Dr. Gustavo Vargas Sánchez F.E.
UNAM
Dr. Bruno Gandlgruber UAM- Cuajimalpa
Institutional support Dr. Leonardo Lomelí Vanegas
F.E. UNAM
Dr. Marco Jaso Sánchez UAM- Cuajimalpa
Download December 6-7, 2010 (With the potential for an extra day depending
on the number of papers)
This year's conference will have both refereed and non-refereed
papers. The deadline for submission of refereed papers is Monday 1
November. The deadline for submission of non-refereed papers is Friday
November 12. Further details will be available from the Conference
website.
The Editors of The Journal of Contemporary European Studies are
looking for contributions to a special issue of the Journal devoted to
the them ‘Crisis Management in Europe
2007-2010’.
Articles should be no longer than 6,000 words and non-econometric
in nature. In particular, we are looking for comparative analyses,
focusing on regional groupings of countries but also on collective
(EU27) responses and their virtues/ deficiencies; single-country
studies would also be considered as well as articles reflecting the
evidence of/ potential for a ‘paradigm shift’ in economic
policy-making.
The manuscript deadline is December 2010.
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. The journal seeks
contributions that interrogate the prevailing discourses and explore
new insights into women's economic well-being in Muslim communities.
Forum for Social
Economics
Special Issue: Teaching Social Economics
Guest Editor: Geoffrey E. Schneider, Bucknell University
Guest Associate Editor: Daniel A. Underwood, Peninsula College
The Forum for Social Economics is seeking papers of various types
related to Teaching Social Economics. Papers can be short
(1500-3000 word) descriptions of classroom exercises or the application
of particular pedagogies (e.g., collaborative learning, service
learning, active learning, web based interactive exercises) to teach
social economics. Submissions can also be longer, in-depth
articles (up to 7500 words) which explore a particular pedagogical
issue, assess student learning outcomes, or address other teaching
issues related to social economics. Articles should clearly
stress a heterodox economic tradition (e.g., social economics,
institutional economics, post-Keynesian economics, Marxian economics,
Feminist economics, etc.) with an emphasis on how that tradition can
advance economic education. Where appropriate, articles should
document the effectiveness of the teaching approach described in the
article. Thus, authors should make sure to include documentation
of their assessment of the teaching exercises they discuss.
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically using the Forum
for Social Economics web submission system at
http://www.editorialmanager.com/fsse/default.asp.
When selecting the article type, please choose: SI: Teaching
Social Economics. The deadline for manuscript submission is
October 1, 2011. Articles must be in final form
by August 31, 2012.
Papers will pass a double-blind referee process and are subject
to the final approval of John Marangos, Editor-in-chief of the Forum
for Social Economics.
The Forum for Social Economics is an international journal, along
with the Review of Social Economy, sponsored by the Association for
Social Economics. For more than 35 years the Forum has published high
quality peer-reviewed papers. The Forum is a pluralistic journal
publishing work that addresses economic issues within wider ethical,
cultural or natural environmental contexts, and is sympathetic to
papers that transcend established disciplinary boundaries.
The journal welcomes stimulating original articles that are
clearly written and draw upon contemporary policy-related research.
Preference is given to non-technical articles of topical and historical
interest that will appeal to a wide range of readers. For this special
issue, the journal is particularly interested in serving as an avenue
for issues regarding teaching social and heterodox economics.
Instructions: When submitting online, authors will need to
prepare a separate cover sheet with their name, address, phone, fax,
and e-mail address. Papers may not contain any identifying
information on the title page or in the body of the manuscript. Authors
also must prepare an abstract of no more than 150 words and a brief
biographical statement of no more than 125 words about each author. In
addition a list of up to 5 key words, suitable for indexing and
abstracting services, should follow the abstract. Authors should not
submit articles that have been previously published or that are under
review for publication elsewhere. Manuscripts should not exceed 7,500
words in length, including notes and references. Include the article
and all tables and figures in the same electronic file. American rather
than British spellings should be used.
International
Conference on Production and Distribution
International Conference on Production and Distribution to
celebrate 50 years anniversary of the publication of Production of
Commodities by Means of Commodities.
Dates : September 4-6, 2010
Place : Meiji University
Address : 1-1 kandasurugadai, Chiyodaku, Tokyo 101-8301 JAPAN
Building : Academy Common
Rooms : 309A,B,C
Topics:
- Sraffa's Contribution, other topics on Sraffa
- Classical Economics
- Theories of Production and Distribution
- Input-Output Analysis, Systems of Production and Empirical
Studies
- Post Keynesian Economics (including Macroeconomics and Finance)
etc.
Deadline of Submission of Abstract: June 10th, 2010
Notification of Acceptance: until the end of June
Deadline of full paper : August 10
Contact :
Prof. Takashi Yagi
School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji University
1-1 Kandasurugadai, Chiyodaku, Tokyo, 101-8301,Japan
TEL: +81-3-3296-2089, FAX: +81-3-3296-2350
If you have interests in our conference, do not hesitate to
contact us. (if you have some questions, please send an e-mail to
yagi8@kisc.meiji.ac.jp).
Organizing Committee: :
Prof. Takashi YAGI (Meiji Univ)
1. Sessions on the Topics of History of Economic Thought
Prof. Masashi IZUMO (Kanagawa Univ.),
Prof. Susumu TAKENAGA (Daitobunka
Univ.),
Prof. Katsuyoshi WATARAI (Waseda
Univ.)
Prof. Akira NAGAMINE (Meiji Univ)
2. Sessions on Theoretical Topics
Prof. Toichiro ASADA(Chuo Univ),
Prof. Manabu KASAMATSU (Waseda Univ.)
Prof. Ryuzo KUROKI (Rikkyo Univ.)
Dr. Kazuhiro KUROSE (Tohoku Univ.),
3. Sessions on Empirical Studies and Input-Output Analysis
Prof. Toshiaki HASEGAWA(Chuo Univ.)
Mr Norihisa SAKURAI (Central Research
Institute of Electric Power Industry (CRIEPI) )
and by the Ricardo Society (in Japan). Supported by the School of
Political Science and Economics and Headquarters of International
Collaboration, Meiji University
International
Journal of Electronic Governanc
Special Issue:
(Re)creating public sphere, civic
culture and civic engagement: public service media vs. online social
networks
Guest Editors
- Dr Petros Iosifidis, Dept of Sociology. City University London,
UK. e-mail: P.Iosifidis@city.ac.uk
- Prof Michael Meimaris, Dept of Communication and Media Studies,
University of Athens, Greece. e-mail: mmeimaris@media.uoa.gr
Journal website:
http://www.inderscience.com/ijeg
The net generation, growing up with the internet and other online
media, is widely assumed to consist of more responsible citizens, using
their technological expertise to campaign on social and political
issues, exercise closer scrutiny over their governments, genuinely
being more politically engaged. Citizens of the so-called ‘global
village’, ‘virtual democracy’, ‘electronic
agora’ or ‘blogosphere’ are said to fulfil the dream
of a unified and interconnected world. The unprecedented expansion of
Online Social Networks (OSN) such as Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn &
Twitter offers vast opportunities for communication, entertainment
& chatting. These online forums differ from traditional media, such
as Public Service Media (PSM), in that they allow more interactivity
and many-to-many communication. But they have some similarities to
Habermas’ concept of the public sphere: net spheres are public
places that are outside of control by the state; they allow individuals
to exchange views and knowledge as well as critical points of view;
they are spaces where public-minded rational consensus can be developed.
The advantages of cyber-media are that they are not confined to
frequency bandwidth; any one can be a ‘publisher’ (ability
to voice one’s opinion; collective action); they provide access
(to all with internet account); they are self-generating social
networks, allowing networks to form from participation, rather than
structuring relationships from the top. However, the net can turn to be
a noisy, uncontrolled environment; the open participation may turn
chaotic, so there can be no model rules of behaviour or structured
conversation; texts and voices may result in anarchic, rather than
democratic forms of participation. What is more, there are linguistic
barriers and blogging sites are typically dominated by white male
voices & polarized opinion. The very notion of openness is at stake
as there is limited competition among providers. Inclusiveness can be
an issue too – not all people use the Net due to cost
considerations or lack of skills, especially in the developing world.
Most crucially, critical discussion – the very notion of the
Public Sphere – is often absent on the Net, whose content is
highly partisan.
So, is it a myth that the Internet can revamp the Public Sphere, tackle
political apathy and mobilize citizens? Not entirely, for there are
plenty of good examples to show the opposite, as evidenced by Barack
Obama’s online campaign to activism on Facebook and Twitter and
the Twitter-aided demonstrators in Moldova and Iran against the fraud
parliamentary election results and the Iranian authoritarian government
respectively. Groups in Facebook can choose to support the
lineralisation of Tibet; Twitter often has real-time updates on events
like the Mumbai terrorist attacks. These examples highlight the
Net’s informative and mobilising power.
Subject Coverage
This special issue seeks research articles and case studies that can
address the broad theme of (re)creating public sphere, civic culture
and civic engagement through Public Service Media vs. Online Social
Networks and offer argumentation and analysis on the following issues:
- Has the mobilising and democratising power of the Internet been
exaggerated?
- Has the Net the ability to offer critical political discussion?
- Can the OSN contribute to the (re)creation of Public Sphere,
Civic Culture, Civic Engagement, and therefore address the Democratic
deficit?
- Is violation of privacy in pursuit of profit an issue of
concern?
- Will the networks be viable, or are we heading for another
Internet bubble, given that people log in to chat with friends, thus
not paying attention to ads, as well as ad firms’ scepticism to
advertising their products and services next to user-gen content?
- Is it about time we looked again at PSM for recreating the
Public Sphere, tackling political apathy, and offering a better space
for rational debate and culture dissemination in light of their
openness to all at affordable prices; offerings of new open forms of
distribution & access, including archives, pod-casts and digital
distribution; trustworthiness as credible information source and safe
spaces for discussion?
Notes for Intending Authors
Submitted papers should not have been previously published or be
currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. All papers are
refereed through a double blind process. A guide for authors, sample
copies and other relevant information for submitting papers are
available on the IJEG
Submission
of Papers web-page. All papers must be submitted online through the
IJEG On-line Submissions
System. If you experience any problems submitting your paper
online, please contact
submissions@inderscience.com,
describing the exact problem you experience. Please include in your
email the title of the Journal.
Important Dates
- Deadline for paper submission : September 10, 2010
- Notification of review results : December 10, 2010
- Submission of revised manuscripts : January 10, 2011
The special issue will be published in Spring 2011.
Power and the History of
Capitalism
April 15-16, 2011 | New School for Social Research, New York City
The History Department of Lang College and the New School for Social
Research and the Culture of the Market Network of the University of
Manchester are pleased to announce a conference on Power and the
History of Capitalism, to be held April 15-16, 2011 at the New School
in New York City.
Purpose
This conference seeks to sharpen our long-term historical perspective
on relations of power, politics, and modern capitalism, with a special
emphasis on United States history from the eighteenth to the
twenty-first century. We ask how capitalism and its periodic crises
have revised political rights and responsibilities, reconfigured
political practices and institutions, and redistributed wealth.
Conversely, we aim to analyze how power relations – whether
organized by state policy and laws, structured by social norms and
institutions, articulated in ideology, or embedded within racial,
gender and class relations -- have shaped economic outcomes. The
ongoing crises of contemporary capitalism – as well as the
heightened emphasis on questions of power within the social sciences
and humanities – invest these questions with new urgency.
This event will be the third meeting of the Culture of the Market
Network, a two-year collaboration between the University of Manchester,
Oxford University, the New School, and Harvard University. The Network
brings together an international group of scholars from the humanities
and social sciences to investigate in four conferences how economic
ideas, institutions, practices and objects are embedded in the wider
culture. The project also aims to reinsert the study of markets,
finance and business into mainstream history.
Conference Themes and Topics
Organizers of the conference solicit papers that will examine the
mutual constitution of political and economic systems in the United
States. Possible themes and topics may include:
- The relation between capitalist development and political
revolution
- The socio-political origins and consequences of monetary
standards and policy
- The rise and fall of the Fordist political-economic paradigm
- The recurring collapses and resurgences of financial capitalism
- The distribution of power among the institutions of capitalism
- The salience of racial, gender, and class relations for
structuring economic power
- The ability of economic and financial globalization to challenge
or to sustain the economic boundaries and policies of nation-states
- Concepts of economic citizenship
- The relationship between economic crisis, popular insurgency,
and social change
- Hegemony of -- and competition between -- capitalist elites
- The substitution of market relations for social policy
- The capacity of economic theories to operate as political
ideology and to shape the reality they purport to describe
- The institutions that incubate ideologies of the market
- Finance as a mode of governmentality
- The role of the economics discipline in policy-making
- The role of policies, laws, and norms in structuring markets in
ways that produce particular distributional outcomes.
- Forms of labor and their management
- Theories and practice of corporate governance
- Debates over the proper relationship between the financial
markets, the state, and the real economy
Submissions
Proposals for papers must include the
following information: Title, Maximum 250 word summary of proposed
paper, 1 page CV including author’s name, address, telephone,
email, and institutional affiliation
All proposals must be sent to
powerandhistoryofcapitalism@gmail.com
no later than October 1, 2010.
Notification will be sent November 1, 2010.
Further Information
http://www.arts.manchester.ac.uk/cultureofthemarket/
Race, Radicalism, and
Repression on the Pacific Coast and Beyond
May 12-14, 2011 | University of Washington, Seattle
From the Industrial Workers of the World and the International
Longshore and Warehouse Union to the Black Panthers and the Third World
Liberation Front strikes, radical movements embracing and demanding
racial justice have figured prominently in the history of the
“left coast” of the United States. They have also generated
violent responses, including state repression, that reverberated across
the United States
and around the world.
The Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest and the Harry Bridges
Center for Labor Studies at the University of Washington invite panel
and paper proposals on any aspect of race, radicalism, and repression
within or somehow related to the Pacific Coast of North America,
including linkages to peoples, ideas, and movements across the oceans
and continents. We are especially interested in proposals that seek to
reorient the study of race and politics in U.S. and world history.
In addition to the conference, the University of Washington Press will
publish a collection of essays selected and revised from the conference
presentations. George Lipsitz of the University of California, Santa
Barbara, will deliver the keynote address.
All proposals must include a title and an abstract of each presentation
(no more than 300 words) and a brief CV of each presenter (no more than
two pages). Panel proposals must also include a title and a description
of the session (no more than 250 words). Please submit all materials as
email attachments (Microsoft Word or pdf) to
cspn@uw.edu by September 30, 2010.
Re-Public: "Welfare beyond
the market and the welfare state"
Online journal *Re-public*
<http://www.re-public.gr/en>invites
contributions for its upcoming special issue titled "Welfare beyond the
market and the welfare state".
The welfare state is widely considered to be in crisis for, at least,
over a decade. Possible remedies have varied: the search for more
efficient or equitable state tax systems that could fund increasing
welfarecosts; the implementation of reforms on welfare institutions
that could cut their growing expenses; the privatisation of certain
sectors of welfareservices; the connection of welfare benefits to the
labour market and tolifelong job training. What has been the central
assumption of this debate is the pivotal role of the state (or the
market, in cases when the state fails or is unwilling) as the donor of
welfare and of the notion of the citizen in need as its bearer. What
has been relatively obscured by this debate, is a rich history of
informal welfare social practices that cut across economic, family,
class, race, and gender barriers, but also the new possibilities for
organising welfare through the rise of new social movements and new
civic activism. The aim of the special issue is to rethink welfare
practices beyond both state and market institutions and to attempt to
connect welfare to new forms of social and economic organisation.
Possible topics include:
- archeologies of informal welfare practices
- conceptualising and managing welfare as a common
- welfare, immaterial labour and precarity
- welfare and the extension of citizenship rights
- peer to peer practices and the organisation of welfare
Essays should be approximately 1,500- 1,800 words. Please submit
contributions in any electronic format to - e-mail:
phatzopoulos@re-public.gr
Deadline for submissions: 15 September 2010. More information at
http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=2429*
Socio‐économie du
Travail (Économies et Sociétés, série AB)
"Crise, pauvreté et modèles sociaux"
d’articles seront les bienvenues. Bien entendu les propositions
n’ont pas à couvrir toutes les dimensions d’un
programme aussi vaste. L’essentiel est qu’elles lui
apportent quelques matériaux utiles. Bien entendu
également, toutes les propositions seront soumises
individuellement à nos procédures
d’évaluation habituelles.
Les textes soumis sont à remettre le 6 septembre 2010 au plus
tard.
Download
Call for Papers (Projet de dossier).
Conferences, Seminars and
Lectures
AHE-ADEK-Garnet
Conference
Bordeaux, France, 8-9-10th July 2010
Conference GARNET Network of Excellence JERP 5.1.3. “EU and
Africa”: ‘ The Euro Area and the Emergent Countries in the
Financial Crisis ’
and conference ADEK (theme 1) ‘The Future of Post Keynesian
Economics ’
Download the conference program in
English and in
French
FMM:
Introductory workshop on Post Keynesian Economics
Thursday, 28 October 2010 | Berlin
Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) will
be organising a one-day workshop. The workshop will take place the day
before the annual conference of the network on ‘Stabilising an
unequal economy? Public debt, financial regulation, and income
distribution’ 29 – 30 October 2010, Berlin.
There are no fees but registration is required. Registration forms will
be available online in
early July (
www.network-macroeconomics.org).
Programme
9.00 – 9.30
Torsten Niechoj, Macroeconomic Policy
Institute (IMK), Duesseldorf: Welcoming and information on the network
and its summer school
9.30 – 11.00
Marc Lavoie, University of Ottawa:
What is Post Keynesian Economics? An introduction to the method and
history of PKE
11.30 - 13.00
Philip Arestis, University of
Cambridge: New Keynesian Economics and Post Keynesian Economics
14.30 – 16.00
Engelbert Stockhammer, Kingston
University, London: A Post Keynesian model of demand, distribution,
inflation and employment
Participants are also invited to submit a paper for the graduate
student sessions of the FMM
conference.
In August 2011, the 3rd FMM International Summer School
“Keynesian Macroeconomics and
European Economic Policies” for graduate students and young
researchers will be held in
Berlin.
More on the Research Network:
www.network-macroeconomics.org
CofFEE Conference: 12th Path
to Full Employment and 17th National Conference on Unemployment
REGISTRATION AND CALL FOR PAPERS NOW OPEN!
“The Aftermath of The Crisis”
2-3rd December 2010 / University of Newcastle, Australia.
Early Bird Registration Rate only AUD$350
Abstracts Deadline – 12th July 2010 5pm
For conference information, please visit the conference homepage:
http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/conferences/2010/index.cfm
Download
Conference Flyer.
Celebratory
Seminar: 50 years since the publication of Piero Sraffa's Production
of Commodities by Means of Commodities
Sponsored by the Cambridge Journal of Economics
Friday, 09 July 2010 | Queen's College, Cambridge
PROGRAMME
9.30 - 10.00 Introduction
- Prof GC Harcourt, University of Cambridge and Jesus College
(UK), University of Adelaide (SA) and CJE
10.00 - 10.45 Sraffa and Cambridge Economics
- Prof L.L. Pasinetti, Catholic University of Milan, Italy
10.45 - 11.30 Discussant: Prof R. Scazzieri, University of
Bologna, Italy (20 mins, followed by general discussion)
11.30 - 12.00 The Sraffa Archives and Sraffa
Scholarship: A look back over the use made of the Sraffa Archives
- Jonathan Smith, Archivist Wren Library, Trinity College,
Cambridge
12.00 - 13.15 Buffet Lunch
13.15 - 14.00 Sraffa and the Surplus Approach
- Prof P. Garegnani (Em.), Università degli Studi Roma Tre,
Rome, Italy
14.00 - 14.45 Discussant: Prof R. Arena, University
of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, France (20 mins, followed by general
discussion)
14.45 - 15.15 Coffee
15.15 - 16.00 Sraffa and Modern Capitalism
- Prof J. Eatwell, Queen's College, Cambridge (UK)
16.00 - 16.45 Discussant: Prof. G. De Vivo,
University of Naples, Federico II, Italy
16.45 - 17.30 Book Presentations:
- L.L. Pasinetti, Cambridge and the Cambridge Keynesians:
Revolution in Economics to Be Accomplished, CUP 2007
- G.G. Harcourt, The Structure of Post-Keynesian Economics. The
Core Contribution of the Pioneers, CUP 2006
- R. Arena and P.L. Porta (eds), Structural Change and Economic
Growth, CUP forthcoming (pending).
19.00 Dinner , Downing College, The West Lodge
Education
for Sustainability
International Greening Education Event 2010 |Karslruhe - Germany
A three-day International Event on Greening Education will be held from
27th to 29th of October 2010 in the "green" city of Karlsruhe, Germany.
This event will take education and environmental policy makers, senior
members of academic institutions, representatives of government and
non-governmental organisations and international development agencies,
teachers, and sustainable development and environmental management
professionals through the need for greening education and then discuss
effective initiatives that can be taken to translate “education
for sustainability” in to actions.
Further to the knowledge sharing on greening education including topics
such as ecologizing curriculum (incorporating sustainability), greening
of courses and creating low carbon education institutions; the upcoming
event also provides an excellent networking opportunity with academia,
international agencies, governmental and non-governmental
organisations, sustainable development practitioners and other
stakeholders in Europe and beyond. An excursion (optional) on Saturday
the 30th of October, 2010 is planned which will also provide an
additional and informal networking opportunity.
You are cordially invited to attend this international event and/ or
nominate the member(s) of your institution.
For further information, please see the
event details.
http://www.etechgermany.com/IGEE2010.pdf
Web:
www.etechgermany.com
Green
Economics Institute, 5th Annual Conference
Greening the Economy and Green Jobs
3 days from 29th – 31st July 2010
at Mansfield College, Oxford University
Come and find out more about what Green Economics really means,
how it is creating a more topical, helpful and effective economic
approach which is both refreshing and holistic with a
much wider scope.
Green Economics is currently spreading fast around the globe and
being adopted by governments, NGOs and industry as well as global
institutions and it is important to keep up to date with this
remarkable innovation. It offers a beacon of hope in the current
economic downturn; bringing together, economics, social science
and physical science methodology with new ideas about
institutions and the science surrounding issues such as climate change,
nature, the planet and its systems. The economics of social and
environmental justice.
This year’s conference theme is Greening the Economy and
Green Jobs. It will focus on reducing our carbon and helping to
solve, issues surrounding the economic downturn through greening the
economy and the creation of green jobs. This conference will consider
the seismic changes in world governance and power that are happening
around eco-technology, geo-engineering, lifestyle changes needed for a
low carbon economy, as well as huge changes happening in the discipline
of economics itself. The conference will cover Progress in Green
Economics, Reforming Economics and Economics up to 2050. Also addressed
will be Green Economics Solutions to: geo-engineering,
eco-technologies, green transport, green construction, green
investment, pensions crisis, changes in demography, environmental
refugees, water and HEP crisis, energy crisis, economic crisis, equal
opportunities, gender equity and women's unequal pay and how green
economics can help find an ending to world poverty.
A range of inspirational talks from a group of keynote speakers
from all continents globally including Nigeria, Beijing and
Italy, BRIC and PIGGS. Delegates will also have the opportunity
to take part in innovative workshops. This conference will encourage
people across the globe to develop new kinds leadership talents
and find new ways of contributing to their jobs, their organisations
and the world.
Please enquire if you wish to reserve a place, or if you want to
speak. Full bound conference proceedings are provided to all fully paid
up participants. If you would like to speak or submit a paper please
email us to enquire.
HETSA 2010
Conference
7-9 July 2010 on the Camperdown Campus of the University of Sydney,
Australia
The HETSA 2010 Conference is the Twenty-Third Conference of the
History of Economic Thought Society of
Australia to be hosted by the Discipline of Economics, Faculty of
Economics and Business, University of Sydney.
The distinguished visitor Harald Hagemann will give the keynote address
on 'The early reception of Keynes's General Theory by German-speaking
economists' (see
Abstract).
A cocktail reception to welcome attendees, especially from out of
Sydney, is to be held on the evening of Tuesday 6 July, 5.30-7.30 pm,
at the Nicholson Museum, situated at the southern entrance to the Main
Quadrangle of the University (go to
Sydney Campus Maps
page: click on campus directory:enter A14, see 'MacLaurin' on map).
View
Map
Registration at the conference will begin 8.30 am, Wednesday 7 July, at
the conference venue. Sessions begin at 9am (see
conference
program).
Insecure
Times, Emergency measures: State(s) of Exception?
One Day Workshop: Thursday 22nd July 2010 | Institute of Advanced
Studies, Lancaster University, Room A010, 9.00 a.m. – 6.30 p.m.
The Centre of Law and Society at Lancaster University has organised a
one-day Workshop on the subject of the ‘state of exception’
from researchers and scholars across the spectrum of the human
sciences, lawyers, activists, and NGO’s.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
- Conor Gearty, Law, LSE;
- Bob Jessop, Sociology, Lancaster;
- Costas Lapavitsas, Economics, SOAS;
- Martin Loughlin Law, LSE.
OTHER PARTICIPANTS INCLUDE:
- Christos Boukalas, Politics, Lancaster
- Michael Dillon, Politics, Lancaster
- Michael Kratke, Sociology, Lancaster
- Mark Lacey, Politics, Lancaster.
- Christopher May, Politics, Lancaster.
- David Seymour, Law, Lancaster.
- David Sugarman, Law, Lancaster
Marxism and
Education: Renewing Dialogues XIII
A Day Seminar 10.30 – 4.30, Saturday July 24th 2010 | Institute
of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, WC1, Drama Studio
Papers confirmed:
- ‘Education for the Creation of a New Venezuela’ / Dr
Francisco Dominguez (Head of the Centre for Brazilian and Latin
American Studies, and secretary of the Venezuela Solidarity Campaign)
- ‘The Bolivarian Revolution, Twenty-first Century Socialism
and Counter-hegemonic Education in Venezuela’ / Prof. Mike Cole
(Centre for Education for Social Justice, Bishop Grosseteste University
College Lincoln)
- ‘Nicaragua’s “Participative Education
Revolution”: Development and the ALBA Education Space’ / Dr
Thomas Muhr (Centre for Globalisation, Education and Societies,
University of Bristol)
- ‘Pedagogies of Resistance and Popular Education in the
Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement and Argentinean unemployed
movement)’ / Dr Sara Motta, (Co-director of the Centre for the
Study of Social and Global Justice, University of Nottingham)
The seminar is free but places are limited. To reserve a place email:
amaisuria@ioe.ac.uk
Convenors: Tony Green and Alpesh Maisuria
Migrant Workers’
Rights in the Global Economy
ESRC Seminar
Thursday September 2nd 2010 | International Slavery Museum, Liverpool,
UK
This one-day seminar, funded by the Economic and Social Research
Council, is the second in the Middlesex University series examining
emerging issues of global labour regulation. The seminar will be held
at the
International Slavery Museum
in Liverpool’s dockside on Thursday September 2nd 2010 from 10am
until 5.30pm.
Migration is an integral part of an increasingly internationalised
economy. Around 3 per cent of the world’s population, just less
than 200 million people, now live and work outside of their own
country. This number has been growing at just less than 3 per cent in
each year. The increased tendency for people to migrate to work and
live has been spurred by changes in the world economy and the effects
of structural economic change, or through war and civil upheaval, or
environmental damage. Trade liberalisation and market de-regulation has
also increased the propensity to migrate, as new geographical patterns
of production have emerged. Yet labour migration is not a central
concern of international agencies such as the WTO, the IMF or the World
Bank. Migrant workers and their families are vulnerable to exploitation
and racism, and labour market imbalances can result from migration in
both sending and receiving countries.
The purpose of this seminar is to examine migration from a rights
–based perspective. We hope to explore aspects of civil, human
and social rights of migrant workers as well as labour and economic
rights. Migrant labour is thus viewed from within perspectives of
forced, slave and child labour as well as economic labour. As such the
seminar welcome the participation of those academics, practitioners and
migrant worker activists who wish to develop new agendas for regulating
migrant labour through a variety of agency and policy initiatives.
The seminar will be divided into two sessions. The first, thematic
session, will examine alternative perspectives on migrant workers'
rights. The second session will present case studies from different
world regions. Speakers/Participants will include:
- Marion Hellmann (Assistant General Secretary, Building and Wood
Workers International, Geneva) – overview of migrant workers in
the world economy
- Professor Joshua Castellino (Law Department, Middlesex
University) - A Rights Based Approach to Migration
- Svetlana Boincean (International Union of Food, Farm and Hotel
Workers ) -on eliminating Child Labour in agriculture and tobacco
growing
- Heather Connolly and Professor Miguel Martinez Lucio (Manchester
University)- Welfare Systems, Social Inclusion and Migrant Worker-Union
Relations in the EU
- Steve Craig (UCATT building workers’ union, UK) -
Vulnerable Work and Migration in the UK construction industry
- Nick McGeehan (director of Mafiwasta www.mafiwasta.com , an
organisation for migrant workers in the Gulf).
and case study representations from migrant worker activists in
Ireland, the Gulf Region, Italy, and India.
If you are interested in participating in the seminar please register
your interest with Denise Arden at
d.arden@mdx.ac.uk
. Lunch and refreshments are provided and the seminar is free to
attend, but registration in advance is necessary. More information can
be obtained from the seminar organisers, Professor Martin Upchurch (
m.upchurch@mdx.ac.uk ) and
Professor Miguel Martinez Lucio (
Miguel.MartinezLucio@mbs.ac.uk).
Psychoanalysis,
Money and the Economy
A multidisciplinary international conference
2 July 2010 - 4 July 2010 | London
Conference website
This conference aims to explore all aspects of the relationship between
psychoanalysis, money and the economy, and the many meanings of money
in psycho-social life.
AN EXTENSIVE PROGRAMME OF INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS INCLUDES
- BRUCE FINK (Lacanian psychoanalyst and Professor of Psychology
at Duquesne University)
- ETIENNE BALIBAR (Emeritus Professor of Moral and Political
Philosophy at the University of Paris 10 Nanterre, and Professorial
Fellow at the Birkbeck Institute of the Humanities. Co-author of
Reading Capital (with Louis Althusser) and author of The Philosophy of
Marx (1995).
- BERNARD STIEGLER (Philosopher and Director of the Institute for
Research and Innovation at Centre Pompidou, Paris)
- JEAN-JOSEPH GOUX (L.H. Favrot Professor in the Department of
French Studies at Rice University, Texas)
- RENATA SALECI (Centennial Professor at the Department of Law at
the London School of Economics)
- ZYGMUNT BAUMAN (Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the
Universities of Leeds and Warsaw)
- and many more
OVER 30 PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSION PANELS ON
FINANCIAL CRISES AND THE PSYCHOLOGY OF
MONEY • ANXIETY AND ECONOMIC CRISIS • HOMO PSYCHOLOGICUS IN
THE MARKET PLACE • MARKETS AS SUBJECTS • MONEY IN THE
CONSULTING ROOM • MONEY AND MASCULINITY • FINANCE, FETISHISM
AND JOUISSANCE • MONEY AND MELANCHOLIA • HOMO OECONOMICUS ON
THE COUCH
Convened by David Bennett (University of Melbourne) for The Freud
Museum, London with Ivan Ward (Director of Education, Freud Museum)
Supported by Birkbeck College and the Australian Research Council
Registration: £145 / £105 (Full conference) - includes
lunch and refreshments.
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The Political Economy of the
Crisis
A workshop organised by the Political Economy Research Group and School
of Economics at Kingston University on 15 June 2010
On-line versions of the papers and presentations of the workshop can
now be found at
http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/activities/item.php?updatenum=1381
Views on Reduction
Workshop, 20th July 2010 | Room T206, Centre for Philosophy of Natural
and Social Science, LSE
Program:
10.00 Introduction to workshop
Part 1. Reduction in Philosophy and History of Science
10.15-11.30
Andreas Hüttemann, University of Munster / ‘Physicalism and
the Part-Whole Relation’
11.30-11.45: Coffee break
11.45-13.00
Jordi Cat, Indiana University / 'Analysis of Theories and Synthesis of
Models. Reduction, Cooperation and Compromise'
13.00-14.15: Lunch break
Part 2. Reduction in Social Science and in Theology
14.15-15.30
Margaret Schabas, UBC / ‘What, Precisely, is Meant by 'the
Economy’?’
15.30-15.45: Tea break
15.45-17.00
Keith Ward, Oxford
‘Theological Attitudes to Naturalism’
17.15: End of workshop
RSVP:
R.Robinson1@lse.ac.uk
What must
be changed in order to transcend capitalism?
Joint Forum organized by
The Commune and
Marxist-Humanist Initiative
Monday 5th July, 7:00 | The Workers Educational Association, 96-100
Clifton St, London EC2.
Speakers:
- Andrew Kliman is author of Reclaiming Marx’s
“Capital”: A refutation of the myth of inconsistency.
- Anne Jaclard is National Secretary of Marxist-Humanist
Initiative and a long-time activist and writer in support of
women’s movements and international solidarity movements.
Job Postings for Heterodox
Economists
Manchester Metropolitan
University
Senior lecturer vacancy in microeconomics (business
economics/industrial economics)
For more information, visit:
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or contact:
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Department of Economics
Manchester Metropolitan University
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Manchester M15 6BG
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New Economics Foundation
Senior Economist
£40k - £42k p.a.
The successful candidate for this exciting position will be responsible
for taking forward nef’s (the new economics foundation) ambitious
project on the macroeconomics of sustainability, combining modelling
work with the establishment of a network of like-minded practitioners,
within the UK and beyond. The Senior Economist will build and integrate
technical expertise within nef, developing and overseeing our work on
economics and contributing to projects across all our programme areas.
Deadline for applications: 5pm,
Monday 26th July
2010
Interviews: Wednesday, 4th August 2010
For an application form (no CVs please) and more details see the
‘about us/vacancies’ section of our website
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Cornie Lombard, nef, 3 Jonathan St, London, SE11 5NH or email
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nef is an independent think-and-do tank that inspires and demonstrates
real economic well-being.
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SUNY Purchase College
We are looking for someone to teach our undergraduate course in
Environmental Economics for this fall 2010. It meets Mondays and
Thursdays from 12:30 to 2:10 PM. SUNY/Purchase College is located in
Westchester County, near White Plains, about 25 miles north of New York
City.
Please contact Sanford Ikeda at
sanford.ikeda@purchase.edu for
further information or to submit a c.v.
Conference Papers, Reports,
and Articles
Grupo de
Propaganda Marxista
El presente mensaje es para informarles de la publicación en
nuestra página Web:
http://www.nodo50.org/gpm,
de otro trabajo continuación de los dos anteriores, titulado
"Nueva fase de la Crisis Del salvataje bancario a la bancarrota fiscal".
Institute
for Women's Policy Research
New Survey Findings on Women's Political Standing
in Morocco
RABAT-A national survey of the political, economic, social and legal
status of women in Morocco released today by the International
Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) and the Institute for Women's
Policy Research (IWPR) shows a mixed picture of women's status in the
region.
Focus on Morocco Topic Briefs can be viewed
here.
Report: How Class Works 2010
Here's the link to the brief report on the How Class Works - 2010
conference - the most international and diverse yet - that we've posted
on the Center for Study of Working Class Life Website.
http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/conference/2010/HCW%202010%20Final%20report.pdf
Next How Class Works Conference: The State University of New York at
Stony Brook, USA, June 7-9, 2012
The
Democracy Charter
Written by long-time civil rights, peace, and labor activist Jack
O'Dell in connection with a pamphlet by and about Jack titled
The
Fierce Urgency of Now. You can download the Democracy Charter for
free by scrolling to the bottom of <
http://www.stonybrook.edu/workingclass/publications/urgency.shtml>,
the page that also has information about Jack and the pamphlet, which
you can order on line.
The Economic Consequences of
Mr. Osborne
Fiscal consolidation: Lessons from a century of UK macroeconomic
statistics, by Victoria Chick and Ann Pettifo, 6th June, 2010. Click
here to download the PDF.
Heterodox Journals
American Journal of
Economics and Sociology, 69(3): July 2010
Journal website:
http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0002-9246&site=1
Editor's Introduction
ARTICLES
- In Memory of the Father: Laurence S. Moss / Joshua Louis Moss
- Pick a Card . . . Any Card / Vicki L. Moss
- Franz Oppenheimer's (1864–1943) Social Economic Approach
to Health / Ursula Backhaus
- Creative Destruction, Economic Insecurity, Stress, and Epidemic
Obesity / Jon D. Wisman, Kevin W. Capehart
- The Effects of Household Income Volatility on Divorce / John M.
Nunley, Alan Seals
- Propertyless in Peru, Even with a Government Land Title / Carrie
B. Kerekes, Claudia R. Williamson
- The Effect of Income Distribution on the Ability of Growth to
Reduce Poverty: Evidence from Rural and Urban African Economies
/Augustin Kwasi Fosu
- Charitable Donations and the Estate Tax: A Tale of Two
Hypotheses /William Beranek, David R. Kamerschen, Richard H. Timberlake
- Guanxi Management in Lean Production System—An Empirical
Study of Taiwan-Japanese Firms / Meiling Wong
- Arthur Farquhar on Economic Delusions: An Examination of the
Case for Protection / Thomas L. Martin
Cambridge
Journal of Economics, 34(4): July 2010
Journal website: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3924/1
- John Latsis / Veblen on the machine process and technological
change
- Paul Guest and Dylan Sutherland / The impact of business group
affiliation on performance: evidence from China's national champions
- D. Wade Hands / Economics, psychology and the history of
consumer choice theory
- Giulio Bottazzi and Marco Grazzi / Wage–size relation and
the structure of work-force composition in Italian manufacturing firms
- Makram El-Shagi / The role of rating agencies in financial
crises: event studies from the Asian flu
- Mehrdad Vahabi / Integrating social conflict into economic
theory
- Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho / Uncertainty and money: Keynes,
Tobin and Kahn and the disappearance of the precautionary demand for
money from liquidity preference theory
- Eckhard Hein and Artur Tarassow / Distribution, aggregate demand
and productivity growth: theory and empirical results for six OECD
countries based on a post-Kaleckian model
- Man-Seop Park / Capital and interest in horizontal innovation
models
- Susanne Milcher / Household vulnerability estimates of Roma in
Southeast Europe
- Rogier De Langhe / How monist is heterodoxy?
- M. G. Hayes / The loanable funds fallacy: saving, finance and
equilibrium
Challenge,
53(3): May-June 2010
Journal website
- Letter from the Editor / Jeff Madrick
- How Stimulative Has Fiscal Policy Been Around the World?
Esteban Pérez Caldentey and
Matías Vernengo
- New York City's Tale of Two Recessions / James Parrott
- The Politics of Paying Interest on Bank Reserves: A Criticism of
Bernanke's Exit Strategy / Thomas Palley
- This article is a sample. A Short and Simple Economic Critique
of the Case for Drilling in ANWR / David Stewart
- Concentrated Poverty: A Critical Analysis / Herbert J. Gans
- The Human Resource Economics of Vernon Briggs / Charles Whalen
- A New Political Economics—and Political Economy / Amitai
Etzioni
- Tea Party Politics / Mike Sharpe
Contributions to Political
Economy 29(1): June 2010
Journal website:
http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3924/3
- Christos N.
Pitelis / From Bust To Boom: An Introduction
- Thomas Clarke / Recurring Crises in Anglo-American Corporate
Governance
- Christos N. Pitelis and Vasilis Vasilaros / The Determinants of
Value and Wealth Creation at the Firm, Industry, and National Levels: A
Conceptual Framework and Evidence
- Paschalis A. Arvanitidis, George Petrakos, and Sotiris Pavleas /
On The Dynamics of Growth Performance: An Expert Survey
- Nick Von Tunzelmann, Jutta Günther, Katja Wilde, and
Björn Jindra / Interactive Dynamic Capabilities and Regenerating
the East German Innovation System
- Eleni E. N. Piteli / Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment
in Developed Economies: A Comparison between European and Non-European
Countries
Economic
Systems Research, 22(2): June 2010
Journal website:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09535314.asp
- Extensions to the Multiplier Decomposition Approach in a SAM
Framework: An Application to Vietnam / Marisa Civardi; Rosaria Vega
Pansini; Renata Targetti
Lenti
- Formal and Informal Sectors in China and India / Codrina
Rada
- Input-Output Analysis for Business Planning: A Case Study of the
University of Sydney / Manfred Lenzen; Charlie Benrimoj; Bob
Kotic
- On the Environmental Impact of Consumer Lifestyles - Using a
Japanese Environmental Input-Output Table and the Linear Expenditure
System Demand Function
- / Ayu Washizu; Satoshi
Nakano
- Predicting Negative Effects of the Second Intifada: An Ex-Post
Evaluation of Some Models / Paul de Boer; Marco
Missaglia
Endnotes 2:
April 2010
Journal website:
http://endnotes.org.uk/
- Crisis in the Class Relation
- Misery and Debt
- Notes on the New Housing Question
- Communisation and Value-Form Theory
- The Moving Contradiction
- The History of Subsumption
- Sleep-Worker’s Enquiry
Forum for
Social Economics, 39(2): July2010
Journal website:
http://springerlink.com/content/n75675510500/
- The Impact of the Welfare State and Social Policy on the Working
Population: The Recent British Experience /Reza Fazeli & Rafat
Fazeli
- The Interaction of Foreign Direct Investment with Electronic
Commerce in Less Developed Countries / Guilherme D. Pires, John Stanton
& Ioannis-Dionysios Salavrakos
- The Exchange Rate and Inflation in Argentina: A Classical
Critique of Orthodox and Heterodox Policy Prescriptions / Ariel Dvoskin
& German Feldman
- Emil Lederer and Joseph Schumpeter on Economic Growth,
Technology and Business Cycles / Panayotis G. Michaelides, John Milios,
Angelos Vouldis & Spyros Lapatsioras
- Autism in Economics? A Second Opinion / Klaus Mohn
Interface:
a journal for and about social movements, 2(1): May 2010
Journal website:
http://www.interfacejournal.net/
Editorial
- Alf Nilsen, Andrejs Berdnikovs, Liz Humphrys / Crises, social
movements and revolutionary transformations [PDF]
Activist interview
- Ashanti Alston in interview with Hilary Darcy /Be careful of
your man-tones! Gender politics in revolutionary struggle [PDF]
Testimony
- Jeremy Brecher / Tim Costello: an appreciation [PDF]
Articles
- John Charlton / "Another world was possible"? Anti-capitalism in
the year 2000 [PDF]
- Colin Barker / Crises and turning points in revolutionary
development: emotion, organization and strategy in Solidarnosc, 1980
– 81 [PDF]
- Kirk Helliker / The state of emancipation: with, within,
without? [PDF]
- Samuel R Friedman / Sociopolitical and philosophical questions
of organization in making a human society [PDF]
- Jean Bridgeman / A matter of trust: the politics of
working-class self-education [PDF]
- Alfredo Duarte Corte / Pensar las luchas autónomas como
potencia, pensar la autonomía como categoría abierta [ES
+ EN] [PDF]
- Peter Waterman / Labour at the 2009 Belém World Social
Forum: between an ambiguous past and an uncertain future [PDF]
Event analyses and action note
- Maria Kyriakidou / "Another world is possible as long as it is
feminist too": dissenting acts and discourses by Greek leftist
feminists [event analysis] [PDF]
- Anne Elizabeth Moore / The outdoor games of the 2009 Winter
Unlympiad at Washington Park [action note] [PDF]
- Beth Gonzalez and Walda Katz-Fishman / New openings for movement
and consciousness in the US [event analysis] [PDF]
Debating David Harvey
- David Harvey / Organizing for the anti-capitalist transition [PDF]
Responses:
- Willie Baptist / A new and unsettling force: the strategic
relevance of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Poor
People’s Campaign [PDF]
- AK Thompson / "Daily life" not a "moment" like the rest: notes
on Harvey’s "Organizing for the anti-capitalist transition"
[PDF]
- Benjamin Shepard / Responding to Harvey: it’s all about
organizing [PDF]
- Laurence Cox / "The interests of the movement as a whole":
response to David Harvey [PDF]
- Anna Selmeczi / Educating resistance [PDF]
- Marcelo Lopes de Souza / Which right to which city? In defence
of political-strategic clarity [PDF]
Key documents
Producción colectiva. En boca de todos: apuntes para divulgar
historia [
PDF]
Reviews [single
PDF]
- Marianne Maeckelbergh, The will of the many: how the
alterglobalisation movement is changing the face of democracy. Reviewed
by Emma Dowling
- Daryl Maeda, Chains of Babylon: the rise of Asian America.
Reviewed by Adrienne Showalter Matlock
- Rory McVeigh, Rise of the Ku Klux Klan: right-wing movements and
national politics. Reviewed by Allison L Hurst
- Mastaneh Shah-Shuja, Zones of proletarian development. Reviewed
by Donagh Davis
- Lucien van der Walt and Michael Schmidt, Black flame: the
revolutionary class politics of anarchism and syndicalism. Reviewed by
Deric Shannon
- Lynne Woehrle, Patrick Coy and Gregory Maney, Contesting
patriotism: culture, power and strategy in the peace movement. Reviewed
by Janeske Botes
- Jeff Juris, Networking futures: the movements against corporate
globalization. Reviewed by Israel Rodríguez-Giralt [ES + EN]
General material
- Call for papers (volume 3 issue 1): Repression and social
movements [PDF]
International
Journal of Political Economy, 39(1): Spring 2010
Journal website:
http://www.mesharpe.com/journal_info/ijp.htm
- Inequality-Led Financial Instability: A Minskian Structural
Analysis of the Subprime Crisis / Fadhel Kaboub, Zdravka Todorova,
Luisa Fernandez
- Interdependency, Decoupling, and Dependency: Asian Economic
Development in the Age of Global Financialization / Yan Liang
- Exploring the Sustainability of the Chinese Growth Model in
Light of Some Key Structural Characteristics / Arslan Razmi
- Hegemony and Seigniorage: The Planned Spontaneity of the U. S.
Current Account Deficit / Maria N. Ivanova
International
Review of Applied Economics, 24(3): May 2010
Journal website:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/02692171.asp
Special Issue:
Inequality as a source of
economic vulnerability: post-crisis varieties of capitalism
Introduction / William Milberg; Pascal Petit
The crisis and its implications for the regulation of advanced
capitalism
- The systemic nature of the rise in inequality in developed
economies / Pascal Petit
- Consumer debt and financial fragility / Robert Guttmann;
Dominique Plihon
The US model in comparative perspective
- Economic insecurity in the new wave of globalization: offshoring
and the labor share under varieties of capitalism / William Milberg;
Deborah Winkler
- The stagnation of male wages in the US / Jeff Madrick; Nikolaos
Papanikolaou
- The future of retirement in aging societies / Teresa
Ghilarducci
- By what measure? A comparison of French and US labor market
performance with new indicators of employment adequacy / David R.
Howell; Anna Okatenko
Inequality in Europe
- Inequalities, employment and income convergence in Europe:
evidence from regional data / James K. Galbraith; Jose Enrique
Garcilazo
- Varieties of capitalisms and varieties of performances:
accounting for inequality in post-Soviet Union transition economies /
Gianluca Grimalda; David Barlow; Elena Meschi
- Inequality and migration: what different European patterns of
migration tell us /El Mouhoub Mouhoud; Joël
Oudinet
International
Socialism, 127: Summer 2010
Website:
http://www.isj.org.uk/
Analysis
Feedback
Book reviews
Pick of the quarter
Journal of
Economic Issues, 44(2): June 2010
- The 2010 Veblen-Commons Award Recipient: Glen Atkinson / John F.
Henry
- The Legal Foundations of Financial Capitalism: Remarks upon
Receipt of the Veblen-Commons Award / Glen Atkinson
- Institutionalist Perspectives on Immigration Policy: An Update /
Dell Champlin
- Actually Existing Markets: The Case of Neoliberal Australia /
Lynne Chester
- Why Free Markets Can Sometimes Turn into "Peacock Markets": The
Evolution of Credit Cards / Joshua M. Frank
- Rules and Roles in the Marketplace: Self-Organization of the
Market / William H. Redmond
- Neo-Liberalism, the Changing German Labor Market, and Income
Distribution: An Institutionalist and Post Keynesian Analysis / John
Hall, Udo Ludwig
- Neoliberalism, Neoclassicism and Economic Welfare / John T.
Harvey
- After Neoliberalism: A Social Structure of Accumulation or Mode
of Regulation for Global or Regional Performance? / Phillip Anthony
O'Hara
- Positive Economic Freedom: An Enabling Role for International
Labor Standards in Developing Countries? / Tonia Warnecke, Alex De
Ruyter
- Transition to the Regulatory State in Turkey: Lessons from
Energy / Tamer Cetin, Feridun Yilmaz
- Growth, Inequality and Negative Trickle Down / Daphne T.
Greenwood, Richard P. F. Holt
- The Ranking of Contractors to the U.S. Department of Defense
According to Integrated Power Blocs Among the Contractors / F. Gregory
Hayden, Elliot G. Campbell, Shannon Cummins
- From Economic Freedom to Economic and Social Poverty:
Institutional Approaches to the Business Enterprise, Structural Change,
and the Role for Government / Michael J. Murray
- An Analysis of Employment and Wage Outcomes for Women Under TANF
/ Daniel A. Underwood, Dan Axelsen, Dan Friesner
- Progressive Alternatives To Re-Regulation / William M. Dugger
- Free Cash, the Current Account and Bubble Creation / Craig
Medlen
- Debt-Financed Consumption Sprees: Regulation, Freedom and Habits
of Thought / Martha A. Starr
- Rescuing the Rentier - Neoliberalism, Social Imbalance, and the
Current Economic Crisis: A Synthesis of Keynes, Galbraith, and Minsky /
John P. Watkins
- Third-Party Certification in Food Market Chains: Are You Being
Served? / Felipe Almeida, Huascar F. Pessali, Nilson Maciel de Paula
- Security of Expectations and Freedom of Choice in the Health
Insurance Market / Stephen P. Paschall
- Self-Regulated Markets for Professional Legal Services: The Case
of Tax Intermediaries / Enrico Schoebel
- Neoliberal Economics and Caribbean Economies / Winston H.
Griffith
- On the Risks of Introducing a Liberal Plan in a Traditionally
Autocratic Society: The Case of Russia / Anna Klimina
- Macroeconomic Performance and Manufacturing Earnings Disparity
in Mexico / Kellin Chandler Stanfield
- Milton Friedman's Capitalism and Freedom: A Binary Economic
Critique / Robert Ashford
- The Historic Roots of the Neoliberal Program / John F. Henry
- The Aristotelian Contribution to Development Ethics / John
Marangos, Nikos Astroulakis
- Full Employment with Liberty: John R. Commons' Perspective and
Its Continuing Relevance / Charles J. Whalen
Journal of Economic
Methodology, 17(2): June 2010
Journl website:
http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713704064~link=cover
Special Issue:
Neuroeconomics: Hype or Hope?
Introduction
- 'Neuroeconomics: hype or hope?' / Caterina Marchionni;
Jack Vromen
Articles
- When economics meets neuroscience: hype and hope / Uskali
Mäki
- The disunity of neuroeconomics: a methodological appraisal /
Roberto Fumagalli
- Inductive modeling using causal studies in neuroeconomics:
brains on drugs / Moana Vercoe; Paul J. Zak
- The philosopher in the scanner (or: how can neuroscience
contribute to social philosophy?) / Francesco Guala; Tim Hodgson
- Neuroeconomics: more than inspiration, less than revolution / N.
Emrah Aydinonat
- Where economics and neuroscience might meet / Jack Vromen
- The methodologies of neuroeconomics / Glenn Harrison; Don
Ross
- Function and mechanism: the metaphysics of neuroeconomics /
Michiru Nagatsu
- Do neurobiological data help us to understand economic decisions
better? / Alessandro Antonietti
- Explanatory relevance across disciplinary boundaries: the case
of neuroeconomics /Jaakko Kuorikoski; Petri Ylikoski
Meteroeconomica, 61(3): July
2010
Journal website:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118503116/home
- PAUL ANTHONY SAMUELSON (1915–2009)
- COMMODITY CONTENT IN A GENERAL INPUT–OUTPUT MODEL /Takao
Fujimoto, Arrigo Opocher
- THE PROFIT–INVESTMENT–UNEMPLOYMENT NEXUS AND
CAPACITY UTILIZATION IN A STOCK-FLOW CONSISTENT MODEL / Jean-Bernard
Chatelain
- MONETARY POLICY WITH INVESTMENT–SAVING IMBALANCES /
Roberto Tamborini
- ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, STRUCTURAL CHANGE AND NATURAL RESOURCE
BOOMS: A STRUCTURALIST PERSPECTIVE / Alberto Botta
- PRIMITIVE ACCUMULATION, GROWTH AND THE GENESIS OF SOCIAL CLASSES
/ Jean-François Jacques, Antoine Rebeyrol
- A STUDY OF THE DIVERSIFICATION OF CHINA'S FOREIGN RESERVES
WITHIN A THREE-COUNTRY STOCK-FLOW CONSISTENT MODEL / Marc Lavoie, Jun
Zhao
News & Letters, 55(3):
May-June 2010
Journal website:
http://www.newsandletters.org/
Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2010-2011
Capital devours lives, labor, land; masses seek paths to freedom
In Memoriam
- Mary Joan Schmidt (Mary Jo Grey)
- For mine bosses, 29 dead just the cost of digging coal
From the Writings of Raya Dunayevskaya
- Marxist-Humanism's original contribution
Essay by Narihiko Ito: A Japanese Marxist's view
- Rosa Luxemburg, Raya Dunayevskaya and 21st century socialism
Black/Red View
World in View
- People's Climate Summit and protests in Bolivia
MORE ARTICLES ...
* Workshop Talks: Let health workers do their jobs
right
* Anti-choice terrorism
* Women World Wide
* 'ALL Families Rally'
* Save Our Home!
* Anna Walentynowicz
* Colombian workers tossed on a trash heap
* En Español: Proletarios en Colombia sin
salario, sin derechos… ¿Sin futuro?
* Readers' Views
* Dialogue from Network of Iranian Labor Unions
* Fight the 'injunktion'
* 'This is no way to run a school'
* Hondurans fight back
* Public subsidizes private 'affordable housing'
* Queer Notes
* Tea party not welcome
* World in View: Israelis, Palestinians oppose
Netanyahu
* World in View: Thailand
Real-World Economics Review,
53: June 2010
You can download the whole issue as a pdf document by clicking
here or download articles individually by clicking on their
pdf link.
Articles
- May 6th / Paul A. David
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- Beyond growth or beyond capitalism / Richard Smith
download pdf
- Happy talk and the stock market / David Westbrook
download pdf
- The crisis in mainstream economics / Geoffrey Harcourt
download pdf
- Copeland on money as electricity / Anne Mayhew
download pdf
- Debunking the theory of the firm—a chronology / Steve Keen
and Russell Standish
download pdf
- The high budgetary cost of incarceration / John Schmitt, Kris
Warner, and Sarika Gupta
download pdf
- Deficit hysteria redux? / Yeva Nersisyan and Randall L. Wray
download pdf
- The social cost of carbon / Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth Stanton
download pdf
Review article
Comments
- Adam Smith’s real views on slavery: a reply to Marvin
Brown / Thomas Wells
download pdf
- Did Smithian economics promote slavery? / Bruce Elmslie
download pdf
- Willy Nilly / Marglin, Radford and Fullbrook
download pdf
Review of Social Economy,
68(2): June 2010
Journal website:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/routledge/00346764.html
Articles
- The Importance of Monitoring and Mitigating the Safety-Net
Consequences of Regulation-Induced Innovation / Edward J. Kane
- Trust in Others: Does Religion Matter? / Joseph P. Daniels; Marc
von der Ruhr
- Wicksell's Social Philosophy and his Unanimity Rule / Marianne
Johnson
- "Social vs. Military Spending": A Different Perspective / Edward
O'Boyle
- "Social vs. Military Spending"-A Rejoinder / Ismael
Hossein-Zadeh
Speaker's Corner
- Sen on Public Policy: Private Incentives, Public Virtues? / Hans
E. Jensen; Betsy Jane Clary; Wilfred Dolfsma
Review Essay
- Social Economics: Market Behavior in a Social Environment,
Book Review
- Healing and Creativity in Economic Ethics: The Contribution of
Bernard Lonergan's Economic Thought to Catholic Social Teaching /
William J. Zanardi
Revue de la
régulation, n°7: 1er semestre 2010
Institutions, régulation et
développement
- Dossier : Institutions,
régulation et développement
Nouvelle
économie du développement et essais cliniques
randomisés : une mise en perspective d’un outil de preuve
et de gouvernement
Aide au
développement : six décennies de trop dits et de non dits
La notion de
société civile dans les politiques et pratiques du
développement
Sécurité
et Développement
Les « clubs
de troc » argentins :
un microcosme monétaire Credito dépendant du macrocosme
Peso
- Opinions - débats :
Institutions, régulation et développement
- Alain Piveteau et Éric Rougier
Émergence,
l’économie du développement interpellée
- Entretien avec Pierre
Salama
Itinéraires et
trajectoires de développement en Amérique latine et
au-delà
Douglass North :
hétérodoxie néo-institutionnelle versus
néolibéralisme ?
- An interview with Bertram
Schefold
“Putting
development economics into historical perspective: A view from
Germany”
L’empire des
institutions (et leurs crises)
- Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira
The global financial
crisis, neoclassical economics, and the neoliberal yars of capitalism
Philippe Steiner et
François Vatin, (dir.), Traité de sociologie
économique, Presses universitaires de France, 2009, 816 p.
Les traiteurs de la sociologie
économique : un festin bon marché
Pierre Dardot et
Christian Laval, La nouvelle raison du monde. Essai sur la
société néolibérale, (2009) et Luc
Boltanski, De la critique. Précis de sociologie de
l’émancipation, (2009)
Aporie de la critique
funèbre
Elsa Lafaye de
Micheaux, Eric Mulot et Pepita Ould-Ahmed, La fabrique
institutionnelle et politique des trajectoires de développement, Presses
universitaires de Rennes, 2007
Jean
Cartier-Bresson, Économie politique de la corruption et
de la gouvernance, Paris, L’Harmattan, collection «
Éthique économique », 2008
Laurence
Fontaine, L’économie morale. Pauvreté,
crédit et confiance dans l’Europe préindustrielle,
Gallimard-nrf essais, 2008, 437 p
Samouel Beji, Le
développement financier pour les pays du sud de la
Méditerranée à l’épreuve de la
mondialisation financière
Sébastien
Plociniczak, L’Encastrement Social des Marchés.
Éléments théoriques et empiriques pour une analyse
en termes de réseaux relationnels
Slim Thabet, L'économie
politique du capitalisme raisonnable. Essai sur les fondements
institutionnalistes de la pensée économique de John
Maynard Keynes
Socio-Economic Review,
8(3): July 2010
Journal website:
http://ser.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol8/issue3/index.dtl
Articles
- Pil Ho Kim / The East Asian welfare state debate and surrogate
social policy: an exploratory study on Japan and South Korea
- Hans Pruijt and Pascal Dérogée / Employability and
job security, friends or foes? The paradoxical reception of
employacurity in the Netherlands
- J. Timo Weishaupt / A silent revolution? New management ideas
and the reinvention of European public employment services
- Basak Kus / Regulatory governance and the informal economy:
cross-national comparisons
- Tamar Yogev / The social construction of quality: status
dynamics in the market for contemporary art
DISCUSSION FORUM I
- Bruno Amable, Robert Boyer, David Levi-Faur, Christine Parker,
and Steven Vogel / Crisis in the regulation regime—a new
paradigm?
DISCUSSION FORUM II
- Bruno Amable, Werner Eichhorst, Neil Fligstein, and Wolfgang
Streeck On Wolfgang Streeck Re-Forming Capitalism: Institutional Change
in the German Political Economy, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009:
Panel at the SASE 2009 Annual Meeting, Paris, France
POEM
- Sunita Ahlawat and Alan Sumski / Fiscal house of disorder
CORRIGENDUM
- Monica Prasad and Yingying Deng / Taxation and the worlds of
welfare
World Review of Political
Economy, 1(1): March 2010
The
World Review of Political Economy (WRPE) is a quarterly, peer-reviewed
title to be published by Pluto Journals in close association with the
Shanghai-based World Association for Political Economy (WAPE).
Journal website: www.wrpe.org
Articles
- Marxian Political Economy: Legacy and
Renewal / Gérard Duménil and
Dominique Lévy
- Capitalism: Some Theoretical
Reconsiderations / David Laibman
- Uneven Development of the World Economy:
from Krugman to Lenin / Hiroshi Ohnishi
- The Economics of Crisis and the Crisis of
Economics as Seen from the US Epicenter /
Michael Perelman
- The Transition from Industrial Capitalism
to a Financialized Bubble Economy /
Michael Hudson
- Communists and the Trade Union Left
Revisited: the Case of the UK 1964–79
/ Roger Seifert and Tom Sibley
- Neoliberalism, Urbanism and the Plight of
Construction Workers in China / Ngai Pun
and Huilin Lu
- Marx’s Ecology in the 21st Century / Brett Clark and John Bellamy Foster
Communications
- Unsuccessfully Evolved Competitive
Process: A Comment on Evolutionary Economics and Creative Destruction / Bin Yu
Book Reviews
- Modern Political Economics, edited by
Enfu Cheng / Yuanpeng Hong
Academic
Frontiers
- Crisis and Governance: To Establish a New
Global Economic and Political Order /
Xiaoqin Ding
People
- A Retrospection on the Academic Career
and Achievements of Makoto Itoh / Shan Tong
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Heterodox Newsletters
CCPA
Canadian Centre for
Policy Alternatives
CCPA Research Associate Sheila Block shows Ontarians from racialized
backgrounds are far more likely to live in poverty, face barriers to
finding a job, and receive less pay for work. Sexism and racial
discrimination pack a double wallop, hampering racialized women’s
earning power. To read the report,
click here.
The groundbreaking report, co-published by Institut de recherche
et d’informations socio-economiques (IRIS) and the CCPA, looks at
income inequality among Quebec families raising children under the age
of 18. It finds income inequality got worse between 1976 and 2006
– in fact, 70% of Quebec families are earning a smaller share of
the income pie than a generation ago. Click to read the report,
available in both
English and
French.
The Spring edition of Our Schools/Our Selves, the CCPA's education
journal, is now available.
Anti-Racism
in Education: Missing in Action, edited by Charles C. Smith, brings
together some of the founders of the anti-racism education movement, as
well as many new voices. Click
here
to take a closer look or to purchase your copy.
Save the date! 30th Anniversary Gala
Mark your calenders for the CCPA's 30th anniversary on November 18,
2010, in Ottawa. We'll be hosting a day-long conference at the
University of Ottawa followed by a gala dinner at the Chateau Laurier.
Stay tuned in the coming months for more details.
On June 17, 2010 the CCPA and the Canadian Health Coalition hosted a
breakfast lecture on the sustainability of medicare for Members of
Parliament. Renowned pollster Nik Nanos reviewed the numbers, and
Canada's pre-eminent health economist, Dr. Robert G. Evans, presented
the facts and revealed the myths. Their presentations are
now
available on video on the CCPA website.
At the Toronto G8/20 meeting, Harper secured agreement to cut deficits
in half by 2013, raising the probability of a backslide into global
recession. He also lobbied hard to kill an international bank tax that
would help reign in the speculators that put the global economy in
crisis in the first place, and provide a major new source of government
revenue. I expand on this critique in an editorial that uses the
economic meltdown in Greece as an example, titled
Contagion
and Collateral Damage: The Aftershocks of Global Financial Crisis.
the CCPA's Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan recently wrote an
editorial on the new poverty numbers in Canada.
Canada's
Poverty Hole: New income data suggests troubling poverty trends are
unfolding in Canada is availble on our website.
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Women and
Social Security Alert, 29: June 2010
In
the News
- Strengthening Social Security Campaign Forming
- Strengthening Social Security Campaign Principles
Upcoming
Events
- Insight Center for Community Economic Development Webinar
– Social Security at 75: Building Economic Security, Closing the
Racial Wealth Gap – June 17, 2010
- Strengthening Social Security Campaign Organizational Meeting
– June 18, 2010
- NASI Briefing – “Social Security at 75: The Legacy
and Vision” – June 22, 2010
- Urban Institute Forum Series – “The Big Balance:
Raising the Retirement Age While Protecting Those Who Cannot
Work” – July 14, 2010
Heterodox Books and Book
Series
Antonio Gramsci
By Antonio A. Santucci
Preface by Eric J. Hobsbawm, foreword by Joseph A. Buttigieg,
translated by Graziella DiMauro with Salvatore Engel-DiMaur
Monthly Review Press. $15.95 pbk. 207 pp | webpage.
Aristotle, Adam Smith and
Karl Marx
By Pack, Spencer J.
Edward Elgar. June 2010 Hardback 288 pp. ISBN: 978 1 84844 763 9.
Regular Price: $125.00 Web Price: $112.50 | webpage
Capitalism as a Moral System
By Pack, Spencer J.
Edward Elgar. June 2010, Paperback 208 pp. ISBN: 978 1 84980 129 4.
Regular Price: $35.00 Web Price: $28.00 | Originally published in 1991.
Hardback 208 pp. ISBN: 978 1 85278 442 3. Regular Price: $69.95 Web
Price: $62.96 | webpage
Central Banking, Asset
Prices and Financial Fragility
By Eric Tymoigne
Routledge, June 16th 2010. ISBN: 978-0-415-78119-0. Paperback .
322 pp |
webpage
The current literature on central banking contains two distinct
branches. On the one side, research focuses on the impact of monetary
policy on economic growth, unemployment, and output-price inflation,
while ignoring financial aspects. On the other side, some scholars
leave aside macroeconomics in order to study the narrow, but crucial,
subjects of financial behaviours, and financial supervision and
regulation. This book aims at merging both approaches by using
macroeconomic analysis to show that financial considerations should be
the main preoccupation of central banks. Eric Tymoigne shows how
different views regarding the conception of asset pricing lead to
different positions regarding the appropriate role of a central bank in
the economy. In addition, Hyman P. Minsky’s framework of analysis
is used extensively and is combined with other elements of the Post
Keynesian framework to study the role of a central bank.
Tymoigne argues that central banks should be included in a broad
policy strategy that aims at achieving stable full employment. Their
sole goal should be to promote financial stability, which is the best
way they can contribute to price stability and full employment. Central
banks should stop moving their policy rate frequently and widely
because that creates inflation, speculation, and economic instability.
Instead, Tymoigne considers a pro-active financial policy that does not
allow financial innovations to enter the economy until they are
certified to be safe and that focuses on analyzing systemic risk. He
argues that central banks should be a guide and a reformer that allow a
smooth financing and funding of asset positions, while making sure that
financial fragility does not increase drastically over a period of
expansion.
This book will be of interest to students and researchers engaged
with central banking, macroeconomics, asset pricing and monetary
economics.
Christian Theology and
Market Economics
By Harper, I.R. and Gregg, S.
Edward Elgar. June 2010 Paperback 240 pp. ISBN: 978 1 84980 182 9
Regular Price: $40.00 Web Price: $32.00 | Originally published in 2008
Hardback 240 pp. ISBN: 978 1 84720 377 9. Regular Price: $110.00 Web
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Cooperative Enterprise
Zamagni, S. and Zamagni, V.
Edeard Elgar, June 2010 Hardback 128 pp. ISBN: 978 1 84844 974 9.
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Green Gone Wrong: How the
Economy is Undermining the Environmental Revolution
By Heather Rogers
Verso, May 2010. ISBN: 978 1 84467 645 3/ £16.99 / 272 pages |
webpage
Trenchant exposé of the myths of “green capitalism”
Faced with the unprecendented threat of climate change, the
contemporary world has turned to a solution that is all too
prosaic—consumerism. The answer, we are told, is to “go
green,” to buy organic food or even a new “clean”
car. In a follow-up to her bestselling and acclaimed book Gone
Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage, Heather Rogers travels from
Paraguay to Indonesia, via the Hudson Valley, Detroit and London, to
explore the rapid expansion of environmental production and consumption.
We are, Rogers argues, coming to rely on consumerism as the solution to
the very problems it has helped to cause. Green Gone Wrong is an appeal
to the reader to respond rationally to the current environmental
crisis. It asks: What choices and structural forces led us to this
perilous place? This book is founded on the belief that we have the
capacity to find solutions that are not mere palliatives, but ways of
engaging with how we live and what kind of world we want to live in.
Institutional Economics: An
Introduction
by Annette Van den Berg, Antoon Spithoven, and John Groenewegen
Palgrave Macmilan, February 2010. ISBN: 978-0-230-55074-2 |
webpage
This wide-ranging and highly accessible introduction presents both the
key theories of Original Institutional Economics and New Institutional
Economics in a balanced and intuitive way, reserving technical
discussions mainly for appendices. The authors have assumed only
minimal, principles-level, knowledge of economics on the part of the
reader, making the text ideally suited for use as core reading in
undergraduate courses as well as in graduate courses where the
backgrounds of students are diverse.
Routledge
Studies in the History of Economics
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Strategic
Competition, Dynamics, And The Role Of The State: A New Perspective
By Jamee K. Moudud,
Edward Elgar 2010. 192 pp. Hardback. 978 1 84542 923 2. £59.95.
on-line discount £53.96 |
webpage
This book investigates the policy implications of a long-run cyclical
growth model in the tradition of Sir Roy Harrod. Emphasizing the role
of Keynesian uncertainty, it shows that the growth model is anchored in
a new interpretation of the Oxford Economists’ Research
Group’s microeconomic analysis and a variant of the stock-flow
consistent framework. By extending Sir Roy’s insights, the book
discusses taxation and public investment policies and the relevance of
capital budgeting for raising the Harrodian warranted growth path.
Taxation and Gender Equity:
A Comparative Analysis of Direct and Indirect Taxes in Developing and
Developed Countries
Edited by Caren Grown and Imraan Valodia
Routledge, May 14, 2010. $140.00. Hardback. ISBN: 978-0-415-49262-1.
352 pages |
webpage
Review copies can also be obtained from Alex Robinson at
alex.robinson@tandf.co.uk.
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The Socialist Alternative:
Real Human Development
By Michael A. Lebowitz
Monthly Review Press. June 2010. ISBN: 978-1-58367-214-3. $15.95
paperback. 191 pp |
webpage
The APEX Press Book
Collection on Corporate Personhood, Democracy & Rule of Law
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Twenty-First Century
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By Harris, J.M. Goodwin, N.R.
Edward Elgar. June 2010 Paperback 352 pp. ISBN: 978 1 84980 166 9.
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Heterodox Book Reviews
Too Big to Save? How to Fix
the U.S. Financial System
By Robert Pozen, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009; ISBN:
978-0-470-49905-4, 480 pages.
Reviewed for
Heterodox Economics Newsletter by Bernard Chen,
Denison University
Download the
review.
Bailouts: Public Money,
Private Profits
Robert E. Wright, editor,
Bailouts: Public Money, Private Profits.
New York: Columbia University Press, 2010. vii + 147 pp. $18
(paperback), ISBN: 978-0-231-15055-2.
Reviewed for
EH.NET by
Andrew Jalil, Department of Economics, Reed College.
The
Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the History of Economic Ideas
Steven G. Medema,
The Hesitant Hand: Taming Self-Interest in the
History of Economic Ideas. Princeton, NJ: Princeton
University Press, 2009. xiii + 230 pp. $35 (hardcover), ISBN:
978-0-691-12296-0.
Reviewed for
EH.NET by
Steven Horwitz, Department of Economics, St. Lawrence University.
Read the
review.
The Provocative Joan
Robinson: The Making of a Cambridge Economist
Nahid Aslanbeigui and Guy Oakes,
The Provocative Joan Robinson: The
Making of a Cambridge Economist. Durham, NC: Duke University Press,
2009. x + 320 pp. $24 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-8223-4538-1.
Reviewed for
EH.NET by
Michael V. Namorato, Department of History, University of Mississippi.
Read the
review.
The Relentless Revolution: A
History of Capitalism
Joyce Appleby,
The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism.
New York: W. W. Norton, 2010. xii + 494 pp. $30 (cloth), ISBN:
978-0-393-06894-8.
Reviewed for
EH.NET by
Paul M. Hohenberg, Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute.
Read the
review.
Marx and Philosophy Review
of Books
- Peter Amato on G.A. Cohen
- Tom Eyers on Alberto Toscano
- Daniel Whittall on Alex Callinicos
- Terrel Carver on Tristram Hunt
- Paula Cerni on Habermas
- Rich Daniels on Adorno
And a new list of books for review.
www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/
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and of any seniority. It provides the successful candidate a sum
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Heterodox Web Sites and
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Professors Beyond Borders
Professors Beyond Borders is an action network of academics and
professionals willing to engage with real-world problems that impact
quality of life in diverse communities. This entails
problem-based knowledge creation, innovation in context, and mapping of
expertise to community needs and ground realities.
Website:
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http://www.usmarxisthumanists.org/
An affiliate of the International Marxist-Humanist
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"The U.S. Marxist-Humanists organization, grounded in Marx’s
Marxism and Raya Dunayevskaya’s ideas, aims to develop a viable
vision of a truly new human society that can give direction to
today’s many freedom struggles."
We Are Many
You can catch highlights for the Socialism 2010 conference, as well as
previous conferences, at the newly launched website We Are Many
http://wearemany.org/
Talks for this weekend's conference in Chicago, including
- End the Siege of Gaza / Kevin Ovenden, Tariq Ali, Gilbert Achcar
and Ahmed Shawki
- The Malthus Myth: Population, Poverty, and Global Warming / Ian
Angus
- Imperialism and Resistance in Haiti / Roger Leduc and Ashley
Smith
can be found here:
http://wearemany.org/event/2010/06/socialism-2010-chicago
You can also subscribe to our free podcast via iTunes. Just search for
"we are many."
More content will be added in the coming weeks, including talks at the
July 1-4 Socialism 2010 conference in Oakland (
http://www.socialismconference.org/oakland).
John Weeks
Other Heterodox economists might be interested in John Week's website.
His books can be
downloaded from this website and he regularly posts comments on
various economic issues. For example, see his recent comment on
financial markets here:
http://jweeks.org/Current_Commentary.html
Heterodox
Economics in the Media
Pourquoi et
comment faut-il réduire la dette publique ?
LEMONDE.FR | 21.06.10
Muriel Pucci et Bruno Tinel, maîtres de conférences en
économie à l'université Paris-I -
Panthéon-Sorbonne
Que l'on parle de rigueur ou d'assainissement des finances
publiques, la contraction des dépenses publiques est partout
brandie comme le remède à la dette. Ainsi, alors que
l'Allemagne annonce un plan de rigueur exceptionnel, en France le
premier ministre vient d'annoncer une forte réduction des
dépenses et envisage l'inscription du déficit
"zéro" dans la constitution. [Read the full article
here]
UMKC
Professors Take Heterodox View on Economy
KCUR radio. June 1, 2010
Listen here: www.publicbroadcasting.net/.../UMKC.Professors.Take.Hetero...
For Your Information
Ingrid Rima Retires
Professor
Ingrid Rima will will retire as of
June 30, 2010 after 64 years of service to the Economics Department at
Temple University. She can be contacted at
irima@aol.com.
Letter from the Italian
Economists
A RESTRICTIVE POLICY WORSENS THE CRISIS, ADDS FUEL TO
SPECULATION AND CAN BRING TO THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE EURO ZONE. THE
DIRECTION OF ECONOMIC POLICY NEEDS TO BE CHANGED TO PREVENT ANOTHER
BREAKDOWN OF INCOMES AND EMPLOYMENT.
www.letteradeglieconomisti.it
This is a letter critical of the European economic policy signed
by over 100 Italian economist (the number will increase). An
English translation.
Professor
Richard Wolff Releases Online Courses
(1) the Economic Crisis, (2) Marxian Economics, and (3) Class
Analysis: Theory and Practice
Visitors to rdwolff.com can freely view full taped courses on
these three topics. These courses were taught by Professor Richard
Wolff over the past two years at the New School’s Graduate
Program for International Affairs and the Brecht Forum in New York.
After a career of developing as well as teaching Marxian theory,
Professor Wolff’s recent work has concentrated on applying that
theory to produce a new analysis of the causes and alternative
solutions to the current global economic crisis.
Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the
University of Massachusetts in Amherst and currently a Visiting
Professor at the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New
School University in New York. He has a PhD in Economics from
Yale University as well as degrees from Harvard University (history BA)
and Stanford University (economics MA). He has authored or co-authored
10 books, over 50 scholarly articles and 75 popular articles.
His documentary film on that crisis, Capitalism Hits the Fan, has
been regularly featured on LinkTv.com and can be previewed at
www.capitalismhitsthefan.com.
He also published a book of essays on the current crisis in 2010
entitled “Capitalism Hits the Fan: the Global Economic meltdown
and What to Do About it”.
Detailed information on and copies of his many writings, audios
and videos of his media interviews, lectures, and classes, and his
speaking schedule are all available at his website:
www.rdwolff.com.
Professor Wolff’s public talks have been featured on
ForaTV.com.
EURICSE:
European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social Enterprises
We are pleased to announce that Euricse has started an Economics
Research Centers Papers series, within the Economics Research Network
(ERN).
View Papers:
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Euricse (European Research Institute on Cooperative and Social
Enterprises) is a research centre established in 2008 as a
collaborative initiative between several institutions within the
cooperative movement, the Province of Trento and the University of
Trento. While Euricse is based in the Italian region of Trentino and is
closely connected to the organizations that operate there, its
activities address issues of national and international interest.
Euricse's mission is to promote knowledge development and innovation
for the field of cooperatives, social enterprises and other nonprofit
organizations engaged in the production of goods and services. The
Institute aims to deepen the understanding of these types of
organizations and their impact on economic and social development,
furthering their growth and assisting them to work more effectively.
Through activities directed toward and in partnership with both the
scholarly community and practitioners, including primarily theoretical
and applied research and training, we address issues of national and
international interest to this sector, favouring openness and
collaboration.
The Euricse Paper Series publishes papers on the topic of cooperatives,
social enterprises and nonprofit organizations. The series includes two
different types of papers: Research Papers drawn from studies conducted
or funded by Euricse, and Working Papers submitted by researchers from
around the world interested in contributing to the scholarly debate on
the topics of interest to the Institute. To contribute to the Working
Paper Series, please see
http://www.euricse.eu/publications/working-papers
for more information about the series and submission guidelines.
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Institute
for New Economic Thinking: Inaugural Conference Now on Video Online
"The Economic Crisis and the Crisis in Economics"
INET Inaugural Conference @ King’s College | April 8-11, 2010
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Eurozone in
Crisis: Reform or Exit?: Now Online
Event Date: 2 June 2010
Website:
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2010/06/eurozone-in-crisis-reform-or-exit/
Since the start of 2010, the Eurozone crisis has become progressively
deeper, threatening the existence of the euro as well as the coherence
of the European Union. Imposing harsh austerity measures is not the
only way to solve the crisis; in fact, it is the worst of several
alternatives. That, at least, is the view of Research on Money and
Finance (RMF), a network of political economists from SOAS and several
other universities.
RMF and the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities will hold a
roundtable discussion on the evening of 2 June to consider these
alternatives. Entitled ‘Eurozone in Crisis: Reform of
Exit?’, the event will bring together economists and political
scientists who take a radical view of the crisis in the eurozone, and
Greece in particular. The roundtable will consider options that are not
frequently discussed in the media, including cessation of debt payments
and exit from the eurozone. The event will explore themes from the
widely read RMF report ‘Eurozone in Crisis: Beggar Thyself and
Thy Neighbour’, which received worldwide media attention when it
was released in March. It will also contribute to the debate on the
social, political and economic aspects of the eurozone crisis that was
launched in May by the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities.
CHAIR: Larry Elliott, Economics Editor, Guardian Newspaper.
Order of Speakers:
• Prof. Costas Lapavitsas (Department
of Economics, SOAS): Reform or Exit from the Eurozone?
• Prof. George Irvin, (Department of
Development Studies, SOAS): Costs and Benefits of Default
• Prof. Costas Douzinas, (School of
Law, Birkbeck): The Politics of the Crisis
• Dr. Stathis Kouvelakis (European
Studies, Kingís College): The Greek Crisis as a Crisis of the
State
• Prof. Alex Callinicos (European
Studies, Kingís College): The Eurozone and the Global Crisis
A New Journal: Climate
Change Economics
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world's first Climate Change Economics journal has launched on 24 May
2010. A journal led by the renowned Dr. Robert Mendelsohn (Yale
University) celebrates its launch by extending 1-year of electronic
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Books
to be Reviewed for Historical Materialism
List of books can be found here:
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A Letter from a Student of
Heterodox Economics in the Developing World
I have been a follower of the newsletter for quite some
time and I think it would be important to highlight one issue I have
found as a student of heterodox economics in the developing world that
might be affecting the dispersion of the subject in general and on
which I have not seen any major discussion.
The access to heterodox material is very expensive! The costs of books
on the subject are higher than almost any other book on economics
except for major volumes on specialized subjects or collections (I
haven't done so, but I'm sure the distribution of the price of books
with the words post Keynesian, Sraffian or Marxian is many times the
price of a mainstream economics book or at least has a fatter right
tail). Also, there are many books which are out of print (try and get a
copy of Sraffa's Production of commodities by means of commodities and
you will get an idea of the magnitude of the problem), but still have a
valid copyright, and as such cannot be made available on free book
collections on the web. Two major collections, which have tackled this
problem in a very efficient way are the www.marxists.org
website, which offers html/pdf/doc versions of many major and important
(I'd guess "old") works by Marxists and others, and, the von Mises
Institute, which also offers free html/pdf/doc versions of major works
in the Austrian tradition. I think the von Mises Institute has done a
magnificent job at spreading out the Austrian tradition (and could be
worth imitating) by selling inexpensive printed versions of the texts
(one can get ALL major woks by Hayek on the business cycle and capital
in single volume for $30). Other heterodox economists ought to follow
suit in making inexpensive books available for students, scholars,
policy makers, and the general public. Publishing at Routledge, ME
Sharpe and such can be good, because they are open to publish the
subject and are famed publishing companies, but it comes at a huge cost
for the disperision of heterodox ideas. Similarly, heterodox journals
seem to be quite expensive. e.g. the Journal of Post Keynesian
Economics costs over $110 (U.S. Individual Subscription
Rate: $115.00, Foreign Individual Subscription Rate: $143.00) and there
are no options for students, while mainstream journals like AER cost
$70-98 (based on income)/students $35 (Econometrica Ordinary Member:
Print + Online 90 ; Student Member: Print + Online
50; cheaper if only online version) receive more
than one journal or access to other books/materials.
June 1, 2010
Ömer Özak, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics,
Brown University
A Proposal
for the History of Economics Society
By E. Roy Weintraub, Professor of Economics, Duke University |
June 21, 2010 |
SHOE Mailing List
At
this stage in the life of our subdiscipline, the balance between
articles and books in a scholar’s publishing career seems to have
shifted somewhat in favor of articles. Nevertheless, a number of
books in the history of economics are published each year. While
many of these books are small or large revisions of doctoral
dissertations for degrees from (primarily) in European universities,
some of the books are scholars’ monographs which refocus an
accumulated body of work, while others are done by more senior scholars
with more tenure-leisure to undertake long term projects.
The
number of book publishers however is small. In North America,
several university presses will consider publications in the history of
economics – Duke, Princeton, Chicago, Harvard, and Michigan come
readily to mind. In a different category are the larger presses
with old university affiliations, Cambridge University Press and Oxford
University Press. Large commercial publishers will occasionally
publish a book in the history of economics for a large trade audience
(like Wiley for Perry Mehrling’s book on Fischer Black).
Two commercial publishers have large lists in the history of economics
and take on more publishing projects than any of the others, Routledge
and Edward Elgar. Their business model consists of placing their
hard back volumes in libraries and generally forgoing sales to
individual scholars.The difficulty and distinction of these commercial
publishers is associated with the fact that their pricing structures
are quite different from those of the other presses: books priced
between $100-$200 U.S. are the rule, where these prices are roughly
equivalent to a five year subscription to JHET or HOPE.
The object of publication by
authors in the present academic environment is not only the advancement
of knowledge, but also the prestige-benefit (there is of course hardly
any pecuniary gain to the author) that accrues to the author for having
published a book. Most humanities departments in North American
universities require a book to be published before tenure may be
granted. The stresses on humanities publishing are well
known. The history of economics, located generally in an
institutional setting within departments of economics, presents
different prestige-challenges. As one who has served in various
capacities on my own university’s committee on appointment,
promotion and tenure, evaluating and reviewing cases from all units of
a large research university (except for law and clinical
medicine), I am aware generally of how various academic units construct
their internal standards for tenure, and promotion. I have come
to believe that in the future, as economics continues to regard itself
as an article-based culture like the sciences, publishing books will
become increasingly anomalous; economics faculty personnel committees
will struggle to compare the “value” of a book with the
“value” of articles. The usual way in which these
matters are addressed is to argue on the basis of merit and quality in
the publication, and this generally results in a desire to see that
books are published by “major” rather than
“minor” publishers with the reputation of the publishers
serving as a proxy for the quality of the book under discussion.
It is important to have a book contract or published book in a
humanities and interpretative social science field, but it is perhaps
more important to have a “good” publisher if one seeks
tenure in a department of English. Knowledge of which publishers
are “good” in each field is learned as part of the
socialization process that scholars in various disciplines engage.
A
difficulty in the history of economics community is that location in
“good” book series is difficult because of the extremely
small number of books in the history of economics published by, say,
Harvard, Princeton, Duke, Chicago and MIT. Oxford and Cambridge
do a good job but they are publishers with, again, limited lists, or
lists limited to one or two series at best. Thus book publishing
in the history of economics is increasingly done by the commercial
publishers Elgar, Routledge, and to a lesser degree M.E. Sharp and
Palgrave Macmillan. Since those books are expensive, individuals
have more difficulty purchasing such books, and so they are less likely
to refer back to the book in their own work. Impact factors,
citation studies, Google Scholar “hits”, H-indices and so
on require that, for larger scores, more individuals need to have
access to the publications. Financially stressed libraries are
increasingly unable to serve this need or perform this service.
Consequently those who publish must rely on book reviews, which are
increasingly infrequent in mainstream economics journals (hence the
growing importance of on-line reviews).
I
recently reviewed a book by a Nobel Laureate which was in effect
self-published. That scholar’s reputation will certainly
sell copies and his own distribution will assure availability. I
do not know whether this volume is print on demand, but it might well
be. How is one to achieve reputational advantage if one publishes
in a print-on-demand self-publishing operation using, say, Amazon as
the distributor? If one has a Nobel Prize, one simply does it. If
one is a young scholar, it seems to be a rather hopeless task.
Currently a young scholar’s book requires the imprimatur of a
“good” press to insure that the book is a
“serious” work.
The
foregoing considerations lead me to suggest, for the consideration of
the History of Economics Society, the following scheme: The History of
Economics Society, through a standing committee on book publishing,
might solicit manuscripts for publication through a yet to be
determined mode of producing books (e.g. perhaps books published on
demand?). These books could be sold independently and individually
through the use of Amazon, which would make it unnecessary to incur any
warehousing, order fulfillment, or other distribution costs. The
function of the committee would be, simply, to provide a certain number
of books per year with the label “A History of Economics Society
Book”. These books, with that label awarded competitively,
would have a possible path to value-recognition of scholarship by
institutions seeking an external valuator of quality. The HES has
a reputation of some significance, and its article and book prizes are
very highly valued as honors for the recipient at the recipient’s
home institution. Pricing of these volumes would need to cover
costs and could, under various different pricing structures, permit
free copies to all members of HES, much as History of Political
Economy includes a book (a supplementary issue) in each volume
number, for the annual HOPE conferences. Alternatively, deep discounts
to HES members could be achieved easily. Some revenues might
accrue to HES as well.
This
course of action is obviously but one idea to increase the visibility
of scholars who write monographs in the history of economics, but it
does so in a way that places the History of Economics Society itself in
a highly visible position within the history of economics community.
Verse and
Worst: Two Poetic Excesses in Economics
or,
perhaps, Two Economic Excess in Poetry
by
S. Subramanian
Madras Institute of Development
Studies, Chennai, India.
E-mail: subbu@mids.ac.in
1
CONCAVITY: THE PIVOTAL POINT
(or)
THE MATHEMATICAL ECONOMIST’S ANTHEM
[This
verse’s rhyme and metre are, I believe, a recognizable plagiarism
of T. S. Eliot’s ‘MaCavity: The Mystery Cat’, which
appears in his collection Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats. It
points to the ubiquity of ‘concavity’ in mainstream
economic theory, extolling its virtues, and underlining its
indispensability for the heroic task of doing mathematical economics.
It may be added that, if needs must, this Anthem can also be sung -
even tunefully, thanks to Andrew Lloyd Webber. (Author’s Note)]
Concavity’s the pivotal point: it drives each Worldly Law
–
It’s the reason why indifference curves fill us all with awe.
Micro, Macro, the lot of it, would be beyond repair,
And all of it a waste of time – if Concavity’s not
there!
Concavity, Concavity, there’s nothing like Concavity,
You need it here, you need it there, you need it for Duality.
The dismal science is dismaller, quite stark and wholly bare,
Not worth a single, solitary dime – if Concavity’s
not there!
No output curve that you can sketch, I dare and double dare,
Will the Law of Declining Returns fetch, if Concavity’s
not there!
Concavity’s a handsome thing, a very distinguished curve.
A concave utility function has a typically sloping swerve,
Without which, I fear, we cannot say much
About prospects, bets and such,
Nor say of a person that she’s risk-averse
In accents brisk and terse.
Concavity, Concavity, there’s nothing like Concavity -
You can’t do without it when you measure inequality:
When you need something like the Gini, ’tis poorly you will
fare
With a social welfare function in which Concavity’s not
there!
With concave curves and convex sets and a result of Mangasarian,
You should be able to get somewhere with your intermediate Varian;
Failing which I rather fear you’ll have to tear your hair -
Which is the lot of the economist for whom CONCAVITY’S NOT
THERE!
***
2
ALCOHOLIC DISCLAIMER
Being a Fragment of Verse Recently Discovered in the Ogden Nash Archives
[This
is the only tragic poem, revolving around the profound sorrow that
mistaken identities often bring in their wake, known to have been
written by the late, great comic poet Ogden Nash.]
After wine and pickled
mackerel,
One cannot always
rightly tell
Which Nash is John
And which is Ron,
Or which is Ben
And which Ogden.
Of mixing up people in
ways mistaken,
The chances, then, are
nine on ten.
And so, at cocktail
parties, oft,
Some one comes and
whispers soft –
Some one in academia
–
“John, I think I
really deem ya
(Upon my mickled
packerel)
To be Game
Theory’s greatest swell.”
“Upon your
crippled caramel”,
I tell Professor
McNicknicholl
(Or whoever it is that
has come along
And got it all
completely wrong),
“I think you think
I’m Nash the John,
You poor, misguided,
sozzled don.
But John I’m not,
who even when drowsy,
At math is hot, while
myself am lousy.
No pedagogue is Nash the
Og,
So get this through your
′holic fog:
He’s not to be
Mis-thought as me:
That Nash
Doesh equilibrash,
While thish Nash
Doesh poetic mish-mash.
To tell us apart
Is no great art:
Just grasp this detail
–
The Prize Nobel
Is for John,
In Econ;
And ought to be
– Holy Mockerel! -
For me -
In
Doggerel.”
***