Issue 362July 20, 2026webpdfHeterodox Economics Directory
The craving for exactness and rigor, that characterizes so many efforts undertaken in mainstream economics, has transformed over the past decades from a focus on formal-analytical rigor towards an emphasis on ‚clean identification‘ of (allegedly) ‚causal‘ effects. And while the ghosts of formal-deductive reasoning still linger, this change had a profound impact on the discipline: in some way it changed the nature of the discipline (from more rationalist to more empiricist) and impacted prevailing methodological standards as well as dominant policy views (e.g. on the minimum wage) within the profession.
I observed this transformation not only in my role as a part-time historian of thought, but also as a real-life witness, because this transformation was quite visible in the economics department of the Johannes Kepler University, my alma mater. This department started out as a somewhat pluralist econ department in the 1970s (with Rothschild, Laszki or Riese as key figures) but had transformed into a conventional mainstream department by the time I arrived as a student some thirty years later. Over the decades I have become involved in the Linz econ department in various ways: as a student, as a lecturer, as an observer, as a colleague, as a PhD-advisor and the like…
The econ department in Linz was an interesting microcosm to observe this transition and the consequences it entailed: new priorities in the teaching canon, a change away from core econ topics towards „whatever brings good data meriting publication“ and, of course, changing standards in the evaluation of research and thereby also shifts in internal hierarchy. And while I was highly skeptical about the constraints imposed by the empirical turn on young econ researchers on very narrow, data-driven and career-instrumental paths, I could see how thinking about identification was – in some way – probably better than writing up the random, a-theoretical or all-too-simple-minded exercises that coined my (more old-school) econometrics-classes.
Aside from that, I always had the impression that there is a common denominator between the mainstream drive for identification and the heterodox notion of pluralism. Both care, albeit in different ways, about multi-causality and the complexity it brings. Research designs are employed in the hope of isolating a clear-cut relationship within a mess of causal pathways. Pluralism’s inherent contribution is to raise awareness about exactly that mess — and to insist that thinking without dogma is a necessary condition for illuminating complexity.
Just a few weeks ago, the person I considered the main architect of the empirical turn at the Linz econ department, Rudi Winter-Ebmer, retired and on this occasion I was invited to contribute to a „book of abstracts“ that collects ideas on papers that we could have written jointly with Rudi, but have never actually done so.
As you might imagine, I took this opportunity to reflect on the above intuition and contributed the short abstract shared below, which reflects on how this alleged complementarity between the key intuition behind the empirical turn and the notion of pluralism in heterodox economics could play out in practice.
Have a good time and all the best,
Jakob
Causality and Pluralism (An extended abstract)
The credibility revolution in econometrics has delivered powerful tools for causal analysis and with them a new standard of local, internally valid causal claims. Yet precision, however admirable, is not the same as understanding. A coefficient, no matter how cleanly identified, does not interpret itself; and a finding, no matter how robust, may bring quite different implications if we dare to shift our theoretical frame of reference.
In addressing this key conundrum, this paper argues that causal econometrics and pluralist economic methodology are in fact natural complements -- and that bringing them into dialogue addresses a surprisingly obvious gap in both literatures.
Drawing on a critical-rationalist epistemology, we emphasize that no single hypothesis, however well-identified, can exhaust the space of relevant explanations for complex economic phenomena. Competing and complementary hypotheses are not a nuisance, but a resource: their systematic comparison enhances external validity, internal coherence and theoretical robustness, by forcing researchers to specify the scope conditions and mechanisms that make a causal story credible in the first place. Conversely, pluralist economics gains from engaging with the demand for well-defined counterfactuals and identification strategies, which serves as a productive input when distinguishing pluralism-with-rigor from pluralism-as-anything-goes.
On this foundation, we sketch a framework in which the local precision of modern causal econometrics and the broader ambition of pluralist contextualization are treated not as rivals but as mutually reinforcing research strategies. The result, we suggest, is better economics: more honest about what a given study can and cannot establish, more attentive to the institutional and theoretical embeddedness of causal claims, and — perhaps most importantly — less likely to mistake a well-identified fragment for the whole story.
Keywords: science, foundations, causality, identification, happy retirement ;-)
JEL Codes: B41, B52, C18
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5-6 May, 2027 | Douala, Cameroon
Workshop theme: Decolonial Comparative Law and the Informal/Formal Economy
The exclusion of the many from access to, and the benefits of, means of production and resources has long been a colonial enterprise. Today, around 60% of the world’s labour force works in the informal economy. In legal terms, informality often translates into insecure social and economic rights – in short, precarity. At the same time, legal instruments designed to secure transactions, access to capital, and property are typically associated with the formal economy. Yet across Global South – or Global Majority – contexts, and increasingly in the Global North, participation in the formal economy does not guarantee stable economic rights.
This is paralleled by an exclusion of the informal economy within comparative law scholarship, which either ignores informality altogether or views it merely as a problem to be solved by law modelled after Global North law. This imbalance has limited the documentation of alternative legal instruments for human economies. Coloniality continues to sustain a narrow reading of how Global South and Indigenous societies structure their economic lives, including when they choose not to practise “economy” in a conventional sense. Acknowledging the heterogeneity of the informal economy requires attention to everyday legalities across both informal and formal work.
This workshop is not only interested in papers recommending or problematising formalisation initiatives. The main focus of the workshop is to take the informal economy seriously as a space of legality as such, in the context of legal pluralism. The organizers are looking for attempts to document, compare, and assess legal approaches – in formal and informal law – to the informal economy and the intersections between formal and informal economic life. The organizers welcome papers analysing how informal workers mobilise, transform, ignore, or reject state and non-state legal instruments in their economic lives, and examining how formal institutions engage with the informal sector.
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
If your research does not fit into any of these themes, the organizers still encourage you to submit a proposal. In general, the organizers invite papers that analyse and destabilise coloniality by examining, comparatively, the economic and legal imaginaries through which communities (typically, but not necessarily, in the Global South) define, practise, or decline to practise an economy beyond (or in spite of) coloniality.
Timeline
Please find more info here.
Submission Deadline: 1 September 2026
2-3 December, 2026 | Amiens, France
Conference theme: Rethinking Economics with John Maynard Keynes: 90 years after the publication of the General Theory
Please find the originial article here.
The Organizing Committee has decided to extend the call for papers until 31 August to give a little more time to colleagues who may have missed the original deadline or who are simply very busy at this particularly demanding time of the academic year.
Extended Submission Deadline: 31 August 2026
21 November, 2026 | Hong Kong, China
This is a special call for papers from the IIPPE China Working Group for a joint panel at the 2nd International Conference of Ng Teng Fong Sino Group Belt and Road Research Institute on Rethinking International Relations in an Age of Uncertainty.
The organizers invite you to submit a proposal for individual paper related to our lines of inquiry into the political economy of China’s rise and the building of a community with a shared future for humankind.
China’s rise as an economic superpower has not been deterred by the US’s containment strategy but the intensification of US militarism and financialisation destabilises the world economy and creates humanitarian crises one after another. While China shows defiance in pursuing self-strengthening strategy and calls for new global initiatives for building a community with a shared future of humankind, the ideological, political and military influence of the US remains and raises questions on how such a future will become reality. The organizers welcome contributions which address the dilemma and the evolving developments, and particularly on the following themes:
The proposal submission platform is now open until Friday 24 July 2026 (HK time). Please click on the link and follow the instruction accordingly. You will need to provide an abstract (500-1,000 words) and your biography (500 words) in the submission.
Important: If you are submitting to the IIPPE China WG panel, please ensure you select Panel 7: The political economy of China’s rise and the building of a community with a shared future for humankind on the form.
Please find more info here.
If you have any questions, please contact nsbrri.conference.3@chuhai.edu.hk or the China WG coordinator Sam-Kee Cheng.
Submission Deadline: 24 July 2026
17-18 June, 2027 | London, UK
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly regarded as a transformative general-purpose technology with pervasive implications across industries, institutions, and societies.
This workshop aims to contribute to ongoing research efforts by eliciting papers addressing the inherently multi-dimensional implications of AI. It aims to bring together scholars working on theoretical, empirical, and policy-oriented contributions that may fall within the following broad themes:
A. Measurement and identification issues in AI research
B. AI and business dynamism
C. AI and the labour market
D. AI and finance
E. Political economy of AI
Contact AI.Workshop@gre.ac.uk to receive full information on the call for papers.
Authors are invited to submit:
Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of Economics of Innovation and New Technology, subject to the journal’s standard peer-review process.
Please find more info here.
Submission Deadline: 1 August 2026
JAPE No. 99 Special Issue: The Political Economy of Health Inequality
Over the preceding two decades, mainstream public health scholarship and political discourse has accorded increasing attention to health inequalities – both their pernicious effects on population health and well-being, and the need to devise policies to redress them. Most prominently, this focus has translated into an expansive literature addressing the social determinants of health (SDH), which recognises that health outcomes stem from myriad social factors beyond healthcare alone, and are not reducible to the products of economically organised medical science. Alternatively, in seeking to discern the complex determinants of human health and inequalities therein, this tradition highlights the importance of indicators of socio-economic status (SES), such as income, wealth, and education. SDH research predominantly isolates such indicators as a means to demonstrate their causal association with negative and/or positive health outcomes, thereby implying that securing the correct balance of SES indicators would precipitate more favourable societal and/or global health consequences.
Undoubtedly, the SDH literature has heightened analytical and public awareness of in-justices surrounding health and health delivery – a fact that was plainly evident during successive COVID waves, as the relations between inequality and ill-health became increasingly stark. Without pre-existing, broad institutional acceptance of the association of SES with health status among public health institutions, researchers, hospitals, and international organisations, discussions concerning inequality and COVID would not have occurred with such potency within media and governmental circles. Nevertheless, despite this important contribution in identifying a broad nexus of social factors shaping health outcomes, the SDH literature tends to disregard the ‘upstream’ social conditions and power structures that adversely affect health. That is, the tradition largely fails to progress further up the causal chain to address how the social determinants of poor health (such as inequality) are, themselves, determined by structural factors, such as class or the systemic imperative of capitalism toward perpetual capital accumulation. Inequality or socioeconomic status here simply refers to individuals or families who are higher or lower according to a particular metric without consideration of the antagonistic social relations between these groups.
Hence, while recognising the significance of SDH research in refocusing scholarly and political attention on social factors as the fulcrum of studies of health inequality, this special issue seeks to shift how we comprehend associations between inequality and health. It places the locus of causality not so much on socio-economic status, but rather on the embodied structural forces, power, and political struggles that bring about the proximate status of SES indicators in the first place. That is, it is concerned with the political economy of health inequalities – critically analysing the historically specific nexus of structures, processes, and social relations in contemporary capitalism that constitute the material and ideological conditions in which people live and work, and thereby engender particular individual and societal patterns of health, illness, and well-being.
Contributions to this special issue may address a range of questions on this theme, including (but not limited to):
Through consideration of such themes, the special issue will showcase the cutting-edge of contemporary scholarship on the political economy of health inequality. Papers should be between 6,000-8,000 words, and formatted using the Harvard style.
Production Details
Please direct all submissions or questions to the editors David Primrose or Edward Jegasothy.
Submission Deadline: 1 December 2026
JAPE No. 100 Special Issue: Current and Future Political Economic Challenges – and Possibilities
Volume 100 of the Journal of Australian Political Economy, due in December 2027, will be a theme issue on 'Current and Future Political Economic Challenges – and Possibilities'.
Submissions of up to 8,000 words for this special centenary issue should be sent to the coordinating editor Frank Stilwell.
Submission Deadline: 1 April 2027
What Should Central Banks Do?
Central banks were first designed to deal with financial instability and to give economic and financial support to governments by funding public debt. This was their primary raison d’être. The earliest institutions, like the Bank of England (1694), were established specifically to finance military conflicts and manage national treasuries. Later, banks like the U.S. Federal Reserve (1913) were created as “lenders of last resort” to stop bank panics and standardize currency. As time went on, however, central banks were called upon to assume additional tasks, notably the responsibility for keeping inflation ‘low and stable’ and for addressing unemployment.
Viewed from the periphery, this question cannot be separated from the hierarchical nature of the global monetary and financial system. That hierarchy shapes even central banks' ‘core’ objectives, so what is at stake is less the addition of new mandates than the degree of monetary sovereignty peripheral capitalist states possess in the first place.
Today, as research has progressed and new economic challenges have arisen, central banks are being called upon once more — from various ideological sides — to address issues of inequality and the environment, and to participate in quantitative easing for the people.
But are central banks able to address all these issues? Or, more importantly, should they? In the end, are we not asking central banks to do too much? Should central banks address income inequality? Should they address ecological problems, and, above all, should they distribute money to the general public?
It is of course one thing to recognize that monetary policy has distributive or ecological consequences, but asking central banks to address these issues is a matter of great debate. Does this fall into the mainstream trap of accepting ‘monetary policy dominance’, as coined by Rochon and Setterfield? Are central banks equipped to deal with these additional problems, or should they be relegated to fiscal policy?
Such is the question posed by this joint symposium between the Review of Political Economy and Economia e Sociedade. Our aim is to publish a total of twenty articles across the two journals, asking the important question of what central banks should do today.
Guest Editors
Important dates
Please find the full call for papers here.
Submission Deadline: 15 August 2026
The Journal of Critical Economics announces a call for papers for its semi-monographic issue for the second half of 2027 on ‘Transformations of contemporary capitalism: neoliberalism, authoritarianism and the war economy’.
Editors
For decades, analysis of capitalist economies has focused on neoliberalism as the emerging order that emerged from the crisis of the 1970s, centred on deregulation, financialisation and globalisation. However, this project — which has always been marked by social resistance and differing national trajectories — has shown clear limitations since the 2007 crisis, following which austerity policies reinforced inequalities and weakened the material foundations of democracy.
Neoliberalism has operated not only as an economic policy, but also as an institutional project and a rationale that reshapes the conditions of democracy, fostering processes of de-democratisation, technocratisation and authoritarianism. In this context, rising inequality, the ecological crisis and the transformations of digital capitalism are combined with the rise of the far right and a growing structural convergence between neoliberalism and new forms of fascism.
At the same time, we are witnessing significant shifts in the role of the state and in global regulation: directed reindustrialisation, a crisis of multilateralism, geopolitical tensions and the intensification of armed conflicts, and a slowdown in ecological transition policies… Within this framework, we are seeing a return to active fiscal policies and the emergence of a possible ‘war-time Keynesianism’, in which defence spending acts as a driver of demand, innovation and productive reorganisation.
Whilst inequalities continue to grow and affect the living conditions of an increasing proportion of the population, even in the dominant countries, new types of business have emerged which wield significant economic power through their control of the central networks of the new digital economy. The debate over how to characterise this new form of capitalism is ongoing, with concepts such as ‘surveillance capitalism’ or ‘techno-feudalism’ being put forward in an attempt to capture the nature of a new model that is more predatory than its predecessor. At the same time, driven by the United States, we are witnessing the dismantling of plurinational institutions and a resurgence of imperial and military tensions. A key aspect of this process is the weakening of policies designed to tackle ecological problems. Growing inequalities, the ecological crisis, imperialist conflicts and the rise of a far right that imposes policies aimed at dismantling rights paint a dramatic picture.
The aim of this special issue is to analyse these transformations, their causes and their direction, taking into account both the continuities and the breaks with historical neoliberalism.
The following lines of inquiry, amongst others, are proposed:
Theoretical and empirical contributions from critical and interdisciplinary perspectives will be welcomed.
Formal requirements:
Papers written in English or Spanish will be accepted
Abstract: 400 words maximum.
Full paper: 9,000 words maximum.
Please find more info here.
Submission Deadline: 10 October 2026
17-19 September, 2026 | Linz, Austria
Conference theme: Working nature – exploring intersections of labour history and political ecology
The 61st ITH Conference is organized by the International Conference of Labour and Social History (ITH) and kindly supported by the Chamber of Labour of Upper Austria, the Chamber of Labour of Vienna, the Institute for Historical Social Research, the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the Austrian Society for Political Education, and the City of Linz.
The bundle of human-made ecological crises has reached a point where most earth scientist see an actual breaching of ecological thresholds, not only in relation to climate change but also six of nine processes for which “planetary boundaries” have been defined. In this context, the interdisciplinary field of political ecology (which dates to at least the 1970s) has experienced a spectacular boom. In a certain sense, it has become the interdisciplinary critical social science of our days, a field in which both academic and political concerns converge. In the English-speaking world, political ecology has proved to be strongly inflected by historical reasoning, with several authors highlighting the entanglements between material extraction, energy carriers (particularly fossil ones), ecological over-use, capitalist economic development, and exploitation.
While the history of work and labour relations have a place in these studies, many commentators have noticed an ongoing non-communication between labour history and political ecology. Despite such (self-)critical assessments, the last decades already have seen numerous instances scholarship at the intersection of “labour” and “environmental history” as well as “political ecology”. It thus seems both timely and necessary to bring global labour history and historical political ecology into a more structured and fruitful dialogue, to assess existing research at the intersection of both and to explore further avenues of research. While open to a broad spectrum of topics and approaches – from the carbon nexus to agrarian ecologies, from toxic through contested to multispecies labour –, this conference will insist on “labour” as one major category of differentiation in past and current ecological predicaments.
Registration is available via the following form.
Please note that early bird registration ends on 24 July 2026.
12-16 October, 2026 | Augustinum, Austria
Overcoming Lock-Ins to Enable a Just Transition towards a Climate-Neutral and Sustainable Economy and Society
The PhD Fall School 2026 brings together doctoral researchers from different disciplinary backgrounds to explore this question in an interdisciplinary and collaborative learning environment. The programme focuses on analysing lock-ins and their interconnectedness across socio-technical systems, while developing strategies and intervention pathways for transformative change.
Participants will work in interdisciplinary teams focusing on specific production and consumption systems, including:
The Fall School combines keynote lectures, input-focused and workshop elements, collaborative research, and interdisciplinary exchange.
Throughout the week, participants will analyse lock-ins, discuss approaches for operationalisation and measurement, and collaboratively develop measures and strategies for overcoming lock-ins in the context of just sustainability transitions. Each team will be accompanied by faculty mentors throughout the week.
The Fall School is designed for doctoral researchers interested in sustainability transitions, climate neutrality, socio-technical change, and interdisciplinary research. In addition to thematic and analytical insights, participants will strengthen their interdisciplinary collaboration, critical thinking, communication, and collaborative research skills.
The programme corresponds to 4 ECTS credits and includes the collaborative development of a short interdisciplinary research paper following the Fall School. Active participation throughout the entire Fall School programme is expected.
Participation in the Fall School is free of charge. Lunch and dinner during the programme will be covered by the organisers.
Please find more info here.
Registration Deadline: 15 August 2026
4-late November, 2026 | London, UK (Hybrid)
Special Issue of Organization
Amidst the many crises of the 21st century, there has been a multi-stranded return to Marx across not only the critical social sciences and humanities but within broader struggles for social transformation. In different ways, these have stretched Marxian concepts and methods to examine the changing, contradictory, and uneven nature of capitalist organization and organizing against capital. This includes engagement with previously unknown or neglected texts and themes in Marx’s oeuvre, that address questions of ecology, colonialism, gender, sexuality, and more. Despite these developments, and despite the influence that Marx has had on the study of organization and organizing, direct and sustained engagement with Marxian theory remains limited within organization studies. The special issue therefore seeks to open a forum for engagement with new readings and uses of Marx, to think and struggle in the open and unknown terrain of history. We invite conceptual, methodological, and empirical contributions that critically engage with Marx, from a plurality of disciplines, traditions, geographies, and positionalities, to interrogate capitalist organization in the conjuncture and explore possibilities for organizing alternatives in and beyond capitalism.
Paper development workshops for interested authors will be held in November 2026. There will be an in-person PDW in London, UK on November 4th 2026, and an online PDW in mid- to late November 2026 for those who are unable to attend in-person. The format of the workshops will be finalized closer to the time they are held.
Please submit your abstract (max. 1000 words outlining focus, contribution, methods [if appropriate], and fit with the special issue) to returntomarxSI@gmail.com by July 30th 2026. Please also indicate whether you are interested in participating in the in-person or in the online workshop. Participation in the workshops is not a necessary condition for authors to submit a full paper to the SI.
Please find more info here.
Editors
Application Deadline: 30 July 2026
28 September - 02 October, 2026 | Maastricht, Netherlands
Agent-based models (ABM) are a powerful and increasingly essential tool in economics and across other social sciences for studying complex systems and social challenges. This summer school addresses the critical need for researchers to master not only the conceptual underpinnings of ABM but also the practical challenges of programming, adhering to robust protocols, and effectively communicating model design and results.
Building on past successful editions, this intensive, full-time course equips participants with the advanced theoretical understanding and skills to design, implement, validate, and analyse robust agent-based models, such as a PhD thesis, a high-quality academic paper, or a policy report.
In this edition the course will also evaluate the power and limitations of Large Language Models (LLM) as co-pilots in designing and coding ABMs. In an era where researchers increasingly turn to LLM to generate code, this course emphasises the critical importance of understanding model mechanics. By comparing AI-generated models with manual coding, students will appreciate the need for bridging theory and implementation.
While the methodological skills acquired are applicable across all social sciences, the primary case studies will focus on economics, innovation, development, political economy, public policy and structural change.
Upon completion, participants will be able to:
This course is designed for:
Places are limited to 16 participants to ensure a high-quality learning experience and ample interaction with faculty. Interested applicants should submit a motivation letter (including detailing research interests, how this course aligns with their current or future research goals, programming experience (if any, not a requisite), and career stage) and a CV here.
Please find more info here.
Application Deadline: 30 July 2026
5-7 August, 2026 | London, UK
The World Association for Political Economy (WAPE) is pleased to announce its annual forum on the theme “The Wealth of Nations in the Multipolar Age”, marking the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations. Participants meet at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, London, where the first Chinese translator of the Smith’s works and first principal of Beijing University, Yan Fu, studied.
The organizers invite scholars, researchers, activists, and practitioners to participate in the conference.
The neoclassical and neoliberal appropriation of Smith is simplistic at best and false at worst. Marx, in contrast, rightly regarded Smith as one of his most important intellectual forbears, whose ideas he both valued and criticized in arriving at his own critique of political economy.
Marx considered Smith to be among those investigating ‘the real internal framework [Zusammenhang] of bourgeois relations of production’ — in particular, through his concept of the division of labour, at once advancing the productive capacities of human labour and stunting the human personality, and his belief that labour was ‘the real measure of the exchangeable value of all commodities’.
Indeed, the centrality of these and other themes of Smith’s work to Marx’s indicates that many of them point beyond capitalism itself.
The Wealth of Nations also addressed, as the curtain rose on the modern capitalist world, the central issue of what makes nations rich or poor. It has formed the running thread of the study of political and geopolitical economy. Today it is central to discussions of the multipolar and pluripolar world, as socialist and other anti-imperialist countries challenge capitalist domination through the increasingly successful pursuit of development, combined with a rejection of the imperial domination that was formative of, and remains fundamental to, capitalism’s very existence.
As in previous years, WAPE will run a geopolitical economy stream to strengthen understanding of what Marx called the ‘relations of producing nations’ of the age of capital, and of the transition away from capitalism.
The organizers commemorate Smith’s The Wealth of Nations this year by inviting submissions that add to existing scholarship on Smith, particularly those that develop the radical and developmental aspects of his thought in the spirit of Marxism, those that investigate his relation to Marx and other critical thinkers since and especially those that which investigate how reconsideration of Smith’s work may contribute to understanding the political and geopolitical economy of the twenty-first century of decaying capitalism, and to advancing socialism in what Marx termed the ‘relations of producing nations’ in the age of multi- and pluripolarity.
Please register and find more information here.
15-16 September, 2026 | Vienna, Austria
AK Vienna and JKU Linz (ICAE & SET Lab) invite researchers to a workshop on the industrial policy dimensions of the mobility transformation, September 15–16, 2026, in Vienna. The workshop brings together scholars working on production structures, value chains, and industrial transformation in the mobility sector, with a focus on the rail industry and publicly used vehicles (e.g. e-buses, waste collection or emergency vehicles), public procurement, and employment.
Abstract submissions (200–300 words) are welcome until July 31, 2026; early-stage scholars are explicitly encouraged to apply. Please note that the workshop itself will be conducted in German.
Registration and further details: https://veranstaltung.akwien.at/de/workshop-mobilitaetswende/registration
Submission Deadline: 31 July 2026
In this special crossover episode between Ceteris Never Paribus and Smith and Marx Walk into a Bar: A History of Economics Podcast, François Allisson welcomes Maria Bach and Scott Scheall for a conversation on their two podcasts, which they started back in 2017.
Many thanks to François Allisson for hosting the collaborative episode and for bringing together audiences from both podcasts.
Please find the podcast episode here.
On May 8, 2026, the Levy Economics Institute convened its annual conference on the 40th anniversary of the Institute’s founding.
This year’s conference was held in person on the Bard College campus and featured panel discussions exploring current sources of financial instability, surveying the macro picture for the US economy, and engaging with economic policy challenges in areas such as artificial intelligence, jobs, caregiving, energy, and development finance.
Presenters included:
Sheila Bair, James K. Galbraith, Darrick Hamilton, William H. Janeway, Tom Keene, Chris Kennedy, Yan Liang, Pavlina R. Tcherneva, Isabella Weber, L. Randall Wray, and Gennaro Zezza
Recordings from the day are now available on YouTube.
Levy Scholars Claudio H. Dos Santos, Gennaro Zezza, and Michalis Nikiforos sit down in this episode to discuss the life and legacy of one of the Institute's Distinguished Scholars, Wynne Godley (1926-2010).
This episode serves as part of the Levy at 40 Series. In 2026, the Levy Economics Institute marks the 40th anniversary of its founding. For four decades, the Institute has advanced independent economic research, shaped policy debates, and moved beyond the boundaries of mainstream economic thinking.
Please find a link to the episode here.
Further reading on the work of Wynne Godley:
Recruitment and Communications Coordinator
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, an internationally recognized policy research organization, invites applications for the position of Recruitment and Communications Coordinator. The Recruitment and Communications Coordinator will primarily be responsible for graduate recruitment and publicizing the Institute’s research activities and its innovative Master’s in Economic Theory and Policy degree programs.
Responsibilities:
Qualifications:
To Apply:
Please provide a cover letter, resume, writing sample, and the contact information for three professional references to Interfolio by following this link.
Please find more info here.
PhD position - '(Dis)orderly transitions: The financial sector's role in shaping just energy transitions'
What the project is about
In recent years the idea of an 'orderly just transition' has started to gain ground. While questions of justice have been taken up by ‘just transition’ research, the addition of 'orderly' is more recent, raising new questions around the envisioned speed, direction, and outcomes of energy transitions. In this project we want to look at this idea of 'order' in transitions more closely, identifying and analysing how (some) actors in the financial sector try to implement an orderly transition away from fossil fuels through the use of specific financial instruments and practices. By incorporating ideas from both political economy and economic sociology the project investigates how attempts at enacting order by financial actors can be understood as a process of contested temporal politics, with actors seeking to make the future knowable, trajectories towards it manageable, and outcomes controllable.
Who you will be working with
The project is a collaboration between myself (Bregje van Veelen, Lund University) and Amy Janzwood at McGill University in Canada, and will include cases in both North America and Scandinavia. The PhD candidate in Lund is expected to focus primarily on the latter, but there will be opportunity for comparative work too. The position is based at LUCSUS (Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies) in Sweden, where you will be part of a friendly and supportive community of scholars.
What the institution is looking for in a candidate
Someone with a strong interest in critical social science approaches who is excited to explore how issues of politics and power play out in the financial sphere. The project speaks to a variety of themes and concepts, including energy transitions, sustainable finance, temporalities & future-making, and social constructions of risk. The institution does not expect anyone to be experienced with all of these, but having experience with one of these topics and an interest in some of the others is important. Most of the data collection is expected to be qualitative in nature, so experience with qualitative methods is a must. Knowledge of a Scandinavian language is a bonus, but not a requirement.
For potential applicants unfamiliar with the Swedish system
PhD positions in Sweden are fully funded for 4 years. You'll receive a regular salary, vacation days, pension contributions, etc. In addition to conducting research, you will be expected to complete 60 credits (=one year) of course work. There are also opportunities for teaching, and taking on administrative/leadership roles (such as PhD rep), for which you will receive extra time (and funding) to complete your PhD.
More details on the position and how to apply here.
Application Deadline: 28 August 2026
Assistant Professor in International Relations and International Political Economy
The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor (‘Universitair Docent’) position in Political Science. Based in the Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV) programme group, the department welcomes new members whose research (and teaching) is informed by and connected to ongoing global transformations. The ideal candidate brings an innovative research agenda, experience, and enthusiasm to complement our programme group's research and to educate our students.
For this Assistant Professor vacancy, the department seeks to strengthen its expertise on inter-state relations (diplomacy, inter-state conflict and alliances, global security) in the context of geo-political economy and combined with a rigorous methodological approach. For this position the department particularly seeks candidates who approach such questions empirically from a global perspective rather than only from a specific regional angle.
Candidates for the position should complement PETGOV’s research community, a group interested in not just national or inter-national political relations but also non-nation-state global economic and political relations. Finally, candidates should be ready to contribute to the teaching of core courses in International Relations and/or political economy.
Core tasks
What do you have to offer
If you recognize yourself in the profile and are interested in either role, the department looks forward to receiving your motivation letter outlining your potential contribution to the education and research programmes mentioned above. Please also submit your CV, including (i) past work experience and qualifications (research, teaching, and/or management), (ii) your research interest(s), and (iii) a list of publications. In addition, the department also wants to ask you for a single-page teaching statement explaining your teaching experience, ambition and vision. Make sure that your application states to which of position you are applying. As there are multiple vacancies open for the Department of Political Science and PETGOV, know that there is no obstacle or disadvantage to applying for multiple positions.
Please find more info here.
Application Deadline: 10 September 2026
Assistant Professor in International or Comparative Political Economy
The Department of Political Science at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor (‘Universitair Docent’) position in Political Science. Based in the Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV) programme group, the department welcomes new members whose research (and teaching) is informed by and connected to ongoing global transformations. The ideal candidate brings an innovative research agenda, experience, and enthusiasm to complement our programme group's research and to educate our students.
For this Assistant Professor vacancy, the department seeks to strengthen the international and/or comparative Political Economy traditions of the group, combined with a rigorous methodological approach. The ideal candidate has broad expertise on the core themes of (I)PE such as trade and geopolitics of economics, and brings an innovative and/or critical perspective on a contemporary topic, together with a proven ability to bridge between the university and societal stakeholders.
Candidates for the position should complement PETGOV’s research community, a group interested in not just national or inter-national political relations but also non-nation-state global economic and political relations. Finally, candidates should be ready to contribute to the teaching of core courses in Political Economy and/or International Relations.
Core tasks
What do you have to offer
If you recognize yourself in the profile and are interested in either role, the department looks forward to receiving your motivation letter outlining your potential contribution to the education and research programmes mentioned above. Please also submit your CV, including (i) past work experience and qualifications (research, teaching, and/or management), (ii) your research interest(s), and (iii) a list of publications. In addition, the department also wants to ask you for a single-page teaching statement explaining your teaching experience, ambition and vision. Make sure that your application states to which position you are applying. As there are multiple vacancies open for the Department of Political Science and PETGOV, know that there is no obstacle or disadvantage to applying for multiple positions.
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Application Deadline: 10 September 2026
Postdoctoral position for a researcher in social sciences (3 years full-time, compliant with international mobility condition)
The Centre for Public and Social Law is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join our team based at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels. The fellow will contribute to the research project entitled 'Rethinking work beyond productivism from labour law and its uses' (RethinkingWork).
This research is funded by an ERC Starting Grant awarded to Elise Dermine, professor at the Université Libre de Bruxelles and financed between 2025 and 2030. In the context of the green transition, the project aims to develop concrete trajectories and public policies to emancipate work from productivism, and to better support activities with eco-social value. The proposed trajectories will be based on a European and comparative study of labour law and its social uses.
The successful candidate will be tasked with developing a typology of the post-productivist dimension of national labour law systems, drawing on clustering methods and the results of the European comparative survey. In collaboration with Elise Dermine, he or she will also carry out a foresight exercise that will aim to identify the risks and opportunities associated with potential trajectories through participatory workshops with European stakeholders (including DG EMPL, European social partners and European environmental movements). He or she will also support and/or lead on the following activities: organising national and international conferences and seminars, writing scientific articles, coordinating a special issue or book, and carrying out administrative tasks related to the research project.
Required qualifications and criteria:
Desirable skills and professional experience:
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If you have further questions, please contact Elise Dermine.
Application Deadline: 21 August 2026
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Wagah, E. O., E. A. Nyboer, Z. M. Gichana, E. O. Ogello, J. Bonzo Osodo, O. Ogeda, T. Kalapos, and Z. Molnár: Negotiating change in the African Great Lakes: fishers’ knowledge, adaptive strategies, and governance gaps in Lake Victoria’s Muhuru Bay and Migingo Island, Kenya
Pringle, C. B., R. Biggs, and N. Sitas: Agents of change: clarifying terms and their functional roles in shaping social-ecological systems
Stahl, J. K., and J. Hinkel: Collective action for the conservation of non-target species in the German Baltic Sea
Kimenai, F., P. Berkers, J. M. Vervoort, and P. Olsson: Sowing the Seeds of Change: assessing the transformative potential of niche initiatives in a music ecosystem
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Cook, N. J., S. Nath, and K. S. Nair: Which individual- and household-level characteristics help to explain women’s non-participation in local water governance? Evidence from Bangladesh
Candido, F., B. M. Z. Fujioka, M. Panzani, T. N. Souza, N. Olifiers, and R. Bianchi: Human dimensions of rural dog-wildlife interactions in the Cerrado: implications for biodiversity conservation
Ayers, A. L., J. N. Kittinger, and A. Datta: Many paths, one destination: assessing community options for co-management of marine resources
Gwapedza, D., A. E. State, C. Namuddu, M. J. T. Weaver, I. Kabenge, and J. L. Tanner: Applying the Adaptive Systemic Approach to activate community participation in waste management and pollution control in the Inner Murchison Bay, Uganda
Nkomo, M. N., M. M. J. Burnett, C. C. Hanzen, and C. T. Downs: The importance of eels (Anguilla spp.) for inland small-scale fisheries in local communities of the uMngeni and uThukela catchments, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Rikkonen, P., K. Aro, L. Rosengren, and K. Rimhanen: Building food system resilience: insights from Finland using causal loop diagrams
Wang, B., and S. He: Motivation of agroecology for biodiversity conservation in China: a juxtaposition of traditional knowledge and modern ecology in tea farmers’ practice
Thompson, K. A., J. M. Vervoort, and M. van Veldhoven: Games for better futures: using the X-curve to seed a more sustainable games industry
Moeliono, M. M. M., E. L. Yuliani, J. Reed, H. Adnan Syahputra, and V. Heri: A landscape puzzle: building collaborative governance in Kapuas Hulu, Indonesia
Rouhette, T.: Power, knowledge, and discourse in social-ecological systems: insights from the Senegalese ecovillage network
Beekmann, M., C. Rondinini, C.-L. Moungouya-Moukassa, A. Loumouamou, A. Lauta, A. Cuni-Sanchez, and S. Gallois: “We saw fish in the cocoa farm”: local observations of the impacts of climate change on biodiversity and livelihoods in the Lac Télé Community Reserve, Congo Basin
Diongue, D. M. L., R. Henriksson, J. K. Clifford-Holmes, S. Faye, A. Kane, I. Bassene, H. Saadi, M. Thiam, K. Niane, A. Bah, N. R. Diop, R. Diallo, J. L. Tanner, and C. G. Palmer: A trajectory of change in the Guiers Lake Basin, Senegal: applying the adaptive systemic approach to establish participatory governance for water security
Muñoz-Araya, G. I., A. Valdivia, P. Benavides, S. J. Crespin, T. M. Herrmann, F. M. Jaksic, and E. Schüttler: Feral dogs on X: the debate in Chilean society
Tcheton, S., A. Marais-Potgieter, and L. M. Pereira: Indigenous and local communities’ initiatives are driving positive social and environmental change in the Mono Transboundary Biosphere Reserve in the Benin Republic, West Africa
Makwana, M., U. Patnaik, and S. P. Soman: The catalytic role of weak ties in enabling transformational adaptation: evidence from vulnerable fishers in coastal Gujarat, India
Soler-Navarro, D. J., A. Tenza-Peral, I. Lare-David, A. M. Olaizola, O. Barrantes, Z. Morales-Reyes, J. D. Anadón, A. Giménez, F. J. Lacosta-Garcia, D. Martin-Collado, A. Breceda, and I. Pérez-Ibarra: Social-ecological and biogeographic research biases hinder understanding of global trends in extensive livestock systems
Trumper, A., L. Montti, V. J. Wesz, Jr., N. Szinwelski, J. von Below, A. A. Eleuterio, L. Zarbá, A. Yanosky, I. Gasparri, A. Anticoli, G. A. Zurita, F. Vazquez, J. L. P. Oliveira-Costa, I. Minoli, S. M. Amarilla Rodríguez, J. A. Trumper, V. R. Vera Monge, F. G. de Carvalho, R. J. Villagra Carron, P. Lowenberg-Neto, C. Amicone, A. B. Junqueira, and M. Piquer-Rodríguez: Spatial social-ecological land systems of the tri-national Alto Paraná Atlantic Forest of South America
O’Donnell, M., M. Pineda-Pinto, C. L. Kennedy, T. McPhearson, L. Bloodgood, and M. J. Collier: Exploring multispecies co-design for social-ecological transformation
Orozco-Meléndez, F.: Ontological openings: beyond epistemic integration in Participatory Action Research for agroecology
Xu, G., and G. Li: Reinterpreting resistance and resilience in ecology: a dual-coupling framework
Mertens, F., F. D. S. Silva, and L. G. Carvalheiro: Virtual pollination flows as a key element in the typology of transboundary flows: a response to Li et al. (2023)
Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, Smriti Rao & Abena D. Oduro: Debt, Distress, and Defiance
Diane Elson: Forty Years of Debt Distress: A Feminist Economics Perspective
Jayati Ghosh: The Gendered Nature of Sovereign Debt Accumulation
Ramya Vijaya & Nina Eichacker: A Feminist Perspective on the Urgent Need for Reforms in Sovereign Credit Ratings
Verónica Serafini Geoghegan, Patricia Miranda, Rodolfo Bejarano & Daniela Berdeja Ruiz: Life as Opposed to Debt Sustainability: Gender Tensions in the International Debt Architecture
Johanna Gautier-Morin: Queer Perspectives on Indebtedness and Financial Extractivism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Sarala Emmanuel & Niyanthini Kadirgamar: Economic Crisis in Sri Lanka: Feminist Politics and Activism
Lucía Cavallero, Maria Veronica Gago & Maria Celeste Perosino: Debt and Financial Inclusion in Times of Austerity: A Feminist Reading from Argentina
Bhumika Muchhala: Obligations Beyond Borders? Linking Monetary Tightening in the US to Gendered Debt Crisis in Pakistan Through Extraterritorial Obligations
Abena D. Oduro: “You Don’t Solve Your Problems by Sacrificing Your Aged”: A Feminist Political Economy Analysis of Ghana’s Domestic Debt Exchange Program
Amali Chamindika Wedagedara: Feminist Assemblies: Indebted Women and Triple Crises in Sri Lanka
Zhining Hu, Linus Nyiwul & Niraj P. Koirala: Sovereign Debt Defaults and Gender Inequality in Developing Countries
Busi Sibeko, Tshepo Moloi & Seeraj Mohamed: Debt and the Cost of Neoliberal Austerity: A Study of Social Reproduction in South Africa
Simon Manda, Nyambe Mukanda & Felix Mwenge: Politics of Debt Success in Africa and Feminist Political Economy Perspectives in Zambia
Selin Secil Akin & Juan Montecino: Social Infrastructure Spending and the Gender Dimensions of Debt Sustainability
Sol Prieto & Mercedes D'Alessandro: The Latest IMF Loan to Argentina: Were Gender Clauses Effective in Protecting Women?
Lana Salman: Domesticated Debt: Women, Money, and Geopolitics in Tunisia
Araby Smyth, Grace Adeniyi-Ogunyankin, Anindita Datta, Swagata Basu, Karen de Souza & others: Women’s Embodied Experiences of Debt in the Urban Global South
Catarina Morawska: Environmental Histories of Financialized Landscapes: Indebtedness in Brazilian Periferias
Selcen Öztürk, Dilek Başar & Pınar Sezer: The Gendered Effects of the Changing Welfare Regime and the Debt Crisis in Turkey
Corinna Dengler: Invisible Debts: A Feminist Ecological Economics Approach to Debts from Below
Dzodzi Tsikata: Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring
Sara Stevano: Forum on Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring
Wendy Sigle: Forum on Depletion: The Human Costs of Caring
Aida Hozić: Depletion and War Shadows
Yazgı Genç: Feminist Political Economy: A Global Perspective
Aysha Siddika & Lone Riisgaard: Invisible Hands: Understanding the Working Conditions and Agency of Apparel Waste-Handling Workers in Bangladesh as Part of the Global Apparel Production Network
Jens Thoemmes: Time Autonomy and Regulatory Pluralism: Theorising Work from the Margins
Andrea Bottalico: The Port Workers of Genoa and the Legacy of Struggle
Rafeef Ziadah: Labour Internationalism in a Time of Genocide: Beyond Episodic Solidarity
Michael Albert: Book Review of Andreas Bieler, Vincenzo Maccarrone (eds.), 2025, Critical Political Economy of the European Polycrisis
Jan Breman: Review Essay of Kanchan Sarker (ed.), 2026, Organising the Unorganised
Xuan Zhao: Early Modern European and Chinese Political Economy, and the Great Divergence
Manuela Mosca: Pareto and the Woman Question
Romuald Dupuy, Pierre Le Masne, and Philippe Roman: From the Zig-zag to the Précis and to the Formule: Why Did François Quesnay Change Twice the Form of His Tableau?
Loïc Charles: The Politics of Utopia: A New History of John Law's System, 1695–1795, by Arnaud Orain
Thomas A. Stapleford: The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life, by Sophia Rosenfeld
Cecilia T. Lanata-Briones: Science, Technology, and Innovation in the History of Economic Thought, edited by Estrella Trincado Aznar and Fernando López Castellano
Robert F. Hebert: The Entrepreneur in the History of Political Economy: The Hunting for Heffalumps in the Early Economic Analysis, by José M. Menudo
Felipe Julián Mosquera Blanco: Gerónimo de Uztáriz and His Economic Work: New Politics and the Origins of the Science of Commerce in 18th Century Europe, edited by Jesús Astigarraga and Niccolò Guasti
Jonathan Michie & Joseph Blasi: Employee share ownership and profit sharing: economy-wide issues
Richard C. May & Christopher Mackin: Capital markets and the future of employee ownership: an analysis and a point of view
Alison Lingane: Employee ownership investing at a turning point: market insights from the employee ownership capital roadmap
Yifat Aran: Shared capitalism at a crossroads: equity compensation and factor bargaining power in the innovation economy
Timothée Duverger: Towards a socio-history of economic democracy some theoretical hypotheses
Stanislav Jurčišin: Macroeconomic democracy and productivity growth: a historical perspective
Hyunmin Choi & Jungook Kim: Employee stock ownership: an international comparison of South Korea, Japan. The United Kingdom, and the United States
Niels Mygind: Stakeholder drivers toward different types of employee ownership – with some Danish evidence
Mark C. Hand: Employee ownership trusts in the United States: advantages and challenges of an emerging form of ownership
Lorin Busaan & Simon Pek: The evolution of broad-based employee ownership in Canada
Adria Scharf, Oyindamola Ijewere & Matthew Mazewski: Business owner perspectives on selling to employees: insights from in-depth interviews
Federico Pippo, Marco Pazzi & Marco Lomuscio: Worker buyouts in Italy: capital structure patterns and financial vulnerabilities
Tej Gonza, Miguel Cordova, Gonzalo Hernandez Gutierrez, Joseph Abdel Nour & Nicolas Aubert: Addressing succession crisis through Employee ownership to promote sustainable development
Frank Mullins: Founders versus descendants: How generational leadership differences affect the use of cash profit sharing in family firms
Corey Rosen: Assessing the risks of ESOPs for employees, managers, and business owners
Christos A. Makridis: Who owns the gains from AI? Employee ownership, tokenization, and the distribution of income
Stanislav Jurčišin: Macroeconomic democracy: a systemic framework for democratic economic organization
Christopher Mackin: Employee Ownership: A Review of Recent Texts
Suzanne Schneider: Review of Taxation and Resentment: Race, Party, and Class in American Tax Attitudes
Qian Forrest Zhang: Searching for Sustainability: Industrial Agriculture of Small Farmers in China and Its Structural Strains
Lu Pan, Siyu Kang, and Ye Zhu: Encountering Plant Materiality: Limits of Large‐Scale Soybean Intercropping in China
Ziwei Zhang: Scale Challenges in Ecological Transitions: Smallholders, State and Enterprises in Southeast China's Tea Sector
Chen Yiyuan: The Exclusion of Smallholders in Transformations of Agricultural Machinery Service Markets
Caixia Man and Raymond Yu Wang: Reshaping State‐Led Agricultural Modernization in China: The Hydrosocial Reconfigurations of Small‐Scale Farmland Irrigation Infrastructures
Qi Zhou and Qifan Ding: Agricultural Producer Training and Class Differentiation in China
Karita Kan: Agro‐Industrial Enclosures: Food Security, Land Consolidation and Rural Displacement in China
Prince Young Aboagye, Ellen Hillbom, and Sascha Klocke: Rural Capitalists and Development in Colonial Africa: A Comparative Analysis
Patricia Retamal and Chiara Cazzuffi: Negotiating Work and Care: Rural Women's Bargaining Power in Chile's Neoliberal Agrarian Sector
Emilia Ormaechea, Bruno Capdevielle, and Christin Bernhold: All Roads Lead to China: Argentina's Beef Exports in the Context of a New Subordinate Complementarity
Ben Fan, Xiaobo Hua, and Yasuyuki Kono: Beyond the Binary of Formal and Informal: Negotiating Hybrid Land Control by Chinese Banana Entrepreneurs in Laos
Umut Kuruüzüm: Trapped Under the Orient's Night: Blind‐Sourced Child Labour in Contract Tobacco Farming
Kunal Munjal and Madhura Swaminathan: New Waves of Sugarcane Commercialisation: Unequal Forms of Exchange in a North Indian Village
Malin J. Nystrand: Disentangling Inequality and Exploitation in the Rice Value Chain in Northern Uganda
A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi: The Agrarian Question in the Web of Life
Gavin Fridell: Capitalist Value Chains: Labour Exploitation, Nature Destruction, Geopolitics by Benjamin Selwyn and Christin Bernhold
Barbara Harriss-White: The Indebted Woman: Kinship, Sexuality, and Capitalism, by Isabelle Guérin, Santosh Kumar, and G. Venkatasubramanian
Sophie Cotton and Claire Parfitt: Decolonising Political Economy: Practices and Horizons
Luciano Carment: Should We Change How We Teach Heterodox Economics? A Cautious Case for Integrated Pluralism
Joe Collins: Pluralism and its Discontents: Against Insipid Miscellany
Tim B. Thornton: The Case for Genuine Pluralism in Economics Education
Riki Scanlan: Making It Explicit: Transformational Programs in Political Economy Pedagogy
Lindy Edwards: Historical Institutionalist Policy Tracing as a Method of Teaching Political Economy
Susan Schroeder: Applied Political Economy: An Interdisciplinary Pluralist Approach
Anna Sturman and Madeleine Moore: Teaching Political Economy Across Disciplinary Boundaries
Juliet Bennett: Nesting Economics in Political Economy Contexts
Phillip Toner: Political Economy Knowledge in the Public Policy Workplace
Evan Jones: Two Cheers for Empiricism
Gareth Bryant and Frank Stilwell: Teaching Political Economy at the University of Sydney
Cyril Hédoin, Dorian Jullien & Nestor Antonio Lovera Nieto: Introduction to the special issue ‘Market(s) and democracy: contributions from the 7th economic philosophy international conference’
Véronique Dutraive: Friedrich von Hayek and John Dewey on the market and democracy: convergent, complementary, and irreducible contributions to liberal theory
Samuel Ferey & Daniel Zarama Rojas: A forgotten epistocracy? Political institutions and epistemic virtues in Hayek’s market liberalism
Mathieu Guigourez: Commitment, Kantian economics and normative uncertainty: rethinking rational choice and individual responsibility in the wake of climate change
Philippe Gillig: The invention of homo œconomicus: a non-linear exclusion of ethics from economic science
Don Ross & Cuizhu Wang: Modelling conditionally respected social norms: a critique from the intentional stance
Marcel Boumans: Pitfalls in econometrics
Special Issue: Bringing the Ecological and the Social Together in the Green Transition: A Multilevel Analysis
Matteo Mandelli and others: Navigating Eco-Social Policymaking: Trends, Drivers, and Barriers. Introduction to the Special Issue
Karlis Laksevics and others: An Eco-Social Policy Mix for 1.5°C Lifestyles: A Multi-Country Policy Delphi Analysis
Arvid Lindh and Kenneth Nelson: Decarbonization Politics for All: Means-Tested Social Assistance, Eco-Social Values, and Public Support for Increased Fossil Fuel Taxes in Europe
Anne-Marie Parth: Taking Eco-Social Risks Seriously: Explaining the Introduction of Compulsory Insurance for Natural Hazards
Benedikt Bender and Daniel Kinderman: Green Subsidies and the Promotion of Eco-Social Policy in Germany and the United States
Franziska Leopold and others: The Role of Political Actors in Realizing Sustainable European Energy Markets: Insights From the Trinational Upper Rhine Region
Benedetta Cotta and others: Varieties of Ecosocial Policies in the EU: The Case of the National Recovery and Resilience Plans
Martin B. Carstensen and others: Integrating ecosocial policies through polycentric governance: A study of the green transformation of Danish vocational education and training
Jana Brandl: Eco-Social Policy Integration as a Process: Towards a Processual Understanding of an Ascending Concept
Julia C. Cremer: Non-State Actor Reactions to the European Green Deal: Implications for Eco-Social Integration
Special Issue: Meeting the twin challenge in times of labor shortage: How modern societies promote future skills for the digital and green transitions
Martin B. Carstensen and others: Meeting the Twin Challenge in Times of Labor Shortage: How Modern Societies Promote Future Skills for the Digital and Green Transitions
Giuliano Bonoli and others: Re-Skilling in the Age of Skill Shortage: Adult Education Rather Than Active Labor Market Policy
Sebastian Diessner and others: Skill-Biased Policy Change: Governing the Transition to the Knowledge Economy in Germany, Sweden and Britain
Lukas Graf and others: Skills Development for the Twin Transition: Building Transnational Skills Ecosystems Through Experimentalist Governance
Martin B. Carstensen and others: Mapping Green Skills in Collective Skill Formation Systems: A Natural Language Processing Analysis of Danish Vocational Education and Training
Luca Cigna and others: The Comparative Political Economy of the Green Transition: Economic Specializations and Skills Regimes in Europe
Milan Thies: State Intervention in Vocational Education: Training for the Digital and Green Transitions
Martin B. Carstensen and others: Problems and Solutions in the Knowledge Economy: Ideational Power in Slow-Burning Crises
Marina Cino Pagliarello and others: The Polysemy of Skills: Exploring Country-Specific Approaches in the Knowledge Economy
Marius R. Busemeyer and others: Who Supports the Digitalization of Education? New Survey Evidence From Six OECD Countries
Matthias Haslberger and Scherwin M. Bajka: Subjective Technology Risk and Education Preferences: VET as a Safe Haven or Dead End?
Ilze Plavgo: How Public Investments in Childcare Mitigate Childbirth Effects on Employment Transitions by Skill Level in Europe
Regular Paper
Nicolas Bocquet: Caught Between Privacy and Surveillance: Explaining the Long-Term Stagnation of Data Protection Regulation in Liberal Democracies
Thibaut Joltreau: Subsidizing Unprofitable Industries: The Political Determinants of Agro-Industrial Policy in French Overseas Departments
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edited by Marie J. Bouchard and Damien Rousselière | 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing
This Modern Guide presents a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary knowledge on the social and solidarity economy (SSE). It provides an overview of the conceptual, historical, organizational, and developmental dimensions of the SSE, exploring current issues through the lenses of public policy, governance, finance, and legislation.
Highlighting the SSE’s transformative ability to mobilize communities and connect North–South social debates, expert contributors analyse current arguments spanning tensions in hybrid organizations, internationalization, and networks and ecosystems governance. Chapters combine theoretical perspectives with empirical examples, presenting unique insights into researching, developing, and participating in the SSE. Expert authors argue that the SSE can foster equitable patterns of resource and surplus distribution, and promote democratic, capable, and emancipatory power relations. They examine SSE enterprises including cooperatives, mutual societies, non-profit organizations, and community-based initiatives that place social and environmental missions above profit generation, proposing compelling avenues for future research.
This book is a fundamental resource for scholars and students in economics and finance, business and management, and social policy. SSE actors and policymakers, particularly those involved in sustainable development, public services, and local development, will also benefit from its valuable discussions.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Mathew A. Frith | 2026, Anthem Press
America’s Neglected Protectionist Tradition rediscovers the economic ideas that built America by offering the most comprehensive treatment of the American protectionist school of economic thought. By tracing the School’s origins from Alexander Hamilton and Tench Coxe, it highlights the School’s dynamic and invention-driven alternative that rivalled English classical economics.
At a moment when protectionist trade policy has returned to the centre of global economic debate, America's Neglected Protectionist Tradition recovers the deep intellectual roots of that impulse — roots that stretch back to America's founding and that represent a far more sophisticated economic tradition than is commonly understood. This work offers the most comprehensive treatment of the American protectionist school of economic thought — an intellectual tradition originating with the ideas of Alexander Hamilton and Tench Coxe, and developed further by thinkers such as Friedrich List, John Rae, and Henry Charles Carey. By drawing on the writings of nearly seventy economists and statesmen, this account provides the first systematic treatment of the philosophy and theory of the American protectionist tradition.
In reconstructing their system of thought, America’s Neglected Protectionist Tradition demonstrates that the American protectionists represented a coherent and systematic school of economic thought, and one that rivalled their English classical counterparts. Against the conventional literature on the topic, which treats American Protectionist thought as merely an adaptation of English classical economics, this work demonstrates that the American Protectionists developed a distinctive approach to economics. Not only did they differ from the Classicals on the policy recommendations concerning international trade, they rejected basic assumptions of the English classicals which remain foundational to contemporary economic analysis. Central to the thinking of the American protectionist tradition is the idea of the economy as dynamic and inventive. Rather than seeing scarce resources as placing fixed limits on economic progress, the American protectionists looked to invention, human ingenuity, and the diversity of talents and aptitudes as the means of forging the wealth of nations. Among other areas of economic analysis, this work explores the American protectionists’ support for economic diversification, which stands in contrast with free trade theory’s emphasis on specialisation. By challenging the Classical view that individuals represent homogeneous and uniform factors of production, the protectionists saw mankind as possessing unique talents, aptitudes and dispositions. Protected diversification was thus necessary to allow individuals to exercise these unique qualities. By recovering this neglected tradition, this work not only fills a significant gap in the history of economic thought but also provides valuable historical perspective on contemporary debates regarding trade and industrial policy, technological innovation and economic development.
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by Julio Linares | Pluto Press
To change the world, we need a money revolution. Yet the debate over money has been dominated by two perspectives: those free-market capitalists who want money to rule everything, and those who want the state to harness money’s power. Decolonizing Money presents an anarchist theory of money which sets out strategies for collective liberation beyond state and capital.
Drawing on anarchist, abolitionist and anti-colonial feminist traditions, Julio Linares makes the heretical argument for a grassroots democratic movement to abolish the imperialist US dollar as a necessary step towards the cancellation of debt and establishing a worldwide basic income. Linares shows that money, beyond a store of value and a medium of exchange, is a series of promises a society makes to itself – and he challenges us to make them otherwise.
This innovative book takes up lessons from global history and social movements in order to unleash the political imagination. It shows us how the creation, use and most importantly the destruction of money are forms of power that need to be reclaimed through direct action, as part of a radical democratic project for autonomy and self-determination.
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by Charles J. Whalen | 2026, Bloomsbury
Fighting for the American Dream explores the decades-long erosion of the American Dream from the author's perspective: a working-class kid who became a celebrated economist dedicated to advancing the interests of struggling workers, while also caught in the same currents of job insecurity and downward mobility as the people he aimed to defend.
Worker insecurity, increasing inequality, and downward mobility in our current era contrast sharply with expanding prosperity and opportunity in the first three decades after World War II. What happened? And what can we do to revitalize the American Dream, reduce worker precarity, and foster broadly shared prosperity?
In this historical account of a protracted and expanding national crisis, intertwined with a personal story about growing up in a work-obsessed family and pursuing a career devoted to addressing that crisis, Charles J. Whalen grapples with the social forces that sever the link between hard work and employment success. He exposes the obstacles that mar the path of many people seeking job opportunities and traces the fading of the American Dream, ultimately encouraging readers to take a fresh look at the current economic situation and championing a more constructive set of public policies to shape the future.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Ben Fine | 2026, Brill
Relative to other social sciences, economics as an academic discipline is at the extremes in its methodology, theory, conceptualisation, methods, and knowledge of and reference to its own history as a discipline. It has also been increasingly intolerant of alternative approaches and negligent of interdisciplinarity other than on its own narrow core principles. This Volume charts how orthodox economics became the way it is, how it is changing, and why it remains unfit for purpose. By contrast, heterodox economics is shown to be vibrant and wide-ranging despite the repressive tolerance exerted by orthodoxy through Americanisation and monopolisation of the discipline.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Jesse Salah Ovadia, Richard G. Saunders, Jewellord T. Nem Singh | 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing
This Handbook provides a systematic and comprehensive overview of resource nationalism, interrogating the scale and scope of how mineral-producing societies implement various forms of resource sovereignty. Leading experts in the field explore the theory, practice and historical evolution of resource nationalism across diverse geographies, commodities and time periods.
Contributing authors present a comparative assessment of international resource governance strategies, outlining the role of natural resources in shaping the global supply chains of energy transition and advanced manufacturing. Chapters consider legal, political economy and sociological dimensions, while examining the varying forms of state-society relations embedded in the extractives sector. The Handbook provides a commodity-specific analysis of resource governance and development, namely concerning the extraction of oil and gas, platinum group metals, tin and nickel. Drawing on key global case studies, it investigates the long-term implications of efforts to resolve the climate emergency whilst managing strategic competition among international powers.
The Handbook of Resource Nationalism is a valuable resource for scholars and students of comparative political economy, development studies, sociology and public policy. It is also highly relevant to policymakers, policy advocates and third sector researchers interested in understanding resource governance, politics, initiatives and outcomes.
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edited by Başak Bilecen and Miranda J. Lubbers | 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing
This insightful Handbook explores the impact of social networks on migration, encompassing relationships between families, friends, communities and institutions. It shows how these networks shape migration decisions, facilitate border crossings and support life in new places.
Leading researchers from across the globe adopt interdisciplinary methodological perspectives to assess a wide range of migration types including labor, student and refugee mobility. The Handbook examines how existing connections can positively influence migration, focusing on key factors such as access to housing, employment and childcare, as well as the ability to maintain connections with countries of origin. It also reveals how social dimensions can limit migration or expose individuals to risks, depending on their gender, age and legal status. Drawing on diverse case studies, this Handbook provides a rich, real-world understanding of migration not as an isolated journey, but as a deeply social and relational process.
This Handbook is a beneficial resource for scholars and students of migration studies, cultural sociology, geography, development studies, political science and international relations. Containing actionable policy insights and a forward-looking research agenda, it is also an essential read for both practitioners and policymakers working in migration-related fields.
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by Theodore Koutsobinas | 2026, Elsevier
Keynesian Behavioral Macroeconomics analyzes Keynes’s landmark contributions in behavioral economics and develops a new and fresh genre of macroeconomic analysis. It compels us to consider seriously the earlier-generation warnings about the impact of investors’ animal spirits and financiers’ liquidity-presence using cognitive-based and social psychology heuristics. Innovative in its subject matter, approach, theoretical development and policy prescriptions, this constructivist pluralist approach can contribute to important debates. This fresh look in macroeconomics can fruitfully be applied by macroeconomists, policymakers, and market participants to prevent effective demand shortages, stimulate the economy, preserve job creation, and impact redistribution, sustainability and social inclusion.
In this timely book, Theodore Koutsobinas develops a synthesis of Keynes’s macroeconomic theory with contemporary developments in behavioral macroeconomics to analyze urgent real-world challenges, and he proposes successful solutions for macroeconomic policy. This volume uniquely explains how Keynes’s magnificent, crucial, but long-forgotten dynamics can be analyzed on the basis of behavioral foundations to explain amplified global finance cycles, booms and busts, and macroeconomic instability with harmful effects on incomes and jobs.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Diedrich Lange | published by Springer Nature
Exchanging is of central importance for the history of civilization, which the book traces to the present day and critically reflects on against the background of the ecological crisis. Originally originating from the rite, the traces of its diverse historical tasks reach into the market economy of the present. The cultural-economic concern of the book uses art-historical and literary studies approaches and is of both an economic historical and intellectual history nature. Thus, the European Enlightenment attached importance to exchanging on the way to the republican future. As a psychophysical compulsion, it was intended to educate the working population to industriousness and lead economic society onto the welfare path. Worlds lie between these initial foundations of market economics and economics today that differ in contrasting perspectives on exchange. The book fans them out in a plural way and sees the opportunity for a heterodox-economic approach in focusing on the various masks of identity that exchanging imposes on the subject of history. They stem from its continuous cooperation with religion, public spirit, work and language. What could a new form of exchanging look like that leads out of the ecological catastrophe? The excessive commercialization and commodification are perceived by many as critical and are held jointly responsible for the ecological catastrophe. The answer is the goal of the book.
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by Avi J. Cohen and Scott Wolla | 2026, Pearson
Microeconomics for Life presents concepts and strategies for making smart economic choices as a consumer, businessperson and citizen. Rather than simply training economists, it takes a literacy-targeted (LT) approach to help you “think economically.” By prioritizing practical scenarios over theory and formulas, Cohen and Wolla aim to help guide your career and life choices.
To meet the needs of economics majors, the text supports various approaches to teaching microeconomic principles: LT, traditional and model-focused, and combined approaches. Three Keys to Smart Choices, a framework for economic decision-making, is visually represented throughout the content to help you choose which direction to take at key junctures.
Please find a link to the book here.
edited by David Aikman and Prasanna Gai | 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing
This forward-looking Research Handbook provides a definitive overview of macroprudential policymaking. It sheds light on the analytical tools and conceptual frameworks that support contemporary financial stability regimes and examines how leading central banks deploy measures from bank capital requirements and housing-credit limits to stress testing.
Leading experts draw on lessons learnt from major financial crises including the 2007-2009 Global Financial Crisis, the 2020 Covid-19 ‘dash for cash’, and the 2023 Silicon Valley Bank crisis, to assess how, and under what conditions, macroprudential instruments succeed and fail. The Research Handbook explores the dynamic interactions between these tools and monetary policy, housing markets, credit cycles and emerging threats such as non-bank finance, crypto, cross-border capital flows and climate risk. Organised into seven thematic sections, the Research Handbook distils international cutting-edge research into practical insights and identifies priorities for further inquiry into how to avert, or better manage, future financial crises.
The Research Handbook of Macroprudential Policy is an excellent resource for scholars and researchers in banking regulation, economics and finance, business and management and public policy. It is also an accessible guide for practitioners, policymakers and regulators looking to make informed decisions on safeguarding financial systemic resilience.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Lee Khuay Khiang | 2024, Leiden University Press
At the heart of Singapore’s political economy is the PAP government, which controls the levers of control. The accumulation of power occurs through a recurring pattern of state collectivisation and economic liberalisation, while the nation’s wealth expands through state investment vehicles adapting to shifts in geopolitics and trends in international trade and finance.
Overshadowing the bicameral capitalistic system is the corridor of power, where ideas are developed to drive growth and prosperity in order to maintain an iron grip on the populace. As bureaucrats and ministers coordinate to rebalance economic reforms with state control by binding state collectivisation and financialisation, citizens are caught in the paradox of economic liberalisation and authoritarianism.
This book examines how Singaporean leaders embrace change—by meticulously balancing control and freedom, prosperity and dominance—to stay in power.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Matthew Scobie and Anna Sturman | 2024, Bridget Williams Books
‘The future of Aotearoa depends on how Māori engage with capitalism.’
What do the economics of decolonisation mean for the future of Aotearoa? This question drives the work of Matthew Scobie and Anna Sturman as they explore the complex relationship between tangata whenua and capitalism. By weaving together historical insights and contemporary analysis, this Text reveals the enduring infl uence of Māori economies and illuminates how these perspectives could radically transform Aotearoa’s political economy for the better.
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by Pablo G. Bortz, Annina Kaltenbrunner and Riccardo D’Orsi | 2026, Cambridge University Press
The Element presents a Minskyan conceptualization to analyse the International Monetary and Financial Subordination (IMFS) of developing and emerging economies (DECs), with a focus on its transformations in the 21st century. We examine changes in external assets and liabilities of DECs, trace their implications in paradigmatic case studies, and derive consequences for macro-financial policy. As a novel contribution, we identify structural transformations in the external asset position of DECs that open new vulnerabilities, challenges, and possibilities in the context of IMFS. We critically assess the mainstream policy consensus in relation to IMFS and highlight its limitations. Against this, we set out general principles for an alternative approach to policy-making grounded in the contemporary challenges facing DECs.
Please find a link to the book here.
edited by Justin Alger and Peter Dauvergne | 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing
This timely book studies the centrality of norms in global environmental governance. Expert scholars demonstrate why some environmental norms are eroding while others are gaining unexpected force, assessing how their influence changes across cycles of compromise, contestation, backsliding and renewal.
Exploring how different scholars conceptualise norms and how these principles have emerged, the book analyses the implementation and impact of norms on global environmental governance. Chapters examine a diverse array of case studies that investigate the rights of nature, anti-fossil fuel, recycling and species protection norms, among others. The book advances norm theory, particularly in the context of international relations, providing fresh insights into how morality shapes humanity’s impact on the planet.
Understanding Environmental Norms is a valuable resource for scholars and students of international politics, political science, environmental law, geography, sociology and environmental studies. It is also beneficial to practitioners and policymakers working on environmental governance and seeking a better understanding of the evolving power of norms.
Please find a link to the book here.
edited by Rhonda Breitkreuz and Marian Baird | 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing
This timely book examines the global trend of women’s economic empowerment as a critical pathway to achieving Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5: gender equality. Expert authors integrate feminist, intersectional and critical human ecological perspectives to explore the role of the state in enabling and disabling women’s economic empowerment.
Querying the concept of economic empowerment, contributing authors analyze the social, policy and economic environments which shape women’s social and economic wellbeing. Drawing on research by international scholars, chapters explore how the macro environment interacts with sites of inequality to influence women’s economic wellbeing across diverse international settings in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ghana, India, and Ireland. Ultimately, the book identifies three macro environments that advance financial liberation: recognizing and valuing care work, creating opportunities for decent and stable employment and challenging patriarchal gender norms.
This book is a crucial resource for scholars and students of gender studies, social policy, politics and public policy, development studies and sociology. Its insights into various aspects of women’s economic empowerment, including paid and unpaid work, economic migration, and maternalism, also makes this prime reading for NGOs and national and regional governments interested in executing SDG 5.
Please find a link to the book here.
Funded PhD Studentship: Water Governance, Legal Frameworks and Regional Outcomes
With public trust at an all-time low, following regular spills of raw sewage into rivers and waterways, England and Wales face a deepening crisis in their water systems rooted in decades of policy choices, regulatory failure, and the structural tensions of a privatised industry.
Following the Independent Water Commission's final report in July 2025, the government has committed to a major overhaul of the regulatory architecture in England, including a single integrated water regulator. Wales is considering parallel reforms, while Scotland continues with a publicly owned model. This moment of institutional change creates an opportunity to examine how legal and regulatory design shapes outcomes for regions, communities, and the wider stakeholders involved.
The UK's three jurisdictions, operating within broadly comparable physical and economic environments, offer meaningfully different combinations of ownership, regulation and governance philosophy. The reform underway enables comparison between the emerging English architecture and the longer-established Scottish and Welsh models.
The studentship invites research into questions such as:
For an informal discussion about the studentship, please email Dr Pawel Capik at pawel.capik@uwe.ac.uk.
For an informal discussion about the project, please email Dr Armagan Gezici at armagan.gezici@uwe.ac.uk.
Please submit your application online via the Postgraduate Research: Bristol Business School course. When prompted use the reference number 2627-OCT-CBL01.
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Application Deadline: 16 August 2026
The Steering Committee of the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) is pleased to announce that the 2026 URPE Dissertation Fellow is Lingyi Wei, doctoral candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Utah.
Lingyi's dissertation is titled "Understanding the Structure of the Capitalist World-System" and its main purpose is to analyze patterns of global inequalities in income distribution among countries. She develops a common relational benchmark for measuring the hierarchical structure of the capitalist world-system, constructs a Labor Terms of Trade, and analyzes the extent to which this measure of unequal exchange mirrors this hierarchy. Her completed dissertation will contribute to analyses of the necessary institutional changes to alter the existing and persistent inequalities.
As in previous years, URPE received promising and worthwhile applications from doctoral candidates at top universities on three continents, and regret that URPE can support only one annual fellow when there are so many excellent applicants in need of support. Please consider becoming a monthly sustainer to support URPE's future and continuing initiatives, such as the dissertation fellowship. This funding provides necessary material support for emerging researchers in radical political economy--many of whom are facing the tight financial constraints of our existing venues for radical political economics.
Historical Materialism's 9th newsletter gathers the organisation's latest journal issue, broadcasts, book releases, articles, and event announcements.
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This book series offers an outlet for cutting-edge research in alternative, heterodox and pluralist economics. It features scholarly studies on various schools of thought beyond the neo-classical orthodoxy, including Austrian, Post Keynesian, Sraffian, Marxian, Georgist, Institutional-evolutionary, as well as feminist, radical, social, green, and ecological economics. It aims to promote pluralism of economic ideas, methodological approaches, and topics.
The series also welcomes works that seek to develop alternative visions of the economy, economic structures and new approaches that aim to serve society, for example by embedding the economy within the ecosystem, or to enrich economic thought by advancing diversity, gender, race, and social equality. All titles in this series are peer-reviewed.
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Book titles in this series
Laszlo Zsolnai: Planet Positive Economy
Jürgen Kremer: Capital Income and Concentration of Wealth
Fritz Helmedag: Production of Commodities by Means of Labour
Tony Kinder: The Non-Market Economy
Thomas Gries and others: The Economics of Ideologies
Carmine Gorga: Concordian Economics, Vol. 1
Carmine Gorga: Concordian Economics, Vol. 2
Raimund Dietz: Economics as a Social Science
Vladislavas Petraškevičius: The Paradox of Marxist Economics
Johannes Wolf: Economic Transformation
Sandro Mezzadra and others: Capitalism in the Platform Age
Ali Ari: Capitalism at a Crossroads
Grzegorz W. Kolodko: Political Economy of New Pragmatism
Andri Werner Stahel: Regenerative Oikonomics