From the Editor
The Heterodox Economics
Newsletter has lots of new items—calls for
papers, conferences and seminars, jobs for heterodox
economists, etc. Of particular interest is the
material on the Institutional and Behavioral
Economics Section in the American Agricultural
Economics Association and on the Post Keynesian
Economics Study Group in the UK and its Newsletter.
Over the past several months I have collected data
on the current state of heterodox economics around
the world which I would like to share. First, there
are at least 27 different heterodox economics
associations around the world—and perhaps more but I
am not aware of them. Secondly, working with the
membership data of fifteen heterodox organizations,
there are 2559 heterodox economists of which 482 are
engaged with more than one heterodox organization.
And finally, the limited evidence that I have
collected indicates that heterodox economists have
become more pluralistic with working with different
heterodox approaches over the past 15 years (download).
Over the next six weeks the HEN will be published
irregularly. I will be on holiday in Pakistan for
two weeks, then a week in Bogota, Columbia giving
lectures on heterodox microeconomics, and then there
is the ICAPE Conference in Utah at the beginning of
June. After that HEN will return to its regular
schedule of production.
Fred Lee
In
this issue:
-
Call
for Papers
- Second International Symposium on Economic
Theory, Policy and Applications
- ASSA
Meetings
- 2007
Society for the Development of Austrian Economics Meetings
- EAEPE
Conference 2007
-
LIONEL ROBBINS'S ESSAY ON THE NATURE AND SIGNIFICANCE OF ECONOMIC
SCIENCE
- IIId
International Conference of The Social Capital Foundation
- The
Institutional and Social Dynamics of Growth and Distribution
- The
Spirit of Innovation III
- Conferences, Seminars
and Lectures
- The “left-turn” in Latin America: myths
and realities
-
Seminar on Ecological Economics
-
Global Peace Conference
- 4th
International Conference Developments in Economic Theory and Policy
-
CASE-Ukraine International Conference
- The
Seventh Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics
-
Workshop on "Methodological Problems of the Social Sciences"
- The
2007 ABH and CHORD Conference
-
Séminaire Thornton de PHARE
-
Realistic Growth Policy for Our Times
- Débat
autour du livre L'ÉCONOMIE INSTITUTIONNELLE
- Post
Keynesian Economics Study Group
-
Economics and Identity
-
Commercial and Political Advocacy
-
Entrepreneurial Communities
-
Business Links
- The
Economic History of the Provision and Financing of Higher Education
-
International Business, International Organizations, and the Wealth of
Nations
-
Assessing Law and Economics
-
Orthodoxie économique et développement en Amérique latine
- 1ERE
JOURNEE D’ETUDE
-
Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
- University of Wollongong
- York
University
-
Dollars & Sense
-
Dollars & Sense
- City
University, London
-
Auckland University of Technology
-
University of Massachusetts Amherst
-
Florida International University
- Heterodox
Conference Papers and Reports and Articles
-
Eastern Civilisation and the
Breakthrough to Modernity in the West
- OPEC
in the Epoch of Globalization
-
Greening U.S. Trade
-
International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics -
News
- ICAPE 2007 Conference
-
Heterodox Journals and Newsletters
- Levy News
-
Feminist Economics
-
International Review of Applied Economics
- CASE
e-Newsletter
-
Challange
- EPS
Quarterly
-
Heterodox
Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews
- ROUTLEDGE “ADVANCES IN SOCIAL ECONOMICS” SERIES
- Asian
Studies: Contemporary Issues and Trends
-
Keynes's General Theory, the Rate of Interest and 'Keynesian' Economics
-
Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade
- The
United States Since 1980
-
Heterodox Graduate Program and PhD Scholarships
-
CASE&E Internship Program
-
European Network on Industrial Policy (EUNIP)
- The
Seventh Cambridge Advanced Programme on Rethinking Development Economics
-
Heterodox
Associations, Institutes, and Departments
-
Institutional and Behavioral Economics Section
-
CASE&E
-
ASSOCIATION FOR HETERODOX ECONOMICS (AHE)
-
For Your Information
- Tom Palley
-
Economists for Peace and Security
- LE
CENTRE D’ETUDES MONÉTAIRES ET FINANCIÈRES
- A New
Canadian Progressive Economics Blog
- The
Freakonomics of Tenure
Call for Papers
Second International Symposium on Economic
Theory, Policy and Applications
6-7 AUGUST 2007, ATHENS, GREECE
The Economics Research Unit of the Athens Institute for Education and
Research (ATINER) will hold an International Symposium in Athens,
Greece, August 6-7, 2007. The registration fee is 250 euro, covering
access to all sessions, 2 lunches, coffee breaks and conference
material. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a
limited number of rooms at a special conference rate. In addition, a
Greek Night with live music, a one-day cruise to picturesque Greek
Islands and a half-day archaeological tour.
Papers (in English) from all areas of Economics are welcome. Sessions
will be organized along the lines of the Journal of Economic Literature
Classification Index:
• General Economics and Teaching,
• Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology,
• Mathematical and Quantitative Methods,
• Welfare Economics,
• Microeconomics,
• Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics,
• International Economics,
• Financial Economics,
• Public Economics,
• Health, Education and Welfare,
• Labour and Demographic Economics,
• Law and Economics,
• Industrial Organization,
• Business Administration & Business Economics - Marketing – Accounting,
• Economic History,
• Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth,
• Economic Systems,
• Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics,
• Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics,
• Cultural Economics.
Selected papers will be published in a Special Volume of Conference
Proceedings or thematic books. Papers to be included are blindly peer
reviewed.
Currently, there is no space for new submissions to be considered for
presentation. However, if some of those accepted for presentation do not
register by the due day, then new proposals can be considered. If you
think you can contribute, please send an abstract of about 300 words,
via email, before March 16th, 2007 to: Dr. John Roufagalas, Professor,
Radford University, USA & Academic Member, ATINER, 8 Valaoritou Street,
Kolonaki, 10671 Athens, Greece. Tel.: + 30 210 363-4210 Fax: + 30 210
384-7734 Email: atiner@atiner.gr. URL:
www.atiner.gr/docs/Economics.htm
Abstracts should include: Title of Paper, Family Name(s), First Name(s),
Affiliation (Institution), Current Position, an email address and at
least 3 keywords (or JEL Index Numbers) that best describe the subject
of your submission.
If you want to participate without presenting a paper, i.e. chair a
session, evaluate papers to be included in the conference proceedings or
books, contribute to the editing, or any other offer to help please send
an email to Dr. Gregory T. Papanikos, gtp@atiner.gr Director, ATINER.
ASSA Meetings
The ASSA meetings will be held Jan 4-6, 2008 in New Orleans. Once again
URPE (Union for Radical Political Economics) has generously agreed to
co-sponsor three panels with IAFFE (International Association for
Feminist Economics). To participate in these panels you must present
work consistent with radical political economics and feminist economics.
You most also be a member of either organization. If you want mor
information about either organization go to: http://urpe.org/ or
http://www.iaffe.org/
The drop-dead *deadline* for proposed papers to me *April 20, 2007*. If
you want to propose an entire panel, contact me ASAP.
I will put together 3 panels with four papers each based on paper
proposal I receive. Also. let me know if you are willing to be a
discussant or chair of one of these panels.
Below are the four preferred topics.
Women and the Gulf Coast (or Disasters) (being in New Orleans).
Gender and Development
Advances in Feminist Political Economy
Between Work and Family -- Empirical and Theoretical work on Women's
well-being.
Send Randy Albelda a paper title, abstract, and name, institutional
affiliation, phone and email randy.albelda@umb.edu including summer
phone and e-mail contact info.
Please note that the date, time, and location of sessions is assigned by
ASSA, not URPE. You should receive word that your paper/session was
accepted by mid-June. ASSA will not assign dates and times until much
later in the summer.
2007 Society for the Development of Austrian
Economics Meetings
New Orleans, LA, November 18-20, 2007 (Sunday-Tuesday)
Please note: The SEA meetings this year will run Monday-Wednesday, but
we have been able to secure a room so that our sessions can begin on
Sunday and end on Tuesday, allowing participants to return home late on
Tuesday or on Wednesday. Hotel rooms should be available at the SEA rate
for Saturday night.
Persons interested in presenting papers, serving as chairs/discussants,
or proposing entire panels should submit proposals by May 1st. All
submissions must include the following information for each participant,
including
non-attending co-authors:
Name
Affiliation
Street address
Phone
Fax
Email address
Those proposing papers must also include a one-page abstract as well as
an indication of their willingness to serve as a chair or discussant. If
you just wish to serve as a chair or discussant, please indicate so in
your submission. All information should be returned by May 1, 2007. If
you are proposing an entire panel, please have all the contact
information for all the participants when you send the materials. Also
keep in mind that paid-up SDAE members are given priority for SDAE
panels.
Please send your submissions to Joe Salerno, SDAE President-elect at:
Joe Salerno, jsalerno@pace.edu or
by postal mail until Memorial Day:
725 Garibaldi Avenue
South Plainfield, NJ 07080
EAEPE Conference 2007
The calls are for research areas A (methodology), issued by Uskali Mäki,
and O (Economy, Society and Territory), issued by Frank Moulaert.
Proposals for these two calls (for these two calls only as the general
call for the conference and all other research areas has already
expired!) should be sent to the Uskali or Frank directly . Their contact
details are in the calls, which can accessed directly by clicking on the
two links below or if you go on the RA pages on the EAEPE website. The
deadline for both calls is May 1st 2007.
Research Area A: Methodology
General RA page on the EAEPE website:
http://eaepe.org/eaepe.php?q=node/view/19
Direct link to the call:
http://eaepe.org/images/research_area_a_methodology.pdf
Research Area O: Economy, Society, Territory
General RA page on the EAEPE website:
http://eaepe.org/eaepe.php?q=node/view/30
Direct link to the call:
http://eaepe.org/images/research_area_o_space.pdf
LIONEL ROBBINS'S ESSAY ON THE NATURE AND
SIGNIFICANCE OF ECONOMIC SCIENCE
This year marks the 75th anniversary of Lionel Robbins's Essay on the
Nature and Significance of Economic Science. The Department of Economics
at LSE and the editors of Economica have decided to mark this
anniversary by a conference and a special issue of the journal.
The purpose of this conference is both to renew the considerations of
Robbins's theme and reflect on the current nature and significance of
economic science as well as examine Robbins's own position from a
historical perspective.
PAPER SUBMISSIONS/FURTHER INFORMATION:
The conference will take place at LSE on the 10 & 11 December 2007.
Authors who wish to present a paper should send an abstract (no more
than 300 words) to:
Email:
ec.robbins.conference@lse.ac.uk
by 31st July 2007.
Amos Witztum and Frank Cowell
Conference organizers
IIId International
Conference of The Social Capital Foundation
This is to inform you that the IIId International Conference of The
Social Capital Foundation will be held on November 15-19, 2007, in
Hawaii.
We invite you to submit papers for this conference; participation as a
discussant or attendant is also encouraged.
Please have a look at the conference page of our site, where you will
find details of the submission and registration conditions:
http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org/conferences/2007/TSCF%20International%20Conference%202007.htm
The deadline is very close to the conference date in order to allow a
maximal number of participants to be involved. Please note that we
expect abstracts (no full papers) to be submitted. However, participants
are advised not to wait until the deadline to submit, the fee being
staggered.
May we suggest you to inform those members of your networks who could be
interested in the conference.
We are looking forward to having news from you and to working closely
with you for the success of this event.
TSCF
The Social Capital Foundation
Mailing address: B.P. 30, 1310 Terhulpen, Belgium
Website:
http://www.socialcapital-foundation.org
The Institutional and Social Dynamics of Growth
and Distribution
Pisa (Italy), 10-12 December 2007
ince Adam Smith, social and economic institutions have been considered
as exerting a significant influence on the historical patterns of growth
and distribution of nations. More recently, economists have also
emphasized that the process of growth and distribution in turn shape the
evolution of institutions. Growth and distribution are lenses through
which we can investigate the complex interplay of the birth, the life,
and the decline of social and economic institutions. And institutional
and social dynamics, in turn, are important elements in comprehending
the interaction between growth and distribution.The goal of this
Conference is to provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of
different approaches to the issues of the institutional and social
dynamics of growth and distribution, with all the theoretical,
empirical, historical, and methodological implications.
flyer.pdf
http://growth-institutions.ec.unipi.it/
Keynote speakers
* Sam Bowles (Santa Fe Institute)
* David de la Croix (Université catholique de Louvain)
* Steven Durlauf (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
* Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University)
The Spirit of Innovation III
The Forum The Spirit of Innovation III will be held in March 2008 in
Poitiers (France) on the topic
"Services, Innovation and Sustainable Development".
Download the flyer. (in
French)
Top
Conferences, Seminars and
Lectures
The “left-turn” in Latin America: myths and
realities
Thursday 12 April 17.00, The School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London, Russell Sq. Room G2.
Prof Atilio Borón will talk on “The “left-turn” in Latin America: myths
and realities”.
Chair: Dr Alfredo Saad Filho Head of Department of Development Studies,
SOAS
Prof. Atilio A. Boron (Ph. D., Harvard University, 1976) is Professor of
Political Theory at the Univesity of Buenos Aires. During the last nine
years he was Executive Secretary of CLACSO, the Latin American Council
of Social Sciences. Now he is Director of the Latin American Distance
Education Program of the Cultural Center for the Cooperation and Editor
of the Spanish Version of the Socialist Register. Author of many books
an articles translated into many languages, among which, in English,
Empire & Imperialism. A critical reading of Michael Hardt and Tony Negri
(London: Zed Books); State, Capitalism and Democracy in Latin America
(Boulder: Lynne Rienner); and "The truth about capitalist democracies",
Socialist Register 2006. He taught political science at Columbia
University, University of California/Los Angeles, MIT and the University
of Warwick.
Further information may be obtained from Daniela Tavasci, e-mail:
dt28@soas.ac.uk
Seminar on Ecological Economics
Announcement of our forthcoming seminar on ecological economics that we
will be celebrating here in Mexico City. Among our guests will be Paul
Burkett of Indiana State University whose recent book Marxism and
Ecological Economics should become an object of study, discussion and
debate in heterodox circles.
Congreso de Economía Ecológica
Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana Unidad Xochimilco
****
Doctorado En Ciencias Económicas
Área Macroeconomía Dinámica y Cambio Estructural y Grupo De Economía
Ecológica De México
Invitan al:
Congreso de economía ecológica
“Propuestas para generar alternativas”
Espacio de discusión teórico-metodológico para la comprensión y
transformación de nuestra sociedad
Convocatoria
El reconocimiento de la compleja relación entre los conflictos
distributivos y el deterioro ambiental impulsaron la emergencia de la
Economía Ecológica. Ofrece un paradigma alterno y una visión heterodoxa
de la teoría económica para incluir la problemática ambiental en el
análisis económico. Frente al dominio de la metodología neoclásica para
examinar estos problemas en nuestro país, convocamos a una reunión para
contribuir al avance de este paradigma alternativo. En esta perspectiva,
el objetivo general del congreso es:
Generar un espacio de discusión en torno a los fundamentos
teórico-metodológicos de la Economía Ecológica como un saber emergente
para promover la justicia social y sustentabilidad.
Convocatoria.doc
Global Peace Conference
ANNOUNCING A GLOBAL PEACE CONGRESS LIKE NO OTHER***
Congress of Planetary Initiatives
Marriot University Park Hotel, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
August 24-26 2007
www.congress2007.net
The Purpose of this unique Global Gathering is to foster serious and
immediate
Dialog, in the hope of maintaining it on a continuing basis thereafter,
between all the
extant Paradigms/ World-Views/ Interests / Ideologies that have divided
the Human
World into disparate, and often feuding, Sectarian Groupings. The Dialog
will be, thereby,
between the varied Polarities instituted by Geography, Gender, Ideology,
Ethnicity,
Language, Philosophy, Religion, Culture, and Politics (e.g. East-West,
Men-Women,
Tradition-Modernity, Conservative-Radical, North-South, etc.).
The Object is to locate all possible Areas of Agreement that can serve
to foster a
World-Wide Affiliation of Peoples who can, while maintaining and
respecting Difference,
sincerely find Common Cause that will sustain the continued existence of
Planetary Life
forms under threat today by both Violence and Greed. The Congress will
Adopt
appropriate Resolutions, both collectively and separately, in all
spheres, including Plans
for instituting Means, Mechanisms, and Modalities to realize them, in a
consilient Spirit of
Consensus, and establish the basis for future expansion of the Areas of
Mutual
Agreement in Ideas, Visions, and Possibilities.
CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
We are currently soliciting Applications for Participants to enhance the
nature of
Dialogue at this unique Global Peace Congress to be held in Salt Lake
City, Utah from
August 24-26, 2007. We have on board outstanding and distinguished
Panelists, drawn
from all over the world, who will, it is hoped, in a highly personal,
dynamic interactive
process with invited Participants, arrive at new salves for old global
problems.
Whilst Panelists will lead discussions, Participants will have a vital
role to play as
well in debating and challenging Panelists, with Final Resolutions being
a truly Collective
Effort of the gathering as a whole. Full details of the Program as well
as names of all
Attending Panelists may be viewed at www.congress2007.net
At this point we are provisioned for 300 Participants only, selected
from around
the world. Applications will be reviewed on a first come/first processed
basis. The
Application form and further details are available on our website.
Applicants are asked
to indicate their background, their Interest in, and rationale for,
participation, and their
ability to fund it on their own account. Questions and queries may be
addressed to
participants2007@gmail.com .
This is a once in a lifetime opportunity for many to be proximate with
some
amazing people, aside from being able to directly help address major
issues confronting
the world today. We look forward to your participation in this event.
Congress of Planetary Initiatives
Postal Address: Congress2007, P.O. Box 95184, South Jordan, Utah 84095
Phone: (USA) 413-665-2463
Email: participants2007@gmail.com
4th International Conference Developments in
Economic Theory and Policy
in the website
www.conferencedevelopments.com you will find updated
information about the 4th International Conference Developments in
Economic Theory and Policy (Bilbao - Spain, July 5-6, 2007) related to:
Special Sessions and Invited Speakers, Accomodation and Registration.
CASE-Ukraine International Conference
Is Eurasia’s economic centre of gravity shifting to the East?
How serious is the Asian challenge to Europe and the US?
You will hear answers to these questions and more on March 23 - 24 at
the CASE and CASE-Ukraine international conference in Kyiv, Ukraine:
Winds of Change: The Impact of Globalization on Europe and Asia.
Two hundred outstanding researchers, representatives of international
organizations and financial institutions and policy-makers who shape the
economic debate in Europe, Asia and North America, representing more
than 30 countries will attend the conference. It will be the first event
of this scale to be held in the Ukrainian capital.
Select conference speakers include:
Alan Gelb, The World Bank (Director, Development Policy)
Martin Wolf, Financial Times, Chief Economic Commentator
Oleksandr Savchenko, Deputy Governor of the National Bank of Ukraine
Susan Schadler, IMF (Deputy Director, European Department)
Leszek Balcerowicz, Former President of the National Bank of Poland
Lucio Vinhas de Souza, DG-ECFIN, European Commission
Boris Nemtsov, Leader of Union of Right Forces Party, Russia
Volodymyr Makukha, Economics Minister of Ukraine
George Kopits, National Bank of Hungary (Monetary Council member)
Paolo Garonna, UNECE, (Deputy Executive Secretary)
To see who else will be speaking, go to:
http://www.case.com.pl/strona--ID-winds_speakers,nlang-710.html
To read conference papers, go to:
http://www.case.com.pl/strona--ID-winds_papers,nlang-710.html
To view conference sesssion, go to:
http://www.case.com.pl/strona--ID-winds_sessions,nlang-710.html
Citizens of the European Union, USA, Canada, Japan, Switzerland and
Liechtenstein do not need visas to enter Ukraine.
Conference fee $200 conference covers materials, lunch and coffee
breaks.
To register in 60 seconds, go to:
http://aries.case.com.pl/register/
The Seventh Cambridge Advanced Programme on
Rethinking Development Economics
Hosted by Development Studies Committee, University of Cambridgewith
support from the Ford Foundation
4 July – 21 July, 2007
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, England
Workshop on "Methodological Problems of the
Social Sciences"
Tilburg, Netherlands
7 May 2007
JEL classification: B
Further information at:
http://www.tilburguniversity.nl/faculties/humanities/tilps/MPSS/
The 2007 ABH and
CHORD Conference
BUSINESS LINKS: Trade, Distribution and Networks
will be held on:
29 and 30 June 2007
at:
the University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, UK
The Association of Business Historians (ABH) and the Centre for the
History of Retailing and Distribution (CHORD) invite participants to
their joint conference.
Provisional programme, abstracts and registration details are now
available at:
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/2007conf.html
Plenary speaker: Roy Church, UEA
For more information, please contact: Laura Ugolini, HAGRI / HLSS,
University of Wolverhampton, Room MC233, MC Building, Wolverhampton, WV1
1SB.
Tel.: (044) 01902 321890. E-mail:
l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk
CHORD web-pages:
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/chord.html
ABH web-pages:
http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/abh/
Séminaire Thornton
de PHARE
Le prochain séminaire Thornton de PHARE "monnaie,crédit et liquidité
dans l'histoire de la pensée économique" aura lieu le jeudi 5 avril
prochain , à 18 h, à la MSE, salle 113.
Bernard Vallageas
(Université Paris -Sud)
"La transformation des valeurs en prix dans le Treatise on Money et
l'analyse de la formation des profits"
Le texte est en fichier joint ci-dessous
Sylvie Diatkine
Jérôme de Boyer
Professeur à l'Université Paris XII Val de Marne Faculté de sciences
économiques et de gestion
61 avenue du Général de Gaulle
94010 Créteil Cedex - France
tél : 33 (0)1 41 78 46 46 ou 46 21
Realistic Growth Policy for Our
Times
What: "Realistic Growth Policy for Our Times: A Conference in Memory of
David Gordon"
When: Friday, April 13, 2007 9:30 a.m.-5:00 p.m
Who: Current speakers and panelists include Robert Gordon, Lance Taylor,
David Howell, Pascal Petit, Michael Piore, Robert Pollin, Ed Wolff,
Servaas Storm, Marc Lavoie, Michael Reich, Mark Levitan, Heather Boushey,
and Ron Blackwell
Where: Teresa Lang Student Center, 55 West 13 Street, 2nd Floor
In remembering David Gordon, the late founder of SCEPA (then CEPA) and
New School Professor of Economics, this conference will explore an issue
that was important to him, and remains relevant today--the relationship
between income distribution and economic growth. The aim is to promote a
lively dialogue between scholars focused on labor market regulation,
industrial relations and corporate governance, and political and
cultural institutions, with scholars of economic growth who see
institutions and income distribution as central to their analysis. The
hope is to further our understanding of progressive and growth-promoting
policies in today's economic climate.
This conference is free and open to the public, but reservations are
required. E-mail cepa@newschool.edu to reserve a seat.
For more information about the conference, visit our website at
www.cepa.newschool.edu
Débat autour du livre L'ÉCONOMIE
INSTITUTIONNELLE
("Repères", La Découverte 2007)
organisé par le CEMI (EHESS)
et le GERME (Univ. Paris Diderot)
Le jeudi 5 avril 2007 de 10h à 12h30
Paris 7, 103 rue de Tolbiac
Salle des thèses
Bernard Chavance présentera son ouvrage
Le débat sera introduit par Mathieu Arnoux (Univ. Paris 7)
et Nicolas Postel (Univ. Lille 1)
L'économie est un processus institutionnalisé : tel est le consensus qui
semble s'établir depuis une quinzaine d'années. Admettre l'importance
des institutions pour l'étude de l'économie représente toutefois une
rupture avec le courant dominant de la pensée au XXe siècle. Ce livre
retrace l'histoire des théories économiques qui composent la grande
famille de l'économie institutionnelle. À partir de positions
doctrinales et méthodologiques parfois opposées, elles ont toutes tenté
de comprendre la nature, le rôle, l'origine et le changement des
institutions et apporté une contribution majeure à la réflexion
contemporaine.
Parmi les grands thèmes de la pensée institutionnaliste figurent les
relations entre continuité et changement, le rapport entre comportements
individuels et règles sociales, l'impact des institutions sur la
dynamique ou les performances de long terme des économies, la place
respective du pouvoir et de l'efficacité dans les évolutions historiques.
Pour se rendre à Paris 7, 103 rue de Tolbiac, Bât. "Montréal":
- Métro: Tolbiac, Place d'Italie ou Nationale. Bus: lignes 62 et 83 (arrêt
Tolbiac-Baudricourt) ;
- Prendre l'escalator pour monter sur la dalle "Les Olympiades" et
suivre le fléchage "Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot", sur la gauche ;
- salle des thèses, deuxième étage ; à gauche en sortant de l’ascenseur.
Post Keynesian
Economics Study Group
New Perspectives on Keynes’s General Theory
Friday 25 May 2007
Homerton College, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 8PH
www.homerton.cam.ac.uk (01223) 507111
Programme
2 pm–6 pm (gathering from 1 pm)
Session 1: The Economics of Keynes in Historical Context
Speaker: Michael Lawlor (Wake Forest University)
Discussant: Victoria Chick (University College, London)
Session 2: Keynes’s General Theory, the Rate of Interest and ‘Keynesian’
Economics
Speaker: Geoff Tily (Office for National Statistics)
Discussant: Jan Toporowski (SOAS)
Session 3: The Economics of Keynes: A New Guide to The General Theory
Speaker: Mark Hayes (University of Cambridge)
Discussant: Roy Rotheim (Skidmore College)
Summing up: Geoff Harcourt (University of Cambridge)
There is no registration fee, but please do advise
cambridge@postkeynesian.net if you plan to attend so we can plan
afternoon refreshments. Thanks to the generous support of Triodos Bank,
we will consider applications by post-graduate students for
reimbursement of APEX rail fares within the UK.
Meals and accommodation: lunch and dinner are available in Homerton from
12 pm and 6 pm. There is a Travelodge just opposite Homerton College
(0870) 191 1601, and a list of local guest-houses and hotels is also
available on request.
Directions:
By rail: 1215 from London Kings Cross, take bus #1 or #7 travelling
south (Fulbourne, Sawston–every five minutes), get off at third stop
directly opposite Homerton College. Alternatively 20 minute walk. Follow
signs to “Ibberson Reception” to conference reception area (number 5/6
on campus map see
http://www.homerton.cam.ac.uk/pdf/homerton.pdf ), or ask at
Porter’s Lodge.
By car: parking available by prior arrangement. See website for further
directions.
Economics and
Identity
Professor George Akerlof, winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics
will deliver the Stamp Memorial Lecture at LSE on Wednesday 25 April.
Event Information:
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSEPublicLecturesAndEvents/events/2007/20070328t1100z001.htm
Commercial and
Political Advocacy
In 20th-Century Britain
Hearts and Minds: the Ethos of Commercial and Political Advocacy in
20th-Century Britain on April 14, 2007 is a workshop organized by the
School of Business and Management, Queen Mary College, London.
Entrepreneurial Communities
BHC Annual Meeting
The annual meeting of the Business History Conference (BHC) takes place
May 31 - June 2, 2007 in Cleveland, Ohio at the Weatherhead School of
Management of Case Western Reserve University. The theme for the
conference is Entrepreneurial Communities.
Business Links
Trade, Distribution and Networks
The Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution, with the
Association of Business Historians holds
Business Links: Trade,
Distribution and Networks on June 29 to 30, 2007 at the University of Wolverhampton, UK.
The Economic History of the
Provision and Financing of Higher Education
The economic history of the provision and financing of higher education
and its reflection in the history of economic thought is an INFER
workshop on July 27-29, 2007 at the Technical University of Darmstadt,
Germany.
International Business,
International Organizations, and the Wealth of Nations
The theme of the 11th Annual Conference of the European Business History
Association (EBHA) at the University of Geneva, Switzerland from
September 13-15, 2007 is International Business, International
Organizations, and the Wealth of Nations.
Assessing Law and Economics
In the Context of Development
Change, Rules and Institutions: Assessing Law and Economics in the
Context of Development in London, UK on September 29 & 30, 2007
reassesses the relationship of law to economics in the context of
development.
Orthodoxie économique et développement en Amérique
latine
par Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira
Professeur émérite de la Fondation Getúlio Vargas
le Lundi 23 avril 2007 à 11 heures Maison de l’Amérique latine - 217
boulevard Saint Germain 75007 Paris
Avec la participation de : Eric Berr, Maître de conférences à
l’Université Montesquieu, Bordeaux 4
Modérateur : Olivier Lafourcade, Président de OML International
IDDRI.pdf
1ERE JOURNEE D’ETUDES CIRCUITISTE POST-KEYNESIENNE
Université Pierre Mendes France, Grenoble, 24 avril 2007
Co-organisée par
l’Association pour le Développement des Etudes Keynésiennes (ADEK)
l’Ecole Doctorale Sciences Economiques UPMF
le Centre d’Etudes Monétaires et Financières (CEMF)
Download the program:
English
French.
DARE Graduate School
The annual DARE Graduate School in Economic Governance, Development and
Public Policy will be held at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Reus,
Spain. It will take place from 2nd - 9th September 2007. Further details
on the School:
The School, which has evolved from the L’institute-Ferrara Graduate
School in Industrial Development Policy, is co-ordinated and organised
by DARE (Democratic Communities in Academic Research on Economic
Development), a community of international faculty focused on enhancing
theoretical and policy understanding around democratic economic
development. For further information on DARE, please see
www.postgradschools.net
A particular aim of the School is to contribute to the evolution of a
multinational network of people thinking about, analysing and
researching into economic governance, development and public policy. To
this end, the School will bring together 16 participants from a variety
of countries and research backgrounds to engage in a co-operative
learning process with internationally-renowned researchers and
practitioners.
For further information and for an application form, those interested
can write to Marcela Valania at
m.m.valania@bham.ac.uk (Please download the further
particulars for the School). The deadline for applications is 31 May
2007.
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Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
University of Wollongong
Faculty of Commerce - Inspiring Social Innovation
Teach & Research in Economics
The School of Economics is part of the University ofWollongong's highly
regarded Faculty of Commerce. The School has a vibrant undergraduate and
graduate teaching program, which includes a strong honours and PhD
component. We have a stimulating research culture with many highly
successful and productive scholars, and we are home to three research
centers. See:
http://www.uow.edu.au/commerce/econ/
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
Applications are invited from candidates with a specialisation in any
area of economics, including macroeconomics, microeconomics,
econometrics, economic history, and the history of economic thought. The
successful candidate will hold a PhD, or will be close to completion, in
a relevant area of economics with achievement of publishable research
outcomes and a demonstrated teaching ability.
Please address the criteria specified in the relevant position
description, which is available on our website.
For further information about this role, please contact:
CONTACT: Professor Simon Ville
Tel:+61 (0) 2 4221 3098
ABOUT UOW:
Based in Wollongong, a coastal city south of Sydney (Australia), UOW is
rated 5 stars by the Australian Good Universities Guide in the areas of
research and educational experience.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Applications close 22 April 2007.
Please quote ref no: 21709
Please go to our website:
http://employment.uow.edu.au/
to submit your application online & for more information about the
position and UOW.
York University
York University, Faculty of Arts, Division of Social Science invites
applications for two one-year contractually limited appointments in
Business and Society at the Assistant Professor level commencing July 1,
2007. The Division is a department within the Faculty of Arts, mandated
to provide undergraduate general education, as well as a number of
specialized interdisciplinary programs, including Business and Society
(BUSO). Information about the BUSO program can be found at
http://www.arts.yorku.ca/sosc/buso/.
The successful candidate will hold a PhD (or be close to completion) in
one of the relevant social sciences or other related field and must
demonstrate a strong competence in undergraduate teaching, with a
background and interest appropriate for teaching lower and upper level
courses within a critical interdisciplinary program. A promise of
excellence in research and publication in the field of business and
society is preferred. Each candidate will teach the equivalent of three
full-year courses including some combination of AS/SOSC 1340 3.0
Introduction to Business and Society, AS/SOSC 2330 9.0 Economics of Law,
Policy and Organization, AS/SOSC 3040 6.0 Corporate Social
Responsibility, AS/SOSC 4040 6.0 Issues in Business and Society AS/SOSC
Alternative Economic Firms and Arrangements and AS/SOSC 4043 6.0
Business Law and Corporate Governance in Comparative Perspective.
York University is an Affirmative Action Employer. The Affirmative
Action Program can be found on York's website at
www.yorku.ca/acadjobs or a copy can be obtained by calling the affirmative action office at
416-736-5713. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however,
Canadian citizens and Permanent Residents will be given priority.
Temporary entry for citizens of the U.S.A. and Mexico may apply per the
provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
Candidates are asked to submit a curriculum vitae, a statement of
research and teaching interests, and a sample publication, and should
have three referees send letters of reference to:
Darryl Reed, Chair
Division of Social Science
S756 Ross Building
4700 Keele Street
Toronto, M3J 1P3
Telephone: 416-736-5056 Fax: 416-736-5574
E-Mail: dreed@yorku.ca
All York University positions are subject to budgetary approval.
Deadline: May 1, 2007
Dollars & Sense
Dollars & Sense, the 32-year-old progressive economics publisher based
in Boston, Mass., seeks a Development and Promotion Coordinator. We
publish an 8,000-circulation bimonthly magazine and nine book titles.
The primary areas of responsibility of the Development and Promotion
Coordinator are:
Direct-mail fundraising
Major donor fundraising
Magazine promotion
Advertising
As part of a team of one other business and three editorial staff, the
Development and Promotion Coordinator works closely with a volunteer
collective of activists and social scientists committed to social
justice and economic democracy. Staff members are automatically members
of the D&S collective and attend Thursday evening collective meetings,
where editorial and business decisions are made. All staff members
participate in planning and carrying out promotion and fundraising
activities, and all share a range of administrative and clerical tasks
in the office.
Fundraising experience; excellent writing, computer, and administrative
skills; creativity and enthusiasm; progressive politics; and some
professional experience required. Grant writing; magazine promotion;
some bookkeeping experience preferred. People of color are strongly
encouraged to apply. Position is part-time (30 hours/week) with COLA+3%
annual raise, full health benefits, three weeks vacation.
Send cover letter and resume by April 15th, 2007 to: Development
Coordinator Search, Dollars & Sense, 29 Winter Street, Boston, MA 02108
or email dollars@dollarsandsense.org. Applications will be reviewed as
they're received.
[short version of ad:]
Dollars & Sense Progressive economics publishing collective in Boston
seeks part-time (30-hour/week) DEVELOPMENT/PROMOTION COORDINATOR,
responsible for fundraising, magazine promotion. Fundraising experience;
excellent writing, computer, and administrative skills; creativity and
enthusiasm; progressive politics; and some professional experience
required. Grant writing; magazine promotion; some bookkeeping experience
preferred. People of color are strongly encouraged to apply. Send cover
letter, resume by April 15th to: Dollars & Sense, 29 Winter Street,
Boston, MA 02108 or email
dollars@dollarsandsense.org.
Dollars & Sense
Dollars & Sense, the 32-year-old progressive economics publisher based
in Boston, Mass., seeks a Business and Circulation Coordinator. We
publish an 8,000-circulation bimonthly magazine and nine book titles.
The Business and Circulation Coordinator is responsible for:
Financial planning, including annual budget and cash-flow projections
Accounts payable/accounts receivable/payroll
Communicating with customers, primarily college bookstores, and vendors
Overseeing the annual audit
Overseeing the circulation vendor
Handling unusual circulation problems
As part of a team of one other business and three editorial staff, the
Business and Circulation Coordinator works closely with a volunteer
collective of activists and social scientists committed to social
justice and economic democracy. Staff members are automatically members
of the D&S collective and attend Thursday evening collective meetings,
where editorial and business decisions are made. All staff members
participate in planning and carrying out promotion and fundraising
activities, and all share a range of administrative and clerical tasks
in the office.
Excellent computer and administrative skills; bookkeeping experience,
preferably with Quickbooks; some experience with budgeting and financial
management; progressive politics; and some professional experience
required. Circulation experience preferred. Requires a careful,
detail-oriented person. People of color are strongly encouraged to
apply. Position is part-time, approximately 30 hours/week, with COLA+3%
annual raise, full health benefits, three weeks vacation. Note: number
of hours per week is negotiable, as we would consider narrowing job
responsibilities to hire a qualified candidate for fewer hours.
Send cover letter and resume by April 15th, 2007 to: Business
Coordinator Search, Dollars & Sense, 29 Winter Street, Boston, MA 02108
or email dollars@dollarsandsense.org. Applications will be reviewed as
they're received.
[short version of ad:]
Dollars & Sense Job opening at progressive economics publishing
collective in Boston. BUSINESS/CIRCULATION COORDINATOR: Excellent
computer, administrative skills; bookkeeping (Quickbooks); financial
management; progressive politics; circulation experience preferred.
People of color are strongly encouraged to apply. Send cover letter,
resume by April 15th to Dollars & Sense, 29 Winter Street, Boston, MA
02108 or email
dollars@dollarsandsense.org
City University, London
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Reader/Professor (2 posts)
Department of Economics
School of Social Sciences
City University, London
Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience
Permanent
We are seeking to fill two posts starting September 2007 or earlier.
Candidates for both posts will be expected to make a distinctive
contribution to the department's research profile and to contribute to
the development and delivery of the department's teaching programmes at
both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
We are interested in receiving applications both from new entrants to
the profession, with evidence of potential for excellence in teaching
and research, and those that have a proven track record.
All candidates will have completed a PhD in an appropriate field by the
time of appointment and will have clear potential for and demonstrable
plans for high quality research leading to publication in reputable
academic journals. For appointment beyond Lecturer A level, candidates
will have a strong publication record, appropriate to the rank for which
they are applying, in addition to clear plans for future research.
Applications are sought from candidates in all fields of research but
some preference will be given to candidates who are able and willing to
complement the teaching needs of our ongoing programmes.
We offer a comprehensive package of in-house staff training and
development, and benefits that include a final salary pension scheme.
Actively working to promote equal opportunity and diversity.
For more information and an application form, visit
www.city.ac.uk/hr/jobs or write to Magalie Rouschmeyer, HR Department,
City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V OHB, quoting the job
reference number MR/9876.
Informal enquiries may be directed to Saqib Jafarey, Recruitment
Committee, Department of Economics at s.s.jafarey@city.ac.uk.
Closing date: 4 May 2007
Auckland University of Technology
Lecturer in Business Economics
Business School
Auckland University of Technology
Auckland University of Technology (AUT University) Business School has a
reputation as a leading provider of innovative undergraduate and
postgraduate business education, with strong links to business,
employers and professional bodies. The School has over 6000 students and
210 academic staff and our degree courses include a very successful
Bachelor of Business, Master’s degrees (by research and course-work),
MBA, and a growing PhD programme.
The Department of Economics is currently seeking to appoint a Lecturer
(equivalent to Assistant Professor in the US) in Business Economics who
can make a valuable contribution to curriculum development, teaching and
research. We are particularly interested in receiving applications from
colleagues with expertise in one or more of the following fields:
business economics, international trade economics, microeconomics,
macroeconomics, labour/human resource economics, applied econometrics.
For detailed information:
BusinessEconomics.pdf
University of Massachusetts Amherst
The Department of Economics invites applications for the position of
CHIEF ACADEMIC ADVISOR.
Duties: The Chief Academic Advisor provides and manages a wide range of
undergraduate services for the Department including academic advising,
course registration procedures and scheduling, internships, and
undergraduate and alumni/ae events and activities. Advisor also
supervises undergraduate tutors/peer advisors. Approximately 75% of
Advisor’s time is devoted to these duties. Advisor teaches one
undergraduate economics course per year (25% of time).
Qualifications: Ability to communicate well with undergraduates and
excellent organizational and administrative skills. MA or PhD in
Economics or a related field. Two to four years experience in higher
education environment (teaching and/or academic advising preferred);
excellent problem-solving skills, which may involve sensitive academic
or administrative problems and interactions with students, parents,
faculty, and staff from diverse backgrounds; ability to work
independently and collaboratively; excellent computer skills, including
knowledge of Excel and, ideally, SPIRE; ability to maintain good
records.
Hiring Salary Range: $48,000-$50,000. Normal Starting Salary: $48,000.
Starting date of appointment: negotiable. Initial appointment is for two
one-year periods, with the possibility of renewal beyond two years.
Send cover letter, resume, transcripts, three letters of recommendation,
and statement of advising philosophy, by April 20, 2007, the priority
consideration date. Search will continue until the position is filled.
Send materials to: Diane Flaherty, Chair, Department of Economics,
University of Massachusetts, 200 Hicks Way, Amherst, MA 01003-9277.
The University of Massachusetts is an Affirmative Action/Equal
Opportunity Employer. Women and members of minority groups are
encouraged to apply.
Florida
International University
CENTER FOR LABOR RESEARCH AND STUDIES
Florida International University was founded in 1972 and is Miami’s only
public research university. Currently FIU has 38,000 students and
graduates the most Hispanics of any university in the country. Its 21
colleges and schools offer more than 200 bachelors, masters and doctoral
programs. FIU has also been classified by the Carnegie Foundation for
the Advancement of Teaching as a “High Research Activity.” This year FIU
was authorized to establish a medical school, which will open in 2009.
FIU’s College of Law recently received accreditation in the fastest time
allowed by the American Bar Association.
We seek candidates interested in working with us to meet the needs of an
increasingly diverse, multicultural, technology-driven society. All
teaching programs in the College are accredited by NCATE. The College is
comprised of four academic departments housing 60 programs at the
undergraduate, masters, specialist and doctoral levels.
Faculty Position: The Center for Labor Research & Studies at
Florida International University announces one permanent, full-time
faculty position (possible tenure earning status to begin August 1,
2007. The CLR&S offers an undergraduate Labor Studies Concentration
within a Liberal Studies program; two undergraduate Labor Studies
Certificates; an under graduate certificate in Vocational Education, a
graduate certificate in Conflict Resolution and Consensus Building;
conducts sponsored and non-sponsored research and training; and offers a
variety of non-credit programs.
Salary: Negotiable. Salary will be competitive and commensurate with
qualifications and experience.
Responsibilities: We are seeking an individual to write and secure
research and/or training grants who will enhance and increase the funded
research/training efforts of the Center as well as contribute to the
undergraduate, graduate and non-credit teaching program and general
mission of the College and the Center.
Qualifications: A Ph.D. or comparable terminal degree is required and
teaching and research experience. Proven record of grants preferred.
Teaching and research focuses on one or a combination of the following
Labor Studies/Adult Education/Human Resource Development areas:
globalization and the changing nature of work; immigration, ethnicity
and worker rights; workplace health and safety; worker literacy within
changing technologies. In addition to the specified areas, applicant
must have a demonstrated interest in working with a diverse labor
community. Good interpersonal skills required.
Position will remain open until filled. Initial review will begin on
April 26, 2007. Please submit a letter of application that establishes
position qualifications, vitae, samples of scholarly writing, copy of
graduate transcripts and a list of at least three references with phone
numbers/e-mail address to:
Judith Blucker, Dean
c/o Lisa Frost
Center for Labor Research & Studies, 11200 SW 8th Street –LC 304, Miami,
FL 33199
(305) 348-2371 • FAX: (305) 348-2241
F.I.U. is an EO/EA Employer & Institution
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Heterodox Conference
Papers and Reports and Articles
Eastern
Civilisation and the Breakthrough to Modernity in the West
Heinrich Bortis has written a longish essay/manuscript on “Eastern
Civilisation and the Breakthrough to Modernity in the West.” The
manuscript attempts to bring together Post Keynesian-heterodox economics
with the older traditions of political ethics—see the link. You can
contact Heinrich at heinrich.bortis@unifr.ch.
OPEC in the Epoch of Globalization
“OPEC in the Epoch of
Globalization: An Event Study of Global Oil Prices” by Cyrus Bina
and Minh Vo
Greening U.S. Trade
By Kevin P. Gallagher
U.S. President Bush is trying to pass trade bills with Panama, Peru,
Colombia, and South Korea. Unfortunately, these treaties fall far short
of a Congressional mandate stating that U.S. trade bills must have
significant environmental provisions. The new agreements backpedal on
effective environmental cooperation and funding precedents that were set
under NAFTA.
Link to article:
http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/policy_research/PolicyInnovationsGallagher.pdf
For more on GDAE’s Globalization and Sustainable Development Program:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/policy_research/globalization.html
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International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics -
News
ICAPE 2007
Conference
JUST REMEMBER THE ICAPE CONFERENCE, JUNE
1-3, 2007 AT UTAH.
IT IS GOING TO BE A BIG ONE!!!
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Heterodox Journals and
Newsletters
Levy News
Digital Newsletter of The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
March 2007
1. WORKING PAPERS
2. PRESS RELEASE—16th Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference
1. WORKING PAPERS
Productivity, Technical Efficiency, and Farm Size in Paraguayan
Agriculture
No. 490
by THOMAS MASTERSON
http://www.levy.org/pubs/wp_490.pdf
Land Rental and Sales Markets in Paraguay
No. 491
by THOMAS MASTERSON
http://www.levy.org/pubs/wp_491.pdf
Are the Costs of the Business Cycle “Trivially Small”? Lucas’s
Calculus of Hardship and Chooser-dependent, Non–Expected Utility
Preferences
No. 492
by GREG HANNSGEN
http://www.levy.org/pubs/wp_492.pdf
2. PRESS RELEASE —16th ANNUAL HYMAN P. MINSKY CONFERENCE
Global Imbalances: Prospects for the U.S. and World Economies
Thursday and Friday, April 19 and 20, 2007
Program and registration information will be posted as it becomes
available.
http://www.levy.org/pubs/3-05-07.pdf
Feminist Economics
Volume 13
Issue 1
( is now available online at informaworld (http://www.informaworld.com).
This new issue contains the following articles:
Home-ownership among opposite- and same-sex couples in the US p. 1
Authors: Karen Leppel
Link
Wage determination and the gender pay gap: A feminist political economy
analysis and decomposition p. 31
Authors: Maria Karamessini; Elias Ioakimoglou
Link
Adding links, adding persons, and adding structures: Using Sen's
frameworks p. 67
Authors: Des Gasper
Link
Explorations on human rights p. 87
Authors: Rajeev Patel; Radhika Balakrishnan; Uma Narayan
Link
International Review of
Applied Economics
Volume 21
Issue 1 is now available online at informaworld
(http://www.informaworld.com).
This new issue contains the following articles:
Electricity Prices as Signals for the Evaluation of Reforms: An
Empirical Analysis of Four European Countries p. 1
Authors: Massimo Florio
Link
Turkish Currency Crisis of 2000–2001, Revisited p. 29
Authors: Nazim Kadri Ekinci; Korkut Alp Ertürk
Link
On the Transmission Mechanism of Monetary Constraints to the Real Side
of the Economy p. 43
Authors: Alex Luiz Ferreira
Link
Convergence in Productivity Across Industries: Some Results for New
Zealand and Australia p. 55
Authors: Troy D. Matheson; Les Oxley
Link
Technical Diffusion, Productivity Convergence and Specialisation in OECD
Manufacturing p. 75
Authors: Dirk Frantzen
Link
Does Multinationality Affect the Propensity to Innovate? An Analysis of
the Third UK Community Innovation Survey p. 99
Authors: Marion Frenz; Grazia Ietto-Gillies
Link
The Relationship Between Growth, Total Investment and Inward FDI:
Evidence from Time Series Data p. 119
Authors: Liangshu Qi
Link
USA, Japan and the Euro Area: Comparing Business-Cycle Features p. 135
Authors: Peter McAdam
Link
Second-Generation Immigrants in the Swedish Labour Market p. 157
Authors: Lars Behrenz; Mats Hammarstedt; Jonas Månsson
Link
Evaluating the Relative Innovative Position of European Union Member
Countries: An Empirical Analysis p. 175
Authors: A. Altuzarra; C. Puerta; F. Serrano
Link
CASE e-Newsletter
April/May 2007
- CASE and CASE Ukraine Host Major International Economic Conference
- First ENEPO Workshop Held in Kyiv
- CASE team presents Ukraine and Moldova reports to EU Policymakers
- Latest BRE-CASE Seminars Analyze Newest EU Members and Evolution of
Polish Business Sector
- Schneider Speaks about Shadow Economy at CASE Seminar
- CASE Advisory Council Member appointed Chief Economist at IMF
- Dr. Marek Dąbrowski expands CASE activity to Middle East
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Challenge
Volume 50 Number 2 / March-April 2007 of Challenge is now available at
http://mesharpe.metapress.com.
This issue contains:
Letter from the Editor
Jeff Madrick
The Challenge of Affluence: Interview with Avner Offer
Avner Offer
Woe for the Working Classes
John Connor
Aid Does Matter, After All: Revisiting the Relationship Between Aid and
Growth
Camelia Minoiu, Sanjay Reddy
Reviews
Shalendra Sharma
The Post-Washington Consensus: Brand New Agenda or Old Wine in a New
Bottle?
Erlend Krogstad
The Iranian Oil Bourse: A Threat to Dollar Supremacy?
Robert Looney
Microfinance: The Newest Financial Technology of the Washington
Consensus
Patrice Flynn
From the Publisher: Iraquenomics
Mike Sharpe
EPS Quarterly
- Letter from the Director
- Don't Go Into Iran, George
Niall Ferguson
- The Battle of Iraq’s Wounded
Linda Bilmes
- Who Will Pay for this Puny Defense Budget?
Winslow T. Wheeler
- Faslane Statement
Professor Sir Richard Jolly
- The Costs of War to Occupied Countries
John Tepper Marlin
- Falling Pricesand Terrorism
William J. Baumol
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Heterodox Books, Book Series, and Book Reviews
ROUTLEDGE “ADVANCES IN SOCIAL
ECONOMICS” SERIES
Editor, John B. Davis (john.davis@marquette.edu
), University of
Amsterdam and Marquette University
This series presents new advances and developments in social economics
thinking on a variety of subjects that concern the link between social
values and economics. Need, justice and equity, gender, cooperation,
work, poverty, the environment, class, institutions, public policy, and
methodology are some of the most important themes. Among the
orientations of the authors are social economist, institutionalist,
humanist, solidarist, cooperativist, radical and Marxist, feminist,
post-Keynesian, behaviorist, and environmentalist. The series offers new
contributions from today’s most foremost thinkers on the social
character of the economy.
Published in conjunction with the Association for Social Economics
Asian Studies: Contemporary
Issues and Trends
Series Editor: Professor Chris Rowley,
Cass Business School, City University, UK
Chandos Publishing is pleased to announce the launch of a major new
series of books entitled Asian Studies: Contemporary Issues and Trends.
Asia has clearly undergone some major transformations in recent years
and books in the Series will examine this transformation from a number
of perspectives: economic, management, social, political and cultural.
We are particularly interested in books which focus on business and
management issues.
Importantly, the Series will examine both current developments and
possible future trends. The Series is aimed at an international market
of academics and professionals working in the area and have been
specially commissioned from leading authors. The objective is to provide
the reader with an authoritative view of current thinking.
For detailed information: Chandos.doc
Keynes's General Theory, the
Rate of Interest and 'Keynesian' Economics
By Geoff Tilly
http://www.palgrave.com/products/Catalogue.aspx?is=1403996288
Under a great cover of a Duncan Grant portrait of Keynes, only just
purchased by the Charleston Trust, Geoff Tily argues that Keynes was
primarily concerned with monetary policy, not fiscal policy. Viewed as a
coherent whole, Keynes's work was concerned with the appropriate
technique and infrastructure for the management of money at low rates of
interest. More specifically, his rejection of the gold standard led
ultimately to his proposal for an international clearing union to
support domestic debt-management policies aimed at cheap money. His
ideas became reality: with the start of the Great Depression,
governments across the world began a short-lived era of the deliberate
management of money. While many others have argued that 'Keynesian'
economics is a misrepresentation of Keynes's theory, Tily argues that
'Keynesian' economics also permitted a gross misrepresentation of his
economic policies. 'Keynesian' economics was a different theory,
opposed, and indeed rival, to Keynes's work. With the policy perspective
restored, an alternative presentation of Keynes's economics, based on
post-Keynesian economics, is developed.
Globalization and the Myths of
Free Trade
History, theory, and empirical evidence- January 2007
Edited by Anwar Shaikh, Graduate Faculty of Political and Social
Science of the New School University, USA
Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade critically examines the
Washington Consensus, its history, theory, practice and its global
outcomes. Two decades have passed since neoliberal globalization began
to be implemented, and its highly uneven effects have given rise to a
growing opposition. The present debate is not about the need to utilize
international resources in the effort to enhance global development, but
rather about the manner in which resources should be brought to bear on
this project. Throughout the volume, contributors critically analyze
whether free trade is the optimal path to development in the current
global climate. Download
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Chapter 1
The United States Since 1980
NEW BOOK EXPLAINS RIGHT TURN IN U.S. POLITICS SINCE 1980 Economist Dean
Baker Provides an Insightful Narrative of U.S. Economic and Political
History
In his new book, The United States Since 1980 (Cambridge University
Press), economist Dean Baker describes the sharp right turn the United
States has taken since Ronald Reagan became president in 1980. Baker
explains how Reagan's policies were a break from both the policies
pursued by prior administrations and those pursued in other wealthy
countries. They had the effect of redistributing both before- and
after-tax income upward, so that the bulk of the economic gains over the
last quarter century were directed to a small segment of the population.
The author's analysis explains how both political parties have largely
come to accept the main tenets of Reaganism, putting the United States
on an unsustainable path that is at odds with the rest of the world.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Pages: 274
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in Washington, DC. He is the author of Social Security: The Phony Crisis
(with Mark Weisbrot); The Benefits of Full Employment (with Jared
Bernstein); Getting Prices Right: The Battle Over the Consumer Price
Index; and The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the
Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer. Baker is a frequent guest on TV
and radio programs across the country. His blog, Beat the Press,
features commentary on economic reporting. He received his Ph.D. in
economics from the University of Michigan.
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Institutional and Behavioral
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Agricultural Economics Association
Welcome to the Institutional and Behavioral Economics Section (IBES) of
the American Agricultural Economics Association.
IBES
Concept Paper
IBES
ByLaws
2006 Long Beach Meeting, July 23-26, "Envisioning the Future"
The IBES Track can be found by searching for "Behavioral" and "IBES" in
the AAEA Program.
See pictures of
several presenters and participants at the 2006 meeting.
The annual Business Meeting was held on July 23, 2-4 p.m. Issues raised
by Chair Stern to stir thinking about matters to be addressed at this
meeting, and in keeping with the spirit of the overall theme for the
AAEA meeting, included: What is the future of the institutional and
behavioral economics (IBE) approach? What issues do we need to be
addressing in the future? What can we do as a Section to make a better
future? Where are the present and likely future frontiers in research,
teaching and extension using the IBE approach? What other questions do
we need to address in envisioning the future? The meeting was well
attended, with lively discussion. See
2006 Meeting
Agenda. Minutes will be posted soon.
2005 Providence Meeting, July 24-27
IBES Track for 2005
included 4-organized symposia, 2 (plus 1-subject area)-selected
paper sessions (for the first time, organized by the IBES Section,
due to the IBES initiative asking for Sections to be enabled to organize
their own selected paper sessions), and 1-free session.
The Business meeting was held on July 25 (See
2005 Minutes). See the
2005 Report
to the AAEA Board.
2004 Denver Meeting, August 1-4
Business meeting was held on Monday, August 2, at 5:30-6:30 p.m.
Main outcome: A plan to move forward with the IBES Track for the
2005 AAEA meeting in Providence, Rhode Island. A call for proposals will
be sent in mid-August: Watch your e-mail for it! See
2004 Minutes.
2004 Framing
(outline regarding codification of IBES, what we are about).
2004 Report to
the AAEA Board.
2004 Election (report on the IBES election process).
IBES Track includes 3-symposiums and 1-free session:
Symposia:
Towards a New Economics: Honoring Kenneth Boulding's Contributions
(by Gene Wunderlich)
The Dark Side of Social
Capital and the Ethics of Economic Rationality
An
Interdisciplinary Rethinking of Neoclassical Economics' Behavioral
Assumptions...
Free Session:
Using Experimental
Economic Methods to Examine Behavior
2003 Montreal Meeting
Minutes
IBES Track
Session at the joint AAEA-RSS meeting
2002 Membership Meeting
Minutes
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James Sterns, Past Chair
Gary Lynne,
Secretary
Judith
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Anyone with an interest in Canadian economic debates should check it out
regularly.
The Freakonomics of Tenure
For those heterodox economists in the United States—in case you
have missed the discussion regarding tenure by freakonomics and company
that appeared in the recent Chronicle of Higher Educations (which is
similar to the Times Higher Education Supplement), see below. My
comments on the debate are as follows: In the UK at the new universities
where I worked in the 1990s there was no tenure as such. Rather the
union oversaw working conditions so that no one could be arbitrarily
fired/dismissed. So with union backed working rules, tenure was not
needed. And a similar policy held at the old universities. However, such
protection on the job does not exist at US colleges and
universities—tenure takes its place. I guess that Levitt has never
really experienced authoritarianism in the work place where the
department head can bully and fire at will (or almost at will). The only
kind of person who would want to strip American workers/professors of
protection on the job is a person who would like to engage in bullying,
sexual harassment, and other similar activities but is unable to do so
easily because of tenure. Tenure is not only about protecting those with
unorthodox ideas—it is also about providing protection on the job.
From "The Chronicle"
The ever-simmering
question of whether the tenure system should be reformed recently lit up
the blogosphere, ignited by an online essay from the (tenured) professor
Steven D. Levitt, co-author of the publishing phenomenon Freakonomics:
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything and the
popular blog Freakonomics. When Levitt posted "Let's Just Get Rid of
Tenure (Including Mine)" this month, proposing an end to tenure in
economics, discussion erupted on his own blog and others.
Steven D. Levitt,
University of Chicago: If there was ever a time when it made sense for economics
professors to be given tenure, that time has surely passed. The same is
likely true of other university disciplines, and probably even more true
for high-school and elementary-school teachers.
What does tenure do? It
distorts people's effort so that they face strong incentives early in
their career (and presumably work very hard early on as a consequence)
and very weak incentives forever after (and presumably work much less
hard on average as a consequence). ...
The idea that tenure
protects scholars who are doing politically unpopular work strikes me as
ludicrous. While I can imagine a situation where this issue might rarely
arise, I am hard pressed to think of actual cases where it has been
relevant. Tenure does an outstanding job of protecting scholars who do
no work or terrible work, but is there anything in
economics which is high quality but so controversial it would lead to a
scholar being fired? Anyway, that is what markets are for. If one
institution fires an academic primarily because they don't like his or
her politics or approach, there will be other schools happy to make the
hire. (Freakonomics Blog)
N. Gregory Mankiw,
Harvard University: I am not surprised that Steve, as a winner of the John Bates Clark
award, places a relatively low monetary value on job security (well
under 10 percent of his salary). My guess is that a more typical faculty
member would place a larger monetary value on having tenure. If so,
universities may well be better off by paying lower salaries to tenured
faculty, despite the adverse incentive effects, than paying higher
salaries to professors without tenure. In other words, Steve thinks the
competitive market for professors is resulting in inefficient contracts,
while I believe that, absent any reason for market failure, the labor
contracts we observe are likely to be efficient. (We Harvard profs
always have to remind those Chicago guys that competitive markets work
pretty well.)
One question that Steve
does not address is how department hiring would work in a world without
tenure. Now, senior hiring is done by existing senior faculty. If those
faculty members could start firing one another, the political dynamics
of hiring would become complicated and probably untenable. A university
without tenure would likely have to move toward a more hierarchical
system with a "boss" in charge of hiring and other major decisions. (Greg Mankiw's Blog)
E. Frank Stephenson,
Berry College: I probably value tenure less than most faculty members, but I'm
not as dismissive as Levitt. To me (as with Mankiw's concern about
faculty hiring), tenure solves a principal-agent problem. Berry College
asks me to do lots of things that have little or no value in the labor
market; for example, this past weekend I participated in an event for
prospective students. In a world without tenure in which I could be
dismissed, I'd be much less likely to do things that are valuable to
Berry College but not valued in the labor market. Instead, I'd spend
much more time on research to maintain my market value. (Division of Labour)
Daniel J. Solove, George
Washington University:
Levitt's argument seems to rest upon the assumption that faculty
politics will be relatively rational. But that's often far from the
case. Perhaps he is right that there may not be a danger of being
terminated for saying unpopular viewpoints. But the danger is in the
petty things. Professors may be terminated because others don't like
what they say at faculty meetings or how they vote on hiring and tenure
decisions. They may be terminated for petty interschool or
interdepartmental politics. All this said, however, there is a lot to be
said for having some mechanism to ensure that faculty members remain
productive. (Concurring Opinions)
Todd Cherry, Appalachian
State University: Knowledge is a public good, and the generation of this knowledge
benefits greatly from an open and unbiased environment. It is vital for
researchers to be risk-takers and question conventional wisdom. Tenure
is one element that fosters such an environment and such behavior.
Without tenure, debate would be repressed. Growth in knowledge would be
slowed. Gains for society would be delayed, if not forgone. (InnovationOnline)
Kevin Carey, Education
Sector: Levitt is too dismissive in saying that someone who gets unfairly
fired can just go back into the job market and find another job
elsewhere. Most professors don't have the juice that comes with being a
best-selling author and frequent contributor to The New York Times
Magazine, etc. But as with any policy, there's a basic utilitarian
standard that has to be addressed here. Tenure has benefits and costs.
Levitt is saying the former outweigh the latter. (The Quick and the Ed)
D.A. Jeremy Telman,
Valparaiso Law School: I'm puzzled as to why Levitt thinks that "really good people" will
demand only "very small salary increases" to compensate for the lack of
tenure. Tenure is one of the main advantages that draws people into the
academy who might otherwise make multiples of academic salaries in the
private sector.
Levitt's argument (which
is rather humdrum coming as it does from a genius) also ignores
incentives and morale issues. Especially in the humanities, one only
gets a tenure-track job by devoting six to 10 years to a book-length
project that qualifies one to teach at a university and nothing else.
Take away tenure, and only the independently wealthy (and the wholly
irrational) would remain in the pool. (Concurring Opinions)
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