From the Editor
When I started the
Heterodox Economics Newsletter in September
2004, I had no idea of how long it would last.
But after 92 issues, it is time for me to step
down. The new editors are Dr. Tae-Hee Jo and Dr.
Ted Schmidt who teach at Buffalo State College.
I have known both of them for many years and
they are active in heterodox activities. They
bring new energy to the Newsletter which
hopefully will result in making it even more
useful to its circa 4,000 subscribers, of which
33% are in the United States and Canada, 42% in
Europe (including the UK and Ireland), 12%
located south of the United States, and 13%
located in the rest of the world. And they also
bring the commitment to publish material that
potentially interests some, many, and/or all
heterodox economists. Tae-Hee and Ted will also
maintain the heterodox newsletter web site which
includes the Informational Directory for
Heterodox Economists as well as other material.
If you have any material you want put in the
Newsletter or if you want to make additions or
changes to the Directory, please send an e-mail
with the material to the new editors at
heterodoxnews@gmail.com. Part of the copy that
appears in the Newsletter comes from e-mailing
made by various heterodox associations and
organizations and publishers (I am on a lot of
e-mailing lists). If you want this to continue,
please add the above e-mail address to your
e-mail list.
Over the past five years the Newsletter and the
Directory have played a remarkable role in the
lives of heterodox economists. In the many
conferences I have attended, I always have a
couple of economists say to me how important the
Newsletter is to them—it makes them feel that
they are part of active community and not
isolated. This perhaps explains why each
Newsletter gets over 1,200 hits (which I am told
is very good). Others have told me that they
attended a very interesting conference that they
would not have heard of if it was not for the
Newsletter; and then there are others who got
hired for academic positions that they first saw
advertised in the Newsletter. In addition, the
Directory must also be important to heterodox
economists and their students, since it has
received nearly 4,000 hits since it was put
online fifteen months ago.
All of this was and is made possible with help
from friends. In the beginning, Ergun Meric
designed the Newsletter and made it possible. He
also developed the heterodox newsletter web site
and made possible to put the Directory online.
After receiving numerous requests to include
book reviews in the Newsletter, Fadhel Kaboub
stepped up to make it happen. Off and on over
the past five years, various UMKC graduate
students have help me with the Newsletter—most
recently Stephanie Sheldon and Xuan Pham have
contributed significantly to producing the
Newsletter. In addition, my department chair,
Jim Sturgeon, has provided support that freed up
time I needed to produce the Newsletter.
Finally, the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation
for the Progress of Humankind provided much
needed financial support.
The importance of the Newsletter to the
community of heterodox economists was not only
due to the information on conferences, jobs,
journals, books, and book reviews it contained.
There was also the more pro-active content that
appeared in “From the Editor”. Sometimes I
suggested that heterodox economists needed to
buy more heterodox books and subscribe to more
heterodox journals. I still think this is very
important, but if you cannot personally do so,
the next best thing is to have your
university/college library subscribe to the
journals and purchase the books. Both Routledge
and Edward Elgar have various heterodox book
series that you can get you libraries to
purchase. Other times I commented on research
assessment, journal and department rankings, and
discrimination; and this last Newsletter is no
different.
A week ago I received an e-mail from a Spanish
heterodox economist. He made two points. The
first is that to get recognition for their
economic research with regard to promotions and
professorial appoints, it is necessary to
publish in SSCI-listed economics journals. This
was put in place by the state about a decade
ago. It involves a national commission to which
individuals can apply to get recognition. The
members of the commission are appointed by the
state and increasingly include ‘market
fundamentalist’ mainstream economists. The
pressure to publish in SSCI economic journals
means that Spanish heterodox economists do not
have the luxury of sending their papers to
non-SSCI economics journals, such as ROSE, RRPE,
JOIE, ROPE, and many others. Initially any SSCI
publication was fine, but with the expansion of
the number of SSCI economics journals to 209,
only the top 50% are counted—which means that
publications in the CJE, JEI, JPKE, and the AJES
(along with lots of other mainstream journals)
are not really recognized as acceptable
research. Aside from the impact for promotion,
not publishing in the top 50% of the SSCI
journals has another consequence. When in a
debate with heterodox economists, the mainstream
market fundamentalists use the SSCI citation
impact factor rankings to dismiss their
arguments:
The Asociación Libre de Economía (ALDE) is an
association of Spanish professors of applied
economics working mainly in the field of Spanish
economics, a subject in economics degrees. At
its last meeting, the invited conference speaker
dealt with Spanish labor market and the proposal
for its reform introduced by a group of 100
economists most of them professing "market
fundamentalism". It is an important group of
Spanish economists mostly teaching in US
universities, but only a few of them have
expertise in labor market economics and the
Spanish labor market. Their main proposal is to
reduce the cost of dismissals and to reduce the
influence of labor bargaining; and they
legitimized their arguments by emphasizing that
they are the best Spanish economists because
they publish in highly ranked SSCI journals. To
challenge this proposal, a group of 700
professors not just economists but also
professors of labor law, trade unionists and
other experts signed an alternative "manifesto"
criticizing the "Group of 100" proposal. The
reaction of the "Group of 100" was to state that
they publish in SSCI neo-classical refereed
journals whiles those in the "Group of 700" do
not. Thus they are qualified economists and the
Group of 700 are not, which means that the
latter’s proposal is not legitimate. It should
be noted that the "Group of 100" proposal was
drafted in an economic institute (which is on
the internet), call FEDEA, which is funded by
the main Spanish banks including the Bank of
Spain. The organizers of the ALDE meeting
invited a member of the "Group of 100" to speak,
but without initially providing time for debate
and without inviting a spokesperson on behalf of
the "Group of 700". During his presentation, the
Group of 100 spokesperson discredited the
signers of the alternative manifesto arguing
that they have vested interests in the current
system because they are working in law firms or
are getting money from the current system; and
the trade unions are the same since they are
only interested in employees not in those on the
dole. When I forced a debate giving empirical
data (simply statistics showing that dismissal
costs are irrelevant, no more than 2% of total
labor cost) and quoting some papers, one of them
published in Oxford Review of Economic Policy,
his answer was "I don't know that journal, but I
sure it is not in a good position in SSCI” [it
happens to be ranked 74th out of 209] instead of
trying to debate the findings.
A number of points can be taken from this.
First, heterodox economists need to cite
heterodox journals (whether in the SSCI or not)
more extensively in their journal articles. In
fact, as a whole, in their articles heterodox
economists cite mainstream journals more often
than heterodox journals (and mainstream journals
simply do not cite heterodox journals), which
give the mainstream journals a higher ranking
relative to heterodox journals. Thus, perhaps a
reduction in the citation of mainstream journals
would in the long term have a positive impact on
the rankings heterodox journals. Second,
heterodox economists should become more involved
in the literature of the ranking of journals and
departments and in the research assessment
literature. Constructing alternative rankings
and critically evaluating national and local
research assessment activities is one step in
the right direct. A second step would be to
query your favorite heterodox association and/or
heterodox journal editor why they are so
reluctant to deal with or publish articles on
these topics. A third point is that heterodox
economists need to be more active in challenging
the dominance and anti-intellectual behavior of
mainstream economics and economists. Not being
respectable, standing up and just saying NO,
pursuing heterodox research, and working with
and through groups that are not part of the
social-political-economic elite to promote
better social-economics policies that benefit
the non-elite are just some of the things
heterodox economists can do. Of course, such
behavior is frown upon, discouraged by the
critics of heterodox economics—they would rather
you be docile, embrace conformity, and behave as
mainstream economist do. All I can do is to urge you to
not crave respectability, but to develop a
content-based heterodox economic theory and
associated economic policy that contributes to
building a better world out of the shell of the
old.
Yours for Heterodox Economics (and the
revolution),
Fred Lee
In
this issue:
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Call for Papers |
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- Oeconomicus
- The Effects of Recessions and Recoveries on the Well-being
of Workers and Families Small Grants Competition
- “THE EFFECT OF CRISES ON DISTRIBUTION”
- Rosa Luxemburg’s Political Economy: Contributions to
Contemporary Political Theory and Practice
12th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics
- TWENTY YEARS OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: THE PAST AND THE FUTURE
OF THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX
- 3rd International ICAPE Conference
- Beyond the Crisis - IIPPE Conference 2010 in Crete
- FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL
SCIENCES
- 11th Annual Summer Institute for the Preservation of the
History of Economics
- Basic Income at a Time of Economic Upheaval: A Path to
Justice and Stability?
- SASE 22nd Annual Conference
- 3rd PhD Conference in Economics 2010
- HOW CLASS WORKS - 2010
- Sixth Marx International Congress
- 23rd Annual Conference of the History of Economic Thought
Society of Australia
- HES 2010 Conference Call for Papers
- Revue de la Régulation, Capitalisme, Institutions,
Pouvoirs
- The Origin of Paper Money in Theory and Practice
- PCPE 2010
- Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political Economy
- Power & Knowledge
- ESHET Young Scholar Session
- HOPE Conference 2011 |
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Conferences, Seminars and Lectures |
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- THE NEW ECONOMICS
AS 'MAINSTREAM' ECONOMICS
- The Effects of Recessions and Recoveries on the Well-being
of Workers and Families Small Grants Competition
- 2010 Annual Meeting of the Society of Socio-Economists and
Socio-Economics
- SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL, CULTURAL,
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
- The Transformation of Money into Capital
- CAMBRIDGE KEYNES LECTURE 2010
- ADVANCE CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: KEYNES SEMINAR LIVE
- HES Sessions Program at ASSA 2010
- The Pink Tide: Reconfiguring politics, power and political
economy in the Americas?
- A esquerdização das Américas: Poder, reconfiguração e
economia política?
- La Ola de Izquerdizacion: Reconfigurando La política, el
poder y la economía política en las Américas?
- The Crisis in Europe |
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Job Postings for Heterodox Economists |
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- Franklin &
Marshall College
- PostDoc in Technology Governance
- Lancaster University
- University of Greenwich
- The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
- Columbia College Chicago |
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Heterodox Conference Papers and
Reports and Articles |
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- Keynes Seminar
- A Transformational Conception of Evolutionary
- Is Development Back in the Doha Round?
- Unions and the Crisis: Ways Ahead?
- A THREATENING LINK BETWEEN WORLD ECONOMIC GROWTH AND
ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONCENTRATIONS
- One million climate jobs now! |
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Heterodox Journals and Newsletters |
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- CASE Newsletter
- Research Network of Innovation
- Nova Economia
- GDAE News
- IIPPE in brief
- Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies
(FMM), Newsletter No 00-09
- International Journal of Political Economy
- LEVY NEWS
- The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
- RENEWAL
- IDEAs
- The Friends of Associative Economics Bulletin
- GDAE
- CDPR
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Heterodox Books and Book Series |
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- Macroeconomic Theory and Macroeconomic
Pedagogy
- Heterodoxe Ökonomie
- Corporate Power and Ownership in Contemporary Capitalism
- The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism
- Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy
- Essays in Institutional Economics and Political Economy:
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
- Privatisation against the European Social Model
- Ethics and Economics
- Theories Of Social Capital: Researchers Behaving Badly
- Dialectics of Class Struggle in the Global Economy
- Microeconomics in Context and Microeconomics in Context
- The Life and Times of Raúl Prebisch, 1901
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Heterodox Book Reviews |
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- Economia Institucional y Evolutiva
Contemporanea |
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Heterodox Web Sites and Associations |
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- The Global Labour University
- Proctereconomics
- New Deal 2.0
- King's College London Reading Capital Society
- Modern Economic and Social History Seminar
- The Chicago Political Economy Group |
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For
Your Information |
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- Failure to Moderate Excess
- Marxist Analysis of the Crisis
- Early Christians lived by communist principles
- Tristan Milder
- EuroMemorandum 2009/10
- Was Henry George Right After All? (A shaggy dog story)
- Cleaning house at the WTO
- National Conference to Create Living Wage Jobs
- The Bhopal Library
- CSRC presents: 'The Roots of the Economic Crisis: Critical
Perspectives'
- Employee Free Choice Act
- Why Global Poverty? Think Again
- Why Are We in Afghanistan?
- Joerg Huffschmid |
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Call for Papers
Oeconomicus
An all-student interdisciplinary journal of economic issues
Oeconomicus is an interdisciplinary journal of economic issues
written, refereed, edited and published by current undergraduate,
M.A., and Ph.D. students in the social sciences. The focus of the
journal is on critical or heterodox approaches to issues of economic
methodology and theory, history of economic thought, economic
history, political economy, and economic policy. All heterodox
traditions within the social sciences including- but not limited to-
Post Keynesian, Marxist, Institutionalist, Austrian, Feminist, and
Poststructuralist/Postmodern—are welcomed in the journal.
Oeconomicus is sponsored by the Economics Club at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) and is published annually.
We are currently soliciting submissions for our 2009-2010 issue and
welcome students at all levels to submit full-length articles, book
reviews, interviews or comments. Submissions should be no more that
5000 words and in MS Word format. Submissions and enquiries should
be sent to the editors at
DevinTRafferty@umkc.edu. The deadline for submissions is
February 1st, 2010. Three prizes of $200 each will be awarded to the
three best submissions. For further information about detailed
instructions for authors, the journal, the Economics Club and/or the
UMKC Economic Department please visit our website
http://cas.umkc.edu/econ/Oeconomicus/.
The Effects of
Recessions and Recoveries on the Well-being of Workers and Families
Small Grants Competition
Deadline: January 29, 2010
The NPC seeks to fund research that will broad and/or deepen our
understanding of the effects of the recessions and/or impact of
increased federal spending through the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (ARRA) or through other programs initiatives on the
well-being of workers and families. Learn more...http://npc.umich.edu/opportunities/research_grants/2010_poverty_grants/index.php
“THE EFFECT OF
CRISES ON DISTRIBUTION”
Economists and the public discussion have so far failed to focus on
what the recent global crisis may spell for the distributional
consequences. It is with this in mind, that the Economic Student
Union at The New School for Social Research would like to invite you
to present abstracts for a conference on “The Effect of Crises on
Distribution.”
The conference is to be held on March 5, 2010 at The New School
University, New York and is co-sponsored by the Economic Student
Union, the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy
Analysis (SCEPA), and the Department of Economics. Major themes of
the conference include the effects of historical and current
economic crises on the distribution of income and wealth, labor,
capital and finance, gender, global power relations, and the
policies used and required to address these issues.
Speakers at the conference will include scholars from academia and
multilateral organizations. We look forward to papers from a variety
of backgrounds to stimulate debate
and improve our understanding of distributional issues Selected
papers from the conference proceedings and from the submitted papers
will be published as a special issue of the New School Economic
Review. Please submit abstracts via e-mail to
nssreconconference@gmail.com on or before December 15,
2009. Abstracts should include: Paper Title, Full Name, Affiliation
(Institution), Current Position, and an email address. Submissions
will go through a double blind review process. Space is limited so
early submission is suggested.
We look forward to your contributions.
Sincerely,
Lacey Keller
Conference Organizer
kelll921@newschool.edu
Rosa Luxemburg’s
Political Economy: Contributions to Contemporary Political Theory
and Practice
A Special Issue of Socialist Studies: the Journal of the Society for
Socialist Studies
Fall 2010
Since her assassination, Rosa Luxemburg has been treated as an icon
while her political and theoretical work is largely forgotten,
neglected, or rejected. Recently, though, David Harvey used her
ideas on capitalist expansion to explain the new imperialism. Other
elements of her work are promising for socialist studies and the
left, today. Her analysis of mass strikes in Russia in 1905, for
example, may cast new light on workers’ struggles in China.
Luxemburg’s critical discussion of nations’ right to
self-determination inform, or ought to inform, contemporary Latin
American struggles against imperialist domination. Her writings on
mass strikes, parties and trade unions, like her better-known
writings on ‘social reform or revolution’, offer insights into the
role of (weakly) organized labour in political change. Although
Luxemburg didn’t engage much with women’s issues directly, her work
and its reception nonetheless have an important gender dimension. In
particular, feminist women scholars have been quicker to recognize
Luxemburg’s contributions to socialist political economy than their
male colleagues.
This call invites articles on Luxemburg’s political economy,
assessing her contributions to socialist debates in light of current
political challenges. Papers may consider the implications of her
work for contemporary anti-imperialist struggle, the dynamics of
worker organization and progressive political change, and feminist
scholarship within the left, or any other topic concerning
Luxemburg’s theoretical and political contributions to socialist
political economy and political struggle. In keeping with the
Socialist Studies mandate, perspectives from all disciplines are
welcome.
Deadline: May 30, 2010. Please see:
www.socialiststudies.com
for information about submissions (word count, format, etc.).
Contact:
Ingo Schmidt:
ingos@athabascau.ca , special issue coordinator
12th Conference of the Association
for Heterodox Economics
The Economy of Tomorrow
7-10 July, 2010
Hosted by the Research Unit in Theoretical and Applied Economics –
GREThA (UMR CNRS 5113)
Université de Bordeaux, France
http://www.hetecon.net
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.
Long run processes have exacerbated the contradictions of the world
economic system leading to a crisis in all spheres including social,
political, financial and environmental. The economic crisis that
opened in 2008 increases our awareness that economies and societies
must change radically in all these spheres in the 21st Century,
though views of the changes required, and their depth, will differ.
This conference will provide a forum for discussion on current and
future changes needed in developed and developing economies in all
these spheres. The following areas, closely intertwined in theory
and in policy action, are of special interest but this is not an
exhaustive list and do not preclude other topics approached with a
holistic perspective:
1. Social aspects: for example income distribution, labour markets,
pensions, the nature of work, poverty, human development, welfare;
2. Financial aspects: for example financialization, capital
mobility, corporate governance, taxes on international monetary
transactions, financial innovations and possible reforms;
3. Environmental aspects: for example models of production and
consumption, eco-innovations, environmental governance, alleviation
or adaptation to global warming, and new cities;
4. North-South relations: for example the trajectories of emerging
countries, potential for a new world order, international trade,
development aid, development cooperation;
5. The reform of economics: for example pluralism in research and
teaching, evaluation and metrics, innovation and creativity, and the
relation between economists and decision-makers.
The conference invites submissions on or before 7th March 2010 which
either accord with the conference title; or which otherwise deal
with topics of ongoing interest in heterodox economics. To download
the flyer in
pdf
doc formats.
TWENTY YEARS OF
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: THE PAST AND THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
INDEX
St Edmund's College, University of Cambridge, UK -28 and 29 January
2010
The Von Hugel Institute/Capability and Sustainability Network,
University of Cambridge, in collaboration with the United Nations
Development Programme/HDRO, invites researchers from different
disciplines and parts of the world to submit papers on the history
of Human Development and its future prospects. The general aim of
this workshop is twofold: to stimulate further understanding of the
last twenty years of the Human Development perspective and to
examine proposals for improving its future prospects.
Papers examining the following topics are especially welcome,
namely:
1. The added-value of the Human Development Approach, in comparison
to past and contemporary perspectives, such as Basic Needs,
Happiness, Sustainable Development or Participatory approaches,
among others.
2. Measuring human development through quantitative indices, such as
the HDI, HPIs, GEM and GDI, as well as proposals for new indicators.
3. Assessment of progress in human development in the world over the
past fifty years.
4. The policy implications of the human development approach, with
particular emphasis on how adopting an HD approach affects the
design of development strategies.
5. What should policies for human development look like in the
Twenty-First Century? What should be the role of international
organizations in fostering human development?
The workshop will consist of two key-note addresses delivered by Dr
Francisco Rodríguez, Head of Research of the Human Development
Report Office
(UNDP) and by Sir Richard Jolly, accompanied by a number of sessions
to discuss the issues raised above.
- The deadline for submission of paper proposals is *21 DECEMBER
2009 *and full papers will be due on *21 JANUARY 2010 *.
- Paper proposals should include the title of the paper, a summary
of no more than 1000 words and postal and e-mail addresses.
Proposals should be sent to Flavio Comim (
flavio.comim@undp.org ).
The papers will be assessed by a Scientific Committee. Notice of
acceptance of papers will be sent by 29 DECEMBER 2010.
*WORKSHOP FEES
Full fee: £120
Reduced rate: £ 45 for students
The conference fee includes lunches, dinners, refreshments served at
breaks during the two days of the conference and access to papers.
Seven bursars of US$ 300, kindly offered by UNDP/HDRO, will be
available for accepted proposals from developing countries, which
will also be free of workshop fees. People who wish to be considered
for those funds should apply at the submission of their paper
proposals. Accommodation in College rooms and hotels, charged
separately from conference fees, will also be available.
3rd International ICAPE Conference
The International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in
Economics (ICAPE) announces its 3rd International Conference:
“Failing Economies, Failing Economics: Rebooting Economics after the
Crash”
3-5 June 2010
Western New England College, Springfield, Massachusetts
Click
here for detailed information.
Beyond the Crisis - IIPPE Conference
2010 in Crete
The 1st IIPPE conference to be held in Rethymnon, Crete, 10-12
September 2010. The deadline for submission of paper summaries is 31
March 2010, although earlier submission is advised. For all relevant
information, please see the
attached document. In case of any questions, you can contact us
at
ippe@soas.ac.uk.
FIFTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
INTERDISCIPLINARY SOCIAL SCIENCES
Cambridge University, United Kingdom
2-5 August 2010
http://www.SocialSciencesConference.com/
The International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences
examines the nature of disciplinary practices, and the
interdisciplinary practices that arise in the context of 'real
world' applications. It also interrogates what constitutes 'science'
in a social context, and the connections between the social and
other sciences.
As well as an impressive line-up of international main speakers, the
conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium
presentations by social science researchers, practitioners and
teachers. We would particularly like to invite you to respond to the
conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters may choose to submit written
papers for publication in the fully refereed International Journal
of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences. If you are unable to attend
the conference in person, virtual registrations are also available
which allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible
publication in this fully refereed academic journal, as well as the
option to submit a presentation to the conference YouTube channel.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title and
short abstract) is 10 December 2009. Future deadlines will be
announced on the conference website after this date. Proposals are
reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full details of the
conference, including an online proposal submission form, may be
found at the conference website -
http://www.SocialSciencesConference.com/.
11th Annual Summer Institute for the
Preservation of the History of Economics
The 11th annual Summer Institute for the Preservation of the History
of Economics will be held at the University of Richmond, June
20-23rd, 2010. The Institute offers a forum for graduate students
and distinguished scholars to present work in progress or more
polished papers to a lively audience. Our mission is to help young
scholars connect in a workshop setting with young and eminent
scholars in the field. Past speakers include Brad Bateman, Mauro
Boianovsky, Marcel Boumans, James Buchanan, Dave Colander, Evelyn
Forget, Dan Hammond, Samuel Hollander, Kevin Hoover, M. Ali Khan,
Anthony Laden, David Levy, Deirdre McCloskey, Steve Medema, Phil
Mirowski, Leon Montes, Mary Morgan, Maria Pia Paganelli, Sandra
Peart, Malcolm Rutherford, Warren Samuels, Eric Schliesser, Gordon
Tullock, Anthony Waterman, and Roy Weintraub.
For the 2010 session, we invite proposals on any topic. We are
always looking for new participants and invite recommendations and
submissions from any and all interested parties. With participation
by Steven Durlauf and Ali Khan, we anticipate organizing a session
on the state of economic science in the light of the recent
financial crisis.
Papers on the concerns of Henry Simons and the Ordo Liberal school
about the stability of capitalism would be of particular interest.
It will be, one might note, the 100th anniversary of the publication
of Wicksteed's Common Sense of Political Economy.
As in past years, we anticipate that the Institute will be supported
by funding for modest honoraria. Participation by upper-level
undergraduate and graduate students in economics or related
disciplines will also be encouraged. The History of Economics
Society assists with conference expenses for students. Conference
events include good coffee (we aim to improve) and continental
breakfasts, lunches, as well as one or two working dinners. Details
about travel, housing and other matters will be posted early in
2010.
Please send expressions of interest, topics of interest, paper
proposals or queries to:
Sandra J. Peart, Dean, Jepson School of Leadership Studies
speart@richmond.edu
and
David M. Levy, Professor of Economics, George Mason University,
DavidMLevy@gmail.com.
Basic Income at a Time of Economic
Upheaval: A Path to Justice and Stability?
A joint conference of the USBIG Network and BIEN Canada
Hosted by Centre de recherche en ethique de l’Universite de Montreal
(CREUM)
University of Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Thursday & Friday, April 15-16, 2010
Times of economic turmoil raise difficult questions but also offer
radical new opportunities to rethink the economic fabric of our
society. The current global economic recession is no exception. The
political challenge is how to respond to economic decline in a way
that opens a new future, while not leaving behind those citizens
directly affected by the global downturn.
This two-day conference examines whether instituting an
unconditional Basic Income Guarantee (BIG) as an economic floor,
aimed at preventing those affected by the current economic upheavals
from falling below what any modern democracy would consider a decent
standard of living, constitutes a desirable and feasible option in
Canada or the United States.
The conference will feature a keynote talk by Prof. Guy Standing
(University of Bath), a leading expert on basic income, economic
development and the labour market, and a special roundtable with
political experts and policy activists.
The conference will be hosted by the Centre de recherche en ethique
de l’Universite de Montreal (CREUM—The Center for Research in Ethics
at the University of Montreal). This event will be the first joint
conference of the two North American affiliates of the Basic Income
Earth Network (BIEN)—the US Basic Income Guarantee network (USBIG)
and BIEN Canada. The conference aims to compare the prospects and
challenges faced by the BIG proposal in the context of both Canada
and the US, two countries that share many similarities and yet are
profoundly different in terms of their economic, social and
political background.
The organizers invite panel presentations from academic scholars,
practitioners and policy activists on a wide variety of topics
dealing with the challenges of designing, promoting or instituting a
BIG in the current economic climate in Canada or the US. Priority
will be given to papers that explicitly discuss BIG in the context
of either Canada or the US, or that compare the distinct prospects
in both countries.
The main language of the conference is English, but the organizers
will try to accommodate French speakers as much as possible.
To submit a proposal, email a title and short abstract to
bigmontreal2010@gmail.com
by Friday 15 January.
The official call for papers and further information are posted on
the BIGMontreal website at
http://bigmontreal.wordpress.com/ , which can also be reached by
link for the USBIG website (
www.usbig.net ).
Admission is free. Everyone is welcome to attend, but
pre-registration is required. Details about registration and other
aspects of the conference will be announced on the conference
website. If you have any additional questions, please contact the
conference organizer: Jurgen De Wispelaere at
bigmontreal2010@gmail.com.
SASE 22nd Annual Conference
June 24-26, 2010
Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
www.sase.org
One year after a highly successful and thought-provoking conference
in Paris on Capitalism in Crisis, SASE turns its attention to an
issue underpinning current debates on our global economy and
society. This year, the annual meeting will focus on emerging forms
of transnational governance – public, private, and hybrid – in the
global economy, examining its development, dynamics, impact, and
implications.
In Philadelphia: Eric Helleiner takes on money and global
governance; Donald MacKenzie examines financial models, economic
agents, and markets; Saskia Sassen looks at global cities….
And what about you? Click
here
to submit your paper or session proposal and join the conversation.
SASE’s diverse research networks and conference sub-themes offer an
international, interdisciplinary forum to discuss ideas and raise
questions on the cutting edge of your field. Click
here for more information.
Submission deadline: January 31, 2010. This includes applications
for student stipends and travel grants. Click
here for submission guidelines and more.
As for location… Steeped in history, the cradle of American
democracy, Philadelphia is a major crossroads on the East Coast, at
the heart of the American academic scene with fast and easy
transport to New York City and Washington, DC. In the immortal words
of W.C. Fields: “On the whole, I’d rather be in Philadelphia.”
SASE President: Jonathan Zeitlin
Program Chairs: Glenn Morgan and Marc Schneiberg
Local Organizer: Richard Deeg
3rd PhD Conference in Economics 2010
Call for Papers
May 13-14th, 2010
Athens
The Department of Economics and the University of Athens Doctoral
Program in Economics (UADPhilEcon) at the National and Kapodistrian
University of Athens invite PhD Students and Junior Researchers, in
Economics and related disciplines from all around the world to
submit papers for presentation at the 3rd PhD Conference in
Economics 2010. Research papers to be presented may relate to all
fields of economics, both theoretical and applied. Researchers
interested in applying must send an abstract of no more than 200
words. The document submitted should additionally include contact
information (name, affiliation, phone number, e-mail address), 3-4
keywords and JEL classification codes. All the above necessary
information must be attached in a single PDF or Word file, sent to
econphdconference@gmail.com.
The deadline for submitting the abstracts is February 7th, 2010.
Notification of acceptance will have been announced by mid-March
2010.
The deadline for submitting the final paper is mid-April 2010.
Papers and presentations must be in English.
No registration or participation fee will be required.
Please do not hesitate to contact with any member of the organizing
committee for any questions.
- Georgalos Konstantinos:
kgeorgal@econ.uoa.gr
- Kucuk Selcan:
skucuk@econ.uoa.gr
- Magonis George:
gmagonis@econ.uoa.gr
- Valsamopoulos Fotios:
fvalsamop@econ.uoa.gr
As every year this conference is devoted to the memory of the PhD
student Vassilis Patsatzis.
For more information check:
www.uadphilecon.gr
For more information about the conference, please visit
http://www.uadphilecon.gr/UA/content/en/Article.aspx?office=17&folder=782&article=2213
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 according to the guidelines below.
Purpose and orientation: The conference seeks to explore ways in
which an explicit recognition of class helps to understand the
social world in which we live, and ways in which analysis of society
can deepen our understanding of class as a social relationship.
Presentations should take as their point of reference the lived
experience of class; proposed theoretical contributions should be
rooted in and illuminate social realities. Presentations are welcome
from people outside academic life when they sum up social experience
in a way that contributes to the themes of the conference. Formal
papers will be welcome but are not required. All presentations
should be accessible to an interdisciplinary audience.
Conference themes: The conference welcomes proposals for
presentations that advance our understanding of any of the following
themes.
The mosaic of class, race, and gender. To explore how class shapes
racial, gender, and ethnic experience and how different racial,
gender, and ethnic experiences within various classes shape the
meaning of class.
Class, power, and social structure. To explore the social content of
working, middle, and capitalist classes in terms of various aspects
of power; to explore ways in which class and structures of power
interact, at the workplace and in the broader society.
Class and community. To explore ways in which class operates outside
the workplace in the communities where people of various classes
live.
Class in a global economy. To explore how class identity and class
dynamics are influenced by globalization, including experience of
cross-border organizing, capitalist class dynamics, international
labor standards.
Middle class? Working class? What's the difference and why does it
matter? To explore the claim that the U.S. is a middle class society
and contrast it with the notion that the working class is the
majority; to explore the relationships between the middle class and
the working class, and between the middle class and the capitalist
class.
Class, public policy, and electoral politics. To explore how class
affects public policy, with special attention to health care, the
criminal justice system, labor law, poverty, tax and other economic
policy, housing, and education; to explore the place of electoral
politics in the arrangement of class forces on policy matters.
Class and culture: To explore ways in which culture transmits and
transforms class dynamics.
Pedagogy of class. To explore techniques and materials useful for
teaching about class, at K-12 levels, in college and university
courses, and in labor studies and adult education courses.
How to submit proposals for How Class Works – 2010 Conference
Proposals for presentations must include the following information:
a) title; b) which of the eight conference themes will be addressed;
c) a maximum 250 word summary of the main points, methodology, and
slice of experience that will be summed up; d) relevant personal
information indicating institutional affiliation (if any) and what
training or experience the presenter brings to the proposal; e)
presenter's name, address, telephone, fax, and e-mail address. A
person may present in at most two conference sessions. To allow time
for discussion, sessions will be limited to three twenty-minute or
four fifteen-minute principal presentations. Sessions will not
include official discussants. Proposals for poster sessions are
welcome. Presentations may be assigned to a poster session.
Proposals for sessions are welcome. A single session proposal must
include proposal information for all presentations expected to be
part of it, as detailed above, with some indication of willingness
to participate from each proposed session member.
Submit proposals as hard copy by mail to the How Class Works - 2010
Conference, Center for Study of Working Class Life, Department of
Economics, SUNY, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384 or as an e-mail
attachment to
michael.zweig@stonybrook.edu.
Timetable: Proposals must be received by December 14, 2009.
Notifications will be mailed on January 19, 2010. The conference
will be at SUNY Stony Brook June 3- 5, 2010. Conference registration
and housing reservations will be possible after February 15, 2010.
Details and updates will be posted at
http://www.workingclass.sunysb.edu.
Conference coordinator:
Michael Zweig
Director, Center for Study of Working Class Life
Department of Economics
State University of New York
Stony Brook, NY 11794-4384
631.632.7536
michael.zweig@stonybrook.edu
Sixth Marx International Congress
Paris (Sorbonne) et Nanterre (Université de Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La
Défense)
September 22/25, 2010
CRISES, REVOLTS, UTOPIAS
This message is devoted to the organization of the Economic Section
of the congress, whose coordinators are:
Gérard DUMENIL, 39 rue d'Estienne d'Orves, 92260 Fontenay-aux-Roses,
France
gerard.dumenil@u-paris10.fr
Dominique LEVY, Cnrs-Pse, 48 bd Jourdan, 75014 Paris, France
dominique.levy@ens.fr
Information concerning the organization of the congress is gradually
made available on Actuel Marx’s site, at the following address:
http://netx.u-paris10.fr/actuelmarx/cm6/index6.htm
As during earlier congresses, Economics will probably be an
important section. During the Congress V, it gathered about 70
panelists, within one plenary session and 16 workshops. The official
language of the congress is French, although we can normally make a
translation into English available for several plenary sessions. For
Economics, we will do our best to set up sessions in English and
Spanish, according to the number of panelists. Reviews or groups of
investigation can organize workshops of their own. The theme of the
congress suggests multidisciplinary approaches (Economics,
Sociology, Politics).
Call
for papers (Download
French and
Spanish)
Applications must be sent before March 31, 2010
People willing to participate with a paper to be presented in a
panel are asked to send a proposal of one page maximum, before the
end of March 2010. We will inform the applicants before the end of
April of the list of selected papers. We can, however, send letters
of invitation to those willing to receive such a document as soon as
possible (but such letters will not imply the acceptance of the
proposal).
Sixth Marx International Congress
Paris (Sorbonne) et Nanterre (Université de Paris-Ouest-Nanterre-La
Défense)
September 22/25, 2010
23rd Annual Conference of the History
of Economic Thought Society of Australia
The Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the History of Economic
Thought Society of Australia is to be held 7-9 July 2010, at the
University of Sydney, Sydney. There will be a welcome reception on
the evening of 6 July.
The distinguished visitor to give the keynote speech to the
conference will be Professor Harald Hagemann, University of
Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. Harald has a most distinguished CV
with important contributions to the history of economic thought as
well as to economic theory. Harald is the current President of the
European Society of the History of Economic Thought.
Abstracts for papers to the conference can be submitted up to 30
April 2010, though there is always some leeway given beyond this
date. It is anticipated that the webpage for the conference will be
set up by the New Year, which will provide all the important
information.
HES 2010 Conference Call for Papers
http://hes2010.syr.edu/email-callforpapers.html
The 2010 meetings of the History of Economics Society will be held
at the Syracuse University over June 25-28. Please join us, and add
your voice to the discourse by submitting a paper or proposing a
session at http://hes2010.syr.edu
The Distinguished Lecture will be delivered by Nancy Folbre. She
will be speaking on "Greed, Lust and Gender: The Rhetoric of Self
Interest in Political Economy".
Information on transportation, accommodations, and area attractions
is also available at
http://hes2010.syr.edu.
Registration information will be posted in due course
If you encounter any problems will paper/session submission or have
any other questions about the conference, please email me at
HES2010@syr.edu
Revue de la Régulation, Capitalisme,
Institutions, Pouvoirs
Bonjour,
Vous trouverez ci joint l'Appel à contribution de la Revue de la
régulation, Capitalisme, Institutions, Pouvoirs
«
Crise économique, nouvelle donne pour les sciences économiques ?
»
Réponses souhaitée pour le 15 mars
regulation@revues.org ;
http://regulation.revues.org
Il n’a échappé à personne, et P. Krugman s’en est fait largement
l’écho, que nombre d’économistes n’ont pas vu venir la crise. Pour
autant, on ne compte plus les conférences, déclarations, entretiens
de ces mêmes professionnels pour tirer les leçons de la crise et
identifier et corriger les « dysfonctionnements » qui en sont
responsables.
La Revue de la Régulation propose de revenir sur ce paradoxe en
cherchant à comprendre comment la structuration de la discipline a
pu contribuer à cette situation, aussi bien dans son organisation
interne (modes de production et de diffusion des savoirs, règles de
fonctionnements et d’évaluation, etc.) que dans ses rapports
complexes avec d’autres disciplines (sociologie, histoire, science
politique, mathématiques etc.) et ses liens avec les mondes
politiques, médiatiques ou des affaires. Elle entend également
mettre en perspective les reconfigurations de la discipline qui ont
pris place et celles qui se dessinent aujourd’hui.
Dans une perspective résolument pluraliste et pluridisciplinaire
(science studies, sociologie de la connaissance et des professions,
analyse de réseaux, histoire de la pensée économique, histoire des
sciences, épistémologie, etc.), les thèmes suivants – la liste n’est
pas exhaustive – retiendront plus particulièrement notre attention :
• En quoi l’usage de certaines méthodologies et certains
modèles a-t-il pu contribuer à la cécité ou à la myopie relative de
la discipline ? En quoi ces outils et ces usages (statut des données
empiriques, modalités d’administration de la preuve, mise en lumière
des limites de validité des modèles, etc.) sont-ils spécifiques aux
sciences économiques, notamment par rapport aux sciences physiques,
biologiques ou aux autres sciences sociales ?
• En quoi l’évolution de l’enseignement de l’économie
(technicisation, marginalisation de l’histoire économique ou de la
pensée par exemple) a-t-elle pu contribuer à cette situation ?
• Quels rapports l’économie comme discipline entretient-elle
avec les autres disciplines (impérialisme, ignorance, association) ?
En quoi ces rapports ont-ils influé sur sa capacité à comprendre le
réel ? La place croissante de l’analyse institutionnelle, du droit,
de la psychologie cognitive ou des sciences neuronales augure-t-elle
de nouveaux objets d’analyse, préfigure-t-elle un redécoupage des
frontières de la discipline ?
• La structuration des sciences économiques en « petits mondes
» fermés, (universités, labo, revues de courant...) laisse-t-elle
une place suffisante au débat, à la critique et finalement au
dialogue entre les différents courants de pensée ?
• De quelle manière les règles d’évaluation et de valorisation
des connaissances (chercheurs, revues, labo) jouent-elles ? Comment
ont évolué les institutions de la profession ? et quelle est la
capacité de la discipline à innover et se renouveler ?
• En quoi les liens de certains économistes avec la « vie des
affaires » (Conseil d’administration, directoires…) mais aussi les
instances gouvernementales (Conseil d’Analyse Economique par exemple)
ou les médias ont-ils influé sur leurs prises de position académique
et leur pouvoir dans la discipline ?
Les contributions à ce numéro devront être envoyées avant le 15 mars
regulation@revues.org
http://regulation.revues.org
Pour le comité de rédaction, Thomas Lamarche
The Origin of Paper Money in Theory
and Practice
Hosted by the Economics Department City University London 8-9 April
2010
Call for Papers
Paper and fiat monies have been used as means of exchange for many
centuries, and their circulation has been accompanied by the
emergence of a series of theories attempting to explain the dilemmas
that they pose. The objective of this workshop is to explore and
illuminate the origin and acceptance of paper money and paper
monetary systems. We will therefore focus on the development of
monetary systems and monetary theory within the context of paper
money by combining empirical historical research with research on
the history of economic theory specifically on money and credit.
Abstracts of not more than 400 words should be sent to the workshop
organizers by 15
December 2009.
Workshop Organizers:
Claudia de Lozanne Jefferies: Economics Department, City University
London.
E-mail:
claudia.jefferies.1@city.ac.uk
Anders Ögren: EHFF – Institute for Economic and Business History
Research at the
Stockholm School of Economics and EconomiX at the Université de
Paris Ouest Nanterre La
Défense.
E-mail: anders.ogren@hhs.se
PCPE 2010
Prague Conference on Political Economy
New Perspectives in Austrian Economics and Political Economy of
Freedom
March 19-21, 2010
Conference papers are to be submitted to Pavel Ryska (pcpe.director
(at) gmail.com).
Memorial Lectures
The highlights of the PCPE are named lectures commemorating the
heritage of two towering statures of economic science whose lives
are bound with the city of Prague: Franz Cuhel and Friedrich Wieser.
These lectures are associated with memorial prizes of the same name.
For more information, please visit
http://pcpe.libinst.cz/pcpe10/
Great Lakes Graduate Conference in
Political Economy
State of Crisis / Crisis State:
Domination and Resistance in the Wake of Neoliberalism(s)
May 7-8, 2010
Carleton University, Ottawa
The neoliberal era has been characterized by the privatization of
public assets, the growth of a global division of labour, and the
development of flexible and highly mobile forms of capital
accumulation. Yet the intensification of this capitalist model since
the early 1970s has come to a head in the last year, and the world
has played witness to multiple global crises, including the worst
economic catastrophe since the great depression, the highest
recorded atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide, and the
continuation of seemingly unending conflicts in the Middle East and
Afghanistan.
As such, we posit that a critical interrogation of the neoliberal
paradigm is in order. Do contemporary crises mark a break or rupture
with neoliberalism or are they an expression of its continuity and
retrenchment? Do the present crises of finance, ecology and justice
represent the culmination of the neoliberal era, or are they endemic
components of a renewable cycle of laissez-faire capitalism? Have we
seen the emergence of a new form of social organization continually
riddled with instability (the crisis state), or are we merely in a
temporary state of crisis?
The Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political Economy is an
interdisciplinary, international meeting of graduate students
currently inviting submissions that broadly reflect and interrogate
these and other (dis)continuities. We welcome submissions that fit
within the broader tradition of political economy, though perhaps
the following themes may serve to orient contributions:
• The origins and early history of neoliberalism
• Periodization and theories of capitalist crisis
• The spatialization of crisis: urban neoliberalization and the
politics of scale
• The financialization of capital: subprime loans and the mortgage
crisis
• The green economy and the ecological limits of capital
• Security, migration and citizenship
• Accumulation by dispossession and colonialism in neoliberal times
• Gender, privatization, and reproductive economies
• Labour unions, precarious employment and permanent exceptionalism
• Post-neoliberalism? Socialism in the twenty-first century
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. Proposals can be submitted by
email until January 31, 2010 to
greatlakes2010@gmail.com.
Please refer to
http://greatlakes2010.blogspot.com/ for more information.
Power & Knowledge
The 2nd International Conference, Tampere, September 6-8, 2010
Call for Session Proposals
Inspired by the great success of the first conference (Power: Forms,
Dynamics and Consequences, September 22-24, 2008), we carry on
probing questions of power. This time the conference concentrates on
the links between power and knowledge.
As is well known, Michel Foucault argued that power and knowledge
are like two sides of the same coin. There are however many other
approaches and research traditions that tackle the role of knowledge
production in affecting and constituting power relations.
What are the roles of science, research and research-based knowledge
production in promoting policy models? Does scientific research or
evidence-based consultancy save the world and lead us to a better
future? What effects does the key role of knowledge production in
contemporary societies have on power and politics? How are the
established databases and statistical classifications of the public
and private organizations constructed and reproduced? What is the
role of everyday knowledge in society? What is the relationship
between knowledge and resistance?
By bringing together scholars who approach these questions from
different angles this conference will advance our understanding
about power relations in social reality.
Keynote speakers will include:
- Patrick Carroll
- Gili S. Drori
- Susan Haack
- Sakari Hänninen
- Michael Mann
- Yuval Millo
- Soile Veijola
- (to be announced)
To send a session proposal and to get more information about the
conference, please email a session title and abstract (100-200 words
describing the session) to power2010@uta.fi
The conference website is in
http://www.uta.fi/power2010/
The latest day to submit the proposal is January 31st 2010. Call for
papers will be launched after approved sessions are confirmed.
ESHET Young Scholar Session
The European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET)
invites young scholars (i.e. those who are working on or have just
completed a PhD, regardless of their age) to submit their work to
the Young Scholars Seminar to be held on the occasion of the ESHET
Conference.
Four submissions will be selected: ESHET will cover board,
accommodation and registration fees plus travel expenses up to 300
Euros. The authors of the selected papers will have 30 minutes each
to present the paper and a senior scholar, appointed by the ESHET
Council, will discuss it. Papers may be on any topic relevant to the
history of economics, and are not restricted to the conference
theme. ESHET encourages young scholars to participate in the
conference. A one-year ESHET membership is offered to all young
scholars who submit a paper.
Candidates should e-mail a paper no longer than 9000 words! to
Professors Ragip Ege and Tiziano Raffaelli
(ege@cournot.u-strasbg.fr
and
t.raffaelli@fls.unipi.it ), by 10 January 2010. The results of
the selection process will be communicated to the candidates by 15
February 2010. Papers that have not been selected will be considered
for presentation at other conference sessions.
HOPE Conference 2011
Call for Papers: "A history of observation in
economics"
Conference organisers: Harro Maas & Mary Morgan
The annual HOPE Conference in 2011 will take place in late April or
early May of that year, and the topic for the meeting will be the
history of observation in economics (see discussion below). We
invite expressions of interest and initial ideas for papers that
might be developed in discussion with either of the convenors,
and/or written paper proposals of 300-500 words to which they will
respond: please email
h.b.j.b.maas@uva.nl and/or
m.morgan@lse.ac.uk.
About the conference: By tradition, this is a small "invitation
only" conference, where a small number of papers from an open call
are accepted and all discussion of papers is in plenary mode. These
papers are then put through a normal refereeing process for
consideration for publication in the Annual Supplement to the
journal History of Political Economy (HOPE) for 2012. (In other
words, acceptance of a paper at the conference does not guarantee
publication in the supplement, only consideration for
publication.) The conference is a 2-3 day meeting, where conference
funds usually cover participants' hotel costs and meals, but only
rarely their travel costs.
Recovering the lost history of observation in economics:
The aim of the 2011 HOPE Conference is to
recover/uncover/investigate the now lost history of observation in
economics.
Observation is ubiquitous in economics, but has become completely
eclipsed from its history.
After the rise of statistical thinking in the nineteenth century,
and the econometric revolution in the nineteen-thirties, economists,
methodologists and historians of economics came to identify
"observations" with the statistical data sets that were gathered by
statistical bureaus all over the world. These data sets -
pre-recorded by others - served as inputs for economists' models and
the testing ground for theories, and so these measurements came to
be considered as the "observations" that economists work with. This
state of affairs fits well with the mid-twentieth-century emphasis
in the philosophy of science on observational statements, rather
than on the process of observing itself, just as it fits economists'
emphasis on measurement, quantification and testing. But it makes
the multifarious practices and techniques (political) economists
have used and do use to observe the world vanish from view.
It prevents an understanding of the (changes in) observational
practices that can be witnessed not only in the past, but also at
present.
From an historical point of view the idea that the observations of
political economists can be identified with statistical (quantified)
data is far from obvious. Most famous perhaps are Adam Smith's
observations of the working of the pin factory (probably taken from
secondary sources such as the French Encyclopédie) that informed his
analysis of the division of labour. Marshall made field notes of
conversations with politicians, businessmen, and working men - the
kind of observations made famous by Walter Bagehot's Lombard Street
- and these notes were somehow translated into his diagrams and
theories of long and short term markets and international trade.
Ronald Coase's famous paper on transactions costs was amongst other
things motivated by his experiences observing American industry.
Because of the difficulties economists like Phyllis Deane and
Wolfgang Stolper experienced in forcing statistical data from
colonial and post-colonial Africa into the mould of Stone's system
of national income accounts, they travelled there to observe and ask
local inhabitants about their economic ways of doing.
Contemporary discussions about the importance of "real time data"
for economic modelling and policy, show the economist's awareness
that there is a gap between the recording and what the recording
intends to express. The renewed popularity of surveys and
questionnaires to gather information, the still very recent rise of
game theory and the laboratory as new tools and sites to investigate
markets and to produce "evidence", the introduction of spectacular
new visualising tools like the fMRI-scan to observe individuals, the
collapse of certain econometric forecasting techniques in the face
of the current financial crisis, all press us to re-investigate our
received understanding of what observations are in economics, and
how practices of observation changed through history.
Possible themes that might be addressed by papers for the conference
include:
- Observation at the interface between
economists, policy makers and the public.
- Skills, tools and techniques of the observer
- Sites for observing (political economy club, statistical office,
laboratory)
- Trusting local observers versus imposing central standards
- Purposes of the observer and ways of observing
- 'Staging': intervening in order to observe, observing in order to
intervene
- Travelling, recalling and recording
We encourage contributions from different disciplinary backgrounds
that enhance our understanding of the changing observational
commitments of economists, government officials, travel writers,
learned societies, official institutes and so forth. We aim at a
conference and volume - a supplement to the journal History of
Political Economy - covering a long time line, and a range of
different media, sites and geographical areas.
Top
Conferences, Seminars
and Lectures
ATHE NEW ECONOMICS AS 'MAINSTREAM'
ECONOMICS
Thursday 28 January / Friday 29 January 2010
Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, United Kingdom
A conference organised by the Cambridge Trust for New Thinking in
Economics
Click
here for detailed information.
The Effects of
Recessions and Recoveries on the Well-being of Workers and Families
Small Grants Competition
Deadline: January 29, 2010
The NPC seeks to fund research that will broad and/or deepen our
understanding of the effects of the recessions and/or impact of
increased federal spending through the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (ARRA) or through other programs initiatives on the
well-being of workers and families. Learn more...http://npc.umich.edu/opportunities/research_grants/2010_poverty_grants/index.php
2010 Annual Meeting of the Society of
Socio-Economists and Socio-Economics
1.Annual Meeting
Society of Socio-Economics (SOS)
Co-sponsored by the Tulane University School of Law
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Hilton New Orleans Riverside
There is still room for additional participants in the SOS Program
on a wide range of socio - economic topics.
If you would like to participate in the SOS Annual Meeting Program
e-mail name and phone number to
socioeconomics@aol.com.
2. Annual Meeting
Section of Socio-Economics
Association of American Law Schools
8:45 - 5:30 p.m.
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Hilton New Orleans Riverside
- The Newsletter can also be downloaded at the following link:
http://journaloflawandsocioeconomics.com/NL090731-5.pdf
- A brief summary of both programs is set forth below the
asterisks.
For more information on either program
e-mail name and phone number to
socio-economics@aol.com
SIXTH
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENTAL, CULTURAL, ECONOMIC AND
SOCIAL SUSTAINABILITY
University of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
5-7 January 2010
http://www.SustainabilityConference.com
The International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic
and Social Sustainability aims to develop a holistic view of
sustainability, in which environmental, cultural and economic issues
are inseparably interlinked. It works in a multidisciplinary way,
across diverse fields and taking varied perspectives in order to
address the fundamentals of sustainability.
The Sustainability Conference is held annually in different
locations around the world. The Conference was inaugurated in 2005
at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa, USA. It was held at Hanoi and
Ha Long Bay, Vietnam in 2006; University of Madras, Chennai, India
in 2007; Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Terengganu Malaysia
in 2008 and the University of Technology, Mauritius in 2009. We are
pleased to hold next year's Conference at the University of Cuenca,
Cuenca, Ecuador. In 2011, the Sustainability Conference will be held
5-7 January at the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.
The 2010 Conference features the following Plenary Speakers:
* Natarajan Ishwaran, UNESCO/University of Queensland, Brisbane,
Australia
* Lucía Astudillo Loor, ICOM/University of Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador
* Katya Gonzalez Ripoll, Ministry of Culture, Bogota, Colombia
* John M. Whiteley, University of California, Irvine, USA
* Douglas Worts, Worldviews Consulting, Toronto, Canada
For more information about these Speakers, please visit the
Conference website:
http://onsustainability.com/conference-2010/plenary-speakers.
In addition to Plenary Presentations, the Conference includes
Parallel Presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers.
We invite you to respond to the Conference Call-for-Papers.
Presenters submit their written papers for publication in the
refereed International Journal of Environmental, Cultural, Economic
and Social Sustainability. If you are unable to attend the
Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which
allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication
in the Journal.
The deadline for the final round in the call for papers (a title and
short abstract) is 15 December 2010. Proposals are reviewed within
two weeks of submission. Full details of the Conference, including
an online proposal submission form, may be found at the Conference
website:
http://www.SustainabilityConference.com/.
In 2011, the Sustainability Conference will be held 5-7 January at
the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand. Located on New
Zealand's north Island, the city of Hamilton is an important center
for manufacturing, research and education. The University of Waikato
includes the internationally recognized School of Maori and Pacific
Development, which plays an important role in sustaining Maori
culture. For more details on the 2011 Conference, please visit the
Conference website:
http://onsustainability.com/conference-2011/.
We look forward to receiving your proposal and hope you will be able
to join us in Cuenca in January 2010.
The Transformation of Money into
Capital
Tuesday 8th December
6pm
Room 2.43 F-WB
Waterloo Campus KCL
“The consumption of labour-power is completed, as in the case of
every other commodity, outside the limits of the market or of the
sphere of circulation. Accompanied by Mr. Moneybags and by the
possessor of labour-power, we therefore take leave for a time of
this noisy sphere, where everything takes place on the surface and
in view of all men, and follow them both into the hidden abode of
production, on whose threshold there stares us in the face “No
admittance except on business.” Here we shall see, not only how
capital produces, but how capital is produced. We shall at last
force the secret of profit making.”
N.B. We are reading Part II: Chapters 4-6 in preparation for this
meeting.
Regards,
KCL Reading Capital
CAMBRIDGE KEYNES LECTURE 2010
Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky will give a public lecture on
“Keynes: The Return of the Master” in the Lady Mitchell Hall,
Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge at 5 pm on Tuesday 2 February 2010.
Please visit
http://www.postkeynesian.net/updates.htm for recent
updates to the PKSG website.
ADVANCE CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: KEYNES
SEMINAR LIVE
The first session next term will take place at 5.30 pm on Tuesday 26
January 2009 at Robinson College, Cambridge. Jesper Jespersen will
speak on his new book “Macroeconomic Methodology”. Further details
at
http://www.postkeynesian.net/keynes.htm
Please visit
http://www.postkeynesian.net/updates.htm for recent
updates to the PKSG website.
HES Sessions Program at ASSA 2010
Jan. 3, 10:15 am, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, M105 HES The Integration
of Micro and Macroeconomics From a Historical Perspective (B2)
Presiding: JOHN DAVIS, Marquette University PEDRO GARCIA DUARTE,
Universidade de São Paulo - Not Going Away:
Representative-agent Model and Microfoundations in Recent
Macroeconomics D. WADE HANDS, University of Pudget Sound - The Rise
and Fall of Walrasian Economics: the Keynes Effect KEVIN D. HOOVER,
Duke University - Microfoundational Programs PHILIP E. MIROWSKI,
Notre Dame University - How Cowles Neutered Keynes and Laid the
Groundwork for Neoclassical Macroeconomics
Discussant: PERRY MEHRLING, Barnard College
Jan. 3, 12:30 pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, M105 AEA/HES Complexity
in the History of Economic Thought (B2)
Presiding: MAURO BOIANOVSKY, Universidade de Brasilia J. BARKLEY
ROSSER JR., James Madison University - Chaos Theory Before Lorenz
JOHN B. DAVIS, Marquette University - The Emergence of Agent-based
Modeling in Economics PHILIP E. MIROWSKI, Notre Dame University -
Complexity as Excuse versus Complexity as Inspiration DAVID
COLANDER, Middlebury College, CASEY ROTHSCHILD , Massachusetts
Institute of Technology - The Sins of the Sons of Samuelson
Discussants: WADE HANDS, University of Pudget Sound ELIAS KHALIL,
University of Richmond JUDY KLEIN, Mary Baldwin College MICHAEL
MAKOWSKY, Towson University
Jan. 4, 10:15 am, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, M107 HES 100 years of
Walras's Death (B3)
Presiding: WADE HANDS, University of Pudget Sound MICHEL DE VROEY,
Université Catholique de Louvain - Marshall and
Walras: Incompatible Bedfellows?
FRANCO DONZELLI, Universita degli Studi di Milano - Edgeworth versus
Walras on Equilibrium and Disequilibrium ALAN KIRMAN, Groupement de
Recherche en Economie Quantitative d'Aix-Marseille - Walrasian
Theory: The Starting Point for a Journey Down the Wrong Road?
PASCAL BRIDEL, Université de Lausanne - The Normative Origins of
General Equilibrium Analysis
Discussants: JEAN PIERRE POTIER, Université Lumiere Lyon 2 DAVID
COLANDER, Middlebury College CASEY ROTHSCHILD, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
Jan. 4, 2:30 pm, Atlanta Marriott Marquis, M107 HES Financial Crises
and the History of Economic Thought (B1)
Presiding: SANDRA PEART, University of Richmond PERRY MEHRLING,
Barnard College - New Lombard Street THOMAS HUMPHREY, Federal
Reserve Bank-Richmond - The Lender of Last Resort in the History of
Economic Thought SANDRA PEART, University of Richmond, DAVID LEVY,
George Mason University - Economists, Cartoons and Crises
Discussants: KEVIN D. HOOVER, Duke University BENJAMIN FRIEDMAN,
Harvard University
The Pink Tide: Reconfiguring
politics, power and political economy in the Americas?
22-24 January 2010, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
This conference brings together academics, community scholars,
activists and practitioners to create a unique space of dialogue and
discussion about the shift to the left in governments and social
movements across North, Central and South America.
With over 60 contributors from 13 countries presenting in paper
format, workshops, open forums, round-table debates and through film
and music, this aims to be an inclusive and interdisciplinary
conference with diverse topics ranging from the political economy of
the ‘Pink Tide’ to social movement knowledge production in the
Americas. It is the organisers belief that our understanding of the
development of alternatives to neoliberalism can be enhanced by
intra-regional as well as cross-continental dialogue.
The Pink Tide Conference aims to foster the co-construction of
knowledge relevant not only to the academics from the global North
and South, but also to movements and communities struggling for
social justice across the Americas and in Europe.
Key Speakers:
Noam Chomsky
John Holloway
Liam Kane
William Robinson
Marina Sitrin
Reduced rate by 10 Dec 09 – registration ends 10 Jan 2010
Further information:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cssgj/PinkTideConference/index.php
A esquerdização das Américas: Poder,
reconfiguração e economia política?
De 22 a 24 de janeiro de 2010, University of Nottingham, Nottingham,
UK
Esta conferência oferece a acadêmicos, líderes comunitários,
ativistas de movimentos sociais e profissionais engajados em
diferentes causas e práticas um espaço único de diálogo e debate
sobre o fenômeno da esquerdização das Américas – desde o nível de
políticas de governo aos movimentos sociais de base.
Com mais de 60 palestrantes de 13 países apresentando seus trabalhos
em diferentes formatos – do tradicional ao inovador, através de
debates, oficinas, fóruns abertos, mesas-redondas, filmes e música –
esta será uma conferência inclusiva e interdisciplinar que abordará
tópicos desde a economia política do fenômeno de esquerdização das
Américas até a produção de conhecimento dentro dos movimentos.
Acreditamos que a compreensão das alternativas emergentes em face ao
neoliberalismo deve ser fomentada através de diálogos intra-regionais
e intercontinentais.
A conferência almeja prover um espaço para a construção conjunta de
conhecimento que seja relevante não só aos acadêmicos do Norte e do
Sul global, mas também aos movimentos e às comunidades que lutam por
justiça social nas Américas e na Europa.
Palestrantes convidados:
Noam Chomsky
John Holloway
Liam Kane
William Robinson
Marina Sitrin
Taxa reduzida até 10 dez 2009 – último registro 10 Jan 2010
Mais informações:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cssgj/PinkTideConference/index.php
La Ola de Izquerdizacion:
Reconfigurando La política, el poder y la economía política en las
Américas?
22-24 Enero 2010, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, UK
Esta conferencia espera reunir a académicos, profesionales,
activistas y educadores populares para crear un espacio de debate
único que permita discutir y dialogar sobre el cambio de los
gobiernos de izquierda y los movimientos sociales en Norte, Centro y
Sur de América.
Son más de 60 trabajos presentados desde 13 países diferentes,
contribuciones por medio de papers, foros, workshops, mesas de
debate, películas y expresiones musicales, cuya intensión hacer de
esta conferencia un espacio inclusivo e interdisciplinario, que
incluya tópicos desde la economía política de esta Ola de
Izquierdización hasta el conocimiento producido al interior de los
movimientos sociales. Es la creencia de sus organizadores que
nuestro entendimiento sobre el desarrollo de alternativas al
neoliberalismo puede ser profundizado por medio de un dialogo intra-
regional e inter- continental.
La conferencia La Ola de Izquierdización tiene como objetivo
profundizar la co- construcción del conocimiento no solo entre los
académicos de los hemisferios Norte y Sur, sino que también entre
las comunidades que luchan por la justicia social a lo largo de
Europa y de América.
Conferencistas:
Noam Chomsky
John Holloway
Liam Kane
William Robinson
Marina Sitrin
Descuentos en Inscripción hasta el 10 de Diciembre 2009.
Inscripción cierra el 15 de Enero de 2010.
Más información:
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/cssgj/PinkTideConference/index.php
The Crisis in Europe
Depression economics –social crisis – state
policy –alternatives
International workshop by transform! europe
Vienna, 15th/16th January 2010
please see the following link for more information:
http://www.transform-network.net/uploads/media/Folder_transform_crisis_of_europe_2010-01-15.pdf
Agenda
Friday, January 15th
13.00–13.15h
Welcome and opening by
Elisabeth Gauthier (transform! europe)
13.15–14.45h
Joachim Bischoff (editor of the monthly review Sozialismus):
Overaccumulation of capital: what does it mean for
the understanding of the current crisis?
14.45–15.00h
Break
15.00–16.30h
Bob Jessop (Lancaster University)
The role of the state today: internationalization and the nation
state
16.30–17.00h
Break
17.00–20.00h
Francisco Louça (Lisbon, tbc)
Europe in the world economic crisis: comeback of Keynesian politics
or launching of a »financial coup d’état« (D. Harvey)?
Interventions by Euclides Tsakolotos (University of Athens), Peter
Fleissner (Univ. prof. em.,
Vienna), Jiri Malek (transform!Czech Republic) and others (Spain,
Italy...)
Saturday, January 16th
9.00–11.30h
Maria Karamessini (University Pantheion, Athens)
The social crisis in Europe: politics of precariousness or shift to
a new social model of regulation
Interventions by Stephen Bouquin (University Amiens France), Asbjörn
Wahl (Norway, Trade unionist, tbc), Lutz Brangsch (Rosa Luxemburg
Foundation Berlin)
11.30–12.00h
Break
12.00–15.00h
What are the lessons of the crisis and how can they be communicated?
Proposals and projects of »the left of the left«
Round table with:
Thomas Händel (MEP)
Jürgen Klute (MEP)
Miguel Portas (MEP)
Francis Wurtz (former leader of GUE/NGL in EP)
Inputs from transform!, European Left Party and members of
GUE/NGL-Group
Walter Baier (transform!) is chairing the debate
Languages: English, German, French
Important: registration until December, 20th via E-Mail:
office@transform.or.at
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Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
Franklin & Marshall College
The Department of Economics at Franklin & Marshall College invites
applications for a three-year position at the Visiting Instructor or
Visiting Assistant Professor level, beginning Fall 2010 and pending
administrative approval. Teaching experience is required. Teaching
load is 3/2 and may include participation in the College's general
education program. The teaching responsibilities will include
teaching Introduction to Economic Principles and/or the Introduction
to Economic Perspectives, statistics, and an elective course chosen
in consultation with the Department. We especially welcome
applicants who can offer a data rich course on the US economy and
the global economy, covering a broad range of areas. We strongly
recommend visiting our web site at
http://www.fandm.edu/economics.xml for more information
about our department. Salary and benefits are competitive and
commensurate with qualifications.
Franklin & Marshall College is a highly selective liberal arts
college with a demonstrated commitment to cultural pluralism. EOE
Candidates should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae,
graduate transcript, three letters of recommendation, a teaching
statement, a research statement, and teaching evaluations to Tami
Lantz, Department Coordinator, Department of Economics, Franklin &
Marshall College, P.O. Box 3003, Lancaster, PA 17604. Applications
may be submitted electronically by email to tami.lantz@fandm.edu.
Please reference three-year visitor position in your letter of
application.
Email for Applications:
tami.lantz@fandm.edu
FAX for Applications: 717-291-4369
For more information, phone: 717-291-3916
PostDoc in
Technology Governance
The Estonian Ministry of Education and the Estonian Science
Foundation will offer new research positions commencing in 2010
through its "Mobilitas" scheme. The purpose of the scheme is to
develop and diversify Estonian research potential through scientific
mobility and exchange of experience, and thereby to activate
international exchange of knowledge, and support the development of
careers of young researchers. Positions will be awarded on a
competitive basis and will be full time for two or three years.
The Technology Governance program of the Tallinn University of
Technology welcomes expressions of interest from early career
researchers (PhD awarded within the last 5 years, counting from
March 2, 2010) interested in applying through our program. See for
our research
www.technologygovernance.eu
For more details, please contact Prof. Rainer Kattel (
rainer.kattel@ttu.ee ).
Promising candidates for a Mobilitas grant will receive assistance
from our department in applying for the grant and in developing a
detailed research proposal.
Remuneration in the postdoctoral research grant
For remuneration and taxes payable thereon postdoctoral researchers
will be paid 300 000 EEK (19 173 EUR) per year. To cover research
costs, a budget of 50 000 EEK (3 196 EUR) will be paid per year in
non-experimental science disciplines. The postdoctoral researchers
whose employment entails relocation from one country to another will
receive a one-time relocation allowance in the sum of 400 000 EEK
(25
565 EUR). The relocation allowance will be paid to the postdoctoral
researchers who have not resided or worked (incl. studied) in
Estonia longer than six months during the three years preceding the
date of submission of the application.
The assessment criteria for the scheme includes a consideration of
the research environment of the host department. If your research
falls within the area characterized above and you are interested in
applying for a fellowship, we invite you to contact Prof. Rainer
Kattel
( rainer.kattel@ttu.ee )
outlining the proposed research area. Please also send a short CV.
Details on the scheme can be found at:
http://www.etf.ee/index.php?page=298&
Closing dates:
Expression of interest of the candidate - 15 January 2010.
Full application (by invitation only) - 2 March 2010.
Lancaster University
Two positions in Sociology and Cultural Political Economy at
Lancaster University Research Associate (Grade 6)
£24,877 - £28,839
You will join the Sociology Department and work with the Cultural
Political Economy Research Cluster on discursive aspects of the
global economic crisis. You should have finished or be close to
completing a relevant PhD and have research experience in corpus
linguistics and, importantly, critical discourse analysis. Principal
Investigator is Bob Jessop and the post lasts 36 months. Closing
date: to be confirmed
- sometime between 18 and 31 December 2009. Requests for further
details and inquiries can be addressed to Bob Jessop. Starting date
as soon as possible, ideally before 31 March 2010. To apply, please
visit Human Resources (
http://www.personnel.lancs.ac.uk/CurrentVacancies.aspx
) or Sociology (
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology ) websites and/or contact
r.jessop@lancaster.ac.uk
The research is part of a 3-year Economic and Research Council
Funded Project on the Cultural Political Economy of Crisis and
Crisis- Management. You will be compiling a corpus of texts from the
USA, UK, Germany, the EU, and international institutions, conducting
a corpus analysis, and selecting texts for a more detailed critical
discourse analysis. There will be some international travel involved
and a working knowledge of German would, obviously, be an advantage
(though we might find ways to work round this if you do not and are
otherwise well-qualified). Other parts of the research address the
question of whether the forms, interpretations, crisis policies, and
medium-term approaches to crisis-management provide evidence for the
existence of distinct varieties of capitalism, convergence towards a
neo-liberal regime, or adaptation to diverse constraints in an
integrated world market.
Research Student (3 years' Home/EU fees and maintenance)
You will join the Sociology Department and work with the Cultural
Political Economy Research Cluster on an aspect of the continuing
financial and economic crisis. The research is conducted
independently but will be part of a 3-year Economic and Research
Council Funded Project on the Cultural Political Economy of Crisis
and Crisis- Management. The preferred topics are either: (a) an
analysis of how the current and previous major economic and
financial crises were managed in different historical periods in the
20th century; or (b) an analysis of how current figures, parties,
institutions, and so on, have used historical parallels to interpret
the current crisis and to draw policy lessons, positive or negative,
for how best to deal with the current crisis. You should have an
undergraduate degree and, ideally, a master's degree in a relevant
subject. Command of a major non-English language relevant to the
research is desirable. Closing date: 05 January 2010. Starting date:
as soon as possible. To apply or for further information please
visit our Sociology website (
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology
) and/or contact Bob Jessop:
r.jessop@lancaster.ac.uk
University of Greenwich
Greenwich Campus
LECTURER IN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ECONOMICS – (REF: 01419)
As part of our on-going development strategy, the Business School is
seeking a Lecturer in International Business Economics. You will be
part of the International Business Department which provides a range
of successful undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the
fields of International Business and Economics.
The school is seeking an academic capable of conducting quality
research and lecturing on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes
in the areas of Business Economics, Institutional Economics,
Financial Economics, Microfinance or a related area. The role will
involve conducting research in a relevant discipline. You may also
be involved in developing new part time and flexible learning
courses in your area of teaching and research specialism.
Salary Scale: £32,963 - £46,881 per annum inclusive of London
Weighting.
We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome
applications from all sections of the community.
To obtain further particulars and an application form visit our
website www.gre.ac.uk, email
Jobs@gre.ac.uk or write to the Personnel Office,
University of Greenwich, Avery Hill Road, London, SE9 2UG quoting
reference. Applications should be returned by 5pm on 17 December
2009.
http://www.gre.ac.uk/recruitment
VISITING PROFESSORS AND RESEARCH FELLOWS
To support our rapidly growing PhD programme, the Department of
International Business and Economics at the University of Greenwich
is seeking Visiting Professors and Research Fellows to join
supervisory teams and support research funding bids.
The appointments, on a 0.2 fractional basis, may suit London-based
faculty with a particular interest in our research areas or senior
academics in semi-retirement, European faculty with an interest in
periodic visits to London, or those from farther afield who may wish
to spend a 2-3 month period in London annually.
Based in a stunning baroque world heritage site on the Thames, the
Department of International Business and Economics specialises in
the study of the institutional structures and regulation of
international business. The Department hosts a number of vibrant
research groups, including the Public Services International
Research Unit, the Centre for Business Network Analysis, the Centre
for Indian Business, the Economic Governance Research Group, and the
China Business Network. In the latest Research Assessment Exercise,
two thirds of our research was rated as of international standard or
world leading, and our economics teaching was tied-second in the UK
in the latest National Student Satisfaction Survey.
Candidates must have previously supervised at least 3 PhDs to
successful completion. We are particularly interested in candidates
with expertise in financial markets, microfinance, corporate
governance and regulation, business or industrial economics and
heterodox perspectives on these. Please note that the title
Professor in the UK is a senior academic of international standing,
somewhat equivalent to an endowed chair in the US.
Application by covering letter and cv to:
Dr Bruce Cronin, Head of Department.
b.cronin@greenwich.ac.uk
www.gre.ac.uk
The Information Technology and
Innovation Foundation
INNOVATION ECONOMIST
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation – a Washington,
DC think tank – has a temporary opening (one year) with the
possibility of renewal for additional years for an economist with a
research interest in neo-Schumpertarian economics, with a particular
focus on the economics of global warming and the role of innovation
in addressing it.
Essential Responsibilities:
• Plan and conduct a policy research program focused on the
limitations of the conventional neo-classical doctrine in providing
effective solutions and the role of innovation and innovation
economics in addressing climate change.
• Write policy reports, blog posts, op eds, and other policy
materials on the role of innovation in addressing climate change.
• Speak at forums and events.
• Organize policy conferences, roundtables, and other events on the
role of innovation in addressing climate change.
• Engage in outreach to Capitol Hill to help members and staff
better understand the role of innovation in climate change.
Qualifications Requirements:
• A minimum of a Master’s Degree and ideally a Ph.D. in Public
Policy or Economics, ideally with a focus on the economics of growth
and/or environmental economics.
• An ability to write for policy audiences and an understanding of
the public policy process.
• Strong understanding of various, competing economic schools of
thought, with solid understanding of neo-Schumpertarian economics
(e.g., innovation economics, endogenous growth theory, evolutionary
economics).
• Strong understanding of the process of technological innovation.
ITIF is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy think tank
committed to articulating and advancing a pro-productivity,
pro-innovation and pro-technology public policy agenda in Washington
and the states. We believe that innovation is central to spurring
economic growth and addressing key societal challenges and that
public policies should actively work to support innovation. ITIF
works to help policy makers around the world understand the critical
importance of innovation. We focus on technology policy issues such
as broadband, e-commerce and e-government, privacy and copyright,
research policy, trade and innovation, green energy innovation, and
others. We produce publications, hold events, meet with policy
makers, speak at forums and engage in other activities to shape
technology policy.
ITIF offers a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.
Send resume with cover letter and salary requirements to: Director
of Personnel, ITIF, 1101 K. Street, NW, Suite 610, Washington, DC,
20005. Fax (202) 638-4922; or email
info@itif.org. View our website at
www.itif.org.
Columbia College Chicago
Tenure-Track Economics Faculty
Department of Humanities, History and Social Sciences
School of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Columbia College Chicago
-SEARCH REOPENED-
Columbia College Chicago is an urban institution of over 12,000
undergraduate and graduate students, emphasizing arts, media and
communication in a liberal arts setting. The Department of
Humanities, History and Social Sciences is responsible for providing
courses in the social sciences, history, the humanities, and foreign
languages, and offers a Cultural Studies major and minors in
Latino/Hispanic Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, Black World
Studies, as well as Cultural Studies.
Responsibilities include: a full-time teaching load (3/3),
scholarship and professional activity, and service to the college
and community.
We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits package.
Columbia College Chicago encourages women, GLBT, disabled, minority
classified, and international individuals to apply for all
positions. Applications must be received by February 5, 2010. Please
send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, statement of
teaching philosophy, evidence of teaching excellence, a writing
sample of research/scholarship, an official graduate transcript, and
three letters of reference to:
HHSS1126@colum.edu
www.colum.edu
The Department of Humanities, History and Social Sciences at
Columbia College Chicago invites applications for a new tenure-track
position in Economics, starting in Fall 2010 (contingent upon
funding). We are strongly interested in candidates who are able to
successfully integrate qualitative and quantitative methods in a
general education context, teaching in our LAS Core Curriculum to
students who are non-majors. The ideal applicant should have
teaching and research interests in at least two of the following
areas: economic history, political economy, economic development,
game theory, or industrial organizations; international, behavioral,
resource and environmental, labor, public, or urban/regional
economics. A completed Ph.D. in economics or related field is
required at time of hire. Teaching experience at the undergraduate
level is also required.
Application Information
Contact: Columbia College
Email Address:
HHSS1126@colum.edu
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Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles
Keynes Seminar
24 November Giuseppe Fontana, University of Leeds Money, Uncertainty
and Time
discussant: Alberto Feduzi, Judge Business School
10 November Malcolm Sawyer, University of Leeds
Competition and money in Keynes (and Kalecki)
discussant: Mark Hayes, Robinson College
Please visit the following link for videos, powerpoints, and
background papers of the seminars:
http://www.postkeynesian.net/keynes.htm
Also, two new working papers have been added (members only access)
Jesper Jespersen on “Keynes’s lost distinction between industrial
and financial circulation of money.”
Paul Ormerod on “The Current Crisis and the Culpability of
Macroeconomic Theory.”
Please visit the following link to access the papers (members only
access):
http://www.postkeynesian.net/
A Transformational Conception of
Evolutionary
Processes
Nuno MARTINS
Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics and Management of the
Portuguese Catholic University,
Faculdade de Economia e Gestão, Universidade Católica Portuguesa,
Rua Diogo Botelho,
1327, 4169-005 Porto, Portugal. E-mail:
nmartins@porto.ucp.pt
Abstract
The transformational conception of social activity provides a
non-deterministic framework within which evolutionary models of
natural selection can be located, and constitutes an alternative to
sociological and economic traditions that adopt a deterministic
conception of social processes, in which the causal effects of
social structures, or technology, for example, are conceptualized in
a deterministic way. Natural selection processes can be
conceptualized as a more specific instance of this broad
(non-deterministic) transformational conception, and hence can
provide additional insight whenever addressing cases where a more
specific model is required.
Keywords: transformational conception of social activity,
evolutionary processes, economic methodology, technology, social
structures.
See link for paper:
http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/eier/6/1/71/_pdf
Is Development Back in the Doha
Round?
New Policy Brief Questions New-Found “Gains from Trade”
As trade ministers prepare to assemble November 30 in Geneva for
further WTO talks, they are hearing another round of new and
refurbished projections of how much wealthier the world might be
after liberalizing trade. The upcoming ministerial is no different,
and neither, fundamentally, are the projections, notwithstanding one
recent claim – cited by WTO director Pascal Lamy – that an ambitious
Doha deal could deliver $300-$700 billion in global welfare gains,
with the benefits “well-balanced” between developed and developing
countries.
These recent projections, from the Washington-based Peterson
Institute for International Economics, contrast with the World
Bank’s widely publicized 2005 estimates of global gains from a
“likely Doha scenario” of less than $100 billion, with just $16
billion going to developing countries. Did economists find another
$150-$350 billion in benefits for developing countries that the
World Bank missed in 2005? Is development back in the Doha Round?
The answer, of course, is no. The purpose of this policy brief from
the Geneva-based South Centre, by GDAE’s Kevin P. Gallagher and
Timothy A. Wise, is to look behind the press releases to examine the
recent economic projections, review previous estimates, and put
these seemingly large numbers in their proper context. As before,
the claims that developing countries will be the big winners from
Doha rest on shaky assumptions, controversial economic modeling,
misleading representations of the benefits, and disregard for the
high costs of Doha-style liberalization for many developing
countries
Gallagher and Wise find that:
- The gains in the new study from agriculture and NAMA are of the
same order of magnitude as previous studies, about $100 billion,
with the vast majority going to rich countries.
- The new estimates for services, sectorals, and trade facilitation
are highly speculative, use methodologies that are unproven, and
assume far more ambitious outcomes than seem at all likely at this
point.
- Peterson finds high gains in services and sectorals because they
assume that developing countries will make big concessions and that
those same countries are big winners (from lower prices) even if
they lose significant parts of those sectors to imports.
- The estimates of $365 billion in gains from trade facilitation are
particularly exaggerated, because they assume not only agreement on
reforms but resources for the vast investments in infrastructure and
human capital needed to make them happen.
- The claims of “balance” are unfounded, as developing countries
receive less than one-third of the projected income gains. Previous
modeling has shown that many poorer regions, such as Sub-Saharan
Africa, are projected to be worse off after an agreement.
- As with most such projections, researchers disregard the costs of
liberalization for developing countries. Specifically:
- Tariff losses just from NAMA reforms are estimated at $64 billion,
far more than the estimated gains to developing countries. As
countries struggle to recover from the financial crisis, this is not
the time to cut needed government revenues.
- Terms of trade for developing countries are projected to decline
significantly, as they shift back toward primary production rather
than forward toward industrial or knowledge-based development.
The authors conclude with a series of recommendations to put
development back into the Doha Round. In particular, they call for a
moratorium on North-South preferential trade agreements, which
exploit the asymmetric nature of bargaining power between developed
and developing nations, divert trade away from nations with true
comparative advantages, and curtail the ability of developing
countries to deploy effective policies for development.
Download “Is Development Back in the Doha Round?”
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/Pubs/rp/SouthCtrPB18IsDevBackNov09.pdf
Unions and the
Crisis: Ways Ahead?
We are pleased to announce that a new Global Labour Column article
has been published on the Column's website.
The article "Unions and the Crisis: Ways Ahead?" has been
contributed by Prof. Gregory Albo. It discusses the difficulties
faced by trade unions in responding to capitalist strategies in the
workplace and beyond, highlighting new challenges and opportunities
in the context of the crisis. It also addresses the issue of
possible alliances with social movements. Gregory Albo, is Associate
Professor, Department of Political Science, York University,
Toronto. He teaches courses on the foundations of political economy,
Canadian political economy, alternatives to capitalism, and
democratic administration..
Please find the full articles at the following link
http://column.global-labour-university.org/2009/12/unions-and-crisis-ways-ahead.html.
We encourage you to post your responses to the articles by using the
"comment" box below the article.
Also, please note that the next column will be published on the 22nd
of December.
A THREATENING LINK BETWEEN WORLD
ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ATMOSPHERIC CO2 CONCENTRATIONS
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/tapia_granados/files/a_threatening_link_f5___refs.pdf
a paper showing how the annual increase in atmospheric
concentrations of CO2 correlates with the annual absolute change in
world economic output ("world GDP"). Indeed, CO2 concentrations and
world GDP seem to be cointegrated.
The results of the paper mean that, for instance, an annual growth
of the world GDP at an annual rate of 3% will associate with
increasingly greater annual increases of CO2 concentrations, since
an annual increase of the world GDP at a constant rate imply that
each successive year the absolute increase in world GDP will be
greater. Since for earth scientists the present levels of CO2 at
almost 390 parts per million (ppm) are deleterious for global
climate, and only levels around 350 ppm would be compatible with the
stabilization of world climate, the policy implications of a link
between world GDP and CO2 concentrations are obvious.
Global warming is a major economic issue that was not around in the
times of Smith, Marx or Keynes. If we really care about economic
perspectives for our grandchildren, should we deal with a new issue
with tools and ideas received from the past?
One million climate jobs now!
A commission for four British trades unions argues the case for the
immediate creation of a million new jobs all of which reduce green
house gases - and urges the British government to create a national
climate service.
http://www.pcs.org.uk/en/resources/green_workplaces/green_campaigns/one-million-climate-jobs-now.cfm
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Heterodox Journals and
Newsletters
CASE Newsletter
e-Newsletter
August –October 2009
http://www.case.com.pl/plik--27317454.pdf?nlang=710
Highlights from the eNewsletter
The Return of History: From Consensus to Crisis
CASE Hosts 2009 International Conference
CASE introduces 22 new Fellows!
Meet our new Fellows
Project Highlights
- Analyzing the Euro-Mediterranean Road map until 2010 and beyond
- Trade and Economic Integration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
(EUROMED) project publishes its final report
- Trade Integration: Impact on the European Neighborhood
- Eastern Neighborhood—Economic Potential and Future Development
Project releases CASE Network Report
- Assessing Key Competences and Teacher Education
- Project publishes study on education in the 27 EU member states
- Do higher research and development investments increase innovation
inflows in firms?
- Microdyn Competitiveness in the Knowledge Based Economy presents
report on innovation inflows in Central European firms
- New EuropeAid Projects!
- CASE wins Lot 7 and Lot 11 EuropeAid Framework Contracts
- Golden era potential falls short of meeting development challenges
- UNICEF Public Financial Management Reform project publishes
findings
Réseau de Recherche sur l’Innovation
Chère Madame, cher Monsieur,
Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer que l’éditorial de décembre
du Réseau de Recherche sur l’Innovation, « Voitures électriques : Un
marché juteux pour les constructeurs automobiles », est disponible
ici :
http://rrifr.univ-littoral.fr/?p=165
Research Network of Innovation
Dear Madam, Dear Sir
We are pleased to inform you that the editorial for December from
the Research Network of Innovation « Electric Vehicles : A
Profitable Market for the Motor Industry » is available here :
http://rrien.univ-littoral.fr/?p=117
Nova Economia
The current issue of Nova Economia features the following articles
on "Amazon and the Development":
Hugo Eduardo da Gama Cerqueira
Apresentação
Douglas Sathler
Roberto L. Monte-Mór
José Alberto Magno de Carvalho
As redes para além dos rios: urbanização e desequilíbrios na
Amazônia brasileira
Sérgio Rivero
Oriana Almeida
Saulo Ávila
Wesley Oliveira
Pecuária e desmatamento: uma análise das principais causas diretas
do desmatamento na Amazônia
Alisson F. Barbieri
Richard E. Bilsborrow
Dinâmica populacional, uso da terra e geração de renda: uma análise
longitudinal para domicílios rurais na Amazônia equatoriana
Rodolfo Coelho Prates
Maurício Serra
O impacto dos gastos do governo federal no desmatamento no Estado do
Pará
Marcelo Bentes Diniz
José Nilo de Oliveira Junior
Nicolino Trompieri Neto
Márcia Jucá Teixeira Diniz
Causas do desmatamento da Amazônia: uma aplicação do teste de
causalidade de Granger acerca das principais fontes de desmatamento
nos municípios da Amazônia Legal brasileira
Sérgio Roberto Bacury de Lira
Márcio Luiz Monteiro da Silva
Rosenira Siqueira Pinto
Desigualdade e heterogeneidade no desenvolvimento da Amazônia no
século XXI
Vitor Marcos Gregório
O progresso a vapor: navegação e desenvolvimento na Amazônia do
século XIX
All articles are available for download at
http://www.face.ufmg.br/novaeconomia/
GDAE News
11/19/2009
GDAE Announcements
GDAE BROWN BAG LUNCH SERIES
Tuesday December 1, 12:00-1:00PM
“The Global Poverty Implications of an Earth Atmospheric Trust”
Brian Roach, Research Associate, Global Development And Environment
Institute
GDAE Brown Bag Lunches are informal presentations of current
research taking place at the Global Development And Environment
Institute. Brown Bag lunches will take place between 12:00-1:00PM in
GDAE’s conference room on the 3rd floor of its offices at 44 Teele
Ave on Tufts Medford Campus. Directions are available at:
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/about_us/contact_us.html
Jillian Gladstone has joined GDAE as a graduate research assistant
working with the Globalization program on its expanding
communications work. She is in the first year of the three-year
Fletcher-Friedman joint masters program where she is focusing on
sustainable agriculture and development economics. She brings strong
communications background from previous work in human rights and at
Waterkeeper, where she worked on factory farm pollution, among other
things.
Beginning in January, Elen Shrestha will join R&P to serve as a
research assistant on projects conducted by GDAE Senior Researcher
Kevin P. Gallagher. Elen holds a BA in Economics and Mathematics
from Smith College and is concentrating on Development Economics and
International Environmental Policy at the Fletcher School.
Congratulations to Kevin Gallagher whose recent Guardian article,
“Trading away our future in China” appeared in Chinese. Click
here for a
link to the article
IIPPE in brief
Highlights include the call for papers for the 1st IIPPE Conference
to be held in Crete, 10-12 September 2010, as well as several panel
reports from the recent IIPPE workshop in Ankara.
Please see
attached file entitled "newsletter_iippe__nov 09" for the
newsletter.
Research Network Macroeconomics and
Macroeconomic Policies (FMM), Newsletter No 00-09
CONTENTS
A. SPECIAL ISSUE OF INTERVENTION
B. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: INSTITUTE FOR COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF
ECONOMY (ICAE), INSTITUT FÜR DIE GESAMTANALYSE DER WIRTSCHAFT,
3.–5.12.2009 (IN GERMAN)
C. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: WORKSHOP ORGANIZED BY THE EUROPEAN SOCIETY
FOR THE HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT (ESHET) AND THE UNIVERSITY OF
CASTILLA-LA MANCHA ON THE RECESSION OF 2008, 21-22 JANUARY 2010
D. CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS: THE NEW ECONOMICS AS ‘MAINSTREAM’
ECONOMICS, CAMBRIDGE, 28-29 JANUARY 2010
E. CALL FOR PAPERS: KEYNES GESELLSCHAFT, 15.-16.2.2010 (IN GERMAN)
F. CALL FOR PAPERS: AK POLITISCHE ÖKONOMIE, 16.-18.4.2010 (IN
GERMAN)
G. NEW PUBLICATIONS/BUCHVORSTELLUNG
Click
here to read the journal.
International Journal of Political
Economy
Volume 38 Number 3 / Fall 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: Prospects and Challenges for Development
Theory and Policy in the Twenty-first Century
Mario Seccareccia
Revisiting Development in the Twenty-First Century
Ignacy Sachs
Keynes and Sustainable Development
Eric Berr
Mobilizing Domestic Resources: Employer of Last Resort as a National
Development Strategy to Achieve the Internationally Agreed on
Development Goals
Jan Kregel
Why Foreign Savings Fail to Cause Growth
Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, Paulo Gala
Mexico's Economic Prospects Reconsidered
Julio López G.
LEVY NEWS
Public Policy Brief No. 106, 2009
Can Euroland Survive?
Stephanie A. Kelton and L. Randall Wray
The controversial title of this brief is based on a belief that the
nature of the euro itself limits Euroland's fiscal policy space. The
nations that have adopted the euro face “market-imposed” fiscal
constraints on borrowing because they are not sovereign countries.
Research Associate Stephanie A. Kelton and Senior Scholar L. Randall
Wray warn that the prospects for stabilizing the euro appear grim
unless these nations can avert market-induced financial
constraints—for example, by establishing a sizable European Union
budget and giving the European Parliament fiscal authority on par
with that of the U.S. Congress. Since such measures are likely to be
politically, culturally, and socially difficult, a trend toward
dissolution remains a possibility.
>> Read complete text
(pdf)
Public Policy Brief No. 105, 2009
It Isn’t Working: Time for More Radical Policies
Éric Tymoigne and L. Randall Wray
The Obama administration’s efforts with regard to the financial
crisis have largely focused on preserving the financial interests of
major banks. Research Associate Éric Tymoigne and Wray believe that
maintaining the status quo is not the solution, since re-creating
the financial conditions that led to disaster will set the stage for
a recurrence of the Great Depression or a Japanese-style “lost
decade.” The financial bailout, they say, has crowded out more
sensible spending policies.
The authors describe the leveraging of income and equity by
households, firms, and financial institutions as the underlying
cause of the crisis. They recommend federal spending programs that
directly provide jobs and sustain employment, thereby helping to
restore the creditworthiness of borrowers, the profitability of
firms, and the fiscal position of state and federal budgets. The
government's programs will not work unless they deal with the core
issue: many financial institutions are probably insolvent and should
not be saved because they form a barrier to sustainable recovery.
>> Read complete
text (pdf)
Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being
Has Progress Been Made in Alleviating Racial Economic Inequality?
Thomas Masterson, Ajit Zacharias, and Edward N. Wolff
In this report, Research Scholar Thomas Masterson and Senior
Scholars Ajit Zacharias and Edward N. Wolff examine trends in
economic well-being between 1959 and 2007 based on the
race/ethnicity of households. They find that changes in household
wealth and net government expenditure are the key elements in the
story that unfolds about racial differences.
The level of racial disparity has stagnated over the past 40 years.
The experience of the 1960s, which includes poverty alleviation,
public education, affirmative action, and increased public sector
employment for nonwhites, shows that government policy can be
instrumental in diminishing racial inequality. Therefore, it is
imperative to contemplate serious policy initiatives to address this
issue, such as a proactive strategy that combines elements of both
asset building and job creation.
>> Read complete
text (pdf)
Working Paper No. 582, November 2009
Minsky Moments, Russell Chickens, and Gray Swans: The Methodological
Puzzles of the Financial Instability Analysis
Alessandro Vercelli
This is a companion paper that discusses methodological issues of a
heuristic model based on Hyman P. Minsky's financial instability
hypothesis (FIH) that was developed by Vercelli in Working Paper No.
579 (see below). In the author's view, these issues have hindered
the development of a research program based on Minsky's insights.
Vercelli points out that Minsky's contributions are topical as a
result of his underlying vision concerning the workings of a
sophisticated monetary economy, not his analytical constructs. The
FIH's relevance for mitigating financial crises has increased with
time and will continue to do so, if we analyze Minsky's insights and
fully understand his powerful methodological approach.
>> Read complete text
(pdf)
Working Paper No. 581, October 2009
Lessons from the New Deal: Did the New Deal Prolong or Worsen the
Great Depression?
Greg Hannsgen and Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
This paper forms the basis for Public Policy Brief No. 104 and
Policy Note 2009/10. The thrust of Research Scholar Greg Hannsgen
and President Dimitri B. Papadimitriou's analysis is that the
National Industrial Recovery Act and the National Labor Relations
Act did not prolong or worsen the Great Depression. Rather, the New
Deal era strengthens the case for the effectiveness of fiscal
policies and jobs programs.
The authors note that John Maynard Keynes's general theory of an
economy is still apropos, and that the number of jobs created by the
Works Progress Administration and other federal agencies was perhaps
more important than the size of the fiscal stimulus. They therefore
recommend a permanent employer-of-last-resort (ELR) program, as
proposed by Hyman P. Minsky, to mitigate the effects of today's
Great Recession.
>> Read complete text
(pdf)
Working Paper No. 580, October 2009
An Alternative View of Finance, Saving, Deficits, and Liquidity
L. Randall Wray
According to orthodoxy, the current crisis is a result of excessive
liquidity and a euphoric real estate boom. Wray believes that the
crisis stems from the long-term transformation of the global
financial system by “money managers” who control huge pools of
institutional funds. The liquidity crisis could have been resolved
very quickly if the Federal Reserve had immediately opened the
discount window to all financial institutions, he says.
The United States now faces a massive insolvency problem and rapidly
declining employment and production. The unrecognized issue is that
gross insolvencies at the larger financial institutions are the
result of unprecedented fraud rather than subprime loans. Moreover,
the planned fiscal stimulus will fall far short of what is needed,
despite the fact that the United States can financially “afford” to
resolve the crisis.
>> Read complete text
(pdf)
Working Paper No. 579, October 2009
A Perspective on Minsky Moments: The Core of the Financial
Instability Hypothesis in Light of the Subprime Crisis
Alessandro Vercelli
Most definitions of the “Minsky moment” establish a link between
crucial features of the subprime crisis and Minsky's financial
instability hypothesis (FIH). Vercelli provides a more rigorous
definition of a Minsky moment based on a restatement of the core of
Minsky's hypothesis, and suggests an alternative to Minsky's
threefold taxonomy that classifies a unit's financial conditions
based on continuous measures of liquidity and solvency. Vercelli
believes that Minsky's narrow threefold classification has likely
hindered the development of analytical models of the FIH.
The author outlines policy insights on how to mitigate the financial
cycle and stabilize the economy, including stricter capital
requirements and well-designed constraints on the units' illiquidity
and indebtedness. He recommends that the financial authorities
enforce these rules irrespective of the phase of the economic cycle.
>> Read complete text
(pdf)
The European Journal of the History
of Economic Thought
Volume 16 Issue 4 is now available online at informaworld
( http://www.informaworld.com
).
This new issue contains the following articles:
Articles
Knowledge, coordination and the firm: Historical perspectives
Author: Brian J. Loasby
A nostalgic retrospect on a debate on various aspects of welfare
economics
Author: Kurt Rothschild
The history of economics as economics?
Author: Yuichi Shionoya
Max Weber's critical response to theoretical economics
Author: Patrick Mardellat
Continuity and change: Mapping the community of economists in Greece
(1944 to 1967)
Author: Andreas Kakridis
Average cost and marginal cost pricing in Marshall: Textual analysis
and interpretation
Author: Luca Zamparelli
Book reviews
Hobbes, Économie, Terreur et Politique
Author: Thierry Demals
Johann Heinrich von Thünen als Vordenker einer Sozialen
Marktwirtschaft
Author: Carsten Pallas
RENEWAL
Vol 17 No 3
Rebalancing the economy
"the current consensus on reform focuses only on technical fixes to
improve the inner workings of financial markets. What is needed is
political reform of economic governance priorities, which until now
have overwhelmingly privileged financialised growth"
- Johnna Montgomerie
DAN LEIGHTON & MARTIN MCIVOR Political economy after the end of
history* GEORGE IRVIN From profit squeeze to wage squeeze* JOHNNA
MONTGOMERIE A bail-out for working families?* PHILIP ARESTIS &
MALCOLM SAWYER The future of public expenditure* TIM JACKSON
Recovery without growth?* ADAM LENT A new economic paradigm*
* For a limited period only, articles can be downloaded free of
charge at
http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/journals/renewal/current.html
PLUS
- Can Labour survive? STEVE RICHARDS, JOY JOHNSON AND PAUL THOMPSON
- A critique of liberal republicanism by SIMON PARKER
- reviews by RACHEL REEVES on Vince Cable and DAVID MOON on
devolution and socialism
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Contact the editorial team with feedback and ideas by emailing
editorial@renewal.org.uk
IDEAs
What's New on IDEAs (November 1, 2009 to November 30, 2009)
www.networkideas.org or
www.ideaswebsite.org
Click here for detailed
information.
The Friends of Associative Economics
Bulletin
December 2009
1) Unfolding Money
2) Upcoming Events
3) Associate! December 2009
The Friends of Associative Economics Bulletin provides an overview
of what is going on around the world in the associative economics
movement. The bulletin is viewable as a webpage at
www.cfae.biz/fae-bulletin/09Dec/
GDAE
GDAE Launches New Publications on “Lessons
from NAFTA”
Building on ten years of research on the social, economic, and
environmental impacts of the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) on Mexico, GDAE’s
Globalization and Sustainable Development Program is launching
several new publications on reforming North American trade policies
based on the NAFTA experience. Two new reports will be launched in
an event Dec. 9 at 9:00 am at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington:
- “Rethinking
Trade Policy for Development: Lessons from Mexico Under NAFTA”,
a Policy Outlook paper from the Carnegie Endowment by Carnegie’s
Eduardo Zepeda and GDAE’s Timothy A. Wise and Kevin P. Gallagher,
reviews the evidence on Mexico’s weak economic performance under
NAFTA.
- “The
Future of North American Trade Policy: Lessons from NAFTA” is a
Pardee Center Task Force Report from Boston University, coordinated
by GDAE’s Kevin P. Gallagher and Timothy A. Wise, along with Enrique
Dussel Peters. The report reviews NAFTA and makes concrete
recommendations for reform.
The reports present a detailed critique of NAFTA’s weaknesses for
Mexico, which experienced a dramatic rise in trade and foreign
investment but saw slow economic growth, sluggish job creation, and
continued environmental degradation. The Task Force’s trade-policy
experts from the three NAFTA countries offer detailed analyses and
proposals for reform in eight key areas: services, manufacturing,
agriculture, investment, intellectual property, labor, environment,
and migration.
Both reports recommend changes to U.S. trade policy that go far
deeper than the 2007 bipartisan agreement on reforms to the labor,
environmental, and intellectual property provisions of more recent
U.S. agreements, such as the one with Peru. Gallagher, Wise, and
some of their co-authors will be briefing Congress members and staff
this week.
The new reports are part of a series of publications that build on
GDAE’s ten-years of research on “Lessons from NAFTA.” This week,
GDAE is also releasing:
- “Agricultural
Dumping under NAFTA,” a GDAE Working Paper by Timothy A. Wise
that estimates the costs to Mexican producers of U.S. agricultural
dumping at $12.8 billion from 1997-2005.
- “Reforming
North American Trade Policy,” an Americas Program Commentary by
Kevin P. Gallagher and Timothy A. Wise that summarizes the Pardee
Center report’s policy recommendations.
- “Foreign
Direct Investment and Innovation in Mexico,” a Working Group
Discussion Paper by Enrique Dussel Peters that adds to GDAE’s body
of work on
Foreign Investment for Development.
CDPR
The Centre for Development Policy and Research is pleased to
announce the publication of Development Viewpoint #42, “Financial
Integration Intensifies New Vulnerabilities: Brazil in the Global
Financial Crisis”. The authors, Annina Kaltenbrunner and Juan
Pablo Painceira, Economics Department, SOAS, analyse how Brazil’s
increasing integration with international financial markets in the
period leading up to the global financial crisis in 2008 had left
its economy gravely exposed to externally generated instability.
Though Brazil’s ‘economic fundamentals’ were relatively stable at
that time, the global crisis precipitated a massive outflow of
short-term speculative capital and rapid depreciation of its
exchange rate. The authors note that the danger of a similar
reversal of portfolio investment in Brazil (as well as in other
emerging economies) looms again in the current period.
Click
here to download the report.
CDPR’s other thought-provoking, diversified Development Viewpoints
are available on
http://www.soas.ac.uk/cdpr/publications/dv/.
The Centre for Development
Policy and Research draws on the broad range of development
expertise at the School of Oriental and African Studies to engage in
innovative policy-oriented research and training on crucial
development issues.
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Heterodox
Books and Book Series
Macroeconomic
Theory and Macroeconomic Pedagogy
Edited by: Giuseppe Fontana , Mark Setterfield
In recent years, there has been much debate over the extent to which
undergraduate textbook macroeconomic models are theoretically well
grounded and whether they adequately reflect the latest developments
in the field. The aim of Macroeconomic Theory and Macroeconomic
Pedagogy is to encourage and advance this debate, with a specific
view to improving macroeconomics education.
Click
here for detailed information.
Heterodoxe
Ökonomie
Die heterodoxe Ökonomie umfasst eine Vielfalt von Strömungen. Dieses
Buch stellt diese Ansätze und ihre zentralen Fragestellungen dar und
geht auch der Frage nach, was diese Strömungen gemeinsam haben. Die
Themen reichen von dem Verhältnis heterodoxer Ökonomieansätze zur
Wirtschaftssoziologie über marxistische und postkeynesianische
Ansätze bis hin zur Regulationstheorie und Theorien kapitalistischer
Entwicklung in der Peripherie. Damit gibt der Band nicht nur einen
kompakten Überblick über verschiedene heterodoxe Ansätze im deutsch-
und englischsprachigen Raum, sondern auch Einblicke in die
hierzulande weniger bekannten wirtschaftswissenschaftlichen Debatten
in Frankreich oder Lateinamerika.
Inhalt
http://www.metropolis-verlag.de/Heterodoxe-Oekonomie/772/book.do
* Hermann Rauchenschwandtner, Reinhard Pirker
Wissenschaftstheoretische Grundlagen heterodoxer Ökonomie
* Gertraude Mikl-Horke
Das ökonomische Vorverständnis in Ansätzen der Wirtschaftssoziologie
* Reinhard Pirker, Engelbert Stockhammer
Die Marx’sche Ökonomie: von Marx zu aktuellen Debatten
* Joachim Becker
Regulationstheorie
* Engelbert Stockhammer
Effektive Nachfrage, Einkommensverteilung und Inflation.
Keynesianische und Kaleckianische Ansätze
* Elisabeth Springler
Endogenes Geld und Instabilität auf Finanzmärkten.
Postkeynesianische Ansätze
* Joachim Becker, Oliver Schwank
Theorien peripher kapitalistischer Entwicklung
* Luise Gubitzer
Feministische und Alternative Ökonomie
* Andrea Grisold
Zur ökonomischen Bedeutung von Massenmedien. Eine heterodoxe
Erweiterung
Corporate Power and Ownership in
Contemporary Capitalism
The Politics of Resistance and Domination
By Susanne Soederberg
Series: RIPE Series in Global Political Economy
www.routledge.com/9780415467889
About the Book
Despite the influence corporations wield over all aspects of
everyday life, there has been a remarkable absence of critical
inquiry into the social constitution of this power. In analysing the
complex relationship between corporate power and the widespread
phenomenon of share ownership, this book seeks to map and define the
nature of resistance and domination in contemporary capitalism.
Drawing on a Marxist-informed framework, this book reconnects the
social constitution of corporate power and changing forms of
shareholder activism. In contrast to other texts that deal with
corporate governance, this study examines a diverse and
comprehensive set of themes, from socially responsible investing to
labour-led shareholder activism and its limitations. Through this
ambitious and critical study, author Susanne Soederberg demonstrates
how the corporate governance doctrine represents an inherent feature
of neoliberal rule, effectively disembedding and depoliticising
relations of domination and resistance from the wider power and
paradoxes of capitalism.
Examining corporate governance and shareholder activism in a number
of different contexts that include the United States and the global
South, this important book will be of interest to students and
scholars of international political economy, international relations
and development studies. It will also be of relevance to a wider
range of disciplines including finance, economics, and business and
management studies.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction 1. Repoliticizing Corporate Power and Ownership
in Contemporary Capitalism
Part 2: Power and Paradoxes of Corporate Power and Mass Investment
2. Repoliticizing the Ownership Society and the Marketization of
Security 3. Repoliticizing Corporate Governance: Scandals,
Struggles, and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act 4. Deconstructing the Myth of
Corporate Democracy: The Case of the Equal Access Proposal
Part 3: The Changing Forms of and Limits to Shareholder Activism 5.
The Limits to Labour’s Capital and the New Activism 6. Corporate
Governance and Entrepreneurial Development: The Case of the
Permissible Country Index 7. The Marketization of Social Justice:
The Case of the Sudan Divestment Campaign
The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism
The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism explores the history of and
collision between two of the major global phenomena: the spread of
HIV/AIDS and other diseases of poverty and the ascendancy of
neoliberal economic ideas. This book explains how IMF policies of
restrictive spending have exacerbated public health problems in
developing countries, in particular the HIV/AIDS crisis.
http://www.amazon.com/Deadly-Ideas-Neoliberalism-Undermined-Against/dp/1848132859
Karl Marx and Contemporary Philosophy
Edited by: Andrew Chitty and Martin McIvor
ANDREW CHITTY is a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of
Sussex with interests in political philosophy, ethics, and the
history of political thought. He has published widely on Hegel and
Marx.
MARTIN MCIVOR is a long-standing editor of the journal Historical
Materialism. He took his PhD at the London School of Economics,
where he taught history of political thought. He currently works as
a trade union researcher.
In the twenty-first century, new debates over globalization, 'market
society' and the crises of capitalism are leading to a resurgence of
interest in Marx's ideas about politics, economics, history and
human nature.
This collection of articles brings together the latest work of some
of the world's leading Marxist philosophers, along with that of a
new generation of young researchers. Based upon work presented at
meetings of the recently founded and fast-growing
Marx and Philosophy Society, it offers a unique snapshot of the
best current scholarship on the philosophical aspects and
implications of Marx's thought.
Contributors discuss Marx's moral and political philosophy, his
critique of orthodox economics, and his relation to more recent
trends in social theory. Although many diverse perspectives are
represented, all share a commitment to careful historical
scholarship and philosophical clarity and rigour.
This book will be invaluable for advanced undergraduate and graduate
students and researchers in philosophy, political theory, and the
social sciences.
Contents:
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction; A.Chitty & M.McIvor
PART I: MARX AND HIS PREDECESSORS
'The Entire Mystery': Marx's Understanding of Hegel; J.McCarney
Karl Marx's Philosophical Modernism: Post-Kantian Foundations of
Historical
Materialism; M.McIvor
Marx, the European Tradition, and the Philosophic Radicals; S.Meikle
PART II: MARX AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Marx's Theory of Democracy in his Critique of Hegel's Philosophy of
the State;
G.Daremas
Marx and Conservatism; A.Collier
Forms of Right, Forms of Value: The Unity of Hegel's Philosophy of
Right and Marx's
Capital; R.Fine
PART III: MARX ON LABOUR, MONEY AND CAPITAL
Species-Being and Capital; A.Chitty
Labour in Modern Industrial Society; S.Sayers
The Concept of Money; C.Arthur
Value, Money, and Capital in Hegel and Marx; P.Murray
Abstraction and Productivity: Reflections on Formal Causality;
W.Roberts
PART IV: 20TH CENTURY MARXISM
The Subject and Social Theory: Marx and Lukács on Hegel; M.Postone
Multiple Returns: Althusser on Dialectics; J.Grant
The Rationality of Analytical Marxism; R.Veneziani
PART V: MARX AND FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY
Marxism and Feminism: Living with your 'Ex'; T.Carver
After Postmodernism: Feminism and Marxism Revisited; G.Howie
Index
See link to order the book:
http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=318271
Essays in Institutional Economics and
Political Economy: An Interdisciplinary Perspective
By Arturo Hermann
Arturo Hermann is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Studies
and Economic Analyses (ISAE), Rome, Italy. In his research activity
he is developing an interdisciplinary perspective for the studies of
economic and social phenomena, with particular attention to the
links between Institutional Economics, Sociology, Psychology and
Psychoanalysis. In these fields, he has participated in many
international Conferences and authored numerous articles in
scholarly Journals. He has published with the Uni Service the book
Institutional Economics and Psychoanalysis: How Can They Collaborate
for a Better Understanding of Individual-Society Dynamics?, Second
Edition, January 2009.
See link to order the book:
http://www.uni-service.it/essays-in-institutional-economics-and-political-economy-an-interdisciplinary-perspective.html
Privatisation against the European
Social Model
A Critique of European Policies and Proposals for Alternatives
Edited by Marica Frangakis, Christoph Hermann, Jörg Huffschmid and
Károly Lóránt
This book
addresses the EU as powerful driver of the wave of privatisations in
the network industries and public services since the early 1990s.
Based on theoretical arguments and empirical studies it examines the
impact of these policies on what is regarded as the normative
pillars of the European
Social Model.
CONTENTS:
Introduction: Privatisation and the Crisis of Social Europe
PART I: PRIVATISATION IN THE EU: PROCESS AND DISCUSSION – AN
OVERVIEW
Privatisation in Western Europe
Privatisation in the Central and East European Countries
Finance as Driver of Privatisation
Theoretical Approaches to Explaining and Understanding Privatisation
The European Social Models: Contours of the Discussion
PART II: CASE STUDIES
Privatisation in the Industrial Sector
Liberalisation in Network Industries
Privatisation and Marketisation of Health Care Systems in Europe
Privatisation of Education
Privatisation of Pensions
Bank Liberalisation and Privatisation
Privatisation Trajectories in Europe: A Cross – Sector View
PART III: PERSPECTIVES
The Impact of Privatisation and Liberalisation of Public Services on
the European Social Model
Elements of a Progressive European Social Model
The Role of the Public Sector in a Progressive Construction of
Europe
Social Actors – Trade Unions and Social Movements
Ethics and Economics
New perspectives
Edited by Mark D. White, Irene van Staveren
Since the days of Adam Smith, ethics and economics have been closely
intertwined, and were nominally separated only with the advent of
neoclassical economics in the beginning of the last century. This
book features eleven essays by leading scholars in economics and
philosophy who argue for a renewal of the bond between the two
disciplines.
Several of the contributors argue that the ethical content of
economics and moral status of the market have been misunderstood,
for better and for worse. Some recommend changes in the way that
individual economic choice is modelled, in order to incorporate
ethical as well as self-interested motivations. Finally, others
question the way that societies assess economic policies that affect
the welfare and dignity of their constituents.
A wide range of philosophical perspectives is offered, drawing from
the classic writings of Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, and the ancient
Stoics, to that of current scholars such as Amartya Sen, Elizabeth
Anderson, and Christine Korsgaard. This book provides a
comprehensive introduction to the cutting edge of interdisciplinary
research between ethics and economics, and is sure to be an
important resource for scholars in both fields.
This book
was published as a combination of the special issues Review of
Political Economy and Review of Social Economy.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Irene van Staveren and Mark D. White 2. The 'Dismal
Science' - Still? Economics and Human Flourishing Mark A. Lutz 3.
Communitarianism and the Market: A Paradox Irene van Staveren 4. Not
by P Alone: A Virtuous Economy Deirdre N. McCloskey 5. Virtue and
Behavior Jennifer A. Baker 6. Freedom, Values and Sen: Towards a
Morally Enriched Classical Economic Theory Vivian Walsh 7. Pareto,
Consent, and Respect for Dignity: A Kantian Perspective Mark D.
White 8. Identity and individual economic agents: A narrative
approach John B. Davis 9. Adam Smith on Instincts, Affection, and
Informal Learning: Proximate Mechanisms in Multilevel Selection
Jonathan Wight 10. Two Views of Corruption and Democracy Mozaffar
Qizilbash 11. From 'Hume's Law' to Problem- and Policy-Analysis for
Human Development. Sen after Dewey, Myrdal, Streeten, Stretton and
Haq Des Gasper 12. The Efficiency of Equity Stephen Klasen
Author Biography
Mark D. White is Professor in the Department of Political Science,
Economics, and Philosophy, at the College of Staten Island/CUNY.
Irene van Staveren is Professor of Economics and Christian Ethics,
Radboud University Nijmegen, and Associate Professor of Feminist
Development Economics, Institute of Social Studies.
Visit
www.routledge.com/978-0-415-55055-0 for more details.
Theories Of Social Capital:
Researchers Behaving Badly
Part of the IIPPE/Pluto Book Series
Ben Fine
Released January 2010
PB / £ 17.99 / 9780745329963 / 215mm x 135mm / 304pp
Ben Fine is the world’s most thorough and indefatigible critic of
the abuse of the concept of capital that follows from adding
‘social’ - and other adjectives - to it. Further intellectual
confusion is generated by the different meanings social capital can
have as it colonises the social sciences.
Tracing the evolution of social capital since his highly acclaimed
contribution of 2001 (Social Capital Versus Social Theory), Ben Fine
consolidates his position as the world’s leading critic of the
concept.
Fine forcibly demonstrates how social capital has expanded across
the social sciences only by degrading the different disciplines and
topics that it touches: a McDonaldisation of social theory. The rise
and fall of social capital at the World Bank is critically explained
as is social capital’s growing presence in disciplines, such as
management studies, and its relative absence in others, such as
social history.
Writing with a sharp critical edge, Fine not only deconstructs the
roller-coaster presence of social capital across the social sciences
but also draws out lessons on how (and how not) to do research.
www.plutobooks.com
CONTENTS
1 Introduction
2 From Rational Choice to McDonaldisation
3 The Short History of Social Capital
4 The BBI Syndrome
5 Social Capital versus Social History
6 Social Capital is Dead: Long Live Whatever Comes Next
7 Management Studies Goes to McDonald’s
8 Degradation without Limit
9 W(h)ither Social Capital?
References
Index
Here he builds on his magnum opus - ‘Social Capital and Social
Theory’ - to explore the reasons behind the chaos this causes and
the consequences of the penetration of notions of profit into every
nook and cranny of our lives.
Barbara Harriss-White, Oxford University
PRE - ORDER DISCOUNT AVAILABLE
£ 27.50 Order now for the discount price of £25 inc P&P
Ben Fine is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and
African Studies, University of London. He recently co-authored with
Dimitris Milonakis From Economics Imperialism to Freakonomics: The
Shifting Boundaries Between Economics and Other Social Sciences
(2009), winner of the 2009 Deutscher Prize, and From Political
Economy to Economics: Method, the Social and the Historical in the
Evolution of Economic Theory, winner of the 2009 Gunnar Myrdal
Prize. He serves on the Social Science Research Committee of the
UK’s Food Standards Agency
For orders within the UK, please complete this order form (prices
subject to change) and send to:
Pluto Press, 345 Archway Road, London, N6 5AA.
Or you can phone your order on 0208 348 2724, fax your order on 0208
348 9133, or email your order to
pluto@plutobooks.com.
Dialectics of Class Struggle in the
Global Economy
(Routledge, 2010)
http://www.routledge.com/9780415778107
Dialectics of Class Struggle restores Marx’s emphasis on class
struggle as the dialectics of human social production. Humans’
reproduction makes them subjects for their activities in two forms:
their objective forms (e.g., capitalists and workers), which are
necessary to their reproduction as classes and their social forms
(e.g., shared urban existence), in which they are subjects within
social production in certain cooperative ways. This is a dialectical
relation, a social opposition and unity that inheres in the same
individuals at the same time. Western Marxism and Social Democracy
only repeat the positive categories necessary to the reproduction of
classes.
Much ink has been spilled in attempts to prove that humans are only
animals and are, like other species, only aggressive. Marx
distinguishes both class and cooperative relations as inorganic:
humans create their subjectivity through their mutual social
production. They build upon previous forms of social production and,
with capitalism, become not only an opposition of classes, but have
the capacity for urban individualism and cooperation.
Dialectics of Class Struggle examines the historical development of
classes from ancient times to present. It analyzes the development
of ancient slavery into feudalism and the latter into capitalism. It
focuses upon the laws and limits of capitalist development, the
contradictions inherent in the capitalist state, and revolutions in
the twentieth century and the possibilities for human freedom that
they revealed. It concludes with an examination of class struggles
in the global economy and shows the human deprivations as well as
the human possibilities.
Clark Everling is professor emeritus at Empire State College at the
State University of New York, USA.
Contents
1. Marx’s method
2. Marxist theory: from class struggle to political economy
3. Pre-capitalist social formations
4. Capitalism and social production
5. Capitalist state and society
6. Imperialism and world wars
7. The dialectics of world working class struggle
8. International working class revolution
9. Globalization and class struggle
10.Dialectics of the present struggle: the laws of capitalist
development
Microeconomics in Context and
Microeconomics in Context
Now available as E-texts
We are happy to inform you that GDAE’s introductory texts
Microeconomics in Context and Macroeconomics in Context are now
available as e-texts through our publisher M.E. Sharpe. These
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traditional texts. While the hardcopy books are still available for
$49.95 each, the e-texts sell for $34.95 each. The e-texts allow
students to view the full text online and download material. Online
instructor exam copies are available at no cost to potential
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Separate e-text websites are available for instructors and students.
The faculty sites are:
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The Life and Times of Raúl Prebisch,
1901-1986
By Edgar Dosman, York University, Ontario
"A comprehensive and very readable account of a fascinating
personality - this will, for some considerable period and perhaps
forever, be the definitive source on Prebisch's personal life and
career." Gerry Helleiner, University of Toronto
"It is hard to think of a better moment for the appearance of the
first full biography of Raul Prebisch, an Argentine who was a
towering figure in the international debates on economic development
from the 1940s to the 1970s...Mr Dosman has read everything Prebisch
wrote and interviewed many of those who were closest to him. His
research is exhaustive. In rescuing Prebisch for a new generation,
and above all in allowing the reader to separate the man from the
myth, he has performed a valuable service for all those interested
in economic thinking in Latin America and in the field of
international development in general." Economist
Raúl Prebisch was a leader in economic development theory and
international economic policy, an institution builder, and an
international diplomat. The Life and Times of Raúl Prebisch,
1901-1986 provides the first book-length account of his life and
work, a story cast against the backdrop of Latin America, the Cold
War, the rise of the United Nations, and the struggle for equity
between First and Third Worlds.
Edgar Dosman has used archival research and interviews with family,
friends, and associates to look at the historical and political
contexts of Prebisch's career, providing new information on such
topics as the creation and development of international networks,
the tensions within international bureaucracies, and the
constitution of a Latin American field of social sciences. Many of
Prebisch's ideas were originally rejected as unorthodox but are now
taken for granted. His life and work remain an enduring symbol of
leadership for Latin America and the global community.
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Heterodox Book Reviews
Economia
Institucional y Evolutiva Contemporanea
Economia Institucional y Evolutiva Contemporanea, by Geoffrey M.
Hodgson, Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana
Cuajimalpa-Xochimilco, 2007, ISBN: 0-970-31-0753-2; 249 pages.
Reviewed by Jairo J.
Parada, Universidad del Norte-Colombia
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Heterodox
Web Sites and Associations
The Global Labour University
The Global Labour University is launching a new weekly Labour Column
http://column.global-labour-university.org.
The blog will be a forum of open and wide ranging debate on
responses of labour to the risks and opportunities of the global
crisis.
Ideas might not change the world, but the world will not change
without ideas. And no idea can be as unrealistic as the conservative
utopia that all will stay as it is. We invite trade unionists,
academics and others interested in the topic to join us for an
international discussion about options and alternatives beyond
business as usual.
Philip Bowyer, Deputy General Secretary of UNI Global Union Devan
Pillay, Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand as
members of the GLU International Steering Committee
The blog is managed by CSID in Johannesburg, South Africa. The pdf
of the first article is
attached – please visit the blog if you want to subscribe, via
email or rss feed.
Proctereconomics
http://proctereconomics.blogspot.com/
New Deal 2.0
ND2.0 is a one-stop-shop for current news, fresh insight, sharp
analysis of the country’s fiscal crisis – and the people and
policies that offer potential solutions. A new and defining project
of the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, ND2.0 brings you
commentary from the country’s leading thinkers: economists,
historians, political scientists, policy experts and elected
officials.
http://www.newdeal20.org
King's College London Reading Capital
Society
http://www.kclreadingcapital.blogspot.com
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=49539959005
Now for download: Joseph Choonara on 'Money':
A recording of our last session is now available
here:
Patience required as file is quite big, but worth the wait.
Modern Economic and Social History
Seminar
A recording of Geoff Harcourt speaking to the Modern Economic and
Social History Seminar at Pembroke College, Cambridge, on 26
November can be found on the PKSG website at
http://www.postkeynesian.net/Recent%20events.htm .
He is introduced by Dr Simon Szreter. The seminar is affiliated with
History and Policy,
www.historyandpolicy.org.
The Chicago Political Economy Group
The Chicago Political Economy Group (authors of the Permanent Jobs
Program to Restructure the U.S. Economy) has just launched a new
website:
www.cpegonline.org
Of particular interest might be the "Call to Action" for a national
"Living Wage Jobs for All" mobilization with NJFAC, and Bill
Barclay's excellent presentation of the permanent jobs program to
the National DSA convention in Chicago - see "multimedia" section.
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For Your Information
Failure to
Moderate Excess
William Dixon has an interesting article in Mute magazine, reviewing
responses to the financial crisis, “Failure to Moderate Excess: A
Round-Up of Crisis Chronicles” . Go to:
http://www.metamute.org/en/content/failure_to_moderate_excess_a_round_up_of_crisis_chronicles
Marxist Analysis of the Crisis
Interesting series of articles giving a Marxist analysis of the
crisis at
http://www.revolutionarycommunist.org/index.php/capitalist-crisis.html
Early Christians lived by
communist principles
From Dr Hugh Goodacre.
Sir, Guy Priestly (Letters, November 19) concurs with the view that
“neither the communist system nor the capitalist system acknowledged
any God”. What about the early Christian community, which was itself
communistic?
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/137b1f60-d7d0-11de-b578-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
Tristan Milder
My name is Tristan Milder and I'm based at CNN's London office.
I was wondering if you were familiar with the theories that Frank
Baum's Wizard of Oz story is an economic and political allegory? CNN
is looking to potentially do a piece on the subject.
If you are familiar with the economic allegory theories, would you
be interested to be interviewed on the subject? If you are not
familiar, do you know of any economic professors in London that may?
Many thanks,
Tristan Milder-
Tristan.Milder@turner.com
EuroMemorandum 2009/10
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
With this mail we are sending you the text of the
EuroMemorandum
2009/10:
'Europe in Crisis: A Critique of the EU's Failure to Respond and
Proposals for a Democratic Alternative'.
If you are in broad agreement with the main lines of this year's
EuroMemorandum, we ask you to express your support.
In order to submit your declaration of support to the EuroMemorandum
Group, you can either fill in the declaration of support in
the form in the
attachment and send it back to
wehlau@uni-bremen.de
or by fax to ++49-(0)421-2182680. Please submit your declaration of
support until 8.December 2009, since this year's EuroMemorandum will
be published - with the list of signaturies - in early December.
Last year's EuroMemorandum, 'A democratic transformation of European
finance, a full employment regime, and ecological restructuring --
Alternatives to finance-driven capitalism', was signed by a total of
390 people from almost every corner of Europe.
With best wishes,
Trevor Evans, Diana Wehlau and Marica Frangakis for the EuroMemo
Coordinating Committee.
Was Henry George
Right After All? (A shaggy dog story)
I am not, to put it mildly, an expert on the endgame leading to last
year’s banking panic. For that we have authors Andrew Ross Sorkin,
of The New York Times (Too Big to Fail); David Wessel, of The Wall
Street Journal (In Fed We Trust); the beat reporters of the
newspapers; several columnists; and blogger Yves Smith, who provides
a stream of commentary. (For an insider’s view of the run-up to the
crisis, there is Lawrence McDonald’s A Colossal Failure of Common
Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers.) But I
like to think that, as a journalist, I know something about how
public opinion is formed (cont.)
Cleaning house at the WTO
The US and other wealthy countries continue to fight the same stale
battles over international trade. It's time to move on
Kevin Gallagher and Timothy Wise
guardian.co.uk,
Tuesday 1 December 2009 22.30 GMT
This week, the 10th anniversary of the infamous "Battle in Seattle,"
ministers assembled in Geneva with renewed hopes of reviving world
trade talks. To dampen expectations, World Trade Organisation chief
Pascal Lamy bills the event as a mere "housekeeping session," rather
than full-fledged negotiations (cont.)
National Conference to Create
Living Wage Jobs
Dear Friend,
Our November 13-14 National Conference to Create Living Wage Jobs,
Meet Human Needs and Sustain the Environment greatly exceeded our
expectations. Over 125 attendees came representing over 50
organizations. The diversity of attendees was as impressive as their
numbers. People came from Atlanta, Chicago, California and many
points in between. Participating organizations spanned the broad
range of constituencies we need to mobilize to achieve the
conference goals of jobs for all at a living wage. The religious
community, labor, community non-profits and employment policy
experts all participated. (cont.)
The
Bhopal Library
Today, Dec. 3, 2009, on the 25th anniversary of the Bhopal, India
tragic gas disaster, we call to your attention a special collection
of books - The
Bhopal Library - that reveal the evolving understanding of the
meaning of the Bhopal, India tragedy over the last 25 years. The
Bhopal Library is an offering of the Apex Press, publishing arm of
the Council on International and Public Affairs, whose Publisher
Ward Morehouse is a co-founder of the International Coalition for
Justice in Bhopal. (He has also co-authored several of these books.)
This collection of books, recording the history of this
25-year-period in real time, offers a unique chronicle of the
growing understanding of human rights activists, doctors, lawyers,
historians and social scientists, of the enormity of this
still-ongoing case. With today’s globalization of multinational
corporations, the lessons for the world from the Bhopal case
illuminates the need to understand how to make Human Rights a key
standard in today’s industrial globalization. These books—including
documents and primary sources-- shed light on the growing
understanding of the meaning of the Bhopal gas study for a
globalized world and offer a special retrospective for the study of
Bhopal and/or the study of the coming to consciousness of the impact
of globalization.
http://www.bhopallibrary.org/
CSRC presents: 'The Roots of
the Economic Crisis: Critical Perspectives'
LeftStreamed - Recorded October 29, 2009:
Critical Social Research Collaborative presents:
The Roots of the Economic Crisis: Critical Perspectives
This workshop explores alternative interpretations of the current
economic crisis. The presentations are from organized labour,
community activists and academics. The focus of this workshop is
critical engagement, discussion and debate. Questions addressed
include: How have various perspectives analyzed and understood the
roots of the current economic crisis? Is there something
fundamentally unsound about the current political-economic
structure? Is the current crisis to be located within a set of
recently established policies, or better understood over the
long-term historical development of capitalism? How have the policy
prescriptions and ideological rationales shifted over the years?
And, more ambitiously, where do we go from here?
* Andrew Jackson – is the National Director, Social and Economic
Policy, with the Canadian Labour Congress.
* Toby Sanger – is a Senior Economist with the Canadian Union of
Public Employees.
* Justin Paulson – is assistant professor in the Department of
Anthropology at Carleton University.
Click here to view video presentation:
http://www.socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed/ls31.php
Produced by the Left Streamed Collective. Viewers are encouraged to
distribute widely. Comments on the video and suggestions are welcome
- write to
info@socialistproject.ca
For more analysis of contemporary politics check out
'Relay: A Socialist Project Review' at
www.socialistproject.ca/relay
Employee Free Choice Act
Dear URPE members,
As soon as you finish with this semester (or even sooner), those of
you in academia will be planning for next semester. I want to
quickly remind everyone, both in academia and activists, Employee
Free Choice Act of the battle for the that (probably!) will come up
this winter/spring - presumably whenever the fight over healthcare
ends.
The greater the discussion going on about it when it does come up,
the better its chances - and for long term considerations, a fight
for this is important (along with many other things) for
strengthening the long term efforts of working Americans to fight or
their rights, regardless of the legislative fate or the EFCA.
Last spring a couple of schools managed to hold teach-in on this. If
that is something you could organize this spring, that would be
great. (More on materials below). If you go this route, you will
certainly want a partner group to work with you on building it - you
will not be able to build a teach-in as an individual. Maybe the
most likely group that one finds on many campuses (or off campus) is
Job with Justice (JwJ), or their student group that exists on many
campuses, Student Labor Action Project (SLAP)
http://www.jwj.org/projects/slap.html . Among many other groups
that are on campuses that might help build such an event (depending
on the politics of the local group) are local branches of United
Students Against Sweatshops, United States Student Association,
Young Democrats, National Lawyers Guild, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty
International, NAACP, Black Student Union, MECHa, or any progressive
group on campus, including ones tied to disciplines like sociology,
economics, etc.
Easier for many of you would be to incorporate something on this in
some economics class you are teaching, either on the EFCA itself of
more broadly on decent work.
Two places with the most material (for both your own background, and
reading for students or politicians or social actors you are trying
to convince) on this remain the Political Economy Research Institute
Web site ( www.peri.umass.edu
) and American Rights at Work (
www.americanrightsatwork.org ).
Two new pieces of material have just been put out by the AFL-CIO,
which could be useful in a class setting, a teach-in, or for
activist work. A 16 slide Power Point presentation on the EFCA,
http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/voiceatwork/efca/upload/Teach-Ins.ppt
and a description of how to go about organizing a teach-in, things
to consider,
http://www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/voiceatwork/efca/upload/Teach-Ins.pdf
Please think about doing something around the EFCA this spring if
possible.
I will be back in touch with our membership when this legislation
begins to move, but again, we need have some activities going on
before that begins.
Why Global Poverty? Think
Again
A Companion Guide to the Film "The End of Poverty?" by Clifford W.
Cobb and Philippe Diaz
Read the companion guide to "The End of Poverty?"
Over 400 pages featuring extended interviews with more than 100
individuals--plus photographs and a complete transcript of the film.
Please see
attached form to order the companion guide.
Why Are We in
Afghanistan?
See the trailer, get more information, and order now for the holiday
season! $9.95 plus shipping
http://www.WhyAreWeInAfghanistan.org
U.S. military action in Afghanistan originated in response to the
September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon.
That was then. This is now. Reasons for the war have become more
cloudy as other factors have developed.
This film looks at domestic pressures and geo-strategic interests
that keep the U.S. in the region, and the long history of U.S.
foreign interventions that forms the broader context for this war.
We also see today’s peace movement continuing another long tradition
- popular resistance to war.
Why Are We in Afghanistan? is an educational resource for
communities, unions, veterans and active duty military, classes, and
anyone who wonders why we are in Afghanistan, and what to do about
it.
Written and directed by Michael Zweig
Illustrated by Mike Konopacki
Edited by Trish Dalton
Produced by Trish Dalton, Michael Zweig, and the Center for Study of
Working Class Life
Joerg Huffschmid
Dear Comrades,
I have a sad message: Joerg Huffschmid passed away on Dec 5th after
struggling for months with cancer. Joerg was one of the leading
leftist economists in Germany. Before retirement he was a professor
of political economy at the University of Bremen. He started his
academic career writing about capital formation. In 1969, he
published his first major book 'The Politics of Capital.
Concentration and Economic Policy in Germany' (Die Politik des
Kapitals. Konzentration und Wirtschaftspolitik in der Bundesrepublik),
which was widely read and reprinted several times. He kept on
researching ownership structures, while in the 1990s his interest
shifted towards financial markets. His 'Political Economy of
Financial Markets' (Politische Oekonomie der Finanzmaerkte), first
published in 1998, became an influential book for the emerging
anti-globalization movement in Germany and beyond. In addition to
being a passionate and committed scholar and a fierce critic of
capitalism, Joerg always engaged outside the academic world. In the
70s, he was connected to the German Communist Party (Deutsche
Kommunistische Partei), and the de-militarization movement; in the
80s, he co-founded the 'Working Group for Alternative Economic
Policy', better known as German Memorandum Group, which made a name
for itself by criticizing the prevalent conservative economic policy
of the German government. In the 90s, Joerg was the main activist
behind the establishment of the ‘European Economists for an
Alternative Economic Policy’, or Euromemo Group, which for the past
15 years has issued a yearly report on European economic policy. He
was deeply involved with trade unions, social movements and leftist
parties, as a member of the scientific board of Attac Germany and an
academic adviser for the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin. Even
after retirement, he continued to publish, give talks and teach
seminars for students and activists. In the past years, he was
involved in the organization of a series of Alternative Ecofin
meetings with left scholars and activists. His last project, which
he unfortunately could not complete, was an activists' book on 'How
does privatization work?' (Wie geht Privatisierung?). Much of these
projects would not have happened if it had not been for Joerg
tirelessly pushing for it. He was an inspiration to and a motivator
for his friends and colleagues. Joerg would have turned 70 in
February. There will be a conference in Berlin that month to
commemorate his work. He will greatly be missed in Germany and
around the world as a friend, a scholar and an activist.
Christoph Hermann
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