Deadline of Submission of Abstract : June 10th, 2010
Mail to :
yagi8@kisc.meiji.ac.jp
Contact:
The Revival of Political
Economy: Prospects for sustainable provision
Coimbra, Portugal, October 21-23, 2010
Updated Call for papers
The recent financial collapse and the ensuing economic downturn are
still imposing hardship and suffering upon millions all over the world,
especially the poor and the unemployed. The crisis has raised public
awareness of the consequences of neoliberal drift and of the
shortcomings of a mainstream academic economics that did not anticipate
the financial meltdown and economic downturn, and even actively
contributed to setting up the new (toxic) financial architecture. For
many - economists, managers and politicians - the depression has been a
sobering experience. Statements produced in the heat of events even
suggest that this could be an opportunity both for seriously
reconsidering and reversing the trend towards a growing
financialisation of the economy, and for recasting the very foundations
of knowledge of the economy. However, at the first signs of recovery,
the habitual ways of thought, and of doing politics and business are
settling down once again.
The need is therefore felt - with a sense of urgency - to widen public
debate stimulated by renewed social science perspectives on economic
issues. The failure of mainstream economics, acknowledged by many,
calls for a revival and renewal of political economy. This will be
achieved by strengthening the ongoing dialogue among scholars in all
fields of the social sciences and humanities interested in economic
processes and their relation to politics, morality, culture and nature.
The reflection needed must go beyond means and measures that may secure
a return to a ‘normal’ growth regime and move on to
reconsider the ends to be pursued by public policies and institutional
change. The new political economy in the making should address the
issue of sustainability: economic, social and environmental. Prosperity
– the purpose of any economy – can no longer be separated
from social justice and environmental values.
With the intent of bringing together researchers from different
disciplines and theoretical traditions for a reflection on the road
ahead towards a sustainable economy, we call for participation in this
Conference, to be held in Coimbra, Portugal, on 21-23 October, 2010.
Papers are welcome addressing any of the following (or closely related)
topics:
1. Capitalisms and institutional change
- How to grasp variety in capitalism?
- What are the proper roles of international finance and commerce?
- Which scales for which institutional changes?
2. Sustainability: economic, social and environmental
- What should count as economic achievement?
- What is the role of public provision in fighting inequality?
- Can the economy be democratised? If so, how?
3. The Revival of Political Economy
- What is political economy today?
- Which research agenda for political economy today?
- How to teach and publicly discuss political economy?
Abstract submission
- Abstracts of proposed papers (of approximately 250 words,
containing the author’s name, affiliation and contact details),
should be submitted by May 15, 2010, to politicaleconomy2010@ces.uc.pt
Conference details
- The conference will take place on October 21-23, 2010 at
University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
- You will have to make your own travel and accommodation
arrangements. Special hotel fares for the conference participants will
be available.
Deadlines
- Abstract submission - May 15, 2010
- Notification of acceptance - June 30, 2010
- Conference registration - September 1, 2010
- Conference - October 21-23, 2010
Download
Call for Papers and
Poster.
13th
International Congress of the Basic Income Earth Network
June 30, July 1-2, 2010
Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
The deadline for submission of papers and panel proposals has
been extended to
April 12th 2010. The
full call for papers, details, registration instructions, preliminary
featured speakers, and accommodation are available at the Congress
website:
www.bien2010brasil.com. Information
is also available on the BIEN website:
www.basicincome.org.
Danish
Institute for International Studies (DIIS)
10 March 2010. At Copenhagen, Denmark.
Theme: Impacts, responses and initial lessons of the financial crisis
for low-income countries
The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) will host a
conference in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 14 and 15, 2010, on the
impacts, responses and lessons of the financial crisis for low income
countries. The conference organizers kindly request scholarly papers
that address themes that include, but are not exclusively limited to,
the three areas outlined below. Submissions are especially encouraged
from researchers based in low income countries. Financial support is
available for presenters to attend the conference. The conference will
include a high-level panel discussion concerning the long-run
consequences of the crisis for development strategies. Confirmed panel
members include: Finn Tarp (Director, UNUWIDER),Howard Stein
(University of Michigan), Jan Kregel (Levy Economics Institute), John
Weeks(SOAS, Department of Economics), Richard King (Oxfam GB), and Sam
Mensah (SEM Financial Group & International Growth Center, Ghana).
THEME 1: CRISIS IMPACTS
Since 2007, low income countries have
faced turbulent and adverse external economic conditions. As
macroeconomic and microeconomic data now become available, careful
empirical documentation of the effects of these trends across different
countries, sectors and demographic sub-groups is needed. Relevant
questions to address may include: have observed changes in
macroeconomic indicators been consistent with the predicted effects of
the crisis? How vulnerable are low income countries to further economic
turbulence (e.g., a “double dip” recession)? What have been
the responses of formal and informal labour markets? How have
households adjusted livelihood strategies?
THEME 2: CRISIS RESPONSES
The financial crisis provides an
opportunity to deepen our understanding of the effectiveness of
orthodox and unorthodox social and economic policies. We seek to
understand the nature and effectiveness of the different policies low
income governments have adopted in reaction to the crisis. In addition,
one can reflect on the contribution of bilateral and multilateral
donors in assisting low income countries to respond to changes in
external conditions.
THEME 3: INITIAL LESSONS
Although the long-run implications of
the crisis remain to be seen, some initial lessons may be drawn. What
does the crisis tell us about the binding constraints to development in
low income countries and the risks associated with different kinds of
development strategies (e.g., export-led growth)? Looking forward, and
in light of the persistence of global imbalances, what kinds of
macroeconomic strategies are appropriate for low income countries? How
can low income countries best foster policy space and flexibility to
respond to future challenges?
AUDIENCE
The conference is open to academics,
policymakers, and other researchers in the social sciences.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
EITHER extended abstracts (approx. 500
words) OR draft manuscripts should be submitted by 01 June 2010. These
should be sent electronically to the conference mailbox:
financialcrisis@diis.dk.
Each submission should include details of the author – i.e., full
name, institutional affiliation, postal address, email and contact
telephone.
Authors of accepted manuscripts will
be contacted by 30 June 2010 at the latest. Completed papers should
then be submitted by 10 September 2010. Final submissions will be
published by the Danish Institute for International Studies as working
papers (with authors’ permission).
FURTHER INFORMATION
CONFERENCE ORGANIZERS
Nanna Hvidt (Director, DIIS), Peter
Gibbon (DIIS), Jakob Vestergard (DIIS) & Sam Jones (University
ofCopenhagen).
Oxford
Hegel conference
The Many Colours of Hegelianism:
Hegel's Philosophy and its Reception in an International Context
4-5 June, 2010
Supported by the Department of Politics and International
Relations, the Faculty of Philosophy, New College, and Trinity College,
the conference will bring together scholars who work on Hegel's thought
and its reception in different cultural contexts.
While Hegel's philosophy itself is an ongoing object of study in
philosophy departments all over the world, his influence on the history
of ideas, apart from the obvious influence on Marxism, has been less in
focus. The political, social, and intellectual landscapes of different
countries have influenced the ways in which thinkers have taken up
Hegel's philosophy, and influenced the choice of the aspects of his
philosophy that were turned into different forms of "Hegelianism".
In focussing on four cultural-geographic areas-the Anglo-American
world, Eastern Europe and Russia, the Romanic countries, and the
German-speaking countries and Scandinavia-the reception and further
development of Hegel's philosophy in different parts of the world will
be considered in comparative perspective. We hope to bring out a common
theme, or themes, that unite Hegelianism in such different shapes as,
for example, British Idealism, Russian mysticism and Kojève's
master-slave dialectics. A further focus will be on what Hegelianism
means today, both in the academic field and in a wider cultural
context.
Keynote speakers:
- Professor Robert Stern (Sheffield), Professor Ludwig Siep
(Münster)
Convenors:
- Robert Harris, New College; Lisa Herzog, New College; Sebastian
Stein, St Hugh's College
Registration:
http://www.politics.ox.ac.uk/research/conferences/
Advance registration is required and a registration fee of £20
for two days (student rate £10 for two days) will be payable.
Registration will close at noon on Saturday 1 May. Please note that you
will be informed by email when your place is confirmed. Please do not
send payment until you have received this email to confirm your place.
Thank you.
Please note that the registration fee
includes the cost of tea and coffee provided during morning and
afternoon breaks. Lunch is not included in the registration fee.
14th FMM
Conference: Stabilising an unequal economy?
Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM)
organises its 14th conference on ‘Stabilising an unequal
economy?’: Public debt, financial regulation, and income
distribution.
29 – 30 October 2010, Berlin
Minsky’s question of how to stabilise an unstable economy
is obviously of renewed importance today. But are the present policies
merely stabilising an unsustainable accumulation regime based on income
polarisation and the dominance of financial markets? What are the
economic and political implications of rising public debt? How can
financial regulation contribute to stability as well as equity?
The submission of papers in the following areas is encouraged:
- Financial instability and financial regulation
- The future role of fiscal policy and the economic and social
implications of rising public debt
- Income distribution and the causes of the crisis
- Distributional effects of the stabilisation policies
- Jobless recovery and alternatives for full employment
- Changes in the accumulation regime: return to business-as-usual?
What are the alternatives?
For the open part of the conference the submission of papers on
the general subject of
the Research Network is encouraged as well. We also ask for the
submission of papers
for graduate student sessions on both the specific topic of this
conference and the general
subject of the Research Network. We intend
to organise an introductory workshop on
Keynesian
economics aimed at graduate students on 28 October.
Conference language is English. Selected papers will be published
after the conference.
The deadline for paper proposals is 25
June 2010. Please send an abstract (one page) to
fmm@boeckler.de. Decisions will be made by
mid-August. Accepted papers should be sent
in by 15 October to be posted on the conference web page.
Organising Committee of the conference:
Second
International Conference on Science in
Society
Carlos III University, Madrid, Spain, 11-13 November 2010
This conference addresses the social impacts, values, pedagogies,
politics and economics of science. It is an inclusive forum that
welcomes a breadth of perspectives on science from practitioners,
teachers and researchers representing a wide range of academic
disciplines.
The Science in Society Conference is held annually in different
locations around the world. The Conference was inaugurated in 2009 at
Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK. We are pleased to hold this year's
conference at Carlos III University in Madrid, Spain.
In addition to Plenary Presentations from leading speakers in the
field, the Science in Society Conference includes parallel
presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. We invite you
to respond to the conference Call-for-Papers. Presenters submit their
written papers for publication in the peer refereed "International
Journal of Science in Society". If you are unable to attend the
conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which
allow you to submit a paper for refereeing and possible publication in
the journal as well as the option of uploading a video presentation to
our YouTube channel.
The deadline for the next round in the call for papers (a title
and short abstract) is
11 March 2010.
Future deadlines will be announced on the conference website after this
date. Proposals are reviewed within two weeks of submission. Full
details of the conference, including an online proposal submission
form, may be found at the conference website:
www.ScienceinSocietyConference.com.
In 2011 the conference will be held in Washington D.C. at American
Catholic University, 5-7 August. We look forward to receiving your
proposal and hope you will be able to join us in Madrid in November.
Alternative Perspectives of
a Good Society
Updated Call for Papers for a Book Proposal
Editor: John Marangos
NEW DEADLINE: FRIDAY 9 APRIL 2010
After the successful joint session of AFEE/ASE with the theme
“Alternative Perspectives of a Good Society” at the ASSA
meeting in Atlanta, there appears to be a need for a collection of
papers to be published (with interest from Palgrave for possible
inclusion in the Perspectives from Social Economics series) questioning
the dominant paradigm, not only in economics, but in the society at
large. The book proposal would consist of a collection of papers
recruited from the joint AFEE/ASE session at the ASSA meeting and from
this Call for Papers. The papers should examine and explicitly deal
with issues from alternative perspectives that have been ignored by the
dominant socio-economic theory and practice. The papers should examine
and question the prevailing consensus and as such illustrate
alternative processes to the ongoing transformation of society for the
benefit of the people. The methodology adopted should be holistic,
historical, dynamic and comparative in nature. Researchers should aim
to use alternative perspectives in ways that go beyond traditional
socio-economic theories. The focus may be, but not restricted to,
alternative economic processes and policy proposals, alternative
politics and institutions, the role of ideology and culture,
alternative perspective of ethics, and gender issues.
Those interested should submit an extended abstract
of 300-350 words by 9 April 2010 as a word attachment. For queries and
submissions contact:
John Marangos, Department of Economics University of Crete, Rethymno,
74100, Crete, Greece Ph: (+30) 28310-77426, Fax: (+30) 28310-77406
email:
marangos@econ.soc.uoc.gr
Download
Call for Papers.
Responding to Global crises:
New Development Paths
UNCTAD's 2nd Public Symposium
May 2010
The confluence of the global crises have been discussed extensively
over the last year and continues to remain at the centre of world
concerns due to the effects on the global economy and significant
slowdowns in economic growth particularly in the case of developing and
emerging economies.
UNCTAD's 2nd Public Symposium will debate "Responding to Global Crises:
New Development Paths". It will examine policy ideas emanating from the
economic and financial crises and go beyond to look at more inclusive
and sustainable sets of polices at the national and international
levels as a response mechanism.
In our efforts to broaden the debate and better reflect the ideas and
opinions of all development stakeholders, we are hereby launching a
call for papers/ inputs. The overall aim of the call for papers is to
gather your views and feedback on your position(s) with regard to the
main issues to be addressed at the symposium.
Symposium sub-topics for the proposal of papers:
1. Rethinking global economic governance: towards trade and financial
reforms for enhancing development
- International policy challenges for sustainable recovery
(example: new debt crisis, cutbacks on Overseas Development Assistance
(ODA)
- The systemic obstacles to national recovery strategies
- New financial architectures
- Recurrent boom and bust cycles
- Support to new development paths (policy coherence and
coordination, innovative finance, policy space and democratizing
economic governance
2. Sustainable development strategies
- Inter related challenges facing developing countries to bring
about more environmentally sustainable and inclusive growth (example:
green growth/ green development, food and energy security, role of
commodities, more employment-intensive growth, a better balance between
export-led and domestic consumption-led growth, new approaches to
investment strategies, better balance between financial and productive
sectors, reduced income equality)
- Implications for new approaches to meeting the Millennium
Development Goals (MDGs).
Papers/inputs should reach the UNCTAD secretariat as soon as possible
and no later than Friday,
30 April 2010,
by:
E-mail:
publicsymposium@unctad.org
Fax: +41 22 917 0056
Tel: +41 22 917 5048
+41
22 917 1848
+41 22 917 2475
Post: UNCTAD Public Symposium
Civil Society
Outreach Unit,
Communications,
Information and Outreach,
UNCTAD, Palais
des Nations,
Avenue de la
Paix, Geneva, Switzerland
Details can be found at
http://www.unctad.info/en/Public-Symposium-2010/About-UNCTAD/Call-for-Papers/
A New
Conference in Heterodox Political Economy
York University, Toronto, Canada
October 29-31, 2010
Theme: Crisis of Capital, Crisis of Theory:
A Call for New Interrogations
A group of students are organzing a new conference in heterdox
political economy to be held at York in October of 2010 (open to both
faculty and graduate students). The conference will investigate the
financial crisis and will also examine new theoretical frameworks
within heterodox political economy. The dual crisis of capital and of
theory will be of interest to many social scientists. Please send an
abstract of no more than 250 words to casp.york@gmail.com.
The deadline for submission is June 30, 2010.
Download Call for Papers.
North
American Labor History Conference
Class, Social Movements and the New
Politics
Thirty-Second Annual North American Labor History Conference
Wayne State University, October 21-23, 2010.
The Program Committee of the North American Labor History
Conference invites proposals for sessions and papers on “Class,
Social Movements and the New Politics” for our thirty-second
annual meeting.
Recent elections have shown the emergence of
new political demographics and the increased influence of young voters,
progressive voters and workers. New labor alliances have increasingly
focused their energies on securing and promoting a fresh understanding
of how politics can serve workers. This year’s conference
examines the intersection of politics and workers in order to
understand how this relationship has developed. We welcome papers that
examine this theme broadly: looking at the ways workers participate in
politics, define political interests, create electoral alliances and
understand their place in a political system.
Please submit panel and paper proposals (including 1-2 page
abstracts and brief vitas or biographical statements for all
participants) by
April 5, 2010 to :
Professor Janine Lanza, Coordinator, North American Labor History
Conference Department of History, 3094 Faculty Administration Building
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48202
Phone: 313/577-2525; Fax: 313 577-6987;
Email:
nalhc@wayne.edu
Faxed, mailed or emailed proposals accepted.
The North American Labor History Conference is sponsored by the
Department of History, the Walter P. Reuther Library, and the College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Wayne State University.
Studies
in Social and Political Thought Annual Graduate Conference
Thursday 13 May 2010
University of Sussex Center for Literature & Philosophy, Brighton
'Utopia, Dystopia and Critical Theory'
A One-day Interdisciplinary Conference for Postgraduate and Research
Students.
Keynote Speaker: Prof Peter Osborne (Middlesex)
1st CALL FOR PAPERS
Postgraduate and Research Students as well as early career
researchers working in philosophy, social, political and/or literary
theory are invited to submit an abstract of 200 to 400 words on any
topic related to the conference theme, prepared for blind reviewing,
for a 20-minute paper to be followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Eight
papers will be selected for three themed sessions, followed by a
keynote talk.
Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication
in
Studies and Social & Political Thought, a graduate
journal published by the Center for Social and Political Theory at the
University of Sussex since 1990 (
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cspt/1-6-1.html).
The deadline for submissions is
04 April
2010. Notification of acceptance will be sent out within a week.
Abstracts or questions should be addressed to:
sspt2010@googlemail.com
Possible topics include:
- Feminist Futures
- Science Fiction, Cultural Politics and the Political Imagination
- Utopia and/or Dystopia
- Crisis (of Capitalism/Feminism/the State/Marxism/Critical Theory
etc)
- Ends (of
History/Ideology/Capitalism/Communism/Neo-Liberalism/Postcoloniality
etc)
- Immanent and Transcendent Criticism
- Environment, Catastrophe, Risk Futures (of Critical
Theory/Post-modernity/Europe/Islam/Secular Humanism/Globalisation etc)
- Infinity and Totality
- Representations of Transcendence/Utopia/Dystopia/Apocalypse
- Negative Theology
- Iconography, Idolatory and Ideology Critique
The Economic Crisis: A New Deal for the Field of
Economics?
Revue de la
Régulation, Capitalisme, Institutions, Pouvoirs
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: April 15, 2010
The European Science Foundation - Liu Conference
Paying Attention: Digital Media Cultures
and Generational Responsibility
6-10 September 2010
Scandic Linköping Vast, Linköping, Sweden
Chaired by:
- Jonathan Dovey, Digital Cultures Research Centre, University of
the West of England, UK
- Patrick Crogan, Department of Culture, Media and Drama,
University of the West of England, UK
Programme
"Paying Attention" concerns the
politics, ethics and aesthetics of the attention economy. This is the
social and technical milieu in which web native generations live much
of their lives. It will address key questions like: What architectures
of power are at work in the attention economy? How is it building new
structures of experience? What kinds of value does this architecture
produce? "Paying Attention" encourages dialogue between researchers
from the fields of Cultural and New Media Studies, Education,
Communications, Economics, Internet studies, Human Computer Interface
Studies, Art and Design. It also seeks the input and insights of
creative practitioners exploring critical and alternative uses of new
media forms and technologies.
Key themes will include:
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Education, Technique & Responsibility
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The Political Economy of Digital Experience
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Emerging forms of knowledge and value transmission
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Ethical design, trust and security
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Experiments with mediated attention and experience
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Value in the new social spaces of digital culture
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Records, archives and digital memories
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Metadata, search algorithms and politics
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Entertainment, marketing and attention technologies
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Web 2.0 : Playbour and Grammatisation
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Profiling Data Mining and Control
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Pervasive media and remediated living spaces
Conference format:
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lectures by invited high level speakers
-
short talks by young & early stage researchers
-
poster sessions, round table and open discussion periods
-
forward look panel discussion about future developments
Invited speakers will include:
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Michel Bauwens, Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives
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Ruth Catlow, Furtherfield .org Independent Net Art
collective, UK
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Jonathan Dovey, University of the West of England, UK
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Aphra Kerr, National University of Ireland Maynooth, IE
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Simon Poulter, Independent Digital Artist and
Curator, UK
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Stanza, Independent Digital Artist, UK
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Bernard Stiegler, Institut de recherche et
d’innovation, Centre Georges Pompidou, FR
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Tiziana Terranova, University of Naples, IT
To learn more about the conference, please click
here.
Conference participation is possible only after successful
application. To apply, please click here.
Deadline for application: 1 May 2010
The Crisis
of Capitalism and Its Solution: Socialism of the 21st Century
May 29-30, 2010 at Suzhou City, China
Hosted by WAPE and by International College of Renmin University of
China
Call for Papers
The World Association for Political Economy (WAPE) registered in
Hong Kong, China, with Prof. Enfu Cheng, President of Academy of
Marxism of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences as its Chair, is an
international academic organization founded on an open, non-profit, and
voluntary basis by Marxian economists and related groups around the
world. The standing body of WAPE includes the council, secretariat,
academic committee and advisory committee. The mission of WAPE is to
utilize modern Marxian economics to analyze and study the world
economy, reveal the law of development and its mechanism, and offer
policies to promote economic and social progress on the national and
global level, so as to improve the welfare of all the people in the
world. The last four WAPE forums were successively held in Shanghai,
Shimane (Japan), Beijing and Paris during 2006-2009.
The Fifth WAPE Forum, “The Crisis of Capitalism and its Solution:
Socialism of the 21st Century”, will be hosted by WAPE and by
International College of Renmin University of China on May 29-30, 2010
at Suzhou City, China. Please send your application and an abstract of
500 words before January 15, 2010. Send your paper of 6000 words on the
above topic, together with your curriculum vitae stating your
affiliation, contact information, list of publications, etc., before
March 31, 2010
*, to Prof. Xiaoqin Ding,
Deputy Secretary General of WAPE
(wape2006@gmail.com).
Official invitations will be issued when submitted papers are reviewed
and accepted.
*Editor's note: the deadline for application is extended to the end of
April.
For more details, download
Call for Papers.
Agrarian Reforms: Past and
Future
Reforms related to land ownership is a modern hope. After Philosophes,
theologians and thinkers had earlier made their own proposals for
change, political reformers then tried to implement their own specific
reforms, their objectives being however different, whether in Britain
or in Continental Europe (German and Scandinavian countries, France,
the Iberian and Italian peninsulas). At the end of the 18th century,
the French Revolution had a significant agrarian and peasant component,
as we all know. The nationalization and sale of clergy and aristocratic
land and property, which aimed at suppressing the forces hostile to the
Revolutionary process, opened the door to important land transfers as a
short-term or medium-term phenomenon, which also favorised some groups
within the peasantry.
In different ways in the 19th century, various places, including Russia
and America, were affected by issues related to land distribution and
land ownership. These two phenomena also reflected socio-economic and
political demands which within empires were often associated to the
recognition of the peoples and nations without State deprived of
self-determination and to their fight against oppression towards
liberty. The peasantry and its fight for land against large land owners
and foreign or national squires and hobereaux were thus recurrently
caught in the middle of national movements.
It was however in 1910 —one hundred years ago
only— that the concept of “agrarian reform” was for
the first time formulated and given its contemporary meaning. And with
the word, there followed its concrete political implementation, within
a victorious popular movement. It was in Mexico that the first
twentieth-century revolution took place with the development of peasant
movements and the establishment of revolutionary governments. There,
agrarian reforms reflected the fight for land ownership changes, for
labour reforms, for the transformation of the production and
redistribution of wealth, and also for state power. The slogan
“Land and liberty” which symbolized then and for several
decades Indian and Mexican peasants’ aspirations became the
touchstone of all the agrarian reforms which were then proposed and
implemented. The 20th Century knew several agrarian reforms, some being
more radical
than others, proposed either by peasant or working-class revolutionary
groups or by reformatory States (sometimes military and/or nationalist
ones) and even political projects whose programs aimed at preserving
the status quo in their current society and government in an attempt to
counteract and downplay growing revolutionary movements. This world
trend spared almost no part of the world from old Russia (now USSR),
the People’s Republic of China, Central, Eastern and Southern
Europe, India, Indochina, Latin America, and even Africa before and
after decolonization.
The History Section of the VI International Marx
Conference entitled Crisis, revolts, utopias
(
http://netx.u-paris10.fr/actuelmarx/cm6/index6.htm),
which will meet in Paris — September 22nd – 25th, 2010
— proposes a workshop to discuss these contemporary issues using
a Marxist and historical perspective. It welcomes specialists of the
study of agrarian reforms in the world. The intent is also to engage in
discussions on today’s rural reality and on human and natural
disasters taking place in rural areas which experienced several decades
of ruthless global neoliberal governance. The organizers will also
encourage debates on the future of the campaign for agrarian reforms in
its original form, one which seems more topical than ever.
Please send paper proposals (title and abstract), until 30/06/2010, to:
Pablo F. Luna (Université Paris Sorbonne):
pablo-fernando.luna@paris-sorbonne.fr
Conferences,
Seminars and Lectures
The Economics of Climate
Change
An International Conference at The
New School
Friday,
April 09, 2010 - Saturday, April 10, 2010.
8:30 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
PLACE:
Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building, 65 West 11th Street, 5th floor
(enter at 66 West 12th Street), New York City
We may
already be past the tipping point on climate change. Where do we go
after Copenhagen's failure?
For two days,
U.S. and international academics, government officials, and policy
analysts will join to study the economic issues associated with carbon
emission, climate change, and emission regulation. The conference will
offer important lessons on how to enact effective climate change policy
in light of the United States’ fragile economy and the
post-Copenhagen tensions between developed and developing countries.
The program
includes keynote speeches by Hirofumi Uzawa of Tokyo University and
Ernst Ulrich von Weizacker, former chairman of the German
Parliament’s Environmental Committee. Participants include
representatives from the European Commission and the Obama
Administration; Tariq Banuri, director of the United Nations Division
for Sustainable Development and member of the Nobel Prize-winning
Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC); Alfred Greiner of
the University of Bielefeld; Geoffrey Heal of Columbia University; and
Franz Wirl of the University of Vienna. New School faculty includes
Lopamudra Banerjee, Edward Nell and Willi Semmler from The New School
for Social Research and Michael Cohen of the Graduate Program of
International Affairs.
Sponsored
by The Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis and the Economics
Department of The New School for Social Research. The conference is
made possible by support from the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, the Alex C.
Walker Foundation and the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of
Germany New York.
Britain's economic
performance since the 1980s
The April issue of
the National Institute Economic Review will
feature articles on "Britain's economic performance since the 1980s".
This volume, which will be highly topical in the light of the
forthcoming general election, will focus on various aspects of this
economic performance. To coincide with the Review's publication we are
holding a seminar where two of the authors will present their papers.
The focus of the seminar will be a discussion of employment and skills'
policy issues over the last two decades.
Date and time:
- Wednesday 21st April 2010 from 3pm to 5pm
Venue:
- National Institute of Economic and Social Research
2 Dean Trench Street, Smith Square
London SW1P 3HE
The speakers and topics will be as follows:
- Professor Jonathan Wadsworth, Royal Holloway College, University
of London
The title is: The UK Labour Market in
Recession and Recovery
- Professor Lorna Unwin, Institute of Education
The title is: Working and Learning
under New Labour: what has happened to young people who don't go
straight into higher education?
The event is free but registration is required.
If you would like to attend the event or to receive further
information, please contact
Hallsworth Conference
Financialisation and Environment:
The Implications for Environmental Governance of the Global Financial
Crisis
15-16 April, 2010, University of Manchester
Conference announcement
This international conference aims to open up an important new
agenda of research on the implication of the financial crisis for
financialised modes of governance of environmental goods. Finance
capital has always, to some degree, played a role in environmental
management. However, over the last quarter century that role has
altered: finance has played a much more direct role in the delivery of
environmental policy in a range of issue-areas. That is, there has been
an intensification and extensification of the linkages between the
financial sector and the provision of environmental goods and services.
Whether it is the de-regulation of energy, the provision of urban
services such as water and sewerage, or the restoration of wetland
habitats, the rate, extent and conditions under which environmental
goods and services are made available have been increasingly tied to
the circulation and expansion of money capital in its various forms.
Marketised modes of governance in areas such as CO2 emissions have been
increasingly linked to financial markets. The environment, in short,
has been one of the primary arenas through which
‘financialisation’ – that is, the expansion of
financial products and services into whole new domains – has
played out in the last decade or so.
The current financial crisis has brought these new modes of
governance into question. The finance sector is currently under close
scrutiny, within and without, heralding a period of regulatory reform
within the sector as we look ahead. We are currently experiencing a
moment of profound questioning about the financial sector, a
questioning that has both an empirical component – how does it
work, how can it be reformed – and a normative one – who
should the finance sector be for? Those questions have particular
relevance for a variety of different sectors and services.
The conference will examine the promiscuity of
finance (its capacity to enter a whole range of areas of environmental
governance), and also the variable extent to which finance dominates
over other concerns. In other words, we have a range of natural
experiments in leaving the provision of environmental goods and
services to the ‘logics’ money capital. The conference will
open up a new research agenda that has been under-explored. To date,
ecological modernisation has focused on production processes and, to a
lesser extent, on consumption: it has not thematised finance capital.
At the same time the literature on finance and financialisation has not
paid much attention to environment, except perhaps in regard to
thinking about the blockages/obstacles to financialisation. The
questions the conference will address include the following:
-
How, to what extent and in what ways has money capital has
come to drive environmental outcomes in different economic and social
sectors?
-
What are the implications of financial crisis for these modes
of market-led environmental governance?
-
What role can and should the financial sector play in the
provision of environmental goods?
-
What are the implications for global justice and
environmental sustainability of different financial regimes in
environmental governance?
Confirmed speakers at the conference include:
Ulrich Brand (University of
Vienna), Patrick Bond (Centre for Civil Society, Durban), Larry Lohmann
(Cornerhouse), Joan Martínez Alier (Autonomous University of
Barcelona), Sam Randalls (University College London), Leonardo
Sakamoto (Member of Brazilian Comission for the Eradication of Slave
Labour and NGO Repórter Brasil), Christian Zeller
(University of Salzburg)
The conference is hosted by the Political Economy Institute and
Society and Environment Research Group at Manchester University
Conference convenors
John O’Neill and Erik Swyngedouw
The Hallsworth conference has been planned to coincide with
another major interenational conference at Manchester on the
related theme Finance In Question/Finance In Crisis. This conference
has been organised by the ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural
Change (CRESC) and will take place between 12-14 April 2010. Details of
this conference can be found on
the CRESC website
Download
Poster.
London
Critical Theory Summer School
The Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities is organising this summer
the first London Critical Theory Summer School. The general theme this
year is 'Critical Theory and the Political'. This will be a unique
opportunity for graduate students and academics to follow a course of
study with internationally renowned critical thinkers. The aim of the
course is to foster exchange and debate and will consist of at least 6
modules over the two weeks, each convened by one of the participating
academics. This course will not offer transfer of credits.
Participating Academics will include:
Etienne Balibar, Drucilla Cornell,
Costas Douzinas , Stephen Frosh, Esther Leslie, Jacqueline Rose &
Slavoj Zizek. Special events will features lectures by Jean-Luc Nancy
and Alain Badiou (tbc).
Please disseminate the information to all interested lists and
people.
Information & application details: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/bih/lcts/
or email Julia Eisner j.eisner@bbk.ac.uk
May Day 2010 Conference
A Century+ of May Days: Labor and Social
Struggles International Conference
April 30 -May 2, 2010
Chicago. DePaul University.
Register at the Conference website: www.mayday2010.info
During May Day Weekend 2010, there will be an international gathering
with people from around the world – Berlin, Tokyo, Copenhagen,
Iran, Glasgow, Paris, Venezuela, London, Toronto, Vienna, Stuttgart,
Brazil, Pakistan, Sweden and beyond. From young activists to a
Japanese survivor of the A-bomb and a German anti-fascist who has long
outlived Hitler. We will discuss labor and social
struggles—both local and global. Conference
participants will be able to take part in
the May Day rally organized by the Chicago Federation of Labor &
Illinois Labor History Society . . . and a labor history bus tour on
Saturday, May 1st.
Contact: mayday1890.2010@gmail.com
PEF at the
CEA 2010
PEF sessions at the Canadian Economics Association meetings
Quebec City, Canada. May 28-30
Friday, 09:00 - 10:30
PEF I: Was Financialization Rational for Capital?
Organizer: Robert Chernomas (U. of Manitoba)
- Fletcher Baragar, Why Financialization, Why Now?
- Robert Chernomas, From Growth Stagnation to Financial Crisis: A
Missing Link in Mainstream Theory
- Mara Fridell & Mark Hudson, Financialization, Enabling
Policy, and Elite Policy Networks in the USA
- John Loxley, The Financialization Crisis and Sovereign Debt
Friday, 11:00 - 12:30
PEF II: Canada's Economic Security and the Great Recession: What
Have We Learned?
Organizer: Andrew Jackson (CLC)
- Andrew Jackson, Employment Insurance
- Armine Yalnizyan, Rethinking Economic Security
- John Stapleton, Social Assistance
- Nick Falvo, The Great Recession's Impact on Homelessness
Friday, 14:30 - 16:00
PEF III: Panel - Is There a Market Fundamentalist Message in the
Introductory Textbooks?
Organizers: Rod Hill (UNB) and Tony Myatt (UNB)
- Rod Hill (UNB) and Tony Myatt (UNB)
- Avi Cohen (York)
- Mel Cross (Dalhousie) and Brian MacLean (Laurentian), "To Be
Determined"
- Marc Lavoie (U. Ottawa) and Mario Seccareccia (U. Ottawa),
"Perspective on the Hill-Myatt Book from our Experience with the
Baumol/Blinder Project"
- Chris Ragan (McGill)
Friday, 16:30 - 18:00
PEF/URPE IV: Labour in a time of crisis, comparing experiences
and prospects in Canada and the US.
Organizer: Mathieu Dufour
- Michael Lynk (Faculty of Law, University of Western Ontario),
âHydraulic Relationships: Labour Law and Economic Inequality
- Armine Yalnyzian (CCPA), Transformers: Recession's Impacts on
Canada's Labour Market
- Mike Hillard (University of Maine), Class Politics and American
Employer Exceptionalism: Why is the U.S. So Conservative?
- Jeannette Wicks-Lim (Political Economy Research Institute), U.S.
Policy Considerations to Guarantee Workers a Decent Standard of Living
Friday, 18:30-20:30, PEF Social
Location TBD
Saturday, 09:00-10:30
PEF/CSLS V: Perspectives on Happiness in Canada and the United
States
Organizers: Andrew Sharpe (CSLS) and Chris Barrington-Leigh (UBC)
Chair: Ian Stewart (CSLS)
- Andrew Sharpe (CSLS), Ali Akbar Ghanghro (CSLS) and Anam Kidwai
(Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity), Explaining in Happiness
in Canada: New Results from the 2007-2008 Canadian Community Health
Survey
- Chris Barrington-Leigh (University of British Columbia),
Canadian Life Satisfaction Over Time
- Richard Florida (University of Toronto), Charlotta Mellander
(University of Toronto) and Kevin Stolarick (University of Toronto),
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now: The Effects of Community Satisfaction
on the Decision to Stay or Move"
- Discussant: John Helliwell (University of British Columbia)
Saturday, 11:00 - 12:30
PEF VI: Integrating Climate and Industrial Policies
Organizer: Marc Lee, CCPA
Chair: Marc Lee, CCPA
- Marc Lee, CCPA, "So What is a Green Job Anyway?"
- Ken Carlaw, UBC-Okanagan, "Industrial Policy Lessons for Climate
Mitigation Strategies"
- Erin Weir, Steelworkers, "The Case for Carbon Tariffs"
- Brendan Haley, “From Staples Trap to Carbon
Trapâ€
Saturday, 12:30 - 14:30
PEF AGM (lunch provided)
Saturday, 14:30 - 16:00
PEF VII: TITLE: "Canadian Public Finances and Monetary Policy:
Sound Finance or Functional Finance"
Organizer: Mario Seccareccia (University of Ottawa)
Chair: Marc Lavoie (University of Ottawa)
- Andrew Jackson (Canadian Labour Congress, Ottawa), Reflections
on Canadian Fiscal and Monetary Policy during the Great Recession
- Keith Newman (Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union of
Canada, CEP, Ottawa), Do Taxes and Bonds Pay for Government
Expenditures
- Mario Seccareccia (University of Ottawa), Is Functional Finance
Sound Long-Term Policy or Is There a Need for an Exit Strategy to
Ensure Balanced Budgets?
Saturday, 16:30 - 18:00
- J.K. Galbraith Lecture / John Loxley
Natural Resources and
Sustainability
City University London – Research Half-Day Event
Thursday 29 April 2010, 2.00 – 4.00 PM
Convocation Suite, Northampton Square, City University London,
London EC1V 0HB
This research half day continues a tradition of cross-University
events, intended to provide an opportunity for academic and research
staff and research students who work or are interested in these areas
to come together:
- Raise the profile of work on natural resources and
sustainability across the University;
- Share research findings, current and proposed work with
colleagues;
- Encourage possibilities for forging multi-disciplinary
relationships and collaborations around these issues through a variety
of research-related initiatives and activities.
PROGRAMME
All staff and research students are welcome to attend –
please do draw this to the attention of any of your colleagues or
research students who might be interested in coming along. If you wish
to attend, please email Anna Ramberg (
Anna.Ramberg.1@city.ac.uk) by
Friday 23 April 2010 to register your name.
The event is being coordinated by Professor Martin Caraher
(Centre for Food Policy), Professor Lorna Woods (The City Law School),
Professor ManMohan Sodhi (Cass), Jo Bradford and Anna Ramberg (CRIDO).
Richard Seymour on 'Racism
in Britain Today'
International Socialism journal seminar
6.30pm, Friday 26 March, School of
Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, WC1H
0GX
Richard Seymour, author of The Liberal Defence of Murder and the
'lenin's tomb' blog presents the latest in our series of seminars.
The electoral success of the fascist British National Party and
the emergence of the English Defence League has forced activists in
Britain to look again at the issue of racism. Cultural racism and
Islamophobia seem to supplant traditional racist ideas based on
biology—but what is behind this shift and just how novel is it?
Richard Seymour argues that the rise in racism in Britain is driven to
a considerable extent by government policies and media reaction, both
liberal and conservative.
A topical debate Roger
Bootle and Martin Weale
Wednesday 5th May 2010 from 12am to 2pm
National Audit Office. 157-197 Buckingham Palace Road. London SW1W 9SP
"The economic cases for early, and for later
fiscal tightening"
The speakers are:
- Dr Martin Weale, CBE, Director, NIESR
- Roger Bootle, Managing Director, Capital Economics Ltd.
The event is free but registration is required.
If you would like to attend the event or to receive further
information, please contact Pat Shaw by email:
p.shaw@niesr.ac.uk
mailto:p.shaw@niesr.ac.ukor
phone: 020 7654 1905.
Food poverty and inequality:
The growth of hunger in the UK
Thursday 13 May 2010
Oliver Thompson Lecture Theatre, City University London, Northampton
Square, EC1V 0HB
Speaker: Professor Martin Caraher, Professor of Food and Health Policy,
City University London
Chair: Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, City University London
Find details at
http://www.city.ac.uk/whatson/2010/5-may/caraher_130510.html
L’ingénierie
financière et la crise : le contournement des règles par
l’innovation
Avec Dominique Plihon
Professeur d’économie financière à
l’Université Paris XIII, directeur de l’école
doctorale Erasme en sciences humaines et sociales, président du
conseil scientifique d’Attac
Mardi 30 mars 2010, de 18h à 20h
salle du conseil de Plaine Commune
21, avenue Jules-Rimet 93218 Saint-Denis,
en face du Stade de France
Discussion animée par Michel Porchet Maison des Sciences de
l'Homme Paris Nord
Résumé de l’intervention
Les innovations financières ont joué un rôle
central dans le déclenchement et la propagation de la crise
subprime à l'ensemble du système financier international.
C'est en particulier le cas de la titrisation par les banques
américaines des créances immobilières
détenues sur les ménages. Cette innovation a permis aux
grandes banques d'investissement américaines (Lehman Brthers,
Goldman & Sax) de monter des produits complexes, peu transparents
qui sont ensuite devenus des produits "toxiques" dans un grand nombre
d'institutions bancaires et financières, notamment en Europe et
en France (Natixis par exemple). Ces innovations ont contribué
à la crise pour plusieurs raisons : elles ont poussé les
banques à des prises de risque excessif, et elles ont
été utilisées pour contourner la
réglementation et le contrôle des autorités de
tutelle.
On montrera que cette situation n'est pas originale. L'histoire
récente montre, en effet, que l'un des moteurs principaux de
l'innovation financière a souvent été
d'échapper à la réglementation. D'où une
course poursuite permanente entre le régulateur et le financier,
ce dernier étant souvent plus rapide que le premier... Les
évènements récents illustrent ce
phénomène.
For more information, visit:
http://www.mshparisnord.org/mardis/mardis2.htm
XII Congreso De La Sociedad
Latinoamericana De Estudios Sobre America Latina Y Del Caribe (Solar)
El Instituto De Estudios Latinoamericanos Tiene El Agrado De Invitarles
A Participar En El XII Congreso De La Sociedad Latinoamericana De
Estudios Sobre America Latina Y Del Caribe (Solar)
Mas Informacion:
www.una.ac.cr/idela | o 2562-4057
/4058 con Charleene Cortez y Francisco Robles
Inscripciones
- Escribir correo a esta dirección electrónica
solar@una.ac.cr,
se les enviará el formulario de inscripción a vuelta de
correo con las instrucciones
________________________________________________________
Ii Convocatoria
Tema Central
- Centroamérica mirando al sur y al norte de Nuestra
América
- Construyendo el siglo XXI en el Bicentenario de la Independencia
Sub Temas
- América Latina y el Bicentenario de su independencia
- La revolución mexicana y su impacto en América
Latina
- Historia y ambiente, nuevas perspectivas historiográficas
y científicas
- Historia de las ideas e historia intelectual. Balance y
perspectivas
- Derechos Humanos y derechos alternativos
- Cuestiones Globales y estudios coloniales, culturales,
subalternos y de genero
- Nuevos actores políticos y movimientos sociales
- Las manifestaciones culturales en sus distintas expresiones
(arte, literatura, prensa revistas y proyectos editoriales)
- Las cartografías del conocimiento en América
Latina. Nuevas perspectivas
- La heterogeneidad cultural en América Latina
- Globalización y economía
- Democracia y participación ciudadana
- Relaciones interlatinoamericanas y de la región con el
mundo
Fechas
- Los interesados en organizar simposios o mesa redonda
deberán registrarse entes del 30 de agosto con el tema
específico dentro del temario de la convocatoria, enviando
además un breve currículo vital de 20 renglones del
organizador.
Normas De Las Participaciones
- Las participaciones no excederán de 15 cuartillas
- Se presentarán en letra arial 12
- Se podrán presentar en español portugués
francés e ingles.
CONTACTOS
Job Postings for Heterodox
Economist
Saint
Peter’s College
The
Department of Economics and Finance at Saint Peter’s College
invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant
Professor level, beginning in the Fall of 2010. Candidates for the
position should preferably have already earned a Ph.D. in economics or
are near completion of such a degree. Preferred areas of
specialization are economic development, environmental economics or
health economics. Teaching experience is required. The
teaching load is 4/4 and will include statistics, economic development
and poverty and inequality.
Saint Peter’s College is a liberal arts college with a
demonstrated commitment to diversity. EOE.
Candidates should send a letter of application, curriculum vitae,
graduate transcript, three letters of recommendation, a teaching
statement, a research statement, and teaching evaluations to Dr. Edwin
Dickens, Chair, Department of Economics and Finance, Saint
Peter’s College, 2641 Kennedy Boulevard, Jersey City, NJ 07306,
USA.
University
of Minnesota-Morris
Temporary
Position in Economics (subject to final approval)
One-year temporary position (with the possibility
of renewal) in Economics is available at the University of
Minnesota-Morris, beginning in August, 2010. We are particularly
interested in candidates with expertise to teach in the following
areas: Money & Banking, Macroeconomic Theory, and Principles of
Macroeconomics. Additional courses may include electives in areas of
mutual interest to the candidate and UMM. Required qualifications
are: A.B.D in Economic or
related field (hiring will be at the Teaching
Specialist level); Ph.D. preferred (Lecturer level). Annual
teaching load is 6 courses.
The University of Minnesota, Morris (UMM) is one
of the top public liberal arts colleges in the nation. As one of five
campuses of the University of Minnesota, UMM has a unique mission and
offers the best of both in the world of higher education--a small,
close-knit campus complemented by the power of a world-renowned
research University system. UMM is located 160 miles WNW of Minneapolis
in a small (5,000) rural community. Our student body is diverse
(19% students of color) and academically well-prepared, with 55%
earning an ACT comprehensive score of 25 or higher and over 50% drawn
from the top 20% of their high school classes. Our current
faculty have received 18 of the University system’s highest
teaching award and are very active in research and publication.
To learn more about the University of Minnesota, Morris visit our
website at http://www.morris.umn.edu. To
learn more about the Economics/Management department visit http://www.morris.umn.edu/academic/Economics-Management/
Apply on-line at the University of Minnesota
online Employment System at http://employment.umn.edu
. Also, please send via regular mail a coverletter, evidence of
teaching effectiveness, curriculum vitae, graduate transcript, and at
least 2 letters of reference to:
Economics Search Committee Chair
Division of Social Sciences
University of Minnesota, Morris
600 E. 4th St.
Morris, MN 56267.
Position open until filled; applications received
by April 15th will receive full consideration. For other
communications, please contact Prof. Stephen Burks at: svburks@morris.umn.edu or
320-589-6191, Fax: 320-589-6117.
The University of Minnesota is an equal
opportunity educator and employer. We are committed to the policy
that all persons shall have equal access to its programs, facilities,
and employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national
origin, sex, age, marital status, disability, public assistance status,
veteran status, or sexual orientation. To request disability
accommodations, please contact Sarah Mattson at 320-589-6021.
University
of Greenwich Business School
Lectureships
in Economic Sociology
As part of our on-going development strategy, the
University of Greenwich Business School is seeking Lecturers to join
the Department of International Business, which provides a range of
successful undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the fields of
International Business and Applied Economics. The School, based in the
Old Royal Naval College at Greenwich, has a strong commitment to
widening participation, diversity and internationalism and this is
reflected in our staff and student profiles. The Department is ranked
top in the UK for Economics in the latest National Student Satisfaction
Survey and 2/3 of our research was rated world class or world leading
in the last Research Assessment Exercise.
We are seeking an academic capable of conducting
quality research and lecturing on programmes in any area of Economic
Sociology but able to contribute to the Centre for Business Network
Analysis. The role will involve teaching at undergraduate and
postgraduate level and conducting quality research in a relevant
discipline. You may also be involved in developing new part time and
flexible learning courses in your area of teaching and research
specialism.
Salary Scale: £33,128 - £37,882 per annum inclusive.
We aim to be an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications
from all sections of the community. Further particulars for this post
can be downloaded by following the links as indicated or by writing to
the following address:
Personnel Office
University of Greenwich
Avery Hill Road
London
SE9 2UG Email:
Jobs@gre.ac.uk
Closing
Date: Friday 23 April 2010 at 5.00 pm
For more information, visit: http://www.gre.ac.uk/recruitment/1509g7/job-reference-1509g7
New
Economics Foundation
Chief Economist
~£46k p.a.
As the world struggles to recover from the most severe and
synchronised downturn since the Great Depression, the reputation of
economists has rarely been lower. For many, economics was a big part of
the problem and so cannot be part of any solution.
We disagree. Never has economics been more important. The
challenges we face – from climate change to deep-seated poverty
and inequality – are huge. They simply cannot be addressed
without rigorous and radical new thinking in economics, which draws
upon the resources of orthodox and heterodox approaches, and also
learns from other disciplines.
The successful candidate for this exciting position will be
responsible for taking forward nef’s ambitious project on the
macroeconomics of sustainability, combining modelling work with the
establishment of a network of like-minded practitioners, within the UK
and beyond. The Chief Economist will build and integrate technical
expertise within nef, developing and overseeing our work on economics
and contributing to projects across all our programme areas.
You will have a deep understanding of economic theory and
practice, extensive experience as a practicing economist, excellent
quantitative and analytical skills, and an extensive network of
contacts that you can draw upon.
A commitment to our values is essential and a sense of humour
most welcome.
- Deadline for applications: 6th April 2010
- Interviews: Wednesday, 14th April 2010
International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
For our
headquarters in Brussels, we are looking for a full time SENIOR
ECONOMIST
whose main tasks will be :
-
Drafting ITUC policy statements;
-
Representing the ITUC at international
meetings and seminars;
-
Monitoring developments and
preparation of reports on various aspects of the world economy,
particularly international trade, finance and sustainable development;
-
Organisation and development of
relevant campaigns, including liaison within the ITUC and with regional
organisations and other Global Unions members;
-
Contacts with affiliates and lobbying
governments, international organisations and NGOs;
-
Organisation, budgeting and servicing
of meetings;
-
Occasional lecturing on ITUC policy
proposals;
-
Assisting and, where necessary,
substituting for the director of the ITUC Economic and Social Policy
Department.
Qualifications
required are:
- Ability to prepare policy papers and statements and to organise
and service meetings;
- Experience in economic policy work, particularly trade, finance
and development economics;
- Relevant academic qualifications;
- Knowledge of the trade union movement an asset.
- Fluency in English, including strong writing skills; knowledge
of French, Spanish or other languages desirable;
- Experience at international meetings;
- Information technology skills.
We offer an
attractive salary and important extra-legal benefits.
Our organisation is an Equal Opportunity Employer and, when qualified,
encourages women, candidates from developing countries and members of
discriminated minorities to apply.
Applications should be sent, together with CV, before 31 March 2010, to
the ITUC, Carine Verstichel, 5 Boulevard Roi Albert II, box 1
1210 Brussels
tel: 02/224.03.05 “ carine.verstichel@ituc-csi.org
The Bureau
of Economics of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission
1. Full-time Economic Research Analysts
The Bureau of Economics of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has
openings for full-time economic research analysts to assist our Ph.D.
economists in antitrust and consumer protection investigations. We are
looking for detail-oriented, highly motivated individuals interested in
economics, math, or statistics. Applicants should have recently
graduated or expect to graduate soon with a GPA of 3.0 or higher.
We also hire research analysts with masters level training. More
information about our research analyst program, as well as instructions
for applying can be found at http://www.ftc.gov/be/researchanalystprogram.shtm.
2. Summer Economic Interns
We also have openings for paid summer economic interns. Summer intern
applicants must be current students, either undergraduate or
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unofficial transcript and resume to aaron Wilder at awilder@ftc.gov
before April 9th.
The positions are located in Washington,
DC. U.S. citizenship is required. Please forward this
announcement to any interested qualified student.
Conference Papers, Reports,
and Articles
Development
Viewpoint
IIPPE Financialization Working Paper Series
The IIPPE Financialization Group is pleased to announce its Working
Paper Series on political economy and heterodox research in finance.
This working paper series aims at offering PHD students and young
researchers the possibility to have their papers reviewed by two
academics who are working in their field of research. Submission of
work on all aspects of heterodoxy and finance is encouraged, with a
special but not exclusive focus on developing and emerging countries.
Upon submission, the paper will be assessed by
two referees, one senior and one junior academic, according to the
topic of research at hand. If the paper is accepted, it will be –
after necessary revisions - published as IIPPE Financialization Working
Paper Series. This process should give young researchers the chance to
get feedback on their work in addition to their supervisor’s and
make their workavailable to a broader audience.
Confirmed senior academics currently include Ben Fine, Victoria
Chick, Tom Marois, Alfredo Saad Filho, Jan Toporowski , Alessandro
Vercelli etc… . This broad range of people should allow an
efficient matching of the paper and the expertise of the selected
referee.
If you are interested in submitting your paper, please send to ak82@soas.ac.uk and jm60@soas.ac.uk.
Existing IIPPE Financialization Working Papers
include papers on the political economy of central banks in emerging
markets, the problem of currency substitution and a critical analysis
of the transformation of the Turkish financial sector. A complete list
can be found under:
http://www.iippe.org/wiki/Financialisation_Working_Group
RMF
Report on the Eurozone Crisis: Beggar Thyself and Thy Neighbour
C. Lapavitsas, A. Kaltenbrunner, D. Lindo, J. Michell, J.P.
Painceira, E. Pires, J. Powell, A. Stenfors, N. Teles
Economists of the group
Research on Money and Finance
(RMF) at SOAS, University of London, coordinated by Prof. Costas
Lapavitsas, have produced a report on the current crisis titled
"Eurozone Crisis: Beggar Thyself and Thy Neighbour?. The report claims
that the current public debt crisis of peripheral eurozone countries
(Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain) is related to persistent
German current account surpluses. RMF proposes either structural reform
of European Monetary Union, or exit from the eurozone.
For Media Coverage of the Report see
The
Guardian (by Larry Elliott, Monday 15 March 2010).
Heterodox Journals and
Newsletters
American Journal of
Economics and Sociology, 69(2)
Journal website:
http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0002-9246&site=1
- The New Economic Sociology of Prices: An Analysis Inspired by
the Austrian School of Economics / Renaud Fillieule
- Language Nuances and Socioeconomic Outcomes / Alberto Chong,
Jorge Guillen, Vanessa Rios
- School Kids and Oil Rigs: Two More Pieces of the Post-Katrina
Puzzle in New Orleans / Kelly Frailing, Dee Wood Harper, Jr.
- Racial Fractionalization and School Performance / Joshua C.
Hall, Peter T. Leeson
- Is There a Natural Rate of Crime? / Paresh Kumar Narayan, Ingrid
Nielsen, Russell Smyth
- Health Perception and Health Care Access: Sex Differences in
Behaviors and Attitudes / Marta Gil-Lacruz, Ana I. Gil-Lacruz
- Motives for Intergenerational Transfers: New Test for Exchange /
Jingshu Wang
- Intrinsic Motivation and the Logic of Collective Action: The
Impact of Selective Incentives / Andreas P. Kyriacou
- From W. N. Hohfeld to J. R. Commons, and Beyond? A "Law and
Economics" Enquiry on Jural Relations / Massimiliano Vatiero
- In Defense of Counterfeiting Illegitimate Money: Rejoinder to
Murphy and Machaj / Walter E. Block
Book Review
- The Predatory State by James Kenneth Galbraith: 2008, Free Press
Publishers, 240 pages, $25 / D. W. MacKenzie
Challenge,
53(2):March-April 2010
Journal website:
http://www.mesharpe.com/mall/results1.asp?ACR=CHA
- Letter from the Editor / Jeff Madrick
- The Monetary Explanation of the Crisis and the Ongoing Threat to
the Global Economy / Jane D'Arista, Korkut Erturk
- Where Are the New Markets? / Davide Gualerzi, Edward Nell
- The $1 Trillion Wage Deficit / John Schmitt, Dean Baker
- The Sydney Insurrection: The Battle for Economics at the
University of Sydney / Gavan Butler
- The Need for Ideological Consciousness / George Lodge
- How Much Do Presidents Influence Income Inequality? / Lane
Kenworthy
- On Paul Samuelson / Robert Solow
- The Freefall That Isn't Free: A review of Freefall: America,
Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy, by Joseph E.
Stiglitz. New York: W.W. Norton, 2010 / Mike Sharpe
Erasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 3(1)
Journal website (free to access): http://ejpe.org
Articles
- Adam Smith and the contemporary world / Amartya Sen
- Debreu's apologies for mathematical economics after 1983 / Till
Düppe
- Uncertainty and identity: a post Keynesian approach / John B.
Davis
Special contribution:
- Ethics, economics, and markets: an interview with Debra Satz
Book reviews:
- Madhavi Sunder on Gosseries, Marciano & Strowel (eds)
"Intellectual property and theories of justice"
- John Groenewegen on Aligica & Boettke's "Challenging
institutional analysis and development: the Bloomington School"
- Chad Flanders on Dennis Rasmussen's "The problems and promise of
commercial society: Adam Smith's response to Rousseau"
- John Gerring on Julian Reiss's "Error in economics: towards a
more evidence-based methodology"
- Frank Hindriks on Russell Hardin's "How do you know?: the
economics of ordinary knowledge"
- Valentin Cojanu on Geoffrey Hodgson (ed) "Darwinism and
economics"
Recent PhD thesis summaries:
- The usefulness of truth: an enquiry concerning economic
modelling / Simon Deichsel
- Intellectual paths and pathologies: how small events in
scholarly life accidentally grow big / Altug Yalçintas
- Diversity and economics / Carlo D’Ippoliti
- An evolutionary approach on knowledge coordination and theories
of mind / Chiara Chelini
- The phenomenology of economics: life-world, formalism, and the
invisible hand / Till Düppe
- Sensemaking in economics: economic activity from a
social-philosophical perspective / Ekaterina Svetlova
Call for papers
- EJPE welcomes academic articles in the field of philosophy and
economics. See http://ejpe.org for details of the
submission process and criteria.
Journal of
Economic Methodology, 17(1)
Special Issue: Papers from the 2008 Madrid Conference of the
International Network for Economic Method
Introduction / Uskali Mäki
Articles
- Methodology in action/ Roger E. Backhouse
- On the surprising finding that expected utility is literally
computed in the brain / Jack Vromen
- The division of labour in science: the tradeoff between
specialisation and diversity / Rogier De Langhe
- Econometric reduction theory and philosophy / Genaro Sucarrat
Book Reviews
- The Invisible Hand viewed and reviewed / Edna
Ullmann-Margalit
- Comparative process tracing: yet another virtue of mechanisms? /
Federica Russo
- Why economic modelers can't exclude psychological processing
variables / Don Ross
International
Review of Applied Economics, 24(2)
Journal website:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02692171.asp
- Monetary and banking policy transmission through interest rates:
an empirical application to the USA, Canada, the UK and the Eurozone /
Yannis Panagopoulos; Ioanna Reziti; Aristotelis Spiliotis
- A note on productivity change in European cooperative banks: the
Luenberger indicator approach / Carlos Pestana Barros; Nicolas Peypoch;
Jonathan Williams
- The impact of more complex family structure upon marital
earnings premiums / Reed Neil Olsen
- Does industrial concentration impact on the relationship between
policies and volatility? / Winston Moore; Carlon Walkes
- Are PPP tests erratically behaved? Some panel evidence /
Guglielmo Maria Caporale; Christoph Hanck
-
- Sun, sand and September 11: a model of tourism demand for the
Maldives / Yusuf Riza; Alan King
- Financial openness and capital mobility: a dynamic panel
analysis / Javed Younas; Boaz Nandwa
Metroeconomica,
61(2): May 2010
Journal website:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118503116/home
- A Simple Model of Keynesian Unemployment / Tetsuya Nakajima
- Is Labour Market Flexibility Desirable or Harmful? A Further
Dynamic Perspective / Luciano Fanti, Piero Manfredi
- Productivity Accounting Based On Production Prices / Matteo
Degasperi, Thomas Fredholm
- Durability Choice And The Piracy For Profit Of Goods / Gregory
E. Goering
- Shareholder Value Orientation, Distribution And
Growth—Short- And Medium-Run Effects In A Kaleckian Model /
Eckhard Hein
- Endogenous Adaptive Dynamics in Pasinetti Model of Structural
Change / Antonio D'Agata
- The Pattern Of Knowledge Flows Between Technology Fields / Mauro
Caminati, Arsenio Stabile
- A Schumpeterian Growth Model With Equilibrium Unemployment /
Carmelo Pierpaolo Parello
real-world
economics review, 52: March 2010
Racism and Economics
The GFC
Whither
economics? What do we tell the students? / Peter Radford
Rethinking
Marxism, 22(2)
Journal website:
http://rethinkingmarxism.org
Symposium: Crisis of Capitalism
- Resnick, Stephen, & Richard Wolff. The Economic
Crisis: A Marxian Interpretation.
- Martin, Randy. What's in It for Us?
- Brennan, David. The Bull-of-Last-Resort: How the U.S.
Economy Capitalizes on Nationalism.
- Shear, Boone. The Green Economy: Grounds for a New Revolutionary
Imaginary?
- Callari, Antonio. 2008: A New Chapter for U.S.
Imperialism.
- Baldauf, Anette. Betting the House.
- Rich, Damon, & Larissa Harris. Mortgage Stakeholders, 2008.
- Barker, Drucilla K., & Susan F. Feiner. As the World Turns:
Globalization, Consumption, and the Feminization of Work.
- Fraad, Harriet. Collaborators in Crisis.
- Bair, Asatar. Tragedy and Farce in the Second Great Depression:
A Marxian Look at the Panic of 2008 and Its Aftermath.
Science & Society,
74(3): July 2010
Special Issue
Symposium: Capitalism and Crisis in the 21st Century
Guest Editors: Justin Holt and Julio Huato
Editorial Perspectives: Economic Crisis, Logorrheia, and the
Enduring Marxist Vision
- Introduction / Justin Holt and Julio Huato
- The End of the “End of History”: The Structural
Crisis of Capitalism and the Fate of
- Humanity / Minqi Li
- Marxism, Crisis Theory and the Crisis of the Early 21st Century
/ William K. Tabb
- Neoliberalism, the Rate of Profit and the Rateof Accumulation /
Ergodan Bakir and Al Campbell
- Credit Crunch: Origins and Orientation / Paul Cockshott and Dave
Zachariah
- The Final Conflict: What Can Cause a System-Threatening Crisis
of Capitalism? / David M. Kotz
- Capitalism, Crisis, Renewal: Some Conceptual / Excavations David
Laibman
- The World Economic Crisis and Transnational Corporations / Jerry
Harris
- Marx and the Mixed Economy: Money, Accumulation, and the Role of
the State / Ann Davis
- Rising Profitability and the Middle-Class Squeeze / Edward N.
Wolff
Socio-Economic Review, 8(2):
April 2010
Journal website:
http://ser.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol8/issue2/index.dtl
Articles
- Fritz W. Scharpf / The asymmetry of European integration, or why
the EU cannot be a social market economy
- Hyeok Yong Kwon and Jonas Pontusson / Globalization, labour
power and partisan politics revisited
- Henning Finseraas / What if Robin Hood is a social conservative?
How the political response to increasing inequality depends on party
polarization
- Steve McDonald / Right place, right time: serendipity and
informal job matching
- Andrea M. Herrmann / How macro-level sampling affects
micro-level arguments: a rejoinder to Steven Casper
Discussion Forum I
- Lucio Baccaro, Robert Boyer, Colin Crouch, Marino Regini, Paul
Marginson, Richard Hyman, Rebecca Gumbrell-McCormick, and Ruth Milkman
/ Labour and the global financial crisis
Discussion Forum II
- Amitai Etzioni, Michael J. Piore, and Wolfgang Streeck /
Behavioural economics
Review Symposium
- Geoffrey M. Hodgson and Geoffrey Ingham / Donald MacKenzie, An
Engine Not a Camera: How Financial Models Shape Markets. Cambridge,
MA, and London, MIT Press, 2006; Material Markets: How Economic Agents
are Constructed. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009
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- BEYOND THE CRISIS: First International Conference in Political
Economy, Crete, 10-12 September 2010
- TAKING POLITICAL ECONOMY FORWARD IN FRANCE: Launch of the French
Association of Political Economy
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Series
Bonfire of Illusions : The
twin crises of the liberal world
By Alex Callinicos
Polity. Mar 2010 . 144 pp. ISBN 9780745648750
Something dramatic happened in the late summer and autumn of
2008. The post-Cold War world came to an abrupt end. This was the
result of two conjoined crises. First, in its brief war with Georgia in
August 2008, Russia asserted its military power to halt the expansion
of NATO to its very borders. Secondly, on 15 September 2008 the Wall
Street investment bank Lehman Brothers collapsed. This precipitated a
severe financial crash and helped to push the world economy into the
worst slump since the 1930s.
Both crises marked a severe setback for the
global power of the United States, which had driven NATO expansion and
forced through the liberalization of financial markets. More broadly
they challenged the consensus that had reigned since the collapse of
the Soviet bloc in 1989 that a US-orchestrated liberal capitalist order
could offer the world peace and prosperity. Already badly damaged by
the Iraq debacle, this consensus has now suffered potentially fatal
blows.
In Bonfire of Illusions Alex
Callinicos explores these twin crises. He traces the credit crunch that
developed in 2007-8 to a much more protracted crisis of
overaccumulation and profitability that has gripped global capitalism
since the late 1960s. He also confronts the interaction between
economic and geopolitical events, highlighting the new assertiveness of
nation-states and analysing the tense, complex relationship of
interdependence and conflict that binds together the US and China.
Finally, in response to the revelation that the market is not the
solution to the world's problems, Callinicos reviews the prospects for
alternatives to capitalism.
For more information, visit publisher website: http://www.polity.co.uk/book.asp?ref=9780745648750
Contemporary
Capitalism and Its Crises: Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for
the 21st Century
Edited by
Terrence McDonough, Michael Reich, and David M. Kotz
Cambridge
University Press, 2010. $32.99 (paperback)
The book has
entries about new developments in SSA theory, globalization and the
contemporary SSA, the contemporary SSA in the USA, and applications of
SSA theory to South Africa, Mexico, and the Arab world. A number of the
chapters offer analysis of the current financial/economic crisis. In
addition to the co-editors, contributors include Robert Boyer, David
Brady, Susan Carlson, Michael Gillespie, James Heintz, Victor Lippit,
Raymond Michalowski, Emlyn Nardone, Karen Pfeifer, Samuel Rosenberg,
Carlos Salas, William Tabb, Michael Wallace, and Martin Wolfson.
Currencies, Capital Flows and Crises: A post Keynesian
analysis of exchange rate determination
by John Harvey
Routledge, January 13, 2009. ISBN-10: 0415777631 | ISBN-13:
978-0415777636. 176 pp.
Paperback edition is available in April.
Breaking from conventional wisdom,
this book provides an explanation of exchange rates based on the
premise that it is financial capital flows and not international trade
that represents the driving force behind currency movements. John T.
Harvey combines analyses rooted in the scholarly traditions of John
Maynard Keynes and Thorstein Veblen with that of modern psychology to
produce a set of new theories to explain international monetary
economics, including not only exchange rates but also world financial
crises.
In the book, the
traditional approach is reviewed and critiqued and the alternative is
then built by studying the psychology of the market and balance of
payments questions. The central model has at its core Keynes’
analysis of the macroeconomy and it assumes neither full employment nor
balanced trade over the short or long run. Market participants’
mental model, which they use to forecast future exchange rate
movements, is specified and integrated into the explanation. A separate
but related discussion of currency crises shows that three distinct
tension points emerge in booming economies, any one of which can break
and signal the collapse. Each of the models is compared to post-Bretton
Woods history and the reader is shown exactly how various shifts and
adjustments on the graphs can explain the dollar’s ups and downs
and the Mexican (1994) and Asian (1997) crises.
Introducing
Microeconomic Analysis : Issues, Questions, and Competing Views
Edited by Hassan Bougrine, Ian
Parker, Mario Seccareccia
Emond Montgomery Publications, Available Spring 2010. ISBN/ISSN:
978-1-55239-378-9. 336 pp.
Touching on both theoretical and
real-world topics, this collection of debates addresses issues such as
the role of consumers and advertising, the nature of markets,
privatization and regulation, poverty, the intersection of economics
with the environment, foreign ownership, and much more.
www.emp.ca/micro
Overview
What key questions should students
consider in order to gain a firm understanding of the essentials of
economics? Touching on both the theoretical and real-world aspects of
topics typically discussed in introductory and intermediate level
microeconomics courses, this timely collection of debates features
contributions by respected economists from Canada and beyond.
Students will be engaged by this
thought-provoking approach to issues such as the role of consumers and
advertising, the nature of markets, privatization and regulation,
poverty, the intersection of economics with the environment, foreign
ownership, and much more — all presented in lively and accessible
language.
Content Summary
PART I: Basic Economic Problems
- Is Economics a Science? Is It Useful? (Lawrence Boland, Ian
Parker)
- Is There Such a Thing as a Free Market? Under What Market and
Non-Market Conditions Do Firms Operate? (William Watson, Robert Prasch)
PART II: Consumers and Firms
- Is Homo Economicus an Appropriate Representation of Real-World
Consumers? (TBA, Morris Altman)
- Is the Consumer Sovereign? What Is the Power of Advertising?
(Jason L. Saving, Hassan Bougrine & Martti Vihanto)
- How Do Firms Price Their Products? (Thomas Barbiero, Peter
Kriesler)
- What Do Firms Try to Maximize? (TBA, Marc Lavoie)
PART III: Governments and Markets
- How Can Markets Fail? Should They Be Regulated? What Are the
Consequences of Deregulation and Privatization? (Donald McFetridge,
Robert Chernomas)
- Is the Private Sector Better than the Public Sector in Providing
Goods and Services to the Public? (Niels Veldhuis, Hugh McKenzie)
- Does Foreign Ownership of Corporations Matter? (Walid Hejazi,
David Leadbetter)
- Addressing Environmental Problems: Is There a Market Solution?
(Elizabeth Wilman, Ric Holt)
PART IV: Incomes and Inequality
- How Does the Market Determine the Distribution of Incomes among
Economic Agents? What Are the Effects of Minimum Wages and Trade Unions
on Income? (Gilles Grenier, Jim Stanford)
- Is There Labour Market Discrimination? Are Employment Equity
Policies Effective in Addressing the Problem? (Morley Gunderson, Fiona
MacPhail)
- Would the Adoption of a Guaranteed Annual Income Eliminate
Poverty? (Derek Hum, Mario Seccareccia)
- Do Equalization Payments Solve the Problem of Regional
Inequality? (Fred McMahon, Brian MacLean & Michael Bradfield)
Introducing
Macroeconomic Analysis: Issues, Questions, and Competing Views
Edited by Hassan Bougrine, Mario
Seccareccia
Emond Montgomery Publications, 2009. ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-55239-313-0. 324
pp.
In this timely new book, thirteen
central macroeconomic questions are debated, in accessible language, by
a line-up of respected economists from Canada and beyond. Ideal for
courses at the introductory and intermediate levels.
www.emp.ca/macro
Overview
Recent events across the globe have
focused unprecedented attention on the workings of our economy. In this
very timely book, 13 central macroeconomic questions are debated, in
accessible language, by a line-up of respected economists from Canada
and beyond. Ideal for courses at the introductory and intermediate
levels.
Content Summary
PART I: The Whole Picture
- The Market System and the Public Sector: What Role for the
State? (William Watson, Robert Prasch)
- What Is Money? How Is It Created and Destroyed? (David
Andolfatto, John Smithin)
PART II: The Behaviour of Key
Macroeconomic Variables
- Consumption and Saving: Should We Spend or Be Thrifty? (Ronald
G. Bodkin, Mario Seccareccia)
- What Drives Investment? (William Scarth, Jim Stanford)
- Why Is There Unemployment? Is Inflation the Ineluctable
Consequence of High Employment? (Pierre Fortin, Marc Lavoie)
PART III: Macroeconomic Policies
- What Is Fiscal Policy? Is Government Spending a Source of
Stability or Instability? (Niels Veldhuis, Hassan Bougrine)
- What Is Monetary Policy? Should Central Banks Be Targeting
Inflation? (Nick Rowe, Louis-Philippe Rochon)
- Should Central Banks Be Independent? (Jack Galbraith, Edwin Le
Heron)
- Should Full Employment Be a Policy Objective? What Are the
Implications for Growth and Development? (L. Randall Wray, David Gray)
PART IV: International Economic
Relations
- Is Trade Liberalization Good or Bad for the Economy?(Eugene
Beaulieu, Ricardo Grinspun)
- Should Financial Flows Be Regulated? (Lawrence L. Schembri &
Eric Santor, Gerald Epstein)
- Should Countries Float, Fix, or Dollarize? (Thomas Courchene,
Matias Vernengo & Carlos Silva)
- Is Globalization Reducing Poverty? (Dominick Salvatore, Manfred
Bienefeld)
Canada’s
Resource Economy in Transition: The Past, Present, and Future of
Canadian Staples Industries
Edited by Michael Howlett, Keith
Brownsey
Emond Montgomery Publications, 2008. ISBN/ISSN: 978-1-55239-255-3. 336
pp.
This book is the first to present
the various perspectives used to explore and analyze the "third sector"
of the economy, which includes co-operatives, credit unions, non-profit
organizations, the voluntary sector, and social
enterprise—activities that emphasize the creation of
public good as their primary goal.
www.emp.ca/livingeconomics
Overview
While Canada was founded upon and has grown prosperous due to its
wealth of natural resources, its staples sector currently finds itself
in a period of transition at the dawn of the 21st century.
Long-established industries such as mining, oil and
gas, fisheries, forestry, hydroelectricity, and agriculture now exist
within an increasingly diversified and high-tech global economy, and
face many political, social, and economic challenges as they adapt to a
rapidly changing world.
From genetically engineered food to aquaculture, new forestry
certification standards, Aboriginal title, and free trade agreements,
to the increasing importance of water as a commodity, the landscape of
Canada’s resource economy is changing. Creating and compounding
these challenges are the overarching threats of environmental
degradation and resource depletion, and the emergence of complex
regulatory and governance regimes intended to deal with these and other
issues.
Canada’s Resource Economy in Transition draws
on experts in various fields to provide an understanding of the theory,
history, and future directions of Canada’s staples industries.
Global Capitalism in Crisis: Karl Marx & The Decay
of the Profit System
By Murray E.G. Smith (Professor of Sociology and Labour Studies
at Brock University)
Fernwood publishing. March 2010. 172 pages, $24.95 CAD, ISBN:
9781552663530
The world economy is currently experiencing a devastating slump
not seen since the Second World War. Unemployment rates are
skyrocketing and salaries are plummeting in the developed world, while
astronomical food prices and starvation ravage the developing world.
The crisis in global capitalism, Smith argues, should be understood as
both a composite crisis of overproduction, credit and finance, and a
deep-seated systemic crisis. Using Marx to analyze the origins,
implications and scope of the current economic slump, this book argues
that the crisis needs to be understood structurally, as the result of a
system prone to crisis, rather than as an aberration.
CONTENTS
The Global Economic Crisis: A Marxist Perspective • A
Summary of Marx’s Theories of Value, Capital and Crisis •
The Necessity of Value Theory: Brenner’s Analysis of the
“Long Downturn” and Marx’s Theory of Crisis •
Class Struggle and Socialist Transformation: Beyond the Law of Value
• The Global Crisis, Marxism and the Malaise of the
Anti-Capitalist Left • Appendix 1, The Controversy Surrounding
Marx’s Theory of Value • Appendix 2, Socially Necessary
Unproductive Labour in Contemporary Capitalism • Bibliography
• Index
In And Out
Of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left Alternatives
By Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin, and Greg Albo
PM Press. May 2010. PB | ISBN: 9781604862126 | $13.95
"Once again, Panitch, Gindin, and Albo show that they have few
rivals and no betters in analyzing the relations between politics and
economics, between globalization and American power, between theory and
quotidian reality, and between crisis and political possibility. At
once sobering and inspiring, this is one of the few pieces of writing
that I've seen that's essential to understanding the sources and uses
of crisis. Splendid and essential." -- Doug Henwood, Left Business
Observer, author of After the New Economy
Social Structure and Forms
of Consciousness, Volume I: The Social Determination of Method
By István Mészáros
Monthly Review Press. February 2010. 432 pp. ISBN: 978-1-58367-204-4.
$29.95 (pb).
Publisher webpage:
http://www.monthlyreview.org/books/socialstructure.php
This new work by the leading Marxian philosopher of our day is a
milestone in human self-understanding. It focuses on the location where
action emerges from freedom and necessity, the foundation of all social
science.
Today, as never before, the investigation of the close relationship
between social structure — defined by Marx as “arising from
the life-process of definite individuals” — and the various
forms of consciousness is particularly important. We can only perceive
what is possible by first identifying the historical process that
constrains consciousness itself, and therefore social action.
Tenses of Imagination : Raymond Williams on Science
Fiction, Utopia and Dystopia
Edited by Andrew Milner
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien,
2010. Ralahine Utopian Studies. Vol. 7. ISBN 978-3-03911-826-7. 243 pp.
Book synopsis
Raymond Williams was an enormously influential figure in late
twentieth-century intellectual life as a novelist, playwright and
critic, «the British Sartre», as The Times put it. He was a
central inspiration for the early British New Left and a close
intellectual supporter of Plaid Cymru. He is widely acknowledged as one
of the «founding fathers» of cultural studies, who
established «cultural materialism» as a new paradigm for
work in both literary and cultural studies. There is a substantial
secondary literature on Williams, which treats his life and work in
each of these respects. But none of it makes much of his enduring
contribution to utopian studies and science fiction studies. This
volume brings together a complete collection of Williams's critical
essays on science fiction and futurology, utopia, and dystopia, in
literature, film, television, and politics, and with extracts from his
two future novels, The Volunteers (1978) and The Fight for Manod
(1979). Both the collection as a whole and the individual readings are
accompanied by introductory essays written by Andrew Milner.
Contents
Space Anthropology, Utopia, and Putropia. Left Culturalism: Science
Fiction (1956) - William Morris (1958) - George Orwell (1958) - The
Future Story as Social Formula Novel (1961) - Terror (1971) - Texts in
their Contexts. Cultural Materialism: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1971) - The
City and the Future (1973) - On Orwell: An Interview (1977) - On
Morris: An Interview (1977) - Learning from Le Guin. (Anti-)
Postmodernism: Utopia and Science Fiction (1978) - The Tenses of
Imagination (1978) - Beyond Actually Existing Socialism (1980) -
Resources for a Journey of Hope (1983) - Nineteen Eighty-Four in 1984
(1984) - The Future Novels: From The Volunteers (1978) - From The Fight
for Manod (1979).
The Structural Crisis of
Capital
By István Mészáros
Monthly Review Press. December 2009. 218 pp. ISBN: 978-1-58367-208-2.
$26.95 (pb).
Publisher webpage:
http://www.monthlyreview.org/books/structuralcrisisofcapital.php
In this collection of trenchant essays and interviews, István
Mészáros, the world’s preeminent Marxist
philosopher and winner of the Libertador Award for Critical Thought
(the Bolivar Prize) for 2008, lays bare the exploitative structure of
modern capitalism. He argues with great power that the world’s
economies are on a social and ecological precipice, and that unless we
take decisive action to radically transform our societies we will find
ourselves thrust headfirst into barbarism and environmental
catastrophe. [read more on this book at the link above]
The Myth of the global
market: Critique of neoliberalism
By Giulio Palermo
The book has been published in Italy (manifestolibri) and Spain (El
viejo topo). For those of you who read Italian or Spanish, the book is
downloadable from the author's homepage:
http://www.eco.unibs.it/~palermo/
Heterodox Book Reviews
Capitalism and the Jews
Jerry Z. Muller, Capitalism and
the Jews. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
2010. v + 267 pp. $25 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-691-14478-8.
Reviewed for
EH.NET
by Peter Temin, Department of Economics, MIT.
Read the
review here: http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/1487
The
Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle
Harold James, The Creation and Destruction of Value:
The Globalization Cycle. Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 2009. x + 325 pp. $20 (hardcover), ISBN:
978-0-674-03584-3.
Reviewed for EH.NET by
Sumner La Croix, Department of Economics, University of Hawaii-Manoa.
Read the review here: http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/1486
The Rise
and Fall of the American System
Songho Ha, The
Rise and Fall of the American System: Nationalism and the Development
of the American Economy, 1800-1837. London: Pickering and Chatto,
2009. xiii + 184 pp. $99 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-85196-999-9.
Reviewed for EH.NET by Jenny
Wahl, Department of Economics, Carleton College.
Read the review here: http://eh.net/bookreviews/library/1488
The
Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship: Enterprise
Alison C.
Kay, The Foundations of Female Entrepreneurship: Enterprise, Home and
Household in London, c. 1800-1870_. New York: Routledge, 2009. xv
+ 185 pp. $138 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-415-43174-3
Reviewed for EH.NET
by Joyce Burnette, Department of Economics, Wabash College.
Heterodox Web Sites and
Associates
Politics
and Economy in Latin America - Heterodox Perspectives
POLITICA Y ECONOMIA - perspectivas heterodoxas desde América
Latina
CLAES D3E presented a new website on politics and economy in Latin
America, with short op-eds and analysis, after alternative perspectives.
The new website is found at:
www.politicayeconomia.com
Among the first posts, you will find:
Eduardo Gudynas' analysis of some brazilian labour unions pension funds
that are investing in large national corporations, many of them
involved in unsustainable sectors. The new allliances between labour
unions, the government and corporations in Brazil.
You can subscribe at the website to receive alerts of new posts.
CLAES / D3E
www.economiasur.com
www.ambiental.net
The Trans
Atlantic
"The
Transatlantic is an academic journal adopting an interdisciplinary
approach to span the gulf between Economics and Philosophy. It is open
to everyone and hopes to serve as a global forum for those with an
interest in the field. It is in this spirit that students from
London, New York, Shanghai, Toronto and many other places are currently
working together to establish this new platform for debate. This
endeavor is officially supported by the LSE Philosophy Society and the
Columbia University Economics Society."
Website: http://thetransatlantic.org/
Read the Current issue of the Trans Atlantic
here: http://thetransatlantic.org/current-issue/
Heterodox PhD Scholarships
University of Athens, Greece
UADPhilEcon,
the international doctoral program in economics offered by the
University of Athens (Greece), is making available (up to) two scholarships of €10,000 each to
successful candidates for entry in October 2010 into the 2-year
coursework based MPhil in Economics
Applications are now open. Please visit: www.UADPhilEcon.gr
Deadline: Midday, Wednesday 5th May 2010
UADPhilEcon is the international doctoral program
in economics offered by the University of Athens, Greece. Please note
that the program’s language of instruction is English and that
applications are invited from qualified students irrespectively of
nationality. A small numbers of around 30 students are offered places
in each academic year from across from Europe, Asia, Latin America and
the US).
UADPhilEcon’s international and distinctly
multicultural orientation is reinforced further by a large number of
visiting professors from continental Europe, the UK, the US and
Australia.
Importantly, UADPhilEcon charges no fees (either
to EU or to non-EU students). In addition, two scholarships (of
€10,000 each) are offered to first year students and a small
number small stipends (around €4000) are on offer to students in
need of financial assistance later on during their studies.
For further information, please visit our
website: www.UADPhilEcon.gr or write to us at info@UADPhilEcon.gr
Queries
from Heterodox Economists
Request for
Heterodox Course Syllabi
Dear URPE
Members,
For a period of about 3 years, ending about 3 or
4 years ago, we built on our Web site a respectable beginning of a nice
list of syllabi from courses we were teaching, that people in URPE
found very useful (something we also used to do decades ago in (gasp)
"hard copy," before internet and actually even before common use of
personal computers). What the Steering Committee would like to do is
being now a several year process of getting that list up to snuff (it
still exists on the web site, it's still got some interesting syllabi,
but as indicated, it is now somewhat out of date).
So please send to me (Al@economics.utah.edu) any good
heterodox/radical syllabi you have from the course you are teaching
right now. I will ask again in about 3 weeks, and then again when the
semester is just over for most or you, and at that time I will post
what I have - and then do the same thing at the beginning of next
semester.
In solidarity,
Al Campbell
Survey for
the 2010 National Worker Cooperative Conference
There will
be a conference co-hosted by the USFWC (US Federation of Worker
Cooperative) and Bay Area worker cooperatives, August 6-9, 2010, at
Clark Kerr Conference Center, UC Berkeley. Conference organizers ask
you to take 5-minutes on-line survey to help shape the Conference. The
survey is here: http://www.usworker.coop/conference2010/survey
Registration opens in April 2010.
For more information, visit US Federation of
Worker Cooperatives: http://www.usworker.coop/front
Call for
Panelists: Economic and Social Efficiency of Financial Markets. Or,
Some Practical Suggestions on How to Prevent the Next Crisis
Call for
Panelists (for AHE 2010 Conference,
Bordeaux, France)
The Panel is composed of three papers that cover
different yet related arguments that relate to financial markets (note:
other papers may be added by the conference organisers).
The first paper by Mitja Stefancic is a
methodological discussion on the potential benefits from pluralistic
approaches to the analysis of financial markets. Why methodological
pluralism? The idea comes from the need to fully recognise the
increasing complexity of such markets and their instruments. It
attempts to assess some feasible analytical strategies to address such
a complexity. It investigates whether a more pronounced
interdisciplinarity would provide a better analytical framework if
applied to financial markets’ analysis. Such an argument is
inspired by the idea that financial markets represent a research topic
which should be analysed from a plurality of angles. In practice, this
could translate into improved financial policies which would then
favour sustainable wealth creation and market efficiency.
The second paper by Neophytos Kathitziotis
investigates the efficiency of a particular segment of financial
markets: the foreign exchange market, namely the market in which
foreign currencies are traded and appraised. Inspired by Tobin (cited
by Buiter, 2003) and UNCTAD (2009), it centres on a policy-oriented
approach to market efficiency in this particular segment. It
investigates the argument that efficient markets are those that have a
positive long-term impact on the real economy. The paper furtehrly
distinguishes between economic and social efficiency in foreign
exchange markets, two topics on which there is currently very little
knowledge.
THIRD PAPER
Summary: a tentative summary with main policy
recommendations will be offered at the end of the presentations.
Contact: MITJA
STEFANCIC: mitja.s@katamail.com; mitja.s@hotmail.it
; + 393200293062
Download Call for Panelists.
For Your Information
The Department of Economics
and Policy Studies at the University of Notre Dame has been officially
dissolved.
March 8, 2010 | by David Ruccio |Real-World Economics Review Blog.
It’s done! The Department of
Economics and Policy Studies at the University of Notre Dame has been
officially dissolved. On 25 February, the Academic Council approved the
dean’s proposal to eliminate ECOP and to rename the remaining
department the Department of Economics. Now, the members of ECOP need
to find positions for themselves elsewhere in the university—or
to leave the university entirely. There will be no place for them in
the other department. [Read more]
Petition: Save the BLS
International Labor Comparisons Program
The International Labor Comparisons Program of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics is proposed for elimination in the President's FY-2011
budget. For just $2 million annually and with 50 years of experience,
the BLS International Labor Comparisons Program produces timely,
high-quality international comparisons of labor force, productivity,
hourly compensation, and prices for many industrialized
countries. The program has pioneered in the development of
comparative data for emerging economies, notably China and Brazil and
with work in progress on India and others. This program provides
the only data available that ensure comparisons are "apples to apples"
and not "apples to oranges”; that is, they permit valid
comparisons of the U.S. labor market with labor markets abroad and
reliable assessments of U.S. manufacturing competitiveness.
To preserve these widely used and vital comparisons in our increasingly
global economy, the undersigned appeal to the Congress to restore
funding for the BLS Program of International Labor Comparisons.
More details and support the petition here:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/saveilc/
Financement de L'Agence
Française de Développement
L'Agence Française de Développement (AFD) est un
établissement public français qui finance des projets de
développement durable dans les pays en développement.
Bénéficiant désormais du soutien et de l'appui
financier de l'UNION EUROPEENNE, l'Agence Française de
Développement a lancé son nouveau produit
dénommé " Accès aux crédits pour tous".
"L'accès aux crédits pour tous" est une forme de
microfinance développée par l'institution
financière et qui permet aux populations mondiales d'obtenir
plus facilement et plus rapidement du financement pour leurs
différents projets de développement.
POPULATIONS CIBLES: Vous êtes une association, une organisation
non gouvernementale (ONG), un établissement public ou
privé, une société ou encore vous êtes une
personne privée ne constituant et ne faisant partie d'aucune
structure; vous avez un projet de développement, vous
voulez créer votre propre business, développer vos
propres activités ou vous voulez accroître les
capacités de votre entreprise; vous pourrez
bénéficier d'un prêt à l'Agence
Française de Développement allant de Dix Mille Euros
(10.000€) jusqu'à Un Million d'Euros (1.000.000€).
L'appui financier dont bénéficie l'AFD étant au
plan européen le Service Microfinance est
délocalisé au Royaume Uni.
Les conditions ci-après seront remplies pour accéder au
dit financement:
1- Domicilier un compte client au
Service Microfinance de l'AFD.
2- Disposer d'une part sociale au Service Microfinance de l'AFD.
PREMIERE ETAPE
- Veuillez contacter le Service Microfinance de l'AFD par e-mail
et par téléphone pour vous immatriculer afin d'Obtenir le
FORMULAIRE DE DEMANDE DE FINANCEMENT.
DEUXIEME ETAPE
- Vous devrez imprimer, remplir, scanner et retourner le
FORMULAIRE de DEMANDE DE FINANCEMENT au Service Microfinance de l'AFD.
DERNIERE ETAPE
- Votre Demande sera étudiée; et dès qu'elle
est acceptée, vous recevrez un Code de Financement que vous
enverrez par e-mail à la Direction Générale en
FRANCE suivi des frais d'Ouverture de Compte afin de recevoir le
Montant sollicité.
* Tout le processus devra être bouclé en 15 jours maximum.
COORDONNEES DU SERVICE MICROFINANCE DE L'AFD
38 Rue des Castors - Londres
TEL: 0044 701 118 2776
E-mail:
service_microfinance_afd@yahoo.co.uk
Londres - ROYAUME UNI
Jean-Michel SEVERINO
PDG DU GROUPE AFD