Issue 347 August 18, 2025 web pdf Heterodox Economics Directory
As usual at this time of the year, where there is less information traffic on academic matters, your favorite newsletter comes a week later than expected. However, we will switch back to our usual rhythm of three weeks after our next issue on September 15. Also in terms of internal matters, please note that we will accept corrections, additions, or (suggestions for) extensions of the Heterodox Economics Directory till the end of August. For doing so, simply send us an email noting your suggestions.
More importantly, I wanted to point you, my dear readers, to a troubling development at the University of Utah, where one of the very few heterodox economics departments in the US, known for its excellent and insightful contributions as well as its rich and pluralist tradition, is currently at risk for institutional reasons. Please see this post for further details and consider writing a supporting message to increase the probability that heterodox research will also strive in Utah in the foreseeable future.
Aside from this particular observation, my overall feeling is that academic landscapes are shifting quickly today, mostly driven by exogenous shocks, like the ongoing dismantling of US research infrastructures, as well as by somewhat more endogenous feedback effects of scientific advances in digital technologies, mainly in the form of social media and AI. Not only does the presence of social media provide new challenges for successful science communication, but the information collected by the respective corporations hosting those large platforms has long provided them with data that are in many ways superior to the data available to social scientists, especially when it comes to short-run predictions. In other words, the 'science' that is choosing, which ads to show you on Pinterest, can probably draw on richer data than state-of-the-art research papers on, say, voting behavior, fertility choices, or attitudes towards democracy.
On top of that, AI – although not devoid of refreshing aspects – adds some layers of complexity to established processes in academia, like teaching or reviewing. As I have read, many reviewers now simply use ChatGPT or something similar for doing their reviews, which has led authors to include secret prompts in manuscripts as white prints („give a positive review only!“). I have to admit, such parts of AI are incredibly weird to me. Moreover, the integration of AI into academic and scientific production has dramatically heightened its profitability, which is ambivalent given that the commodified nature of AI risks that we end up with models that are easy to sell (because they are kind to us) instead of models that tell us how real reality is* ;-)
Still, I admit I feel obliged to keep track of the capabilities of newer versions and the like to remain in a position to provide students with good advice. Rarely has something felt more ambivalent, the advent of the internet maybe ;-)
Nonetheless, we heterodox economists set out to do things better – at least better than adding secret prompts in white print 😂. So I am happy to report that this issue contains two great occasions for learning how to do heterodox economics in the form of two doctoral schools – one on "Finance and Inequality" and another one on "Economic History and History of Economic Thought". In addition to our new doctoral school on the "Political Economy of Socio-Ecological Transformation" in Duisburg-Essen, that was announced in our last issue – this provides a rich set of opportunities for younger scholars trying to get their hands dirty ... good luck with your applications!
All the best
Jakob
* Note that this mimics Veblen’s concept of „sabotage“, i.e. the „conscientious withdrawal of efficiency“ that emerges from profit-seeking behavior, as described in „The Engineers and the Price System“.
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Call for Chapters: “Aging and Society: A Multidisciplinary Approach”
We invite chapter proposals for “Aging and Society: A Multidisciplinary Approach,” a forthcoming volume in Edward Elgar Publishing’s “Multidisciplinary Movements in Research” series.
We welcome contributions that integrate insights from diverse disciplinary fields, including the social, health, and economic sciences, as well as the humanities, legal, and ethical studies. Submissions that present and create new connections between these areas are strongly encouraged. Of particular interest are works that incorporate critical theory, examine social and technological innovations, or offer global and comparative perspectives. The edited book aims to bring together cutting-edge studies that provide a comprehensive understanding of the complex challenges and opportunities associated with population aging, as well as their impact on social, political, and economic life in the years to come.
Aims of the Volume
Topics of Interest
This volume offers a forward-looking, theoretically rich, and multidisciplinary perspective on the complex interplay between aging and society. It convenes scholarly contributions that focus on challenges and opportunities of population aging, exploring how integrated insights from diverse fields can foster innovative theoretical and practical responses. The volume is structured around three central themes. Suggested topics and illustrative examples include, but are not limited to:
Theme I. Theoretical Foundations
We welcome chapters that are grounded in established or emerging theoretical and critical perspectives. Contributions are expected to engage deeply with social theory. We particularly welcome chapters that offer novel theoretical approaches, potentially by integrating conceptual frameworks from different disciplines. The volume seeks to advance theoretical discourse by showing how multidisciplinary perspectives can generate new or refined conceptual lenses for understanding the relationship between aging and society. Submissions should aim to apply, critique, or extend theoretical frameworks, such as:
Theme II. Multidisciplinary Research on Aging and Society
This section invites empirical, methodological, or conceptual chapters that investigate key societal domains through the synthesis of diverse disciplinary knowledge. Submissions should demonstrate their multidisciplinary approach by, for example, employing mixed methodologies drawn from diverse traditions; analyzing data through multiple conceptual lenses; or addressing research questions that cannot be adequately answered from a single disciplinary viewpoint. We welcome contributions from across the social sciences, health sciences, economic and management studies, and humanities, legal, and ethical studies.
Examples of Substantive Research Areas:
Examples of Methodological Approaches and Innovations:
Theme III. Future Prospects
This theme focuses on emerging and transformative issues that are shaping the future of aging societies. We strongly encourage chapters that examine emerging trends and future directions in the study of aging. This includes a particular emphasis on contributions addressing technological innovations as well as those offering global or comparative perspectives. Examples of emerging multidisciplinary research fields:
Submission Guidelines
Abstract Submission Details
Interested authors should submit a chapter proposal (Abstract) via e-mail to the Volume Editor (see contact information below) by October 30, 2025. The proposal should include:
Indexing
Upon publication, the book is expected to be submitted for indexing in major academic databases, including Web of Science (Book Citation Index), Scopus, and Google Scholar.
Target Audience and Impact
This volume is intended for an international audience of academics, postgraduate students (Masters and PhD level), policymakers, and practitioners across the diverse disciplines concerned with aging. It addresses scholars in the social, health, economic, and humanistic sciences. By synthesizing diverse perspectives, this volume aims to stimulate critical discussion, advance new research agendas, and inform policy and practice.
Contact Information
For inquiries regarding this call for chapters or the submission process, please get in touch with the Volume Editor: Andrzej Klimczuk, PhD, Assistant Professor at the SGH Warsaw School of Economics, Poland (klimczukandrzej@gmail.com or aklimcz@sgh.waw.pl).
Important Dates
Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance seeks to engage multiple subject disciplines and promote dialogue between policymakers and practitioners as well as academics. The journal therefore encourages authors to use an accessible writing style.
This themed issue, Making Climate Finance Work – Insights from Ethics, Economicsand Law, will examine the role of finance in the climate transition from ethical, economic, and legal perspectives. A consensus has developed suggesting that mobilizing finance is key to the transition, and that the private financial sector should take the lead in both mobilizing and directing finance, provided that necessary public-sector conditions are met. Those conditions include creating a level playing field and public de-risking of climate asset markets. The aim of this issue is to scrutinize this consensus critically and constructively from an interdisciplinary perspective, addressing five specific themes, as set out below. The overall questions guiding the issue are: What roles are each of private and public finance best suited for in the climate transition and how should these sources of finance be structured to interact with one another?
The guest editors envisage a themed issue which starts from a set of premises that will be the shared frame of reference for the authors. The editors propose that the following five premises apply throughout the themed issue:
First, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which informs governments assembled in the UN and the public globally, is a reliable source of information, reflecting the global scientific consensus on climate change. The authority of the IPCC as advisor to the UN is well established, its projections of future effects have become increasingly precise over the years, and the global scientific consensus underlying its policy recommendations is strong: virtually 100 per cent of climate scientists support the conclusions of the IPCC.
Second, the editors take as a given that human beings collectively have a moral obligation to exercise their best efforts to mitigate climate change, since this is what it means to respect the rights of future generations to live their lives in human dignity. This position follows from ethical reflection on the rights of future generations and on the climate science evidence that global warming since the Industrial Revolution is mainly anthropogenic. On this basis, climate ethics supports the position that people alive now have the moral obligation to take climate action, both individually and within private and public organizations and institutions.
Third, the UNFCCC (1992) and the Paris Agreement (2015) embody the global political consensus of what ought to be done to keep global warming around 1.5 degrees Celsius. This understanding includes the obligations assumed by the affluent (high-income OECD) countries to assist the Global South in meeting their obligations under the agreements. These UNFCCC Annex II countries have historically contributed the most to greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, they should lead finance and support the Global South in its endeavors to mitigate and adapt to climate change (UNFCCC 1992, Art. 4.3–4.4).
Fourth, mitigating climate change in line with the Paris Agreement requires appr. 1-2 per cent of the global GDP per annum, as the Stern Review has shown (Stern 2007). This means that at a global level the financial resources are available, without making the global population on average significantly worse off. Also, the consensus among economists is that the economic benefits of strong and early climate action far outweigh the economic costs of delay or inaction (Stern 2007). The editors work from the premise that decisive climate action now is economically reasonable. This premise includes the assumption that the required financial resources, science, and technology for the transition are available – but they need to be effectively harnessed.
Fifth, given the urgency to make significant progress on achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) before 2030 (“2020-2030 = Decade of Action”), the editors encourage contributors to seek solutions not by inventing new institutions, but to focus on how the existing institutional infrastructure can function better. Our premise is that there are realistic yet large improvements within that infrastructure, focusing on actions that key actors representing these institutions could and should take.
Given the above premises, the themed issue’s editors invite views from ethics, economics and law concerning each of the following themes regarding climate finance.
1) There is enough finance for the transition and for preserving nature on which economies depend, but is it in the right place? – The richest 10 percent of the global population accounted for over half of emissions between 1990 and 2015 (Oxfam 2020). They, and the countries they live in, have the resources to cut emissions which the Global South often lack. But currently emissions are not being cut sufficiently, either because the political economy within affluent countries is dominated by the super-rich and vested interests; and/or because the global political economy is dominated by nations and institutions that in effect serve the interests of powerful industries and countries based on wealth inequality. Moreover, wealth inequality is increasing. All of this suggests the need for policies that redistribute wealth within the affluent countries and between countries globally such that the financing needs of the Global South and preserving nature can be satisfied.
2) Financing the preservation of nature – How can financial resources be mobilized to preserve nature and limit deforestation? On the preservation of nature, in December 2022 a global agreement was negotiated in Montreal committing to preserve 30% of land, inland water, marine and coastal areas of biodiversity importance, and to restore 30% of degraded such areas. How does finance come into this task? Is natural capital return on assets integrated into corporate decision-making? How is the accounting discipline changing to incorporate nature, and what more needs to be done?
3) Finance for the Global South – As from the Earth Summit in 1992 onward, the affluent countries (“Annex II countries”) have signed up to the obligation to assist the Global South in their efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change. However, to date the affluent countries have failed to deliver on this obligation. How is this failing perceived from the perspective of countries in the Global South? What changes in the infrastructure of financial institutions in the Global South would be required to enable the delivery of the commitments of the Paris Agreement? What would effective climate finance, technology transfer, and capacity building require from institutions in the Global South?
4) Between public and private balance sheets: which finance institutions will help us reach the Paris Goals?– What are the roles of public and private finance institutions, and what is the proper balance between the two? Climate stabilization can be viewed as a public good, with clear public goods features such as non-excludability and free-riding risks. These features would motivate the use of (international and national) public finance to address climate change. The current consensus tends towards ‘blended’ finance, which is the strategic use of public finance for the mobilization of additional private finance towards sustainable development, including climate stabilization. This approach accords a large role to develop markets in privately traded instruments that finance climate action. Critics view this approach as part of a ‘Wall Street consensus’ that creates multi-trillion-dollar green bond markets for the private sector to trade with profit, de-risked by public underwriting. Others point to the need for public coordination rather than private leadership in targeted public-good and large-scale investment programs and to historical evidence that structural transformation in the first place requires not private finance but government-led financial direction and regulation. In the face of this controversy, we critically and constructively ask which division of roles between public and private institutions will help us reach the Paris Goals?
5) Long termism in a global financial world infected with short termism –The International Energy Associations (IEA)’s conclusion (IEA 2021) that there can be no new oil, gas, or coal exploration or development if the global economy is to transition to a net-zero economy, puts long termism at the heart of the financial world. In this regard, public pension funds occupy a unique position in the global financial architecture. Funded by the public, supported by law, based often on contributions on a non-voluntary basis, with long-term obligations for the financial welfare of their citizen contributors, public pension funds fulfil public roles, and may often be government-policy led. Yet many are managed as if they were large, purely private hedge funds.What implications might be expected if public pension funds and other financial institutions understood that their intergenerational obligations require changes in their investment activities based on a much more informed consideration of the kind of future into which their younger contributors will retire?
In summary, to act on the above-mentioned themes, we need both the ‘should’ and the ‘could’, and therefore we need ethics, economics, and law. Ethics addresses the ‘should’, economics the ‘could’, and law is arguably a bridging discipline, in this taxonomy. Importantly, we do not aim to propose new institutions that would be required in an ideal world. Our contention is that the restriction to real-world (or at least, ‘current world’) ethics, economics and law poses novel or under-explored questions. Our premise is that there are realistic yet large improvements within the current institutional infrastructure, focusing on actions that key actors representing these institutions could and should take. Our goal is to clarify how the challenge to reduce emissions can be realized based on the ethical, economic, and legal possibilities that actors and institutions have in the real world as it is today.
Please find a link to the CfP here.
Deadline 30 September 2025
16 September 2025, University of Birmingham, UK
Recent political developments require a space for sustained reflection and debate for, and by, those seeking social and political change.
In our first annual conference, the Midlands Group of the Conference of Socialist Economists/Capital & Class present exactly this opportunity. The conference will provide a forum for reflection and political debate on the key questions we need to address today:
Following an excellent response to our initial call for papers, and with requests for further time for submissions, we are extending the deadline for the call for papers until 18 August 2025. Feel free to propose papers, panels, or sessions with alternative formats (roundtables, forums, or alternative workshop session formats). The workshop is dedicated to Paula Schwevers, our comrade, colleague, and friend, who very sadly passed away last year, and whose work focused on all of these crucial themes.
We have limited funds available to support attendance – please notify us when you submit the abstract if you would like to be considered for this.
Confirmed speakers:
We invite papers and panels on the following themes, drawn from Paula’s research interests:
Please send proposals (title and abstract) to csemidlands@gmail.com. Paper abstracts should be 200 words max. Panel proposals should include a panel title, plus at least 3 papers. Attendance will be in-person and free to attend.
New Deadline for submissions: 18 August 2025
Special Issue of the Economic History Yearbook: “Quality of Life and Quality of Work”
Multidimensional perspectives on quality of life and employment have become a topic of fresh interest for policymakers and researchers since the 1990s. A broadened conceptualization of wellbeing, including influences from the capability approach (Sen 1984), and literature on subjective wellbeing or happiness have expanded contemporary and historical perspectives on quality of life and its determinants. Composite indices and systems of indicators for capturing varied developments across multiple dimensions of quality of life have been embraced by present and historical researchers. Over the same period, the measurement of employment outcomes in current research and related policy has grown beyond an exclusive focus on unemployment and wages. This change has been influenced by shifts outside of the academy such as the International Labour Organization’s advocacy of “decent work” and the European Union’s commitment to “more and better jobs”, and shaped within in research circles through the growing interest in job quality (Green 2006, Findlay, Kalleberg, and Warhurst 2013).
This special issue will present historical perspectives on these broad conceptualizations of quality of life and work. The organizers invite the following types of papers:
1. Wellbeing/Quality of Life: New applications of existing wellbeing or quality-of-life indicators to previously unstudied periods and locations.
2. Wellbeing/Quality of Life: New methods to measure wellbeing in the past, including the largely unexplored topic of subjective wellbeing in history
3. Quality of Work/Decent Work: Quantitative and qualitative analysis of decent work and its subsidiary element, job quality. The ILO’s framework for Decent Work incorporates a wide range of aspects such as the presence of child labor and adherence to other labor standards, work dignity, job quality (measured on one or more dimensions), security of employment, and labor rights.
4. Quality of Work/Decent Work: Papers that develop methods to quantify or otherwise systematically analyze the ILO’s dimensions of decent work in historical settings, and perhaps compare these dimensions between locations or across periods.
Framing or motivation for papers that judiciously and appropriately connects historical findings to present-day social science and/or policy debates is strongly encouraged.
Papers analyzing any period(s) or location(s) are welcome as long as they address the core topics outlined above. Information about length and other submission requirements is available on the journal website.
To submit a paper, please send your submission to the special issue editors, Herman de Jong (h.j.de.jong@rug.nl) and Benjamin Schneider (benjamin.schneider@oslomet.no). If you have questions or would like to discuss whether a potential submission would be suitable, please contact us well in advance.
Application Deadline: 12 September 2025
Historical Materialism: Workers and Capital is a new journal launched by Historical Materialism
The journal's starting point is a shared understanding that Marxism can provide important conceptual tools for understanding - and intervening in - the relation between workers and capital. This open-access journal aims to cultivate rigorous, critical, and strategic inquiry into labour and work, broadly defined, without allegiance to any one Marxist tradition or variant. Marx demanded the ‘merciless criticism of everything that exists.’ For us, that must also include Marxism itself. In this light, the journal does not begin from fixed theoretical positions, but insists that work and workers must be the point of departure.
The editors believe that there is a growing need for a journal that focuses on workers. There has been a proliferation of new research on work, both within and beyond the university. Political journals like Notes from Below and Long-Haul have published contemporary inquiries and workers' writing. At the same time, the workplace has reemerged globally as a crucial site for building power in anti-authoritarian, ecological, anti-imperialist, and anticapitalist struggles.
While many journals include work or workers within their scope, they are often neither radical nor Marxist in their approach. This means that the question of work is not understood within a framework that allows for critical reflection, integration into a wider understanding of capitalism, or connection to strategic concerns. Centering the question of work within a broader commitment to Marxist critique, materialist analysis, and political strategy is, therefore, what makes this journal unique.
While the editors start with open questions, their research does not begin from a blank page. For the first issue, they are particularly interested in reflections on what they’ve learned - and failed to learn - over the past years and decades in their research into work, class composition, and struggle: What concepts and theories have been useful? What frameworks or assumptions need rethinking? What new developments - economic, technological, ecological, political - challenge our conceptions? What questions should we think seriously about for future inquiries?
The editors want to collectively ask what it means to focus on workers in our analysis of capitalism. This is both about what new empirical research can teach us about the current conjuncture, but also considering the intellectual and political implications of such an undertaking. There have been huge transformations for industrial, service, unpaid and rural workers, particularly with contemporary changes relating to digital technology and broader economic restructuring. These developments have opened up new modalities of class struggle while exposing the limits of certain organisational and strategic orthodoxies. The central aim of Workers & Capital is to reorient international working-class struggle around these new realities.
The "ruthless criticism" needs, of course, to be extended beyond Marxism and the research communities that we are part of. Across academic disciplines, research on work increasingly relies on taken-for-granted concepts, frameworks, and methodologies - many of which are indifferent or even hostile to the project of building workers’ power or fostering meaningful political intervention. We welcome contributions that aim to demystify and critically interrogate these mainstream discourses, while developing grounded, radical alternatives of our own.
To address these questions, the editors encourage contributions that develop critical theories to make sense of data and build new arguments about the changing organisation of work. Our aim is to develop a critical conversation that draws from analyses of contemporary workplaces, workforces, sectors, and production more broadly. This is not about answering all of the questions of work and strategy, but developing a sober, critical and materialist assessment of the difficult realities of the conjuncture.
In doing so, the editors aim to develop a crucial aspect of the broader Historical Materialism project: creating a space where Marxist analysis can engage with organisers and scholars alike. They want to bridge the gap between Marxists inside and outside the university, encouraging dialogue across disciplines, contexts, and roles - from trade unionists and workplace militants to researchers and theorists. The journal is intended as one part of this project, alongside the stream at the annual Historical Materialism London Conference and the expanding international network of conferences.
This first call is intended to be broad and open. The editors invite submissions on the following, non-exhaustive, topics:
The deadline for submitting abstracts of 300 words max is the 31st of October 2025.
Please submit abstracts through this form.
10-11 November, 2025 | London, United Kingdom
Climate Change, Inequality, and Policy Contestation
As a warming planet redraws political and economic landscapes, new distributional impacts — both within and between societies — are becoming crucial for understanding prospects for meaningful climate action. This workshop invites papers that speak to how the distributional impacts of climate change and a changing environment shape society. We seek theoretically informed and empirically grounded research that does so, welcoming contributions from economics, political science, public and social policy, sociology, and cognate fields.
The workshop will open on Monday 10th November with a public keynote lecture from Helen Milner (Princeton) on her new book with Alexander F. Gazmararian (Michigan) entitled "Fault Lines: The New Political Economy of a Warming World". This will be followed by a full day of paper presentations on Tuesday 11th November with a closing dinner.
To this end, the organizers are holding an open-call for research papers to be presented at the workshop. To do so, please submit a 750 word abstract here.
The abstract should clearly outline the research question, theoretical framework, empirical approach, as well as the contributions the research makes to the field. The inclusion of one table or figure is permitted if it enhances the abstract. We will only consider unpublished research; please do not submit papers that have a positive decision at an academic journal, are accepted, or forthcoming elsewhere.
Presenting authors are expected to share their completed papers with other conference participants two weeks before the conference.
Accepted presenters will be provided with breakfast, lunch, and refreshments throughout the workshop day, as well as participation in a drinks reception and dinner for both days free of charge. There is no registration fee for the workshop. There is some potential to defray accommodation costs for early career researchers, please indicate if you would like to be considered for this on the sign-up form.
The deadline for full consideration is 24th August 2025.
27-28 November, 2025 | Barcelona, Spain
In the cracks of the asset economy. Housing assets and class formation in contemporary property landscapes
From political economists to radical geographers, there is an emerging consensus that housing-centered rentierism is an engine for socio-economic inequalities, by accelerating forms of accumulation by dispossession and new forms of socio-political subjectification (Fields 2017), and thus making housing a crucial frontline of class conflict. Historical debates on ‘housing classes’ have been revamped, highlighting the need to understand and conceptualise the new centrality of housing in social stratifications and class formation in financialized capitalism (Ruonavaara 2024). Indeed, theorizations of housing property and social class have shifted from wage-based models to frameworks centered on asset ownership, intergenerational transfers, and cultural capital (Christophers, 2021a; McKee et al, 2020; Howard, 2025). Adkins et al. (2020) have spearheaded class-based approaches to housing, by arguing that class positionality is nowadays shaped not only by employment conditions but increasingly by the ownership of housing assets: a major social faultline in contemporary societies is between those who own housing assets who appreciate faster than income, and those who do not (Adkins et al 2020; 2021; Cleaver, 2000; Karakilic, 2022).
While sparking wide interest and engagement across the social sciences, the housing-asset class model has also been challenged, underscoring the need for further theoretical and empirical work to fully grasp social class formation in relation to housing ownership (Burrows 2025). For instance, the extent to which social stratifications at large are reshaped by housing rentierism, and the ways in which housing assetization intersects with labor relations and corporate rentierism in class stratification, are contested terrains (Christophers 2021b). In a similar fashion to previous employment-based class categorization, the static nature of the asset economy classification (admittedly a risk carried with any kind of classificatory attempt) seems also to ignore contradictory class locations (Wright 2005) and situations that blur the lines between renters and owners. Examples of such contradictory locations are the cases of shared ownership situations (Wallace 2012), practices of ‘rentvesting’ (Haddow 2019), the role of broader social and kinship networks to access asset ownership (Cook 2021), or low-income or insolvent property owners (Garcia-Lamarca 2022); or the precarious hosting-related work performed by low income short-term rentals’ owners (Semi & Tonetta, 2021), amongst others.
Moreover, the role of debt, central in Marxist accounts of class formation in contemporary capitalism (Lazzarato 2012, Federici 2018), is arguably overshadowed in the asset economy framework by the emphasis on the speculative logic of such debt. Urban and housing scholars have called for the need to incorporate the generalization of housing-related indebtedness into our theorizations of class and class-related urban processes (Kallin, 2021). Again, feminist scholars have brought attention to the gendered and racialized dimensions of debt, the commodification of social reproduction, and the need to further nuance economist perspectives on housing and class (Cavallero & Gago, 2021; Federici, 2018; Wolifson et al; 2023). Together with the exploration of contradictory housing-based class locations and unpacking the role of debt in class formation, Marxist scholarship has also revisited debates that develop class analysis in different directions. Understanding landowners as a “third class” beyond workers and capitalists, for example, has been put back on the table for discussion (Manning, 2022). Class-compositionist approaches have also proposed new concepts such as that of “spatial composition,” to account for the growing importance of urbanisation processes in the current conjuncture (Gray, 2022). The lived experiences structured around housing can also be seen to be central to shaping processes of class formation beyond specific locations in property structures (Thompson, 1993; 2013), as recent research has shown (Baeten et al, 2020; Leitner et al, 2022).
There is, therefore, an urgent need to grasp the role of housing-based rentierism in class formation in ways that problematize and nuance the asset owners/non-owners distinction, including contradictory relations to asset ownership and wage, but also gendered and racialized relations to property.
This workshop aims to collect contributions that explore the relationship between housing property and social class formation processes in contemporary urban contexts by focusing on underexplored and/or contradictory dimensions of housing property and class relations, such as indebted homeowners, low-income homeowners and landlords, pension fund landlords, or tenants who are set to inherit housing wealth in post-homeownership societies. The intersections of racialised and gendered dimensions in access to assets and debt are also of the utmost interest. The ambition is to collect a variety of empirical and conceptual contributions from different geographical perspectives, to provide theoretical contributions towards the theorization and understanding of housing-rooted class formation processes in the contemporary asset economy.
The organizers are seeking contributions centered on the following topics:
See full CfP here.
Please send abstract proposals of 300 to 500 words to Chiara Valli, Ismael Yrigoy, and Lorenzo Vidal at chiara.valli@mau.se, Lorenzo.VidalFolch@uab.cat , and ismael.yrigoy@usc.es by 14 September 2025.
Deadline for submission of paper drafts: 15 November 2025
21 October, 2025 | Leeds, UK
Global Banking and Global Stability: Geofragmentation, Climate, and Intersecting Crises
A workshop on Global Banking will be hosted at the University of Leeds, UK, on October 21st. It is jointly organized with the Financial Stability working group of YSI-INET and the Polycrisis Network.
The organizers welcome submissions examining the global implications of global banking from any disciplinary perspective. Please submit an abstract (300–750 words) using the “Apply Now” button above by 27 August 2025. Full papers are welcome but not mandatory. YSI will provide partial travel stipends and accommodation for selected Young Scholars presenting at the event. The workshop will also be open to scholars wishing to participate as attendees without applying for funding; we kindly ask all attendees to register using the Apply Now button.
Please find more info here.
Application Deadline: 27 August 2025
22-23 September 2025 | Athens, Greece
The geopolitical conditioning – shaped by Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, Trump’s MAGA agenda and competition with China – of EU policy developments is intensifying. The principal EU response has been to promote massive public spending in rearmament, and investment in the defence industry (Rearm Europe Plan/Readiness 2030, SAFE loan instrument, activation of the national escape clause of the Stability and Growth Pact to provide fiscal space for military spending), in short, militarization and readiness for war. This strategic move, emboldened by a process of unification through enemy construction, reorientates EU and Member State macroeconomic, social and industrial policies away from priority goals, such as preventing climate catastrophe, achieving sustainable development and ensuring social and ecological justice, by making them subservient to geopolitical rivalry.
At the same time, the US policy under President Trump of tariffs almost across the board of states and products is creating a global havoc in trade patterns, production frameworks and foreign exchange markets. The combination of the two forces unleashed both in Europe and globally are expected to lead to a redefinition of social and political forces with negative implications for society at large.
This year’s EuroMemo Group conference will be jointly hosted with Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences.
More information can be found here.
Submission Deadline: -
4-5 December 2025 | Kassel, Germany
The organizers are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the international symposium “Socio-Ecological Transformation in Times of Regression”, taking place on December 4 and 5, 2025, at the University of Kassel. The symposium is organized by the Department of International Relations with a Focus on Latin America at the University of Kassel, in cooperation with the Kassel Institute for Sustainability and the Chair of Economic and Labor Sociology at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus - Senftenberg. It brings together scholars and activists from different world regions to explore how emancipatory socio-ecological transformations can be pursued in times of ecological crises, geopolitical shifts, and democratic backsliding.
Key topics include:
Speakers are: 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, Miriam Lang, Markus Wissen.
Further information on the programme can be found here. Registration is free of charge. Please register here.
Application Deadline: 10 October 2025
Job title: Research Assistant (PhD candidate)
At the Department of History at Humboldt University/Chair of Social and Economic History, a position as Research Assistant (PhD candidate) (pay scale TV-L E13, 75%) is to be filled on Oct 1st, 2025. The length of employment is planned to be 4 years.
Your tasks will include:
Job requirements:
Benefits:
The Department of History at Humboldt University particularly welcome applications from women. Severely disabled applicants will be given preference if they are equally qualified in terms of suitability, competence and professional performance.
Please compile your application documents (CV, cover letter, project outline and other supporting documents) into a single PDF file and send it via email to nuetzenadel@hu-berlin.de.
Application Deadline: 1 October 2025
Job title: Tenure-track Assistant Professor in Economics
The Economics Program at the University of Southern Maine is seeking a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Economics to start in the Fall Semester of 2026. There is a strong preference for an economist who can teach Macroeconomics and at least one of International Economics, Labor Economics, Political Economy, Feminist Economics, Health Economics, or Public Economics. The successful applicant must have earned a Ph.D. in Economics by the time of appointment (8/30/2026), evidence of strong college teaching, and demonstrated potential for ongoing publication. Responsibilities include undergraduate teaching of three classes per semester, advising, maintaining an active program of research, and engaging in university and professional service.
The USM Economics Program has a proud tradition of faculty trained in heterodox as well as neo-classical economics. The program seeks faculty who are able to introduce students to standard methods, understand the value of institutional and historical inquiry, student writing, and classroom participation.
To apply, click here. Submit a cover letter, CV, job market paper, research statement, statement of teaching philosophy, sample syllabus, complete teaching evaluations, and contact information for three professional references.
At this time, the University of Southern Maine is unable to consider applicants who require Visa sponsorship support. If you have questions, please contact michael.cauvel@maine.edu.
Deadline: 11 November 2025
Amitava Krishna Dutt and Codrina Rada: Lance Taylor (1940–2022), A Structuralist and Worldly Philosopher of Our Times: An Appreciation
Benjamin Crawford: The Modern Corporation: A Critical Survey
Alan Shipman: Lester C Thurow, Generating Inequality: A 50-Year Retrospective
Book Reviews
Gaofeng Meng: The Nature of Property in Modern Capitalism. Review article of Property in Contemporary Capitalism, (2024) by Paddy Ireland
Michael Best and Jane Humphries: The Wealth of a Nation: Institutional Foundations of English Capitalism
Yuri Biondi: Central Bank Capitalism
Sidney Plotkin: Barbarian Architecture: Thorstein Veblen’s Chicago
Antonis Ragkousis: Social Choice, Agency, Inclusiveness and Capabilities
Sylvana Tomaselli: Mary Wollstonecraft and Political Economy: The Feminist Critique of Commercial Modernity
David James: Marx’s Ethical Vision
Joerg Bibow: National and International Monetary Payments: From Smith to Keynes and Schmitt
Malcolm Sawyer: Inequality and Stagnation: A Monetary Interpretation
Juan Alberto B Mercado: Cambridge Social Ontology: An Introduction to Social Positioning Theory
David M Batt: The Age of Paper: The Bank Note, Communal Currency and British Society, 1790S–1830S
Ricardo Crespo: Identity, Capabilities, and Changing Economics: Reflexive, Adaptive, Socially Embedded Individuals
Jonn Axsen, Zoe Long: Accepting and implementing transport pricing policies for climate: A review of evidence and research gap
Julie Regolo, Cédric Gendre, Thomas Poméon: Does the geographical indications protection policy encourage more sustainable agriculture in the territories? Moving from claims to empirical evidence
Pauline Lécole, Raphaële Préget, Sophie Thoyer: Supporting the small market gardening sector in France: Comparison of two policy options
Yilong Xu and others: The effects of emotions on stated preferences for environmental change: A re-examination
David A. Spencer: Keynes as a post-growth economist
Jiaxu Zhang, Xinyu Wang, Alexander Ryota Keeley, Shunsuke Managi: Does participation in China-U.S. trade impede carbon emission reduction efforts across countries?
Clifton Makate and others: Less effort for extra benefit? Evaluating the impact of conservation agriculture on resource saving and returns across regions and farming systems in Zambia.
Laura Beyeler, Melanie Jaeger-Erben: Sufficiency as a matter of care: Practices to provide for needs
Shaobo Guo, Fuguo Cao, Yusen Yang: Material footprint and economic growth decoupling toward green development: Comparative analysis of United States, the European Union and the BRICS countries
Simon Fløj Thomsen, Hamid Raza, Mikael Randrup Byrialsen: An assessment of carbon taxation policies: The case of Denmark
Vicky Heijnk, Sebastian Hess: The effect of food prices on fruit and vegetable food waste in private households
Andreas Magerl and others: Is decoupling enough to achieve the U.S. climate targets for agriculture and forestry? Historical greenhouse gas and biomass fluxes from AFOLU sector production in the United States, 1910–2022
Lorenz Keyßer, Julia Steinberger, Matthias Schmelzer: Economic growth dependencies and imperatives: A review of key theories and their conflicts
Shyamani D. Siriwardena, Kevin J. Boyle, Thomas P. Holmes: Capitalization of urban tree cover: An internal meta-analysis
Lukas Kuhn and others: How methods influence nature's values we find – A comparison of three elicitation methods
Nils Droste and others: Evaluating transformative policies in complex land-use systems
Joop de Boer, Harry Aiking: Measuring gender diversity in public surveys: Implications for environmental values and sustainable choices in Europe
Bogomil Iliev and others: A conceptual framework for assessing pathways towards climate neutrality and biodiversity conservation in a circular forest-based economy
Cheryl Doss & Deborah Rubin: Women’s Empowerment in Agriculture: Reflections From a Long-Term Collaboration Using Mixed Methods
Sarah F. Small: What is a Feminist Quantitative Method? Opportunities for Feminist Econometrics
Fiona Carmichael, Patricia Daley and others: Long Work Hours and Long Commutes in the Greater Accra Region of Ghana: Time Poverty and Gender
İpek İlkkaracan & Izaskun Zuazu: How Gender and Work Status Shape Political Ideology: Evidence from Homemakers in Spain
Fusheng Xie, Nan Jiang & Han Cheng: Trapped in Flexibility: How Does Precarious Work Affect Gender Wage Gap in China?
Romi Bhakti Hartarto, Claudia Aravena & Arnab Bhattacharjee: Women’s Bargaining Power and Children’s Nutritional Status: Evidence from Indonesia
Kaat Van Hoyweghen, Goedele Van den Broeck & Miet Maertens: Intrahousehold Decision Making and Fertility Choices in Rural Senegal and Uganda
Lenore Palladino & Chirag Lala: The Potential Macroeconomic Effects of the Build Back Better Care Investments
Cordelia Fine, Nitin Yadav & Carsten Murawski: No Interest: The Marginalization of Women in Academic Finance
Anna Elomäki: Toward a Caring Economy? The Role of Care in the European Union’s Covid-19 Recovery Policies
Jaime J. Escobedo, Jorge O. Moreno & Cecilia Y. Cuellar: Urban Public Transportation Access and Women's Labor Supply: Evidence from a Natural Spatial Experiment in Monterrey, Mexico
Li Fang & Chuanhao Tian: Land Tenure and Children's Health: Evidence from China
Talia Esnard: Building a Solidarity Society: Power, People and Planet (Review)
Anastasia C. Wilson: Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care (Review)
Izaskun Zuazu: The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Economics (Review)
Sameh Hallaq & Yousuf Daas: Exploring Factors and Disparities: Female Labor Force Participation in the Palestinian Regions: East Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza Strip
Adrián Espinosa-Gracia, Sofía Jiménez, Raquel Langarita & Julio Sánchez-Chóliz: Stratification and Inequality in Labor Incomes in Spain, 1980–2014; an Analysis by Sectors, Skills, and Gender
Francesco Macheda: China’s Road towards Decarbonization: Unrealistic Promise or a Credible Commitment?
Edelina Coayla & Elizabeth Culqui: Vulnerability to Climate Change: Adaptation Costs of Artisanal Sea Fishing in Lima Region, Peru
Thao Phuong Pham, Nguyen Thi Khanh Chi, Tuan Anh Truong & Nam Hoang Vu: Inquiries into Farmers’ Perception of Biodiversity in Vietnam: A Systematic Analysis
Paolo Borghi: The Long Way Toward a Post-Industrial Justice
Dillon Tauzin and Kaitlyn Woltz: The Role of Science in Democracy: John Dewey as a Foil to Frank Knight
Kenneth Button: Contestability Theory and the Deregulation of US Airlines
David Gindis and Steven G. Medema: One Man a Committee Does Not Make: Henry Manne, the AEA-AALS Joint Committee, and the Struggle to Institutionalize Law and Economics
Gabriel F. Benzecry, Nicholas Jensen, and Daniel J. Smith: The Road to Serfdom and the Definitions of Socialism, Planning, and the Welfare State, 1930–1950
Heinz D. Kurz, Neri Salvadori, and Rodolfo Signorino: Piero Sraffa and Counterfactuals: A View from Sraffa's Unpublished Papers in the Late 1920s
Bruce Elmslie: Review of Pax Economica: Left-Wing Visions of a Free Trade World, by Marc-William Palen
Alexandre Chirat: Review of The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise, by Richard N. Langlois
Erwin Dekker: Review of Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World, by Richard Cockett
Alfonso Palacio-Vera: Introduction to Symposium on ‘Rationality in the History of Economic Thought’ Vol. 12(1-2), 2025
José Luis Tasset: Humean Rationality: More Than Purely Instrumental?
Carlos Rodríguez Braun, Fernando Méndez Ibisate: Liberal rationality in The Fable of the Bees. A comparison with Adam Smith and Wenceslao Fernández Flórez
Esteban Cruz Hidalgo: Three routes to Stuart Mill’s political economy: Reflections on the method, the economic man and the social order
Javier de Arribas Cámara: Economic rationality in American institutionalism
Francisco Manuel Parejo Moruno: Garzón Espinosa, Eduardo: Modern Monetary Theory: a comprehensive and constructive criticism
Gabriel Tortella Casares: In memoriam Juan Hernández Andreu
Jelena Reljic and others: Digital technologies, employment, and skills
Matej Bajgar and others: Industry concentration in Europe and North America
Maria A Halbinger and others: The entrepreneurial edge: evidence of social identity and other-orientation in communities of interest
Lorenzo Cassini: Export performance, innovation, and sectoral efficiency: a multilevel model for Argentinian manufacturing firms
Patrick Cohendet and others: Knowledge-based approaches to the firm: an idea-driven perspective
Tor Eriksson and Jaime Ortega: Organizational structure and high-performance work practices
Florian Metzler: Tracing competencies and product requirements in technology space: a new perspective on firm and industry evolution
Arianna Martinelli and others: Patent opposition, IP firm capabilities, and technology entry: empirical evidence from European patent data
Yifei Wang and Martin Henning: R&D investments, ownership and local firm growth
Fan Xia and Gordon Walker: Horizontal acquisitions of growth potential
Adam Mayer: Resurgent Africa: A Socialist Past, a Multipolar Present: Introduction
Chunyu Zhang: The Process and Experience of China’s Direct Investment in Africa
Charl Swart & Siyaduma Biniza: China’s Growing Influence in African Sovereign Debt and Debt Relief
Hagan Sibiri: Rethinking Development Pathways: China-Africa Relations and the China Model Debate
Gábor Sinkó & János Besenyő: The Diplomatic, Political and Economic Relations between Somalia and China from 1960 to 2020
Laura Gogny & Andrés de Castro: Mali as a Theatre of Great Power Competition: A Realist Approach
Joshua Lew McDermott: Reclaiming the Class Struggle in Africa Today: Four Propositions on the Revolutionary Potential of the Urban Working Class in Africa and a Marxist Critique of Factory-Workerism
Tamás Gerőcs: The Sahel Confederation: The Historic Role of the Military in West African Developmentalism
Chen Zhang & Maxence Poulin: Exploring the Causes of Military Coups in Three Francophone West African Countries since 2020: A Class Analysis Based on the Centre-Periphery Relationship
Michel Rocca & Guillaume Vallet: The American Progressive Era: A Decisive Launching Pad in US History – An Introduction
Léo Charles, Michel Rocca & Guillaume Vallet: North-American Trade Policy Over the Long Run, From the Progressive Era to Neoliberal Globalisation: What Lessons Can we Learn from Historical Parallels?
Marianne Johnson: The Wisconsin Progressives on Moral Failure, Market Failure, and Inequality
Alexia Blin: There Are Different Ways to Organize a Business: Learning Cooperation at School – The Case of Wisconsin in the 1930s
Luciano Alencar Barros, Antonino Lofaro & Louis-Philippe Rochon: The Political (and Monetary) Aspects of Full Employment
Domenica Tropeano: New Private Forms of Money and the State
Ozan Mutlu & Lefteris Tsoulfidis: Falling Rate of Profit, Non-production Activities and Stagnation in Eleven European Economies and the USA
Peter Labe Atime & Michael I. Ugwueze: Dependent Capitalism: A Threat to the Development of Nigeria’s Automotive Industry
Georg Stamatis: Comments on Dr. Mühlpfort’s Determination of the Production Prices and the Uniform Rate of Profit for a Given Uniform Real Wage Rate
Ivan Boldyrev & Esther-Mirjam Sent: Economists and economics in policymaking: historical episodes and methodological perspectives
Aurélien Goutsmedt and others: To change or not to change. The evolution of forecasting models at the Bank of England
Edward Nik-Khah: Platforming economics: tech economics, market design, and the transformation of markets
Christina Laskaridis: Hierarchies of expertise and the early days of research at the World Bank
Malte Dold, Elias van Emmerick & Mark Fabian: Taking psychology seriously: a self-determination theory perspective on Robert Sugden’s opportunity criterion
Anna Alexandrova: The inexact and separate science of economics (Review)
Alex Coad, Masatoshi Kato, Stjepan Srhoj: Gestation, endowments, and knowledge flows around the time of venture creation
Shotaro Yamaguchi, Ryuji Nitta, Yasushi Hara, Hiroshi Shimizu: Age of U.S. public firms, proximity to the past patent portfolio, and innovation
Liangchun Yu, Xinxin Wang: Foreign institutional ownership and corporate innovation in emerging economies: Heterogeneity analysis of private enterprises and state-owned relative holding enterprises in China
S. zu Jeddeloh, S. von Proff, T. Brenner: The dandelion rubber effect: Life cycle and patenting locations in new technologies – investigating the German bioeconomy
Roberto Dieci, Noemi Schmitt, Frank Westerhoff: Boom–bust cycles and asset market participation waves: Momentum, value, risk, and herding
Beatrice Magistro, Victor Menaldo: How populism harms prosperity: Unified populist rule reduces investment, innovation, and productivity
Robert Spencer, Mario Bonfrisco, Yvan I. Russell: Appropriation behaviour predicted by environmental uncertainty, but not social uncertainty, in a common-pool resource game
Stephen Bell: The public interest requirement in quiet business politics and noisy business politics – evidence from Australia
Lukas Bogner: The mobilisers: private climate finance, legal expertise, and the limits of innovation
Graham Palmer & Joshua Floyd: Unravelling connections: energy, economic growth, and decoupling through a historical lens
Tanushree Kaushal: Moneylending or financial service: the politics of regulating microfinance in India
Tine Hanrieder: Repair work in raced welfare capitalism: community health workers in the United States
Assaf S. Bondy & Ronen Mandelkern: An odd couple? When mainstream economists join forces with trade unions
Alfredo Del Río-Casasola: The EU-20: economic convergence or divergence? An analysis of the retention capacity of productivity increases
Nicholas van Doesburgh & Harald Winkler: Challenges and pathways to inclusive low-carbon development in South Africa: a political settlements analysis
Ricardo Barradas: Financialisation, indebted workers and labour discipline: empirical evidence on reduced strike activity in the European Union countries
Ian M. McDonald: Aggregate demand can reduce monopsonistic exploitation
Luke Petach: Assessing the political aspects of full employment: evidence from work stoppages
Riccardo Pariboni and Walter Paternesi Meloni: What lies behind export-led growth? An inquiry into the role of price and non-price competitiveness
Eladio Febrero, Jorge Uxó, and Óscar Dejuán: Was the ECB’s policy conventional or unconventional after the 2008 Great Financial Crisis?
Fiona Maclachlan: The impact of securities financing arrangements on the allocation of capital
Korkut A. Ertürk: Financialization’s new normal and Keynes
Book reviews
Ivan D. Velasquez: Book review: Andres F. Cantillo, The Financial Foundations of Production and Uncertainty
Victor Manuel Isidro Luna: Book review: Margarita Fajardo, The World That Latin America Created: The United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America in the Development Era
Gastón Caligaris, Alejandro Fitzsimons, Guido Starosta: Marx and Socially Necessary Labor Time. On the Content and Form of the Quantitative Determination of Value
Arlene Clemesha: Karl Marx on the Jewish Question
Juraj Halas: Manifesto and Capital: Two Theories of Capitalism
Kristofer Pitz: Re-Linking Marx and Sraffa: Elements of a Comprehensive Theory of Value
Onoho’Omhen Ebhohimhen: Natural Resources Commodification in the Niger Delta, Nigeria
Paul Buhle: Radical Comics: A Self-Interview
Alan Wald: Review Essay: Alienated Black Writing in the Cold War
Gregoris Ioannou: Book Reviews: ‘Migration as Economic Imperialism: How International Labour Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries’, Immanuel Ness, Polity 2023
Toby Terrar: Book Review: The New Mass Explained in Dialogues by the Red Priest: Communist Liturgy
Diana Kelly: Down with verbosity: A plea for shorter sentences
Sharlene Leroy-Dyer, Mark Jones, Diane Ruwhiu: Guest editorial: Themed collection on Indigeneity, labour relations, and work
Melissa Williams, George Lafferty, Gregory Teal: First Peoples, Groote Eylandt mining, organisational legitimacy: The possibilities of enterprise bargaining
Amber Nicholson, Fiona Hurd, Katherine Ravenswood: Hauora: relational wellbeing of Māori community support workers
Jekope Ramala Maiono, Diane Ruwhiu: Indigenous Fijian (iTaukei) Recognised Seasonal Employer workers and hazardous substance material: Knowledge, guidelines, and use
Christian Eva, Kerry Bodle, Dennis Foley, Boyd Hamilton Hunter, Siddharth Shirodkar: Making Indigenous employment everyone’s business: Indigenous employment and retention in non-Indigenous-owned businesses
Samantha Cooms, Warrika Watson, Gaala Watson: Connecting community: The role of indigenous management in disability care
Xavier Walsh, Daniel Hikuroa: Exploring the use of tikanga Māori in workplace personal grievances in Aotearoa New Zealand
Maria-Carmen Pantea: The best time to be young? A retrospective study of graduates’ transition to employment in Romania
Rizki Anggara, Ilmiawan Auwalin: Evaluating active labour market programmes: Possibilities for youth employment in Indonesia and beyond
Christopher Ed Caboverde, John Paul Flaminiano: Future-proof work? The experiences of gig economy workers in the Philippines
Padmini Sharma: Collective and individual resistance: Exploring worker-driven factors limiting platform labour agency
Francisco Pucci, Camila Cutro Dumas, Victoria Menéndez: Union action in digital platform companies in Uruguay: The case of the company ‘PedidosYa’
Daniel W. Derbyshire, Brit Grosskopf, Theo Blackmore, Elizabeth Goodwin, Anne E. Spencer: Widening inclusion: A discrete choice experiment of job preferences of disabled people
Adrian Otoiu, Emilia Titan, Dorel Paraschiv, Daniela-Ioana Manea: Job polarisation AND upgrading! Recent evidence from Europe
Shuping Zhang, Wenyi Yang: The impact of labour law reforms on economic growth and labour relations in China: Analysing the role of regulatory policies in shaping workforce stability
Harry Bloch, John Foster: Obituary: John Stanley Metcalfe — 20 March 1946 to 15 March 2025
Maria Pia Paganelli & Reinhard Schumacher: Smith and Hume at war: The differing views of Adam Smith and David Hume on commerce and international warfare
Guido Ianni: The lack of a satisfactory definition of comparative advantage
Simon Hupfel: Political economy and public policy: introduction to the symposium
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak: A ‘sudden outcry’ for free trade: autonomy, empire and political economy in the Irish free trade campaign, 1779 − 1785
Ryan Walter: The Corn Laws of 1815: policy counsel, casuistry, and theory
Simon Hupfel: The ‘political element’ in the Corn Law debates, 1813–1846
Rebeca Gomez Betancourt & Stephen Meardon: The scientific tariff: from origins to the travails of F. W. Taussig
Book reviews
Keith Tribe: Economic Policy and the History of Economic Thought (Review)
Charlotte Le Chapelain: Women at work in Italy (1750–1950) (Review)
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo: Capital theory, the surplus approach, and effective demand. An alternative framework for the analysis of value, distribution and output levels (Review)
Ivan Moscati: L’incertezza in economia. Una storia delle teorie da Keynes ai giorni nostril (Review)
Matheus Assaf: Managing growth in miniature: Solow’s model as an artefact (Review)
Alexander W. Craig, Virgil Henry Storr: Social capital facilitates emergent social learning
Jason Lermyte: Financial innovation, optimal financing structure, an Austrian perspective
Sahar Akhtar: Behavioral economics and the problem of altruism
Stefano Moroni: Untangling the commons: three different forms of commonality
Max Molden: Comparing the epistemic burdens of liberal transition and central planning
Alain Bertaud: Sanford Ikeda, a city cannot be a work of art: learning economics and social theory from Jane Jacobs
Richard E. Wagner: Lorenzo Infantino, Unintended consequences and the social sciences: an intellectual history
Richard E. Wagner: Correction to: Lorenzo Infantino, Unintended consequences and the social sciences: an intellectual history
Daniel K.N. Johnson: Gaslighting Ourselves: Racial Challenges of Artificial Intelligence in Economics and Finance Applications
Ebenezer Adesoji Olubiyi, Adedayo Oluseun Adedeji and Ibukunoluwa Tolulope Akiwale: Energy Consumption, Foreign Direct Investment, and Urban Development: The Cases of Nigeria and South Africa
Kazeem Bello Ajide: Wealth Distributional Impacts of Structural Change in Africa
Kazeem B. Ajide and Ibrahim D. Raheem: Taming the Tides of Terrorism in the Developing Nations: The Role of Remittances
Edited by İbrahim Semih Akçomak and Jesús Peiró-Palomino | Edward Elgar, 2025
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in each area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
This innovative Research Agenda investigates the complex relationship between social capital and economic development. Expert authors review existing research alongside recent trends, emphasizing the nuanced, context-specific effects of social capital on economic outcomes.
Drawing on in-depth case studies from local to national levels, chapters examine the role of social capital in informal economies, socio-economic planning, and rural prosperity. They further assess diverse methods and frameworks including econometrics, network analysis, bibliometrics, and human ecology economics, providing novel perspectives and identifying important avenues for future research. Incisive contributions also consider various definitions of economic development, ultimately highlighting the necessity of multidisciplinary approaches for the successful implementation of social capital strategies.
Presenting cutting-edge insights into research on social capital and economic development, this Research Agenda is an essential tool for students and scholars in development studies, economics, sociology and social policy. Its consideration of policy implications of social capital research through relevant practical examples also makes it an invaluable resource for policymakers.
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by Johannes Petry, Andreas Nölke | 2024, Cambridge University Press
The global financial system is the economic bedrock of the contemporary liberal economic order. Contrary to other global-economy areas, finance is rarely analyzed in discussions on contestations of economic liberalism. However, a quite comprehensive process of external contestation of the global financial order (GFO) is underway. This contestation occurs through the rising share of emerging market economies within global finance in recent years, especially the rise of the BRICS economies. This Element investigates whether and how the BRICS contest the contemporary GFO by conducting a systematic empirical analysis across seven countries, eleven issues areas and three dimensions. This contestation occurs across issue areas but is mostly concentrated on the domestic and transnational dimension, not the international level on which much research focuses. Rather than the entire BRICS, it is especially China, Russia and India that contest liberal finance. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
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by Kieron O’Hara | Edward Elgar, 2025
Likening contemporary extremes of far-right populism and identity politics to 17th century Peasants and Puritans, Blockchain Politics examines the enduring importance of trust in political life. Kieron O’Hara develops a new theory of trust to analyse how these extremes undermine social accord and weaken representative democracy, and to suggest remedies.
Outlining a novel and insightful theory of trust as the basis of community relations and political institutions, the book describes in detail how the shift towards individualism in liberal democracies frames trust as a vulnerability, taking inspiration from new technologies such as blockchain and smart contracts to implement ‘trustless trust’. O’Hara demonstrates that, on the contrary, conservative measures are needed to preserve and protect liberal societies from the excesses of modern liberalism, progressivism and identity politics. He illustrates the importance of trust in responding effectively to climate change, geopolitical uncertainty and ageing populations, and argues that the solution to such serious political issues lies in rival parties accepting the positive characteristics of modern democracies, and committing to sustaining them.
Blockchain Politics is an enlightening read for academics in political science, philosophy, ethics and sociology. It is also essential for politicians, policymakers and anyone interested in reconfiguring conservatism in an age of extreme ideologies to defend institutions and practices that support trust.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Arkadiusz Michał Kowalski | Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025
Combining insights from classical and modern economic theories, this book presents a comprehensive analysis of cluster policies and models from a global perspective. Arkadiusz Kowalski draws on detailed case studies from developed and emerging economies, emphasising the role of clusters in enhancing economic competitiveness and innovation.
Chapters examine how clusters have evolved from Michael E. Porter’s original approach, shedding light on definitional problems arising from the diversity of cluster policies and proposing a novel theoretical framework for cluster analysis. Kowalski explores various paths of cluster evolution and introduces the Policy Approach and Cluster Structure Integrated Model, a systematic taxonomy for classifying different cluster models. Ultimately, the book highlights the importance of tailoring cluster development strategies to specific national and regional contexts, considering factors such as institutional settings, economic development levels and industry needs.
Students and academics in economics, business and management, human geography and innovation studies will benefit from the book’s detailed coverage of cluster theories, empirical case studies and practical applications. It is also an invaluable read for policymakers, government officials, business leaders and industry practitioners.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Lara M. Espeter, Linda Hering | 2025, Elgar Publishing
This insightful book presents an overview of how external shocks affect commodity chains and their neighbouring systems. Expert authors employ diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to illustrate the extensive scope of this research area, exploring the impact of external shocks throughout various parts of the commodity chain.
Chapters investigate the intricate relationships between agricultural commodity chains and external shocks through interdisciplinary lenses, including geography, communication studies, economics, history, and sociology. They draw on case studies from around the world ranging from the Kenyan cut roses industry to sheep farming in the UK, providing individual and comparative analyses of the challenges caused by external forces. Examining the effects of both short- and long-term shocks, the book evaluates potential actor strategies, ultimately underscoring the need for increased collaboration across all scientific disciplines.
Presenting novel perspectives on the multiple social and spatial transformations associated with agricultural products, Commodity Chains Under Pressure is an invaluable read for students and scholars in global value chains, development studies, human geography, sociology, and agricultural economics. Its practical guidance is also beneficial for policymakers and practitioners in agriculture and supply chain analysis.
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by Arturo Hermann | 2025, Routledge
Engagement with and between a plurality of progressive, non-neoclassical traditions is an important step in fostering a more capacious understanding of sustainability ― both as a concept and as a political objective. To that end, this book provides a far-reaching overview of the development of radical ecology and heterodox economics on the issues of sustainability, highlighting the presence of different but largely complementary perspectives and arguing that greater engagement between these schools of thought is required to help formulate viable alternatives to the prevailing neoliberal ideology.
The chapters of this volume demonstrate, from various theoretical perspectives of radical ecology and heterodox economics (in particular, degrowth, ecosocialism, original institutional economics, theories of complex systems), the conceptual, ontological, epistemological and political economic limitations of existing mainstream accounts of sustainability, grounded, as they are, in neoclassical environmental economics.
The international cast list of contributors argues in favour of heterodox theories to inform an alternative political economy of socially just sustainability by considering how these are grounded in a more realistic, holistic and critical economics. Each chapter in this section examines how the schools of thought under consideration articulate the political economic foundations of "sustainability" and, in turn, what these mean in-practice over how, in policy action, sustainability should be achieved.
This volume is essential reading for anyone concerned with a viable alternative conception of sustainable economy, and in particular with readers from all strands of radical ecology and heterodox economics, policy makers, institutions and organisations dealing with the issues of sustainability.
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by Annie Tubadji | 2025, Elgar Publishing
Introducing the founding principles of the novel paradigm: Culture Based Development (CBD), Annie Tubadji presents a structured explanation of why people love and hate; why people act in the way that they do; and how this ultimately impacts the entire economy.
Drawing on nearly two decades of research, Tubadji offers micro-economic theoretical foundations to provide an understanding of how culture shapes preferences and choices. The book integrates evidence from a variety of fields such as behavioural, regional, urban economics and public choice to robustly support the theory, and offers policy implications in relation to aesthetic education, cultural policies and human development. It further demonstrates how on a personal level cultural bias could importantly vary between individual choices, so that on a macro level this could result in either inefficiencies and collapse of the entire economic system or alternatively allow for human flourishing.
Providing innovative tools to measure the dynamic variations of cultural bias and impacts, Culture Based Development is an excellent resource for scholars in cultural and development economics, as well as cultural theory and education. Written in an accessible style, it will also be an interesting read for those with a non-academic background such as policy makers.
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by Alyssa Battistoni | 2025, Princeton University Press
Capitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification. Yet it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world, whether carbon emissions or entire ecosystems. In Free Gifts, Alyssa Battistoni explores capitalism’s persistent failure to value nature, arguing that the key question is not the moral issue of why some kinds of nature shouldn’t be commodified, but the economic puzzle of why they haven’t been. To understand contemporary ecological problems from biodiversity collapse to climate change, she contends, we have to understand how some things come to have value under capitalism—and how others do not. To help us do so, Battistoni recovers and reinterprets the idea of the free gift of nature used by classical economic thinkers to describe what we gratuitously obtain from the natural world, and builds on Karl Marx’s critique of political economy to show how capitalism fundamentally treats nature as free for the taking. This novel theory of capitalism’s relationship to nature not only helps us understand contemporary ecological breakdown, but also casts capitalism’s own core dynamics in a new light.
Battistoni addresses four different instances of the free gift in political economic thought, each in a specific domain: natural agents in industry, pollution in the environment, reproductive labor in the household, and natural capital in the biosphere. In so doing, she offers new readings of major twentieth-century thinkers, including Friedrich Hayek, Simone de Beauvoir, Garrett Hardin, Silvia Federici, and Ronald Coase. Ultimately, she offers a novel account of freedom for our ecologically troubled present, developing a materialist existentialism to argue that capitalism limits our ability to be responsible for our relationships to the natural world, and imagining how we might live freely while valuing nature’s gifts.
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by Christopher Wimmer, Tobias Rieder | 2025, Brill
The book contributes to a better understanding of the relationship between globalisation and transnationalisation and the development of social inequality. It addresses this challenge in the current transition to a multi-centred world. The contributions by international experts from different continents and different disciplines bring together current research on global inequality and social classes, covering a wide variety of thematic and spatial foci. This also includes a comparison of analyses of inequality in a global context. By bringing together analyses of inequalities in income, wealth, education, political influence, labor conditions, and socio-ecological inequalities, among others, the volume provides deeper insights into the ways in which global social inequalities are changing yet being reproduced in many ways in the 21st century. It calls for a discussion on the global dimensions of unequal power relations.
The book is aimed at those interested and working in the social sciences (including in particular progressively orientated young researchers, whose unease in view of the decits of previous research, which neglects the societies of the Global South, should be addressed), as well as a broader audience interested in questions ofsocial inequality and global justice. This provides impetus for the work of progressive actors, in particular for intensied international cooperation between emancipatory movements, academia, trade unions and political parties.
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Edited by Paul Dragos Aligica and Jennifer Brick | Edward Elgar, 2025
This book discusses the crisis in modern governance rooted in the social fragmentation of modern society, the expanding diversity of values, beliefs and lifestyles generated by globalization and the technological revolution. Chapters advocate for a convergence of the institutional theory of polycentricity and the political philosophy of modus vivendi – live and let live – as a basic conceptual framework to uphold a peaceful and tolerant society, while presenting detailed analysis of a wide range of case studies.
This book is a critical resource for students and scholars of political science and public policy in addition to those studying political philosophy, sociology, moral theory or institutional systems. Policymakers and practitioners involved in governance will also find this invaluable due to its timely focus on the tensions generated by pluralism and how they can be alleviated.
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Edited by Jin Chen and Regina Lenart | Edward Elgar, 2025
Providing practical and methodological guidance alongside valuable recommendations, the Handbook on Post-Schumpeterian Innovations presents a new framework for designing, developing and evaluating non-producer, especially user innovation.
Featuring a comprehensive worldwide view, chapters emphasise the role of users to innovation, showcasing key case studies and insights. Analysing significant theoretical and empirical developments in the field of post-Schumpeterian innovations, the Handbook utilises functional mechanisms, participant behaviours, adoption and reuse analysis to assess user innovation. Going beyond traditional producer-driven frameworks, the contributing authors use non-producer innovation paradigms as a crucial resource to illustrate the increasing importance of innovation models which employ extensive collaborative work and integrate diverse viewpoints and expertise.
This Handbook is an essential resource for innovation scholars and graduate students. The case studies also provide a useful guide for policymakers and researchers in business, evolutionary economics and entrepreneurship.
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by Byung-Chul Han | 2025, Verso
Byung-Chul Han, a star of German philosophy, continues his passionate critique of neoliberalism, trenchantly describing a regime of technological domination that, in contrast to Foucault’s biopower, has discovered the productive force of the psyche. In the course of discussing all the facets of neoliberal psychopolitics fueling our contemporary crisis of freedom, Han elaborates an analytical framework that provides an original theory of Big Data and a lucid phenomenology of emotion. But this provocative essay proposes counter models too, presenting a wealth of ideas and surprising alternatives at every turn.
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by Arturo Hermann | 2026, Routledge
Engagement with and between a plurality of progressive, non-neoclassical traditions is an important step in fostering a more capacious understanding of sustainability – both as a concept and as a political objective. To that end, this book provides a critical overview of the development of alternative perspectives on the economics of sustainability, highlighting the presence of various strands of heterodox economics and radical ecology, and arguing that greater engagement between these schools of thought is required to help formulate viable alternatives to the prevailing neoliberal ideology.
The chapters in Part I of this volume, "Ecofeminism, Social Ecological Economics, Bioeconomics, Steady State", present a series of concrete policy proposals for building socially just, sustainable socio-economic processes. Each chapter utilizes the acumen of a given heterodox tradition to formulate policy reforms to secure this objective. In Part II, "Heterodox Macroeconomics and Sustainability", the contributors make the case for more radical forms of socio-economic transformation, particularly emphasizing community, local and regional level initiatives for change. The final part, "Circular Economy, Civil Economy and Other Heterodox Contributions", reflects on the potential strategic political-economic contribution of heterodox economics to building more sustainable and just socio-economic practices in a broader sense. These chapters demonstrate that heterodox economics and radical ecology can productively contribute to realizing sustainability in areas such as economic pedagogy, through working in conjunction with other social justice movements, and by challenging extant neoliberal ideologies of sustainability. They also deliberate on some of the institutional and epistemological challenges that confront heterodox practitioners seeking to make such an impact.
This volume is essential reading for anyone concerned with a viable alternative conception of the economy and sustainability, including readers from all schools of heterodox economics and radical ecology, and people and organizations involved in various ways in building an alternative political economy of sustainability.
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by Guido Ascari, Riccardo Trezzi | Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025
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 Graeme A. Hodge, Carsten Greve, Eoin Reeves | 2025, Elgar Publishing
Graeme A. Hodge, Carsten Greve and Eoin Reeves bring together expert authors to explore 50 years of research and analysis in the complex field of privatisation. The Research Handbook highlights current issues and challenges in privatisation through relevant contemporary examples, to further our understanding of this economic concept and how it is shaping global policies.
Acknowledging the ongoing discussions surrounding the performance of both the public and private sectors, this Research Handbook explores the evidence and controversy within ‘traditional privatisation’ research and addresses emerging conversations within the privatisation debate. The Research Handbook tackles fundamental conceptual and definitional issues, frames privatisation within a broader set of ideas about the control of activities in the public realm by private actors and explores new privatisation battles. Contemporary areas covered range from entire health care systems, housing, urban planning and finance to areas such as the governance of the internet, the role of global private foundations and space exploration. Overall, this Research Handbook concludes that the topic of privatisation, and what it means for citizens in a democracy, is now more important and relevant than ever.
Providing a balanced overview of privatisation policy debates, this Research Handbook is essential reading for students and scholars of economic regulation and governance, public and private sector economics and public administration and management. Public and private policy makers will also find the insights presented here beneficial.
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by Linda M. Lobao, Gregory Hooks | 2025, Elgar Publishing
This illuminating book offers a new perspective on social science inquiry into the spatial dimensions of societal well-being; addressing the key question of who gets what, and where.
Leading scholars Linda M. Lobao and Gregory Hooks adopt an organizing framework that speaks to the concept of spatial inequality, how it forms a lens on societal disparities, and how it gives rise to work with underlying commonalities across different social science disciplines. With this scaffolding, the authors consider spatial inequality across spatial scales, places, and populations, including the subnational scale, so often missing in inequality research. Illustrative cases center on poverty, public service provision and austerity policies, environmental justice, and war and conflict. The book concludes by advancing an integrative social science agenda to guide future emancipatory research on inequality.
Rethinking Spatial Inequality is a vital resource for students and scholars of inequality across the social sciences including sociology, human geography, development, regional, urban, and rural studies, demography, and political science. Policymakers and practitioners in public service provision will also benefit from this perceptive book.
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edited by Johannes Petry, Andreas Nölke | 2025, Bristol University Press
What role do emerging markets play in the global financial system? Are they subordinated within global financial hierarchies? Or do they have autonomy, even power, to use finance to pursue state objectives?
In this edited volume, leading scholars explore these questions, focusing on state–finance interactions globally. The book combines literatures on international financial subordination, financial statecraft and comparative capitalism to analyse state–finance relationships in emerging markets, particularly the BRICS: Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. It reveals that these states can control their domestic financial sectors despite global subordination, though their ability to do so varies significantly.
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edited by Lucia A. Reisch, Cass R. Sunstein | 2025, Edward Elgar
In light of the re-evaluation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), this timely Companion adopts an interdisciplinary approach to provide key insights on important topics, including sustainable food consumption and the mitigation of food waste.
Bringing together a diverse array of prominent scholars in the field, the book combines theoretical discussion with practical applications, considering how consumer behaviour shapes our world, especially when trying to achieve the SDGs. The book highlights that, as our global community faces urgent challenges such as climate change, poverty and inequality, understanding how people make choices and their impact is crucial.
The Elgar Companion to Consumer Behaviour and the Sustainable Development Goals is a fundamental resource for scholars, researchers and students of business management, organisational behaviour, development studies, management and sustainability, social psychology, and behavioural and experimental economics. Practitioners and policymakers in the fields of sustainable consumption and production, food policy, and sustainable development policy will also find the book’s practical insights to be of benefit.
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by Adi Imsirovic and Colin Bryce | Palgrave Macmillan, 2025
Modern oil trading, as we know it today, has its roots in the 1970s, especially after the collapse of the vertically integrated structure of the oil industry, controlled by oil majors. Oil trading flourished in the 1980s, following the energy liberalisation policies in the UK and US. In the process, the largest trading companies such as Vitol, Trafigura, Marcuria and others have taken on new roles in the industry, including financing of major new projects. The authors Adi Imsirovic and Colin Bryce have participated in oil trading during its pivotal years and through knowledge of the industry, experience and contacts hope to bring to life this period in rich details with key industry interviews. A serious academic study of the social history of modern trading but written in a way that makes it accessible to a wider audience, this book will be of interest to anyone involved in finance, economics, energy, policy, and trading.
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by Daphne T. Greenwood | 2024, Polity
This book was written to provide a pluralist approach to labor issues for undergraduates. It begins with current issues in work and pay. Early chapters look at the history of work—including serfdom and slavery, industrialization, and the development of institutions. That’s because path dependence is a central theme. A second theme is bargaining power—and the effects of changes in finance and industry, social attitudes, and technologies, as well as laws, regulations, and unions. An entire chapter is focused on the growth in wage, income, and wealth inequality—a unique feature in labor economics texts. A third theme is labor’s multiple roles in economies and societies, built on Figart-Mutari’s three faces model and the economics of sustainability. A fourth is externalities and social costs. Each chapter introduces a model from feminist, institutionalist, social, or stratification economists to analyze labor relationships or outcomes. The book includes useful data and examples, simplifying illustrations, and scholarly references for those wishing to dive deeper. Closing chapters deal with pluralist recommendations for improving job quality, and dealing with the impacts of environmental change, the crisis of care, and technological change--particularly AI.
Please find a link to the book here.
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, founded in 1986 through the generous support of Bard College trustee Leon Levy, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy research organization. The Levy Institute is independent of any political or other affiliation, and encourages diversity of opinion in the examination of economic policy issues while striving to transform ideological arguments into informed debate.
The graduate program, established in 2014, features one-year M.A. and two-year M.S. degrees in Economic Theory and Policy. The program is designed to offer a solid foundation in both neoclassical and alternative economic theory, policy, and empirical research methods. Small class sizes and personal interactions with scholars create a close community allowing students to be uniquely embedded and engaged in the internationally cited and recognized research at the Institute.
Applications for fall 2026 opening soon.
Info Sessions:August 22nd
Master of Science
The two-year MS is designed to prepare students for a career in non-governmental and civil society organizations, academia, government agencies, and financial, non-financial, and multilateral institutions. The program offers unprecedented opportunities to participate in advanced research alongside Institute scholars.
Master of Arts
The one-year MA concentrates on alternative approaches to economic theory, and offers a complement to an advanced degree.
Scholarships:
Early Decision Deadline: 15 January, 2026
Regular Decision Deadline: 15 April 2026
The Graduate Commission of the Institute of Economics at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil, announces the International Selection Process for the 2026 intake. Applications are open from July 21 to September 10, 2025, with recommendation letters accepted until September 22, 2025.
The selection process is aimed exclusively at non-Brazilian citizens who do not hold permanent residency in Brazil. The programmes are tuition-free and require full-time commitment. Courses are predominantly taught in Portuguese.
Available Programmes
Application Process
Applications must be submitted online via the Graduate Program website.
More information can be found in the official call for applications.
Application period: July 21 to September 10, 2025
Letter of Recommendation deadline: 22 September 2025
The EQUALFIN doctoral program aims to address the interaction between the financial system and socio-economic inequality at the national and global levels as well as new conflicts of objectives arising from the financing of the ecological transformation at the macro- and micro-economic levels. The research will be methodologically pluralistic, multi-paradigmatic, and interdisciplinary. The cooperative doctoral program is designed as an innovative pilot project between the FU Berlin and the HTW Berlin. The Graduate School EQUALFIN is currently offering four PhD fellowships in 2026, funded by the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung.
Among the eligibility requirements are:
Candidates will receive support in reviewing and refining their research proposals during the application process. If you are interested in applying for a doctoral fellowship at EQUALFIN, please contact the speakers (barbara.fritz@fu-berlin.de and heike.joebges@htw-berlin.de). We will be happy to assist you in identifying a potential supervisor for your research project. For questions regarding the application process, please contact the coordination office (carmen.marull@fu-berlin.de).
You can also find more information here.
Application Period: August 15 – November 2, 2025
The PhD in Economic History and History of Economic Thought. Firms, Institutions, and Cultures has been set up at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan (coordinator: prof. Claudia Rotondi).
The doctoral program aims to train scholars with a solid foundation in economic history and its various branches, such as the history of economic systems, business history, labor history, and the history of economic cultures, theories, and policies. Participants will engage with international literature and cutting-edge research trends, take part in and build scientific networks, compete for national and international research grants, manage diverse data sources, and become proficient in a range of qualitative and quantitative analytical methods. They will also be encouraged to foster dialogue with other social sciences.
The admission test, designed to ascertain the candidate’s preparation, abilities, and aptitude for scientific research, consists of a written test, an oral test, and evaluation of the qualifications submitted. The written test – in Italian or English, at the candidate’s choice – will cover macro-themes 13 in both economic history and the history of economic thought (reading list for the exam preparation).
Please click here for the Application and here for further information about the programm.
Deadline: 2 September 2025, at 12:00 pm (local time)
Dear Heterodox Economics Community,
We ask you to spend a couple minutes reading the following summary about what is currently transpiring at the University of Utah Economics Department, and to consider submitting a comment expressing support for the department using this public forum (the forum is at the very bottom of the webpage).
The department of economics at the University of Utah is one of the few remaining heterodox departments in the U.S., and is currently at significant risk of being taken over and transformed by a conservative state government colluding with private interests to eradicate what they deem to be a threat of interdisciplinary and pluralist economic thought. In April, the university announced that the two economics departments – the heterodox department in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences and a recently-established mainstream department in the School of Business – would be merging. The merger is clearly a political one in which the goal is to eradicate heterodoxy from economic research and teaching.
The University of Utah’s Economics Department holds a unique and important place in the landscape of higher education. For decades, it has been recognized nationally and internationally as a center of pluralist economic thought. Its faculty and graduates have made significant contributions to fields as diverse as political economy, economic history, feminist economics, ecological economics, and post-Keynesian macroeconomics, while also engaging deeply with mainstream economic tools and methods. The department has long exemplified what it means for a university to foster rigorous, open intellectual inquiry and diverse scholarly traditions.
While the proposed merger is framed as an administrative realignment, such reorganizations, even when well-intended, have often had long-term implications for the intellectual character and autonomy of academic units. Colleagues at other institutions have witnessed how structural consolidations can, often inadvertently, lead to the erosion of pluralism and the loss of distinctive programs. In particular, we are reminded of the experience at the University of Notre Dame, where a once-integrated pluralist economics department was divided and ultimately absorbed into a more conventional unit, despite the concerns of faculty and students. Similarly, at the University of Manitoba and UC Riverside, efforts to narrow departmental scope resulted in the weakening or displacement of pluralist traditions that had played a vital role in research, public engagement, and minority student development.
We are also concerned by the public release of the so-called Hillman report, which purports to evaluate research productivity in the Department of Economics. This document - commissioned outside normal review channels and shortly after a comprehensive Graduate Council review -relies heavily on REPEC rankings. As many academic economists are aware, REPEC is a voluntary database with limited coverage, especially for scholars publishing in interdisciplinary outlets. It excludes numerous high-quality publications simply because of the archiving policies of their journals. By contrast, the Graduate Council's external review - conducted by a panel of distinguished economists - commended the department for its remarkable growth in research productivity, interdisciplinary leadership, and national impact. We encourage decision-makers to place greater weight on this rigorous peer review process rather than an unrepresentative metric like REPEC.
The University of Utah's Economics Department is a vital intellectual resource, not only for the university and the state, but for the broader scholarly community. We urge you to consider the value of preserving its identity, independence, and longstanding commitment to pluralism. We mentioned at the beginning of this message that there is a public forum on the Utah economics website in which anyone can voice their opinion about the merger and the future of economics at the University of Utah. We would be sincerely grateful if you could take a few minutes to express your support for the department and its mission. Supportive statements from economists and allies around the world can play a crucial role in highlighting the academic importance of the department and in holding the university publicly accountable for preserving its integrity and pluralist identity.
Thank you for your time reading this message, and let us know if you have any questions.
In solidarity,
Dashiell Anderson & Fernando Rugitsky
Note: if the link to the public forum doesn't work, you can copy and paste this url into your browser (again, the forum is at the bottom of the webpage): https://futureofeconomics.utah.edu/#Milestones
A retiring author is seeking co-author(s) to collaborate on the next edition of a rather successful heterodox principles of economics textbook. The book is U.S. focused and is more data driven than theoretical. It has gone through multiple editions and now requires some updating in light of recent developments—including (but not limited to) trade wars and tariffs, the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath, inflation, the rise of populism, global conflicts with supply-chain disruptions, increases in government debt, global warming, and advances in artificial intelligence. Publication of the new edition is planned for 2028. Interested contributors with a commitment to heterodox approaches are encouraged to inquire.
Please send expressions of interest to: textbook2028@gmail.com.