From the Editor
In the past couple of
weeks, European academics and particularly
European heterodox economists have addressed the
question of state actions in reforming the
nature of academic research and how quality
research is identified and measured. First there
is the statement from French academics—“La
défense des revues de sciences humaines et
socials”. The statement says
that the
French Ministry of
Research and Education would like to reform the
higher education system in order to (1) classify
scientific reviews according criteria defined by
AERES and ERIH; (2) to use of this
classification to rate the publications of the
faculty of French universities and to give a
grade to each faculty solely based on where they
publish; (3) to classify faculty members as
"good" or "bad" researcher in function of the
grade and the number of publications; and (4) to
use of this grade to assign more or less time to
research per faculty. Faculty with a low grade
would be considered poor researcher and would be
allocated more teaching and administrative tasks
and less research time. The statement goes on to
say that this is not good because peer
evaluation of research is better than cold
administrative evaluation and that the quality
and relevance of research is already accounted
for by the editorial committee of reviews--if it
is published it means that it is of quality,
thus there is no need to add additional
criteria. Finally the statement argues against
the publish-or-perish mentality that the
previous reform would institute. Quality is
better than quantity and it may take a long time
to write something worth publishing.
(summary translation provided by Éric Tymoigne).
Secondly, Enrico Bellino, Pierangelo Garegnani,
Giorgio Lunghini, Sergio Parrinello,Luigi
Pasinetti, Pierluigi Porta, Piero Tani, and
Gianni Vaggi have written an open letter on the
issue of the valuation of research in economics
in Italy: “Lettera aperta sulla valutazione
della ricerca nelle discipline economiche” (see
attachment for the letter in
Italian and for an
English and
German translation; and the web site of the
letter is
http://www.letteraapertavalutazionericerca.it/
). Finally, I received the following e-mail from
an Italian colleague:
…in my university a new system of research
evaluation is going to be approved. There is the
risk that heterodox reviews will probably be
undervalued. I remember that some time ago you
mailed an e-mail about a sort of ranking of
heterodox review and publications. Do you have
any idea of that? Do you know if it is possible
to find somewhere a sort of ranking among
heterodox publications? The idea is to fight to
insert some heterodox reviews in Group A and in
Group B.
Each of these statements clearly raised, in
their own way, the question of how heterodox
economics in general and specifically our
European colleagues should address the issue of
assessing research in a non-pluralist mainstream
environment. As noted in the previous
Newsletter, Wolfram Elsner and I are planning a
Workshop on this topic to take place at the
University of Bremen, Germany, in
June—particulars of the Workshop are given
below. We are also planning propose a session
for the Research Network Macroeconomics and
Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) conference which
takes place in Berlin on 30 – 31 October 2009,
and a session for the EAEPE Conference which
takes place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 6-8
November 2009. If you are interested in
participating in the Workshop and in one or both
of the proposed conference sessions, contact
Wolfram (
welsner@uni-bremen.de ) or myself (
leefs@umkc.edu
).
Fred Lee
In
this issue:
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Call for Papers |
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- Assessing Heterodox Economics in a
European Context – A Workshop
- International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education
- EAEPE Conference 2009
- Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE)
- The Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic
Policies
- Political Economy, Financialization and Discourse Theory
- Special Issue of Deleuze Studies on “Deleuze and Marx”
- International Conference of Political Economy: Adam Smith
Today
- EAEPE Symposium 2009
- 6th Euroframe Conference on Economic Policy Issues in the
European Union
- The Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE)
Conference
- Workshop on Markets, Governance and Human Development
- The Global Food Crisis |
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Conferences, Seminars and Lectures |
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- Nancy Fraser at
the Institute of Contemporary Arts
- The CICSE Lectures on Growth and Development
- ISET's European Interdisciplinary Spring 2009 Seminar
Series
- After the Crash
- Power to the People?
- STOREP Workshop
- Left Forum Conference
- The Political Economy of Central Banking
- Public Debate
- Cooperation and Development Network (CDN)
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Job Postings for Heterodox Economists |
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- The Women of Color Resource Center
(WCRC)
- Living Standards/Labor Economist
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Heterodox Conference Papers and
Reports and Articles |
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- Sweetening the Pot: Implicit Subsidies
to Corn Sweeteners and the U.S. Obesity Epidemic
- Resources, Rules and International Political Economy: The
Politics of Development in the WTO
- Obama’s Job Creation Promise: A Modest Proposal to
Guarantee That He Meets and Exceeds Expectations
- After the Bust: The Outlook for Macroeconomics and
Macroeconomic Policy
- Postwar Trends in Economic Well-Being in the United
States, 1959–2004
- Macroeconomic Imbalances in the United States and Their
Impact on the International Financial System
- Financial Stability: The Significance and Distinctiveness
of Islamic Banking in Malaysia
- Long-Term Trends in the Levy Institute Measure of Economic
Well-Being (LIMEW), United States, 1959–2004 |
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Heterodox Journals and Newsletters |
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- Challenge
- Feminist Economics
- International Review of Applied Economics
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Heterodox Books and Book Series |
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- Money and Macrodynamics: Alfred
Eichner and Post Keynesian Economics
- A History of Heterodox Economics: Challenging the
Mainstream in the Twentieth Century
- Ontology and Economics
- "Equilibrium in Economics - Scope and Limits" Edited by
Valeria Mosini
- Economics Versus Human Rights
- The Keynesian Multiplier
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Heterodox Book Reviews |
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- Future Directions for Heterodox
Economics |
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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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- CODESRIA
- 2009 Monthly Review Press
- Appel international à tous les universitaires
- LA CRISIS CUESTIONA EL SABER ECONOMICO CONVENCIONAL
- Herbert Hoover Copycat
- Professors' Freedoms Under Assault in the Courts
- Why Economists Are Part of the Problem
- Spontaneous Order |
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Call for Papers
Assessing Heterodox
Economics in a European Context – A Workshop
You are invited to submit a paper for a Workshop on
Assessing Economic Research in a European Context: the future of
Heterodox economics and its research in a non-pluralist mainstream
environment
26-27 June 2009, University of Bremen, Germany
Click
here for detailed information.
International
Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education
The objectives of IJPEE are:
to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas thereby fostering
communication within the growing pluralist community; to advance the
techniques and concepts of pluralist economics by providing
practical suggestions to incorporate pluralism into the classroom;
to offer teachers and educators interested in pluralism an outlet
for their research; and
to change the emphasis of economic education by making pluralism a
central feature.
The subject matter will cover all branches of economics, with the
objective of enhancing economic education in order to solve today’s
pressing economic and ecological problems. Suitable topics include,
but are not limited to:
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
You may send one copy in the form of an MS Word file attached to an
e-mail to:
Jack Reardon, Editor IJPEE
Hamline University
Department of Management and Economics
School of Business
1536 Hewitt Avenue MS-A1740
St. Paul, MN 55104 USA
jreardon02@hamline.edu
EAEPE Conference
2009
Institutional Solutions for Economic Recovery
http://eaepe.org/eaepe-conference-2008
The world economy has reached a state of crisis and economists are
called to the test. As governments in the western world have been
completely taken by surprise by the credit crunch, the call upon
economists for their knowledge and policy advice has been stronger
than ever before. Economists have responded in political circles and
in the media with standard answers to extraordinary circumstances.
One of the most challenging themes for institutional economists and
social scientists is to explain the economic situation of today and
to offer solutions for economic recovery. In the 20th century
institutional economists have been at the forefront in describing
and explaining business cycles and growth. In the 21st century the
present generations will need to revisit some of this legacy and
confront this with newer observations. For the time being many
questions abound:
What changes in the institutional environment, the institutional
arrangements, and in the norms and customs of people will lead to
economic growth? What is the role of investments in knowledge,
innovations, and entrepreneurship in creating these institutional
improvements? Which improvements in the financial institutions can
contribute to an economic recovery? What has been the impact of an
increasing European integration and globalization on the severity of
the crisis? What is the role of an international cooperation in the
economic recovery?
The 2009 Conference of EAEPE in Amsterdam will address, in a broad
sense, such questions and will contribute to the debate on economic
recovery, through a multidisciplinary, institutional and
evolutionary perspective.
Keywords: economic recovery, institutional change, globalization
Submission of abstracts:
Upload a 600-700 word abstract through the EAEPE website by May 1,
2009.
The abstract should clearly mention:
- title of the paper
- name of the author(s) and full address of the corresponding author
(postal address, phone, fax and email)
- the aim of the study and methodology
- (expected) results and/or conclusion
- up to 5 keywords.
The submitted abstracts will be refereed by the scientific
committee.
Important deadlines:
Deadline for abstract submission: May 1, 2009
Notification for abstract acceptance: May 30, 2009
Deadline for paper submission: September 20, 2009
In order to be included in the final program, the paper has to be
submitted before the above stated date and at least one of the
authors has to be registered, has paid the conference fee and be a
paid EAEPE member. Please note that you have to be an EAEPE member
in order to attend the conference.
http://eaepe.org/eaepe-conference-2008
Association for Evolutionary
Economics (AFEE)
Annual Meeting, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, January 3-5, 2010
Neoliberalism, Markets, and Freedom
AFEE invites proposals for individual papers and complete panels on
the theme of Neoliberalism, Markets, and Freedom. Since the rise of
Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, the world has undergone a
“natural” experiment concerning the proposition that free markets
are necessary, maybe even sufficient, for individual freedom. The
theme of the 2010 annual meetings will be to reassess this
proposition. All proposals reflecting the tradition and analytical
perspective of the Association for Evolutionary Economics will be
given serious consideration, but some preference will be given to
proposals that address the following questions:
1. Historically, institutional economists have rejected the
conventional discourse that contrasts “regulated” with “deregulated”
markets. By contrast, John Commons and others have long argued that
all markets are regulated. What has been right or wrong with our
management of markets (including financial markets) over the past
thirty years? How might things be improved?
2. “Conventional wisdom,” despite the recent financial crisis, still
largely accepts the long-standing contention of professors Milton
Friedman and Friedrich von Hayek that free markets are essential to
freedom. Do “free markets” promote “life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness”? Additionally, what are the concrete historical and
policy implications of the proposition that free markets are the
most reliable way to end or at least mitigate the ugly legacies of
discrimination?
3. How have neoliberal economic policies helped or hindered the
achievement of widely accepted social goals such as sustained and
sustainable growth, economic stability, reduced poverty, or a fairer
distribution of income? What changes or modifications in the
structure or scope of markets might improve results?
The deadline for submission of proposals for papers and sessions is
April 10, 2009. Submissions via e-mail are strongly encouraged. When
sending your email, clearly identify it as an AFEE paper or panel
submission in the subject line. If receipt of your paper or panel
proposal has not been acknowledged within two weeks of submission,
please contact the Program Chair. Authors will be informed whether
their proposals have been accepted by May 19, 2009.
Proposals for panels may contain up to five papers, and must include
relevant details of all papers to be presented (see below).
Constraints imposed by the Allied Social Science Association
severely limit the number of sessions allocated to AFEE. AFEE and
the Program Chair each deeply regret that it will be necessary to
turn down a number of proposals.
Presentations should be no more than eighteen minutes in length so
as to leave time for discussion. To be considered for publication in
the June 2010 Journal of Economic Issues, the text of your paper
cannot exceed 2,850 words, plus up to four pages total of
references, tables and figures. The deadline for submission for the
June JEI is December 11, 2009. JEI submission details will be
provided to authors whose proposals are accepted for the conference.
All criteria for the submission of papers, including deadlines, will
be strictly enforced by the editor.
At least one of the authors of any paper must be a member of AFEE.
Contact afee@bucknell.edu
for membership information.
Proposals for papers or panels must be submitted to the Program
Chair by April 10, 2009. The following information must be submitted
for each paper:
a) Name(s) of author(s)
b) Professional affiliation(s)
c) Email address of corresponding author
d) Mailing address of corresponding author
e) Title of proposed paper
f) Abstract of no more than 250 words
g) Your willingness to serve as a discussant or session chair
(specify field)
Program Chair: Robert E. Prasch
Department of Economics
Warner Science Hall
Middlebury College
Middlebury, VT. 05753
E-mail:
rprasch@middlebury.edu
Phone: 802-443-3419
The Research Network Macroeconomics
and Macroeconomic Policies
The Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM)
organises its 13th conference on
‘The World Economy in Crisis – The Return of Keynesianism?’
30 – 31 October 2009, in Berlin.
The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged:
- Global imbalances and the current crisis
- Financial crisis, real crisis and the risks of depression and
deflation
- Paradigm shift in macroeconomics – the return of Keynesianism?
- Economic policy reactions and the future relationship between the
market and the state
- Regulation of the financial sector from a Keynesian perspective
- Perspectives for a Keynesian New Deal
For the open part of the conference the submission of papers on the
general subject of the Research Network is encouraged as well. We
also ask for the submission of papers for graduate student sessions,
on the specific subject of this conference or on the general subject
of the Research Network.
Conference language is English. Selected papers will be published
after the conference.
The deadline for paper proposals is 30 June 2009. Please send an
abstract (one page) to Susanne Stöger (
susanne-stoeger@boeckler.de ). Decisions will be made by
mid-August. Accepted papers should be sent in by 15 October to be
posted on the conference web page.
Please forward this call for papers to your mailing lists.
Organising Committee of the conference:
Sebastian Dullien (
dullien@fhtw-berlin.de ), Eckhard Hein (
eckhard-hein@boeckler.de
), Peter Spahn (
spahn@uni-hohenheim.de ), Achim Truger (
achim-truger@boeckler.de
), and Till van Treeck
(till-van-treeck@boeckler.de )
Coordinating Committee of the Research Network:
Sebastian Dullien (FHTW Berlin), Trevor Evans (Berlin School of
Economics), Jochen Hartwig (KOF/ETH Zürich), Eckhard Hein (IMK,
Düsseldorf), Hansjörg Herr (Berlin School of Economics), Torsten
Niechoj (IMK, Düsseldorf), Jan Priewe (FHTW Berlin), Peter Spahn
(University of Hohenheim), Engelbert Stockhammer (WU Wien), Claus
Thomasberger (FHTW Berlin), Achim Truger (IMK, Düsseldorf), and Till
van Treeck (IMK, Düsseldorf)
More on the Research Network:
http://www.boeckler.de/91434_36330.html
Political Economy,
Financialization and Discourse Theory
Cardiff Business School is organising a small conference of about 40
participants on:
“Political Economy, Financialization and Discourse Theory”
Conference to be held at Cardiff University 28-29 May 2009, from
noon on the 28th to mid- afternoon on the 29th.
The current financial crisis has called into question broader
contemporary developments in the financial and economic sphere.
These include an explosion in derivatives trading, use of off-shore
financial centres, and the `financializing' extension of financial
products and financial calculations into new spheres of economic
activity. Now the financial meltdown has arguably dislocated the
project of neo-liberalism.
How, then, is the contemporary phase of capitalist development and
associated crisis of financialization to be conceptualized? What
relevance might various forms of discourse theory have for analysing
aspects of this crisis? This workshop is intended to address the
following questions:
- What is the contribution of discursive/poststructuralist analysis
to the interrogation of central elements of the financial crisis?
- How do other traditions and forms of analysis serve to highlight
the shortcomings and/or correct the limitations of
discursive/poststructuralist analysis?
These questions are pertinent as discursive/poststructuralist
analysis has become increasingly influential in recent years, yet
studies of practices central to the development and reproduction of
the contemporary economic and financial order are exceptional (e.g.
de Goede, 2003; Stäheli, 2007). This omission leaves
discursive/poststructuralist analysis vulnerable to the criticism
that it fails to adequately account for the so-called materialist
dimensions of social and economic reality (Laffey, 2004). Are such
criticisms justified? What discourse theoretic resources might be
mobilised to neutralise or address such critiques?
The aim of this workshop is therefore to explore and assess the
insights into the political economy of financialization – its
confident expansion and possible exhaustion - from a range of
perspectives (e.g. structuralist, critical realist and
poststructuralist), paying particular attention to the contribution
of forms of discourse theory to its analysis (Glynos and Howarth,
2007). More specifically, it is hoped to stimulate and advance
consideration of the potential of discursive analysis for
reconstructing the entrenched but increasingly contested
materialist/idealist dichotomy.
The broad intent of the conference is to bring together people with
an interest in assessing and critiquing the contribution that
discourse theory can make to the analysis of political economy and,
more specifically, to processes of financialization and the current
financial crisis. We are particularly interested in contributions
that address the relevance of discourse theory and analysis that are
either directly informed by, or engage critically with,
poststructuralist thinking.
Professor Marieke de Goede (University of Amsterdam) will give the
opening plenary lecture.
Positive responses to an initial call for papers have so far been
received from Glyn Daly, Melissa Fisher, Paul DuGay, Nick Hildyard,
Paul Langley, Anastasia Nesvetailova, Michael Pryke, Christoph
Scherrer, Ewen Speed, Urs Staeheli, Nigel Thrift, Colin Wight, and
Karel Williams.
The fee for the workshop is £75. There is a reduced fee of £50 for
PhD students. This includes lunches, teas and coffees.
Papers are invited that provide some illumination of the issues and
questions outlined above. Please submit an abstract of 300-500 words
before February 28th 2009 to Angela Cox – email
coxar@cardiff.ac.uk.
Places are strictly limited and, if necessary, a waiting list will
be created.
Special Issue of Deleuze Studies on “Deleuze
and Marx”
Writings on Deleuze and Guattari’s twin volumes, Capitalism and
Schizophrenia, have often focused on questions about desire, body
without organs, the schizophrenic etc. There have been a few notable
exceptions that have attempted to articulate and expound upon the
numerous political problems that Deleuze and Guattari attempt to
resolve through analyses of concepts such as de-/re-territorialization,
coding and re-coding etc, however a specter is haunting Deleuze and
Guattari that has yet to be explained, articulated and debated; the
specter of Karl Marx. This volume attempts to analyze the
relationship between Deleuze (and Guattari) and Marx and their
respective works. This volume is an intervention into the fields of
Deleuze Studies, Marxist and Marxian philosophy and political
economy, and critiques of capitalism through an examination of the
relationship between Deleuze and Marx. This volume will be of
interest to people interested in Deleuze Studies who are interested
in questions of politics and critiques of capitalism, Marxist theory
and philosophy and people interested in political economy.
Themes that will be covered in this volume include (but are not
limited to):
1) hegemony and theories of imperialism
2) the role of philosophy in changing the world,
3) theories of surplus
4) tensions between the virtual and the potential
5) ideology and noology
6) modes of production
7) the nature of anti-capitalist politics in Deleuze’s work.
Please limit the length of papers to no more than 10 000 words. The
deadline for submission of papers is March 30, 2009.
Please include your name, e-mail address, and phone number. Papers
should be e-mailed to
dhruv@yorku.edu. All papers will undergo a double-blind
review.
International Conference of Political
Economy: Adam Smith Today
in Kocaeli - Çanakkale,Turkey from 01. October 2009 to 04. October
2009
Deadline for paper submissions: 15. June 2009
We start our first annual international political economy conference
with a conference on Adam Smith. We start our conference series with
Smith because he is regarded as the founder modern political
economy. With his classical work An Inquiry into the Nature and
causes of the Wealth of Nations he established an internationally
recognized major discipline in 18th century. Today there is hardly
any university throughout the world, which does not have an economy
department. However, there is also a particular reason why we start
the series of our conferences with Smith. His other classical work
The Theory of Moral Sentiments was published 250 years ago. With our
first conference we aim to commemorate also the 250th anniversary of
the publication of this classical work in ethical theory. The Theory
of Moral Sentiments is Smith's first work. It served along with his
various Essays on Philosophical Subjects the philosophical
foundation of his later works as his Lectures on Jurisprudence
clearly shows.
We start our series of annual international political economy
conferences with a conference on Adam Smith. We start with Smith
because he is regarded as the founder of modern political economy.
With his classical work An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the
Wealth of Nations he established an internationally recognized major
discipline in 18th century. Today, there is hardly any university
throughout the world, which does not have an economy department.
One other reason for starting with Smith is the 250th anniversary of
the publication of his classical work The Theory of Moral Sentiments
(1759). The anniversary is being celebrated with various events
throughout the world. The Theory of Moral Sentiments is Smith's
first work which, along with his Essays on Philosophical Subjects,
served as the philosophical foundation for his later works.
The conference aims to explore various aspects of Smith's work, in
particular the relationship between his two major works and what
these works mean for our time. Papers to be presented at the
conference may relate to following areas:
- The impact of his two works, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes
of the Wealth of Nations and The Theory of Moral Sentiments on
today’s local and global economic issues;
- Intellectual sources, context and legacy of Adam Smith;
- The typology of ethics in The Theory of Moral Sentiments;
- Adam Smith's philosophical work and political economy;
- Adam Smith and international relations;
- Adam Smith and his relation with other classical political
economists;
- The relevance of The Wealth of Nations for contemporary issues;
- The foundation of a lasting economy based on the philosophy of
Adam Smith, ethical and political issues;
- Global financial crisis and challenges to political economy in
terms of the philosophy of Adam Smith, its relevance for global
economy and developing countries.
These are some of the topics we would like to explore relevant to
Adam Smith. Topics related to any aspects of Smith’s works,
relationship between them, their meaning for our time, their
significance for the following philosophers and political economists
and other topics within the context of political economy should
enrich the conference and expand the given framework for discussion.
The language of the conference will be both Turkish and English.
The papers presented at the Conference will be published in English
and Turkish in Adam Smith Review and Turkish Journal of Political
Economy: "Ekonomi Politik". Session suggestions and abstracts could
send to info@asconit.org with writer(s)’ cv by 15th of June 2009.
Further information at:
http://www.asconit.org
EAEPE Symposium 2009
Please notice that the dead-line for abstracts for the EAEPE
Symposium 2009 “Knowledge, firm behavior and strategic management”
to be held in Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland
(22-23th of May) is 15th of March. Please find more information
here:
http://eaepe.org/node/4397
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 regulatoryframeworks); 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 ofgovernment 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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The Centre of Full Employment and
Equity (CofFEE) Conference
This year will be the first for some time that official unemployment
rates will rise. The overall predictions are that there could be
around a million people unemployed in Australia by year's end. The
underemployment rate will also rise.
The Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) will be holding
its' annual conference 3rd - 4th December 2009. This will be the
11th Path to Full Employment Conference / 16th National Conference
on Unemployment. The conference will be held at the University of
Newcastle, Australia.
At present, around 10 per cent of the available labour force is
unable to get enough work. If this downturn approaches the depth of
the 1991 recession, this figure will jump to 20 per cent or more. A
strong employment-centric federal response is needed to avoid an
escalation in joblessness. This year's conference will be
particularly important in sharing ideas from the best researchers in
the area about how we can avoid major labour market devastation.
This years' theme will be:
Labour underutilisation - unemployment and underemployment
Papers are particularly welcome in the following research and policy
areas:
- What are the origins of the global financial crisis? Is the
Australian government's response adequate? How could it be improved?
- Any research on unemployment - its dimensions, causes, cures
- The increasing problem of underemployment and marginal workers.
- Why has work become more precarious? Is it a problem? What are the
solutions?
- What is full employment? How is it defined and measured? How close
are we to achieving full employment? What are the challenges that
remain?
- How can the new Federal Government's social inclusion agenda be
designed and implemented?
- Employment guarantees - why are several countries now turning to
Job Guarantee-type policies to combat poverty and unemployment? What
are the lessons for Australia?
- Why do disparities in regional labour markets persist? What is the
extent of the problem and its solutions? Spatial patterns of work
and housing.
- Long term, youth, disabled and indigenous unemployment.
Contributions can be made to both the Refereed (peer reviewed) or
Non - Refereed streams. Refereed papers will be included in a
printed volume of conference proceedings (which will constitute a
refereed conference paper under Australian government rules).
Deadlines:
Abstracts in both the refereed (peer reviewed) or Non - Refereed
streams - Monday 13th July 2009 5pm.
Draft Refereed Papers - Monday, September 28, 2009 Final Refereed
Papers and registration payment - October 31, 2009.
NB: Refereeing will take place between September 28, 2009 and
October 19, 2009.
You will have 2 weeks to address the referees' comments and make any
necessary changes.
Non - Refereed Papers and registration payment - Monday, November 2,
2009.
Those interested are asked to visit our website
http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/conferences/2009/guidelines.cfm
for detailed paper submission guidelines as well as paper deadlines.
Please submit your abstract to the CofFEE office:
coffee@newcastle.edu.au
Details relating to Key Note Speakers and registration will follow
in coming months.
Workshop on Markets, Governance and
Human Development
Jointly organised by: Development Studies Association (Environmental
Resources and Sustainable Development Study Group, and Development
Ethics Study Group)
and Robinson College, University of Cambridge
6-7 July 2009. Venue: Robinson College, Cambridge
Keynote speakers:
- Professor Marc Fleurbaey, CERSES, Universit Paris Descartes
- Professor Tim Jackson, University of Surrey
- Professor Alan Kirman, GREQAM, EHESS, IUF, France
- Professor John O.Neill, University of Manchester
Workshop aims:
In the current economic crisis, an important question to revisit
concerns when and to what extent markets are appropriate mechanisms
to deliver goods and services to consumers, satisfy their desires
and also contribute to human and economic development. For some
economists, it is of no doubt that a freemarket economy has
overwhelmingly positive aspects and offers a wide set of
opportunities to many people. However, for the critics of the
free-market economy, it is often the poorest sections of the
community that suffer most. Others argue that state intervention in
such situations usually means that the taxpayer as well as the more
prudent average saver will have to pay for the failures of rich
speculators. Have we come to the end of "liberal market economy"?
Can markets 'correct' themselves? Are we expecting markets to
deliver services for which they are not the most appropriate
institutions? Are we witnessing a period of a particular market
failure, or is it a "system failure"? Do we need 'deeper' and more
active governance of international and national financial systems to
prevent further events like this to happen? If so, how can we
achieve this?
It is clear that discussion of such questions cannot be confined to
examinations within boundaries of a single discipline. A broader
dialogue drawing from insights and viewpoints from different
disciplines is required. Such discussion should include views on the
ways markets work, the channels through which they can and do
contribute to advancing human development through creation of
opportunities and widening the range of functionings and
capabilities.There is a need to re-examine issues related to the
values and psychological mindframes underpinning markets and the
power structures they produce. As Amartya Sen (2008) mentions in
passing in the Martin Luther King Lecture:
There is no such thing as "the" market solution, for the market is
exactly as good as the company it keeps. It is extremely important
to recognise that the market economy can yield very different
results, depending on governing conditions, such as the distribution
of resources and opportunities to develop skill and to secure fair
bases of entry into market transactions, which in turn depend on the
support of public distribution of education and health care, better
functioning of trade agreements, reform of patent laws and
environmental regulations, the operation of credit facilities, among
many other influencing factors. All these influences are open to
reform and change.
Against, this background, this workshop aims to examine two sets of
issues:
a. Markets and human development: Issues under this theme include,
for example: what evidence is there to suggest that markets can
deliver pro-poor growth and sustainable human development; how
compatible are values such as "market-rationality" and human
development; are markets "only" delivering efficiency at the cost of
equity; are markets the main reason for current global environmental
changes; should there be institutions that temper the role of
markets; are there tradeoffs between developing market and social
institutions (as for example, suggested by Marglin, 2006), do
markets give "by nature" more power to entrepreneurs and traders
than to other market participants?
b. Governance and human development: Issues under this theme
include: how much governance do we need for human development; why
are some societies better than other similar ones in developing
institutions; what is the role of accountability in relation to
agency and well-being freedoms - is accountability a prerequisite or
an outcome of improved human development; can governance effectively
counterbalance power relations that were established through the
market, does governance work with the market or (does it need to
work) against the market?
We welcome papers that explore these issues theoretically and/or
empirically from within the disciplines of economics and other
social sciences and philosophy. Some selected papers will be
proposed for publication in special issues of international refereed
journals.
Registration fee will apply to cover college accommodation and
catering. Further details will be sent if paper is accepted.
Submission: Please submit extended abstracts/proposals of 1,000 -
1,500 words by 25th March 2009. Please do not hesitate to contact us
if you need any clarifications. Abstracts should be sent to:
Dr P.B. Anand
University of Bradford
p.b.anand@bradford.ac.uk
Dr Des Gasper
Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
gasper@iss.nl
Dr Miriam Teschl
Robinson College, Cambridge
mt367@cam.ac.uk
http://www.robinson.cam.ac.uk/academic/markets09.php
The Global Food
Crisis
Zacatecas, Mexico
August 13-15, 2009
The Critical Development Studies (CDS) network announces an
international conference.
Inviting participation and submission of a paper on any conference
subtheme
Deadline for submission: March 15, 2009.
Actual papers due June 15, 2009.
Please send proposals, with a title and brief abstract, to:
critdev@gmail.com
(Subject: Global Food Crisis)
Click here
for detailed information.
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Conferences, Seminars
and Lectures
Nancy Fraser at the Institute of
Contemporary Arts
Monday 09 March at 7.00 pm
To commemorate her recently published Adding Insult to Injury, as
well as Scales of Justice, Nancy Fraser will speak at the ICA on 09
March, in conversation with Anne Phillips, Professor of Political
and Gender Theory at LSE, and a contributor to Adding Insult to
Injury. Fraser examines the changes in leftist accounts of injustice
since the collapse of Communism and the rise of identity politics.
These accounts have strayed from a traditional focus on economic
harms such as poverty, exploitation, and inequality; attention has
turned increasingly towards cultural issues such as cultural
imperialism, ‘misrecognition’, and disrespect. This development
raises serious questions; how can the Left do justice to the
legitimate claims of multiculturalism without abandoning its
commitment to economic equality? How can it broaden the
understanding of an injustice that adds (cultural) insult to
(economic) injury?
Tickets available from:
http://www.ica.org.uk/From%20Insult%20to%20Injury+19175.twl
ADDING INSULT TO INJURY
Nancy Fraser Debates her Critics
By Nancy Fraser
Edited by Kevin Olson
“For more than a decade, Nancy Fraser’s thought has helped to
reframe the agenda of critical theory. Today, when egalitarian hopes
flicker and shine against the background of pervasive repression,
Adding Insult to Injury provides a singular stimulation.” Etienne
Balibar
Adding Insult to Injury tracks the debate sparked by Nancy Fraser's
controversial effort to combine redistribution, recognition, and
representation in a new understanding of social justice. The volume
showcases Fraser's critical exchanges with leading thinkers,
including Judith Butler, Richard Rorty, Iris Marion Young, Anne
Phillips, and Rainer Forst. The result is a wide-ranging and at
times contentious exploration of varied approaches to rebuilding the
Left.
NANCY FRASER is Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New
School for Social Research and holder of a Chaire Blaise Pascal at
the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. Her books
include Redistribution or Recognition: A Political-Philosophical
Exchange (with Axel Honneth), Justice Interruptus: Critical
Reflections on the “Postsocialist” Condition, and Unruly Practices:
Power, Discourse and Gender in Contemporary Social Theory.
ISBN 9781859842232 / £16.99 / $29.95 / Paperback / 360 pages /
Published November 2008
Adding Insult to Injury is available from all good bookshops and at:
http://www.versobooks.com/books/cdef/ef-titles/fraser_n_adding_insult_to_injury.shtml
UK
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adding-Insult-Injury-Redistribution-Representation/dp/1859842232/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234451423&sr=8-2
US
http://www.amazon.com/Adding-Insult-Injury-Redistribution-Representation/dp/1859842232/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1234451521&sr=8-3
The CICSE Lectures on Growth and
Development
Inequality and the Process of Development
by Oded Galor (Brown University)
8-10 June 2009
University of Naples "Parthenope", Villa Doria d'Angri, via Petrarca
n. 80
Naples, Italy
The CICSE (
http://cicse.ec.unipi.it/ ) announces that the second "CICSE
Lectures on Growth and Development", in collaboration with the
Department of Economics, University "Parthenope" of Naples, will be
delivered by Prof. Oded Galor, Herbert H. Goldberger Professor of
Economics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
http://www.econ.brown.edu/fac/Oded_Galor/.
The CICSE Lectures are planned to provide invited scholars with the
opportunity to recollect and reorganize their ideas, to present them
in a more general format, to provide proofs of special cases or some
empirical studies that in short presentations like that of an
article of a journal cannot be exhaustively treated, and to provide
deeper analyses of some points. Once delivered a set of Lectures are
collected in a book published by Cambridge University Press in the
"CICSE Lectures on Growth and Development" Series. The first set of
Lectures were delivered by Stephen J. Turnovsky on "Capital
Accumulation and Economic Growth in a Small Open Economy" and the
book is currently in press.
The three Lectures by Professor Galor are on " Inequality and the
Process of Development". More precisely they are on
Lecture 1 (June 8, afternoon): From the Classical and Neoclassical
Approach to The Modern Perspective
Lecture 2 (June 9, morning): A Unified Approach
Lecture 3 (June 10, morning): Inequality and Growth Promoting Human
Capital Policies
All interested scholars are free to attend the CICSE Lectures at
Villa Doria d'Angri, via Petrarca 80
Naples, Italy, but they need to be registered within May 20, 2009.
Registration is possible through the page
http://cicse.ec.unipi.it/content/inequality_and_the_process_of_development.html
where further information on the Lectures are found.
The afternoon of the 9th will be devoted to a Poster Session with
the Oded Galor's participation. The deadline for delivering a poster
is March 31, 2009. The application requires registration within
March 31 and an abstract sent to
cicse-lecture@ec.unipi.it
ISET's European Interdisciplinary
Spring 2009 Seminar Series
'New Europe: Security, Politics and Cultural Change'launches on
Monday 2 March 6-7.30 pm with a talk on:
New Europe, new
crisis: Perspectives on financial instability and economic
cooperation/ Laszlo Andor: European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development
The new member states of the European Union have produced very
dynamic economic growth in the last 6-8 years. However, they have
been badly affected by the current financial crisis, and they are
not expected to return to their robust development after the end of
the crisis, whenever that may come. The current crisis, therefore,
highlights the surviving asymmetries in Europe, and also the fact
that the institutional arrangements of the EU (and particularly the
Economic and Monetary Union within that) cannot handle these
imbalances. In a way, most of the new member states find themselves
facing a position other EU members were in before 1992: being part
of the single market, exposed to the free flow of capital but
managing their macroeconomies with their own national currencies.
The manifestation of economic weakness and financial fragility in
the Eastern half of the EU is another test of European cohesion. New
forms of economic integration among the new member states would be
needed to strengthen their economic fundamentals, and new policies
within the EU framework would be needed to create more financial
stability within the region. More sustainable development in
East-Central Europe and the Balkans could also contribute to deeper
and wider cooperation between the EU and the Commonwealth of
Independent States.
László Andor is associate professor at Corvinus University of
Budapest (BCE, Department of Economic Policy) and at King Sigismund
College (ZSKF). Currently he is a member of the board of directors
at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London.
Future Seminars:
Security socialization? The national security concepts of the
Central and Eastern European states after NATO and EU enlargement
9 March, Felix Ciuta, School of Slavonic and Eastern European
Studies, UCL
The European imperative: Rescuing the Balkans
16 March, David Chandler, University of Westminster
European culture in transition: The possibility space of
transnationalism
23 March, Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths College and Istanbul Bilgi
University
Russia's conception of a new European security order 30 March, Marko
Bojcun, London Metropolitan University
I look forward to seeing you there - please feel free to pass this
on to anyone interested.
6:00 - 7:30 p.m in The Old Staff Café, London Metropolitan
University, Tower Building, 166-220 Holloway Road - ALL WELCOME -
refreshments provided
Administrator
Institute for the Study of European Transformations (ISET) London
Metropolitan University 166-220 Holloway Road London N7 8DB
iset@londonmet.ac.uk
www.londonmet.ac.uk/iset
After the Crash
A series of lectures and seminars dedicated to an enquiry into the
nature and causes of the de-wealthing of nations, as precipitated by
the 2008 financial meltdown.
UADPhilEcon (the University of Athens doctoral program in economics)
is organising a series of public lectures to be held during the next
five months on the big issue of the day: the financial meltdown and
the global recession it triggered. We would be thrilled if you could
attend at least some of these lectures. They promise to throw much
valuable light on developments the world over.
The series is inaugurated by Gary Dymski (University of California,
Sacramento) on Monday 16/2 to Friday 20/2 DAILY, at 17.00.
All lectures will take place at UADPhilEcon's 6th floor Seminar
Room, 14 Evripidou Street.For more information, please write to
info@uadphilecon.gr or
call +30-210-3689849.
Click here for
detailed lecture program and other information.
Power to the People?
... masses, proletariat, workers, soviets, nation, community,
subalterns, multitude, commons...
Radical Philosophy Conference, Central London, 9 May 2009
£25/£10 unwaged
Registration and further details:
matt.charles@blueyonder.co.uk
Cheques payable to `Radical Philosophy Ltd' should be sent to:
Radical Philosophy Conference, Peter Osborne, CRMEP, Middlesex
University, Trent Park Campus, Bramley Rd, London N14 4YZ
Plenary (chair: Peter Osborne, RP)
`They, the People'
Gayatri Spivak (Columbia University, NY)
The General Will (chair: Peter Hallward, RP)
'The General Will on the Street'
David Andress (Portsmouth)
'How Do the People Make Themselves Heard?'
Sophie Wahnich (CNRS, Paris)
Urban Collectivities (chair: David Cunningham, RP)
'Urban Intersections and the Politics of Anticipation'
AbdouMaliq Simone (Goldsmiths)
`Urbanism and the Post-Political'
Erik Swyngedouw (Manchester)
Population & Biopolitics (chair: Stuart Elden, Durham)
'Biopolitics, Diasporas and (Neo)Liberal Political Economy'
Couze Venn (Nottingham Trent)
'Feminist Strategies Revisited - Sexopolitics, Multitude and
Biopolitics'
Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez (Manchester)
Class, Commons & Multitude (chair: Esther Leslie, RP)
'Crisis, Tragedies and the Commons'
Massimo De Angelis (UEL)
`Power to the people!' was once a revolutionary slogan, but
reference to government by the people and for the people soon became
an empty cliché of the post-revolutionary status quo. The people has
become a notoriously ambiguous and contested term, for which
numerous alternatives have been proposed: the proletariat, the
workers, the masses, the soviets, the nation, the community, the
multitude, the commons... And now? How might we assess the different
conceptions of political change embodied in these often conflicting
ideas? What is the political and philosophical significance of `the
people' today?
£25/£10 unwaged
Registration and further details:
matt.charles@blueyonder.co.uk
Cheques payable to `Radical Philosophy Ltd' should be sent
to:Radical Philosophy Conference, Peter Osborne, CRMEP, Middlesex
University, Trent Park Campus, Bramley Rd, London N14 4YZ
radicalphilosophy@yahoo.com
STOREP Workshop
“Valutazione della ricerca e reclutamento universitario”
http://www.storep.org/workshop2009/
Lunedì 6 aprile 2009
h 11.00 - 17.00
Università del Piemonte Orientale,
Facoltà di Giurisprudenza
Palazzo Borsalino,
via Cavour 84, Alessandria
Organizzato da
Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell’Economia Politica
STOREP
in collaborazione con
Facoltà di Giurisprudenza
Dipartimento di Scienze Giuridiche ed Economiche
Dipartimento di Politiche Pubbliche e Scelte Collettive
Università del Piemonte Orientale
Left Forum Conference
We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming Left Forum conference,
April 17-19 at Pace University in New York City (across the street
from City Hall, next to the Brooklyn Bridge entrance).
This is the Left Forum's first year at Pace, and so far it has been
the most collaborative conference we have organized; we have
benefited from the active engagement of Pace students, faculty, and
staff, as well as the input and support from the surrounding
community. With wide-ranging contributions from artists, community
organizers, and scholars from around the world, and more scheduled
panels and speakers than ever before, the 2009 Left Forum appears
poised to contribute to the type of critical dialogues needed at
this historical moment. While there is no doubt that the times call
for nothing less, we are humbled at the extent of the involvement of
people and Left communities from around the region, country and the
world.
A few of the more than 150 confirmed panels include:
- On the Brink of Depression: Turning Point in World Capitalism?
Nationalization of the Auto Industry
- Childhood, Capitalism and Resistance
- Crisis Politics: What Way Forward for Obama?
- Afghanistan & the Global Peace Movement
- Women, Incarceration and Resistance
- Religion & Empire: A Christian-Marxist Dialogue
- Black Workers and the Current Economic Crisis
- China's Labor Movement: Global Dimensions
- Debating Long Term Strategies for "the Left"
- Left Psychology Explores US Personal Life
- Illustrating Resistance: Art & Activism
- The End of the Sexuality & Culture Wars?
- Street Children of Tegucigalpa & Wash. Politics
- The Debate Over Green Capitalism
- Health Care Reform: Building Left Unity Is Critical
- Progressive Program for Financial Reconstruction
- New School Occupation, New Political Moment?
- Systematic Destruction of Poor Black & Latino Families in NYC
- State Capitalism - a new, New Deal?
- Gay Marriage: Should the Left Care?
- Hip Hop and the Left
- Gaza - Jews & Arabs Speak Out
- Corporate Media's Magic Trick: Disappearance of the Working Class
- The Food Democracy Movement
Click here for
a list of confirmed speakers
Among the highlights of the weekend will be a Saturday performance
event, including excerpts from "The Cradle Will Rock" by
Pace/Actor's Studio, "Letters from Guantanamo," music, dance, and
more; a day of student discussions, panels, and roundtables (all of
which will precede the opening plenary); and theater, visual art,
and film integrated into the panels, hallways, and performance
events. Attached is the conference announcement graphic (if you can,
download it, copy it and send to email lists, post it online, or
print it up - to encourage people to come to the Forum).
Please join us for this extraordinary political moment. To register
for the conference go to: register for Left Forum 2009 Conference.
We look forward to seeing you on the 17th of April,
The Volunteers, Staff and Board Members of the Left Forum
Left Forum
leftforum@leftforum.org
The Political Economy of Central
Banking
LA POLITIQUE ECONOMIQUE DE LA BANQUE CENTRALE
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA
27-28 MAY, 2009 / 27-28 MAI, 2009
Sponsored by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
/Finance par le Conseil de Recherche en Sciences Humaines.
For more information, contact Louis-Philippe Rochon, at
Lprochon2003@yahoo.com
or Lprochon@Laurnetian.ca
Click
here for detailed information.
Public Debate
Learning through recession: Competitiveness, social cohesion and
lifelong learning
Monday 9 March, 13:00 – 15:00 pm at National Institute of Economic
and Social Research, 2 Dean Trench Street, Smith Square, London,
SW1P 3HE
Buffet lunch available 12:30 – 13:00
We are delighted to invite you to a ‘Question Time’ style debate
about the impact of global recession on competitiveness and social
cohesion and the role that lifelong learning might play in any
recovery. The debate will address a range of current issues. Does
the economic crisis signal the end of the road for the so-called
Anglo-Saxon economic model? What new political and economic
settlements can ensure prosperity and social cohesion for future
generations? How can we 'learn' our way out of the crisis and what
is the role for learning and skills in the new social and economic
order which must be constructed? This event is part of the Festival
of Social Science being run by the Economic and Social Research
Council (ESRC) during the National Science & Engineering week. The
panel includes well-known commentators from public life and members
of the ESRC funded LLAKES Research Centre:
Claire Fox (Chair): Director of the Institute of Ideas; David
Willetts: Shadow Secretary for Innovation, Universities and Skills;
Professor Andy Green: Director of LLAKES; Professor Lorna Unwin:
Deputy Director of LLAKES; Dr. Martin Weale: Director of the
National Institute of Economic and Social Research;
We aim to present a diverse range of views in order to stimulate
fresh ideas for policymaking and research. Thus we welcome your
active participation through questions to the panel. Please e-mail
us your questions in advance or bring them along on the day.
For reservations or if you require any further details please
contact Magdalini Kolokitha at: Email:
m.kolokitha@ioe.ac.uk ;
Tel: 020 73315112.
Cooperation and
Development Network (CDN)
Summer School on Structural Change: Analyses, Experiences and
Methodologies
3-16 June 2009
Over the last few years the international debate on economic
policies, and especially on development
policies, witnessed the emergence of views alternative to the
Washington consensus. The current
economic events at the world level – people are more worried about
deflation than inflation, industrialists are asking the governments
to spend more rather than less, etc. – make a full understanding of
such alternative views more needed than ever.
Click
here for detailed information.
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Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
The Women of Color Resource Center
(WCRC)
Economic Justice & Human Rights Program Director Position Open Until
Filled
The Women of Color Resource Center (WCRC) is looking for a skilled,
energetic and resourceful Economic Justice & Human Rights Program
Director rooted firmly in economic and racial justice politics,
feminist analysis, and social transformation at local, national and
international levels.
Founded in 1990 and headquartered in Oakland, the Women of Color
Resource Center (WCRC) is a national political education and
leadership development organization. Its mission is to promote the
political, economic, social and cultural wellbeing of women and
girls of color in the United States. Informed by a social justice
perspective that takes into account the status of women
internationally, WCRC is committed to organizing and educating women
across lines of race, ethnicity, religion, nationality, class,
sexual orientation, physical ability and age. WCRC has embarked on a
strategic planning process in 2009, which will culminate in the
creation of a 3-5 year plan.
The two current projects of the EJHR program include the Welfare
Rights Education & Advocacy Project (WREAP), which currently focuses
on research and education strategies related to creating a just
welfare policy, and the Technological Empowerment and Media Project
of Oakland (TEMPO), a skills training and leadership development
project for low-income women.
Responsibilities:
Sustain programmatic components of WREAP & TEMPO projects. Evaluate
past work, current context, and provide recommendations for projects
going forward.
Lead the program redesign and implementation of the overall Economic
Justice & Human Rights program work in relationship to strategic
planning efforts.
Strengthen current partnerships and build new organizational allies.
Work closely with Peace & Solidarity Program Director to develop and
promote cross-program linkages.
Lead and design popular education workshops on economic justice and
human rights topics.
Write articles, blogs and op/eds that reflect organizational
political perspective for broad audiences.
Collaborate with Development Director and Executive Director to
advance fundraising efforts on behalf of program.
Actively participate in organizational assessments, program planning
and evaluation processes.
Engage in additional staff responsibilities and tasks as needed.
Qualifications:
Proven commitment to gender, racial, social and economic justice and
a strong desire to build a broader social justice movement.
Study or training in social movement history, radical political
theory, and/or other relevant political development.
Strong progressive community experience in development leadership
and constituencies among low-income women of color.
Policy advocacy and campaign experience to advance programmatic
goals.
Familiarity with program planning, evaluation and budgeting
processes.
High level of initiative and ability to work well in collaborations.
Solid verbal and written communication skills.
Strong computer skills.
Personable, approachable and flexible.
Salary and hours: This position will be 1.00 FTE with a salary of
$39,000-$43,000 annually. Salary will be commensurate with
experience.
Generous benefits, including vacation, holidays, and health and
dental insurance. This staff person should expect to work more than
40 hours per week, at times, as schedule varies depending on the
activities of the organization. Occasional flexibility with evenings
and weekends required.
How to apply: Submit a resume, cover letter, and 3 references to the
Search Committee at
info@coloredgirls.org. No calls, please.
Living Standards/Labor Economist
The Economic Policy Institute is looking for an experienced
economist for our flagship Living Standards program. In that
position, the successful candidate would work with the Living
Standards team to undertake a variety of research and analytical
projects. They would be responsible for monitoring and commenting on
current economic conditions, including labor market conditions;
trends in income and wage outcomes; factors that impact low- and
moderate-income workers; and others. They would also be expected to
analyze and comment on related economic policies.
The position also includes a significant component of research
dissemination and communication; working with EPI's
external/communications team to communicate findings to the media,
public-interest organizations, the academic community, and policy
makers in Congress and the administration.
The successful candidate would also help set the direction of the
program by identifying new areas of inquiry and shaping programmatic
activities.
The position reports directly to the Research and Policy director,
but will also work closely with EPI's president.
About the Living Standards program
The Economic Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank
that seeks to broaden the public debate about strategies to achieve
a prosperous and fair economy.
EPI's living standards program conducts research and analysis on a
range of issues that are core to EPI's mission, including labor
market conditions, policies that impact low- and moderate income
workers, work and family issues, poverty, macroeconomic conditions,
immigration, family budgets, and income inequality. EPI's well-known
State of Working America biennial publication is primarily authored
by the Living Standards team.
Responsibilities
- Conduct analyses of labor market conditions using a variety of
publicly available data sources
- Represent EPI in the media and other public forums
- Work with the Living Standards team to develop and implement a
research and analysis agenda
- Conduct academic quality long-term research
Skills and qualifications
Requirements:
- Advanced degree in economics or a related field and at least 5
years of post-graduate work experience.
- A working knowledge of one or more commonly used microeconomic
survey datasets (such as the CPS, PSID, or the SIPP) and an ability
to conduct statistical analyses of such data (e.g., using SAS, Stata,
or other statistical software).
- Solid communication skills-both written and oral-for a variety of
audiences.
An ideal candidate would have:
- Demonstrated research agenda in one or more living standards issue
areas.
- In-depth knowledge of economic policy issues that impact low- and
moderate-income families.
- Management and program development experience.
- Experience with media, including print and broadcast.
- Fundraising experience in a non-profit/think-tank environment.
To apply
To apply for this position, please send cover letter and resume via
email to: researchjob@epi.org.
Please indicate that you are interested in the Living Standards
Economist position. They can also be mailed to Research Dept.,
Economic Policy Institute, 1333 H St. NW, Suite 300 East;
Washington, DC 20005 or faxed to 202-775-0819. No phone calls
please.
Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position
is filled.
Pay commensurate with experience. EPI offers an excellent benefit
package and is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles
Sweetening the Pot:
Implicit Subsidies to Corn Sweeteners and the U.S. Obesity Epidemic
By Alicia Harvie and Timothy A. Wise
Policy Brief No. 09-01, February 2009
Pigs, chickens and steers aren’t the only ones in the United States
getting fat off a diet of cheap corn. So are many Americans,
according to some analysts, and corn sweeteners are alleged to be
the culprits. The annual per-capita consumption of caloric
sweeteners in the United States has increased by 40 pounds in the
last 40 years, and high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) accounts for 81%
of the 83 additional calories the average American consumes each day
from sweeteners alone. Has cheap corn caused an HFCS boom and
contributed to the obesity epidemic?
Perhaps the most prominent writer on the subject is consumer
advocate Michael Pollan, who charges U.S. farm policy with a central
role in America’s expanding waistline, citing the abundance of cheap
corn sweeteners in our food. Some recent academic studies question
the validity of the charge, suggesting the link is tenuous at best.
GDAE’s Alicia Harvie and Timothy A. Wise add to this discussion by
estimating how much cheaper HFCS, a critical ingredient in the
American diet, was from 1997-2005 because corn prices fell below
corn’s cost of production. In examining the economics behind the
claim, these findings suggest that while Pollan might be overstating
the causal link, U.S. farm policy is doing American diets no favor.
The researchers find that U.S. farm policy effectively lowered corn
prices and HFCS production costs, offering HFCS producers an
implicit subsidy of $243 million a year, a savings of $2.2 billion
over the nine-year period, and over $4 billion since 1986. For soda
bottlers, the main consumers of HFCS and among those most heavily
implicated in public health concerns, the savings amounted to nearly
$100 million per year, $873 million over the nine-year period, and
nearly $1.7 billion since the wholesale adoption of HFCS by the soda
industry in the mid-eighties.
While this may not have reduced soda prices to an extent that would
account for rising consumption, there is little doubt U.S.
agricultural policies have indirectly subsidized a sector that may
be contributing to health problems in the United States.
Download Policy Brief:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/rp/PB09-01SweeteningPotFeb09.pdf
For more on GDAE’s “Feeding the Factory Farm” project:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/policy_research/BroilerGains.htm
For more on GDAE’s Globalization and Sustainable Development
Program:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/policy_research/globalization.html
Resources, Rules and International
Political Economy: The Politics of Development in the WTO
By Kenneth C. Shadlen
GDAE Working Paper No. 09-01, January 2009
(also forthcoming as a chapter in WTO and Human Rights:
Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Sarah Joseph, David Kinley and Jeff
Waincymer, eds., Edward Elgar, 2009)
This paper by GDAE Senior Research Fellow Kenneth Shadlen examines
the contemporary politics of intellectual property (IP) and
investment in the World Trade Organization (WTO). He explores the
underlying and perennial conflicts that pit developing and developed
countries against each other in these two areas and the nature of
the two agreements reached during the Uruguay Round, the Agreement
on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and
the Agreement on Trade-Related Investment Measures (TRIMS). He then
analyzes developed countries’ efforts to push beyond the TRIPS and
TRIMS agreements, and, critically, developing countries’ success in
forestalling these efforts. Developing countries have “prevailed” in
the current international conflicts over IP and investment not by
securing rules that they desire but rather by preventing the
imposition of arrangements that they regard as worse than the WTO
status quo. Shadlen explores the complex political economy of these
negotiations.
Download Working Paper:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/wp/09-01IPinWTOJan09.pdf
For more on GDAE’s Globalization and Sustainable Development
Program:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/policy_research/globalization.html
Also, please note that Shadlen’s previous GDAE Working Paper 07-05
has been revised and will be published in the journal Comparative
Politics under the title, “The Politics of Patents and Drugs in
Brazil and Mexico: the Industrial Bases of Health Policies.” Due to
copyright restrictions, it is no longer available as a GDAE Working
Paper. The new version can be obtained by request to the author:
k.shadlen@lse.ac.uk.
Obama’s Job Creation Promise: A
Modest Proposal to Guarantee That He Meets and Exceeds Expectations
Pavlina R. Tcherneva
Job creation is once again at the forefront of policy action, and
President Obama must be far more audacious in this regard, says
Research Associate Pavlina R. Tcherneva. She proposes an amendment
to the Obama stimulus plan whereby the government serves as employer
of last resort, since a job guarantee can reduce the unemployment
rate drastically and immediately. This policy represents a genuine
bottom-up approach to the recovery that offers employment
opportunities to all, including minorities and women, and creates
jobs and valuable work at a much smaller price.
Fiscal policy is executed in a manner completely opposite from what
John Maynard Keynes had in mind, and we have an opportune moment to
set fiscal policy straight, says Tcherneva. Counting on the private
sector to generate the desired job growth is a far too lengthy and
sluggish road to recovery. Moreover, a job guarantee is entirely
consistent with all of the objectives of Obama’s plan.
http://getir.net/zcv
After the Bust: The Outlook for
Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policy
Thomas I. Palley
“Change” was the buzzword of the U.S. presidential campaign, in
response to a political agenda precipitated by financial turmoil and
a global economic crisis. According to Research Associate Thomas I.
Palley, the neoliberal economic policy paradigm underlying the
current agenda must itself change if there is to be a successful
policy response to the crisis. However, there are profound
political, intellectual, and sociological obstacles to such change.
The ideology of the economics profession—mainstream economic
theory—remains unreformed, says Palley, and he warns of a return to
failed policies if a deep crisis is averted. Since Post Keynesians
accurately predicted that the U.S. economy would implode from
within, there is an opportunity for Post Keynesian economics to
replace neoliberalism with a more successful approach.
http://getir.net/zcw
Postwar Trends in Economic Well-Being
in the United States, 1959–2004
Edward N. Wolff, Ajit Zacharias, and Thomas Masterson
The Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) is a more
comprehensive measure than either gross money income or extended
income because it includes estimates of public consumption and
household production, as well as the long-run benefits of wealth
ownership. As a result, it provides a picture of economic well-being
in the United States that is very different from the official
measures.
The authors find that median household well-being grew rather
sluggishly over the 1959–2004 period compared to the annual growth
rate of per capita GDP. They note the crucial role of net government
expenditures, and therefore call for the Obama administration’s
fiscal stimulus package to improve the broader economic well-being
of the poor and the middle class, while also creating jobs.
http://getir.net/zcx
Macroeconomic Imbalances in the
United States and Their Impact on the International Financial System
Julia S. Perelstein
This paper breaks new ground in the analysis of financial
instability in the United States. It shows how instability links
with macroeconomic imbalances and inflation in the U.S. economy, and
identifies the key structural features that describe the dynamics of
an international financial system dependent on the U.S. trade
deficit.
Author Julia S. Perelstein accounts for the global integration of
capital markets by analyzing the relationship between U.S. trade
imbalances and global financial markets. She concludes that the
2007–08 financial crisis was a consequence of the U.S. trade
deficit, that there is global financial dependence on the United
States when dollars are reinvested in U.S. capital markets (thus
creating excess liquidity and sequential bubbles relating to housing
and commodities), and that U.S. macroeconomic imbalances cannot be
resolved without affecting the rest of the world.
http://getir.net/zcy
Financial
Stability: The Significance and Distinctiveness of Islamic Banking
in Malaysia
Ewa Karwowski
Islamic banking prohibits interest and collateral while adhering to
the idea that banks should channel funds toward productive
investment. Profit is generated by primary and secondary modes of
Islamic finance (e.g., profit-sharing arrangements such as
partnerships and equity participation). Its perceived superiority to
conventional banking is derived from its morality, social welfare
dimension, and greater stability.
The author reveals the dynamic interaction between the Islamic and
non-Islamic economy in Malaysia, and extends the theories of
financialization and excess capitalization to emerging markets.
Using a flow-of-funds approach in line with Hyman P. Minsky’s
methodology, she finds a financial business cycle where domestic
firms have been overcapitalized. She also finds that Islamic banking
contributes to asset inflation by channeling surplus funds from the
corporate to the household sector.
http://getir.net/zcz
Long-Term Trends in the Levy
Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW), United States,
1959–2004
Edward N. Wolff, Ajit Zacharias, and Thomas Masterson
This paper forms the basis for three successive LIMEW reports (the
first of these is outlined above). The motivation to construct the
LIMEW in lieu of relying on the official measures of well-being is
to provide a more comprehensive measure of economic inequality that
will also show the disparities among key demographic groups.
In addition to the findings in the first report, the authors show
that the LIMEW provides a perspective of disparities among
population subgroups that is different from the official measures,
as well as differing time trends. For example, according to the
LIMEW, there has been almost continuous improvement in the relative
well-being of the elderly, which were 9 percent better off than the
nonelderly in 2000 because of greater income from wealth. Moreover,
the principle factor behind the overall increase in inequality
between 1959 and 2004 was the rising contribution of income derived
from nonhome wealth.
http://getir.net/lc0
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Heterodox Journals and
Newsletters
Challenge
Volume 52 Number 1 / January - February 2009 of Challenge is now
available at
http://mesharpe.metapress.com/link.asp?id=R50128153V71
This issue contains:
- Letter from the Editor
Jeff Madrick
- Avoiding Another Meltdown
James Crotty, Gerald Epstein
- The Economic Crisis and the Developing World: What Next?
Robert Wade, José Antonio Ocampo, Kevin Gallagher
- The Free Market Versus a Regulating Government
Amitai Etzioni
- Global Climate Policy and Climate Justice: A Feminist Social
Provisioning Approach
Marilyn Power
- You Can Eat Your Cake and Have It, Too
Christian Weller
- A Challenge to Washington Think Tanks
Murray Weidenbaum
- Paul R. Krugman, Recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics:
An Appreciation
Robert C. Feenstra
- Reviews
Pedro Nicolaci da Costa
- The Revolution of November 4, 2008
Mike Sharpe
Feminist Economics
Volume 15 Issue 1 is now available online at informaworld (
http://www.informaworld.com
).
This new issue contains the following articles:
Who Uses Paid Domestic Labor in Australia? Choice and Constraint in
Hiring Household Help
Authors: Janeen Baxter; Belinda Hewitt; Mark Western
Behind the negotiations: Financial decision-making processes in
Spanish dual-income couples
Author: Sandra Dema-Moreno
Job Satisfaction, Work Time, and Well-Being Among Married Women in
Japan
Authors: Corinne Boyles; Aiko Shibata
Contextualizing rationality: Mature student carers and higher
education in England
Authors: Stella González-Arnal; Majella Kilkey
The Challenge of Obtaining Quality Care: Limited Consumer
Sovereignty in Human Services
Author: Kari H. Eika
Trading Women's Health and Rights? Trade Liberalization and
Reproductive Health in Developing Economies
Author: Mariama Williams
Everywhere/Nowhere: Gender Mainstreaming in Development Agencies
Author: Shahra Razavi
Gendering the Knowledge Economy: Comparative Perspectives
Author: Lilja Mósesdóttir
Gender and Social Policy in a Global Context: Uncovering the
Gendered Structure of the Social
Author: Diane Perrons
Ethics and the Market: Insights from Social Economics
Author: Siobhan Austen
Gender, Generation and Poverty: Exploring the ‘Feminisation of
Poverty’ in Africa, Asia and Latin America
Author: Kanchana N. Ruwanpura
International Review of Applied
Economics
Volume 23 Issue 2 is now available online at
http://www.informaworld.com.
This new issue contains the following articles:
Wage share, globalization and crisis: the case of the manufacturing
industry in Korea, Mexico and Turkey
Author: Ozlem Onaran
Balance-of-payment constrained growth: the case of China, 1979-2002
Author: Yongbok Jeon
Are estimates of labour demand functions mere statistical artefacts?
Authors: Jesus Felipe; J. S. L. McCombie
Embedding environmental innovation in local production systems: SME
strategies, networking and industrial relations: evidence on
innovation drivers in industrial districts
Authors: Massimiliano Mazzanti; Roberto Zoboli
Does the stock market affect investment by Chinese firms? Some new
evidence
Author: Feng Xiao
International technological spillovers from ICT-producing
manufacturing industries: a panel data analysis
Authors: Carmen López-Pueyo; Jaime Sanaú; Sara Barcenilla
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Heterodox
Books and Book Series
Money and
Macrodynamics: Alfred Eichner and Post Keynesian Economics
Edited by
Marc Lavoie, University of Ottawa
Louis Philippe Rochon, Laurentian University;
Mario Seccareccia, University of Ottawa
Alfred Eichner's pioneering contributions to Post Keynesian
economics offered significant insights on the way modern economies
and institutions actually work. Published in 1987, his Macrodynamics
of Advanced Market Economies contains rich chapters on dynamics and
growth, investment, finance and income distribution, a timely
chapter on the State and fiscal policy, and two analytical chapters
on endogenous money that are years ahead of their time. Featuring
chapters by many of Eichner's disciples, this book celebrates his
rich contributions to Post Keynesian economics, and demonstrates
that his work is in many ways as valid today as it was over two
decades ago. Click
here to
download the order form.
Selected Contents:
Introduction
About the Authors
Part I. The Link Between Micro and Macro
1. Was Alfred Eichner a System Dynamicist? Michael Radzicki
2. Alfred Eichner's Missing 'Complete Model': A Heterodox Micro
Macro Model of a Monetary Production Economy, Fred Lee
3. Macro Effects of Investment Decisions, Debt Management and the
Corporate Levy, Elettra Agliardi
4. Pricing and the Financing of Investment: Is There a Macroeconomic
Basis for Eichnerian Microeconomic Analysis? Mario Seccareccia
Part II. Competition and the Globalized World
5. The Macroeconomics of Competition: Stability and Growth
Questions, Malcolm Sawyer and Nina Shapiro
6. The Megacorp in a Global Economy, Matthew Fung
7. Pricing and Profits Under Globalized Competition: A Post -
Keynesian Perspective on U.S. Economic Hegemony, William Milberg
Part III. Credit, Money and Central Banking
8. Eichner's Theory of Endogenous Credit Money, Robert P. Guttmann
9. Eichner's Monetary Economics: Ahead of Its Time, Marc Lavoie
10. Alfred Eichner, Post Keynesians, and Money's Endogeneity:
Filling in the Horizontalist Black Box, Louis Philippe Rochon
ISBN: 978 0 7656 1795 8
Price: $98.95
Pages: 228
Pub. Date: September 2009
A History of
Heterodox Economics: Challenging the Mainstream in the Twentieth
Century
By Frederic Lee
University of Missouri, Kansas City, USA
February 2009: 358pp / HB: 978-0-415-77714-8: £75.00 £60.00 150.00
USD 120.00 USD
Economics is a contested academic discipline between neoclassical
economics and a collection of alternative approaches, such as
Marxism-radical economics, Institutional economics, Post Keynesian
economics, and others, that can collectively be called heterodox
economics. Because of the dominance of neoclassical economics, the
existence of the alternative approaches is generally not known. This
book is concerned with the community history of heterodox economics,
seen primarily through the eyes of Marxian-radical economics and
Post Keynesian economics.
Throughout the 20th century neoclassical economists in conjunction
with state and university power have attacked heterodox economists
and tried to cleanse them from the academy. Professor Lee, in his
groundbreaking new title, discusses issues including the contested
landscape of American economics in the 1970s, the emergence and
establishment of Post Keynesian economics in the US and the
development of heterodox economics in Britain from 1970 to 1996.
Contents: 1. Introduction Part I: Heterodox Economics in the United
States 2. The Contested Landscape and Dominance in American
Economics In the 20th Century 3. Heresy, Blasphemy, and Radical
Economics in Post-War America, 1945 – 1970 4. The Contested
Landscape of American Economics circa 1965 – 1980 5. The History of
Post Keynesian Economics in America, 1971 – 1995 Part II Heterodox
Economics in the United Kingdom 6. The Contested Landscape of
British Economics, 1900 – 1970 7. Heterodox Economics in Britain,
1970 – 1996 8. Research Assessment Exercise and its Impact on
Heterodox Economics, 1989 – 1996 9. Research Assessment Exercise,
the State, and the Dominance of Mainstream Economics in British
Universities, 2000 – 2003 Part III Heterodox Economics at the
Beginning of the 21st Century 10. The Emergence of Heterodox
Economics, 1990 - 2006 11. Ranking Heterodox Economic Journals and
Departments: Suggested Methodologies
For more information:
http://www.routledgeeconomics.com/books/A-History-of-Heterodox-Economics-isbn9780415777148
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Ontology and Economics
Edited: Edward Fullbrook. Published 2009 by Routledge
The advance paperback version
The new book, Ontology and Economics (the chapter contents are
listed here)
is currently available from traditional retailers only in hardback
and at 75 pounds sterling. However, the Cambridge Social Ontology
Group has persuaded Routledge to produce a limited supply of a very
nicely produced paperback version, retailing at just 12 pounds per
copy (plus postage, etc). If you are interested in reserving a
paperback version contact Emily Hudson (
elh58@cam.ac.uk ), either by
email, or at the address given below. Emily will indicate postage
costs, if relevant, and possible ways of paying (NB for purchasers
from outside the UK, the book can be purchased by bank transfer).
Alternatively, for those who can reach Cambridge the book can be
collected from Emily’s office at the weekly Monday night Realist
Workshop.
Please note, there only a limited stock of the books to sell, and
more than half have already gone. So if you do want a reasonably
priced paperback version of this book, do get in touch now.
Emily’s full details are:
Emily Hudson
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Cambridge
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Email: elh58@cam.ac.uk
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"Equilibrium in Economics - Scope and
Limits" Edited by Valeria Mosini
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy List Price: £20.00
(only available online - see link below) Publication Date:
29/01/2009
http://www.routledge.co.uk/books/Equilibrium-in-Economics-isbn9780415493666
General Equilibrium Theory, which became the dominating paradigm
after the Second World War, is founded on the postulated existence,
uniqueness, and stability of equilibrium in economic processes.
Since then, the concept has come under sustained attack from all
points of the heterodox compass, from Austrian economists to
Marxists.
The contributions in this book, which include articles from Tony
Lawson, Ivor Grattan-Guinness and Roger Backhouse [and Andy Denis -
ed], highlight current notions of equilibrium in economics and
provide a guide to understanding the links between economic theory
and economic reality.
Economics Versus Human Rights
By Manuel Couret Branco
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
http://www.routledge.co.uk/books/Economics-Versus-Human-Rights-isbn9780415470179
List Price: $130.00
Human rights and economics are the concepts that have contributed
the most to free human kind, the former from fear and the latter
from need. Consequently, they should be complementing rather
competing. Unfortunately it does not seem to be the case. In this
book Manuel Couret Branco shows how mainstream economics discourse
is intrinsically opposed to the promotion of human rights,
especially economic, social and cultural rights. Considering a
variety of issues, this book looks at the conflict between economics
and human rights at a theoretical level; how economics is opposed to
the right to work; how economics, being a science concerned with the
provision of goods and services for commercial purposes, conflicts
with the idea of providing those same goods and services as rights,
using as examples the right to water and the right to social
security; the opposition of economics to cultural freedom, supported
by the argument that economics tends to homogenize cultures on the
basis of the idea that there is only one best culture to fulfil
economic objectives; how economics contributes to the erosion of the
democratic idea; and, finally, the opposition of economic
globalisation to democracy. The main conclusion of the book is that
enhancing human rights in the global economy era demands a radical
transformation of economics and of the economy. This transformation
should be characterised by reinstating the primacy of the person
over the economy, by replacing economics at the service of human
dignity. One of the aspects of this transformation concerns the need
for a democratic control of the market. This democratic control
means that people affected by economic decisions should be able to
participate in the making of those decisions. In other words, the
book proposes the recognition of economics as essentially a
political science, and, thereby, the rehabilitation of politics
within economics' discourse.
The Keynesian Multiplier
Claude Gnos and Louis- Philippe Rochon (Editors, Routledge)
SECTION ONE
SOME VIEWS ON THE MULTIPLIER
CHAPTER ONE
JOCHEN HARTWIG
Three Views on the Multiplier.
CHAPTER TWO
LUCA FIORITO
John Maurice Clark’s Contribution to the Genesis of the Multiplier
Analysis:
A note with some related unpublished correspondence.
CHAPTER THREE
HEINRICH BORTIS
The Material and Methodological Significance of the Supermultiplier.
SECTION TWO
CRITICAL INSIGHTS ON THE MULTIPLIER
CHAPTER FOUR
XAVIER BRADLEY
The Investment Multiplier and Income Savings.
CHAPTER FIVE
ALAIN PARGUEZ
The Multiplier and the Principle of Reflux.
CHAPTER SIX
BASIL MOORE
The Demise of the Keynesian Multiplier Revisited.
CHAPTER SEVEN
JEAN-LUC BAILLY
Consumption, Investment and Investment Multiplier.
SECTION THREE
TOWARD A RE-INTERPRETATION OF THE MULTIPLIER
CHAPTER EIGHT
MALCOLM SAWYER
Kalecki and the Multiplier
CHAPTER NINE
LOUIS-PHILIPPE ROCHON
The Keynesian Multiplier: The Monetary Pre-Conditions and the Role
of Banks as Defended by Richard Kahn’s 1931 Paper. A Horizontalist
Re-Interpretation
CHAPTER TEN
CLAUDE GNOS
The Multiplier, the Principle of Effective Demand and the Finance
Motive: a coherent framework
ORDER FROM
http://www.routledge.com/books/The-Keynesian-Multiplier-isbn9780415320139
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Heterodox Book Reviews
Future Directions for Heterodox
Economics
ed. by John T. Harvey and Robert F. Garnett (2007) (Advances in
Heterodox Economics, ed. by F.S. Lee and R. Garnett, Vol. 4), Ann
Arbor (322 pages, paperback, Univ. of Michigan Pr., ISBN-13:
978-0-472-03247-1).
Click
here to download the review.
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Queries from Heterodox Economists
Ian Fletcher
I am looking for Canadian, Australian, and British economists
interested in preparing country-specific editions of my new book
criticizing free trade. The edition I have already written is from
an American perspective and would need to be adapted. This would be
on a co-author basis and compensated accordingly.
Best Regards,
Ian Fletcher
Adjunct Fellow
US Business & Industry Council
225 Bush St. Suite 1641
San Francisco, CA 94114 USA
415.439.8377 | 415.358.4320 (fax) | 415.238.8145 (cell)
americaneconomicalert.org
ian.fletcher@usbic.net
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For Your Information
CODESRIA
CODESRIA (Council for the Development of Social Science Research in
Africa) has got several new grants available for Comparative
Research, National Working Groups, Text Books and a call for papers
for Methodology workshops. CODESRIA is one of the only heterodox
social science body in SSA and it would be great if people could
look at the web page.
http://www.codesria.org/training_grants.htm
2009 Monthly Review Press
2009 Monthly Review Press catalogue is now available.
http://www.monthlyreview.org/docs/catalog.pdf
Appel international à tous les
universitaires
French universities are on a permanent strike.
http://math.univ-lyon1.fr/appel/spip.php?article2
LA CRISIS CUESTIONA EL SABER
ECONOMICO CONVENCIONAL
CASH, Domingo, 22 de Febrero de 2009
DEBATE > LA CRISIS CUESTIONA EL SABER ECONOMICO CONVENCIONAL
Crítica a la ortodoxia
La teoría económica dominante es impotente como paradigma
explicativo de la realidad del capitalismo actual. La revista
científica Nature postuló la necesidad de una “revolución científica”
en la economía. (cont.)
Herbert Hoover Copycat
How the Current Financial Rescue Schemes are Following the Failed
Model of the Hoover Administration
By Ismael Hossein-zadeh
Faced with the financial meltdown of the Great Depression, the
Hoover administration created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
that poured taxpayers’ money into the coffers of the influential
Wall Street banks in an effort to save them from bankruptcy. Like
today’s Bush/Obama administrations, the Hoover administration used
the “too-big-to-fail” scare tactic in order to justify the costly
looting of the national treasury. All it did, however, was to simply
postpone the day of reckoning: almost all of the banks failed after
nearly three years of extremely costly bailouts schemes. (cont.)
Professors' Freedoms Under
Assault in the Courts
By PETER SCHMIDT
Balance of Power is a series examining new challenges to faculty
influence.
Kevin J. Renken learned the limits of his academic freedom the hard
way.
As an associate professor of mechanical engineering at the
University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, Mr. Renken says he felt
obliged to speak out about his belief that administrators there were
mishandling a National Science Foundation grant to him and several
colleagues. When the university subsequently reduced his pay and
returned the grant, he sued, alleging illegal retaliation. (cont.)
Why Economists
Are Part of the Problem
By STEPHEN A. MARGLIN
I am one of the last members of an anomalous generation of
economists who came of age in the period from the Great Depression
and World War II to the antiwar movement of the 1960s. What made
this generation anomalous was that its leaders — including such
Nobel laureates as Jan Tinbergen, Paul A. Samuelson, James Tobin,
and Kenneth J. Arrow — included a disproportionate number who were
aware not only of the virtues of a market system but also of its
limitations. Of course, even anomaly is relative; the generation
that came of age between the 1930s and the 1960s also included
Milton Friedman and Robert E. Lucas Jr., both Nobel winners who held
to a faith in the market and eventually came to dominate the
profession.(cont.)
Spontaneous
Order
An Empirical Example of Spontaneous Order that Austrian Economics
talk about
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ3d3KigPQM
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