From the Editor
The Newsletter is
full of interesting conferences, seminars, jobs,
journals and books. I would especially like to
call your attention to the Waters Research grant
that the Association for Social Economics awards
each year. Doctoral students and young PhDs are
especially encourage to apply for the grant. In
addition, there is an position for a budding
social/green economist advertised at the
University of Wales; a description of the first
meeting of the Brazilian Keynesian Association;
and the publication of a very interest book,
“Are Worker Rights Human Rights?” Finally, you
should check out the new heterodox websites; and
under FYI the IIPPE entry and the “New Web
Exhibit” entry.
Under the heading of “Believe It or Not”: the
mainstream economists at Monash University
(Australia) consider only two heterodox journals
(CJE and the JPKE) as publishing high quality
research and if an economist publishes
exclusively in any other heterodox journal, any
history of economic thought journal, book
chapters, and/or books, the individual is deemed
‘research inactive’.
Lastly, I was contacted by an undergraduate
economics student who asked me where he might be
able to go to graduate school to study
anarchist-environmental economics. I could not
think of any graduate school—can anybody help me
on this?
Fred Lee
In
this issue:
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Call for Papers |
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- Well-Being: Are we happy with our
standard of living?
- Special Issue of the Review of Radical Political Economics
- Macroeconomic Policies on Shaky Foundations -- Whither
Mainstream Economics?
- William R. Waters Research Grant
- Special Issue of European Journal of Economic and Social
Systems
- 11th SCEME Seminar in Economic Methodology
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Conferences, Seminars and Lectures |
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- Policy History Conference
- 2nd Annual Conference on the History of Recent Economics
- The Historical Society's 2008 Conference
- Business History after Chandler
- Ports and Urban Economic Activity In the Globalization Era
- UK History of Economic Thought
- History of Telecommunication Conference (HISTELCON)
- Engines of Growth: Innovation, Creative Destruction, and
Human Capital Accumulation
- Industrial History, Industrial Culture: Representations
Past, Present, Future
- Probabilistic Political Economy: "Laws of Chaos" in the
21st Century
- Center for Popular Economics Summer Institute 2008
- A Crisis of Financialisation?
- Systematic Mixed- Methods Research Workshop on 6 June 2008
- Theory Testing in Economics and the Error Statistical
Perspective
- Reading the Grundrisse
- L'ANI sur la modernisation du marché du travail
- L'ADEK
- Changing Dimensions of Social Inequality in Russia and
Eastern Europe
- "It’s the Economic Recovery Plan, Stupid"
- SÉMINAIRE ÉCONOMIE DE LA MONDIALISATION
- Penser la monnaie en crise(s)
- Marx and Philosophy
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Job Postings for Heterodox Economists |
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- Wellesley Centers for Women
- Auckland University of Technology
- University of Hawaii
- Kingston University, London
- University of Massachusetts Amherst
- University of Wales Institute- Cardiff
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Heterodox Conference Papers and
Reports and Articles |
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- Keynes 125 years - what have we
learned
- Back to the Drawing Board: No basis for concluding the
Doha Round of Negotiations
- Brazilian Keynesian Association – First Meeting
- Developing Quantitative Marxism |
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Heterodox Journals and Newsletters |
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- Feminist Economics
- Associative Economics Bulletin
- IDEAs
- Economia e Sociedade, Campinas
- New Political Economy
- USSEE
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Heterodox Books and Book Series |
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- Are Worker Rights Human Rights?
- Historical Materialism Book Series
- Dollars & Sense
- The Falling Rate of Profits in West Germany - The
Manufacturing and the Non-Manufacturing Sectors
- The History of Economic Thought: A Reader
- The Political Economy of Media: Enduring Issues, Emerging
Dilemmas
- REVIEW OF RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS
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Heterodox Book Reviews |
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- The Future of Europe
- Imagining Economics Otherwise: Encounters with
Identity/Difference
- Governing Transformative Technological Innovation: Who is
in Charge?
- The Years of High Econometrics |
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Heterodox Graduate Program and PhD
Scholarships |
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The University of Siena |
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Heterodox Websites and Blogs |
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- Heterodox Theory of Social Costs - K.
William Kapp
- Marxists Internet Archive
- The Colonisation of Social Sciences by Economic |
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For
Your Information |
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- Kyle Bruce
- The Phillips Machine: The computer model that once
explained the British economy
- Stanley Bober
- International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy
(IIPPE)
- New Web Exhibit: "Motor City Voices: Race, Labor and
De-Industrialization" |
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Call for Papers
Well-Being: Are we happy with our
standard of living?
Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche Università degli Studi di Cassino
Cassino (Italy), September 26-27, 2008
“…there will be ever larger and larger classes and groups of people
from whom problems of economic necessity have been practically
removed.”
“Thus for the first time since his creation man will be faced with
his real, his permanent problem-how to use his freedom from pressing
economic cares, how to occupy the leisure, which
science and compound interest will have won for him, to live wisely
and agreeably and well.” Keynes (1930)
Objective
In the last decade, household debt has been rising, relative to
income, in several industrialized countries. At the micro level,
household surveys report an increase in the number of families
who are unable to save, or who experience some other kind of
financial or economic stress. This is sometime related to a decrease
in self reported happiness. This evidence may be at odds
with growth in output, which has not decelerated and has actually
increased in some countries. Consumption and saving patterns may
also be related to changes in the distribution of
income, which has been substantial, although with different
characteristics across countries.
So, was Keynes entirely wrong in his “Economic possibilities for our
grandchildren”, where he predicted in 1930 that “the economic
problem may be solved, or be at least within sight of
solution, within a hundred years”, through income growth enjoyed by
a growing share of the population, and resulting in a decrease of working hours and an increase in leisure?
The aim of the conference is to collect state-of-the-art
contributions on these issues, at the micro, macro and policy
levels. Sections will be devoted to problems related to how we
measure
well-being, poverty and happiness, to differences between perceived
and effective well-being, to how well-being is related to income growth and the distribution of income, to the role of
economic policy.
Papers on these or related topics are welcome. Authors are free to
submit more than one paper for different sessions. If you wish to
organize a session (4 papers on the same topic) please
contact the organizing committee. A discussant will be assigned to
each paper. All papers will be distributed through the conference web site. A selection of papers will be published in the
conference proceedings.
Deadlines
Paper proposals, including an abstract and JEL codes, should be
submitted by email no later than June 30th, 2008. Papers accepted
for the conference should be submitted no later than
September 1st, 2008.
Location
The conference will be held in Cassino, which is located half-way
between Rome and Naples. We will provide transportation to/from Rome
airport. All participants will be required to provide
for their own expenses; details on accommodation opportunities at
special rates will be provided on the conference web site.
Registration and Conference Fee
You may register on the conference web site, or directly at the
conference.
There is a Conference fee of €150, which will cover for all meals
and coffee breaks, and for conference materials.
Scientific Committee
Philip Arestis, University of Cambridge & Levy Economics Institute
Marina Bianchi, Università di Cassino
Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, Levy Economics Institute
Maurizio Pugno, Università di Cassino
Gennaro Zezza, Università di Cassino & Levy Economics Institute
For additional information please contact:
Gennaro Zezza
zezza@unicas.it
Tel +39 0776 2994641
Fax. +39 0776 2994834
Conference web site :
http://dipse.eco.unicas.it/wb2008
Special Issue of the Review of Radical Political Economics
Economic Democracy
Economic democracy is a theme that has run through radical and
progressive theory and practice. Broadly, it stands for an expansion
of democratic practice beyond the political realm, into the economic
aspects of our lives. It has been applied at the microeconomic level
in pursuit of workers’ self-management and related cooperative
structures. It also suggests the need for planning, where democracy
would be fundamental to decision making about an economy’s
objectives and means of achieving them. It has been used as a term
to expand the role of organized labor in management, and to link
unions more fundamentally to national political processes. Today it
also has application to household decision making, and to
aspirations for global forms of
redistribution.
All of the themes mentioned above are relevant to this special
issue, and there are no doubt others of importance that we have
overlooked. In the past few decades the term economic democracy has
appeared in book titles, and as an aspiration of political
movements. The RRPE’s Editorial Board thinks that it is time to
reinvestigate issues that fall under this theme, and a special issue
is put forward as a partial means to that end. We see this
discussion as critical to renewing radical thought and re-energizing
the left in the United States, and in other nations and localities.
We invite papers on all aspects of economic democracy, at levels
from the household to the global economy, and on topics related to
inclusion, participation in decisions that affect one’s life,
self-fulfillment, and realization of aspirations to be a more
engaged citizen. Race, gender, ecology, and other fields of inquiry
are appropriate, if linked to expanding our practice of democracy or
barriers to doing so.
It is a common belief that capitalism sets strict limits on how much
democratic practice is possible in society. Is this the case? If so,
how would various forms of socialist society remove this barrier?
All aspects of economic activity are relevant to this topic, as we
seek to encourage broad rethinking of what it means to use
democratic practice in material provisioning. Various forms of
democratic practice are also at issue, including direct
participation and representative democracy; geographic forms that
suit local, national,and global practice; and democratic practice
across households, private for profit and nonprofit firms, the
cooperative sector, and the public sector itself.
Submissions are due by May 1, 2009, and must follow the Instructions
to Contributors listed in each issue of the Review, on the RRPE
section of the URPE website, or available from the Managing Editor.
All submissions are subject to the usual review procedures and they
should not be under review with any other publication. We strongly
encourage authors to send a brief title and abstract as soon as
possible, so we can coordinate timely publication of the issue. Send
4 copies to Hazel Dayton Gunn, Managing Editor, Review of Radical
Political Economics, Department of City and Regional Planning, 106
W. Sibley Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, U.S.A.
Macroeconomic Policies on Shaky
Foundations -- Whither Mainstream Economics?
The *Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies*
would like to invite you to submit a paper for its 12th conference
on
*Macroeconomic Policies on Shaky Foundations -- Whither Mainstream
Economics?*
31 October – 1 November 2008, in Berlin.
Mainstream economics seems to be changing. The homo economicus has
repeatedly been called into questions; many macroeconomic models are
not based on a market clearing equilibrium any more. How profound
are these changes in mainstream economics? What, if any, is the new
orthodoxy in macroeconomics? What are the implications for
Post-Keynesian macroeconomics? And how is the relationship between
these developments and macroeconomic policies? The 12th conference
of the Research Network will address these developments and
questions.
The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged:
- Orthodoxy/Mainstream/Heterodoxy. Past and Present Developments
- Is there Common Ground for Heterodox Economics?
- What Can Macroeconomists Learn From Institutional, Experimental
and Post Walrasian Economics?
- Post-Keynesianism and the New Consensus Model
- Towards a Post-Keynesian Consensus?
- Monetary Policy under the Conditions of Ambiguous Theoretical
Grounds
- The Return of Discretionary Fiscal Policy?
For the open part of the conference the submission of papers on the
general subject of the Research Network is encouraged as well. We
also encourage the submission of papers for graduate student
sessions, on the specific subject of this conference or on the
general subject of the Research Network.
Conference language is English. Selected papers (in English or in
German) will be published after the conference.
Invited speakers include David Colander, John King, Bruno Amable,
Philip Arestis, Marc Lavoie, Charles Goodhart and Tom Palley
The *deadline* for paper proposals is *30 June 2008*. Please send an
abstract (one page) to Torsten Niechoj (
torsten-niechoj@boeckler.de ). Decisions will be made until the
end of July. Accepted papers should be sent in by 15 October to be
posted on the conference web page.
The Research Network is organised by Sebastian Dullien (FHTW
Berlin), Trevor Evans (FHW Berlin), Jochen Hartwig (KOF/ETH Zürich),
Eckhard Hein (IMK, Düsseldorf), Hansjörg Herr
(FHW Berlin), Torsten Niechoj (IMK, Düsseldorf), Jan Priewe (FHTW
Berlin), Peter Spahn (University of Hohenheim), Engelbert
Stockhammer (WU Wien), Claus Thomasberger (FHTW
Berlin) and Achim Truger (IMK, Düsseldorf) with financial support
from the Hans Böckler Foundation.
More on the Research Network:
http://www.boeckler.de/cps/rde/xchg/hbs/hs.xsl/36176_36330.html
William R. Waters Research Grant
ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL ECONOMICS
The Association for Social Economics sponsors each year a
competition for a grant of $5000 to support the research efforts of
a junior faculty member or a Ph.D. student nearing completion of the
degree. The Grant Application and instructions can be found on the
ASE website at
www.socialeconomics.org. The deadline for submission of the
Application is November 1, 2008.
The Award will be announced at the ASSA meetings in San Francisco,
California, January 3-6, 2009.
The Association for Social Economics, established in 1941, was
formed to advance scholarly research and writing about the great
questions of economics, human dignity, ethics, and philosophy.
Its members seek to explore the ethical foundations and implications
of economic analysis, along with the individual and social
dimensions of economic problems, and to help shape economic policy
that is consistent with the integral values of the person and a
humane community. Applications will be accepted at any time until
November 1, 2008.
Special Issue of European Journal of
Economic and Social Systems
Money and Technology: The Role of Financing in the Process of
Evolution
Guest Editors:
Andrea FUMAGALLI
Stefano LUCARELLI
Both financing and technological progress (money and technology)
represent the macroeconomic variables upon which the capitalist
accumulation depends. Already Schumpeter acknowledged to what extent
innovation and therefore development rely upon the credit system:
«Entrepreneurs borrow all the “funds” they need both for creating
and for operating their plants – i.e., for acquiring both their
fixed and their working capital. Nobody else borrows. Those “funds”
consist in means of payment created ad hoc. But although in
themselves these propositions are nothing but pieces of analytical
scaffolding, to be removed when they have served their purpose, the
logical relation which they embody, between what is called “credit
creation by banks” and innovation, will not be lost again. This
relation, which is fundamental for understanding of the capitalist
engine, is at the bottom of all the problems of money and credit, at
least as far as they are not simply problems of public finance.»
(Schumpeter, Business Cycle, Porcupine Press, Philadelphia, 1989, p.
85 [1939]) Today, also within the neo-Schumpeterian School,
researchers tend to overlook the monetary character of the economic
process. In so doing, their analysis of technological progress is
detached from the analysis of financial rules.
Secondly, the crisis of the Fordist accumulation regime, the
evolution of the credit policies and financial products entailed the
change of logical Schumpeter’s succession credit-innovation-profit.
The purpose of this Special Issue is to bring together a collection
of papers that focuses on the understanding both of how banking and
finance system effectively works and its role in shaping firms’
innovative strategies and in determining their performances.
Theoretical as well as empirical contributes are accepted, and no
methodological constraints are aprioristically given.
Interdisciplinary papers are welcome. Some research topics that are
of particular interest are:
_ Credit policy and firm innovative strategies
_ Financial structure and Knowledge based economy
_ Financial structure, knowledge structure and performance of inter-organisational
network
_ Money, uncertainty and technological paths
_ Process of Evolution in a Finance-led economy
_ Technological Progress and Monetary Crisis
Time Frame for the Special Issue
Authors submit extended abstract (max 1200 words) to the Guest
Editors June 15, 2008
Authors receive initial editorial decision June 30, 2008
Authors submit papers to Guest Editors Sept. 15, 2008
Authors receive comments from the Guest Editors (at least one
referee report per submission), Oct. 15, 2008
Authors submit revised papers to Guest Editors Nov. 15, 2008
Tentative publication date Dec. 2008
Potential contributors should submit a WORD or PDF version of their
paper to the guest editors via email
(stefano.lucarelli@unibg.it and
afuma@eco.unipv.it ). Papers
will be blind reviewed by one reviewer as well as by the Guest
Editors.
11th SCEME Seminar
in Economic Methodology
Joint with the Post Keynesian Economics Study Group and the Scottish
Institute for Research in Economics
http://www.sceme.stir.ac.uk
http://www.postkeynesian.net/
http://www.sire.ac.uk//news.html
‘Methodology After Keynes’
Saturday 20th September, 2008 University of Stirling, UK
The Stirling Centre for Economic Methodology (SCEME) and the Post
Keynesian Economics Study Group (PKSG) would like to invite
proposals for contributions to the eleventh seminar in a series on
the methodology of economics. We are very pleased to be able to
announce that Anna Carabelli, University of Piemonte Orientale, will
lead the discussion with a paper on ‘Economic theory after Keynes: a
new methodological approach. A coherent interpretation’.
Click here for
detailed information.
Top
Conferences, Seminars
and Lectures
Policy History Conference
Three Plenary Sessions
The Journal of Policy History is holding a Conference on Policy
History
http://www.slu.edu/departments/jph/conf2008.html at the
Sheraton Clayton Plaza in St. Louis from May 29 to June 1, 2008. All
topics concerning history, development and implementation of public
policy, American political development, and comparative historical
analysis will be considered.
2nd Annual Conference on the History
of Recent Economics
Papers on the post-WWII era are preferred for the 2nd Annual
Conference on the History of Recent Economics (HISRECO),
http://l.web.umkc.edu/leefs/htn47.htm at the Technical
University of Lisbon, Portugal from June 5-7, 2008.
The Historical Society's 2008
Conference
U.S. Labor History
The Historical Society's 6th conference June 5-8, 2008 at Johns
Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland has a session on
Globalization, American Working-Class Activism, and New Directions
in U.S. Labor History,
http://www.bu.edu/historic/conference08 .
Business History after Chandler
Alfred DuPont Chandler Jr. (1918-2007)
On July 4-5, 2008 the Association of Business Historians hold their
annual meeting (Business History after Alfred Chandler,
http://www.busman.qmul.ac.uk/abh/ at the University of
Birmingham. Professor Leslie Hannah is keynote speaker ("American
Whigs and the Business History of Europe").
http://www.beardbooks.com/beardbooks/amex.html
Ports and Urban Economic Activity In
the Globalization Era
There is a session on "Ports and urban economic activity in the
globalization era" (
http://getir.net/mvi
)
at the 10th Congress of the Asociación Española de Historia
Económica (AEHE), http://getir.net/mvj
in Murcia, Spain in September 2008.
http://www.beardbooks.com/beardbooks/business_and_capitalism.html
UK History of Economic Thought
40th Annual Conference
The 40th annual UK History of Economic Thought Conference
http://www.heterodoxnews.com/htn58.htm#Call_for_Papers will be
held at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland over September 3 to 5,
2008. Papers on all aspects of the history of economics and economic
thought are welcome.
Markets as Institutions: History and
Theory
The 3rd European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy
symposium, Markets as Institutions: History and Theory,
http://www.eaepe.org/eaepe.php?q=node/view/253 , is to be held
on September 5 and 6, 2008 in collaboration with the Economic Policy
Laboratory of Athens University of Economics and Business.
History of Telecommunication
Conference (HISTELCON)
The IEEE 2008 History of Telecommunication Conference,
http://www.isep.fr/histelcon/ on September 11-12, Cercle
National des Armées Saint Augustin, Paris intends to build a
comprehensive view of optical and electronic communication history,
through papers investigating formative developments in over 200
years.
Engines of Growth: Innovation,
Creative Destruction, and Human Capital Accumulation
A number of sessions at the Economic History Association Meetings,
http://www.ehameeting.com/
, in New Haven, Connecticut on September 12-14, 2008 are devoted to
the theme "The Engines of Growth: Innovation, Creative Destruction,
and Human Capital Accumulation" but papers on all subjects in
economic history are welcome.
http://www.beardbooks.com/beardbooks/strategy_and_structure.html
Industrial History, Industrial
Culture: Representations Past, Present, Future
A European Graduate School for Training in Economic and Social
Historical Research advanced seminar at the University of Swansea,
UK on September 17-20, 2008 seeks to bring together students from
different backgrounds to discuss Industrial History, Industrial
Culture: Representations Past, Present, Future,
http://www.rug.nl/posthumus/esterinternationalprogram/advancedseminar
and related issues.
Probabilistic
Political Economy: "Laws of Chaos" in the 21st Century
www.probabilisticpoliticaleconomy.net
July 14 -- 17, 2008
Kingston University, UK
Celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication in 1983 of "Laws
of Chaos: a probabilistic approach to political economy" by Emmanuel
Farjoun and Moshé Machover.
Click
here for detailed information.
Center for Popular
Economics Summer Institute 2008
CPE's Summer Institute is a week-long intensive training in
economics for activists, educators, and anyone who wants a better
understanding of economics. We focus on the how the economic system
impacts our lives, communities and work every day. Although
activists from all over the world attend the Summer Institutes,
classes and workshops are taught in English. No background in
economics is required.
The institute offers two tracks, one on the domestic economy and
another on the international economy. This year's institute also
includes a special track on The Economics of Immigration and
Migration. We're hoping people spread the word to fellow activists
and those interested in a popular understanding of the economy.
Scholarships are available. More information:http://www.populareconomics.org/summer_new.htm.
A Crisis of
Financialisation?
One-day conference
May 30, 2008
SOAS
University of London
Khalili Theatre
Click
here for the program.
For more details, contact Costas Lapavitsas:
Cl5@soas.ac.uk
Systematic Mixed-
Methods Research Workshop on 6 June 2008
OPEN TO ALL RESEARCHERS- REGISTRATION IS SIMPLE
We are holding a public event with 7 expert speakers and a
Masterclass on June 6th at the Univ. of Manchester.
Mixed methods is useful for interdisciplinary research.
We introduce mixed methods and share our expertise in NVIVO, QCA,
Fuzzy Set analysis, and integrating the findings from Quant and
Qual. Our method is to present an introduction and then several
worked examples. Papers and presentations will be on the Web, and
handouts available to participants on the day. Discussion during
Lunch and a Masterclass.
Special focus on case-study methods, integrating interviews with
surveys, how to proceed when findings conflict, and data management.
If you wish to peruse the web area, register to come on June 6th and
find out more, see:
www.ccsr.ac.uk/events/mixedmethods
The event programme is held at:
http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/events/mixedmethods/WorkshopDescriptionShort.pdf
The event is from 10am to 4pm and includes lunch. Cost 10 pounds
students and concessions; 60 pounds for employees.
Theory Testing in
Economics and the Error Statistical Perspective
Professor Aris Spanos, Economics, Virginia Tech University
Thursday, 5 June 2008
4.00-6.00pm, Lakatos Building, T206
London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE
ABSTRACT
For a domain of inquiry to live up to standards of scientific
objectivity it is generally required that its theories be tested
against empirical data. The central philosophical and methodological
problems of economics may be traced to the unique character of both
economic theory and its non-experimental (observational) data.
Alternative ways of dealing with these problems are reflected in
rival methodologies of economics. My goal here will not be to
promote any one such methodology at the expense of its rivals so
much, as to set the stage for understanding and making progress on
the conundrums in the methodology and philosophy of economics. This
goal, I maintain, requires understanding the changing roles of
theory and data in the development of economic thought, along side
of the shifting philosophies of science which explicitly or
implicitly find their way into economic theorizing and econometric
practice. Given that this requires both economists and philosophers
of science to stand outside their usual practice and reflect on
their own assumptions, it is not surprising that this goal has been
rather elusive.
Reading the
Grundrisse
July 15th- 18th, 2008
Aula 3, Via Salvecchio 19
Università degli Studi di Bergamo
Bergamo Upper Town
Click here
for detailed information.
L'ANI sur la
modernisation du marché du travail
Alexandre Fabre, Florence Lefresne et Carole Tuchszirer présenteront
leurs travaux sur :
"L'ANI sur la modernisation du marché du travail"
Evelyn Serverin, Julie Valentin, Thierry Kirat, Damien Sauze et
Raphaël Dalmasso présenteront leur article :
"Evaluer le droit du travail à la lumière de son contentieux :
comparaison des droits et des procédures, mesure des actions"
Mardi 10 juin 2008 de 10h00 à 12h00 à l'OFCE
Le programme du séminaire est en pièce jointe
L'ADEK
L'ADEK vous signale cette journée d'études sur le thème
PENSER LA MONNAIE EN CRISE(S)
mercredi 28 mai 2008
Amphithéâtre du Pôle d'Economie et de Gestion Université de
Bourgogne (Dijon)
Vous trouverez le programme en pièce jointe.
La Journée d'études est organisée, dans le cadre des SEMINAIRES DU
LEG, par le CEMF-FARGO, équipe du Laboratoire d'Economie et de
Gestion, UMR 5118 CNRS & Université de Bourgogne.
Contact : Ludovic DESMEDT
En espérant que vous pourrez assister à cette Journée d'études.
Changing Dimensions
of Social Inequality in Russia and Eastern Europe
A series of CEELBAS one-day seminars
Social Class and Social Inequality in Russia and Eastern Europe May
30th 2008, Dahrendorf Room, St. Antony’s College, University of
Oxford
The collapse of the socialist variant of modernity in Eastern Europe
is one of a number of factors underpinning the wider demise of
‘class’ as a focus of political and academic attention. However, the
concept of ‘class’
remains vital in understanding the nature of social inequality and
patterns of social stratification, not least in those societies
undergoing ‘transition’ from socialist to capitalist systems. The
transformations taking place in post-Socialist societies have in
some cases seen the emergence of extreme levels of income
differentiation, and raise questions about processes of social
mobility, the experience of class-based inequality, and the
expression of class in the political realm. This one-day seminar,
organised by the Centre for East European Language-Based Area
Studies, brings together a range of speakers in order to address
these and other questions relating to emerging patterns of
class-based inequalities in post-Socialist Russia and Eastern
Europe.
Topics to be addressed by the seminar include:
- Workers and the weakness of collective action
- The experience of the post-Socialist working class
- Subjective dimensions of social class and perceptions of social
inequality
- Prospects for and processes of social mobility
- Class dimensions of social networks
Attendance at the seminar is free and open to all. However, please
register your interest with the organiser of the seminar by emailing
charles.walker@sant.ox.ac.uk
For directions to the college and a map of the college grounds,
visit http://www.sant.ox.ac.uk/about/directions.html
Full Programme
11:00-12:40: Workers and the weakness of collective action (chair:
Charles
Walker)
Alexandra Janovskaia (LSE): Metalworker Unions in post-Communist
Central
Europe: Enterprise Coalitions for Production Maria Bytchkova (LSE):
Tripartism in Russia: a Response to Trade Union Weakness?
1:20-3:00: Being working class in post-Socialism (chair: tbc) Alison
Stenning (University of Newcastle): Working Class Lives in post-
Socialist Europe Charles Walker (University of Oxford): ‘Learning to
Labour’ in post-Soviet
Russia: Working-Class Routes to Adulthood
3:20-5:00: Emerging patterns and perceptions of class inequalities
(chair:
Christopher J. Gerry, SSEES)
Alexey Bessudnov (University of Oxford): Social Class and Income in
post- Soviet Russia Stephen Whitefield and Matthew Loveless
(University of Oxford): Being Unequal and Seeing Inequality:
Economic Experience and Perceptions of Social Inequality in Central
and Eastern Europe
5:30-7:00: Who benefits from networks? Class and Social Capital
(chair:
Charles Walker)
Anna-Maria Salmi (Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki):
Class Dimensions of Social Networks in Russia
"It’s the Economic
Recovery Plan, Stupid"
The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy and New America Foundation
Present “It’s the Economic Recovery Plan, Stupid”
ECONOMISTS, BUSINESS EXECUTIVES DEBATE THE LONG-TERM RESPONSE TO
RECESSION: CONSUMER SPENDING VS. INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT
Present New Publication, The Promise of Public Investment, Based on
Year-Long Series Questioning Conventional Wisdom on Fiscal Policy
Click
here for detailed information.
SÉMINAIRE ÉCONOMIE
DE LA MONDIALISATION
Organisé par Henri Sterdyniak
Droit du travail et emploi
Alexandre Fabre, Directeur de l’Institut des sciences sociales du
travail de l’ouest
Florence Lefresne, Chercheur à l’IRES
Carole Tuchszirer, Chercheur à l’IRES
présenteront leurs travaux sur :
« L’ANI sur la modernisation du marché du travail »
Evelyne Serverin, IRERP, Université Paris X Nanterre
Julie Valentin, CES-Matisse, Université Paris 1
Thierry Kirat, Chargé de recherche au CNRS-IRISES-Université
Paris-Dauphine
Damien Sauze, LEG, Université de Bourgogne
Raphaël Dalmasso, IRERP, Université Paris X Nanterre
présenteront leur article :
« Evaluer le droit du travail à la lumière de son contentieux :
comparaison des droits et des procédures, mesure des actions »
La discussion sera introduite par :
Gérard Cornilleau, Directeur-adjoint au département des études de
l’OFCE
Mardi 10 juin 2008 à l’OFCE
10h00 à 12h00
Salle du rez-de-chaussée
69, quai d’Orsay
75007 Paris
Métro : Invalides
69, quai d’Orsay 75340 Paris Cedex 07
Tél. : 01 44 18 54 00/Fax : 01 45 56 06 15
E-mail :
ofce@ofce.sciences-po.fr
http://www.ofce.sciences-po.fr
Contact : Esther Benbassat
Département économie de la mondialisation
Tél. : 01 44 18 54 42/Fax : 01 44 18 54 64
E-mail :
esther.benbassat@ofce.sciences-po.fr
Penser la monnaie
en crise(s)
MERCREDI 28 MAI
Amphithéâtre du Pôle d’Economie et de Gestion
Université de Bourgogne (Dijon)
Journée d’études
équipe d
10h00-12h00 Bruno Théret
"La monnaie au prisme de ses crises d’hier et d’aujourd’hui
A propos de l’ouvrage collectif «
13h45- 15h45 André Orléan
"Crise
allemande des années 1920
15h45-17h30
programme
2008
organisée, dans le cadre des SÉMINAIRES DU LEG, par le CEMF
e du Laboratoire d’Economie et de Gestion, UMR 5118
- Directeur de recherche au CNRS, Université Paris
Crises monétaires d’hier et d’aujourd’hui
- Directeur d’études à l’EHESS, Paris-Jourdan sciences économiques
de la souveraineté et crise de la monnaie
1920"
Jean-Joseph Goux - Professeur à l’Université de Rice (Houston, Etats
"La monnaie et le réel dans l’économie"
Journée d’études
MINAIRES CEMF-FARGO,
118 CNRS & Université de Bourgogne.
Paris-Dauphine
d’aujourd’hui"
»
: l’hyperinflation
Etats-Unis)
contact :
Ludovic DESMEDT
03 80 39 54 38
Ludovic.Desmedt@u-bourgogne.fr
Marx and Philosophy
June 2nd 2008
A one day workshop reflecting on issues relating to globalisation,
resistance, value and the Interpretation of Capital.
The day will be geared towards discussion, and is organised around
presentations dealing with the following topics: global community;
civil disobedience and its tactical evaluation; the political
implications of value theory; the content and implications of Marx's
work, and his relation to philosophy.
Speakers and timetable
2.00 - 3.15
Jonathan Brookes: "Marx and Global Community"
Sam Meaden: "A Critical Appraisal of the 'Reclaim the Streets'
Movement"
(3.15 - 3.30 - break)
3.30 - 4.30
Sean McKeown: "Value - Between Economics and Politics"
Nick Gray and Rob Lucas: "Formal and Real Subsumption - Logical or
Historical Categories?"
(4.30 - 5.00 - break)
5.00 - 6.30
Nicole Pepperell: "How to Walk with Hegel - On the the 'Peculiar
Social Character' of Commodity Production"
Alberto Toscano: response
Venue: Hatcham House seminar room, 17-19 St James Street, New Cross,
London SE14 6NW The event is hosted by the Graduate School of
Goldsmiths College, University of London.
For any enquiries please contact Tom Bunyard at:
cup01tb@gold.ac.uk
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Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
Wellesley Centers for Women
www.wcwonline.org
Economist
Research Scientist / Senior Research Scientist
The Wellesley Centers for Women (WCW) at Wellesley College is
seeking a fulltime economist with expertise on gender. The person in
this position will bring her/his own research program. She/he will
also collaborate with other WCW researchers to build on prior
national and international work at the Centers on women, children,
and public policy. WCW is a policy oriented research center funded
primarily by grants and contracts. (Visit our web site
www.wcwonline.org for a
full description of current work at the Wellesley Centers for
Women.) A Ph.D. in economics is required, as is a strong record of
scholarly publications and successful research grant writing. This
is a fulltime, 12-month position. We will begin reading letters of
nomination and applications accompanied by a curriculum vitae
beginning July 1, 2008. Applications will be accepted until the
position is filled. To apply online, please use the following link:
https://career.wellesley.edu.
Position is open until filled.
Wellesley College is an EO/AA educational institution and employer.
The College is committed to increasing the diversity of the college
community and the curriculum. Candidates who believe they will
contribute tot that goal are encouraged to apply.
Wellesley College 106 Central Street Wellesley MA 02481-8203 Phone
781 283 2500 Fax 781-283 2504
Auckland University
of Technology
Lecturer / Senior
Lecturer in Business Statistics & Applied Econometrics
The Department of Business Economics at AUT School of Business,
Auckland University of Technology invites applications for a
full-time position in Business Statistics and Applied Econometrics
at either the Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level, depending upon
experience, demonstrable research capabilities and qualifications.
Applicants in any area of applied econometrics and/or business
statistics will be considered, but candidates who also hold an
interest in labour economics, financial economics or international
trade economics are particularly encouraged to apply.
The successful applicant will join a dynamic group of economists who
teach a wide variety of courses at both, undergraduate and
postgraduate level. The Department of Business Economics is
experiencing considerable growth in student enrolments. It has a
very active research agenda and successful candidates are expected
to demonstrate their research capabilities in the form of published
articles in peer reviewed journals. AUT School of Business is ranked
amongst the leading research-led business schools in New Zealand.
Successful candidates are expected to have completed, or can
demonstrate significant progress toward completing a doctorate in
Applied Economics, Econometrics, Business Statistics or an
affiliated Business discipline. Successful applicants should also
have teaching experience and the ability to teach at all levels in
the Discipline, ranging from first-year student cohorts to
postgraduate and MBA programmes. It is also expected that the
successful candidate embraces opportunities to supervise projects
and dissertations of honours students (at a Lecturer level) and
research degree students (at a Senior Lecturer level).
AUT reserves the right to offer employment to more than one
candidate or not to recruit.
Applications should be addressed to the AUT Human Resources
Division.
Enquires of an academic nature may be made by contacting the
Departmental Chair of Business Economics, Professor Thomas Lange
(email: tlange@aut.ac.nz ).
University of
Hawaii
Assistant Specialist in Family Economics, position number 0084585,
UHM C of Trop Agr & Human Res, (Manoa), Center on the Family,
11-month, tenure track, to begin September 1, 2008, or soon
thereafter. Duties: Design and conduct research and outreach
projects in areas relating to the well-being of families in Hawaii
and consistent with the mission of the Center. Examples of relevant
content areas include, but are not limited to: family economic
well-being, economic inequality, political economy, human capital,
intergenerational resource exchange, and health economics. Engage in
academic publication. Develop related outreach materials such as
fact sheets, policy reports, or other educational resources. Seek
extramural funds. Contribute to the web-based Data Center on
Families, Children, and Older Adults, particularly in the area of
economic indicators. Teach courses, workshops, and/or seminars.
Provide service to the University and community. Minimum
qualifications: Doctoral degree in economics, public policy, family
science, or a related field. An area of specialization consistent
with the Center�s mission. At least 3 years of experience in the a
relevant area at the next lowest rank or equivalent. Expertise in
quantitative analysis. Ability to (a) conduct effective
presentations and workshops, (b) develop publications for academic
and community audiences, and (c) collaborate effectively with
persons from diverse backgrounds. Excellent writing and verbal
communication skills. ABD candidates will be considered if close to
completion of the degree, which must be completed at the time of
hire. Desirable qualifications: Successful record of academic and/or
applied publication. Success in grantsmanship. Ability to identify
social issues and conceptualize approaches to ameliorating
challenges faced by families. To apply: end letter of application
describing the applicants fit with this position; curriculum vita;
official university transcripts; samples of professional writing and
scholarly work; and the name, mailing address, phone number, and
email address of three persons who will provide confidential letters
of reference. Arrange to have the three letters of reference sent
directly to the Search Committee Co-chair. Application address: Dr.
Barbara DeBaryshe, Search Committee Co-Chair, Center on the Family,
College of Tropical Agriculture & Human Resources, University of
Hawaii at Manoa, 2515 Campus Road, Honolulu, HI 96822. For
information about the Center on the Family, visit
http://uhfamily.hawaii.edu
Inquiries: Dr. Barbara DeBaryshe 808-956-4140
debarysh@hawaii.edu
Date posted: May-06-2008 Continuous recruitment Review of
applications will begin on Jul-15-2008 and will continue until the
position is filled.
The University of Hawaii is an equal opportunity/affirmative action
institution and is committed to a policy of nondiscrimination on the
basis of race, sex, age, religion, color, national origin, ancestry,
disability, marital status, sexual orientation, status as a
protected veteran, National Guard participation, breastfeeding, and
arrest/court record (except as permissible under State law).
Employment is contingent on satisfying employment eligibility
verification requirements of the Immigration Reform and Control Act
of 1986; reference checks of previous employers; and for certain
positions, criminal history record checks.
In accordance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security
Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, annual campus crime
statistics for the University of Hawaii may be viewed at:
http://ope.ed.gov/security/,
or a paper copy may be obtained upon request from the respective UH
Campus Security or Administrative Services Office.
Kingston
University, London
Professor of Applied Economics
School of Economics
Kingston University, London
Vacancy Number 08/157
Faculty/Dept Arts & Social Sciences
Salary up to £62,611 pa
Grade Senior Staff B and C
Hours 37 hours per week
Closing Date 12 noon on 12th June 2008
Interviews 8th July 2008
Core research themes: Trade, Money and Finance, Political Economy.
More info:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobs/UC872/Professor_of_Applied_Economics/
University of
Massachusetts Amherst
FACULTY HIRING INITIATIVE May 2008
The Department of Economics at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst is embarking on a faculty hiring initiative focusing on
three key areas of contemporary economic analysis: (1) public goods
and the common good; (2) economic opportunity; and (3) power,
institutions, behavior and economic performance. We intend to make
multiple appointments; rank and salary will be commensurate with
qualifications. Click
here for further information.
University of Wales
Institute- Cardiff
Research Assistant
Researching and Analysing the Social and Co-operative Economy
Wales Institute for Research into Co-operatives
Applications are invited for the position of Research Assistant at
Cardiff School of Management, UWIC to be part of our team which is
establishing an international reputation in the growing field of
social economy research. Wales Institute for Research into
Co-operatives was established in 2000 to research all aspects of the
social economy. We work with academics across Europe and further
afield to strengthen the theoretical understanding of social
enterprise, and have a particular focus on the co-operative sector.
The Research Assistant will support the Institute’s field research
and assist the Director in carrying out research contracts for
public and mutual-sector bodies within Wales. The postholder will
also maintain a project website. The postholder will be encouraged
to participate fully in the writing up and dissemination of the
results of the research as part of a collaborative team.
Applicants should preferably hold a PhD in a quantitative discipline
and relating to some aspect of the Institute’s work and a good first
degree in economics, business, sociology or social policy. Evidence
of research and publication experience would be an advantage.
Applicants should have a knowledge of, and enthusiasm for, social
entrepreneurship as an ethical and responsible way of conducting
business. Experience of working for a social enterprise would be an
advantage.
The following criteria would be considered to be advantageous:
• Research experience in any or all of the above fields
• Interest and ability to work within and across disciplines.
• Facility with data, measurement and evaluation, using both
quantitative and qualitative methodologies.
• Collaborative work-style, strong team player; inclusiveness and
flexibility; broad vision, accountability, and attention to detail
• Excellent written and oral communication
Application form, job description and person specification are
available from: www.uwic.ac.uk/jobs
Or: Human Resources, UWIC,
Central Administration, Llandaff Campus, PO Box 377
Western Avenue, Cardiff, CF5 2SG
Telephone: (029) 2041 7026
Email:
humanresources@uwic.ac.uk
For an informal chat about the position please phone Molly Scott
Cato on 01453 764730.
Closing date for applications: 6th June 2008
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Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles
Keynes 125 years - what have we
learned
Papers from the conference 'Keynes 125 years - what have we
learned', Copenhagen 23.-24. April 2008 -
http://www.ruc.dk/isg/nyheder/30082173/
Back to the Drawing
Board: No basis for concluding the Doha Round of Negotiations
By Kevin P. Gallagher and Timothy A. Wise
RIS Policy Brief #36, April 2008
Negotiators continue to work desperately to achieve a breakthrough
in the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round. Their goal is to get
an agreement by the end of 2008. Developing countries should pull
the plug on these moribund negotiations until rich countries can
agree to a new framework that lives up to Doha’s promise to be a
“Development Round” that favors poorer countries.
As rich country leaders try to rally negotiators for yet another
“make-or-break” deadline, in what has become the most imminent
agreement in history, developing country negotiators should remember
why the proposals on the table deserve to be sent back to the
drawing board.
In this policy brief published by the Indian institute RIS, GDAE’s
Kevin P. Gallagher and Timothy A. Wise review the economic
projections, from the World Bank and other institutions, that show
how limited the gains are for most developing countries and how high
the hidden costs of an agreement could be. With projected gains of
less than 0.2% of GDP, poverty reduction of just 2.5 million people
(less than 1%), tariff losses of at least $63 billion, and projected
declines in the relative value of exports, developing countries have
little to gain from rushing to conclude Doha.
Download “Back to the Drawing Board”
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/rp/RISPolicyBrief36DohaMay08.pdf
Other GDAE publications with RIS:
"Doha Round and Developing Countries: Will the Doha deal do more
harm than good?" RIS Policy Brief #22, by Timothy A. Wise and Kevin
P. Gallagher, April 2006.
"Relevance of ‘Policy Space’ for Development: Implications for
Multilateral Trade Negotiations," by Nagesh Kumar and Kevin P.
Gallagher, RIS Discussion Paper #120, March 2007.
For more from GDAE on the Doha Round:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/policy_research/shrinking_gains.html
Brazilian Keynesian
Association – First Meeting
The Institute of Economics of UNICAMP hosted, on 16-18 April 2008,
the first International Meeting of the Brazilian Keynesian
Association. In Brazil, as in other Latin American countries where
the seminal contribution of Raúl Prebisch has left its marks,
Keynesianism was very early integrated with development concerns.
Both Keynes and Prebisch thought that the economic system was not
self-adjusting, and that policies could be devised to increase
employment and improve income and wealth distribution. The
Association hopes to honor this tradition. The meeting opened with a
speech by Professor Paul Davidson (editor of the Journal of Post
Keynesian Economics), in which he stressed the revolutionary
character of Keynes' General Theory. Other foreign guests attended
the conference: Professors John McCombie and Philip Arestis
(Cambridge, UK), Júlio Lopez Gallardo (Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México), Roberto Frenkel (CEDES-Argentina), Dominique Plihon
(University of Paris-Villeteneuse) and Edwin Le Heron (University of
Bordeaux and President of the ADEK - Association for the Development
of Keynesian Studies). The success of the call for papers shows the
interest raised by the Meeting: more than eighty papers were
submitted, and about forty were presented in days of the meeting.
The Association will have its second meeting in the second semester
of 2009.
Developing Quantitative Marxism
For those of you who could not make it the conference/workshop on
Developing Quantitative Marxism was a great success, so much so that
we have decided to hold another one next year at Burwalls on 16-19th
April. For those of you who were there thanks for making it a great
event and we look forward to seeing you all next year.
In the final plenary “What is to be Done: About Quantitative
Marxism” we decided on a number of initiatives:
1. To have another conference/workshop in 2009 the week after
Easter, trying to keep it to a similar size and style –booked.
2. To set up a QM Working paper series. This will be a series of
papers that will be listed on RepEC/IDEAS. It will take submissions,
be managed by us to maintain quality, but the idea is that the
papers will still be able to be published in other journals.
3. To have a survey of QM using short contributions from
participants and others on their area of research (1-2 pages)
4. To develop a bibliography and to provide reading lists for
topics: aimed at students doing projects
5. To have a repository of QM databases for use by researchers and
students
6. To provide teaching resources, aids and links
We also plan to develop the website to provide all of these
resources. This is in progress so check out
http://www.carecon.org.uk/QM/
Contributions to all of these are welcome, but most urgently please
send us your brief summaries of your research and any research
papers we can use for the series.
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Heterodox Journals and
Newsletters
Feminist Economics
Volume 14 Issue 2 is now available online at informaworld (
http://www.informaworld.com
).
- This new issue contains the following articles:
- Editorial: Feminist Economic Methodologies
- Work – life imbalance: Informal care and paid employment in the UK
- Silent partners: The role of unpaid market labor in families
- The incremental time costs of children: An analysis of children's
impact on adult time use in Australia
- Women's gender-type occupational mobility in Puerto Rico, 1950 –
80
- Economic importance and statistical significance: Guidelines for
communicating empirical research
Associative
Economics Bulletin
Youth and Trade - May 2008
The Associative Economics Bulletin consists of news and views on
associative economics, including short extracts from Associative
Economics Monthly (available electronically for £1 an issue at
www.cfae.biz/a em or in a hard copy format - tel (UK) 01227 738207).
To unsubscribe from this list, reply or send an email to
ame@cfae.biz with 'bulletin unsubscribe' in the subject line.
1. Events at The London School of Economics
2. Youth and Trade - Associative Economics Monthly May 2008
3. Upcoming Events
Click here for
detailed information.
IDEAs
What's New on IDEAs (April 1, 2008 to April 30, 2008)
www.networkideas.org or www.ideaswebsite.org
An Insider View from George Soros
by C.P. Chandrasekhar
April 29, 2008
Among some of the voices which are calling for more attention to the
nature of the current US financial crisis and for a more
disinterested view of the need for state intervention, an
influencial one is that of George Soros. His book "The New Paradigm
for Financial Markets: The Credit Crash of 2008 and What it Means",
being released in May, challenges the prevailing sanguine view on
the intensity and implications of the crisis. This review is based
on a reading of the digital edition available from various ebook
sellers and his recent speeches.
The Empire Strikes Back?
by Jayati Ghosh
April 23, 2008
The vicious series of attacks on China against the backdrop of the
Beijing Olympics 2008 actually reflects the discomfort of many
countries, the developed foremost among them, with China’s status as
the emerging economic super power, strengthened by its sheer size in
terms of market and labour force, its stable polity and rapidly
growing infrastructure.
Are We Heading for Global Stagflation?
by Jayati Ghosh
April 8, 2008
The combination of stagnant or falling output and rising prices in
the US economy has raised fears of a stagflation not only in the US
but in the world economy as well. This article argues that this
prediction may well be true, though not on the basis of the
monetarist explanation but rather depends ultimately on
international political economy and the relative strength of
different groups in the world economy.
The Great Unravelling
by Jayati Ghosh
April 7, 2008
With the crisis in the financial system in the US, the days of
deregulated finance seems to be over, not only in the US but
globally. Finance capital, which has so far systematically tried to
undermine the state and demanded autonomy for all its actions, is
now calling to that same state to save finance from itself. But this
cannot occur without the state at least trying to reassert some
control over finance.
Click here for detailed
information.
Economia e
Sociedade, Campinas
v. 17, n. 1 (32), p. 1-, abr. 2008.
- The three states of money. An interdisciplinary approach to the
monetary phenomenon
Bruno Théret
- Endogenous money and induced technical progress in a post
Keynesian macrodynamic model
Luciano Dias Carvalho
José Luís Oreiro
- The UN and economic development: an interpretation on the
theoretical basis of the UNDP's action
João Guilherme Rocha Machado
João Batista Pamplona
- The institutional dimension of the economic growth process:
innovation and institutional change, routines and social
technologies
Octavio A. C. Conceição
- Inter and intra industrial external trade: Brazil 2003-2005
Carolina Troncoso Baltar
- J. S. Mill's views on the State: the cases of 'civilized' and
'backward' societies
Laura Valladão de Mattos
- International tin cartel: the importance of Brazilian industry in
the breach of collusion
Julio Cesar Cuter
Anita Kon
Click here for
detailed information.
New Political
Economy
Volume 13 Issue 2 is now available online at informaworld (
http://www.informaworld.com
).
This new issue contains the following articles:
- The Importance of Being Earnest: The IMF as a Reputational
Intermediary, Pages 125 - 151
Author: André Broome
- Structural Reform of the Family and the Neoliberalisation of
Everyday Life in Japan, Pages 153 - 172
Author: Takeda Hiroko
- Introduction, Pages 173 - 176
Author: Neil Robinson
- From Chaotic to State-led Capitalism, Pages 177 - 184
Author: David Lane
- Putin and the Oligarchs, Pages 185 - 191
Author: Richard Sakwa
- The Geography of Russia's New Political Economy, Pages 193 - 201
Author: Michael Bradshaw
- Russia as an Energy Superpower, Pages 203 - 210
Author: Peter Rutland
- Economic Partnership Agreements: What Can We Learn?, Pages 211 -
223
Author: Christopher Stevens
- The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), Pages 225 -
239
Author: Helen E. S. Nesadurai
- Capitalism Unleashed: Finance, Globalization, and Welfare, Pages
241 - 245
Author: Giovanni Arrighi
USSEE
The USSEE Spring Edition of the newsletter has been posted to the
website at www.ussee.org.
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Heterodox
Books and Book Series
Are Worker Rights Human Rights?
By Richard P. McIntyre
About the Book
Karl Marx’s famous call to action still promises an effective means
of winning human rights in the modern global economy, according to
economist Richard P. McIntyre. Currently, the human rights movement
insists upon a person’s right to life, freedom, and material
necessities. In democratic, industrial nations such as the United
States, the movement focuses more specifically on a person’s civil
rights and equal opportunity.
The movement’s victories since WWII have come at a cost, however.
The emphasis on individual rights erodes collective rights—the
rights that disadvantaged peoples need to assert their most basic
human rights. This is particularly true for workers, McIntyre
argues; and theorists who treat them as autonomous beings ignore
reality. By reintroducing Marxian and Institutional analysis, he
reveals the class relations and power structures that determine the
position of workers in the global economy. The best hope for
achieving workers’ rights, he concludes, lies in grassroots labor
organizations that claim the right of association and collective
bargaining.
Richard P. McIntyre is Director of the University Honors Program and
Professor of Economics at the University of Rhode Island.
Visit THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN PRESS at
www.press.umich.edu
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"An important, timely, and needed contribution to our understanding
of worker rights." ---Patrick McHugh, George Washington University
"An important contribution to the interdisciplinary study of labor.
McIntyre's book will challenge the debate over labor rights on all
fronts." ---Michael Hillard, University of Southern Maine
Historical Materialism Book Series
The New Dialectic and Marx's Capital
Christopher J. Arthur
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Michael Löwy
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Alex Callinicos
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and international trade. New chapter introductions and discussion
questions, plus a teaching key to David Colander's textbooks
Economics and Microeconomics (6th edition). Authors include Chris
Tilly, William E. Spriggs, Dean Baker, Elaine Bernard, Ann Markusen,
and Randy Albelda.
$32.95 / ISBN: 978-1-878585-71-4
"I've had great success with Real World Micro. Students really like
its short, snappy analysis of current events and feel challenged by
its alternative viewpoint."
-Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve
REAL WORLD BANKING, 5th edition **New Edition**
The long-awaited 5th edition is here (and just in time for the
latest banking crisis)! Topics include housing finance, banking
deregulation, megamergers, the Federal Reserve Bank, banking and the
poor, and international monetary issues. Many articles are hot off
the presses and cover the subprime mortgage securitization meltdown,
new challenges to the Federal Reserve, and the impact of the
declining dollar.
$24.95 / ISBN 978-1-878585-64-6
REAL WORLD LATIN AMERICA, 1st edition **New Book**
A new contemporary reader featuring the latest economic, political,
and social readings on Latin America from Dollars & Sense and NACLA
Report On the Americas. Over 40 articles make this a perfect
textbook for introductory and advanced classes.
$29.95 / 978-1-878585-73-8
AVAILABLE IN JUNE 2008
THE WEALTH INEQUALITY READER, 2nd edition **New Edition**
Co-produced with United for a Fair Economy
Thoroughly revised and updated, the new edition of The Wealth
Inequality Reader documents the growing polarization of wealth and
explores solutions, from policy reforms to grassroots organizing
efforts. Contributors include Gar Alperovitz, Chuck Collins, Bill
Fletcher, William Greider, Paul Krugman, Betsy Leondar-Wright,
Meizhu Lui, John Miller, and Chris Tilly.
$24.95 / ISBN 978-1-878585-69-1
"The Wealth Inequality Reader is a great collection of essays
covering a host of important topics. The charts and graphs are
excellent and the writing is clear and straightforward. I love this
book."
-- Sheila Tully, SF State University
REAL WORLD GLOBALIZATION, 9th edition
Completely revised and expanded! Now contains 74 articles. An
essential guide to rapidly changing trends in trade, investment,
labor relations, and economic development. New chapters examine
economic alternatives and the political economy of war and
imperialism.
$28.95 / ISBN: 978-1-878585-65-3
"Real World Globalization provides access to current economic
issues, in a progressive framework. The writing is always good.
Students always learn a lot."
-Bill Ganley, SUNY Buffalo
STRIKING A BALANCE: WORK, FAMILY, LIFE
By Robert Drago978-878585-62-21-878585-62-2
In this provocative new book from one of the country's leading
work/life experts, Robert Drago sifts through the vast body of
relevant research (including his own) to examine the deeply held,
but unexamined beliefs about work, womanhood, and society that are
responsible for our out-of-balance lives. Engaging, hard-hitting,
and filled with the latest data, this is an excellent resource for
courses on gender, workplace management, and others in the social
sciences.
Click here for detailed
information.
The Falling Rate of Profits in West
Germany - The Manufacturing and the Non-Manufacturing Sectors
by MEHMET UFUK TUTAN
The profit rate has long been understood to be a crucial indicator
of the health of a capitalist economy. Empirical studies
traditionally looked at the manufacturing sector because of lack of
data for the rest of the economy. This book investigates the
economy-wide rate of profit, the manufacturing and the non
manufacturing sectors in West Germany from 1960 to unification. The
study finds significantly different behavior between the
manufacturing and the non manufacturing sectors, revealing a serious
limitation of any simple aggregate studies of the West German profit
rate. The book considers the profit share and output-capital ratio
as determinants of changes in the profit rates. It develops a simple
way to graphically present them so a reader can immediately see
their relative contributions to the changes in the profit rate. This
study supports the claim that profit rate declines and restorations
were dominantly, though not exclusively, caused by wage changes as
opposed to technological changes, and particularly so in the
manufacturing sector where unions were stronger. The book also
summarizes the main empirical studies of the USA economy`s profit
rate between 1960 and 1990.
http://getir.net/mve
The History of Economic Thought: A
Reader
Routledge would like to offer you the opportunity to order an
inspection copy of The History of Economic Thought: A Reader, edited
by Steven G. Medema and Warren J. Samuels.
This reader in the history of economic thought is edited by two of
the most respected figures in the field. With clearly written
summaries putting each selection into context, this book will be of
great use to students and lecturers of the history of economic
thought as it goes beyond the simple reprinting of articles.
Selections and discussions include such thinkers as Aristotle, John
Locke, François Quesnay, David Hume, Jean-Baptiste Say, Karl Marx,
William Stanley Jevons, Irving Fisher and Thorstein Veblen. The
History of Economic Thought: A Reader can be used as a core textbook
or as a supplementary text on courses in economic thought and
philosophy, and will provide readers with a good foundation in the
different schools of thought that run through economics.
For further information about the reader please click
here.
To order your inspection copy please click
here.
The Political Economy of Media:
Enduring Issues, Emerging Dilemmas
by Robert W. McChesney
Praise for McChesney’s The Problem of the Media:
“As Chomsky is to linguistics, Ben & Jerry’s to ice cream, and Elvis
to shaking one’s hips, McChesney is to media analysis. He is the
King: there is no one more definitive.”
—Danny Schechter, founder of MediaChannel.org
“McChesney’s work has been of extraordinary importance. It should be
read with care and concern by people who care about freedom and
basic rights.”
— Noam Chomsky
“Robert McChesney follows in the great tradition of Upton Sinclair,
George Seldes, I.F. Stone, and Ben Bagdikian in exposing the
ruthless hold of corporate power on the nation’s media.”
— Howard Zinn
More than any other work, The Political Economy of Media
demonstrates the incompatibility of the corporate media system with
a viable democratic public sphere, and the corrupt policymaking
process that brings the system into existence. Among the most
acclaimed communication scholars in the world, Robert W. McChesney
has brought together all the major themes of his two decades of
research. Rich in detail, evidence, and thoughtful arguments, The
Political Economy of Media provides a comprehensive critique of the
degradation of journalism, the hyper-commercialization of culture,
the Internet, and the emergence of the contemporary media reform
movement. The Political Economy of Media is mandatory reading for
anyone wishing to understand and change media, and the political
economy, in the world today.
Robert W. McChesney is the Gutgsell Endowed Professor in the
Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of Communication Revolution, The
Problem of the Media, and Rich Media, Poor Democracy.
http://www.monthlyreview.org/politicaleconomymedia.htm
REVIEW OF RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS
BOOKS RECEIVED
(last updated Summer 2008)
RRPE encourages contributors to prepare reviews of significant books
of interest to RRPE readers. Reviews of books on this list that have
been received from publishers, as well as books not on this list
that are related to radical political economics, are welcomed.
Reviews should be 1200-1500 words in length, and submitted within
sixty days of receipt of the book. More detailed instructions will
accompany the book when it is sent. The RRPE also welcomes review
essays encompassing three or four books that bring together an
important literature in significant areas for political economists.
In addition, the RRPE welcomes more ambitious examinations of bodies
of literature that should be better known by RRPE readers. These
reviews should be about 2,500 words in length.
Please contact the book review editor for assistance in obtaining
review copies of books.
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detailed information.
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Heterodox Book Reviews
The Future of Europe
by Alberto Alesina and Francesco Giavazzi, MIT Press, 2006.
ISBN: 978-0-262-01232-4; 224 pages.
Reviewed by Sara Hsu, St. Edward’s University
Imagining Economics Otherwise: Encounters with Identity/Difference
by Nitasha Kaul, Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 978-0-415-38397-4; 304
pages.
Reviewed by Colin Richardson, Imperial College, London
Governing Transformative Technological Innovation: Who is in Charge?
by Peter W.B. Phillips, Edward Elgar, 2007; ISBN: 978-1-84720-237-6;
320 pages.
Reviewed by Jack Boan, University of Regina
The Years of High Econometrics
Francisco LOUÇÃ (2007). The Years of High Econometrics. A Short
History of the Generation that Reinvented Economics, London: Routledge, xxix, 370 p., ISBN10: 0-415-41974-3, £ 90.00 hardcover.
Reviewed by Angelo Reati, av. Emile de Beco 55 – B 1050 Bruxelles
(Belgium), e-mail :
angelo.reati@skynet.be
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Heterodox
Graduate Program and PhD Scholarships
The University of Siena
The University of Siena advertises 20 places and 10 four-year
scholarships for its PhD programme in Economics. Both the places and
scholarships are open to applicants of all nationalities. At the
site:
http://www.econpol.unisi.it/dottorato/introduction.html
it is possible to find the relevant information. The programme is
characterised by a pluralistic approach to economics. Doctorate
students can enjoy the accomodation facilities of Scuola Superiore
S. Chiara and be also involved in its multidisciplinary programmes.
Information about S. Chiara is available at:
http://www.unisi.it/santachiara/homeEn.html.
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Heterodox
Websites and Blogs
Heterodox Theory of Social Costs
- K. William Kapp
www.kwilliam-kapp.de
Marxists Internet Archive
http://www.marxists.org/archive/index.htm
The Colonisation of Social
Sciences by Economics
http://www.soas.ac.uk/economics/research/econimp/
This website covers continuing work and work previously undertaken
under ESRC award R000271046 to investigate The New Revolution in
Economics and Its Impact upon Social Sciences. Its main aim is to
assess the impact on other social sciences of what is hypothesised
to be a revolution in and around economics. The latter promises to
end what is primarily the isolation of mainstream economics from the
other social sciences, as economics extends its scope of application
beyond its traditional study of market relations. As the other
social sciences are seeking to incorporate an economic content in
reaction against the extremes of post-modernism and neo-liberalism,
major changes are occurring unevenly across social theory. It is
intended to assess these through an overview but primarily by
examining particular themes or topics.
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For Your Information
Kyle Bruce
Congratulations are in order for the inestimable heterodox
economists, Kyle Bruce – he has received a Rockefellwe Archive
center grant-in-aid to do research on “Democracy or Seducation? The
Demoonization of Scientific management and the Deification of Human
Relations.” Kyle teaches at the Aston Business School, Birmingham,
UK.
The Phillips
Machine: The computer model that once explained the British economy
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/may/08/bankofenglandgovernor.economics
Stanley Bober
Stanley Bober died on April 20, 2008. He was involved in heterodox
economics since the 1970s and in recent years attended the
conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics. Among the
books he wrote were Capital, Distribution and Growth (1980), Modern
Macroeconomics: A Post-Keynesian Perspective (1988), Pricing and
Growth: A Neo-Ricardian Approach (1992), and Marx and the Meaning of
Capitalism (forthcoming).
International
Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE)
IIPPE was founded in 2006 with the aim of promoting political
economy in and of itself but also through critical and constructive
engagement with mainstream economics, heterodox alternatives,
interdisciplinarity, and activism understood broadly as ranging
across formulating progressive policy through to support for
progressive movements.
Click
here for detailed information.
New Web Exhibit:
"Motor City Voices: Race, Labor and De-Industrialization"
URL:
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/motorcityvoices/home
This interactive web exhibit sheds new light on an important chapter
in Detroit history in the years following the uprising of 1967.
Exhibit panels provide an overview of the political, social and
economic landscape during a particularly vibrant and contentious
period in Detroit’s history. Special focus is devoted to the Dodge
Revolutionary Union Movement (DRUM) and the League of Revolutionary
Black Workers. A highlight of the exhibit is a collection of oral
history video clips.
Visitors can select from over forty video segments of oral histories
conducted with some of the leading participants in the Detroit's
labor and community struggles around issues of racism, class
division, de-industrialization and community development. The oral
histories also link the history of segregation in the U.S. during
World War II, the civil rights movement and the movement for social
and economic justice in Detroit factories and neighborhoods in the
1960s and 1970s.
The oral history portion of the project consists of videotaped
interviews with key activists including: General Baker, founder and
organizer of DRUM, Mike Hamlin, a founding member of the League of
Revolutionary Black Workers, Marian Kramer, community organizer and
civil rights activist, Grace Lee Boggs, community activist and
educator, and Jim Jacobs, former SDS (Students for a Democratic
Society) leader and adult education specialist. The video clip by
Jim Jacobs mentions the Radical Education Project which contributed
to the formation of the Union for Radical Political Economics
(URPE).
The exhibit was created by Professor Bruce Pietrykowski together
with graduate students in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies
program and the University of Michigan-Dearborn Museum Studies
internship program. In addition, Kae Halonen, Lecturer in History at
UM-D, conducted the oral history interviews that were used in the
exhibit. The exhibition has been made possible with grant support
from the Michigan Humanities Council.
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