Issue 363August 17, 2026webpdfHeterodox Economics Directory
A newsletter collects news, no matter whether they cause joy or sadness. In the past weeks we have been saddened to learn that Robert Blecker (1956-2026) has passed away. Robert was a leading heterodox economist, widely known for his applications of post-Keynesian ideas to questions on international trade and finance, many of which turned into archetypical contributions that helped guide the further development of the field. Just recently, this Newsletter featured a Special Issue in the Review of Keynesian Economics dedicated to illuminating and expanding Robert Blecker's work on international economics. His major textbook on Heterodox Macroeconomics – authored jointly with Mark Setterfield – can and should be seen as a lasting contribution that illustrates and underscores Robert's masterful scholarship.
On top of all that, Robert was also a community guy – he regularly sent updates and comments to the Newsletter and was one of the first international readers to join the International Association for Political Economy and Heterodox Economics (IAPHE) we created last year to provide institutional and foundational support to the Heterodox Economics Newsletter. Tellingly, Robert insisted on becoming an “active” rather than merely a “supporting” member – a small gesture that speaks to the passionate, all-in attitude that inspired and motivated me. I suspect many younger researchers had similar experiences with Robert, who was not only an archetypical scholar but also a generous and inspiring colleague.
If you want to read up a little on Robert's work, I can – in addition to what is mentioned above – recommend his highly cited classic on the interplay of international competition, distribution and growth, his take on the profit-led vs. wage-led debate or one of his more specialized papers on development economics. Two key candidates in the latter category are his work on the interaction of gender equality and export success (with Stephanie Seguino) as well as his insightful analysis of fallacies of compositions in trade policy (with Arslan Razmi), which asks what happens if all countries try to expand manufacturing at the same time.
It goes without saying that Robert will be dearly missed – as an impressive scholar, a generous colleague and an inspiring teacher.
All the best,
Jakob
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17-18 February, 2027 | Leeds, UK
Conference Theme: Challenges to Monetary Policy
The Department of Economics at the University of Leeds, in partnership with the Bank of England, is organising an in-person joint workshop on "Challenges to Monetary Policy". The event will take place in person in Leeds, UK, on 17th–18th February 2027.
The workshop features a confirmed keynote speech fromHuw Pill(Chief Economist, Bank of England). The organizers are inviting research addressing contemporary and future challenges across core themes:
The organizers would be deeply grateful if you could also share this call for papers with colleagues or any networks you think might be interested in submitting.
Please email your paper or abstract directly to Muhammad Ali Nasir.
Key Workshop Details:
Submission Deadline: 10 December, 2026
26-27 November, 2026 | Paris, France
The aim of this workshop is to bring together empirical SFC practitioners to take stock of current practices across these interconnected fronts and build a common understanding on emerging best practices. Specifically, the workshop seeks to map the approaches currently in use, to identify methodological and infrastructural gaps and identify a set of priorities that could guide the empirical SFC research programme in the coming years, potentially reported in a community white paper.
Workshop shedule
Please find more info here.
Extended Submission Deadline: 31 August 2026
Socio-Economic Review (SER) is pleased to invite proposals for Special Issues to be published in 2027 or 2028.
A Special Issue is a peer reviewed collection of articles on a specific theme. The theme should normally focus on a new or distinctive area of inquiry insufficiently explored in socio-economic literature, has a broad relevance, and falls within the aims and scope of the journal. Thereby, a special issue provides an opportunity to collectively explore a new topic, develop insightful new lines of research and exchange in dialogue across disciplines such as sociology, political science, economics, business, law, or history.
The proposal should contain the following information:
The team of Guest Editors for the Special Issue will handle all manuscripts from their initial submission; they assign reviewers, and they make decisions (reject, revise, conditionally accept) and communicate those decisions to the authors. While Special Issues are always accompanied by an Open Call for Papers, Guest Editors are also encouraged to reach out to potential contributors to solicit quality submissions. All manuscripts for the Special Issue must undergo double-blind peer review and revisions according to normal SER review process and in accordance with SER’s editorial policy and formal guidelines. Final acceptance of papers is done in consultation with the Chief Editors of SER.
A special issue typically has 6-10 regular length papers plus editors’ introduction. SER manuscripts are generally no longer than 10,000 words in length (inclusive of references, but excluding tables, figures, appendices and online appendices). Manuscripts should follow a clear line of argument and be written in a concise style without sacrificing meaningful content.
Proposals and queries may be sent to chief editors Akos Rona-Tas and Alya Guseva.
Application Deadline: 30 September 2026
24-28 July, 2028 | Montevideo, Uruguay
Conference theme: World Powers and Conflicts
The 21st World Economic History Congress will convene from 24 to 28 July 2028 in Montevideo, Uruguay. The IEHA has a particular interest in strengthening the scientific approach to the historical and social sciences and in promoting exchange, cooperation, and understanding among all people.
The theme of the Congress is World Powers and Conflicts, which highlights central issues facing humanity today and connects to a broad and diverse range of historical problems, particularly those concerned with resources, inequality, and sustainability, central topics of the last two congresses (Paris and Lund).
Sessions may be proposed by any member of the international economic history community, whatever their institutional affiliation or status, as well as by scholars in related disciplines. The organizers strongly encourage proposals from early-career researchers. Sessions can also be proposed by non-national IEHA member organizations.
Submissions are welcome on the economic and social histories of all places and periods, and the organizers especially encourage proposals from the global South. Given the diversity of the membership, the organizers will consider any submission that advances the study, teaching, and public presentation of economic history. The organizers welcome panel proposals that highlight emerging scholarship from different fields of economic history, as well as contributions on innovative methodological and theoretical approaches.
The 5-day Montevideo Congress will feature approximately 180 sessions, with each day divided into 90-minute blocks (two before and two after lunch). It will be possible to combine two sessions into larger, coherent units. The proposals must make clear whether they apply to one or two blocks.
Please find more info here.
Submission Deadline: 14 September 2026
24-26 May, 2027 | Vienna, Austria
Conference theme: Democracy Under Pressure: Conditions of the Authoritarian Turn Yesterday and Today
The conference brings together scholars from law and socioeconomics to examine the current rise of authoritarian tendencies around the world and to explore which socioeconomic, legal, and institutional responses could strengthen democratic resilience. The conference addresses these challenges in dialogue with four pivotal thinkers – Friedrich Hayek, Karl Polanyi, Hans Kelsen, and Carl Schmitt – whose influential yet antagonistic accounts of the proper economic and constitutional order remain highly relevant for contemporary debate. Confirmed keynote speakers are Katharina Pistor (Columbia University) and Quinn Slobodian (Boston University).
The organizers welcome the submission of individual abstracts as well as proposals for complete panels from scholars in law, socioeconomics, political economy, constitutional theory, political science, economic sociology, history and related research fields — at all career stages, and from all regions, including the Global South.
Please find the full call for papers here.
Submission Deadline: 15 October 2026
13 November, 2026 | Dublin, Ireland
Workshop theme: The Return of Industrial Policy: Historical Lessons and Contemporary Challenges
Industrial policy has returned to the centre stage of economic policymaking. Across the EU, the US, and East Asia, governments are increasingly intervening to support strategic sectors, strengthen supply chains, accelerate the green transition, and secure technological leadership. Initiatives such as the EU Green Deal Industrial Plan, the Net-Zero Industry Act, and the European and US Chips Acts reflect a broader shift toward active state involvement in industrial transformation and economic security. After decades in which industrial policy played a more limited role in advanced economies, geopolitical tensions, supply-chain disruptions, and decarbonisation have renewed interest in state-led economic coordination. Consequently, questions surrounding subsidies, strategic protection, industrial targeting, innovation policy, and economic resilience have returned to the forefront of academic research and policymaking.
While of contemporary relevance, government efforts to shape industrial development have a long history. States have long sought to influence the direction and location of economic activity. This historical record provides a valuable laboratory for understanding past successes and failures and informing future policy.
The organizers invite completed papers or extended abstracts by Friday 28 August 2026, with preference given to completed papers. Applications are welcome from researchers at all career stages. Submissions will be selected on originality, analytical rigor, and policy relevance.
The workshop will feature a keynote lecture by Prof. Claudia Steinwender (LMU Munich & CEPR) and a panel discussion on the future of industrial policy in Ireland.
Please email your paper or extended abstract (PDF) to info.indpolhistory@gmail.com.
Submission Deadline: 28 August 2026
Stakeholder theory is often presented as an ethical correction to shareholder primacy. That framing captures an important normative disagreement, but it leaves the theory’s institutional content underdeveloped. Firms and corporations are not neutral containers within which managers decide whose interests to consider. They are institutional arrangements constituted by formal and informal rules that allocate authority, voice, property claims, responsibilities, exposure to risk, and access to remedies.
The stakeholder question is therefore not only whether managers should care about non-shareholding groups. It is how institutions define relevant participants, organise their interdependence, structure conflicts, distribute decision rights, and adapt when existing rules cease to support viable cooperation.
The symposium’s organising question
How do institutions constitute stakeholder relationships, distribute authority and vulnerability among stakeholder groups, and evolve in response to conflict, uncertainty, power, and changing social and ecological conditions?
Original institutional economics offers powerful resources for this task. Veblen directs attention to evolving habits, technologies, power structures, and ceremonial valuations. Commons treats institutions as collective action that controls, liberates, and expands individual action, and analyses transactions as legally and socially constituted relations involving conflict, dependence, bargaining, and working rules. Later institutionalist work extends these insights through social provisioning, cumulative causation, institutional change, and the legal-economic nexus.
The symposium also welcomes contributions drawing on post-Keynesian, feminist, ecological, behavioural, humanistic, evolutionary, social, legal, comparative, polycentric, and organisational approaches. These traditions are relevant when they illuminate the design, operation, persistence, change, or comparative effects of identifiable institutions. The collection will not be a loose set of critiques of mainstream economics; it will be a focused institutional analysis of stakeholder governance.
Please find more info here.
Submission Deadline: 31 January 2027
MARXISM21, founded in 2004, is a bi-lingual (Korean and English), quarterly academic journal specialized in Marxist studies. The editors are planning the special issue on ‘Marxian Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence’ for the Autumn 2027 (to be published on August 20, 2027).
The rapid diffusion of artificial intelligence and large-scale machine learning systems across economy and everyday life demands engagement from the Marxist tradition. AI raises questions about the core categories Marxism uses to analyze capitalism such as labor, value, class, and ownership of the means of production, etc. Marx's own writing on machinery and the general intellect in Grundrisse, along with later Marxist work on automation and technological unemployment, provides a foundation on which this discussion builds. This special issue invites theoretical, empirical, and historical contributions that interrogate AI through Marxian theory.
Those interested in contributing to this special issue are kindly requested to send a tentative title and a short abstract to Dong-Min Rieu by December 31, 2026. The deadline for submitting final manuscripts (max. 12,000 words length) is May 31, 2027.
Submission Deadline: 31 December 2026
18 September, 2026 | York, UK
The workshop will bring together colleagues from across the North of England and Scotland working on the materialist critique of capitalism to discuss their ideas with like-minded folk and to build solidarities. Throughout the afternoon we will have contributions from those behind other iterations of the CSE, past and present, discussion of the recent Capital and Class special issue on convergences and divergences between Political and Open Marxism, as well as an opportunity to plan future events within the group.
You can find a provisional programme here.
If you’re planning on attending the workshop, please sign up via Eventbrite.
October 15, 2026, 09:00 – 12:00 CET | Auditorium at the Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1–3, 10117 Berlin (Raum E’701)
Organized by the Network for Pluralist Economics in cooperation with the research project “Heterodox Planning” (Humboldt University/Einstein Foundation)
Europe stands at a critical macroeconomic crossroads. As the continent grapples with the compounding pressures of structural economic crisis, geopolitical fragmentation, and the urgent need for unprecedented socio-ecological investment, conventional market-driven paradigms are failing to provide viable answers.
As highlighted in the recent landscape report by Partners for a New Economy (P4NE), “Fertile Ground: Exploring Europe’s New Economy Ecosystem”, if we are to successfully navigate this era of interlocking crises, the field must elevate macroeconomic planning. No longer dismissed as a relic of the past, strategic public coordination and structural steering are re-emerging as essential tools to reshape the future of European capital, navigate fiscal rules, and steer the green transition. This event brings together leading voices in political economy to dissect how democratic, structural economic planning can be effectively revived and translated to viable policy solutions.
Ilias Alami (Assistant Professor at the University of Cambridge, Member of the Green Planning Comission) – will illustrate how the global rise of state-owned enterprises and sovereign wealth funds expands the scope for progressive economic intervention, while questioning how we can push past these frameworks toward deeper systemic transformation.
Jacob Hasselbalch (Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School) will compare historical and contemporary planning models—spanning France, Denmark, South Korea, and China—to show how states can deploy long-term macroeconomic steering, indicative planning, and strategic investment budgets to manage the green transition.
Hannah Bensussan (Political Economist and EU Economic Policy Expert; Advanced background in institutional economics) will analyze the current French institutional landscape, critique the successes and failures of its planning ministry, and explore how the macroeconomic proposals of La France Insoumise can be expanded for broader European policy.
Moderated by Maxine Fowé (Political Economist and journalist)
The exploration of macroeconomic planning continues in the rest of the day and on October 16 with the academic conference “Age of Planning”, which brings together empirical research on corporate and state planning in practice. More information will be sent after registration for the MacroHub.
Register for the MacroHub here.
FiscalFuture, a Berlin-based NGO for financial policy education, in cooperation with the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung NRW, invites participants to two weekend seminars on the future of pension policy in Germany. In a time of intensifying public debate on retirement age, intergenerational equity, and the role of capital-funded elements in the pension system, the seminars offer a space for in-depth political-economic analysis and discussion. Participants will: gain a solid understanding of the mechanics and financing logic of the German pension system (GRV) examine key distributional questions, including gender pension gaps and the situation of low-wage workers engage critically with current reform proposals, from contribution adjustments to capital market-based supplements explore heterodox and institutional perspectives on pension policy beyond mainstream framing develop their own analytical positions through group work and structured discussion.
The seminars are aimed at students, early-career researchers, and practitioners with an interest in social policy and political economy. No prior specialist knowledge required. Reduced participation fees available upon application to the FES.
Note: These seminars are held in german.
1st Opportunity
8 & 11 November, 2026 | Online & Düsseldorf, Germany
Please find more info here.
Registration Deadline: 31 August 2026
2nd Opportunity
5-8 November, 2026 | Dortmund, Germany
Please find more info here.
Registration Deadline: 25 September 2026
In this interview, Professor Jon Wisman discusses his book, Why We Must Work: Economic Freedom, Fulfilling Work, and Workplace Democracy. Wisman outlines the central premise of his work: human beings evolved to find work naturally fulfilling, pleasurable, and integrated with leisure, community, and social respect. However, the rise of elite-controlled states roughly 5,500 years ago debased work into an unpleasant means of survival under external command—a view perpetuated by mainstream economics, which treats work as “disutility”.
Wisman argues that despite reaching material abundance in rich nations, modern society faces widespread insecurity, stress, and dissatisfaction because it prioritizes consumption over fulfilling work. To restore work to a source of human thriving, he proposes two major structural reforms within a market framework: guaranteed employment (a job guarantee) and workplace democracy (worker ownership and democratic control). He emphasizes that an interdisciplinary approach—incorporating anthropology, history, and psychology—is essential to understanding these economic dynamics. Ultimately, he frames workplace democracy and reduced inequality not only as economic improvements, but as urgent political necessities to preserve democracy and avoid global ecological collapse.
Please find a link to the interview here.
In this interview, Salewa Olewoye spoke with Dr. Muzna Alvi, a Research Fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and the winner of the prestigious ASE Helen Potter Award. The conversation centers on Dr. Alvi’s award-winning research examining the complex dynamics of gender, caste, religion, and female labor force participation in India.
Key Takeaways from the Discussion
Please find a link to the interview here.
Full professorship „Economics and Security“ (W3)
The Leuphana Centre for Cooperative Security (LCCS) is seeking a distinguished researcher to join. The professorship represents the area Economics and Security in research and teaching. The professorship is based at the Institute of Economics and contributes to the establishment and leadership of the LCCS.
The Leuphana Centre for Cooperative Security (LCCS) is an interdisciplinary center for research on security that combines the subjects of law, economics, political science, and psychology. Premised on a broad conception of security that goes beyond the traditional focus on the military security of states, it conducts basic research on the conditions under which cooperation may enhance or undermine security in three principal areas: international security, internal security and economic security. The LCCS also develops recommendations for action in politics, business, and society, focusing on cooperative solutions to the consequences of diverse security threats for Germany in the European context. As a space for research and debate on the pressing security issues of the 21st century, the LCCS connects researchers from Leuphana, Germany, and around the world with expert representatives from the field. The position strengthens the Institute of Economics and the School of Public Affairs by advancing their shared focus on “evidence-based policy” and “resilient society” within the University‘s “Embracing Transformation” framework.
For this position, the LCCS is seeking an outstanding researcher with an international profile to contribute to research on economic security, with a focus on macroeconomics at the intersection of international economic relations and defense economics generating a lasting impact in their field as well as for society. The research areas include topics such as (de-)globalization and international economic (dis)integration, economic dependencies and the resilience of international trade relations and supply chains. Further relevant topics are international financial integration, public finance, as well as the protection of key economic sectors and geoeconomic analyses related to international trade policy, multinational investment, and economic sanctions.
Please find more info here.
Application Deadline: 9 September 2026
The award for the Elinor Ostrom Prize 2026 was made at WINIR 2026 in Rome, Italy. This year the prize was made jointly to:
Palina Kolvani & Marina Nistotskaya (2025) “On Mechanisms of Meritocratic Recruitment: Competence and Impartiality” JOIE 21(e12)
and
Enrico Petracca & Shaun Gallagher (2025) “Norms are Relational: Cognitive Institutions, Practices, and the ‘Where’ Question” JOIE 21(e39)
Congratulations on this outstanding achievement!
Louis-Philippe Rochon and Sergio Rossi: The logical flaws of neoclassical economics and why we should not teach it
Salewa Olawoye: Mainstream economics programs: the dangerous omission (or commission) of exclusion and inequality
Yazgı Genç: How to explain inequality: answers from neoclassical and feminist political economy perspectives
Jennifer Churchill and Jo Michell: A benchmark macroeconomic model for undergraduate teaching
Matheus Trotta Vianna: Pluralistic economics as a path to critical thinking: a case in undergraduate macroeconomics
Finn Olesen and Ioana Negru: Critical thinking and the principle of problem-based learning
Alexandre Favaro Lucchesi, Lucas Ferreira Lima, Marcos Henrique do Espírito Santo, and Henrique Pavan Beiro de Souza: Teaching economics with plurality: the case of the Political Economy Center (NEP) at a private university in Brazil (2014–2021)
Gabriel Rossini: The Enslaved Child in Western São Paulo, Brazil: Role and Representation in the Domestic Slave Trade, 1861–1869
Pedro Pacheco: Like Humidity: Accumulation by Conservation and Subsumption of Work with Animals in Baja California Sur’s Protected Areas
S. Krithi and Frédéric Landy: Hiranyakashipu’s Curse? The Uncertain Future of a Peri-urban Lake in South India
Shantanu De Roy and C. Saratchand: Toward an Ecologically Sustainable Agrarian Trajectory in the Indian Punjab
Anjana H. Kumar: At the Juncture of Land, Labor, and Capital: The Case of Aralam Cashew Farms, Kerala
Riko Stevens: Pigou on the microeconomics of speculation: Institutions and economic welfare
Arne Heise: ‘Groundhog day’ all over again: Minimum wage research under ‘thought style compulsion’
Vladimir Popov and others: Factors of social tension in the provinces of the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Aïmane Abdelsalam and Léo Vigny: Resurgence of fiscal interventionism: A longitudinal analysis of public aid to businesses in France since 1949
Manuel Heckel: Linkages in Social Positioning Theory
Valentina Erasmo: From fact/value entanglement to the revival of classical political economy: Walsh’s contribution to the capability approach literature
Nuno Ornelas Martins: Dobb, Brenner and Postan on the nature and origin of capitalism
Calum H. Dallas: Nature, Class, and Crisis: Locating the State in Ecological Marxism
Ahamed Omar, Rüya Yüksel & Defne Gönenç: A Dialectical Materialist Approach to Climate Justice: Akbelen Forest and Deştin Cement Factory Movements in Muğla
Ali Jones Alkazemi: Cry of the Earth, Cry of the Proletariat: Marx and Francis on Ecology and Inequality
Mehmet Cevat Yildirim: Work in a Degrowth Society
Radhika Krishnan: The Many Faces of Labouring and a “24 × 7” Union: (Re)Imagining Workers in Just Transition Narratives in India
Dayton Martindale: On Marx and Other Animals: Fragments of a Multi-Species Communism
Thomas E. Lambert: Horses and the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism in Britain
Tyler McCreary & David Hugill: Digital Colonialism, Fossil Capitalism, and Indigenous Dispossession
Martha Hesty Susilowati, Jonathan Davis Smith, Samsul Maarif & Eko Cahyono: Geothermal Narratives and Grassroots Resistance in Indonesia: Decolonial Frameworks for Energy Transitions and Environmental Justice
Awu Isaac Oben: Factory Smoke and Our Future
Roger S. Gottlieb: The Omnivore’s Deception: What We Get Wrong about Meat, Animals, and Ourselves
Nerea Montejo López: All In: A Revolutionary Theory to Stop Climate Collapse
Samuel Fassbinder: Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?
Adrian Athique & Akshaya Kumar: Asian platform capital: An overview
Akshaya Kumar: Capitalization of social mobility in India: Venture capital in edtech-fintech combines
Adrian Athique, Muhammad Fasha Rouf & Nihlahtuzzahra: Super apps as escrow platforms: An ecosystem analysis of Grab Indonesia
Cheryll Ruth R. Soriano: Sachet capital: Platforms, labour and everyday transactions in the Philippines
Vandana Saxena & Nithiya Guna Saigaran: Commodity mnemonics: Rubber, memory and plantation labour in colonial Malaya
José Ciro Martínez: Rolling the dice: Capitalism, trafficking and speculation across the Western Mediterranean
Ritwick Ghosh: Economic valuation of nature and the environmental state
Sarah-Jane Phelan & Brendan Whitty: Threadbare consultancy: Straining budget margins in for-profit international development programmes
Robert Dorschel: The entrepreneurial gaze of digital capitalism
Alice Nicole Sindzingre: Economic Development as a Concept: Fissiparity Rather than Teleology? Introduction
Ilan Bizberg: The Concept of Development: From Dependency Theory to Diversity of Capitalisms
Anna Horodecka: Is Economic Development Really Becoming Sustainable?
Henning Schwardt: Consequences of Technology Path-Dependence and Lock-In for Latecomers in Economic Development
Alice Nicole Sindzingre: Change, Language and Power: The Example of International Financial Institutions’ Policies in Sub-Saharan Africa
C. R. Yadu & Sahil Mehra: Re-Examining the Narrative of Structural Transformation: Insights from India’s Development Experience
Nicolas Pons-Vignon & Bill Freund: Development and Class Struggle: The Political Economy of Labour Precarity in South African Forestry
Il Pensiero Economico Moderno 2025 (1)
Francesco Vigliarolo: Il concetto di capitale sociale etico e le sue implicazioni nello sviluppo locale. Il caso della città di La Plata in Argentina
Stefano Figuera and others: Financialisation and shadow banking system. An analysis in the light of Augusto Graziani’s monetary theory of production
Pasqualina Porretta and others: Value Architectures for Sustainability: Islamic and Cooperative Banks Models through Organizational Identities, Ethical Principles, and Common good-oriented Values
Il Pensiero Economico Moderno 2025 (2) Monograph
Arturo Hermann: Essays in Institutional Economics and Political Economy an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Antônio Carlos Diegues and others: Does manufacturing still matter? The revival of industrial policy and manufacturing’s contribution to development in high- and middle-income countries
Bo Carlsson: Experimentally organized innovation systems: lessons from DARPA, Apple, Amazon, Google, and Operation Warp Speed
Kerstin Hötte and others: Measuring artificial intelligence: a systematic assessment and implications for governance
Alessia Lo Turco and Alessandro Sterlacchini: Factors enhancing AI adoption by firms. Evidence from France
Houdou Basse Mama and Julien Fouquau: International evidence on investor rewards to firms generating environmental innovation
Heli Koski and others: Killers on the road of emerging start-ups—implications for market entry and venture capital financing
John R Bryson and others: Unraveling the impacts of green knowledge spillovers on SMEs’ green innovation, economic performance, and exporting: evidence from Germany
Jungho Kim and Chiara Marzocchi: Entrepreneurial orientation and innovation performance: do breadth and depth of external knowledge search matter?
Fabio Lamperti and others: Restructuring and layoffs in the Industry 4.0 era: the role of exposure to advanced manufacturing technologies
Dominique Kost and others: Transactive memory systems and team performance: the mediating role of routines
Sajad Ashouri and others: Which discoveries are paradigm shifting?
Carl Benedikt Frey and Giorgio Presidente: Death of distance? Remote collaboration and scientific breakthroughs
Mirva Peltoniemi and others: If the state is incompetent, do it yourself: private alliance as an institutional architect in the catch-up process
Tatsushi Waragai: Impact of business services on quality specialization
Raju J Das: Lenin’s Marxism: A Systematic Reconstruction
Sérgio Braga & Angelita Matos Souza: Brazil-China Relations from the Perspective of Dependency Theory: Political Dimensions and Development Paths
Timothy Kerswell: Breaking the Chain: Chinese Refining Infrastructure Inverting Dependency in Africa
Tengfei Wang & Hongliang Chai: The “People-Centered” Global Dialogue: The Philosophical Implications and Practical Pathways of China’s People-to-People Diplomacy in the New Era
Xuan Wang & Xingchen Wang: Print Colonialism and the Making of Modern Identities: The North-China Daily News’ Chinese National Character Discourse (1864–1912)
Yelda Erçandirli: A Critical Realist Analysis of Two Perspectives on the Dialectics of Ecology and Emancipation: The Case of the European Green Deal
Mark Setterfield: The COVID Pandemic and Its Aftermath: Missed Opportunities for Avoiding a Future of Authoritarian Neoliberalism
Takeshi Nakano: Nationhood and Post-Keynesianism
Eduardo Garzón Espinosa & Esteban Cruz Hidalgo: Criticisms of Job Guarantee: How to Improve the Path to Full Employment of Modern Monetary Theory
Carlos Alberto Duque Garcia: Business Cycles, Investment, and Profits in Colombia: A Marxist Political Economy Approach
Thanos Poulakis: International Competition, Real Exchange Rates and Absolute Cost Advantage: An Empirical Investigation of the Australian Economy
Basil Oberholzer: How to Finance Green Growth in Ethiopia
Ahmad Mohammadpour & Nariman Mohammadi: The Historical Architecture of De-development: Ethnonational Governance and the Production of Devastation in Rojhelat
Fulya Apaydin and others: Bridging comparative and international political economy for the study of industrial policy beyond the hegemons
Judit Ricz and Andrea Éltető: Rules for sale: autocratic forbearance, as a new industrial policy tool to promote the Hungarian battery hub
Thomas Kalinowski and others: Industrial policy at the intersection of geopolitics and state–business relations. A comparative study of battery industries in China and South Korea
Michael Schedelik and Andreas Nölke: Second image IPE and industrial policy in non-hegemonic powers: the China shock in Brazil and beyond
Petra Dünhaupt and others: Lithium, leverage, and limits: Chile’s industrial policy vis-à-vis the EU-Chile free trade agreement’s energy and raw materials chapter
Melike Bozkurt and H. Emrah Karaoğuz: Defying the odds: a political economy analysis of Turkey’s defence industry within the systemic vulnerability framework
Juan A. Bogliaccini and Santiago Carrere: Reconciling wage equality and global competition: the political economy of skills in Uruguay
Andrea Terzi & Massimo Cingolani: Introduction: Extending Pasinetti's approach to money and finance
John Edward Woods: On Luigi Pasinetti’s characteristics of Keynesian financial economics
Orsola Costantini & Carlo D’Ippoliti: Mapping the fragility of U.S. household finance: social classes and the functions of wealth
Riccardo Bellofiore: Meeting Pasinetti. Personal recollections and theoretical questioning
Riccardo Zolea: Banking sector, structural change and economic dynamics
Stefan Ederer & Miriam Rehm: On the possibility of an ever-increasing wealth concentration: Pasinetti, dual, and anti-dual equilibria in a Post-Keynesian framework
Enrico Pulieri: The monetary foundations in Pasinetti’s public debt theory
Mike Seiferling: What we value and why it matters: a historical overview of GDP, the production boundary and unpaid household labour
Geoff Goodwin: Understanding the roles of decommodification in socioecological transformations: a new theoretical approach
Niall Reddy: Policy feedback and the transformation of inter-corporate power: an account of neoliberal resilience.
Yosuke Uchiyama & Jamie Woodcock: Platform parasitism: co-constitution of regulatory and platform capitalism
Yannis Dafermos: The climate crisis meets the ECB: tinkering around the edges or paradigm shift?
Mary Abounabhan, Florence Dafe & Martin Hearson: Platform disempowerment: business power and the taxation of digital financial services
Janina Grabs, Stefano Ponte & Marc Castellón Durán: The business of climate change: changing sources of green capital accumulation in the coffee sector
Antulio Rosales: Curls, caves, and shadows: how cryptocurrencies thrive in (poly)crisis
James D. G. Wood: Strategic repoliticisation: inflation, blame, and the fracturing of democratic accountability in the United States
Wesley Marshall, Louis-Philippe Rochon, and Jacopo Temperini: Central bank digital currencies: An introduction
Thomas Ferguson, Jie Chen, Matthias Lalisse, and Paul Jorgensen: Move fast and break everything: Crypto and party competition in the United States
Jeremy Srouji, Dominique Torre, and Qing Xu: Should BRICS members adopt a wholesale digital payment system?
Eeman Qureshi, Maryam Ali Khan, and Nabeeha Khan: Problems, pressure points and possibilities in Pakistan’s adoption of a central bank digital currency
Sunanda Sen: My journey to becoming an economist
Samuel Alexander: Game Theory and the Dilemma of Degrowth:Why Embrace Degrowth if Other States or Societies Do Not?
Pablo Dávalos: The Disruption Society: Subscription Capitalism, Cognitive Extractivism, and the Terminal Limits of the Law of Value
Abderrazak Said Belabes: Towards a post-homo oeconomicus economy: AI agents and the reconfiguration of market mechanisms
Chiara Piovani, Hinckley Jones-Sanpei, Lapo Salucci and Jennifer Greenfield: The Covid-19 Pandemic and Inequalities in the United States: What is the State of the Evidence?
Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Edgar Pérez Medina: Growth and Redistribution in the Mexican economy’s Left Turn
Bernard C. Beaudreau: Beyond Scarcity: How Abundance Shaped Economic Thought from Smith to Romer
Junaid B. Jahangir:Teaching the Economics of Terrorism and War
Turan Subasat: A Critique of Samuelson's Production Possibility Frontier
Santiago J. Gahn & Sylvio Kappes: 65 Years After Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities: New Directions in the Sraffian Approach
Ramiro E. Álvarez, Alejandro Fiorito & Guido Ianni: Demand-led Growth, Exogenous Distribution and Structural Heterogeneity: Revisiting Alfredo Monza's Contribution to a Classical-Keynesian-Structuralist Approach
Scott Carter & Andres Lazzarini: Piero Sraffa’s Internment on the Isle of Man in 1940 as a British ‘Enemy Alien’
Giacomo Cucignatto, Facund Fora Alcalde, Nadia Garbellini & Gianmarco Oro: Reappraising Pasinetti: Proportions, Prices and Economic Planning
Kristofer Pitz & Luigi Salvati: Form, Core, and Capitalist Dynamics. Challenging the Marginalist Paradigm with Marx, Sraffa, and Keynes
Isaac Stanley: Oikos and Surplus: The Search for an Anthropological Economics
Gabriel Zaffari & Giacomo Sbrenna: Sraffa Goes to Space: Spatial Elements of Political Economy
Stefano Di Bucchianico, Nadia Garbellini & Gabriel Brondino: What Have We Learned from Summers and Piketty Ten Years On?
Roger E. Backhouse & Mauro Boianovsky: Stagnation and the Natural Rate of Interest: Tracing the Roots of Lawrence Summers’s Theory of Secular Stagnation
Amit Bhaduri & Gianmarco Oro: How Inequality Increases Through Financialization
Eckhard Hein, Moritz Marpe & Karolina Schütt: Wealth Distribution With and Without Real Estate Assets and Mortgage Debt in ten European Countries — A Post-Kaleckian Approach
Edison Jakurti: A Tale of Two Rates: Return on Capital, Economic Growth, and Wealth Concentration in the Long Run
Steven Pressman: Secular Stagnation After Piketty and Keynes
Marco Ranaldi: Compositional Inequality: Measurement, Stylized Facts, and Theoretical Aspects
Daniele Tavani & Luca Zamparelli: Labor Market Institutions, Endogenous Technical Change and Inequality: Demand-Side Secular Stagnation
Attilio Trezzini & Daria Pignalosa: Determining the Normal Degree of Capacity Utilisation: Insights from the History of Economic Thought
Maria Cristina Barbieri Góes, Ettore Gallo & Vinicius Diniz Moraes: The Supermultiplier Model and the Role of Autonomous Demand: An Empirical Test for European Countries
Rod O’Donnell: Invisible and Visible Hands. What Kind of Economist is Adam Smith, and Why is He Still Relevant?
Stefano Fiori: On Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand: A Reply to Professor O’Donnell
Rod O’Donnell: Metaphors: What are they, and What is their Appropriate Domain of Application?
Tony Aspromourgos: Maximizing Profits Versus Maximizing Revenue: A Note on Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand
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Nikolaos Chatzarakis: Declining profitability and the evolution of the US economy: a classical perspective
Lenart Nici: Market Socialism and Value-Form: “The Impossible Socialism” Revisited
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Jake Sweet: Is Fully Automated Luxury Communism Desirable?
Darío Doña-Falcón: Theories of Women’s Oppression Between Marxism and Feminism: Finding a New Approach for Understanding Gender
Danny Goldstick: Is the World a Dialectical Place?
Julio Huato: The Material Content and Social Form of Value: Revisiting Marx’s Core Distinction
Paddy Quick: On the Transition to Capitalism
August H. Nimtz: Bernie Sanders and the “Two Diseases of Bourgeois Politics”: “Parliamentary Cretinism” and “Voting Fetishism”
Patrick Cleary: The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won’t Save the Planet
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Deborah Mutnick: Anti-Racism as Communism
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Nicolas Viens: Gray zones of green finance: the Canada Infrastructure Bank and the limits of derisking decarbonization
Ben Ansell and others: Tax exposure and political preferences
Mike Savage and others: ‘Quiet’ and ‘loud’ elites: the visibility of economic power in the UK
Sven Ehmes and Markus Gangl: The paradox of inequality that isn’t: rising economic inequality depresses and polarizes citizens’ belief in meritocracy
Evans Tindana Awuni and Achim Kemmerling: Jobs or money in times of sectoral change: how do policy attitudes respond to digitalization in Ghana?
Daniel R Alvord: Fictional expectations and fiscal realities: when forecast accuracy matters for the politics of expectations
Bastian Herre: Where ideology matters: evidence from a global analysis of market intervention policies
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by Daniel Cohen | 2026, Polity Press
Economic growth is the religion of the modern world. It promises a solution to the most basic drama of our human existence: wanting what we don't have. But we live in a time when the frenzied pursuit of economic growth is jeopardizing the planet's viability and our very survival as a species. How did we get to this point in human history? How did we allow the pursuit of growth to become the apotheosis of human development?
To answer these questions, the distinguished economist Daniel Cohen takes us on a journey to understand human desire and the different registers on which it has expressed itself throughout history. He brings his panoramic grasp of the subject to bear on the key stages of social and economic development, from the Neolithic revolution to the digital age. The ideas of the great economists - from Adam Smith and Karl Marx to Joseph Schumpeter and John Maynard Keynes - are situated in their historical contexts and explained clearly and concisely. The result is a triumph of ambition and brevity: a history of the economy in 100 pages.
This book - the final work written by Daniel Cohen - will appeal to anyone interested in the economy and in the tension between a limited world and unlimited desires that lies at the heart of the great challenges we face today.
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edited by Kurt Dopfer | 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing
Elgar Research Agendas outline the future of research in a given area. Leading scholars are given the space to explore their subject in provocative ways, and map out the potential directions of travel. They are relevant but also visionary.
This Research Agenda combines the work of leading scholars and pioneers in evolutionary economics to plot a clear and compelling overview of the field. It explores core paradigms, highlights major theoretical contributions and examines critical challenges posed by global ecological and digital transformations.
Designed to provide both depth and accessibility, the book outlines the fundamental nature of the subject. Expert authors examine critical issues to emphasise the relevance of evolutionary economics for contemporary societal and economic challenges. Presenting a systematic investigation of the field’s foundations and key conceptual advancements, the Research Agenda looks ahead to illuminate potential avenues for future research.
Essential reading for scholars and students of evolutionary economics, the book is also useful for economists, social scientists and natural scientists interested in the dynamic forces shaping economic and societal change.
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by Damian White and Nicholas Pavzner | 2026, Bloomsbury
Environmental politics is clearly at an impasse, increasingly foreclosed by a fragmenting elite consensus on climate change, an escalating populist backlash on the right, and a pervasive sense of climate doom on the left. This book considers what new openings might be offered by a labor-centered transition focused on our creative agency and our collective capacities to design new worlds.
Whilst political mobilizations and smart policy are vital for making progress on decarbonization, Designing the Just Transition suggests that a more environmentally and socially just future will also have to be materialized and built, coded and created, imagined, desired, and enacted by many hands, many skills and many forms of visible and invisible design labor. The mainstream design industry is not to be trusted. Nevertheless, this book brings political ecology and environmental-labor studies into dialogue with critical design praxis, activism, and scholarship. It critically appraises traditions of worker-centered design, ecological and regional planning, sustainable and climate-smart architecture, and 'design when everyone designs.'
Rather than embracing a scolding green politics of limits or techno-utopian propaganda, Designing the Just Transition points to a wealth of resources for thinking about how we still might engage in democratic world-making on a warmer, more restless, and more turbulent planet.
Please find a link to the book here.
edited by Graham A. Davis | 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing
This timely Companion explores the dynamic relationship between inequality and the use and management of natural resources, highlighting the positive and negative interactions between the two. Within the Companion experts from economics and political science present new data, methodologies and narrative contributions that examine how inequality and inequity are fuelled by how we exploit and manage natural resources in the world economy.
Analysing inequality both within a country and at an international level, the Companion explores topics such as tropical land use change, affordable access to safe drinking water, mining governance, oil cartels, fiscal policy and unequal resource distribution. Contributors demonstrate that institutional quality is a prerequisite for the equitable use of natural resources, both domestically and internationally. The Companion advances our limited understanding of inequality and its relationship with the natural environment, including understudied areas such as gender and ethnicity.
The Elgar Companion on Inequality and Natural Resources is a crucial resource for scholars and students of the natural environment, international development, geography, politics and public policy and sociology. It will also benefit managers and actors responsible for managing and taxing natural resources and multilateral agencies who assist governments in managing their natural resource wealth.
Please find a link to the book here.
edited by Priyaranjan Jha and Devashish Mitra | 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing
This Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive overview of theories, empirical research and policy in international trade. Eminent scholars examine the economic, political, geographic dimensions of globalization.
Explaining classical frameworks alongside modern developments in theory, authors explore the Heckscher-Ohlin and Eaton-Kortum models, amongst others. The Encyclopedia presents the developments, trends, and impacts of key international trade topics and concepts in entries that are engaging and accessible. Entries outline key topics, including the political economy of policy, foreign direct investment and migration within the context of trade.
This is an invaluable resource for students and scholars of international trade, economics and finance, business and management as well as politics and public policy. Its practical insights are also greatly beneficial for policymakers in international trade.
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edited by Enrica Morlicchio and others | 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing
This Modern Guide provides a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for understanding and addressing urban poverty in contemporary societies. Contributing authors examine detailed case studies from cities in the Global North and South, adopting a range of approaches from quantitative analyses to in-depth ethnographies.
Chapters highlight how large groups of newly urbanized populations develop informal strategies to cope with extreme living conditions in poor neighborhoods or shantytowns. They illustrate how, amid violence and conflict, these populations create networks of solidarity, forms of resilience and political collectives that demand better living conditions and the right to the city. The book also assesses the ambivalent role of public policies in mitigating or exacerbating urban poverty and explores the emerging realities and trajectories of urban poverty.
A Modern Guide to Urban Poverty is a crucial resource for scholars and students of sociology, urban planning, human geography and anthropology. Its insights on the complex interplay of the social, economic and political processes that generate urban poverty are also highly relevant to policymakers and researchers in international NGOs.
Please find a link to the book here.
edited by Paula Rodríguez-Modroño, Annarosa Pesole and Ivana País | 2026, Routledge
This timely book examines different key aspects around new forms of work and gender and intersectional inequalities in platforms, how the platform economy intervenes, changes and reconfigures the organization of work, and the challenges faced by policymakers and workers’ organizations regarding formalization, professionalization, remuneration, quality of work or social protection of platform work. Including case studies from different countries from the Global North and the Global South, it contributes to a better understanding of how digital platforms are inserting themselves into neoliberal transformations in labour markets, taking advantage of digitization, the commodification of reproductive labour and migrant labour regimes to quickly access a precaritized female migrant workforce with low bargaining power. It will be of interest to all scholars and students of gender studies, social care, labor economics, and sociology more broadly.
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 Uwe Cantner and others | 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing
This informative Handbook explores key advancements in evolutionary economics, introducing a unique collection of innovative approaches to analyzing contemporary economic systems and their dynamics.
Chapters cover an extensive set of themes, connecting emerging challenges such as digital transformations and sustainability to established theories and methods rooted in evolutionary economics and Schumpeterian principles. The Handbook features research using diverse methodologies including econometrics, agent-based modeling and data science, as well as practical case studies for analyzing real-world economic phenomena, from emerging market niches to regional cluster dynamics. Organized across nano, micro, meso and macro levels of analysis, it integrates technological, industrial and policy dimensions, providing a multiscale view on industrial and evolutionary economic dynamics.
The Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Industrial Dynamics and Evolutionary Economics is a necessary resource for scholars and students of economics, innovation studies, management and industrial dynamics. Policy analysts looking to create informed, context-sensitive policies will also benefit from this Handbook’s insights.
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edited by Camilo Andrés Guevara Castañeda | 2026, Routledge
This book critically examines the theoretical and practical foundations of contemporary social policy through the lens of heterodox economic thought.
Despite decades of academic debate and institutional reform, contemporary social policy remains largely anchored in the liberal tradition of equality of opportunity. While this paradigm has advanced important conversations about fairness and justice, it has also become a conceptual boundary that limits more radical critiques of inequality and structural exclusion and exploitation. By rethinking the pervasive focus on equality of opportunity, this volume invites a transition toward the less explored but arguably more transformative principle of equality of place. In contrast to the dominant framework that emphasizes individual access and meritocratic mobility within existing structures, the chapters collected here explore the institutional, spatial, and collective transformations necessary for genuine social justice. Drawing from a wide array of heterodox traditions, including post-Keynesian, stratification economics, structuralist, feminist, ecological, and the common’s perspectives, the volume is organized into two main sections: theoretical debates and applied issues. Together, these contributions interrogate the foundations of mainstream policy frameworks and propose alternative paradigms rooted in redistribution, decommodification, and the commons.
The book will be of great interest to readers in heterodox economics, political economy, social policy, and public policy more broadly.
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edited by Serena Rugiero | 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing
In this incisive book, leading experts investigate how innovative industrial relations practices can support a just energy transition. Employing empirical case studies, they identify key patterns, challenges and enabling factors that inform policy design and contribute to embedding social justice within Europe’s green transition.
With perspectives from across EU Member States, the book evaluates initiatives implemented at company, sectoral and institutional levels. Chapters examine the energy transition as a systemic transformation affecting employment, skills, work organisation, regional development and socio-environmental sustainability. The authors emphasise that industrial relations and a structured social dialogue are crucial determinants of both the legitimacy and the societal acceptance of ecological transformation processes.
This book will be of great value to scholars of industrial relations and labour studies, sustainability transitions and environmental governance. Policy makers will also benefit from its actionable recommendations for supporting the design of effective just transition strategies.
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by Éloi Laurent | 2024, Edward Elgar Publishing
This innovative book promotes a holistic, pragmatic and proactive approach to just transitions. Arguing that justice is both a goal and condition of transitions it rearticulates environmental and social challenges and rethinks the policies designed to overcome them.
Éloi Laurent succinctly explores the concepts, frameworks, policy designs, and emerging institutions of just transitions and maps its progress from philosophical streams, to academic fields, to public policies embedded in institutions. Chapters explore a broad spectrum of transition policies, including those aimed at mitigating environmental inequality caused by air pollution and heatwaves, and proactive social-ecological policies such as fair carbon taxation and just mobility regulations. He discusses key examples from across the globe, spanning from food security in France, to water justice in South Africa, to disaster risk reduction in South Asia.
Just Transitions is an essential resource for academics and students specialising in environmental sociology, sociology, social justice, social policy and ecology. Its pairing of theoretical insight and practical examples will also benefit policymakers and stakeholders working in environmental sustainability, climate change and public policy more broadly.
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by Gregor Gall | 2026, Bloomsbury Academic
In Marxism in Music: Constructing a Communist Contra-Culture with The Redskins, Rock'n'roll and Revolution, Gregor Gall examines how The Redskins, so-called for their skinhead aesthetics and commitment to a socialist ideal, were a deliberately political band and built a counter-hegemony through their music and activism.
At the height of Thatcherism in Britain, The Redskins were aligned with the politics of the Socialist Workers Party, though the party did not accept their idea of that a working-class culture could exist. Despite resistance and contradiction, The Redskins created stirring and danceable music that introduced young people to socialist politics, playing over 250 gigs between 1982 and 1986, of which one quarter were benefit gigs for, as an example, striking miners.
Featuring a foreword by Redskins bass player Martin Hewes this book analyses the band's political intentions, interpersonal and inter-party tensions and the outcomes of their ideological, political and creative choices by drawing upon interviews with Hewes, other musicians like Billy Bragg, and the band's followers.
The book uses as a comparison another left-wing band of the same period, Easterhouse, to tease out how and why The Redskins were and are influential amongst a certain milieux and how going against the grain, even among comrades, made for the group's particular contribution to music culture and politics.
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edited by George Ofori | 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing
This Research Companion explores the evolution, current state and future of the body of knowledge on the construction industry in developing countries, offering comprehensive coverage of the subject along with the complementary Research Companion to Advances in the Construction Industry in the Global South. It draws on novel analytical approaches to highlight the crucial role of construction in economic growth and national development and reiterate the need to develop the industry.
Fresh perspectives are presented on both foundational and emerging scholarship evaluating the interactions and synergies between established and new components of construction in developing country contexts. Chapters trace the root causes of factors hindering project performance and propose potential solutions and effective strategies for industry improvements. Grounded in a wide variety of case studies, this Research Companion outlines valuable lessons for bolstering economic development now and in the future.
Scholars and students of construction management and economics will benefit from this Research Companion’s insights and proposed research directions. Its relevant policy options also make it an essential resource for administrators and policymakers in the construction industry.
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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.
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by William A.V. Clark | 2025, Edward Elgar Publishing
Although neighborhoods are sometimes perceived as just a backdrop to our lives, there is considerable evidence that they are central to our sense of wellbeing, and in the functioning of the city. Rethinking Neighborhoods is about these areas of geography: what we know about how neighborhoods function, why they matter and how we chose where to live.
Emphasizing the importance of place, of connections, cohesion, and local attachment, William A.V. Clark argues that the relevance of the local is increasing, rather than decreasing, and examines how this informs our choices and their outcomes. Situating neighborhoods and their evolution in historical and societal context, he uses a range of international case studies to assess key issues such as residential and neighborhood search, the segregation inequality debate, the connections between neighborhoods and health, the role of planning in the localized city and the 20 minute community.
Written by one of the leading researchers in the field, this book offers a thought-provoking read to those researching and studying society at the neighborhood scale in disciplines including city and regional planning and human geography as well as demography, sociology and public policy.
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by Barbora Cernusáková | 2026, Manchaster University Press
Surplus lives under racial capitalism theorises the link between political economy, anti-Roma racism and modern forms of white supremacy in East Central Europe. The book shows how the introduction of capitalism in the 1990s overlapped with the rise of racialised disposability of Roma workers. Since then, their surplusing recurrently comes into sharp relief during the time of crisis. Surplus lives under racial capitalism is built on an investigation of how race and class structure the Czech labour regime and how they form a single site of struggle. One which binds workers across racialised divisions as surplusing continuously expands.
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by Huw Macartney | 2026, Edinburgh University Press
Shows how the power of money has replaced the aristocracy in the House of Lords
Parliament’s second chamber may no longer be home to hereditary peers, but elitism has far from been eradicated with their departure. In this detailed analysis of the financial and political activity of the members of the House of Lords, Huw Macartney exposes the extent of the wealth elite’s grip on power at the heart of British government.
The introduction of life peerages in the 1950s, the reforms by the Blair government and the removal of the remaining hereditary peers in 2026 were all intended to make the House a more diverse, representative and meritocratic chamber. Macartney’s investigation into the shareholdings, company directorships, landholdings, rental properties, education, attendance, speeches and voting records of the Lords demonstrates how the political apparatus at the heart of Westminster promotes economic structures that protect wealth and ensure that the only route out of poverty for the marginalised is via work and individual effort. Far from reflecting the society they govern, the Lords continue to operate at a remove from the everyday experiences of the British public and increasingly appear to be a club for the assetocratic class.
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by Stavros A. Drakopoulos | 2026 Springer Nature
This book examines the historical and methodological development of the consumption function in economics. It provides a discussion of the key stages in the theoretical evolution of the concept, from the beginning of the 20th century through to the modern day. Particular attention is given to the ways in which Thorstein Veblen, John Maynard Keynes, James Duesenberry, Franco Modigliani, Richard Brumberg, and Milton Friedman conceptualized consumption. Further, it examines the latest theoretical and methodological developments within the neoclassical, as well as the heterodox economics traditions. By connecting the history of consumption function to the methodological frameworks in which consumption theories were devised, the work also brings into the fore the important economic policy implications associated to various consumption formulations.
This book offers insight into how different schools of economic thought have defined consumption and how these ideas inform modern economic theories and political discussions. It will be of interest to students and researchers working on macroeconomic policy, economic theory, and the history of economic thought.
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by Dag Harald Claes | 2026, Edward Elgar Publishing
This book demonstrates the importance and relevance of politics in overcoming the challenges related to climate change and global warming. Dag Harald Claes advocates for an interdisciplinary approach to the green energy transition and for politics and political science to play an essential role in this.
Chapters cover ten core aspects of politics and political science which are discussed in relation to the climate challenge. Claes highlights how climate policy is centred around energy and the need to substitute the reliance on fossil fuels with non-emitting energy sources, but affirms that politics cannot itself accomplish this transition. The book argues that energy transition requires insight from many scientific disciplines, advances in engineering, technical inventions, and innovations and social adaption. Claes suggests the role of politics is vital, not only by reducing greenhouse gases by itself, but to make others do things that do so.
The Role of Politics in the Combat Against Climate Change is an essential guide for students and academics in politics and public policy, environmental governance and politics, international relations and climate change. It will also be of use to policymakers and industry professionals in these fields working to combat climate change.
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The William R. Waters Research Grant was established in 1999 in honor of William R. Waters, editor of the Review of Social Economy for many years and President of ASE in 1987. The purpose of the William R. Waters Research Grant Program is to inspire scholars to organize their research in social economics and social economy along the lines suggested by William Waters in his 1988 presidential address to the Association for Social Economics:
“The major concern of social economics is explaining the economy in its broadest aspects; that is, showing how human beings deal with the ordinary business of using human and physical resources to achieve a level of material comfort. Explanation includes cultural, political, and ethical details as they are needed for a full understanding. As in any economics, there are three parts to social economics. First is the philosophical base of the social economist, which may or may not be a reflection of the philosophical base or ethos of the society he/she is studying. Social economics (or any economics) builds upon it. It is the hard core as in the recent popular literature of the philosophy of science. The second part of the discipline is a description of the significant characteristics of the economy. The economist must observe the multiplicity of economic reality and abstract those characteristics that are substantive. The two together, the philosophical premises and the empirical observations, will determine the third part of the discipline, social economic policy. Policy formulation is thus a mix of the first two.”
William R. Waters, presidential address, “Social Economics: A Solidarist Perspective,” Review of Social Economy, 1988, p. 113 ff.
The research grant is for promising graduate students in Ph.D. programs who have not yet completed their dissertation, those holding post-doctoral positions, and for new faculty members who have not yet been granted tenure or who are tenured but have not yet achieved the rank of Associate Professor (or its equivalent outside the US). The current amount of the annual grant is up to $5000.
To apply for the current round of grant funding, the following materials listed below need to be submitted by 5pm Eastern Standard Time on Friday, October 30th, 2026.Unfortunately because of time constraints, extensions cannot be allowed and ALL materials must be in by the deadline.
The winner of the Waters grant will be announced at the ASE Presidential Breakfast at the ASSA Meetings in January 2027.
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Application Deadline: 30 October 2026
The University of Greenwich/Public Services International Research Unit (PSIRU) is inviting applications for two exciting new co-funded PhD scholarships:
1 (Em)Powering Regional Prosperity: Renewable Energy, Local Value Creation and Economic Resilience in Europe
The purpose of this PhD is to investigate how renewable energy expansion can contribute to regional value creation, economic resilience and inclusive development across Europe.
Please find more info here.
2 Can Public Services Rebuild Democracy? Public Ownership, Social Trust and the Rise of Authoritarian Structures
The PhD project will investigate the relationship between public service accessibility, ownership structures, social trust and support for far right politics. Particular attention will be paid to differences between publicly owned, outsourced and privatised models of service provision, as well as territorial inequalities in access to public services. The study will also examine the role of trade unions as democratic institutions that mediate relationships between citizens, workers and the state.
Please find more info here.
The supervisory teams are led by Vera Weghman. The scholarships are co-funded by Austrian union Younion, Die Daseinsgewerkschaft, and the European Federation of Public Service Unions (EPSU) in cooperation with Arbeiterkammer Wien (AK Wien), respectively. Successful applicants will join PSIRU's vibrant and supportive PhD community. With these appointments, our PhD community will grow to seven PhD researchers from October 2026 onwards. The scholarship includes a full stipend and a tuition fee waiver at the UK (Home) fee rate. The supervisory team warmly welcomes applications from international candidates; however, please note that international students are required to cover the difference between the UK (Home) and international tuition fees. In addition to a full PhD scholarship, there may also be opportunities to work as a paid PSIRU Research Assistant (1–2 days per week) alongside the PhD. This offers valuable experience working on international research projects with European trade unions and policy institutions, providing excellent networking opportunities and strong foundations for careers in policy-oriented academic research.
For any questions, please reach out to Vera Weghman or Ines Heck.
Application Deadline: 23 August 2026
After seven years, the Future Histories podcast can look back on a wide range of inspiring collaborations. These experiences gave rise to the idea of creating a space in which the ideas and questions explored through the podcast could be pursued further in new ways and through new forms of collaboration. This vision led to the founding of the Future Histories LAB.
The Future Histories LAB expands upon the work and the many ideas developed over the years, creating an experimental and transdisciplinary space at the intersection of research, art, and social practice.
Through the Future Histories LAB, research projects, publications, workshops, and artistic formats will be developed to explore alternative futures and possibilities for postcapitalist construction.
Please find the lately launched website here.
The Age of Uncertainty is a 13-part TV Series about economics written and presented by John Kenneth Galbraith. It was three-years in the making and was made in collaboration with the BBC, CBC and other broadcasters. Nearly 50-years on from when it first screened, it remains a unique and valuable resource in introducing economics to a general audience. For many years, it was difficult to find good quality recordings of the series online, but recently this has changed with remarkably high-resolution recordings now available on YouTube (and perhaps also via the BBC iplayer – for those in the UK).
This TV Series is an enormously valuable resource that is recommended viewing regardless of your level of economic knowledge. It is everything you would expect from J K Galbraith: wise, informative, and of course, regularly laugh out loud funny.
Please find the link to the playlist for the entire series here.
This site contains the design of Eranism, an economy that would allow for more prudent use of natural resources, a wasteless and mostly fair distribution of goods, more cooperation than in the present competitive economy, and the reduction of work for which there is no physical necessity. The economy is decentralized in the sense that people themselves report how many goods they want or need and how long they have to work, but it usually does not pay to misreport in order to manipulate the outcome. The economy is directly based on physical and social reality (it is said to be transparant) and therefore does without money. To complete the design, a few questions remain to be answered.
The author Arnold Bomans is asking for assistance with arranging a judgement (in particular by mathematical economists), implementation in a database, development of a user-interface, test, documentation, a (commercial) organization, and ... money.
The Association for Social Economics is preparing to hold its combined World Congress and Summer School, a two-day event, in June of 2027.
The World Congress is the largest ASE-sponsored conference, held once every 3 years and preceded by a one-day workshop titled Summer School for graduate students, junior academics, and practitioners in social economics.
The ASE is looking for coordinator(s) to host the event at their institutions or other institutions where they have contacts. Once this is finalized with the ASE leadership,the role of the coordinators will consist of:
The coordinator will have the ASE leadership’s support and guidance throughout the process, and funding will be available to hire assistants who are students and/or others both before and during the event.
If you are interested in hosting or organizing this high-profile and collegial event, please contact the Association Director, Rojhat Avsar, at rbavsar@gmail.com.
The British Sociological Association (BSA) and WES invite applications to join the journal as Associate Editors. Work, Employment and Society is a highly respected journal with an international profile. It is strongly centred in the sociological tradition, drawing upon adjacent disciplines to make an original contribution to debates in the sociology of work and employment. It receives over 1000 submissions a year, has an Impact Factor of 3.8 and is ranked 4 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools Academic Journal Guide. WES is a journal of the British Sociological Association and the current publishing partner is Sage.
The appointed editors will join the current team in editing papers and developing the intellectual agenda and international reach of the journal. In recent years there have been significant, community-led changes with in the journal: editorial and Board structure changes; and the introduction of new initiatives – like the incredibly popular PhD Showcase. Editors, working closely with the Editorial Board, initiate and support such changes during their terms of office.
Editorial responsibilities include the following:
The editors work in a highly collaborative way, meeting online monthly. New editors will be integrated into the existing team through mentoring and peer support. Typically, editors work a full day a week onWES activities.
Please find more info here.
Contact Alison Danforth with any questions regarding the application process or the roles.
Application Deadline: 17 September 2026
Editorial note: The Newsletter office has been informed of a rupture at the Review of Social Economy, which has led to a mass resignation of the current main and associate editors. Below we share statements by the (former) RoSE editors as well as a statement from ASE as governing association of the journal. We leave it to our readers to form their own judgement on this specific incident based on the original statements below.
However, we hasten to add that the underlying tensions emerging from dominant academic publishing routines do indeed represent a key organizational challenge for heterodox institutions. Hence, in our humble view this conflict is no occasional idiosyncrasy, but represents a systemic tension in our field. At the same time, we sincerely hope RoSE will continue to play a key role as a flagship journal in heterodox discourse.
Due to the Association for Social Economics' decision to extend the cooperation with the commercial publisher Taylor & Francis, the members of Review of Social Economy's Associate Editors Board and Advisory Board stepped down and ended the collaboration with ASE. In a statement issued following their resignation on July 4 2026, the main editors of the explained their decision as follows:
“With this letter, we, the co-editors of RoSE, announce our decision to step down from this role and explain why. After having worked hard on the journal, in some cases for many years, this was not a step that came lightly, but we see it as inevitable.
RoSE is currently published by Taylor & Francis (T&F), a commercial publisher, in a subscription model. The big disadvantage of this model is that most articles are hidden behind a paywall, inaccessible for many scholars worldwide. For years, we have been in discussions about the possibility of moving to an open-access model, and we have used a considerable part of the editorial budget for "buying out" articles from behind the pay wall, especially those of young scholars or scholars from non-OECD countries.
The ASE has now decided to stay with T&F, and against the move towards a subscribe-to-open model with Stanford University Press. This decision, however, means that the future path of the journal is towards a model with author publishing fees (APFs), not subscriptions. T&F have been very clear about their estimation that the subscription model will continue to decline and will soon no longer be feasible. Having the journal run on an APF model means that the income depends on authors having funds available (which is only the case for authors in privileged countries and institutions). Editors are incentivized to publish as many articles as possible, to maximize revenue. This is not a path that we, as an editorial team, want to follow. We think it conflicts with the values of open knowledge and equity in science, especially for scholars from non-Western countries that cannot afford to pay AFPs.
The structure of ASE, with its financial dependence on the journal income, has created an unhealthy financial dependence on royalties from the journals. We have therefore never pushed for moving to models that would not generate any income. The Stanford UP model would, with high likelihood, have allowed generating a stable income, while preserving the quality and integrity of the journal. But ASE's leadership - with its short-term cycles, which make longer-term planning maybe more difficult than it would otherwise be - has decided that it does not want to take this step.
We have therefore decided to end our collaboration with the ASE and to step down as co-editors of RoSE.
As a matter of responsibility towards authors, we will continue - with ASE's consent - to handle the papers that are currently in the review process, but will not accept new submissions. We hope that ASE can soon form a new editorial board and take over the journal. "
The RoSE co-editors: Amitava Dutt, Lisa Herzog, Natascha van der Zwan, Roberto Veneziani
A large majority of the associated editors also sent a statement that supports the position of the main editors also announcing their resignation.
The Association for Social Economics (ASE) commented on the transition at the Review of Social Economy in a statement from July 22:
"The Association for Social Economics (ASE) is announcing a change in its editorial board for one of its journals, the Review of Social Economy (RoSE).
Following our recent Executive Council meeting and vote, ASE has moved forward with continuing its longstanding partnership with Taylor & Francis (T&F), a publisher that has been committed to heterodox economics books and journals for decades. RoSE publishes on a hybrid basis, meaning that it publishes both subscription and open access content. This means that it is an accessible publishing venue for all authors, whether or not they have access to open access funding.
The Executive Council considered in detail a proposal brought by the former editors of RoSE to move to a complete open access model with another press, a decision that would have major implications for ASE’s revenues and operations. After much investigation and discussion, ASE decided by a majority vote to renew its contract with T&F to ensure the continuation of its activities in line with the Association’s mission. Immediately after this decision and before the end of their contracts, the editors of RoSE resigned in unison. While the editors of RoSE insist that the journal is moving towards a model with author publishing fees (APFs), not subscriptions, this is not the case. The journal will continue to publish following its existing hybrid model as explained above.
We are grateful to all current and former editorial board members for their service to RoSE. Upcoming editorial board changes will build on their contributions while creating new opportunities for scholars from a wider range of geographical, methodological, and institutional backgrounds to participate in the journal’s future. Open calls for participation in editorial roles will be published on the ASE website, listserv, and other sites in the coming days.
ASE continues to support its mission of making knowledge and scholarly work in social economics available to everyone around the world. ASE provides free membership to scholars in least developed countries and this allows access to journal content for both RoSE and the Forum for Social Economics, also published by ASE. T&F also supports initiatives to make content in RoSE free to access for readers in least developed countries, including via its STAR initiative."
Socio-Economic Review (SER) is inviting applications for its Board of Graduate Interns. Published by Oxford University Press, SER is the official journal of Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) and features contributions from around the world. SER’s primary focus is on understanding the socio-political foundations of the economy and the interplay between economy and society. Articles in SER explore how the economy is or should be governed by social relations, institutional rules, political decisions, and cultural values. The journal also emphasizes inequalities and politics. SER receives about eight hundred new article manuscripts annually, publishes four issues per year, and accepts about 13% of submissions. Its 5-year impact factor (2025) is 4.0.
Graduate interns will assist with a range of editorial and outreach activities, including identifying and evaluating potential reviewers, helping organize book symposia published in the journal, assisting with the preparation of quarterly issues, promoting recently published SER articles, and organizing the SER Café. The SER Café is an online discussion series that brings together authors of recently published SER articles and readers to discuss the research. During the internship, interns will organize and produce four SER Café events.
Interns will also participate in monthly online meetings devoted to learning about journal editing and scholarly publishing. The overall workload is comparable to that of an independent reading course.
Members of the Board of Graduate Interns will be listed by name in the journal’s masthead (impressum) in recognition of their service. Graduate interns will also receive free membership and registration for the annual SASE conference in Glasgow in 2027. The one-year internship begins on September 17, 2026.
Applicants must have successfully completed the first two years of a doctoral program in any social science discipline. Prior editorial experience or previous involvement with SASE or SER is an advantage but is not required.
This is an excellent opportunity to learn about article publishing, build professional networks, and see the latest research in the field.
To apply, send your letter of intent and a CV to Akos Rona-Tas and Alya Guseva with a subject “SER Student Interns”.
Application Deadline: 1 September 2026