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Call for Papers |
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- IIPPE - Coimbra
Conference on The Revival of Political Economy
- IIPPE in Brief, Issue 4 – Call for Contributions
- PEF/CEA Panels/Sessions and JKG Prize 2010
- Paper Money in Theory and Practice in History
- Twenty Years of Human Development: The Past and the Future
of the Human Development Index
- APORDE: African Programme on Rethinking Development
Economics
- Conference Developments in Economic Theory and Policy
- Future Research in Economic and Social History (FRESH)
- History of Economic Ideas
- History of Economics as Culture
- Annual Scientific Meeting on Social Enterprise
- Revue de la Régulation, Capitalisme, Institutions,
Pouvoirs
- 4th ISRICH Conference on Health Economics |
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Conferences, Seminars and Lectures |
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- Historical
Materialism, Second North American Conference
- LSE public debate: What kind of economics should we teach?
- Conference in Paris on Communism
- Bristol reading group: "Capital and Capitalism"
- International Socialism journal seminar
- Cambridge Lectures
- URPE at Eastern Economic Association
- Religious-Secular Distinctions conference at the British
Academy
- Socialist Register, Jan. 2010 Events
- Symposium on Class
- The Hyman P. Minsky Summer Seminar
- Noam Chomsky to speak at Left Forum 2010
- London Marx-Hegel Reading group: Hegel’s Phenomenology of
Spirit |
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Job Postings for Heterodox Economists |
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- University of
Cologne / Universität Köln
- Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
- John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)
- Corporate Accountability International
- Demos
- Institute for Women’s Policy Research
- Economics for Equity and the Environment Network |
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Heterodox Conference Papers and
Reports and Articles |
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- Development Viewpoint 43
- Debating Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand | URPE/ASSA
- The 4th Bi-Annual Conference on the financial and monetary
crisis
- "Post-Election Iran: Crossroads of History and a Critique
of Prevailing Political Perspectives"
- International Development Economics Associates (IDEAs) |
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Heterodox Journals and Newsletters |
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- Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol.
33, N. 6: November 2009
- Deleuze Studies, Vol. 3, No. suppl: December 2009
- Feminist Economics, Vol. 16, Issue 1: January 2010
- History of Economics Review, No. 50: Summer 2009
- Historical Materialism, Vol. 17, Issue. 4
- International Review of Economics Education, Volume 8,
Issue 2: November 2009
- Interface: a journal for and about social movements, Vol.
1, No. 2: November 2009
- International Socialism, Issue 125: Winter 2009
- Journal of Economics Issues, Vol. 43, No. 4: December 2009
- Journal of Economic Methodology, Vol. 16, Issue 4
- Journal of Innovation Economics, No. 4
- Journal of Institutional Economics, Vol.5, No.3
- Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 31, Issue
4: December 2009
- Marxism 21, Vol. 16: December 2009
- Metroeconomica, Vol. 60, Issue 4: November 2009
- Metroeconomica, Vol. 61 Issue 1: February 2010
- Oikos, Vol. 8, No. 2
- Prokla: September 2009
- Review of Political Economy, Vol. 22, Issue 1: January
2010
- Review of Social Economy, Vol. 67 Issue 4: December 2009
- Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 41, No. 4:
December 2009
- Review of Social & Economic Studies, Vol. 33: November
2009
- Review of Social & Economic Studies, Vol. 32: May 2009
- Revista de Economía Institucional, No. 21
- Revue de la régulation n°6: 2e semestre 2009
- Upping the Anti #9
- Levy News
- nef e-letter, December 2009
- eInsight
- Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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- The HEN-IRE Project for Developing
Heterodox Economics and Rethinking the Economy Through
Debate and Dialogue
- Institutional Analysis and Praxis: The Social Fabric
Matrix Approach
- Path Dependency and Macroeconomics
- The New Behavioral Economics
- Happiness, Economics and Politics: Towards a
Multi-Disciplinary Approach
- The Economic Crisis Reader
- Political Economy and Globalization
- Confronting Global Neoliberalism: Third World Resistance
and Development Strategies
- Class Struggle on the Homefront
- Tax Havens: How Globalization Really Works
- Seven Deadly Frauds of Economic Policy
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Heterodox Book Reviews |
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- After Adam Smith: A Century of
Transformation in Politics and Political Economy
- Editor's Note on Book Reviews for HEN |
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Heterodox Graduate Program and PhD
Scholarships |
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- PhD opportunity at City University
London |
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Heterodox Web Sites and Associations |
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- Real-World Economics in Germany |
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Queries from Heterodox Economists
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- Surveys, articles, and/or books that
critique mainstream theory
- Introductory readings, lectures and videos of Marxism |
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- 10 Suggested Resolutions for
Real-World Economist in 2010
- Spring 2010 teach-in suggestions for Employee Free Choice
Act
- Please post in Real-World Economics Review Blog
- HET module at City University London
- Academic Prizes ESHET 2010
- Historical Materialism: Special Subscription Offer
- Elegant Theories That Didn't Work: The Problem with Paul
Samuelson
- After the Blowup
- Unions and the Crisis: Ways Ahead?
- Indian Trade Unions' position on Copenhagen
- New York Area Study Group on Capital vols. II and III
beginning in January
- "Revolutionizing Economic Thought" by Frank Rotering |
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Call for Papers
AIIPPE - Coimbra Conference on The
Revival of Political Economy
Please find
attached this call for papers for an
interesting conference titled 'The Revival of Political Economy:
Prospects for sustainable provision' in Portugal next October.
IIPPE in Brief, Issue 4 – Call for
Contributions
We are seeking contributions for the next issue of
the IIPPE newsletter due out in March 2010
These can be:
• Call for papers
• Announcements of publications and upcoming events
• Short opinion pieces (up to 900 words)
See
http://www.iippe.org/wiki/IIPPE_In_Brief for previous
issues.
Please send contributions to
susan.newman@wits.ac.za
PEF/CEA Panels/Sessions and JKG Prize
2010
Now that things are settling down and holidays are
approaching, please give some thought to nominees for the 2010 John
Kenneth Galbraith Prize in Economics. If you would like to nominate
someone please email me at info@progressive-economics.ca with a
couple paragraphs to support your nomination (one page max).
Nominations will close mid-January.
The Prize is be awarded based on a demonstrated contribution
combining economic analysis with a commitment to social justice,
whose work exemplifies the goals and objectives of the PEF. For more
information on the JKG Prize see:
http://www.progressive-economics.ca/cea-meetings-and-jkg-prize/
Second, if you would like to organize a panel/session through the
PEF, now is the time. Please be as descriptive as possible - what
topic, why, who will be on it. Or if you have a paper you would like
to present we can see if there is a panel that can fit it in.
Nick Falvo will again be coordinating the PEF's involvement with CEA
this year. Please email Nick (
nfalvo@connect.carleton.ca ) and copy
myself ( info@progressive-economics.ca ) with any suggestions by
Jan.25, 2009
Best wishes,
Marc
Paper Money in
Theory and Practice in History
International Workshop: "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 the new deadline of 31 January 2010.
Workshop Organizers:
Claudia de Lozanne Jefferies: Economics Department, City University
London. E-mail:
claudia.jefferies.1@city.ac.uk
Anders Ögren: EHFF – Institute for Research in Economic and
BBusiness History at the Stockholm School of Economics and EconomiX
at the Université de Paris Ouest La Défense
Nanterre. E-mail:
anders.ogren@hhs.se
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
CALL FOR PAPERS
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.
APORDE: African Programme on
Rethinking Development Economics
Call for applications. 13 - 27 May 2010. Durban,
South Africa
Supported by the Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa
(the dti) and the French Development Agency (AFD) with the French
Institute of South Africa (IFAS)
We are pleased to announce that the 2010 African Programme on
Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) will be held in Durban
(South Africa) from the 13th to the 27th of May. After three
successful editions, APORDE is a well established programme which
attracts many quality applicants. This call is directed at talented
African, Asian and Latin American economists, policy makers and
civil society activists.
We encourage everyone with an interest in development to read and
distribute this call. Entry into this high-level programme will be
very competitive and only a small number of applicants will be
selected.
APORDE is a joint initiative of the Department of Trade and Industry
(the dti), the French Development Agency (AFD) and the French
Institute of South Africa (IFAS). Lecturers teaching in the
programme include Alice Amsden (MIT), Thandika Mkandawire (LSE),
Michel Aglietta (Institut Universitaire de France), Ha-Joon Chang
(University of Cambridge) and Ben Fine (SOAS). Nicolas Pons-Vignon
(CSID, Wits University) is the APORDE Course director.
APORDE will allow talented academics, policy makers and civil
society representatives from Africa (as well as from Asia and Latin
America) to gain access to alternatives to mainstream thinking on
development issues and to be equipped in a way that will foster
original thinking. Participants will receive intensive high-level
training and interact with some of the best development economists
in the world and with other participants.
The application should actually reach Nicolas Pons-Vignon by Sunday
24 January 2010 at midnight at the latest. Incomplete or late
applications will not be considered.
Please note that individual acknowledgement of applications will be
sent by e-mail only. Candidates will be notified by e-mail of the
outcome of their applications by early March 2010.
For more information, visit
www.aporde.org.za
13th International Schumpeter Society
Conference: Innovation, Organisation, Sustainability and Crises
21-24 June 2010 at Aalborg University, Denmark
Second Call for Papers
Summary: Deadline for papers/extended abstracts: 15 February 2010.
Submission is open at www.schumpeter2010.dk. The full second call
for papers can be found at the website. Email:
info@schumpeter2010.dk.
The second call for Schumpeter 2010 announces that the conference
website has been redesigned and that it has been opened for
submission of papers/extended abstracts. But registration and
payment of the conference fee do not start before 15th January 2010.
Those who have read the first call should note we have removed the
requirement of a pre-registration fee for authors of papers that
have been accepted for the conference.
Schumpeter 2010 serves as an opportunity for both established
scholars and young researchers to present research that has a
Schumpeterian perspective. The major topic of the conference is
"Innovation, Organisation, Sustainability and Crises". But the
conference more generally embraces micro-studies of the innovation,
routine and selection as well as studies of the macro-problems of
Schumpeterian growth and development as a process of "creative
destruction". The broad range of issues implies that both
economists, business economists, and other social scientists can
contribute to the conference and that evidence may be provided by
statistical and historical methods as well as other methods.
The International Joseph A. Schumpeter Society has more than 400
members from 40 countries. The Society publishes the Journal of
Evolutionary Economics and awards the Schumpeter prize. Since the
founding conference in 1986, the Society has held biannual open-call
conferences. After Aalborg in 2010, the next conference will be held
in Australia in 2012 at the University of Queensland. Examples of
previous conferences are the 11th Schumpeter Conference in Nice
(2006) and the 12th Schumpeter Conference in Rio de Janeiro (2008).
The conference's scientific committee: Esben Sloth Andersen,
Giovanni Dosi, Jan Fagerberg, Maryann Feldman, John Foster, Shulin
Gu, Horst Hanusch, Steven Klepper, Edward Lorenz, Bengt-Åke Lundvall,
Franco Malerba, Ben Martin, Maureen McKelvey, Stanley Metcalfe,
Richard Nelson, Carlota Perez, Paolo Saviotti, Morris Teubal, Bart
Verspagen, and Sidney Winter.
The local organisers: Esben Sloth Andersen, Michael S. Dahl, Bent
Dalum, Bengt-Åke Lundvall, and Christian R. Østergaard
Further information on the submission of papers, the Schumpeter
Prize, the Best Junior Paper Award, and other activities relating to
Schumpeter 2010 is found at the website: www.schumpeter2010.dk. Some
information is only found in the full call for papers.
Timetable:
- The website has been opened for the submission of papers
- The registration and payment website will be opened on 15 January
2010
- Deadline for paper submission (full paper OR extended abstract):
15th February 2010
- Deadline for the submission by ordinary mail for the Schumpeter
Prize: 28th February 2010
- Decision of paper acceptance: 1st April 2010
- Deadline for authors' reply to the letter of acceptance: 20th
April 2010
- Deadline for authors' to propose their accepted full papers for
the Best Junior Paper Award: 20th April 2010
- Registration deadline at reduced rates: 10th May 2010
- Deadline for full or revised versions of accepted papers: 31st May
2010
We kindly request you to share with your colleagues this message and
the website address (www.schumpeter2010.dk). You can access the pdf
version of the Second Call for Papers directly at
http://www.schumpeter2010.dk/public/conferences/2/supl/Call2Schumpeter2010.pdf
There is also a small conference poster at
http://www.schumpeter2010.dk/public/conferences/2/supl/S2010poster.pdf
Best regards,
Esben Sloth Andersen
President of the International Schumpeter Society
Conference
Developments in Economic Theory and Policy
Dear colleague,
The Department of Applied Economics V of the University of the
Basque Country and the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public
Policy, Department of Land Economy, of the University of Cambridge
are organizing the 7th International Conference Developments in
Economic Theory and Policy. The Conference will be held in Bilbao
(Spain), in July 1-2, 2010.
Although papers are invited on all areas of economics, there will be
Plenary Sessions with Invited Speakers about the following topics:
- Land and Agricultural Environment
- Financialisation and the Transformation of Financial Systems
- Festschrift for Geoff Harcourt: The Political Economy of an
Australian Patriot and a Cambridge Economist
Invited Speakers include: Luigi Pasinetti (Universita Cattolica del
Sacro Cuore); Stephanie Blankenburg (SOAS, University of London);
Philip Arestis (University of Cambridge and University of the Basque
Country) and Malcolm Sawyer; Geoff Harcourt (University of
Cambridge), Ian Hodge (University of Cambridge); Unai Pascual
(University of Cambridge); Jose Albiac (University of Zaragoza,
CITA-DGA); Juan Ramón Murua, Inma Astorkiza and Begoña Eguía
(University of the Basque Country); Isabel Bardají (Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid); Josep M. Jordan (Universidad de Valencia)
and J.M. Garcia Alvarez Coque (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia);
Costas Lapavitsas (SOAS, University of London); Paulo Dos Santos
(SOAS, University of London); Sherif Elkholy; Juan Pablo Painceira
(SOAS, University of London)
Suggestions for Organized Sessions are encouraged. An Organized
Session is one session constructed in its entirety by a Session
Organizer and submitted to the conference organizers as a complete
package. Session organizers must provide the following information:
- Title of the session, name and affiliation of the organizer, name
and affiliation of chair (if different than organizer)
- Titles of the papers, name, affiliation and contact information of
authors
Besides Plenary, Organized and Normal Parallel sessions, there will
also be Graduate Student Sessions (i.e., students currently making a
MSc or a PhD programme). In these sessions, students can present
their research and discuss that of other students. Participants in
Graduate Student Sessions will pay a lower conference fee.
The deadline to submit papers and ‘Organized Sessions’ is 31st May
2010.
For more information, you can contact with Jesus Ferreiro
( jesus.ferreiro@ehu.es ) or Maribel Garcia-del-Valle
( teresa.gvalleirala@ehu.es ) or visit the website
www.conferencedevelopments.com
Future Research in
Economic and Social History (FRESH)
FRESH conference on Banking & Financial History
Queen's University Belfast, 23 April 2010
For more information, visit websites:
http://www.keynes.dk/FRESH/meetings.htm
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=245928455890
History of Economic Ideas
Call for Papers: on Paul A. Samuelson
Dear All,
The journal "History of Economic Ideas" is interested in publishing
some papers commemorating the main aspects of the scientific
personality of Paul Samuelson. The range of topics includes
Samuelson's scientific biography, his attitude towards the history
of economics, his relevance as the author of "Economics", his
success as policy advisor to the American
government.
The deadline for the reception of the papers is June 31, 2010.
Thanks for your attention,
Riccardo Faucci
History of
Economics as Culture
Dear colleagues,
This is to announce that I am organizing on the behalf of the H2S
(History of Social Science) group the second workshop on "History of
economics as culture (Histoire culturelle des savoirs économiques)"
to be held Friday 9 April 2010 in Paris (exact location to be
disclosed later). My intention is to bring together scholars from
different disciplines to discuss from an historical vantage point,
the place of economics in our culture. Below are some suggestions of
topics that exemplify what will be at issue:
• To consider the interactions between art, literature and
economics;
• To discuss the interactions between cultural or artistic objects
such as magazines, books, maps, photographs, paintings, graphs and
economic thinking and to consider economic texts as cultural items
and to reflect upon the consequences their physical form had on
their reception.
• To consider economics as part of cultures (political, commercial,
scientific, etc.) of past (including very recent past) societies;
for example, to discuss the economic representations (or culture) of
specific social groups such as merchants, workers, business men,
etc.
The workshop will comprise of 5 or 6 papers containing genuine
unpublished research. I have already solicited a few papers but I
have room for two or three more papers. If you have an interest in
the above topics/issues, please send
me a proposal or no more than 500 words or a draft paper of what you
want to present before February, 15 at this address:
charles@ined.fr.
If you are interested in the subject, although but unable to send a
proposal, feel free to contact me at the same address for further
discussion/information. Also, last year program is available here:
http://economix.u-paris10.fr/fr/activites/ws/?id=81&page=programme.
Yours,
Loïc Charles
Annual Scientific Meeting on Social
Enterprise
CALL FOR PAPERS
“Annual Scientific Meeting on Social Enterprise” Roma Tre University
– Faculty of Economics “Federico Caffè” Italy
From May 21, 2010 to May 22, 2010
Deadline for abstract submissions: February 1, 2010
Deadline for paper submissions: April 30, 2010
Main topics: Social Enterprise, Social Capital, Cooperative firms,
Human Development.
Further information at:
www.irisnetwork.it
Revue de la Régulation, Capitalisme,
Institutions, Pouvoirs
Website: http://regulation.revues.org
Call for Papers
« The Economic Crisis : A new deal for the field of economics ? »
It is a truism that a fair number of economists failed to see the
current crisis coming, a point that has found particular resonance
in the writings of Paul Krugman. Notwithstanding this fact, these
very same economists have offered countless conferences,
declarations, and interviews in which they draw lessons from the
crisis and either identify or correct the « dysfunctions » that
caused it.
La Revue de la Régulation proposes a special issue that will
reconsider this paradox through an attempt to understand how certain
features of the discipline itself contributed to this situation,
including both its internal organization (modes of production and
dissemination of knowledge, rules of operation and evaluation) and
its complex relationships with other disciplines such as sociology,
history, political science, and mathematics. Additional factors that
merit consideration include the ties between economics and the
domains of politics, the media, and business, and the relationship
between the crisis and recent reconfigurations of the field.
The editors invite contributions from pluridisciplinary perspectives
: science studies, the sociology of knowledge and of professions,
network analysis, the history of economic thought, the history of
science, epistemology, etc. Contributions that develop themes from
the following non-exhaustive list will receive particular attention:
-How did the use of particular methodologies and models contribute
to the relative blindness or myopia of the discipline with regard to
the crisis? To what extent are these tools and their various
applications--the status of empirical data, modalities of
administration and proof, acknowledgement of the constraints on
validity of particular models--specific to the field of economics,
especially as regards the physical and biological sciences or other
social sciences ?
-To what extent have changes in the teaching of economics (for
example, technicization or the marginalization of economic history
and thought) contributed to the current situation ?
-What is the nature of the relationship between economics as a
discipline and other disciplines ? To what extent are these
inter-disciplinary relationships imperialistic, associative, or
based on sheer mutual ignorance?
-Does the organization of economics into essentially closed « small
worlds » such as universities, laboratories, centers, and journals
leave sufficient space for debate, criticism, and ultimately
dialogue between different schools of thought ?
-What is the role played by the rules of evaluation and appraisal of
what counts as disciplinary knowledge by researchers, journals, and
laboratories? How have professional institutions evolved and
changed, and what is the capacity of the discipline as a whole to
innovate and to renew itself ?
-To what extent have the links between certain economists and « the
business world »--via directorships, board memberships, service on
governmental organizations such as the Council for Economic
Analysis, or formal roles in the media—influenced the positions that
they have articulated or their power within the discipline ?
Deadline for contributions to this issue : March 15, 2010
regulation@revues.org
http://regulation.revues.org
Download
Call for Papers in French
4th ISRICH Conference on Health
Economics
International Conference
13-14 May 2010, Paris, France
The survival of health care systems remains an outstanding issue in
Western countries. How can we deal with a steadily increasing demand
for health care due mainly to an aging population while at the same
time experiencing tightening financial constraints?
The key themes of the 4th ISRICH conference are:
• How do the demographic changes (aging of the population) affect
health care systems and the work of health professionals?
• What does a sustainable health care system really mean?
• How can we measure performance, effectiveness and sustainability
of the health care system as well as of its organizations?
• How are new innovation and new knowledge created in health care
systems and how do they reach patients?
Important dates:
March 31, 2010: Deadline for sending extended abstract (around 1000
words) to Bertrand Pauget (
bertrandpauget@ebs-paris.com )
April 15, 2010: Notification of acceptance or rejection of abstracts
May 2, 2010: Deadline sending full papers
May 04, 2010: Deadline for registration, payment of conference fee
For more information, contact
bertrandpauget@ebs-paris.com, or visit
www.isrich.eu /
Download the Call for
Papers:[ISRICH-callforpapers-2010.pdf]
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Conferences, Seminars
and Lectures
Historical Materialism, Second North
American Conference
January 14-16 2010, New York City
Opening Plenary Thursday January 14th, 7pm
Graduate Center
City University of New York
365 5th Avenue
New York, NY
REGISTRATION NOW OPEN!
www.hm2010nyc.org
Please join us for the second North American Historical Materialism
Conference, beginning the evening of January 14th, 2010. Founded in
1997, the quarterly Historical Materialism (HM) journal is among the
foremost publications of critical Marxist theory in the world, known
for both its breadth as well as its intellectual rigor. Following
upon successful conferences in London and Toronto, the New York City
conference – the first ever in the US – will provide a lively space
for scholars and activists to critically engage theoretical,
historical, and practical issues of crucial importance to the
movement for a world beyond capitalism.
The ongoing economic crisis continues to disrupt political and
business establishments across the planet and inflict suffering upon
millions in the form of mass unemployment and food shortages.
Despite the popular expectations raised by a new presidency, U.S.
imperial ambitions appear locked in place. The existential threat of
climate change looms. Economic, political, military and ecological
crises intersect as they intensify, making the world a much more
dangerous place— but also one in which the space for theory and
practice aimed at challenging capitalism, and exploring systemic
alternatives, has grown.
In organizing the first US Historical Materialism conference we hope
to open a space for critical, rigorous and boundary-pushing theory,
to explore and provoke our understanding of capital and
anti-capitalist alternatives with a critical eye to the traditions
of the past, while confronting the crises and struggles unfolding
around us.
Panels Include:
The Future of the Radical Left / Theories of the Developmentalist
State / Witch-Hunting and Enclosures / Philosophy of Finance / Race
and Labor / The Politics of Oil / Communism and Catastrophe / Women,
Work and Violence / Theories of Exploitation / Ecology and Crisis /
The Problem of Organization / Commons and Subjectivity / Capitalism,
Slavery and the Civil War / Communization / Sexuality and Marriage /
Fetishism and the Value Form / Marx’s Theory of Money / Post-Operaïsmo
/ Crisis Theory…
Confirmed speakers:
Anna M. Agathangelou, Stanley Aronowitz, Gopal Balakrishnan, Banu
Bargu, Deepankar Basu, Karl Beitel, Riccardo Bellofiore, Aaron
Benanav, Jasper Bernes, Paul Blackledge, George Caffentzis, Dana
Cloud, Patricia Clough, Gérard Duménil, Hester Eisenstein, Sara
Farris, Silvia Federici, Robert Fine, Duncan Foley, Benedetto
Fontana, Maya Gonzalez, Paul Heideman, Nancy Holmstrom, Matt Huber,
Robert Hullot-Kentor, Andrew Kliman, Sabu Kohso, Michael Krätke, Tim
Kreiner, Deepa Kumar, David Laibman, Neil Larsen, Paul Le Blanc,
William Lewis, Geoff Mann, Paul Mattick, Michael McCarthy, Annie
McClanahan, Geoffrey McDonald, Alan Milchman, Simon Mohun, Gary
Mongiovi, Fred Moseley, Justin Myers, August Nimtz, Bertell Ollman,
Melda Ozturk, Ozgur Ozturk, Mi Park, Nina Power, Nagesh Rao, Jason
Read, John Riddell, William Clare Roberts, Heather Rogers, Sander,
Anwar Shaikh, Hasana Sharp, Tony Smith, Jason E. Smith, Richard
Smith, Hae-Yung Song, Marcel Stoetzler, Lee Sustar, Peter Thomas,
Massimiliano Tomba, Aylin Topal, Alberto Toscano, Ben Trott, Ramaa
Vasudevan, Antonio Y. Vázquez-Arroyo, Chris Vials, Marina Vishmidt,
Joel Wainwright, Victor Wallis, Paul Warren, Evan Calder Williams,
Ted Winslow, Christopher Wright
Conference supported by:
The Center for the Study of Work, Culture and Technology
SpaceTime Research Collective
Haymarket Books
for all enquiries email:
hm2010nyc@gmail.com
See the time table here:
http://www.hm2010nyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/HMprogram1.pdf
LSE public debate: What kind of economics should we teach?
• Date: Wednesday 20 January 2010
• Time: 6.30-8pm
• Venue: Sheikh Zayed Theatre, New Academic Building, LSE, London,
UK
• Panellists: Paul Ormerod, Professor Geoffrey Hodgson; Professor
John Sutton; Professor Albert Marcet
• Chair: Professor Tim Besley
The recent global crisis has lead to questions being asked about
whether the kind of economics being taught to students in leading
economics departments was responsible for the widespread failure to
predict the timing and magnitude of the events that unfolded in
2008. Critiques range from an absence of historical context in
mainstream teaching of economics to excessive reliance on
mathematical models. This panel brings together four leading
economists to debate this issue and to discuss what changes in the
economics curriculum and the way that it is delivered are desirable.
For further information, visit:
http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2010/20090120t1830vSZ.aspx
Conference in Paris on Communism
Collloque: Puissances du communisme, 22-23
janvier 2010
Programme (pour tout renseignement :
societelouisemichel@free.fr )
Université Paris 8
2, rue de la Liberté 93526 Saint-Denis
métro : Saint-Denis Université
Vendredi 22
Matin, 09.00
Table ronde n° 1 : Un communisme sans Marx ?
Participants : Isabelle Garo, Rastko Mocnik, Massimiliano Tomba,
Pierre Dardot, Stéphane Rozès
Modératrice : Cinzia Arruzza
Table ronde n° 2 : Un communisme sans histoire ?
Participants : Alex Callinicos, Alberto Toscano, Etienne Balibar,
Catherine Samary, André Tosel
Modérateur : Nicolas Vieillescazes
Samedi 23
Matin, 09.00
Table ronde n° 3 : A la recherche du sujet perdu
Participants : Thomas Coutrot, Christian Laval, Elsa Dorlin, Samuel
Johsua
Modérateur : François Cusset
Après-midi
Table ronde n° 4 : Des communistes sans communisme ?
Participants : Jacques Rancière, Slavoj Zizek, Daniel Bensaid,
Michel Surya, Gaspar Tamas
Modérateur : à signaler
Bristol reading group: "Capital and
Capitalism"
The first of The Commune’s Bristol reading group
sessions will be on Sunday 24th January at 6pm in Cafe Kino on
Ninetree Hill, Bristol.
The series of sessions is entitled “Alternatives to capitalism”. The
first session is called “Capital and capitalism”. A brief look at
the features of capitalism. Capital, wage-labour, profit, capital
accumulation and its effect on our lives.This first session sets the
scene and will allow us to contast proposed alternatives.
Main reading:
• Ernst Mandel’s introduction to a Marxist analysis of capitalism,
Chapters 1 and 2 of An Introduction to Marxist Economic Theory
(1967)
• Alfredo Saad-Filho (2003) looks at the recent anti-capitalist or
anti-globalisation movement’s response to overcoming capitalism. See
the introduction to a collection of papers written before the
current economic crisis.
Further reading:
• A chapter from Harry Cleaver’s book Reading Capital Politically
(2000) which stresses the struggle between capital and labour in the
production of commodities.
For those interested in a summary of recent Marxist accounts of the
current economic crisis see Joseph Choonara – ‘Marxist accounts of
the current crisis‘, International Socialism, 123, Summer 2009.
All welcome, email
uncaptiveminds@gmail.com for more info.
International Socialism journal
seminar
Gareth Dale and Jonathan Neale on Capitalism,
Class and Climate Change
Gareth Dale, author of "Corporations and climate change" and several
books on East Germany, and Jonathan Neale, author of Stop Global
Warming: Change the World and secretary of the Campaign against
Climate Change (pc), present the latest in our series of seminars.
In the wake of the fiasco at Copenhagen, Gareth and Jonathan will be
presenting an in-depth discussion of climate change, ranging from
the science behind it through to the role of the working class in
preventing it. This seminar will be of real benefit to all those
concerned about climate change, whether new to the subject or a
longstanding campaigner.
7pm, Monday 25 January, Kings College Waterloo Campus (F-WB
Classroom 2.40, 2nd floor of the Franlkin-Wilking building)
Map:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/about/campuses/waterloo.html
This seminar is free to attend and open to all. For more information
phone 020 7819 1177 or email
isj@swp.org.uk
As background for the discussion, you may want to read:
Gareth's article from International Socialism 116, available online:
http://www.isj.org.uk/?id=369
Jonathan's recent articles on Copenhagen
(http://www.swp.org.uk/23/12/2009/copenhagen-betrayal-jonathan-neale
and
http://www.swp.org.uk/23/12/2009/copenhagen-new-movement-jonathan-neale
)
Jonathan's book is available from Bookmarks for the reduced price of
£10:
http://www.bookmarksbookshop.co.uk/cgi/store/bookmark.cgi?review=new&isbn=9781905192373&cart_id=9137614.28572
--
International Socialism
www.isj.org.uk
+44 (0)20 7819 1177
Cambridge Lectures
KEYNES LECTURE 2010
Professor Lord Robert Skidelsky will deliver a public lecture on
Keynes: The Return of the Master at 5 pm on Tuesday 2 February in
the Lady Mitchell Hall, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge. The lecture will
be followed by a discussion concluding not later than 6.30 pm. Entry
is free and all are welcome. Further information can be found at
www.postkeynesian.net .
G. L. S. SHACKLE BIENNIAL MEMORIAL LECTURE
Professor Brian Loasby, Emeritus and Honorary Professor, University
of Stirling, will deliver the third in a series of biennial lectures
in memory of the late Professor G. L. S. Shackle, entitled
Uncertainty and imagination, illusion and order: Shackleian
connections, on Thursday, 4 March, at 5 p.m., in Lecture Room LG17,
Faculty of Law, West Road.
Entry is free and all are welcome. There will be a reception and
bookstall following the lecture. Further information can be found on
the College website:
http://www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk/.
URPE at Eastern Economic Association
Philadelphia, February 26 - 28, 2010 2010
The Eastern Economic Association holds an annual conference, usually
in late February or March, in various cities on the eastern seaboard
of the United States. URPE is once again sponsoring panels at the
Easterns. This will be the fourth annual "URPE@Easterns" program in
recent years. The 2010 conference will be held in Philadelphia at
the Loews Philadelphia Hotel, February 26 - 28. The hotel is located
at 1200 Market Street.
Conference program
Religious-Secular Distinctions
conference at the British Academy
Conference on 14th -16th January 2010 at the British Academy, London
Organisers: Trevor Stack (University of Aberdeen) and Tim Fitzgerald
(University of Stirling)
Register:
http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2010/rsd/
Network:
http://religioussecular.ning.com
How and why do people – politicians, academics, managers, teachers,
journalists, clergy, lawyers – distinguish between "religious" and
"non-religious" or "secular"? And what happens when they make such a
distinction? It matters, after all, whether a museum exhibit is
considered cultural or religious; a crucifix on a necklace is deemed
an expression of faith, tradition or fashion; Western law is
regarded as different in kind to shari'a law; a transaction is
considered financial rather than religious; a particular state is
held to be secular or not; a minority is viewed as religious or
ethnic; and a PhD thesis is considered religious or just about
religion. The conference will broaden our understanding of
religious-secular distinctions by bringing together scholars from
religious studies, anthropology, history, economics, law, theology,
philosophy, sociology and political science. Panels include
Religious-Secular beyond the Wars of Religion, Religious-Secular in
Law and Education, Religious versus Secular Citizens, Distinguishing
Religious and Economic, Categories of Gender and Religion, and The
Idea of the Secular University.
Space is limited so please register as soon as possible at
http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2010/rsd/. There is a 10%
discount for registration before 25 December. Rates are cheaper if
you register for the full three days of the conference, and
discounts are available for students and for the unwaged and
retired. Attendees have the option of having lunch and/or dinner
with speakers at the British Academy.
For hotel and travel information, please email the British Academy
events staff (
events@britac.ac.uk ) who can offer a corporate rate of £139 for
bed/breakfast at the nearby four-star City Inn Westminster, as well
as making bookings elsewhere.
Sponsors: The British Academy and the Centre for Citizenship, Civil
Society and Rule of Law, University of Aberdeen (
www.abdn.ac.uk/cisrul )
Dr Trevor Stack
Department of Hispanic Studies and Centre for Citizenship, Civil
Society and Rule of Law
University of Aberdeen
Aberdeen AB24 3UB.
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/spanish/staff/details.php?id=t.stack
Socialist Register, Jan. 2010 Events
LONDON EVENT FOR SR 2010
Panel discussion of Socialist Register 2010: Morbid Symptoms, Health
Under Capitalism. The volume will be introduced by Dr Jonathon
Tomlinson, Dr Wendy Savage and Colin Leys.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010
6:45 PM
Housman's Bookshop,
5 Caledonian Road, King's Cross,
London
020 7837 4473
http://www.housmans.com/
TORONTO LAUNCH OF SR 2010
Toronto launch of the Socialist Register 2010: Morbid Symptoms,
Health Under Capitalism.
A benefit for the Ontario Health Coalition
http://www.web.net/ohc/
A panel discussion with contributing authors:
• Colin Leys ('Health, health care and capitalism')
• Pat Armstrong ('Contradictions at work: struggles for control in
Canadian health care')
• Roddy Loeppky ('Certain wealth: Accumulation in the health
industry')
and commentators:
• Natalie Mehra, Director, Ontario Health Coalition
• Dr Andy Coates, Physicians for a National Health Program,
Co-Chair, Single Payer New York
chaired by Leo Panitch, Co-editor of the Socialist Register, CRC,
Political Science at York University.
Thursday January 21, 2010
7:30 PM
Annex Live,
296 Brunswick Avenue
Toronto
(416) 929-3999
www.theannexlive.com
Symposium on Class
Dear Colleague,
The Intersectionalities: Identities and Inequalities Research group
has the pleasure in inviting you to its inaugural Symposium on
Wednesday 27th January 2009, Chapman Hall, Southlands College,
Roehampton University, 2-6pm on:
Class: towards new frameworks of analysis
We are delighted to announce that the speakers will be:
Professor Mike Savage (University of Manchester), Cultural capital
and the politics of belonging
Professor Andrew Sayer (University of Lancaster), Class, worth and
contributive injustice.
Dr. Ben Rogaly and Dr. Becky Taylor (University of Sussex and
Birkbeck College).
"I don't want to be classed, but we're all classed": Making liveable
lives in contemporary England.
The discussants will be Professor Gill Crozier (Roehampton
University) and Dr. Paul Watt (Birkbeck College).
We will send out a full programme shortly.
As places are limited, please let us know if you wish to attend.
RSVP
A.Kanwar@roehampton.ac.uk
N.B This Symposium is open to Academics and Postgraduate students.
Best wishes,
Floya
Professor Floya Anthias
School of Business and Social Sciences
Roehampton University
Queens Building
Southlands College
80, Roehampton Lane
London S.W.15 5SL
Tel: 0208 392 5047
The Hyman P.
Minsky Summer Seminar
Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y. June 19–29, 2010
The Hyman P. Minsky Summer Seminar will provide a rigorous
discussion of both theoretical and applied aspects of Minsky’s
economics, with an examination of meaningful prescriptive policies
relevant to the current economic and financial crisis.
Application deadline: March 31, 2010. For more information, visit
www.levy.org.
Noam Chomsky to speak at Left Forum
2010
March 19-21, Pace University, NYC
Left Forum is pleased to present Noam Chomsky as the closing plenary
speaker for Left Forum 2010, "The Center Cannot Hold: Rekindling the
Radical Imagination."
Chomsky's talk will conclude three days of panels and events from
radical left scholars, activists, and intellectuals from around the
world.
Join us this March 19-21, 2010 at Pace University in New York City!
• Register now to take advantage of early bird discounts: Register
Here for Left Forum 2010
• Additional information to come on opening plenary, conference
panels, international speakers and more. Check our website for
updates: Left Forum 2010
We look forward to seeing you at the conference,
Left Forum staff and conference
organizers
London Marx-Hegel Reading group: Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit
Meetings at 18:30 hours on alternate Wednesdays starting 13 January
2010 at City University London, room Level 3C (“Level 3C” is the
name of the room!), 3rd floor, University Building, Northampton
Square site. This is a provisional booking and could change: any
change will be announced via the mailing list. If you are not
already on the mailing list, send me (
a.denis@city.ac.uk ) an
email and I’ll subscribe you, or you can subscribe yourself at
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/LONDON-MHRG . Access via the
main entrance in Northampton Square. Maps and directions at
http://city.ac.uk/maps/ . If for any reason you need to speak to
security or the main desk at the Northampton Square entrance, the
booking is for the Phenomenology reading group, booking made by Andy
Denis, Economics Dept.
Paragraph numbering in both Miller and Pinkard translations in round
brackets; number of pages in Miller in square brackets. Pinkard
translation – with German text in facing column:
http://web.mac.com/titpaul/Site/Phenomenology_of_Spirit_page.html
The programme is only a guide: we can decide to slow down or speed
up or miss things out or change the order at will.
2009-10 Term 2
13 January: 1. Introduction (73-89) [11]
27 January: 2. Chapter I: Sense-certainty (90-110) [9]
10 February: 3. Chapter II: Perception (111-131) [12½]
24 February: 4. Chapter III: Force and the Understanding (132-165)
[24½]
10 March: 5. Chapter IV: Self-consciousness (166-177) [7]
31 March *: 6. Chapter IV: A - Lordship and Servitude (178-196) [8½]
* NB: 3 weeks after 10 March meeting.
2009-10 Term 3 (Dates and room tba)
7. Chapter IV: B - Stoicism and Skepticism (197-206) [7]
8. Chapter IV: B - the Unhappy Consciousness (207-230) [12½]
9. Chapter V: Reason (231-239) [6½]
10. Chapter V: A (a) (240-260) [14]
11. Chapter V: A (a) (261-297) [20]
12. Chapter V: A (b)-(c) (297-322) [15]
13. Chapter V: A (c) (323-346) [15]
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Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
University of Cologne / Universität
Köln
The Faculty of Management, Economics and Social
Sciences of the University of Cologne is seeking a Full Professor
(W3) for International Comparative Political Economy and Economic
Sociology.
The position will be filled as soon as possible.
The professorship involves substantial collaboration with the Max
Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne. The
candidate is expected to have an international scholarly reputation
and an excellent knowledge of the type of international comparative
social research pursued by the MPI for the Study of Societies as
described in the Institute’s research program. The position includes
active participation in the Cologne Graduate School in Management,
Economics and Social Sciences (CGS) and, particularly, the
International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political
Constitution of the Economy (IMPRS-SPCE).
The professor has teaching and administrative duties in the
bachelor’s and master’s programs within the faculty, in the programs
conducted jointly with other faculties and in the “Diplom” programs
that are currently being phased out. Basic knowledge of German would
be advantageous.
The qualifications required are a university and PhD degree and
excellent academic achievements and teaching abilities (§ 36 HG
NRW).
Applications from disabled persons are welcome. Preference will be
given to disabled candidates with equal skills. Applications from
women are particularly welcome and preference will be given to
female candidates with equal skills, abilities and professional
qualifications, unless there are compelling reasons to opt for
another applicant.
Applications including copies of the usual documents (curriculum
vitae, list of publications, list of courses taught, proof of
qualifications) – no originals please as they shall not be returned
– should be sent no later than 26.02.2010 to the office of the Dean
of the Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences of the
University of Cologne, postal address: Albertus-Magnus-Platz, 50923
Köln
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position announcement.
University of East
Anglia
FACULTY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
ESRC CENTRE FOR COMPETITION POLICY
Post Doctoral Research Fellow ● Ref: RA625
£29,704 to £35,469 per annum
The Centre (www.ccp.uea.ac.uk) is a focus of research into
Competition and Regulation across a range of disciplines, and
welcomes applications in the area of
competition or regulation policy from within the economics,
competition law, political science and/or management disciplines.
You will be expected to contribute to the
Centre’s research individually, develop joint research with other
Centre members, and undertake some teaching.
This is a three year post doctoral research training post for
individuals wishing to develop an academic career. You must have
submitted your thesis for a doctoral
degree by the time you take up the appointment, and if you already
have a doctoral degree, you should be within three years of the date
of its award; and be able to
satisfy all the essential criteria detailed in the person
specification for this training post.
The appointment is available on a full-time, fixed-term basis for a
period of three years from 1 September 2010.
Closing Date: 12 noon on 14 January 2010.
Further particulars and an application form are available on our
website:
www.uea.ac.uk/hr/jobs/
or Tel. 01603 593493
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-Schumpeterian 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-Schumpeterian economics
(e.g., innovation economics, endogenous growth theory, evolutionary
economics).
- Strong understanding of the process of technological innovation.
- Experience with clean energy technologies is a plus.
ITIF offers a competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits,
located near Metro. Send resume with cover letter and writing sample
to: Director of Personnel, ITIF, 1101 K. Street, NW, Suite 610,
Washington, DC, 20005. Fax (202) 638-4922; or email
mail@itif.org. View our
website at www.itif.org.
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.
Robert D. Atkinson, Ph.D.
President
Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
1101 K. Street, N.W.
Suite 610
Washington, DC 20005
202-626-5732 phone
202-638-4922 fax
email: ratkinson@itif.org
| web:
www.innovationpolicy.org
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
(CUNY)
One Fall 2010 Tenure track line at John Jay
College of Criminal Justice (CUNY) in New York City (445 west 59th
street NYC 10019). The position entails undergraduate teaching in
some combination of some of the following four fields: 1.the
economics of regulation and law 2.white collar crime (including
corruption) 3. money and banking 4. economic development. Some
teaching of introductory and intermediate micro or macro with
attention to issues of crime in support of the major is also
possible. Generally all of our courses include aspects of the
illegal economy and also emphasize the sustainability of economic
activity. Research in field of expertise is also required. The City
University of New York is an Equal Employment
Opportunity/Affirmative Action/Immigration Reform and Control
Act/Americans with Disabilities Act employer.
Send vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, teaching evaluations
and letters of recommendation to:
Professor Joan Hoffman,
jhoffman@jjay.cuny.edu
Corporate Accountability
International
Senior Researcher - Value [the] Meal Campaign
The Senior Researcher will assist in providing the information
necessary to develop and carry out our campaigns. In particular, the
Senior Researcher will play a leading role in developing strategies
for the Value [the] Meal campaign. Our research focuses on
documenting abuses by targeted industries, power mapping corporate
targets to inform campaign strategies and tactics, and supporting
the development of policies and international regulatory instruments
to control transnational corporate behavior. The Senior Researcher
is responsible for gathering, analyzing and presenting information;
fact-checking organizing and fundraising materials; and cultivating
relationships with key allied organizations and experts.
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Conceptualize and conduct research and analysis of transnational
corporate activities and industry trends.
* Work closely with the Campaigns Team to further develop campaigns
to stop life-threatening abuses by transnational corporations and
identify and gather information to implement campaign tactics.
* Monitor and analyze corporate responses and progress relative to
campaign goals and objectives.
* Produce written reports for organizational leadership as well as
for public distribution.
* Develop and cultivate contacts with key organizational allies and
experts.
* Ensure accuracy of all communications, campaign and fundraising
materials.
* Participate in organization-wide planning, fundraising and
campaign activities.
* The Senior Researcher maintains and manages the organization's
information base, under the guidance of the Research Director.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
* Demonstrated commitment to corporate accountability and social
justice, with a global perspective.
* At least 3 years experience in strategic corporate research,
organizing, and advocacy, preferably at a campaign-oriented
organization.
* Excellent written and oral communication skills.
* Knowledge of corporate accountability issues.
* Demonstrated experience in quantitative analysis, including
facility with spreadsheets.
* Experience in fact-checking.
* Excellent interpersonal skills.
* Experience organizing and/or developing a campaign related to food
systems a plus.
ACCOUNTABILITY: The Senior Researcher is accountable to the Research
Director.
SALARY: $33,600 - $40,800, depending on experience, with a generous
benefits package.
LOCATION: Campaign Headquarters, Boston.
TO APPLY: Email cover letter, résumé, and 3-5 references to
jobs@stopcorporateabuse.org.
LEARN MORE:
http://www.ValueTheMeal.org
Corporate Accountability International is an equal opportunity
employer and an inclusive organization. People of color, women, and
GLBTQ people are strongly encouraged to apply.
------------------------------
Randall Smith
Senior Recruitment Organizer
Corporate Accountability International
http://www.StopCorporateAbuse.org
(617) 695-2525
Demos
To apply: Please send cover letter, resume and
writing sample to Nancy K. Cauthen, via email to
ncauthen@demos.org.
Include in the subject line: Policy Analyst Position. Submissions
via snail mail should be sent to: Demos, 220 Fifth Ave, 5th Floor,
NY, NY 10001. No phone calls please.
Policy Analyst, Retirement Security, Economic Opportunity Program
The Economic Opportunity Program at Demos seeks a Policy Analyst to
work on two projects focused on retirement security--both of which
seek to raise awareness of weaknesses in our current system and
promote policy reform. The 401(k) system has not provided an
adequate replacement for employer-sponsored pensions.
Simultaneously, Social Security is under attack from deficit hawks.
Educating and engaging young people around these issues is a central
goal of both projects. This position reports to the Director of the
Economic Opportunity Program.
Specific Responsibilities:
• Research and write issue and policy briefs, fact sheets and other
materials on retirement security. Topics include the failure of
401(k) plans to adequately replace employer-sponsored pensions,
policy alternatives to 401(k)s, and why young people should care
about strengthening Social Security.
• Research and write materials for a number of target audiences,
including policy makers, college students and faculty, young
workers, and organizations that represent the interests of young
people. Translate academic articles on retirement security into
user-friendly materials for these audiences.
• Work closely with the Economic Opportunity Program’s director of
advocacy and outreach to build relationships with key youth
organizations who can help engage young people on retirement
security issues.
• Organize a convening of youth-led organizations to identify the
specific ways in which they can engage and mobilize their members
and constituents around the issue of retirement security.
• Work closely with Demos’ Communications Department and Washington,
DC office to promote and disseminate retirement security materials
to the media and to federal policymakers.
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the policy agenda of the
Economic Opportunity Program.
Qualifications:
• Bachelors degree in the social sciences plus a minimum of two
years of related work experience, or Masters degree in public policy
or the
• social sciences plus one year of relevant experience.
• Demonstrated ability to write clearly and effectively for multiple
audiences.
• Excellent verbal and interpersonal skills.
• Strong research skills, ability to synthesize information from
multiple sources, and experience with both web-based information
gathering and primary source research required.
• Familiarity and experience with economic security issues
preferred.
• Comfort and experience with public speaking preferred.
• Ability to work collaboratively as part of a team is required.
For additional information about Demos, please visit their website
at http://www.demos.org.
Institute for Women’s Policy Research
Director of Research
The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) seeks an
experienced social science researcher with excellent management,
program and business development, and public presentation skills to
strengthen and lead the strategic growth of its policy research
portfolio. Expertise in employment and labor markets, poverty and
inequality, or health economics desired.
IWPR is a Washington D.C.-based think-tank that conducts rigorous
research and disseminates its findings to address the needs of
women, promote public dialogue, and strengthen families,
communities, and societies. (See www.iwpr.org for more information
about IWPR’s mission and work.). Areas of research include
Employment, Education and Earnings, Poverty and Income Security,
Work and Family Issues, Democracy and Society, and Health and
Safety.
Position Summary:
The Director of Research’s primary responsibilities will be to:
* Ensure the strategic and effective conception, design,
development, implementation, and dissemination of high quality,
policy-relevant research that addresses the information needs of
policy makers, advocates, and the public.
* Manage and develop a small but highly skilled research staff,
currently including directly overseeing 5 Ph.D./MA-level
researchers, and several consultants, who in turn supervise research
assistants, research interns and fellows, and additional research
consultants.
* Play a lead role in fundraising from private foundations and
government sources to meet research budget targets (currently $1.9
million per year), in collaboration with the Institute’s development
department. This will involve meeting with potential funders,
developing new research, and leading and contributing to the
research grant proposal process.
* Develop and track the research department budget.
* Represent the organization to the public through presentations and
relations with the media.
* Spend a percentage of time directly involved in funded research in
their area of expertise.
* Serve on the organization’s management team and as liaison to the
research and program committee of the Board of Directors.
* Lead and convene the organization’s external Program Advisory
Committee to receive expert input on program direction.
Desired Skills, Qualifications, and Expertise:
* Ph.D. in economics, sociology, public policy or a related
discipline; rigorous training in quantitative and gender-related
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Economics for Equity and the
Environment Network
Graduate Student Internship Program
Economics for Equity and the Environment Network (E3) is a national
network of economists developing and applying new economic arguments
for environmental protection with a social justice focus. As part of
its mission to support better applied economics research and to
involve economists more actively in environmental policy, E3 places
economics graduate students in internships with environmental
organizations during the summer months.
The internship program allows graduate students to discover
first-hand the real world issues confronting the environmental
community and explore avenues for their future research and
professional development. NGOs benefit from the expertise of the
interns’ training in economics and gain greater appreciation for the
role economics can play in supporting environmental protection.
Recent interns have been placed with the Natural Resources Defense
Council, Union of Concerned Scientists, International Rivers
Network, Conservation Strategy Fund, Marine Conservation Biology
Institute, Clean Air-Cool Planet, Forest Guild, Stockholm
Environment Institute, New Voice for Business, Global Development
and Environment Institute, and The Trust for Public Land. You can
learn more about our past interns and their research at
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E3 interns will be placed with an environmental organization for
eight weeks and will be paid a stipend of $5,000. E3 prioritizes
graduate students who are dedicated to applied economics research
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The deadline for applications for summer 2010 is March 1. To apply,
please email the following information by the March 1 deadline to
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Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles
Development Viewpoint 43
“Are Pacific Island States Losing Their Rights to Tuna Resources?”
The Centre for Development Policy and Research is pleased to
announce the publication of Development Viewpoint #43, “Are Pacific
Island States Losing Their Rights to Tuna Resources?” The authors,
Elizabeth Havice, Political Science Department, Colorado College,
and Liam Campling, Department of Development Studies, SOAS, document
how large commercial fishing operations, backed by such influential
nations as Japan and Taiwan, have gained increasing control over
tuna resources in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean, the region
with the largest and most valuable such resources in the world. As a
result, the 14 island states in this region have derived only modest
sources of income from this industry and now face increasing
depletion of their tuna stocks.
Click here to download:
http://www.soas.ac.uk/cdpr/publications/dv/file55529.pdf.
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.
Debating Aggregate Supply and
Aggregate Demand | URPE/ASSA
Papers for the "Debating Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand"
session are available on the AEA website:
http://www.aeaweb.org/aea/conference/program/preliminary.php
Jan. 3, 10:15 am, Hilton Atlanta, Room 408
AEA/URPE
Debating Aggregate Supply and Aggregate Demand (A2)
Presiding: Duncan Foley (New School for Social Research)
Two Into One Won't Go: A Critical View of the Popular AD/AS Model /
Roy Grieve (University of Strathclyde)
Critique of Aggregate Demand and Aggregate Supply: Mankiw's
Presentation / Fred Moseley (Mount Holyoke College)
Response to Grieve and Critique / William Scarth (McMaster College)
Response to Moseley and Critique / Mark Taylor (Warwick University)
Discussants:
David Collander (Middlebury College)
Michele Naples (College of New Jersey)
The 4th Bi-Annual Conference on the
financial and monetary crisis
4ème Colloque International: La crise monétaire et financière
December 10-12, 2oo9, at Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Conference papers are available here:
http://www.u-bourgogne.fr/CEMF/anglais/pages/index_english.htm
"Post-Election Iran: Crossroads of
History and a Critique of Prevailing Political Perspectives"
Cyrus Bina's article (critique of Lenin's imperialism and Theory of
Competition) on the issues surrounding the post-election Iran is
just published in the Fall issue of Journal of Iranian Research and
Analysis (JIRA). Its URL can be found below and a PDF is attached
for your information.
Cyrus Bina, "Post-Election Iran: Crossroads of History and a
Critique of Prevailing Political Perspectives," Journal of Iranian
Research and Analysis, 26 (2), Fall 2009:
http://www.cira-jira.com/Vol%20%2026.2.1%20Bina-%20Post-Election%20fall%2009.pdf.
International Development Economics
Associates (IDEAs)
Articles, News Analysis, Working papers, etc. are available at IDEAs
Website:
http://www.networkideas.org or
http://www.ideaswebsite.org
Featured Articles (December 2009 - January 2010)
• The Global Financial Crisis and After: A New Capitalism? / Luiz
Carlos Bresser-Pereira
• The Dutch Disease and Its Neutralization: A Ricardian Approach /
Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira
• Some Observations on How to Deal with the Problem of ''Too big to
fail/save/resolve'' / Jan Kregel
• The Limits of Minsky's Financial Instability Hypothesis as an
Explanation of the Crisis / Thomas I. Palley
• The Bonus-Driven "Rainmaker" Financial Firm: How These Firms
Enrich Top Employees, Destroy Shareholder Value and Create Systemic
Financial Instability / by James Crotty
• After the Istanbul Meetings: Has the IMF Changed? If so, How
Relevant is that Change? / Erinc Yeldan
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Heterodox Journals and
Newsletters
Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol.
33, N. 6: November 2009
Journal website:
http://cje.oxfordjournals.org
Articles
• George Liagouras / Socio-economic evolution and Darwinism in
Thorstein Veblen: a critical appraisal
• Michel-Stéphane Dupertuis and Ajit Sinha / A Sraffian critique of
the classical notion of centre of gravitation
• Panos Desyllas and Alan Hughes / The revealed preferences of high
technology acquirers: An analysis of the innovation characteristics
of their targets
FORUM
• Serap A. Kayatekin / Between political economy and postcolonial
theory: first encounters
• Colin Danby / Post-Keynesianism without modernity
• S. Charusheela / Social analysis and the capabilities approach: a
limit to Martha Nussbaum's universalist ethics
• Eiman O. Zein-Elabdin / Economics, postcolonial theory and the
problem of culture: institutional analysis and hybridity
• Anjan Chakrabarti, Ajit Chaudhury, and Stephen Cullenberg / Global
order and the new economic policy in India: the (post)colonial
formation of the small-scale sector
• Serap A. Kayatekin / Ambivalence of class subjectivity: the
sharecroppers of the post-bellum southern USA
COMMENTARY
• Geoffrey M. Hodgson / The great crash of 2008 and the reform of
economics
Deleuze Studies, Vol. 3, No. suppl:
December 2009
This issue is now available online from Edinburgh University Press
at:
http://www.euppublishing.com/toc/dls/3/suppl?ai=s3&ui=ue&af=T
Special Issue on Deleuze and Marx
Editor's Introduction: Capital, Crisis, Manifestos, and Finally
Revolution / Dhruv Jain
Articles
• Deleuze, Marx and the Politicisation of Philosophy / Simon Choat
• The Marx of Anti-Oedipus / Aidan Tynan
• Marx as Ally: Deleuze outside Marxism, Adjacent Marx / Aldo Pardi
• The Fetish is Always Actual, Revolution is Always Virtual: From
Noology to Noopolitics / Jason Read
• Minor Marxism: An Approach to a New Political Praxis / Eduardo
Pellejero
• Politicising Deleuzian Thought, or, Minority's Position within
Marxism / Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc
Review Essay
• After Utopia: Three Post-Personal Subjects Consider the
Possibilities
• William E. Connolly (2008) Capitalism and Christianity, American
Style, Durham and London: Duke University Press.
• Alexander Garcia Duttmann (2007) Philosophy of Exaggeration,
trans. James Phillips, London: Continuum.
• Adrian Parr (2008) Deleuze and Memorial Culture: Desire, Singular
Memory, and the Politics of Trauma, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University
Press.
Jeffrey Cain
Feminist Economics, Vol. 16, Issue 1:
January 2010
Journal website:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g918301609~db=all?jumptype=alert&alerttype=new_issue_alert,email
Editorial: Toward a More Inclusive Feminist Economics / Diana
Strassmann
Articles
• The Impact of Circular Migration on the Position of Married Women
in Rural China / Rachel Connelly; Kenneth Roberts; Zhenzhen Zheng
• Maybe Baby: Comparing Partnered Women's Employment and Child
Policies in the EU-15 / Jérôme De Henau; Danièle Meulders; Síle
O'Dorchai
• The Effect of Domestic Work on Girls' Schooling: Evidence from
Egypt / Ragui Assaad; Deborah Levison; Nadia Zibani
• Technological and Organizational Change and the Employment of
Women: Early Twentieth-Century Evidence from the Ohio Manufacturing
Sector / Marina Adshade; Ian Keay
Book Reviews
• Market Friendly or Family Friendly? The State and Gender
Inequality in Old Age, by Madonna Harrington Meyer and Pamela Herd /
Strange Reciprocity: Mainstreaming Women's Work in Tepoztlán in the
"Decade of the New Economy", by Sidney S. Perutz / Greta
Friedemann-Sánchez
• Contemporary Motherhood: The Impact of Children on Adult Time, by
Lyn Craig / Síle O'Dorchai
• Gender and the Politics of Time: Feminist Theory and Contemporary
Debates, by Valerie Bryson / Judy Wajcman
• The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment, by Carrie N. Baker
/ Saranna R. Thornton
History of Economics Review, No. 50:
Summer 2009
Journal Website:
http://hetsa.fec.anu.edu.au/review/
HETSA 2009 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Intellectual History and the History of Economic Thought: A Personal
View / Donald Winch
ARTICLES
• The Webbs, Public Administration and the LSE: The Origin of Public
Governance and Institutional Economics in Britain / Taku Eriguchi
• Some Critical Perspectives on Böhm-Bawerk’s Capital and Interest,
Volume I, A Critical History of Economic Theory, with Special
Reference to his Treatment of Turgot, John Stuart Mill and Jevons /
Peter Groenewegen
• Henry George and the Australian Economic Association: On Land
Ownership and Land Taxation / John Pullen
• ONE HUNDRED YEARS FROM TODAY
• William H. Beveridge’s Unemployment: A Problem of Industry / J.E.
King
BOOK REVIEWS
• Geoff Cockfield, Ann Firth and John Laurent (eds) New Perspectives
on Adam Smith’s ‘The Theory of Moral Sentiments’ / William Coleman
• Cosimo Perrotta Paura dei Beni da Esiodo a Adam Smith / Peter
Groenewegen
• D.P. O’Brien (ed.) and John Creedy Taxation and the Promotion of
Human Happiness. An Essay by George Wade Norman / Peter Groenewegen
• K. Puttaswamaiah (ed.) Milton Friedman: Nobel Monetary Economist /
J.E. King
• Jörg Guido Hülsmann Mises: The Last Knight of Liberalism / Troy P.
Lynch
• Edgar J. Dosman The Life and Times of Raúl Prebisch, 1901–1986 /
Carlos Mallorquin
• John S. Chipman (ed.) Giornale degli Economisti e Annali di
Economia: Special Issue – Articles by Pareto / Michael McLure
• F.A. Hayek The Pure Theory of Capital / Ian Steedman
Historical Materialism, Vol. 17,
Issue. 4
Journal website:
www.brill.nl/hima
Articles
• Elizabeth Esch and David Roediger / One Symptom of Originality:
Race and the Management of Labour in the History of the United
States
• Massimiliano Tomba / Historical Temporalities of Capital: An
Anti-Historicist Perspective
• Karl Beitel / The Rate of Profit and the Problem of Stagnant
Investment: A Structural Analysis of Barriers to Accumulation and
the Spectre of Protracted Crisis
• Andrew Milner / Archaeologies of the Future: Jameson’s Utopia or
Orwell’s Dystopia?
Review Articles
• Panagiotis Sotiris / on Warren Montag’s Louis Althusser, William
S. Lewis’s Louis Althusser and the Traditions of French Marxism, and
Gregory Elliott’s Althusser: The Detour of Theory
• Julian Mueller / on Poulantzas lesen. Zur Aktualität marxistischer
Staatstheorie, edited by Lars Bretthauer, Alexander Gallas, John
Kannankulam and Ingo Stuetzle
• Benjamin Noys / on Gregory Elliott’s Ends in Sight: Marx/Fukuyama/Hobsbawm/Anderson
• Ian Birchall / on Reiner Tosstorff’s Profintern: Die Rote
Gewerkschaftsinternationale 1920–1937
• Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism, Wolfgang Fritz Haug.
Immaterial Labour
All enquiries:
historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk
International Review of Economics
Education, Volume 8, Issue 2: November 2009
Special Issue: Pluralism in Economics Education
Articles are availabe at
http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/iree/v8n2/
Editorial: Pluralism in Economics Education / Andy Denis
Commissioned Paper
• The Economists of Tomorrow: the Case for a Pluralist Subject
Benchmark Statement for Economics / Alan Freeman
Contributed Papers
• History of Thought and Methodology in Pluralist Economics
Education / Sheila Dow
• Rethinking The Pluralist Agenda In Economics Education / Robert F.
Garnett, Jr.
• Pluralism and Economic Education: a Learning Theory Approach /
Janice Peterson and KimMarie McGoldrick
• Performing Economics: A Critique of 'Teaching and Learning' /
David Wilson and William Dixon
Reviews
• "The Handbook of Pluralist Economics Education" / KimMarie
McGoldrick
• "Teaching Pluralism in Economics" /Janice Peterson
Interface: a journal for and about
social movements, Vol. 1, No. 2: November 2009
About Interface: Interface: a journal for and about social movements
is a peer-reviewed journal of practitioner research produced by
movement participants and engaged academics. Interface is globally
organised in a series of different regional collectives, and is
produced as a multilingual journal. The Interface website is based
at the National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Articles are available at
http://www.interfacejournal.net
Editorial
• Ana Margarida Esteves, Sara Motta, Laurence Cox / Civil society
versus social movements
Activist interview
• Richard Pithouse / To resist all degradations and divisions: an
interview with S'bu Zikode
Articles
• Nora McKeon / Who speaks for peasants? Civil society, social
movements and the global governance of food and agriculture
• Michael Punch / Contested urban environments: perspectives on the
place and meaning of community action in central Dublin, Ireland
• Beppe de Sario / "Lo sai che non si esce vivi dagli anni ottanta?"
Esperienze attiviste tra movimento e associazionismo di base
nell'Italia post-77 ("You do realise that nobody will get out of the
eighties alive?" Activist experiences between social movement and
grassroots voluntary work in Italy after 1977)
• Marco Prado, Federico Machado, Andrea Carmona / A luta pela
formalização e tradução da igualdade nas fronteiras indefinidas do
estado contemporâneo: radicalização e / ou neutralização do conflito
democrático? (The struggle to formalise and translate equality
within the undefined boundaries of the contemporary state:
radicalization or neutralization of democratic conflict?)
• Grzegorz Piotrowski / Civil and / or "uncivil" society? The
development of civil society in Central and Eastern Europe in the
context of political transformation during the post-socialist period
• Jenny Gunnarsson Payne / Feminist media as alternative media: a
literature review
• Piotr Konieczny / Wikipedia: community or social movement?
Action / teaching / research notes
• Giles Ji Ungpakorn / Why have most Thai NGOs chosen to side with
the conservative royalists, against democracy and against the poor?
[action note]
• Carlos Figueiredo / O engajamento da sociedade civil angolana na
discussão da constituição ("The involvement of Angolan civil society
in debating the new constitution".) [action note]
• Christof Mackinger / AETA, 278a und Verschwörung zur...
Organisationsparagraphen zur Zerschlagung tierbefreierischen
Aktivismus PDF (GER) ("AETA, paragraph 278 and conspiracy to…
Conspiracy laws and the repression of animal liberation activism")
[action note] PDF (ENG)
• Anja Eickelberg / "Coalitioning" for quality education in Brazil:
diversity as virtue? [teaching note]
Key documents
• Peter Waterman / Needed: a global labour charter movement
• Michael Neocosmos / Civil society, citizenship and the politics of
the (im)possible: rethinking militancy in Africa today
Reviews
• Theresa O'Keefe / review of Incite! Women of color against
violence, The revolution will not be funded: beyond the nonprofit
industrial complex.
• Maite Tapia / review of Heidi Swarts, Organizing urban America:
secular and faith-based progressive movements.
• David Eugster / Demontage der Subversion: zur politischen Wirkung
ästhetischer Techniken im 20. Jahrhundert. Rezension zu: Anna
Schober, Ironie, Montage und Verfremdung. Ästhetischen Taktiken und
die politische Gestalt der Demokratie ("The deconstruction of
subversion: the political effect of aesthetic techniques in the 20th
century. Review of Anna Schober, Irony, montage and alienation:
aesthetic tactics and the political shape of democracy.")
• Roger Yates / review of GL Francione, Animals as persons: essays
on the abolition of animal exploitation.
International Socialism, Issue 125:
Winter 2009
Journal website:
http://www.isj.org.uk/
Analysis
• Shifting sands of the crisis
Snapshots of struggle
• Ireland: From shock therapy to resistance / Kieran Allen
• France: from economic to political struggles / Denis Godard
• Opposition and opportunity in Germany / Stefan Bornost
• Greece: the eye of the storm? / Panos Garganas
• Sketches of Spain / Mike Eaude
• From a bang to a whimper: Obama’s first year / Megan Trudell
• Honduras is not just another banana republic / Mike Gonzalez
Chris Harman 1942—2009
• Chris Harman: a life in the struggle / Ian Birchall
• The emperor has no clothes / Chris Harman
• Another side of Chris Harman / Joseph Choonara
• Not all Marxism is dogmatism: a reply to Michel Husson / Chris
Harman
• Zombie Capitalism and the origin of crises / Guglielmo Carchedi
• A whiff of tear gas / Andy Durgan
Marxism and anarchism / Paul Blackledge
The sex work debate / Jane Pritchard
Jewish intellectuals and Palestinian liberation / John Rose
Struggle, continuity and contradiction in Bolivia / Jeffery R Webber
Book reviews
• The public enemy / Mike Wayne
• Matches made in hell / Andrew Stone
• Barcelona at the barricades / Andy Durgan
• Reclaiming radicalism / Barry Pavier
• Healing the rift / Martin Empson
• The relevance of revolution / Jonathan Maunder
• A hidden history / Colin Wilson
• Time is lifting the fog / Mark Bergfeld
• Class struggle in China / Charlie Hore
Pick of the quarter
Journal of Economics Issues, Vol. 43,
No. 4: December 2009
ARTICLES
• Assessing the Legitimacy of Stem Cell Research: An Instrumental
Valuation Principle Approach / Quentin Duroy
• It's the Prices, Stupid: The Underlying Problems of the U.S.
Social Security System / Yavuz Yasar
• "Why is Economics not an Evolutionary Science?" New Answers to
Veblen's Old Question / Leonhard Dobusch and Jakob Kapeller
• The Other J.M.: John Maurice Clark and the Keynesian Revolution /
Luca Fiorito and Matías Vernengo
• Mapping the Third Sector in John R. Commons' Typology of
Transactions / Vladislav Valentinov
• Currency Market Participants' Mental Model and the Collapse of the
Dollar: 2001-2008 / John T. Harvey
• Between Rules and Power: Money as an Institution Sanctioned by
Political Authority / Georgios Papadopoulos
• Spillover Effects of U.S. Business Cycles on Latin America and the
Caribbean / Magda Kandil
• Economic Growth and Institutional Quality: Global and Income-Level
Analyses / Gema Fabro and José Aixalá
POLICY NOTE
• Institutional Policy-Making in (In)Action: The Case of Pharmacy
Ownership in North Dakota / Dan Friesner
NOTES AND COMMUNICATIONS
• In Defense of System Dynamics: A Response to Professor Hayden /
Michael J. Radzicki and Linwood Tauheed
• Rejoinder to Response by Michael J. Radzicki and Linwood Tauheed /
F. Gregory Hayden
BOOK REVIEWS
• Philip Augar: The Greed Merchants: How the Investment Banks Played
the Free Market Game / Sandy Brian Hager
• Robin Broad and John Cavanaugh: Development Redefined: How the
Market Met Its Match / Winston H. Griffith
• William M. Dugger and James T. Peach: Economic Abundance: An
Introduction / Glen Atkinson
• William Easterly (ed.): Reinventing Foreign Aid / Joshua C. Hall
• John Bellamy Foster and Fred Magdoff: The Great Financial Crises:
Causes and Consequences / Hans G. Despain
• Daniel Friedman: Morals and Markets: An Evolutionary Account of
the Modern World / Roger Ashby
• Sanjeev Goyal: Connections. An Introduction to the Economics of
Networks / Roberto Scazzieri
• Jonas Kornai, Laszlo Matyas and Gerard Roland (eds.): Corruption,
Development and Institutional Design
• Benhua Yang
• Johann Graf Lambsdorff: The Institutional Economics of Corruption
and Reform: Theory, Evidence and Policy / Grant Walton
• Bjorn Lomborg (ed.): Solutions to the World's Biggest Problems:
Costs and Benefits / Roger Fouquet
• David F. Ruccio (ed.): Economic Representations: Academic and
Everyday / Altug Yalcintas
• George Selgin: Good Money: Birmingham Button Makers, The Royal
Mint, and The Beginnings of Modern Coinage, 1775-1821; Private
Enterprise and Popular Coinage / L. Randall Wray
• Vernon L. Smith: Rationality in Economics. Constructivist and
Ecological Forms / Roberto Scazzieri
Journal of Economic Methodology, Vol.
16, Issue 4
Journal website:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1350178x.asp
Articles
• Novelty and the bounds of unknowledge in economics / Ulrich Witt /
• The economic concept of evolution: self-organization or Universal
Darwinism? / Sylvie Geisendorf
Comments
• Statistical vs. economic significance in economics and
econometrics: further comments on McCloskey and Ziliak / Tom Engsted
• Intentions in invisible-hand accounts / Aki Lehtinen
Book Reviews
• When is a model like a thermometer? / Kevin D. Hoover
• Rational economic man revisited / Robert Sugden
• Revitalizing causality: realism about causality in philosophy and
social science/ C. Tyler DesRoches
• The cult of statistical significance: how the standard error costs
us jobs, justice, and lives / Chee Kian Leong
Journal of Innovation Economics, No.
4
Articles are available at
http://www.cairn.info/revue-journal-of-innovation-economics-2009-2.htm
Networks, Innovation and Clusters
• Abdelillah Hamdouch / Networking, clustering and innovation
dynamics in the global economy: general presentation
• Isabel Salavisa, et al. / Entrepreneurship and social networks in
IT sectors: the case of the software industry in Portugal
• Marianne Van Der Steen et John Groenewegen / Policy
entrepreneurship: empirical inquiry into policy agents and
institutional structures
• Yvon Pesqueux / Network, stakeholder theory and deliberative
democracy
• Francis Munier et Francis Kern / Knowledge creation in networks: a
comparison between firm-network and network of firms
• Abdelillah Hamdouch et Feng He / R&D offshoring and clustering
dynamics in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology: key features and
insights from the Chinese case
• Andrea Schiffauerova et Catherine Beaudry /Canadian nanotechnology
innovation networks: intra-cluster, inter-cluster and foreign
collaboration
• Anne Plunket / Firms' inventiveness and localized vertical R&D
spillovers
• Douglas Lippoldt / Innovation and IPR protection in the digital
era: the case of high income countries. 1990 - 2005
Journal of Institutional Economics,
Vol.5, No.3
Journal website:
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JOI
• Economic growth related to mutually interdependent institutions
and technology / RICHARD G. LIPSEY
• The taming of institutions in economics: the rise and methodology
of the ‘ new new institutionalism’ / PETER SPIEGLER and WILLIAM
MILBERG
• The motives for cooperation in work organizations / HELENA LOPES,
ANA C. SANTOS and NUNO TELES
• Interests versus culture in the theory of institutional change? /
JOACHIM ZWEYNERT
Review Articles:
• Ontology and the foundations of evolutionary economic theory: on
Dopfer and Potts' General Theory of Economic Evolution / JOCHEN
RUNDE
Fragment:
• Thorstein Veblen (1857–1929): ‘The Limitations of Marginal
Utility’ (1909) / GEOFFREY M. HODGSON
Journal of the History of Economic
Thought, Vol. 31, Issue 4: December 2009
A Symposium on The Nature and Significance of Economic Science by
Lionel Robbins
• Foreword / Mark Blaug
• Economics And Political Economy In Lionel Robbins's Writings /
Fabio Masini
• What Was “It” That Robbins Was Defining? / David Colander
• On The Role Of Values In Economic Science: Robbins And His Critics
/ Andrea Scarantino
• Robbins And Welfare Economics: A Reappraisal / Roger E. Backhouse
• Robbins's Essay And The Axiomatization Of Economics / Roger E.
Backhouse And Steven G. Medema
• Disciplining Boundaries: Lionel Robbins, Max Weber, And The
Borderlands Of Economics, History, And Psychology / Harro Maas
Research Articles
• Who Was Most World-Famous – Cassel Or Keynes? The Economist As
Yardstick / Benny Carlson
• Schumpeter Vs. Keynes: “In The Long Run Not All Of Us Are Dead” /
Arthur M. Diamond
• History By The Numbers: A Comment On Carlson And Diamond / Steven
G. Medema
Book Reviews
• George Steinmetz, ed., The Politics of Method in the Human
Sciences: Positivism and Its Epistemological Others (Durham and
London: Duke University Press, 2005), pp. ix, 620, $25.95
(paperback). ISBN 0-8223-3518-2. / Bruce Caldwell
• Erik Angner, Hayek and Natural Law (London and New York: Routledge,
2007), pp. xvi, 140, $65.00. ISBN 978-0-415-39715-5. / Bruce
Caldwell
• Elisabeth Nemeth, Stefan W. Schmitz, and Thomas E. Uebel, eds.,
Otto Neurath's Economics in Context (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007), pp.
x, 234, $169.00. ISBN 978-1-4020-6904-8. /Bruce Caldwell
Marxism 21, Vol. 16: December 2009
Marxism 21 a quarterly bilingual (English and Korean) refereed
academic journal published by Institute for Social Sciences of
Gyeonsang National University, Jinju, South Korea.
Journal Website:
http://nongae.gsnu.ac.kr/~issmarx
Articles:
• Economic Localist Alternative to Neo-liberal Globalization /
Chang-Keun Kim
• A Critique of Social Movement Unionism / Dae-Oup Chang
• A Study on the Globalization of Capital and the International
Framework Agreement / Seung-Hyeob Lee
• A Critique on the Antonio Negri’s Project of the Multitude / Gwan-Mo
Seo
• What is the Materialist Conception of Politics? : Toward a
Politics of the Outside / Jinkyung Yi
• Marx and Keynes’s Theory of Money and Financial Crisis /
Choon-Kweon Koo
• Some Myths on the Dacha : Meaning of Economy and Rest in
Contemporary Russia / Youngho Nam
• Ssangyong Motor’s Strike in Korea Ends in Defeat and Heavy
Repression / Loren Goldner
• Conception of Caste in Marx : A Reconstruction / B. R. Bapuji
Metroeconomica, Vol. 60, Issue 4:
November 2009
Journal website:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118503116/home
ARTICLES
• FREEDOM OF CHOICE AND WEIGHTED MONOTONICITY OF POWER /José María
Alonso-Meijide, Manfred J. Holler
• RISK AND UNCERTAINTY IN CENTRAL BANK SIGNALS: AN ANALYSIS OF
MONETARY POLICY COMMITTEE MINUTES /Sheila Dow, Matthias Klaes,
Alberto Montagnoli
• BUYING VERSUS HIRING—AN INDIRECT EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH / Siegfried
K. Berninghaus, Werner Güth
• CONSUMPTION AND GROWTH FROM A RICARDIAN PERSPECTIVE / Nazim Kadri
Ekinci
• A CONVENIENT MULTISECTORAL POLICY CONTROL FOR ICT IN THE US
ECONOMY / Maurizio Ciaschini, Rosita Pretaroli, Claudio Socci
• ALCHIAN AND DEMSETZ'S CRITIQUE OF THE COOPERATIVE FIRM
THIRTY-SEVEN YEARS AFTER /Bruno Jossa
• A QUASI-NATURAL MEASURE OF CHOICE FREEDOM FOR BUDGET- AND
TIME-CONSTRAINED OPPORTUNITY SETS /Ernesto Screpanti
• COMPETITION IN PRODUCT DESIGN: AN EXPERIMENT EXPLORING INNOVATION
BEHAVIOR /Uwe Cantner, Werner Güth, Andreas Nicklisch, Torsten
Weiland
Metroeconomica, Vol. 61 Issue 1:
February 2010
Special Issue: Special issue on "Institutional and Social Dynamics
of Growth and Distribution"
• INTRODUCTION /Neri Salvadori
• ENDOGENOUS GROWTH, PRICE STABILITY AND MARKET DISEQUILIBRIA
/Orlando Gomes
• WHEN DO SOCIAL NORMS REPLACE STATUS-SEEKING CONSUMPTION? AN
APPLICATION TO THE CONSUMPTION OF CLEANLINESS /Julia Sophie
Woersdorfer
• TRANSITIONING OUT OF POVERTY /David Brasington, Mika Kato, Willi
Semmler
• FAMILY POLICIES AND THE OPTIMAL POPULATION GROWTH RATE: CLOSED AND
SMALL OPEN ECONOMIES /Luciano Fanti, Luca Gori
• REAL EXCHANGE RATE, DISTRIBUTION AND MACRO FLUCTUATIONS IN
EXPORT-ORIENTED ECONOMIES /Massimiliano La Marca
• WORKERS' BEHAVIOR AND LABOR CONTRACT: AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH
/Victor Hiller
• THE EFFECT OF CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION STRUCTURE ON GROWTH AND
DISTRIBUTION. A MICRO TO MACRO MODEL /Tommaso Ciarli, André Lorentz,
Maria Savona, Marco Valente
• SPECIALIZATION, WAGE BARGAINING AND TECHNOLOGY IN A MULTIGOODS
GROWTH MODEL /Mario Cimoli, Gabriel Porcile
Oikos, Vol. 8, No. 2
A OIKOS é uma revista semestral sobre desenvolvimento econômico e
social; economia política internacional; e integração
latino-americana.
Articles are available at the Journal website:
http://www.revistaoikos.org/seer/index.php/oikos/index
Editorial e Agradecimentos / Márcio Gimene de Oliveira
Artigos e Ensaios
• Venezuela: rupturas e macrocenários /Reinaldo Gonçalves
• Democracia e bem-estar social segundo a militância liberal-democrata:
o Relatório Gaither e a agenda de política internacional da Fundação
Ford /Wanderson da Silva Chaves
• Celso Furtado e a cultura da dependência /Bruno Borja
• Desenvolvimento nacional, estrutura e superestrutura na obra de
Caio Prado Júnior /Marco Antonio Martins da Rocha
• O novo regionalismo e o papel dos serviços no desenvolvimento:
transformações das hierarquias econômicas regionais /Anita Kon
Resgate de Pensadores
• A hipótese da instabilidade financeira / Hyman P. Minsky
Comunicações
• O mundo como ele é / José Luís Fiori
• Carro elétrico, a revolução geopolítica e econômica do século XXI
e o desenvolvimento do Brasil / Gustavo Antônio Galvão dos Santos,
Bruno Galvão dos Santos, Rodrigo Loureiro Medeiros, Roberto Pereira
d’Araújo
Resenhas
• HAGGER, Nicholas. A corporação: a história secreta do século XX e
o início do governo mundial do futuro./ Márcio Gimene de Oliveira
Artes
• Artes de Felipe Varanda e Estevão Robalo / Márcio Gimene de
Oliveira
Prokla: September 2009
Prokla (Probleme des Klassenkampfes/problems of class struggle), one
of the leading and long standing unorthodox Marxist journals in
Germany, is now available from the internet. The older issues from
1971 to 2006 are even freely accessible. Of course Prokla as all
left journals is dependent on subscriptions. Check out
www.prokla.de
Review of Political Economy, Vol. 22,
Issue 1: January 2010
Journal website:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09538259.asp
Original Articles
• One Small Step for Man: Paul Krugman, the 2008 Nobel Laureate in
Economics / Bruce Elmslie
• Pricing Behaviour and the Cost-Push Channel of Monetary Policy /
Authors: Gilberto Tadeu Lima; Mark Setterfield
• The Relative Permanent Income Theory of Consumption: A Synthetic
Keynes-Duesenberry-Friedman Model / Thomas I. Palley
• Starvation and Social Class: Amartya Sen on Markets and Famines /
Mark S. Peacock
• Auguste Ott on Commercial Crises and Distributive Justice: An
Early Input-Output Scheme / Daniele Besomi; Giorgio Colacchio
• Transformational Growth in the 1990s: Government, Finance and
High-tech / Davide Gualerzi; Edward J. Nell
• Cycles and Growth: A Source of Demand-Driven Endogenous Growth /
Pierangelo Garegnani; Attilio Trezzini
• Pecuniary External Economies, Economies of Scale and Increasing
Returns: A Note of Dissent / Roy H. Grieve
• Reply to Roy H. Grieve on Increasing Returns / Ramesh Chandra;
Roger J. Sandilands
Review Essay
The Fault Line between Keynes and the Cambridge Keynesians: A Review
Essay / M. G. Hayes
Book Reviews
• A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living Wages and Minimum
Wages in the United States / J. E. King
• Reinventing Functional Finance: Transformational Growth and Full
Employment / Christopher J. Niggle
• Rethinking Pension Reform/What You Need to Know about the
Economics of Growing Old (But Were Afraid to Ask): A Provocative
Reference Guide to the Economics of Aging / Robert Whaples
• In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare State / Karl
Widerquist
• The Cambridge Companion to Hayek / Guinevere Liberty Nell
• The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences / Matt Vidal
Review of Social Economy, Vol. 67
Issue 4: December 2009
Journal website:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/00346764.html
Articles
• The Capabilities Conception of the Individual / John B. Davis
• Socialism, Liberalism and Inequality: The Colonial Economics of
the Saint-Simonians in 19th-Century Algeria / Abdallah Zouache
• The Relationship between Behavioral and Attitudinal Trust: A
Cross-cultural Study / Ali M. Ahmed; Osvaldo Salas
• Economic Well-being and British Regions: The Problem with GDP Per
Capita / David Harvie; Gary Slater; Bruce Philp; Dan Wheatley
Book Reviews
• On Capitalism / Roderick J. Macdonald
• Human Goods, Economic Evils: A Moral Approach to the Dismal
Science / Roderick J. Macdonald
• Complexity and the Economy: Implications for Economic Policy / Kyu
Sang Lee
• Moral Capitalism and the Essential Economy / Tarek H. Selim
• Mindful Economics: How the US Economy Works, Why it Matters, and
How it Could be Different / Bronwen Rees
• Complexity and Co-Evolution: Continuity and Change in
Socio-Economic Systems / Stefano Solari
• Welfare, Right, and the State-A Framework for Thinking / Rajinder
Chaudhary
Review of Radical Political
Economics, Vol. 41, No. 4: December 2009
Journal website:
http://rrp.sagepub.com/content/vol41/issue4/?etoc
Articles
• Introduction: The Political Economy of Financialization / Jonathan
P. Goldstein
• Financialization and Marx: Giving Labor and Capital a Financial
Makeover / Dick Bryan, Randy Martin, and Mike Rafferty
• From the Gold Standard to the Floating Dollar Standard: An
Appraisal in the Light of Marx's Theory of Money / Ramaa Vasudevan
• Post-Keynesian Theories of the Firm under Financialization /
Thomas Dallery
• Islamic Alternatives to Purely Capitalist Modes of Finance: A
Study of Malaysian Banks from 1999 to 2006 / Tamer ElGindi, Mona
Said, and John William Salevurakis
• Financialization and Changes in the Social Relations along
Commodity Chains: The Case of Coffee / Susan A. Newman
Book Review Essay:
• Heterodox Crisis Theory and the Current Global Financial Crisis:
The Trillion Dollar Meltdown: Easy Money, High Rollers, and the
Great Credit Crash Charles R. Morris; New York: Public Affairs,
2008, 194 pp.,$22.95 (hardback).;
• The Credit Crunch: Housing Bubbles, Globalisation, and the
Worldwide Economic Crisis Graham Turner; London and Ann Arbor, MI:
Pluto Press, 2008, 232pp., $27.95 (paperback).;
• The New Paradigm for Financial Markets: The Credit Crisis of 2008
and What it Means George Soros; New York: Public Affairs, 2008, 162
pp.,$22.95 (hardback).
• Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global
Crisis of American
• Capitalism Kevin Phillips; New York: Penguin Group, 2008, 239 pp.,
$25.95 (hardback) // Jonathan P. Goldstein
• Poverty & Inequality: An End to Poverty? A Historical Debate
Gareth StedmanJones, New York: Columbia University Press, 2005, 288
pp., $29.50 (hardcover).
• Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and its
Poisonous Consequences James Lardner and David A. Smith, eds., New
York: The New Press, 2006, 328 pp., $16.95 (paperback).
• The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of
Economic Inequality in America Michael J. Thompson, New York:
Columbia University Press, 2007, 264 pp., $32.50 (hardcover) //
Stephen Pimpare
Book Review:
• Poverty, Work, and Freedom: Political Economy and the Moral Order
David P. Levine and S. Abu Turab Rizvi. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2005. 159 pp + bibliography and index.
ISBN-13978-0-521-84826-8 (hardback), ISBN-10 0-521-84826-1; $65 (US)
or {pound}40, hardback. (hardback) / Matt Davies
• New Departures in Marxian Theory Stephen A. Resnick & Richard D.
Wolff; Routledge, 2006, 418 pp. / Ian J. Seda-Irizarry
• Multinationals on Trial: Foreign Investment Matters James Petras
and Henry Veltmeyer (2007), Aldershot Hampshire, UK: Ashgate, pp159;
Price $89.95 / Dennis C. Canterbury
• International Migration: Prospects and Policies in a Global Market
Douglas S. Massey and J. Edward Taylor, editors (Oxford University
Press, 2004) / Worlds in Motion: Understanding International
Migration at the End of the Millennium Douglas S, Massey, Joaquin
Arango, Graeme Hugo, Ali Kouaouchi, Adela Pellegrino and J. Edward
Taylor (Oxford University Press, 1998) / Marcos T. Aguila
• Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants By Jorge G. Castaneda. New
York: The New Press, 2007. 222 pp. $25.95 hardback / Mary C. King
• Communities Without Borders: Images and Voices from the World of
Migration David Bacon (Forwards by Carlos Munoz Jr. and Douglas
Harper), Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 2006 235pp $29.95.
ISBN13 978 0 8014 7307 4 / Richard Leitch
• Rethinking Municipal Privatization By Oliver D. Cooke New York:
Routledge, 2008. Hardcover ISBN 10: 0-415-96209-9 / Tom Angotti
• Solidarity Economy: Building Alternatives for People and Planet
Jenna Allard, Carl Davidson, and Julie Matthaei (eds) Chicago,
ChangeMaker Publications, 2008; 427 pages, 978-0-6151-9489-91 by Len
Krimerman, GEO Newsletter and Director, Creative Community Building
Program, University of Connecticut / Len Krimerman
• Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science
Threatens Your Health David Michaels, New York, Oxford University
Press, 2008, pp372, ISBN 978-0-19-530067-3 / Joan Greenbaum
• Labor-Environmental Coalitions: Lessons from a Louisiana
Petrochemical Region By Thomas Estabrook. Amityville, NY: Baywood
Publishing. 2007 / J. Timmons Roberts
• Fair Trade: The Challenges of Transforming Globalization Edited by
Laura T. Raynolds, Douglas L. Murray, and John Wilkinson. London and
New York: Routledge, 2007. 240 pp. ISBN: 978-0-415-77203-7. $29.95 /
Brewing Justice: Fair Trade Coffee, Sustainability, and Survival
Daniel Jaffee. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007.
331 pp. ISBN: 978-0-520-24959-2. $22.95 / Noah H. Enelow
Review of Social & Economic Studies,
Vol. 33: November 2009
The Review of Social & Economic Studies is published (in Korean) by
Korea Social and Economic Studies Association.
The Association and Journal Website:
http://ksesa.org
Articles
• When Does Globalization Benefit Us?: Globalization, Social
Cohesion and Economic Growth / Suh, Hanseok
• A Proposal for the Marxian Macrodynamic Theoryof Bubble and
Financial Instability / Lee, Sangheon
• Securitization in the U.S. Mortgage Market and Its Effect on the
Housing Price Bubble / Kim, Myoungrok
• Political Economy of Financial Stability Since the Global Economic
Crisis / Chang, Sibok
Book Review
• The Korean Economy and the Challenge of Marxian Economics / Jeong,
Seongjin
Review of Social & Economic Studies,
Vol. 32: May 2009
Articles
• A Reconstruction of Harrod’s Dynamic Instability / Lee, Sangheon
• ‘Price Reversal’ Revisited: Debate or Much Ado for Nothing? /
Park, Man Seop
• Why Did the Swedish Third Way Policy Fail?: Focusing on the Policy
Discords of the Third Way Policy / Shin, Jeongwan
• Normative Analysis in Behavioral Economics and Rationality / Hong,
Hoon•Lee, Kyu Sang
• Social Preferences and Institutions: A Literature Review / Choi,
Jung-Kyoo
• On the Theoretical (In)consistency between Marx’s Labor Theory of
Value and His Subsistence Theory of the Value of Labor-power / Lee,
Chai-On
• Market Fundamentalism and the Real Estate Policies of the Lee
Myung-bak Administration / Jun, Gang-Soo
• Dynamics of Capital Accumulation and Labor Market in Korea,
1970-2008 / Ahn, Jung Hwa
• Value and Price of Digital Information Commodity: Is ‘Value per
Version’ Feasible? / Kang, Sungyoon
• How to Contribute to the Electricity Industry in Korea: A New
Energy Policy in the Age of Weakening Neo-Liberalism / Ahn,
Hyeon-Hyo
• The U. S. Financial Crisis and Neoliberal Economic Order / Cho,
Bokhyun
Book Review
• Understanding Capitalism / Rieu, Dong
Revista de Economía Institucional,
No. 21
Articles are available at
http://www.economiainstitucional.com/eng/current/index1.htm
Articles
• Rules without Enforcement are but Words on Paper /Elinor Ostrom
• Lessons from the Great Depression for Economic Recovery in 2009
/Christina D. Romer
• The Economic Man and Rationality in Adam Smith /Vanesa Valeria
D'Elia
• A New Institutional Economics Perspective on Corruption and
Anti-corruption /Frédéric Boehm and Johann Graf Lambsdorff
• The Concept of Incentive in Management. Literature Review /Yuri
Gorbaneff, Sergio Torres y José Fernando Cardona
• Rural Elites' Veto of Land Reform in Colombia /Mauricio Uribe
López
The Colombian Economic Slowdown: You Reap What You Sow /Carlos
Humberto Ortiz
• Duration of Unemployment and Search Methods in Colombia /Carlos
Augusto Viáfara L. y José Ignacio Uribe G.
From The Radicalism to The Regeneration. The Monetary Issue
(1880-1903) \Juan Santiago Correa R.
• Balance of Payments, Stability and Growth in México 1979-2005 \Yanod
Márquez Aldana
• The Competitiveness of Portuguese Towns. The Case of District
Capital Towns \Paulo Reis Mourão y Júlio Miguel Coelho Barbosa
Classics
• Increasing Returns and Economic Progress \Allyn A. Young
Notes and Discussions
• Letter to the Queen /Foro de la Academia Británica
• The Chastity of Women in the Economic Activities / Azam
Khodashenas Nikoo y Abdoullah Namdar
Reviews
• Individuals, Society and Firms into the Institutional and
Evolutionary Economics /Jairo J. Parada
• Global Poverty, a Global Justice Issue /Leonardo García Jaramillo
Revue de la régulation n°6: 2e
semestre 2009
"Institutions, régulation et développement"
Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer de la parution du numéro 6 de
la Revue de la régulation. Capitalisme, institutions, pouvoir
consacré au dossier Institutions, régulation et développement.
Ce numéro est consultable librement à l'adresse suivante :
http://regulation.revues.org/
Au sommaire de ce numéro :
- Introduction
- Dossier : Institutions, régulation et développement
• Véronique Dutraive / Economic Development and Institutions:
Anatomy of the New New Institutional Economics’ research program
• Isabelle Hillenkamp / L’approche latino-américaine de l’économie
populaire, les inégalités et la pauvreté
• Muriel Périsse / Chine : une transition salariale à hauts risques
- Opinions - débats : Institutions, régulation et développement
• Noureddine El Aoufi / Théorie de la régulation : la perspective
oubliée du développement
• Stéphane Boisson / Interview de Rafael Correa, Réalisée à Quito,
le 16 octobre 2008
- Varia
• Ana Rosa Ribeiro de Mendonça et Simone Deos / Crises in the
financial regulation of finance-led capitalism: a Minskyan analysis
• Bernard Billaudot / Les institutions dans la théorie de la
régulation : une actualisation: The institutions in the theory of
regulation: an updating
- Notes de lecture
• Elsa Lafaye de Micheaux / Cyrille Ferraton, « Les valeurs guident
et accompagnent notre recherche ». L’institutionnalisme de Myrdal,
ENS éditions, Lyon, 2009, 85 p. Un institutionnalisme ouvert et
généreux
• Laurent Cordonnier / El Mouhoub Mouhoud et Dominique Plihon, Le
savoir et la finance. Liaisons dangereuses au cœur du capitalisme
contemporain, Paris, La Découverte, 2009.
• Ramine Motamed-Nejad / Eveline Baumann, Laurent Bazin, Pepita Ould-Ahmed,
Pascale Phélinas, Monique Sélim, Richard Sobel (Dir.), L’argent des
anthropologues, la monnaie des économistes, Paris, L’Harmattan,
2008. Les sciences sociales au défi de l’argent : les enjeux d’un
ouvrage récent
- Présentations de thèses
• Nicolas Castel, Poursuite du salaire ou revenu différé ? La
réforme des retraites en France (1987-2005)
• Gaëlle Courtaux-Kotbi, Transformation postsocialiste des
industries automobiles est-allemandes et tchèques : une application
de la théorie des modèles productifs
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and Radcliff here provide a rich tour of the frontier in the field.
And for curmudgeons, this work goes far to defuse the skeptical
reflex. It is subtle, intelligent, wide-ranging, informative and
even readable throughout.’
– James K. Galbraith, The University of Texas at Austin, US
This timely and important book presents a unique study of happiness
from both economic and political perspectives. It offers an overview
of contemporary research on the emergent field of happiness studies
and contains contributions by some of the leading figures in the
field.
General issues such as the history and conceptualization of
happiness are explored, and the underpinning theories and empirics
analyzed. The ways in which economic and political factors – both
separately and interactively – affect the quality of human life are
examined, illustrating the importance of a self-consciously
multi-disciplinary approach to the field. In particular, the effects
of consumption, income growth, inequality, discrimination,
democracy, the nature of government policies, and labor organization
on happiness are scrutinized. In conclusion, the contributors
prescribe what can and should be done at individual and societal
levels to improve human well-being and happiness.
This wide-ranging and interdisciplinary book makes a unique
contribution to the literature. As such, it will prove a fascinating
read for students and scholars of economics, political science,
psychology, sociology, and of course, to those with a special
interest in the analysis of happiness and human well-being.
Contributors: M. Cherry, S.M. Coshow, A.K. Dutt, R.A. Easterlin, A.
Felton, R.H. Frank, B.S. Frey, A. Goldsmith, C. Graham, R. Inglehart,
S. Lyubomirsky, D.M. McMahon, A.D. Ong, A.C. Pacek, B. Radcliff, T.
Rice, C. Ridge, O. Sawangfa, K.M. Sheldon, A. Stutzer, R. Veenhoven
To request a review copy of this or any of our books, please
contactreviews@e-elgar.com.
The Economic Crisis Reader
ISBN: 978-1-878585-85-1, 302 pages, $34.95. Dollars and Sense.
The Economic Crisis Reader provides up-to-date, accessible, and
penetrating analysis of the causes, consequences, and possible ways
out of the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. With
articles drawn from the pages of Dollars & Sense, this book guides
readers through the housing boom and bust, Fed policy, the banking
crisis, fiscal stimulus, the impact on workers, global dimensions,
and more. The Economic Crisis Reader will help ordinary people
understand the economic mess we are in and what we can do to clean
it up.
Table of contents:
http://dollarsandsense.org/bookstore/crisis_toc.html
To order an exam copy or exam pdf, send a note to
dollars@dollarsandsense.org or call (617) 447-2177
Political Economy and Globalization
By Richard Westra. Series in Routledge Frontiers of Political
Economy, Routledge. ISBN: 978-0-415-47022-3, 272 pages, $140.00
(Hardback)
Based upon distinguishing capitalism from other economic systems, as
well as analysis of capitalist change across its stages of
development, Richard Westra argues that the economic tendencies we
refer to as globalization constitute a world historic transition
away from capitalism. Westra forcefully rejects claims from both
Right and Left sides of economic debate that globalization embodies
the ultimate world diffusion of capitalism. He concludes that the
choice facing humanity is no longer between capitalism and socialism
but between socialism and global barbarism.
The argument is meticulously interwoven through four key foci of
political economy -
* The role of Marx’s Capital in producing knowledge of capitalism,
* The periodizing of capitalism and study of its historical models
* The altering trajectories of production and finance under current
globalization,
* The place of socialism in a progressive future.
A central point of the book is that determinations over the
capitalist substance of existing economies demand precise
understanding of how in its basic operation capitalism manages to
secure the economic reproducibility of human society in the first
place. To make the case for the passing of capitalism from history
the volume draws upon the novel Japanese Uno approach to Marxian
political economy.
From the pages of Political Economy and Globalization emerges a grim
picture of our human future should current economic trends persist.
It also offers a positive vision for socio-material betterment in
redistributive, eco-sensitive socialist societies of tomorrow. This
is a must read book for scholars, students, progressive policy
makers and activists.
For more information:
http://www.routledge.com/books/Political-Economy-and-Globalization-isbn9780415470223
(publisher website) and
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Confronting Global Neoliberalism:
Third World Resistance and Development Strategies
Edited by Richard Westra, Clarity Press. Inc. ISBN: 9780932863614,
$21.95, 2009
Synopsis
With the world’s attention fixed on the travails of leading global
economies due to a still unfolding financial crisis of gigantic
proportions, there has been a studied silence on the fate of the
third world as the malaise increasingly impacts it. This silence is
particularly disturbing because questions of potential pitfalls in
the neoliberal policy package, which the third world (unlike Western
Europe and Japan) was largely forced to adopt, were never . as One
third world state after another discovered that international
institutions were in effect hostile to their governments if they
chose alternative developmental models or otherwise resisted the
neoliberal triage of liberalization, privatization and deregulation.
This collection is a tour de force, effectively countering not only
the neoliberal ideology of development as a whole but the
marginalizing within today’s mainstream crisis discourse of any
discussion of the monstrous misallocation of global resources
wrought by the so-called “Washington Consensus” and the suffering
and destruction it has wreaked on third world peoples and economies.
This edited volume is intended as both a textbook for introductory
classes in global development or area studies and as a conduit for
advanced students, policymakers, NGO activists and an educated
readership to gain about the socio-economic conditions existing
across much of the world we live in, and the policies that them
about. The specially commissioned and peer reviewed chapters are
written by experts in the fields of , politics, sociology and
international studies. Chapter authors hail from around the world
including:
Brazil, Mexico, Canada, United States, United Kingdom, South Africa,
South Korea and Thailand.
The countries/regions’ neoliberal experience and potential futures
covered in this book are: Brazil, China, Cuba,
Egypt, Mexico, Southeast Asia (Indonesia, Malaysia and Vietnam),
South Africa, South Korea, Syria, Thailand and
Venezuela.
Contributors: Patrick Bond, Al Campbell, Paul Cooney Seisdedos,
Cliff DuRand, Seongjin Jeong, Angela Joya, Minqi Li, Ananya
Mukherjee Reed, Ake Tangsupvattana, John Weeks, Richard Westra,
Gregory Wilpert
For more information:
http://www.claritypress.com/Westra.html (publisher
website) and
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Class Struggle on the Homefront
Work, Conflict, and Exploitation in the Household
Edited by Graham Cassano
Palgrave Macmillan
Pub date: Jan 2010
336 pages
Size 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
$90.00 - Hardcover (0-230-22926-3)
Publisher website:
http://www.palgrave-usa.com/catalog/product.aspx?isbn=0230229263
Description
Home Front examines the gendered exploitation of labor in the
household from a postmodern Marxian perspective. The authors of this
volume use the anti-foundationalist Marxian economic theories first
formulated by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff to explore power,
domination, and exploitation in the modern household.
Author Bio
GRAHAM CASSANO is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Oakland
University. He studies social inequality, symbolic exploitation, and
the representation of political economy in the mass media. His
essays have appeared in a number of interdisciplinary critical
journals, including Critical Sociology, Rethinking Marxism, The
Journal of Economic Issues, and Left History.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
* Introduction: Method(s), Narrative, and Scientific Truth--G.Cassano
*
PART I: THE OVERDETERMINATION OF HOUSEHOLD CLASS STRUGGLES
* For every knight in shining armor, there's a castle waiting to be
cleaned: A Marxist-Feminist analysis of the household--H.Fraad,S.Resnick&
R.Wolff
* Connecting Sex to Class--S.Resnick &--R.Wolff
* The Class Analysis of Households Extended: Children, Fathers and
Family Budgets--S.Resnick &--R.Wolff
* Starving and Hungry: Anorexia Nervosa and the Female Body
Politic--H.Fraad
* Toiling in the Field of Emotion--H.Fraad
PART II: ILLUSTRATIONS, REVISIONS AND EXTENSIONS
* Contested Constructions of the Migrant Home: Gender, Class and
Belonging in the Anatolian-German Community--E.Erdem
* Economic Effects of Remittances on Immigrant and Non-Immigrant
Household--M.Safri
* A Class Analysis of Single-Occupied Households--S.Gabriel
* The Class-Gender Nexus in the American Economy and in Attempts to
Rebuild the Labor Movement--M.Hillard&--R.McIntyre
* Hunkies, Gasbags and Reds: The Construction and Deconstruction of
Labors Hegemonic Masculinities in Black Fury (1935) and Riff Raff
(1936); G.Cassano
* Afterword--A.R.Hochschild
* Appendix: Original Introduction to Bringing It All Back Home:
Class, Gender &--Power in the Modern Household--G.Spivak
* Contributors * Bibliography * Notes
This book can be ordered via the website:
www.rdwolff.com or via
Amazon and other book sellers or via the publisher directly
(Palgrave-Macmillian).
Tax Havens: How Globalization Really
Works
By Ronen Palan, Richard Murp hy, and Christian Chavagneux.
Cornell University Press. ISBN: 978-0-8014-7612-9 | 280 pages |
$24.95 paper
In Tax Havens, Ronen Palan, Richard Murphy, and Christian Chavagneux
provide an up-to-date evaluation of the role and function of tax
havens in the global financial system-their history, inner workings,
impact, extent, and enforcement. They make clear that while,
individually, tax havens may appear insignificant, together they
have a major impact on the global economy. Holding up to $13
trillion of personal wealth—the equivalent of the annual U.S. Gross
National Product—and serving as the legal home of two million
corporate entities and half of all international lending banks, tax
havens also skew the distribution of globalization’s costs and
benefits to the detriment of developing economies.
The first comprehensive account of these entities, this book
challenges much of the conventional wisdom about tax havens. The
authors reveal that, rather than operating at the margins of the
world economy, tax havens are integral to it. More than simple
conduits for tax avoidance and evasion, tax havens actually belong
to the broad world of finance, to the business of managing the
monetary resources of individuals, organizations, and countries.
They have become among the most powerful instruments of
globalization, one of the principal causes of global financial
instability, and one of the large political issues of our times.
Ronen Palan is Professor of International Political Economy at the
University of Birmingham. He is the author of The Offshore World:
Sovereign Markets, Virtual Places, and Nomad Millionaires, also from
Cornell. Richard Murp hy is CEO of Tax Research, LLP, based in the
UK. He is a frequent adviser to the media, NGOs, and politicians,
and writes a blog at taxresearch.org.uk. Christian Chavagneux, based
in Paris, is deputy editor in chief of Alternatives Economiques and
editor of L’Economie politique.
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Seven Deadly Frauds of Economic
Policy
A brief draft of Warren Mosler’s forthcoming book is
attached . It looks most interesting. Any feedback or
correspondence should directed to Warren [
warren.mosler@gmail.com
]. More at
http://www.moslereconomics.com/2009/12/10/7-deadly-innocent-frauds/
Dr Andy Denis
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Economics Department
City University London
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Heterodox Book Reviews
After Adam Smith:
A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy
Murray Milgate and Shannon C. Stimson, After Adam Smith: A Century
of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 2009. x + 309 pp. $35 (cloth), ISBN:
978-0-691-14037-7.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Donald E. Frey, Department of Economics, Wake
Forest University. See the review here:
http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/1467
Editor's Note on Book Reviews for HEN
Anyone interested in reviewing books for the Newsletter should
contact Fadhel Kaboub, Book Review Editor by email (
kaboubf@denison.edu ) to
request a complementary copy of the book they wish to review.
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Heterodox
Graduate Program and PhD Scholarships
PhD opportunity at City University
London
There is an opportunity for a student to read for a PhD in
Economics, specialising in the history and/or philosophy of the
discipline, at City University London from October 2010.
Good students will be able to apply for a University Research
Studentship worth nearly £15K per year and full remission of fees (
http://city.ac.uk/research/resdegrees/studentships.html ).
Unsuccessful applicants may apply for a Departmental bursary.
The applicant will need to be interested in completing a thesis in
the area of the history and/or the philosophy of economics, and will
have some overlap with my areas of interest – the methodology of
orthodox and heterodox schools of thought in economics, social
ontology, reductionism and holism. I have published on Smith,
Malthus, Keynes, Hayek, rhetorical strategies in economics,
dialectics, and the methodology of the Austrian and neoclassical
schools, and am currently working on a century of methodological
individualism. More information can be found on my personal web page
at
http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/andy.denis/research/research.html .
The deadline for the University Research Studentship is Monday 25
January 2010, so candidates will need to move fast to discuss their
proposal with me. It is essential for a successful proposal to have
internal support.
Please do not hesitate to pass this on to potentially interested
candidates.
Dr Andy Denis
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Economics Department
City University London
London EC1V 0HB
+44 (0)20 7040 0257
http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/andy.denis
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Heterodox
Web Sites and Associations
Real-World Economics in Germany
The German working group on post-autistic economics is making huge
progress. Finally, the German business press has seen our critique,
because at the moment there is a huge debate between mathe oriented
economists and ordo-liberals at the University of Cologne.
We have a lecture series at the University of Heidelberg. compare:
http://www.real-world-economics.de/
I also attached the german newsletter.
Furthermore, we are planning a conference in autumn 2010 in Kassel
on the interaction between economics and politics.
Greetings from Germany
Thomas Duermeier
————–
Economist (Diplom-Volkswirt)
Thomas Dürmeier
University of Kassel
Department 05 Chair Scherrer
Homepage:
http://www.uni-kassel.de/fb5/globalisation/
Queries from Heterodox
Economists
Surveys, articles, and/or books that
critique mainstream theory
Dear Colleagues,
For some work that I am doing, I need some help.
First, I would like to know what surveys, articles, and/or books
that critique mainstream theory in all of the JEL research areas
and/or sub-areas have been written in the last 10-15 years. I am
particularly interested in critiques in areas of H, I, J, K, L, N,
O, P, Q, and R—see below.
Second, I would like to know what heterodox critiques of
classical-evolutionary-behavioral game theory,
evolutionary-behavioral-experimental economics, neuroeconomics, and
agent-based complexity economics have been written in the past 10-15
years.
If you have the time and know of any relevant critique, I would be
grateful if you could send me the reference.
A – General economics and teaching
B – Methodology and history of economic thought
C – Mathematics and quantitative methods
D - Microeconomics
E - Macroeconomics and monetary policy
F – International economics
G – Financial economics
H – Public economics
I – Health, education, and welfare
J – Labor and demographic economics
K – Law and economics
L – Industrial Organization
N – Economic history
O – Economic development, technological change, and growth
P – Economic systems
Q – Agricultural and natural resources economics
R – Urban, rural, and regional economics
Z- Cultural Economics
Fred / leefs@umkc.edu
Professor Frederic S. Lee
Editor, American Journal of Economics and Sociology
Department of Economics
University of Missouri-Kansas City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
USA
Introductory readings, lectures and
videos of Marxism
Hi everyone,
Throughtout my experience as a student organizer, I am often
confronted by people asking for references to introductory materials
for Marxism. As a student of political science and political
economy, my studies have consisted only of difficult primary or
dense secondary texts. Therefore, referring folks to more
introductory level material is very difficult. Does anyone have any
suggestions as far as readings, online lectures and videos go?
Michael McCabe /
michael.patrick.mccabe@gmail.com
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For Your Information
10 Suggested
Resolutions for Real-World Economist in 2010
Peter Earl in Real-World Economics Review Blog, December 23, 2009.
As 2010 approaches, real-world economists should be thinking about
what they can do in the New Year to advance the cause of real world
economics. Here, I offer 10 suggestions to add to the exhortations
of Fred Lee in his outgoing editorial of the Heterodox Economics
Newsletter. Since I’m from a similar generation to Fred and 2009
marked the start of my fourth decade as an academic economist, this
has been a year of somewhat frustrated reflection. However, I’ve
tried to ensure that these do not look like the suggestions of a
Grumpy Old Real-World Economist.
First, stop teaching anything that you do not believe to be a good
representation of the real world, even if an unrealistic model is
part of the standard curriculum. If I am ever asked to teach a core
course I will teach it without wasting time ‘going through’
mainstream ideas, such as the theory of perfect competition and
indifference analysis, that are logically flawed and/or based on
wildly unrealistic assumptions. As regards the absolute core of
mainstream thinking, namely, constrained optimization, all I shall
do is say that it would be nice if we could work out the best way of
meeting our objectives but that it is logically impossible to do so
in most cases; I shall explain why and then move on to explain what
is known about how choices are actually made in the real world.
[read full article here:
http://rwer.wordpress.com/2009/12/23/10-suggested-resolutions-for-real-world-economist-in-2010
]
Spring 2010 teach-in
suggestions for Employee Free Choice Act
Dear colleague:
As you finish up this semester and begin planning for next please
think about including an event or teach-in about the battle for the
Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA). EFCA will probably come up for a
vote this winter/spring - presumably whenever the fight over
healthcare ends.
It will improve the chances of passage if we can generate a lot of
discussion about EFCA, and of course passage of EFCA will help
working people begin to win back the rights and standards they have
lost in the past forty years.
Last spring we did a teach in here on the campus of the University
of Missouri-Kansas City. It was in the middle of the quad on a
beautiful day, and we asked a local union for donations so we could
serve lunch and partnered with our local Jobs with Justice chapter.
While people lined up for food and ate, we had students, organizers,
and faculty members teach them about EFCA, give them handouts, and
sign them up on clip boards so we could contact them in the future.
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.
If a teach in is out, perhaps you can incorporate something on this
in an 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 ). If you want a speaker on EFCA,
contact your closest labor educator if there is a labor education
program on your campus or your local AFL-CIO labor council. For a
list of labor education programs, go to www.uale.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
Judy Ancel, Director, The Institute for Labor Studies, UMKC
Ryan Dodd, Department of Economics, UMKC
Peter Eaton, Department of Economics, UMKC
Fred Lee, Department of Economics, UMKC
Erik Olsen, Department of Economics, UMKC
Please post in Real-World
Economics Review Blog
Heterodox economists have now a new, effective channel to
disseminate work of a more technical character. There is now a new
Working Papers section on www.paecon.net. The section started with a
paper by Alvaro Calzadilla and Jorge Buzaglo, “Simulating extended
reproduction: poverty reduction and class dynamics in Bolivia.” It
can be found at:
http://www.paecon.net/workingpapers/BuzagloCalzadilla.pdf.
Happy New Year
Jorge Buzaglo
HET module at City University
London
Dear all
I will again be teaching my 3rd year UG module in History of
Economic Thought at City University London in the coming term. If
any list member would be interested in auditing the module, or
individual teaching sessions, please send me an email. The teaching
sessions are from 09:00 to 12:00 on Monday mornings, for ten weeks,
starting 25 January, and finishing 29 March. I append an outline
syllabus.
Al the best for the New Year!
Dr Andy Denis
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Economics Department
City University London
London EC1V 0HB
+44 (0)20 7040 0257
http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/andy.denis
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Outline syllabus
'What is the legitimate rôle of the state, if any, in the economy?'
That is a fundamental question - perhaps the fundamental question -
for economics. How do (micro level) agent interests and behaviours
interact to generate (macro level) social outcomes? Are those
outcomes desirable, or should society as a whole, in the form of the
state, intervene to modify them? The course will investigate these
questions and explore the answers that have been given by economic
thinkers. The treatment will not be in chronological order. A
consideration of a problem in twentieth-century political economy,
the prisoners' dilemma, will establish the currency of this theme.
Attention will then be turned to Adam Smith's 'invisible hand', and
the evolutionary theory of Friedrich Hayek. Robert Malthus presents
an interesting case as, I argue, he switches rhetorical strategy
between the first and second editions of his Essay on Population.
Finally, we will consider two alternative approaches to these
issues, those of Maynard Keynes and Karl Marx.
Topic 1: Rhetorical strategies of laissez-faire and dirigisme.
Topic 2: The prisoners' dilemma
Topic 3: Adam Smith and the invisible hand
Topic 4: Hayek's theory of social evolution
Topic 5: Keynes and the General Theory
Topic 6: Malthus's heterodox theodicy
Topic 7: Marx and capital as an 'animated monster'
The final three weeks will likely be given over to student
presentations.
All required readings will be provided.
Academic Prizes ESHET 2010
The Council of the European Society for the History of Economic
Thought is inviting nominations for three awards that will be
announced at the Conference in Amsterdam (25-28 March, 2010).
The Best Monograph Competition is for best book (not necessarily
written in English) in the history of economic thought published
during 2008 or 2009. The author can be from any part of the world.
The winner will be invited to attend the Society Conference that
follows the announcement of the prize to deliver the Jérome-Adolphe
Blanqui Lecture.
The History of Economic Analysis Award is for the best article (not
necessarily written in English) in the history of economic thought,
published in a scientific Journal during 2008 or 2009. Candidates
can be from any part of the world. The winner will be invited to
attend the Society Conference that follows the announcement of the
prize, and will receive 500 Euros.
The ESHET Young Scholar of the Year Award is a new award for which
nominations are invited for the first time. This prize recognizes
scholarly achievements of historians of economic thought at an early
stage of their career. The prize is normally awarded to scholars
below the age of 40 in recognition of outstanding publications in
the history of economic thought. The prize will consist of a
five-year membership of ESHET , a waivering of the conference fee
when the prize is awarded, and a certificate signed by the President
of ESHET.
Nominations should be sent as soon as possible, but not later than
January 31, 2010 to the Chair of the relevant panel:
Books: Harald Hagemann (
Hagemann@uni-hohenheim.de )
Articles: Hans-Michael Trautwein (
michael.trautwein@uni-oldenburg.de )
Young Scholars: Joachim Zweynert (
zweynert@hwwi.org )
Please note the following:
Self-nominations are not accepted for any of the prizes. Nominations
for the book and article prizes should include:
(1) Full bibliographic details of the book or article.
(2) A statement (in English) of why the book or article merits being
considered for a prize, including an abstract (approximately 1000
words for a book and approximately 1 page for an article).
(3) An electronic copy of the book or article, if this is available.
Nominations for the Young Scholars Award should include:
(1) A one-page resume stating the achievements of the candidate
(2) A CV with list of publications.
The final decision on each of the prizes will be made by the Council
of ESHET in Amsterdam
Lists of past winners can be found on the ESHET website:
http://www.eshet.net/
Richard van den Berg
Historical Materialism:
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in London, our publisher Brill is offering a special offer for new
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Elegant Theories That Didn't
Work: The Problem with Paul Samuelson
By MICHAEL HUDSON
Paul Samuelson, America’s best known economist, died on Sunday. He
was awarded the Nobel prize for economics, (founded one year earlier
by a Swedish bank in 1970 “in honor of Alfred Nobel”). That award
elicited this trenchant critique, published by Michael Hudson in
Commonweal, December 18, 1970. The essay was titled “Does economics
deserve a Nobel prize? (And by the way, does Samuelson deserve
one?)”
It is bad enough that the field of psychology has for so long been a
non-social science, viewing the motive forces of personality as
deriving from internal psychic experiences rather than from man's
interaction with his social setting. Similarly in the field of
economics: since its “utilitarian” revolution about a century ago,
this discipline has also abandoned its analysis of the objective
world and its political, economic productive relations in favor of
more introverted, utilitarian and welfare-oriented norms. Moral
speculations concerning mathematical psychics have come to displace
the once-social science of political economy.
[see full text here]
http://www.counterpunch.org/hudson12142009.html
After the Blowup
By John Cassidy, The New Yorker, January 11, 2010, p. 28
ABSTRACT: LETTER FROM CHICAGO about the state of the Chicago School
of economics after the financial crash. Earlier this year, Judge
Richard A. Posner published “A Failure of Capitalism,” in which he
argues that lax monetary policy and deregulation helped bring on the
current economic slump. Posner has been a leading figure in the
conservative Chicago School of economics for decades. In September,
he came out as a Keynesian. As acts of betrayal go, this was roughly
akin to Johnny Damon’s forsaking the Red Sox Nation and joining the
Yankees. Ever since Milton Friedman, George Stigler, and others
founded the Chicago School, in the nineteen-forties and fifties, one
of its goals has been to displace Keynesianism, and it had largely
succeeded. In the areas of regulation, trade, anti-trust laws,
taxes, interest rates, and welfare, Chicago thinking greatly
influenced policymaking in the U.S. and many other parts of the
world. But in the year after the crash Keynes’s name appeared to be
everywhere. In “A Failure of Capitalism,” Posner singles out several
economists, including Robert Lucas and John Cochrane, both of the
Chicago School, for failing to appreciate the magnitude of the
subprime crisis, and he questioned the entire methodology that Lucas
and his colleagues pioneered. Its basic notions were the
efficient-markets hypothesis and the rational-expectations theory.
In Posner’s view, older, less dogmatic theories better explained how
the problems in the financial sector dragged down the rest of the
economy. In the course of a few days, the writer talked to
economists from various branches of the subject. The over-all
reaction he encountered put him in mind of what happened to
cosmology after the astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that the
universe was expanding, and was much larger than scientists
believed. The profession fell into turmoil, with some physicists
sticking to existing theories, while others came up with the
big-bang theory. Eugene Fama, of Chicago’s Booth School of Business,
was firmly in the denial camp. He defended the efficient-markets
hypothesis, which underpinned the deregulation of the banking system
championed by Alan Greenspan and others. He insisted that the real
culprit in the mortgage mess was the federal government. Mentions
John Cochrane. Gary Becker, who won the Nobel in 1992, says that
Posner and others raised fair critiques of Chicago economics.
Mentions Robert Lucas and James Heckman. If the economic equivalent
of a big-bang theory is to emerge, it will almost certainly come
from scholars much less invested in the old doctrines than Fama and
Lucas. Mentions Richard Thaler. Raghuram Rajan, an Indian-born
Chicago professor, is one of the few economists who warned about the
dangers of the financial crisis. In 2005, he said that deregulation,
trading in complex financial products, and the proliferation of
bonuses for traders had greatly increased the risk of a blowup. In a
new book he’s working on, “Fault Lines,” Rajan argues that the
initial causes of the breakdown were stagnant wages and rising
inequality. With the purchasing power of many middle-class
households lagging behind the cost of living, there was an urgent
demand for credit. The side effects of unrestrained credit growth
turned out to be devastating. The impact of the financial crisis
shouldn’t be underestimated, especially for Chicago-style economics.
“Keynes is back,” Posner said, “and behavioral finance is on the
march.”
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http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/11/100111fa_fact_cassidy#ixzz0c3v6VlGg
Unions and the Crisis: Ways
Ahead?
Dear colleagues,
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.
Best Regards,
Nicolas Pons-Vignon
Global Labour Column editor
Indian Trade Unions' position
on Copenhagen
Please circulate this far and wide. It's the position on climate
change
of India's only non-party political independent trade union. [Read "New
Trade Union Initative"] attachment: NTUIcopenhagen.doc
Bhw
Prof. Barbara Harriss-White, Director,
Contemporary S. Asia Studies Programme, Department of International
Development,
Queen Elizabeth House, 3, Mansfield Road, Oxford OX1 3TB, UK
tel (44) (0) 1865 281823 (o) 281201 (f) 558862 (h)
New York Area Study Group on
Capital vols. II and III beginning in January
Since early October, Howie Seligman and Loren Goldner have been
teaching a Capital study group in the New York area. We will
complete Vol. I next Wednesday Dec. 23.
We will be continuing with Vols. II and III from January through
early June. We will be meeting every other Wednesday night from 7 to
10 PM, at a convenient location on W. 28th St. in Manhattan. We will
probably start vol. II on either Jan. 6 or Jan. 13.
I have been handling the close reading of Capital and Howie has been
providing technical analysis of current developments. This
arrangement will continue and will of course be as closely related
as possible to the concepts introduced in vols. II and III.
If you are interested in participating, contact me at
lrgoldner@yahoo.com
Please provide a short description of your background in Marx, your
previous experience of political activity, and where you're coming
from politically.
Loren Goldner
"Revolutionizing
Economic Thought" by Frank Rotering
The link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04GzSjrm_7M
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