Shortly after I sent out the
last issue of the Newsletter, I received an
e-mail Dr. Rune Skarstein, a Norwegian economist,
saying he was denied promotion to full professor
because he did not publish in international
peer-reviewed journals of high quality as
represented by the ranking list found in
Kalaitzidakis, P., Mamuneas, T. P., and Stengos, T.
2003. “Rankings of Academic Journals and
Institutions in Economics.” Journal of the European
Economic Association 1.6 (December): 1346 – 1366 (http://www.sceco.umontreal.ca/divers/jeea2003.pdf
). The national committee making the decision stated
that “Publication in good journals with a reasonably
high impact factor forms a crucial criterion in
assessing competency for a professorship” and then
went on to state that all well regarded
international peer-reviewed journals appeared in the
above ranking and that for promotion to full
professor, at least one paper should be published in
a top ranked journal—see link to relevant documents.
However, that list of journals does not include
Capital and Class, Feminist Economics, Capitalism,
Nature, Socialism, International Review of Applied
Economics, Metroeconomica, Rethinking Marxism,
Review of African Political Economy, Review of
Political Economy, Review of Radical Political
Economics, Science and Society, and a whole
bunch of other heterodox journals; and the top
ranked journals on the list are exclusively
mainstream journals. Consequently, the use of such a
list and ranking to make decisions about promotions
and even employment decisions discriminates against
heterodox economists.
When broaching the question about whether heterodox
economists should develop an alternative ranking of
heterodox journals, I am frequently met with
complete denial for conducting such an exercise.
Generally those who reject such an exercise are in
secure academic positions with secure promotion
prospects—that is American heterodox economists who
do not have to face the impact of journal rankings.
In addition, other heterodox economists seem to fear
the exercise because they do not want their favorite
journals identified as heterodox journals. Again
these economists are often in secure positions.
However, most heterodox economists around the world
are not in secure positions and hence not immune
from the impact of journal rankings. And it is these
economists that a ranking of heterodox journals
would potentially be most useful. Yet positive
action has been impossible because, liberally
quoting Clark Gable from ‘Gone with the Wind,’
“frankly Scarlett many heterodox economists don’t
give a damn”. Give a damn and do something: contact
Wolfram Elsner (
welsner@uni-bremen.de ) who is setting up a
research project on ranking heterodox journals.
A final reminder, on Thursday, January 3, there is a
special session at the ASSA in New Orleans:
URPE turns 40 this year--and you are invited to a
celebration of URPE’s anniversary. Time and
Place: Thursday, January 3 from 4-6 pm in the
Nottoway Room (fourth floor) 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 found at
http://www.urpe.org/BirthdayBash.html including a
song by the Red Shadow - for the Red Shadow disc see
http://cdbaby.com/cd/redshadow
Following the URPE session, in the same hotel (on
the second floor) 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
Sheraton, Rooms Rhythms II and III
(second floor)
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
Be social and meet lots of different heterodox and
pluralist economists—go to both sessions. The
reception following the ASE plenary will have lots
of food and drink for free.
One last thing, one the Newsletter’s web page (
http://www.heterodoxnews.com ), there is the
Heterodox Economics Calendar which
gives all the dates of all the events that are
listed in the Newsletter. Check it out if
you are looking to go to a conference at some
particular time in the year or if you are planning a
conference in the future.
Given the arrival of the holiday season (at least
for me), this will be the last Newsletter until
January. Those who will be in the holiday mood, have
a pleasant and relaxing time—eat, drink, and be
merry.
- The 10th International Post Keynesian
Conference
- Graduate Summer School in Post Keynesian Economics
- 10th Anniversary Conference of the Association for Heterodox
Economics
- 5th International Conference “Developments in Economic Theory
and Policy
- European Social Science History Conference
- Path Dependencies of Businesses, Institutions, and
Technologies
- 3rd EAEPE Symposium on Markets as Institutions: History and
Theory
- A Panel on Anarchism, Labour and Syndicalism
- How Class Works- 2008
- SGE Annual Conference
- SOAS Seminars on Money, Finance and
Development
- À Sciences-Po (Salle à confirmer)
- The historical place of the “Friedman-Phelps expectations
critique
- APORDE- African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics
- Expanding Connections for Business History
- Flows of People and Money Past, Present and Future
- Levy News
- Journal of Economic Methodology
- International Journal of Political Economy
- IJPE
- Metroeconomica
- Historical Materialism
- Revista de Economía Institucional
- Challenge
- International Labour Review
- Environmental and Natural Resource
Economics: A Contemporary Approach
- Economists' Lives: Biography and Autobiography in the History
of Economics
- The Evolution Of Economic Institutions
- A House of Cards
- Growth and Crisis: Social Structure of Accumulation Theory and
and Analysis
- Critical Political Economy
- A Biographical Dictionary Of Australian And New Zealand
Economists
- Imagining Economics Otherwise: Encounters with
Identity/Difference.
- Advances in Heterodox Economics
- Reclaiming the Economy
- Pluto Press- New Books
- Payday Loan Industry
- GDAE Teaching Modules
- New Orleans Today
- New Orleans Labor Media
- EAEPE Materials
- Third Annual AFIT Student Research Competition Winners
- Garda Summer School
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 )
10th Anniversary
Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics
4-6 July, 2008
Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge
The Tenth Anniversary Conference of the Association of Heterodox
Economics (AHE) will be held at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge from
Friday 4th to Sunday 6th July 2008.
In ten years the AHE has established a reputation as a major national
and international forum for the discussion of alternatives to mainstream
economics, and for the interdisciplinary and pluralistic nature of its
discussions. In this anniversary year we particularly encourage
submissions on
(1) the state of economic heterodoxy and pluralism, and the relation
between them
(2 experiences and difficulties in teaching heterodox and
pluralist economics
(3) environmental and ecological economics
The conference invites submissions of single papers or sessions which
conform to these aims, or address other issues in the social sciences
from standpoints which differ from or critically examine the economic
mainstream. A feature of the AHE is as a pluralist forum for dialogue,
and we encourage proposals for sessions which address a single issue or
theme from a variety of viewpoints or disciplines.
The international character of the conference has been a vital factor in
its growing success. Scholars requiring documentation in support of visa
or funding applications should indicate this in their initial
submission. At present the AHE regrets that it has no funds to provide
financial support, but is actively seeking it and welcomes proposals
from participants regarding organizations for the AHE contact in search
of support for participants from outside the US and European Union.
To facilitate dialogue and timetabling, participants whose initial
submission is successful must provide a full paper by the deadline of
Sunday 20th April. They should also register by Sunday May 18th, and
will be expected to take part in at least two full days of the
conference, in order to be included in the final programme. Participants
should also be prepared to serve as discussants and/or session chairs.
This year poster sessions will also be organized for postgraduate or
postdoctoral students who would like to discuss their work with others
but are not yet in a position to provide a full paper.
The conference language is English. Guidelines for submission
This year there will be two types of session, normal sessions and poster
sessions. Normal sessions will be 90 minutes long and will usually
consist of two papers with at least one discussant. Arrangements for
poster sessions, which are intended to encourage new work by
postgraduate or postdoctoral students, will depend on the number of
submissions and will be announced nearer the date of conference.
Proposals for single papers: please send an abstract of not more than
500 words by email only to the local organiser, Ioana Negru (
i.negru@anglia.ac.uk ), AND
the AHE coordinator, Alan Freeman (afreeman@iwgvt.org
). Text, HTML, Word and PDF format attachments are acceptable. Please
indicate in your submission whether your paper is intended for a normal
or poster session.
Proposals for complete sessions: please send a description of the
session of not more than 500 words together with the names and email
addresses of the proposed speakers, and attaching abstracts for their
presentations of not more than 500 words each for each paper. Please
send these by email only to Ioana Negru and Alan Freeman, as above. Deadlines
Proposals for either single papers or complete sessions should be
received by Sunday 27th January.
The AHE Committee will consider all abstracts and will notify you of
acceptance or rejection of your proposal by Monday 11th February 2008.
Those whose abstracts have been accepted for a normal session must send
their full paper by Sunday 20th April 2008 and must register, for a
minimum of two days of the conference, by Sunday 18th May 2008.
To see details of previous conferences, and to keep up to date with the
2008 conference and other AHE activities please visit:
www.hetecon.com
5th International
Conference “Developments in Economic Theory and Policy
The Department of Applied Economics V of the University of the Basque
Country and the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy,
Department of Land Economy, of the University of Cambridge, are
organizing the 5th International Conference “Developments in Economic
Theory and Policy”. The Conference will be held in Bilbao (Spain), in
July 10-11, 2008.
Although papers are invited on all areas of economics, papers about the
following topics are especially welcome:
- New Consensus in Macroeconomics
- Spatial Economics
- European Convergence
- Policy/Path Dependence and Macroeconomics
Special Sessions with Invited Speakers will be organized about these
four topics
Suggestions for ‘Organized Sessions’ are encouraged. An Organized
Session is one session constructed in its entirety by a Session
Organizer and submitted to the conference organizers as a complete
package. Session organizers must provide the following information:
- Title of the session, name and affiliation of the organizer, name and
affiliation of chair (if different than organizer)
- Titles of the papers, name(s) and affiliation(s) of author(s)
- Contact information for each participant (name, address, telephone and
fax numbers, email address).
People willing to organize a session on a specific topic who want to
contact with other people interested in presenting a paper in that
session can get in touch with Jesus Ferreiro (
jesus.ferreiro@ehu.es )
submitting the following data:
- Organizer’s name and affiliation
- Title of the proposed sessions and JEL classification
- E-mail address
This information will be published in the conference website. People
interested will be able to contact with the session’s proposer to
organize the session.
The deadline to submit papers and ‘Organized Sessions’ is 30th May 2008.
Proposed and Suggested Sessions
The Economics Network of the European Social Science History Conference
has a preliminary list of suggested and proposed sessions for
the European Social
Science History Conference in Lisbon, Portugal, February 27 - March
1, 2008.
Path Dependencies of Businesses,
Institutions, and Technologies
Studying
Path Dependencies of Businesses, Institutions, and Technologies on
February 28-29, 2008 is organized by the path dependency research centre
of the Freie Universität Berlin, which welcomes contributions from
economists, sociologists, historians and political scientists.
3rd EAEPE Symposium on
Markets as Institutions: History and Theory
The deadline for submitting papers to the 3rd EAEPE Symposium on MARKETS
AS INSTITUTIONS: HISTORY AND THEORY to be held in Athens is approaching
quickly. Please submit your paper before the Dec 15th 2007.
For more information visit the EAEPE website using the following link:
http://eaepe.org/eaepe.php?q=node/view/253
A Panel on Anarchism,
Labour and Syndicalism
With a view to the forthcoming 1st Anarchist Studies Network Conference
(Loughborough University, Sept. 2008), we would like to organise a
workshop on syndicalism or more generally on issues related to anarchism
and the labour movement. The theme will be understood in its broadest
sense, with no specific geographical or period restriction. Possible
topics (by no means exclusive) could include:
- the everyday practice of syndicalism in the workplace or the unions
- the relationship of syndicalist militants with more reformist elements
within the unions, in the workplace or during strikes, and with marxists
- theories of syndicalism and their legacy
- comparative studies of syndicalist movements or theories
- biographies of prominent as well as lesser-known syndicalist militants
- syndicalist networks
- syndicalist papers
- the transnational diffusion of syndicalism
- strategies associated with syndicalism (sabotage, the general strike…)
- syndicalism and parliamentary politics
- syndicalism and war
- syndicalism and marxism
- syndicalism and councilism
The Center for Study of Working Class Life is pleased to announce the
How Class Works – 2008 Conference, to be held at the State University of
New York at Stony Brook, June 5 - 7, 2008. Proposals for papers,
presentations, and sessions are welcome until December 17, 2007
according to the guidelines below. For more information, visit our Web
site at <www.workingclass.sunysb.edu>.
Purpose and orientation: The conference seeks to explore ways in which
an explicit recognition of class helps to understand the social world in
which we live, and ways in which analysis of society can deepen our
understanding of class as a social relationship. Presentations should
take as their point of reference the lived experience of class; proposed
theoretical contributions should be rooted in and illuminate social
realities. Presentations are welcome from people outside academic life
when they sum up social experience in a way that contributes to the
themes of the conference. Formal papers will be welcome but are not
required. All presentations should be accessible to an interdisciplinary
audience.
Conference themes: The conference welcomes proposals for presentations
that advance our understanding of any of the following themes.
The mosaic of class, race, and gender. To explore how class shapes
racial, gender, and ethnic experience and how different racial, gender,
and ethnic experiences within various classes shape the meaning of
class. Special focus: the legacy of Theodore W. Allen’s work on the
invention of the white race and its implications in the new racial and
ethnic mix of 21st century U.S. society.
Class, power, and social structure. To explore the social content of
working, middle, and capitalist classes in terms of various aspects of
power; to explore ways in which class and structures of power interact,
at the workplace and in the broader society.
Class and community. To explore ways in which class operates outside the
workplace in the communities where people of various classes live.
Class in a global economy. To explore how class identity and class
dynamics are influenced by globalization, including experience of
cross-border organizing, capitalist class dynamics, international labor
standards.
Middle class? Working class? What's the difference and why does it
matter? To explore the claim that the U.S. is a middle class society and
contrast it with the notion that the working class is the majority; to
explore the relationships between the middle class and the working
class, and between the middle class and the capitalist class.
Class, public policy, and electoral politics. To explore how class
affects public policy, with special attention to health care, the
criminal justice system, labor law, poverty, tax and other economic
policy, housing, and education; to explore the place of electoral
politics in the arrangement of class forces on policy matters. Special
focus: class, health, and health care.
Class and culture: To explore ways in which culture transmits and
transforms class dynamics.
Pedagogy of class. To explore techniques and materials useful for
teaching about class, at K-12 levels, in college and university courses,
and in labor studies and adult education courses.
How to submit proposals for How Class Works – 2008 Conference
Proposals for presentations must include the following information: a)
title; b) which of the eight conference themes will be addressed; c) a
maximum 250 word summary of the main points, methodology, and slice of
experience that will be summed up; d) relevant personal information
indicating institutional affiliation (if any) and what training or
experience the presenter brings to the proposal; e) presenter's name,
address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address. A person may present in at
most two conference sessions. To allow time for discussion, sessions
will be limited to three twenty-minute or four fifteen-minute principal
presentations. Sessions will not include official discussants. Proposals
for poster sessions are welcome. Presentations may be assigned to a
poster session.
Proposals for sessions are welcome. A single session proposal must
include proposal information for all presentations expected to be part
of it, as detailed above, with some indication of willingness to
participate from each proposed session member.
Submit proposals as hard copy by mail to the How Class Works - 2008
Conference, Center for Study of Working Class Life, Department of
Economics, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384 or as an e-mail attachment
to <michael.zweig@stonybrook.edu>.
Timetable: Proposals must be received by December 17, 2007.
Notifications will be mailed on January 16, 2008. The conference will be
at SUNY Stony Brook June 5- 7, 2008. Conference registration and housing
reservations will be possible after February 15, 2008. Details and
updates will be posted at
http://www.workingclass.sunysb.edu.
The Society of Government Economists (SGE) is now accepting submissions
of papers and sessions for its 2008 conference in Washington, DC.
Special consideration will be given to submissions of full sessions (3-4
papers) on a topic related to this year’s theme.
SGE is also seeking volunteers to serve on the organizing committee.
Committee members would play a key role in the coordination and planning
of sessions. Interested parties should contact the SGE Conference
Committee Chair Steven Payson as soon as possible at:
paysons@mail.nih.gov.
Possible conference sessions would address some of the following U.S.
future policy challenges:
• Health Care Costs
• Access to Health Care
• The Uninsured
• Aging
• Social Security
• Immigration
• Climate Change
• Energy Resources
• Budget Deficits
• Income inequality and Volatility
• Outsourcing
• Housing prices
Proposal Submission: Please submit a one-page abstract (including name,
postal and e-mail address) by February 1, 2008 to
paysons@mail.nih.gov.
Click
here for a pdf copy of this announcement.
The Research Group Money, Finance and Development,
convened by Costas Lapavitsas, is organising the following talk on the
12th December 2007:
Ismail Erturk (Manchester Business School): ”Financial Innovation,
Institutional Reinvention and Crisis”
The presentation analyzes how banks have reinvented themselves over the
last decades through a series of financial innovations, transforming
their traditional role as financial intermediaries, and how these
transformations are related to the financial crisis of August 2007.
Wednesday, 12th December 2007
6.00-7.30pm
SOAS, Brunei Gallery, Room B111
Ismail Erturk is Senior Fellow in Banking at the Manchester Business
School. His current research interests include financialization and
financial innovation, investigated as part of an inter-disciplinary team
at CRESC at the University of Manchester. He has published widely, among
others in the Review of International Political Economy and Competition
and Change.
À Sciences-Po (Salle à confirmer)
Vous êtes cordialement invités aux deux séminaires qui auront lieu
LE LUNDI 10 DECEMBRE 2007
12H30-14H30
À Sciences-Po (Salle à confirmer)
Dans le cadre d’ECOPOL, séminaire d’économie politique
James FORDER (Balliol College, Oxford, Royaume-Uni)
Co-éditeur, Oxford Economic papers
“Friedman’s Nobel Lecture reconsidered”
Les organisateurs : Emiliano Grossman, Nicolas Jabko, et Cornelia Woll
The historical place of the
“Friedman-Phelps expectations critique
LE LUNDI 10 DECEMBRE 2007
16H00-18H00
A L’OFCE Salle du Rez-de-Chaussée
James FORDER (Balliol College, Oxford, Royaume-Uni)
Co-éditeur, Oxford Economic papers
“The historical place of the “Friedman-Phelps expectations critique”
Discutant : Frédéric Reynès (OFCE)
APORDE- African Programme on Rethinking
Development Economics
May / June 2008
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Organised by The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) with
the Embassy of France in South Africa and the French Institute of South
Africa (IFAS)
After the success of the first African Programme on Rethinking
Development Economics (APORDE) in 2007, we are pleased to announce that
APORDE will take place again in 2008. The APORDE web site has been
launched; it aims to provide those interested in development issues and
policies with food for thought and action drawn from the work of some of
the world's leading non-mainstream economists, as well as with
information on the APORDE programme and on like-minded initiatives. A
blog (Rethinking Development), jointly run by alumni of APORDE and
CAPORDE, will soon be launched.
Background
While there has been an increased questioning of the neo-liberal
domination in policy making, the supply of critical and constructive
responses remains poor. The situations in most developing countries are
particularly preoccupying, since governments and civil societies are
weakly equipped to respond critically to external initiatives aimed at
their development and to generate endogenous strategies. Due to, among
other things, resource constraints, researchers and students from
developing countries tend to rely on a small number of standard
textbooks and the publications from the multilateral financial
institutions, which severely restricts their exposure to alternative
approaches. Sub-Saharan Africa is probably most affected by the poor
availability of cutting-edge research and teaching in non-orthodox
economics. The influence of neo-liberal economics in the continent has
precluded the exploration of more proactive state involvement to support
economic development and reduce poverty. The tide is, however, gradually
turning: the need for "more" (rather than merely "better", which in
neo-liberal terms has proved to mean "less") state intervention in
economic affairs is increasingly recognised. Crucially, economic
take-off appears bound to remain a pipedream if it is premised on
unabated liberalisation rather than developmental trade and industrial
policies. The latter would represent a qualitative leap in the nature of
state intervention, which is currently typically limited to "creating
favourable conditions".
The shortcomings of "populist", or neo-populist, alternatives to the
neo-liberal orthodoxy will be discussed. These alternatives, which tend
to focus on specific issues, for instance the environment or "extreme
poverty", have caught the public's attention and contributed to the
ongoing reformulation of the mainstream development discourse. One of
the most striking examples of the (sometimes combined) failure of both
neo-liberal and neo-populist theories is land reform, which will be
discussed in APORDE.
APORDE
APORDE will allow talented academics, policy makers and civil society
representatives from Africa (and, to a lesser extent, from Asia and
Latin America) to gain access to alternatives to mainstream thinking on
development issues and to be equipped in a way that will foster original
thinking. Participants will receive intensive high-level training,
interact with some of the best development economists in the world and
with other participants.
APORDE will cover essential topics in development economics, presenting
views that are critical of the mainstream and neo-populist views. These
will include industrial policy, poverty, financial crises and violent
conflicts. Lectures will equip participants with key information
pertaining to both mainstream and non-mainstream approaches to each
topic. Day lectures will last for three and a half hours, while a number
of shorter evening lectures will also be organised. Several research
workshops will be held around overarching themes.
All costs incurred by participants – travelling, accommodation,
conference fees and per diem – will be covered.
The seminar will be held in Stellenbosch during May / June 2008. Exact
dates and venue to be confirmed.
[ Provisional Programme:
http://www.ifas.org.za/aporde/sitemgr/article/programme-2008/email-link
]
[ Aporde website: www.aporde.org.za
]
Applications
It is necessary that participants demonstrate first-class intellectual
capacity and (at least some) prior knowledge in economics, as well as
proficiency in English. However, the objective of APORDE is to draw
participants from a broad range of backgrounds. People with no formal
qualifications, but who have demonstrated exceptional capacity in their
professional lives, are invited to apply.
The main body of participants will be drawn from Africa, but we welcome
applicants from Asia and Latin America who have research or work
experience related to Africa.
Prospective applicants should send
- a Curriculum Vitae;
- an official transcript (showing courses taken and grades obtained);
- 2 (two) letters of reference, where possible 1 academic referee and 1
professional, which should be sent directly to aporde@ifas.org.za or
faxed to +27 11 836 5850;
- an essay of no more than 1500 words stating how they would benefit
from APORDE.
Applications should be accompanied by a cover letter indicating the
applicants' full contact details (including e-mail address and telephone
numbers). For those whose main medium of instruction during their
education was not English, proof of English proficiency will be
necessary. Results of standard English proficiency tests (e.g. TOEFL or
IELTS) will be preferable, but other proof may also be accepted (e.g., a
sample of written work in English).
Applications should be sent to
aporde@ifas.org.za to the attention of Nicolas Pons–Vignon.
The application should reach Nicolas Pons-Vignon at the latest by
midnight on Monday 10 December 2007. Incomplete or late applications
will not be considered.
Please note that individual acknowledgement of applications will be sent
by e-mail only. Candidates will be notified by e-mail of the outcome of
their applications by the end of February 2008.
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.
Flows of People and Money Past, Present
and Future
Research Scholar, The Distribution of Income and Wealth
Job Description:
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College invites applications for
two Research Scholar positions in the program on distribution of income
and wealth. The scholar will collaborate with a team of economists on
updating and extending the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being
(LIMEW). The successful candidate would be capable of developing
analyses of well-being and deprivation using the LIMEW and its
components. Special consideration will be given to candidates with
research interests in issues of international comparisons of living
standards and measurement of poverty. Given the broad nature of our
measure, a wide variety of research interests can be complementary to
the project. More information on the LIMEW project can be found at
http://www.levy.org/diw.aspx.
Requirements:
A completed Ph.D. is required, but candidates expecting the degree in
the immediate future will also be considered. We also expect the
candidate to possess solid quantitative skills and familiarity with
analyzing microdata using SAS or Stata.
Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. Please submit a letter of
interest, current CV, references, and sample papers to Human Resources
#11007, Bard College, PO Box 5000, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504-5000,
or fax to 845 758 7826. AA/EOE.
JEL Codes: D3 (Distribution), D6 (Economic Welfare) and I3 (Welfare and
Poverty)
UNITE HERE Canada
Director of Corporate Governance
UNITE HERE Canada is looking for a Director of Corporate Governance to
assist workers and their benefit funds in creating an effective program
for corporate reform and accountability. The program will support
initiatives that effectively protect worker's assets in the financial
markets.
The position will involve working with union pension funds to safeguard
the investments of workers and their benefit funds by promoting
independent and accountable conduct by corporate boards, reasonable
executive compensation, and sound environmental, human rights, human
resources and business policies.
The applicant will be responsible for developing and maintaining strong
relationships with institutional shareholders, financial market
regulators, and the Canadian labour movement. The position requires an
advanced degree in finance, economics, law or business or equivalent
experience. Previous work experience with the Canadian labour movement
or institutional shareholders is preferred. An ability to work in both
French and English is an asset.
UNITE HERE represents 50,000 members across Canada and 450,000 in North
America. Its members work in apparel and textile manufacturing, hotels
and foodservice, gaming and auto parts as well as other manufacturing.
UNITE HERE is a member of the Canadian Labour Congress and the Change to
Win Federation.
Please respond directly to Alex Dagg, UNITE HERE Canada Co-Director, at
adagg@unitehere.ca. No
telephone inquiries please.
The University of Rhode Island
POSITION DESCRIPTION
TITLE: Assistant Professor, Economics
Department: Economics
Union: AAUP Acad
This is a tenure-track appointment for Fall of 2008 for a specialist in
History of Economic Thought and Contemporary Heterodox Approaches.
BASIC FUNCTION:
Teach undergraduate courses in economics including courses in History of
Economic Thought and Current Heterodox Approaches, maintain a scholarly
research program, advise undergraduate students and participate in
departmental governance and service.
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University of Manitoba
Department of Economics Headship
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Position Vacancy # CA666 & 06727
The Department of Economics, Faculty of Arts at The University of
Manitoba invites applications and nominations for the position of Head
of the Department of Economics. The successful candidate must hold a PhD
and will be appointed to a tenured position within Economics at the rank
of Associate Professor or Professor commensurate with qualifications and
experience. The appointment as Head is normally for a five year period
to begin July 1, 2008 or soon thereafter.
The administrative duties of Department Heads in the Faculty of Arts are
governed by University Policy 1009 and also by the terms of collective
agreements and the policies and protocols of the Faculty of Arts.
The criteria to be used in assessing candidates for the Headship will
include the applicant=s or nominee=s performance in teaching, research
and service, the ability to represent the interests of the Department in
working with the Dean and other Heads of Departments, the ability to
foster and promote the success of the Department=s academic staff, the
ability to sustain a positive working environment for faculty, support
staff and graduate students, and the ability to respond effectively to
both undergraduate and graduate student issues.
Short-listed candidates for the position will be expected to address a
public forum of faculty, support staff, and students.
The University of Manitoba encourages applications from qualified women
and men, including members of visible minorities, Aboriginal peoples,
and persons with disabilities. All qualified candidates are encouraged
to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given
priority.
Confidential applications and nominations should include a curriculum
vitae, a letter of intent and three confidential letters of reference
and should be received no later than noon on February 29, 2008. All
materials should be sent to:
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in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy
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Franklin College
Please be informed that Franklin College is seeking candidates for a
position as Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs. The desired
profile is one of a strategic thinker and educational innovator who can
lead Franklin through a period of transition towards a University model
including support of research, scholarship, and graduate programs.
GDAE's Dr. Elizabeth A. Stanton and Dr. Frank Ackerman are the authors
on a new report commissioned by Environmental Defense, "Florida and
Climate Change: The Costs of Inaction." The report is the first detailed
analysis on the potential consequences of continued climate change for
the state's economy. The report concludes that if left unchecked,
climate change will significantly harm Florida's economy in the next
several decades, and that impacts on just three sectors - tourism,
electric utilities, and real estate - together with effects of
hurricanes would shrink Florida's Gross State Product by 5%, or $345
billion in today's dollars, by the end of this century.
Business as usual, continuing current emission trends, could lead to 10
degrees (F) of warming and 45 inches of sea level rise, along with more
intense hurricanes, for Florida by 2100. Alternatively, under a rapid
stabilization scenario, Florida might experience only 2 degrees (F) of
warming, 7 inches of sea level rise, and little if any change in
hurricane patterns, by the end of the century. The report spells out the
difference between these two futures for Florida, identifying many other
areas of economic and environmental impacts beyond those for which costs
could be estimated.
"The bad news is that unconstrained climate change will hit Florida's
economy hard," said Dr. Frank Ackerman, one of the report's lead
authors.
"But the good news is that these impacts can largely be avoided by
taking action in the near future to rapidly stabilize overall emissions
of the greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change."
The release of the report on November 28 was covered by the Miami Herald
and many other Florida publications and radio and TV stations, along
with Reuters, the Associated Press, and Businesswire. Outside of
Florida, the story appeared in the Houston Chronicle, the websites of
Forbes, ABC News, CBS News, and MSN.com, as well as numerous business
journals and local newspapers, and several European news publications
and websites.
Download the full report here in either
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Industrial Livestock Firms Saved
$35 billion from Low Feed Prices
GDAE announces two new publications on the implicit subsidies to factory
farms from U.S. agricultural policies:
Feeding at the Trough:
Industrial Livestock Firms Saved $35 billion from Low Feed Prices
By Elanor Starmer and Timothy A. Wise
GDAE Policy Brief No. 07-03, December 2007
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/rp/PB07-03FeedingAtTroughDec07.pdf
Building on its work on the implicit subsidies from low-cost feed to
industrial hog and broiler chicken operations, this new policy brief
estimates the gains to five livestock sectors – hogs, broilers, eggs,
beef cattle, and dairy – from below-cost feed. Between 1997 and 2005,
factory farms saved an estimated $3.9 billion per year because they were
able to purchase corn and soybeans – the main components of most feed
mixtures – at prices below what it cost to produce the crops, a
reduction amounting to 5%-15% of operating costs, depending on the
sector. Estimated savings to industrial hog, broiler, egg, dairy, and
cattle operations totaled nearly $35 billion over the nine-year period.
Living High on the Hog
New from GDAE’s “Feeding the Factory Farm Project:”
Living High on the Hog: Factory Farms, Federal Policy, and the
Structural Transformation of Swine Production
by Elanor Starmer and Timothy A. Wise
GDAE Working Paper No. 07-04, December 2007
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/wp/07-04LivingHighOnHog.pdf
Agricultural policy reforms in 1996 stimulated overproduction for many
U.S. row crops, driving prices to levels below farmers’ costs of
production. Farm subsidies made up only a portion of the difference,
leaving most family farmers worse off. The real beneficiaries of
below-cost commodities were agribusiness firms, the main consumers of
such products. In this new study, GDAE researchers estimate the savings
to industrial hog operations from cheap feed, mixed primarily from corn
and soybeans priced below production costs. From 1997-2005, feed was
priced an estimated 26% below cost, giving firms a 13% savings on
operating costs. As a group, factory hog farms saved an estimated $945
million per year, a nine-year savings of $8.5 billion.
This “implicit subsidy” from low-priced feed gave factory farms a
competitive advantage over diversified hog farmers who grew their own
crops. Factory farms also gained from the externalized costs of
pollution from their large manure concentrations. GDAE researchers
estimate that forcing industrial hog farms to internalize the costs of
just surface water contamination could have added up to 11% to their
operating costs.
Researchers conclude that in an economic climate of full-cost feed and
with more stringent environmental regulation, factory hog farms would
see their operating costs rise by between 17.4% and 25.7%. This could
virtually eliminate the apparent cost advantage industrial hog
operations have over mid-sized diversified hog producers.
THE CONTEXTUAL SOURCES OF SLUTSKY'S EFFECT: 1915, 1927, AND AFTER p.
403
Authors: Vincent Barnett
Link
WAS RICHARD CANTILLON A MERCANTILIST? p. 417
Authors: Mark Thornton
Link
AN INSTITUTIONALIST'S JOURNEY INTO THE YEARS OF HIGH THEORY: JOHN
MAURICE CLARK ON THE ACCELERATOR-MULTIPLIER INTERACTION p. 437
Authors: Luca Fiorito
Link
INTEREST AND THE MARGINAL PRODUCT OF CAPITAL: A CRITIQUE OF
SAMUELSON p. 453
Authors: Robert P. Murphy
Link
CARDINAL VERSUS ORDINAL UTILITY: ANTÓNIO HORTA OSÓRIO'S CONTRIBUTION
p. 465
Authors: Maria Eugénia Mata
Link
REVIEW ESSAY: DID THE (RETURNS TO) SCALES FALL FROM THEIR EYES? p.
481
Authors: Philip Mirowski
Link
Levy News
Digital Newsletter of The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College November 20, 2007
FALL 2007 SUMMARY
Volume 16, No. 3
www.levy.org/pubs/sum_16_3.pdf
The Summary, published three times a year, is aimed primarily at an
academic audience. It updates current Levy Institute research with
synopses of new publications, special features on continuing research
projects, accounts of professional presentations by the research staff,
and an overview of Levy Institute events. This issue features the 16th
Annual Hyman P. Minsky Conference, “Global Imbalances: Prospects for the
U.S. and World Economies,” hosted by the Institute as part of its State
of the U.S. and World Economies program.
The Report, a quarterly newsletter, is aimed at a diverse general
audience interested in policy matters. It includes interviews with
prominent scholars and public officials who can provide insights into
current topics of debate, editorials by Levy Institute research staff,
summaries of new publications, synopses of conferences and other events,
and news of the Institute and its scholars.
November 27, 2007
NEW WORKING PAPERS
What Are the Relative Macroeconomic Merits and Environmental Impacts of
Direct Job Creation and Basic Income Guarantees?
PAVLINA R. TCHERNEVA
Working Paper No. 517
www.levy.org/pubs/wp_517.pdf
Research Scholar Pavlina R. Tcherneva explores the macroeconomic
viability of income and job guarantee policies in the context of modern
monetary production economies. An effective safety net must guarantee
both a source of income and work, and it is important to tie the
provision of income to community participation (e.g., the Jefes job
guarantee program in Argentina). Moreover, employer-of-last-resort
programs can be designed to include employment that enhances
environmental sustainability.
Fiscal Deficit, Capital Formation, and Crowding Out in India: Evidence
from an Asymmetric VAR Model
LEKHA S. CHAKRABORTY
Working Paper No. 518
www.levy.org/pubs/wp_518.pdf
Research Associate Lekha S. Chakraborty finds no evidence of direct or
financial crowding out in India. Rather, public infrastructure
investment crowds in private corporate investment in the medium and long
terms. This result has crucial policy implications.
December 4, 2007
NEW WORKING PAPERS
Public Employment and Women: The Impact of Argentina’s Jefes Program on
Female Heads of Poor Households
PAVLINA R. TCHERNEVA and L. RANDALL WRAY
Working Paper No. 519
www.levy.org/pubs/wp_519.pdf
At its peak, the Jefes program in Argentina included two million workers
(13 percent of the labor force) and the majority of workers were women.
In light of government attempts to dismantle the program in favor of
more traditional “reforms” to deal with poverty and unemployment
(because of a lack of understanding of its benefits), there is a danger
that many women will return to relative isolation within their
substandard homes and communities.
Nurkse and the Role of Finance in Development Economics
JAN KREGEL
Working Paper No. 520
www.levy.org/pubs/wp_520.pdf
Ragnar Nurkse was a theorist of economic development who questioned
orthodox Ricardian trade theory as the basis for development policies.
He believed that development was demand-constrained and that “balanced”
growth should support the industrialization of “undeveloped” economies.
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, Senior Scholar Jan Kregel
provides a critical retrospective of Nurkse’s contribution to
development economics; in particular, his views on the importance of
employment policy in mobilizing domestic resources and the difficulties
of using external resources to finance development.
Hyman P. Minsky’s insights about modern capitalist economies can help us
analyze the evolution of financial markets that brought us to the
present crisis. An unconstrained speculative boom is partly due to mass
delusion propagated by policymakers. However, a large part of the blame
must be placed on the relative stability of the past few decades. The
current crisis represents a failure of the big-government,
neoconservative (neoliberal) model. Minsky provides guidance for the
development of a more sensible model that includes a revision of
monetary policy (e.g., enhanced oversight of financial institutions). It
is time to rethink the reforms of the New Deal and create new
institutional constraints to prevent “it” from happening again, observes
Wray.
Earnings Functions and the Measurement of the Determinants of Wage
Dispersion: Extending Oaxaca’s Approach
JOSEPH DEUTSCH and JACQUES SILBER
Working Paper No. 521
www.levy.org/pubs/wp_521.pdf
In a pathbreaking paper, Ronald Oaxaca (1973) proposed a technique to
decompose the relative wage gap between two population subgroups. The
authors extend Oaxaca’s approach to include any number of groups, and
combine techniques used in the fields of income inequality measurement
and labor economics to analyze the determinants of the overall wage
dispersion. An empirical illustration is based on income surveys in
Israel.
Introduction: Thomas Schelling's distinctive approach p. 403
Authors: S. Abu Turab Rizvi
Link
Player heterogeneity and empiricism in Schelling p. 409
Authors: Alessandro Innocenti
Link
Models, conjectures and exploration: an analysis of Schelling's
checkerboard model of residential segregation p. 429
Authors: N. Emrah Aydinonat
Link
Some like it cold: Thomas Schelling as a Cold Warrior p. 455
Authors: Esther-Mirjam Sent
Link
Realism, closed systems and abstraction p. 473
Authors: Stephen Pratten
Link
Reorienting critical realism: a system-wide perspective on the
capitalist economy p. 499
Authors: Andrew Brown
Link
International
Journal of Political Economy (Vol. 36, no. 3, Fall 2007)
Volume 36 Number 3 / Fall 2007 of International Journal of Political
Economy is now available on the mesharpe.metapress.com web site at
http://mesharpe.metapress.com.
Vol. 36, no. 4, Winter 2007-8
Symposium on Coping with Structural Imbalances in the Global Economy
Table of Contents
1. Editor’s Introduction
2. “Global Imbalances and Economic Development” by Esteban
Pérez-Caldentey (CEPAL, Santiago, Chile) and Matias Vernengo (University
of Utah, Salt Lake City, U.S.A.)
3. “U.S. Debt and Global Imbalances” by Jane D’Arista (Financial Markets
Center, Philomont, Virginia, U.S.A.)
4. “The Fallacy of the Revisited Bretton Woods Hypothesis: Why Today’s
Global Financial System is Unsustainable and Suggestions for a
Replacement” by Thomas Palley (Economics for Democratic and Open
Societies, Washington, D.C., U.S.A.)
5. “Global Imbalances and Economic Development: Economic Policymaking by
Left-of-Center Governments in Latin America” by Igor Paunovic and Carlos
Moreno-Brid (ECLAC, Mexico City, Mexico)
6. “The Instability and Inequities of the Global Reserve System” by José
Antonio Ocampo (Columbia University, New York, U.S.A.)
Research in Critical Marxist Theory
Volume 15 Issue 3 2007
CONTENTS
Articles
Paolo Virno
General Intellect
Axel Kiciloff & Guido Starosta
On Materiality and Social Form: A Political Critique of Rubin’s
Value-Form Theory
Symposium on Ellen Meiksins Wood’s ‘Empire of Capital’
Paul Blackledge
Editorial Introduction
David Harvey
In What Ways Is the ‘New Imperialism’ Really New?
William I. Robinson
The Pitfalls of Realist Analysis of Global Capitalism: A Critique of
Ellen Meiksins Wood’s Empire of Capital
Prasenjit Bose
‘New’ Imperialism? On Globalisation and Nation-States
François Chesnais
The Economic Foundations and Needs of Contemporary Imperialism
Ellen Meiksins Wood
A Reply to Critics
Intervention
Sam Moyo & Paris Yeros
The Zimbabwe Question and the Two Lefts
Review Articles
Wolfgang-Fritz Haug
on Jan Rehmann’s 'Postmoderner Links-Nietzscheanismus. Deleuze &
Foucault. Eine Dekonstruktion'
Richie Nimmo
on 'Marx and Wittgenstein: Knowledge, Morality and Politics', edited
by Gavin Kitching and Nigel Pleasants
Alexander Gallas
on Joachim Bischoff’s 'Entfesselter Kapitalismus: Transformation des
europaischen Sozialmodells' and 'Klassen und soziale Bewegungen:
Strukturen im Kapitalismus', edited by Joachim Bischoff, Paul
Boccara, Robert Castel and Klaus Dorre
Daniel Gaido
on Oliver Nachtwey’s 'Weltmarkt und Imperialismus: Zur
Entstehungsgeschichte der klassischen marxistischen Imperialismustheorie'
by Oliver Nachtwey
Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism
John Bellamy Foster
Earth
Editors
Mark Lansky (English edition/Managing Editor)
Patrick Bollé (Édition française)
Luis Lázaro Martínez (Edición española)
Special Relaunch Issue
International Labour Review is now run by a new editorial team of
independent scholars working hand in hand with the ILO's International
Institute for Labour Studies.
This development reflects the ILO's commitment to establishing the
Review as a top academic journal, acting as a knowledge hub for both
scholars and policy-makers involved in the study and design of labour
and social policy.
Click on the links below to read articles from the special relaunch
issue completely free.
‘In this major new work, an outstanding political philosopher at the
height of his powers has given us the clearest and best argued case to
date for an increasingly important interpretation of Marxist theory.
Albritton's scholarship is also faultless.’
Professor Bertell Ollman, Department of Politics, New York University,
and author of 'Alienation' and 'Dance of the Dialectic'
‘Albritton provides a much-needed primer
designed to show a new generation of students why Marx's thought remains
absolutely relevant to all our lives. ... Read it and discover why
Marxism matters more than ever.’ Noel Castree, School of Environment and
Development, University of Manchester
Robert Albritton brings to life the classic concepts in Marx's economic
thought. As well as examining these essential points of Marxist theory,
he shows that they offer great potential for further study. Deeply
critical of the way economics is taught and studied today, this is a
textbook that will appeal to anyone who wants a forward-thinking
approach to the discipline that's free from the constraints of
neo-classical orthodoxy.
Taking up key aspects of Marx's work, including surplus value theory,
dialectical reasoning and the commodity form, Albritton highlights their
relevance in the modern world -- and explains why mainstream economics
has been so blind to their revolutionary potential. Written with style
and clarity, it is perfect for economics undergraduates.
Environmental and Natural Resource
Economics: A Contemporary Approach
(2nd Edition, Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
This text by Jonathan M. Harris introduces the student to the expanding
field of ecological economics. It balances coverage of standard
environmental economics topics with a global perspective on current
ecological issues such as population growth, global climate change,
"green" national income accounting, and the relationship between trade
and the environment.
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/textbooks/env_nat_res_economics.html
NOW AVAILABLE WITH FREE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE UPDATES:
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“The book is simply great! It is really one of a kind. It fills an
important need in the field, which will become more and more important
in the future, no doubt – integrating standard environmental economics
and ecological economics.”
Rafael Reuveny, School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana
University
Economists' Lives: Biography and
Autobiography in the History of Economics
E. Roy Weintraub, Evelyn L. Forget
A supplement of the journal History of Political Economy (39:X)
410 pages (January 2008)
Not yet available. You may place an
order now. The title will be shipped when it becomes available.
Cloth - $59.95
This collection of
essays, a supplement to History of Political Economy, brings together
prominent scholars from economics, sociology, literature, and history to
examine the role of biography and autobiography in the history of
economics. The first of its kind, this volume looks at the relevance of
first-person accounts to narrative histories of economics. The essays
consider both the potential and the limits of life writing, which has
traditionally been used sparingly by historians of economics, and
examine types of biographies, the relationship between autobiography and
identity, and the writing of biography.
Contributors to this collection question whether biography is essential
to understanding the history of economic ideas and consider how
autobiographical materials should be read and interpreted by historians.
Articles consider the treatment of autobiographical materials such as
conversations and testimonies, the construction of heroes and villains,
the relationship between scientific biography and literary biography,
and concerns related to living subjects. Several essays address the role
of biography and autobiography in the study of economists such as F. A.
Hayek, Harry Johnson, Alfred Marshall, John Maynard Keynes, Oskar
Morgenstern, and François Quesnay, concluding with several accounts of
the interconnection of the historians’ projects with their own
autobiographies.
All 2007 subscribers to History of Political Economy will receive a copy
of “Economists’ Lives: Biography and Autobiography in the History of
Economics” as part of their subscription.
Contributors
Roger E. Backhouse
Bruce Caldwell
Loïc Charles
William Coleman
Robert W. Dimand
Paul John Eakin
Ross B. Emmett
Evelyn L. Forget
Craufurd D. Goodwin
Peter Groenewegen
Malachi Haim Hacohen
Jan-Otmar Hesse
Patricia Laurence
Frederic S. Lee
Robert Leonard
Tiago Mata
D. E. Moggridge
Jeremy D. Popkin
Mike Reay
Christine Théré
E. Roy Weintraub
E. Roy Weintraub is Professor
of Economics at DukeUniversity
and the author of How Economics Became a Mathematical Science,
also published by Duke University Press. Evelyn L. Forget is Professor
of Economics in the Faculty of Medicine at the
University
of Manitoba.
The Evolution Of Economic
Institutions
Edited by Geoffrey M. Hodgson,
Research Professor in Business Studies, University of Hertfordshire, UK
‘This is a great set of essays. To get the richness they contain, the
reader must be already familiar with the broad orientation of the
literature on economic institutions. Given that background, I can think
of no collection or essays that frame, illuminate, and probe modern
institutional economics as well as does this set. Geoffrey Hodgson, who
chose the collection, and the authors of the essays, are to be
congratulated and thanked.’
– Richard R. Nelson, Columbia University, US
It is now widely acknowledged that institutions are a crucial factor in
economic performance. Major developments have been made in our
understanding of the nature and evolution of economic institutions in
the last few years. This book brings together some key contributions in
this area by leading internationally renowned scholars including Paul A.
David, Christopher Freeman, Alan P. Kirman, Jan Kregel, Brian J. Loasby,
J. Stanley Metcalfe, Bart Nooteboom and Ugo Pagano. ...full
details
A House of Cards
from fantasy finance to global crash
Published: 3 December 2007
A spectre is haunting globalised capitalism - the collapse of the debt
mountain built up over 30 years of unsustainable growth, says a timely
new analysis. Since queues gathered outside Northern Rock branches in
September 2007, financial pundits have started to use the dreaded “C”
words – capitalism and crash – until now considered so last century. In
A House of Cards - from fantasy finance to global crash, Gerry Gold and
Paul Feldman note how Marx used the term “fictitious capital” when
analysing the role of credit in the capitalist economy. The authors say:
“Some claim that credit and debt can be permanently separated from the
‘real economy’, and have an independent existence. This is wishful
thinking. All the evidence reveals quite the opposite – a relationship
of mutual dependency between productive capital and fictitious capital.”
They warn that the magnitude of debt swirling around the global economy
means that the crisis is far deeper than in 1929 when the Wall Street
crash led to global slump. Gerry Gold and Paul Feldman connect the
emergence of fantasy finance to the rise of powerful transnational
corporations and the need to entice consumers to buy increasing numbers
of commodities and services, whether they needed them or not.
The authors critically examine proposals for improved regulation and
governance and conclude that the crisis is beyond the control of
national governments and international agencies. Finally, in throwing up
the challenge of “composting capitalism”, A House of Cards sets out
visionary, not-for-profit, sustainable alternatives to the global market
economy and financial system. These are based on taking the
resources,technology, distribution system and skills developed under
capitalism and placing them within a new economic and political
framework.
Notes to editors
A House of Cards – from fantasy finance to global crash is published by
Lupus Books and A World to Win at £3. It can be purchased online at
www.aworldtowin.net.
For information, interview or article requests please contact:
Katherine Harcourt at info@aworldtowin.net or 07871 745258.
About the authors
Gerry Gold is a consultant in complex systems who specialises in
understanding the global economy. He is also a musician favouring
collective
improvisation.
Paul Feldman is a political analyst, website editor and co-author of
A World to Win – A Rough Guide to a Future Without Global Capitalism
(2004).
ISBN 978-0-9523454-3-5
88 pages
LUPUS Books PO Box 942 London SW1V 2AR
07871 745258 info@aworldtowin.net www.aworldtowin.net
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Contents
Introduction 9
Chapter 1: Corporate power out of control 11
The origins of globalisation The enforcers
Profit, profit, profit Labour – the source of all value
The falling rate of profit Overproduction
Credit and consumption
Chapter 2: The spectre haunting capitalism 31
The origins of credit The Big Bang Deriving a profit
Private equity Personal and household credit and debt
Debt in the UK The great unravelling The not-so-almighty dollar
Chapter 3: Paying the price 49
Climate Change Inequality at home and abroad
Extreme consumerism Personal debt
Resources wars A market state
Chapter 4: A leopard cannot change its spots 61
Reality check
Broken free
Chapter 5: Composting capitalism 69
Co-ownership Self-management Liberating capitalism from itself
Communications infrastructure Scientific systems of management
Highly-skilled workforces Scientific and technological revolution
A global financial system The thinking market
Distribution of wealth The future
Growth and Crisis: Social Structure of
Accumulation Theory and and Analysis
Edited by: Terrence McDonough, Michael Reich, David M. Kotz and
Maria-Alejandra Gonzalez-Perez ISBN 978-0-9553159-1-6 First Published
2006. Download the full e-book from the link below: this is a very large
(pdf) file--32 MB, 538 pages.
http://www.nuigalway.ie/ssrc/documents/SSA_Conference_E-Book.pdf
This e-book contains 21 chapters divided into eight parts:
1. Social Structure of Accumulation
2. Theory
3. Finance and Regulation
4. Brazil
5. Globalization, China and Crisis
6. Property and Its Limits
7. India
8. United States and Labour
This volumes was assembled from papers prepared for the First
International Conference on Social Structure of Accumulation Theory and
Analysis held in the J.E.
Cairnes Graduate School of Business and Public Policy between the
2nd and 4th of November, 2006. Conference details and digital videos of
the papers that have been delivered are available online on our official
blog at
http://ssagalway.blogspot.com/.
Critical Political Economy
Critical Political Economy: Complexity, rationality, and the logic of
post-orthodox pluralism by Christian Arnsperger.
This book asks how a more liberating economics could be constructed and
taught. It suggests that if economists today are serious about
emancipation and empowerment, they will have to radically change their
conception about what it means for a citizen to act rationally in a
complex society.
Arnsperger emphasises that current economics neglects an important fact:
Many of us ask not only ‘what’s in it for us’, within a given
socio-economic context; we also care about the context itself. The
author argues that if citizens keen on exercising their critical reason
actually demanded economic theories that allowed them to do so,
economics would have to become a constantly emerging, open-ended
knowledge process. He claims that in a truly free economy, there would
be no all-out war between ‘orthodox’ and ‘heterodox’ approaches, but an
intricate and unpredictable ‘post-orthodox’ pluralism that would emerge
from the citizens’ own complex interactions.
Offering an original and path-breaking combination of insights from
Hayek, the theory of complexity, and the Frankfurt School of social
criticism, Arnsperger discusses how such a free economy would generate
its specific brand of economics, called ‘Critical Political Economy’.
Praise for Critical Political Economy:
'An impressively argued attempt to bridge conventional divisions between
economics and other areas of social theory' William Outhwaite (Sussex
University, UK)
For further information or to purchase a copy of the book please
click here Table of contents
A Biographical Dictionary Of Australian
And New Zealand Economists
‘Despite globalization, economic ideas in the Antipodes have always been
distinctively different from the rest of the world. This book tracks the
careers of 130 eminent but deceased Australian and New Zealand
economists, largely told by their colleagues and friends. This caps
earlier studies of Antipodean economics by Craufurd Goodwin, Peter
Groenewegen and Bruce McFarlane. We only have to mention names like
Arthur Smithies, Heinz Arndt, Colin Clark, Graham Salter, Stanley
Jevons, Trevor Swan, Bill Phillips, Frederic Benham and Robert Torrens
to remind us of how much we have all learned from Antipodean economists.
This book is a perfect read on that long plane journey to Australia or
New Zealand.’
– Mark Blaug, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Contributors: J.R. Anderson, F. Argy, S. Bambrick, G. Banks, G. Bertram,
C. Blyth, N. Brown, J. Butlin, W. Coleman, M. Corden, S. Cornish, J.
Courvisanos, R. Dixon, M. Donoghue, B. Easton, A. Endres, L.T. Evans, B.
Fisher, R. Garnaut, M. Gordon, P. Groenewegen, L. Haddad, A. Hall, V.B.
Hall, G.C. Harcourt, G. Hawke, J. Hawkins, W. Hogan, G. Hogbin, F.
Holmes, T. Hunter, J. Isaac, J.B. King, J.E. King, M. Lake, R. Lattimore,
R. Leeson, D. Leonard, P. Lloyd, J. Lodewijks, S. Magarey, M. McLure, J.
McMillan, A. Millmow, G. Moore, P. Moore, G. Patmore, R. Petridis,
P.C.B. Phillips, P. Saunders, M. Schneider, J. Singleton, B. Smith, G.D.
Snooks, S. Turnell, A. Watson, K. Weststrate, L. Williams, R. Williams,
R. Wilson
Imagining Economics Otherwise: Encounters
with Identity/Difference.
Is it possible to be ‘irrational’ without being ‘uneconomic’? What is
the link between ‘Value’ and ‘values’? What do economists do when they
‘explain’? We live in times when the economic logic has become
unquestionable and all-powerful so that our
quotidian economic experiences are defined by their scientific
construal. This book is the result of a multifaceted investigation into
the nature of knowledge produced by economics, and the construction of
the category that is termed ‘economic’ with its
implied exclusions. It is an attempt to think economics Otherwise, that
is, a questioning of economics as if difference mattered. Nitasha Kaul
re-examines certain understood ways of thinking about economics as a
discipline, especially in relation to questions of identity and
difference. This book explores the notion that economics is not a
timeless, universal, objective science but a changing response to the
problems of knowledge and administration. The epistemological
inheritance of economics is ‘rooted’ in the enlightenment, and it also
inherits the liberal paradoxes of that age. Kaul argues that the
juxtaposition of identity with economic (culture/economy) is essential,
and can only be achieved by critiquing establishment economists’
discourse on identity, and taking feminist poststructural and
postcolonial work seriously. The author challenges
the assumption that there is a simple linkage between the category
economic, the entity economy and the study of economics. She envisions
an economics in the plural: contextual, social, political—econo-mixes.
The book brings together some of the most urgent topics of the day—the
power of economics as a discipline, the questions of difference and the
politics of identity, and feminist perspectives on this. It will be
particularly relevant to heterodox economists, feminist theorists,
postcolonial studies scholars, social and cultural theorists,
philosophers and history of ideas or intellectual history of thought
scholars.
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Socialism after Hayek by Theodore A. Burczak
http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=93585
Socialism after Hayek reinvigorates the socialist quest for class
justice by rendering it compatible with the social and economic theories
of F. A. Hayek. Theodore A. Burczak advances a new vision of socialism
that avoids Hayek's criticisms of centrally planned socialism while
adhering to a socialist conception of distributive justice and Marx's
notion of freely associated labor. In contrast to the socialist models
of John Roemer, Michael Albert, and Robin Hahnel, Burczak envisions a
"free market socialism" in which privately owned firms are run
democratically by workers, and governments engage in ongoing
redistributions of wealth to support human development, yet markets are
otherwise unregulated.
Theodore A. Burczak is Associate Professor of Economics at Denison
University. Visit his website at:
www.denison.edu/economics/faculty/burczak.html.
"Burczakian socialism = (Hayek + Nussbaum + Sen + Ackerman + Resnick and
Wolff) = Ellerman = legal-economic democracy. Brilliant! Burczak takes
Hayek, his critics, and other social theorists and produces the
foundations of a legal-economic order in which the concerns of most
current thinkers are provided for. It is a deep, sustained, and
brilliant achievement."
---Warren J. Samuels, Professor Emeritus, Economics Department, Michigan
State University; former President of the History of Economics Society
and the Association for Social Economics; coeditor of the Journal of
Income Distribution; and author of over 40 books
"Theodore A. Burczak's Socialism after Hayek is a thoroughly researched
and thoughtful examination not only of the ideological debate that
framed the twentieth century, but of Hayek's intellectual framework.
Burczak hopes for an economic framework that is both humanistic in its
approach and humanitarian in its concern while being grounded in good
reasons. The book should be on the reading list of every comparative
political economist and in particular anyone who wants to take Hayek
seriously, including those who would like to push Hayek's classical
liberal politics toward the left in the twenty-first century. Burczak
has made an outstanding contribution to the fields of political and
economic thought and to Hayek studies in particular."
---Peter J. Boettke, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies,
Department of Economics, George Mason University, Fairfax
"An advance well beyond the great 'socialist calculation debate.'
Socialism after Hayek is both novel and challenging to contemporary
Hayekian scholars. Burczak is the only scholar working in the
post-Marxist tradition that thoroughly understands and appreciates the
Hayekian critique of socialism. He is on his way to answering many of
our long-held objections."
---Dave Prychitko, Department of Economics, Northern Michigan University
"One does not have to agree with all of Burczak's arguments to accept
that he has developed a bold, creative and challenging response to the
powerful Hayekian critique of socialism. Burczak wisely rejects the
agoraphobia---literally the fear of markets---of many socialists, and
focuses instead on the socialist goal of the abolition of exploitation.
If this important book is read by both socialists and Hayekians, then
there is a chance that debates on the viability of socialism may avoid
some past pitfalls."
---Geoffrey M. Hodgson, University of Hertfordshire, UK
"Provocative and expansive. An excellent book that deals in depth with
the relevant literature, incorporating it into a new analysis of the
question of socialism. . . . The scholarship is superior: Burczak
integrates the works of Hayek and Marx to develop a new theory of
justice and to provide a new way to think through the problems of a
socialist economy."
---Stephen Cullenberg, Department of Economics, University of
California, Riverside
"A brilliant, fair-minded approach to Marx, Hayek, Sen, and Nussbaum
yields a needed socialist vision for the twenty-first century."
---Stephen Resnick, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts
Future Directions for Heterodox Economics,
edited by John T. Harvey and Robert F. Garnett, Jr., Editors
http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=171896
Twenty-first century economists will have to understand and improve a
post-Cold War world in which no single economic theory or system holds
the key to human betterment. Heterodox economists have much to
contribute to this effort, as a wave of pluralism spawns new lines of
research and new dialogues among non-mainstream economists. Future
Directions for Heterodox Economics showcases the full range of heterodox
ideas, surveying leading-edge discussions of pluralism;
socially-grounded reconstructions of the individual in economic theory;
the goals and tools of economic measurement and professional ethics; the
complexities of policymaking in today's global political economy; and
innovative connections among formerly separate theoretical traditions
(Marxian, Austrian, feminist, ecological, Sraffian, institutionalist,
and post-Keynesian).
John T. Harvey is Professor of Economics at Texas Christian University.
Robert F. Garnett, Jr. is Associate Professor of Economics at Texas
Christian University.
This book offers a new model for contemporary economic behavior that
accounts for changes since neoclassical and Marxian microeconomics were
formulated over a century ago. By incorporating real time into the
analysis of sales and purchases, the phenomena of product innovation,
advertising and distribution, the provision of consumer credit, and,
ultimately, the production of a changing workforce all become intrinsic
to microeconomic analysis rather than being treated as extraneous to
fundamental theory.
Economics in Real Time transforms the analysis of contemporary sales and
purchases. In mainstream economics the series of purchases, say, of a
personal computer, then of software upgrades, peripherals, on-line
services, and even support services are analyzed as discrete,
essentially unrelated transactions. However counterintuitive, this
approach is theoretically necessary to sustain the free-market
narrative, its price and general equilibrium theories, and its
efficiency and welfare theorems. Economics in Real Time instead links
such related purchases within what is called a "sale/purchase state"
occupying the time interval that begins with the initial purchase of the
PC and ends only when all of the PC's services have been exchanged to
the buyer. Under this analysis, typical contemporary sale/purchase
states, as for automobiles, benefit plans, and electronic goods, place
the purchaser in continuing, often dependent relationships to multiple
sellers, at least some of which were not even overt partners to the
initial purchase. Moreover they typically impose a continuing stream of
expenditures upon the purchaser, as for automobile upkeep or music CDs,
and so forth.
Economics in Real Time analyzes a contemporary economy as shaped in both
its narrowly economic and broadly social features by these sale/purchase
states. It draws a radically different picture of its terrain,
challenging at the most fundamental level both the relevance and the
theoretical warrant of the free-market conception.
John McDermott is Professor Emeritus of the State University of New York
and a member of the editorial board of the Review of Radical Political
Economics. His books include Corporate Society: Class, Property, and
Contemporary Capitalism. His work has appeared in the New York Review of
Books, the Nation, and other venues. He now lives in the Boston area.
Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on
Families, Work, and Globalization by Drucilla K. Barker and Susan
F. Feiner
http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=11867
Liberating Economics draws on central concepts from women's studies
scholarship to construct a feminist understanding of the economic roles
of families, caring labor, motherhood, paid and unpaid labor, poverty,
the feminization of labor, and the consequences of globalization. Barker
and Feiner consistently recognize the importance of social
location—gender, race, class, sexual identity, and nationality—in
economic processes shaping the home, paid employment, market relations,
and the global economy. Throughout they connect women's economic status
in the industrialized nations to the economic circumstances surrounding
women in the global South.
Rooted in the two disciplines, this book draws on the rich tradition of
interdisciplinary work in feminist social science scholarship to
construct a parallel between the notions that the "personal is
political" and "the personal is economic."
Drucilla K. Barker is Professor of Economics and Women's Studies,
Hollins University.
Susan F. Feiner is Associate Professor of Economics and Women's Studies,
University of Southern Maine.
Reclaiming the Economy
( Scottish Left Review Publications )
Price: £10.00
The takeover of the economic policy agenda by business corporations and
their supporters in the political mainstream is one of the defining
characteristics of the age. The 'free' market, trade liberalisation,
privatisation and the protection of property rights now dominate the
concerns of our political classes and the opinion formers who influence
them, with only lip service paid to labour rights, social inequality and
the environment. Challenging the dominent policy agenda, the
contributers to this book argue for the construction of a more humane
and sustainable economy.
The book develops a set of alternative visions, which both de-couple
discussions of the economy from vested corporate interests and ask more
fundamental questions about what an economy should be for and who it
should be for and who it should serve. Departing from mainstream policy
and economics orthodoxy, it is geared towards building a radical left
agenda, yet at the same time, one that is grounded in a practical
politics. This book emerges from a particular initiative within
Scotland, the Alternative Economic Strategy Network, bringing together
progressive academics, trade unionists and activists to debate and
explore alternatives to neo-liberalism and mainstream economics.
Reflecting this 'local' context, some of the papers develop critiques
and policies directed at the Scottish public policy agenda, whilst
others have a more general application. But all seek to contribute to a
broader global vision challenging the free market fundamentalism of our
time.
http://www.slrp.co.uk/test1/index.php?page=shop.browse&category_id=1&option=com_virtuemart&Itemid=31
Pluto Press- New Books
- Israel and the Clash of Civilisations
Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East, JONATHAN COOK
- Sick Planet
Corporate Food and Medicine
STAN COX
- The Battle for China’s Past
Mao and the Cultural Revolution
MOBO GAO
- North Korea on the Brink
Struggle for Survival
GLYN FORD with SOYOUNG KWON
- A Century of Spin
How Public Relations Became the Cutting Edge of Corporate Power
DAVID MILLER & WILLIAM DINAN
- An Israeli in Palestine
Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel
JEFF HALPER
- The Palestine–Israel Conflict,
Second Edition
GREGORY HARMS with TODD M. FERRY
- Ecological Debt, Second Edition
Global Warming and the Wealth of Nations
ANDREW SIMMS
On behalf of the officers, steering committee, and communications
committee of the Working Class Studies Association, I am pleased to
announce the public debut of the Working Class Studies Association
Website : http://www.wcstudies.org/
We hope the Website will be a useful and timely resource for anyone
interested in working class life and culture, and an instrument for
working class studies. We invite you to the site and hope you will use
this opportunity to join the Working Class Studies Association. You will
receive UserID and Password information to access member-only pages when
you join. This is a new site with most of its potential still to be
developed. We welcome appropriate content and ideas - please submit to
the email addresses on the site.
Michael Zweig
Secretary, Working Class Studies Association
Economists for Full Employment
We would like to bring to your attention a new resource, the website of
Economists for
Full Employment. The site promotes and disseminates work on the
right to a job,
employment guarantee programs and employer of last resort
policies. Our growing list of members includes research institutions,
academics, policy advisors, advocates and members of government.With support from the ILO (EIIP) and the Levy Institute this new
forum is up and running!
Help for Setting Up Courses in Heterodox
Economics
Dr. Carlos Maya is creating two post-graduate courses on heterodox
economics: introductory course and an advanced seminar at the University
of Sinaloa, Mexico. He would like suggests on course content, topics,
bibliography, etc. You can e-mail your suggestions to him at
maya@uas.uasnet.mx.
AVAILABLE FROM THE GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE AT TUFTS
UNIVERSITY (GDAE)
ECONOMICS OF GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE
This new version of the teaching module Economics of Global Climate
Change includes coverage of the Nobel-Prize winning Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change 2007 report and the Stern Review on the
Economics of Climate Change, as well as new text boxes on discounting,
climate tipping points and surprises, and the European Union carbon
trading system.
This and other teaching modules, designed for use as supplements in
undergraduate-level courses, are available in Adobe Acrobat format.
Topics include: trade, global climate change, corporate power,
consumption, tax equity, and environmental justice. The module on
Corporate Power in a Global Economy has also been updated with new data
for 2008 use.
All GDAE teaching modules are available for FREE download at:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/education_materials/modules.html
New Orleans Today
A Guided Tour to the Tragedy of Hurricane Katrina
and The Community’s Work to Rebuild Its City
Saturday January 5, 2008
4:30 – 7:00 p.m.
Susan Wayman, activist and registered New Orleans tour guide, will
provide an orientation
as we see first-hand:
* The Industrial Canal, in the Lower Ninth Ward
(where one of the most severe levee breaches occurred).
* Tennessee Street
(the most damaged part of the most damaged neighborhood)
* The Katrina Memorial
Claiborne Avenue
The tragedy is, however, only part of the “story” of Hurricane Katrina
and the City of New Orleans. The tour will therefore be followed by an
introduction to some of the community work taking place with a visit to
the:
Common Ground Relief Community Center
Common Ground Relief is located at 1800 Deslonde St. in a two story
house that sits about 100 ft. from where the flood wall broke open. This
community center is where Common Ground Relief runs their free public
computer lab, free legal clinic, tech support center, wetlands
restoration program, and media collective. The second floor of the 1800
house can sleep up to 45 volunteers. Right outside the house is the
community garden and a model wetlands pond.
Presentations by representatives of: Unified Nonprofits of Greater New
Orleans and
Common Ground Relief
The tour bus will begin boarding at 4:30 p.m. in front of the
Sheraton-New Orleans and will leave promptly at 4:40 p.m. (It is
important to leave promptly since the sun sets early at this time of
year, so there is limited daylight time for observation. Street lighting
has not been fully restored throughout the city, but this will be taken
into account in the organization of the tour.) The tour will end at the
Sheraton-New Orleans at 7 p.m.
The tour is sponsored by the Union for Radical Political Economics.
Tickets may be purchased in advance by sending checks to: URPE, Gordon
Hall, 418 North Pleasant Street, Amherst MA 01002 or in New Orleans at
the events sponsored by the Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE)
or the International Association For Feminist Economics (IAFFE).
New Orleans Labor
Media
Judy Ancel (UMKC) was recently in New Orleans for the International
Labor Communications Association meeting where about a hundred labor
communicators were unleashed to cover un- and under-reported stories
about post-Katrina reconstruction (or lack of it). She suggests that
before anyone goes to the ASSA in New Orleans that you visit the web
page and read, listen and watch the product of our efforts. It will be a
great intro to the on-going social issues that folks in New Orleans are
facing. You can find it at:
www.neworleanslabormedia.org
EAEPE Materials
25th DRUID Celebration Conference 2008 on ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND
INNOVATION - Organizations, Institutions, Systems and Regions will be
held at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, June 17(18) - June 20 :
http://eaepe.org/eaepe.php?q=node/view/85#DRUID08
Innovation and Social Development Cognitive capitalism – What Are The
Conditions For Social Development?'' will be held in Dubrovnik, Croatia,
23-25 May 2008
http://eaepe.org/eaepe.php?q=node/view/85#IUC08
Book Reviews.
Rene Kemp contributed one review on the book edited by Jeroen van den
Bergh, Albert Faber, Annemarth Idenburg, and Frans Oosterhuis. Its title
is "Evolutionary Economics and Environmental Policy. The Survival of the
Greenest". It was published by Edward Elgar in 2007. Read more:
http://eaepe.org/eaepe.php?q=node/view/260
Matthias Greiff has contributed a review on the book "Generative Social
Science - Studies in Agent-Based Computational Modeling" by Joshua M.
Epstein published by Princeton University Press in 2006. Read more :
http://eaepe.org/eaepe.php?q=node/view/260
Third Annual AFIT
Student Research Competition Winners
(Each winner receives $500.00 and will present their paper at the 2008
AFIT Conference)
Felipe Rezende, UMKC, fcrp6d@umkc.edu
“The Nature of Government Finance in Brazil”
Ryan A. Dodd, UMKC, radn69@umkc.edu
“Financial Instability, Social Justice and Direct Job Creation: The Work
of Hyman P. Minsky”
Richard Dadzie, UMKC,
Richard.Dadzie@umkc.edu
“Veblen, Minsky and Neo-Classical Economists on Business Cycles:
Implications for the Human Life Process”
Yongbok Jeon, University of Utah,
jeon@economics.utah.edu
“Demand-led Growth in China 1979-2004: A Kaldorian Perspective”
Bernardo Stuhlberger Wjuniski, Undergradate, São Paulo School of
Economics bew@terra.com.br
“The Welfare State in Light of the Athenian Economy: Karl Polanyi’s Work
in Perspective”
Garda Summer School
For the seventh time we will hold the “Garda Summer School” in
Castelletto di Brenzone at the Garda Lake in Italy from 16 to 26 July
2008. We would like to ask you if you could bring this to the attention
of interested students through your newsletter. Prof. Edward O'Boyle
gave me your name.
This year, the theme is “environmental and personalist economics”.
Parallel to the economics program, students can follow an Italian
language and culture course, in cooperation with the Verona chapter of
the international “Dante Alighieri Association”. You can find all
information on our web site:
http://economicssummeracademy.com
The goal of this course is to offer students in economics and business
administration, and young professionals in order to help them to find a
suitable Master program and plan their further professional development.
Several prominent academics from the USA and Europe have confirmed their
willingness to deliver the program.
The course is accredited by the University of Verona (3 ECTS), and is
organized in cooperation with the local partner "Centro di Studi Luigi
Gonella”. Last year, the Economics Summer Academy was asked to develop
an English language and international program for the “Garda Summer
School”, and do the international marketing. The Economics Summer
Academy is a non-profit organisation, en all revenu is invested in small
scale projects in developing countries (see our Charity page). Sinds
1999, members of the Economics Summer Academy board have experience with
organizing "summer courses" and "semesters abroad" for students at US
universities.
If you have any more questions, please do not hesitate to contact me,
Albert Schram
info@economicssummeracademy.com or by telephone at +31 43 38
83 623 or +31 6 1600 4089.