From the Editor
This issue marks the
beginning of the sixth year of the Heterodox
Economics Newsletter. And quite appropriately it
is full on new call for papers, conferences, new
books, and may other things. If you are looking
for an academic position, seven jobs are listed
as well as a PhD studentship. I would like to
especially note the call for papers for the AHE
conference and the URPE Reality Tour at the ASSA
meetings (in the FYI section).
At the ASSA meetings, ICAPE will again have a
booth in the Exhibition Center. If you are
interested in using the booth to display
information about your associations, events,
books, etc. please send me an e-mail telling me
so. The booth is open to all economists
interested in pluralism. In the next couple of
weeks I will be sending out a request for the
staffing of the booth. Please make use of the
booth and stop by it to chat.
On another ICAPE matter, ICAPE will be putting
on its 3rd International Conference on 3-5 June
2010. It will be held at Western New England
College, Springfield, Massachusetts. Althought
the call for papers has not yet been finalized,
its working title is "Failing Economies, Falling
Economics: Rebooting Economics after the Crash";
and its working general theme is value of
economic pluralism in the light of the recent
global economic crisis. It is of interest to
note that the crisis has not made mainstream
economists to even begin to question their
theories. In fact, we find in the case of Notre
Dame that the mainstream wants to completely
extinguish the flame of alternative economic
thinking. Why mainstream economists react in
this manner to alternative thinking will be a
major concern of the conference. So if you are
really interested in discussing the future of
the discipline of economics, this is the
conference for you.
Finally, back in 1998 I began distributing
information relevant to heterodox economists
mostly in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Over
time I obtained more e-mail addresses from
around the world and sent out information more
or less on a 2-4 week basis. But the reach of my
distribution network of heterodox economists
meant that more information was sent to me to
sent. To manage this increased workload I
established the Newsletter. But the success of
the Newsletter (which now goes out to around
4,500 heterodox economists) meant that the time
I hoped to free up for research did not occur.
Now that I am the editor of the AJES, I find
that I may not have enough time to do both jobs
successfully and also do some research. Thus,
the future of the Newsletter is uncertain.
Fred Lee
In
this issue:
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Call for Papers |
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- Thirteenth World
Congress of Social Economics
- 4th Annual URPE at the Eastern Economics Association
Annual Conference
- The Eastern Economic Association
- The Spirit of Innovation IV
- 11th Biennial Conference of the International Society for
Ecological Economics
- 8th Society of Heterodox Economists Conference
- International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)
- Historical Materialism Conference
- From Crisis to Crises? Marxist Perspectives on Latin
America in the Global Economy
- 12th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics |
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Conferences, Seminars and Lectures |
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- CRECIMIENTO,
DISTRIBUCIÓN E INNOVACIÓN. UNA CRÍTICA AL ENFOQUE NEOCLÁSICO
- Encountering Althusser
- ISET Seminars
- Agrarian Change Seminars 2009
- Green Economics Conference
- NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO CREATE LIVING-WAGE JOBS,MEET HUMAN
NEEDS, & SUSTAIN THE ENVIRONMENT
- Economy and Society Guest Lecture 2009
- SEMINAIRE DU CEPN
- Economic Crisis: Radical Analysis and Radical Responses
- HOW CLASS WORKS - 2010
- Options for rebuilding the Economy and the Financial
System
- Reading Capital Group Relaunches
- Greening the Economy
- WHITHER FINANCIALISED CAPITALISM?
- RMF Roundtable: FINANCIALISATION AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
- The 14th Annual Conference of the European Society for the
History of Economic Thought |
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Job Postings for Heterodox Economists |
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- Whitman College
- Denison University
- Delta College
- The University of East Anglia, Norwich
- Hamilton College
- Lewis and Clark College
- Portland State University |
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Heterodox Conference Papers and
Reports and Articles |
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- How Fiscal Policies in Africa Can
Respond to the Global Financial Crisis
- Britain’s Idealisation of Africa: Is ‘Doing Good’ Good
Enough? |
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Heterodox Journals and Newsletters |
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- The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and
Economics (EJPE)
- Feminist Economics
- International Review of Applied Economics
- Journal of Economic Methodology
- International Journal of Political Economy
- Forum for Social Economics
- International Labour Review
- New Political Economy
- Cahiers d'Economie Politique
- LEVY NEWS
- Review of Social Economy
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Heterodox Books and Book Series |
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- Macroeconomic Policies on Shaky
Foundations - Whither Mainstream Economics?
- Progress and Reform: The Economic Thought of John
R.Commons
- Exploit the World
- After Adam Smith: A Century of Transformation in Politics
and Political Economy
- The Keynes Solution
- CENTRAL BANKING, ASSET PRICES AND FINANCIAL FRAGILITY
- Introduction to Post-Keynesian Economics
- The Anthem Other Canon Series
- Schumpeter's Evolutionary Economics
- Techno-Economic Paradigms
- Ragnar Nurkse, Trade and Development
- Classical Development Economics and its Relevance for
Today
- Perspectives From Social Economics
- The ABCs of the Economic Crisis
- Speaking for Ourselves
- Whither Mainstream Economics?
- Globalization and Varieties of Capitalism
- LE SAVOIR ET LA FINANCE
- Sustainable Prosperity in the New Economy?
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Heterodox Book Reviews |
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- Keynes: The Return of the Master
- America’s Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics
and Economics |
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Heterodox Graduate Program and PhD
Scholarships/Research Fellowships |
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- PhD Studentship in Co-operative
Studies |
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For
Your Information |
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- The 2009 FEE Prizes in Austrian
Economics
- CHOPE
- Marx and the Global Economic Crisis
- Medical Research: A Beautiful Business!
- New Labor Forum
- Research-based policy analysis and commentary from leading
economists
- G. PETITION: "SUPPORT THE CLERSÉ RESEARCH DEPARTMENT AT
LILLE UNIVERSITY"
- Post Keynesian Economics Study Group
- Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress
- URPE REALITY TOUR: WALKING THE COLOR LINE |
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Call for Papers
Thirteenth World
Congress of Social Economics
Social Economics, the Social Economy, and Wellbeing
June 28 - July 1, 2010
Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy, Concordia University,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
The conference will take place on the downtown campus of Concordia
University in the heart of multilingual, multiethnic Montreal, in
the midst of a multitude of cafes, bookstores, restaurants,
boutiques, museums, art galleries, B&Bs, and hotels. Concordia is
also not far removed Montreal's three other universities: McGill,
Montreal, and UQAM (University of Quebec in Montreal). It is also
walking distance or a short metro or bus ride to the Old City, the
well-restored centre of Canada second oldest cities and one of the
oldest urban centers in North America.
Sessions begins on Friday, June 29th with the opening reception the
evening of June 28th.
Paper and session proposals on different themes and perspectives are
most welcome. We welcome your online submissions! All submissions
should be approximately 250 words. In addition, you submission
should contain your affiliation and contact information. Please
specify if you are a graduate student. All submissions should be
sent to:
morris.altman@vuw.ac.nz. The subject line should read ASE
Montreal Conf 2010 sub (surname of submitter) i.e.: ASE Montreal
Conf 1010 Sub (Altman). The deadline for submissions if February 1,
1010. You will notified by February 28, 1010, whether or not your
submission has been accepted for presentations. All sessions will
take place at Concordia University, downtown campus.
For more information and to register and book hotel rooms at
conference rates please go to:
http://www.socialeconomics.org/divison.php?page=world_congress__call_for_paper
and
http://www.socialeconomics.org/divison.php
4th Annual URPE at the Eastern
Economics Association Annual Conference
February 26-28, 2010
Philadelphia
URPE members are invited to submit papers and organize entire
sessions for this year's Eastern Economics Association Annual
Conference to be held in Philadelphia the last weekend in February,
2010 (see
http://www.iona.edu/eea/ for further logistic details,
etc.).
ORGANIZED SESSIONS – INCLUDING DISCUSSANSTS - ARE ESPECIALLY WELCOME
AND STRONGLY ENCOURAGED!
In its fourth year, we hope to make URPE@EEA especially significant
for Junior Faculty and Advanced Graduate Student members of URPE.
This is a brilliant opportunity for URPE members to present their
work and meet and discuss what is new and cutting edge in heterodox
economic theory and empirics, as well as network with other URPE
members at sister institutions. The importance of the continued
development of heterodox approaches to economic cannot be stressed
enough, especially given the most recent failure and implosion of
mainstream theory.
The DEADLINE for paper and panel proposals is October 31, 2009.
Please make all inquiries and submissions care of Scott Carter at
the URPE at EEA email address: URPE_AT_EEA at yahoo.com
RULES for submissions to URPE at EEA:
1. All presenters must be dues-paying URPE members by the time of
the deadline (October 31, 2009)
2. URPE membership is not a requirement for discussants.
3. Eastern Economics Association membership criteria apply (see
http://www.iona.edu/eea/
for further details for EEA criteria).
For further information go to URPE’s webpage:
www.urpe.org
The Eastern Economic Association
Call for Papers - Philadelphia February 26 -28, 2010
The Eastern Economic Association invites submissions of papers in
all areas of economics for its annual meeting which will be held at
the Loew’s Philadelphia Hotel from February 26 to 28, 2010.
Abstracts and paper submissions should be submitted online by
visiting the association’s conference homepage located at
www.ramapo.edu/eea/2010
. If you would like to propose a complete session, please email
eea@ramapo.edu. Should you
have any questions, please contact the Executive Director, Alexandre
Olbrecht via email at aolbrech@ramapo.edu or by phone at
201.684.7346.
How do I register? What are the deadlines?
Registration is now via our new homepage. Visit the EEA's new
homepage located at
www.ramapo.edu/eea
Early Paper Submission Deadline October 15, 2009
Paper Submission Deadline November 15, 2009
Conference Registration Deadline January 8, 2010
Hotel Reservations Deadline January 26, 2010
The Spirit of Innovation IV
This is a reminder related to the call for papers of the Forum the
Spirit of Innovation IV, 2010, with two international conferences:
*Labour, Capital and Knowledge in the Global Economy*, Grenoble
(France), March, 18-19, 2010
http://colloque.wesford.fr
**Environment, Innovation and Sustainable Development. Towards a
Technoeconomic Paradigm?**, Chania (Crete, Greece), October 6-10,
2010
http://www.ceisd2010.enveng.tuc.gr
11th Biennial Conference of the
International Society for Ecological Economics
ISEE 2010: Advancing Sustainability in a Time of Crisis
22 - 25 August 2010
Oldenburg and Bremen, Germany
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
Click
here for detailed information.
8th Society of Heterodox Economists
Conference
The University of New South Wales will host the 8th Society of
Heterodox Economists Conference on December 7 and 8, 2009
This year's conference will have both refereed and non-refereed
papers. The deadline for submission of refereed papers is Monday 2
November. The deadline for submission of non-refereed papers is
Friday November 13. Further details will be available from the
Conference website.
The following symposia and calls for papers are being organised for
the SHE Conference, in addition to the general sessions. If you
would like to contribute in any way to any of these sessions, please
get in touch with the designated contact person. To contribute
papers to general sessions, please send papers to:
p.kriesler@unsw.edu.au
Symposium on Financial Literacy
Please send proposals to: Diane Whitton
D.Whitton@uws.edu.au
Symposium on Superannuation
Troy Henderson at the SEARCH Foundation Troy Henderson
troyh@search.org.au
Symposium on Asian Economies
Please send proposals to Craig Freedman:
Craig.Freedman@efs.mq.edu.au
Symposium on Actually existing markets
This symposium will discuss the actual nature, operation and
outcomes of contemporary markets for many former public goods. The
permeation of Australian public policies by market-inspired policy
instruments has meant substantial change to a wide range of already
existing markets which have traditionally supplied public goods such
as education, health insurance, public housing, services for the
aged and unemployed, infrastructure, water and electricity as well
as the creation of new markets for goods previously not traded such
as pollution reduction. How are these markets organised and what
ensures their ongoing functioning? What is the nature of the goods
and services provided by these markets? How does this differ from
previous public sector provision and orthodox economic theory? What
issues or barriers do Australians encounter when engaging with these
markets? What policy objectives and outcomes are these markets
delivering? Can these outcomes be improved by changes to these
markets? It is intended to explore these questions and more.
Please send proposals to Lynne Chester:
L.Chester@curtin.edu.au
Symposium on The Political Economy of Climate Change
Please send proposals to Paul Twomey:
P.Twomey@unsw.edu.au
Symposium on Development and Human Rights
Please send proposals to Michael Johnson:
michael.johnson@unsw.edu.au
Symposium on the Teaching of Economics
Please send proposals to Peter Kriesler:
p.kriesler@unsw.edu.au
International Association for
Feminist Economics (IAFFE)
A number of International Association for Feminist Economics (IAFFE)
sessions will be coordinated by Women in Social and Economic
Research (WiSER), based at Curtin University in Western Australia.
The aim of these sessions is to provide an opportunity for feminist
economists in the Australia/Pacific region to get together and
discuss research priorities and needs.
Please send proposals to Siobhan Austen at WiSER:
siobhan.austen@cbs.curtin.edu.au
Historical Materialism Conference
York University, Toronto
May 13-16, 2010
Call for Papers
Following on the considerable success of the First North American
Historical Materialism Conference in April 2007, attended by 400
people, we are pleased to issue a call for papers for our follow-up
conference at York University, May 14-16, 2010.
The conference will take place against the backdrop of a profound
destabilization of global capitalism alongside significant
challenges for labour and social movements. Imperialist wars abound
and culture has been drawn into the service of empire. Robust
theorizations and critical innovations are needed.
In this context it is vital to develop the resources of historical
materialism in addressing the pressing problems of the day and
informing all forms of activism, including the intellectual. The
conference seeks to combine rich development of historical
materialist analysis with critical innovations in areas where such
analysis has lagged. The organizers welcome presentations from
scholars and activists that reflect the current state of theoretical
work and activist mobilization. Themes include:
• Marxism and Philosophy
• Political Economy of Capitalism and the Global Crisis
• Gender, Sexuality and Social Reproduction
• Race, Empire and Resistance
• Ecology and the Environment
• Working Class and Social Movements
• Labour Processes and Class Relations
• Art, Marxism, and Everyday Life
• Revolutionary Experiences since 1848
• Fascism, Militarism, Fundamentalism
• State, Culture and Ideology
• Land, Food and Accumulation by Dispossession
• Marxism and the Urban Experience
• Theorizing Crises in Historical and Comparative Perspective
We welcome individual submissions as well as panel proposals. For
individual papers, please send an abstract of no more than 250
words; for panel proposals send a 100 word panel abstract along with
paper abstracts of up to 250 words. We appreciate your suggestions
about which of the above themes your paper might suits, and also
welcome papers beyond these themes. Proposals can be submitted by
email until January 8, 2010 to torontohm@gmail.com
P.S. Some of you will have received invitations to a Historical
Materialism conference in New York in January http://
www.hm2010nyc.org/. We
are delighted to see this initiative and will support it strongly.
But that is a distinct, although complementary, event from the
Toronto conference in May.
From Crisis to Crises? Marxist
Perspectives on Latin America in the Global Economy
Organizers: Susan Spronk (University of Ottawa) and Jeffery R.
Webber (University of Regina)
The legitimacy of neoliberal capitalism as a model for development
in the Global South had already experienced deep decline over a
number of years prior to the break out of the world financial and
economic crisis. In the midst of the crisis, that decline only
accelerated.
Various statist responses have emerged that criticize the neoliberal
framework in the fields of economics, development studies, and
political economy (e.g. Robert Wade, Peter Evans, Joseph Stiglitz,
Ha- Joon Chang, Linda Weiss, Alice Amsden, and Atul Kholi). They
prescribe direct or indirect state control of selected means of
production and allocation of resources for late-developers. The
particular Latin American expression of this international trend has
found its principal outlet in the neostructuralism of the Economic
Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and closely
related intellectual milieus since the mid-1990s. While statism
signifies an advance away from neoliberal dogmatism, this panel will
argue that it nonetheless obfuscates key components of class
relations under capitalism, pursues “success” within rather than
against capitalism, and is wholly inadequate when seen from the
encompassing Marxist objective of working class emancipation from
exploitation by capital.
We are calling for theoretically-driven and empirically-rich papers
that examine various aspects of crises, restructuring, popular
struggles, and development challenges in Latin America from the
outset of the neoliberal period to the contemporary context of
global meltdown and the ongoing contradictions and obstacles
standing in the way of meaningful recovery. Papers should highlight
the relevant divergences between critical Marxism and statism in
their subject matter, and contribute to the overall objective of the
panel of building a Marxist framework for understanding the Latin
American development experience and the current challenges the
region faces as its population struggles for a political economy
that is more just and responsive to their needs rather than the
needs of capital.
Possible topics areas might include (but are not limited to):
situating Latin America in the contemporary world crisis;
neostructuralism and the limits of Centre-Left governments;
political economy of Latin America’s Right; reconfigurations of
imperialism and its relationship to Latin America; the politics of
resistance and struggle – labour, peasant, gender, indigenous, and
ecology-based; the political economy of migration; regional
integration projects – ALBA, Bank of the South, Unasur, Mercosur,
and others; socialist alternatives.
Please send proposed title of paper and an abstract of 250 words to
susan.spronk@uottawa.ca
and
jefferyrogerwebber@hotmail.com, along with full contact
details (e.g. LASA member ID, Name, Mailing address, Email address)
before September 28, 5PM EST
This call for papers is for LASA 2010, but the conference is mainly
a vessel for compiling chapters into an edited volume that we will
seek to have published with a leading academic publisher. Potential
authors should respond to the call for papers only if they are
committed to having their pieces published exclusively in this
volume. Likewise, if potential authors cannot attend LASA 2010 but
would still like to be considered for the volume please feel free to
submit your abstracts.
The deadline for submission of complete first drafts of entire
chapters will be September 1, 2010, prior to the LASA conference.
The Editors:
Susan Spronk is assistant professor of International Development and
Global Studies at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her work on
anti- privatization struggles in the Andes has been published in
Latin American Perspectives, Review of Radical Political Economics
and International Labor and Working Class History, amongst others.
She is a research associate with the Municipal Service Project,
which focuses on policy alternatives in municipal service delivery
in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Jeffery R. Webber is assistant professor of Political Science at the
University of Regina, Canada. He is the author of Red October: Left-
Indigenous Struggles in Modern Bolivia (2010) and From Rebellion to
Reform: Indigenous Liberation, Class Struggle, and the Political
Economy of Bolivia Under Evo Morales (2010). He is co-editor (with
Barry Carr) of The Resurgence of Latin American Radicalism: Between
Cracks in the Empire and an Izquierda Permitida (2010). Webber’s
work has also appeared in Third World Quarterly, Latin American
Perspectives, and Historical Materialism, among other journals and
edited volumes. He is an active member of the editorial boards of
Historical Materialism, Latin American Perspectives, and New
Socialist.
12th Conference of
the Association for Heterodox Economics
The Economy of Tomorrow
Call for papers
7-10 July, 2010
Hosted by the Research Unit in Theoretical and Applied Economics –
GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113)
Université de Bordeaux, France
The Twelfth Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics
(AHE) will be held at the University of Bordeaux – France – from
Wednesday 7th to Saturday 10th July 2010. This year’s Conference
theme is The Economy of Tomorrow.
Click here
for detailed information.
Top
Conferences, Seminars
and Lectures
CRECIMIENTO, DISTRIBUCIÓN E
INNOVACIÓN. UNA CRÍTICA AL ENFOQUE NEOCLÁSICO
Tenemos el agrado de invitarlo a la Conferencia:
"CRECIMIENTO, DISTRIBUCIÓN E INNOVACIÓN. UNA CRÍTICA AL ENFOQUE
NEOCLÁSICO" que dictará el
Dr.AMIT BHADURI
Profesor Emérito en la JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY
de DELHI - INDIA.
Viernes 9 de octubre de 2009 - 15.30 hs.
Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
Archivo y Museo Históricos "Dr. Arturo Jauretche"
Aula Magna "Dr. Arq. Alberto de Paula"
Sarmiento 364 - 1° subsuelo
Entrada libre y gratuita, no requiere inscripción previa
Por cualquier consulta dirigirse a
informacion@cefid-ar.org.ar
Encountering Althusser
Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, 9-11 October 2009
International Conference organised by Katja Diefenbach, Sara Farris,
Gal Kirn and Peter Thomas
www.after1968.org/encounteringalthusser
Click here
for detailed information.
ISET Seminars
ISET's European Interdisciplinary Autumn 2009 Seminar Series
Sustaining Diversity launches on Monday 19 October 2009 with a talk
on:
Prosperity
without Growth
Professor Tim Jackson, University of Surrey
Economic growth is supposed to deliver rising prosperity. Higher
incomes increase wellbeing and lead to prosperity for all, in this
view. But the conventional formula is failing. The ecological and
social consequences of unfettered growth are devastating. Climate
change threatens long-term wellbeing. Resource scarcities undermine
the basis for future prosperity. Persistent inequalities still
divide the world and a growing 'social recession' haunts the market
economies.
Growth has delivered its benefits, at best, unequally. Development
remains essential for poorer countries. But are ever-increasing
incomes for the already-rich still a legitimate goal for advanced
nations? Or
should we be aiming for prosperity without growth?
In this seminar, Tim Jackson, an advisor to the UK Government,
acknowledges that society faces a profound dilemma: economic growth
is unsustainable; but 'de-growth' - or economic contraction - is
unstable.
The prevailing 'escape route' from this dilemma is to try and
'decouple'
economic activity from its impacts. But there is no evidence at all
that this is working. Global resource consumption is still rising
(in some cases faster than GDP). Meeting climate change targets will
require reduction in carbon intensity two orders of magnitude higher
than anything achieved historically. Faced with this challenge, this
seminar will engage in a critical re-examination of the economic
structure and social logic of consumerism. The notion of prosperity
without growth calls for a new vision of a shared prosperity: the
capability to flourish as human beings - within the ecological
limits of a finite planet. Fulfilling that vision is the most urgent
task of our times.
Tim Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development at the
University of Surrey and Director of RESOLVE - the ESRC Research
group of Lifestyles, Values and Environment. Recent research
interests have focused on the relationship between consumption,
lifestyle, wellbeing and the environment.
Tim has also pioneered the development of 'adjusted' national
accounts ('green GDP') and written extensively on the conceptual and
empirical dimensions of the relationship between wellbeing, economic
growth and sustainability. Since 2004 he has been Economics
Commissioner on the UK Sustainable Development Commission. From
2004-6 he was the sole academic representative on the UK Round Table
on Sustainable Consumption. During 2007-9 he led the SDC's
Redefining Prosperity programme, and authored the recent SDC report
/Prosperity without Growth? - the transition to a sustainable
economy./ In addition to his academic work, Tim is an award-winning
dramatist with numerous BBC radio credits to his name. His most
recent play /Variations/ won the 2007 Grand Prix Marulic and was
longlisted for the 2008 Sony awards.
Future Seminars:
26 October
Kate Soper - Sustaining social movements: some personal reflections
2 November
Ralph Grillo - Contesting Diversity in Europe: Multiple Sites,
Multiple Voices
9 November
Professor Hanna Komorowska - Approaches to multilingualism in Europe
- shared values and controversial issues
6.00-7.30pm in The Old Staff Café, London Metropolitan University,
Tower Building,166-220 Holloway Road, London N7 8DB
ALL WELCOME
--
Institute for the Study of European Transformations (ISET) London
Metropolitan University 166-220 Holloway Road London N7 8DB
www.londonmet.ac.uk/iset
Agrarian Change Seminars 2009
Journal of Agrarian Change and Department of Development Studies,
School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Room 4421 (fourth floor, main building), SOAS
15 October, 5.15 pm
The agricultural workers movement, Naxalism and martyrdom in Bihar:
the case of Manju devi
Nicolas Jaoul (Paris)
22 October, 5.15 pm
Issues in farmer - commercial buyer relationships and trade
practices in Uganda - recent empirical findings
Joerg Wigratz (Sheffield)
5 November, 5.15 pm
Labour migration from rural to urban China
Jan Breman (Amsterdam)
26 November, 5.15 pm
Ecology and Accumulation Crisis: Food, Factories, and Fuel in the
Making and Unmaking of Neoliberalism, 1973-2015
Jason Moore (University of North Carolina and Lund)
27/28/29 November: day, time and room to be confirmed
Historical Materialism conference: panel on Agrarian Change in
Contemporary Capitalism: Technical Dynamics and Environmental
Trajectories
Les Levidow (Open University), Peter Mollinga (Bonn), Jason Moore
(UNC and Lund), Phil Woodhouse (Manchester), chair Henry Bernstein
(SOAS)
3 December, 5.15 pm
More poverty, more class, and more gender? Rural labour markets in
Tanzania 20 years after Sender and Smith
Bernd Mueller (SOAS)
Green Economics Conference
The Green Economics Institute is pleased to announce bookings are
now open for
Green Economics Conference at The Oxford University Club on 27th and
28th November 2009.
The conference will feature green engineering building and
construction, and also the Green growth, lower growth and
sustainable development paradox- is more growth better? beneficial?
What does it mean for developed countries and less developed
countries? The conference will also feature green investment,
pensions and also green solutions to the economic crisis. Conference
information is attached and please email us for further details.
We are also holding our first African conference in Cape Town, South
Africa- January 22nd and 23rd - at the Waterfront. The conference
will launch green economics in
Africa and is supported by our teams there and in Nigeria and
Ethiopia. It will also feature our keynote speaker the Head of the
European Network of Political Foundations who spent many years in
the DR Congo and Mozambique: Andrea Ostermeier. Please email for
further details, conference information is available via the
following link
http://www.inderscience.com/mapper.php?id=56
NATIONAL CONFERENCE TO CREATE
LIVING-WAGE JOBS,MEET HUMAN NEEDS, & SUSTAIN THE ENVIRONMENT
Please visit our conference website at
www.JobsConference.org
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION; FOR REGISTRATION, GO TO
http://jobsconference.eventbrite.com/
Dear Friends and Colleagues:
As you know, 30 million people are unemployed or underemployed, and
millions more who work fulll-time are working poor. Our country had
a chronic problem. Now we have a crisis. Even those who see "green
shoots" of recovery warn of high joblessness long after the
recession is over. This is the time to address both the chronic and
acute problems.
A coalition of religious, labor, social welfare, anti-poverty
organizations and individuals is hosting a national conference in
New York City this November 13-14 to arouse public awareness and
action on behalf of the jobless and in support of the right to a
living-wage job for all. We propose creating living-wage jobs that
fill other social needs--infrastructure repair, elder- and
child-care, affordable housing--as well as address the imperative of
an ecologically sustainable economy Our proposal is based on work by
the National Jobs for All Coalition and the Chicago Political
Economy Group. A goal of the Conference is to ignite similar events
around the nation and ultimately action in Washington, DC
- Please visit our conference website at
http://www.JobsConference.org
- Plan to attend the conference and register now
- Inform individuals and organizations likely to be interested
- Add a link to the conference to your web site
- Volunteer to help
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We hope to see you at the Conference
Trudy Goldberg, Chair. National Jobs for All Coalition
Chuck Bell, Conference Chair
Helen Ginsburg, Conference Coordinating Committee'
Mel Rothenberg, Conference Coordinating Committee
Marcel Welty, Conference Coordinator
Economy and Society Guest Lecture
2009
You are invited to the Economy and Society Guest Lecture 2009
"The Government of Uncertainty: How to Follow the Politics of Oil"
Professor Timothy Mitchell,
Columbia University, New York
6.30pm – 8.00pm, Thursday 15th October 2009
Sheikh Zayed Lecture Theatre
London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street,
London WC2A 2AE
Please RSVP to econsoc@lse.ac.uk
Professor Timothy Mitchell
Timothy Mitchell is professor in the Department of Middle East and
Asian Languages and Cultures and the School of International and
Public Affairs at Columbia University. He is the author of
Colonising Egypt (1991) and Rules of Experts: Egypt,
Techno-Politics, Modernity (2002).
Mitchell has published articles in numerous publications including;
American Political Science Review; Comparative Studies in Society
and History; Theory and Society; and International Journal of Middle
Eastern Studies
SEMINAIRE DU CEPN
Vendredi 9 octobre 2009
de 14 à 17h
à la MSH Paris Nord
(salle de Conférences-voir plan sur site)
http://www.univ-paris13.fr/CEPN/cepn.htm
Laurent CORDONNIER
(Clersé, Université de Lille 1)
« Les exigences de la finance et le plafond de verre de la
rentabilité du capital »
Discutants : Dominique PLIHON (CEPN, Université Paris 13)
Et Sébastien CHARLES (LED, Université Paris 8)
Economic Crisis: Radical Analysis and
Radical Responses
The Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE) is sponsoring a
one-day conference entitled: Economic Crisis: Radical Analysis and
Radical Responses. The conference will take place at St. Francis
College, Brooklyn on Saturday October 24 from 9:15 a.m.- 6:30 p.m.
The key-note speakers will be David Harvey (Distinguished Professor
of Anthropology, CUNY) and the Hon. Charles Barron (New York City
Council.) The conference will include more than 16 workshops led by
people who either are, or deserve to be, well-known. The program,
registration form, and directions to St. Francis College are
available at the URPE website:
www.urpe.org.
PLEASE REGISTER NOW. There is a suggested donation of $25, but even
if you do not wish to make a donation, the conference organizers
would appreciate advance registration. (All conference participants
will be provided with a simple lunch and invited to attend the
end-of-conference cocktail party, at no additional charge. Advance
registration will make it easier to plan for these.)
We look forward to seeing you on October 24th.
Conference organizers:
Paddy Quick
(paddyquick@aol.com)
Julio Huato
(jhuato@gmail.com)
HOW CLASS WORKS - 2010
A Conference at SUNY Stony Brook
June 3-5, 2010
CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS
The Center for Study of Working Class Life is pleased to announce
the How Class Works – 2010 Conference, to be held at the State
University of New York at Stony Brook, June 3 - 5, 2010. Proposals
for papers, presentations, and sessions are welcome until December
14, 2009
Click here for
detailed information.
Options for rebuilding the Economy
and the Financial System
AWGF- AUSTRALIAN WORKING GROUP ON FINANCIALIZATION invites you to
attend its upcoming
SEMINAR
This session we have a talk by invited guest:
Dr Shann Turnbull
Options for rebuilding the Economy and the Financial System
Full paper available at:
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1322210
Four non-exclusive options are considered for rebuilding the economy
with a more efficient, equitable and resilient financial system. A
common feature of three options is the introduction of cost bearing
money as supported by Fisher (1933) and Keynes (1936) to help
stabilise prices. Cost bearing or “Free-Money” increases the
efficiency of allocating resources and can result in the generation
of electricity from renewable sources becoming cheaper than burning
coal. One option for issuing Free-Money is for governments to adopt
a Bill like that presented to the US Congress in 1933. A second
option is the private issue of “stamped scrip” that circulated in
the US during the Great Depression. A third option is the issue of
Free-Money redeemable into a commodity as used in Europe 1928-33. A
fourth option is to reform the existing financial architecture to
reduce the: (i) cost of seigniorage, (ii) interest on government
debt; (iii) size of organisations considered to big to fail; (iv)
tax incentives to use debt rather than equity (v) different types of
risks accepted by financial institutions and (vi) ability of banks
and “shadow” banks to create credit to finance derivatives many
times greater than the GDP of the global economy.
About the Speaker:
Shann Turnbull has presented graduate courses at the University of
Sydney, UNSW, Macquarie University and MIT. His books, PhD Thesis
and dozens of his academic articles on reforming the theory and
practice of capitalism are archived at
http://ssrn.com/author=26239.
Two articles were included with the seminal contributions of
scholars in the Corporate Governance volume of The History of
Management Thought (2000). Shann has been a serial entrepreneur
founding a number of enterprises, three of which became publicly
traded, and has been Chairman and/or CEO of others.
Friday, 16th October, 2009
1:30pm - 3pm
Workplace Research Centre (map)Storie Dixson Wing
University of Sydney
http://awgf.econ.usyd.edu.au
Reading Capital Group Relaunches
Prof Ben Fine (SOAS, co-author of "Marx's 'Capital'") talks on:
'Why Read Capital? Marx in the 21st Century'
to relaunch the Reading Capital Group at King's College London:
Tues Oct 13th
6pm
F-WB 2.42
Waterloo Campus
Greening the
Economy
The Green Economics Institute invites you to join the conference
GREENING THE ECONOMY
where an international group of specialists from the four pillars of
green economics - academia, business, campaigning and policy -
will present and discuss the following subjects:
What is green economics? Progress towards a definition
As a fast moving, visionary and topical field, it is always
necessary to continue to ask this fundamental question; something
orthodox economics fails to do, which has lead to the distortion of
its aims and its disjointedness with the real world.
So what are the latest research findings and discussions on this
topic?
Green economics solutions to the current economic crisis
The current crisis provides the opportunity to align consumption
with resources and rebalance towards services rather than goods. How
can we act on the new opportunities the crisis provides? What are
the short term and long term solutions? What is the future of
financial markets? – Ethical investments?
Lower growth or de-growth
How can lower growth economies be achieved? How can de-growth and
development exist together? How can we ensure the continued
alleviation of poverty? How does this effect globalisation?
Climate change
What needs to happen at Copenhagen? How will businesses have to
adapt? What are the solutions to food and fuel issues?
Oxford University - Saturday 28th November 2009
Click here
for detailed information.
WHITHER
FINANCIALISED CAPITALISM?
International Conference
One Year on from the Panic of 2008:
WHITHER FINANCIALISED CAPITALISM?
7 November 2009, 9 am to 6 pm, SOAS, London
09.00-09.45 Registration and Coffee
09.45-12.15 Welcome Addresses and Opening Plenary
Financialised Capitalism and the International Crisis Gérard Duménil,
National Centre for Scientific Research, Paris Gary Dymski,
University of CaliforniaCenterSacramento Costas Lapavitsas, SOAS,
London
12.15-13.15 Lunch
13.15-15.30 Parallel Sessions
Contemporary Finance, Regulation and the Real Economy Malcolm
Sawyer, LeedsUniversityBusinessSchool Jan Toporowski, SOAS, London
Paulo L dos Santos, SOAS, London
Varieties of Financialisation
Engelbert Stockhammer, ViennaUniversityof Economics and Business
Trevor Evans, BerlinSchoolof Economics Claude Serfati, University of
Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
15.30-15.45 Coffee
15.45-18.00 Plenary
The Social Costs and Implications of Financialisation Karel Williams
and Ismail Erturk, CRESC, Manchester Andrew Leyshon, University of
Nottingham Robin Blackburn, Universityof Essex
For more information, contact
rmf@soas.ac.uk, or visit
www.soas.ac.uk/rmf
RMF Roundtable: FINANCIALISATION AND
DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
5 November 2009, 5 – 7 pm, SOAS, London
Labour and the Curious Case of Mexican Bank Resilience Thomas Marois,
SOAS Global Integration of the Turkish Economy in the Era of
Financialisation Nuray Ergunes, Maltepe University, Turkey Emerging
Economy Central Banks and the Crisis of 2007-09 Juan Pablo Painceira,
SOAS Financialisation and Regulation: The Fate of Basle II Sedat
Aybar, Kadir Has University, Turkey
For more information contact
rmf@soas.ac.uk or see
www.soas.ac.uk/rmf
The 14th Annual Conference of the
European Society for the History of Economic Thought
The 14th Annual Conference of the European Society for the History
of Economic Thought (ESHET) will be held at the Amsterdam School of
Economics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The conference will take place 25-28 March 2010.
As at past ESHET conferences, proposals for papers or sessions on
all aspects of the history of economic thought are welcome.
Click
here for detailed information.
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Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
Whitman College
Location: Walla Walla, WA
Application Due: 11/20/2009
Type: Full Time
ECONOMICS (International Political Economy-IPE): Tenure-track
position in Economics, with expertise in International Political
Economy, at the rank of assistant professor. Effective August, 2010.
Ph.D. in Economics required. The successful candidate will offer
courses in international political economy (including for example,
International Trade, Development, Transitional Economics, and
Immigration), and Principles of Micro- or Macroeconomics. Other
possible teaching areas include economic statistics and areas that
expand the department's course offerings. Whitman College wishes to
reinforce its commitment to enhance diversity, broadly defined,
recognizing that to provide a diverse learning environment is to
prepare students for personal and professional success in an
increasingly multicultural and global society. In their application,
candidates should address their interest in working with
undergraduates as teachers and scholars in a liberal arts
environment that emphasizes close student-faculty interaction; how
their cultural, experiential, and/or academic background contributes
to diversity; and their interest in participating in the College's
general education offerings. Materials should include a letter of
application; curriculum vitae; separate statements addressing the
candidate's teaching interests and scholarly agenda; three letters
of reference; undergraduate and graduate transcripts; teaching
evaluations or other evidence of demonstrated or potential
excellence in undergraduate instruction.
Send materials to: Economics Political Economy Search Chair, Whitman
College, 345 Boyer Avenue, Walla Walla, WA 99362. Electronic
submission accepted (pdf format preferred) at
econ_ipe@whitman.edu.
Deadline: November 20, 2009. Initial interviews will be held at the
ASSA meetings in Atlanta. No applicant shall be discriminated
against on the basis of race, national or ethnic origin, age,
gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, creed, or
disability. Whitman College, located in the scenic Columbia Basin,
is a small, selective, liberal arts college dedicated to providing
excellent education opportunities for students. The College has a
generous sabbatical leave program and professional development
support for both research and teaching. Informational URL:
http://www.whitman.edu/economics and
www.wallawalla.org.
Application Information
Postal Address:
Economics Political Economy Search Chair
Maxey Hall
Whitman College
345 Boyer Avenue
Walla Walla, WA 99362
Email Address:
econ_ipe@whitman.edu
Denison University
The Department of Economics at Denison University invites
applications for a tenure track position at the assistant professor
level beginning in Fall 2010. Applicants must have superior teaching
skills and the ability to teach a variety of courses. The department
is especially interested in finding someone to teach Economic
History, Introductory and Intermediate Microeconomics and other
applied courses on a rotating basis with other members of the
department. We are looking for a versatile colleague – one who
appreciates the interdisciplinary nature of a small residential,
undergraduate, liberal arts institution. Denison values faculty who
are successful and effective teachers, who develop active and
productive research programs, and who are involved in the life of
the college. The Economics Department has eleven faculty members and
is one of the largest majors on campus. Denison has a 3/2 teaching
load. Denison University is an equal opportunity-affirmative action
employer. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. We will
begin reviewing applications on December 7, 2009, and will continue
to accept applications until the position is filled. We will
interview prospective candidates at the ASSA meetings in Atlanta,
January 3-5, 2010. We expect candidates to have their PhD in hand by
August 2010. Applicants should submit electronic application
materials on-line at employment.denison.edu: a letter of
application, vitae, a statement of teaching philosophy, three
letters of recommendation, and other supportive documents.
http://www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/details.cfm?JobCode=175391263
Delta College
Delta College, in Michigan's Great Lakes Bay Region, has posted an
opening for a tenure-track position teaching Principles of Economics
courses. Please follow this link for more information:
http://www.delta.edu/humres.aspx.
The University of East Anglia,
Norwich
LECTURERS/SENIOR LECTURERS/READERS IN INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Ref ATR837
Senior Lecturer/Reader: £44,930 to £52,086 per annum
Lecturer: £37,651 to £43,622 per annum
Following success in the RAE2008, the School of International
Development (www.uea.ac.uk/dev) is investing in one or more of six
research strengths:- business, accountability, regulation and
development; behavioural/experimental economics; climate and
environmental change; health economics, social epidemiology and
health policy; livelihoods, migration and social protection; and
social identities, wellbeing and social justice. We aim to appoint
top academics drawn from economists, anthropologists, sociologists,
geographers, and political and environmental scientists. The six
research fields are advisory, applicants with an internationally
recognised profile working in other subject areas related to
development studies are welcome to apply.
Up to four posts may be available from 1st December 2009 on a
full-time indefinite basis. The School expects at least one post to
support postgraduate research training at a strategic level and one
post to be filled by an economist. For lecturer level you must have
an honours degree and a PhD, or equivalent level of qualifications,
in relevant subject area, or be nearing completion with submission
and award of PhD within 3 months of commencing in post. For senior
lecturer/reader level you must have a PhD or equivalent level of
qualification. For all posts you must have high quality publications
commensurate with your stage of career and be able to satisfy all
the essential criteria in the person specification.
Closing date: 12 noon on 12 October 2009.
More information can be found here
http://www.uea.ac.uk/hr/jobs/acad/atr837.htm
Hamilton College
Macroeconomics
The Economics Department at Hamilton College invites applications
for a tenure-track position in applied macroeconomics beginning July
1, 2010. The standard teaching load in the department, which has 12
full-time faculty members, is 5 courses per year, with a course
reduction in the first year for beginning instructors. Applicants
should hold a Ph.D. in Economics or expect to complete all
requirements by Fall 2010. Applicants should send vita, three
letters of recommendation, research sample, graduate transcript
(unofficial or official), and documentation of teaching
effectiveness to Stephen Wu, Economics Department. If possible, the
research sample should include empirical work. For full
consideration, completed applications should be received by November
27, 2009.
Lewis and Clark College
Assistant or Associate Professor in Economics
The Department of Economics at Lewis and Clark College in Portland
Oregon invites applications for a tenure track position at the rank
of either Assistant or Associate Professor to begin August 2010. We
seek candidates with research interests in public and/or
environmental economics. Candidates interested in teaching
environmental economics on a regular basis are preferred. Tenure
evaluation for Associates is negotiable. Associate Professor
candidates demonstrate a record of excellence in teaching and
research, Assistant Professor candidates must demonstrate potential
for excellence in both areas. Ph.D. is expected at the time of
appointment. The teaching load is five courses per academic year,
with opportunities to participate in the College's general education
program. Review of applications will begin November 15th 2009 and
continue until the position is filled. The College will be
interviewing at the January ASSA meeting in Atlanta. Applications
may be sent only in hard copy and must include all the following
materials for consideration: (1) a curriculum vitae; (2) a letter of
application which includes a statement of educational philosophy,
teaching experience, and research interests; (3) evidence of
teaching effectiveness; (4) sample of scholarship; (5) graduate
transcripts; and (6) three letters of recommendation sent under
separate cover. Contact: Dr. Cliff Bekar, at
bekar@lclark.edu. Please
use "Economics Faculty Position" in the subject line. Send
Applications To: Economics Search Committee, Department of
Economics, Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road,
Portland, OR 97219. Lewis & Clark College is an Equal Opportunity
Employer committed to preparing students for leadership in an
increasingly interdependent world that affirms the educational
benefits of diversity (see
http://www.lclark.edu/about/diversity.html ). Lewis & Clark
College will conduct background checks on the finalist(s).
Portland State
University
Q5 Environmental Economics
The Department of Economics at Portland State University invites
applications for a tenure track associate/assistant professor
position beginning September 2010. Candidates may have expertise in
any area of environmental and natural resource economics, though
renewable energy and energy efficiency would be especially welcome.
Required qualifications include a distinguished Ph.D. record,
evidence of commitment to research, teaching and creating community
partnerships, capability to secure extramural research support and
interest in policy issues. Teaching includes courses in candidates’
areas of specialization at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
The successful candidate has the capacity to teach at the Ph.D.
Degree level and willingness to build the graduate program in
environmental and resource economics and will complete all
requirements for the Ph.D. before September 2010. Compensation
package includes a competitive salary commensurate with
qualifications and experience and a comprehensive benefits package.
Portland State University is an Affirmative Action, Equal
Opportunity institution and welcomes applications from diverse
applicants. Please see the full position announcement and
application instructions at www.hrc.pdx.edu under the heading of
“Faculty and Administrative Openings.” Questions can be directed to
environmental_econ@pdx.edu. Applications must be received by
November 15, 2009 to be guaranteed full consideration, but will be
accepted until the position is filled.
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Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles
How Fiscal Policies in Africa Can
Respond to the Global Financial Crisis
The Centre for Development Policy and Research is pleased to
announce the publication of Development Viewpoint #37, “How Fiscal
Policies in Africa Can Respond to the Global Financial Crisis”. The
author, John Weeks, Professor Emeritus, SOAS, and Senior Research
Associate, CDPR, argues for both the desirability and feasibility of
implementing counter-cyclical fiscal policies in Africa to counter
the crisis-induced fall in domestic private spending and export
demand. As complementary measures, he recommends financing the
ensuing fiscal deficit primarily by borrowing money from the central
bank and combating any upward pressures on the trade deficit and
inflation through deliberate management of the exchange rate.
Click here to download:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/cdpr/publications/dv/file53747.pdf
Britain’s Idealisation of Africa: Is
‘Doing Good’ Good Enough?
The Centre for Development Policy and Research is pleased to
announce the publication of Development Viewpoint #38, “Britain’s
Idealisation of Africa: Is ‘Doing Good’ Good Enough?” The author,
Julia Gallagher, Department of Politics and International Studies,
SOAS, questions why British politicians, from across the political
spectrum, are virtually unanimous in their belief that Britain is
involved in a ‘moral crusade’ to help Africa develop. She maintains
that this ‘noble-cause’ assumption is based on an idealisation of
Africa, and Britain’s own African policies, which fails to come to
grips with the complex, morally messy and unavoidably political
nature of any external efforts intended to address Africa’s
development problems.
Click here to download:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/cdpr/publications/dv/file54126.pdf
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Heterodox Journals and
Newsletters
The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy
and Economics (EJPE)
The Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics (EJPE) is proud to
announce the publication of its latest issue online at
http://ejpe.org
EJPE is a peer-reviewed biannual academic journal publishing
research which improves our understanding of the methodology,
history and inter-disciplinary relations of economics. The journal
is supported by the Erasmus Department of Philosophy and the Erasmus
Institute for Philosophy and Economics (EIPE) and is free to access.
Contents of this issue include:
- Cambridge social ontology: an interview with TONY LAWSON
- Interdependent preferences and policy stances in mainstream
economics by FRANÇOIS CLAVEAU
- The history of transaction cost economics and its recent
developments by LUKASZ HARDT
- Tilting at imaginary windmills: a comment on Tyfield by YANN
GIRAUD AND E. ROY WEINTRAUB
Raging at imaginary Don-Quixotes:
reply to Giraud and Weintraub
by DAVID TYFIELD
The booming economics-made-fun genre: more than having fun, but less
than economics imperialism by JACK J. VROMEN
Feminist Economics
Volume 15 Issue 4 is now available online at informaworld
( http://www.informaworld.com
).
This new issue contains the following articles:
Editorial
Editorial : Advances in Feminist Economic Inquiry
Author: Diana Strassmann
Articles
The Economics of Nursing : Articulating Care
Authors: Valerie Adams; Julie A. Nelson
The Determinants of Married Women's Autonomy in Indonesia
Authors: Anu Rammohan; Meliyanni Johar
Why Are Women Delaying Motherhood in Germany?
Author: Laura Romeu Gordo
Child Schooling and Work Decisions in India : The Role of Household
and Regional Gender Equity
Author: Uma Sarada Kambhampati
Article Series
Women and Retirement Pensions : A Research Review
Author: Therese Jefferson
Book Reviews
The ‘Woman Question’ and Higher Education: Perspectives on Gender
and Knowledge Production in America
Author: Lois Joy
Global Empowerment of Women: Responses to Globalization and
Politicized Religions
Author: Kathryn Reklis
Queer Economics: A Reader
Author: Stacy Sneeringer
Sex Markets: A Denied Industry
Author: Jonathan Robinson
Welfare Transformed: Universalizing Family Policies That Work
Author: Lisa Giddings
Remapping Gender in the New Global Order
Author: Adrienne Roberts
Critical to Care: The Invisible Women in Health Services
Author: Julie A. Nelson
Miscellany
Notes on Contributors
Thanks to Reviewers
Index – Volume 15, 2009
International Review of Applied
Economics
Volume 23 Issue 6 is now available online at informaworld
( http://www.informaworld.com
).
Special Issue:The Economics of Creativity: Efficiency,
Competitiveness and Development
This new issue contains the following articles:
Miscellany
Introduction
Authors: Silvia Sacchetti; Roger Sugden
Original Articles
Creativity and socio-economic development: space for the interests
of publics
Authors: Francesco Sacchetti; Silvia Sacchetti; Roger Sugden
The impact of budget cuts and incentive wages on academic work
Authors: Johan Willner; Sonja Grönblom
The role of cooperation in a creative industry: the case of UK
studio potter
Authors: Ian Jackson; Philip R. Tomlinson
Economics and the ecology of creativity: evidence from the popular
music industry
Authors: Patrick Cohendet; David Grandadam; Laurent Simon
Reframing economic development: thing or mystery?
Author: Jens Christensen
Book review
Book review
Author: Fiona Carmichael
Journal of Economic Methodology
Volume 16 Issue 3 is now available online at informaworld
( http://www.informaworld.com
).
This new issue contains the following articles:
Articles
Is endogenous growth theory degenerating? Another look at Lakatosian
appraisal of growth theories
Authors: Michal Brzezinski; Michal Dzielinski
Hayek's theory on complexity and knowledge: dichotomies, levels of
analysis, and bounded rationality
Author: Stefano Fiori
Symposium on Terence Hutchison and Economic Methodology
Introduction
Author: D. Wade Hands
An unfinished manuscript by Terence Hutchison
Author: Roger E. Backhouse
A formative decade: methodological controversy in the 1930s
Author: T. W. Hutchison
A skirmish in the Popper Wars: Hutchison versus Caldwell on Hayek,
Popper, Mises, and methodology
Author: Bruce Caldwell
Machlup's misrepresentation of Hutchison's methodology
Author: John Hart
Realism and relevance in the economics of a free society: the
Knight–Hutchison debate
Author: Ross B. Emmett
International Journal of Political
Economy
Volume
38 Number 2 / Summer 2009 of International Journal of Political
Economy is now available on the mesharpe.metapress.com web site at
http://mesharpe.metapress.com.
This issue contains:
- Editor's Introduction
Mario Seccareccia
- Too Big to Bail: The "Paulson Put," Presidential Politics, and the
Global Financial Meltdown: Part II: Fatal Reversal—Single Payer and
Back
Thomas Ferguson, Robert Johnson
- Asset Bubbles, Debt Deflation, and Global Imbalances
Robert Guttmann
- The United States Financial Crisis and Its NAFTA Linkages
Eugenia Correa, Mario Seccareccia
Forum for Social Economics
2009, Volume 38, Issue 2
- 91-96 Teaching Heterodox Economics: Introduction to the Special
Issue
by Geoffrey Schneider
- 97-110 Sociability and the Market
by Jonathan Wight
- 111-116 Teaching the Implicit Assumptions Underlying Firm Behavior
in the Neoclassical Model
by Elizabeth Moorhouse
- 117-128 Change and Continuity in the American Macroeconomy,
1929-2007: Exercises for Principles of Macroeconomics
by Eric Hake
- 129-134 A Value-Added Approach to Macroeconomics
by Paddy Quick
- 135-151 Do Professors’ Opinions Affect Students?
by Christopher Magee
- 153-172 The Committee on Economic Education: Its Effect on the
Introductory Course and Women in Economics
by Robin Bartlett & Marianne Ferber & Carole Green
- 173-187 Teaching Ecological and Feminist Economics in the
Principles Course
by Julie Nelson & Neva Goodwin
- 189-200 The Value of Advanced Interdisciplinary Classes for
Students of Economics: Case Study of a 300-Level Class on Gender in
the Economy
by K. Powlick
- 201-208 A Constructivist Learning Approach to Income Inequality,
Poverty and the “American Dream”
by Daniel Leclerc & Ed Ford & E. Ford
- 209-228 Teaching Keynes’s Principle of Effective Demand within the
Real Wage vs. Employment Space
by Corrado Andini
- 229-245 Public Scholarship and Economics: Engaging Students in the
Democratic Process
by KimMarie McGoldrick & Janice Peterson
- 247-262 Transformation through the Brigades
by Paul Susman
- 263-278 What is the Comparative Advantage of the Service Learning
Pedagogy? Insights from Development Economics
by Dawn Richards Elliott
International Labour Review
The global crisis, social protection and jobs
Joseph STIGLITZ
Beyond corporate codes of conduct: Work organization and labour
standards at Nike's suppliers
Richard LOCKE, Thomas KOCHAN, Monica ROMIS, Fei QIN
Application of labour and employment law beyond the contract of
employment
Mark FREEDLAND
Outsourcing, offshoring and productivity measurement in United
States manufacturing
Susan HOUSEMAN
The evolution of labour law: Calibrating and comparing regulatory
regimes
Simon DEAKIN, Priya LELE, Mathias SIEMS
Improving the quality of low-wage work: The current American
experience
Paul OSTERMAN
To recommend International Labour Review to your librarian click
here.
New Political Economy
Volume 14 Issue 3 is now available online at informaworld
( http://www.informaworld.com
).
Special Issue:The ‘British School’ of International Political
Economy
This new issue contains the following articles:
Preface
Reflections on the ‘British School’ of International Political
Economy
Author: Nicola Phillips
Articles
The ‘British School’ in the Global Context
Author: Robert Cox
Torn Between Two Lovers? Caught in the Middle of British and
American IPE
Author: Mark Blyth
IPE's Split Brain, Pages
Author: Catherine Weaver
Political Economy, the ‘US School’, and the Manifest Destiny of
Everyone Else
Author: Geoffrey R. D. Underhill
Do the Left-Out Matter?
Author: Craig N. Murphy
Pluralist IPE: A View from Outside the ‘Schools’
Author: Helge Hveem
Division and Dialogue in Anglo-American IPE: A Reluctant Canadian
View
Author: Eric Helleiner
The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating: IPE in Light of the
Crisis of 2007/8
Author: Ronen Palan
The Way Forward, Pages 395 - 400
Author: Benjamin J. Cohen
REVIEW FORUM
The Shock Doctrine and the End of the Reagan Era
Author: Stephan Haggard
Toxic Capitalism
Author: Neil Smith
Capitalism is to Blame
Author: Peter Rutland
Beyond Shock: Does Latin America Offer a New ‘Doctrine’?
Author: Jenny Pearce
Aftershock: Naomi Klein and the Global Financial Crisis
Author: Anthony Payne
Cahiers d'Economie Politique
The Cahiers d'économie politique is a refereed journal, bi-annual,
publishing in french and in english, and open to all the streams and
theoretical orientations of economics.
Since its first publication in 1974, the journal has endeavoured to
show that the study of earlier authors and the contemporary economic
analysis may be mutually beneficial to further development of the
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The 2010 Hyman P. Minsky Summer Seminar
The New New Deal Fracas: Did Roosevelt’s “Anticompetitive”
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Market Failure and Land Concentration
A Critical Assessment of Seven Reports on Financial Reform: A
Minskyan Perspective
Securitization, Deregulation, Economic Stability, and Financial
Crisis
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Volume 67 Issue 3 is now available online at informaworld
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This new issue contains the following articles:
Articles
The Value of Vocation. The Crucial Role of Intrinsically Motivated
People in Values-based Organizations
Authors: Luigino Bruni; Alessandra Smerilli
The Organization of Production and its Publics: Mental Proximity,
Market and Hierarchies
Authors: Silvia Sacchetti; Roger Sugden
Metaphors of Transaction Cost Economics
Author: Huascar F. Pessali
Inclusive Democracy and Economic Inequality in South Asia: Any
Discernible Link?
Author: Udaya R. Waglel
Symposium on Socialism after Hayek , by Theodore A. Burczak
Introduction
Author: Andrew Farrant
The Postmodern Road to Socialism, After Hayek
Author: Robert F. Garnett Jr
A Methodological Reflection on the “Thick Socialism” of Socialism
after Hayek
Author: Antonio Callari
Socialism after Hayek : A Post Keynesian Contribution to Burczak's
Theory of Social Justice
Author: Fadhel Kaboub
“Knowledge and Incentives: Socialism after Hayek?”
Author: Andrew Farrant
“Hayekian Socialism, Post Critics”
Author: Theodore Burczak
Book Reviews
The Soulful Science: What Economists Really do and Why it Matters
Author: Jack Reardon
Empirical Post Keynesian Economics: Looking at the Real World
Author: Ian Strachan
Economics and Happiness: Framing the Analysis
Author: André van Hoorn
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Macroeconomic
Policies on Shaky Foundations - Whither Mainstream Economics?
Eckhard Hein, Torsten Niechoj, Engelbert Stockhammer (eds.)
Macroeconomic Policies on Shaky Foundations - Whither Mainstream
Economics?
Series of the Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic
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Progress and Reform: The Economic
Thought of John R.Commons
By Thomas Kemp
It is an intellectual portrait in the mold of J.R. Stanfield's 1986
book on Polanyi and M. Carroll's recent book on Heilbroner. It
summarizes and analyzes (and hopefully makes more readable) Commons
theoretical work. I interpret Commons' ideas in light of his actions
and his extensive work in applied economic policy. In other words I
take Commons' words to mean what he actually did. Click
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Exploit the World
Hester Eisenstein
Paradigm Publishers, 2009 (
www.paradigmpublishers.com )
www.paradigmpublishers.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=208935
In a pioneering reinterpretation of the role of mainstream feminism,
Eisenstein shows how the world’s ruling elites utilize women’s labor
and the ideas of women’s liberation and empowerment to maintain
their economic and political power, both at home and abroad. Her
explorations range from the abolition of “welfare as we know it” in
the United States to the creation of export-processing zones in the
global South that depend on women’s “nimble fingers,” and from the
championing of microcredit as a path to women’s empowerment in the
global South to the claim of women’s presumed liberation in the West
as an ideological weapon in the war on terrorism. Eisenstein
challenges activists and intellectuals to recognize that
international feminism is at a fateful crossroads. She argues that
it is crucial for feminists to throw in their lot with the
progressive forces that are seeking alternatives to globalized
corporate capitalism.
CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: How I Came to Write This Book
1. Globalization and Women’s Labor
2. Women, Work, and the Mainstreaming Of Feminism
3. Fault Lines of Race and Class
4. In the United States: A Political and Economic Sea-Change
5. In the Global South: “Women” Replace Development
6. Islamophobia and the Global War on Terror
Conclusion
References
About the Author
Index
About the Author
Hester Eisenstein is a Professor of Sociology at Queens College and
the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. Her previous
books include Contemporary Feminist Thought (1983) and Inside
Agitators: Australian Femocrats and the State (1996). She has taught
at Yale University, Barnard College (Columbia University), and the
State University of New York at Buffalo, and served as a “femocrat”
in the state government of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
After Adam Smith: A Century of
Transformation in Politics and Political Economy
Murray Milgate & Shannon C. Stimson
Cloth | 2009 | $35.00 / £24.95
320 pp. | 6 x 9
Few issues are more central to our present predicaments than the
relationship between economics and politics. After Adam Smith looks
at how politics and political economy were articulated and altered
in the century following the publication of Smith's Wealth of
Nations. It considers how grand ideas about the connections between
individual liberty, free markets, and social and economic justice
sometimes attributed to Smith are as much the product of gradual
modifications and changes wrought by later writers.
Click here for
detailed information.
The Keynes Solution
The Path to Global Economic Prosperity
Paul Davidson
Palgrave Macmillan, September 2009
ISBN: 978-0-230-61920-3, ISBN10: 0-230-61920-7
5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches, 208 pages
http://us.macmillan.com/thekeynessolution
Today’s financial crisis has led to a widespread lack of confidence
in the laissez faire style of economic policy. InThe Keynes Solution
author Paul Davidson provides insights into how we got into the
crisis—but more importantly how to use Keynes economic philosophy to
get out of this mess. John Maynard Keynes was committed to making
the market economy work—but our current system has been a dismal
failure. Keynes advocated for an interventionalist government role,
in cooperation with private initiative, to mitigate the adverse
effects of recessions, depressions and booms. His economic policy
helped the world out of the great depression and was an important
influencer in the thinking behind FDR’s new deal policies. In this
book Keynesian expert Davidson makes recommendations and details
plans for spending, monetary policy, financial market rules and
regulation, and wages—all to reverse the effects of our past
policies. Keynes renewed influence can be seen everywhere: in Barack
Obama’s planned stimulus package, for example—and this book explains
the basic tenant of Keynesian economics as well as applied solutions
to today’s critical situation.
CENTRAL BANKING, ASSET PRICES AND
FINANCIAL FRAGILITY
par Eric Tymoigne
Chez Routledge, 2009
Il s'agit de sa thèse mais entièrement réécrite. C'est d'un très
haut niveau théorique et devrait être lu par tous post keynésiens
intéressé par la monnaie et les analyses minskienne. Il traite du
sujet d'actualité que constitue le lien entre le prix des actifs
financiers, la fragilité financière et la place du taux d'intérêt et
de la banque centrale. L'analyse est très originale.
VIVE LA DETTE
par Marc BOUSSEYROLE,
Chez Thierry Magnier, 2009
Un essai décapant sur l'histoire et l'approche de la dette de l'Etat.
Court et efficace.
LE MARCHÉ INTROUVABLE, CRITIQUE DU MYTHE LIBERAL
par Michaël LAINÉ,
Chez Syllepse, 2009
Un essai radical contre les mensonges néo-classiques et tous ces
mythes qui l'on nous raconte pour nous endormir et nous bercer
d'illusions.
LE NOUVEAU CAPITALISME
par Dominique Plihon
Chez La Découverte (repères) 2009
Nouvelle édition intégrant la dernière crise sur les dangers du
capitalisme financiarisé. A faire lire à tous nos étudiants.
LE SAVOIR ET LA FINANCE
Liaisons dangereuses dans le capitalisme contemporain par El Mouhoub
Mouhoud et Dominique Plihon
Chez La Découverte, 2009
Introduction to Post-Keynesian
Economics
2nd edition
Marc Lavoie
Palgrave Macmillan
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=359436
The entire world has been facing the so-called subprime crisis – a
crisis that first hit banks and other financial institutions through
changes in the real estate market, and later spread to the stock
market and the real economy. The chapters in this revised volume
help to understand the recent events that attributed to the
financial crisis. The book also includes a new postface, which
provides a thorough examination on how post-Keynesian theory relates
to the subprime financial crisis.
This book offers an accessible introduction to post-Keynesian
economics, showing that there is an alternative to neoclassical
economics and its free-market economic policies. Post-Keynesian
economics is founded on realistic assumptions and stylized facts,
such as interest targeting by central banks or constant average
variable costs in manufacturing and services. The author shows how
these more realistic foundations give rise to macroeconomic
implications that are entirely different from those of received
wisdom with regards to employment, output growth, inflation and
monetary theory. For instance, the author demonstrates that higher
minimum wages or real wages can increase both labour employment and
the corporate profit rates, and that faster output growth need not
lead to higher inflation
Introduction
The Post-Keynesian Heterodoxy
Heterodox Microeconomics
A Macroeconomic Monetary Circuit
The Short-Period: Effective Demand and the Labour Market
The Long-Period: Old and New Growth Models
General Conclusion
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Schumpeter's Evolutionary Economics
A Theoretical, Historical and Statistical Analysis of the Engine of
Capitalism. By Esben Sloth Andersen.
Schumpeter’s Evolutionary Economics fills the void of analysis and
serves as a standard reference work on this pioneering thinker by
introducing novel interpretations of his five major books and
tracing the development of his intellectual framework. Schumpeter’s
first German book on the nature of theoretical economics (1908) is
still untranslated, but it demonstrates how he developed his
evolutionary research programme by studying the inherent limitations
of equilibrium economics. He presented core results on economic
evolution and extended evolutionary analysis to all social sciences
in the first German edition of The Theory of Economic Development
(1912). He made a partial reworking of the theory of economic
evolution in later editions, and this reworking was continued in
Business Cycles (1939). Here Schumpeter also tried to handle the
statistical and historical evidence on the waveform evolution of the
capitalist economy. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (1942)
modified the model of economic evolution and added evolutionary
contributions to other social sciences. Finally, History of Economic
Analysis, published posthumously, was based on his evolutionary
theory of the history of economics.
Andersen's analysis of Schumpeter's five books expounds the progress
he made within his research programme, and examines his lack of
satisfactory tools for evolutionary analysis. In so doing it places
our understanding of Schumpeter on a new and firmer footing; it also
suggests how modern evolutionary economics can relate to his work.
Techno-Economic Paradigms
Essays in Honour of Carlota Perez. Edited by Wolfgang Drechsler,
Erik S. Reinert, Rainer Kattel.
Techno-economic paradigm shifts are at the core of general,
innovation-based theory of economic and societal development as
conceived by Carlota Perez. Her book on the subject, Technological
Revolutions and Financial Capital, is a seminal enunciation of the
theory, and has had immense influence on business strategy, state
development programs and policy, and academic thinking on the
subject.
Techno-Economic Paradigms presents a series of essays by the leading
academics in the field discussing the theory of techno-economic
paradigm shifts, and its role in explaining processes of innovation
and development. This festschrift honours Carlota Perez, the founder
of the theory 'techno-economic paradigm shifts'. Contributors
include Chris Freeman, Richard Nelson, Bengt-Ake Lundvall, Giovanni
Dosi and many others.
Ragnar Nurkse, Trade and Development
Ragnar Nurkse, Trade and Development. Edited by Rainer Kattel, Jan
Kregel, Erik S. Reinert.
Ragnar Nurkse (1907-1959) was one of the most important pioneers of
development economics, and although his writings have been neglected
in recent decades, leading development economists and international
organizations like the United Nations are now turning to Nurkse in
search for new inspiration, due to the failure of neoclassical
economics to adequately explain the experience of poor and
developing countries. Until now, however, all Nurkse’s published
works were out of print, and the most recent editions stem from the
early 1960s.
This volume reprints Nurkse’s most important works, making them
widely available for an audience of economists, policy makers,
researchers and students. The works reprinted here, include two
essays never printed before in this format ‘Growth in Underdeveloped
Countries’, (1952) and ‘International Trade Theory and Development
Policy’ (1957), as well as the collected essays from Equilibrium and
Growth in the World Economy (1961), and the monograph Problems of
Capital Formation in Underdeveloped Countries (1953).
Ragnar Nurkse (1907-2007).
Classical Development Economics and
its Relevance for Today
Edited by Rainer Kattel, Jan Kregel, Erik S. Reinert.
This volume contains a selection of papers that cast new insight on
Nurkse’s thought, and discuss his relevance for today. The volume
also celebrates the 100th anniversary of this profoundly important
thinker’s birth.
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Series Editor: Mark D. White
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The ABCs of the Economic Crisis
What Working People Need to Know
by Fred Magdoff and Michael D. Yates
http://www.monthlyreview.org/books/abcsoftheeconomiccrisis.php
"Rich, powerful, highly-educated people created the economic crisis
of 2008-09, while hundreds of millions of working people suffer the
consequences--lost homes, lost jobs, rising insecurity, and falling
living standards. How could this happen? In The ABCs of the Economic
Crisis, Fred Magdoff and Michael Yates tell the story clearly,
simply, and briefly. Here's one way to become part of the solution:
think hard about everything Magdoff and Yates write in this
book."--Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics and Co-Director,
Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of
Massachusetts, Amherst
"Fred Magdoff and Michael Yates have written a sorely needed and
extremely clear guide to the economic crisis. They pull back the
curtains to reveal the role and power of the Wall Street financial
interests and the economic policies that brought us to this point.
The book is both a quick read and a clear, easy-to-understand
explanation of the economic system and how it has been rigged to
benefit corporate and financial interests at the expense of working
people. The glossary alone is worth the price of the book but the
chapter detailing the role and influence of Wall Street in the U.S.
government is invaluable."--Carol Lambiase, UE Education Director
and International Representative
"Clear and well written! The ABCs of the Economic Crisis also
includes the XYZs. Magdoff and Yates's systemic analysis of the
crisis shows both how and why the crisis occurred, while pointing to
the kind of actions required to prevent a repetition."--Michael
Perelman, Professor of Economics, California State University, Chico
"Despite the severity of the current economic crisis, few people
have been able to explain what has happened--not just the technical
details of the housing market, but the larger economic trends that
impact wages, employment, and equality. Yates and Magdoff provide a
sharp analysis of how we got to this moment and how most of the
proposed solutions will do little to change the deeper underlying
problems most people have been facing not just in the last year, but
in the last several decades. Clear, accessible, and timely, this
book will be a valuable resource for anyone trying to understand our
economy."--Stephanie Luce, Associate Professor, Labor Center of the
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Speaking for Ourselves
Environmental Justice in Canada
Julian Agyeman, Peter Cole,
Randolph Haluza-DeLay and Pat O'Riley (eds.)
ISBN 9780774816199
Paperback $32.95
UBC Press 2009
*Paperback now available for course use and professional development
purposes*
About the Book
Environmental justice as a concept has evolved over the past two
decades to offer new, challenging directions for social movements,
public policy, and public planning. Researchers worldwide now
position social equity as a building block for sustainability. Yet
the relationship between social equity and the environmental aspects
of sustainability remains under-examined in Canada, particularly in
studies and discussions focused primarily on the environment.
Speaking for Ourselves draws together scholars and activists --
Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, established and new -- who bring
equity issues to the forefront by considering environmental justice
in specifically Canadian cases and contexts and from a variety of
perspectives, including those of First Nations and women. The
contributors expand notions of justice and the concepts involved in
environmental justice beyond their European origins and limits to
demonstrate new ways of working toward environmental sustainability
and social justice.
This innovative, engaging collection gives a voice to multiple
perspectives on environmental justice and its construction in
Canada. As the first major examination of the multidimensionality of
environmental equity and injustice, it will appeal to scholars
across a wide range of disciplines in the social and environmental
sciences and to activists and citizens who want to make Canadian
society more just and sustainable.
Whither Mainstream Economics?
Series of the Research Network Macroeconomics
and Macroeconomic
Policies, Vol. 12
*Contents*
The Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM)
- Introduction, /Eckhard Hein, Torsten Niechoj and Engelbert
Stockhammer/
I. Whither macroeconomic theory?
- Microfoundations? /John E. King/
- How did macro theory get so far off track, and what can heterodox
macroeconomists do to get it back on track? /David Colander/
- Towards a post-Keynesian consensus in macroeconomics: Reconciling
the Cambridge and Wall Street views, /Marc Lavoie/
II. New Keynesian economics, the New Consensus and Post-Keynesian
critique Explaining European unemployment with a New Keynesian New
Growth model,
/Ansgar Rannenberg/
- Behavioral Macroeconomics and the New Keynesian model, /Jan-Oliver
Menz/
- New Consensus Macroeconomics and Keynesian critique, /Philip
Arestis/
- Whither New Consensus Macroeconomics? The role of government and
fiscal policy in modern macroeconomics, /Giuseppe Fontana/
- Fiscal policy on shaky foundations: Post Keynesian and Chartalist
insights for New Consensus economists, /Pavlina Tcherneva/
III. Macroeconomics, f//inancial instability and financial crisis
- Money and finance: The heterodox views of Robert Clower, Axel
Leijonhufvud and Hyman Minsky, /Elisabetta De Antoni/
- Systemic crisis, systemic risk and the financial instability
hypothesis,
/Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho/
- Money manager capitalism and the global financial crisis, /L.
Randall Wray/
IV. Whither macroeconomic policies?
- Diversity of capitalism and macroeconomic policy, /Bruno Amable/
- Variety of economic judgement and monetary policy-making by
committee,
/Sheila Dow, Matthias Klaes and Alberto Montagnoli/
- The continuing muddles of monetary theory: A steadfast refusal to
face facts, /Charles A.E. Goodhart/
- After the bust: The outlook for macroeconomics and macroeconomic
policy, /Thomas I. Palley/
Globalization and Varieties of
Capitalism
New Labour, Economic Policy and the Abject State, Palgrave MacMillan
2009, pp1-188
by Dan Coffey and Carole Thornley
This innovative book studies contemporary Britain as a capitalism
poised between American and European models. It begins with a bold
re-interpretation of the economic contexts and bequests of
Thatcherism that takes up the ‘shock’ hypothesis of Naomi Klein and
roots it in an alternative economic history, and finishes with a
critical assessment of the New Labour project. Pursuing the state in
its various policy guises, it explores themes of legitimation,
denial and opportunism. This is done via a series of original
studies of comparative policy importance capped by a commentary on
the early impact of the first great crisis of the 21st century. The
book builds upon a range of recent contributions to both the
‘varieties of capitalism’ and ‘third way debates’. The case is made
for a globally and historically aware approach that treats the state
as a key actor.
For far too long, studies of UK economic and social policy have
failed to engage adequately with the rich literature now available
on the varieties of capitalism elsewhere. But no longer. If read
widely, as it deserves to be, this book should change the way we
understand the character and limits of New Labour in power.
David Coates, PhD, Worrell Professor of Anglo-American Studies, Wake
Forest University, USA
Mapping state guises as commanding, self-effacing, self-deceiving
and abject, a persuasive and timely analysis, relevant to all
Western countries, as governments take on a newly-visible ‘activist’
role in the profound international crisis of capitalism currently
unfolding.
Linda Briskin, Phd, Professor, York University, Toronto, Canada
Aimed at all those Europeans and others tempted by the siren logic
of ‘capitalism unleashed’ and commodification, a rigorous antidote
to fatalistic determinism – the national state remains an
independent actor.
Steve Jefferys, Professor of European Employment Studies, London
Metropolitan University, London, UK
LE SAVOIR ET LA
FINANCE
LIAISONS DANGEREUSES AU COEUR DU CAPITALISME CONTEMPORAIN
EL MOUHOUB MOUHOUD ET DOMINIQUE PLIHON
Depuis les années 1980, le capitalisme connaît une profonde
mutation, attribuée en général à la montée en puissance de la
finance, devenue force planétaire, et aux nouvelles technologies,
qui ont fait entrer les économies industrielles dans la « société de
la connaissance ». Pour beaucoup, ce nouveau capitalisme devait
profiter à tous ; une vision optimiste brutalement démentie par la
crise de 2007-2008. Car les nouvelles technologies favorisent la
circulation des idées et de l’information, mais de manière très
inégale selon les pays, contribuant à creuser les écarts. Quant à la
finance moderne, si elle facilite le développement d’innovations
technologiques telles qu’Internet, elle est aussi à l’origine de
l’instabilité de nos économies.
Sustainable
Prosperity in the New Economy?
Business Organization and High-Tech Employment in the United States
William Lazonick, University of Massachusetts Lowell
http://www.upjohninst.org/publications/titles/spne.html
Introductory chapter | Table of Contents
Over the past three decades, the information and communication
technology (ICT) industries have propelled the growth of the U.S.
economy. In the process there has been a dramatic transformation in
the dominant mode of business organization that characterizes ICT,
as the “New Economy business model” (NEBM) has replaced the “Old
Economy business model” (OEBM). And although NEBM has been central
to the microelectronics revolution, it has also been a source of
employment instability and inequity in the distribution of income.
Lazonick explores the origins of the new era of employment
insecurity and income inequality, and considers what governments,
businesses, and individuals can do about it. He also asks whether
the United States can refashion its high-tech business model to
generate stable and equitable economic growth.
In addressing this key question, Lazonick provides
- A historical analysis of the rise of NEBM, from its beginnings in
Silicon Valley in the 1960s to the Internet boom of the late 1990s
- Analysis of how important Old Economy firms restructured in
attempts to transition from OEBM to NEBM
- Analysis of the relationship between employment security and
retirement security under both OEBM and NEBM
- Analysis of the globalization of the ICT labor force
- An explanation of how executives at ICT companies allocated
resources in a way that undermined workers in the U.S. high-tech
labor force, and
- A discussion of the implication for sustainable prosperity of the
rise and dominance of NEBM.
Overall, this is a book that anyone interested in the U.S. high-tech
labor force, the globalization of the ICT industry, and,
particularly, the means by which an advanced economy can achieve
sustainable prosperity will find indispensable.
"The Buyback Boondoggle: Companies Spend Lavishly on Share
Repurchases," an op-ed piece contributed by William Lazonick,
appears in the August 24 and 31, 2009 issue of BusinessWeek.
357 pp. 2009
$45 cloth ISBN 0 88099 351-0 / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-351-7
$25 paper ISBN 0 88099 350-2 / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-350-0
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Heterodox Book Reviews
Keynes: The
Return of the Master
Dwight Garner reviews Robert Skidelsky, _Keynes: The Return of the
Master_, in the September 17, 2009 New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/18/books/18book.html
America’s
Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics
Donald E. Frey, _America’s Economic Moralists: A History of Rival
Ethics and Economics_. Albany, NY: State University of New York
Press, 2009. vii + 239 pp. $75 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-7914-9351-9.
Reviewed for EH.NET by
Samuel Gregg, Acton Institute.
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PhD studentship
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corporate financial institutions.
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THE HARVARD-NEWCOMEN FELLOWSHIP IN BUSINESS HISTORY, 2010–2011
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL
Announces a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Business History for $65,000
To be awarded for twelve months’ residence, study, and research at
Harvard Business School, July 1, 2010–June 30, 2011.
The fellowship is open to scholars who, within the last ten years,
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scholars to engage in research that will benefit from the resources
of Harvard Business School and the larger Boston scholarly
community. About two-thirds of the fellow’s time will be available
for research of his or her own choosing. A travel fund and a book
fund will be provided.
The second purpose is to provide an opportunity for the fellow to
participate in the activities of Harvard Business School.
Approximately one-third of the fellow’s time will be devoted to
school activities, including attendance of the Business History
Seminar, and working with faculty teaching the business history
courses offered in the MBA curriculum. The fellow is required to
research and write a case, under the direction of a senior faculty
member, to be used in one of the business history courses. Finally,
the fellow is encouraged to submit an article to Business History
Review during his or her year at the School.
Applicants should submit a CV, undergraduate transcript and
graduate-school record, thesis abstract, and writing sample (such as
an article or a book chapter). Applicants should also state the
topics, objectives, and design for the specific research to be
undertaken. Finally, applicants should indicate the names of three
people who will write references on their behalf. The three letters
of recommendation are to be submitted by the writers directly by
October 1, 2009. It is the responsibility of the applicant to
solicit these letters. The fellowship will be awarded and all
applicants notified by mid-January 2010. Hard copy materials
submitted with applications will be returned only if accompanied by
postage and a self-addressed return envelope.
Applications should be received no later than October 1, 2009 and
submitted to:
Materials should be submitted online to:
http://www.hbs.edu/research/faculty-recruiting/faculty-applicants.html.
If there are materials that can only be sent in hard copy, please
send them to:
Walter A. Friedman
Rock Center 104
Harvard Business School
Boston, MA 02163
e-mail: wfriedman@hbs.edu
Please direct your recommenders to visit:
http://www.hbs.edu/research/faculty-recruiting/recommenders.html
Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Women and minorities
are encouraged to apply.
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The 2009 FEE
Prizes in Austrian Economics
The Society for the Development of Austrian Economics is pleased to
announce that nominations are now open for the 2009 Foundation for
Economic Education Prizes for the best book and the best article
recently published in Austrian economics.
The following conditions apply:
1. Authors nominated must be members in good standing with the SDAE
(check the Society's website at
http://it.stlawu.edu/sdae/ for information on how to join).
2. The books and articles nominated must have been published between
January 1, 2007 and August 31, 2009.
3. Nominated articles should be emailed as an attachment or its URL
sent to Christopher Coyne –
chris.coyne@mail.wvu.edu.
4. Nominations for the book prize should include the title and all
other relevant information (publisher, date of publication, ISBN #)
and be sent to the above email address. Those nominating books need
not send copies. Edited volumes and short monographs are not
eligible for the award.
5. All nominations must be received no later than October 19, 2009.
6. Self-nominations will not be accepted.
Each prize comes with a cash award of $500 thanks to the generous
support of the Foundation for Economic Education. Winners will be
announced at the annual banquet of the SDAE, this year in San
Antonio, TX in conjunction with the Southern Economic Association
meetings from November 21 – 23, 2009.
Questions may be directed to Chris Coyne or by replying back to me.
Steve Horwitz
SDAE Secretary
CHOPE
Dear Colleagues,
The Center for the History of Political Economy at Duke has opened
the application process for the 2010-2011 academic year Fellowship
Program.
Information about the application process is available at our web
site, www.econ.duke.edu/CHOPE, and has been pasted in below. We
invite and encourage you to consider coming to Duke for a semester
or a year to work on your research project in the company of a
number of like-minded scholars. Please direct any questions you may
have to Bruce Caldwell,
Bruce.caldwell@duke.edu. We look forward to hearing from
you.
Click here for detailed
information.
Marx and the Global Economic
Crisis
Shaikh and McNally: "Marx and the Global Economic Crisis, Left
Forum, 2009 NYC"
http://tinyurl.com/ycmp6b3
Medical Research: A Beautiful
Business!
Marc-Andre Gagnon
Published in French in Le Devoir, September 4, 2009
Rough Translation into English – Carol Kushner
The New York Times and the PloS journal Medicine revealed earlier
this month how a ghostwriting system had been put in place by Wyeth
with the goal of promoting hormone therapy for menopausal women. For
a company, ghostwriting, (using phantom authors) consists of
producing a study favourable to its interests and then having a
recognized expert sign his or her name to it so that it becomes
published “as if” it had been produced independently. (cont.)
New Labor Forum
The Fall 2009 issue of New Labor Forum, a national labor journal
owned and edited by the Murphy Institute for Worker Education and
Labor Studies, City University of New York, proudly features two
articles (one by Queens College economist William Tabb and another
by international economic globalization expert Walden Bello) that
weigh in on the systemic breakdown of the capitalist system--and
what should replace it.
Within the same issue, you'll also be able to find: a series of
policy reform-oriented articles (addressing financial regulation,
health care, labor legislation, environmental policy, the housing
system, the social safety net, and work-family policy) that evaluate
Obama's first 200 days; a centennial retrospective of the NAACP and
the labor-civil rights relationship; and a discussion of the
soon-to-be launched Asia Floor Wage movement's strategy to empower
workers in the global supply chain.
New Labor Forum, published three times a year, is available at an
individual rate of $38/year, a student rate of $25/year, and an
institutional rate of $126/year. To subscribe, please visit the
journal's website at
www.newlaborforum.org, e-mail
newlaborforum@qc.edu,
or call 212-642-2029.
Research-based policy analysis
and commentary from leading economists
Dear All,
I would like to draw your attention to a discussion piece on how to
anticipate credit crises on VoxEU ("Research-based policy analysis
and commentary from leading economists" - and others, apparently)
Please have a look at
http://www.voxeu.org/index.php?q=node/4035.
Another comment piece based on this research was in the Financial
Times last month
(
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/452dc484-9bdc-11de-b214-00144feabdc0.html
)
I think both are of interest to heterodox economists as it shows how
heterodox views are now linking into mainstream debates.
The underlying paper is still a draft so comments are most welcome!
best wishes,
Dirk Bezemer
University of Groningen
www.rug.nl/staff/d.j.bezemer
G. PETITION: "SUPPORT THE
CLERSÉ RESEARCH DEPARTMENT AT LILLE UNIVERSITY"
Support the Clersé Research Department
(Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherche Sociologiques et
Économiques, meaning Lille Centre of Studies and Research in
Sociology and Economics)
On Monday 21 September, the University of Lille 1 (France) was
informed the intention of the scientific management of the InSHS –
the new department of the “Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique” (CNRS, meaning National Centre for Scientific
Research) dedicated to the management of research in “Sciences
Humaines et Sociales” (SHS, meaning Human and Social Sciences) – to
withdraw the Clersé from its status of “Unité Mixte de Recherche”
(UMR) and to place the laboratory into a status of “Formation de
Recherche en Évolution” (FRE).
The reasons for this “proposal” made by the scientific direction of
the InSHS are not really explained by it.
The only written report submitted to the direction of the laboratory
by section 36 of the CNRS refers to the “excellence” of the
laboratory and gives a very favourable opinion to maintain its
status of UMR, welcoming its interdisciplinarity. The report by the
“Agence d’Évaluation de la Recherche et de l’Enseignement Supérieur”
(AERES, meaning Research and Higher Education Evaluation Agency) is
also very favourable.
This probably explains why the board of SHS department, representing
all sections of SHS, has voted to 8 votes against the project of the
scientific management, and three abstentions. The management has yet
overridden and maintained its position.
We can not explain this. Pluralistic in its theoretical approaches,
and focused on the transdisciplinarity amongst social science, the
Clersé Research Department has been remarkably serving research in
social sciences during the last thirty years. It is nationally- and
internationally- recognized. It is invested in supporting training
of high level, often bi-disciplinary, and carries structural
projects like the young “Revue Française de Socio-Économie” (RFSE,
meaning French Journal of Socio-Economics). Its decommissioning as
FRE would be disastrous for the plurality of approaches in economics
in France and more generally for social sciences.
That is why we ask the scientific management of the InSHS to
reconsider its intentions with respect to tangible scientific
evidence available to it, and maintain the status of UMR to the
Clersé.
To express your support, thank you for sending as soon as possible a
message to the following address, simply stating in the text “I
support the Clersé” under your full names and institutional
affiliations:
soutien-clerse@univ-lille1.fr
Post Keynesian Economics Study
Group
I am pleased to announce that the 18 Post-Keynesian talks given at
the AHE conference in London in July can now be downloaded from our
website www.postkeynesian.net. There is a huge amount of varied
material here which I hope list-members will find of interest. The
sound recordings are very “live” and unedited but will I hope convey
a sense of being a fly on the wall to those who could not be there.
Please advise me of any technical faults.
The papers themselves are, as usual, available only to PKSG members
in order to preserve copyright.
We will shortly post the programme for the next workshop, which
takes place at SOAS on Friday 23 October.
Dr M G Hayes
Secretary, Post-Keynesian Economics Study Group
Measurement of Economic
Performance and Social Progress
Here is a link to the Report by the Commission on the Measurement of
Economic Performance and Social Progress. It includes discussions of
various initiatives on including ‘sustainability’ as part of
normal economic measurement (vs GDP as a stand-alone concept), and
also includes unpaid labour (thanks to Folbre and Agarwal).
http://www.stiglitz-sen-fitoussi.fr/en/index.htm
URPE REALITY TOUR:
WALKING THE COLOR LINE
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
January 2, 2010 2:00-4:00 pm
In The Souls of Black Folk, as he reflected on the history of the
South and the nation at the dawn of the 20th century, W. E. B. Du
Bois stated: “The Problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of
the color line.” Now that the twentieth century has concluded, it is
clear that Du Bois was right. The writings of Du Bois from his base
at Atlanta University will be the start for an interpretive
historical tour of the color line in Atlanta. Sites to be visited
include the Atlanta University complex where W. E. B. Du Bois wrote
The Souls of Black Folk and where the student protests that attacked
the color line in downtown restaurants in 1960 were organized and
marches begun; the County Courthouse, City Hall, and the Georgia
Capitol, all sites of segregation and protest; Auburn Avenue, the
center of black business; and the Martin Luther King National
Historic Site, including his tomb, birth home, the church where he
preached (Ebenezer Baptist), and the location where he had his
office as head of the SCLC (Prince Hall Mason’s Building). Our tour
leader will be Prof. Timothy Crimmins of Georgia State University.
Price: $25.00 or $15.00 for students. Send your check by December 1,
2009 to:
Hazel Dayton Gunn
Department of City & Regional Planning
106 W. Sibley Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853 USA
( hg18@cornell.edu )
Tour participants will be sent information on where to meet in
Atlanta in December.
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