Issue 358April 20, 2026webpdfHeterodox Economics Directory
One of the most time-consuming tasks when editing the Newsletter is surely to review the entries in our journals section as screening so many different and inspiring contributions will typically lead to repeated distractions in the editing process ;-) For instance, I lost some time with this neat paper in the Journal of Evolutionary Economics that summarizes how high real wages might lead to beneficial growth path – not (only) because high wages boost demand, but also because they pose continuous incentives for investment and technological upgrading that will put countries on a more advantageous developmental trajectory. This self-reinforcing effect – sometimes labeled a "Kaldor-Verdoorn" dynamic – in my view is a key force shaping economic development, although its practical relevance has been undermined in recent decades as the outsourcing of production offered an outside option to corporations facing wage pressure.
Nonetheless, the key idea that high real wages can boost innovation also resonates well with a radical view on economic history, which similarly emphasizes how cheap labor has stifled innovation – for instance in antique empires. It is thereby worth noting that this shared intuition of different heterodox approaches has also been taken up prominently by economic historians, who now identify that high real wages in Britain in conjunction with its imperial advantage should be seen as an essential trigger causing industrialization in Britain and, in turn, the Great Divergence between Global South and Global North (see, e.g., here).
Similarly, I also lost some time on contributions relating to internal controversies among Post-Keynesians (see here or check the full issue of the PSL Quarterly Review) and options for more routinely integrating feminist insights into heterodox macroeconomics (see here or have a look at the recent issue of Metroeconomica) – also because those papers resonate well with the main theme of the Newsletter's last editorial, which put some emphasis on the importance of synthesizing insights from different traditions to build more explicit shared foundations (that are sometimes left implicit due to distinctive terminologies, discursive impatience, different research foci and, sometimes, within-tradition group-think leading to an over-emphasis on points of contention ;-)).
Aside from shared foundations, the heterodox community requires shared institutional spaces and histories, which repeatedly emerge when economic departments with a heterodox orientation emerge or evolve. In this spirit, I wanted to point to this Special Issue call that puts this question to the forefront by inviting contributions on the history of economics departments as well as this petition that collects voices opposing a further narrowing of the economic curriculum at Cambridge University.
By the way, if you'd like to support an inclusive approach to heterodox community building, consider joining or donating to the Newsletter. IAPHE (International Association for Political Economy and Heterodox Economics) serves as our institutional backbone, and your support would directly fund the community care work of our researchers, students, and volunteers.
Many thanks and best,
Jakob
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10 - 11 October 2026 | Thiruvananthapuram, India
This is the third annual conference of the Indian Society for the History of Economic Thought (ISHET). ISHET has been established to revive teaching and research in the sub-field of history of economic thought (HET) in India.
ISHET 2026 will be held at the Centre for Development Studies (CDS), Thiruvananthapuram on 10th and 11th of October 2026.
The organizers welcome papers on all HET topics. An illustrative list is provided below.
1) Economic thought of individuals
Kautilya, Khaldun, William Petty, Richard Cantillon, Mary Wollstonecraft, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, Harriet Taylor Mill, Augustin Cournot, Alfred Marshall, Karl Marx, Dadhabhai Naoroji, B. R. Ambedkar, Wassily Leontief, Piero Sraffa, Krishna Bharadwaj
2) Thematic concerns
Feminist, Ecological, Labour, Caste, Finance, Money, Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Econometrics, Inequality, Mathematics in economics
3) Regional economic thought
Indian economic thought, Kerala economic thought, Japanese economic thought, Russian economic thought, French economic thought, African economic thought, American and Latin American economic thought, British economic thought
4) Teaching HET
Integrating HET in micro and macro, pluralism and HET, HET and critical pedagogy
5) Methods in HET
Archival strategies, internalist approach, externalist approach, textual analysis, historical reconstruction, oral history
For further information please click here.
Submission Deadline for Abstracts: 30 June 2026
3-5 January, 2027 | Washington DC, USA
Social Economics: Exploring our Disciplinary and Cross-Disciplinary Roots and Re-advancing Ethics for Economics in a Changing World
In social economics, ethics encompasses the systematic and dialogical evaluation of economic life in light of multiple moral principles including human dignity, justice, solidarity, rights, virtue, care, and social welfare. The Association for Social Economics (ASE) invites scholars to reflect on intellectual foundations of social economics and to examine how our interdisciplinary roots in moral philosophy, theology, political economy, sociology, and institutional economics continue to inform contemporary inquiry. In a period marked by widening inequality, technological disruption, migration, geopolitical fragmentation and climate instability, our field is uniquely positioned to reassert ethical dimensions of economic analysis.
ASE is accepting proposals for papers/sessions at the 2027 ASSA Meetings to be held January 3-5, 2027 in Washington, DC. The organizers welcome contributions that revisit foundational thinkers and traditions, trace cross-disciplinary influences, and propose new frameworks that integrate ethics and economics in analytically rigorous and socially responsive ways to shape more humane and institutionally grounded economic futures. While the organizers will give preference to papers that address the unifying premise outlined here, the organizers also welcome researchers to submit proposals keeping with the following additional broad themes:
In the case of individual papers, sessions will be assembled around synergies between ideas and/or methods and may include counterpoints to encourage discussion. Submissions of panels (entire sessions) should include four to five presenters. The organizers particularly welcome and encourage junior scholars and graduate students from around the world to submit proposals. Nonmembers at the time of submission must become ASE members before the start of the ASSA Meetings if they are selected for presentation.
Presented papers at ASSA are eligible to be considered for the Warren Samuel Prize.
Due to limited session slots, the organizers are unlikely to be able to accept all submissions. Papers and sessions not accepted for the ASE program may be considered for the ASE portion of the ICAPE conference, typically held in the days following the ASSA meetings.
Following the conference, the organizers encourage authors to submit their revised papers to one of the association’s journals, Forum for Social Economics or Review of Social Economy.
Please use the form to submit your proposal by May 1, 2026. Specific questions can be addressed to Anita Alves Pena.
Please find more info here.
Extended Submission Deadline: 1 May 2026
Recent changes in the landscape of higher education have meant that several economics departments formerly known for their traditions in heterodox economic thought are in decline. Given these changes, it is important to document the origins, development, growth, and dismantlement of heterodox economics programs globally. Lee (2002; 2009) offers some history of heterodox communities in the US and UK, but other scholars have already accomplished histories of specific programs. For example, Bouchikhi and Kimberly (2017) published on the struggle for the soul of economics at Notre Dame, documenting the dismantling of the heterodox department. Mata (2009) documents tenure denials from Harvard and Yale that pushed radical economists to departments like UMass Amherst, The New School for Social Research, University of California Riverside, and Stanford. However, there is limited research documenting the rise (or fall) of heterodox economics departments at other institutions, especially those outside the United States.
In this special issue, the editors offer a collection of studies which provide histories of various economics departments and their heterodox traditions. The editors imagine papers that draw from archives and oral histories to explain how a program began, the key players and challenges, how a program was sustained, and what brought its demise if applicable. Authors undertaking collection of oral histories have the option to archive them in our collection with the Oral Histories in Economics Project at the Centre d’Economie de la Sorbonne: this comes with support for permissions collection as well as transcription services. The editors are excited to see, though not limited to, papers which offer histories of heterodox economics departments at any of the following universities:
Please submit extended abstracts (no more than 1000 words) by July 15, 2026, to rope.historyofheterodoxecon@gmail.com. Selected abstracts will be invited to submit full papers and to participate in a virtual workshop in September 2026, which will include training on oral history collection and archiving. Full manuscripts will be due by March 15, 2027, and should be submitted through the journal’s online Editorial Manager system. Manuscripts including endnotes, should not exceed 10,000 words (this includes title, abstract, keywords, and sources). Please consult the journal’s submission guidelines for more information. Papers will go through standard reviewer processes.
Submission Deadline: 15 July 2026
3-5 January, 2027 | Washington DC, USA
URPE invites proposals for complete sessions and individual papers for the URPE at the ASSA’s program. The organisers welcome submissions on topics of interest to radical political economists from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives. The organizers are especially interested in papers that provide contemporary or historical analyses of the current political economic juncture, of poly- and planetary crises, of the implications for anti-capitalist politics, and on other related themes.
Please note the following before planning your submission:
Please note that all session participants must be a current member of URPE in good standing at the time of submission of the session or paper proposal. Anyone not current with their dues will be notified and given a one week grace period, after which proposals will be deleted if membership is not made current.
Guidelines for Complete Sessions
Proposals for complete sessions should include the following information:
Proposals for sessions should contain at least four and up to five papers. Session organizers are responsible for conveying administrative information to session members, including confirmation that the session has been accepted, the time and location of the session, and the deadlines for distributing papers.
Chairs and discussants should preferably be chosen amongst the panelists. External discussants and chairs, as well as co-authors, will be not listed on the ASSA program. However, they will be listed on an URPE program on the URPE website. The ASSA allocation of sessions is based upon the number of people attending sessions, and the ASSA does not consider chairs, discussants, co-authors, and panelists as attendees. Thus, the organizers welcome the participation of those who would like to serve as external discussants or chairs, but will not include their names in the submission to the ASSA.
The total number of URPE sessions is limited by the ASSA, and we regret that high-quality session proposals may have to be turned down.
Guidelines for Individual Papers
Individual papers that are accepted will be assigned to sessions, and each session will have an assigned chair. Session chairs are responsible for conveying administrative information to session members, including the time and location of the session, and the deadlines for distributing papers. Sessions will be organized based on the cohesiveness of papers around a central theme. the organizers regret that high quality individual papers may be turned down due to the inability to place them in a session with papers with similar themes.
Proposals for individual papers should include the following information:
Proposals submitted after the April 27th deadline will not be considered. You should receive word from URPE about the decision on your session or paper in late June. The date and time of sessions are assigned by the AEA at the end of August.
Papers and panels that cannot be included on the URPE at ASSA program can automatically be considered for the ICAPE (International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics) conference that usually immediately follows the ASSA conference. The ICAPE 2027 Conference will take place immediately following the ASSA conference. The ICAPE conference will also include a virtual component.
Please indicate with your submission whether you would like to be considered for inclusion into the ICAPE program if not accepted by URPE. ICAPE sessions are organized by Dr. Geoff Schneider, Bucknell University.
Applications for individual papers should be made to URPE@ASSA Individual Paper Proposals, or for complete session submissions to URPE@ASSA Complete Session Proposals.
If you have questions or problems with the online submission, please email the URPE National Office. For questions about the meetings, please contact the URPE@ASSAs 2026 coordinators, Smita Ramnarain or Anastasia Wilson.
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Submission Deadline: 27 April 2026
2-3 July, 2026 | Freiburg, Germany
Workshop theme: Digital Monies: For Better or Worse? Emerging Monetary Infrastructures between Social Change and Control
In recent years, the proliferation of digital monies has reshaped how people across the globe pay, save, and invest, from stored-value cards to e-wallets and cryptocurrencies. Far from being peripheral, global majority contexts play a central and often pioneering role in these transformations, with cases from China to Brazil shaping technological designs, regulatory models, and everyday monetary practices. Crucially, these developments are associated with multiple, often competing political projects. Digital payment systems have been promoted as tools of financial inclusion, promising broader access to inexpensive, efficient, and reliable financial services, a narrative often exemplified by the mobile money pioneer M-Pesa in Kenya. At the same time, digital infrastructures underpin alternative currency projects that emerged in response to growing distrust in hegemonic banking systems after the 2008 financial crisis, seeking to bypass established financial intermediaries, most prominently in the case of Bitcoin. Simultaneously, digital monies have opened up new means of governance, particularly in the fields of welfare and migration policy. Welfare benefits distributed through local e-currencies, such as the Arariboia in Brazil, or through state-issued payment cards, such as the Bezahlkarte for asylum seekers in Germany, enable novel forms of monitoring, restriction, and differentiation. Yet the effects of these governmental efforts remain empirically contested.
Digital monies thus operate between promises of unbureaucratic freedom and the precise enforcement of punitive welfare, between claims of inclusion and effects of exclusion, both intended and unintended. Expanding digital financial infrastructures does not automatically translate into broader accessibility, as barriers such as uneven access, digital literacy, and regulatory constraints continue to mediate who can participate, under what conditions, and with what degrees of autonomy. At the same time, these systems depend on technological infrastructures that are frequently designed, owned, or operated by private actors, including globally dominant companies such as Mastercard and Visa as well as fintech firms and platform providers, thereby reconfiguring relations of dependency between users, states, and corporate intermediaries. Moreover, like all payment systems, digital payment services entail transaction costs that are often levied disproportionately on small-scale transactions, reinforcing existing social inequalities along lines of class, migration status, gender, and geography. Finally, they generate new forms of value extraction through extensive data on users’ payment behaviour, raising questions about data ownership, surveillance, and the appropriation of informational value by infrastructure providers and public authorities alike.
In this 1,5-day workshop, the organizers aim to engage with the dynamic field of digital monies from an interdisciplinary social-science perspective, bringing together empirical case studies and theoretical reflections. Rather than treating digital monies merely as technical innovations, the workshop approaches them as socio-technical infrastructures that organise power, value, and social relations. The workshop foregrounds digital monies as infrastructures of governance, inclusion and exclusion, sociality, and future-making, and asks how these dimensions intersect across different empirical and regulatory contexts.
Organized by
Please submit an abstract of approximately 250–300 words by 4 May, via email to Fabienne Hansen.
The organizers have a limited budget for travel expenses and will aim to cover participants’ costs as far as possible. Please include an estimate of your anticipated travel expenses with your submission, and indicate whether you have access to other sources of funding. Priority will be given to participants without alternative funding opportunities.
Participants will be asked to circulate a draft paper in advance, which will be briefly introduced and then discussed collectively. Further details on the format will follow once the group of participants has been finalised.
Please find more info here.
Submission Deadline: 4 May 2026
18-19 June, 2026 | Online
IIPPE Agrarian Change Working Group
The online conference is in addition to the annual ACWG in-person sessions of the IIPPE in-person conference, from September 9-12, 2026 in Lisbon, Portugal. The online initiative seeks to create a platform for scholars and students, especially from the Global South, who are willing but unable to attend the IIPPE in-person conference in September.
A sense of urgency animates the study of agrarian change in this conjuncture of global climate emergency, entrenched extractivism, corporate monopoly control, and far-right ideology and rule. The convergence of multiple crisis around labour, land, climate, biodiversity, food, fuel, finance, and migration is radically transforming landscapes and social relations in agrarian formations across the world. Agrarian Political Economy faces the challenge of providing critical analysis of the dynamics and contradictions of this conjuncture. A deeper understanding of the changing social relations and dynamics of production, reproduction, property and power is a necessary condition to build effective counter-hegemonic political projects.
While there are important efforts to promote closed cycle production, territorial and food sovereignty, climate justice, shorter commodity chains, and collective organisation, these have not yet seriously eroded the dominance of neoliberal globalisation. Agribusiness control over global production networks has increased. Agriculture’s financialisation has intensified. And grabs of different kinds (land, water, forests) have continued. These accumulation strategies have a direct but also contradictory impact on agrarian class relations. Capitalist agrarian classes consolidate themselves while petty commodity producers, peasants and rural labourers reproduce themselves under ever more precarious conditions, which requires more than ever to have one foot in the non-agrarian economy. Both outmigration from agriculture and the continued increase in migrant agricultural labour are part and parcel of these processes. This is in turn changing social reproduction, not only by further increasing the feminization of labour but also increasing the pressures on women’s unpaid labour within households and across generations. However, some sectors of the subaltern agrarian classes have managed to insert themselves in agribusiness-led commodity chains through different economic and political strategies, benefiting from the high prices of food.
This raises important questions about the processes of integration into global capitalism, farmer/peasant resistance, social conflicts in the countryside, territorial reconfigurations, semi-proletarianisation, and surplus populations. Are the global and local movements promoting food sovereignty and/or indigenous autonomy leading to more sustainable ways of protecting and managing natural resources? Are these alternatives capable of mounting a challenge to neoliberalism, agribusiness, extractivism, and right-wing populism? Will urban and rural poor be priced out of access to sufficient food, again? Politically, the recurrent crises and instability have led to calls for, and promises of, greater role for the state in regulating economic life – but to what effect?
The online conference is free of any registration fees.
For questions and additional information, contact the Agrarian Change Working Group Conference.
Organising committee:
Please find more info here.
13-31 July, 2026 | Vienna, Austria
The AEMS Summer University presents and discusses the state of the art in alternative economic and monetary systems. There is overwhelming evidence that the current economic model based on everlasting economic growth is destroying the ecosystem of our planet and contributing to the global climate crisis. Therefore, the summer university wants to shed light on approaches and reform proposals that can make a real difference. AEMS offers room for critical thinking and the possibility to openly discuss and deconstruct ideas and concepts with distinguished experts from various scientific fields. Lectures, workshops and discussion panels enable the participants to acquire a deeper understanding of the intricate interactions of society, ecology and economy.
After successful completion, the international participants receive a certificate from BOKU University, awarding them with 5 ECTS points, which equals 125 study hours.
Modules
Please find more info here.
Join the Online Info Session on 27 April, 2026 here.
Application Deadline: 30 April 2026
24- 30 August | Foça, Turkey
The International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) https://iippe.org/ is pleased to announce its 2026 Summer School, taking place August 24-30 in the Village of Sciences in Foça, Turkey. This intensive program promotes critical political economy through workshops on value theory, socialist praxis, social struggles, and resistance. Designed for emerging scholars, the summer school fosters rigorous debate in an inclusive and supportive environment.
Aylin Topal, Alfredo Saad-Filho, and Al Campbell will lead the sessions, drawing on their extensive work in political economy.
Who Can Participate?
Open to undergraduate and graduate students worldwide with a passion for critical political economy. Anticipated capacity: not over 15 participants.
Program Details
The Summer School spans 7 days with morning and evening sessions (afternoon free for reading provided related materials). A detailed reading list will be shared with accepted participants upon registration—no prerequisites required.
Event Schedule
Scholarships and Registration
IIPPE offers scholarships of 120 Euros for all selected participants. The registration fee for the whole week for the Village of Sciences is 12,500 Turkish Lira, so the scholarship has been set to cover roughly 50% of the registration fee at the exchange rate when the scholarships were set in the middle of March. Registration includes comfortable tent accommodations and three daily meals. Please see the website of the Village: www.bilimler.org
To apply, submit a letter of interest (max. 2 pages) by June 1st. Include in this letter your academic education and current affiliation, and for those more advanced students for whom these are applicable, any current research project (e.g., Master’s thesis, PhD work, other current research), and any publications. Priority goes to those showing strong alignment with the event’s topics. Email applications to aylintopal@gmail.com
Venue
Foça is a coastal town near İzmir with ancient Phocaean roots. It is easily accessible for International or Turkish students via İzmir’s Adnan Menderes Airport, followed by a short train ride or drive.
Submission Deadline: 1 June 2026
11-13 May, 2026 | Hybrid
A bi-continental meeting: Europe–Latin America and the Caribbean. From 9am (4pm) to 4pm (11pm) – Mexico City time (Portugal/UK Time).
In a context shaped by the reconfiguration of the world order, the intensification of geopolitical disputes, the structural financialisation of the economy, the ecological crisis, and the deepening of social inequalities, Dependency Theory has once again become an indispensable perspective for understanding the dynamics of contemporary capitalism. Far from constituting a closed chapter in Latin American thought, the dependency approach offers decisive analytical tools for interpreting the current global crisis and its implications for Latin America and the Caribbean.
This international seminar, bi-continental in scope and held in a hybrid format, brings together leading scholars with the aim of debating the contemporary relevance, renewal, and future trajectory of Dependency Theory in the twenty-first century.
Within this framework, the programme will also include the presentation of Decolonizing Economics: An Introduction (Devika Dutt, Carolina Alves, Surbhi Kesar, and Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven). The book examines the Eurocentric foundations that have shaped the economics discipline and constrained its capacity to engage with phenomena such as structural racism, uneven development, the climate crisis, and labour relations. It proposes “decolonising” economics by challenging the norms of neutrality and objectivity from which the discipline often claims to speak, and by opening space for approaches that take structural power, exploitation, and colonial legacies seriously. This session will include discussion by leading thinkers from the Latin American tradition of Dependency Theory and is conceived as a direct dialogue with the seminar’s thematic strands—particularly in rethinking the political economy of global capitalism from non-Eurocentric frameworks.
Thematic strands
Strand 1. The historical development and contemporary relevance of Dependency Theory
This strand addresses the historical development and contemporary relevance of Dependency Theory, examining its main analytical categories, internal debates, and explanatory power in the face of recent transformations in global capitalism.
Strand 2. (Neo-)imperialisms, geopolitical tensions, and international economic relations from a dependency perspective
This strand analyses (neo-)imperialisms, geopolitical tensions, and international economic relations from a dependency perspective, interrogating global power configurations, inter-power rivalry, and the place of the periphery within the emerging world architecture.
Strand 3. New theoretical and methodological horizons: Dependency Theory as a framework for the contemporary world structure
This strand explores new theoretical and methodological horizons to consolidate Dependency Theory as an analytical framework for today’s world structure, engaging with debates on financialisation, extractivism, global value chains, the ecological crisis, and transformations of work.
More than a commemorative exercise, this seminar advances a strategic discussion: to think dependency today is to think about the conditions of possibility for sovereignty, development, and emancipation in a contested world.
Please find more info here.
18-22 May, 2026 | London, UK
The Networks and Urban Systems Centre (NUSC) Summer School in Network and Data Science at the University of Greenwich, London, provides opportunities for those both new to network and data science and those who wish to consolidate or expand existing knowledge in the field.
Ten distinct courses offer:
The courses will be provided in an in-person, campus environment, in the iconic UNESCO world heritage site of the University of Greenwich, in London. The courses are aimed to equip postgraduate students, researchers and social science practitioners with skills to apply in practical projects.
Please find more info here.
Early Bird Application Deadline: 30 April 2026
May 28 - 29, 2026 | London, UK
As early-career researchers, we often struggle with the lack of opportunities to collaborate on writing and publishing, especially regarding our efforts for decolonising our work in heterodox economics. This workshop aims to create a collaborative space for PhD researchers to engage critically with each other’s work and co-write future work, particularly in relation to questions of coloniality, Eurocentrism, and epistemic hierarchies within economics.
The organizers welcome contributions from PhD students working broadly within heterodox or critical political economy, particularly in the areas of:
The workshop is designed to support participants in developing written work, reflecting on their research practices, and fostering future collaborations across subfields.
Application Process
To apply, please submit:
If selected, participants will be required to submit a full draft chapter or paper (approx. 6,000–10,000 words) in advance of the workshop for circulation among participants.
To apply please click here.
Practical Information
Aims
For any questions about the workshop, the application process, or logistics, please feel free to reach out to the organizing team.
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Application Deadline: 1 May 2026
Job title: Faculty Post Doctoral Fellowships
Leeds University Business School (LUBS) are offering two‑year Post Doctoral Fellowship Schemes to support early‑career researchers to develop world‑class research and strengthen their academic progression. Fellows receive structured training, dedicated mentoring on publications, funding applications and career development, plus opportunities to gain teaching experience. You will join a supportive cohort across the range of disciplines within LUBS.
What you will have
The University of Leeds offers a range of benefits including excellent annual leave entitlement, generous pension schemes, family friendly policies, fitness and wellbeing facilities, and personal and professional development opportunities. To learn more follow the link to the benefits website.
For further information on the Post Doctoral Fellowship Schemes and how to apply please visit the following websites for each position, where you can also access a full candidate brief.
Please find more info here.
Application Deadline: 31 May 2026
Job title: Research Assistant / PhD Candidate
The DFG-funded Research Training Group "Ecological Regime Shifts and Systemic Risk in Coupled Social-Ecological Systems" (ECORISK), which has been running since 2024, brings together perspectives from behavioural economics, ecological modeling, environmental systems science, geography, geoinformatics, political science and sociology.
Within the framework of three thematic clusters (Ecosystem Dynamics, Human activities and Governance), ECORISK deals with the causes of ecological regime shifts and the systemic risks they pose as well as their consequences in socio-ecological systems.
Intensive agriculture serves as a guiding example. The Research Training Group is located at Osnabrück University, whose diverse research attracts students and scholars from around the world to a liveable city.
In the subproject "Participatory Interventions to Foster Cooperation in the Face of Regime Shifts and Systemic Risk" at the Department of Environmental Economics in the School of Business Administration and Economics, a position as Research Assistant / PhD Candidate.
Your Duties:
Requirements:
Additional Qualifications:
ECORISK offers:
Please send applications, including a maximum two-page motivation letter for the advertised position (explaining your motivation and qualifications for and potential contribution to the subproject), a curriculum vitae (CV) (possibly including a list of publications), transcripts of previous academic degrees (Bachelor/Master, including Transcripts of Records), a meaningful writing sample (e.g. chapter from your own article (if available), master’s thesis, or term paper), and the name and email address(es) of one or more potential references (alternative: one or more reference letters), in electronic form as a single PDF file via email to: ecorisk@uos.de. Please include the number of the subproject B3b or subprojects you are applying for in the subject line.
For further information please click here.
Submission Deadline: 30 April 2026
Job Title: Research Assistant / PhD Candidate
The DFG-funded Research Training Group "Ecological Regime Shifts and Systemic Risk in Coupled Social-Ecological Systems" (ECORISK), which has been running since 2024, brings together perspectives from behavioural economics, ecological modeling, environmental systems science, geography, geoinformatics, political science and sociology.
Within the framework of three thematic clusters (Ecosystem Dynamics, Human activities and Governance), ECORISK deals with the causes of ecological regime shifts and the systemic risks they pose as well as their consequences in socio-ecological systems.
Intensive agriculture serves as a guiding example. The Research Training Group is located at Osnabrück University, whose diverse research attracts students and scholars from around the world to a liveable city.
In the subproject "Regime shifts and human behaviour in agricultural systems" at the Department of Environmental Economics in the School of Business Administration and Economics, a position as Research Assistant / PhD Candidate.
Your Duties:
Requirements:
Additional Qualifications:
ECORISK offers:
Please send applications, including a maximum two-page motivation letter for the advertised position (explaining your motivation and qualifications for and potential contribution to the subproject), a curriculum vitae (CV) (possibly including a list of publications), transcripts of previous academic degrees (Bachelor/Master, including Transcripts of Records), a meaningful writing sample (e.g. chapter from your own article (if available), master’s thesis, or term paper) and the name and email address(es) of one or more potential references (alternative: one or more reference letters), in electronic form as a single PDF file via email to: ecorisk@uos.de. Please include the number of the subproject B1b or subprojects you are applying for in the subject line.
For further information please click here.
Submission Deadline: 30 April 2026
The Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw) is an independent research institute in the field of applied economic research focussing on Central, East and South East Europe. The institute has been operating successfully for over 50 years and enjoys an excellent international reputation. The institute offers its clients and stakeholders economic studies, forecasts and economic data.
To strengthen the team of economists, the institute is currently looking for a Pre-Doc Economist specialised in macroeconomics.
Main Tasks:
Requirements:
wiiw offers:
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis as they are received. Potential invitations for job interviews may be issued before the application deadline. Initially, the contract will be for a fixed term of 24 months. A subsequent permanent contract is possible upon successful collaboration. Monthly remuneration (14 times per year), for a 30-hour week, will be € 2.832,- gross or above, depending on qualifications and experience. The insitute supports workforce diversity as a key to innovation and success and are committed to offering equal opportunities to all.
If you have any questions regarding this job offer, please contact Lea Steininger or Anna Matzner.
For further information please click here.
Application Deadline: 11 May 2026
Job title: University Assistant without doctorate
The Wegener Center integrates climate, environmental, and socio-economic research and develops pathways toward a low-carbon, climate-resilient future. We analyze climate and social systems, offer a specialized master’s program on climate change and transformation, and actively communicate our research to the public and decision-makers.
Your Responsibilities:
Your Profile:
The following documents are required for a complete application:
For further information please click here.
Application Deadline: 20 April 2026
The Association for Economic and Social Analysis, in collaboration with Rethinking Marxism: A Journal of Economics, Culture, and Society, is pleased to announce that submissions are now being accepted for the 2026 Stephen A. Resnick Graduate Student Essay Prize.
Submissions are invited from graduate students in any academic discipline whose work offers a novel, compelling engagement with the modes of analysis and philosophical concerns found in Resnick’s work or in the pages of Rethinking Marxism. The organisers seek essays that explore the complex intersection of class with economic, political, psychological, and other social processes or with the intellectual, social, or political problems that continually inspire Marxian analyses.
This year’s winner will receive a $2000 award and publication of their essay in Rethinking Marxism. A list of previous winners can be found on the RM website. To be considered for the 2026 Stephen A. Resnick Graduate Student Essay Prize, please submit a current CV and an essay of 4000-8000 words to resnickaward@rethinkingmarxism.org no later than September 1, 2026. The winner will be announced by October 15.
Submission Deadline: September 1 2026
This year’s GAIA Best Paper Award winners areDavid Kreis and Martin Prominski. They receive the award for their article:
Representing spatio-temporal relations between humans and non-humans: The role of landscape architecture in transdisciplinary research (GAIA 1/2025).
Their winning article impressed the BPA jury by showing how landscape architecture can move beyond the boundaries of conventional research and open up new visual pathways in transdisciplinary work. Through real-world workshops, the authors demonstrate the practical applicability of the method of “Gaiagraphy,” offering a tool that can be adopted in future research. The article stands out as an innovative contribution that advances transdisciplinary research and highlights the role of landscape architecture as a catalyst for a deeper understanding of complex human–environment relations.
In addition,the BPA jury gave an honorable mention to:
Eva Lieberherr, Julie Dölker, Hanna Salomon, Veronika Schick, Ivana Logar, Harald Bugmann, Fritz Schlunegger, Louis König, Jasmin Krähenbühl, Brian McArdell, Peter Molnar, Chantal Schmidt, Simone Quatrini, Astrid Zabel, Jialin Zhang, and Sabine Hoffmann:
Science integration and a participatory scenario process. An inter- and transdisciplinary study from the Alps (GAIA 1/2025)
Anna-Maria Grabowski and Frank Meyer:
Negotiating Planetary Health, agency, and human tissue demand in the Anthropocene. The case of the global cornea shortage (GAIA 4/2025)
Together, these papers reflect GAIA’s thematic breadth, mission, and ambition—crossing disciplinary boundaries, opening up new perspectives, and advancing both methodological innovation and the professionalization of transdisciplinary practice.
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Mattia Leoni: Macro-financial risks, income distribution and socio-ecological transition in climate-energy models
Marco Compagnoni & Jane Torbert: Environmental and economic effects of pay-as-you-throw waste taxation: An assessment based on difference-in-differences models
Valentina González-Rostani, Liam F. Beiser-McGrath & Michaël Aklin: Labor market risk shapes individuals’ environmental attitudes and policy preferences
S. Bacouel-Jentjens, G. Levieuge, J. Riascos & C. Turcu: Sustainable development and the mining industry: The Mexican case
Xingyi Zuo, Houjian Li, Cheng Wang, Andi Cao & Haoyu Wen: Path to reducing pesticide input: Is agricultural production outsourcing effective?
Fumi Harahap, Anissa Nurdiawati, Niklas Arvidsson & Frauke Urban: Assessing the climate impact of retail payment services
Rawadee Jarungrattanapong & Therese Lindahl: Efficient and sustainable management of shared fisheries in Thailand: Self-governance or regulation?
François-Charles Wolff & Yohan Renard: Does sustainable fishing eco-label increase ex-vessel fish prices? Evidence from a French tuna fishery
Diya Ganguly, Samuel Lockhart Priestley, Kent D. Messer & Marco A. Palma: The public's puzzling reluctance to detect and mitigate exposure to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)
Brenda Morales & Paola Ovando: Organisational attitudes and preferences towards forest carbon offsets in Spain's Carbon Footprint Registry
Junjie Zhu: Transportation infrastructure and biodiversity: Evaluating the ecological cost of transport networks
Enrique Gilles, Darwin Cortés & Fabio Monsalve: The carbon cost of rising incomes: Evidence from a middle-income country
Isabel Schäufele-Elbers, Guenter Schamel & Lukas Brunner: Default portion-size nudge and meat consumption: Effects on compensation behavior, guest satisfaction, and plate waste
Francisco M. Osorio-Molina, Rocío Muñoz-Benito & David Pérez-Neira: Tourism degrowth perspectives, drivers and policies. A systematic review
Morten Bennedsen, John Doukas & Halit Gonenc: Stringency of family firms and owner-managers in the transition to low-carbon emissions
Caroline Gebara, Kajwan Rasul, Alexis Laurent & Edgar Hertwich: Quantifying the doughnut economy: A conceptual framework using multi-regional input-output modeling
Fisher, M. C., et al.: Exploring unintended outcomes and trade-offs of climate adaptation for human well-being, using qualitative network models (QNMs).
van Velden, J. L., et al.: Seeding equity in African food systems: how can marginal, bottom-up initiatives promote transformations to more equitable and sustainable futures?
Bulut, B., and M. K. Öksüzoğlu: How does global literacy affect environmental behavior? The mediating role of eco-anxiety.
Borges, R.: Past lines, present divides: mapping the biography of boundaries in protected area governance.
Tusing, C.: Seaweed as a keystone food: an ethnographic case study of coastal Lafkenche foodscapes.
Velasco-Murguía, A., E. Silva-Rivera, and N. Velázquez-Rosas: Social-ecological changes in traditional vanilla agroecosystems and their key role in biocultural landscape restoration.
Bilalova, S., et al.: Paradigms of water governance: a systematic review.
Read, D. J., A. Carroll, and L. A. Wainger: Enhancing institutional fit without formal institutional change: farmer-practitioner relationships and agricultural conservation programs in the Chesapeake Bay, USA.
Romans i Torrent, A.: “A bounded existence”: examining the entanglement of scalar and intersectional experiences of water scarcity in the townships of Cape Town, South Africa.
Eisenack, K., and R. Wang: Divide and explain: novel metrics and procedures for archetype analysis in case-based sustainability research.
Wendmu, T. A., et al.: Seeds and social norms: sorghum seed exchange among smallholder farmers in Northern Ethiopia.
de Koning, S., et al: Amplifying the transformative impact of landscape-oriented partnerships: understanding conditions for and interactions of amplification processes.
Kadykalo, A. N., et al.: Co-envisioning an academia that fully embraces and supports early career researchers in interdisciplinary social-ecological research.
Cheeseman, K. R. What does it mean to be wild? Attitudes to rewilding as an adaptation approach to climate change in Sussex and the West Midlands, UK.
Green, K. M. et al.: Pathways to adaptation for shellfish aquaculture on the U.S. West Coast.
Lukawiecki, J., et al.: The concept of cultural keystone species, revisited through the eyes of Indigenous Peoples on northern Turtle Island.
Patrick, E., et al.: Social-ecological drought and smallholder vulnerability in the Central American Dry Corridor.
Pereira, K., et al.: A review of initiatives to transform the global sand system.
Wu, S., Y. Wei, and R. Werdiningtyas: The evolution of policy interdependency and its impacts on the social-ecological system in Victoria, Australia since the 1860s.
Wagret, A., et al:. The wild bird pet trade in Guyana.
Wang, R.,et al.: Agricultural production transition, farmer typology, and fertilizer input changes in China’s grain bases.
Greeves, S. B., R. McGovern, and M. McKinney: Linking ecosystem service valuation to environmental policy support: a case study of pollution in the Tennessee River.
Albrecht, T. R., and A. Milman: Meeting a multifaceted mission: an institutional logics perspective on water utility decision making.
Mancilla García, M., et al.: Intersecting relational perspectives to understand fishery trade chain dynamics: the case of Magweva in KaNyaka Island, Mozambique.
Widayati, A. et al.: Toward multifunctionality in a fire-prone peat landscape in Indonesia: insights from multistakeholder perspectives.
Langemeyer, J., et al.: Where have all the farmers gone? Spatial–temporal transformations of peri-urban agriculture in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona.
Cepić, D., B. Ančić, and M. Škacan: How fishers attribute blame for marine ecosystem degradation: developing a social relational approach to conflict in capture fisheries.
Moran, N. P., et al.: Current and future climate change impacts on Indigenous lifestyle and cultural values in Ovalau, Fiji.
Cimon-Morin, J., D. Fortin, and Y. Boulanger.: Regional variations in the social acceptability of conservation measures for at-risk species: the case of boreal and mountain caribou.
Legatzke, H. L., et al.: Influences of ecological change and social networks on conservation professionals’ and producers’ risk assessments of a vegetation transition.
Hensler, L., J. Merçon, and B. Martín-López: The difficult construction of horizontalities: power relations in collaborative multi-actor social-ecological systems management.
Synthesis:
Michaels, T. K., et al.: Transformative capacity of social-ecological systems.
Garcia, M., et al.: From social reproduction to resilience: a Bourdieusian framework to critically approach capital (re)-distribution and power inequity in community resilience processes.
Moragues-Faus, A., T. Zerbian, and D. López-García: A social-ecological approach to understanding urban food systems.
Allain, S., et al.: “Limits” at the human–nature interface: a meta-ethnographic review.
Turkelboom, F., et al.: Why do we work together? Motivations for collaboration in multifunctional conservation-oriented landscapes.
van der Leeuw, S. E., and G. W. Dirks: From Aristotle to Heraclitus.
Pedro Teixeira: Persuasion and Possibilities: Graphical Instruments and Personal Income Distribution in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Brennan McDavid: The Psychology of Money in Plato's Republic
Victor Cruz-e-Silva and Rogério Arthmar: Converging Heresies: Irving Fisher, John Bennet Canning, and the Theory of Income Between Economics and Accountancy
Giuseppe Ciccarone and Giovanni Di Bartolomeo: Franco Modigliani and Ezio Tarantelli on Wage Moderation and Political Exchange: A Lesson to Be Learned in the New Age of Inflation
Mariana Mortágua and others: Technological trajectories formatting the socio-institutional framework—the case of the addictive empire of the techno-oligarchs
Tibor Lalinsky and others: Productivity-enhancing employment reallocation during the Covid-19 pandemic
Leila Davis and Joao Paulo A de Souza: Stable profit rates in a time of rising market power: the role of financial and intangible assets in the US corporate sector
Leonhard Ipsen: Wages, profits, inequality: wage-price spirals revisited
Alberto Botta and others: Back to fiscal rules: The insanity of normality, unless the rich pay for it!
Patrick Mellacher: Growth, inequality, and declining business dynamism in a unified Schumpeter Mark I + II model
Corrado Di Guilmi and Georgia K Rylah: Behind the curve: econometric estimation and sectoral decomposition of the Japanese Beveridge curve’s evolution around the COVID-19 pandemic
Sascha Keil and Walter Paternesi Meloni: Competitiveness divergence in the euro area: rediscovering Kaldorian cumulative causation
Abdulhak Anwer Alsharif, Thomas Brenner: Special economic zones and innovation in developing and emerging economies: A cross-country analysis
David Doloreux, Richard Shearmur: Innovation modes in the peripheral economy
Giovanna Apicella et al.: Wealth, prevention, and longevity: Integrating health into portfolio decisions
Michael Donadelli, Antonio Paradiso: The economic impact of pandemics and wars in pre-modern Western Europe: A supply-side perspective
Codrina Rada, Ansel Schiavone, Rudi von Arnim: The payroll share in US states: Evidence from fourteen sectors
Nijat Muradzada, Rafiga Ibrahimli: How STI-centric myopia marginalises DUI Innovation in Azerbaijan
Leonie Reher, Jörg Thomä, Kilian Bizer: Measuring the DUI mode of innovation efficiently: A short-scale approach
Seh Hyun Yoo: Technological regimes and R&D response to COVID-19
Amirali Karimi and others: Scientists on the move: The impact of collaboration with different mobility groups on the performance of Canadian scientists
Junda Li and Dwayne Woods: Are you in the loop? China’s co-evolution dynamics
Emy Zecca and others: Strategies and drivers of innovations in the circular context: The case of Italian SMEs
Marco Amendola and Marcelo C. Pereira: Are fiscal multipliers state-dependent? Insights from an agent-based model
Nikolay Doskov and others: Complementarity and substitutability of investment strategies
Andrea Borsato and Patrick Llerena: The US university-industry link in the R&D of AI: Back to the origins?
Oriol Gisbert-Martí: The structure and evolution of consumption patterns
Milan Zafirovski: Pathologies of creative destruction? Its dysfunctions from the history of economic theory and social thought, and contemporary empirical economics
Sarah Tung and Julien Pénin: The emergence and evolution of science–industry intermediaries: An evolutionary framework
Hani Elzoumor and others: Openness and appropriability of young innovative firms: Evidence from a large-scale survey study
Junguo Shi and others: Disruptive innovation and technological catch-up in the NLP sector: The moderating role of the technology cycle
Heman Khouilla and others: The role of firms’ characteristics, proximity, and territory in academic patenting: Evidence from the French healthcare field
André Spithoven and Kristof Van Criekingen: Beyond internal capacity: Research and technology organizations as embedded system actors in low-tech manufacturing
Giancarlo Bertocco and Andrea Kalajzic: On the irrelevance of the concept of a natural rate of interest in a Schumpeter–Keynes perspective
Alfred Kleinknecht: How structural reforms of labor markets contribute to a productivity crisis. An essay on neoclassical versus evolutionary efficiency
Mariem Bouattour and others: Non-linear impact of trade openness on Arab Maghreb Union economic growth: Empirical evidence from the PSTAR approach
Francesco Pasimeni and Tommaso Ciarli: Coalition formation and the diffusion of shared goods: An agent-based model
Yanlong Zhang and Wolfram Elsner: Hybrid organizations beyond externalities and organizational duality: The case of Chinese “People’s Mediation Committees”
Philip McCann and others: Mercantilist and protectionist shocks on innovation, growth, and economic policy in European regions
Doğuhan Sündal: Investment–saving equilibrium in reliable markets
Mark Setterfield: Integrating the Social Reproduction of Labour Into Macroeconomic Theory: Unpaid Caregiving and Productivity in Paid Production
Marcio Santetti: A Time‐Varying Finance‐Led Model for U.S. Business Cycles
Antonio D'Agata: A Classical Theory of Markets and Effectual Demand
Lorenzo Di Domenico: Public Debt Dynamics in a Monetary Economy of Production
Di Wu, Leonard F. S. Wang: Network Externalities, Endogenous Managerial Delegation, and Import Tariffs Policy in a Cournot Third‐Country Model
Hagen M. Krämer, Christian R. Proaño, Sven Schnellbacher: On the Impact of Government Debt on Income Distribution in a Post‐Keynesian Framework With Workers' Saving
Marc Lavoie: Post-Keynesian Economics 50 Years after the Eichner and Kregel Paradigm Article: Coherence or Incoherence?
Busani Moyo: Does trade liberalization promote investment in Sub-Saharan Africa? Evidence from selected free trade areas
Rim Mansouri and Said Tounsi: Market-based environmental regulation and competitiveness: A comparative analysis of developed and developing economies
Leonardo Vera: A note on the Kaleckian government spending multiplier and self-financing fiscal policy
Heri Oscar Landa Díaz: Global value chains, innovation and industrial development. Recommendations for Mexico
Gaspar Núñez Rodríguez: A dirty little secret? Import quotas: evidence from Mexico using an applied General Equilibrium Model
Martín Lavalleja and Ianina Rossi: The distributional impact of contributory pensions. An application to the Uruguayan case
Miguel Angel Monroy Cruz: Hedonic prices for land sales on real estate websites in the city of Mérida, Mexico
Fernando Sánchez López and others: Modeling the relationship between the Misery Index and Consumer Confidence in Mexico using an ARDL approach
Pablo Sigfrido Corte Cruz: Impact of welfare programs on incomeand corn production in Mexico
Louis-Philippe Rochon, Sergio Rossi: Money, Value and Capital Circulation in a Finance-Led Economic Regime
Alan Freeman: A General Theory of Value, Money and the State
Till Hahn: On The Beginning of Capital
Andrew Kliman: Grossman’s Breakdown Theory Versus Marx’s Value Theory
Luca Timponelli: Marx and Pasinetti versus Proportional Dynamics: Causality, Simultaneity and the Law of Value
Giovanni Mazzetti: At the Foundations of the Critique of Political Economy
Niko Block: Institutionalism and the Macro-Monetary Labour Theory of Value
Fred Moseley: Marx’s Theory of Prices of Production With Unequal Turnover Times and a Response to De Marco’s Critique
Stavros Tombazos: Capital as Organisation of Rhythms and Crisis as Arrhythmia
Fabian Balardini: The Circulation of Value, Rent and Class Struggle: A Critique of ‘Technofeudalism’
Riccardo Bellofiore; The Circulation of Value, Rent and Class Struggle: A Critique of ‘Technofeudalism’
Andrea Coveri: ‘What Is It?’ Marx’s Theory of Exploitation and the Closure of the Transformation Problem
Guido De Marco: Where Does the Money Come From? Marx’s Commodity Capital Circuit and the Reproduction of Total Social Capital
Anders Ekeland: Marx’s Three Concepts of Capital Composition, Coherence or Confusion?
Aimilia Protogerou & Esin Yoruk: Driving Socio-Economic Change through AI and Digitalization: Entrepreneurial Opportunities and Risks
Eduardo C. Ferraciolli, Tanya Araújo: Agent-based modeling and the sociology of money: some suggestions for refining monetary theory using social simulation
Jakub Szabó: A choice for European monetary integration: politics of exchange rates between EMS and EMU
Mathieu Dufour, Simon Tremblay-Pepin: Domesticating money and prices in postcapitalism: the Example of Commonism
Ville Takala, Theo Papaioannou: Towards an entrepreneurial welfare state? A conceptual perspective
Jorge Uxó, Ignacio Álvarez: In search of a new economic policy paradigm: the case of Spain
Maria Karamessini: Public employment programmes in the EU during the Great Recession: lessons for a European Job Guarantee
Cinthia De Souza: Sovereign bondholders and the Eurozone core-periphery divide: from the debt crisis to the quantitative tightening
Caroline Vincensini: After 25 years of reforms of economic policy governance, is EMU fit to address the climate challenge? A political economy view
by Clair Quentin | 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing
This comprehensive book examines the concept of value as it applies to the ‘Ricardian machine’: the physical system in which commodities are produced by means of commodities. Clair Quentin answers the fundamental question: how can the growth of this system be objectively measured?
Quentin deploys the notion of thermodynamic depth, exploring its relationship to labour and how it relates to commodities. They explore key concepts such as entropy, physical and social surplus, the idea of capital as a biophysical system and the function of things falling outside the system such as intangible assets and the state.
Capital, Revenue and the Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics of Value is a crucial resource for scholars and students of economics, particularly those in the fields of political, legal, post-keynesian and biophysical economics, as well as economic methodology.
Please find a link to the book here.
by John Cassidy | 2025, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Capitalism has long been understood as a driving force behind the biggest political, economic, and social dislocations of our time. But in this sweeping, kaleidoscopic history of the economic system that has shaped our world, the Pulitzer Prize finalist John Cassidy adopts a bold new approach: he examines global capitalism through the eyes of its critics.
From the English Luddites, who rebelled against early factory automation, to communists in Germany and Russia in the early twentieth century, Latin American dependistas, the international Wages for Housework campaign of the 1970s, and the modern degrowth movement, this absorbing narrative traverses the globe. It visits with familiar names—Smith, Carlyle, Marx, Luxemburg, Keynes, Polanyi—but also focuses on many lesser-known figures, including William Thompson, the Irish proto-socialist whose work influenced Marx; Flora Tristan, the French proponent of a universal labor union; John Hobson, the original theorist of imperialism; J.C. Kumarappa, the Indian exponent of Gandhian economics; Eric Williams, the Trinidadian author of a famous thesis on slavery and capitalism; and Joan Robinson, the Cambridge economist and critic of the Cold War.
Blending rich biography, panoramic history, and lively exploration of economic theories, Capitalism and Its Critics tells an expansive story that illuminates the deep roots of many of the most urgent issues we face today, from widening inequality and the ecological crisis to technological transformation and resurgent authoritarian politics.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Sven Beckert | Penguin, 2025
No other phenomenon has shaped human history as decisively as capitalism. It structures how we live and work, how we think about ourselves and others, how we organise our politics. Sven Beckert situates the story of capitalism within the largest conceivable geographical and historical framework in this fascinating new book.
Capitalism, argues Beckert, was born global. Emerging from merchant communities across Asia, Africa and Europe, capitalism’s radical recasting of economic life rooted itself only gradually. Then it burst onto the world scene, as European states and merchants built a powerful alliance that would propel them across the oceans. This epic drama corresponded at no point to an idealised dream of free markets. All along, state-backed institutions and imperial expansions shaped its dynamics.
Capitalism decentres the European perspective, highlighting agency, resistance, innovation and ruthless coercion around the world through to the present with the rise of Asian economies, particularly China. Sven Beckert doesn’t merely add up capitalism’s debits and credits in this monumental book, but allows us to think afresh about the past to help us re-imagine the future.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Bent Greve | 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing
This insightful Concise Introduction provides an overview of welfare state financing, discussing how different instruments influence individuals’ and companies’ behaviour, the level of state income, as well as willingness to pay taxes and duties. Bent Greve explores the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches, including potential conflicts arising from employment status, inequality, climate change and unhealthy behaviour.
Key Features:
The Concise Introduction to Financing Welfare States is an essential resource for students and scholars of social policy, sociology, political science, economics and finance. It will also be of interest to policymakers and practitioners in the welfare sector and public finance.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Bożena Gajdzik, Radosław Wolniak and Rafał Nagaj | Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026
This engaging book examines the European Union’s transition to renewable energy, covering its historical development along with the implications for climate policy, industry and society. The authors outline the ways in which the EU plans to achieve climate neutrality by 2050, with a specific focus on the European Green Deal and the Renewable Energy Directive.
Bożena Gajdzik, Radosław Wolniak and Rafał Nagaj explore various climate policies, renewable energy technologies and decarbonization pathways, highlighting their associated economic and social benefits. They also address key clean energy barriers including insufficient public support, the risk of green inflation, technological delays and administrative challenges such as protracted regulatory approvals and permitting processes. Through data-driven analysis and scenario modeling, they demonstrate the cost-competitiveness of renewable energy. This book highlights how Europe’s shift to clean energy is both essential and achievable, positioning the EU as a front-running organization in sustainable industrial development and environmental governance worldwide.
Decarbonizing European Industries is a necessary read for scholars and students of environmental science, energy policy and sustainability studies. Its insights on industrial change, decarbonization pathways and EU legislation will also appeal to economists, policy analysts, decision-makers and government officials.
Please find a link to the book here.
edited by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, Paul Smoke and Serdar Yilmaz | 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing
This book sheds light on the underexamined roles of subnational governments (SNGs) in mitigating and responding to climate change issues. Drawing on scientific, institutional, fiscal and political perspectives, it provides novel insights into the governance of the crucial intersection between decentralization and climate action, with a particular focus on developing countries.
Expert scholars and practitioners consider how SNGs can contribute to sustainable development, as well as the impact of climate realities on their ability to respond. They explore the ongoing challenges of enacting effective climate change policies across diverse countries and governance structures, presenting detailed case studies that highlight the need for a contextualized strategic approach. The book evaluates a range of fiscal mechanisms for financing SNG climate change action, emphasizing the value of cooperative decision making and outlining innovative avenues for future research and action.
Interdisciplinary in scope, this perceptive book is a vital resource for students and academics across public finance, economics, public administration, political science and governance. Its coverage of cutting-edge debates and practical issues will also greatly benefit professionals involved in decentralization and climate change.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Asma Mehan | Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026
This timely book explores the adaptive reuse of industrial heritage through the lenses of decolonization and climate resilience. Author Asma Mehan presents a critical framework for understanding and reinvigorating industrial remains as evolving infrastructures that foster ecological and social transformation.
Chapters highlight the need for new models of reuse that advance circular economies, inclusive governance and spatial equality. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, from grain silos to oil towns, Mehan connects digital technologies like Geographic Information System and AI with community-driven approaches, proposing adaptive reuse as a core strategy for climate response and urban regeneration. The book provides a roadmap for revitalizing post-industrial spaces and entities with care, culture and accountability.
Decolonizing Industrial Heritage is a key resource for students and scholars in heritage studies, planning, architecture and urban studies. It is also beneficial for heritage, development and indigenous rights practitioners, as well as professionals in international development agencies and NGOs.
Please find a link to the book here.
edited by Robert W. Marans, Robert J. Stimson and Noah J. Webster | Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024
This erudite Handbook demonstrates how multiple approaches have been used to conceptualize, measure, and model the complex issue of quality of life (QOL) and individual well-being, emphasizing place and space as critical factors in a meaningful QOL experience.
The Handbook of Quality of Life Research brings together an international array of esteemed academics who examine QOL through a series of case studies and empirical investigations, covering a range of environmental settings from rural and metropolitan regions to neighbourhoods and home environments to hospitals. Chapters use a range of methodologies and theoretical perspectives to investigate QOL in relation to place and space and their unique impacts on people. In light of the current threat posed by the climate crisis and changing worldwide demographic trends, the Handbook explores issues of migration, the impact of urbanization, the effect of natural environments and environmental degradation on QOL, and a sub-section dedicated to the importance of place for the well-being of older adults.
Offering critical methodological insight into the complex and elusive concept of QOL, this book will be crucial reading for students and scholars of urban geography, social and cultural geography, sociology and sociological theory, and environmental psychology. Also, given presentation of timely empirical findings, it will be an invaluable read for urban and regional planners.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Michael Dunford | Edward Elgar Publishing, 2026
This pioneering book appraises earlier literature and proposes methodological, theoretical and analytical tools for understanding the uneven evolution of development. Michael Dunford explores how global development and international, national, regional and social inequalities have been shaped by centuries of colonisation, imperialism, industrialisation and the rise and fall of hegemonic powers.
Advocating for an interdisciplinary approach to the topic, Dunford presents a macro-geographical and macro-historical account of the waves of uneven development that have resulted in an emerging multi-polar world, with Asia returning to the centre of the global economy. Chapters cover a wide range of theoretical perspectives from political economy, structuralist and developmentalist to dependency theories, and from classical location theories to contemporary geographical economics and economic geography. Dunford identifies economic and political mechanisms that drive the forces shaping the uneven course of development and emphasises the dynamics of investment and the roles of state sovereignty and governance capacity.
Rethinking Uneven Development is a vital resource for students and scholars of human geography, development studies, urban and regional studies and political economy.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Imad A. Moosa | 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing
This informative book deconstructs two key myths in economic theory and policy: that inflation is always a monetary problem and that it can be contained by raising interest rates. Imad A. Moosa identifies many of the causes of the cost of living crisis and proposes policy reforms to alleviate its effects.
The Cost of Living Crisis uses historical and simulated data to contest the proposition that inflation can be constrained solely through monetary policy and nine potential causes of resurgent inflation are identified, analysed and systematically evaluated. Moosa refutes claims made by central bankers and politicians about their ability to control inflation and recommends the reconsideration of neoliberalism, the regular adjustment of minimum wages, the utilisation of consumer protection and the rethinking of tax codes, foreign policy and militarism. Ultimately, Moosa argues that any action taken to deal with the cost of living crisis should protect the wellbeing of the majority rather than the interests of major corporations.
The Cost of Living Crisis is a thought-provoking read for academics and students of economics, regulation, public finance, sociology and economic sociology. Written in an engaging and accessible style, this book is also of interest to policymakers and politicians engaged in international financial regulation during highly turbulent times.
Please find a link to the book here.
The Frederic S. Lee Heterodox Economics Scholarship was established by Frederic and Ruth Lee in 2014 to help students to continue their study in heterodox economics. Over the past 12 years, the Scholarship awarded 27 doctoral students from five heterodox economics programs in the United States—that is, American University, Colorado State University, the New School for Social Research, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and the University of Missouri—Kansas City.
The application for the Fall 2026 semester is now open.
To be eligible, the applicant must be enrolled in a doctoral heterodox economics program in the US and demonstrate financial need. This scholarship will not provide scholarship aid for dissertation credit hours or for credit hours that are not directly relevant for the completion of the doctoral program's coursework.
Selection criteria include:
Read about the heterodox economics of Frederic S. Lee here.
Scholarships will be awarded prior to the fall and spring semesters. Scholarships are not renewable; however, previous recipients may reapply.
Please apply here.
Application Deadline: 15 may 2026
The sixth issue of the Historical Materialism Newsletter has been published. It covers a range of upcoming events, new publications, and recent content from the HM platform:
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The Association for Social Economics (ASE) is on Substack now!
As inaugural content ASE chatted with one of the winners of 2025 Patrick J. Welch Award about their research. The Award is given annually to the best paper published in the Forum for Social Economics.
Please find a link to the Substack here.
The Cambridge Society for Economic Pluralism is concerned about prospective changes to the economics curriculum in Cambridge. The faculty has already decided to remove the first year Politics paper, and now it wishes to suspend the “History & Philosophy of Economics” optional paper for a further year. This is the only non-mainstream paper available to undergraduate students.
CSEP is organising a petition against the curriculum changes, and would welcome support from the HET community!
To quote from their invitation:
“This decision has not been justified on any reasonable grounds. Arrangements for teaching are already in place and will have to be cancelled if the Faculty pushes ahead.
Because of this, we can only interpret this as a move to reduce the intellectual scope of the course and leave students with a narrower view of the discipline and a linear understanding of its history.
[…]
This is yet another move in the decades-long push to squeeze critical thought out of economics departments.
Because of this we would deeply appreciate it if you could take 2 minutes to sign the petition opposing these changes. We are very grateful for all signatories, but if you do have any connection to the University, mentioning this in the form would be deeply appreciated.”
The Economic and Labour Relations Review (ELRR) is a longstanding, high quality, multidisciplinary, international academic journal published by Cambridge University Press (CUP). The Economic & Labour Relations Review is a double-blind, peer-reviewed journal that aims to bring together research in economics and labour relations in a multi-disciplinary approach to policy questions. The journal encourages articles that critically assess dominant orthodoxies, as well as alternative models, thereby facilitating informed debate. The journal particularly encourages articles that adopt a post-Keynesian (heterodox) approach to economics, or that explore rights-, equality- or justice-based approaches to economic or social policy, employment relations or labour studies. From 2026, all articles are published on an open access basis.
The Editorial Board is seeking new and expanded expertise, and so is requesting expressions of interest from those interested in joining the Editorial Board as Associate Editors Attributes of Editorial Board / Associate Editors. Members will spend 30 hours per year on journal roles, as follows:
Normally EB members would be mid-career / late career / recently retired scholars, who are highly qualified in social sciences, and well-published in the areas covered by the journal. While ‘well-published’ depends in part on the sub-discipline and stage of academic journey, the editors are looking for scholars / academic analysts who have published in respected academic journals or book publishers. Researchers in any area published by the journal are welcome to send an expression of interest (EOI), especially those with expertise in economics (quant and qualitative, institutional and heterodox especially), sociology of work, labour law, labour studies, and industrial / employment relations.
Scholars in these areas with expertise in post-Keynesian economics, labour economics, occupational health and safety, or macroeconomics are of considerable interest. The journal’s primary statement
Expressions of interest should be 250 to 400 words, together with a brief CV. including recent publications, roles and activities, germane to membership of Editorial Board of ELRR.
Further details from Diana Kelly, Editor-in-Chief