From the Editor
After I sent out the previous Newsletter website
troubles emerged that resulted in all kinds of
problems. All of the problems have been dealt
with. So if you have not had the chance to look
at issue 73 of the Newsletter you can find it on
the website in the archives section.
With the ASSA quickly approaching, there are a
number of events which may be worth your time
and energy to attend:
The 2009 Annual Meeting for the Association for
Social Economics will be held in conjunction
with the ASSA meetings in San Francisco, January
2-6. Please remember the ASE Plenary Session,
Friday, January 2, in the Hilton Imperial B. The
session is scheduled for 6:30 – 9:00 p.m. The
theme of the session is “Ethics and Capitalism”
and the featured speaker is Deirdre McCloskey of
the University of Illinois, Chicago. Discussants
are Herbert Gintis and Nancy Folbre. A
Reception, co-sponsored by ICAPE, will
immediately follow.
URPE/RRPE reception will be Saturday, January 3,
6 - 7:30, San Francisco Hilton, Sutter Room.
The AFL-CIO Breakfast
Speaker: Richard Trumka, Secretary-Treasurer,
AFL-CIO
Topic: "Economic Renewal and the Employee Free
Choice Act"
When: Sunday, January 4, 2009, 7:00 am until
8:00 am
Where: Colonial Ballroom, Westin St. Francis
Hotel, 335 Powell Street, San Francisco, CA
Complimentary Continental Breakfast Will Be
Served; No RSVP Required
Examining the Practice of Ethical Economics:
session sponsored by AIRLEAP on Sunday, January
4, 2009, 6.00 – 8.00pm—for more information see
below under Conferences, Seminars and Lectures.
The Women of Color Resource Center, based in
Oakland, is an advocacy and political education
center, devoted to putting the issues of women
of color at the center of the social justice
agenda. The center was formed out of the Third
World Women's Alliance, which sprung forth from
the civil rights movement. The Center has a
strong leftist political education history and
works with its constituency-- activists,
educators, grassroots folks, and low and no
income women of color-- to provide timely,
thought-provoking and inspiring educational and
analysis sessions. We are looking for women of
color speakers who are interested in speaking on
topics of economic justice for women of color,
the US financial crisis, and/or the housing
crisis in our brown bag series during the time
of the conference (Jan 3-5) or preferably,
beyond, in to the week of the 5th. Speakers
should be willing to make their findings and
research accessible to a diverse audience and
relevant to practical/applied work. Please
contact Executive Director, Anisha Desai, at
adesai@coloredgirls.org if you are
interested in working with us.
I hope to see many of you at the Meetings.
Remember there is the ICAPE booth in the
Exhibitor Hall—stop by and talk and look at the
items on display. Also remember the is the ICAPE
board meeting on Friday January 2,
2009—information is found below.
Finally, if you like cartoons and especially
ones about PhD students, then check out the
following website:
http://www.phdcomics.com/comics.php.
Fred Lee
In
this issue:
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Call for Papers |
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Econ Journal Watch
- Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies
- The 2009 Left Forum
- 6th Euroframe Conference
- Oeconomicus
- First Annual Social Science Consortium Award Competition
- History of Economics Society
- The 2nd International Conference of the Buddhist Economic
Research Platform
- The Progressive Economics Forum
- Journal of Innovation Economics |
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Conferences, Seminars and Lectures |
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- SEMINAIRE ARC 2
- The Political Significance of the Economic Crisis
- The Center for the History of Political Economy
- Examining the Practice of Ethical Economics
- Second Graz Schumpeter Summer School
- World Peace Congress 2008/09
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International Confederation of
Associations for Pluralism in Economics - News |
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- ICAPE |
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Job Postings for Heterodox Economists |
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- City College of San Francisco
- OECD
- The Open University
- Regional Economist
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Heterodox Conference Papers and
Reports and Articles |
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- Conséquences économiques de la crise
financière
- Economic consequences of the financial crisis
- Banking regulatory reforms emerging, in piecemeal way
- BIS banking statistics amidst the financial turmoil
- "Gender Equality and the Current Global Economic Crisis"
- Some instability puzzles in Kaleckian models of growth and
distribution
- A Goodwinian Model with Direct and Roundabout Returns to
Scale (An Application to Italy)
- Keynes Le Temps Des Crises.. |
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Heterodox Journals and Newsletters |
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- Review of Political Economy
- Economic Systems Research
- Journal of Economic Methodology
- INTERVENTION
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Heterodox Books and Book Series |
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- Green Economics: An Introduction to
Theory, Policy and Practice
- From Political Economy to Economics
- Varieties Of Capitalism And New Institutional Deals
- Advances In Evolutionary Institutional Economics
- Quality-of-Living and Human Development as the Outcome
from Economic Progress
- Capitalism is Not Democracy
- Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate
Globalization
- Capitalism and Christianity, American Style
- Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software
- The Violence Today - Actually-existing Barbarism?
- The Republic of Hunger and Other Essays
- The Encyclopedia of Strikes in American History
- Central Banking, Asset Prices and Financial Fragility
- Finance-led Capitalism? Macroeconomic Effects of Changes
in the Financial Sector
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Heterodox Websites and Associations |
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- Center for the History of Political Economy
- ClimateChangeEconomics.net
- Association for Heterodox Economics
- The Critical Mass Forum on Political Economy and Power |
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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
- A Buddhist Economic Approach to the Development of
Community Enterprises
- Breaking the Mould
- Principles of Institutional-Evolutionary Political Economy
- Principles of Neo-Schumpeterian Economics |
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For
Your Information |
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- Should the financial crisis prompt
another look at social ownership?
- U. S. Census Bureau Announces a New Product for Tracking
Business Activity
- Hampshire College Students Learn What Money Can't Buy
- Chicago Political Economy Group (CPEG): Jobs Program
Proposal
- Where Are the New Jobs for Women?
- Whose Interests Will Shape Barack Obama’s “Change”?
- The Remedist |
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Call for Papers
Econ Journal Watch
Econ Journal Watch invites essay proposals on 'Notes from
Underground' by economists and other social scientists. The goal is
to get engaging essays on the inner life of the social scientist.
Essays may be anonymous. The theme and invitation is described at:
http://www.econjournalwatch.org/main/call_proposals.php
Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of
Third World Studies
http://www.upd.edu.ph/~twsc/publications_kasarinlan.html
Call for Papers: Political economy of cross-border flows of goods,
capital, labor and ideas.
http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/kasarinlan/announcement/view/12
Resource flows among economies have not only improved over the years
but have also transformed in complexity and speed. Yet, for
instance, financial flows continue to remain within the
industrialized region; only a fraction of global finance goes to the
developing regions.
Still flows to the developing regions go mainly to high performing
economies. And the composition of the flows is increasingly in
liabilities and short-term in character. The prospect that finance
takes root in the domestic economy and generates productive
activities is thus low.
Similar pattern exists in goods flows. Trade is mainly within the
industrialized region. The developing regions only get a small
portion of trade, though high performing economies are able to
participate more. The composition of developing regions trade is
dominantly primary and/or low technology goods, which are easily
absorbed by the industrialized region. The former cannot easily
absorb the high value manufactures and high-technology goods from
the industrialized region.
Meanwhile, direct investments to the developing regions continue not
to generate technology transfers or significant innovations.
Parallel to the capital and trade flows is the evolving labor flows.
The standard view that labor is immobile is misplaced today. The
view that trade and labor flows are substitutes is simplistic. The
same applies for capital and labor flows. But because labor is not
fully absorbed in the domestic economy, it moves out to other places
for employment. In the end, labor from developing regions sustains
productive activities in the industrialized region.
Ideas flows are far-reaching and penetrating as technology advances
and goods, capital, and labor flows intensify. However, the
reference point continues to be the industrialized region, thus
developing regions are captured to assess their own progress
according to the standards of the former. Industrialization, for
example, is transformed into a form that fits with the
industrialized region
rather than to improve its nature to develop indigenous economic
progress.
The issue welcomes papers that explore aspects or the totality of
cross-border flows of goods, capital, labor, and ideas. Do resource
flows affect economic performance and socio-political conditions of
economies, and how? Do the circuits in which resources flow evolve
independent of flows themselves? How does one make sense of the
rapidity in and complexity of resources flows brought about by
globalization with the fixity of resources despite globalization? Do
China and India affect the nature of the circuits and resources
flows?
How would the present global financial and economic crisis change
the circuits and flows? Are there viable alternative arrangements at
this juncture?
Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies invites
theoretical and empirical papers that explore issues linked to the
theme. Papers that use unorthodox perspectives or approaches,
present solid analyses, and stimulate critical discourse are
welcome.
For the submission guidelines, please see this link:
http://journals.upd.edu.ph/index.php/kasarinlan/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
Due Date for Submission of Manuscript: June 30, 2009
All inquiries concerning the submission of articles should be
addressed to:
The Editor
Kasarinlan: Philippine Journal of Third World Studies Third World
Studies Center Lower Ground Floor, Palma Hall College of Social
Sciences and Philosophy University of the Philippines Diliman,
Quezon City 1101 Philippines P.O. Box 210
Telefax: +63 2 920 5428
+63 2 981 8500 ext. 2488
E-mail: kasarinlan@up.edu.ph
kasarinlan@gmail.com
The 2009 Left Forum
The 2009 Left Forum (
http://www.leftforum.org/ ) will take place April 17-19 at Pace
University, One Pace Plaza (across from City Hall), NYC.
This year's conference theme will be "Turning Points."
The Left Forum is generally attended by a few thousand activists and
academics, and there is always a strong interest in economic aspects
of current issues. URPE people have a lot to contribute to the
general Left discourse. We encourage all URPE members who are
interested to think about participating in a panel!
Click here
for detailed information.
6th Euroframe Conference
6TH EUROFRAME CONFERENCE ON ECONOMIC POLICY ISSUES IN THE EUROPEAN
UNION
Causes and consequences of the current financial crisis: what
lessons for European Union countries?
Friday, 12 June 2009, London
CALL FOR PAPERS
The EUROFRAME group of research institutes (CASE, CPB, DIW, ESRI,
ETLA, IfW, NIESR, OFCE, PROMETEIA, WIFO) will hold its sixth annual
Conference on Economic Policy Issues in the European Union in London
on 12 June 2009. The aim of the conference is to provide an economic
forum for debate on economic policy issues relevant in the European
context.
The Conference will focus on causes and consequences of the current
financial crisis with a view to draw lessons for EU countries.
Contributions should address issues related to: Causes of the
current financial crisis (search for high profitability, growth
based on indebtedness and capital gains, functioning of global
finance: banks’ behaviour, derivative products, financial bubbles,
failure of financial mathematics; failures in the national and
international regulatory frameworks); Financial crises and the real
economy, analysing consequences and solutions to the problems they
have caused (evidence for the links between financial crises and
consumption behaviour; links between banks, equity markets and firms
in financial crises; what can we learn from previous advanced
economy financial crises); The development of the current crisis and
policy answers (vicious circles in banking, financial and equity
markets, failures and successes of government measures to restore
the functioning of the financial and banking systems). Towards a new
Financial System? (Less finance or finance without bubbles?, World
growth without imbalances?, New banking and financial regulations?,
A new European regulatory framework? A new global financial
architecture? A new functioning of financial markets?)
Submission Procedure
Abstracts should be submitted by e-mail before 13 March to
catherine.mathieu@ofce.sciencespo.fr. Abstracts (2 pages)
should mention: title of communication, name(s) of the
author(s),affiliation, corresponding author’s e-mail address, postal
address, telephone number.
Corresponding authors will be informed of the decision of the
scientific committee by mid-April.
Full papers should be received by e-mail by 25 May.
Scientific Committee
Karl Aiginger (WIFO), Ray Barrell (NIESR), Michiel Bijlsma (CPB),
Marek Dabrowski (CASE), Christian Dreger (DIW), Klaus-Jürgen Gern
(IfW), Markku Kotilainen (ETLA), Paolo Onofri (PROMETEIA), Iulia
Siedschlag (ESRI), Henri Sterdyniak (OFCE), Catherine Mathieu (OFCE,
Scientific Secretary)
Local Organising Committee (NIESR, London)
Ray Barrell, Dawn Holland, Simon Kirby; Phil Davis (NIESR and Brunel
Univ)
Contacts - Abstract and paper submissions
Ray Barrell:
rbarrell@niesr.ac.uk
Catherine Mathieu:
catherine.mathieu@ofce.sciences-po.fr , tel.: +33 (0) 1 44 18 54
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Oeconomicus
An all-student interdisciplinary journal of economic issues
Oeconomicus is an interdisciplinary journal of economic issues
written, refereed, edited and published by current undergraduate,
M.A., and Ph.D. students in the social sciences. The focus of the
journal is on critical or heterodox approaches to issues of economic
methodology and theory, history of economic thought, economic
history, political economy, and economic policy. All heterodox
traditions within the social sciences—including, but not limited to,
Marxist, Institutionalist, Post Keynesian, Austrian, Feminist, and
Poststructuralist/ Postmodern—are welcome in the journal.
Oeconomicus is sponsored by the Economics Club at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) and is published annually.
We are currently accepting submissions for our 2008-2009 issue and
welcome students at all levels to submit full-length articles, book
reviews, interviews or comments. Submissions should be no more that
5000 words and in MS Word format. Submissions and enquiries should
be sent to the editors at
karol.gil@umkc.edu, or
fcrp6d@umkc.edu. The deadline for submissions is January
10th, 2009. For further information about detailed instructions for
authors, the journal, the Economics Club and/or the UMKC Economic
Department please visit
our website
http://cas.umkc.edu/econ/Oeconomicus/.
First Annual Social Science
Consortium Award Competition
The aim of the First Annual Social Science Consortium Award
Competition is to encourage undergraduate and graduate students in
Economics and Social Sciences to present their papers at UMKC and
engage in academic discussions with other students and faculty.
Up to three winning papers will be selected. Winners are expected to
present their research at UMKC.
Winners will each receive: $200 cash prize
Winning papers must be presented at a special seminar session at
UMKC (to be announced at a later date) in order to collect the cash
prize.
Papers must have no more that 5000 words, including references and
appendices. They should be submitted electronically (preferably in
Word format) to the editors at
karol.gil@umkc.edu or
fcrp6d@umkc.edu by January 10th, 2009
History of Economics Society
The 2009 meetings of the History of Economics Society will held at
the University of Colorado Denver over June 26-29. Those wishing to
submit a paper or propose a session may do so at
http://www.hes-conference2009.com/.
The conference will begin with an opening reception on Friday, June
26 and will end mid-day on Monday, June 29. The meetings will be
held at the University of Colorado Denver's Kenneth King Academic
and
Performing Arts Center on the University's Downtown Denver Campus.
The campus's location in lower downtown Denver affords easy walking
access to hundreds of restaurants and a variety of hotels in all
price ranges. The campus's extremely limited dormitory facilities
mean that there will likely not be a dorm housing option available.
Conference rates will be arranged with several hotels within easy
walking distance of the campus. Direct flights from London and
Frankfurt make this a very accessible location for those traveling
from Europe. Registration information will be posted in due course.
If you encounter any problems with paper/session submission or have
any other questions about the conference, you can email me
directly at
HES2009@ucdenver.edu.
The 2nd International Conference of
the Buddhist Economic Research Platform
The 2nd International Conference of the Buddhist Economic Research
Platform has been rescheduled for April 9-11, 2009. It will be held
at Ubon Rajathanee University in Ubon Ratchathani Thailand.
None of the credit card transactions for the registration fees have
been processed and all of those registrations will be destroyed.
If you paid for your registration by cash transfer and will not be
attending the newly scheduled conference, please notify me
immediately and we will begin the process of refunding your money.
If you are planning on attending the conference, please register
again. If you had registered for the original conference dates,
please use the same registration fee you paid before.
When you register, please be sure to include the following
information:
1.How you will be arriving in Ubon
2.When you will be arriving in Ubon
3.Where you would like to stay (University, Ratchathani Asoke
Community or Ubonburi Resort)
4.When you will be leaving Ubon
5.How you will be leaving Ubon
6.Please be sure to include your email address
If you were scheduled to present a paper at the previously scheduled
conference, please indicate if you would like to present the same
paper or would like to update or submit a different paper. All new
papers should be submitted NO LATER THAN February 15, 2009. If you
submitted a paper and will not be able to attend on the new dates,
please indicate if you would like your paper to be published in the
electronic transactions and if you would like it to be considered
for publication with selected papers.
The Progressive Economics Forum
The Progressive Economics Forum will once again be hosting panels at
the 2009 Canadian Economics Association meetings, to be held May
29-31 in Toronto.
Please come forward with any suggestions for panels that you would
like to organize through the PEF. We will take all suggestions to
the Steering Committee in early January to make a final submission.
Please be as descriptive as possible - what topic, why, who will be
on it.
Also if you have a paper you would like to present we can see if
there is a panel that can fit it in. But you may want to submit
through the regular CEA process for papers, just in case.
Nick Falvo will be coordinating the PEF's involvement with CEA this
year. Please email Nick (
nfalvo@connect.carleton.ca ) and copy
info@progressive-economics.ca with any suggestions by Jan.
9, 2009.
Journal of
Innovation Economics
Topic:
Innovation, Growth and Sustainable Development
Innovation is one of the essential factors of enterprise performance
as well as national economic growth. Either on the micro or the
macroeconomic level, the relationships between innovation and
performance have been (and are still being) studied in several
important works (Schumpeterian and neo-Schumpeterian analyses,
endogenous growth theories, etc.). Although Schumpeter emphasized a
multiplicity of innovation forms, the accent in most of these
analyses is essentially upon technological innovation (based on
Research and Development). Public policies to support innovation
that are inspired by Schumpeterian analyses are henceforth and all
scientific and technological policies.
Relatively recent preoccupations in terms of durability, either they
concern social sciences or the public debate, invite to substitute
for the question of growth, a question of sustainable development
(considered under a tripartite dimension: economic, ecological and
social); In other words, they invite to endogenize durability in
economic and scientific systems.
In a sustainable development context, technological innovation plays
an ambivalent role: it is the source of the problem (on the
ecological side) and, at the same time, it represents its hope for
solution. However, the change of orientation (from growth to
sustainable development) invites one also to think more
fundamentally about the nature of innovation. This change should
allow renewed emphasis on (and integration into the theoretical
analysis of) the non-technological
forms of innovation that could be present in the industrial sector,
as well as in services and which are not necessarily based on R&D
activity.
In some way, it can be thought that in a perspective of the
relationship “innovationperformance”, the economic analysis is
characterised by a double deficit or gap relative to innovation and
performance. The “innovation gap” translates the difference between
the reality of innovation produced in an economy and the perceptions
of the traditional innovation
indicators (R&D, patents). It corresponds to what might be called
invisible innovation (nontechnological
innovation, social innovation). As for the “performance gap”: it
measures the difference between the reality of performance in an
economy and performance evaluated by the traditional economic tools
(essentially productivity and growth). It corresponds to the hidden
performance that is invisible to these tools (sustainable
performance). These two gaps blur the innovation-performance
relationship and are at the origin of a “policy gap”: subsequently,
they encourage speculation about the legitimacy of some public
policies to support innovation.
The purpose of this special issue of the “Journal of Innovation
Economics” is to highlight the question of the relationship between
“innovation, growth and sustainable development” all by filling the
different gaps outlined above. Original proposals could be
empirical, theoretical or methodological.
General presentation of the Journal of Innovation Economics on:
http://rrien.univ-littoral.fr/?page_id=10
Editor of the Journal: Dimitri Uzunidis
Publisher: Electronic Journal published by Cairn :
http://www.cairn.info
Editors of the Special Issue “Innovation, Growth and Sustainable
Development”
Faridah Djellal
Dimitri Uzunidis
Deadlines:
- Proposal of paper (One or two pages abstract): December 22, 2008
- Full paper: March 1, 2009
- Reviewing process and final decisions on the publication of
papers: May 10, 2009
Redaction, Scientific and Editorial Committees:
The redaction and scientific and editorial committees of the Journal
of Innovation Economics are
the same as for the Journal Innovations, Cahiers d’Economie de
l’Innovation:
http://riien.univ-littoral.fr/?page_id=39&page=2
Send abstracts to the following address:
rri@univ-littoral.fr
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Conferences, Seminars
and Lectures
SEMINAIRE ARC 2
ACCUMULATION, REGULATION, CROISSANCE ET CRISE
CEPREMAP - GERME (Paris VII) - IRISES (Paris IX)
CEPN (PARIS XIII) - MATISSE (PARIS I)
Lundi 15 décembre (15h30-18h30)
Grande Salle, ENS - Jourdan
Accès :
http://www.pse.ens.fr/pratique/index.html
Crise financière :
crise de régulation ou crise du capitalisme ?
Organisation : D. Gatti
Intervenants : R. Boyer, F. Lordon, A. Orlean, B. Théret
Discutants : B. Coriat, A. Lipietz
Calendrier des prochaines séances :
9 / 2 / 2009
Demi-journée autour de « La crise américaine et les plans de rescue
»
Organisation : P. Petit
6 / 4 / 2009
Demi-journée autour de « Scénarios et politiques de sortie de crise
»
Organisation : B. Théret
The Political Significance of the
Economic Crisis
A Lecture by Frank Furedi, professor of sociology, University of
Kent at Canterbury; author, Invitation to Terror, Where have all the
intellectuals gone?, The Politics of Fear
“The financial crisis and recession have taken the world by
surprise. The uncertain and sometimes contradictory response of the
political class has already worsened the character of the crisis,
and a widespread unwillingness to face up to its seriousness makes
it all the more difficult to resolve. How is the situation likely to
develop in 2009, and how should we respond?”
Date: Tuesday 16 December
Time: 7pm
Cost: £10 / £7 IoI associates
Tickets:
http://www.instituteofideas.com/tickets/index.html or
contact 020 7269 9220
Venue: London School of Economics – New Theatre
E171, East Building, LSE Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE
Details:
http://www.instituteofideas.com/events/xmaslecture2008.html
The Center for the History of
Political Economy
The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke University
has scheduled the following workshops and other events for the
Spring 2009 semester. Workshops are held on Friday afternoons from
3:30 to 5 in the Social Science Building, Room 327.
Jan. 9 Joint Economic History/HOPE Workshop ¬ Mahmoud El-Gamal, Rice
University “Islamic Financial Jurisprudence”
Jan. 16 HOPE Workshop Angus Burgin, Harvard University “The Colloque
Lippmann and the Origins of Neoliberalism”
Jan. 20 HOPE Workshop Daniel Hammond, Wake Forest University
“Strange Bedfellows: Msgr.
John A. Ryan and the Minimum Wage Movement”
Feb. 13 HOPE Workshop Warren Young, Bar-Ilan University “The
Minnesota Fed Archives Project and the Role of Drafts of Papers in
the History of Economics”
Feb. 17 Panel discussion: “John Maynard Keynes of Bloomsbury.” Held
at the Nasher Museum of Art as part of the “A Year of Bloomsbury”
celebration at Duke University
(http://news.duke.edu/2008/09/bloomsbury.html),
this will be the “kick-off” event for the establishment of the
Center. Craufurd Goodwin, Roy Weintraub, Kevin Hoover, and Bruce
Caldwell will explore the place of Keynes within Bloomsbury and
offer an assessment of his legacy.
Feb. 20 HOPE Two-fer Workshop Philip Mirowski, University of Notre
Dame, and Bruce Caldwell, Duke University “Neoliberalism, Chicago,
and Hayek: Two Views”
March 20 HOPE Workshop Aiko Ikeo, Waseda University “Kaname Akamatsu
(1896-1974) on Technology, Natural Resources, and the Flying-Geese
Pattern Theory of Development” (Part of the Critical Biography
Series Project organized by the Society for the History of Japanese
Economic Thought)
March 27 HOPE Workshop Edward Nik-Khan, Roanoke University “George
Stigler and the Chicago Business School”
April 17 HOPE Workshop Rob Leonard, Université du Québec à Montréal
“Economics and Modernism, 1900-1950”
Examining the Practice of Ethical
Economics
A
Session Sponsored by the Association for Integrity and Responsible
Leadership in Economics and Associated Professions (AIRLEAP®) (Free
and Open to Everyone -- Registration in the ASSA meetings is not
required.)
Sunday, January 4, 2009, 6:00-8:00 PM
Palace Hotel, French Parlor Room, 2 New Montgomery St., San
Francisco
Organizer and Chair: Professor Seth Giertz, University of Nebraska
“‘I Do Solemnly Swear’: On the Need for and Content of Professional
Economic Ethics” Professor George DeMartino, University of Denver
Discussed by Dr. Yvon Pho, Manager, BearingPoint, Inc.
“Honesty and Integrity in Economics”
Professor Thomas Mayer, University of California, Davis
Discussed by Dr. Brian Sloboda, President of the Society of
Government Economists
“Rhetoric Matters: The Case for Standards of Ethical Conduct in
Economics”
Professor Deirdre McCloskey, University of Illinois at Chicago
Discussed by Professor Gary Hoover, University of Alabama
George DeMartino
Deirdre McCloskey
Thomas Mayer
Seth Giertz
Second Graz Schumpeter Summer School
Classical
Economics After Sraffa: Problems and Perspectives
Graz, Austria, 13-18 July 2009
2010 sees the 50th anniversary of the publication of the book by
Piero Sraffa, Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities
(Cambridge University Press, 1960). This is a fitting occasion to
discuss in depth with leading experts the development, current
frontiers of research and open questions of the return to ‘the
standpoint of the old classical economists from Adam Smith to
Ricardo’ advocated by Sraffa. The Graz Schumpeter Centre (GSC) is
pleased to announce its next Summer School that is devoted to this
theme. The topics to be dealt with include: production and
distribution; capital accumulation and economic growth; innovations
and technical change; exhaustible resources and the environment;
financial and economic crises; and issues in the history of economic
thought.
Senior Faculty include:
Professor Pierangelo Garegnani, University of Rome III, Italy
Professor Harvey Gram, Queens College, New York, U.S.
Professor Eiji Hosoda, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
Professor Man-Seop Park, Korea University, Seoul, Korea
Professor Sergio Parrinello, University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, Italy
Professor Neri Salvadori, University of Pisa, Italy
Professor Bertram Schefold, University of Frankfurt/M., Germany
Professor Ian Steedman, Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K.
The Summer School will be held on the campus of Graz University,
Graz, Austria. Admission is open to up to 30 Junior Fellows, that
is, graduate students and recent Ph.D.’s. The schedule of the Summer
School has between three and four lectures each day, given by
members of the Senior Faculty. A further part of the time will be
devoted to seminars in which Junior Fellows are given the
opportunity to present their research and get feedbacks from peers.
Successful participation in the Summer School will be certified.
Application: Applications should include three copies of: a CV; a
one-page statement of the student's motivation to participate in the
Summer School, indicating also his or her familiarity with modern
Classical economics; two letters of recommendation from university
professors. The Application Form will be available on the homepage
and should be completed and attached to any application. The
material should be sent per mail to: Graz Schumpeter Centre, “Summer
School 2009”, University of Graz, RESOWI-Centre FE, A–8010 Graz,
Austria by the end of April. For questions about the application
procedure and the Summer School in general, please contact us per
E-mail:
schumpeter.centre@uni-graz.at
Detailed information about tuition fee, accommodation and board will
be given by the end of February. See the homepage of the Summer
School at:
www.uni-graz.at/schumpeter.centre
Cooperation: The GSC cooperates with other European academic
institutions to secure a diversified scientific board and a broad
attendance. The partnership with other Academic Institutions creates
a scientific network ensuring useful spillover effects.
Scientific Committee: Christian Gehrke (Graz), Heinz D. Kurz (Graz),
Sergio Parrinello (Rome), Ian Steedman (Manchester), Richard Sturn
(Graz), Neri Salvadori (Pisa).
Contact: For further information on application and funding please
access the Summer School Website at
www.uni-graz.at/schumpeter.centre or contact the Summer
School Office.
World Peace Congress 2008/09
World Peace Congress 2008/09, a multi-thematic conference focussed
on grassroots programs devoted toward realizing a more peaceful and
convivial future will be held in Bangalore, India from 27 Feb - 1
Mar 2009.More information is available at:
www.worldpeacecongress2008.net
Expressions of interest may be made to the organizers at:
worldpeacecongress@gmail.com
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International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in
Economics - News
ICAPE
ICAPE will be having its annual membership meeting in the
"Golden Gate 5" room in the Hilton Hotel from 2:30-4:00 p.m. on
Friday, January 2, 2009. While only members can vote, anybody
interest in pluralism in economics and want to know more about ICAPE
is welcome to attend. ICAPE is also co-sponsoring the ASE Plenary
session at the ASSA, as noted in ‘From the Editor’. Finally, ICAPE
is again paying for a booth at the ASSA. Associations, institutes,
individuals, etc. who would like to use the booth to promote
whatever, please contact me. The ASSA booth costs around $2,000. If
you think that a booth at the ASSA that promotes pluralism in
economics is important, then financial support of ICAPE is
important. If you have any questions about ICAPE or want to get
involved in its activities, please send me an
e-mail.
Fred Lee
Executive Director
Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
City College of San Francisco
Position title: Economics and Statistics Instructor
(Tenure-Track/Part-Time Pool)
Posting number: 0080045
Filing deadline: 01-29-2009 (4:00 p.m.)
Start date for Tenure-Track Position: Fall Semester 2009, beginning
mid-August 2009.
Appointment types:
A. CONTRACT: FIRST YEAR (PROBATIONARY), TENURE-TRACK (BASED ON
AVAILABLITY OF FUNDS)
EC §§87602-87615 as amended by SB2298 (1990)
B. TEMPORARY, PART-TIME (9 HOURS OR LESS PER WEEK)
THIS WILL BE A PART-TIME HIRING POOL TO BE IN EFFECT FOR A ONE-YEAR
PERIOD.
EC §87482
Applying for tenure-track, part-time, or both positions does not
affect how an application is reviewed.
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here for detailed information.
OECD
The OECD seeks to recruit highly qualified women and men from its 30
member countries. As an OECD Economist you will be at the hub of
global policy dialogue and will have the opportunity to interact
with major actors who address economic, social and governance
challenges. You will play a key role in providing rigorous
intellectual input towards finding solutions for pressing policy
issues.
Our success depends on the talented staff who bring a cross-section
of qualifications and experience to the OECD. It is one of our top
priorities to become a more diverse and inclusive organization.
Human Resource representatives, Makoto Miyasako and Niki Ruggeri,
will be present at the OECD booth 402, AEA Annual meeting (January
3-5 2009, San Francisco) and look forward to discussing with you the
potential opportunities. For more information on current job
openings, we invite you to visit
www.oecd.org/hrm/vacancies where you can also register to
receive email alerts.
The Open University
Post Doctoral
Research Fellow: Innovation, Knowledge and Development - IKD
Economics Department, Faculty of Social Sciences
Salary £24,152-£32,458 depending upon qualifications and experience,
Ref: 5135
Based in Milton Keynes
12 month temporary contract start date as soon as possible
This is an exciting opportunity for a Research Assistant to assist
the Director of IKD (Innovation, Knowledge and Development).
You will be focussed on the organisation and co-ordination of
individual and group external grant bids, mainly in the finance and
innovation area, within the Innovation, Knowledge and Development
interdisciplinary research centre (IKD,
www.open.ac.uk/ikd ). You
should have experience in writing grant proposals and conducting
academic research. Part of your work will involve co-ordinating
academics in different institutions (and countries) around grant
projects, and so previous experience with co-ordinating researchers
would be a benefit.
You will also be able to conduct your own research within one of
IKD’s projects related to finance and/or innovation, and hence
progress your career through publications. Knowledge and experience
of UK and EU research funding bodies is important, and some
experience with organising research events is desirable.
For detailed information and how to apply go to
www.open.ac.uk/employment
, call Carol Fuller on 01908 654483 or email
SocSci-recruitment@open.ac.uk quoting the reference
number. Closing date: 12 noon 2 January 2009.
Further particulars are available in large print, disk or audiotape
(minicom 01908 654901).
We promote diversity in employment and welcome applications from all
sections of the community.
Regional Economist
ASSISTANT RESEARCH PROFESSOR/NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL ECONOMIST JOB
DESCRIPTION
December 16, 2008
Regional economist to work with a team of highly regarded
progressive economists to explore innovative policies that can
improve quality of life and conditions for low and moderate income
people throughout New England.
Ph.D. in economics required; excellent quantitative analysis skills;
professional experience in a policy environment is preferred;
expertise in some combination of the following:
- public economics, including budgets, tax and fiscal policy
- the economics of public policy, including social and human service
policy, labor policy, education policy, health policy, energy and
transportation policy, and local and regional economic development
- current economic policy issues in the New England region
The regional economist will write for academic and general audiences
and make media appearances. He or she will take part in meetings
with policy makers and network with economists around the country to
solicit ideas and advice about economic policy.
This is a full-time position. A two-year contract will be offered to
the successful candidate, with a high likelihood of renewal upon
excellent performance. Salary is commensurate with experience.
Application review will begin on 1/5/09 and continue until the
position is filled. Candidates should submit a letter, C.V., writing
sample (under 25 pages, on a topic relevant to the position), and
two letters of recommendation to:
Judy Fogg Political Economy Research Institute Gordon Hall, 418 N.
Pleasant St. Amherst, MA 01002
Electronic submissions are preferred:
fogg@econs.umass.edu.
No phone calls, please. The University of Massachusetts is an
Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer. Women and members of
minority groups are encouraged to apply.
NOTE: Applicants attending the January 3-5 ASSA conference in San
Francisco should submit materials by December 31 in order to be
considered for an interview at that meeting.
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Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles
Conséquences économiques de la crise
financière
(1) Un texte d'Angel Asensio (ADEK) sur les "Conséquences
économiques de la crise financière"
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here to download the paper.
Economic consequences of the
financial crisis
(1bis) A text from Angel Asensio (ADEK) "Economic consequences of
the financial crisis - A Keynesian point of view"
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here to download the paper.
Banking regulatory reforms emerging,
in piecemeal way
by Andrew Cornford
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here to download the paper.
BIS banking statistics amidst the
financial turmoil
by Andrew Cornford
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here to download the paper.
"Gender Equality and the Current
Global Economic Crisis"
By Diane Elson
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here to download the paper.
Some instability puzzles in Kaleckian
models of growth and distribution
Hein, Eckhard / Lavoie, Marc / van Treeck, Till: Some instability
puzzles in Kaleckian models of growth and distribution: A critical
survey, IMK Working Paper, Nr. 19/2008. Düsseldorf 2008:
http://www.boeckler.de/pdf/p_imk_wp_19_2008.pdf.
A
Goodwinian Model with Direct and Roundabout Returns to Scale (An
Application to Italy)
by A. Ryzhenkov
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121556774/abstract
Keynes Le Temps Des
Crises..
Voilà revenu le temps des crises, où sifflera bien mieux le
keynésien moqueur... Le président Sarkozy réclame un Bretton Woods
financier et de la régulation pour un capitalisme qu’il ne croit
plus s’autoréguler. Il veut revenir « au capitalisme de
l’entrepreneur et plus au capitalisme du spéculateur ».
L’intervention de l’État redevient une évidence puisqu’il est le
seul à voir plus loin que le bout de son nez. H. Guaino, conseiller
du président, annonce que les engagements de Maastricht ne sont plus
la priorité... Des thèmes keynésiens certes ! (cont.)
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Heterodox Journals and
Newsletters
Review of Political Economy
Volume 21 Issue 1 is now available online at
http://www.informaworld.com.
This new issue contains the following articles:
Effective Demand and Short-term Adjustments in the General Theory
Author: Olivier Allain
Capital Accumulation, Technical Progress and Labour Supply Growth:
Keynes's Approach to Aggregate Supply and Demand Analysis Revisited
Author: Alfonso Palacio-Vera
Marx and Schumpeter: A Comparison of their Theories of Development
Author: Eric Rahim
Sraffa's Interpretation of Marx's Treatment of Fixed Capital
Author: Fred Moseley
The 2000–2001 Financial Crisis in Turkey: A Crisis for Whom?
Authors: Mathieu Dufour; Özgür Orhangazi
Political Economy and Organizational Leadership: A Hope-based Theory
Authors: Joe Wallis; Brian Dollery; Lin Crase
A Conversation with Kurt Rothschild
Authors: Kurt Rothschild; John King
Enigma in the Origins of Paul Sweezy's Political Economy
Author: Ben Fine
Book Reviews
Authors: Paul Lewis; Elisabeth Allgoewer; Paul Zarembka; Jurriaan
Bendien; John Lodewijks; J. E. King; William K. Tabb; William K.
Tabb; Tae-Hee Jo; Martin Gregor
Economic Systems Research
Volume 20 Issue 4 is now available online at
http://www.informaworld.com.
This new issue contains the following articles:
Knowledge Flows, Patent Citations and the Impact of Science on
Technology
Authors: önder Nomaler; Bart Verspagen
Using Additional Information in Structural Decomposition Analysis:
The Path-based Approach
Authors: Esteban Fernández-Vázquez; Bart Los; Carmen Ramos-Carvajal
Estimating International Interindustry Linkages: Non-survey
Simulations of the Asian-Pacific Economy
Authors: Jan Oosterhaven; Dirk Stelder; Satoshi Inomata
Additivity of Deflated Input–Output Tables in National Accounts
Author: Utz-Peter Reich
The First Two Eigenvalues of Large Random Matrices and Brody's
Hypothesis on the Stability of Large Input–Output Systems
Author: Guang-Zhen Sun
Trade Liberalization and India's Informal Economy
Author: Arup Mitra
Journal of Economic Methodology
Volume 15 Issue 4 is now available online at
http://www.informaworld.com.
This new issue contains the following articles:
Sraffa's mathematical economics: a constructive interpretation,
Pages 325 - 342
Author: K. Vela Velupillai
The explanatory logic and ontological commitments of generalized
Darwinism, Pages 343 - 363
Author: J. W. Stoelhorst
Rationality, behavior, institutional, and economic change in
Schumpeter, Pages 365 - 390
Authors: Agnès Festré; Pierre Garrouste
On the autonomy of experiments in economics, Pages 391 - 407
Author: Martin K. Jones
Method and appraisal in economics, 1976–2006, Pages 409 - 423
Author: Uskali Mäki
Not all machines are alike – Harro Maas
A review of Donald MacKenzie
Expanding the domain of macroeconomic theory
INTERVENTION
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND ECONOMIC POLICIES
Vol. 5 (2008), Number 2
Journal website:
http://www.journal-intervention.org/seiten/englisch/current_issue.shtml
Publisher's website:
http://www.metropolis-publisher.com/1/ausgaben/journal.do
Contents
Forum
Interview with Jan Kregel
Special Forum on Economic Policy Studies
Nigel F.B. Allington, John S.L. McCombie: Productivity Growth and
Unemployment under Mrs. Thatcher Reconsidered
Thomas Bernhardt: Dimensions of the Argentine Crisis 2001/02. A
Critical Survey of Politico-economical Explanations
Karin Fischer: Policy Reform and Income Distribution in Honduras
Special Forum on Recent Interpretations of Keynes and the General
Theory
Victoria Chick: Contextualising Keynes’ Revolution. Review of
Michael S. Lawlor’s ›The Economics of Keynes in Historical Context‹
Jan Toporowski: Keynes Betrayed? Review of Geoff Tily’s ›Keynes’
General Theory, the Rate of Interest, and Keynesian Economics:
Keynes Betrayed‹
Paul Davidson: Understanding Keynes: A Response to Spahn’s Review of
»John Maynard Keynes«
Peter Spahn: Davidson on Keynes and Others - A Rejoinder
M.G. Hayes: The Post Keynesian Economics Study Group – After 20
Years
Articles
Reiner Franke: A Microfounded Herding Model and its Estimation on
German Survey Expectations
Special Issue on Financial Markets, Financialisation and the
Macroeconomy
Marc Lavoie: Financialisation Issues in a Post-Keynesian Stock-Flow
Consistent Model
Soon Ryoo, Peter Skott: Financialization in Kaleckian Economies with
and without Labor Constraints
Sebastian Dullien: Who is Afraid of Asian FX Interventions? Lessons
for Europe from a Three-Asset-Portfolio Model
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Heterodox
Books and Book Series
Green Economics: An Introduction to
Theory, Policy and Practice
By Molly Scott Cato
The world as we know it needs a new economics. Climate change,
financial crisis and out-of-control globalization–all the major
problems facing the world have their root in the dominant economic
system.
Green economics offers an alternative to mainstream economics, which
views society and the ecosystem as subsets of the wider, limitless
global economy. Starting with the recognition of planetary limits
and an understanding of the importance of using resources wisely,
green economics views the economy as nested within society, which
itself as part of the greater ecosystem.
This highly readable introduction explains the axioms of green
economics including views on taxation, welfare, money, economic
development and work through the work of its inspirational figures
including Schumacher, Robertson and Douthwaite. It also explores the
contributions and insights of schools of thought critical of the
dominant neo-classical economic paradigm, including ecofeminism,
views from the global South, and the perspective of indigenous
peoples. Examples of effective green policies that are already being
implemented across the world are presented, as well as policy
prescriptions for issues including economic measurement,
localization, citizens’ income, taxation and trade.
About the Author
Molly Scott-Cato is a Reader in Green Economics at Cardiff School of
Management and Economics Speaker for the Green Party. She is also a
member of the core group of Transition Stroud and regularly
addresses other Transition Towns on economics themes.
Download the flyer.
From Political Economy to Economics
By Dimitris Milonakis and Ben Fine
http://www.routledge.com/books/From-Political-Economy-to-Economics-isbn9780415423212
Download the flyer.
Varieties Of Capitalism And New
Institutional Deals
Regulation, Welfare and the New Economy,
Eds. W. Elsner, G. Hanappi
http://www.e-elgar-economics.com/Bookentry_contents.lasso?id=12843
Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA: E. Elgar, 2008.
Advances In Evolutionary Institutional Economics
Evolutionary Mechanisms,
Non-Knowledge, and Strategy,
Eds. G. Hanappi, W. Elsner,
http://www.e-elgar.co.uk/bookentry_main.lasso?id=13139
Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, E. Elgar, 2008.
Quality-of-Living and Human
Development as the Outcome from Economic Progress
by Horace Carby-Samuels
ISBN: 1897036353, 2006
General description:
The capitalist system currently functions as an incentive for the
destruction of humanity. Capitalism conditions people to only think
of themselves in terms of a financial achievement context. Instead,
this book presents a rejuvenated developmental context in which
government public policies are guided by the need to facilitate the
quality-of-living of all people, instead of primarily the commercial
interests of a relative handful of entrepreneurs. The book also
stresses that the capitalist emphasis on education as human capital
formation, has primarily been an ideological tactic for overlooking
how humans have historically linked their efforts to the achievement
of enhanced quality-of-living. This book further stresses that the
prevailing capitalism, in the context of Globalization in which
humans are institutionalized as being seekers after financial gain,
is a threat to human quality of survival. In that spirit, this book
presents a people-centred economic development focus in which the
economy is re-oriented to quality-of-survival outcomes. It provides
a guidance context which citizens are invited to require government
to pursue, in order to affirm vital quality-of-living features and
considerations.
ISBN: 1897036353
http://www.agorapublishing.com/Quality_of_Living.html
Capitalism is Not Democracy
by Raymond Samuels II
Book reveals Capitalism is about "capital" and not people.
The current so-called "global" economy is on a reckless course of
on-going self-destruction, which threatens World War III. This
self-destruction is being caused from a glorification of the pursuit
of commercial profit irrespective of social and environmental costs,
which in turn creates a 'culture of violence' and war.
The well-being of people are the last things on the mind of most
financially wealthy elites. These elites do such things as fire
people from their jobs without thinking twice, or create knowingly
unhealthy and dangerous products in order to maintain high levels of
commercial profit. These elites also do things like instigate
so-called "Wars on Terrorism" in order to subtantially pursue "oil
riches", that create hundreds of thousands of civilian casualties.
The book "Capitalism is Not Democracy" exposes that market
capitalism in association with so-called Globalization is about
furthering the interests of principal owners of "capital", and not
people. These principal owners of capital are elites who own the
largest corporations. The net result of "capitalism" is worsening
human suffering; as well as environmental destruction, from
pollutions to Global Warming.
Elites and their representatives have preached in popular culture
that market capitalism goes hand in hand with democracy. These
elites include U.S. President George W. Bush who talks about the
"spread of markets" as "spreading democracy" throughout the world.
This book substantiates that such statements are simply propaganda
toward the manipulation of "the masses". This book systematically
presents that market capitalism actually undermines the democratic
development of society.
The book 'Capitalism is Not Democracy' not only presents a very
well-considered, insightful and easy to read critical perspective on
capitalism, compared to other treatments on this subject area.
Raymond Samuels, the critically acclaimed author of this book, is a
member of the University of Toronto. He also furthermore presents a
comprehensive alternative to capitalism, not available in other
books. Indeed, the publishing industry is largely owned by
corporations. These corporations seek to "dumb-down" the diverse
public from becoming critically aware to such progressive
alternatives to capitalism.
The author presents a people-economy which would affirm human
rights; social justice toward the eradication of poverty; a context
for global peace; and environmental protection, in a manner that
would support democratic societal development.
No, the proposed alternative to capitalism is not "socialism" or
totalitarian "communism" which are just forms of state "capitalism".
Interested in knowing more about this proposed alternative to our
self-destructive capitalist system? Read the book entitled
'Capitalism is Not Democracy'.
http://www.agorapublishing.com/featured-book.html
Networking
Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization
The Movements against Corporate Globalization
Jeffrey S. Juris, Arizona State University
“Networking Futures is one of the very first books to map in detail
the multiple networks that are challenging corporate globalization.
Taking as a point of departure an exemplary case—the Catalan
anti–globalization movements of the past decade—Jeffrey S. Juris
moves on to chronicle the collective struggles to construct not only
an alternative vision of possible worlds but the means to bring them
about. Networking Futures is a compelling portrait of the spirit of
innovation that lies behind an array of progressive mobilizations,
from anarchist movements and street protests to the World Social
Forum. Based on a well-developed notion of collaborative
ethnography, it is also a wonderful example of engaged scholarship:
a much-needed alternative to academic work as usual.”—Arturo
Escobar, author of Territories of Difference: Place, Movements,
Life, Redes
“Jeffrey S. Juris gives us an illuminating model for how to study
networks from below using the tools of ethnography. And in the
process he reveals the extraordinary power (as well as the
challenges) of network organizing for social movements
today.”—Michael Hardt, co-author of Empire and Multitude
“Networking Futures is a terrific, deeply informed ethnographic
account of the origins and activities of the anti–corporate
globalization movement. Jeffrey S. Juris’s identity is as much that
of an activist who happens to be doing first-rate anthropology as
vice versa, and there is much for anthropologists to reflect on in
the way that this work is set up and narrated through these dual
identities.”—George E. Marcus, co-author of Designs for an
Anthropology of the Contemporary
Since the first worldwide protests inspired by Peoples’ Global
Action (PGA)—including the mobilization against the November 1999
World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle—anti–corporate
globalization activists have staged direct action protests against
multilateral institutions in cities such as Prague, Barcelona,
Genoa, and Cancun. Barcelona is a critical node, as Catalan
activists have played key roles in the more radical PGA network and
the broader World Social Forum process. In 2001 and 2002, the
anthropologist Jeffrey S. Juris participated in the Barcelona-based
Movement for Global Resistance, one of the most influential
anti–corporate globalization networks in Europe. Combining
ethnographic research and activist political engagement, Juris took
part in hundreds of meetings, gatherings, protests, and online
discussions. Those experiences form the basis of Networking Futures,
an innovative ethnography of transnational activist networking
within the movements against corporate globalization.
In an account full of activist voices and on-the-ground detail,
Juris provides a history of anti–corporate globalization movements,
an examination of their connections to local dynamics in Barcelona,
and an analysis of movement-related politics, organizational forms,
and decision-making. Depicting spectacular direct action protests in
Barcelona and other cities, he describes how far-flung activist
networks are embodied and how networking politics are performed. He
further explores how activists have used e-mail lists, Web pages,
and free software to organize actions, share information, coordinate
at a distance, and stage “electronic civil disobedience.” Based on a
powerful cultural logic, anti–corporate globalization networks have
become models of and for emerging forms of radical, directly
democratic politics. Activists are not only responding to growing
poverty, inequality, and environmental devastation; they are also
building social laboratories for the production of alternative
values, discourses, and practices.
Capitalism and Christianity, American
Style
William E. Connolly, John Hopkin’s University
“William E. Connolly is a towering figure in contemporary political
theory whose profound reflections on democracy, religion, and the
tragic unsettle and enrich us. In this powerful work he casts his
philosophical gaze on the internal dynamics of the American
Empire—especially the role of Christian traditions and capitalist
practices. The result is vintage Connolly, namely,
indispensable!”—Cornel West, Princeton University
“In these times, we desperately need William E. Connolly’s
impassioned study of inequality and the destruction of nature, his
sheer awe at living-ness itself, his philosophy of immanent
naturalism and deployment of the Deleuzian assemblage, and,
especially, the interdisciplinary concreteness of his proposals for
a resonance machine of resistance on the left. Along with Connolly’s
description of an ethos, or spiritualization, of academic
engagement, a key contribution of this book is to advance what has
been dangerously lacking on the left, a powerful analytics of the
right’s resonance machine and its recognition that the intellectual
and the corporeal, the theological and the secular, never exist in
purified, ‘clean’ categories.”—Linda Kintz, author of Between Jesus
and the Market: The Emotions That Matter in Right-Wing America
“I immensely enjoyed reading Capitalism and Christianity, American
Style. William E. Connolly offers insight, innovation, and wisdom.
He brings substantive theorizing to the pressing political concerns
of the moment, providing a sense of momentum and sheer energy. This
book is relevant, in the strongest sense.”—Nigel Thrift, author of
Knowing Capitalism
Capitalism and Christianity, American Style is William E. Connolly’s
stirring call for the democratic left to counter the conservative
stranglehold over American religious and economic culture in order
to put egalitarianism and ecological integrity on the political
agenda. An eminent political theorist known for his work on
identity, secularism, and pluralism, Connolly charts the path of the
“evangelical-capitalist resonance machine,” source of a bellicose
ethos reverberating through contemporary institutional life. He
argues that the vengeful vision of the Second Coming motivating a
segment of the evangelical right resonates with the ethos of greed
animating the cowboy sector of American capitalism. The resulting
evangelical-capitalist ethos finds expression in church pulpits, Fox
News reports, the best-selling Left Behind novels, consumption
practices, investment priorities, and state policies. These
practices resonate together to diminish diversity, forestall
responsibility to future generations, ignore urban poverty, and
support a system of extensive economic inequality.
Connolly describes how the evangelical-capitalist machine works, how
its themes resound across class lines, and how it infiltrates
numerous aspects of American life. Proposing changes in sensibility
and strategy to challenge this machine, Connolly contends that the
liberal distinction between secular public and religious private
life must be reworked. Traditional notions of unity or solidarity
must be translated into drives to forge provisional assemblages
comprised of multiple constituencies and creeds. The left must also
learn from the political right how power is infused into everyday
institutions such as the media, schools, churches, consumption
practices, corporations, and neighborhoods. Connolly explores the
potential of a “tragic vision” to contest the current politics of
existential resentment and political hubris, explores potential
lines of connection between it and theistic faiths that break with
the evangelical right, and charts the possibility of forging an
“eco-egalitarian” economy. Capitalism and Christianity, American
Style is William E. Connolly’s most urgent work to date.
Two Bits: The
Cultural Significance of Free Software
The Cultural Significance of Free Software
Christopher M. Kelty, University of California
“I know of no other book that mixes so beautifully a deep
theoretical understanding of social theory with a rich historical
and contemporary ethnography of the Free Software and free culture
movements. Christopher M. Kelty’s book speaks to many audiences; his
message should be understood by many more.”—Lawrence Lessig,
Stanford Law School
“Two Bits describes the way those who work and play with Free
Software themselves change in the process—engendering what Kelty
calls ‘recursive publics’—social configurations that realize the
Internet’s non-hierarchical, ever-evolving, and thus historically
attuned logic, creatively updating the types of public spheres
previously theorized by Habermas and Michael Warner, among others.
Two Bits does something similar, pulling readers into an
experimental (ethnographic) mode that draws out how Open Source
movements have garnered the momentum and significance they have
today. The book—on paper and online—quite literally shows how it is
done, itself embodying the standards that make Free Software work.
Two Bits is critical reading, in all senses.”—Kim Fortun, Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute
In Two Bits, Christopher M. Kelty investigates the history and
cultural significance of Free Software, revealing the people and
practices that have transformed not only software but also music,
film, science, and education. Free Software is a set of practices
devoted to the collaborative creation of software source code that
is made openly and freely available through an unconventional use of
copyright law. Kelty explains how these specific practices have
reoriented the relations of power around the creation,
dissemination, and authorization of all kinds of knowledge. He also
makes an important contribution to discussions of public spheres and
social imaginaries by demonstrating how Free Software is a
“recursive public”—a public organized around the ability to build,
modify, and maintain the very infrastructure that gives it life in
the first place.
Drawing on ethnographic research that took him from an Internet
healthcare start-up company in Boston to media labs in Berlin to
young entrepreneurs in Bangalore, Kelty describes the technologies
and the moral vision that bind together hackers, geeks, lawyers, and
other Free Software advocates. In each case, he shows how their
practices and way of life include not only the sharing of software
source code but also ways of conceptualizing openness, writing
copyright licenses, coordinating collaboration, and proselytizing.
By exploring in detail how these practices came together as the Free
Software movement from the 1970s to the 1990s, Kelty also considers
how it is possible to understand the new movements emerging from
Free Software: projects such as Creative Commons, a nonprofit
organization that creates copyright licenses, and Connexions, a
project to create an online scholarly textbook commons.
The Violence
Today - Actually-existing Barbarism?
Socialist Register
2009 edited by Leo Panitch and Colin Leys (Paperback) (ISBN:
9780850366082)
Given the extent and extremity of violence today, even in the
absence of world war, and two decades after the end of
actually-existing socialism, it is hard not feel that we are living
in another age of barbarism. The scale and pervasiveness of violence
today calls urgently for serious analysis - from "the war on terror"
and counter-insurgencies, from terror and counter-terror, suicide
bombings and torture, civil wars and anarchy, entailing human
tragedies on a scale comparable to those of the two world wars, not
to mention urban gang warfare, or the persistence of chronic
violence against women. That the nirvana of global capitalism finds
millions of people once again just "wishing (a) not to be killed,
(b) for a good warm coat" (as Stendhal is said to have put it in a
different era) is, when fully contemplated, appalling.
http://www.word-power.co.uk/books/the-violence-today-actually-existing-barbarism-I9780850366082/
The Republic of Hunger and Other
Essays
Utsa Patnaik,
The Republic
of Hunger and Other Essays , Three Essays Collective, New Delhi,
2007. ISBN: 81-88789-33-XX, pp. 232, Price (PB): Rs. 250.
"It is necessary for development…..some people have to pay the price
for the time being……Once we are developed and become superpower
everybody would be benefitted.”
There can be different reactions to this statement. For somebody
following the development discourse from a people’s perspective,
this kind of argument doesn’t come as a surprise. Rather, a routine
reaction follows—oh, here comes another neo-liberal. But one has to
take it with pinch of salt if it comes from a 12 year old boy in a
small town of Madhya Pradesh. This boy was arguing in favor of large
dams, Sardar Sarovar in particular. The argument then went further,
supporting all sorts of displacements of people due to so-called
‘development’ projects. His argument was supplemented by more than a
dozen other boys and girls of his age who were visibly excited by
the idea of becoming a ‘superpower’ one day. They were convinced
that only dams and shopping malls mean development and unless Indian
has them it cannot become a superpower. There were also a handful
boys and girls, little younger, who didn’t seem convinced with this
idea of development and tried to articulate their concerns and
doubts, but they certainly lacked the language and information. They
could not understand how the electricity produced at the dams would
improve the lives of those who have been displaced. Those who don’t
have houses anymore wouldn’t need that electricity in the first
place. They lost the battle of words despite applying their minds to
an extent their parents don’t expect them to (or may even don’t want
them to). Those who were dumb otherwise parroted what is available
in plenty in electronic and print media, won the battle.
http://radicalnotes.com/content/view/59/39/
The Encyclopedia of Strikes in
American History
Edited by Aaron Brenner, Benjamin Day and Immanuel Ness
March 2009. 800 pp.
Cloth 978-0-7656-1330-1 US$175.00 *Pre-Pub Price $155.00 until
3/31/09
Strikes have been part of American labor relations from colonial
days to the present, reflecting the widespread class conflict that
has run throughout the nation’s history. Against employers and their
goons, against the police, the National Guard, local, state, and
national officials, against racist vigilantes, against their union
leaders, and against each other, American workers have walked off
the job for higher wages, better benefits, bargaining rights,
legislation, job control, and just plain dignity. At times, their
actions have motivated groundbreaking legislation, defining new
rights for all citizens; at other times they have led to loss of
workers’ lives.
Click
here for detailed information.
Central Banking, Asset Prices and
Financial Fragility
By Éric Tymoigne
Series: Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
http://www.routledge.com/9780415773997
The current literature on central banking contains two distinct
branches. On the one side, research focuses on the impact of
monetary policy on economic growth, unemployment, and output-price
inflation, while ignoring financial aspects. On the other side, some
scholars leave aside macroeconomics in order to study the narrow,
but crucial, subjects of financial behaviours, and financial
supervision and regulation. This book aims at merging both
approaches by using macroeconomic analysis to show that financial
considerations should be the main preoccupation of central banks.
Eric Tymoigne shows how different views regarding the conception of
asset pricing lead to different positions regarding the appropriate
role of a central bank in the economy. In addition, Hyman P.
Minsky’s framework of analysis is used extensively and is combined
with other elements of the Post Keynesian framework to study the
role of a central bank.
Tymoigne argues that central banks should be included in a broad
policy strategy that aims at achieving stable full employment. Their
sole goal should be to promote financial stability, which is the
best way they can contribute to price stability and full employment.
Central banks should stop moving their policy rate frequently and
widely because that creates inflation, speculation, and economic
instability. Instead, Tymoigne considers a pro-active financial
policy that does not allow financial innovations to enter the
economy until they are certified to be safe and that focuses on
analyzing systemic risk. He argues that central banks should be a
guide and a reformer that allow a smooth financing and funding of
asset positions, while making sure that financial fragility does not
increase drastically over a period of expansion.
This book will be of interest to students and researchers engaged
with central banking, macroeconomics, asset pricing and monetary
economics.
Finance-led Capitalism? Macroeconomic
Effects of Changes in the Financial Sector
Eckhard Hein, Torsten Niechoj, Peter Spahn and Achim Truger (eds.):
Finance-led Capitalism? Macroeconomic Effects of Changes in the
Financial Sector
http://www.metropolis-publisher.com/Finance-led-Capitalism%3F/705/book.do
Contents
The Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies
Introduction, Eckhard Hein, Torsten Niechoj, Peter Spahn and Achim
Truger
I. Financialisation – trends and implications
Financialisation: What it is and why it matters, Thomas I. Palley
Private equity: financial engineering or solution to market
failure?, Sigurt Vitols
Rising shareholder power – effects on distribution, capacity
utilisation and capital accumulation in Kaleckian/Post-Kaleckian
models, Eckhard Hein
II. Financial systems and economic development
Financial systems in developing countries and economic development,
Hansjörg Herr
Financial flows and international imbalances – the role of
catching-up by late industrializing developing countries, Jan Kregel
Crisis prevention and capital controls in India: Perspectives of
capital account liberalisation in the current scenario, Nishtha
Khurana
III. International monetary order and imbalances
The international monetary (non-) order and the ‘global capital
flows paradox’, Jörg Bibow
Trends that can’t go on forever, won’t: Financial bubbles, trade and
exchange rates, Michael Hudson
Macroeconomic policy with open capital accounts, Fernando J. Cardim
de Carvalho
IV. Financial (in)stability and financial crises
Inefficient markets: Causes and consequences, Wolfgang Filc
On the manic-depressive fluctuations of speculative prices, Stephan
Schulmeister
V. Financial market crisis in the USA
The rise and fall of the U.S. subprime mortgage market, David F.
Milleker
On shaky ground: The U.S. mortgage boom and its economic
consequences, Christian E. Weller and Kate Sabatini
Global imbalances: The U.S. and the rest of the world, Dimitri B.
Papadimitriou
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Heterodox Websites and
Associations
Center for the History of Political
Economy
The Website for the Center for the History of Political Economy at
Duke University is now up and running. You may visit it at
http://www.econ.duke.edu/CHOPE
Please note that this address is case sensitive.
ClimateChangeEconomics.net
A comprehensive website of resources and tools dedicated to
addressing the carbon intensity of our economy and related climate
change policy in the 50 states and territories. Our aim is to make
ClimateChangeEconomics.net the premier objective research tool for
state and federal legislators, as well as regulators and policy
analysts, on the economic opportunities presented by the fight
against climate change.
Roles for heterodox economists:
1. Site members can post links to documents, to web sites and
comment on the listings to influence other readers. (Postings rate
readability, political bias, geographic focus, web accessibility and
offer a description; members can add comments on the posted
materials and the documents/web sites.)
2. We also solicit short pieces from site members for our sections
on:
"Basic Economics Guidance" to educate about (neoclassical) economic
analysis (and its weaknesses) and to offer other modes of analysis,
and "Legislators' Tools" to help them to dissect the analyses and
testimony provided to them by asking better questions and
understanding the assumptions and analytical logics that lead to
particular empirical findings.
Association for Heterodox Economics
I have successfully established (with the administrator's approval)
a new organisation called the 'Association for Heterodox Economics'
on 'Academia Tree' - the 'facebook for academics' (
www.academia.edu ).
If heterodox economists add themselves to one or more of our present
three 'Departments' (Committee, Conference Committee, and Members)
they will be able to identify their research interests (and add new
research interests), upload papers, and will be reached by searches
by other academics and from 'outside' (eg Google).
A good way, I think, to demonstrate the research-active and
productive nature of heterodox economics and its relevance to the
present economic situation.
Regards
Alan Freema
The Critical Mass Forum on Political
Economy and Power
The Critical Mass Forum on Political Economy and Power brings
together researchers interested in exploring the possibilities and
limitations of the concept of power as an alternative basis for
re-thinking the tradition of political economy and its foundational
categories of value, capital and accumulation. Created and
maintained voluntarily by graduate students of political economy at
York University in Toronto, Critical Mass aims to extend beyond York
to foster online discussion and debate between the global community
of researchers working in these areas.
In addition to facilitating a general discussion on political
economy and power, the forum also gives participants an opportunity
to discuss issues related to statistical data, to post and discuss
upcoming political economy events and to receive feedback on their
own research.
If you are interested in participating, please visit the forum
website:
http://www.yorku.ca/cmass/forum/
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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. For further information about the
project and queries about reviewing, contact Fred Lee (
leefs@umkc.edu ).
A Buddhist Economic Approach
to the Development of Community Enterprises
Prayukvong, W. (2005) "A Buddhist Economic Approach to the
Development of Community Enterprises: a case study from southern
Thailand," Cambridge Journal of Economics, 29(6): 1171-1185.
Reviewed by Ulas Basar Gezgin, PhD, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Click here
to download the review.
Breaking the Mould
Chang, Ha-Joon (2002), ‘Breaking the Mould: an Institutionalist
political economy alternative to the neoliberal theory of the market
and the state’, Cambridge Journal of Economics, 26(5): 539-60.
Reviewed by Lynne Chester, Curtin University, Australia
Click
here to download the review.
Principles of
Institutional-Evolutionary Political Economy
O’Hara, Phillip Anthony (2007), ‘Principles of
Institutional-Evolutionary Political Economy – converging themes
from the school of heterodoxy,’ Journal of Economic Issues, March
2007, 41(1): 1-42
Reviewed by Lynne Chester, Curtin University, Australia
Click
here to download the review.
Principles of
Neo-Schumpeterian Economics
Hanusch, Horst and Pyka, Andreas (2007), "Principles of
Neo-Schumpeterian Economics", Cambridge Journal of Economics, 31(2):
275-90.
Reviewed by Hans H. Bass, Bremen University of Applied Sciences
Click here to download
the review.
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For Your Information
Should the
financial crisis prompt another look at social ownership?
A short talk on Australian ABC radio entitled "Should the financial
crisis prompt another look at social ownership?" Here is the podcast
and transcript.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/perspective/stories/2008/2426170.htm
by David McMullen
http://economsoc.wordpress.com/
A discussion of the talk can be found at Strange Times.
http://strangetimes.lastsuperpower.net/?p=155
U. S. Census Bureau Announces
a New Product for Tracking Business Activity
The U.S. Census Bureau announces the release of the Business
Dynamics Statistics (BDS), a data series that allows users to track
annual changes in employment for growing and shrinking businesses at
the establishment level.
There are more than 6 million establishments with paid employees in
the United States. These businesses are dynamic: opening and
closing, adding and losing employees.(cont.)
Hampshire College Students
Learn What Money Can't Buy
By PETER SCHMIDT
Worried about a tanking stock market? Declining home values?
Deflation? Inflation? Your job?
In the face of tough economic times, a new course at Hampshire
College this fall offers a consoling thought: Material possessions
might not be making you happy anyway — at least not as happy you
think.(cont.)
Chicago Political Economy
Group (CPEG): Jobs Program Proposal
Here is a link to a jobs program proposal aimed at the kind of
fundamental restructuring of the US economy that we believe is
necessary to right the U.S. economy over the long term:
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dhgjvbdv_531ftpbfsdw. We
invite your comments.
Where Are the New Jobs for
Women?
By LINDA HIRSHMAN
Published: December 9, 2008
Washington
Hadley Hooper
BARACK OBAMA has announced a plan to stimulate the economy by
creating 2.5 million jobs over the next two years. He intends to use
the opportunity to make good on two campaign promises — to invest in
road and bridge maintenance and school repair and to create jobs
that reduce energy use and emissions that lead to global warming.(cont.)
Whose Interests Will Shape
Barack Obama’s “Change”?
Radical Change Needs Pressure from Below
By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
Click here to download
the paper.
The Remedist
By ROBERT SKIDELSKY
December 14, 2008; The Way We Live Now; New York Times
Among the most astonishing statements to be made by any policymaker
in recent years was Alan Greenspan’s admission this autumn that the
regime of deregulation he oversaw as chairman of the Federal Reserve
was based on a “flaw”: he had overestimated the ability of a free
market to self-correct and had missed the self-destructive power of
deregulated mortgage lending. The “whole intellectual edifice,” he
said, “collapsed in the summer of last year.” (cont.)
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