Please direct queries and abstracts (500 words maximum) to the Guest Editors: Ebru Kongar, Jennifer Olmsted, and Elora Shehabuddin at gemc@drew.edu no later than 15 August 2010.
For further information please go to: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rfeccfp1.pdf

Forum for Social Economics 

International Conference on Production and Distribution

• 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.

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
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
9.30 – 11.00
11.30 - 13.00
14.30 – 16.00

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

Green Economics Institute, 5th Annual Conference 

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).

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

• The mould cracks
• Marxism and feminism today / Judith Orr
• Interview: Zionism, socialism and nationalism / Shlomo Sand & John Rose
• Interview: Reviving the spirit of equality / Richard G Wilkinson & Iain Ferguson
• 1937: the year of the sitdown / John Newsinger
• Reassessing the permanent arms economy / Gonzalo Pozo
• The Red Hussar: Daniel Bensaïd, 1946-2010 / Sebastian Budgen
• Empire and literature / Gareth Jenkins

Feedback

• Another side of anarchism / Ian Birchall
• A response to the sex work debate / Gareth Dale and Xanthe Whittaker

Book reviews

• Economic development / Joseph Choonara
• Sharing history / Penny McCall Howard
• Gramsci rendered whole / Chris Bambery
• Driving American decline / G Francis Hodge
• Philosophy on the barricades / Stacey Whittle
• Drama in three acts / Louis Bayman
• Dispelling “the Malthus myth” / Martin Empson
• Poles apart? / Adam Fabry
• Irrational records / Paul Blackledge
• Contesting the revolutionary tradition / Leo Zeilig

Pick of the quarter

• This quarter's selection

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

• The New Jim Crow

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 download pdf
• 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

• Keynes, recovered / Jonathan Kirshner download pdf

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

Journal website: http://regulation.revues.org/index7900.html

Institutions, régulation et développement

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 Pharmaceutical Innovation in Crisis: What Strategies of Big Pharma?

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

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

• The Making of the Classical Theory of Economic Growth By Anthony Brewer, June 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48620-0
• Production, Distribution and Trade: Alternative Perspectives: Essays in honour of Sergio Parrinello. Edited by Adriano Birolo, Duncan Foley, Heinz D. Kurz, Bertram Schefold and Ian Steedman, June 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-55723-8
• Political Economy and Industrialism: Banks in Saint-Simonian Economic Thought. By Gilles Jacoud, March 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-48266-0
• Studies in Social Economics. By Léon Walras Translated by Jan Van Daal and Donald A. Walker
• March 2010 | Hardback: 978-0-415-56965-1

Series webpage: http://tandf.msgfocus.com/c/1mutAc51885C2xSEY

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.
Download a book flyer.

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

Website: http://www.apexpress.org/

Featured titles:

• Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy, Edited by: Dean Ritz
  

• Gaveling Down The Rabble, by Jane Anne Morris

• The Rule of Property, by Paul Kivel
  

• You Call This a Democracy? by Karen Coulter
  

• The Elite Consensus, by George Draffan
  
• Rule of Power or Rule of Law? By Nicole Deller, Arjun Makhijani & John Burroughs

Twenty-First Century Macroeconomics

By Harris, J.M. Goodwin, N.R.

Edward Elgar. June 2010 Paperback 352 pp. ISBN: 978 1 84980 166 9. Regular Price: $49.00 Web Price: $39.20 | Originally published in 2009 Hardback 352 pp. ISBN: 978 1 84720 848 4. Regular Price: $140.00 Web Price: $126.00 | webpage

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/

Heterodox Graduate Programs and Scholarships

G.L.S Shackle Studentship: St Edmund's College

Applications are invited for the G.L.S Shackle Studentship for a single Cambridge University term between January 2011 and June 2012.  The Studentship is open to scholars who may be graduates of any University and of any seniority.  It provides the successful candidate a sum of £2000, paid in instalments over a period of 10 weeks or one term's free single accommodation in the College if available, plus a meals allowance.  In order to qualify it will be necessary for the successful applicant to produce a scholarly paper relating to Shackle at the end of his/her tenure.

It is important to note that the College cannot be responsible for providing airfares or visas.
The closing date for applications is 30th September 2010.

Applications should include a CV with a publications list plus a resumé of not more than 2000 words of the proposed research project and the names of two academic referees.

An application form and check list can be downloaded from the St Edmund's web page on www.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk. Please complete the form and send it together with a CV and Research Proposal to the Master's Secretary, St Edmund's College, Cambridge CB3 OBN.  E-mail: masters.office@st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk, Tel: +44(0)1223 336122, Fax: +44(0)1223 331966.

Heterodox Web Sites and Associates

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: http://professorsbeyondborders.org/

U.S. Marxist-Humanists

http://www.usmarxisthumanists.org/

An affiliate of the International Marxist-Humanist Organization

"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

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

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[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!

[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.”