Issue 343 May 12, 2025 web pdf Heterodox Economics Directory
In recent editorials, we have repeatedly touched upon issues of academic freedom as a fundamental value that is a necessary requirement for doing accurate academic research and teaching. Academic freedom is essential for the functionality of science as a systemic search for (often incomplete and preliminary) truth because it is a prerequisite for any open debate on how to best interpret the available evidence and on how to separate the epistemic judgements associated with this interpretation of the evidence from other forms of judgement that are based on, say, political, religious, aesthetic, or moral attitudes and convictions.
All this is not to say that science should be (or could be) unrelated or devoid of moral considerations in a broader sense. Rather, as the history of science indicates that the innovation in and impacts of science always happen conditional on historically established power structures, it seems important to recognize that striving for open debate and mutual criticism is what makes science as a social system as well as a discursive formation unique and distinct. In this vein, skepticism towards any kind of dogmatism is, in my humble view, a key constitutive element of science. Such a view, by the way, also underlines a key source of legitimacy for heterodox economics (as we challenge the established dogmas ;-)), while at the same time raising some criteria for what constitutes good heterodox economic research (e.g., as we claim so to ‚real-world‘ economics, we are somewhat compelled to take the empirics seriously ;-)).
While my recent comments (see, e.g., here or here) focused mostly on the instrumental, economic value that emerges from well-functioning scientific institutions, it is important to see that there is a broader take on this story: open thought, free speech, and mutual criticism in academia do not exist independently of the rest of society, but instead build on societal features. Among such features are individual rights of free expression, public discourses that are sensitive to both, scientific facts as well as corresponding uncertainties, and autonomous governance systems in academia that ensure at least some alignment between contributed academic merit and achieved career progress. Taking these considerations into account, we find some correspondence between the idea of ‚open science‘ (in the more traditional sense of being open to criticism and alternative suggestions & viewpoints) and an ‚open society‘ (that tries to resolve conflicts by means of argument and compromise). In other words, science and democracy have somewhat good prospects for being a happy couple.
It is, of course, evident that the current attacks on science in the US constitute an attack on both, ‚open science‘ as well as ‚open society‘, a connection that is ever more pertinent in the context of the more sensitive topics addressed by social science, economics, and humanities. However, against this backdrop, it seems even more alarming that similar trends on subverting open science are on the rise in other countries, including not only typical suspects, like Turkey or Russia, but also more established liberal societies, like Japan.
Indeed, in the last few weeks, troubling news has reached our editorial office, which indicates that the Japanese government has for some years now refrained from formally appointing nominees for the „Science Council of Japan“, which have in the past spoken out against the leading party’s (LPD) actions and policies. This development has alarmed scholars affiliated with the Japanese Society for Political Economy (JSPE), who brought this subject matter to our attention (see this entry for more details). In this context, our colleagues pointed out that the political intentions displayed by the Japanese government will probably negatively affect scholars involved with the issues of „Historical awareness, Nuclear power and nuclear fuel waste disposal, Social science content related to gender and diversity, Scientific discussions related to industry regulation of specific products (e.g. tobacco)“ as well as „Dual-use regulatory content" (as related to military applications).
This list of topics is a clear-cut example of how political attitudes can substantially affect and bias the focus of (visible) research and teaching in a way that undermines the autonomy of scientific judgements on what is relevant. And although the efficiency-mantra that dominates academic economics illustrates that self-governance does not per se guarantee nuanced results, such autonomy is at least a necessary condition for approaching political and moral aspects and questions with a solid conceptual and empirical foundation.
All the best
Jakob
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In an era marked by unprecedented challenges – from sustainability transition to digital transformation – the need for innovative and effective solutions has never been more urgent.
Sustainability transitions are long-term, multi-dimensional, and fundamental transformation processes that bring socio-technical systems to shift to more sustainable modes of production and consumption. Sustainability challenges can be observed in several domains, for example, energy supply, water supply, sanitation systems, transportation sector, agriculture and food system. Focussing on the energy sector, major structural changes to the current fossil-fuel based economic systems are needed to address the challenge of climate change and financial recovery. Climate change is mainly caused by anthropogenic greenhouse gases (GHGs) emissions and, if uncontrolled, it threatens human life on earth (IPCC 2014). Paris Agreement article 2 sets the goal to hold the increase in the global average temperature below 2 ◦C. Attaining this goal requires a large-scale transition to a low carbon economy. The current nationally determined contributions of the Paris Agreement signatories are insufficient to avoid global warming greater than 3 ◦C by 2100. The difficulties of fighting climate change are due in part to the climate system characteristics. The presence of both positive and negative internal feedback determines, in general, a non-linear response to external forcing. Moreover, climate change may occur as a result of the internal variability and chaotic dynamics that characterize climate components. There are different observed climate changes such as global warming, sea-level rise, change in ocean circulation, rainfall pattern shift, and rise of extreme weather events frequency. They have diverse and severe consequences on natural and human systems: destruction of productive capital, reduced freshwater and food availability and quality, increased morbidity and mortality, increased risk extinction, and biodiversity losses (IPCC 2014, 2018). However, the negative potential impacts on natural and human systems of physical changes, termed physical risks, are not the only source of risk associated with climate change. Transition risks are potential economic and financial losses associated with how the low carbon transition is realized).
As regards digital transformation, during the last thirty years, digital technologies have been interested in significant improvements (Bertani et al.2020). The advent of new digital technologies, e.g., artificial intelligence and generative artificial intelligence, and their applications make economists and policy-makers ponder on potential effects deriving from continuous technological progress. Although the debate on the possible effects of technological progress is still open, most economists agree on distinguishing between short- and long-run effects. In the short term, technological progress determines a decrease in the employment level and wages, whereas, in the long run, higher productivity levels could lead to an increase in these economic variables. Moreover, technological progress can involve two different typologies of technological innovation, i.e., product and process innovation. Another element to be considered are the environmental impacts of the digital transformation which can be divided into direct and indirect impacts. Direct impacts refer to the environmental effects of the manufacturing and use of the devices and infrastructures associated with digital technologies, while indirect ones refer to the consequences of the change in the consumption and production patterns induced by the digitalization of the economy. Moreover, the carbon footprint of the ICT sector, is growing and so far not considered important but it should be monitored and investigated (Belkhir and Elmeligi 2018). Thus, both the sustainability transition and the digital transformation are complex phenomena characterized by fundamental uncertainty that need effective tools of analysis based on complexity approach.
Complexity represents nowadays a mandatory approach to properly address these challenges in economic, financial, managerial, organizational, and innovation systems (Nieddu et al., 2022). In fact, these systems are Complex Adaptive Systems characterized by non-linear relations among their constitutive elements, heterogeneity, self-reflexivity, emergent properties, self-organization, expectations, and dynamic continuous adaptation. CASs are systems of multiple and interconnected agents that emerge into coherent forms without any single entity deliberately managing the entire system. Organizations, supply chains, industrial districts, industrial symbiosis networks, and Regional Innovation Systems are framed as CASs, whose dynamics and behavior follow the CAS properties such as interconnectedness, adaptation at the edge of chaos, adaptive learning, resilience, co-evolution, and emergence (Axelrod, R., 1997).
Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation (ABM&S) is one of the most adopted methodologies to cope with the analysis of complex social systems (Cincotti et al., 2022), such as social groups, organizations, inter-organizational networks, innovation networks, or, in general, territorial innovation systems and macro-economic systems (Gilbert et al., 2001, Pyka ,2002). In the last two decades, ABM&S has been increasingly recognized not only as a suitable research approach to build theory and advance the understanding of complex adaptive systems but also as an adequate policy advice tool, particularly regarding regional or local innovation systems and energy and digital transitions (Ponsiglione et al., 2018).
Complexity theory and complex adaptive systems let to gain an appropriate perspective and the use of proper methodological tools to analyze challenges like sustainable transition and digital transformation (Farmer et al., 2012)
In particular, a complexity approach, i.e. a dynamic and systemic approach, allows modeling complex system behaviors, reproducing the internal dynamics of the whole system from the bottom, focusing on its microelements such as the agents, their attributes, actions, goals, coordination mechanism and the network structure (and type of relationships) that connects them (Cincotti et al., 2020).
In addition, the diffusion of new technologies for massive data collection offers the opportunity to measure and evaluate complex system dynamics through data-driven methodologies. New tools can be used to collect large amounts of rich, high-quality, and reliable data, in almost real time. They provide automatic and more objective measurements of individual, team, and firm behaviors, supporting scholars in analyzing complex systems.
The potential consequences deriving from sustainable transition and digital transformation are the subject of open debates among economists and policy-makers. Thus, the aim of this special issue is to attract high-quality contributions that use complexity approaches and address the sustainable transition and digital transformation at micro, meso and macro level. Papers that adopt innovative theoretical and empirical methodologies are particularly appreciated. The papers presented in this special issue should discuss new methods, applications, or theoretical approaches.
In particular, we invite manuscript submissions that:
Moreover, the special issue themes will be presented and discussed at the 4th International Workshop on Complexity in Innovation, Management and Economics that will take place in Genova July, 10-11 2025.
REPE supports ‘online first publishing’. Papers will be published online upon acceptance after having been peer-reviewed by 2-3 independent reviewers, which may be earlier than the publication date of the full issue.
All selected contributions will go through a full peer review process according to the usual standards of REPE.
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Submission Deadline: 30 November 2025
2 - 3 October 2025 | Linz, Austria
The global economy is at a crossroads. Rising geopolitical tensions, resurgent nationalist agendas, intensifying trade wars and escalating climate breakdown are reshaping the economic landscape – particularly at the expense of those already marginalized. While governments compete for markets, resources, and technological leadership, the costs are borne disproportionately by low-wage workers, women, migrants, and racialized communities – both in factories and in households around the world.
At the same time, the climate crisis demands a fundamental transformation of our economies. Without integrating a justice dimension into this transition, however, this transformation threatens to reproduce or even deepen existing inequalities. A socio-ecological transformation must not be built on the continued exploitation of those whose labor is already undervalued and whose livelihoods are most vulnerable to climate change ramifications.
Across regions, budget austerity, democratic backsliding, and economic recessions further exacerbate inequalities along intersecting lines of class, gender, race, and migration status. The structural exploitation of labor – often unrecognized, often precarious – remains a cornerstone of global economic systems. But it is precisely these foundations that must be rethought if we are to build a more democratic, sustainable, and solidarity economy.
We welcome contributions that examine the current realities of paid and unpaid work, critically analyze national and international challenges and power relations, and explore proposals for alternative futures. A thorough and multi-disciplinary analysis can provide a grounded understanding of the economy and lay the foundation for necessary transformations.
The Chamber of Labor Vienna and the Chamber of Labor Upper Austria will host the 14 Young Economists Conference on October 2 and 3, 2025 in Linz, Austria. We invite researchers in the early stages of their career (Master, pre- or post-doc) from all professions, especially economics, political sciences and sociology, to submit their work. We encourage female and LGBTIQ* contributors as well as researchers of color and first generation academics to present at the conference.
Keynote speeches will be held by Professor Annina Kaltenbrunner, Professor of Global Economics at the Applied Institute for Research in Economics (AIRE), Leeds University Business School, and by MMag. Dr. Stephan Pühringer, head of the Socio-Ecological Transformation Lab at Johannes Kepler University Linz and deputy director of the Institute for Comprehensive Analysis of the Economy (ICAE).
Participants will be notified of acceptance by July 2025, the deadline for the submission of full (working) papers for consideration for the Eduard März Preis is August 31, 2025.
The conference language is English. The conference is free of charge, presenters will be reimbursed for train travel cost within Austria, accommodations are paid for. An outstanding contribution will be awarded the Eduard März Prize of €1,000.
The deadline for abstracts (maximum 1 page) is 18 May 2025.
6 - 8 August 2025 | Yeditepe University Kayışdağı Campus, Istanbul, Turkiye
18th Annual Forum of the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE): “Multipolarity in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities in Political Economy”
The Geopolitical Economy of 80 Years of the United Nations
The United Nations represents a historic achievement of humankind, a momentous advance towards a more just and peaceful world, and away from imperialism, its denial of development and its wars. This historic international institution turns 80 this year. We would like to mark this event by inviting scholars to produce papers on the geopolitical economy of the United Nations, at once shedding new and critical light on the institution and helping develop the new approachto understanding international affairs from a Marxist perspective, geopolitical economy.
Opinion has never been more divided on the relevance of the UN, with many arguing that that the organization has become irrelevant and no longer capable of ensuring peace, others that it is too dominated by the West and yet others that it is dominated by World Majority opposing the West. Undoubtedly, after decades of underfunding, its agencies have become penetrated and even dominated by private western corporations. At the same time, many others not only argue for its continued relevance, but also for the need to return to the principles enshrined in its charter with 18 nations, including China and Russia, forming the Group of friends in Defense of the Charter of the United Nations since 2021.
The purpose of the papers for this stream should be to reconstruct, in a geopolitical economy framework, how the history of the United Nations, its origins, its functioning over the decades and its current forms of operation bear the marks of advancing multipolarity, vindicating anti-imperialist efforts in a context where the historically imperialist nations of the West seek to stall that advance, multiplying conflicts. The papers could also be critical of inherited frameworks in the study of international relations – realism, liberalism, globalization, U.S. Hegemony – which have neither anticipated nor explained multipolarity. While this term is widely used to refer to the dispersion of power in the international system, we also remember that Hugo Chavez preferred the term pluripolarity, referring to the diversity of economic forms that the increasing number of the poles of the world economy have taken. The need for a new approach to understanding the international relations of this momentous development is urgent.
For the past decade and more, Geopolitical economy has sought to fulfill this need. Rooted in the classical Marxist tradition, critical of many of its current avatars which do not understand the centrality Marx and Engels and the classical Marxist tradition gave to both imperialism and the nation-state, putting the understanding of capitalism and its contradictions and of imperialism and anti-imperialism at its core, giving states their rightful due, alongside classes, as key actors shaping the modern capitalist world, drawing on classical political economy and other traditions critical of neoclassical economics, geopolitical economy aims to investigate the international relations of the capitalist world in a historical materialist manner.
At the 18th World Association for Political Economy conference in Istanbul, in keeping with its overall theme of ‘Multipolarity in the 21st Century: Challenges and Opportunities in Political Economy’, we invite papers on the theme of ‘The Geopolitical Economy of 80 years of the United Nations’.
We especially encourage papers that engage with – both positively and critically – the existing geopolitical economy literature to develop it so that it can shed light on the history of the United Nations, by studying a variety of topics, including, but not limited to, the following:
Please send 200-500 word Abstracts and 100-200 word bios to Radhika.Desai@umanitoba.ca and efe.gurcan@istinye.edu.tr
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Submission Deadline for abstracts: 15 May 2025
23-25 October 2025 | Berlin
Call for Papers for the 29th annual conference of the Forum for Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM): Gendering Macroeconomics
Gender plays a crucial role in many macroeconomic areas, including, for example, how fiscal policy or crises generate different outcomes for men, women, and non-binary individuals, and gender inequalities have substantial macroeconomic consequences. These disparities are often deeply entwined with labor market dynamics, where gender wage gaps, gendered and racial profiling of jobs and segregation, and inequalities in the distribution of paid and unpaid work persist. Such inequalities are further compounded by the systemic undervaluation of unpaid labor as well as paid care work, disproportionately carried out by women. Addressing these imbalances requires policies, which aim to close gender gaps and promote inclusive development. Equally critical is examining the intersection of globalization, climate change and gender, revealing how trade, climate conditions, and financial flows reshape inequalities in the Global South and North. Therefore, this year's FMM conference focuses on the interactions between gender and macroeconomics. Panel discussions with renowned keynote speakers will take place on the evenings of the conference. Elissa Braunstein (Colorado State University), Diane Elson (University of Essex), Caren Grown (Brookings Institute), İpek İlkkaracan (İstanbul Technical University), Özlem Onaran (University of Greenwich), Miriam Rehm (University Duisburg-Essen), Margit Schratzenstaller-Altzinger (Austrian Institute of Economic Research), Ajit Zacharias (Levy Economics Institute) and Izaskun Zuazu (University Duisburg-Essen) have confirmed their participation.
The submission of papers in the following areas is particularly encouraged:
We also welcome submissions on the general subjects of the FMM, macroeconomics and macroeconomic policy analysis and modelling. Women are strongly encouraged to apply. We particularly welcome submissions for graduate student sessions for PhD students. Those who have already presented a paper at a student session in previous FMM conferences should submit to the regular sessions to improve chances for newcomers. Introductory lectures for graduate students will take place on 23 October during the day prior to the opening panel. Hotel costs will be covered for graduate student presenters (max. four nights). Details will be announced in decision letters by mid-August. A limited number of travel stipends for graduate student presenters will be sponsored by INET’s Young Scholar Initiative (YSI). The conference is an in-person event.
Submissions – an extended abstract of max. 400 words, clearly outlining the research question, method and results – are to be made electronically via this web application. Decisions will be announced by mid-July and will be based on relevance, originality and clarity of the abstracts. After acceptance, full papers are due by 30 September and will be posted on the conference web page. Selected papers may be published in a special issue of the FMM’s peer reviewed European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention.
Submission Deadline: 31 May 2025.
3-5 September 2025 | University of Warwick, UK
The 55th Annual Meeting of The History of Economic Thought Society (THETS) will be held at the University of Warwick in Coventry on 3-5 September 2025. The conference, jointly hosted by the School of Law and the Department of Economics, will start in the afternoon of Wednesday 3rd and end in the afternoon of Friday 5th September.
THETS is one of the oldest established groups of historians of economics. Annual meetings have been organized since 1968.
Submissions can deal with any aspect of the history of economic thought, the history of economics as a discipline, and the history of the dissemination of economic tools and techniques. Submissions from across the humanities and the social sciences, including those taking a non-European or global perspective, are welcome. Submissions by PhD students and early career researchers are particularly encouraged.
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Abstract submissions (200 words max.) are due by 15 May 2025.
27 - 29 August 2025 | University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
The Pluralumn* group of the German Network for Pluralism in Economics calls for papers and presentations for its 6th Scientific Workshop. The workshop is open to all young scholars and early-career researchers, such as advanced Bachelor and Master students, PhD students and PostDocs. This year, the Pluralumn* Workshop is jointly organized by the Europa-Universität Flensburg and the University of Hamburg. The workshop takes place exclusively at the University of Hamburg.
We welcome papers that take a pluralist approach to economics and from any field or school of thought within economics. We welcome contributions based on qualitative and quantitative approaches, mixed-methods designs or otherwise non-standard methodologies. Likewise, we encourage submissions from adjacent disciplines such as sociology, political science, psychology, history and philosophy that discuss economic phenomena or aim to enhance economic methods and methodology.
The Deadline has been extended to the 31 May 2025. Please find the full call in the last issue here.
Submission Deadline: 31 May 2025
3 - 5 January 2026 | Philadelphia, PA, USA
The History of Economics Society (HES) and the Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE) are pleased to announce their wish for a joint session to be hosted during the upcoming ASSA meetings in Philadelphia, PA, January 3-5, 2026.
Topic: Power and inequality
Liberal thought in its various forms presents itself as a defense of the individual against any power that limits his or her possibilities of choice and action, and as a demonstration of the market's ability to regulate itself optimally. The maxim of neo-liberalism is that the presence of the state in the economy, considered both inefficient and a violation of individual freedoms, should therefore be reduced to a minimum.
The power of the State is one of the many aspects in which power is exercised in society, so the elimination of the State is by no means a guarantee of limiting power over individuals.
Neoliberalism has not only failed to keep its promises of giving individuals greater freedom and not interfering in their actions, but in some cases and in some areas, it has created new pockets of power with distorting effects on the very functioning of the markets that neoliberalism claims to defend. The consolidated power of large companies is not affected, the drive towards monopolies is not curbed, tax immunity is favored to the advantage of those who know how to take advantage of it, and those most responsible for the environmental disaster are given ‘freedom’ to pollute.
Noted economists such as Smith, Hayek, Keynes, Ayres and Galbraith have made important contributions to these issues
Adam Smith's relevance lies in the discussion he offers on the different motivations for human action, in which he made an important contribution in highlighting the link between the pursuit of individual interest and moral rules, which in Smith's view - unlike the precepts of neo-liberalism - are necessary for the proper functioning of community life in society. The prerequisite - vital for the functioning of a market economy - is that of a society founded on the general acceptance of the moral principle of sympathy and equipped with the administrative and legal institutions necessary to deal with cases in which common morality is violated.
Hayek opposed the idea that it is possible and appropriate to build social institutions from above, according to the precepts of an impersonal and objective reason, because this would have the potential to develop in the direction of authoritarianism, which is by definition the maximum coagulation of power. Hayek's critics maintain that it is only through targeted interventions, perhaps partial and limited, but aimed at limiting the imperfections of the market, that the inequalities generated in the absence of mechanisms to correct the spontaneity of the market can be reduced.
Aware of the impossibility of eliminating power and the inequalities that derive from it, J. M. Keynes maintained that reason – motivated by passions as well as interests – is the guide that orients human action towards more acceptable social objectives. Keynes is the theorist of reasonable action, based on information and knowledge, which can counter the evils of human action not governed by rules. He believed in regulating the market, not replacing it with a dominant role for the state.
Clarence Ayres observed that in the work of classical economists money power substituted for feudal rank. Inequality was for them the cost of a greater domestic product. John Kenneth Galbraith described economic power as the imposition of one’s will upon the behavior of another and the exercise of such power divides people into superiors and inferiors.
Submissions of individual paper or panel proposals for this joint session should observe the details below:
Membership requirement: At least one of the authors of any paper, as well as each contributor to a panel must be a current member of AFEE.
Submissions: Please submit your individual paper or panel proposals by email to spasch404@aol.com and also cristina.marcuzzo@uniroma1.it
A proposal for presentation of a paper or for presentation in a panel must include the following:
Extended Submission Deadline: 25 May 2025
The distinctive tradition of post-war critical and radical thought in East and Central Europe has long been forgotten or suppressed. Even more controversially, the idea that this tradition found its most productive expression in a unique form of Marxist thought is often denied. This is because ‘Eastern Marxism(s)’ – whatever the term may encompass – has frequently been conflated with the rigid, state-imposed, Stalinist version of Marxist ideology. We believe the time has come, especially in light of the contemporary multiple crises of capitalism, to reassess and revive this tradition. However, while ‘Western Marxism’ has been retrospectively canonised around figures such as Lukács, Korsch and Gramsci, ‘Eastern’ Marxism(s) in CEE face much more significant challenges in terms of temporal, personal and also regional demarcations.
According to a still widespread Western-centric view, which identifies Eastern Marxisms with the ‘dogmatic’ state doctrine of Marxism-Leninism, a properly ‘Eastern’ period of Eastern Marxism begins with the rise of Stalin, loses steam with the critique of Stalin in the 1950s and 60s, and finally reaches its inevitable demise when the regimes supporting it collapse in 1989–91. Individual radical theorists from the CEE are, of course, well-known to some in the West, but they tend to be regarded as exceptional personalities, solitary figures who arose despite their Eastern context, thanks in large part to their exposure to Western influence (K. Kosík, E. Ilyenkov, Praxis School etc.).
A closer historical examination might reveal a very different picture. As a more or less coherent body of philosophical ideas, political doctrine, and socio-economic theory, Marxism emerged in CEE before World War II, whereas, in the West, one finds only scattered Marxist thinkers rather than a fully developed Marxist tradition. Even the so-called founding figures of Western Marxism shaped their perspectives outside Western Europe, primarily in response to the Russian Revolution – a shared foundational moment of both ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ Marxisms. Conversely, what has been termed ‘Eastern Marxism’ (e.g., by Marcuse and Merleau-Ponty) has typically referred exclusively to ‘Marxism-Leninism’, which appears to be rather a belated offshoot of Second International Marxist orthodoxy, albeit with a strong emphasis on political revolution.
It may therefore be more appropriate to shift the East/West Marxist divide to the post-1945 era, or more precisely, to 1956 for the Eastern Bloc. From this perspective, the term ‘Eastern Marxism’ should designate various currents of Marxist thought that primarily criticised and sought ways out of Stalinism. While all of these currents reflected their international intellectual moment and reacted to developments in the West, the ideas that emerged were their own, made possible by the specific context of the often-neglected region of CEE and its post-Stalinist condition.
As a result, the simplistic perspective that reduces Eastern Marxism(s) to the rise and fall of Marxist-Leninist dogma neglects the fact that we can hardly speak about the division line between the eastern and the western Marxisms in the pre-war era. ‘Marxism-Leninism’ continued to develop within the epistemological and ontological (but not political) constraints set up by the Marxist orthodoxy, while the ‘revisionist’ or heterodox currents of that time should not be viewed as precursors of western Marxism but, rather, as a reaction to both theoretical and practical shortcomings of the orthodoxy as well as to the interwar (often) revolutionary conditions of the CEE region. There is no denying that an East/West divide can be discussed, but it should not be framed through the shallow opposition of a creative postwar West versus a dogmatic postwar East. Instead, it should be drawn based on concepts that capture the differences between these respective ‘modes’ of Marxism – both as totalities that encompass internal plurality and as responses to the specific historical and social conditions in which they emerged.
This project of questioning and scouring the past of Eastern Marxism(s) calls for different research methods from those used for researching the Marxisms of the West. ‘Western Marxism’ could be reconstructed with knowledge of German, along with some French and English and a selective reading of Gramsci in translation. And, by the early postwar period, almost all the key works were either published or available in accessible archives. The ‘tradition’ of Eastern Marxism(s) has been written in dozens of languages, sometimes published in now-obscure journals, or in samizdat, or hidden in dresser drawers until the 1990s, when many of the born-again-right-wing authors no longer wanted their old leftist writings to be made public, and when few publishers in any case wanted to publish them.
While the context of capitalism and fascism that gave birth to Western Marxism is relatively comprehensible to the international reader, the diverse context of Central and Eastern Europe is barely understood, obscured by stereotypes and Cold War tropes and rhetorics that continue into contemporary leftism. The reconstruction of a plurality of Eastern Marxisms and their emancipatory-theoretical fellow travellers calls for a large collaborative effort, pooling linguistic and locally embedded knowledge and access to libraries and archives across CEE and providing the detailed historical context necessary to illuminate the region’s theories, as a vast source of globally unknown theorising on issues that remain urgent today: science and ecology, humanism and technology, nationalism and internationalism, history and political subjectivity, planning and participation, material determination and cultural emancipation.
We particularly invite contributions that are conceptually oriented rather than pure case studies and address the following non-exclusive questions and themes in relation to the critical and radical thought in East and Central Europe post-1956:
We welcome proposals for contributions to the Eastern Marxisms special issue of Historical Materialism. Interested authors are invited to submit a title and an abstract (maximum 300 words) outlining the proposed article to info@historicalmaterialism.org by 20 June 2025. Please clearly indicate in the subject line or body of the email that the submission is intended for the Eastern Marxisms Special Issue.
Following a selection process, chosen contributors will be invited to submit full articles to Historical Materialism. All articles will be subject to the journal’s standard peer-review process and editorial evaluation.
Please note that an invitation to submit a full article does not guarantee publication, and acceptance of the abstract does not imply any commitment by the journal to publish the final piece.
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Submission Deadline: 1 March 2026.
HOPE Special Issue:“The Wealth of Nations at 250”
From the year of its publication to the present day, Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations has never ceased to arouse passion and interest among its many readers, admirers, and detractors. This book has provoked intense controversy, as well as the most antithetical interpretations and appropriations. While the debates surrounding Smith’s thought have been continuous, their content has evolved with the great stakes of each era, as well as with the gradual discovery of new primary material.
So much so that each generation has, in a way, made its own Adam Smith. Celebrations for the centenary of The Wealth of Nations revealed the 19th-century Smith as the forerunner of both deductive and inductive economic science, in the midst of the methodological dispute between the classical and historical school. In response to the challenge posed by the well-known ‘Adam Smith problem’, The Wealth of Nations’ sesquicentennial and bicentennial have shaped the 20th-century Smith invoked by some in defense of purely rational self-interested agents, and by others as a portraitist of individuals moved primarily by emotions and feelings.
On the occasion of the upcoming 250th anniversary of The Wealth of Nations, this special issue aims to shed new light on this book by giving us a glimpse of what the controversial Smith of the 21st century might look like.
The aim of this special issue is not only to find answers to the problems raised by Smith’s work, but also to welcome bold and provocative contributions that open up new problems and debates. After all, as T. W. Hutchison hoped on the bicentenary of The Wealth of Nations, however great the impetus that the complete edition of Smith’s works would give to their study, a considerable degree of “fascinating elusiveness, ambiguity, and even mystery, seems likely (perhaps fortunately) always to remain with regard to Smith and his work”.
The Call for Papers (attached here) is open to all those who are interested. Full papers (including a short abstract) should be submitted no later than 1 July 2025 to the Guest Editor: michele.bee@unisalento.it
After a pre-selection process, submitted papers will be peer-reviewed by anonymous referees in accordance with the regular procedures of History of Political Economy (HOPE).
The issue is scheduled for publication as the 5th regular issue of HOPE in 2026.
Submission Deadline: 1 July 2025
15 - 17 September 2025 | Meiji University Tokyo
Submission of Abstract: For those who want to join and present a paper at our September conference, please send your abstract (between 200 words and 500 words) with your name, your affiliation and contact address to confyagi@meiji.ac.jp
Notification of Acceptance: We will send you the notification of acceptance, basically within one week after receiving your submission in order that the participants can prepare for their travel to Japan.
VISA documents: Those who need VISA documents to visit Japan, please contact us as soon as possible
Topics
Economic Theory:
Economic Policy:
Empirical Studies, Input Output Analysis:
Topics in History of Economic Thought
Submission deadline: 20 July 2025
8 September 2025 | University of Sheffield, UK
The SPERI Doctoral Researchers Network is delighted to share the call for papers for our upcoming second annual conference: 'This is Crisis: Critical Political Economy, in flux?'
As part of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute, the Doctoral Researchers Network is an interdisciplinary network of PhD and early career scholars interested in the field of political economy. We organise a range of events throughout the year, including skills-based workshops on topics such as academic writing and publishing in political economy, seminars with senior academics such as our recent event on Queer IPE with Professor Nicola Phillips, and participatory workshop-style events such as our workshop on Women in Political Economy last April. Last June, we held our first conference on emerging themes within Critical Political Economy at the University of Sheffield, which was attended by over 60 researchers from across Europe. To stay up to date with our events, you can join our mailing listhere.
This year, our second conference focuses on the increasingly inescapable poly-crisis engulfing global capitalism. We see critical political economy as a vital lens through which to understand this multiplicity of crises, upheavals and structural challenges facing us today, disrupting political, economic, environment, social and educational settlements. We thus invite Doctoral and Early Career Researchers to submit proposals for presentations sharing new empirical and theoretical work responding to these issues, including perspectives on the role and responsibility of critical political economy in the context of a world in crisis.
Though previously advertised to be taking place in June, the conference will now take place on Monday the 8th of September at the University of Sheffield, with more details of specific campus locations to follow. The event will last all day, and alongside these presentations, the conference will also provide space for PhD researchers and ECRs to reflect on our own position in polycrisis as it manifests both on the scale of world politics and in the chaos of financial and organisational uncertainty at our own universities. The conference will be an in-person only event.
Please find attached additional information about the conference and its application procedure. You can submit an abstract here.
Submission Deadline: 11 June 2025
10 - 12 September 2025 | Prague, Czechia
In an era characterized by global challenges – such as rapid technological advancements, climate change, and socio-political upheavals – there are concerns about achieving and maintaining shared prosperity.
To address this issue, it is crucial to understand how institutions can either support or hinder entrepreneurial efforts that contribute to equitable and sustainable development. We will explore the vital role that both formal institutions (such as legal frameworks and regulatory systems) and informal institutions (including cultural norms) as well as social networks play in shaping entrepreneurial activity. We will examine how these institutions can foster or impede different forms of entrepreneurship and how these entrepreneurial efforts can drive not only economic growth but also social inclusion, environmental sustainability, and broader societal well-being.
Interdisciplinary research plays a key role in advancing our understanding of how to build institutional environments that support entrepreneurship as a catalyst for shared prosperity and social progress. Join us in this critical dialogue to explore the pathways toward a better future for all.
This Tenth WINIR Conference is organized in collaboration with the Faculty of Business Administration at the Prague University of Economics and Business. Prague’s historical experience with diverse forms of governance and economic systems makes it a fitting venue to discuss how institutions can shape the future of entrepreneurship and shared prosperity on a global scale.
The conference will open in the afternoon of Wednesday 10 September and end with a dinner on Friday 12 September, during which the 2025 Elinor Ostrom Prize and the JOIEReviewer of the Year Award will be announced. There will be an optional tour on Saturday 13 September.
The conference will be preceded by a WINIR Young Scholars Workshop on Tuesday 9 September.
We invite submissions of individual papers and 3- or 4-paper sessions proposals related to the conference theme or any aspect of institutional research, in line with WINIR’s aims and research priorities. All submissions are evaluated by the WINIR Scientific Quality Committee.
Fo further information please click here.
Extended submission deadline: 15 May 2025
27 - 29 June 2025 | Poznań, Mostowa 10 Street, Poland
This summer school brings together 3 internationally-known heterodox scholars who will discuss various aspects of post-Keynesian economics, focusing on gender, power, money and monetary policy, and heterodox economics more broadly. The main objective is to put forward and to explain the extent to which economic phenomena are not “isolated”: they are always embedded in social and political relations. With this in mind, the 3 scholars will insist on the relevance of institutions in heterodox economics, and also on the connection between economics and other social sciences.
The school will consist of more than 10 hours of lectures and discussions, and will in addition include three round table discussions on current economic problems. Students will have plenty of opportunities to meet with the presenters, and discuss with them their own research.
Main topics: history of Post-Keynesian economics, monetary policy (theory), monetary policy (US), monetary policy (EU), shadow money, new forms of money, gender economics, power economics, local currencies
School fee: 200 EUR/ 800 PLN
Deadline for payment: May 30
For further informaton and registration please click here.
Application Deadline: 15 May 2025
22-24 May 2025 | Campus Luigi Einaudi, Università di Torino
The 28th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History of Economic Thought will take place on the Campus Luigi Einaudi, Università di Torino, Italy, 22-24 May.
The Conference, titled “It’s the end of economics (as we know it)", will gather 300 scholars in Torino to discuss the changing status of economics from a historical perspective. The main topic is the changing face of the discipline, under the impact of three main forces: specialization in research and the fragmentation promoted by the otherwise unmanageable burden of previously accumulated knowledge; the ever-increasing prestige of empirical research and the “applied turn” in economics; and finally, the new interdisciplinarity of economics and the transformative impact other disciplines are having upon it.
Ilene Grabel (University of Denver, Josef Korbel School of International Studies) is the Conference keynote speaker. Tony Aspromourgos (University of Sydney) will give the Honorary member lecture, while Glory Liu (SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins) will deliver the Blanqui Lecture.
Main sponsors: Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica "Cognetti de Martiis" and Fondazione Luigi Einaudi, Torino. Co-sponsor: Dipartimento di Scienze economico-sociali e matematico-statistiche, PhD Program in Global History of Empires (Università di Torino). The Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) and the International Network for Economic Method(INEM) sponsor special pre-Conference and Conference events, while a number of sessions are co-organized with other societies and associations.
To register and stay up to date, please visit the conference website: https://www.eshet-conference.net/torino (and like the Instagram page)
26 September 2025 | online
The Interdisciplinary Centre ‘Synthesis’ of the Educational and Scientific Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv is organising an International Scientific Symposium on ‘Interdisciplinary Studies of International Economic Relations in the Context of Increasing Protectionism and Trade Wars’, which will be held on 26 September 2025 (online format).
The language of the Symposium is English.
The areas proposed for discussion are as follows:
Please send your abstracts of up to 300 words to symposium.iir.synthesis.2025@gmail.com. The approval of the abstracts and the programme of the Symposium will be announced by 20 September 2025.
All accepted abstracts will be published in the Symposium proceedings by Cambridge Scholar Publishing.
Submission deadline: 10 September 2025
28 May 2025 10:00 - 17:00 | Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark
Networking event on Socio-Economic Research at Roskilde University – May 28th 2025, 10.00-17.00
Are you conducting socio-economic research within the traditions of political economy, economics, economic sociology, economic anthropology, economic geography or related fields?
Do you want to network with researchers in similar fields in the Øresund region and beyond?
Welcome to RUC on May 28th, 2025 for a whole-day networking event!
The day will be organized around panels with flash talks (8-10 minutes presentations) from participants presenting ongoing research. Lunch will be provided, and we’ll round off the day with post-event drinks.
Proposals for flash talks from researchers at all career stages are welcomed. If you would like to present your work, please sign up and submit a title of your flash talk and an abstract of 150 words.
The event is organised by the Socio-Economic Research Centre (SECO) at RUC.
Please register (both flash talk presenters and other participants) by 15 May.
SSSQ seminar series - Call for Presentations 2025-2026: “Feeling with Numbers”
Our lives are profoundly mediated by numbers. People’s personal information has produced a “deluge of data” (Porter, 2024) that is constantly being transformed into quantitative products ranging from credit scores to law enforcement risk profiles. Algorithms shape which products we buy, the news that we view and the prices we pay. They organize financial systems. Metrics evaluate our performances at work, and we use them to track our steps, our sleep, our fertility. We create models to manage pandemics and predict wildfires. Assessing risk is now a core feature of many organizations (Power 2007; Daston 2017). We are increasingly being governed with numbers such as cost benefit analysis, statistical surveys, and the rankings and ratings of public institutions (Didier 2020; Mennicken and Salais 2022), and we also use numbers to resist this governance.
Typically, scholars of quantification, an emerging interdisciplinary field, have emphasized the capacity of various quantitative technologies to produce bureaucratic rationality: the abstract simplifications that make numbers useful, powerful, and sometimes unsettling. Numbers ease coordination and communication across distance and are the core features of modern states, colonial empires, and science (Porter 1995; Rottenburg 2024). We tend to think of quantitative information, in its various guises, as more objective, rigorous, and rational than other forms of knowledge. Numbers are hard; words are malleable. Quantitative data is superior to “mere anecdotal” evidence. We associate quantification with the language of social distance. Numbers are impersonal, helping to produce knowledge that is undistorted by human feelings. We can “reduce” people to numbers. The emergence of this kind of authority has long and complex historical roots but its tenor remains.
This image of numbers obscures an important dimension of quantification. We “feel” with numbers as well as think with them. We have emotional relationships with numbers, and these inform how we use them. By governing with numbers we create, simultaneously, a “government of feelings” that may be crucial for the work that they do in public policy (Didier 2024). With few exceptions, (e.g. Porter 2013; Espeland 2016) scholars of quantification have neglected the affective dimensions of numbers, how we can sometimes become passionately attached to particular numbers or indicators, and the role that emotions play in shaping the authority of numbers.
To redress this scholarly neglect, the SSSQ seminar’s thematic cycle for 2025-2026 will focus on people’s emotional relations with numbers. Participants will consider three overarching questions:
To contribute to this thematic cycle and propose a presentation for the SSSQ seminar, please send an abstract to sssq.seminar@gmail.com.
Submission Deadline: 11 July 2025
4 - 5 December 2025 | University of Kassel, Germany
We are pleased to invite you to the international symposium “Socio-Ecological Transformation in Times of Regression”, taking place on December 4 and 5, 2025, at the University of Kassel. The department of International Relations with a focus on Latin America organizes the symposium in cooperation with the Kassel Institute for Sustainability.
Amid intensifying ecological crises, geopolitical shifts, and democratic backsliding, the symposium brings together scholars and activists from across the globe to explore how emancipatory socio-ecological transformations can be pursued in regressive times.
Key topics include:
Confirmed participants include: Eva von Redecker, Micaela Cuesta, Nora Räthzel, Simon Schaupp, Mariana Walter, Liam Campling, Cristina Vega Solís, Rita Calvário, Jenny Simon, Etienne Schneider, Alina Brad, Ulrich Brand, and many more.
Please Save the date, further details including programme, venue and registration will follow and can also soon be found here.
The Transnational Institute (TNI) is issuing an open call for essays, accessible papers, infographics and artistic collaborations for its annual State of Power report to be launched in January 2026. The focus for our 14th edition is on fascism and the far-right.
TNI’s annual State of Power reports have, since their launch in 2012, become a must-read reference point for citizens, activists and academics concerned to understand the nature of power in our globalised world in order to inform struggles for justice. With a mixture of compelling infographics and insightful essays, State of Power has examined different dimensions of power (economic, political, social, cultural), exposed the key actors who exercise power, and highlighted movements of counter-power seeking to transform our world. State of Power reports have also been widely praised for their inspiring essays and brilliant art.
As well as an English edition, TNI also co-produces a Spanish edition of the report in collaboration with Fuhem Ecosocial and the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO).
Theme for 2026: Fascism and the Right
The far-right is on the rise globally, but how do we structurally explain their growing power, how are they exercising it and how can we defeat them?
The last two decades have witnessed a growing power of far-right movements and parties globally, especially since the 2008 global economic crisis. Trump is the most prominent far-right government leader, but far from alone with Modi in India, Meloni in Italy, Milei in Argentina, Orban in Hungary, Putin in Russia among others. Far-right parties are on the rise in much of Europe and parts of Latin America, Africa and Asia and far-right xenophobic, racist, misogynist and transphobic discourse occupies an ever-growing sphere of media and social media. While their rise is greeted with liberal establishment panic at the dangers of ‘populism’, it is noticeable also how many corporate sectors and other elites are willing to appease or compromise with far-right politics against the perceived greater threat of the left. The inexorable trend seems to be towards increasing consolidation of the far-right, but does it have a project that can be sustained or is it destined to fracture? How should progressive forces respond?
For its 2026 edition, TNI is interested in proposals that explore the power relations that have created the rise of the far-right and that shape their power today in order to support movements to sharpen their strategies to defeat the far-right. In short, we are not seeking analysis for its own sake but to challenge, confront and overcome fascism.
See full call for essays here.
Deadline for 1-2 page pitches: 2 June 2025
Job title: Research Assistant/Ph.D. Candidate
The position is part of research group “Global Sustainability Governance”, which examines how international organisations (IOs) – that is, organisations that have states as members – deal with post-growth ideas. Concretely, the group’s work revolves around the question if and how they take up such ideas and then also communicate them. So far, case studies on the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the United Nations (UN) are planned. In their materials, especially the required proposal (see below), applicants should definitely refer to the group’s topic and sketch a potential complementary case study of another international organisation.
The Research Alliance Ruhr is a joint undertaking of the three major universities in the Ruhr area and was initiated by the Ruhr Conference. The four research centers will focus on "One Health," "Chemical Sciences and Sustainability," "Trustworthy Data Science and Security," and "Future Energy Materials and Systems.” In addition, the Research Alliance Ruhr is establishing a "College for Social Sciences and Humanities". The Research Alliance Ruhr will appoint up to 50 research professors in the next few years and also offer numerous positions for research assistants. Join us now to create innovations for the world of tomorrow in Europe's densest university landscape, where you can find a wide range of scientific and industrial partners right on the doorstep.
The College for Social Sciences and Humanities is a joint research institution of the University of Duisburg-Essen, Ruhr-University Bochum and TU Dortmund University. Designed as an Institute for Advanced Study, the College is fundamentally open in regard to disciplines and topics. It provides a cross-university forum for interdisciplinary research and acts as a catalyst connecting scholars from different disciplines and research fields within the UA Ruhr and beyond. Across all of its activities, the College seeks to build sustainable international relations: close collaborations with outstanding researchers worldwide – enabled especially through the Senior Fellowship Programme – stimulate innovative discourses that make it possible to critically advance well-established research fields within the social sciences and the humanities.
The employment will start at the earliest possible date, last for 36 months, and involve a working time of 25 hours and 53 minutes per week (65%).
Your main tasks
Completing a major piece of academic work (PhD level) in the context of contributing to the research group’s project (70% of work time):
Supporting and helping to further develop the group’s overarching project (30% of work time):
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Code number: 222-25
Application
Please send your application with the usual documents (cover letter with motivation, curriculum vitae, certificates and references), as well as a proposal of 5–10 pages in English that sketches the planned doctoral project on a topic aligned with the research group’s agenda, including the intended research design, in the form of a coherent pdf-file (max. 5 MB) by e-mail to Jun.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Kranke, quoting the reference number 222-25: matthias.kranke@college-uaruhr.de.
Information about the job
Further information about the Research Alliance Ruhr and the College can be found at: https://www.college-uaruhr.de/
Application deadline: 4 June 2025
Job title: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) in Economic History
The Department of Economic Analysis: Economic Theory and Economic History at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid will be opening a position for an Assistant Professor in the field of Economic History and Institutions for the 2025–26 academic year.
Applicants should hold a PhD in Economics, Economic History, or a closely related discipline. Strong preference will be given to candidates with publications in peer-reviewed journals indexed in JCR or Scopus, particularly in the areas of Economic History (broadly understood), history, or economics. Prior teaching experience—whether in Spanish or English—in subjects relevant to the field will be considered a significant asset. Candidates who obtained their PhD from a non-Spanish institution must provide an official certificate of equivalence. Additionally, applicants are required to demonstrate a sufficient command of Spanish to teach effectively in the language.
Interested applicants should submit an updated CV and a sample of their work by 6 June 2025. Interviews with shortlisted candidates—conducted either online or in person—are expected to take place during June 2025.If you wish to apply or have any questions about the position, please contact: rafael.castro@uam.es
For further information please click here.
Application Deadline: 6 June 2025
Job title: Research Fellow in macrofinancial policy for the green transition
About us
This is a two-year position in the first instance, starting in Sept/October 2025. IIPP’s work equips global leaders to co-design growth that is innovation-led, sustainable, and inclusive. As a workplace, we are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in our workforce, in particular people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, disabled people, and LGBTQI+ people. IIPP brings together an interdisciplinary group of cutting-edge academics and practitioners to influence global policy decisions and create new policy collaborations to deliver public value-driven innovations. Our mission is to change how public value is imagined, practised and evaluated to tackle societal challenges—and, by doing this, to deliver economic growth that is innovation-led, sustainable, and inclusive.
About the role
UCL IIPP is seeking a Research Fellow (RF) with a background and interest in macroeconomic policy, financial policy and the environmental transition. This is a two-year position in the first instance, starting in Sept/October 2025. The RF will primarily work on a project to further advance the alignment of central banks and financial supervisors with the goal of a green and just transition, and to ensure their coordination with other parts of government, including ministries of finance and industrial policy.
About you
This position will involve both research and policy advocacy but we are flexible on the emphasis between the two depending on the interests and background of the candidate. To this end, we would welcome applications from candidates with or finishing PhDs interested in a more research-oriented position but also candidates with a master-level qualification but relevant work experience who may have a stronger policy influencing background. In terms of content, the candidate would lead new research examining the implications of nature loss and nature transition policies upon inflation dynamics and to develop potential policy responses, including reviewing current and historical examples of policies used to tackle supply-side shocks in high-income economies. This will include different inflation targeting frameworks but also the use of unorthodox fiscal policies such as price controls, tax policies and buffer stocks in systemically significant sectors of the economy (energy, housing, food) as part of a wider monetary-fiscal coordination agenda to support a green transition.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents we also offer some great benefits some of which are below: • 41 Days holiday (including 27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days) • Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE) • Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan • On-Site nursery • On-site gym • Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay • Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service • Discounted medical insurance
For further information please click here.
Application Deadline: 26-May-2025
Job title: Policy Fellow, Green Industrial Strategy and Green Finance
About us
The Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) is a department within UCL and part of The Bartlett faculty, known internationally for its radical thinking about space, design and sustainability. We are at an exciting point in history, with radical thinking emerging in economics and policy-making. By offering a new approach where public and private sectors can meet – and focusing minds on public value and mission-oriented policies – we can solve 21st-century challenges, collaboratively. The work of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) is influencing global policy decisions and creating new policy collaborations to deliver public value-driven innovations. IIPP brings together an interdisciplinary group of cutting-edge academics and practitioners to influence global policy decisions and create new policy collaborations. Our mission is to change how public value is imagined, practised and evaluated to tackle societal challenges—and, by doing this, to deliver economic growth that is innovation-led, sustainable, and inclusive.
About the role
The role will involve strategic design and implementation for the program on the economics of the ecological transition in the UK, including working on the design of a green Industrial Strategy that goes beyond energy, and the implementation of mission-oriented policies to support this work. This includes: A deep dive on the economics of the green investment and the green multiplier, with a focus on how the green transition can support growth. Policy projects to advise on the design of tools and institutions that will support the green transition, including the National Wealth Fund, HM Treasury's evaluation and accounting approaches (including the Green Book and Fiscal Rules), procurement, public/private contracts and the role of monetary policy and financial regulation in supporting the transition. Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early.
About you
The postholder will advance policy reports, support Professor Mazzucato’s role on global councils and engagement with government and multilateral organization leaders, and lead on practice-based projects aimed at applying insights from IIPP research to inform the design of policies, tools and institutions, working in partnership with ambitious governments around the world.
What we offer
IIPP brings together an interdisciplinary group of cutting-edge academics and practitioners to influence global policy decisions and create new policy collaborations. Our mission is to change how public value is imagined, practised and evaluated to tackle societal challenges—and, by doing this, to deliver economic growth that is innovation-led, sustainable, and inclusive.
For further information and application, please click here.
Application deadline: 16 May 2025
Job title: Research Fellow (Economics of ecological transitions in the UK)
About us
The Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) is a department within UCL and part of The Bartlett faculty, known internationally for its radical thinking about space, design and sustainability. We are at an exciting point in history, with radical thinking emerging in economics and policy-making. By offering a new approach where public and private sectors can meet – and focusing minds on public value and mission-oriented policies – we can solve 21st-century challenges, collaboratively. The work of the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP) is influencing global policy decisions and creating new policy collaborations to deliver public value-driven innovations. IIPP brings together an interdisciplinary group of cutting-edge academics and practitioners to influence global policy decisions and create new policy collaborations. Our mission is to change how public value is imagined, practised and evaluated to tackle societal challenges—and, by doing this, to deliver economic growth that is innovation-led, sustainable, and inclusive.
About the role
The Research Fellow will be an economist with research experience of macro/fiscal policy, public investment and green finance. The role will be focused on managing and developing IIPP’s existing research stream of new economic thinking around green industrial strategy, green finance and investment. The role will include the following activities: Conducting research to inform the design of a green Industrial Strategy for the UK and specifically the development of net-zero missions in different sectors. Conducting quantitative work on the green multiplier, with a focus on how the green transition can support growth, selecting key sectors of focus. Conducting research to support the design of key tools and institutions that will support the green transition, such as procurement, the National Wealth Fund, public/private contracts and the Green Book. Lead the development and writing of academic journal publications, policy Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early.
About you
The postholder will advance policy reports, support Professor Mazzucato’s role on global councils and engagement with government and multilateral organization leaders, and lead on practice-based projects aimed at applying insights from IIPP research to inform the design of policies, tools and institutions, working in partnership with ambitious governments around the world.
What we offer
IIPP brings together an interdisciplinary group of cutting-edge academics and practitioners to influence global policy decisions and create new policy collaborations. Our mission is to change how public value is imagined, practised and evaluated to tackle societal challenges—and, by doing this, to deliver economic growth that is innovation-led, sustainable, and inclusive.
For further information and application, please click here.
Application deadline: 16 May 2025
Job title:TENURE-TRACK ASSISTANT PROFESSOR FOR AN ASSOCIATE PROFESSORSHIP or ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS IN ENVIRONMENTAL POLICIES
In your functions, you will have to :
Teaching (45%): Six hours a week of teaching throughout the year, at Bachelor’s and Master’s level. Additionally supervision of Master's dissertations and PhD theses.
Research (45%):
Administrative responsibilities (10%): In accordance with statutory requirements and in the name of collegiality, the post-holder will take on any administrative tasks that may be assigned to them by the Institute, Faculty, University or university decision-making bodies.
We offer a nice working place in a multicultural, diverse and dynamic academic environment. Opportunities for professional training, a lot of activities and other benefits to discover. For more information, visit www.unil.ch/carrieres
Further information can be obtained from : recrutement-enseignant.ssp@unil.ch
Deadline : 15.06.2025
Job title: SENIOR LECTURER TYPE 1 (MER1) IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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Your qualifications: In order to complete our team, we are looking for someone with the following skills :
What the position offers you: We offer a nice working place in a multicultural, diverse and dynamic academic environment. Opportunities for professional training, a lot of activities and other benefits to discover. For more information, visit www.unil.ch/carrieres
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Further information can be obtained from: recrutement-enseignant.ssp@unil.ch.
Deadline : 15.06.2025
Job title: Senior Coordinator for Research Facilitation and Management of the Environment and Climate Research Hub (ECH)
The position is to be filled from October 2025. The contract is issued for 24 months in the first instance. lf you prove yourself in this position, the employment may be converted into a permanent one by mutual agreement.
Your personal sphere of influence:
The Environment and Climate Research Hub (ECH) at the University of Vienna is a cross-disciplinary initiative with a mission to generate innovative environmental and climate insights at the intersections of various fields. Our goal is to inform solutions to pressing challenges, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution, by fostering collaboration across faculties and engaging with diverse societal stakeholders. The ECH supports both blue-sky and impactful research, transcending disciplinary boundaries to drive novel solutions. Through cutting-edge research, capacity-building for scientists, partnerships with stakeholders, and public engagement, the ECH aims to create new societal narratives and actions for a sustainable future. We are seeking a senior Hub co-coordinator who shares this vision—someone who sees the bigger picture, a team player who aims to make a meaningful impact by working on the following tasks.
Your future tasks:
This is part of your personality:
What we offer:
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Application deadline: 13 June 2025
Job title: fully funded PhD position
Utrecht University's social and economic history group invites applications for a fully funded PhD position on "the Rise of Oligarchic Tendencies in Western-European History". The successful candidate will have the opportunity to write a PhD thesis on cases of their choosing, and will be part of the project "The Good Society", which is funded by a Spinoza Prize.
For further details and the application form, please click here.
Application Deadline: 12 May 2025
Job title: Tenure track positions in the areas of “Social-Ecological Provisioning” and “Multi-level transformations”
The Institute for Spatial and Social-Ecological Transformations (ISSET) at the Vienna University of Economics and Business invites applications for two full-time, tenure track positions in the areas of “Social-Ecological Provisioning” (Job id: 2402) and “Multi-Level Transformations” (Job id: 2401). The link to the job advertisements can be found here. Knowledge of German is NOT a requirement.
Deadline for the applications: 11 June 2025
The Association for Economic and Social Analysis, in collaboration with Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture, and Society, is pleased to announce that submissions are now being accepted for the 2025 Stephen A. Resnick Graduate Student Essay Prize.
Stephen A. Resnick (1938–2013) earned his Ph.D. in economics from MIT and taught for eight years in the Economics Department at Yale University and two years at the City College of New York before joining the Economics Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst in 1973. Resnick was an award-winning undergraduate and graduate teacher, a founding member of the Association for Economic and Social Analysis, and a founding editor of Rethinking Marxism. In collaboration with Richard D. Wolff, he pioneered an antiessentialist approach to Marxian economic and social analysis. Of their many jointly authored works, the best known are Knowledge and Class: A Marxian Critique of Political Economy (1987), New Departures in Marxian Theory (2006), and Contending Economic Theories: Neoclassical, Keynesian, and Marxian (with Yahya Madra, 2012).
Submissions are invited from graduate students in any academic discipline whose work offers a novel, compelling engagement with the modes of analysis and philosophical concerns found in Resnick’s work or in the pages of Rethinking Marxism. We seek essays that explore the complex intersection of class with economic, political, psychological, and other social processes or with the intellectual, social, or political problems that continually inspire Marxian analyses.
This year’s winner will receive a $2000 award and publication of their essay in Rethinking Marxism. A list of previous winners can be found on the RM website (rethinkingmarxism.org).
To be considered for the 2025 Stephen A. Resnick Graduate Student Essay Prize, please submit a current CV and an essay of 4000-8000 words to resnickaward@rethinkingmarxism.org. The winner will be announced by August 1.
Submission Deadline: 1 June 2025
Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira: Contributions of Classical and New Developmentalism
Deepak Nayyar: A world order in crisis and transition: contemplating its future
Claucir Roberto Schmidtke, Pedro Cesar Dutra Fonseca: Estado Novo de Vargas: Um caso de populismo econômico?
Brena Paula Magno Fernandez, Raíssa Vieira de Melo: Superfluous women and the invisible economists of Langham Place
Antonio V. B. Mota Filho: Bernard Shaw and the making of Fabian economics
Ricardo Barboza, Ernani Torres, Norberto Montani Martins, Letícia Magalhães, Thiago Pereira, Victor Libera: O BNDES e o mercado de capitais: esclarecimentos para o debate público no Brasil
Raihan Mian, Swarna Bintay Kadir, Diego Sanches Corrêa: Impact of tax progressivity on regional income inequalities: a comparative analysis between Brazil and Germany
Freeman Munisi Mateko: The nexus between structural transformation and poverty reduction in Maghreb region. A sectoral value-added analysis
Andrew R. Tilman, Robert G. Haight: Public policy for management of forest pests within an ownership mosaic
Juan Antonio Duro, Noemí Ramirez, Hanspeter Wieland, Dominik Wiedenhofer, Helmut Haberl: Global inequalities in countries' demand for raw materials: Twenty years of expansion and insufficient convergence
Simon Nadel, Magali Savès: Corporate governance and ecological investments. The case of French industry
Florent Vieux, Matthieu Maillot, Corinne Marmonier, Anthony Rouault, Marlène Perignon, Nicole Darmon: Relative environmental impacts and monetary cost of food categories: Functional unit matters
Neil Perry, Sriram Shankar: Allocating conservation resources between uncertain future states of nature
Jesper Beverdam, Klaus Hubacek, Bert Scholtens, Frans Sijtsma: Improving biodiversity resilience requires both public and private finance: A life-cycle analysis of biodiversity finance
The “liberal compromise” and after: Realities and fictions of global climate governance
Leon Wansleben: The “liberal compromise” and after: Realities and fictions of global climate governance
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by Ståle Holgersen | by Verso 2025
If crisis defines our era, we need a coherent socialist policy in response. Ståle Holgersen delves into today’s economic and ecological crises to demonstrate that they are not exceptions to an otherwise functioning system but integral to its operation. It is naive to see these upheavals as opportunities for reform or revolution. They are the bedrock of the status quo. Fortunately, the vicious circle sustaining capitalism is not founded on an iron law. Our historical mission in the face of the climate crisis is to create a historical exception to the rule. It is time for ecosocialism against crisis.
Please find a link to the book here.
In this interview he discusses theories of crises in relation to capitalism, ecology, class struggle, and ecosocialism.
by Louis Larue | by Routledge 2025
A wide variety of new forms of money have been developed in recent decades as a challenge or complement to the official, dominant currencies. LETS, local currencies, carbon currencies, and Bitcoins are all examples of this new trend. These currencies are at the heart of a larger movement that questions the present state of money and argues that new currencies might help to build resilient economies and “warmer” social relations.
This book focuses on radical alternative proposals as well as on small-scale experiments, and makes use of the analytical tools of philosophy and of economics, with one main question in mind: can alternative currencies constitute desirable alternatives to the present monetary system? Overall, the book will raise serious doubts regarding the capacity of such currencies to deliver on their promises. In part, it will show that several arguments in favour of alternative currencies are lacking in consistency and clarity, and are thus in need of thorough revision. More fundamentally, it will argue that these currencies rarely succeed in fulfilling their objectives and that their fulfilment would entail significant conflicts with justice and economic efficiency.
This book is addressed to researchers in economics, politics, and philosophy of money, especially those working on alternative monetary systems.
This book is part of the series "Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy".
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by Elisa Jayne Bienenstock, Skaidra Smith-Heisters | by Edward Edgar Publishing 2025
Economyths of Work, Value, and Success in America is an examination and critique of the economic mythologies about opportunity and prosperity that underlie our discussions and decision making about public policy. Elisa Jayne Bienenstock and Skaidra Smith-Heisters expose the rich mythology that has emerged since the founding of America, investigating themes such as individualism, self-determination, community, and collective action.
Through contextual storytelling, this unique book introduces the classic lessons of social psychology, economics, sociology, and political science to explore how myths are used as levers of persuasion, evoking complex associations with American core values: freedom, fairness, and equality. Each chapter presents iconic American stories, contemporary examples and counterexamples, and empirical findings to identify the heuristics and biases that sustain adherence to these narratives. Ultimately, this innovative book empowers readers to engage in this discourse and appreciate the creation, meaning, and implementation of economyths.
The novel insights presented in this book will be of interest to students and academics specializing in sociology, American history, American folklore, economics, social psychology, public policy, and political science.
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by Tonia Warnecke, George D. and Harriet W. Cornell | Edward Elgar Publishing 2025
This thought-provoking book is a major examination of female entrepreneurship in China and India. It discusses gender inequalities, explores to what extent socio-economic factors determine access to entrepreneurial opportunities, and uses historical and contemporary employment patterns to challenge stereotypes surrounding female entrepreneurship.
Chapters show how good intentions do not necessarily translate into inclusive, effective female entrepreneurship programs. They highlight how corruption, discrimination, and legal failures impact women in business, discussing practical approaches to address diverse challenges such as unequal access to finance, digital literacy, and professional networks. Tonia Warnecke presents a framework for designing gender-sensitive programs, illustrating its application to female entrepreneurs in the informal sector. The book highlights the leadership of social enterprises in generating decent work opportunities for women, and considers the interrelationship of gender equality and environmental sustainability.
An important guide for academics and students in entrepreneurship, development studies, and gender studies, this book is also a valuable tool for government agencies, corporations, and other organizations seeking to implement female entrepreneurship programs.
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by Eric Alston, Bernardo Mueller and Lee J. Alston | by Edward Elagar Publishing, May 2025
This innovative Handbook presents a comprehensive overview of the significance of complexity theory for understanding institutions. Eminent scholars analyse the key tools and concepts of the field, including emergence, networks, ergodicity, and modularity, exploring their contributions to institutional formulation and evolution.
Bridging the gap between complexity theory and mainstream economics, this pioneering Handbook reveals novel approaches to understanding institutional processes from the micro to the macro level. Chapters balance theoretical discussions with practical analysis, showcasing the relevance of complexity to specific areas such as cities, forests, religion, and historical development. Ultimately, the Handbook argues that viewing economies and societies as co-evolving, non-linear, path-dependent, and non-equilibrium systems can provide invaluable insights into the study of institutional emergence and impact.
Academics and students in economics, politics, public policy and other social sciences will benefit from the in-depth analyses in this prescient Handbook. It is also a valuable resource for policy-makers interested in the study of complex systems and their ever-growing applications.
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by Guido Ascari, Riccardo Trezzi | by Edward Elgar Publishing
This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the multifaceted landscape of inflation studies, policy, and practice. Analysing theoretical and empirical literature on measuring inflation and on the drivers of inflation dynamics, it sheds light on developments in monetary policy over the past two decades.
With contributions from leading experts from across the globe, the Research Handbook on Inflation promotes informed decision-making and innovative approaches to address complex challenges in today’s dynamic economic environment. By focusing on recent economically impactful events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, while also covering key topics including inflation measurement, inflation dynamics, inflation expectations, forecasting, and central bank practices, contributors offer a panoramic view of inflationary phenomena.
Serving as an indispensable resource for scholars and students, this Research Handbook is essential to those researching macroeconomics, monetary policy, inflation, and business cycles. It is also beneficial to policymakers and practitioners.
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by Samuel J.R. Mercer | April 2025, Haymarket Books
In On the Reproduction of Capitalism, Louis Althusser cited an appendix which, it seems, remains lost or was never completed – it was titled ‘the Ideology of Work’. Samuel J.R. Mercer takes this appendix as his starting point to think about what is at stake for both Marxism and sociology in analyzing work from an Althusserian perspective. Drawing on contemporary discourses about post-work, social reproduction and the Anthropocene, Mercer argues that theoretical humanism has become the dominant form of the ideology of work. The book shows that only a theoretical anti-humanism, grounded in Althusserian Marxism, can offer a viable path forward for the sociology of work and give us a better understanding of social relations under contemporary capitalism.
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by Rémy Herrera | Emerald Publishing Limited
This new volume of Research in Political Economy is devoted to themes related to various ‘trajectories of declining and destructive capitalism’, within the framework of contemporary Marxism. To discuss these themes, we brought together 15 texts, written by 20 social scientists from 10 countries. These authors are, for some, internationally renowned and experienced personalities and, for others, young researchers starting their careers, but all working in their own way to strengthen Marxism in order to apply its powerful methods to the interpretation and, above all, the transformation of the world. Their contributions deal with 12 economies, covering five continents: Germany, Great Britain, France, Spain, Senegal, South Africa, Lebanon, Iran, India, Papua New Guinea, Australia and Chile in the current period or very near past – plus two other countries, China and Cuba, in their more distant past preceding their respective socialist revolutions. In addition, the cases of Palestine and Israel, but also of Ukraine, are addressed in a final postscript written by Paul Zarembka.
While only the “Presentation” and “Afterword” (the postscript) are freely accessible, please know that many libraries obtain the series. Also, individual chapters may be purchased at the publisher’s site, or the entire book at Emerald’s site, Amazon, or Barnes and Noble.
Jakob Edler, Mireille Matt, Wolfgang Polt, Matthias Weber, by Edward Elagar Publishing, May 2025
This prescient book offers a unique combination of the conceptualisations of transformative mission-oriented science, technology and innovation policies, including insightful in-depth empirical studies covering a wide range of countries to explore how these policies are designed, enacted and analysed.
Taking a fresh look at these mission-oriented policies and the scale of ambition with large-scale transformations of entire socio-technical systems, this combination of thinking allows for a greater understanding of not only the approach but also the prerequisites and challenges faced. Using detailed analysis, this book allows for enhanced learning and conclusions for the application of these policies in a variety of diverse contexts. The expert contributors offer a stimulus to the existing debates and learnings to enable a better handling of the ongoing political and practical challenges that come with adopting this approach.
This engaging book is an excellent resource for scholars of science, technology and innovation policy, policy analysis and political and governance sciences. It will also be an enlightening read for national and regional policy makers responsible for implementing large-scale change across policy areas such as energy, health, transport and climate-related policies.
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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.
Social Macroeconomics PhD Scheme Scholarship
The research will be under the guidance and supervision of Professor Angus Armstrong (Professorial Research Fellow and Director of Rebuilding Macroeconomics at IGP), Professor William Hynes (Honorary Professor at IGP and Senior Climate Economist at the World Bank) and Professor Dennis Snower (Honorary Professor at IGP and Founder and President of the GSI). It will advance the next phase of Rebuilding Macroeconomics' work on Social Macroeconomics.
The hub supports interdisciplinary research and thinking to develop a new approach to the economy and a new paradigm to influence policy-makers and decision-makers including the G7 and G20 and corresponding Think7 (T7) and Think20 (T20) engagement groups.
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Application deadline: 27 June 2025, 23:59 BST
TAX WARS takes us behind the scenes of a global battle against the tax evasion of multinational companies, a battle that is needed to provide governments with the means to combat inequalities, fund public services and address climate change, both in the Global North and Global South.
At the forefront are a handful of experts, the "knights of tax justice" who join forces in the Independent Commission for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation (ICRICT).
Dan Edelstyn and Hilary Powell live in an area plagued by debt – mortgage debt, credit card debt, public debt – which impoverishes families, communities and public services. So they recruit their neighbors to set up a bank to print their own currency which they sell as art. The plan is to raise money to support the local school and community projects – and, more daringly - to buy up over $1 million of the debts of local people.
BANK JOB asks important questions about how the system of money creation might be altered in society’s favor, not just to the benefit of the banking system.
Paul Krugman interviewed Nathan Tankus for his newsletter "Notes on the Crises" again and the transcript of the conversation, as well as the video, are being posted in Paul Krugman's newsletter as well as Notes on the Crises.
The following report presents information received from Prof. Dr. Naoki Yoshihara, a Professor at University of Massachusetts Amherst and chair of the Japan Society for Political Economy's (JSPE) International Exchange Committee regarding the current situation of academic freedom in Japan. The concerns voiced by Prof. Yoshihara and colleagues aligns with the agenda of the Newsletter (and, presumably, many heterodox economists) to view academic freedom as a fundamental value as well as practical necessity for scientific research. The developments in Japan are particularly alarming as they mirror similar troubling trends where political interference undermines the autonomy of scientific institutions.
Academic Freedom Under Threat in Japan - A Report based on Information from Prof. Dr. Naoki Yoshihara
"As you know, free academic research activities in the United States under the Trump administration are critical due to blatant violations of academic freedom and blatant interference in the autonomy of universities. Similarly, in Japan, over the past five to six years, there have been systematic attempts by the government to control and intervene in academic research and university autonomy, as if this situation of the Trump administration will not be far behind in Japan."
The specific issue at hand involves the Science Council of Japan (SCJ), with Prof. Yoshihara explaining:
"As a symbol of such attempts, the government is in the process of submitting a bill to 'incorporate' the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) for deliberation in the Diet. The Executive Committee of the Japan Society for Political Economy recently decided to issue an urgent statement expressing its opposition to the Science Council of Japan bill, which was approved by the government's Cabinet and submitted to the Diet on March 7."
As reported in Science magazine, Japan's dominant Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is attempting to "crimp the independence of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ)—the country's national science academy." On March 7, 2025, the cabinet approved a bill that would replace the current Science Council—an independent public entity that manages its own affairs—with a special corporation subject to increased government oversight.
This is not the first instance of government interference with the SCJ. Prof. Yoshihara notes:
"We have been critical of the government's actions since the Suga administration refused to appoint six of the new SCJ members recommended for 2020, and we have become increasingly concerned about the government's subsequent handling of the SCJ."
This refusal to appoint recommended scholars broke with a 70-year tradition. As Science magazine reports, then-Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga "refused to appoint six of the 105 SCJ-nominated scholars to the council's 210 member General Assembly." All six academics had criticized LDP policies, but Suga never explained why they were rejected.
The implications of these developments could be far-reaching for academic research in Japan. Prof. Yoshihara warns:
"Indeed, given the tendencies of the current government and the business community, for example, influential proposals, etc., will not be easily issued in the following areas, which will be detrimental to Japanese society:
Professor Sayaka Oki of the University of Tokyo, who specializes in the history of science, warns in the Asahi Newspaper: "The bill will complete the government's unilateral intervention in academic freedom, which began with the refusal to appoint academics. History has proven that once you allow intervention, it will repeat itself over and over again. We must recognize that the world will lose faith in Japan's democracy if the country allows its government to behave like an authoritarian state."
These concerns are amplified by similar trends observed in the United States, says Prof. Yoshihara:
"Our concerns have deepened in light of the current Trump administration's blatant encroachment on university autonomy and violation of academic freedom, which is effectively destroying the valuable intellectual infrastructure of American society."
The JSPE is seeking international support in addressing these concerns:
"As Executive Secretary of the International Exchange Committee of JSPE, we would like to send this appeal abroad and hope for solidarity and cooperative support from as many academic groups and societies as possible."
The Official Statement from the JSPE
Below is the official statement from the Executive Committee of the JSPE regarding the Science Council of Japan Bill:
"The Science Council of Japan Bill, which was approved by the Cabinet on March 7 and submitted by the government to the Diet, undermines the independence of the Science Council of Japan as an organization that represents Japanese scientists internally and externally, and the Japanese Society for Political Economy (JSPE) calls for its repeal.
The JSPE has opposed the government's policy of intervening in and effectively controlling the Science Council of Japan, in order to (1) maintain its independence as an organization that directly advises the government and society on the opinions of Japanese scientists, (2) eliminate non-scientific dynamics in the selection and appointment of members, and (3) respect independent reform of the Science Council of Japan through open and deliberate dialogue with the public and the government.
It is an indispensable social infrastructure for fundamental human rights, peace and security, freedom and democracy in our civilized society that academic research be conducted in a free sphere, separate from politics and power, and based on the proactive participation of a broad and diverse range of researchers. In light of the above, this bill is fraught with serious problems. This concern is also clearly expressed in the resolution adopted at the April 15 general meeting of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) calling for amendments to this bill, and in the statement proposed by the President of the Science Council of Japan (SCJ).
These issues are at the heart of this bill, namely the incorporation of the Science Council of Japan, and the concerns cannot be resolved by amending the bill while maintaining its core. In order to achieve truly careful deliberation, the JSPE strongly urges that this bill be repealed."
Similar concerns have been raised by other academic organizations. The Forum for Overcoming the University Crisis and Opening Up Tomorrow (University Forum), a civil society organization established in 2019 with support from 51 university figures including Nobel Prize winner in chemistry Hideki Shirakawa, has issued a statement asserting that the government policy threatens the independence of the SCJ and urging an immediate halt to the legal reform. The University Forum warns that the Cabinet Office's approach shows "a lack of understanding of the independence of the SCJ" and that the proposed changes contain "fundamental problems that cannot be resolved by partial revisions."