From the Editor
The Newsletter is
filled with lots of new academic jobs, books,
book reviews, and prize essay competitions. In
addition, among the new call for papers
announcements, there is the call for papers for
the 11th conference of the Association for
heterodox Economics. There are also a number of
interesting conferences, seminars and lectures
to attend, especially the “Pluralism in
Economics.” There will be a roundtable
discussion on the subject benchmarking of
economics in the UK and why the committee who
put together the statement which virtually
excludes the teaching of heterodox economics is
not willing to defend it. Finally, you might
want to check out Economia Informa under
Heterodox Journals—it has some very interesting
articles on heterodox microeconomics.
Two other points. First,
information/registration/etc. about the ASSA
2009 annual meeting is now available. Register
now and get your hotel room. Remember
Association for Social Economics will be in
Hilton San Francisco:
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/Annual_Meeting/index.htm.
Also when you register for the ASSA, be sure to
tick the ASE as the association you belong to.
Secondly, remember that ICAPE will have a booth
at the ASSA. Requests for staffing the booth
will be sent out shortly. Also those who want to
distribute info etc. at the booth please e-mail
me (
leefs@umkc.edu ) about it.
Fred Lee
In
this issue:
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Call for Papers |
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- 11th Conference of the Association for
Heterodox Economics
- The International Journal of Pluralism and Economics
Education
- International Review of Economics Education
- Pluralism in Economics:Rethinking the Teaching of
Economics
- Toward Critical Mass
- Economics for Equity and the Environment Network
- 7th Society of Heterodox Economists Conference
- Eighth Congress of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee Network
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Conferences, Seminars and Lectures |
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- The History of
Economics Society
- 12th Conference on "Macroeconomic Policies on Shaky
Foundations
- Forty Years of Political Power and Social Classes
- Keynes Lecture in Economics
- History of American Capitalism
- Circulations: Economies, Currencies, Movements in American
Studies
- Anti-Union Employer Strategy: An Historical Analysis
- The Representation of Working People in Britain and France
- Character & Trajectory of the Indian Economic Formation in
an Era of Globalization
- Globalization: Cultures, Institutions and Socioeconomics
- Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference
- Revue Française de Socio-Economie
- Marx au xxie siècle : l’esprit & la lettre
- Leeds Schumacher Lectures 2008
- Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy
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Job Postings for Heterodox Economists |
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- University of Texas at Arlington
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges
- Auckland University of Technology
- University of Michigan-Dearborn
- University of Bremen- Dr. Wolfram Elsner
- The Lewis & Clark College
- American University
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Heterodox Conference Papers and
Reports and Articles |
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- An Evolutionary Perspective on the
Economics of Energy Consumption: the Crucial Role of Habits
- Eastern Civilisation and the Breakthrough to Modernity in
the West |
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Heterodox Journals and Newsletters |
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- World Money - Associative Economics
Bulletin - September 2008
- Economia Informa No. 351 (Marzo-Abril 2008)
- Innovations
- CASE - Newsletter
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Heterodox Books and Book Series |
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- The Genesis of Innovation
- The State of Working America
- Trends in Business and Economic Ethics
- Green Recovery
- A Green New Deal: Joined-up policies to solve the triple
crunch of the credit crisis, climate change and high oil
prices
- Understanding Sustainability Economics: Towards Pluralism
in Economics
- Environmental And Natural Resource Economics
- Microeconomics and Macroeconomics in Context
- GDAE Teaching Modules on Social and Environmental Issues
in Economics
- Unjust Deserts
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Heterodox Book Reviews |
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- Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations
with Economic Historians
- Managing Network Resources: Alliances, Affiliations, and
Other Relational Assets
- Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of the Twenty-First
Century
- Social Murder: and Other Shortcomings of Conservative
Economics |
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The HEN-IRE-FPH Project |
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- The HEN-IRE-FPH Project for Developing Heterodox Economics
and Rethinking the Economy Through Debate and Dialogue |
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Heterodox Graduate Program and PhD
Scholarships |
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- Scholarships in Germany |
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Queries from Heterodox Economists |
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- Ian Fletcher |
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For
Your Information |
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- 2008 Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate
Student Essay Competition
- William R. Waters Research Grant
- Eastern Economic Association Announces the Koford Prize
- Interview with Chang Ha-Joon
- POLITICAL ECONOMY I & II
- Warren Samuels Prize
- One thing is clear from the history of trade
- 2008 Isaac Roet Prize Essay Contest |
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Call for Papers
11th Conference of the Association
for Heterodox Economics
Heterodox Economics and Sustainable Development, 20 years on
Call for papers
9-12 July, 2009
Kingston University, London
Click
here for detailed information.
The International Journal of
Pluralism and Economics Education
Inderscience announces publication of a new journal in economic
education, The International Journal of Pluralism and Economics
Education. The IJPEE will publish four issues a year, the first in
January 2009 and the remaining issues March June, September and
November. The IJPEE welcomes and encourages manuscripts from all
members of the heterodox and pluralist community. The Journal will
publish on all aspects of pluralism and economics education with
special attention, but not limited, to the following topics:
- Defining pluralism
- What is pluralism and how can we incorporate it into the classroom
- The rhetoric of pluralism: communicating within and across
disciplines
- Teaching the theory of the firm from a pluralist perspective
- Teaching pluralism in developing countries
- What can pluralists learn from Adam Smith and other classical
economists?
- Incorporating pluralism into online courses
- Using pluralism to construct a framework for solving global
problems
- Are there limits to extending pluralism?
- Pluralism and the individual
- Pluralism as a central component of honours courses
- Pluralism at the community college
- Encouraging pluralism at the high school level
- Necessary mathematics for pluralism
- Reaching out to other social sciences
- Teaching ecology from a pluralist perspective
- Understanding the financial crisis from a pluralist perspective
- Pluralism and system dynamics
Interested authors should consult the webpage at Inderscience.com
for specific requirements. Manuscripts should be e-mailed to:
Jack Reardon
Department of Management and Economics
School of Business
Hamline University
St. Paul, Minnesota 55104
jreardon02@hamline.edu
International
Review of Economics Education
Special Issue
Pluralism in economics education:
Issues in teaching and learning
Call for Papers
Special issue to appear November 2009
The International Review of Economics Education (IREE) is planning
to publish a special issue in November 2009 on the issue of
pluralism in economics education: issues in teaching and learning.
The guest editor will be Dr Andy Denis, City University, London.
Deadline for submission of papers: Friday, 28 November 2008.
Click
here for detailed information.
Pluralism in Economics:Rethinking the
Teaching of Economics
Association for Heterodox Economics and International Review of
Economics Education
One-day Workshop
Saturday 18 October 2008
City University, London
Pluralism in economics:
rethinking the teaching of economics
Second Call for Papers
The Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) and the journal,
International Review of Economics Education (IREE), are holding a
one-day workshop on the theme of Pluralism in economics: rethinking
the teaching of economics. IREE is also publishing a special issue
in November 2009 on the issue of Pluralism in economics education:
Issues in teaching and learning. The Call for Papers for the special
issue can be seen here:
http://staff.city.ac.uk/andy.denis/IREE_pluralism.pdf.
Click
here for detailed information.
Toward Critical Mass
The Second Annual Graduate Student Conference of The Toronto Group
for the Study of International, Transnational, and Comparative Law
9-11 January 2009
The Toronto Group for the Study of International, Transnational, and
Comparative Law is pleased to announce its
second annual graduate student conference. The principal aim of
the Group's inaugural conference was to provide a forum for critical
inquiry and collaborative discussion. Building upon its closing
panel, in which we posed the question “what is to be done?”, our
second annual conference is intended to drive this newly created
forum towards a sharper, more systematic understanding of how legal
norms and institutions influence – and are, in turn, influenced by –
entrenched or emerging political and economic structures. Panels
will be chaired by legal scholars from the University of Toronto
Faculty of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School, York University.
Confirmed keynote speakers include Andrew Arato, Dorothy Hirshon
Professor in Political and Social Theory at the New School for
Social Research, and Jean Cohen, Senior Professor of Political
Thought at Columbia University.
We invite papers relating to themes broached in one or more of the
seven streams detailed below. While the conference’s objective is to
facilitate engagement with issues arising from these and related
areas of legal scholarship, submissions from graduate students in
disciplines other than law are also highly encouraged.
For further details, please see
http://torontogroup.wordpress.com/.
Economics for Equity and the
Environment Network
Graduate Student Workshop
In Search of Relevant Environmental Economics:
Designing Practical, Just and Sustainable Policy
January 7-9, 2009 Washington DC
Economics for Equity and the Environment Network (E3) is pleased to
announce its Graduate Student Workshop to be held January 7-9, 2009
in Washington DC. The theme of this year’s workshop will be: In
Search of Relevant Environmental Economics: Designing Practical,
Just and Sustainable Policy. We invite applications from graduate
students in economics whose scholarly interests include applied
research in the fields of climate economics, sustainability, and
environmental justice. Preference will be given to doctoral students
in the early stages of their programs. Solving the global
environmental crisis demands new thinking and research that is
applicable to real-world challenges. This workshop explores
innovative new approaches to understanding the nexus between
inequality and environmental degradation, analyzing risk and
uncertainty, modeling technical change and preference formation, and
designing policy mechanisms that promote sustainability and
fairness. The workshop will assist graduate students in developing
research programs that have practical policy applications and
demonstrate for graduate students how their professional studies can
contribute to the well-being of society at large. The program will
consist of panel presentations, seminar sessions, and small group
discussions to provide a forum for networking with faculty who
publish in the field, and to promote dialogue among graduate
students and faculty participants about students’ individual
research projects. Representatives from NGOs and advocacy groups
will also be present to discuss their needs for economic analysis.
For a list of participants in this year’s workshop, please visit our
website at www.e3network.org.
E3 Network is offering a stipend of $400 to participating students
to help offset travel costs. Applications must be received by
October 20, 2008. Applicants should submit acurriculum vitae and a
letter of not more than three pages describing their research
interests, their current status in graduate school, and how they
might benefit from attending the Workshop. Applicants should also
submit the names of at least two references, preferably one’s
graduate education advisor. References may be contacted before a
final decision is made. Applicants will be notified of their
acceptance by early November. Applications must be submitted
electronically to: ksheeran@ecotrust.org. Subject line: Apply
Workshop. If you have questions about the submission format please
contact Kristen Sheeran,
ksheeran@ecotrust.org, 503-467-0811.
7th Society of Heterodox Economists
Conference
The University of New South Wales will host the 7th Society of
Heterodox Economists Conference on December 8 and 9, 2008
This year's conference will have both refereed and non-refereed
papers. The deadline for submission of abstracts of refereed papers
is Friday October 24, and for papers is Friday 7 November. The
deadline for submission of abstracts of non-refereed papers is
Friday November 7, with papers due Friday 21 November.
Further details will be available from the Conference website.
In addition, we have arranged with the editors of the Economics and
Labour Relations Review to have a Symposium Issue of selected papers
from the conference.
The following symposia and calls for papers are being organised for
the SHE Conference, in addition to the general sessions. If you
would like to contribute in any way to any of these sessions, please
get in touch with the designated contact person. To contribute
papers to general sessions, please send abstracts to:
p.kriesler@unsw.edu.au
Symposium on Australia's Energy Future'
Please send proposals to Lynne Chester:
L.Chester@curtin.edu.au
Symposium on Innovation and Skills
Please send proposals to Jerry Courvisanos:
j.courvisanos@ballarat.edu.au
Symposium on Questions for Sraffa and the Sraffians'
Please send proposals to Neil Hart:
n.hart@uws.edu.au
Symposium on the Political Economy of Development in Theory and
Practice
Please send proposals to Michael Johnson:
michael.johnson@unsw.edu.au
Symposium on Social Inclusion in Australia
Please send proposals to Ilan Katz:
ilan.katz@unsw.edu.au
Symposium on Heterodox Economic Policy for the 21st Century
Please send proposals to Peter Kriesler:
p.kriesler@unsw.edu.au
IAFFE
A number of International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)
sessions will be coordinated by Women in Social and Economic
Research (WiSER), based at Curtin University in Western Australia.
The aim of these sessions is to provide an opportunity for feminist
economists in the Australia/Pacific region to get together and
discuss research priorities and needs.
Abstracts for papers are invited and can be submitted to Siobhan
Austen at WiSER:
E-mail:
siobhan.austen@cbs.curtin.edu.au
SHE Website:
http://she.web.unsw.edu.au/
Eighth Congress of the U.S. Basic
Income Guarantee Network
February 27 – March 1, 2009
Sheraton New York Hotel
811 Seventh Avenue at 53rd Street., New York, NY
The Eighth Congress of the U.S. Basic Income Guarantee (USBIG)
Network provides a forum for considering alternative frameworks for
addressing poverty. USBIG Network is a discussion group on the Basic
Income Guarantee (BIG)—a policy that would unconditionally guarantee
at least a subsistence-level income for everyone. The congress
brings together academics, students, activists, policy analysts, and
others interested in exploring the merits of this proposal. The
conference will be held in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of
the Eastern Economic Association (EEA), attendees at the USBIG
conference are welcome to attend any of the EEA’s events.
Featured speakers invited so far include academics and politician
from both left and right. Conservative Canadian Senator Hugh Segal
has been a supporter of the basic income guarantee for the last
three decades. He is currently leading a renewed campaign for BIG in
Canada. Tony Martin is Member of the Canadian House of Commons for
the left-of-center New Democratic Party (NDP). Brazilian Senator
Eduardo Suplicy is a third-term Senator representing the state of
Sao Paolo in the Brazilian Federal Senate and one of the founding
members of Brazil’s ruling Workers’ Party. Steve Pressman, of
Monmouth University, is an economist with interest in poverty,
public finance, and macroeconomics. He is co-editor of The Ethics
and Economics of the Basic Income Guarantee and author of Fifty
Major Economists. Brian Steensland, of Indiana University, is a
sociologist and author of The Failed Welfare Revolution. Pablo
Yannes is the head of the Mexican affiliate of the Basic Income
Earth Network. We hope to be confirming these and other speakers
soon.
Scholars, activists, and others are invited to propose papers, and
organize panel discussions. Proposals and panel discussions are
welcome on BIG or topics related to the distribution of wealth and
income. All points of view are welcome. Proposals from any
discipline are welcomed. Anyone interested in making a presenting or
organizing a panel should submit either an abstract of their
presentation or a panel proposal to the chair of the organizing
committee:
Karl Widerquist:
Karl@Widerquist.com
Please include the following information with your abstract and/or
panel proposal:
1. Name
2. Affiliation
3. Address
4. City, State, Zip, and Country
5. Telephone, FAX
6. Email Address
7. Paper or Presentation Title
8. Abstract of 50-150 words
DEADLINE FOR PROPOSALS is October 31, 2008
Proposals for panel discussions should include a title, topic, and
description of the panel and the information above for each
participant. If the participants are not presenting formal papers,
the title of the paper and abstract may be omitted. Panels with
formal paper presentations should be limited to four presentations,
although discussions without formal papers can include more.
Papers presented at the conference will be eligible for the Basic
Income Studies Best Essay Award.
Chair of the organizing committee: Karl Widerquist:
karl@widerquist.com/a>
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Conferences, Seminars
and Lectures
The History of Economics Society
The History of Economics Society will have 4 sessions at the 2009
AEA meetings in San Francisco (January 3-5). Registration opens 4
September. More information is available on the website:
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AEA/Annual_Meeting/index.htm
Times and places have now been assigned for the sessions.
12th Conference on "Macroeconomic Policies on Shaky Foundations
The Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies would
like to invite you to participate in 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 deadline for registration is 10 October 2008. If you want the
Hans Boeckler Foundation to make hotel reservations for you in the
conference hotel (€ 83 per night), please note that we need your
requirements by 24 September 2008. Having registered you will then
receive the details for the hotel, how to get there etc, presumably
in early October. Payments will have to be made with the hotel in
Berlin.
Further details of the conference (including updates of the
conference programme and preliminary versions of the conference
papers) will be made available on the conference website:
http://www.boeckler.de/33_91949.html
The Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (RMM)
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 (Universität
Hohenheim), Engelbert Stockhammer (WU Wien), Claus Thomasberger
(FHTW Berlin) and Achim Truger (IMK, Düsseldorf) with financial
support from the Hans Böckler Foundation.
Download
registration form and
preliminary
program.
More on the Research Network:
in English:
http://www.boeckler.de/36176_36330.html
in German:
http://www.boeckler.de/62170_62199.html
Forty Years of Political Power and
Social Classes
UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD
EUROPEAN STUDIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE (ESRI) Centre for Contemporary
History & Politics
Forty Years of Political Power and Social Classes
Nicos Poulantzas' Political Power and Social Classes was first
published in France in May of 1968. The subject matter of the book
combined with this fortunate timing made it an overnight sensation.
This initial success combined with Poulantzas' subsequent debate
with Ralph Miliband made the English translation of the book,
published in 1973, a major event at that time for Marxism and
contemporary political and social theory. The work continued to be a
key theoretical touchstone for the remainder of the decade.
Although Poulantzas' subsequent works, particularly State, Power,
Socialism and his essays on the transnationalization of the state
and class, continue to be widely available and are enjoying
popularity with those who study globalization and the increasingly
authoritarian character of the neoliberal state, among other topics,
Political Power and Social Classes, an infamously complex text, has
remained out of print for more than twenty years. The purpose of
this seminar is to examine the arguments and reception history of
Political Power and Social Classes, to explore the relationship
between this initial work and Poulantzas' subsequent writings, and
to identify those concepts and schemas that still hold analytical
value but are not widely known or in use at this time.
Speakers will include:
- Peter Bratsis, University of Salford
- Bob Jessop, University of Lancaster
- Mabel Thwaites Rey, University of Buenos Aires
- Constantinos Tsoukalas, University of Athens
September 24th, 1 to 6pm,
Room 106, Crescent House
ALL ARE WELCOME
For further information please contact:
Dr Peter Bratsis (Tel: 0161 295 6555 or Email:
P.Bratsis@salford.ac.uk
)
Keynes Lecture in Economics
Instruments of Development
Professor Angus Deaton, FBA
Princeton University
Thursday, 9 October 2008
5.30pm - 6.30pm, followed by a drinks reception
The British Academy, 10 Carlton House Terrace,
London, SW1Y 5AH
Free Admittance
How can we reduce global poverty? How do we know what works, and
what doesn't? There is great dissatisfaction among development
economists about the lack of convincing evidence of policy
effectiveness, and with an associated failure to learn from past
development assistance and projects. Econometric methods are seen as
part of the problem, not the solution, and there has been a movement
to discard econometrics in favour of a rigorous and comprehensive
programme of randomized controlled trials from which, at last, we
will learn what works. I review recent work, both experimental and
econometric, and argue that, while much can be learned from the new
methods, they are unlikely to deliver all that is promised, and that
it would be unwise to abandon econometric analysis. Our failures,
such as they are, come from our recent neglect of models of
behaviour and of development, and the absence of such models from
econometric analysis.
A poster for your notice board can be downloaded here:
Please visit our website for full details of our forthcoming events.
Telephone enquiries: 020 7969 5246 / Email:
lectures@britac.ac.uk
Please note our ticketing and seating policy:
British Academy Lectures are freely open to the general public and
everyone is welcome; there is no charge for admission, no tickets
will be issued, and seats cannot be reserved. The Lecture Room is
opened at 5.00pm, and the first 100 audience members arriving at the
Academy will be offered a seat in the Lecture Room; the next 50
people to arrive will be offered a seat in the Overflow Room, which
has a video and audio link to the Lecture Room. Lectures are
followed by a reception at 6.30pm, to which members of the audience
are invited.
History of American Capitalism
Grad Student Conference
The History
of Capitalism in the United States is a graduate student
conference at Harvard University on November 6-8, 2008.
Circulations: Economies, Currencies,
Movements in American Studies
The New York Metro American Studies Association and the Columbia
Journal of American Studies welcome papers on any historical period
for
Circulations: Economies, Currencies, Movements in American Studies
on November 8, 2008. Presentations that circulate across historical
and disciplinary borders are particularly encouraged.
Anti-Union Employer Strategy: An
Historical Analysis
Anti-Union Employer Strategy: An Historical Analysis is a
symposium/workshop on November 10, 2008 organized by the Business
and Labour History Group, Faculty of Economics and Business,
University of Sydney.
http://www.beardbooks.com/beardbooks/oil_business_in_latin_america.html
The Representation of Working People
in Britain and France
The Representation of Working People in Britain and France
at the Université de Rouen from November 13 to 15, 2008 constitutes
a reconsideration of representations of workers and the meaning and
experience of labor, and the ways in which the socio-political
relations of work were mediated from the medieval period to the 20th
century.
Character & Trajectory of the Indian
Economic Formation in an Era of Globalization
The opening keynote for
The Character and
Trajectory of the Indian Economic Formation in an Era of
Globalisation on November 26 to 28, 2008 at the University
of Delhi will be given by Professor K.M. Shrimali, on the mode of
production as a concept in Indian historiography.
Globalization: Cultures, Institutions
and Socioeconomics
"Globalization:
Cultures, Institutions and Socioeconomics" an international
conference to be held in Hong Kong, December 12 and 13, 2008 is
co-sponsored by the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Washington
University in St. Louis.
Asia-Pacific Economic and Business
History Conference
The theme of the
Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History conference on
February 18-20, 2009 in Tokyo (Japan) is Asia-Pacific in
International Economy and Business.
Revue Française de Socio-Economie
Le n°2 de la Revue Française de
Socio-Economie va bientôt paraître et le n°3 est en cours
d'élaboration.
J'attire votre attention sur la rubrique des notes de lecture
d'ouvrages: la RFSE publie des notes simples d'environ 5000 signes,
sur les parutions récentes, et des notes critiques, un peu plus
fouillées et un peu plus longues.
N'hésitez pas à nous envoyer vos contributions et incitez les plus
jeunes, notamment les thésards, à rendre compte de leurs lectures
d'ouvrages récents.
Pour toute correspondance, contactez les responsables de la rubrique
"notes de lecture": Sandrine Rousseau et Bruno Boidin
(sandrine.rousseau@univ-lille1.fr ,
bruno.boidin@univ-lille1.fr ).
Marx au xxie siècle : l’esprit & la
lettre
Université Paris 1, CHSPM, dir. Pr Jean Salem
Séminaire « Marx au xxie siècle : l’esprit & la lettre »
Programme 2008-2009 (au 8 septembre 2008)
http://semimarx.free.fr
http://chspm.univ-paris1.fr/
17, rue de la Sorbonne
75231 Paris
14.00-16.00
18 octobre 2008: Michael Löwy
(directeur de recherches émérite, cnrs), Kafka, la politique, le
socialisme
25 octobre 2008: Domenico Losurdo
(professeur de philosophie, université d’Urbino), Nietzsche, le
rebelle aristocrate
8 novembre 2008: Catherine Samary
(maîtresse de conférences en économie,
université Paris 9-Dauphine),
Des contradictions des sociétés dites socialistes aux débats sur
d’autres « modèles » :
propriété sociale, État, marché
15 novembre 2008: Luciano Canfora
(professeur de philologie grecque
et latine, université de Bari),
Peut-on critiquer la démocratie ?
22 novembre 2008: Bernard Gainot (maître de conférences hdr,
université Paris 1-Sorbonne), Esclavage, abolitions, luttes armées
dans les colonies françaises
29 novembre 2008: Sophie Wahnich
(historienne, chargée de recherche, cnrs), La longue patience du
peuple
6 décembre 2008: Nicolas Tertulian
(philosophe, directeur d’études honoraire, ehess), Heidegger/Lukács,
quelle ontologie ?
13 décembre 2008: Jean-Claude Bourdin (professeur de philosophie,
université de Poitiers), Marx historien de la France moderne
17 janvier 2009: Alain Bihr (professeur
de sociologie, université de Besançon),
La reproduction du capital
31 janvier 2009: Olivier Neveux (maître
de conférence, université de Strasbourg), Brecht, une théorie
politique du théâtre
14 février 2009: Paul Bouffartigue
(sociologue, directeur de recherches, cnrs), Travail et
précarisation
21 février 2009: André Tosel (professeur émérite de philosophie,
université de Nice), Les marxismes du xxe siècle
28 février 2009: Yves Schwartz (professeur de philosophie émérite,
université de Provence), Production, travail et activité
7 mars 2009: Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc (ater, université Lille 3),
Titre à définir
14 mars 2009: Nicole-Edith Thévenin
(maîtresse de conférences en sciences
politiques, université Paris 8),
Psychanalyse et marxisme
21 mars 2009: Jean Bourgault (professeur de Lettres supérieures,
Lycée Jeanne d’Arc, Rouen), Tours et détours de l’idéologie :
la conception de l’action politique chez Sartre
28 mars 2009: Gilbert Achcar (professeur de relations
internationales, université de Londres), Marx est-il orientaliste ?
4 avril 2009: Emmanuel Barot (maître
de conférences en philosophie, université Toulouse-Le Mirail) :
Réalisme et cinéma
militant
Leeds Schumacher Lectures 2008
Transforming the Global Economy: Solutions for a Sustainable World
Susan George
Ann Pettifor
Andrew Simms
Saturday 4 October 10am-5pm
Lecture Theatre B2, Leeds Metropolitan University Civic Quarter Site
£20.00 conc. £10.00 (Schumacher North Members £15.00 or £7.50)
Organised by Schumacher North in partnership with the George
Mitchell Centre for Peace and Global Responsibility, Leeds
Metropolitan University and School of Earth and Environment,
University of Leeds
The Leeds Schumacher Lectures 2008 will address the issues of
economic justice and ecological sustainability posed by the
increasing dominance of global corporations in the international
economy. The three speakers are internationally recognised as
leading activists in the quest for an alternative, just and
sustainable international economic order, and the intention of this
day of lectures and dialogue is to inform and inspire effective
local action in support of practical initiatives aimed at creating
this new order.
Susan George is one of the most outstanding defenders of alternative
globalization. She is Chair of the Planning Board of the
Transnational Institute, having previously served on the Board of
Greenpeace International and acted as a consultant to various United
Nations specialised agencies.
Ann Pettifor is executive director of Advocacy International, an
international organisation working with low-income countries to
promote positive development, investment and environmental
sustainability in those countries. She helped to design and lead
Jubilee 2000, an international campaign which succeeded in bringing
about the cancellation of $100bn of debt owed by 42 countries.
Andrew Simms is Policy Director for the New Economics Foundation and
head of the Climate Change programme at the Centre for Global
Interdependence. He is a board member of Greenpeace UK and The
Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Europe and was one of the
original campaigners for the Jubilee 2000 Coalition debt campaign.
To Book: phone 0113 812 5263
Further information from: Schumacher North, 57 Riviera Gardens,
Leeds LS7 3DW, Tel. 0113 262 7914, Email
info@schumacher-north.co.uk
Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy
Please join us in celebrating the launch of our newest research
program
Race, Ethnicity, and the Economy
This critical initiative will explore how communities of color
affect and are affected by the economy.
- Dr. Julianne Malveaux, President of Bennett College for Women and
EPI board member will introduce the program.
- Dr. Algernon Austin, Program Director will briefly discuss the
program's agenda and goals and provide highlights from new research
on the recent economic experience of African Americans.
An informal reception will follow.
Thursday, September 18, 2008, from 5:30 p.m to 7:00 p.m.
Economic Policy Institute
1333 H Street, NW, East Tower, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20005
Cocktails and assorted refreshments
Please
RSVP by Monday, September 15, 2008.
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Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
University of Texas at Arlington
The School of Urban and Public Affairs (SUPA) at the University of
Texas at Arlington is seeking to expand its faculty in public
administration. We intend to hire two to three highly qualified
individuals at the Assistant or Associate Professor level to begin
Fall 2009.
We specifically seek candidates with demonstrated research expertise
and who have teaching interests in at least one of the following
areas:
1. Human Resources & Personnel Management, including public
personnel systems, current public personnel management issues,
strategic human resources administration, and employee rights and
labor relations.
2. Public Budgeting & Financial Management, including knowledge of
fiscal federalism, state and local government financing, and
governmental and nonprofit accounting.
3. Nonprofit Management, including personnel, board management,
fiduciary responsibilities, fundraising, and grant administration.
Preference will be given to candidates who have an established
research record with interest in working in a multidisciplinary
environment as well as a commitment to community service. Candidates
able to demonstrate strong interest in teaching quantitative
analysis and/or administrative law courses will be particularly
welcome. A Ph.D. in Public Administration is strongly preferred.
ABDs may be considered if doctoral degree is to be conferred before
the effective date of appointment.
The School offers excellent teaching and research support, and its
location in the heart of the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area
provides an ideal urban laboratory for research and community
service. With its multidisciplinary faculty, SUPA offers five
graduate degrees including two PhD degrees (Ph.D. in Public and
Urban Administration, Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Public Policy) and
three masters degrees (Masters of Arts in Urban Affairs, Masters in
Public Administration, and Masters in City and Regional Planning) as
well as two bachelor degrees (BS and BA in Interdisciplinary
Studies).
A letter of application indicating research and teaching interests,
vitae, and three letters of recommendation should be sent to
Professor Edith Barrett, Chair, Search Committee, School of Urban
and Public Affairs, Box 19588, The University of Texas at Arlington,
Arlington, TX 76019-0588 or ebarrett@uta.edu Review of applications
will begin on November 1, 2008 and will continue until the position
is filled. This is a security sensitive position, and a criminal
background check will be conducted on finalists. The University of
Texas at Arlington is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action
Employer.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva, New York
- Political Economy and Methodology
- Current heterodox approaches
- Feminist Economics
Hobart and William Smith Colleges invite applications for a tenure
track position at the Assistant Professor level anticipated for fall
2009. The position requires a specialization in political economy
and methodology, with emphasis on heterodox approaches in political
economy, feminist economics, and macroeconomics. Ph.D. preferred,
AbD considered. Teaching responsibilities include five courses per
year and would typically be one section of a core course in
political economy (comparative theory and methodology), elective
courses in radical and feminist analysis, section(s) of intermediate
macroeconomics and principles of economics, and one other course
which could be in the Colleges’ interdisciplinary programs or
general education areas.
Founded as Hobart College for men and William Smith College for
women, Hobart and William Smith Colleges today are a highly
selective, residential liberal arts institution with a single
administration, faculty and curriculum but separate dean’s offices,
student governments, athletic programs and traditions. The Colleges
are located in a small, diverse city in the Finger Lakes region of
New York State. With an enrollment of approximately 2,000, the
Colleges offer 62 different majors and minors from which students
choose two areas of concentration, one of which must be an
interdisciplinary program. Creative and extensive programs of
international study and public service are also at the core of the
Colleges’ mission.
Hobart and William Smith Colleges are committed to attracting and
supporting a faculty of women and men that fully represent the
racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity of the nation and actively
seek applications from under-represented groups. The Colleges do not
discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, marital
status, national origin, age, disability, veteran's status, sexual
orientation or any other protected status.
Candidates should send a letter of application, c.v., evidence of
successful teaching experience, and arrange to have three
recommendations sent to:
Jo Beth Mertens, Chair
Department of Economics
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva, NY 14456.
Applications must be received by November 15, 2008 to be guaranteed
full consideration but will be accepted until the position is
filled. Interviews will be conducted at the Allied Social Science
Associations meetings.
Auckland University of Technology
Associate Professor/Professor of Business Economics
The Department of Business Economics at AUT School of Business,
Auckland University of Technology continues to expand its research
and teaching provision and to grow its undergraduate and
postgraduate student numbers. It has seen strong growth in student
enrolments in both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
Applications are invited from suitably qualified and experienced
academics to further strengthen its academic portfolio. The
department serves as a strategically important area within AUT
School of Business, which is ranked amongst the leading research-led
business schools in New Zealand.
Business Economics continues to be an innovative and forward
thinking department, which embraces a cross-disciplinary and applied
philosophy in teaching, learning and research. As part of these
endeavours, we are looking to attract an enthusiastic and
established scholar with proven management and leadership
credentials and with an excellent research profile that further
advances the reputation of the department through a sustained and
continuing record of publications in leading economics journals.
Exceptionally experienced and qualified candidates may be considered
for an appointment as Professor.
The successful candidate will lead academic developments in terms of
both teaching and research and will take on management and
leadership responsibilities within the department. An ability and
enthusiasm to contribute to the delivery of MBA and executive
training programmes would be particularly welcome.
We invite PhD qualified scholars from any field in Economics to
apply, but particularly encourage applications from colleagues with
a strong empirical background who also hold an interest in labour or
personnel economics, financial economics or international trade
economics.
Enquires of an academic nature may be made by contacting the
Departmental Chair of Business Economics, Professor Thomas Lange
(email: tlange@aut.ac.nz ).
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.
Ref: XXXX
Closing Date: 26 September 2008
Interviews in person or by teleconference are scheduled to be held
in mid October 2008.
Earlham College
Earlham College, a good liberal arts College with about 1200
students, seeks a visiting assistant professor to teach full time
for the Spring semester of this academic year, 2008-2009. The
teaching load is two 4 credit hour courses and one 2 credit hour
topical seminar. The History of Economic Thought and Game Theory are
our preferred 4 credit hour courses. Though because of our strong
commitment to quality teaching, we are open to other options as
well, including the basic theory courses or other topics and
electives we typically don't offer. Specify in your application
letter what elective courses you have taught recently or would be
able to prepare. The topical seminar course should reflect your
interests and help students delve into a topic in economics.
Earlham is affiliated with the Society of Friends (Quakers), is an
AA/EOE employer and eagerly solicits applications from African
Americans and other ethnic minorities, women, and Quakers.
Send Letter of Interest including contact information for three
references, and a c.v. for initial review. Job begins January 2009.
Send Information to:
Cheri Gaddis, Economics Search
Earlham College
801 National Road West
Richmond, IN 47374
USA
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Assistant Professor of Economics
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Department of Social Sciences
Location: Dearborn, MI, USA
JEL Classification:
C9 - Design of Experiments
D8 - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty
D01 - Microeconomic Behavior: Underlying Principles
Location: University of Michigan, Dearborn (USA)
One tenure track opening for a position at the Assistant Professor
level. The primary area of teaching responsibility is Behavioral
Economics/Economic Psychology. Additional opportunities exist to
teach in programs in Psychology and/or Public Policy. The Economics
program is located within a multi-disciplinary Department of Social
Sciences that includes History and Political Science.
Teaching load is three courses per semester, which may include
principles of macroeconomics and/or intermediate micro theory.
Individual classes in all Economics courses are capped at 35
students. A Ph.D. in economics or evidence of its impending
completion is required. Additional selection criteria include
demonstrated potential for and commitment to teaching talented and
diverse undergraduates, as well as the ability to sustain a
productive research agenda. Appointment effective September 1, 2009.
Salary is competitive. Applicants should send a cover letter, vita,
unofficial copy of graduate transcript, three letters of reference,
a summary of teaching evaluations (if available), and a writing
sample to: Chair, Economics Search Committee, Department of Social
Sciences, University of Michigan Dearborn, 4901 Evergreen Rd.,
Dearborn MI 48128-1491. We will interview at the ASSA meetings in
San Francisco. Applications should be received by December 8, 2008
to ensure full consideration.
The University of Michigan-Dearborn currently enrolls approximately
8,700 students in bachelor's and master's degree programs. The
University is one of three campuses – along with Ann Arbor and Flint
- in the University of Michigan system. Faculty and students have
the opportunity to collaborate across all three campuses in research
and scholarly activity. UM-Dearborn is located ten miles west of
Detroit and thirty-five miles east of Ann Arbor.
The University of Michigan-Dearborn is dedicated to the goal of
building a culturally diverse and pluralistic faculty committed to
teaching and working in a multicultural environment, and strongly
encourages applications from minorities and women.
For further information, please visit:
http://www.casl.umd.umich.edu/economics/
The University of Michigan, Dearborn is an equal
opportunity-affirmative action employer.
University of Bremen- Dr. Wolfram
Elsner
Professor Elsner has a half position for a research assistant to be
filled immediately. The payment will be a stipend for promotion for
three years (about 1,100 euros per month). The person should know
some evolutionary and original institutional economics and also have
some formal skills in either complex modeling, evolutionary game
theory or computer simulation. those interested should contact
Professor Elsner at:
Dr. Wolfram Elsner
Full Professor of Economics
University of Bremen
Faculty of Economics and Business Studies
iino - Institute of Institutional and Innovation Economics
Hochschulring 4, D-28359 Bremen
fon: +49-421-218-7535/6, fax: -218-4974
welsner@uni-bremen.de.
www.iino.de/elsner
The Lewis & Clark College
Macroeconomics: The LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE Department of Economics
invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of
either assistant or associate professor in macroeconomics beginning
fall 2009. Assistant professor candidates must hold the Ph.D. at the
time of hire and show potential for excellence in teaching and
research. Associate professors must show a record of excellence in
teaching and research, and will be eligible for tenure review after
a period to be negotiated at the time of hire. Usual teaching load
is five courses per academic year, with opportunities to teach in
the College’s general education program. Review of applications will
begin on November 17th and continue until the position is filled.
The College will be interviewing at the January ASSA meeting in San
Francisco. A complete application includes: (1) a curriculum vitae;
(2) a letter of application which includes a statement of
educational philosophy, teaching experience, and research interests;
(3) evidence of teaching effectiveness; (4) sample of scholarship;
(5) three letters of recommendation sent under separate cover and
(6) graduate transcripts. CONTACT: Dr. Eban Goodstein, Chair,
Department of Economics, Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine
Hill Road, Portland, OR 97219. (eban@lclark.edu) Lewis & Clark
College, an Equal Opportunity Employer, is committed to preparing
students for leadership in an increasingly interdependent world, and
affirms the educational benefits of diversity. (See
http://www.lclark.edu/dept/about/diversity.html ) We encourage
applicants to explain how their teaching at Lewis & Clark might
contribute to a learning community that values diversity.
American University
One tenure-track opening in Macroeconomic Theory and Policy
Analysis, beginning Fall 2009, at the rank of assistant or associate
professor. The department welcomes applications from candidates with
diverse theoretical perspectives and who are interested in policy
applications and empirical tests of macro theory. An interest in
long-run growth theory, heterodox macro models, or the political
economy of macro policy is especially welcome. The department seeks
applicants with an active research agenda and an ability to develop
a strong publication record. Applicants must have the ability to
teach effectively at the undergraduate and graduate levels and
provide evidence of strong teaching skills. Candidates for assistant
professor rank should expect to have the Ph.D. completed by August
2009. Applicants should send a curriculum vitae, dissertation
abstract or sample research paper, evidence of teaching
effectiveness, and letters from three references. Contact: Search
Committee, Department of Economics, American University, 4400
Massachusetts Ave., NW, Washington, DC 20016-8029. American
University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer,
committed to a diverse faculty, staff, and student body. Women and
minority candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more
information, see
http://www.american.edu/hr/ft_faculty_CAS.html.
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Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles
An Evolutionary Perspective on the
Economics of Energy Consumption: the Crucial Role of Habits
Written by K. Marechal
Click here to
download the paper.
Eastern Civilisation and the
Breakthrough to Modernity in the West
An Essay in the Philosophy and Theory of World History by Heinrich
Bortis, Université de Fribourg (Switzerland)
Click here to download
the paper.
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Heterodox Journals and
Newsletters
World Money -
Associative Economics Bulletin - September 2008
The Associative Economics Bulletin consists of news and views on
associative economics, including short extracts from Associative
Economics Monthly (available electronically for 1GBP an issue at
www.cfae.biz/aem
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. The Colours of Money Oct/Nov 2008
2. Course at The London School of Economics Oct-Dec 2008
3. Rethinking the Company - Associative Economics Monthly Editorial
September 2008
Click here to
download the bulletin.
Economia Informa
No. 351 (Marzo-Abril 2008)
http://www.economia.unam.mx/publicaciones/econinforma/351.html
Microeconomía Heterodoxa: El monopolio, teoría y práctica
- Mark Lavoie, Neoclassical Empirical Evidence on Employment and
Production Laws as Artefact
- Gustavo Vargas Sánchez, La empresa transnacional
- Rogelio Huerta Quintanilla, Monopolio, precios de la tortilla y
estancamiento de la economía mexicana
- Chris Tilly y José Luis Álvarez Galván, El tamaño sí importa:
Monopolio, el monopsonio y el impacto de Wal-Mart en Méxic
- Jack Reardon, Private Equity Firms and the Irrelevance of
Traditional Monopoly
- Alfonso Anaya Díaz, El cociente de alineación de precios como
indicador de poder de mercado
- Mayrén Polanco Gaytán, Understanding Creative Destruction in the
Mexican Economy
- Julio Boltvinik, Necesidades humanas, recurso tiempo y crítica de
la teoría neoclásica del consumidor.
Innovations
j'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer la parution du n° 28 (2008/2) de la
revue Innovations. Cahiers d'économie de l'innovation. Le cahier
principal (L'économie de la Défense) a été coordonné par notre
collègue Claude Serfati
http://www.cairn.info/revue-innovations-2008-2.htm
I am pleased to announce the publication of the n°28 (2008/2) of the
Innovations. Cahiers d'économie de l'innovation. The main topic of
this issue (The Defence Economy) is edited by Claude Serfati
http://www.cairn.info/revue-innovations-2008-2.htm
CASE - Newsletter
http://www.case-research.eu/plik--21209759.pdf?nlang=710
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Heterodox
Books and Book Series
The Genesis of Innovation
The Genesis of
Innovation. Systemic Linkages between Knowledge and the Market,
B. LAPERCHE, D. UZUNIDIS, G.N. VON TUNZELMANN (eds), Edward Elgar,
2008
http://www.e-elgar-economics.com/bookentry_main.lasso?id=12926
The State of Working America
Labor Day preview of biennial resource
This week, EPI released the 11th edition of its flagship
publication: The State of Working America 2008-09. EPI economists
and authors Jared Bernstein, Larry Mishel, and Heidi Shierholz show
that, while the 2000s could have been a time of shared prosperity,
only a small percentage of the nation's workers benefited from the
booming economy. In a national conference call with journalists, the
three authors highlighted their findings. According to Bernstein,
while the growth of worker output, or productivity, surpassed the
high levels of the 1990s, paychecks stagnated and employer-provided
benefits continued to decrease. Shierholz emphasized the halt in job
creation and the rise in unemployed workers--1.5 million more at the
end of the 2000s business cycle than at its beginning. And Mishel
showed how the upward redistribution of wealth leaves struggling
families with less. Rich with charts and text on earnings, health
care coverage, growing inequality, and international comparisons,
the book gives an extensive analysis of the economic situation for
working Americans, offering evidence for why many Americans
experienced the 2000s as a recession, even while the economy grew.
Visit the
State of Working America Web site now and in coming months to
read excerpts, download charts, and to
order your copy.
Trends in Business and Economic
Ethics
Series: Studies in Economic Ethics and Philosophy
Cowton, Christopher; Haase, Michaela (Eds.)
2008, VI, 272 p. 10 illus., Hardcover
http://www.springer.com/economics/book/978-3-540-79471-4
Available: October 4, 2008
A growing body of academic and business specialists are paying
attention to ethical issues in business and economics, drawing on a
wide range of different disciplinary and theoretical perspectives.
This volume presents important new insights from scholars in
economics, philosophy, business ethics and management studies. In
addition to providing specific perspectives on particular topics, it
presents strategic perspectives on the development of the field.
Readers can inform themselves on developments in particular areas,
such as social accountability or stakeholder governance; they will
also find substantial contributions related to the interfaces of
ethics and economics, economics and philosophy, business ethics and
political science, and business ethics and management. The
collection is a thought-provoking contribution to the development of
business and economic ethics as an increasingly important field of
academic study.
Green Recovery
Green Recovery - A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a
Low-Carbon Economy by Robert Pollin, James Heintz, Heidi Garrett-Peltier,
and Helen Scharber
As the nation continues to debate its energy future, a new report
released today shows that the U.S. can create two million jobs by
investing in a rapid green economic recovery program, which will
strengthen the economy, increase energy independence, and fight
global warming.
Green Recovery - A Program to Create Good Jobs and Start Building a
Low-Carbon Economy was prepared by the Political Economy Research
Institute at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, under
commission by the Center for American Progress and released by a
coalition of labor and environmental groups. The authors are Robert
Pollin, Heidi Garrett-Peltier, James Heintz, and Helen Scharber of
PERI.
For the complete report findings, please click the report cover or
go to
www.peri.umass.edu/green_recovery.
To download the report:
http://www.peri.umass.edu/fileadmin/pdf/other_publication_types/peri_report.pdf
A Green New Deal: Joined-up policies
to solve the triple crunch of the credit crisis, climate change and
high oil prices
http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/z_sys_publicationdetail.aspx?pid=258
Understanding Sustainability
Economics: Towards Pluralism in Economics
Peter Söderbaum
http://www.earthscan.co.uk/?tabid=21128
Environmental And Natural Resource
Economics
A Contemporary Approach (2nd Edition, Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
Updated data and figures are now available in PowerPoint for the
Harris Environmental and Natural Resource Economics text. Figures
and tables for the teaching module The Economics of Climate Change
are also available.
The 2008 Data Updates include:
- The price increase trends for food, fuel, and metals observed in
2007-2008
- Recent trends in U.S. oil production and consumption
- Energy demand and energy intensity trends
- CO2 emissions trends and CO2 stabilization scenarios
- Falling costs and expanded production of solar photovoltaics
The data updates and the Economics of Global Climate Change teaching
module (which can be used to supplement or replace Chapter 18 in the
Harris text) are available for free download at:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/textbooks/ENREupdate.html
Examination copies of the text can be ordered from Cengage Learning
(now incorporating the former Houghton Mifflin College Division) at:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/textbooks/env_nat_res_economics.html
(register and select “Environmental and Natural Resource Economics”
field at the Cengage Learning site).
Microeconomics and Macroeconomics in Context
Second Edition by Neva Goodwin, Julie A. Nelson, Frank Ackerman and
Thomas Weisskopf.
Macroeconomics in Context, First Edition by Neva Goodwin, Julie A.
Nelson, and Jonathan Harris.
These innovative Principles of Economics textbooks can be ordered
from M.E. Sharpe, and free examination copies are available to
potential adopters. A comprehensive Student Study Guide and the full
set of PowerPoints slides are available for free download. An
Instructor’s Resource Manual and Test Bank are also available on
GDAE’s website to verified instructors. For more information, visit:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/textbooks/microeconomics.html
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/textbooks/macroeconomics.html
GDAE Teaching Modules on Social and
Environmental Issues in Economics
These modules, designed for use as supplements in
undergraduate-level courses, are available in Adobe Acrobat format.
The modules are downloadable free of charge. Topics include: trade,
global climate change, corporate power, consumption, tax equity, and
environmental justice.
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/education_materials/modules.html
Unjust Deserts
How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should
Take It Back
Gar Alperovitz and Lew Daly
(To be published by The New Press in November 2008)
http:// www.thenewpress.com
For those of us who think we are solely responsible for every dollar
we've earned, Unjust Deserts will be a shocking revelation. In a
compelling synthesis of historical, economic, and technological
research, Alperovitz and Daly explain how our current economic
system has changed the way wealth is distributed—and why it is
utterly indefensible for the top 1 percent of American households to
earn more than the bottom 120 million Americans combined.
At the center of their convincing argument is knowledge. As people
have solved numerous problems that bewildered and plagued those
before us, we have accumulated an immense “stock of knowledge” from
which we now rely on, developing new ideas and technology, allowing
us to grow our economies many times over. This stock of knowledge,
Alperovitz and Daly argue, is a social inheritance, nurtured by
governments, institutions, and culture, and created by many
generations of people.
Yet, most of the wealth—the fruits of this inherited knowledge—has
come to be controlled by a small fraction of the population, with
roughly 50% of the productive assets of our country owned by the top
1% percent of households. In a rebuke to those who claim such
earnings are reasonable rewards for hard work and ingenuity,
Alperovitz and Daly draw on the work of leading economists such as
Robert Solow and Kenneth Arrow, and meticulously walk us through the
evidence and break down the studies. They demonstrate why it is
economically—and morally—unjust to allow such inequalities when in
fact 90% of what people have comes from our common stock of
knowledge. Praised by economists, political scientists, and
philosophers alike, Unjust Deserts is a clarion call for income
redistribution. It is a book that will radically change the way you
think about wealth and knowledge.
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here to download the reviews.
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Heterodox Book Reviews
Reflections on the Cliometrics
Revolution: Conversations with Economic Historians
John S. Lyons, Louis P. Cain and Samuel H. Williamson, editors,
_Reflections on the Cliometrics Revolution: Conversations with
Economic Historians_. New York: Routledge, 2008. xiv + 491 pp. $160
(hardback),
ISBN: 978-0-415-70091-7.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Michael Haupert, Department of Economics,
University of Wisconsin–La Crosse.
Click here to download the
review.
Managing Network Resources:
Alliances, Affiliations, and Other Relational Assets
by Ranjay Gulati. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN:
978-0-19-929935-5; 325 pages. Reviewed by Sébastien Plociniczak,
Université Paris XIII, France
Click here to
download the review.
Adam Smith in Beijing: Lineages of
the Twenty-First Century
by Giovanni Arrighi. London: Verso, 2007. ISBN: 978-1-84467-104-5;
420 pages. Reviewed by Yan Liang, University of Redlands
Click here to download
the review.
Social Murder: and Other Shortcomings
of Conservative Economics
by Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson. Winnipeg, Canada: Arbeiter Ring
Publishing, 2007, ISBN 1-894037-31-6; 224 pages. Reviewed by Ryan A.
Dodd, University of Missouri-Kansas City
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download the review.
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The HEN-IRE-FPH Project
The HEN-IRE-FPH Project for
Developing Heterodox Economics and Rethinking the Economy Through
Debate and Dialogue
The Heterodox Economics Newsletter, The International Initiative for
Rethinking the Economy (IRE), and the Charles Leopold Mayer
Foundation for the Progress of Humankind (FPH) (
www.fph.ch ) have undertaken a joint
project to promote the development of heterodox economics. It
involves publishing in the Newsletter reviews, analytical summaries,
or commentary of articles, books, book chapters, theses,
dissertations, government reports, etc. that relate to the following
themes: diversity of economic approaches, regulation of goods and
services, currency and finance, and trade regimes. These themes
relate to heterodox economics and to the open and pluralistic
intellectual debates in economics. It is hoped that the reviews will
contribute to strengthening the community of heterodox economists,
and to the development of heterodox economic theory through the
dissemination of ideas/arguments. The final aim of this project is
to help heterodox economists come up with proposals, both
theoretical and applied, that would help adapt the economy to the
challenges facing humankind. The reviews will be published in the
Newsletter and will also be put on the IRE website
http://www.i-r-e.org. For
further information about the project, material available for
reviewing, and about reviewing the material click
here. Anyone
interested in contributing to and reviewing material for the
HEN-IRE-FPH project should contact Fred Lee, Editor of the
Newsletter by email ( leefs@umkc.edu
). I am particularly interested in getting recommendations of
material that should be reviewed.
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Heterodox
Graduate Program and PhD Scholarships
Scholarships
in Germany
The German state gives grants for non-German students in Germany. A
part of these grants is given via the foundations of the political
parties. The Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung is giving grants for students
(including doctoral theses) who want to study in Germany. Grants
range from 615 Euros a month to 1.100 Euros (the grant is for two
years, with the possibility to for another year). The next deadline
for the applications is the 31 October 2008 and then April 2009.
For further details see:
http://www.rosalux.de/cms/index.php?id=12922
http://www.rosalux.de/cms/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/Studienwerk/AA_FAQ__Studierende.pdf
Contact
historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk if you want to be put in
touch with someone who can give you further details.
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Queries from Heterodox
Economists
Ian
Fletcher
Ian Fletcher would like to contact heterodox
economists working on the problem of free trade. His e-mail address
is ianfletcher@yahoo.com.
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For Your Information
2008 Don Lavoie
Memorial Graduate Student Essay Competition
The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics is pleased to
announce that submissions for the 2008 Don Lavoie Memorial Graduate
Student Essay Competition are now being accepted. Submissions will
be accepted from students in the dissertation stage of their PhD
education in economics or other relevant disciplines anywhere in the
world. This competition is designed for students writing
dissertations on themes related to Austrian economics; submissions
should adhere to appropriate standards of academic writing and
should be on a topic relevant to Austrian economics. There is no
word limit; and, students submitting papers to this competition will
retain all publication rights to their work; however, winners are
encourage to submit their papers to The Review of Austrian Economics
for publication.
Three prizes are given, each worth $1000, to be used to pay expenses
to attend the Southern Economic Association meetings this November
in Washington, DC, where the winners will present their work on a
special panel. Prize awards are contingent on attending the SEA
meetings and theSDAEs annual business meeting and awards banquet.
The prize committee consists of:
- Peter Boettke, George Mason University
- Emily Chamlee-Wright, Beloit College
- Steven Horwitz, St. Lawrence University
- David Prychitko, Northern Michigan University
- Virgil Storr, Mercatus Center at George Mason University
-Deadline for submissions is October 10, 2008. Decisions will be
made by October 15.
Please send all questions and submissions electronically to Peter
Lipsey, Assistant to Peter Boettke, at
[1]plipsey@gmu.edu.
William R. Waters
Research Grant
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
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.
ASE, established in 1941, advances research on the social and
ethical foundations of economics and supports economic analysis to
help shape scholarship and form policy.
Applications will be accepted until November 1, 2008.
The Award will be announced at the ASSA meetings in San Francisco,
CA, January 3-5, 2009.
Eastern Economic
Association Announces the Koford Prize
In memory of Kenneth J. Koford, editor of the Eastern Economic
Journal from 1999-2004, the Eastern Economic Association has
established a prize to help junior foreign scholars to attend the
annual EEA meetings and to present a paper. The next EEA conference
will be held February 27, 2009 – March 1, 2009, at the Sheraton New
York Hotel and Towers in New York City. The winner of the Koford
Prize will receive $1000 towards travel, registration, and
accommodations at the conference. The objective of the Koford Prize
is to assist junior economists with completed Ph.D. who have not yet
been considered for tenure, and who are not citizens of the U.S. To
apply please send a cover letter, vita, and manuscript
electronically to Alexandra Bernasek, Department of Economics,
Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, Colorado, or electronically
to
Alexandra.bernasek@colostate.edu. Please include contact
information, an abstract, and three JEL codes with your paper. The
maximum paper length is 10,000 words. The deadline for paper
submissions is December 15, 2008.
Interview with Chang
Ha-Joon
[Interview] ‘Do not follow the U.S. capitalism, treat it as a wicked
teacher’
Click
here to download the interview.
POLITICAL ECONOMY I &
II
The
syllabus of Political Economy, I & II by Dr. Cyrus Bina.
Warren Samuels Prize
The Association for Social Economics (ASE), one of the founding
member organizations of the Allied Social Science Associations,
together with the Review of Social Economy, would like to invite
submissions for the Warren Samuels Prize.
This prize is awarded to a paper, presented at the January ASSA
meetings, that best exemplifies scholarly work that:
- Is of high quality,
- Is important to the project of social economics,
- Has broad appeal across disciplines.
It is preferable, but not required, that the paper is presented at
one of the ASSA sessions sponsored by the Association for Social
Economics. Papers will not normally exceed 6,500 words (inclusive of
references, notes), and should follow the style guidelines for the
Review of Social Economy.
The winner of the prize will be announced during the ASE
presidential breakfast, to which the winner is invited. The winning
paper may, subject to peer review, be published in the subsequent
September issue of the Review of Social Economy. The winner of the
Warren Samuels Prize receives a $500 stipend.
The selection committee consists of:
- A Past-President of ASE;
- A Co-editor of the Review of Social Economy (Chair);
- A member of the Editorial Board, Review of Social Economy.
Papers presented at the 2009 ASSA meetings in San Francisco, CA, in
sessions not restricted to sessions in the ASE programme, may be
send electronically, as a word or pdf attachment, to Wilfred Dolfsma,
Corresponding Editor, Review of Social Economy, before December 5th,
2008 at w.a.dolfsma@rug.nl.
One thing is clear from
the history of trade
One thing is clear from the history of trade: protectionism makes
you rich However much Peter Mandelson bullies them, poor countries
know his equation of fair trade and free trade is nonsense
By George Monbiot
(Appeared in The Guardian, 9/9/08)
It is not often that a bureaucrat makes a major scientific
discovery. So hats off to Peter Power. The European commission's
spokesperson for trade, writing to the Guardian last week, has
invented a new ecological concept: excess fish. Seeking to justify
policies that would ensure that European trawlers are allowed to
keep fishing in west African waters, Mr Power claims that they will
be removing only the region's "excess stocks". Well, someone has to
do it. Were it not for our brave trawlermen battling nature's
delinquent productivity, the seas would become choked with these
disgusting scaly creatures. (cont.)
2008 Isaac Roet
Prize Essay Contest
The Isaac Roet Prize is an international essay contest about the
promotion of world peace through economic interaction. Students from
all economic faculties at universities around the globe are invited
to participate and to write an essay on the theme of the 2008
edition of the essay competition: Resource access and world peace;
policies to promote global stability in view of growing scarcity of
non renewable natural resources.
A prize of Euro 5,000 will be offered for the best essay on this
subject.
The competition is open for participation until December 31, 2008.
Details on how to join the competition can be found on
www.roetprize.org or can be
obtained at the organising committee.
The organisation of the 2008 Isaac Roet Prize has been delegated to
the Dutch/Flemish affiliate of Economists for Peace and Security
(EPS). EPS is an international organisation for intellectual
exchange among economists concerned with issues related to peace,
conflict resolution and international security.
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