This past weekend I
attended the EAEPE Conference (http://www.eaepe.org/)
in Porto, Portugal. Aside from the usual suspects
all giving brilliant papers and generating
stimulating conversations, I did hear four papers
that were interesting. One was Ben Fine’s paper on
economic imperialism and the move forward of
heterodox economics; and a second one was Joao Rodrigues’s and Ana Santos’s paper on
economics as
social engineering in which they were critical of
Michel Callon’s performativity thesis that
mainstream economics is powerful enough to enact the
reality that it describes. The third paper by Judit
Kapas was on technological change and the evolution
of firm organization; and the final paper was on
restructuring and growth in Albania by Juliette
Tendjoukian—it was a co-winner of the Herbert Simon
Prize for the best conference paper presented by a
young scholar. Next year the EAEPE conference will
be in Rome.
Changing e-mail
addresses create headaches for anybody who runs
e-mail lists. If your e-mail address is going to
change, please send me the new address. In
particular, those with the following e-mail
address:
surname@spbo.unibo.it need to send me their new
e-mail address as soon as you can which will be
surname@unibo.it.
On Thursday evening of
the ASSA Conference, the Association for
Social Economics is having its plenary
session which is open to all economists that support
pluralism in economics. The reception after the
session is co-sponsored by ICAPE:
Session: Inequality,
Democracy, and the Economy Thursday,
January 3, 2008, 6:30 pm
Presiding: John B. Davis, University of Amsterdam
and Marquette University
Co-sponsors: National Economic Association,
International Association for Feminist Economics,
Union for Radical Political Economics
Participants:
Dean Baker, Center for Economic and Policy Research
William J. Darity, Jr., Duke University
Lourdes Beneria, Cornell University
There is also another special session at the ASSA:
URPE turns 40 this year--and you are invited to a
celebration of URPE’s anniversary. Time and
place: The New Orleans ASSA meetings Thursday,
January 3 from 4-6 pm in the Nottoway room in the
Sheraton There will be a panel discussion featuring
some of those who where “present at the creation”
Lourdes Beneria, Cornell University
Laurie Nisonoff, Hampshire College
Arthur MacEwan, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Howard Wachtel, American University
Frank Thompson, University of Michigan will
moderate. There will be plenty of time for audience
members to offer their own recollections of the
"glorious days of yesteryear" and to think about
URPE's accomplishments and future. Please do come
and celebrate URPE's anniversary! (This information
is also in the ASSA program and on the URPE
website:
http://www.urpe.org.)
- The 10th International Post Keynesian
Conference
- Graduate Summer School in Post Keynesian Economics
- Left Forum 2008
- Community Movements: Building Solidarity for Social Change
Conference
- Association for Institutional Thought [AFIT]
- The 35th Annual Conference of History of Economic Society
- The Eighth International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and
Change in Organisations
- Expanding Connections for Business History
- The Association for Institutional Thought- Student Competition
- Association of Business Historians- 2008
- Time diversification of risk -
mathematical or methodological arguments for?
- Basic Income Conference and Social Economics Conference Women
Debt and Poverty, Trafficking in Women
- Third Annual Green Economics Conference
- Seminaire Arc 2
- Institutionalization, Institutional Change and Institutional
Theory
- Labour on the Margins
- Workers Rights, Human Rights: Making the Connection
- Enquiry, Evidence and Facts: An Interdisciplinary Conference
- Path Dependencies of Businesses, Institutions, and
Technologies
- International Conference on Business History Formerly Fuji
Conference
- Growth and Distribution: Institutional and Social Dynamics
- SHE Conference Registrations
- Stetson University
- The Open University
- University of Texas at Arlington
- The University of Tulsa, Oklahoma
- SOAS, University of London
- Centre for Innovation & Structural Change
- University of Central Lancashire
- Tufts University
- Metroeconomica
- Issues in Regulation Theory
- Forum for Social Economics
- Associative Economics Bulletin
- Levy News
- Economic Sociology
- Review of Social Economy
- The Wages of Whiteness: Race
and the Making of the American Working Class
- Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement
- US Labor in Trouble and Transition: The Failure of Reform from
Above, The Promise of Revival
- The Cult of the Market: Economic Fundamentalism and its
Discontents
- Global Flashpoint: Reactions to Imperialism and Neoliberalism
- Questioning Globalized Militarism: Nuclear and Military
Production and Critical Economic Theory
- Defragmenting: Towards a critical understanding of the new
global division of labour
- UN-DESA Policy Brief Series
- Use your Economics for Social Justice!
- Association for Integrity and Responsible Leadership in
Economics and Associated Professions
- Socialism after Hayek
Graduate Summer School in Post Keynesian
Economics
Call for Papers
June 26-28, 2008
University of Missouri- Kansas City and Center for Full Employment and
Price Stability (CFEPS)
The faculty should submit a proposal for 1 hour class with class title
and summary.
More information will be forthcoming at
www.cfeps.org/ss2008
Contact: Heather Starzynski (
hms6f8@umkc.edu )
Left Forum 2008
March 14-16
The Cooper Union, New York City
Left Forum is accepting panel proposals through December 15th, 2007, for
our 2008 conference.
Panel proposals should include a title, description, and brief
biographies of yourself and your speakers. Please include complete
contact information, and make clear if the proposed speakers have
already committed to your panel or are suggested. We ask that a
diversity of opinions be represented.
Left Forum asks each panel to contribute $120 towards the costs of the
conference, which will cover the registration fees of your speakers. Our
facilities at the Cooper Union do not include audio/visual equipment, so
please plan accordingly.
We receive far more proposals than can be accommodated, and panels will
be evaluated by our programming committee with regard to the overall
shape of our program. We will contact you as soon as we have made a
decision on your proposal.
Please send all proposals with "PANEL PROPOSAL" in the subject line to
leftforum@leftforum.org.
Community Movements:
Building Solidarity for Social Change Conference
Trent University
We are inviting students, social activists, grassroots organizations,
academics, and any persons passionate about community-based social
change to contribute and present papers and workshops at the Community
Movements: Building Solidarity for Social Change Conference at Trent
University. Presentations may be research and/or experience based, with
a focus on community-based social change. Workshops will provide an
opportunity to share strategies, dialogue and to learn from one another.
Proposals may include assembling a panel around a particular theme or
issue. The presentations will be given in an intimate setting, each
lasting approximately 30-40 minutes. If you are interested in submitting
a proposal, please complete the attached form and return it
electronically to
buildsolidarity@care2.com by November 30th, 2007.
Association for
Institutional Thought [AFIT]
2008 CALL FOR PAPERS
The annual meeting of AFIT will be held
April 23-26, 2008
Denver, Colorado
Grand Hyatt,
http://wssa.asu.edu/conferences/default.htm.
In conjunction with the Western Social Science Association (WSSA) 50th
Annual Conference
Theme for the 2008 Conference:
New Directions in Economics: The Emerging Conversation within Heterodox
Economics
For detailed information: AFIT.doc
The 35th Annual
Conference of History of Economic Society
The 35th Annual Conference of the History of Economic
Society will be held 27-30 June 2008, at York University, in Toronto,
Canada.
Full conference details will appear shortly on the HES website (once we
address some challenges around online registration), but I want to post
the basic information for those of you already thinking about travel
plans.
To make conference travel from Europe easier, there are two slight
changes in the timing of sessions.
While there is an optional dinner on Friday, 27 June, conference
sessions will only begin on Saturday, 28 June (8 am). There are no
speakers on the Friday.
In order to accommodate all of the sessions, the full conference will
run until 2 pm on Monday, 30 June. Previously, there were relatively few
sessions scheduled on the Monday. This year, Monday may also contain
major plenary sessions.
That means that for travel accommodations, please try to plan on leaving
Monday, 30 June, in the late afternoon or evening. The airport is only a
30 minute taxi ride from York University.
There will be on-campus accommodation at a brand new student residence,
as well as at the Executive Learning Centre Hotel of the York Schulich
School of Business, where the conference will be held.
We are also holding a block of rooms at two downtown hotels, for those
of you who want to stay in the heart of Toronto. All of the hotels will
offer conference rates if you wish to come a few days early or stay a
few days after the conference, to see the many sights Toronto has to
offer.
The Distinguished Guest Lecturer will be Professor Duncan Foley, New
School for Social Research.
The conference coordinator is Deborah Groves, and the conference email
address is 2008hes@gmail.com.
Other announcements will be posted to the HES list when the website is
available with all information, including registration, housing, and how
to submit proposals for papers and for complete sessions. The deadline
for proposals will be, as usual, mid-February 2008.
The Eighth
International Conference on Knowledge, Culture and Change in
Organisations
The primary interest of the Management Conference is knowledge-based
social and economic change. Driven by globalisation and advances in
information and communications technologies, this change has been
characterised in terms of emerging information/knowledge societies and a
global knowledge-based economy.
As well as impressive line-up of international main speakers, the
Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium
presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We would
particularly like to invite you to respond to the Conference
Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written papers for
publication in the fully refereed International Journal of Knowledge,
Culture and Change in Organisations. If you are unable to attend the
Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which
allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in
this fully refereed academic Journal, as well as access to the
electronic version of the Journal.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and
short abstract) is 8 November 2007. Proposals are reviewed within four
weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including an online
proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website -
http://www.ManagementConference.com
Expanding Connections for Business
History
The Business History Conference's
2008 annual meeting on
April 10-12 is hosted by the California State University at Sacramento.
Its theme is "Expanding Connections for Business History," with the goal
of reaching across disciplines and audiences.
The Association for
Institutional Thought- Student Competition
Third Annual Student Scholars Award Competition
The Association for Institutional Thought (AFIT) proudly announces the
Third Annual AFIT
Student Scholars Award Competition. The aim of AFIT is to encourage
undergraduate and
graduate students in Economics and Political Economy to pursue research
in topics within the
Institutional Economics framework.
Up to five winning papers will be selected. Winners are expected to
present their research during
a special session at the Annual Meetings of AFIT, held during the
Western Social Science
Association’s 50th Annual Conference at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in
Denver Colorado, April 23-
26, 2008.
Winners will each receive:
1. $300 cash prize
2. One year student membership in AFIT
3. Paid WSSA Conference Registration
4. Paid admission to the AFIT Presidential Address Dinner
Winning papers must be presented at a special AFIT session in order to
collect the cash prize.
Cash prizes will be presented during the AFIT Presidential Address
Dinner.
Application Procedures and Deadlines
Papers must be between 25-40 pages in length, including references and
appendices. They
should be submitted electronically (preferably in Word format) by
11/15/07 to:
Carolyn Aldana, Ph.D. Phone: (909) 537-7315
Economics Department Fax: (909) 537-7645
CSU, San Bernardino email:
cbrod@csusb.edu
5500 University Avenue
San Bernardino, CA 92407
Winners will be notified by 12/01/07
For more info about AFIT, visit our website
www.orgs.bucknell.edu/afee/afit/
On the 4-5 July 2008 the Association of Business Historians will hold
their annual meeting at the University of Birmingham.
‘Business History after Chandler’.
Keynote speaker: Professor Leslie Hannah
‘American Whigs and the Business History of Europe’
The primary aim of this conference is to provide a forum to reflect on
the contribution of Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. (1918-2007) to the
development of business history. We welcome in particular papers that
engage explicitly and constructively with the Chandlerian paradigm,
including specific country and firm studies. Submissions of papers and
sessions of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Big business and family firms
- Markets versus firms
- Firms and the State
- Professionalisation of Management
- Comparative Corporate Governance
- The theory of business history
- Business history as story
- Entrepreneurs, strategy and structure
- Business and productivity
- Labour relations
Organizers also welcome papers on any topic related to business history,
even where it does not focus on the conference theme, and on any time
period or country.
Time diversification of risk -
mathematical or methodological arguments for?
John Pemberton
Location: T206, Lakatos Building, London School of Economics, WC2A 2AE
Time & Date: 3-5pm, Thursday, November 22nd, 2007.
John Pemberton is CFO of Stonehaven Equity Release and formerly of
Prudential. He has done wide-ranging work on the methodology of
financial economics, especially on the Black-Scholes Model, the issue of
realistic assumptions in economics and the methodology of actuarial
science.
Abstract
Intuition suggests that we should be less inclined to use equities
investing on a 3 month time horizon than on a 20 year horizon - perhaps
risk diversifies over time. But if risk does diversify over time, then
the heterogeneity of investors would seem to threaten the basis of the
simple mathematical models which comprise the core of financial
economics.
In a draft paper, I argue within the standard mathematical economic
framework, that the standard utility function assumptions generally used
to rebut time diversification, are impossible. A rational investor with
such a
(concave) utility function should switch part of his portfolio in to
bonds - thus modifying his marginal utility function relating to
equities to one which is less concave - this is a reductio ad absurdam
type argument. If this is right, the standard rebuttals of time
diversification would seem problematic.
But how do these various mathematical claims relate to reality? The
seminar will note some apparent logical gaps in the rebuttal arguments
in moving from the mathematics to apparent real world claims. And how
then should we interpret my original paper - is it possible to argue for
time diversification within a conventional mathematical model framework
which seems to rest on the assumption that risk does not diversify over
time? The methodological arguments arising from a consideration of
reality seem more powerful in making the case for time diversification,
but seem to fall in to a gap between mathematical economics and
methodology. These ideas seem interesting, but who is the audience -
economists or philosophers? How can I construct a paper which addresses
one, or both, of these groups?
Basic Income Conference and Social
Economics Conference Women Debt and Poverty, Trafficking in Women
Venue: Mansfield College, Oxford University
Date: 09 February 2008
Time: 10am to 6:00pm
The Green Economics Institute is long established for its connection
with world class researchers and not to mention its real interest in
green issues. Not just the sense where Green Economics considers the
Economy as a component and is dependent on the natural world within
which it resides but also looking at more controversial, more
contemporary issues, such as the widening gap of inequality. The aim is
to provide a better quality of life.
One way of achieving this goal are our innovative conferences.
This conference provides a forum for the dissemination of the latest
approaches to women’s economics, poverty alleviation and social,
environmental and distributive justice. We will examine social aspects
of Green Economics, better definitions, methodology and the ideas of
hearing other voices and perspectives, not just homo-economicus.
Invited Speakers include:
Miriam Kennet (Green Economics Institute)
Volker Heinemann (Green Economics Institute)
Natalie Bennett (freelance journalist and commentator for Guardian,
Independent, The Times)
Phil Hutchinson (University of Hertfordshire, UK)
Maria Iacovou, (Institute for Social and Economic Research, Essex
University)
Adrienne Barnett (barrister in both South Africa and the UK and writer)
Clive Lord (Green Party in England and Wales)
Brian Heately (Green Party)
Registration:
This conference must be pre-booked, pre-registered and pre-paid.
Admission: £55.00 per person (including lunches, and teas and coffees)
Special rate for early bookers (prior to December 2007):
£35.00 per person per day if for paid up members of the Green Econonmics
Institute
£35.00 per person per day subsistence for paid up members of the Green
Party (rate is only available if pre booked).
For bookings, please email or send the registration form to the email
addresses below also to obtain further information:
greeneconomicsevents@yahoo.co.uk.
Accommodation details are on the website and include some at the
college, (the above fees do not include suppers, accommodation or
breakfasts)
Call for speakers still open. Please email Miriam Kennet to advise if
youd like to speak:
greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com and visit our website at
www.greeneconomics.org.uk
The Green Economics Institute (GEI) was founded by Miriam Kennet and
Volker Heinemann and aims at bringing together campaigners, politicians,
economics and other academics in order to reform mainstream economics.
It critically discusses green alternatives. Green Economics that is
build on environmental, ecological and post-autistic economics as well
as feminist and stakeholder theory, welfare economics, development
economics moves beyond them to create a discipline that seeks to nurture
radically new alternatives based on intergenerational, social and
environmental justice as well as concern for non human species and
biosphere.
The Institute also launched an academic journal – International Journal
of Green Economics (IJGE) that seeks to facilitate debate about
alternative perspectives to existing and future economics problems. The
IJGE paper are available to download from the publisher’s website:
www.inderscience.com/ijge
Third Annual Green Economics Conference
10,000 years of Civilization – an Audit, featuring Poverty- and
Biodiversity Themes
Venue: Mansfield College, Oxford University
Date: 18th and 19th July 2008
Time: 10am to 6:00pm
The Green Economics Institute is long established for its connection
with world class researchers and not to mention its real interest in
green issues. Not just the sense where Green Economics considers the
Economy as a component and is dependent on the natural world within
which it resides but also looking at more controversial, more
contemporary issues, such as the widening gap of inequality. The aim is
to provide a better quality of life.
One way of achieving this goal are our innovative conferences.
This conference provides a forum for the dissemination of the latest
approaches wide range of aspects related to Green Economics. The
speeches will cover issues related to reworking economics, development
economics and CSR, international trade and the future of business and
civilization.
We will also examine biodiversity and the total economic impacts of
species extinction, distributive justice,
ecological economics, environmental economics, ethics, poverty and
social justice, theories of growth revisited, steady state, stationary
state, declining state economies, incentives, taxes, regulations in
economics, endogenous economic factors, indigenous peoples, archaeology
and anthropology of economics and the role of women in the present
world.
Invited Speakers include:
Miriam Kennet (Green Economics Institute)
Volker Heinemann (Green Economics Institute)
Professor Barbara Harriss-White (Chair and founder of RAE Panel for
Development Economics, Head of Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University)
Professor Gustavo Vargas (University of Mexico)
Dr Xeng Fu (University of Victoria)
Registration:
This conference must be pre-booked, pre-registered and pre-paid.
Admission: £65 per person per day (including tea/coffee, sit down Lunch
in College dinning room)
10 % reduction for members of the Green Economics Institute and for
people presenting pre –accepted papers.
Full time Student rate £39 per person per day if pre- registered on
production of student card.
Enquiries and requests to speak please email:
events@greeneconomicsinstitute.eu or visit our website at:
www.greeneconomics.org.uk
The Green Economics Institute (GEI) was founded by Miriam Kennet and
Volker Heinemann and aims at bringing together campaigners, politicians,
economics and other academics in order to reform mainstream economics.
It critically discusses green alternatives. Green Economics that is
build on environmental, ecological and post-autistic economics as well
as feminist and stakeholder theory, welfare economics, development
economics moves beyond them to create a discipline that seeks to nurture
radically new alternatives based on intergenerational, social and
environmental justice as well as concern for non human species and
biosphere.
The Institute also launched an academic journal – International Journal
of Green Economics (IJGE) that seeks to facilitate debate about
alternative perspectives to existing and future economics problems. The
IJGE paper are available to download from the publisher’s website:
www.inderscience.com/ijge
14h50 : Accueil des participants
D. Gatti et A. Ghirardello (Paris 13)
15h00- 16h15 : Les discriminations dans et par les institutions
d'autorité: police et armée
Présentation : Catherine De Wenden (CERI - CNRS)
Discutant : Marie Lajus (Ancienne élève de l'ENS, Commissaire de Police)
16h15-16h30 : Pause
16h30 – 17h45 : Ce que penser en termes de discrimination raciale change
à notre vision politique du monde social
Présentation : Didier Fassin (Paris 13 et EHESS)
Discutants : El Mouhoub Mouhoud (Paris 9) et Nadine Richez Battesti
(Aix- Marseille 2)
17h45 – 19h00 : Existe-t-il une double pénalisation dans l'accès à
l'emploi à l'encontre des jeunes femmes issues de l'immigration?
Présentation : Ariane Pailhé (INED)
Discutants : Bernard Friot (Paris 10) et Géraldine Rieucau (Paris 8)
Institutionalization, Institutional
Change and Institutional Theory
Monday 26 November – Tuesday 27 November 2007
Roskilde University, Denmark
The objectives of the conference
The overall aim of the conference is to contribute to the further
development of institutional theory through a dialogue between different
institutionalist traditions. The focus of the conference is genesis and
change of institutions. This is an area where we have seen a lot of
scholarly interest, significant new contributions and promising
developments in recent years.
For detailed information:
conference.doc
Labour on the Margins
social justice series
Free public symposium
Community Education Programs
Download the
flyer
Labour on the Margins will focus on three distinct groups of labourers
who experience marginalization: sex workers, migrant farm workers, and
immigrant workers. The program will showcase some of the grassroots
organizing that is ongoing in these communities, as well as academic,
political and activist perspectives.
November 16, 7–9:30 pm &
November 17, 9 am–5 pm
Location: Segal Graduate School of Business, SFU
500 Granville Street (at Pender), Vancouver
Reservations required.
Please call 778-782-5100 to reserve.
Presented by Community Education Programs, Continuing Studies, Simon
Fraser University.
For more information please contact: community-ed@sfu.ca
Workers Rights, Human Rights: Making the
Connection
Friday, November 16th & Saturday, November 17th 2007 Best Western
Primrose Hotel, 111 Carlton Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Conference Themes Include:
Collective Bargaining as a Human Right
Bridging the Gap Between Labour Rights and Human Rights The Human Rights
Responsibilities of Business Putting Workers Rights on the Policy Agenda
Implications of the Supreme Court's B.C. Health Services Decision
Organizing Outside of Statute Global Integration of Labour Markets and
Workers Rights
During the past quarter century or more, a time of increasing awareness
of other human rights, the protection and promotion of workers rights in
Canada has been in decline. Canadian governments have frequently
offended the established international rights of their employees to free
collective bargaining and the right to strike, and in so doing have
repeatedly been found in violation of international standards. The
situation is no better in the private sector. Labour relations
legislation regulating union organizing and collective bargaining often
establishes procedures and requirements that are very difficult to
fulfill, and that exclude many classes of workers.
The objective of this conference is to provide a forum for the labour
and human rights communities to explore labour rights as fundamental
human rights, with the establishment of a Canadian Workers Rights
Institute as an end goal. An independent institute would be able to put
workers rights on the policy agenda by:
publicizing international developments regarding the human rights nature
of labour rights
reminding governments of their responsibility to protect and promote
those rights
calling on corporations to respect those rights in order to be
considered good corporate citizens
The Supreme Court's recent BC Health Services decision,
constitutionalizing collective bargaining, provides promise that a
concerted effort may be able to halt the decline and turn things around.
International Conference Speakers Include:
Lee Swepston, Senior Advisor on Human Rights, International Labour
Organization Mary Beth Maxwell, American Rights at Work Keith Ewing,
Employment Rights Institute, U.K.
Janek Kuczkiewicz, International Trade Union Confederation Carol Pier,
Human Rights Watch
CONFERENCE FEE $225 ($100 student/unwaged) For more information, or to
register, please go to our website: www.yorku.ca/crws
Or contact: Daphne Paszterko, Centre for Research on Work and Society,
276 York Lanes, 4700 Keele St., Toronto, ON,
tel: 416-736-5612 fax: 416-736-5916 paszter@yorku.ca
Enquiry, Evidence and Facts: An
Interdisciplinary Conference
In association with The Leverhulme Trust/ESRC funded research programmes
on 'The Nature of Evidence' at UCL and LSE
A two-day conference convened by Professor William Twining, FBA, UCL,
Professor Mary Morgan, FBA, FKNAW, London School of Economics, Professor
Philip Dawid, UCL, and Professor Trisha Greenhalgh, UCL
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
9.15am – 5.30pm, Thursday 13 December & Friday 14 December 2007
£50 (£30 concessions)
This conference is organised jointly with The Leverhulme Trust/ESRC
funded research programmes on 'The Nature of Evidence', 'Evidence,
Inference and Enquiry: Towards an Integrated Science of Evidence' at UCL
and 'How well do "facts" travel?' at LSE. Evidence has a high profile in
the public eye because of the convergence of a number of recent
developments, such as reliance on new kinds of evidence that are hard to
understand or convey yet are critical in individual decisions (e.g.
statistical assessment of DNA analysis in courts); the importance of
disputed evidence in key policy decisions (e.g. post 9/11 intelligence
in the UK, climate change facts in the USA); the use of both social
science and natural science evidence together (e.g. decisions about
value for money for medical treatments or the way to deal with foot and
mouth disease). There is a lack of agreement on the extent to which one
can generalise about facts, evidence and inferential reasoning across
disciplines, contexts and types of enquiry because of some fundamental
questions about the nature of evidence.
The aims of the conference are:
• to debate the different theoretical, methodological and practical
approaches to the study of evidence and the way that facts are acquired
and used across different fields
• to explore the ways in which facts travel within and between fields, a
process essential to generate common multi- or interdisciplinary
understandings of how evidence is constituted and used in making
judgements
• to provide a forum for the presentation of completed and ongoing
research on these topics from a broad range of academic and
practice-based researchers using a wide range of disciplinary bases in
the social sciences and humanities and in related natural science fields
• to promote networking and cross-fertilization of ideas amongst
researchers and practitioners in the expanding interdisciplinary concern
with the nature of facts and evidence and to explore the commonalities
of concepts
For full details on the programme and how to book please visit our
website
Telephone enquiries: 020 7969 5246 Email:
events@britac.ac.uk
Path Dependencies of Businesses,
Institutions, and Technologies
Growth and Distribution:
Institutional and Social Dynamics
The goal of The
Institutional and Social Dynamics of Growth and Distribution in
Pisa, Italy on December 10-12, 2007 is to present and discuss approaches
to the issues of the institutional and social dynamics of growth and
distribution, with all the theoretical, empirical, historical, and
methodological implications.
SHE Conference Registrations
Full registration: $200
Student registration: $85
One day registration: $100
The Conference Dinner will be on Monday night, 10th December, at a cost
of $60.
The registration fee covers morning and afternoon teas and a light
lunch, and the full registration fee includes a one year’s subscription
to the Economics and Labour Relations Review, which will have a special
issue of SHE Conference Papers.
Special Two Conferences-in-One Deal
Delegates to the SHE Conference can also register for the CofFEE
Conference at the University of Newcastle which will be held on December
6 - 7, 2007 (the Thursday and Friday before the SHE conference in
Sydney) on "Challenge to Restore Full Employment Conference".
The special package provides for an approximate 10% discount from the
normal registration fees for the individual conferences and will be
invoiced as a single registration for a 4 day conference in two
locations (Newcastle and Sydney) which will satisfy Universities and
other agencies who will only fund one conference grant per year
Please note that website for the 2-in-1 Deal will only be finalised on
Monday 5 November.
ICAPE has had a busy year promoting and defending pluralism. In March, I
received a letter broaching a question of anti-pluralism with regard to
economics and the forthcoming 2008 RAE in the UK. I responded by sending
a letter to Professor Greenaway voicing the concern of ICAPE and
received a response that efforts will be made so that
pluralistic/heterodox economists will not be discriminated against. Then
in June there was the ICAPE Conference which was well-received by all
who attended it. Finally, ICAPE is supporting the plenary session of the
Association for Social Economics at the 2008 ASSA. It will also have a
booth at the ASSA—here member organizations can leave and sell material.
Throughout the year I have been asked by various economists if ICAPE
would support research promoting the benefits of pluralism in economics.
Of course the answer is YES—but what is needed are good proposals and of
course financial resources. Currently there are twenty-eight paid up
ICAPE associates and fifteen ICAPE associates in arrears for a total of
forty-three ICAPE associates:
American Review of Political Economy
American University – Department of Economics
Association d’Economie Politique (AEP)
Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE)
Association for Georgist Studies (AGS)
Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE)
Association for Institutional Thought
Association for Integrity and Responsible Leadership in Economics and
Associated Professions
Association for Social Economics
Cambridge Journal of Economics
Cambridge Social Ontology Group
Conference on Problems of Economic Change
Dickinson College – Department of Economics
Dollars and Sense
Economists for Peace and Security
European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy
Franklin and Marshall College – Department of Economics
French Association for the Development of Keynesian Studies
George Mason University – Program in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Global Development and Environment Institute
Institute for Institutional and Innovation Economics
International Association for Feminist Economics
International Journal of Development Issues
International Sorokin-Kondratieff Institute
International Working Group on Value Theory
Japan Association for Evolutionary Economics
Journal of Australian Political Economy
Journal of Post Keynesian Economics
Latin American Center of Social Ecology
Marquette University – Department of Economics
New School for Social Research – Department of Economics
Progressive Economics Forum
Rethinking Marxism
Rollins College – Department of Economics
Roosevelt University – Department of Economics
Society for the Advancement of Behavioral Economics
Society of Heterodox Economists
Union for Radical Political Economics
University of Massachusetts-Amherst – Political Economy Research
Institute
University of Minnesota at Morris – Department of Economics
University of Missouri at Kansas City – Center for Full Employment and
Price Stability
University of Missouri at Kansas City – Department of Economics
University of Notre Dame – Department of Economics and Policy Studies
The above associations, research institutes, economics departments, and
journals all support pluralism in economics and have done so by
providing financial support that enables ICAPE to carry out its
activities—but their support is not enough. If you are a member of an
association, research institute, or economics department, or subscribe
to/editor of an economics journal that you think should be supporting
ICAPE and pluralism in economics, make your views know to the relevant
parties. It is only through financial support that ICAPE can carry out
its mission of promoting pluralism in economics.
Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track
Stetson University’s Economics Department in the College of Arts and
Sciences emphasizes small, seminar-style classes with strong project and
service-learning components. Faculty members interact closely with
students, both inside and outside of classes. We are seeking an
enthusiastic scholar to join our Department’s aspirations towards a more
humane economic society at the teaching, research, and service levels.
Our ideal colleague’s interests include local and regional economic
issues. S/he will be interested in the application of microcredit
practices and policies towards a more “inclusive” economy. The ability
and desire to teach, through projects and experiments, principles
classes, intermediate macroeconomics, and econometrics, and involve
undergraduates in research is highly desirable. An earned doctorate in
economics by July 31, 2008 is required for appointment. A commitment to
liberal arts education, active participation in interdisciplinary
programs, and high-quality scholarly research is a given. Submit 3
copies of your c.v., statement of teaching philosophy, evidence of
accomplishments in teaching, graduate transcripts, sample of recent
publications, and names of references to Chair, Economics Search
Committee, Department of Economics, Stetson University. Deland, FL
32723.
This announcement appears in the October issue of JOE. Department
representatives will be at the ASSA meetings in New Orleans from January
3-6 to interview candidates.
The Open University
Lecturer in Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences
Based in Milton Keynes, U.K.
Circulation date : 23/10/2007
Closing date : 15/11/2007
Applications are invited to join a lively and supportive Economics
Department within the Faculty of Social Sciences. We are looking for
someone who can make a major contribution to Personal Finance, a new
area of the curriculum and research field in economics which is being
pioneered at The Open University.
You must be able to play a key role in developing personal finance
teaching. Research expertise could be in any field related to personal
finance, including financial economics, household economics,
macroeconomics or other disciplines such as social policy and
development.
Appointment will be made on either Academic Grade 2 (£30,012 - £32,796)
or Academic Grade 3 (£33,779 - £40,335) depending on qualifications and
experience.
Closing date: 12 noon on 15 November 2007.
Interview date: w/c 3 December 2007.
Successful candidates should have the following specific qualifications:
•an earned Ph.D. in a relevant field and record of scholarly achievement
consistent with appointment as a tenured full professor (appointment at
the well-established associate level will also be considered)
•demonstrated administrative and academic leadership along with
demonstrated executive abilities in complex administrative and political
environments, including budgetary experience
•a record of success in external relations, development, and
fund-raising, including ability to maintain SUPA’s role as a resource
valued by the State legislature
•demonstrated commitment to effective communication, consensus-building,
and community relations/service learning
Located in the heart of the economically flourishing and culturally
diverse Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, now the fifth largest region in the
country, the University of Texas at Arlington, part of the University of
Texas System, is a full service research and teaching university with
over 25,000 students. SUPA regularly ranks as one of the best graduate
schools of public affairs in the nation.
SUPA has 17 tenured/tenure-track faculty members representing a rich
variety of backgrounds and expertise in areas that include Economics,
Geography, Law, Planning, Political Science, Psychology, Public
Administration, Public Policy, Science and Technology Studies,
Sociology, Social Sciences, and Urban Design. SUPA offers two nationally
accredited master’s degrees: Master’s of Public Administration, and
Master’s of City and Regional Planning; SUPA also offers a Master’s of
Arts in Urban Affairs, two Ph.D.s (one in Public and Urban
Administration, and the other in Urban Planning and Public Policy). At
the undergraduate level, SUPA offers a B.A. and a B.S. in
Interdisciplinary Studies.
The Department of Economics invites applications for a tenure-track
Assistant Professor, beginning August 15, 2008. Successful candidates
must have a commitment to teaching excellence at the undergraduate level
as well as serious interest in quality research and scholarship. Ph.D.
is required by August 2008. All fields of specialization will be
considered but preference will be given to candidates with interest in
one or more of the following: international political economy, women in
the economy, heterodox economics, mathematical and quantitative methods,
methodology for collecting, estimating and organizing data, economic
history, and empirical labor economics. Review of applications will
begin on November 15, 2007, and will continue until the position is
filled. Applicants should submit a letter of interest, curriculum vita,
brief statement of teaching experience and summaries of teaching
evaluations, and 3 letters of reference. Please send all materials as
hard copy to Prof. Bobbie L. Horn, Search Committee Chair, Department of
Economics, The University of Tulsa, 600 South College Avenue, Tulsa, OK
74104-3189. The University of Tulsa is and EEO/AA employer.
SOAS, University of London
Lecturer in Development Studies
DEPARTMENT OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES
£29,527 – £41,735 p.a. inclusive of London Allowance
Vacancy No: 100326
The Department of Development Studies invites applications for a
lectureship starting from 1 April 2008 or as soon as possible
thereafter, to contribute principally to the new MSc degree in
Globalisation and Development.
Candidates should have a strong research record, and they should be able
to offer courses consistent with the Department's orientation and
profile, whilst playing a constructive role in the administration of the
Department. Candidates should have an outstanding grounding in
development studies, globalisation studies, and/or closely related
social sciences disciplines. We are especially interested in candidates
with research interests in East Asia.
Prospective candidates seeking further information may contact the Head
of Department, Professor Alfredo Saad Filho on
as59@soas.ac.uk. An
application form and further particulars can be downloaded from
www.soas.ac.uk/jobs.
Alternatively, write to the Human Resources
Department, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell
Square, London, WC1H OXG. Fax no: 020 7074 5129 or e-mail: vacancies@soas.ac.uk
stating your name, address and the vacancy
reference number.
CV’s will only be accepted when accompanied by an application form.
No agencies.
Closing date: Tuesday 27 November 2007
SOAS values diversity and aims to be an equal opportunities employer.
Centre for Innovation & Structural
Change
Heterodox opportunities for research posts in the Centre for Innovation
& Structural Change at NUI Galway.
Research Fellow: Labour Economics
Two Year Contract
You will undertake research and commissioned studies in the Department
of Information and Finance within a small team led by Professor Philip
Whyman. The successful candidate will work on existing projects in the
area of Labour Economics, in particular relating to labour market
flexibility, in addition to developing new opportunities within this
field. You will have the ability to contribute to writing proposals,
research reports and articles for publication. You should have a PhD in
a relevant subject (or have submitted it for examination) and previous
experience of having undertaken research. You should be conversant with
qualitative and quantitative methods and have good organisational
skills. Experience of managing and econometrically analysing large
datasets would be a distinct advantage. The work will involve liaison
with external stakeholders, presentation and dissemination of findings,
and publication.
For detailed information:
Research Fellow.doc,
RFjobspec07 - WhymanRFJobDesAug07.doc and
RFjobspec07 - WhymanRFPersSpecAug07.doc
Tufts University
The Fletcher School
Associate/Full Professor of Environmental/Resource Economics
The Fletcher School, established in 1933 as the first graduate school of
international affairs in the United States, seeks to fill a full-time,
tenure-track or tenured position at the rank of Associate or Full
professor in Environmental/Resource Economics beginning September 2008.
The Fletcher School's faculty is multidisciplinary with a focus on
connecting theory with practice. We prepare our Masters and doctoral
students to use the latest political, economic, business, and legal
thinking to generate pragmatic policies that will successfully shape
global events.
JOB DESCRIPTION:
The new faculty member will be a member of the Center for International
Environment and Resource Policy which is home to a multidisciplinary
group of faculty and students that offers a field of concentration
through course work, an ongoing research program and a vigorous program
of speakers, conferences and other events. Special consideration will be
given to candidates with research interests in any of the following
areas - international climate change and energy policy, environmental
policy in developing countries and emerging market economies,
sustainable development, natural resource management, pollution control,
and environmental health.
JOB QUALIFICATIONS:
A Ph.D. or its equivalent is required along with a record of
distinguished scholarly publication appropriate for rank of appointment.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Review of applications will begin December 1, 2007. Applicants should
send a curriculum vitae, any supporting materials and 3 letters of
reference to:
CONTACT: Sandra Gasbarro
Environmental/Resource Economics Search
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Tufts University
Medford, MA 02155 USA
The Fletcher School is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer
and the administration, faculty, and student body are committed to
attracting talented candidates from groups presently underrepresented on
campus.
This English-language newsletter contains a translation of the
theoretical note published in French in La Lettre de la Régulation and
information on research activities in the area of institutional
regulation.
Forum for Social
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What's Up With Gold - Associative Economics Bulletin - November 2007
The Associative Economics Bulletin consists of news and views on
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1) The View From Rare Albion, Editorial, AEM NOVEMBER 2007
2) Rethinking The Corporation - The London School of Economics, 8 Nov 07
3) The Colours of Money - CH and UK Nov and Dec 2007
1) THE VIEW FROM RARE ALBION, EDITORIAL, AEM NOVEMBER 07
The role of gold in orientating and regulating economic life through the
ages has been considered fundamental, but how does the situation stand
today, almost 100 years after Keynes described gold as a barbaric relic
and put forward the radical proposal that money, in a global economy,
should be managed on a scientific basis? Gold is by no means absent from
our minds or from the working of the world’s financial system, so are we
unable to conceive of a monetary economics that is beyond gold, in the
sense that we can consciously replicate the functions to which it
formerly gave more or less automatic effect? Clearly such a step would
involve putting antiquated constructs to rest and creating arrangements
that correspond to a modern monetary consciousness.
Though there might not be general consensus on the point, the historical
monetary role of gold, when stripped of its cultural religious
overtones, has been to serve as a clumsy and very physical form of
book-keeping. Given the sophistication of modern monetary science, how
are we to account for today’s persistent use of gold as a reference? Is
this any more than a last stand for economic egotism; a stumbling block
for humanity on its journey towards a form of money not premised on the
physical and therefore requiring a new degree of confidence in the
economy per se?
The lead item in this issue presents perspectives that are diametrically
opposed. Thoughts on the Future of Gold and Silver is based on the idea
that it is profitable to own real things (like gold and silver) and that
gold’s price will continue to rise to over $1,000 dollars an ounce;
What’s wrong with Gold imagines that gold, going the way of silver, will
come to trade at $68 an ounce (10% of its current rate).
Clearly they cannot both be right, so is it any wonder that the story of
gold, perhaps more than any other economic subject, fuels the fires of
those who see hidden agendas and conspiracies at work, suspecting that
the price of gold is being manipulated. The first and second Washington
Agreements (of 1999 and 2004) between ten of the world’s major central
banks, for example, have the explicit stated objective of maintaining
“gold’s role as an important element of global monetary reserves” and by
agreeing to limit gold sales and leasing of preventing the price from
falling. And yet the view is widespread that central banks behave in the
opposite fashion.
In describing the Gold Carry Trade, The Sign of The Times piece provides
further evidence that gold does not provide the safe haven function we
have become used to.
In the archive feature, W J Stein, this month’s Voice from the 1930s,
sees gold as the “principle instrument of interference” when economics
is subject to political ends. For Stein “the tremendous task [is to
move] from national to world economics [which] makes the detaching of
economies from political control an imperative necessity [because] those
nations who have great possession of gold are checking ... the just and
effective administration of the economic system…”
Given that people still turn to gold in hard times, this may not be a
fashionable view. But the recent appearance of so-called gold spikes
independently of slow-downs in the non-gold economy suggest Stein may be
right. At any rate, that gold should be depoliticised and no longer has
a monetary role is central to any associative analysis of today’s events
and gives, if we would but recognise it, new ground to monetary
economics.
The Networking page, which highlights a recent Colours of Money seminar,
now includes a pitch for research funding, while this month’s AE Profile
features an MBA in Associative Economics offered in Brazil. Finally,
Accountant’s Corner takes an accountant’s look at gold.
2) WHEN FINANCE ROCKS - EVENTS AT THE LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS
Rudolf Steiner Economist of Tomorrow
Known mainly in this country for his work in education, Rudolf Steiner
also made an important contribution to modern economics. In these
seminars some of Steiner's key thoughts will be explored against the
background of today's events. Each session will begin with a focusing
contribution as the basisfor a free ranging discussion by the
participants.
8 November: Rethinking The Corporation - Is there a baby in the
bathwater?
6 December: Deep Accounting - International standards = world currency?
6.30 PM Thursdays - Room D6, Ground Floor, Clement House, Aldwych
Attendance charge: £5 (Students £3)
Convenors: Dr. Christopher Houghton Budd, Arthur Edwards
Sponsored by the Centre for Associative Economics (cfae.biz)
Digital Newsletter of The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
October 30, 2007
NEW WORKING PAPERS
Endogenous Money: Structuralist and Horizontalist
L. RANDALL WRAY
Working Paper No. 512
http://www.levy.org/pubs/wp_512.pdf
Heterodox economists believe that the profit motive, as well as
profit-seeking financial innovations, plays a role in the creation of
money by the banking system. Senior Scholar L. Randall Wray concludes
that the central bank’s influence on the quantity of money is indirect
and unpredictable, and therefore should be of little interest to
economists.
Inequality of Life Chances and the Measurement of Social Immobility
JACQUES SILBER and AMEDEO SPADARO
Working Paper No. 513
http://www.levy.org/pubs/wp_513.pdf
The authors suggest new tools of analysis in the measurement of
intergenerational social mobility and the need to distinguish between
concepts of gross and net social immobility. They apply their concepts
to two data sets: a 1998 survey in France and a 2003 social survey in
Israel.
Realism, universalism and capabilities p. 253
Authors: Nuno Martins
Link
Why economists dislike a lump of labor p. 279
Authors: Tom Walker
Link
Defining the frontiers of the firm through property rights allocation:
The case of the French retailer cooperative Leclerc p. 293
Authors: Marie-Laure Baron
Link
Meat as a bad habit: A case for positive feedback in consumption
preferences leading to lock-in p. 319
Authors: Joshua Frank
Link
The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the
Making of the American Working Class
David R. Roediger
An original study of the formative years of working class racism in the
United States . In a new introduction, Roediger surveys recent
scholarship on whiteness and the changing face of labor.
Revised and expanded edition of this classic exploration of the origins
and development of Chicano radicalism in America , by one of the leaders
of the movement.
US Labor in Trouble and
Transition: The Failure of Reform from Above, The Promise of Revival
From Below Kim Moody
In a brilliant critical analysis of the decline of the unions, Moody
uncovers the secrets of the collapse of the labor movement in the US and
its subsequent revival.
The Cult of the Market: Economic Fundamentalism and its Discontents
disputes the practical value of the shallow, all-encompassing, dogmatic,
economic fundamentalism espoused by policy elites in recent public
policy debates, along with their gross simplifications and sacred rules.
Economics cannot provide a convincing overarching theory of government
action or of social action more generally. Furthermore, mainstream
economics fails to get to grips with the economic system as it actually
operates. It advocates a more overtly experimental, eclectic and
pragmatic approach to policy development which takes more seriously the
complex, interdependent, evolving nature of society and the economy.
Importantly, it is an outlook that recognises the pervasive influence of
asymmetries of wealth, power and information on bargaining power and
prospects throughout society. The book advocates a major reform of the
teaching of economics.
Global Flashpoint: Reactions to
Imperialism and Neoliberalism
Socialist Register 2008
Editors: LEO PANITCH and COLIN LEYS
* What are the forces at work in opposition to the American Empire? Are
such forces, in the Islamic World and in Latin America, reactionary or
progressive?
* What are the distinguishing features of neoliberalism today? What are
its emerging contradictions?
Iraq has shown that the American empire cannot be maintained by military
force, and neoliberalism has been discredited, though its momentum is
far from spent.
Imperialism has reached limits in the Middle East. This volume reviews
some of the most important counter-movements and organisations. A
brilliant overview essay explores the West’s crucial role in producing
the radical Islamism that currently sustains the confrontation with
imperialism. Other essays examine the political forces in Iraq,
Palestine and Turkey, the nature of Islamism as a revolutionary creed,
and relation between religion and politics in general.
Resistance to neoliberalism is also clearly in the ‘pink tide’ that has
brought left-leaning governments to office in nine countries of Latin
America. The volume evaluates the radical potential – or lack of it – of
progressive movements in Mexico, Venezuela, Bolivia, Brazil and
Argentina, and includes a unique interview with João-Pedro Stédile, the
leader of Brazil’s Landless People’s Movement. Three further essays look
at reactions to neoliberalism in the US, France and Eastern Europe. The
volume concludes with a symposium by three leading left economists on
the nature of neoliberalism as a global regime of social and political
control.
Contents: Aijaz Ahmad: Islam, Islamism, Political Islam: Contexts and
Varieties; Asef Bayat: Islamism and Empire: The Incongruous Nature of
Islamist Anti-Imperialism; Gilbert Achcar: Religion and Politics Today
From a Marxian Perspective; Sabah Alnasseri: Understanding Iraq; Bashir
Abu-Manneh: Israel's Colonial Siege and the Palestinians; Yildiz Atasoy:
The Islamic Ethic and the Spirit of Turkish Capitalism Today; William I.
Robinson: Transformative Possibilities in Latin America; Margarita López
Maya: Venezuela Today: A 'Participative and Protagonistic' Democracy?;
Marta Harnecker: Blows and Counterblows in Venezuela; João-Pedro Stédile:
The Class Struggles in Brazil: The Perspective of the MST; Wes Enzinna:
All We Want Is the Earth: Agrarian Reform in Bolivia; Ana Esther Ceceña:
On the Forms of Resistance in Latin America: Its 'Native' Moment;
Richard Roman & Edur Velasco Arregui: The Oaxaca Commune; Emilia
Castorina: The Contradictions of ‘Democratic’Neoliberalism in Argentina:
A New Politics From 'Below'?; G.M. Tamás: Eastern Europe Today:
Counter-Revolution against a Counter-Revolution; Adrien Thomas & Raghu
Krishnan: Resistance to Neoliberalism in France; Kim Moody: Harvest of
Empire: Immigrant Workers Centers in the USA; Alfredo Saad-Filho, Elmar
Altvater, Gregory Albo: Neoliberalism and the Left: A Symposium.
Questioning Globalized Militarism:
Nuclear and Military Production and Critical Economic Theory
Peter Custers
“The work of Peter Custers is important since he takes on a fundamental
question which has largely been ignored in the analysis of many
economists. Custers proposes in fact a political economy of capitalism
which will integrate several questions relating to militarism. He treats
questions of militarism as important, even decisive, elements which give
direction to the accumulation of capital… This audacious pioneering work
deserves to be read with the greatest attention ...”
From the foreword by Samir Amin
In this wide-ranging study Peter Custers seeks to highlight the
importance of the production and consumption of arms as a form of social
waste within the capitalist world order.
The study encompasses critical economic theory, historical studies of
the rise of capitalism, conceptualizations of international trade, and
analyses of the inequities spawned by globalized militarism. Drawing
especially on Volume 2 of Marx’s Capital, he creatively develops some of
Marx’s classical themes. The individual circuit of capital outlined in
that work is utilized by Custers to demonstrate the generation of
various types of waste at each step in the military–nuclear and
civilian–nuclear production chains.
He also proposes the new concept of negative use-value to highlight the
adverse consequences for human beings and the environment, of products
that are churned out by the military–nuclear complex. Particularly
insightful is the thesis he advances in opposition to the view that the
capitalist system in its earlier phases operated as a market system
governed by ‘internal’ exchanges. Custers produces historical evidence
to demonstrate that this system always incorporated a vital ‘external’
agent, namely the capitalist state, which has played a significant role
in capitalism’s evolution at crucial junctures.
Abbreviated Contents: Foreword Samir Amin; PART ONE Social Waste and
Non-Commodity Waste, and the Individual Circuit of Capital; PART TWO:
The Military Sector and the Social Accumulation of Capital; PART THREE:
Arms’ Exports and the Structure of World Trade: International Circuits
of Capital; Bibliography; Index. 4 tables, 10 charts and many economic,
statistical and analytical formulae.
Defragmenting: Towards a critical
understanding of the new global division of labour
Ursula Huws, Ed.
The Second issue of the new international-interdisciplinary peer
reviewed journal:
Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation
For further information visit :
http://www.dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/green/gtg72/wolg.html
Bringing together important research from Europe, Australia, North
America, Latin America and Asia and considers:
* How can the global knowledge economy be conceptualised to enable us to
understand the current transformations of work taking place globally?
* What is the relationship between global forces and differing national
models of capitalism?
* How are global value chains being restructured? And are service
industries now following the patterns set by manufacturing in the past?
* Are we seeing the birth of a network economy in which small firms can
thrive, or a new phase of consolidation by global transnational
corporations?
* What are the impacts for regional development? for working conditions?
and for workers' ability to organise?
Contents
Elmar Altvater, Conceptualising globalisation: fossil energy, global
finance and the labour market David Coates, Capitalist flattening or
flattening capitalism? class forces and political choices in the global
knowledge economy Ursula Huws, The emergence of EMERGENCE: developing a
conceptual framework for analysing the new global division of labour
Jörg Flecker, Network economy or just a new breed of multinationals?
relocation of eWork as a window into the restructuring of value chains
Peter Standen, Catching a butterfly? Mapping eWork in Europe and
Australia Penny Gurstein, Navigating the Seamless Environment in the
Global Supply Chain: Implications for Canadian Regions and Workers Chris
Benner, Regions and firms in eWork Relocation Dynamics: the Case of
Pittsburgh’s Call Centre Industry Anita Weiss, Global forces and
national institutions: the shaping of call centre employment in Colombia
Laura Schatz and Laura Johnson, Smart City North: local economic and
labour force impacts of call centres Norene Pupo, Behind the screens:
telemediated work in the Canadian public sector Sujata Gothaskhar,
Voices from the South: call centre workers in India Marcia Leite,
Productive restructuring and labour: the case of the auto industry in
Brazil Andreas Boes and Tobias Kampf, The nexus of informatisation and
internationalisation: towards a new stage of the internationalisation of
labour.
Policy Brief No. 2 considers the ongoing demographic shift resulting
from increased longevity and falling birth rates, the resulting changes
to health profiles this will bring, and the implications for managing
health care, particularly in developing countries. The Policy Brief
touches on the difficulties in predicting health care costs over long
periods of time given that many factors other than demographic changes
also have a direct bearing on their growth. It presents health care
projections for two countries at very different stages of development,
namely, Sri Lanka and Australia, and concludes that ageing is a factor
but not the major one in expected future increases in health costs and
discusses the implications for health care financing.
It considers the role of pensions in reducing poverty in old age. The
Brief notes that in the absence of formal transfer mechanisms many older
persons, particularly in developing countries, are forced in to working
in an effort to maintain a degree of income security. The Brief presents
evidence that social pensions providing some minimal basic income to all
persons in old age could significantly reduce the threat of poverty and
argues that such schemes would be affordable for most countries, even
the poorest ones.
You can also access the full range of DESA's publications relevant to
your information needs in the economic and social fields through our
on-line catalogue at:
http://esa.un.org/pubsCatalogue/displayHomePage.do.
Andrew B. TRIGG (2006) Marxian Reproduction Schema. Money and aggregate
demand in a capitalist economy, London: Routledge, Series: Routledge
Frontiers of Political Economy, 130 p., ISBN 0-415-33669-4, £ 65.00
The website www.postkeynesian.net
has been updated with the background papers for the meeting plus some
other items (press the What’s New button). Please do register if you
intend to come.
Building on its previous research in the history of econometrics,
modelling and measurement in economics, the History and Methodology
Group of the Faculty of Economics and Business at the UvA is starting a
new project. A recently awarded innovational research grant (VIDI) from
the Netherlands Science Foundation (NWO) will enable us to write a
history of observational practices in economics. We invite applications
for Two PhD positions in the History and Methodology of Economics at the
Universiteit van Amsterdam full time vacancy number 07-5043 For both
internal and external candidates
The project will investigate the observational technologies and
practices economists use and used to identify their objects of study and
to investigate their nature. The project will link these technologies
and practices to three different sites of observation, each of which has
its own particular history: the ‘armchair', the ‘observatory' and the
‘laboratory'. The PhD candidates will be expected to write a historical
and comparative study on one of the last two mentioned sub-projects.
We ask:
The position is open to excellent students with a Master's or equivalent
in Economics, Cognitive Psychology or other social science, or in the
History of the Sciences / Social Sciences. The students should have or
be ready to acquire knowledge of historical and ethnographical methods
of research.
We offer:
An inspiring international research environment. Our group maintains
regular contacts with the Economic History Department and the Centre for
Philosophy of Natural and Social Sciences at the LSE in London and at
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin, and with
the Economics Department at Duke University and the Ecole Normale
Supérieure de Cachan in Paris.
More information
Inquiries about the project should be directed to Dr Harro Maas (email:
h.b.j.b.maas@uva.nl,
website
http://www1.fee.uva.nl/pp/hmaas/) . A brief description of the
project is available by clicking on the PDF attachment below. An
extensive description is available on request. For more information
about the Amsterdam History and Methodology Group, see
http://www.fee.uva.nl/hme/.
Appointment
The selected PhD candidates will be given full-time contracts for one
year (starting 1 February 2008), which will be concluded by an
evaluation. Upon positive outcomes, the contracts will be extended for a
further three years. The students will be expected to complete their PhD
theses by the end of their appointments. The gross monthly salary will
range from €1,956 in the first year to €2,502 in the fourth year. The
students will spend an extended period at the Max Planck Institute for
the History of Science in Berlin.
Job application
Candidates should submit a letter of interest, a curriculum vitae, a
reflection on the sub-project of interest (max. 2000 words), a
transcript of courses taken (including grades) and two letters of
recommendation. Application packages should be sent to: Universiteit van
Amsterdam, Personnel Department, attn J.J. Bast, Roetersstraat 11, 1018
WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Applications may also be emailed to
applications-feb@uva.nl.
Please include the job reference number. The deadline for applications
is 1 December 2007.
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