Issue 360June 01, 2026webpdfHeterodox Economics Directory
One can say many things about people trying to push pluralist or heterodox economics, but surely not that they are taking the easy route on the academic job market ;-). Especially against the backdrop of the often lamented and rightly criticized closure towards heterodox perspectives found in traditional econ departments, it is truly heartwarming to see that heterodox economists cannot be stopped in being active, creative and eager to contribute.
Some evidence for this claim is provided by the many inspiring and well-thought-out initiatives from young scholars - the next generation of heterodox and pluralist scholars – accumulating in this issue of the Newsletter. Among such initiatives are the 7th Pluralumn Workshop, the Rethinking Economics conference the 90th birthday of the General Theory, the EAEPE pre-conference workshop and summer school, a workshop on merits and perils of interdisciplinary research and efforts of "author collectives" to a get a better grasp on growth-dependence as an analytical concept or provide novel approaches towards crafting introductory textbooks and lectures.*
It is impressive what this 'next' generation manages to contribute to the development of the field and, indeed, such efforts create the impression that heterodox economics will – against some odds – find itself to be a flourishing and inspiring field of research (as well as a beacon for hope in political terms) also in the future.
While looking straight ahead into the future under these premises is truly motivating for me, it is always recommended to confront tunnel vision in early stages ;-) Hence, my suggestion is to complement this gaze into a bright future with having a look what happens sideways, i.e., to the left and right of our main paths. In my role as an editor of the Newsletter I have, for instance, subscribed to some Newsletters on Economic History in the course of the last year to get a better understanding of economic historians interests and approaches overlaps with those of heterodox economists. And indeed, I found some traces and try to now regularly include them in the Newsletter to broaden the vista and to facilitate the creation of new ties and networks. One such example found below is a workshop on "Patterns of Global Economic Integration and Disintegration", which, in my humble view, resonates with key heterodox intuitions.
Similarly, it happens sometimes, that sensible and interesting contributions are published in mainstream economics journals. Recent examples include this paper on alternative estimates for the macroeconomic costs of climate change (in the QJE), an article of the economics of W.E.B du Bois as well this topically interesting recent issue in the Journal of Economic Literature as well as this undercover report on fraud and corruption in the headquarters of large academic publishers, which all could be of interest to heterodox economists in one way or the other.
All the best,
Jakob
* Admittedly, the last one of these was already announced in our last issue ;-)
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26-27 August, 2026 | Online
The Pluralumn* group of the German Network for Pluralism in Economics calls for papers and presentations for its 7th Scientific Workshop. The workshop is open to all young scholars and early-career researchers, such as advanced Bachelor and Master students, PhD students and PostDocs. This year, the Pluralumn* Workshop will take place online.
The organizers welcome papers that take a pluralist approach to economics and from any field or school of thought within economics. The organizers welcome contributions based on qualitative and quantitative approaches, mixed-methods designs or otherwise non-standard methodologies. Likewise, the organizers encourage submissions from adjacent disciplines such as sociology, political science, psychology, history and philosophy that discuss economic phenomena or aim to enhance economic methods and methodology.
The aim of the Pluralumn* Workshop is to bring together young scholars and early-career researchers to enable exchange between colleagues one would rarely meet at specialized conferences and symposia.
The workshop will offer two distinct presentation formats depending on the state of the research to be presented:
Participation without presentation is also possible. The conference language is English. The Pluralumn* Workshop is free of charge. The organizers aim to structure the online Workshop in a way that accommodates participants across multiple time zones. To this end, the organizers will collect information on participants’ availability during the application process. Further information will be provided with acceptance notification.
Please find more info here.
Submission Deadline: 21 June 2026
Registration Deadline: 15 July 2026
22-24 October, 2026 | Berlin, Germany
Please find the original article for the conference here.
Extended submission deadline: 14 June 2026
10-12 September, 2026 | Oxford, UK
Please find the origin article for the conference here.
The deadlines for submissions and acceptance of abstracts/papers have been extended as follows:
New Deadline for Abstract Submission: June 15, 2026
New Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2026
Deadline for Early registration (see fees): July 15, 2026
Deadline for Full Paper Submission: September 1, 2026
Deadline for Presenters' Registration: September 1, 2026
There is no registration deadline for attendants who do not present papers.
5 - 6 November | Vienna, Austria
The organization of knowledge production is itself historical. The firm boundaries separating academic disciplines – economics from sociology, natural from social sciences, quantitative from qualitative inquiry – are not eternal givens but relatively recent institutional settlements. It was only in the mid-20th century that disciplinary specialization – shared funding agencies, journals, conferences, career tracks – hardened into the structure we now take for granted. Today, that structure is under pressure. On the one hand, we live in an era of multiple crisis: the simultaneous convergence of ecological breakdown, economic precarity, geopolitical reorientation, democratic erosion, and public health shocks. The confluence of these crises – ecological, economic, social, and political – is not a novel condition but a structural feature of the current global order, demanding analytical approaches that can grasp their interconnection rather than treating them in isolation (Kelecha 2026). Because of the intertwined and complex nature of these crises, analysing issues only through the lens of one discipline often is not able to provide the necessary solutions. On the other hand, the epistemic response to this challenge – interdisciplinary research – runs headlong into structural resistance within the very academic system that is supposed to produce it. The call for interdisciplinarity grows louder even as the conditions enabling it grow more precarious.
When interdisciplinary collaboration succeeds, it produces outcomes that no single discipline alone could achieve (Bruine de Bruin et al. 2019). And yet the structural conditions remain deeply unfavorable: Although EU research and science policy provided incentives for interdisciplinary work, tensions emerge over resources, labour, and careers (Müller and Kaltenbrunner 2019). Interdisciplinary work is harder to fund and to publish, researchers who pursue it face early career impediments, and short-term funding structures incentivize quick solutions over the slower, integrative approaches such work requires (Berkes et al. 2024, Vladova et al. 2025).
The contradictions between the rhetoric of interdisciplinarity as a solution for the multiple crisis and the reality of its institutional conditions are not merely bureaucratic inconveniences. They intersect with deeper dynamics of knowledge production under academic capitalism: the financialization of universities, the precarization of academic careers, and the structural pressures that marginalize precisely those scholarly voices and epistemic ambitions most oriented toward complexity and critique.
As part of the interdisciplinary research project EIROC1, we have experienced both the intellectual richness and the structural obstacles of this kind of work firsthand. In this concluding workshop, we turn the lens on the meta-level: what does it mean to be an interdisciplinary scholar in a disciplinary world? Our aims are twofold: we invite practitioners' reports (Praxisberichte) from researchers across all disciplines sharing their own experiences of working interdisciplinarily: the frictions and rewards, the career costs and intellectual gains as well as theoretical and empirical contributions on the structural conditions and systemic challenges shaping interdisciplinary research, from higher education studies, science and technology studies, research policy, and all other related fields. Together, these contributions will allow us to build, in a grounded way, toward an understanding of what genuine structural support for interdisciplinary inquiry would look like.
We welcome:
The workshop combines paper presentations and structured discussion rounds with interactive workshops designed to facilitate exchange across disciplines. The evening of the first day will close with a distinguished panel discussion on a question that is at once institutional and political: how can interdisciplinarity not merely be demanded, but structurally enabled.
Submission of Abstracts: 200 words; via e-mail to theresa.hager@jku.at, laura.porak@jku.at and susanna.azevedo@univie.ac.at;
The workshop takes place on the 5th and 6th of November at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, and is part of the concluding event of the EIROC project. There are no workshop fees; however, unfortunately, accommodation and travel expenses cannot be covered by the workshop organizers.
Deadline: 7 September 2026
27-28 November, 2026 | Paris, France
Symposium “Daniel Bensaïd Alive”
Daniel Bensaïd died on 12 January 2010. A philosopher and activist, a leading figure of May 1968 and of the revolutionary left in France for over four decades, and a leader of the Communist League (which became the Revolutionary Communist League a few years later) and the Fourth International since their founding, he had embarked on a project to rebuild Marxism from the 1980s onwards.
At the very moment when, with the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, capitalism seemed to be triumphing, and as farewells to the proletariat were becoming increasingly common, Daniel Bensaïd returned to Marx, in particular to Capital . This return was by no means a desperate search for a doctrine, let alone a dogma; rather, it was a matter of rediscovering Marx's approach, that of the “ruthless critique of all that exists”. The fundamental contradictions of capitalism had by no means disappeared, and the great crisis of 2007–2008 was to prove right those who, like Daniel, had insisted on resuming the critique of political economy.
Whilst the 'end of history' had been decreed and the class struggle declared obsolete in the wake of the American triumphalism of the time, Daniel Bensaïd worked, alongside Walter Benjamin, to restore the 'tradition of the oppressed' and the necessity of watching out for possible turning points. At a time when history was being embalmed and reduced to mere 'places of memory', he embarked on a heterodox reappropriation of the French Revolution and the figure of Joan of Arc. At a time when the impossibility of any alternative was being trumpeted, he invited us to keep alive the strategic thinking of crisis and rupture.
Daniel Bensaïd has thus bequeathed to us a very rich political and theoretical legacy, but one “without owners or instructions for use”, as he often said of Marx: a legacy that is only just beginning to be explored, even though there is already, on a global scale, a flourishing of studies on his thought. The aim of this conference is precisely to initiate an initial comprehensive discussion of this work and to stimulate new interpretations of his oeuvre, enabling the development of a genuine field of research, transcending national and disciplinary boundaries, centered on the themes and hypotheses that Daniel Bensaïd had begun to identify.
All aspects of Daniel Bensaïd's thought, whether directly linked to the political situation or not, may be addressed at this conference, but the organizers particularly welcome proposals falling within the following themes:
Please finde more info here.
Submission Deadline: 1 June 2026
12-13 November, 2026 | London, UK
Conference theme: Who Pays, Who Benefits? The Distributive Consequences of Climate and Environmental Policy
The LSE’s Global School of Sustainability, in collaboration with the Sustainable Social Policy and Welfare States Research Hub at the Department of Social Policy, are accepting paper proposals for a 2-day mini-conference to be held on the 12-13th November 2026.
Climate change is not only an environmental crisis but a distributive one. As governments pursue decarbonisation and protect the environment, the costs and benefits of policy fall unevenly across regions, income groups, sectors, and countries. Carbon pricing can impose regressive burdens on lower-income households. Green industrial policy creates new economic winners while displacing established industries and their workforces. Communities in the Global South face the greatest physical risks from climate change and environmental degradation while often contributing least to its causes and possessing the fewest resources to adapt. These distributional dynamics are generating new patterns of contestation that speak to emerging debates in social policy and climate politics.
This mini-conference brings together an international community of researchers to examine the policy and politics of climate change through a distributive lens. It asks who bears the costs of decarbonisation and environmental (in)action, who captures its benefits, and how these distributional stakes shape the coalitions, public attitudes, and institutional arrangements that determine whether ambitious climate action is politically sustainable. By centring questions of inequality, compensation, social protection, and political feasibility, the mini-conference positions climate policy as a core concern for the future of social policy scholarship.
Themes
The organizers particularly invite paper submissions addressing any of the following five thematic areas, although this is not a strict requirement. Submissions that bridge themes, take comparative or cross-regional perspectives, or engage substantively with the Global South are particularly welcome.
Format
The mini-conference runs over two days and combines paper panels with structured reflections from invited scholars. Each thematic block consists of a traditional panel of paper presentations with Q&A, followed by an extended reflection from the invited speaker for that block as well as time for joint discussion on current and future research in these areas.
There is no conference fee and refreshments and food will be provided during the conference, as well as a conference dinner.
Confirmed Speakers
Poster Track
Depending on the volume of submissions and available funding, the organizers may also organise a poster session as part of the program. Applicants who would like to be considered for the poster track in addition to the paper panels should indicate this on their submission. Indicating an interest in presenting at the poster session will not affect the decision made about your paper presentation submission.
Funding for Early Career Researchers
Limited support is available for early career researchers without access to research funding travelling to London for the mini-conference. Applicants who would like to be considered for accommodation support should indicate this on their submission and provide a brief justification of need.
Applications
To apply, please submit:
Applications should be submitted through this form.
Please find more info here.
Application Deadline: 28 June 2026
19-20 November, 2026 | Paris, France
Conference Theme: Patterns of Global Economic Integration and Disintegration
A conference jointly hosted by Sciences Po and the University of Chicago Center in Paris
We gladly announce a call for papers for a conference on the historical foundations of economic integration and disintegration from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
We invite submissions that explore the concrete forces shaping, propelling, constraining, or reversing economic interconnectedness across the world. Despite the development of a voluminous literature on topics such as trade expansion, capital mobility, and cross-border production in the social sciences, historical perspectives over the past forty years have rarely made the global economy the subject of dedicated analysis.
The straightjackets undergirding common narratives – “free market” against “state intervention”, “free trade” against “mercantilism,” or “financial liberalization” against “regulation” – betray the need to explore the diversity of forms global economic integration or disintegration may assume. We believe that detailed archival research and a distinct historical framework can elucidate the heterogeneity of linkages in the global economy over time.
We seek contributions that more precisely map the forces compelling economic integration, examine why such connections have repeatedly frayed or been disrupted, and move beyond common binary or linear narratives on the topic.
The conference is designed to provide a platform for PhD candidates and early-career scholars to present their work. While the conference aims to be genuinely interdisciplinary, preference will be given to submissions drawing on primary sources.
The conference will take place over two days, with one day hosted at Sciences Po Paris and the other at the University of Chicago Center in Paris. It will open and close with two keynote lectures, which will be announced at a later stage.
The organizing committee may not be able to fully cover travel and lodging expenses for all speakers. Applicants are encouraged to note any funding needs when submitting their proposals; requests will be reviewed based on available financial resources.
The publication of a volume/series of articles collecting the contributions to the conference is envisaged.
For any questions, please contact: pgeid2026@gmail.com
To apply, submit an abstract (max. 300 words)
Application Deadline: Friday, 3 July, 2026 at 11:59 pm (CEST)
2-3 December, 2026 | Amiens, France
Conference theme: Rethinking Economics with John Maynard Keynes: 90 years after the publication of the General Theory
This conference is organized by the Laboratory of Economics, Finance, Management and Innovation (LEFMI) at the University of Picardie Jules Verne, in partnership with Cahiers d’Économie Politique / Papers in Political Economy and the Association for the Development of Keynesian Studies (ADEK).
In 1988, Cahiers d’Économie Politique / Papers in Political Economy devoted a double issue (nos. 14–15) to the fiftieth anniversary of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money, focusing on the evolution of its interpretations and comparing contemporary readings with John Maynard Keynes’s earlier and later writings. Ten years later, another double issue (nos. 30–31) addressed the relationship between Keynes’s economics and philosophy.
On the occasion of the ninetieth anniversary of The General Theory, this conference aims, first, to provide a “state-of-the-art” assessment of Keynesian scholarship in its theoretical and methodological diversity and, second, to analyze its interactions with other traditions of economic thought.
To address these aims, contributions will be organized around three main analytical perspectives:
Submissions in French or English are welcome. Contributions may fall within the fields of economic theory, the history of economic thought, economic philosophy, and interdisciplinary approaches.
A selection of papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication in a special issue of Cahiers d’Économie Politique / Papers in Political Economy and will be subject to the journal’s standard double-blind peer-review process.
Please find more info here.
Submission Deadline: 15 July 2026
9-11 September 2026 | Lausanne, Switzerland
EAEPE seeks to institutionalize and deepen the involvement of and the exchange with young scholars and student initiatives at the association’s annual conference. One of the key forums for young scholars at EAEPE is the annual pre-conference that comprises a series of workshops by distinguished scholars, accompanied by social space to interact and network. Organized by a team of young scholars, the pre-conference was first launched in Genova (2015). This year, EAEPE and the Philosophy of Economics Working Group of the INET YSI are putting their forces together to organize the 12th pre-conference workshop which will be held on 8 September 2026 in Lausanne.
We are pleased to announce the following talks:
Gender-responsive Employment Policies
By Valeria Esquivel (Coordinator of the Gender in Employment Group, ILO)
Labour and Informality under Post-Colonial Capitalism
By Surbhi Kesar (SOAS University of London)
Globalization & Labour
By Jean-Christophe Graz (University of Lausanne)
The purpose of this year’s EAEPE YSI pre-conference workshop is to reconnect labor analysis with questions of dependency, global value chains, social reproduction, and ecological extraction. Rather than treating these dimensions as peripheral, they are positioned as constitutive of contemporary labor regimes and of the uneven transformations shaping work across regions and social groups. By foregrounding these perspectives, the pre-conference aims to foster dialogue between feminist, post-colonial, ecological, and institutional approaches to labor within the EAEPE community.
Following the talks, participants will have the chance to participate in group discussions and activities to approach the topic from different angles. Furthermore, there will be a get-together session where young scholars will introduce themselves and their research interests and get the chance to get feedback from and pair up with other young and senior scholars. Coffee break, lunch, and a social dinner will provide further space to connect and warm up for the main conference. All pre-conference participants are warmly invited to participate at EAEPE’s main conference.
Application to the Pre-Conference & Registration fees:
You can apply for the pre-conference during the registration process for the main conference. Please register for the main conference by choosing the ‘PhD registration for members.’ After you ‘proceed to check out,’ you will be directed to enter your information and answer some questions. Among them is ‘apply for the pre-conference?’ where you should click on ‘yes.’
The reduced rate (100 euro) for PhD students covers the costs of coffee breaks and lunches during the main conference. Participation in the pre-conference (including all meals and social dinner) is free of charge for those who registered for the main conference.
Pre-conference application closes on June 30, 2026. You will receive a notification of acceptance per email by the pre-conference organizers around July 15.
Financial support
A limited number of fee waivers are available for students and young researchers without funding opportunities. Applicants must provide a short motivation letter and a written statement of their supervisor or a faculty member of their study or PhD program confirming that they do not have financial support. Fee waiver applications are submitted through the EAEPE fee waiver application page here.
In addition, thanks to the INET YSI support, we have some limited stipends available to partially cover the travel expenses of young scholars who do not have support from their home institutions. To apply, please send a short application letter before June 10, 2026, to preconference@eaepe.org
For further information please click here.
16–17 June 2026 | London, UK
Across the world, governments are confronting a new generation of interconnected challenges—from climate change and economic transformation to inequality, technological disruption and geopolitical instability. Meeting these challenges requires more than policy ambition. It requires capable public institutions able to shape markets, coordinate across sectors and deliver long-term public value.
As UCL marks its bicentenary (UCL200)—celebrating two hundred years of advancing knowledge in service of society—the Rethinking the State Forum 2026 contributes to this milestone by bringing UCL’s research and policy engagement into conversation with global policymakers, scholars and practitioners. The UCL IIPP Forum reflects UCL’s commitment not only to producing knowledge but to helping shape the ideas, institutions and policies needed to address the defining challenges of our time.
Drawing on IIPP’s research and collaborations with governments around the world, the UCL IIPP Forum explores how states can build the capabilities required to drive transformation. The discussions examine how public institutions can move beyond reactive policy-making to actively design and govern economies around collective goals.
Across two days of discussion, the Forum highlights practical and intellectual advances in rethinking the role of the state—from building public sector capabilities in cities, to developing new policy tools for mission-oriented transformation, to strengthening international cooperation for a just green transition.
Together, these conversations reflect IIPP’s core agenda and UCL’s broader public mission: rebuilding state capacity to shape markets, influence public policy and govern economies in ways that create public value and serve the common good. View the entire programme at a glance.
For further information please click here.
16-19 June, 2026 | Frankfurt a.M., Germany
The Otto Brenner Stiftung is hosting the MEHR Festival in Frankfurt from 16 to 19 June 2026. Across five venues, participants from academia, trade unions, activism, and culture will come together to discuss pressing issues around housing and vacancy, economic democracy, democratic digitalization, and solidarity-based migration policy.
With over 50 events, the festival bridges debate and practice through lectures, workshops, and creative formats such as hackathons — all aimed at developing concrete solutions and building new alliances.
Participation is free of charge; registration is required.
The "Council for Economic Democracy" (Rat für Wirtschaftsdemokratie) will feature contributions from Justus Henze (communia), Rabea Baerfelde (Centre for Social Critique, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Vanessa Barth (IG Metall, Grundsatz), and Tom Krebs (University of Mannheim). Topics will include pathways toward an active industrial policy, a democratically governed energy transition, expanded workplace co-determination, and democratic planning. The session provides space to discuss strategies as well as current and future projects.
An open cultural programme on 17 and 19 June — featuring city walks, readings, and open-air cinema — invites both festival participants and Frankfurt residents to engage with the festival's themes.
Please find full programme information and registration details here.
3 June, 2026 | Paris, France
Research center PHARE organizes a Workshop on the history of growth theories the 3rd of June at Maison des Sciences Economiques in Paris.
Organizers
If you wish to attend the conference, please send an email to phare@univ-paris1.fr in order to register. The number of seats is limited.
Please find the timetable below:
Session 1
Chair: Muriel Dal Pont-Legrand
9:15 – 10:15 Thomas Peronnet – “Roy Harrod on economic satiety, leisure and optimal growth”
10:15 – 11:15 Tanguy Le Fur – “Match or Mismatch? Growth Theory and Economic History from the Postwar Era to the ‘Credibility Revolution’”
11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break
11:45 – 12:45 Pedro Garcia Duarte– “How the ‘Ramsey formula’ came to define time discounting in economics (1950-2000)” (with Béatrice Cherrier)
Session 2
Chair: Ariane Dupont
13:45 – 14:45 Jean-Bernard Châtelain – “Endogenous growth and finance”
14:45 – 15:45 Michael Assous and Alain Raybaut – “Grappling with Economic Instability : a History of Postwar Macroeconomics”
15:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break
Session 3
16:00 - 17:00 Matheus Assaf Cosendey – “Linking the Solow growth model to optimal growth theory”
17:00 - 18:00 Goulven Rubin – “The rise of endogenous growth theory: a view from the sixties”
8-15 August, 2026 | Chandolin, Switzerland
Join the 5th Summer School by Rethinking Economics Switzerland: Smash the Status Quo: Creating a Care-Centred Economy taking place from the 8th to 15th of August in Chandolin, Switzerland.
Another economy is possible, one where economic power means the capacity to care for one another and for the planet. An economy of solidarity, not extraction. At this year's Summer School, we ask how today's economic structures keep reproducing inequality and ecological harm, and what it would take to put care at the centre instead. Over one week, students, activists and critical researchers come together to learn, exchange, and build collective strategies.
The programme: Mornings introduce key heterodox schools of thought — Feminist, Marxist, and Ecological Economics among them — with space to discuss and to work on concrete projects in smaller groups. Afternoons feature guest speakers on how movements can build the power to reorganise economies around people, communities, and ecosystems.
Participants are also invited to lead their own sessions and workshops at the intersection of activism and academia, sparking new projects and collaborative research while challenging existing academic hierarchies. No prior expertise is required, just curiosity and a willingness to challenge dominant narratives.
Applications are open now.
Follow @resuso.ch on Instagram for the speaker lineup and updates.
If you want to support the Summer School you can do so here.
17-19 September, 2026 | Turin, Italy
Summer School theme: Needs, Justice, and the Wealth of Nations: The Moral and Material Foundations of Political Economy in the European World (1500–1800)
The Turin Humanities Programme and Fondazione 1563 are pleased to invite doctoral students and early career researchers to submit their applications to the Summer School Needs, Justice, and the Wealth of Nations: The Moral and Material Foundations of Political Economy in the European World (1500–1800).
The emergence of political economy in early modern Europe was not the product of a single intellectual breakthrough, but of sustained attempts to reconcile material expansion with moral, legal, and political constraints. From the management of scarcity and subsistence to the governance of trade, empire, and population, early modern thinkers confronted a central question: how should wealth be created, distributed, and justified within society?
This Summer school explores the debates and policies that gave rise to political economy as a field of inquiry. Rather than treating it as a precursor to modern economics, participants will examine political economy as a historically situated set of practices and arguments, embedded in specific institutional, imperial, and ecological contexts. These took related yet disparate forms, ranging from the much-maligned shorthand of “mercantilism” to self-conscious traditions such as Cameralism, Colbertism, Physiocracy, and economia civile.
Bringing together approaches from intellectual history, economic history, and the history of science, the Summer School will focus on three interconnected axes:
To apply for the Summer School, prospective participants should submit a brief academic CV (max. 2 pages), an abstract of the research they wish to present (max. 400 words) and a short essay on why they would like to attend the Summer School (max. 200 words).
Please, upload these materials within the application form.
Please find more info here.
Application Deadline: 15 June 2026
Job Position: Research Associate (PhD candidate) (m/f/d)
The Faculty of Social Sciences at the Goethe University Frankfurt, within the Chair of International Relations and International Political Economy (Prof. Dr. Andreas Nölke), the position of Research Associate (PhD candidate) (m/f/d) (E 13 TV-G-U, 75% part time)is to be filled as of 01.10.2026, for a fixed term of 3.5 years (optionally prolonged to 4 years). The salary is based on the German public sector pay scale (TV-G-U) applicable at Goethe University.
Responsibilities
The position is part of the DFG-funded research project “Financial Empire: China’s Construction of an Alternative Financial System” led by Dr. Johannes Petry. The project examines the transformation of global financial structures in the context of increasing geopolitical tensions and analyzes China’s efforts to build an alternative, Sinocentric financial system. It focuses on processes of policy learning, the emergence of imperial practices, and their role in reshaping global patterns of power, autonomy, and dependence.
The project is part of the DFG Research Unit “Learning Empire. Autonomy, Dependence, and China’s Emerging Imperial Practices” (FOR 5913/1), a large collaborative initiative to study China's changing international practices under the conditions of a world order in transition funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The Research Unit comprises eight projects across German universities and research institutions (see: www.learning-empire.com).
The successful candidate will work closely within the project team and contribute to all work packages. Core responsibilities include:
Requirements
Applicants must hold an above-average university degree (Master’s or equivalent) in political science or a related field. We expect solid knowledge in international and comparative political economy, particularly in the areas of global finance and/or the political economy of China, as well as a strong interest in topics such as state capitalism, geoeconomics, and financial market infrastructures.
Experience with, or a strong interest in, qualitative research methods—especially interviews, document analysis, and potentially ethnographic approaches—is required. Willingness to conduct international fieldwork and excellent English language skills (written and spoken) are essential.
Desirable qualifications include knowledge of China’s financial system, initial experience with quantitative data analysis or financial data (e.g., Bloomberg, LSEG Workspace), and Chinese language skills. An interest in academic publishing, the ability to work independently, and strong teamwork skills are also expected. German language proficiency are an asset, but not mandatory.
What we offer
The position offers the opportunity to pursue a PhD within an internationally connected and theoretically innovative research project at the intersection of political economy, geopolitics, and China studies, while being embedded in an excellent research environment. In addition, it provides access to international networks as well as opportunities for extensive field research in global financial centres.
Supporting early-career researchers is a central priority of the “Learning Empire” Research Unit. It provides structured doctoral training, including joint supervision across projects and a mentoring scheme. The program emphasizes the development of transferable academic skills, research practices, and integration into the group’s shared intellectual and methodological framework. This is complemented by a dedicated workshop program, writing retreats, and active participation in collaborative events, fostering both professional development and a strong interdisciplinary research community.
Applications (cover letter, CV, two writing samples, copies of academic certificates and transcripts) should be submitted electronically, quoting the reference number (06/2026), by 20.06.2026, to the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Goethe University Frankfurt via email: dekanat.fb03-bewerbungen@soz.uni-frankfurt.de. Selected candidates will be invited to interviews in Frankfurt in early/mid-July. For further information, please contact Dr. Johannes Petry (j.petry@soz.uni-frankfurt.de).
Application Deadline: 20 June 2026
For further information please click here.
Several positions available at the the New Economics Foundation:
Senior Economist – Labour Markets and Social Security
Senior Economist — Macroeconomics
Senior Economist — Universal Basic Services
Researcher/Economist – Energy and Net Zero
Greater Manchester Community Organiser
Social Policy Economist/Quantitative Researcher
For more than three decades, the New Economics Foundation’s mission has been to transform the economy so it works for people and the planet. We work with people igniting change from below and combine this with rigorous research to fight for change at the top.
NEF aims to create a new economy that by 2040 works for people and within environmental limits. We do this through:
NEF has pioneered ideas and practices including co-production, local money flow analysis, social return on investment, ethical investment and social auditing. We have given birth to a range of organisations to carry on our work, including the Jubilee 2000 Debt Campaign, the Ethical Trading Initiative, AccountAbility, Time Banking UK, the London Rebuilding Society, the Community Development Finance Association and the New Economy Organisers Network.
In the last few years, NEF has:
Our work now is focused on three urgent missions to transform the economy.
For further information please click here.
Job title:Economist specialised in Industrial policy / Innovation / Structural change
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. We offer our clients and stakeholders economic studies, forecasts and economic data.
To strengthen our team of economists, we are currently looking for an
Main Tasks
Requirements
What we offer
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 offered for a fixed term of 18 months. Subject to a satisfactory probationary period, there is the possibility of a permanent appointment. The monthly gross salary for a full-time position (40 hours per week, paid 14 times per year) is €3,776, with the possibility of a higher salary depending on qualifications and experience.
We support workforce diversity as a key to innovation and success and are committed to offering equal opportunities to all.
For further information please click here.
Closing date for applications: 10th June 2026
Start: as soon as possible
Pascale Cornut St-Pierre and Jasmine Gareau-Lindsay: Green Securitization, A Legal Structure Currently Unfit for Ecological Transition
Christian Bessy: The Failure of a Pure Patent Market
Eduard Braun: How the Neoclassical Market Ideology Destroys the Market: Shareholder Value Maximization as a Self-Defeating Prophecy
Hendrik Sander, Anna-Lena Scherer, and Ute Schmiel: The Arm’s Length Principle – An Adequate Means for Taxing Multinational Corporate Groups?
Regular articles
Ryan Schey and Rebekah J. Adams: Discursive Placemaking Practices and White Christian Nationalism
Jorge Garcia-Arias and others: Imagining Critical Pedagogies and Ecological Humanities in the Pluriverse
Gabriel M. Kennedy: Envisioning Critical Pedagogy in Liberian Higher Education
James Y. Yuan and Romin W. Tafarodi: “A Game We All Play”
Hannah Carson Baggett and others: Research as Copaganda?
Saralyn McKinnon-Crowley and Sarah Harris: The Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program and the Purpose of Higher Education
Themed section: Palestinian Liberation in Education: Solidarities and Activism for a Free Palestine
H. Shatara: Palestinian Liberation in Education
Amanda Najib: Toward a Palestinian Critical Race Theory in Education
Muna Saleh and others: “You’re Good as Long as You’re Silent”
Jay Stanley and Leilani Sabzalian: “Be the Auntie Rez Kids in Palestine Need Right Now”
Tiffany Octavia Harris: Flowers for Palestine
Lilly Padía: Do Palestinian Lives Matter in Teacher Education?
Julie Alstadnes Malme: Educating for Unknowable Futures
Amany Al-Sayyed: Confronting my Palestinianess in Writing Pedagogies
Rhacel Salazar Parreñas, Sabrina Marchetti & Wasana Handapangoda: Care economies: States, markets and inequalities
Raquel Martínez-Buján & Antía Eijo: Home care provision in dispute: Digital platforms and worker cooperatives in Spain
Kritika Pandey: Between hostile worlds and connected lives: Navigating contentions in domestic worker organizing
Zuzana Uhde & Olga Gheorghiev: Extracting care from women on the move: Nuances of exploitation in bordering and marketized care in the EU
Noémi Katona & Dóra Gábriel: The quiet collapse: Authoritarian neoliberalism and the crisis of care of older people in Hungary
Wasana Handapangoda: Producing and shaping migrant domestic workers’ everyday lives: The role of the migration broker
Petra Ezzeddine & Maroš Matiaško: Live-in care on trial: The failed promise of solidarity in European care governance
William Davies, Andrew Barry, Ilias Alami, Samantha Ashenden & Linsey McGoey: The state of the state
Bill Dunn: Cryptocurrency: Still a Cause for Concern
Muhammad Ayub Mehar: Nexus of Financial Architecture, Vulnerable Employment and Poverty: The Stimulus of Information Technology
Samba Diop & Simplice A. Asongu: Information and Communication Technologies as Catalyst for the Achievement of Sustainable Development Goals at the Local Level in Africa
Tadas Šarapovas, Marius Kušlys & Vincentas Vobolevičius: Shall Automation Create Artificial Jobs?
Maryam Baharluoei, Hossein Afrasiabi, Adam. P. Coutts & Katarzyna Cieslik: The Experiences of Iranian Middle and Lower Class Living in Inflationary Conditions
Yaakov Gilboa: Discriminated or Not? The Arab Minority in the Israeli Labor Market
Jennifer S. Ponce de León & Gabriel Rockhill: Imperialism and Emancipation: An Introduction to Losurdo
Domenico Losurdo & John Catalinotto: An Educational Trip to China: Reflections of a Philosopher
Domenico Losurdo & Inez Hedges: Fundamentalism
João Romeiro Hermeto: Losurdo’s Critique of Capitalist Imperialism and the Long Arc towards Emancipation
Jesse Olsavsky: “Abolition Revolution”: Losurdo, Abolitionism, and the Critique of European Philosophy
Taylor R. Genovese & David Peat: Herrenvolk Marxism as Class Collaboration: Recovering the “Struggle for Recognition” through Losurdo’s Methodology
Matthew Sharpe & Matthew King: Western Marxism, from Totalitarianism to Biopower: On the Agonies of the Beautiful Eurocentric Soul
Jared C. Bly: Losurdo, Sankara and the Idealism of Practice: Underdevelopment, Neocolonialism and the Troublesome Trade Unions
Articles
Massimo Rusconi and others: Model trustworthiness and modeler responsibility in economic agent-based modeling practices: a meta-analytical approach
Mario Rizzo and Malte Dold: Hayekian psychological economics: expectations and learning
Dillon Tauzin: The Knightian entrepreneur as consensus-builder
Armin W. Schulz: Comparative economics for model choice
Review Symposium
Alex Rosenberg: What makes economics a separate science?
Nadia Ruiz: Dan Hausman on macroeconomic models
Margaret Schabas: Hausman’s inexact and separate science of economics
Daniel M. Hausman: The inexact and separate science of economics: a response to my excellent critics
Andrea Rizzi & Torsten Krause: The unequal exchange of carbon: calculating value appropriation and atmospheric colonisation through carbon offsetting
Jeroen Thielens & Mattias Vermeiren: Depoliticising monetary tightening: how the European Central Bank managed the 2021–2023 inflation shock
Kai Koddenbrock & Carolin Fiete Norina Voß: Walking a fine line: Germany and the question of imperialism
Bart Stellinga & Matthias Thiemann: Too contested to avoid, too complex to normalise: the politics of integrating financial stability considerations into the ECB’s monetary policy
Yong Sub Choi: Two paths of Fordism: divergent industrialisation in the two Koreas
Dillon Wamsley: When neoliberalism meets technocracy: intra-elite conflict and the realignment of Britain’s macroeconomic regime under Liz Truss
Asha Herten-Crabb, Yadanar Yadanar & Clare Wenham: Partial recognition without redistribution: unpaid care in the devolved UK during COVID-19
Hulya Dagdeviren & Jiayi Balasuriya: Landlords with class
Cinthia de Souza: The Eurozone’s contradiction: how the power of finance subordinates the periphery and threatens monetary integration
Zsófia Barta: Manufacturing gravity: credit ratings as the makers of safe assets
Luigi Capoani, Margarita Shnaider and Martina Griseri:Entropy and Economics: A bioeconomic perspective on economic development and sustainability
Andri W. Stahel: Do we need our needs?
Steve Roth and Dirk Bezemer: How Invisible Capital Gains Drive Extreme U.S Wealth Concentration
Xiaoping Gu: The systematic extraction of global resources under the U.S. trade deficit model: A reconstruction of national income accounting
Wen-Bao Lin and Jia-Ying Lyu:Digital gold, risk asset, or evolving hybrid? Bitcoin’s heterogeneous safe haven properties during the Russia-Ukraine War
Ahmad Seyf: Breaking the Nordic Model? Analysing Income Inequality in Sweden
Martin Watts and Phil Armstrong: A macroeconomic policy framework for developing countries: an MMT perspective
Jeremy Cronin: The South African Communist Party and the negotiated transition to democracy
Gary Provost and Lolonga Tali: The South African Communist Party's role in formulating the African National Congress's development policies: from Reconstruction and Development Programme to National Development Plan, 1990-2025
Devan Pillay: The limits of Marxist-Leninism and the democratic ecosocialist alternative
Caroline Hambloch, Claudia Coral, Guido Maschhaupt & Dagmar Mithöfer: Power from below: rethinking bargaining power in global value chains
Jeremy Green: The extractive foundations of Bretton Woods: gold, apartheid, and the racial politics of monetary order
Inderjeet Parmar & Atul Bhardwaj: The architecture of consent: the Ford Foundation, ‘brain irrigation’, and the making of India’s neoliberal transition
Martín Cortina-Escudero: The historical origins of the varieties of capitalism: how international trade shaped market economies during the first wave of globalization
Lukas Spielberger & Moritz Rehm: Institutional foundations of financial statecraft: EU assistance to Ukraine and beyond
Asha Herten-Crabb: ‘Don’t come with your lessons in morality’: ontological imperialism and the MERCOSUR-EU intellectual property negotiations
Juanita Uribe: The moral economy of global priorities: fusing profit and public duty in malnutrition governance
Nicolás Pose-Ferraro: Changing preferences: How the organizations representing Brazilian industry came to support the European Union-Mercosur trade negotiation
Jeffrey Ding & Dennis Yuen Li: Reputation collectives: how international industry associations influence China’s safety standards in high-risk technologies
Phuong Pham & Melle Scholten: Complex global value chains and economic interdependence: a new look at the opportunity costs argument
Matthew Eagleton-Pierce: Specters of slavery in the global economy: rupturing the selective tradition in the history of Lloyd’s of London
Qi Liu, Xun Pang & James Raymond Vreeland: China’s bilateral swap agreements and foreign policy
Marius Dotzauer & Paul Meiners: Enter the trade war? European public opinion on trade restrictions against China
Nikhil Kalyanpur: Twilight of the oligarchs
Seth Pipkin: Discipline to flourish: a framework for the political economy of discipline in industrial policy
David Barkin: Introduction to the Special Issue Climate Change and Capitalism
Danish Khan and Han Cheng: Political Economy of Neoliberal Climate Governance: Environmental Conservation and Agrarian Struggle in Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan
Sachin Peddada: Energy Transitions and Power Struggles
Germán Augusto Zamorano and Kaio Glauber Vital da Costa: Patterns of Ecologically Unequal Exchange in Argentina’s Trade: Environmental Pressures and Economic Outcomes Through Input-Output Analysis
Marta Vallvé: The Materiality of Socio-Ecological Conflicts: A Revised Interpretation of Marx’s Theory of Metabolic Rift
Christiane Heisse: Talking a Lot, Yet Little to Say: Economics Imperialism in the Economics of Climate Change
Larry Alan Busk: Confronting Mises in a Warming World: The Calculation Debate and Climate Change
David Barkin: What Is a Radical Economist Doing in Mexico?
Sirisha C. Naidu: Overcoming Climate Blah Blah Blah: A (Feminist) Radical Political Economy Assessment of Reproducing Life Under a Climate Crisis
Amanda Page-Hoongrajok: Book Review: Unraveled: The Life and Death of a Garment
John B. Davis: Expanding black reparations with human and social capital investments
Max Strietholt: Money, liberty and nonpublic sources of social stability
Felipe González-López, Matías Gómez-Contreras & Gabriel Otero: Consumer credit and personal networks: exploring the role of network heterogeneity in consumption and borrowing behaviour in Chile
Cécile Vasseur: Values in the social economy: a study of mutual health organizations in France
Laura Alles & Nicolas Da Silva: The transformation of French hospital capitalism: financialisation and concentration
Robert Boyer: Michel Aglietta, inventeur d’un paradigme en sciences sociales
Bruno Amable: Retour sur Régulation et crises du capitalisme de Michel Aglietta
Alain Lipietz: Michel Aglietta, précurseur infidèle de l’approche de la régulation
Bernard Billaudot: Une invitation à revisiter l’approche en termes de régulation
Nicolas Pinsard: La plus-value d’Aglietta : accumulation et périodisation
Sandrine Michel: Michel Aglietta et le rapport salarial : comment continuer le travail ?
Gilles Allaire: Les actifs agricoles de plain-pied dans la société salariale
Julien Vercueil: De l’Union européenne des paiements à la grande transition à l’Est, puis aux BRICS
Jacques Sapir: Michel Aglietta et la théorie de la régulation à l’épreuve de l’URSS et de la transition
Demian Panigo, Jorge Carrera et Pablo Chena: Aglietta’s legacy for Latin America: sovereign money as an institutional precondition for development
Guo Bai: La voie choisie par Michel Aglietta
Nicolas Leron: Retour sur La double démocratie. Écrire l’Europe politique avec Michel Aglietta
Alexandre Escudier: Du mode de régulation national au « contrat capacitaire européen »
André Orléan, Pierre Alary, Léo Malherbe et Sandrine Michel: Entretien avec André Orléan : « Dans une large mesure, le travail de Michel Aglietta reste à découvrir »
Laurence Scialom: La pensée de Michel Aglietta : une dette intellectuelle en héritage
Adrien Faudot: La réception par les économistes hétérodoxes français de La violence de la monnaie(Aglietta & Orléan, 1982)
Robert Guttmann: Mysteries of International Money: Michel Aglietta’s Approach
Jonathan Marie et Jean-François Ponsot: L’ancrage macroéconomique de l’institutionnalisme monétaire de Michel Aglietta
Yamina Tadjeddine: Devenir économiste de la finance : ma dette envers Michel Aglietta
Jézabel Couppey-Soubeyran: Régulation du capitalisme financier : une formidable grille de lecture systémique en héritage
Léo Malherbe: Les innovations monétaires et la confiance
Tristan Auvray, Nicolas Bédu et Sandra Rigot: Michel Aglietta dans les années « zinzins »
Adriano do Vale: Les formes d’indépendance des banques centrales et les nexus indépendance-accountability
Olivier Brossard: Cheminer en suivant la voie du pluralisme intégratif et éclairé de Michel Aglietta
Christian de Boissieu: Un économiste chez les régulateurs bancaires et financiers : quelques enseignements
Étienne Espagne: Retour sur la notion de régime historique de viabilité
Lynne Chester: Michel Aglietta’s influence on my research agenda
Renaud du Tertre: Trois regards portés par Michel Aglietta sur l’accumulation du capital et la finance
Baptiste Bridonneau, Jérôme Deyris et Gaëtan Le Quang: Michel Aglietta, par ses «petits-enfants de thèse »
Pierre Funalot: Michel Aglietta, l’arbre et les rivières
Antoine Rebérioux: Dérives du capitalisme financier – 20 ans après : réflexions autour de la crise écologique
Benjamin Coriat: Capitalocène, Bien(s) Commun(s) et Viabilité chez Michel Aglietta
Platform Economies
Qi Song and Tiantian Liu: Transcending boundaries and breaking social safety nets: how digital platforms reorganize the market and exacerbate economic insecurity
Elif Birced: Empowered by consumers: how content creators use relational labor to resist labor control
Jian D Zhang: Variations in the enforcement of China’s platform regulation
Government Responsiveness
Manuel Wagner: Unequal responsiveness and direct democracy
Irakli Barbakadze and Simon Deakin: What do populists do once in office? The impact of populist governments on labour and corporate laws
Corporations and the State: Environmental Regulation
Paola D’orazio: The political economy of climate-related financial policies: creating new paradigms or reinforcing old ones?
Jinlong Zhang and Wei Zhang: Biodiversity regulation and green innovation: evaluating the porter effect
Karl Palmås and Nicholas Surber: Regulatory fictions and instruments of imagination: how professionals anticipate future bans on chemicals
Housing Markets
Engelbert Stockhammer and others: What goes up, must come down: speculation-encouraging institutions and house price cycles across countries
Financial Institutions
M Rodwan Abouharb and others: The role of IMF programs in aligning national economic policy with domestic preferences
Nils Peters: Bringing ownership in: a conjunctural approach to venture capital valuations
David Kampmann: The political economy of venture capital: winners-take-all and founder control
Politics of Taxation and Spending
Alexander Trubowitz and Sam Zacher: Preferences under pressure: financial strain and support for progressive taxation
Daniel Fernandes: When do salient social issues affect the generosity of welfare programmes?
Abu Bakkar Siddique: How long does the impact of corruption persist? Evidence from self-reported tax morale by multigenerational immigrants
Florian Fastenrath and Paul Marx: The end of the “tax taboo”? Left-wing parties and the politics of taxing the rich in Germany and the UK
Marcin Serafin: Taxation without contestation: the making of an invisible tax revolution in postsocialist Poland
Work, Wealth, and Inequality
Leila Davis and Charalampos Konstantinidis: Asset ownership, rates of return, and the US working class
Guillermo Orfao and others: Convergence in the NEET rates across the European Union: do gender differences persist?
Young-hwan Byun and Tomas Korpi: From compression to dispersion: how union transformation reconfigures wage inequality in the knowledge economy
Jule Adriaans and others: The gender gap in fair earnings: the effect of male and female supervisors
Blanca González-Mon and others: Unstable bridges—exploring the possibilities for “in between” spaces amidst divergent narratives in environmental governance
Felix Poelsma and others: Researchers’ roles in the (dis)empowerment of societal actors: a reflexive framework applied during a transition towards climate neutrality in the Swiss alps
Mia Strand and others: Participatory community mapping to include sociocultural dimensions in ocean governance
Yanyan Huang and others: Towards advancing theorization of knowledge exchange processes: unpacking linkages and sequences among concepts via tacit-explicit knowledge conversion notion
Nina Hunter and others: Developing a collaborative tool to foster communication in sustainability research
Amadou Hamath Diallo and others: Rethinking development: an SDG17-driven research-action approach in the Senegalese drylands
Carolin Seiferth and others: Learn to listen and listen to learn: reflections from a co-production process between researchers and composers
Jessica Salaün and others: Operationalizing enabling conditions: a social-ecological perspective on marine conservation success
John Sanya and others: Interplays between nature’s contributions to people, values of nature, and emotions expressed by smallholder farmers in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania: insights for inclusive conservation
H. D. Mendoza and others: Injustice flows along Itaya River: capabilities from living with river rhythmicity in Bajo Belén, Iquitos, Peru
Mattheus Porto and others: Expanding infrastructure resilience horizons: safe-to-fail and social-ecological-technological dynamics for requisite variety
Anass Barrahmoune and others: Does Human Depopulation Reduce Resource Consumption? Evidence from Anthropocene Japan
Angelika Zimmermann and others: Values, emotions and views of the future: democratic deliberation as pathway to inner transformation
Yasuo Takahashi and others: Contribution of natural capital to quality of life of urban-to-rural migrants in Japan: structural equation modelling using nation-wide survey and public geospatial data
Louis Delannoy and others: More than a buzzword? Mapping interpretations of the ‘polycrisis’
Hazal Deniz Kaya and others: Navigating lock-ins for adaptation: A case study of grid capacity planning in the Dutch energy transition
Trace Gale and others: Energy transitions in peripheral territories: integrating Multi-level Perspective and Three Horizons approaches in Chilean Patagonia
Loretta Bellato and others: Creating protected spaces for regenerative development: lessons from the swimmable Birrarung/ Yarra river initiative, Melbourne, Australia
Yuxi Zhang and others: When digital innovation misaligns: feedback processes across social, ecological, and technological domains in urban water governance
Stacy-ann Robinson and others: Reimagining the Sustainable Development Goals: Centering Nature’s rights for a more-than-human future
Miles Richardson: The human–nature relationship across two centuries: macro factor insights from a machine learning model
Anja Janischewski and others: Defining growth dependence
Janez Sušnik and others: The water-energy-food nexus, its relationship with ecosystems, and its role in supporting society
Henri Contor and others: Accounting for what matters: a review of true cost accounting as a transformative framework
Tim M. Daw and others: What role for deliberative minipublics in sustainability transformations? An emerging topic for sustainability science
Iván Ojeda-Pereira and others: From fragmented to integrated sustainability in lithium extraction? Political measurements and critical minerals in times of sociotechnical transition in Chile
Randall G. Holcombe: Conscious choice, entrepreneurial insight, and the Life cycle of firms
Vincent Geloso, Chandler S. Reilly: A Defense-Adjusted National Accounting of the US Economy and Its Implications, 1791-2023
Hai-Trieu V. Nguyen: Against formalization as translation and the prospects for mathematical Austrian economics
Przemysław Rapka: Pointlessness of average period of production: A critique of Lewin and Cachanosky
Raymond C. Niles: What will be the money of the future? A review essay of Lawrence H. White’s Better Money: Gold, Fiat, or Bitcoin?
Janna Lu: Don’t forget institutions: a review essay of The Economics of Prosperity
Christian Walter, Thomas Delcey and Emmanuel Picavet: Benoît Mandelbrot’s Legacy in Economics and Finance. Introduction
Robert W. Dimand: Bachelier (1914) and Mandelbrot (1963): The Issue of Fat Tails
Emiliano Ippoliti: The Problem of Stock Market Mathematics and Mandelbrot’s Bottom-Up Approach
Christian Walter: Mandelbrot’s 1962 Compte Rendu de l’Académie des Sciences
Rosario N. Mantegna: Was Benoît Mandelbrot a Hedgehog or a Fox?
Jean-Philippe Bouchaud: Mandelbrot, Financial Markets and the Origins of “Econophysics”
Marc Bertin and Thierry Lafouge:Overview of Zipf’s Law: Between Mathematics and the Human and Social Sciences
by Charlie Eaton | 2022, Chicago University Press
Elite colleges have long played a crucial role in maintaining social and class status in America, while public universities have offered a major stepping stone to new economic opportunities. However, as Charlie Eaton reveals in Bankers in the Ivory Tower, finance has played a central role in the widening inequality in recent decades, both in American higher education and in American society at large.
With federal and state funding falling short, the US higher education system has become increasingly dependent on financial markets and the financiers that mediate them. Beginning in the 1980s, the government, colleges, students, and their families took on multiple new roles as financial investors, borrowers, and brokers. The turn to finance, however, has yielded wildly unequal results. At the top, ties to Wall Street help the most elite private schools achieve the greatest endowment growth through hedge fund investments and the support of wealthy donors. At the bottom, takeovers by private equity transform for-profit colleges into predatory organizations that leave disadvantaged students with massive loan debt and few educational benefits. And in the middle, public universities are squeezed between incentives to increase tuition and pressures to maintain access and affordability. Eaton chronicles these transformations, making clear for the first time just how tight the links are between powerful financiers and America’s unequal system of higher education.
Please find a link to the book here.
edited by Guglielmo Maria Caporale | 2026 Edward Elgar Publishing
This comprehensive Handbook analyses the effects of climate change on financial markets, examining the policy measures required to mitigate its negative impact on market efficiency and various asset classes such as stocks, bonds, currencies and other financial hedges.
The chapters review the existing literature in the field, carrying out advanced econometric investigations to shed light on the implications of physical climate change and provide relevant policy advice. The contributors focus on the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, providing detailed insight into green finance, sustainable investment and increasingly necessary ESG (environmental, social and governance) measures. They explore a range of key topics including the role of monetary and macroprudential policies, carbon taxes and allowances and improvements in national governance systems. They also compare strategies across global, local, public and corporate levels, identifying the most efficient methods of financing a sustainable green transition.
The Handbook of Climate Change and Financial Markets is a valuable resource for scholars and students of financial, macro, monetary, environmental and energy economics. It is also beneficial for investors requiring appropriate portfolio and risk management strategies, as well as authorities tasked with climate change policies.
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edited by Jungho Baek | 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing
This timely Handbook explores the ways in which countries can achieve economic growth without environmental harm. It brings together case studies from around the world to examine how governments, industries and communities can reduce pollution and use resources more wisely.
Chapters highlight the challenges and opportunities of balancing economic progress with protecting the planet, revealing that sustainable growth is possible with the right tools and improved cooperation. They explore topics including clean energy, carbon taxes, decarbonization, green budgeting and local policies to examine how different regions, including Alaska, East Asia and Europe, are adapting to environmental pressures. Presenting both global and regional perspectives, expert authors investigate sustainability challenges facing industries including textiles, manufacturing, energy and agriculture. The Handbook shows that, while there is no universal solution, there are practical strategies that exist to guide efforts toward a greener and more resilient future.
Interdisciplinary in scope, this Handbook is an essential resource for scholars and students of environmental economics, sustainability studies and development studies. Policymakers, private sector consultants, green economy practitioners and NGOs will also benefit from its valuable insights.
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by John T. Harvey | 2025, Cambridge University Press
What causes cyclical downturns that wreak havoc on our lives? Most economists will say that they result from random external shocks and that, without these, the economy would sail along beautifully. In US Business Cycles 1954-2020, John Harvey argues that overwhelming evidence points to an internal dynamic, one related to the behavior of economic agents that generates what we call a business cycle. He draws on the work of past Post-Keynesian and Institutionalist scholars to create a current theory of business cycles, one that treats them as systemic and not the result of random chance. He addresses not only unemployment and bankruptcies that are the immediate consequence of the business cycle, but critical social challenges like climate change and elderly care. Examining an extensive history of US fluctuations, Harvey fills a long-standing void within the discipline by offering an alternative theory of income, employment, and price determination.
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by Raúl de Arriba | published by Palgrave Macmillan Cham 2026
In an era of mounting global crises—from climate change and inequality to debt, migration, and artificial intelligence—the role of multilateralism has never been more urgent. United Nations Facing Global Economic Disorder: Assessing 20 Policy Proposals brings together twenty international experts to critically examine how the United Nations addresses today’s most pressing economic, social, and environmental challenges. Clear, rigorous, and accessible, each chapter explores a major global issue, evaluates the UN’s proposed solutions, and dissects what works—and what doesn’t—in the search for a fairer and more effective multilateral system. Essential reading for students, researchers, policymakers, and anyone concerned with the future of global governance.
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by Jon D. Wisman | 2026, Palgrave-Macmillan
Humans evolved to experience work as pleasurable and continued to find it pleasurable for the first 98% of our history, often likening it to play. The negative associations we see now with “work” stem from the extreme inequality and exploitation accompanying the rise of the state 5,500 years ago. Consequently, today many people view work negatively, seeing it as a means to gain income to enable consumption as opposed to serving as a means for creativity, community, and self-fulfillment.
In Why We Must Work, Jon D. Wisman draws upon economics, philosophy, evolutionary psychology, social anthropology, and history to explore how work has been experienced and understood over the course of history. In addressing current conditions, he notes the absurdity that, while we live with unparalleled abundance, some workers suffer unemployment and most are not free in their workplaces, often being bossed about. Equally absurd, given our abundance, is the extreme inequality that results in pervasive insecurity, stress, and pessimism. Laissez-faire ideology legitimates the public policies that generate this inequality and these work conditions while depicting ever greater consumption as opposed to meaningful work as the means to greater happiness.
Wisman offers an attractive alternative vision of our future, grounded in two reforms to make work again fulfilling: guaranteed employment and workplace democracy. Guaranteed employment would provide security and eliminate poverty while providing everyone with the social and self-respect of being a productive member of society. Measures to bring about worker ownership and control of their firms would bring freedom and democracy to the workplace. Both reforms conform to cherished values while preserving capitalism’s two principal institutions of private property and markets.
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by Andreas Nölke and Michael Schedelik 2025, UTB
This pluralist introduction systematically juxtasposes neoclassical and (post-) Keynesian perspectives on the most important topics covered by economics textbooks. It is written in German and is well accessible for students without previous knowledge of economics, for example beginner students in political economy, economic sociology, economic geography or school teachers.
German description: Wie lassen sich Wirtschaftskrisen erklären? Welche Faktoren beeinflussen Ungleichheit? Und welche Alternativen gibt es zum Wachstumsparadigma? Dieses Lehrbuch führt verständlich und fundiert in zentrale wirtschaftliche Themen ein – von Arbeitslosigkeit über Finanzmärkte bis zur Umweltökonomie. Es vermittelt verschiedene Wirtschaftstheorien aus pluralistischer Perspektive und verknüpft diese mit aktuellen gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen. So vermittelt das Buch Studierenden und zukünftigen Lehrkräften die Fähigkeit, wirtschaftspolitische Debatten kompetent zu verfolgen, die vorgebrachten Argumente einzuordnen und eigenständige Positionen zu entwickeln. Im Unterschied zu den gängigen wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Lehrbüchern wird dabei auf abstrakte und mathematisierte Modellbildung komplett verzichtet. Das Buch ist auch als Web-Book erhältlich, mit Übungsaufgaben zum Selbsttest.
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The Master’s Degree in Scienze Economiche (LM-56) at Roma Tre University aims to provide advanced knowledge of economic theory, business principles, and mathematical and statistical tools that enable students to interpret and analyze issues related to the functioning of economic systems—whether at the macroeconomic level or at the level of individual economic agents or groups of economic agents—and thereby propose possible solutions to the problems identified.
Students can choose between three study tracks:
The program covers topics such as production and employment, income distribution, public intervention in the economy, the relationship between the real economy and finance, and economic and monetary policies in Italy and Europe.
The EPOG track is part of the Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree Programme and includes courses taught in English as well as a study period at a partner university. Students in this track can obtain a double degree. In addition, a limited number of students from the Economic Analysis and Finance and Macroeconomic Dynamics tracks can, through selection, spend their second year at Université Sorbonne Paris Nord and obtain a second Master’s degree in “International Macroeconomics and Financialisation.”
The course places strong emphasis on both theoretical and empirical economic analysis and prepares graduates for research, analysis, management, and coordination roles in companies, public institutions, and private organizations. Graduates may also continue with postgraduate studies such as Master’s programs or a PhD in Economics.
It is possible to complete the degree in englisch.
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Funded PhD Project:Apprenticeship Provision in South Yorkshire: Improving Opportunities for Young People
This project seeks to examine the questions of ‘how can regional institutions improve access to high-quality apprenticeship opportunities for young people? Apprenticeships can support school-to-work transitions and address skills shortages, but provision in England remains uneven and difficult to navigate, particularly for young people in the “missing middle” who do not progress directly to higher education.
This PhD project examines apprenticeship provision in South Yorkshire and how local and regional government – specifically the South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority (SYMCA) - can support better coordination between employers, education providers and policy actors. It asks how provision can be improved in both quality and quantity, and how young people can be supported to access and complete apprenticeships. The project will ideally draw on theoretical and conceptual ideas from the disciplines of critical political economy, human geography, urban studies, and employment relations.
The successful candidate will contribute to debates in political economy, labour market studies, vocational education and regional development. The project will use a mixed-methods design. The project is expected to include qualitative interviews with young people, employers and local labour market actors, alongside a quantitative element looking at labour market and apprenticeship data. The quantitative element will be broad, policy-focused and supported through doctoral training; applicants are not expected to arrive with advanced technical expertise.
You will be supervised by an interdisciplinary team:
You will be based in Sheffield University Management School and linked to the Centre for Decent Work. You will undertake the University of Sheffield Doctoral Development Programme and receive training in research design, qualitative methods, quantitative data analysis, academic writing and research impact.
The institution welcomes applicants from relevant disciplines including sociology, economics, education, human resource management, political economy, geography, business and management, or related social sciences. Applicants should have an interest in youth transitions, apprenticeships, skills policy, labour markets or regional development, and a willingness to work with policymakers and external stakeholders.
Candidates should possess strong critical thinking and analytical skills, including the ability to engage fully with a wide range of theoretical literatures. The candidate should also have experience of collecting primary data, ideally qualitative and quantitative, and have experience analysing data and presenting findings. Additional training will be provided.
Applicants should have, or expect to obtain, an undergraduate degree equivalent to a UK upper second-class honours degree or above, and a Masters level qualification at Merit or above. English language requirements are IELTS 7.0 overall, with at least 6.5 in each component, or equivalent.
Applicants must submit an online application and a fully referenced research proposal of approximately 3,000 words, excluding bibliography, based on this project. Informal enquiries are welcome: edward.yates@sheffield.ac.uk.
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Application Deadline: 26 June 2026