From the Editor
Last week I (Jo) enjoyed a four-day trip to Reno where the Association for
Institutional Thought Annual Conference took place. As always, many
heterodox economists and students showed up with interesting papers.
For me, one of the most interesting papers was Fred Lee's "Heterodox
Economics and Its Critics." His paper is a response to those critics
who deny the distinctive identity of heterodox economics (readers may
refer to Fred
Lee's editorial in the 91st issue of the Newsletter).
Are we, heterodox economists, different from orthodox economists? In
what sense and to what extent is heterodox economics distinctive from
orthodox economics? Luca De Benedicts and Michele Di Maio give you some
answers to these questions in their paper, "Within
and Between Disagreement Across Schools of Thought in Economics:
Evidence from Italian Economists.'' Some of the empirical results
you may find surprising.
As bad critics always exist, so do bad administrators; they are not
tolerant of views that might challenge their vested interests. See the story of Clive Spash who,
while employed by a government research institute in Australia, wrote
an article critical of market-based pollution trade credit programs.
The story has a familiar ring to it: administrators try to prevent its
publication; after some bad publicity, they allow it to be published,
but only after substantive editing. For the somewhat happy ending
in this case, the author eventually resigns and publishes the article
in its original form.
Finally, check out the Guardian editorial by Larry Elliott "Rescuing Economics from
its Own Crisis", writing about a conference at King's College
Cambridge on the future of economics, he states:
"Even more worryingly, there has been no room in this view of
the world for the heterodox. The prestigious economics journals have
been cleansed of all but the purveyors of highly technical algebra.
Economic history has been removed from the syllabus, because those who
yearn for economics to be a hard science believe the past can teach
them nothing. Truly, the lunatics have taken over the asylum."
In solidarity,
Tae-Hee Jo and Ted Schmidt, Editors
heterodoxnews@gmail.com
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Call for Papers
III
International Congress of the Brazilian Keynesian Association
Getulio
Vargas Foundation (FGV), in Sao Paulo, Brazil, from 11 to 13 August
2010.
The Congress general theme is ‘Impacts of
the International Financial Crisis’. With this theme, the
AKB aims at analyzing, in a Keynesian perspective and other heterodox
approaches, the impacts of the international financial crisis and the
economic policies responses in both advance economies and developing
economies. The Congress will have two special sessions: one about the
impacts of the international financial crisis (Tom Palley, Steven
Fazzari, Yoshiaki Nakano and Fernando Ferrari-Filho), and other one
about the Keynesian alternatives to economic policies in Brazil (Luiz
C. Bresser-Pereira, Nelson Barbosa, Luiz F. de Paula, and Julio Sergio
G. de Almeida). There will be a mini-course on ‘Minsky and the
International Financial Crisis’, with Prof Steven Fazzari. We
would like to invite you to submit papers to our Congress.
The
submissions shall be broadly related to the following topics:
- International Economics and Finance.
- Macroeconomics and Economic Policies.
- Economic Growth and Income Distribution.
- Industrial Organization and the Behavior of the
Mega-Corporations.
Submission details:
- Submission dates: from April 2 to May 21, 2010 (deadline),
- The papers can be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese.
- The author should send the file with the paper (with his/her
name and affiliation) to Prof Fernando Fernando-Filho’s email: ferrari@ufrgs.br
- Each author can not submit more than 2 (two) papers;,
- The print papers must have the following characteristics: the
name of the author and his/her affiliation; they must be written in
Microsoft Office Word 97 (or compatible); the maximum number of pages
is 25, abstract included, the space between lines is simple and the
font and the size of letters have to be, respectively, Times New Roman
and 12 pt,
- The fees, cost for transportation and accommodation are at the
expense of participants.
- The papers of the congress will be available in both the AKB
website and in the CD congress (proceedings of the III Congress of
AKB).
Scientific Committee and Other Details
The Scientific
Committee is Ana Rosa Mendonça (UNICAMP), Fernando Ferrrari
Filho (UFRGS) e Vanessa Petrelli Corrêa (UFU). Additional details
about our Congress will appear in the AKB website (
http://www.ppge.ufrgs.br/akb),
as soon as the Steering Committee, Paulo Gala (FGV-SP), Luiz Fernando
de Paula (UERJ), José Luís Oreiro (UnB) and Marco Flavio
Resende (UFMG) has some news.
Download Call for Papers.
III
Jornadas de Economía Crítica
14 al 16 de Oct.: Fac. Cs Económicas y Estadística -
Rosario
Conference website:
http://www.jornadaseconomiacritica.blogspot.com/
Se invita a estudiantes, graduados y docentes, investigadores y
profesionales en Ciencias Económicas y Sociales a participar de
las Terceras Jornadas de Economía Crítica (JEC).
Las Jornadas de Economía Crítica abrieron un espacio de
discusión que permitió una novedosa articulación
nacional que incluye a docentes, estudiantes, instituciones y
organizaciones sociales. Así, han ampliado el tradicional
espacio académico combinando visiones diversas de las ciencias
sociales, al tiempo que se profundizó la discusión de
políticas económicas en sintonía con la
dinámica de esas organizaciones sociales.
El entusiasmo que las Jornadas de Economía Crítica de La
Plata (2007) y Bahía Blanca (2009) han generado, dio lugar a
enriquecedores intercambios durante estos años en los cuales
ahondaremos en este nuevo encuentro. En contraste con la ahistoricidad
y pensamiento monolítico de la escuela neoclásica, esta
tercera edición de las JEC busca afianzar el debate entre las
múltiples escuelas de pensamiento heterodoxas como cimiento de
la construcción de perspectivas analíticas para
comprender y transformar la realidad – con claridad conceptual y
de objetivos como base de nuestras propuestas de acción
política.
Como ya es nuestra costumbre, se estimula especialmente a
jóvenes estudiantes o graduados recientes -a quienes la
ortodoxia suele ignorar-, a presentar sus ideas, trabajos y/o tesinas
de grado o postgrado.
Las III JEC se desarrollarán en la Facultad de Ciencias
Económicas de la Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Bv.
Oroño 1261). Los días jueves 14, viernes 15 y
sábado 16 de octubre de 2010, a partir de las 9hs y hasta las
20hs aproximadamente, contaremos con paneles de presentación de
ponencias, mesas abiertas de debate y
actividades especiales, tal como ocurrió en las ediciones
anteriores de estas Jornadas. Las JEC son gratuitas y abiertas a todo
el que quiera participar. Se entregarán certificados de
asistencia y exposición. Por otra parte, las regionales
organizadoras se encargarán de ofrecer medios de transporte al
costo desde las distintas ciudades del país. Más adelante
comunicaremos también alternativas de alojamiento en Rosario.
Las presentes Jornadas son organizadas por las Escuelas de
Economía Política de La Plata (EEP-UNLP) y Buenos Aires
(EsEP-UBA), la Red de Estudios de Economía Política de la
UNR, el Colectivo Viceversa de la UNS, el Grupo de Economía
Scalabrini Ortiz de la UNMdP y la Regional Córdoba de la UNC.
Todos los detalles se publicarán en
www.jornadaseconomiacritica.blogspot.com.
Por cualquier consulta, escribir a
jornadaseconomiacritica@gmail.com.
Download
Call for Papers.
7th International Conference
Developments in Economic Theory and Policy
Bilbao (Spain), in July 1-2, 2010
Organizing institutions: The Department of Applied Economics V of the
University of the Basque Country and the Cambridge Centre for Economic
and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, of the University of
Cambridge
Although papers are invited on all areas of economics, there will be
Plenary Sessions with Invited Speakers about the following topics:
- Land and Agricultural Environment
- Financialisation and the Transformation of Financial Systems
- Geoff Harcourt: The Political Economy of an Australian Patriot
and a Cambridge Economist
- The New Economics as Mainstream Economics
Suggestions for Organized Sessions are encouraged. An Organized Session
is one session constructed in its entirety by a Session Organizer and
submitted to the conference organizers as a complete package. Session
organizers must provide the following information:
- Title of the session, name and affiliation of the organizer,
name and affiliation of chair (if different than organizer)
- Titles of the papers, name, affiliation and contact information
of authors
Besides Plenary, Organized and Normal Parallel sessions, there will
also be Graduate Student Sessions (i.e., students currently making a
MSc or a PhD programme). In these sessions, students can present their
research and discuss that of other students. Participants in Graduate
Student Sessions will pay a lower conference fee.
The deadline to submit papers and ‘Organized Sessions’ is
31st May 2010.
For more information, you can contact with Jesus Ferreiro (
jesus.ferreiro@ehu.es) or Maribel
Garcia-del-Valle (
teresa.gvalleirala@ehu.es) or
visit the website
www.conferencedevelopments.com
13th SUMMER School on
Economic History, Philosophy, and History of Economic Thought
PHARE, University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (France),
University of Roma Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy) with the support of
STOREP, Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell’Economia
Politica (Italy) and of Association Charles Gide pour l'Étude de
la Pensée Économique (France) organize the 13th Summer
School on Economic History, Philosophy, and History of Economic Thought
in Acqui Terme, Italy, HBA Academy (
www.hbaacademy.it) from
Wednesday 1st September to Monday 13th September 2010.
The SUMMER School on Economic History, Philosophy, and History of
Economic Thought was established in 1998 with the following aims:
- To provide a thematic and specialised formation to PhD students
of the discipline;
- To guarantee the diffusion and scientific evaluation of their
work;
- To provide stimulus for them to make progress in contemporary
economic analysis;
- To introduce them to the trans-disciplinary perspectives of
social sciences.
In line with this perspective we will organize:
- Seminars animated by invited professors and researchers on the
topic “Conflicts and cooperation: lessons from history and from
economic theory”;
- Workshops where PhD students present their works as written
contributions to the debate, discussing them with scholars specialized
- in their discipline;
- Tutorials aiming at helping PhD students with preparation of
their work with a view to its further diffusion and publication.
About thirty PhD students and young scholars make up the usual
attendance at the Summer School, joined by about 15 senior scholars.
The working language is English.
The topic for 2010 is: Conflict and Cooperation: Lessons from history
and from Economic Theory (for the provisional program see
http://www.economia.uniroma2.it/universitedete/)
The registration fee is 60 €. It includes meals and accommodation.
Travel expenses will be refunded, at least partially.
Deadline for abstract submission: 10 June 2010
Information and submissions:
katia.caldari@unipd.it
European
Network on the Economics of the Firm (ENEF)
Website :
http://www.enef.group.shef.ac.uk
Ronald Coase and the economics of the firm
Amsterdam School of Economics
16-17 September 2010
Organisers: Albert Jolink, Eva Niesten, Michael Dietrich
Following successful previous ENEF meetings held in Sheffield,
Rotterdam, Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Cambridge, Pisa and Paris we would
like to announce the seventh ENEF meeting to be held at the Amsterdam
School of Economics.
Proposals for paper presentations on the economics of the firm in
general and especially on this year’s theme – Ronald Coase
and the economics of the firm – are invited. Researchers and
especially PhD students who would like to attend without a paper are
also welcome.
This meeting will emphasise economic and interdisciplinary
contributions on the analysis of the firm as an institution, as well as
more explicit discussions of Coase’s work or work in the
traditions that have followed Coase. This involves discussions of
organisation and the firm, externalities and social costs, transactions
costs, and favours dialogue between empirical investigations,
theoretical developments and normative contributions - concerning both
the economics of the firm and public policies issues.
- Abstracts of approximately 1000 words to be submitted by May
15th 2010.
- Email submission of abstracts to Albert Jolink (a.jolink@uva.nl)
- Notification of acceptance by end May 2010.
- Selection committee: organisers.
- Final papers to be delivered by end August 2010.
Download Call for papers:
http://www.enef.group.shef.ac.uk/?page=2010%20Workshop
Feminist
Economics
A Special Issue on Gender and Economics in Muslim Communities
Guest Editors: Ebru Kongar, Jennifer Olmsted, and Elora Shehabuddin
Over the past decade, there has been an increasing recognition of the
importance of understanding economic conditions in a broad range of
contemporary Muslim societies. However, large gaps remain in our
knowledge of the links between gender, economic well-being, and the
varying influences of religion due to gender-blind analyses and
unexplored assumptions and generalizations regarding Muslim
women’s experiences. This special issue, planned for online
publication in 2013 and print in 2014, aims to provide a forum for
rethinking the study of socioeconomic policies and processes that
impinge on women’s and men’s lives in Muslim families,
communities, and countries around the world. We seek contributions that
interrogate the prevailing discourses and explore new insights into
women’s economic well-being in Muslim communities. Of special
interest are submissions that pay attention to women’s agency and
voice and the intersections between religion, gender, class, and
ethnicity in the analysis of outcomes. Submissions that rely on a
variety of methodologies and research methods, including interpretive
and quantitative methodologies (such as country-level or cross-country
analyses), are welcome. Feminist Economics very much encourages
submissions from the Global South and Central/Eastern Europe.
Contributions may cover diverse topics, including but not limited to:
- New theoretical frameworks exploring the links between
women’s economic lives and Muslim laws and religious practices.
- The effects of international migration and trade on Muslim women
and children.
- Gendered influences of colonialism and military conflict on
Muslim communities.
- Gendered impacts of macroeconomic, social-protection, and
poverty-reduction policies.
- Feminist critiques of state and international policies toward
Muslim communities and countries.
Deadline for abstracts:
Please direct queries and abstracts (500 words maximum) to the Guest
Editors: Ebru Kongar, Jennifer Olmsted, and Elora Shehabuddin at gemc@drew.edu
no later than 15 August 2010. After approval of abstracts, final papers
will be due 15 February 2011 and should be submitted to Feminist
Economics through the submissions website (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rfec).
Questions about these procedures may be sent tofeministeconomics@rice.edu,
+1.713.348.4083 (phone), or +1.713.348.5495 (fax).
Visit the journal’s editorial website : www.feministeconomics.org
Green Economics Institute
5th Annual Conference
July 29th 30th 31st. Oxford University, UK
We are delighted to inform you about the 5th Annual Green Economics
Conference at Oxford University which will take place this year on July
29th, 30th 31st 2010. Everyone is extremely welcome and this year the
conference looks like it will be bigger than ever before with a
fascinating line up of exciting and influential speakers from all parts
of the planet.
The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones are advertising this conference
-and their link can be seen on our website at: http://www.wsje-flp.com/articles.php/90/conference-announcement-call-for-papers-green-economics-institute
Please email us at: greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com,
as soon as possible to let us know you would like to come and if you
would like to be a speaker. Each year the speaker slots are very sought
after, so do let us know early if you would like to come along.
We are also attaching a membership form of our Green Economics
Institute Trust - if you would like to join our fast growing
international network of green specialists.
The Green Economics Institute
00 44 1189841026
greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com
www.greeneconomics.org.uk
Download Call for Papers and Membership Form.
Historical Materialism
Annual London Conference 2010
Central London, Thursday 11th to Sunday 14th November
Theme: Crisis and Critique
Submission and Abstract Deadline: 1 June 2010
Notwithstanding repeated invocations of the ‘green shoots of
recovery’, the effects of the economic crisis that began in 2008
continue to be felt around the world. While some central tenets of the
neoliberal project have been called into question, bank bailouts, cuts
to public services and attacks on working people's lives demonstrate
that the ruling order remains capable of imposing its agenda. Many
significant Marxist analyses have already been produced of the origins,
forms and prospects of the crisis, and we look forward to furthering
these debates at HM London 2010. We also aim to encourage dialogue
between the critique of political economy and other modes of criticism
– ideological, political, aesthetic, philosophical –
central to the Marxist tradition.
In the 1930s, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht projected a journal to
be called ‘Crisis and Critique’. In very different times,
but in a similar spirit, HM London 2010 aims to serve as a forum for
dialogue, interaction and debate between different strands of
critical-Marxist theory. Whether their focus is the study of the
capitalist mode of production's theoretical and practical foundations,
the unmasking of its ideological forms of legitimation or its political
negation, we are convinced that a renewed and politically effective
Marxism will need to rely on all the resources of critique in the years
ahead. Crises produce periods of ideological and political uncertainty.
They are moments that put into question established cognitive and
disciplinary compartmentalisations, and require a recomposition at the
level of both theory and practice. HM London 2010 hopes to contribute
to a broader dialogue on the Left aimed at such a recomposition, one of
whose prerequisites remains the young Marx’s call for the
‘ruthless criticism of all that exists’.
We are seeking papers that respond to the current crisis from a range
of Marxist perspectives, but also submissions that try to think about
crisis and critique in their widest ramifications. HM will also
consider proposals on themes and topics of interest to critical-Marxist
theory not directly linked to the call for papers (we particularly
welcome contributions on non-Western Marxism and on empirical enquiries
employing Marxist methods).
While Historical Materialism is happy to receive proposals for panels,
the editorial board reserves the right to change the composition of
panels or to reject individual papers from panel proposals. We also
expect all participants to attend the whole conference and not simply
make ‘cameo’ appearances. We cannot accommodate special
requests for specific slots or days, except in highly exceptional
circumstances.
*Please note that, in order to allow for expected demand, this year the
conference will be three and a half days’ long, starting on the
Thursday afternoon.
Please submit a title and abstract of between 200 and 300 words by
registering at http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/conferences/annual7/submit
by 1 June 2010
Possible themes include:
- Crisis and left recomposition
- Critique and crisis in the global south
- Anti-racist critique
- Marxist and non-Marxist theories of crisis
- Capitalist and anti-capitalist uses of the crisis
- Global dimensions of the crisis
- Comparative and historical accounts of capitalist crisis
- Ecological and economic crisis
- Critical theory today
- Finance and the crisis
- Neoliberalism and legitimation crisis
- Negation and negativity
- Feminism and critique
- Political imaginaries of crisis and catastrophe
- The critique of everyday life (Lefebvre, the situationists etc.)
- The idea of critique in Marx, his predecessors and
contemporaries
- Art criticism, political critique and the critique of political
economy
- Geography and crisis, geography and the critique of political
economy
- Right-wing movements and crisis
- Critiques of the concept of crisis
- New forms of critique in the social and human sciences
- Aesthetic critique
- Marxist literary and cultural criticism
- Reports on recent evolution of former USSR countries and China
International Initiative for
Promoting Political Economy
In the context of the ongoing financial crisis, the IIPPE
Financialisation Working Group hopes to show a strong presence at the
International Conference in Political Economy in Crete on 10-12
September 2010 (please see general call for papers below).
Ideally, it would like to convene a number of panels under the general
theme of the conference "The Financial Crisis and Beyond".
Contributions to following themes are particularly encouraged:
- Effects of the Crisis on developing and emerging countries
- Crisis and sovereign debt
- Effects of the Crisis on the real economy
- The future of financial systems: alternatives for regulation and
financial structure
- Theoretical perspectives on the Crisis
If you are interested in presenting a paper on one of these topics,
or on heterodox finance more broadly, please e-mail your abstract
(max.250 words) to Jo or Nina on jm60@soas.ac.uk and ak82@soas.ac.uk.
The deadline for abstract submission has been
extended three weeks beyond the general deadline of the conference of
31st of March 2010 to 26th April 2010.
International
Network for Economic Methodology
November 12-14th at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.
Abstracts of at least 750 words should be submitted by June 15th to
Harold Kincaid at kincaid@uab.edu.
Program committee members are Harold Kincaid, Kevin Hoover, Wade Hands,
Caterina Marchionni, and Ricardo Crespo. There will be no registration
fee. Accommodations will be provided for graduate students and
postdocs.
Journal of the History of
Economic Thought
The Journal of the History of Economic Thought (JHET) invites recent
PhD graduates who have successfully defended a doctoral thesis in the
History of Economic Thought in 2009 or subsequently to submit a summary
of their thesis for publication.
While the thesis may be written in any language, the summary must be in
English and must not exceed 800 to 1,000 words, including references
(if applicable). Each summary should begin with:
- Title
- Date of Convocation/Graduation
- Author's Name
- Primary Supervisor
- Department, Section or School (as appropriate), University
- Language
Contributors should register and submit the summary on the JHET website
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jhet.
On the drop-down menu asking for "type of submission", choose "thesis
abstracts".
Remember: this is your opportunity to explain to people in the field
why they should read your thesis, invite you to conferences, or
consider you for fellowships and jobs, so think about how best to
present your work clearly and concisely.
This will become a regular section of JHET if there is sufficient
interest among recent graduates. JHET is distributed free of charge to
members of the History of Economics Society as part of their membership
package. Information about the journal and membership in HES can be
found at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=HET.
For more information, contact : Evelyn L. Forget forget@historyofeconomics.org
Power &
Knowledge: The 2nd International Conference
Tampere, Finland. September 6-8, 2010
Conference Website: http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/isss/tamcess/sovako/power2010/
PANEL: "The fall and rise of efficiency as
a (restored) politics of truth"
In its normalized form, neoliberalism was driven by a logic of
financialization. The key role played by financial markets reflected in
the hegemony of efficiency as a metric for assessing activity in an
increasing number of public policy domains, from government spending to
banking regulation to international food policy. The global crisis of
capitalism temporarily challenged the role of efficiency as a
structuring concept: financial markets suddenly became the monster to
be civilized. Nevertheless, two years later efficiency appears to have
regained its discursive primacy: for instance, the single most pressing
issue identified in public policy discussions is the
‘sustainability’ of public debt - framed again
through ‘efficient markets’ to which governments have to be
accountable. This panel seeks to explore how and why has efficiency
endured as a governing principle throughout the crisis? What changes in
meaning were necessary to rearticulate its hegemony? Do these changes
work similarly in different policy domains or are we witnessing
divergent operations of 'efficiency' as a (restored) politics of truth?
We will address these questions in the domains of financial reform and
international food policy, and invite further contributions to
complement our multidisciplinary approach.
Contact Panel Organizers: Daniela Gabor (Daniela.Gabor@uwe.ac.uk) and Sally
Brooks (s.brooks@ids.ac.uk)
Call for papers is open from March 1 to May 15, 2010
Moneta e
Credito and PSL Quarterly Review
Call for Papers
The two journals (see the journal description below), published for
more than sixty years by the Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, now continue
their activities with the Paolo Sylos Labini Association, which
recently acquired them (with a change in name, from "BNL Quarterly
Review," for the English journal).
Both journals are now published online, and are accessible free of
charge at www.monetaecredito.info and www.pslquarterlyreview.info.
Subscriptions are available for print editions of the journals. The
supervisory board is composed of: Alessandro Roncaglia (Editor), Luigi
Abete, Marcello de Cecco, Nerio Nesi, Luigi Pasinetti, Antonio Pedone,
Romano Prodi, Alberto Quadrio Curzio, Giorgio Ruffolo, Mario
Sarcinelli, Luigi Spaventa.
As in the past, the two journals select articles submitted for
publication by way of anonymous referees. It is possible to propose
articles through the online process on the journals' websites, or by
sending an e-mail to monetaecredito@uniroma1.it
and pslqr@uniroma1.it.
As in the past, it is possible to submit manuscripts pertaining to all
fields of economic research, but original works in the principal fields
of interest, international finance, international economics and applied
macroeconomics, are particularly welcome.
The journals are indexed in the RepEc database and abstracting/indexing
is currently sought on all other major databases.
PSL Quarterly Review
PSL Quarterly Review is a peer-reviewed journal that provides an open
forum for dialogue and debate on economics and economic policy, along
the lines of its predecessor, the BNL Quarterly Review. It welcomes
original perspectives and diverse voices, encouraging a critical
exchange of ideas. PSL Quarterly Review aims at promoting open
dialogue across cultural, ideological and at times theoretical walls in
the attempt to understand the complexities of modern societies.
PSL Quarterly Review publishes original contributions in all the fields
and from all the schools and research paradigms without any
discrimination, provided that they are rigourous in method and relevant
in content. Articles are of interest to general economics scholars and
practitioners and they are international in breadth. PSL Quarterly
Reviewis edited on the track marked by Paolo Sylos Labini, to which it
is dedicated. Sylos Labini significantly contributed to the development
of the economic science in the XX century, with major contributions on
oligopoly theory, the analysis of social classes, civic and economic
development and technical change. More information can be obtained on
the website www.syloslabini.info, where many of his writings are
freely available.
PSL Quarterly Review was founded in 1947 under the name BNL Quarterly
Review, and since year 2009 it is the journal of the Paolo Sylos Labini
Association, presently published with a sponsorship of the BNP-Paribas
group. PSL Quarterly Review publishes four issues a year, each covering
a three-month period.
PSL Quarterly Review is available online free of charge and by
subscription in printed form. Readers and authors are required to sign
up to use the journal website and read articles, specifying their
institution or employer. Their institution's library will be notified
of the reader's or author's interest in the journal and it will be
encouraged to subscribe to it and to sustain the review.
PSL Quarterly Review accepts submissions at any time of the year. Final
decisions will be notified to the corresponding author within 90 days.
PSL Quarterly Reviewoccasionally publishes articles commissioned by the
Editor or a member of the Editorial Board, but these contributions will
be refereed as any other unsolicited paper.
Authors are invited to attach a presentation letter to their
submission, stating what is the innovative content of the proposed
article and why is it of interest to the journal's readers.
PSL Quarterly Review welcomes proposals for special issues and
conference proceedings as well. Conference organisers are invited to
send a short note of maximum five pages, describing the content and
scope of the proposed issue, briefly summarising the single
contributions to be included in it, and stating the relevance of the
topic and of the major contributions for the advancement of science and
for the understanding of modern societies.
Moneta e Credito
Moneta e Credito é una rivista scientifica online basata sul
criterio della peer-review, che si propone di costituire un luogo di
dialogo e dibattito sui temi dell'economia e della politica economica.
La rivista pubblica interventi originali e incoraggia prospettive
critiche e scambio di idee, cercando di abbattere muri di
incomunicabilità culturale, ideologica e perfino teorica, nel
tentativo di comprendere la complessità delle società
moderne.
Moneta e Credito pubblica articoli originali in tutti i campi e da
tutte le scuole dell'economia politica, senza discriminazioni,
purché siano rigorosi nel metodo e rilevanti nel merito. Gli
articoli pubblicati sono normalmente di interesse per tutti gli
economisti e gli operatori economici, e di rilevanza internazionale,
sebbene con un'attenzione specifica sull'Italia.
Moneta e Credito é una rivista dell'Associazione Paolo Sylos
Labini, pubblicata con il contributo del gruppo BNP-Paribas. Paolo
Sylos Labini ha contribuito in maniera fondamentale alla teoria dello
sviluppo economico, del progresso tecnico e civile, dell'oligopolio,
delle classi sociali. Dal sito dell'Associazione, www.syloslabini.info,
é possibile consultare e scaricare gratuitamente molti dei suoi
lavori, in lingua italiane e inglese.
Moneta e Credito é pubblicata con cadenza trimestrale dal 1948,
e dal 2009 é disponibile gratuitamente online, e in forma
cartacea su abbonamento. E' necessario iscriversi al sito per leggere o
inviare articoli, specificando la propria istituzione di appartenenza.
Alle biblioteche delle istituzioni degli utenti registrati verrá
proposto di abbonarsi alla rivista.
Radical Footnotes
Radical Footnotes is calling for papers
in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish on Working-Class
publishing, allied industries and concomitant métiers such as
librarianship.
Contact: carlslienger@Gmail.com or radfootnotes@Gmail.com
Download Call for papers.
The
Critical Governance Studies Conference 2010
13-14 December 2010
Theme : Challenging Orthodoxies
Keynote Speaker:
Nancy Fraser
Henry A. & Louise Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics
New School for Social Research, New York
Conference Organizers : Jonathan S Davies & Penelope Tuck
Registration@
Early Bird £250 (from 1st June)
£300 (from 1st October)
We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the Critical
Governance Studies conference at Warwick on 13-14 December this year.
The goal of the conference is to bring together scholars and critical
practitioners challenging orthodoxies and developing critical
approaches to the study and practice of governance.
At a time of crisis and discontent, and with the renaissance of
social critique, we believe that the conference is timely and will
enhance critical governance research across the social sciences. The
conference is cross-disciplinary and we encourage colleagues to submit
abstracts on themes that might include, among others, critical
approaches to the governance of citizens, space, money, networks, risk,
security, science and The University.
The conference theme is ‘challenging
orthodoxies’ and we ask colleagues to address it in their
abstracts by describing a problematic orthodoxy, subjecting it to
critical challenge and outlining new areas of inquiry and new social
practices based on the critical approach. At the same time, we invite
people to interrogate the key terms, ‘governance’,
‘orthodoxy’ and ‘critique’.
Individual abstract submissions are
welcome from now until 31st October. Proposals for panels and
streams following these guidelines are also welcome.
Conference registration opens on 1st June with an early bird rate
of £250, plus accommodation, rising to £300 plus
accommodation from 1st October. Details of how to register and book
accommodation on campus will be available online from 1st June. Please
email abstracts and other proposals to
esme.farrington@wbs.ac.uk.
Please circulate this information to relevant contacts and networks
and submit abstracts and other proposals to esme.farrington@wbs.ac.uk.
Esme is available on 02476 522525 if you have any other queries.
The Euro
Zone and Emerging Countries in the Financial Crisis
GARNET Network of Excellence JERP
5.1.3. “EU and Africa”
Workshop Theme : ‘The Euro Zone and Emerging Countries in
the Financial Crisis’
Bordeaux, France, 8-9 July 2010
The impact of the current financial crisis on Western countries and the
Euro zone in particular, has been extensively discussed. By contrast,
the impact of the crisis on emerging and developing countries and, in
particular, those in Africa, has not been similarly investigated.
The purpose of the workshop is to compare the impact of the crisis on
the European Monetary Union (EMU) and countries like Great Britain on
the one hand with the imprint on emerging countries. Are there major
differences to be seen in their responses to the financial crisis? If
so, what are these differences?
1) Is monetary union, as witnessed in
the case of the Euro experience, a good solution for emerging
countries? Some African countries, since they belong to the Franc Zone,
are de facto members of the Euro zone. Thus, a specific comparison of
this African currency zone, with the Europe may be valuable as a
contribution to the academic literature. What have been specific
consequences of the financial crisis on the Franc Zone? Has there been
more stability in the Franc Zone than in the other African countries?
Has the Franc zone been more (or less) resistant to the financial
crisis than other African countries due to the credibility of its
currency union? Last but not least, did it suffer from the same level
of recession and deflation as in European countries?
2) Is inflation targeting as in Great
Britain or Sweden a good monetary regime for emerging countries during
a financial crisis? Should we export the inflation targeting regime to
African countries? What does the experience of South Africa and Ghana
with their inflation targeting regimes tell us about the sustainability
of this regime in Africa and its suitability in times of crisis?
3) Or, one may ask, are currency
boards (as in Bulgaria) a better system in times of financial crisis?
Are they the one best way to prepare the euro adoption? Do they even
constitute an alternative to the euro adoption?
The purpose of this forthcoming workshop organised as part of the
‘monetary governance’ project within the the ‘UE and
Africa’ Jerp is to develop a comparative perspective on monetary
regimes in Europe and Africa. The papers submitted for the workshop
should therefore focus on this comparison in the current context of the
financial crisis.
Paper proposals of around 350 words must be sent by May 1, 2010 to the
workshop coordinators:
Edwin LE HERON (Sciences Po Bordeaux, France) e.le.heron@sciencespobordeaux.fr
Emmanuel CARRE (Sciences Po Bordeaux, France) carre.emnl@gmail.com
Articles should be preferably written in English, but may also be
accepted in French. The committe will make its decision by May 15, 2010
and successful applicants will be informed by e-mail. The candidates
selected for participation will be asked to confirm their intention to
participate within 5 days, after which those places will be offered to
other applicants. The final papers should be submitted by June 30, 2010.
Selected papers will be published in an edited volume, or as part of
the special issue of an academic journal after the workshop..
GARNET encourages applicants to look for funding to fully or partially
cover their travel expenses. GARNET will offer supplementary financing
towards some of the travel cost.
Download Call for Papers.
The
Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) 14th
conference
Theme
: ‘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:
Coordinating
Committee of the Research Network:
Sebastian
Dullien (FHTW Berlin), Trevor Evans (Berlin School of Economics),
Jochen Hartwig(KOF/ETH Zürich), Eckhard Hein (Berlin School of
Economics), Hansjörg Herr (Berlin School of Economics), Camille
Logeay (IMK, Düsseldorf), Özlem Onaran (Middlesex University)
Torsten Niechoj(IMK, Düsseldorf), Jan Priewe (FHTW Berlin),
Engelbert Stockhammer (Kingston University), Claus Thomasberger (FHTW
Berlin), Achim Truger (IMK, Düsseldorf) and Till van Treeck (IMK,
Düsseldorf).
Conferences,
Seminars & Lectures
VII International Colloquium: Getting out of the
Current Economic Crisis in the light of Alternative Paradigms
May 27th and 28th at the Maison des
Sciences de l’Homme de Paris Nord.Paris – France.
VII INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM
Theme : Getting out of the Current Economic Crisis in the light
of Alternative Paradigms
Following the successful experience of
a series of international colloquium organized in Brazil and in Europe
by the Department of Economics of the University of Brasilia, the VII
International Colloquium will be organized jointly by the Department of
Economics of the University of Brasilia (UnB) and the CEPN of the
University of Paris 13 in May 27th and 28th at the Maison des Sciences
de l’Homme de Paris Nord.
The event, as did occur since 1997,
intends to stimulate a research agenda involving outstanding scholars
from Europe, Americas and Asia. We expect to develop a productive
exchange of research, ideas and results to highlight the latest and
meaningful efforts in Economic Theory and Applied Economic.
The central theme of the “VII International Colloquium”
will be “Getting out of the Current Economic Crisis in the light
of Alternative Paradigms”. The authors are invited to focus their
analysis on a macroeconomic perspective on growth, distribution,
structural change and ways out of the crisis, i.e, lessons from various
approaches of development economics.
An important purpose of the event is to provide students and
researchers with a source of theoretical and empirical works dealing
with proposals to tackle some socio-economic issues in advanced and
developing nations. We believe the meeting will also attract the
attention of those with interest in Political Economy – not least
the policy makers who are looking for policies that could meet the
challenges of contemporary societies.
Programme
Thursday 27:
9h30-10h: Welcome to the
participants: Joanilio Rodolpho Teixeira, Bruno Jetin and Pascal Petit
10h-12h30 Session I
10h-11h30: Presentations of the
papers of session I
-
“Finance and the Real Economy: Modeling the
Crisis” / Amit Bhaduri
-
“Credit, Fictitious Capital and Financial
Crisis” / Maria de Lourdes Rollemberg Mollo
-
“The Impact of the Crisis in Asia: from Recovery to
Rebalancing Growth?” / Bruno Jetin
11h30-12h15: Panel of session I:
Panel of session
I - On the Nature of the Crisis and its Impact on Emerging Economies:
Joanílio Rodolpho Teixeira (University of Brasilia), Dominique
Plihon (Université Paris Nord), Sébastien Charles
(University of Paris 8).
12h15-12h30: Responses of the paper
givers of session I
12h30-14h30: Lunch Break
14h30-17H00: Session II
Session II:
Modeling Growth and Income Distribution
Chair :
Amit Badhuri
14h30-16h
Presentations of the papers of session II
-
“Real and Financial Sector in Neoclassical and in
Classical-Keynesian Perspective: Some Considerations of
Principles” / Heinrich Bortis
-
“Path Dependency in Hysteresis in a Kaleckian Income
Distribution Model” / Dany Lang
-
“A Reconsideration of Samuelson’s
Multiplier-Accelerator Model” / Srinivas Raghavendra
16h-16h45 Panel of session II
Panel of session
II - Modeling Growth and Income Distribution
Jean-Pierre
Laffargue* (University of ParisI), Ricardo Azevedo Araújo (
Université de Brasilia), Edwin Le Héron*
(Université de Bordeaux-Montesquieu).
16h45-17h00: Responses from the
paper givers of session II
Friday 28:
10h-12h30: Session III
Session III: Alternatives in
Development Paradigms in the Context of Globalization.
Chair : Pascal Petit
10h-11h30 presentations of the papers
of session III
-
“An Appraisal of the Import Substitution Strategy from
a Structural Economic Dynamic Approach” / Ricardo Azevedo
Araújo & Joanílio Rodolpho Teixeira
-
“Neo-Liberalism, the Changing German Labor
Market, and Income Distribution: an Institutionalist and Post Keynesian
Analysis” / John Battaile Hall & Udo Ludwig
-
“A Pasinettian Interpretation of Lewis Approach: A Dual
Pure Labour Model with Different Consumption Profiles” / Leopoldo
Costa Junior & Joanílio Rodolpho Teixeira
11h30-12h15: Panel of session III
Panel of session
3 - Alternatives in Development Paradigms in the Context of
Globalisation : Pierre Salama (Université Paris Nord),
Amit Bhaduri ( Indian Council for Social Development), Jacques Mazier
(Université Paris Nord).
12h15-12h30: Responses from the
paper givers of session III
12h30- 14h30: Lunch Break
14h30-17h: Session IV
Session IV: Policies to Get
out of the Crisis
Chair: Maria de Lourdes
Rollemberg Mollo (University of Brasilia)
14h 30– 16h30: Presentations
of the papers of session IV
-
"Union Régionale et Zone Monétaire en
Asie du Sud-est" / Jacques Mazier
-
“Economic Theories, Knowledge and the Economy”
/ Nicola De Liso
-
“La Question du Pouvoir dans les Politiques de
Développement” / Eric Berr
16h30-17h15 panel of session IV
Panel of session
IV - Policies to Get Out of the Crisis.
Cédric
Durand (CEPN Université Paris 13), Louis-Philipe Rochon
(Laurentian University), Srinivas Raghavendra (National University of
Ireland).
17h15-17h30: Responses from the paper
givers of session IV.
17h30- 18h00: Summing-up of
the Colloquium and New Agenda
Organizing Committee
Joanílio
Rodolpho Teixeira, University of Brasilia, Brazil (President)
Pascal Petit,
Université Paris 13, France (Vice-President)
Bruno Jetin ,
University of Paris 13, France (Local Organizer)
Jacques Mazier ,
University of Paris13, France
John Battaille
Hall, Portland State University, USA
Amit Bhaduri,
Indian Council of Social Development, New Delhi, India
Ricardo Azevedo
Araújo, University of Brasilia, Brazil (Managing Editor)
Márcia
Castro, University of Brasilia, Brazil (Executive Secretary)
Asociación de
Economía para el Desarrollo de la Argentina (AEDA)
Taller: “Financiamiento y políticas de desarrollo.
Elementos para una regulación más eficaz del sistema
financiero argentino”
Buenos Aires, 5 y 6 de abril del 2010 - 17:30hs
Mesa redonda de apertura: Sobre aportes del sistema financiero al
desarrollo
Exponen: Mario Tonveronachi / Jan Kregel / Cierre a cargo de Mercedes
Marcó del Pont
Lugar: Hotel Castelar, Salón Dorado, Avenida de Mayo 1152.
Actividad abierta para todo público
For more information, visit www.aeda.org.ar
Capitalism, Culture,
Critique with Luc Boltanski and Nancy Fraser
Thursday April 29th in RHB309, 5-7, Goldsmiths, University of
London
As part of the Capitalism, Culture and Critique series, the Centre
for the Study of Global Media and Democracy, Goldsmiths, University of
London invites you to a debate and open conversation with Luc Boltanski
(l'Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris), co-author of
'The New Spirit of Capitalism' (Verso 2005), and author of 'Distant
Suffering' (Cambridge 1999), and Nancy Fraser (New School for Social
Research, New York), whose most recent work is 'Scales of Justice'
(Columbia 2009).
Chartism
Annual International Conference
The Sorbonne, Paris, between 2-4 July 2010
Chartism (1838-1858): New Perspectives/Le Chartisme (1838-1858):
Nouvelles Perspectives.
The annual international Chartism Conference is organised by the
Society of Labour History, the Chartist Study Group and the South Wales
Centre for History and Interdisciplinary Research (SWCHIR). It will be
held at the Sorbonne, Paris, between 2-4 July 2010. This is a two day
conference on many aspects of Chartist history followed by a
'Revolution Walk' on 4 July.
Speakers include Speakers: Benoît Agnès (Université
Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne, Joan Allen (Newcastle University),
Fabrice Bensimon (Université Paris IV-Sorbonne, Eugenio Biagini
(Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Malcolm Chase (Leeds University),
Ian Haywood (Roehampton University), Iorwerth Prothero (Manchester),
Michael Sanders (University of Manchester), and Gregory Vargo (Columbia
University, New York, USA).
Visit Conference Website : http://education.newport.ac.uk/displayPage.aspx?object_id=12979&type=PAG
CPNSS 20th
Anniversary Lecture Series
The Centre for Philosophy of Natural and Social Science is
celebrating its 20th Anniversary this year. To mark this occasion
we are holding some celebratory events. Please find attached your
personal invitation to our 20th Anniversary lecture series entitled
'Philosophy in Psychology'. The three lectures will take place in May
and June and each will be followed by a drinks reception.
Please note that space at the lectures is limited, so please RSVP
specifying which lectures you wish to attend as soon as possible to: philcent@lse.ac.uk
We very much hope you will be able to join us in celebrating our
anniversary.
Distinguished Lecture Series: Philosophy in Psychology
- Monday 24 May 2010, 3.30pm : Robin Dunbar, Oxford. Evolutionary
Psychology
- Monday 7 June 2010, 3.30pm : Peter Hacker, Oxford. Cognitive
Science and the Mereological Fallacy
- Monday 21 June 2010, 3.30pm : James Lamiell, Georgetown.
Problems in the Logic of Personality Studies
Lectures are followed by a reception.
London School of Economics and Political Science
Wolfson Theatre (lower ground floor), New Academic Building
54 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3LJ
For your invitation to our first event (12 March 2010), please see
reverse
www.lse.ac.uk/CPNSS/20thAnniversary
Download Flyer.
Economics
@ Marxism 2010
Website : www.marxismfestival.org.uk
Central London 1-5 July
Featured speakers:
- Ben Fine, author, with Dimitris Milonakis, of the Isaac and
Tamara Deutscher Prize winning From Economics Imperialism to
Freakonomics (Routledge, 2009)
- Costas Lapavitsas, author of The Social Foundations of
Markets, Money and Credit (Routledge, 2003)
- AlFredo Saad Filho, author of The Value of Marx
(Routledge, 2002) and coauthor of Marx’s Capital (Pluto, 2004)
- Guglielmo Carchedi, author of Behind the Crisis (Brill,
forthcoming) and Frontiers of Political Economy (Routledge,
1991)
- Graham Turner, author of No Way to Run and Economy
(Pluto, 2009)
- Alex Callinicos, author of Bonfire of Illusions (Polity,
2010) and Imperialism and Global Political Economy (Polity,
2009)
- Joseph Choonara, author of Unravelling Capitalism
(Bookmarks, 2009)
- Istvan Mészáros, author of Beyond Capital
(Monthly Review Press, 2000)
- Jane Hardy, author of Poland’s New Capitalism
(Pluto, 2009)
Plus:
- Slavoj Žižek & John Holloway discuss the idea of communism
- Prospects for the Middle East considered by Shlomo Sand, author
of the acclaimed book The Invention of the Jewish People; Gilbert
AChcar, author of The Arabs and the Holocaust; Haifa Zangana, author of
City of Widows: An Iraqi Woman’s Account of War and Resistance;
Ghada Karmi, author of Married to Another Man: Israel’s Dilemma
in Palestine
- US academic Hester Eisenstein, author of Feminism Seduced, joins
Nina Power, author of One Dimensional Woman, and Socialist Review
editor Judith Orr to discuss the challenges facing the struggle for
women’s liberation. Sheila Rowbotham speaks on new book Dreamers
of a New Day: Women who Invented the Twentieth Century.
- Peter Thomas presents his roadmap to Gramsci’s Prison
Notebooks
- Danny Dorling speaks on his book Injustice: Why Social
Inequality Persists
- Panel on civil liberties with solicitor Gareth Peirce, former
Guantanamo Bay inmate Moazzam Begg and Gerry Conlon of the Guildford
Four. John Hendy QC discusses the anti-union laws
- Guardian feature writer Gary Younge, Tariq Ali and Richard
Seymour of Lenin’s Tomb speak on racism, Islamophobia and
identity
- Authors and academics: Owen Hatherley (Militant Modernism),
Alberto Toscano (Fanaticism: The Uses of an Idea), G M Tamás,
Sheila Cohen (Ramparts of Resistance), Gareth Dale (Popular Protest in
East Germany 1945-1989), Kevin Doogan (New Capitalism?), Neil Davidson
(Discovering the Scottish Revolution 1692-1746), Colin Barker, Paul
Blackledge (Reflections on the Marxist Theory of History), Martin
Empson (Marxism and Ecology), Jonathan Neale (Stop Global Warming:
Change the World), Christian Hogsbjerg, John Rose (Myths of Zionism),
Peter Hallward (Damming the Flood: Haiti, Aristide and the Politics of
Containment)
Join thousands of others at Europe’s biggest festival of radical
ideas—featuring over 200 meetings, debates, film screenings, and
musical performances.
For updates go to :http://www.facebook.com/marxism
| http://twitter.com/Marxism2k10
Book online now :
http://www.marxismfestival.org.uk
Fiscal Sustainability
Teach-In and Counter-Conference
April 28th, Washington D.C.
The conference aims to do just that with some real world, honest
economics. The date was chosen as an alternative and counter to the
deficit hawks at Peterson Foundation’s “Fiscal
Summit.” We can move beyond the false economic orthodoxy that got
us into the current economic mess and that is now being promoted to
attack Social Security and Medicare — and harming our Nation and
it’s People in so many ways. You can help.
Fore more details (including the conference program), download the flyer.
Historical Materialism 2010
York University, Toronto, Canada. May 13-16, 2010
Plenary speakers include Terry Eagleton, Andrea Smith, Vijay Prashad,
Johanna Brenner, Aziz Choudry, Dorothy Smith, Kevin Anderson, and David
McNally, among others.
Plenary topics include “Marx and the Global South,”
“Global Crisis, Working Class Households and Migrant
Labour,” “Capitalism, Race and Colonialism,” and
“Is Marxism a Theodicy?” We will also be running a
four-part course on Marx’s Capital.
Details on registration, accommodation and the conference program are
available at www.yorku.ca/hmyork. To see the
preliminary list of panels, click on the Program tab, then click on
“Themes.”
History of Economics as
Culture
The Cachan History of Social Science Group (H2S)
will organize its second annual workshop on "History of Economics as
Culture" on Friday April, 9.
Location is École normale
supérieure de Cachan Cournot Building, Room C315/C317/C319.
Program:
9:45-10:00 am: Welcome
10:00-11:00 am
Roberta J.
Pokphanh (University of Kansas - Department of Art History) / Taking
Stock: Money Weighing and Account Keeping in Mid-Seventeenth Century
Dutch Painting
11:00-12:00pm
Yann Giraud
(University of Cergy-Pontoise - Department of Economics) and Loïc
Charles (University of Reims - Department of Economics) / Economics for
the Masses:The Visual Display of Economic Knowledge in the United
States, 1921-1945
12:00-2:00pm: Lunch
2:00-3:00 pm
Charles R.
Sullivan (University of Dallas - Department of History) / Adam Smith's
"History of Astronomy" and the Development of Auguste Comte's
Conception of Spiritual Power
3:00-4:00 pm
Robert Leonard
(UQAM - Department of Economics) / Social Science and Modernism: The
Case of Karl Menger
4:00-4:30 pm: General discussion
Entrance is free, but make sure that you
registered in advance to me at the following address if you want to
participate and have the papers:lo.charles@laposte.net
Use the same address for any query you
might have regarding the workshop.
Institute
of Germanic & Romance Studies (IGRS): London Conference
Theme : New Insights into Gramsci's Life and Work
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Chancellor's Hall, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU
A one-day conference organised by Alessandro Carlucci (Royal Holloway,
University of London) in association with the Institute of Germanic
& Romance Studies (School of Advanced Studies, University of London)
Sponsored by the Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust, and by the
School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Royal Holloway,
University of London
The main aim of the conference is to share and disseminate the results
of recent, specialised research on Gramsci. Significant novelties will
be presented by leading experts with the aim of overcoming disciplinary
boundaries and helping to reduce the gaps between: a) widespread,
conventional understandings of Gramsci and up-to-date specialised
research; and b) the work on Gramsci's writings and biography and the
use of Gramsci's theories for understanding current social, political
and cultural issues.
Confirmed contributors: Derek Boothman (SSLMIT, University of Bologna),
Craig Brandist (University of Sheffield), Fabio Frosini (University of
Urbino), Carl Levy (Goldsmiths, University of London), James Martin
(Goldsmiths, University of London), Anne Showstack Sassoon (Birkbeck,
University of London), and Peter Thomas (member of the editorial board
of Historical Materialism).
Entrance: FREE
For further information please contact the organisers at a.carlucci@rhul.ac.uk
or igrs@sas.ac.uk
Programme
10.00 am - Coffee and Registration
10.30 am - Introduction
Alessandro
Carlucci, 'Gramsci's Life and Work: Recent Findings and New
Interpretative Trends'
11.00 am - Session I
Chair: Federico
Faloppa (University of Reading)
Anne Showstack Sassoon, 'Gramsci's Struggle with
Language Revisited'
Derek Boothman, 'Gramsci's Interest in Language:
The Influence of the Dispense di glottologia (1912-13) on the Prison
Notebooks'
Craig Brandist, 'Gramsci's Politics of Language
in the Light of the Soviet Sociological Linguistics of the 1920s and
1930s'
1.00 am - Lunch break
2.00 pm - Session II
Chair: Simone
Testa (IGRS, University of London)
Peter Thomas, 'Hegemony, the Philosophy of Praxis
and the Third International'
Fabio Frosini, 'Reformation, Renaissance and the
Rise of the Modern State'
3.20 pm - Tea and biscuits
3.45 pm - Session III
Chair: Anne
Showstack Sassoon
Carl Levy, 'Gramsci and Anarchism'
James Martin, 'Gramsci and Gobetti: A Case of
Elective Affinity?'
Concluding Remarks by the Chair and General
Discussion
LSE
Department of Geography Public Lecture
Monday 26 April 2010, 6.30-8pm at Old
Theatre, Old Building
Speaker: Professor David Harvey
Title : The Enigma of Capital
For three centuries the capitalist system
has shaped western society and conditioned the lives of its people.
Capitalism is cyclical - and increasingly bankrupt. Boom-and-bust is
its model. Laying bare the follies of the international financial
system, eminent academic David Harvey looks at the nature of capitalism
and why it's time to call a halt to its unbridled excesses.
He examines the vast
flows of money that surge round the world in daily volumes well in
excess of the sum of all its economies. He looks at the cycles of boom
and bust in the world's housing and stock markets and shows that
periodic episodes of meltdown are not only inevitable in the capitalist
system but essential to its survival.
The essence of capitalism
is its amorality and lawlessness and to talk of a regulated, ethical
capitalism is to make a fundamental error. The Enigma of Capital
considers how crises of the current sort can best be contained within
the constraints of capitalism, and makes the case for a social order
that would allow us to live within a system that really could be
responsible, just, and humane.
David Harvey is Distinguished Professor of
Anthropology at the City University of New York Graduate School and
former Professor of Geography at Johns Hopkins and Oxford Universities.
The author of numerous books, he was awarded the Patron's Medal of the
Royal Geographical Society in 1995 and elected to the American Academy
of Arts and Sciences in 2007. He is the world's most cited academic
geographer and his course on Marx's Capital has been downloaded by well
over 250,000 people since mid-2008: http://davidharvey.org/
This event celebrates Professor Harvey's new
book The Enigma of Capital.
This event is free and open to all with no
ticket required. Entry is on a first come, first served basis. For more
information, email events@lse.ac.uk or call 020 7955 6043.
Marx
and the Crisis: Workshop at the University of Bergamo
Il Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche
e la Facoltà di Economia
dell'Università di Bergamo
organizzano una Giornata di studio su
"Marx e la crisi"
il 23 aprile 2010 dalle 9.30 alle 19.00
Aula 15, Via dei Caniana 2
Bergamo
9.30-11.00
GIORGIO GATTEI (Università di Bologna)
Marx e l'economia di puro debito (I)
GUGLIELMO FORGES DAVANZATI (Università del Salento)
Distribuzione del reddito e crisi in uno schema marxiano di circuito
monetario
DIBATTITO
11.30-13.00
ANDREA MICOCCI (University of Malta Link Campus, Roma)
Marxismo e crisi: una critica delle interpretazioni correnti e una
alternativa non-dialettica
MASSIMILIANO TOMBA (Università di Padova)
Immagini della crisi e tempo storico
DIBATTITO
15.00-15.30
RICCARDO BELLOFIORE (Università di Bergamo)
La crisi capitalistica e le sue ricorrenze: una lettura a partire da
Marx
15.30-16.30
DIBATTITO GENERALE
16.30-19.00
(all'interno della lezione di Economia Monetaria e Economia
Monetaria Internazionale)
VLADIMIRO GIACCHÈ (associazione Marx XXI, Roma)
Il ritorno del rimosso: Marx, la caduta del saggio di profitto e la
crisi
TAVOLA ROTONDA DEI PARTECIPANTI
con la partecipazione di
Riccardo Bellofiore, Guglielmo Forges Davanzati,
Giorgio Gattei, Vladimiro Giacché, Andrea Micocci, Massimiliano
Tomba
Il seminario fa parte di una serie di incontri
dedicati alla attuale crisi sistemica del capitalismo
Il programma e gli abstract possono essere scaricati da: http://www.unibg.it/
La partecipazione è aperta a tutti gli interessati
Per ulteriori informazioni: riccardo.bellofiore@unibg.it
North American & Cuban
Philosophers And Social Scientists
21st annual meeting, University of Havana, June 15-27, 2010
A dialog & tour organized by Professor Cliff DuRand of the Center
for Global Justice, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
North American researchers and professionals in economics, political
science, philosophy, psychology, sociology, history and the professions
join with Cuban counterparts for lively dialog. Topics vary according
to research interests but might include national identity, development,
health care, socialism/capitalism, women & globalization, and
cooperatives. The history, struggles, gains and problems of this
ongoing revolution inevitably enter discussions at Cuba’s main
university.
Even under current U.S. travel rules professionals as well as academics
can go to Cuba for research. These licensed trips, organized by the
Center for Global Justice, include site visits, tours, interviews, and
briefings - for first-hand experience of Cuban realities and projects.
The dialog and tours give perspective on a major and still unanswered
question: how for 50 years has Cuba stood as an alternative to
U.S.-dominated capitalism?
Since 1982 Center Research Associate Cliff DuRand has organized the
North American side of this conference. The Center for Global Justice
is a bi-lingual NGO founded in 2004 and devoted to “research
& learning for a better world.” Visit us at www.globaljusticecenter.org In
its twenty-first session, this dialog bridges the gap between thinkers
in our two countries – a gap opened 50 years ago by the
U.S.-imposed blockade and travel ban.
Estimated cost of $1,500 US plus airfare, includes: hotel (double
occupancy), breakfast, translation, local transportation, and a full
program of activities. Not included: air fare via Miami, Toronto,
Nassau, Mexico City or Cancun.
For more information: cliff@globaljusticecenter.org
Peter Gowan Memorial
Conference
A one-day conference to discuss the contribution and ideas of Peter
Gowan (1946-2009), author of The Global Gamble, founding editor
of Labour Focus on Eastern Europe, long-standing editor of New Left
Review, and Professor of International Relations at London
Metropolitan University.
Saturday, 12 June 2010, 10.00 to 5.30
School of Oriental and African Studies, Room G2
Agenda
10.00 - 12.30
Introduction: Tariq Ali
Session 1: Eastern Europe
Speakers: Gus Fagan, Marko Bojcun, Catherine Samary
12.30 - 1.30 lunch
1.30 - 3.00
Session 2: Imperialism and American Grand Strategy
Speakers: Gilbert Achcar, Ellen Meiksins Wood, Susan Watkins
3.00 - 3.30 coffee break
3.30 - 5.00
Session 3: The Dollar-Wall St Regime
Speakers: Robin Blackburn, Robert Wade, Alex Callinicos
5.00 - 5.30
Mike Newman: Peter Gowan as an educator
Awarding of the Peter Gowan Prize
The Conference is sponsored by Debatte:
Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe and Historical
Materialism.
PKSG: Keynes Seminar Live
5.30 – 7.00 pm in the Auditorium Lounge, Robinson College,
Cambridge.
Tuesday 27 April
Eric Berr will talk on “Keynes, the Post Keynesians and
Sustainable Development” with a response by Adrian Winnett.
Background papers from both speakers can be found on the website: http://www.postkeynesian.net/keynes.htm
Tuesday 11 May
Peter Clarke will speak on “Pragmatic and Dogmatic Keynesianism:
the relevance of Keynes's thinking today” and Robert Cord will
respond. A paper will be posted shortly. Both speakers have recently
produced new biographies of Keynes which can be found at http://www.bloomsbury.com/Books/details.aspx?isbn=9781408803912
and http://www.hauspublishing.com/product/60
Further details can be found athttp://www.postkeynesian.net/keynes.htm
Rethinking
Social Economy
Friday, 7 May 2010 . 10:30 - 18:30
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, UK
Website : http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1263/
Registration online via the link at the top right hand side of this
page. Limited places.
Conference fee: £15 (full); £10 (students)
Cambridge Business and Society Research Group
Convenor: Antonio Andreoni (University of Cambridge)
Summary:
A one-day workshop in which leading scholars, researchers and
practitioners in the fields of institutional economics, development
economics and social entrepreneurship investigate the challenges,
opportunities and the role played by various institutions in the realm
of the Social Economy. Today's world of rapid and extensive
transformation and financial crisis has rendered even more necessary
than before the identification of innovative and effective tools in the
struggle against poverty, underdevelopment and intolerable injustice.
Tackling these challenges calls for a re-thinking of the role of the
State, the market and of all those organizations which fall into the
realm of the social economy.
The Social Economy comprises a wide and highly dynamic range of
different organizational entities with social and environmental
purposes, such as social enterprises, community development
associations, micro-finance institutions and fair trade organizations.
These institutional species which are neither in the public sector nor
have the exclusive profit-maximizing objective that typifies the
private sector may be potentially effective and complementary tools for
the solutions of social, economic and environmental problems, both in
developed and underdeveloped regions. The CRASSH workshop on Social
Economy aims to investigate and provide critical perspectives on these
new hybrids, and highlight the various contradictions and trends
emerging in recent years.
In particular, the workshop will investigate three main issues:
Relational Approaches for Social economy
- Is conventional economics sufficiently equipped for
understanding the innovative practices developed by these institutional
species?
Social Economy for Economic Development
- In what ways has the social economy reshaped the development
agenda at the international level? Are these institutions calling for
the retreat of the State as the main provider of social welfare or, on
the contrary, do they propose innovative and complementary strategies
for solving social problems?
Social Entrepreneurship for Social Innovation
- What hybrid organizational forms and models are social
entrepreneurs developing to bring social value?
Finally all participants will address the role of the social economy in
broader society. In what way are the tendencies of mission drift
transforming and having a negative impact on the social performances of
social enterprises? What are the risks connected to a
mainstream-ization of the social economy?
Salford: Seminar on Greek Crisis
Tuesday May 4th, from 2-7pm
Clifford Whitworth Library, Conference Room
Centre for Democracy and Human Rights
Seminar Series In Radical Political & Social Thought
The Greek Crisis in Context: De Te Fabula Narratur!
In his preface to the first volume of Capital, Karl Marx declares to
his German readers that, although England is used as the main
illustrative case, de te fabula narratur (the tale is told of you)! To
think of England as some anomalous case would be to severely misread
the global scale of the forces in play; England was, for Marx, a
precursor of what the future held for Germans and many others.
This seminar takes the same position vis-à-vis the Greek crisis.
To treat it as a product of forces unique to Greece itself, or even to
the entirety of Southern Europe (the PIGS as those peoples are labelled
by many), is to misread the significance of the crisis toward
capitalism and liberal democracy more generally. Through a series of
roundtable discussions, three key sets of questions will be examined:
what the crisis reveals about the fragility and character of the
European project as it is presently constituted; the class character
and stakes of current developments and struggles in Greece and beyond;
and, most centrally, the possibility that the Greek case is simply an
early example of a much deeper and wider crisis of the capitalist state.
Participants will include:
- Peter Bratsis (University of Salford)
- Costas Douzinas (Birkbeck College, University of London)
- Carlos Frade (University of Salford)
- Bob Jessop (University of Lancaster)
- Stathis Kouvelakis (Kings College, University of London)
- Dimitris Papadimitriou (University of Manchester)
- Spyros Sakellaropoulos (Panteion University)
- Konstantinos Tsoukalas (University of Athens)
Download the Flyer:
http://www.famss.salford.ac.uk/cms/resources/uploads/File/ESPaCH/Greek%20Crisis%204%20May%202010.pdf
Socialism 2010
With the economy in shambles and with wars and occupations
continuing, the challenge to change these conditions confronts us all.
More than a year ago, millions placed their hopes in Barack Obama and
the Democrats to solve these problems. But after months of broken
promises and concessions to conservatives, jobs are scarce, the banks
are unregulated, and full equality for LGBT people remains elusive.
Socialism 2010—to be held in both Chicago and
Oakland—will provide an unparalleled opportunity for new and
veteran activists and scholars to explore questions about how we got
into this mess and how we can get out of it.
Last year, more than 1,800 people turned out to
explore the history of struggles of ordinary people, to learn about
radical figures who led social movements and to debate theoretical
questions that can help us change the world.
Join us for more than 100 talks on issues such
as: What is the Real Marxist Tradition?, Race in the Obama Era,
Capitalism, Climate Change, and the Future of Humanity, Abortion and
Women’s Liberation, and Building a New Left in the Obama Era.
Don’t miss the chance to meet, talk and socialize with
hundreds of others like you who want to build an alternative to a
system of greed, racism, war and oppression.
Featured Speakers
-
GILBERT ACHCAR / author, The Arabs and the Holocaust
-
TARIQ ALI / writer, filmmaker and an editor of New Left
Review
-
ANTHONY ARNOVE / co-producer with the late Howard Zinn of
“The People Speak”
-
PAUL D’AMATO / author, The Meaning of Marxism
-
MIKE DAVIS / historian and socialist activist whose books
include In Praise of Barbarians
-
SAM FARBER / author, The Origins of the Cuban Revolution
Reconsidered; JOEL GEIER, associate editor,International Socialist
Review
-
ANAND GOPAL /Kabul correspondent for the Christian Science
Monitor
-
JAMES GREEN / author, Death in the Haymarket
-
BRIAN JONES / actor and activist in New York City, and a
frequent guest on GRITtv
-
SONALI KOLHATKAR / host, "Uprising", KPFK-FM, Los Angeles
-
PAUL LEBLANC / activist and author, whose books include Lenin
and the Revolutionary Party
-
ALAN MAASS /editor, Socialist Worker
-
MARLENE MARTIN / Campaign to End the Death Penalty
-
JOHN RIDDELL /co-editor, Socialist Voice (Canada)
-
HEATHER ROGERS / journalist and filmmaker and author of Green
Gone Wrong
-
JEREMY SCAHILL / contributor to The Nation and
author,Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army
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LILIANA SEGURA / AlterNet staff writer on civil rights and
liberties
-
JEFFREY ST. CLAIR and JOSHUA FRANK /authors, Greenscare: The
New War on Environmentalism
-
LANCE SELFA / author, The Democrats: A Critical History
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AHMED SHAWKI / editor, International Socialist Review
-
SHARON SMITH / author of Subterranean Fire and Women and
Socialism
-
LEE SUSTAR / labor editor, Socialist Worker
-
SHERRY WOLF / interim governing board, Equality Across
America, and author of Sexuality and Socialism
-
KEEANGA YAMAHTTA TAYLOR /editorial board of International
Socialist Review and frequent contributor on race and class
-
DAVE ZIRIN / sportswriter and author, A People’s
History of Sports in the United States
SOCIALISTS from France, Greece, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Britain
and many more!
What you’ll find at Socialism 2010: More than 100 meetings,
a bookfair, films, entertainment, and parties.
Sponsored by
The Center for Economic Research and
Social Change
Publisher of the International Socialist Review and Haymarket Books.
Co-sponsored by
The International Socialist
Organization
Publisher of Socialist Worker
The Enigma
of Capital by David Harvey
A talk by the world's most cited academic geographer DAVID HARVEY
Tuesday 27 April. 6.30pm. Free.
Great Hall, Strand, King's College London
Please arrive early to avoid disappointment (Doors open 6pm).
For more info contact kclreadingcapital@gmail.com
or www.kclreadingcapital.blogspot.com
The Future
of Post Keynesian Economics
A public lecture by Louis-Philippe Rochon (Laurentian University,
Ontario, Canada)
6.00 pm Tuesday 27th April
Lecture Room B1.12, Ground Floor, Building 5.
Faculty of Business, University of Technology, Sydney
Corner Quay St and Ultimo Rd, Haymarket
(enter from Quay St at the Block B entrance)
Sponsored by The School
of Finance and Economics, University of Technology, Sydney and The Society of
Heterodox Economists
The
Privatization of Public Space? Resisting Enclosure
April 21-22, 2010. CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York City
Neoliberalism continues to transform public space in geographically
uneven and variegated ways, with far reaching and profound
consequences. On the first day, the conference will provide
context for various means of privatization and elaborate on language
and visions for discussing this issue. On the second day,
workshops will bring together students, activists, artists, and
organizations engaged in imagining and practicing new and creative
means of resistance to the new round of enclosures taking place on a
global scale.
Day 1 Conference: Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Elebash Recital Hall, CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, New York City
9:00 a.m. Introduction and Welcome - Setha Low President William
P. Kelly and Provost Chase F. Robinson of CUNY Graduate Center
9:30 - 11:00 a.m.
Privatization of Public Space: Historical and Contemporary New York
City Sharon Zukin, Gregory Smithsimon, Andrew Newman
11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Reconsidering Privatization: Neoliberal Strategies, Securitization and
Privacy Kevin Ward, Setha Low, Kurt Iveson
1:00 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch
2:00 - 3:30 p.m.
Beyond Public and Private: Privatization and the Global Fiscal Crisis
Neil Smith, Katherine Verdery, Bill McKinney
4-5:30 Visions of the Future: Race, Class and Gender Mindy Fullilove,
David Harvey, Cindi Katz
5:30-6:00 p.m.
Wrap up and further discussion
6:00-7:00 p.m. Reception
Day 2 Workshops: Thursday, April 22, 2010 Rooms
5414 and 5409 (5th Floor) CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue, New York City
To RSVP for Day 2, find us on Facebook (search "resisting enclosure")
or RSVP by sending an email toresistingenclosure@riseup.net!
RSVP is not required for entrance but helps us make sure we accommodate
everyone! (Please include any special needs information.)
9:00 a.m. Registration
9:30 a.m. Opening discussion, with David Harvey
10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Workshop 1: Anti-Gentrification and Community Self-Determination,
with CAAAV's Chinatown Tenants Union and Picture the Homeless Workshop
2: Artistic Interruptions in Everyday Life, with Dara Greenwald,
Manu Sachdeva, Jeff Stark and Jordan Seiler
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch (on site)
1:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.
Workshop 3: Neoliberalism, Securitization and Enclosures in South
Asia, with Ahilan Kadirgamar, Biju Mathew, Preeti Sampat and Saadia
Toor Workshop 4:The University and the Commons, with Silvia Federici,
Malav Kanuga, Mary Taylor and the Coalition to Preserve Community
3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
"Asking We Walk": Collective Theorizations/Mapping Emancipations?
5:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Reception
Free and Open. Food and refreshments will be provided.
Sponsors:
Public Space Research Group at the Center for Human Environments,
Center for Place, Culture, and Politics, Ph.D. Programs in Earth and
Environmental Sciences and Sociology, Doctoral Students' Council,
SpaceTime Research Collective (STRC) and the South Asia Solidarity
Initiative (SASI)
Organized by:
Setha Low, The Graduate Center, CUNY; Kevin Ward, University of
Manchester; Lalit Batra, Doctoral Student in Earth and Environmental
Sciences; Fiona Jeffries, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for
Place, Culture and Politics; Erin Siodmak, Doctoral Student in
Sociology; Laurel Mei Turbin, Doctoral Student in Earth and
Environmental Sciences
Utopia, Dystopia and
Critical Theory
Thursday 13 May 2010. University of Sussex Centre for Literature and
Philosophy
A one-day Interdisciplinary Conference for Postgraduate and Research
Students
Keynote Speakers:
- Peter Osborne (Middlesex)
- Nina Power (Roehampton)
- Keston Sutherland (Sussex)
Please see further details and register to attend at: http://sspt2010.weebly.com
- Registration is now open and is free of charge
- Book soon to avoid disappointment as places are limited
Papers presented at the conference will be considered for publication
in Studies in Social & Political Thought, a graduate journal
published by the Centre for Social and Political Theory at the
University of Sussex since 1990 (http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cspt/1-6-1.html).
Westminster Economics Forum
We are pleased to announce the second seminar in the eighth series of
the Westminster Economics Forum. A forum for policy makers and business
launched by the Economic and Social Research Council and the National
Institute of Economic and Social Research. The current series focuses
on the topic of the Financial Services Sector.
- Date: 9th June 2010, 1.00pm
- Venue: National Institute of Economic and Social Research
- Speaker: Professor Ray Barrell, NIESR, Director of Macroeconomic
Research and Forecasting
- Title: 'Is it worth bolting the stable door before the horse
bolts again?
- Research on optimal bank regulation and the causes of financial
crises.'
- Chair: Dr Sushil Wadhwani, CBE.
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
or phone: 020 7654 1905.
What Postcolonial Theory
Doesn't Say
International Conference
University of York |University of Leeds | Manchester Metropolitan
University
3-5 July 2010. York (United Kingdom)
This conference is the fruit of collaboration across three universities
(York, Leeds and Manchester Metropolitan) aimed at evaluating
postcolonial theory, its impact and aporias. Over the course of three
days, we will examine these and related questions through a set of
interdisciplinary interventions aimed at assessing not only what
postcolonial theory (still) doesn’t say, but also what we would
like it to say: in other words, how we might best put the field’s
cultural and institutional capital to use. Our intent, therefore, is
not to repeat well-rehearsed debates about the field’s various
failings, but rather to advance the discussion by identifying common
goals and areas of enquiry.
Keynote Speakers : Anne McClintock | Rob Nixon | Neil Lazarus
Venue : Berrick Saul Building, University of York, UK
Sessions:
- Transatlantic Movements and Memories
- South America
- The Middle East
- Africa
- East Asia
- Postcolonial Nature?
- Aesthetics
- Theory’s Futures
- The Institutionalisation of Postcolonial Studies
- Human Rights
- Terror
- "Not Us, the Others Too": German Translocations of Postcolonial
Theory
- Postcolonial Theory and Criticism in East-Central Europe:
Intersections, Revisions, Ideological Disjunctions
Programme : http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/engl/events/postcoloniality_programme.pdf
Contact :
Ziad Elmarsafy
Department of English and Related Literature
University of York
Heslington, YO10 5DD
United Kingdom
Tel: +44 (0)1904 433342
Email: ziad12@gmail.com
Web: http://www.york.ac.uk/depts/engl/events/forthcoming.htm
Job
Postings for Heterodox Economists
Kingston University
Faculty/Dept Arts and Social
Sciences School/Section Economics
Vacancy
Number: 10/086
Salary: £51,459 - 66,794 pa
Grade: Senior Staff Band C
Hours: 37 hours a week
Closing Date: 12 Noon on 29th April 2010
Interviews: Between 29th June and 15th July
As part of London’s leading new university the Faculty of Arts
and Social Sciences at Kingston University, is the largest such faculty
in the capital, consisting of an exciting and diverse body of dynamic
disciplines and staff. The Faculty aspires to have all subject areas
recognised in the top quartile in the UK for teaching and research by
2020.
As part of a considerable programme of investment in research and
postgraduate education, the Faculty is seeking to appoint Professors to
enhance research leadership in the following subject
Professor of Economics
You should be a
scholar of distinction, with the ability to initiate, organise and lead
collaborative research projects. You should be looking for an
opportunity to continue personal research of demonstrated international
standards of excellence and also to lead and develop our research
activity which currently focuses on our core research themes:
International Trade and Development, Money and Finance, Political
Economy. However, applications from any area of Economics are
welcome. You should be prepared to work closely with the Director
of Research in providing a thriving research environment for staff and
post-graduate students of economics.
Applicants
must have an outstanding record of 3* and 4* research. They must
be committed to innovative teaching and student-centred learning at
post-graduate level.
For informal discussions about the above post contact: Professor Martin
McQuillan (Dean of Faculty, m.mcquillan@kingston.ac.uk)
or Dr Nick Butler, n.butler@kingston.ac.uk,
For further information and to apply online, please visit our website
at www.kingston.ac.uk/jobs.
Alternatively
you can email recruitment@kingston.ac.uk for
an application pack, or if you do not have access to the internet,
please call the recruitment line on 020 8417 3153, quoting the
reference number 10/086.
If you are
a textphone user, please dial 18001 to access the Typetalk service,
followed 020 8417 3153.
For the detail here : http://recruitment.kingston.ac.uk/Default.asp?Section=Vacancy&VacID=10/086
York University
The
Department of Social Science, York University invites applications
for up to two positions from qualified candidates with a PhD, at or
near completion, in a relevant discipline, and an interdisciplinary
background in the social sciences or related areas to teach in its
programs in the following field:
- Business and Society
(two positions): Each successful candidate will be responsible for
teaching courses drawn from among the following: Business and Society;
The Social Economy; Economics of Law, Policy and Organization;
Corporate Social Responsibility; Issues in Business and Society;
Alternative Economic Firms and Arrangements; Business Law and Corporate
Governance; Ethics and Economics; and Business and Communications. The
program offers a critical, social science approach to the study of
business rather than a more conventional business school curriculum.
All positions are full-time teaching appointments
with a teaching load of three full-year courses or equivalent. The
start date for all positions is July 1, 2010 or later, unless otherwise
specified, and they terminate June 30, 2011. All York University
positions are subject to budgetary approval.
York University is an Affirmative Action
Employer. The Affirmative Action Program can be found on York's website
at www.yorku.ca/acadjobs or a copy can
be obtained by calling the affirmative action office at 416-736-5713.
All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadian
citizens and Permanent Residents will be given priority. Temporary
entry for citizens of the U.S.A. and Mexico may apply per the
provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).
The application deadline for all positions is May 17, 2010, although late applications may be
accepted for unfilled positions. All applications must include a
covering letter, CV, a writing sample and three signed letters of
reference (which may be sent separately), and be mailed to:
Richard Wellen,
Chair, Department of Social Science
Room S753, Ross Building, York University
4700 Keele St., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3
E-mail submissions will not be accepted.
Nantes-Atlantic
National College of Veterinary Medicine, Food Science and Engineering
L’Ecole
Nationale Vétérinaire, Agroalimentaire et de
l’Alimentation Nantes Atlantique (ONIRIS) est un
établissement d'enseignement supérieur et de recherche du
Ministère de l’Alimentation, de l’Agriculture et de
la Pêche.
ONIRIS – site de la Géraudière recrute un
Maître de Conférences en économie et
stratégie industrielles.
L’enseignant-chercheur participera aux enseignements dans le
cadre des formations d’ONIRIS. Il répondra de ce fait
à l’objectif de la formation des ingénieurs
lesquels doivent être aptes à résoudre des
problèmes de nature technologiques, concrets, complexes,
liés à la mise en œuvre de produits, de
systèmes ou de services. Cette aptitude résulte
d’un ensemble de connaissances techniques, économiques,
sociales, humaines, reposant sur une culture scientifique. Il
contribuera également aux enseignements dans le cursus de
formation vétérinaire en répondant aux nouveaux
besoins d’enseignements des sciences sociales,
économiques, et de gestion dans ces formations. Il pourra
contribuer à la formation professionnelle continue et à
la formation par la recherche et à la recherche (au sein des
masters co-habilités avec l’université)
L’enseignant-chercheur sera chargé plus
particulièrement des enseignements en économie et en
stratégie principalement au sein de la filière
ingénieur. Il assura l’initiation des étudiants
à l’économie générale et
développera fortement les enseignements d’économie
et de stratégie industrielles.
En matière de recherches le nouvel enseignant chercheur sera
membre du Laboratoire de Recherche en Gestion et Economie des
Industries Alimentaires (LARGECIA). En son sein les
problématiques de recherches du nouvel enseignant-chercheur dans
le domaine de l’économie et la stratégie
industrielle viseront plus particulièrement à
étudier et analyser les stratégies des industries
alimentaires face à un environnement perturbé.
La procédure de recrutement en vigueur au sein de cet
établissement, dépendant du Ministère de
l’Alimentation, de l’Agriculture et de la Pêche, est
distincte de celle du Ministère de l’enseignement
supérieur et de la recherche.
- Ce concours est organisé selon les
modalités suivantes : la date limite de retrait des dossiers
d’inscription est fixée au
- vendredi 21 mai 2010, à 17 heures
; la date limite de dépôt des dossiers d’inscription
est fixée au lundi 24 mai 2010, à midi (le cachet de la
poste faisant foi).
Ouvert au titulaire d’un doctorat en sciences économiques
ou de gestion, le concours est prévu pour septembre 2010 pour
une entrée en fonction le 1er janvier 2010.
Le dossier de candidature est à retirer auprès de Mme
Monique Paquin, responsable des ressources humaines à ONIRIS (monique.paquin@oniris-nantes.fr
).
Le profil est disponible sur le site d’ONIRIS (rubrique :
actualités puis travailler à ONIRIS)
http://www.oniris-nantes.fr/
Pour tous renseignements d’ordre pratique et scientifique, vous
pouvez contacter Jean Marc Ferrandi, Professeur et directeur du
LARGECIA (jean-marc.ferrandi@oniris-nantes.fr)
Conference
Papers, Reports, & Articles
Within and Between
Disagreement Across Schools of Thought in Economics: Evidence from
Italian Economists
By Michele
Di Maio (University of Naples “Parthenope”, Italy) and Luca
De Benedicts (University of Macerata, Italy)
The paper presents an analysis of the
disagreement within and between the different schools of thought in
economics. As a test-bed we use a set of propositions on the Italian
economy. Our results suggest that the school of thought is an important
determinant of economists’ opinions, even controlling for a
number of individual characteristics including the political view. We
also find that in some of the commonly used ways of grouping schools of
thought in broader categories (e.g. Mainstream vs Non-Mainstream,
Orthodox vs Heterodox) have little explicative power in relation to
individual opinions. Yet there are some critical issues on which
differences in opinions among economists belonging to different groups
remains, whatever the way used to group schools of thought.
Download the current version of this paper here: http://sites.google.com/site/micdimaio/outputs
In the authors' website, other related papers,
documents, data are available too. Visit here: http://sites.google.com/site/micdimaio/surveyofitalianeconomists
Why the IMF Changed its Mind about Capital Controls
In this
short video commentary for the Guardian and in a related article for
Foreign Policy magazine, GDAE’s Kevin P. Gallagher explains the
important shift in the International Monetary Fund’s official
position on the use of capital controls to mitigate financial crises.
He goes on to argue that the U.S. government should follow suit,
accepting the new policy consensus in economics and ending the practice
of outlawing the use of controls in its trade and investment agreements.
See short Guardian video and Foreign Policy article
Visit the Triple Crisis
Blog on finance, development and the environment
Why
Agreement on Climate Change Stalled at Copenhagen
By Ben Groom (Department of Economics, SOAS). Development Viewpoint #50
Click here to download: http://www.soas.ac.uk/cdpr/publications/dv/file58734.pdf
CDPR’s other thought-provoking, diversified
Development Viewpoints are available on http://www.soas.ac.uk/cdpr/publications/dv/
Sobre el Impacto de los
Shocks de Demanda en la Inflación
Por Franklin Serrano
A Joan Robinson (1982) le gustaba contar la historia que Kalecki una
vez había definido la economía ortodoxa como “la
ciencia de confundir stocks con flujos”. Al día de hoy en
las discusiones sobre cómo combatir la inflación, parece
que es más la confusión sobre los niveles, las tasas de
incremento y la aceleración. Acá nos preocuparemos de una
sola pregunta (para ampliar ver Serrano, 2006): ¿Cuál es
el impacto en los precios de un shock de demanda? ¿Incrementa el
nivel de precios, causando una tasa positiva de inflación o
acelera permanentemente la tasa de inflación?.
Read more here: http://grupolujan-circus.blogspot.com/2010/04/sobre-el-impacto-de-los-shocks-de.html
A New Phase, Not Just
Another Recession
By Ismael Hossein-zadeh (Drake
University, Des Moines, Iowa, USA and the author of The
Political Economy of U.S. Militarism)
Download the article.
Heterodox
Journals & Newsletters
Antipode, 41(s1): January
2010
Journal
website: http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/123329956/issue?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0
- Introduction: The Point Is To Change It /
Noel Castree, Paul Chatterton, Nik Heynen, Wendy Larner, Melissa W.
Wright
- Now and Then / Michael J. Watts
- The Idea of Socialism: From 1968 to the
Present-day Crisis / Hugo Radice
- The Revolutionary Imperative / Neil Smith
- To Make Live or Let Die? Rural
Dispossession and the Protection of Surplus Populations / Tania Murray
Li
- Postneoliberalism and its Malcontents /
Jamie Peck, Nik Theodore, Neil Brenner
- D/developments after the Meltdown /
Gillian Hart
- Is the Globalization Consensus Dead? /
Robert Wade
- The Uses of Neoliberalism / James Ferguson
- Crisis, Continuity and Change:
Neoliberalism, the Left and the Future of Capitalism / Noel Castree
- Money Games: Currencies and Power in the
Contemporary World Economy / John Agnew
- Pre-Black Futures / Katharyne Mitchell
- The Shape of Capitalism to Come /
Paul Cammack
- Who Counts? Dilemmas of Justice in a
Postwestphalian World / Nancy Fraser
- The Communist Hypothesis and
Revolutionary Capitalisms: Exploring the Idea of Communist Geographies
for the Twenty-first Century / Erik Swyngedouw
- An Economic Ethics for the Anthropocene /
J. K. Gibson Graham, Gerda Roelvink
Bulletin of
Political Economy, 3(2): December 2009
Journal website: http://www.serialspublications.com/journals1.asp?jid=197&jtype=1
- Towards a New Social Structure of Accumulation: The Case of a
Small Euro-Area Flexicurity Economy / Peter Flaschel, Alfred Greiner
& Sigrid Luchtenberg
- Promoting Economic Growth and Development Through an Employment
of Last Resort Policy /
- Dimitri B. Papadimitriou
- Partial Equilibrium Analysis of Impact of Use of Finance Option
for Purchase of Durable Consumer Goods on Indian Economy: A Study in
General Equilibrium Framework / Shri Prakash, Shalini Sharma &
Arvind Bagati
- The Greco-Roman Theory of the Stage Evolution of Society /
Christos P. Baloglou & Anastassios D. Karayiannis
Table of Contents and Abstracts from the June 2007 issue to the
present issue.
Library Recommendation
Form.
Call for Papers.
Economic Systems Research,
21(4): December 2009
Journal website: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=g921291133~db=all?jumptype=alert&alerttype=new_issue_alert,email
- Using Time-Series To Measure Uncertainty In Environmental
Input-Output Analysis / Asuka Yamakawa; Glen P.
Peters
- The Choice Of Model In The Construction Of Industry Coefficients
Matrices / José M. Rueda-Cantuche; Thijs Ten
Raa
- An Application Of An Integrated Transport Network -
Multiregional Cge Model To The Calibration Of Synergy Effects Of
Highway Investments/ Euijune Kim; Geoffrey J. D.
Hewings
- A Gras Variant Solving For Minimum Information Loss /
André
Lemelin
- Measuring Intersectoral Knowledge Spillovers: An Application Of
Sensitivity Analysis To Italy / Giovanni Cerulli; Bianca
Poti
- Annual Report
2008 / Jan Oosterhaven; Norbert Rainer; Thijs ten Raa; Joaquim Jose
Martins Guilhoto; Jodie Gonzalez Jennings; José M.
Rueda-Cantuch; Erik Dietzenbacher; Bent Thage; Klaus Hubacek; Erik
Dietzenbacher; Bart Los; Christof Paparella
Forum for Social Economics, 39(1):
April
Journal Website: http://www.springer.com/economics/journal/12143
Papers presented at the 2009 ASSA Meeting
-
Uneven Development and Grounded
Comparative Institutional Advantage: Lessons from Sweden and Mondragon
/ G. Schneider, P. Susman
-
Home Care Reform in the Netherlands:
Impacts on Unpaid Care in Rotterdam / I. van Staveren
-
Capabilities, Rights and Justice in
the Context of Australian Aboriginal Welfare Policy / A. Duhs I L.
Davidoff
-
CEO Gender and the Malt Brewing
Industry: Return of the Beer Witch, Ale-Wife,and Brewster / J. Spit
-
Unreformed or Hybrid? Accounting for
Pension Arrangements Diversity in the EU / C. Matos
-
Adam Smith and Immanuel Kant: On
Markets, Duties, and Moral Sentiments / M.D. White
-
“The Social and Instuitional
Economics of the Original Schumpeter” / B.A. McDaniel
-
Bill Waters on Schumpeter / E.J.
O’Boyle
-
Toward a Horizonal Theory of Justice:
Efficiency, Equity, Rights and Capabilities in a Free Market Economy /
F.B. Jennings Jr.
-
Broadening the Right to Acquire
Capital with the Earnings of Capital: the Missing Link to Sustainable
Economic Recovery and Growth / R. Ashford
Industrial
and Corporate Change, 19(2): April
Special
Issue: Management Innovation-Essays in the
Spirit of Alfred D. Chandler, Jr
Article
- William Lazonick and David J. Teece /
Introduction: Management Innovation—Essays in the Spirit of
Alfred D. Chandler, Jr
Perspectives
-
David J. Teece / Alfred Chandler and
"capabilities" theories of strategy and management
-
William Lazonick / The Chandlerian
corporation and the theory of innovative enterprise
-
Richard R. Nelson and David J. Teece /
A discussion with Richard Nelson on the contributions of Alfred
Chandler
-
Sidney G. Winter and David J. Teece /
A conversation with Sidney Winter on the contributions of Alfred
Chandler
Strategy
-
Louis Galambos / The role of
professionals in the Chandler paradigm
-
Susan Helper and Mari Sako /
Management innovation in supply chain: appreciating Chandler in the
twenty-first century
-
Henrik Glimstedt, Donald Bratt, and
Magnus P. Karlsson / The decision to make or buy a critical technology:
semiconductors at Ericsson, 1980–2010
Organization
-
Gary P. Pisano / The evolution of
science-based business: innovating how we innovate
-
David C. Mowery / Alfred Chandler and
knowledge management within the firm
-
Peter Cappelli / The rise and
decline of managerial development
Finance
-
Mary A. O Sullivan / Finance capital
in Chandlerian capitalism
-
David Bardolet, Dan Lovallo, and
Richard Rumelt / The hand of corporate management in capital
allocations: patterns of investment in multi- and single-business firms
International
Socialist Review, 70: Mar./Apr. 2010
Journal website: http://www.isreview.org/
Editorial:
- Pirates of the Caribbean: How the U.S. is exploiting Haiti's
Tragedy
Analysis in Brief:
- Antonis Davanellos / European capitalism's weakest link
- PLUS: Michael Ratner on From Hebron to Yad Vashem / Alan Bean on
The persecution of Curtis Flowers
Column:
- Phil Gasper • Critical Thinking / Can we still stop
environmental disaster?
Features:
- Ashley Smith / Haiti after the quake: Imperialism with a human
face
- Shaun Joseph / Under the Eagle: U.S. imperialism in the
Caribbean
- Eric Ruder / Egypt, Israel, and the U.S.: From Nasserism to
collaboration
- Heather Rogers / The greening of capitalism
- Amy Muldoon / Animal, vegetable, movement? The politics of food
- Anthony Arnove, David Zirin, and Howard Zinn / Remembering
Howard Zinn, 1922-2010 : Two tributes, plus Zinn on Eugene Debs and the
idea of socialism
Reviews:
- Annie Zirin / FDR's New Deal and the fight for jobs: Review of
Nancy Rose: Put to Work: The WPA and Public Employment in the Great
Depressoin
Journal
of Economic Issues, 44(1): March
Journal website: http://mesharpe.metapress.com/link.asp?id=H1XQXR228L73
- Simplistic vs. Complex Organization: Markets, Hierarchies, and
Networks in an Organizational Triangle - A Simple Heuristic to Analyze
Real-World Organizational Forms / Wolfram Elsner, Gero Hocker, Henning
Schwardt
- Economic Complexity and the Role of Markets / Igor Matutinovic
- Medical Tourism: Revenue Generation or International Transfer of
Healthcare Problems? / Ramya M. Vijaya
- On Light Pollution, Passive Pleasures, and the Instrumental
Value of Beauty / Terrel Gallaway
- Art Goes America / Manfred J. Holler, Barbara Klose-Ullmann
- The Governance of Water Services in Developing Countries: An
Analysis in Terms of Action Stratification / Yvan Renou
- In the Shadow of the Anticommons: The Paradox of Overlapping
Exclusion Rights and Open-Access Resource Degradation in India's
Wastelands / Marena Brinkhurst
- Firm Size-Wage Premiums: Using Employer Data to Unravel the
Mystery / Roberto Pedace
- Consumer Discount Rates and the Decision to Repair or Replace a
Durable Product: A Sustainable Consumption Issue / John McCollough
- Does a Rising Tide Lift All the Boats? Explaining the National
Inequality of Happiness / Tomi Ovaska, Ryo Takashima
- Cultural Filtering, Employment and Wages under Temporary
Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) / Daniel A. Underwood, Dan
Axelsen, Dan Friesner
- The Middle Class Throughout the World in the Mid-2000s / Steven
Pressman
- Comment on "Instrumental Value Theory and the Human Capital of
Entrepreneurs" / Baldwin Ranson
- Authors' response to Comments by Baldwin Ranson On "Instrumental
Value Theory and the Human Capital of Entrepreneurs" / Eli Gimmon,
Jonathan Levie
New Political Economy, 15(1): March
Journal website: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13563467.asp
Special Issue:The Political Economy of the
Subprime Crisis: The Economics, Politics and Ethics of Response
Articles
- The Political Economy of the Subprime Crisis: The Economics,
Politics and Ethics of Response / James Brassett; Lena Rethel; Matthew
Watson
- Hedge Funds as 'War Machine': Making the Positions Work / Ismail
Ertürk; Adam Leaver; Karel Williams
- The Limits of Financial Risk Management: Or What we Didn't Learn
from the Asian Crisis / Jacqueline Best
- What Do I Get? The Everyday Politics of Expectations and the
Subprime Crisis / Leonard Seabrooke
- The Performance of Liquidity in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis /
Paul Langley
- Round Up the Usual Suspects: Blame and the Subprime Crisis /
Timothy J. Sinclair
- Credit Risk Transfer and Crunches: Global Finance Victorious or
Vanquished? / Duncan Wigan
- 'Financial Globalisation' and the 'Crisis': A Critical
Assessment and 'What is to be Done'? / Grahame F. Thompson
- Escaping the Tyranny of Earned Income? The Failure of Finance as
Social Innovation / Julie Froud; Sukhdev Johal; Johnna Montgomerie;
Karel Williams
National
Institute Economic Review, Feb. 2010
The full version is available by contacting Sage Publications at http://ner.sagepub.com./
Summaries:
RESEARCH ARTICLES:
ECONOMIC OVERVIEW
COMMENTARY
THE UK ECONOMY
THE WORLD ECONOMY
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives:
April 2010
CCPA website: http://www.policyalternatives.ca/
- New CCPA report by pension expert Monica Townson argues that
expanding the Canada Pension Plan is the most effective way to address
Canada's pension difficulties. Options for Pension Reform: Expanding the Canada
Pension Plan also provides an analysis of options on how to plan
that expansion. Click here to read the full report.
- CCPA senior economist Armine Yalnizyan's commentary on Canada's
precarious recovery from the recession. In The Temporary Recovery,
Armine writes that we should forget about total employment numbers,
because it's the type of jobs coming back that count. Click here to read it.
-
-
Center for Social and
Economic Research: Jan./Mar. 2010
Highlights from the eNewsletter
- Expanding the Reach of Case Publications : CASE membership in
Research Papers in Economics (RePEc), Europe’s World and the
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
- MEDPRO — Prospective Analysis for the Mediterranean Region
: CASE begins a new project in the Mediterranean Region
- Impact of market services on aggregate economic growth in the EU
: CASE begins prepares to carry out the SERVICEGAP project
- Energy Investment Potential: Ukraine : CASE has been contracted
by the OECD to complete a new study
- Global financial crisis and public service delivery in the
former Soviet Union : CASE begins new project for the Open Society
Institute Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative
- Window of Opportunity for Reforms : Expert Commission provides
proposals for Ukraine 2010
- Sound expenditure and long term growth: Assessing public
finances in the EU Mediterranean partner countries : Report published
by the European Commission
- "Dutch disease" threatens Venezuelan economy : CASE hosts
Teodoro Petkoff at a Policy Research Seminar
- Armenian Think Tanks Study Tour : CASE prepares to host
representatives of Armenian Think Tanks
- Raising Awareness Conferences held in Prague and Budapest : The
Fostering Global Responsibility Project hosts round table events
CASE Publications
- CASE Network Studies and Analyses : No. 400 - Energy Security in
the EU and Beyond
- CASE Network Reports : No. 91 - Agriculture Income Assessment
for the Purpose of Social Assistance: the Case of Ukraine
- CASE Network E-Briefs : 1/2010 - The global recession and energy
markets | 2/2010 - Tax wedge, labour market and the shadow economy -
examples of Russia and Ukraine | 3/2010 - The price of delay: the
future of Russian and Ukrainian pension systems | 4/2010- Challenges of
Post-Crisis Economic Policy in Russia | 5/2010 - Social security,
Labour Market and Restructuring - Russia and Ukraine
- Polish Economic Outlook : 4/2009
Download the Case Newsletter here: http://www.case.com.pl/plik--28794263.pdf?nlang=710
Financial Accountability:
April
1) London AE Days - 23 April - 2 July 2010
2) UK Events: Accounting For Oneself / What's Nike Got To Do With It?
3) US Events Money Unveiled / The Colours of Money Seminar
4) Financial Accountability
5) Associate! April 2010
Read Financial
Accountability: April 2010
Friends of Associative
Economics Bulletin: April
1. Finance and Education Research Group
London AE Days, Alternate Fridays, 23 April to 2 July.
A new element has been included within the London 'ae days' starting
Friday next week. Under the rubric of 'Finance and Education' we will
be continuing with on-going research examining the importance of
financial literacy both as a taught subject and as the basis of
effective school management. Looking at macro policy and case studies,
this work is carried by a core of regular participants, but is open to
all.
This takes place between 3 and 6pm and will replace
the previously advertised 'Colours of Money' seminar in modules.
- Venue: Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, London (top of Baker
St.) There is a room rental charge shared pro rata by those who take
part.
Christopher Houghton Budd, PhD Banking
and Finance
Arthur Edwards, MPhil Economics, Dipl. AE.
Centre for Associative Economics
Email:
admin@cfae.biz
Tel/Fax: 01227 738207
2) Evening Events in London
A further part of the ae-days consists in the lecture based
conversations taking place each evening. These are as follows (see
adjacent link for full details including a rubric of each event):
- 23 April: Beyond the Market / The Place of Associative Economics
- 1 May: The Right-on Corporation / The Future of For- and
Not-for-profits
- 21 May: Deep Accounting / The Basis of a One-world Currency
- 4 June: Freeing the Circling Stars / Pre-funded Education
- 18 June: Of Wheat and Gold / The Economics of Farming
- 2 July: Air Beneath Your Wings / Youth Financial Literacy
Open to all. Entrance fee: £5.00
The Friends of Associative Economics Bulletin provides an overview of
what is going on around the world in the associative economics
movement. The bulletin is viewable as a webpage at www.cfae.biz/fae-bulletin/10Apr/
Global Labour
Column
Global Labor
Column website: http://column.global-labour-university.org
IDEAs
International Development Economics Associtates. March 1, 2010 to March
31, 2010. Website: www.networkideas.org
or www.ideaswebsite.org
Featured Articles
News Analysis
IDEAs Activities
- IDEAs Conference on "Reforming the Financial System: Proposals,
Constraints and New Directions", Muttukadu, Chennai, India, January
25-27, 2010. [Conference Report]
Events & Announcements
Levy
News: April
Levy Economic Institute Website: http://levy.org
Strategic Analysis
Public Policy Brief
Working Paper
-
Determining Gender Equity in Fiscal Federalism: Analytical
Issues and Empirical Evidence from India / Lekha S. Chakraborty
-
Recent Trends in Household Wealth in the United States:
Rising Debt and the Middle-Class Sqeeze—An Update to 2007 /
Edward N. Wolff
-
Decomposition of the Black-White Wage Differential in the
Physician Market / Tsu-Yu Tsao and Andrew Pearlman
Policy
Pennings: Agricultural Policy Column
Heterodox
Books & Book Series
A
Companion to Marx's Capital
by David
Harvey
Verso, March 1, 2010. ISBN: 978 1 84467 359 9 | ISBN: 978 1 84467 358 2
. 368 pp.
“My aim is to get you to read a book by Karl Marx called Capital,
Volume 1, and to read it on Marx’s own terms” – David
Harvey.
A guided tour through Marx’s classic text of political economy
– arguably the most visionary and controversial book since the
Bible – by the esteemed radical geographer and social theorist,
David Harvey. A COMPANION TO MARX’S CAPITAL is the perfect
accompaniment for students to Marx’s economic writings.
For more information visit:
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ghij/h-titles/harvey_dav_companion_to_capital.shtml
Gender and
Agrarian Reforms
By
Susie Jacobs
Routledge, 05/10/2009 . 268pp . ISBN:
978-0-415-37648-8 | ebook available
The redistribution of land has profound
implications for women and for gender relations; however, gender issues
have been marginalised from both theoretical and policy discussions of
agrarian reform. This book presents an overview of gender and agrarian
reform experiences globally. Jacobs highlights case studies from Latin
America, Asia, Africa and eastern Europe and also compares agrarian and
land reforms organised along collective lines as well as along
individual household lines. This volume will be of interest to scholars
in Geography, Women’s Studies, and Economics.
CONTENTS:
Part I: Theoretical Perspectives
1. Debates over
Agrarian Reform
2. Concepts for a Gendered Analysis of Agrarian
Reform
3. The Gendered Effects of Household Models of
Land Reform
Part II:
Collectives and Decollectivisations
4. Gender and
Agricultural Collectives: Soviet‐type Economies
5. China: From Collectivisation to the Household
Responsibility System
6. Viet Nam: Egalitarian Land Reform
Part III:
Household Models of Reform and Alternatives
7. Mobilisation
and Marginalisation: Latin American Examples
8. Land Reforms, Customary Law and Land Titling
in Sub‐Saharan Africa
9. Conclusion
Susie Jacobs is Lecturer in Sociology at
Manchester Metropolitan University, USA.
See the detail : www.routledge.com/9780415376488
Las sin parte: Matrimonios y divorcios entre feminismo
y marxismo
by Cinzia
Arruzza
Crítica&Alternativa 6: http://www.anticapitalistas.org/node/4990
En su recorrido por la relación
histórica, llena de matrimonios infelices y divorcios
irreconciliables, entre marxismo y feminismo, Cinzia Arruzza nos propone reflexionar sobre la
necesidad de integrar a ambos en cualquier proceso verdaderamente
revolucionario. Su lectura crítica de las tensiones entre las
dos tradiciones responde a una apuesta por aprender de ellas con el
objetivo de incorporarlas en nuestra
visión del mundo, en nuestro trabajo cotidiano y en nuestra
lucha contra el patriarcado y el capitalismo. También nos
recuerda que, lejos de vivir las
contradicciones entre feminismo y marxismo desde la frustración,
el victimismo o el derrotismo, hace falta explicitarlas y articularlas
políticamente para superarlas y para contribuir a hacer tanto
del marxismo como del feminismo lenguajes,
teorías y espacios combativos y propositivos más
complejos, más incluyentes y más ricos.
Es con este objetivo en mente que, lejos de ver
el marxismo como un proceso acabado cuya pureza o rigor se ven
amenazados por la incorporación del
feminismo en el análisis de clase, Arruzza apuesta por un
feminismo que en realidad pueda contribuir de manera fundamental a completar el marxismo, y que lo
fortalezca a la hora de explicar la realidad y cambiarla a favor de
todos y todas las oprimidas y explotadas.
En el empeño de muchas y muchos por realizar esta apuesta, Las
sin parte. Matrimonios y divorcios entre feminismo y marxismo,
constituye una valiosísima herramienta.
Cinzia Arruzza es una destacada militante
feminista y docente universitaria.
Dirigente de Sinistra Crítica, la
principal organización anticapitaslita italiana, ha sido la
animadora del Centro Studi Livio Maitan
-en honor al histórico dirigente de la IV Internacional.
Miembro de la Redacción de la revista
Erre, acaba de coordinar la edición del libro Pensare Marx,
pensare con Marx y es una de las autoras
de otro libro colectivo, 1968: el mundo pudo cambiar de base, Los
Libros de la Catarata, Madrid, 2008.
espacio@nodo50.org teléfono 915
590 091
Karl Marx:
a Bibliographic and Political Biography
By Frank Thomas Walker
Available as an e-book on CD only. Price £35, postage free.
Payment may be made by PayPal to bj.publications@googlemail.com.
Please confirm the number of copies required and the address for
delivery.
This book was written by Frank over
many years and revised by him several times. He never felt it was
finished and never looked to publish it during his lifetime. Whilst
pertinent personal information is included, the biography concentrates
on Marx’s writings, his contemporary radical thinkers and
activists, and his influence on the main political events happening in
Europe during his lifetime. Some of the information contained within
should be familiar to readers already knowledgeable about Marx, but
there will also be fresh gems of information and interpretations of
events that will add to the knowledge of Marxist scholars everywhere.
For more information, visit the book website: http://walkermarx.wordpress.com/
Marx at the Margins: On
Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Non-Western Societies
by Kevin B.
Anderson
University of Chicago Press, May 15, 2010. ISBN-10: 0226019837 |
ISBN-13: 978-0226019833 . 336 pp
In Marx at the Margins, Kevin Anderson uncovers a variety of extensive
but neglected texts by the well-known political economist which cast
what we thought we knew about his work in a startlingly different
light. Analyzing a variety of Marx’s writings, including
journalistic work written for the New York Tribune, Anderson presents
us with a Marx quite at odds with our conventional interpretations.
Rather than providing us with an account of Marx as an exclusively
class-based thinker, Anderson here offers a portrait of Marx for the
twenty-first century: a global theorist whose social critique was
sensitive to the varieties of human social and historical development,
including not just class, but nationalism, race, and ethnicity, as well.
Marx at the Margins ultimately argues that alongside his overarching
critique of capital, Marx created a theory of history that was
multi-layered and not easily reduced to a single model of development
or revolution. Through highly-informed readings on work ranging from
Marx’s unpublished 1879–82 notebooks to his passionate
writings about the antislavery cause in the United States, this volume
delivers a groundbreaking and canon-changing vision of Karl Marx that
is sure to provoke lively debate in Marxist scholarship and beyond.
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Colonial Encounters in the 1850s: The European
Impact on India, Indonesia, and China
2. Russia and Poland: The Relationship of
National Emancipation to Revolution
3. Race, Class, and Slavery: The Civil War as a
Second American Revolution
4. Ireland: Nationalism, Class, and the Labor
Movement
5. From the Grundrisse to Capital: Multilinear
Themes
6. Late Writings on Non-Western and Precapitalist
Societies
Conclusion
Appendix. The Vicissitudes of the Marx-Engels
Gesamtausgabe from the 1920s to Today
Neo-Liberal Scotland: Class
and Society in a Stateless Nation
Edited by
Neil Davidson, Patricia McCafferty and David Miller
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Jan 2010. Isbn13: 978-1-4438-1675-5,
470pp £24.99/US$34.99
Publisher
webpage: http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Neoliberal-Scotland--Rethinking-Scotland-in-a-Global-Context1-4438-1675-2.htm
Neoliberal Scotland argues that far from passing Scotland by, as is so
often claimed, neoliberalism has in fact become institutionalised
there. As the mainstream political parties converge on market-friendly
policies and business interests are equated with the public good, the
Scottish population has become more and more distanced from the
democratic process, to the extent that an increasing number now fail to
vote in elections. This book details for the first time these negative
effects of neoliberal policies on Scottish society and takes to task
those academics and others who either defend the neoliberal order or
refuse to recognise that it exists. Neoliberal Scotland represents both
an intervention in contemporary debates about the condition of Scotland
and a case study, of more general interest, of how neoliberalism has
affected one of the “stateless nations” of the advanced
West.
Socialists
and the Capitalist Recession
IIRE/Socialist Resistance, Notebook for Study and Research no. 39/40 .
216 pp.
The credit crunch of 2008 produced an international recession in 2009.
In this new book Claudio Katz and Michel Husson, both fellows of the
International Institute for Research and Education, and SSP activist
Raphie de Santos lead an attempt not to only to describe the present
crisis, but also to understand its causes and debate socialist
solutions.
This 216-page book brings together much of the most powerful socialist
analysis of the recession.
Sean Thompson shows how neoliberal globalisation has an inbuilt
tendency towards deflation. As explained in the article by
François Sabado, the period since the turn of the century has
been a disaster for American capitalism; first the catastrophe in Iraq
and of the Bush government in general, and now an economic collapse
that has completely undermined neoliberalism's 'Washington Consensus'.
The ideologues of capitalism are on the defensive. But the Marxist
explanation of the crisis has to be hammered home. Who caused this
crisis? Why did it occur? What is it in capitalism that leads to the
globalisation of poverty while a tiny elite become mega-wealthy? And
what are possible alternatives? This book is a signal contribution to
making those arguments.
To give the socialist analysis in this book strong foundations, the
book also includes ‘The Basic Ideas of Karl Marx’, an
outline by Ernest Mandel of the core ideas of
scientific socialism.
The Deadly Ideas of Neoliberalism: How the IMF has
Undermined Public Health and the Fight Against AIDS
by Rick
Rowden
Zed Books, 12/11/2009. Hardback:
£70.00 ISBN: 9781848132849 | Paperback: £18.99 ISBN:
9781848132856
'The Deadly
Ideas of Neoliberalism' explores the history of and current collision
between two of the major global phenomena that have characterized the
last 30 years: the spread of HIV/AIDS and other diseases of poverty and
the ascendancy of neoliberal economic ideas. The book explains not only
how IMF policies of restrictive spending have exacerbated public health
problems in developing countries, in particular the HIV/AIDS crisis,
but also how such issues cannot be resolved under these economic
policies. It also suggests how mounting global frustration about this
inability to adequately address HIV/AIDS will ultimately lead to
challenges to the dominant neoliberal ideas, as other more effective
economic ideas for increasing public spending are sought.
In stark, powerful terms, Rowden offers a unique and in-depth
critique of development economics, the political economy dynamics of
global foreign aid and health institutions, and how these seemingly
abstract factors play out in the real world - from the highest levels
of global institutions to African finance and health ministries to
rural health outposts in the countryside of developing nations, and
back again.
'This book is an extraordinary
achievement. It includes a careful study of the political economy of
HIV/AIDS and a clear explanation of the economic policies associated
with neoliberalism and the IMF. Rowden shows that neoliberalism and IMF
policies bear a significant responsibility for the limitations of
health policies and budgets in the poor countries and, especially, for
the insufficiencies of prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS.' ---
Professor Alfredo Saad Filho, Head of Department of Development Studies
SOAS
The
Situationists and the City
by Tom McDonough
Verso , January 12, 2010 . ISBN-10: 1844673642 | ISBN-13:
978-1844673643 . 288 pp.
The Situationist International were one of the most important
radical groups to have emerged in the rush of twentieth century
avant-garde projects after the first world war. Led by the Hegelian
philosopher, anarcho-Leninist revolutionary, avant-garde film maker,
romantic alcoholic, theorist of the ‘society of the
spectacle’ and original psychogeographer Guy Debord they caused
havoc in art galleries,
cinemas and, most importantly, on the streets of Paris in May 1968.
The work of the Situationist International on the city has reverberated
through contemporary culture. The Situationists invented the concept of
psychogeography, the idea that we are drawn to or repelled from
particular areas by a unique combination of emotional and historical
ambiences – they saw the city as alive and the tumult of its
history bleeding through its architecture and through the very planning
of the streets. They also saw the city as a place of revolution and
imagined that society could be changed if the urban framework was
transformed.
Most of their pieces were first published in their journal
INTERNATIONALE SITUATIONISTE (the style of which is replicated by the
book cover). Now, for the first time, the key work of the Situationists
on the city, and of key early allies such as theorist Henri Lefebvre
and architect Constant, has been collected into one illustrated volume.
The Economics Anti-Textbook:
A Critical Thinker's Guide to Microeconomics
By Rod Hill
and Tony Myatt
Paperback ISBN:9781842779392 £19.99
www.zedbooks.co.uk/the_economics_anti-textbook
'What humankind needs second most (first is a
cure for global warming), is a means of defusing the lethal ideological
superstitions implanted in the educated masses by Samuelson/Mankiw type
economics textbooks. Hill and Myatt's "anti-textbook" goes a long way
toward providing it.' - Edward Fullbrook.
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Beyond The Profits System:
Possibilities for a post-capitalist era
By Harry Shutt
ISBN: 9781848134171 £12.99
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This book makes clear why the desperate resort of
Western governments to 'extraordinary measures' to try and avert
economic collapse is bound to fail. It also forcefully demonstrates why
our only hope of reversing the tide is to abandon the traditional
economic logic of endlessly expanding production in favour of esponding
to the aspirations of ordinary people. Such a transformation, argues
Shutt, would make possible the allocation of resources to more socially
desirable ends, including the assurance of basic economic security for
all as a right of citizenship.
Moving
People: Sustainable Development Transport
By Peter Cox
ISBN: 9781848130029 £18.99
www.zedbooks.co.uk/moving_people
'This book should be read by all interested in
transport - especially politicians,local authority councillors, town
planners and transportation engineers. The problem of congestion,global
warming,future oil supplies and population growth are all factors
requiring a rethink on transport and utilising public transport and the
sustainable modes of non-motorised transport, especially mankind's
greatest invention viz the bicycle.' - Louis De Waal, Chairman
Bicycling Empowerment Network (BEN)
Neoliberal Africa: The
Impact of Global Social Engineering
By Graham
Harrison
ISBN: 9781848133204 £17.99
www.zedbooks.co.uk/neoliberal_africa
'In this powerfully insightful book Graham
Harrison demolishes the conventional wisdom to show how rather than
globalisation bypassing Africa it is largely responsible for its
current condition ...Vital reading for those wishing to understand the
nature and evolution of neoliberal globalisation in Africa.' -Padraig
Carmody, Trinity College Dublin
The Rise of China and India
in Africa: Challenges, Opportunities and Critical Interventions
Edited by
Fantu Cheru and Cyril Obi
ISBN: 9781848134379 £21.99
www.zedbooks.co.uk/the_rise_of_china_and_india_in_africa
'The emergence of China and India as key global
players propelling what promises to be a new Asian era in world history
is widely recognised by scholars as one of the most significant
developments of our time. As can be expected, the literature that has
mushroomed on the subject is replete with controversy. No where is this
controversy more pronounced than with regard to the Chinese and Indian
engagement with and in Africa. It is the distinct merit of this book
that it eschews propaganda to offer a richly documented, balanced and
nuanced analysis of different aspects of the diverse roles which China
and India are assuming in Africa. Readers will find the book to be both
educative and critical' - Adebayo Olukoshi, Director, African Institute
for Economic Development and Planning.
Heterodox
Book Reviews
The Keynes Solution: The
Path to Global Prosperity
The Keynes Solution: The Path to Global Prosperity, by Paul
Davidosn. Palgrave Macmillan, 2009; ISBN: 978-0-230-61920-3, 208 pages.
Reviewed for
Heterodox Economics
Newsletter, by Justin Hess, Denison University.
Download
the Review.
Money and Households in a
Capitalist Economy
Money and Households in a Capitalist Economy: A Gendered Post
Keynesian-Institutional Analysis, by Zdravka Todorova. Northampton,
MA: Edward Elgar, 2009, 165 pages. ISBN: 978-1-84720-953-5.
Reviewed for
Heterodox Economics Newsletter, by William Waller,
Hobart and William Smith Colleges.
Download
the Review.
The Foundations of
Non-Equilibrium Economics
The Foundations of Non-Equilibrium Economics, edited by
Sebastian Berger. London, UK and New York, USA: Routledge, 2009, xiii +
199 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-77780-3.
Reviewed for
Heterodox Economics Newsletter, by Torsten
Heinrich, University of Bremen.
Download
the review.
Defining Poverty in the
Developing World
Defining Poverty in the Developing World, edited by Frances
Stewart, Ruhi Saith, and Barbara Harriss-White. Palgrave Macmillan,
2007, ISBN 978-0-2305-1672-4; 256 pages.
Reviewed for
Heterodox Economics Newsletter, by Tara Natarajan,
Saint. Michael’s College.
Download
the review.
Human Resource Economics and
Public Policy
Human Resource Economics and Public Policy: Essays in Honor of
Vernon M. Briggs, Jr. edited by Charles J. Whalen. Kalamazoo,
Michigan: W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research; ix, 305 pages.
Reviewed for
Heterodox Economics Newsletter, by William M.
Dugger, The University of Tulsa.
Download
the review.
Money, Crises and Transition
Money, Crises and Transition, edited by Carmen M. Reinhart,
Carlos A. Végh, and Andrés Velasco, MIT Press, 2008.
ISBN: 978-0262182669; 491 pages.
Reviewed for
Heterodox Economics Newsletter, by Sara Hsu, IC2
Institute, UT Austin.
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the review.
Heterodox
Web Sites & Associates
Japanese Society for the History of Economic Thought
The webpage of the Japanese Society for the History of Economic
Thought has been moved to the new URL, and renewed.Please use the
following URL address for the future reference.
http://jshet.net/modules/english/
Policy Pennings Weekly Agricultural Policy Column
Website: http://agpolicy.org/articles10.html.
Daryll Ray and Harwood Schaffer have been using the agricultural
press for the last ten years to disseminate some of the work of the
Agricultural Policy Analysis Center at the University of Tennessee.
They regularly use our column to challenge the mainstream view of
issues concerning food and agricultural trade as well as US food and
agricultural policy, food safety, patents, peasant agriculture, and a
host of similar issues.
If you want to subscribe weekly columns, please send an email to
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Blog: Une
perspective du sud sur la culture, la politique et la globalisation
Dear Colleagues,
I would like to mention my personal blog on which I am publishing from
this angle weekly op eds and notes on the global crisis from an
development perspective. I am also inviting colleagues and friends to
publish their notes on this blog.
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Regards,
Hakim Ben Hammouda
Undergraduate
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Heterodox Graduate
Programs & Scholarships
The CEPN (Centre
d’Economie de Paris Nord) of the University of Paris 13
The CEPN (Centre d’Economie de Paris Nord) of the University of
Paris 13 wishes to appoint one paid doctoral student for three year
fixed-term doctoral positions in Economics. Candidates should hold a
masters degree in economics or be in the process of completing one
before the 1st of September 2010. They are not required to be able to
speak French, but they should be able to write and speak English quite
fluently.
The successful candidate will write her/his thesis in English under the
supervision of professors of University of Paris 13 (Dominique Plihon,
Jacques Mazier among others), as well as a supervisor abroad. She/he
will take part in and contribute to the Post-Keynesian research led at
the CEPN, and more particularly by the working group
“Post-Keynesian Analyses and Modelling.” The CEPN would be
particularly interested in candidates who have a research expertise in
Post-Keynesian modelling, and particularly in one of the following
fields of this modelling: stock-flow consistent models a la Godley-
Lavoie; Kaleckian models of growth and income distribution; Kaldorian
models with path dependency and cumulative causation; disequilibrium
models of the business cycle a la Flaschel. The main fields of interest
in the thesis could be the relation between inequality and growth; the
finance-led growth regime and its crisis; the international imbalances
and their persistency.
The monthly net wage will be 1 679 Euros, plus 276 Euros every month if
the person teaches 64 hours a year. The French social security system
is included in the net wage. The applicants who may get the job will be
called for an interview by the selecting committee in early September.
The results of the process will be sent by E-mail a few days later, and
the contract should begin in October.
Candidates should submit the following documents: a CV, a covering
letter, a 2 pages scientific project for their thesis, and one or two
reference letters.
These documents should be sent no later than June 15th 2010, to Jacques
Mazier (mazier@univparis13.fr) and Dany Lang
(dany.lang@univ-paris13.fr).
For further information about the CEPN and the task group, please visit
our webpage:
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For informal inquiries and further information please contact dany.lang@univ-paris13.fr.
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ICDD
Graduate School of Socio-Ecological Research for Development
PhD scholarship for DAC countries at International
Center for Development and Devent work
The ICDD is an interdisciplinary and international scientific network
of excellence with the head office located at the University of Kassel,
Germany, and partner universities in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
ICDD is funded under the programme “ex)/(ceed - Higher Education
Excellence in Development Co-operation” launched by the German
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) via the
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Under its Graduate School of
Socio-Ecological Research for Development, the ICDD invites
applications for PhD scholarship positions for students from DAC
countries at the following internationally renowned universities:
* University of Kassel,
Germany, in the fields of political and agricultural science;
* Tata Institute of Social
Science (TISS), India, in the field of sociology;
* Universidade Estaduale de
Campinas (Unicamp), Brazil, in the field of economics;
* University of
Witwatersrand (Wits), South Africa, in the field of sociology;
* University of Agriculture
Faisalabad (UAF), Pakistan, in agricultural science;
* Universidad
Autónoma de Yucatan (UADY), Mexico, in agricultural science; and
* Egerton University (EGU),
Kenya, in agricultural science.
Starting Date: 1 March 2011
Application Deadline: 15 June 2010
Further information: http://www.uni-kassel.de/go/icdd-gradschool
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The University of Athens
Doctoral Program in Economics
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
Heterodox Economics in the
Media
Rescuing Economics from its
Own Crisis
Economists must admit they don't have all the
answers and learn from firefighters, psychologists – and history
By Larry Elliott, The Guardian, Monday 5 April 2010
In reality, though, there is no need to reinvent the wheel. It's more
important to strip away the layers of complexity that gave big-picture
economics a spurious and dangerous exactitude in advance of the crisis.
The big lesson in economics from Keynes is that we know less than we
think we do, and that there is a vast difference between the output of
economic models and the actual behaviour of individuals.
"Our basis of knowledge for estimating the yield 10
years hence of a railway, a copper mine, a textile factory, the
goodwill of a patent medicine, an Atlantic liner, a building in the
City of London amounts to little and sometimes to nothing," Keynes
wrote. He was unimpressed by the argument that decisions were "the
outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by
quantitative probabilities".
This, though, is where mainstream economics has
ended up. It is possible to construct beautifully precise models if you
start from the assumption that rational economic agents with perfect
information are operating in free markets that always return to
equilibrium. But since none of these assumptions holds true in the real
world, this is a classic case of "rubbish in, rubbish out".
Read the article here.
Attack Wall Street, not
Social Security
Deficit hawks are too scared of
their powerful lobby friends to fix the healthcare system, so they have
settled for an easier target
by Dean Baker, The Guardian, Tuesday, April 13, 2010
If our deficit hawk generals are too scared to take on the healthcare
industry then we also have to also make them too scared to take on
social security. If we need to reduce the deficit the best place to
start is a financial speculation tax. A modest set of financial
transactions taxes, like the 0.5% tax on stock trades in the United
Kingdom, can easily raise $150bn a year. This would go a long way
toward addressing future budget shortfalls and it would raise money
from people who can afford it: the Wall Street crew whose financial
shenanigans led to the meltdown.
Federal Reserve board chairman Ben Bernanke recently
suggested cutting social security because: "that's where the money is".
That's not true, the real money is on Wall Street. Let's go get it.
Read the article here.
For Your
Information
Censorship in Australia: The
Case of Clive Spash
At the beginning of 2009 Clive Spash wrote a paper, The Brave New World of
Carbon Trading, that was critical of carbon emissions trading
schemes and argued redesign would not address the concerns raised. He
was employed at the time by the Australian
Commonwealth Scientific and Research Organization (CSIRO), which
endeavoured to prevent the paper from being published even in his
capacity as a private citizen. The paper had been both internally and
internationally peer reviewed, and was accepted for publication by New
Political Economy, when CSIRO management first decided to prevent
publication. After several months the issue became public and was the
subject of debate in the Australian Senate. The CSIRO was forced to
release the paper but first attempted to subject the work to serious
alterations, to which Clive was asked to assent without making any
changes. He felt that he could not agree. The journal New Political
Economy also wrote to Senator Carr stating the changes made were so
substantive that the paper was no longer equivalent to that which they
had accepted for publication earlier that year. After six months
attempting to seek due process there remained no internal recognition
within management of any failure on their part or any breach of
acceptable scientific practice. Despite considerable support from his
colleagues Clive felt that he could no longer work within an
organisation being run with such an approach to management and where
arbitrary judgment over political sensitivities are employed to alter
or ban research findings. He resigned his position.
Readers might also be interested in the following piece:
An
Orwellian Guide to Carbon ETS (PDF).
For more information, visit Spash's website: http://www.clivespash.org/ and
a video clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWQ4ENYKZz4
Ernest Mandel: A
Revolutionary Life
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QoBfIYWdo8
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Voting is
now open for the Revere Award for Economics
The Revere Award for Economics is named in honour of the American
revolutionary hero Paul Revere, who rode through the night to warn of
the approaching British army. In this its inagural year, it will be
awarded to the 3 economists who first and most clearly saw the Gobal
Financial Collapse coming and whose work is most likely to prevent
another GFC in the future.
96 people were nominated for the prize. Through consultation with
contributors to the Real-World Economics Review Blog, the following
shortlist of twelve economists has been selected for the ballot: Dean
Baker, Wynne Godley, Michael Hudson, Steve Keen, Paul Krugman, Jakob
Brøchner Madsen, Ann Pettifor, Kurt Richebächer, Nouriel
Roubini, Robert Shiller, George Soros and Joseph Stiglitz.
As with the Dynamite Prize, which attracted over 7,500 mostly economist
voters –, the ballot will be conducted by PollDaddy. Voting is
quick and easy. The ballot is near the top of the right-hand
column. Click on your three choices and then the big yellow
“vote” button.
But first you should read “Foresight
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