands.
Want to know more, email me at pim.dezwart@wur.nl
Application Deadline: 31 March 2025.
We are calling for submissions to this year’s Kurt Rothschild Award for Economics Research and Journalism!
The Karl-Renner-Institut and the Social Democratic Parliamentary Group established this award in memory of the considerable achievements of the Austrian Professor of Economics Kurt Rothschild. With this award we honour social and economic scientists whose excellent research leads to relevant insights because they situate economic questions in a wider context, rather than reproducing neoclassical myths and beliefs. The awardees move beyond their purely academic tasks by also communicating these insights towards a broader audience and getting involved in the public debate.
Submissions for the Kurt Rothschild Award 2025 will be received until 22 April 2025; please find the submission form and further information on our webpage. Qualified submissions consist of both academic publications as well as articles directed at a broad media audience. It is important that there are elements of each category – scientific basis AND broader media communication.
Submission Deadline: 22 April 2025
The editors and editorial board of Review of (née Research in) the History of Economic Thought and Methodology (RHETM) announce the third Students' Work-In-Progress Competition.
The 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. The 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.
Prizes
Through the generosity of the publisher, the Open Library of the Humanities, cash prizes will be awarded this year. Up to five qualifying papers will be published in RHETM, and the first-, second-, and third-place winners will respectively receive $1000, $600, and $400.
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. Papers that have been presented at conferences will be considered. However, papers that have been previously submitted for possible publication in an academic journal are not eligible. Papers cannot have benefitted from a previous round of refereeing.
Review Process
As with the standard review process, an internal review will determine an initial list of candidates. The editorial team will then work with editorial-board members to select those papers worth dedicating close attention and care to bringing to fruition. The team will then 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. Submissions should be made here. "Symposium Paper" should be selected when prompted for article type. Questions about the Students' Work-in-Progress Competition can be directed to the co-editors of RHETM:
Submission Deadline: 31 March 2025
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by Richard E. Mshomba | Stanford University Press, 2024
Nonreciprocal preferential trade arrangements are a defining feature of the relationship between developed and developing countries dating back to the colonial era. In the late 1950s, these arrangements started to take a multilateral form when members of the European Economic Community established special trade arrangements with their colonies. Since then, several trade arrangements have featured African countries among the preference-receiving countries. Yet it is not always clear how preferential these arrangements are and whether they in fact help African countries or instead lead them to perpetual dependence on specific markets and products.
Richard E. Mshomba carefully examines the history of these programs and their salient features. He analyzes negotiations between the EU and African countries to form Economic Partnership Agreements. Nonreciprocal preferential trade arrangements are often unpredictable, since the duration and magnitude of preferences are at the discretion of the preference-giving countries. However, when used in conjunction with other development programs and with laws and regulations that encourage long-term investment and protect employees, they can increase economic opportunities and foster human development. This book recognizes the potential impact of nonreciprocal preferential trade arrangements and provides recommendations to increase their viability.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Photis Lysandrou | Bristol University Press
In a world shaken by crises, why does the dollar continue to dominate? In this book, Photis Lysandrou explores the interaction between global instability and the enduring strength of the dollar. Drawing on examples from the 2008 Great Financial Crisis to the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the author reveals how uncertainty and instability in global trade, production and politics drives investors towards the safety of the dollar, reinforcing its dominance over other currencies.
With clear and insightful analysis, Lysandrou reveals the true global financial foundations of dollar dominance, and lays out what it would take for other currencies such as the Euro to challenge its position.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Nick Bernards | Pluto Book Press, 2025
For decades, many people on the left have decried the finance sector as the main culprit for the toxic effects of capitalism. Financialization is commonly invoked to explain everything from growing inequality to the housing crises and the destruction of the environment. Only by confronting finance, so the story goes, can there be any hope for a more sustainable economy.
In this new intervention, Nick Bernards makes the case against the dominance of this story. Arguing that the concept of financialization is ill-understood and overworked, Bernards shows how we risk glossing over the true nature of capitalism when focusing on the mythical powers of finance. The moralistic distinction between harmful 'financial' and more honest 'real' economies leads to an impasse if we want to better understand how exploitation truly manifests.
Rather than indulging in the harmful fantasy that confronting the financial elite will fix the economy, Bernards provides an alternative approach. Starting from the premise that risk and speculation are core to the operation of all capital and not just the hallmark of a perverted financial sector, this Marxist reading of the interconnection between capitalism's uneven exploitation of labour and nature and financial capital lays the groundwork for a much-needed view of the real powers of finance.
Please find a link to the book here. (For further information on a Disscusion of the book on the 18. February 2025 please click here.)
edited by Hoda Mahmoudi and Kate Seaman | Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025
This topical book outlines one of the most ubiquitous challenges facing humanity and the planet today: the damaging impact of anthropogenic climate change. Humanizing the climate debate, it discusses solutions to the crisis and devises a moral framework centered on justice and equality.
The expert contributing authors find environmental justice at the intersection of human stability, accountability, rights, and dignity, and examine it across distributional, recognitional, and procedural justice dimensions and a capabilities approach. To advance tangible solutions to climate change, they recommend a plan of action which is sensitive to issues of implementation for vulnerable populations, such as discrimination, inequality, and injustice. Chapters call for practical and moral responses from politicians, corporations, and institutions who have the power and capacity to engage in non-partisan united action. Ultimately, the book engages with the complexity of environmental justice to understand the intersectional, multi-scalar, embedded nature of the problem.
Interdisciplinary in scope, this book is invaluable to students and scholars of climate change; environmental governance, regulation, politics, and policy; international relations; sustainable development studies and human geography. It is also a useful resource for policy advisors and activists concerned with climate change and environmental justice.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Paul R. Josephson | Oxford University Press, 2024
From Lenin and Stalin to Putin, Russia's economic development has relied on large scale technologies. These technologies—often called "hero projects," "projects of the century," or "megaprojects"—have been central to the nation's economic growth and military power. Despite their massive environmental and social costs, hero technologies moved ahead in service of the unbridled interests of state officials, the hubris of engineers, and the coalescence of the masses under a national ideology of glorious achievement and military grandeur.
In Hero Projects, Paul R. Josephson traces how, over the last one hundred years, the Russian tsars, commissars, and oligarchs embraced megaprojects to create the world's largest empire. Built by peasants, gulag prisoners, and Communist volunteers, the wide-ranging projects—including pipelines across the tundra, railroads from Europe to the Pacific Ocean, hydropower stations and canals from the northwest to arid Central Asia, and nuclear facilities—forever altered the landscape, politics, and society. As Josephson argues, if hero projects were embraced by the public as showcasing technological wonder, they have always ultimately served to enrich the Kremlin and demonstrate the nation's technological prowess on the global stage. And they continue to be a major feature of authoritarian Russian political rule in the twenty-first century; having rebuilt Russia's resource state and pushed a self-proclaimed "renaissance" of nuclear weapons and reactors, Putin has determined in 2022 to expand the empire to its Soviet borders by war on Ukraine, in Crimea, and against Georgia and Moldova.
Sweeping in scope, Hero Projects establishes the strong continuities in political culture in Russian history; reshapes the meaning of empire, extending it to include internal colonization; and expands environmental and social history through the study of big technology.
Please find a link to the book here.
By John Komlos (Editor) | Springer Nature, 2025
This edited volume explores and makes explicit the links between neoliberal economic policies and right-wing ideology. The book focuses on the case of the US while situating these trends in the global political economy.
The book brings together contributions from an interdisciplinary perspective, integrating economics, political science and sociology to examine the connections between the economic precarity generated by neoliberalism and the rise of the far right. The book argues that the creation of a flawed capitalist system has left a vacuum in policymakers’ ability to understand the impact of economic policies on human welfare and mental health, and can be directly linked to a right-wing populist movement driven by the frustrations associated with the transition from an industrial to a post-industrial economy. Chapters consider the history of neoliberalism and comparative studies of socio-economic conditions, before tackling specific issues associated with neoliberal policy, such as the demise of unions, the decline in manufacturing jobs, the gig economy, trickle-down economics, income inequality and the rise of elites in America. This book will be of interest to a broad range of readers, including those in politics, economics, sociology, industrial organization and labour studies.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Jonah D. Levy | Edward Elgar, 2025
In this innovative book, Jonah Levy conducts an insightful investigation into economic liberalization and articulates a progressive alternative to neoliberalism, compatible with the values and interests of leftist governments and parties.
Levy identifies and expands on the vices of contemporary welfare capitalism, which have been previously targeted by progressive reformers seeking to improve the functioning of the economy while protecting the well-being of low-income and disadvantaged groups. Chapters delve into case studies from the UK, the Netherlands, Sweden and wider Europe that show progressive-liberal reforms by centre-left governments, assessing austerity budgets, tax cuts, the promotion of part-time employment and workfare. Levy provides a roadmap to guide the left’s approach to economic liberalization and to ensure these actions can be understandable to voters. Ultimately, this book demonstrates how left-leaning governments across Europe can advance liberal objectives in a more just and inclusive manner.
Rethinking Economic Liberalization is an essential read for students and researchers of political science, political economy, sociology, public policy, and social welfare. Political practitioners and progressive think tanks will find the insights presented useful when navigating the challenge of economic liberalization.
Please find a link to the book here.
Edited by Raffaele Giammetti and Thomas Palley | Edward Elgar, 2025
This volume contains a collection of articles by leading thinkers in economics, political economy and history. They explore the enduring challenges of avoiding war and ensuring peace.
Please find al ink to the book series and the book here.
by Mehmet Erman Erol, Görkem Altinörs, Gönenç Uysal | Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025
While there has been a huge expansion of the literature on Turkish political economy and foreign policy in the last decade or so, fewer studies have explored Turkey's engagement with the changing global political economy since 2008 in a holistic manner. Against the backdrop of the debates on the 'rise of the Global South' and the crisis and decline of the US-led Liberal International Order, this book interrogates Turkey's ambitions to increase its regional and global economic, political, and military 'footprint' and the limitations thereof. The volume explores Turkey's economic and political relations with diverse regions and countries, ranging from Latin America to sub-Saharan Africa, post-Brexit Britain to Iran, as well as rising powers India and China. Drawing upon various critical IPE/IR approaches, the book offers a critical perspective, challenging conventional accounts which tend to draw upon and reproduce rigid dichotomies.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Bob Hancké, Toon Van Overbeke, Dustin Voss | Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025
This book unpacks what political economy is and does through an investigation of its main questions and approaches. Bob Hancké, Toon Van Overbeke and Dustin Voss offer a historical and thematic review of the evolution of political-economic thought, centred on the relation between capitalism and democracy.
Chapters discuss how interests, ideas and institutions are the methodological and conceptual building blocks of political economy. The authors use these concepts to understand how markets work and why they fail, the problems facing the welfare state, the political economy of voting and democracy, and the problems of cooperation in a world of interdependent democracies. Covering the main analytical approaches that political economists have developed to tackle the complexities of this social world, the book expands on some of the most important questions confronting the field.
Understanding Political Economy is an invaluable resource for academics and students of political science, economics, and international relations. Its insights on capitalism, democracy and inequality are vital for policymakers in the field.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Carlos Aguirre and Charles Walker | Brill, 2025
A renowned Peruvian historian, Alberto Flores Galindo (1949-1990) wrote fundamental books on Andean utopianism, José Carlos Mariátegui, subaltern Lima, and more. He participated in fiery debates on the left about Marxism, democracy, and socialism. Written by two specialists in Peruvian history, this book addresses many of his major topics and contributions, including Peru's rupture with Spanish colonialism, his role as a Marxist public intellectual, his relationship with the Cuban Revolution, the Shining Path and human rights, and his passion for literature. The book introduces English readers to the life and work of one of Latin America's major Marxist thinkers.
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by Kim Pernell | 2025, Princeton University Press
The global financial crisis of the late 2000s was marked by the failure of regulators to rein in risk-taking by banks. And yet regulatory issues varied from country to country, with some national financial regulatory systems proving more effective than others. In Visions of Financial Order, Kim Pernell traces the emergence of important national differences in financial regulation in the decades leading up to the crisis. To do so, she examines the cases of the United States, Canada, and Spain—three countries that subscribed to the same transnational regulatory framework (the Basel Capital Accord) but developed different regulatory policies in areas that would directly affect bank performance during the financial crisis.
In a broad historical analysis that extends from the rise of the first modern chartered banks in the 1780s through the major financial crises of the twentieth century and the Basel Capital Accord of 1988, Pernell shows how the different (and sometimes competing) principles of order embedded in each country’s regulatory and political institutions gave rise to distinctive visions of order and prosperity, which shaped subsequent financial regulatory design. Pernell argues that the different worldviews of national banking regulators reflected cultural beliefs about the ideal way to organize economic life to promote order, stability, and prosperity. Visions of Financial Orderoffers an innovative perspective on the persistent differences between regulatory institutions and the ways they shaped the unfolding of the 2008 global financial crisis.
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Call for applications
MA in International Economics
The Master’s degree programme International Economics offers an in-depth exploration of international macroeconomic issues and problems, like global and regional imbalances, macroeconomic instability, inequality and ecological constraints of economic activities. This consecutive degree programme imparts a critical understanding of current debates in economics, including a number of heterodox approaches, and is seeking to adopt a pluralist perspective. The programme has a strongly international approach and aims to integrate an understanding of theoretical controversies, historical developments and contemporary policy disputes. It also contains an interdisciplinary component reflecting the importance that social and political institutions play in shaping economic developments, and offers several options for specialisation. The programme is accredited and it will equip students with the skills to pursue internationally oriented careers with government and non-government organisations, research institutes, think tanks, trade unions, international organisations and international businesses, as well as to apply for PhD programmes. Courses are taught entirely in English.
The application period for the winter term for students with a non-German Bachelor’s degree starts on 15 March and ends on 15 May, for students with a German Bachelor’s degree it starts on 15 April, and ends on 15 June. For more information please see the website: https://www.hwr-berlin.de/en/study/degree-programmes/detail/23-international-economics/
MA in Political Economy of European Integration
The Master in Political Economy of European Integration offers an extraordinary, interdisciplinary Master programme, combining critical research in political sciences and sociology, law, and heterodox macroeconomics. The programme covers different dimensions of European integration such as environment, sustainability and energy, labour and social reproduction, as well as money and trade, and offers several options for specialisation. The courses deal with the current polycrises of our world and the role of Europe and the European integration process herein, providing pluralist theoretical perspectives and insights into empirical evidence.
The programme is accredited and enables students to participate professionally in the processes of European integration and to pursue international careers with European institutions and with governments as well as business organisations, trade unions, non-governmental organisations and institutions of policy formulation and research (not only) in the member states of the EU. Courses are taught entirely in English. Although it is a full-time program, a part-time option is possible which prolongs the duration of the program accordingly.
The application period for the winter term for students with a non-German Bachelor’s degree starts on 15 March and ends on 15 May, for students with a German Bachelor’s degree it starts on 15 April, and ends on 15 June.: https://www.hwr-berlin.de/en/study/degree-programmes/detail/30-political-economy-of-european-integration/
Application Deadline: By 15 May 2025
The Left Group in the European Parliament intends to commission a study on the tax practices of BlackRock. The primary focus of the study will be to examine the extent to which BlackRock engages in tax avoidance in Germany and the European Union, and if applicable, to identify any other relevant harmful tax practices employed. A key objective is to provide a quantitative assessment of the scale of such activities.
The study is expected to be no longer than 30 pages, although it may also be considerably shorter. The study should ideally be completed by mid-April. It is to be written in either German or English. Following a pre-selection process, interested authors will be asked to submit a fee proposal based on the anticipated workload. As a general guideline, a fee range of between 3,000 and 8,000 euros is suggested.
Interested authors are kindly requested to contact the following email address, christian.scholzalvarado@europarl.europa.eu, no later than February 17, 2025, and to attach a CV. Additionally, the email should include a brief outline with content suggestions for the study.
Submission Deadline: 17 February 2025
The John Jay MA in Economics is one of a handful of economics graduate programs that is focused on heterodox, or non-mainstream, approaches to understanding capitalism. Unlike most economics programs, we are unapologetically committed to a progressive, policy-oriented approach, and to a diversity of schools of thought. While the John Jay program offers the same core economics training as in other graduate programs, it is one of the few places where Marx, Keynes and other great radical thinkers in economics are also a central part of the curriculum. At John Jay, you will take rigorous courses on Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Statistics, but you will also be able to study Economic History, Political Economy of Race and Gender, Marxist Political Economy, Feminist Economics, Post Keynesian Macroeconomics, and Community Economic Development.
We are also one of the most diverse economics programs in the country. Economics is one of the least diverse social sciences — nationally, only 1 percent of all Economics M.A. students are Black, only 3 percent are Latinx, and most are men. But two-thirds of the graduates of the John Jay M.A. in Economics program have been Black and Latinx, and over half have been women. Our students come from Africa, Latin America and Asia as well as from the US.
We’re a new program, only four years old, but we already have a strong track record and culture. Our students and faculty see the study of economics not as an end in itself, but as a way of taking on the most pressing issues in our society. In our first class of graduates, the topics of capstone essays included: the causes of the 2018 rice inflation in the Philippines; the economics of private service contracts in public prisons; the case against the West African CFA franc; the resource curse and oil exploration in Guyana; the nineteenth century gold standard as tool of ruling class power; and the economics of redlining in mid-20th century US housing markets.
What do you need to do to apply?
To apply for Fall 2025, your application needs to be submitted by July 31st, 2025. Recommendation letters do not need to be received by that date, but we do need the names of your recommenders, as well as the completed online form and your college transcript.
We admit new students only in the fall semester.
To be considered for admission, you must have:
We prefer, but do not require, undergraduate calculus. (The online form is out of date on this point). We do not require GREs. We are less interested in what classes you’ve taken than in your intellectual curiosity, your willingness to work hard, and your commitment to using your training to help change the world.
How much does it cost?
The City University of New York remains one of the most affordable university systems in the country. As a result, the John Jay Economics MA program is far less expensive than most other graduate programs. Total in-state tuition over two years is $16,920. Many students enroll part-time, paying $470 per credit; the total cost is the same. Comparable M.A. programs elsewhere typically cost $60,000 or more.
In-state tuition requires one year of residency in New York State. Out-of-state tuition is $855 per credit. So if you do not currently live in New York, your total tuition over two years will be $23,850, assuming you establish residency in your first year. For comparison, total tuition for the New School’s two-year M.A. program is $67,950 — nearly three times as much.
Dual BS / MA Admission Program
Current John Jay undergraduates can apply for the BS/MA dual-degree program, which will allow them to complete their undergraduate and MA degree in five years.
Requirements:
Application Process:
To apply to the BS/MA programs, you should submit the following documents:
Please email these documents in one PDF file to the Graduate Program Director, Ian Seda at iseda@jjay.cuny.edu and Major/Minor Coordinator Geert Dhondt, gdhondt@jjay.cuny.edu.
Submission deadlines: 30 June 2025 for Fall Admission and January 10 for Spring Admission
Call for applications:The History & Political Economy Project (HPE) invites applications from PhD students and early-career scholars for our 2025 summer research grant. This program will support awardees to undertake research in summer 2025 on topics related to our mission to understand how neoliberalism has been developed, implemented, and contested around the world. In support of our goal of producing historical scholarship that is strategically useful for addressing the challenges of social-political transformation in the present, HPE will support historical research that explores one or more of the following areas:
Details: The HPE Project will award grants of between $3,000 and $4,000 each, for research to be completed in summer 2025. Graduate and early-career scholars are those studying for a PhD or who have obtained a PhD within the last 5 years. Field of study is open, and we welcome applicants from any discipline, but methodologies and research questions should be explicitly historical. Eligible expenses include travel and accommodation costs for archival or other historical research work; digitization and transcription costs; hiring of local researchers; or similar activities. Grantees will be required to submit a report detailing their research activities and outlining their findings by October 1, 2025, and will be invited to present their research at an HPE conference in December 2025.
Application Process: Applications will be due on March 9th, 2025, and we expect to announce the grantees in April. See our full call here for more information and instructions on how to submit an application. Please direct questions about the grant to info@hpeproject.org.
Application Deadline: 9 March 2025
Levy Economics Institute - Master of Science/Master of Arts in Economic Theory and Policy Degrees
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: https://www.bard.edu/levygrad/admission/finances/
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.
Application Deadline: 15 April 2025
The MA Programme in Labour Policies and Globalisation (LPG) announces the opening of its application period. This one-year programme, taught in English at the University of Kassel and the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR), addresses the challenges faced by trade unions and labour movements across the globe in an age of crisis.
Interested candidates can visit the MA Programme Website or email glu.germany@uni-kassel.de for more information.
The LPG programme in Germany constitutes a part of a wider project of the Global Labour University (GLU) to promote cooperation between trade unions and the research community and to strengthen the analytical and policy development capacity of trade unions. The GLU network has a vibrant alumni community with over 1,000 alumni from more than 80 countries, providing valuable global connections and support. Scholarships for students from the Global South are available, and apart from a contribution towards excursions and a fee for administration and a public transport pass, the programme is free of charge.
The GLU Team in Germany welcomes applications from candidates with experience in labour and social movements who are eager to expand their knowledge of global labour mobilisations and organisations.
Course starts 1. October 2025
Application Deadline: 1. March 2025
The UCL Institute for Global Prosperity launches a new PhD scheme Social Macroeconomics and scholarship with our research network Rebuilding Macroeconomics and the Global Solutions Initiative.
The UCL Institute for Global Prosperity's new PhD scheme in Social Macroeconomics aims to advance research on new approaches to the economy and the development of a new economic paradigm. The Institute for Global Prosperity (IGP) based at UCL and the Global Solutions Initiative (GSI) are interdisciplinary organisations committed to achieving shared prosperity for people and planet in the 21st century. Rebuilding Macroeconomics (RM) is a research network within the Institute for Global Prosperity which aims to make macroeconomics relevant to meet these challenges.
This scheme is part of the Institute's Global Prosperity MPhil/PhD programme. Joining our programme allows you to become part of a community of exceptional people striving to think bigger, challenge conventional orthodoxy and engage in exciting and thought-provoking research.
As part of this new scheme, you will have the opportunity to work and support research on various key themes which will also be linked to a new hub on Social Macroeconomics. We interpret the macroeconomy as a system to create and use knowledge in the context of fundamental uncertainty.
For further information and application guidelines please click here.
The History of Economics Society announces the start of a new collaboration with the International Society for Intellectual History.
The International Society for Intellectual History (ISIH) is offering up to 3 bursaries for Early Career Researchers (PhD candidates or scholars within max. 3 years from obtaining the PhD) to assist them with the expenses involved in attending the 52nd Annual Meeting of the History of Economics Society in Richmond, Virginia. The bursaries will be to the value of 500 USD for those coming from the US and Canada, and 1000 USD for participants from further afield. Successful applicants will also receive free registration to the conference, cocktail and banquet tickets, and one year of free membership to the History of Economics Society.
Eligibility: Early Career Researchers with a paper that has been accepted by the conference organizers and addresses a topic that falls within intellectual history (broadly defined).
Applicants should indicate their interest in being considered for the ISIH bursaries when submitting their paper proposals for the conference, and accompany their applications with a statement explaining financial need.
The deadline for submissions is 1. March 2025.
This month's newsletter includes the issue editorial from our 50th anniversary special on Imperialism and Africa (along with links inside the piece to access all the articles), our best radical reads from 2024, and a range of contributions to mark the publication of Working People Speak: Oral Histories of Neoliberal Africa. There is also commentary and analysis on the #OccupyParliament movement in Kenya, carbon markets and neo-colonialism, and the impact of the IMF and the World Bank in Uganda through a political reflection on his father's passing from Yusuf Serunkuma. It closes with two major interviews with leading figures in liberation struggles in Madagascar and South Africa, and an announcement of the Ruth First Prize for the best article published in the journal by an African author in 2023, awarded to James Musonda for his provocative and radical analysis of the 2021 election in Zambia.
Lastly, we'd like to draw your attention to a new series running throughout the year on the fantastic Guerrilla History podcast, focused on African revolutions and decolonisation. The series will feature more than 30 episodes. The first one was released in late January and can be found here, or wherever you usually listen to your podcasts. We highly recommend following along!
Thank you for your support.
In solidarity,
The ROAPE Editorial Team
edited by Nick Buxton | 2025, Transnational Institute
Geopolitical rivalry is reshaping our planet as reactionary nationalists take power and global tensions mount. Our 13th State of Power report explores whether this is the end of US imperialism and the beginning of a Chinese empire, the way nationalism is reshaping neoliberal globalisation, and the implications of a shifting global order for the vast majority of the world and for social movements fighting for justice.
This Publication gives an overview of TNI's new 'State of Power' report on the Geopolitics of Capitalism, that features many great critical scholars and should contain content of interest to this list. You can also just jump straight to the webpage that contains all the essays and infographics here: https://www.tni.org/stateofpower2024
It is with great regret that we learned the passing of Richard R. Nelson, a distinguished economist and scholar of evolutionary economics and one of EAEPE’s Honorary Presidents. Nelson was a pioneering figure whose work reshaped our understanding of technological change, innovation, and economic growth.
His seminal book, An Evolutionary Theory of Economic Change (1982), co-authored with Sidney G. Winter, introduced a groundbreaking framework for understanding economic dynamics challenging the traditional neoclassical view of economic growth. His extensive research on innovation systems and institutions profoundly influenced economic policy and scholarly thought worldwide. Nelson played a crucial role in advancing research on national innovation systems and the institutional foundations of technological progress. His insights will continue to influence economic policy and scholarly thought worldwide.
Nelson’s contributions leave a lasting legacy in the field of economics.