From the Editors
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The community of heterodox economists is made to exist and
expand by virtue of voluntary efforts of heterodox economists and
institutions. We, Editors, are proud of making such a contribution to
the community. To be honest, it was not until we started publishing Heterodox
Economics Newsletter that we realized how much time and effort the
editor devoted to it everyday. The Newsletter is just an example.
Another conspicuous example is Real-World Economics Review
(formerly known as Post-Autistic Economics Review) that most of
you (currently 11,500 subscribers) are receiving regularly. We do not
know how exactly the Review is made; but we are quite sure that the
Editor, Edward Fullbrook, has been spending lots of his own time,
energy, and resources to manage the Review. Although the subscription
of the Review is free, the value of the Review is certainly priceless.
According to Fullbrook’s
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full as it was and is finding it increasingly difficult to continue to
provide these services at their present level.” So why
don’t you make a little donation to Real-World Economics
Review since we need it for our heterodox economics community
(donate here).
As usual, this issue of the Newsletter has lots of news to
announce. We’d like to call your attention to a couple of news
entries. The one is a relatively new heterodox journal, International
Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education. The current issue of the
Journal contains very interesting articles. Check this out. The
other is INET (Institute for New
Economics Thinking) established a year ago. We think that it is
worthwhile for heterodox economists to make use of this Institute (and
its grants) to make changes in economic theory and education.
Lastly, see new additions/updates to the Newsletter
website: “100 words on
Heterodox Economics” and subscription data.
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Table of Contents
Call
for Papers
Association
for Institutional Thought (AFIT) 2011 Conference
April 13-16, 2011 | Salt Lake City, Utah. Hilton Salt Lake Center
In conjunction with the Western Social Science Association (WSSA) 53rd
Annual Conference
Theme for the 2011 Conference: Institutionalism
and Building Heterodox Economics
Call for Papers (updated August 24, 2010)
Institutional economics starts from the view that the social
provisioning process is an instituted process and that institutions
along with organizations such as the business enterprise, cartels,
trade unions, and governmental bodies are basic units of economic
analysis. The Association for Institutional Thought provides an
excellent platform for the delivery of papers concerned with theoretic
and applied issues in a broad range of areas, including but not limited
to macro and monetary economics, microeconomics, political economy,
labor, regulatory and environmental economics, economies in transition,
history of thought, instituti
onal selection and evolutionary theory, healthcare, trade and
globalization, poverty and inequality, and the economics of sports. The
Association invites contributions that employ heterodox theory and
models or techniques of investigation and analysis. AFIT sessions are
well-attended, and presenters can expect to receive valuable comments
on their work. Proposals for complete panels (including discussant(s))
are welcome.
The theme for the 2011 AFIT conference is: Institutionalism and
Building Heterodox Economics. Institutional economics is an important
contributor to the building of heterodox economics. The 2011 theme
recognizes this contribution and wants to further it. Therefore, the
conference organizer is interested in papers and sessions that address
theoretical issues that engage both institutional economics and other
approaches in heterodox economics—such as, for example,
institutional contributions to heterodox production and cost theory or
institutionalist view of resources as becoming and the Georgist view of
land as a factor of production. The organizer is also interested in
papers and sessions that historically and theoretically examine
important institutional-heterodox concepts—circular production,
cumulative causation, social embeddedness, and the definition of
economics as the science of the social provisioning process. Finally,
the organizer recognizes that there are many topics of interest to
institutional-heterodox economists that are not connected to the
conference theme: papers on those topics are welcome as well.
Proposals for complete sessions are encouraged—see the submission
format below. If you are proposing a complete session, please arrange
to have discussants for your papers and a moderator for your session.
AFIT encourages proposals from graduate students, and it is anticipated
that at least one and possibly more panels of graduate student papers
will be included in the program this year. In addition, AFIT will
continue to sponsor prizes for outstanding student papers. A formal
announcement of this year’s competition is attached.
AFIT will continue the tradition of having one or more sessions that
explores ideas, experiences, and materials to advance economic
education from institutional and other heterodox perspectives.
Participants in these roundtables are encouraged to submit their
materials to the conference organizer for posting on the AFIT web site.
AFIT is also receptive to proposals for panels to review and discuss
books recently published by AFIT members.
For more information, download Call for Papers.
AFIT: Sixth Annual Student
Scholars Award Competition
The Association for Institutional Thought (AFIT) proudly announces
the Sixth Annual AFIT Student Scholars Award Competition. The aim of
AFIT is to encourage undergraduate and graduate students in Economics
and Political Economy to pursue research in topics within the
Institutional Economics framework.
Between three and five winning papers will be selected. Winners are
expected to present their research during a special session at the
Annual Meetings of AFIT, held during the Western Social Science
Association’s 53rd Annual Conference at the Hilton Salt Lake
Center, Salt Lake City, April 13-16, 2011.
Winners will each receive:
- $300 prize
- One year student membership in AFIT
- Paid WSSA Conference Registration
- Paid admission to the AFIT Presidential Address Dinner
Winning papers must be presented at a special AFIT session in order to
be eligible for the prize. Prizes will be presented during the AFIT
Presidential Address Dinner.
Application Procedures and Deadlines
- Papers must be between 15-25 pages in length, including
references and appendices. They should be submitted electronically
(preferably in Word format) by December 15, 2010 to:
Christopher Brown
Department of Economics and Finance
Arkansas State University
P.O. Box 729
State University, AR 72467-0729
Phone: (870) 972-3737
Winners will be notified by 1/15/11.
For more information about AFIT, visit our website at site at www.associationforinstitutionalthought.org
and download Call for Papers.
Third
Seminar on Heterodox Microeconomics: Monopoly, Transnational
Firms, Theory and Practice
October 14-16, 2010 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de
México
The deadline for paper submissions is extended to October 1, 2010
Call for papers and other details can be found at the conference
website: http://www.economia.unam.mx/smh/english/callforpapers.html
Journal of Critical
Globalisation Studies: The Idea of Crisis
The Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies invites
submissions for a Special Issue on 'The Idea of Crisis'.
The concept of ‘crisis’ has a long and complex lineage in
the human sciences. On the one hand, it has been consistently deployed
to understand issues of order and change since at least the 18^th
century. Influential contributions run the gamut from Marx on the
evolution of macro-social structures all the way through to Lacan on
how the individual finds and maintains its place within these. On the
other hand, its sheer ubiquity and apparent polyvalence have served to
render the concept an object of inquiry in its own right. Conceptual
historian Reinhart Koselleck, for example, has written at length on how
the term’s meanings and referents have varied across space and
time.
In the contemporary study of global politics, this richness of meaning
is on full display. Indeed, both during and after the Great Credit
Crash of 2007-2009, the notion of ‘crisis’ has been widely
employed in a range of different ways. For example, it has been used to
identify different periods in world history and to account for specific
pathways of institutional transformation; to describe the
contradictions that underpin the failure of a political or economic
system to function, and to understand the interpretive struggles
triggered by the recognition of these failures. Within the very broad
remit of thinking about ‘The Idea of Crisis’, the/Journal
of Critical Globalisation Studies /invites full-length articles, essays
(pieces up to 5,000 words), and book reviews for its fourth issue. The
aim of the special issue is to bring together academics from a range of
disciplinary backgrounds in order to explore how different theories of
crisis or change may feed into the historical process itself. The
editors particularly welcome pieces that explore some of the following
questions (although without intending to proscribe any other avenues
contributors may wish to explore):
- How have theories of crisis changed over time?
- How do these changes relate to ongoing meta-theoretical debate
in the human sciences, broadly conceived?
- What is the relationship between theories of crisis and other
theories of order and change?
- Which theories or visions of crisis have emerged or rose to
prominence during the crisis of 2007-2009? How are we to interpret
this?
- How might we understand ‘the Idea of Crisis’ as an
historical force? What is its historical significance?
To be considered for publication, contributions must be submitted
electronically as email attachments to abstracts@criticalglobalisation.com
<mailto:abstracts@criticalglobalisation.com>.
The submission deadline is 1st December 2010. Manuscripts
should be prepared according to the journal’s guidelines which
are available on the website. For more information about the themes of
the special issue in advance of the deadline for full manuscripts,
please contact the editor-in-chief for issue 4, Amin Samman: amin@criticalglobalisation.com
<mailto:amin@criticalglobalisation.com>.
Download Call for Papers.
Historical Materialism:
Special Issue on the Middle East
Historical Materialism invites submissions for a special issue
on the Middle East, conceived broadly to include: the Arab world from
the Atlantic to the Gulf, Israel/Palestine, Iran and Turkey. HM is a
Marxist journal, appearing four times a year, based in London. HM
asserts that, notwithstanding the variety of its practical and
theoretical articulations, Marxism constitutes the most fertile
conceptual framework for analysing social phenomena with an eye to
their overhaul. In its selection of materials, HM does not favour any
one tendency, tradition or variant of Marxism.
In the contemporary period, the Middle East remains a key flashpoint of
global politics, rent by occupation, imperialism and the fallout of
global economic crisis. In this context the insights of Marxism, in all
its variations, could provide a much-needed corrective to the
ahistorical and elite-focused theorizing that typifies analysis of the
Middle East. Aiming to publish such analysis, the HM special issue will
unite a range of innovative Marxist work on the Middle East across a
broad spectrum of academic disciplines, to reflect critically on the
region’s social, political and economic development as well as
the future trajectories and prospects for the Left. Contributions are
invited on topics including, but not limited to, the following:
- The role and nature of imperialism, resistance and occupation in
their many guises in the Middle East, with a particular focus on the
nature of the rivalries and confluence of interests between the US, EU,
China and Russia in the contemporary period.
- The historical development and contemporary political economy of
the Middle East both at the state and regional level, embracing the
development of neo-liberalism, new confluences of capital and
capital-state relationships.
- The history of and prospects for the left in the region and its
relationship to other political currents.
- Questions of regime transition in authoritarian states and the
role of workers and contemporary social movements.
- A comparative analysis of the social and political struggle of
women across different countries in the Middle East.
- Patterns of migrant-worker flows in the Middle East, the role of
remittances in national economies, and the potential forms of
organizing in these migrant communities in the region.
- Urbanism and the politics of space in the cities of the Middle
East.
- Assessments of developments in Marxist theory or of the work of
prominent Marxists within the region
Potential contributors are invited to submit a short abstract (max. 200
words) outlining the key arguments of their prospective paper to Jamie
Allinson, Sebastian Budgen and Adam Hanieh at historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk
by October 1, 2010. Final papers (max. 12,000 words length) will be
expected to be submitted by 1 May 2011 and the journal will be
published in early 2012.
International Conference on
Economics and Finance
"Recovery and After"
January 4-5, 2011 | IBS Bangalore, India | Conference website: www.ibsindia.org
‘Great Recession’ witnessed by the global economy during
the last seven quarters or so, seems to be ending now and, as has been
recently reported by the IMF, the recovery is underway. Fiscal
expansionary policies pursued by governments across the global had by
and large caused the recovery. While recovery is certainly
encouraging, the success lies, not only in the behavior of numbers but
also in devising appropriate institutional framework based on various
lessons learnt from the causes and consequences of the recession, so as
to avoid recurrence of similar crisis. This calls for reflection and
deliberation of the issues associated with the Great Recession. Keeping
this in view, this Conference aims to bring together scholars under the
central theme of ‘Recovery and After’. This is the Seventh
successive conference organized by the IBS Bangalore
(IBSB), with a view to provide a platform for researchers working in
diverse areas in economics and finance. Original papers in the
following areas are invited.
- Submission of Abstract : By October 4, 2010
- Submission of Full Paper : By November 15, 2010
- Intimation of Acceptance of Paper : By November 22, 2010
- Conference Dates : January 4-5, 2011
Communications should be sent to:
Dr. J. Dennis Rajakumar
Conference Coordinator
IBS Bangalore
#19/3 Srinivasa Industrial Estate
Behind METRO, Kanakapura Road
Bangalore- 560 062, India
Ph: +91-80-26860100; Fax: +91-80-26860029
Email:
ibsbconf@gmail.com
For more information, download Call for Papers and Registration Form.
Market and Happiness: Do
economic interactions crowd out civic virtues and human capabilities?
Milan | June 8-9 2011
HEIRs (happiness economics and int. relations) association, Bicocca
Economics Departements and Irec (international review of economics) are
pleased to announce the Conference: "Market and Happiness" (Milan
8-9 June 2011), with M. Nussbaum, B. Frey, R. Sugden among the keynote
speakers.
The conference site: http://dipeco.economia.unimib.it/marketandhappiness/
and Call for Papers.
Important Dates
- Electronic Submission Deadline: February 10, 2011
- Notification of Acceptance before: March 10, 2009.
- Discounted subscription until: April 6, 2011
- Paper Submission Deadline: May 20, 2011
Power and the History of
Capitalism
April 15-16, 2011 | New School University in 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/
Tensões
Mundiais
Call for Journal Contributions
Tensões Mundiais is a multidisciplinary academic journal
published twice yearly by the Nationalities’ Observatory, a
research group located at the Universidade Federal do Ceará,
Brazil. We welcome original contributions centered on the processes of
national formation, including but not limited to the issues of
international relations, culture, state instruments of force, national
defense and foreign policy. Articles can be submitted in English,
Portuguese or Spanish. For further details see http://www.tensoesmundiais.ufc.br/
or contact the editors at tensoesmundiais@ufc.br
or observatoriodasnacionalidades@ufc.br
Call for
Participants
AJES
Workshop: Social Provisioning, Embeddedness, and Modeling the Economy
I am hosting a small workshop
at UMKC to examine the themes of social provisioning, embeddedness, and
modeling the economy in an integrative fashion. It will take place on
September 24-26, 2010. The papers in the workshop will focused on the
following:
Social provisioning process: as the definition of economics, the
history of the concept, and implications for conceptualizing economic
theorizing and modeling the economy as a whole.
Embeddedness: deals with the notion of what social embeddedness
means and its use for theoretical analysis in economics and for
modeling the economy as a whole.
Modeling the economy as a whole: integrating input-output
analysis, social fabric matrix, social accounting matrix, social
surplus approach, social structures of accumulation, system dynamics,
ecology and resources, gender, state money, and stock-flow models into
a coherent model of the economy as a whole which can be used for
theoretical and applied work at both the macroeconomic and
microeconomic level of the economy.
The workshop is open to anyone who wants to come and contribute to the
discussion. There are costs involved with regard to food. Anyone who is
interested in coming, please e-mail me ajes@umkc.edu. For more information about the
workshop, please click http://heterodoxnews.com/ajes.
Fred Lee
Editor, American Journal of
Economics and Sociology
Department of Economics
University of Missouri-Kansas
City
5100 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, Missouri
64110
USA
E-mail: ajes@umkc.edu
Conférence de Gilles Dostaler: MARX,
KEYNES et la THÉORIE GÉNÉRALE
Vendredi 17 septembre de 14 h à 16 H.
Pour fêter la fin des vacances, le LEREPS organise une
conférence de GILLES DOSTALER de l'UQAM (Canada) qu'il est
inutile de vous présenter. Cette conférence aura lieu
à la manufacture des Tabacs à TOULOUSE le Vendredi 17
septembre de 14 h à 16 H. Le titre de l'intervention sera "
MARX, KEYNES et la THÉORIE GÉNÉRALE".
Remis de ses problèmes de santé, c'est avec une grande
joie que nous reverrons à cette occasion Gilles en France.
Renseignements auprès de l'organisateur Olivier BROSSARD
Université de Toulouse/Toulouse University
Institut d'Etudes Politiques/Political Studies Institute
LEREPS-Université Toulouse 1
http://w3.univ-tlse1.fr/LEREPS/
Ecosocialist
International Network Conference
Paris | September 26-27, 2010
Dear Friends,
As you probably know, our network was founded in 2007, profiting from
the International Marx Conference in Paris, which attracted scholars
and activists from various countries around the world. We intend
to do the same thing this year, just after the International Marx
Conference (September 22-25, 2010). It would take place on September
26-27, 2010. It will be the occasion to exchange ideas about
ecosocialism, consider future initiatives, leaflets or publications, as
well as to reorganize our leading bodies. The Conference will
take place at the Mairie du 2ème arrondissement (Townhall of the
second Paris district), 8 rue de la Banque, first floor; nearest
underground station (Metro) : Bourse. The room is called "Salle
des expositions", and it can accommodate some 80 people. We will
have the room at our disposition on Sunday September 26, from 9,30 to
19,30 hours, as well as also, probably, on Monday September 27.
For the EIN Secretariat,
Joel Kovel, Michael Löwy
Web:
http://www.ecosocialistnetwork.org/
From History of Economics
to Histories about Economics
October 16, 2010 | Duke University, Center for the History of Political
Economy
Rhodes Conference Room, Sanford School of Public Policy
This one-day conference will examine historical scholarship on
economics from a non-disciplinary standpoint. Although most histories
of economics have been written by historians of economics, scholars
from other disciplines have on their own initiative engaged with the
subject matter of economics in their narratives and analyses. In other
words, the history of economics (broadly defined) is not, and has not
been for some time, the sole province of historians of economics.
Economic historians, sociologists, historians of science, literature
scholars, and intellectual historians have dealt with the history of
the subject and of economic thought. To us, this raises a number of
interesting questions: Is this situation a passing fad, or does it
signal long-term changes in the boundaries between academic disciplines
in the human and social sciences? Does it signify a focus on economic
culture – the place of economic ideas and knowledge in society
– in human and social sciences? In what way does this
historiography represent a challenge or, to the contrary, an
opportunity for the history of economics community?
Historiographic debate often concludes with prescription, offering
alien practices as models for history writing, ready for
transplantation into the history of economics. Our goals are
nonprescriptive. The one-day workshop will offer participants, from
different disciplinary backgrounds, the opportunity to talk about how
they work with economic subject matter. We invite participants to
reflect on how economics or economic ideas fit in their narratives and
analyses. We expect the meeting will conclude by showcasing avenues of
research to the benefit of those that wish to engage with economics in
historical research.
--Tiago Mata and Loïc Charles, organizers
Preliminary program
Session 1: Interactions
- Seneca to witness: How to write history in the face of its
makers? | Andrej Svorencik and Harro Maas (University of Amsterdam)
- Face-to-face: Interaction ritual, tacit knowledge, and the
social structure of economics | Daniel Breslau (Virginia Tech)
Session 2: Reading economics, Viewing economics
- Economics, Selection, and the Work of Literary Form | Robert
Mitchell (Duke University)
- Reading economics in 1980 and 2010 | Tiago Mata (University of
Amsterdam)
Lunch
Session 3: The Changing Faces of Economics Across Time
- The Political Economy of Primitive Globalization | Paul B.
Cheney (University of Chicago)
- Economics as Administrative Art: Sir Alec Cairncross as Chief
Economic Adviser, 1961-1969 | Glen O’Hara (Oxford Brookes
University)
- Autarky/Autarchy—Agricultural Science in Fascist Political
Economies | Matthew Norton Wise (UCLA)
General discussion
For further information on the meeting, please contact
tiago.mata@gmail.com
The Global Economic
Breakdown—A Marxist Analysis
A public lecture by NICK BEAMS | 14 September 2010 1-2.30pm. Parramatta
Campus, University of Western Sydney Schools of Law and Economics and
Finance
For more information, see the
flyer.
The
Governance of Nature
A two-day workshop, The Order Project
CPNSS, LSE | 27-28 October 2010
Description:
Since the Scientific Revolution, natural philosophy and Christian
natural theology have united to place man in a well-ordered universe,
and with powerful argument. Appearances notwithstanding – so the
argument goes – the empirical and conceptual successes of modern
science testify that we live in a world in which every natural event is
the outcome of universal and immutable natural law. This image even
survived quantum indeterminacy and chaos theory: the universe is still
universally law-governed though some of its most basic laws are
probabilistic and some events may always be beyond our ability to
predict.
In the last two decades this 400-year old image has been powerfully
challenged, unsurprisingly perhaps in the social sciences, but
importantly in biology and even in physics. Increasingly the
traditional view of an ordered science is being put into question. This
breakdown of order appears in many distinct, highly detailed studies of
scientific practice. Though generally unrelated to one another, these
diverse studies have in common a radical split from the standard view.
They propose alternatives to universal laws as the central explanatory
and predictive mechanisms of nature. This can be seen, for example, in
the work of William Bechtel, Sandra Mitchell, John Beatty, John
Dupré and Alexander Rosenberg in biology, or in the work of Tony
Lawson, Nancy Cartwright and Mary Morgan in economics. Even in physics,
previously a bastion for advocates of the standard view, the work of
Nancy Cartwright, Peter Galison and younger scholars like Robert Bishop
challenges the view of science as totally ordered and universal.
This workshop intends to bring together some of the latest thinking on
views of natural order and laws in philosophy of science, history of
science and philosophy of biology, and reflect on what forms an idea of
governance can take in the context of changing scientific images of
nature.
Sessions:
1 Historical views of governance and order
- Dennis DesChene (Washington University, St Louis)
- Jon Hodge (Leeds)
- Eleonora Montuschi (LSE)
2 Laws of nature and their alternatives
- Jonathan Cohen (UCSD)
- Robin Hendry (Durham)
- Stephen Mumford (Nottingham)
- Towfic Shomar (Philadelphia University and Jordan)
3 Laws and evolutionary science
- Chris Haufe (University of Chicago)
- John Brooke (Oxford)
- Eric Desjardins (University of Western Ontario)
International
Conference on Production and Distribution
To celebrate 50 years anniversary of
the publication of Production of Commodities by Means of Commodities
September 4-6, 2010 | Meiji University, Japan
Building: Academy Common (9th Floor)
Address: 1-1 kandasurugadai, Chiyodaku, Tokyo 101-8301 JAPAN
Registration and Conference Rooms: 9th Floor of Academy Common
Co-organized by the
Japanese
Society for Post Keynesian Economics and The Ricardo Society
Supported by the School of Political Science and Economics, Meiji
University Headquarters of International Collaboration, Meiji
University in cooperation with PAPAIOS (Pan-Pacific Association of
Input-Output Studies)
Program
September 4 (Saturday)
Session A 9:20-11:30 Room 309B
- Analysing the total transport content of commodities | Josef
Richter (University of Innsbruck, Austria)
- The U.S. Benchmark IO Table: History, Myths and Methodology |
Douglas Meade (NFORUM, University of Maryland, U.S.A.)
- Construction and Results of Analyses based on NAMEA for Poland |
Mariusz Plich,(Department of Theory and Analyses of Economic Systems,
University of Łódź, Poland)
Session B 9:20-11:30 Room 309H
- Fixed Capital and the Determination of Economic Durability | LI
Bangxi (Ph.D Candidate, Graduate School of Economics, Waseda
University)
- An Equilibrium Analysis under Cobb-Douglas Production and
Utility Functions | LI WU (School of Economics, Shanghai University,
China)
- Overlapping Leontief | Maurizio Grassini (Dipartimento di Studi
sullo Stato, University of Florence, Italy)
Lunch 11:30-13:00
Session C 13:00-14:25 Room 309B
- The Multi-Sector Analysis of Pure Quantity Adjustment Process:
Input Structure, Buffer Inventories, and Sales Forecast by Averaging |
Masashi Morioka (Faculty of International Relations, Ritsumeikan
University, Japan)
- An Unbalanced Multi-industry Growth Model with Constant Returns:
A Turnpike Approach” | Harutaka Takahashi (Meiji Gakuin
University, Japan)
Coffee Break 14:25-14:40 Room 309D
Session D 14:40-16:05 Room 309B
- How Can Keynes' Theory of Interest Withstand Sraffa's Criticism?
| Tosihiro Oka (Faculty of Economics, Fukui Prefectural University,
Japan)
- Keynesian Paradigm and Financial Disasiter | Ryuzo Kuroki
(RikkyoUniversity, Japan)
Coffee Break 16:05-16:20 Room 309D
Session E 16:20-17:50 Room 309B
- Sraffa’s Given Quantities of Output and Keynes’s
Principle of Effective Demand | Man-Seop Park (Korea University)
- Monetary Stabilization Policy by Means of Taylor Rule in a
Dynamic Keynesian Model with Capital Accumulation | Toichiro Asada
(Chuo University, Japan)
Welcome Party 18:05-19:50 at University Hall (3rd floor)
September 5 (Sunday)
Session F 9:20-11:30 Room 309B
- Factor Decomposition of Sectoral Growth in South Africa,
1970-2007 | Fiona Tregenna (Department of Economics and Econometrics,
University of Johannesburg)
- Model Structure and Economic Forecasting in China | Li Shantong
(Development Research Centre, the State Council, China)
- Model Structure and Economic Forecasting in Russia | Alexander
Shirov (Institute for Economic Forecasting, Russian Academy of
Sciences, Russia)
Session G 9:20-11:30 Room 309G
- Financing Constraints and Liquidity: An Empirical Investigation
of Firms in Japan | Ilfan Oh (New School for Social Research, PhD
Candidate)
- Inflation targeting, income distribution, and financialization |
Atsushi Naito (Ohtsuki City College, Japan)
- The relationship between financial efficiency and Macroeconomic
Equilibrium, and the Distribution of Income: A perspective based
on the Sraffa –Hayek contriversy and Pasinetti framework |
Kazuhiro Kurose (Tohoku University, Japan)
Lunch : 11:30-13:10
Session H 13:10-14:35 Room 309B
- Sraffa’s System and Productivity Measurements | Takashi
Yagi (Meiji University)
- Calculating wage-profit frontiers and supporting prices in
Leontief-Sraffa models | Albert Steenge (University of Groningen,
Netherlands)
Coffee Break 14:35-14:50 Room 309D
Session I 14:50-16:15 Room 309B
- Cumulative Causation and Structural Change: A Growth Model on
Kaldor and Pasinetti’s Lines | Hiroyuki Uni (Graduate School of
Economics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan)
- A Characteristic approach to technology and technological change
| Antonio D’agata (University of Catania) | Keinji Mori (Tohoku
University)
Coffee Break 16:15-16:30 Room 309D
Session J 16:30-18:00 Room 309B
- Renewable Resources in a Long-Term Perspective: The Corn-Tuna
Model | Guido Erreygers (Department of Economics, University of
Antwerp)
- Besicovitch, Sraffa, and the existence of the Standard
commodity | Neri Salvadori (University of Pisa)
September 6 (Monday)
Session K 9:20-11:30 Room 309B
- A Remark on Intensive Differential Rent and the Labour Theory of
Value in Ricardo | Saverio M. Fratini (University of Rome 3)
- Demand-Led Growth Theory: An Historical Approach | Matthew Smith
(University of Sydney)
- A Reinterpretation of 'Production of Commodities by Means of
Commodities' | Ajit Sinha (Indira Gandhi Institute of Development
Research)
Session L 9:20-11:30 Room 309G
- Quantity Adjustment Process and Production Network. | Naoto Yagi
(Lecturer(pat-time), Toyo University etc.)
- Securitization of Loan Assets and the Macroeconomy | Masao
Ishikura (Hitotsubashi University)
- Models of Competition Between Firms: Re-Considering Kaleckian
Model | Takashi Ohno (Ritsumeikan University)
Lunch 11:30-13:00
Invited Lecture 13:00-13:55 Room 309B
- "Reviving the Standpoint of the Old Classical Economists: Piero
Sraffa’s Contribution to Political Economy"
- Heinz D. Kurz (University of Graz)
Coffee Break 13:55-14:10 Room 309D
Session M 14:10-15:40 Room 309B
- A General Theory of Rent | Christian Bidard (University of Paris
X)
- On the Making of Ricardo’s economics and the invariable
measure of value | Katsuyoshi Watarai (Waseda University)
Coffee Break 15:40-16:00 Room 309D
Invited Lecture 16:00-17:00 Room 309B
- Pierangelo Garegnani (University of Rome 3)
Farewell Party 17:50-19:50 at Liberty Tower (23th floor)
IIPPE: First International
Conference in Political Economy
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here.
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For more information, visit the
Conference website.
Jobs and the Future of the
US Economy: Possibilities and Limits
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, Oct 1, 2010 | HOWARD UNIVERSITY, Armour J.
Blackburn University Center. Washington, DC 20059
The US economy is in the midst of the greatest jobs crisis since the
Great Depression. But this crisis is more than a short run phenomenon.
For many decades we have experienced a long-term failure to generate
jobs for all. A fundamental restructuring of the US economy is
essential to overcome both the crisis and reverse the long term failure
to generate jobs.
A number of proposals have been offered to make jobs a central priority
of US economic policy. Our purpose in calling this conference is to
bring together the proponents of these various programs, to discuss
their similarities and differences, and develop a strategic perspective
on how to proceed.
We invite all who wish to contribute and further this effort to
participate.
Current sponsors include: Howard University Economics Department, The
Chicago Political Economy Group, The National Jobs for All Coalition,
The Center for Full Employment and Price Stability, and The Center for
Economic and Policy Research
At registration a donation of $20 will be requested to cover expenses
and lunch. Fee is waived for Howard students.
Program:
Registration: 9-9:30.
Morning Session: Jobs Proposal Presentations: 9:30-11:30
Introduction and Moderator: Haydar Kurban, Howard University
- Joshua Bivens, Economic Policy Institute,
- Mathew Forstater, Center for Full Employment and Price
Stability, and University of Missouri, Kansas City
- Darrick Hamilton, New School for Management and Urban
Policy, NYC, and Center for Economic Policy Analysis;
- Philip Harvey, National Jobs for All Coalition, and Rutgers
University Law School, Camden;
- Joseph Persky, Chicago Political Economy Group, and
University of Illinois, Chicago;
- John Schmitt, Center for Economic and Policy Research,
- Jeffrey Thompson, Political Economic Research Institute,
and University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Lunch Break: 11:30-12:30.
Afternoon Session I: Summary and Discussion of Similarities and
Differences of Jobs Programs: 12:45 - 2:30
Moderator: Charles Betsey, Howard University
The morning panelists and attendees will engage in a facilitated
discussion and exchange.
Afternoon Session II: Strategic and Political Considerations 2:45-4:30
Panelists (Institutional affiliation for identification only):
Moderator: Aisha Thompson, Howard University
- Rodney Green, Howard University
- Elce Redmond, South Austin Coalition, Chicago
- Mel Rothenberg,Chicago Political Economy Group, and University
of Chicago;
- Fran Tobin*, National Jobs With Justice (*Invited but not yet
confirmed)
For further information contact: hkurban@howard.edu
The 14th conference of the
Research Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM)
29 – 30 October 2010 | Berlin
'Stabilising an unequal economy? Public debt, financial regulation, and
income distribution',
with an introductory workshop on Post Keynesian Economics on 28 October
(see below)
Updates of the conference programme will be made available online at: www.network-macroeconomics.org
FMM Introductory Workshop on
Post Keynesian Economics
Berlin | 28 October 2010
To meet the rising interest in Keynesian economics, the Research
Network Macroeconomics and Macroeconomic Policies (FMM) will be
organising a one-day Introductory workshop on Post Keynesian Economics
Thursday, 28 October 2010 9.00 – 16.00
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. Please register online:
http://www.boeckler.de/36370_102996.html
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
More on the Research Network: www.network-macroeconomics.org
Roundtable on Marx’s
'Capital'
The Society
for Social and Political Philosophy is pleased to issue a CALL FOR
PARTICIPANTS
for a Roundtable on Marx’s 'Capital'
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas | February 24-27, 2011
Keynote address by Harry Cleaver, Associate Professor of Economics at
the University of Texas at Austin, and author of 'Reading Capital
Politically'
The SSPP’s second Roundtable will explore Volume One of
Marx’s Capital (1867). We chose this text because the resurgence
in references to and mentions of Marx – provoked especially
by the current financial crisis and global recession, but presaged by
the best-seller status of Hardt and Negri’s Empire and
Marx’s surprising victory in the BBC’s “greatest
philosopher” poll – has only served to highlight the fact
that there have arguably not been any new interpretive or
theoretical approaches to this book since the Althusserian and
autonomist readings of the 1960s.
The question that faces us is this: Does the return of Marx mean that
we have been thrust into the past, such that long
“obsolete” approaches have a newfound currency, or
does in mean, on the contrary, that Marx has something new to say to
us, and that new approaches to his text are called for? The guiding
hypothesis of this Roundtable is that if new readings of Capital are
called for, then it is new readers who will produce them.
Therefore, we are calling for applications from scholars interested in
approaching Marx’s magnum opus with fresh eyes, willing to open
it to the first page and read it through to the end without
knowing what they might find. Applicants need not be experts in Marx or
in Marxism. Applicants must, however, specialize in some area of
social or political philosophy. Applicants must also be interested in
teaching and learning from their fellows, and in nurturing
wide-ranging and diverse inquiries into the history of political
thought.
If selected for participation, applicants will deliver a written,
roundtable-style presentation on a specific part or theme of the text.
Your approach to the text might be driven by historical or
contemporary concerns, and it might issue from an interest in a theme
or a figure (be it Aristotle or Foucault). Whatever your
approach, however, your presentation must centrally investigate some
aspect of the text of Capital. Spaces are very limited.
Applicants should send the following materials as email attachments
(.doc/.rtf/.pdf) to papers@sspp.us
by September 15, 2010:
- Curriculum Vitae
- One page statement of interest, including a discussion of a) the
topics you wish to explore in a roundtable presentation, and b) the
projected significance of participation for your research and/or
teaching.
All applicants will be notified of the outcome of the selection process
via email on or before October 15, 2010. Participants will be asked to
send a draft or outline of their presentation to papers@sspp.us by
January 15, 2011 so that we can finalize the program.
Fall NYC
Study Group(s)
I am considering various topics for study groups for the coming year,
based on what people are most interested in. The groups will start in
mid-October and run to the end of June 2011. They will meet every other
week in Manhattan, most probably on Thursday evenings (the time that
seems most convenient for most people), and involve about 100 pages of
reading per session. Participants should be committed to doing the
reading and attending regularly.
The Capital group of fall 2009-June 2010 and the summer Grundrisse
group have been (IMHO) quite successful, with high levels of
participation and discussion by all involved. Participants in the
2010-2011 groups will be asked to make presentations on parts of the
reading or (with option No. 3) reporting back to the group on
independent reading. I have found this to be a very workable way to
encourage maximum participation.
The main topics I'm considering are:
- Marx's Capital, 3 volumes.
- Marx's Theories of Surplus Value, plus readings from Smith,
Ricardo and Hegel.
- The history of revolutions from the English Revolution to the
present (English, French, 1848, Paris Commune, Russian Revolutions
(1905 and 1917), German, Spanish) and various working-class upsurges
and insurrections since 1945. Given the near-infinite character of the
topic and of the possible readings, the focus will depend in part on
the interests of the group.
I will choose two of the above, based on the response. For those of you
not familiar with where I'm coming from, check out my web site http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner
and the new on-line journal of which I am a co-editor http://insurgentnotes.com
If any of the proposed topics grab you, and you have the time and
energy to participate, contact me asap at
lrgoldner@yahoo.com.
Loren Goldner
Conference Papers, Reports,
and Ariticles
Buyer Power in U.S. Hog
Markets: A Critical Review of the Literature
GDAE Working Paper No. 10-04, August 2010 (Also submitted as comments
to the DOJ/USDA Public Hearings on “Agriculture and
Antitrust Enforcement Issues in Our 21st Century Economy”)
By Timothy A. Wise and Sarah E. Trist
Download Buyer
Power in U.S. Hog Markets
Download Executive
Summary
Download Comments
submitted to DOJ/USDA
Read more from GDAE’s Feeding
the Factory Farm Project
Read more on GDAE’s Globalization
and Sustainable Development Program
Job
Postings for Heterodox Economists
Corporate Strategy and
Industrial Development (CSID), South Africa
Advert for Senior Researcher
CSID is based in the School of Economic and Business Sciences at the
University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. CSID has
established itself as a leading research programme in South Africa in
its areas of specialisation. It has established links and research
partnerships with major role-players in government and the private
sector.
Research
CSID aims to provide high level, academic research for industrial and
economic policymakers in South Africa and the southern African region.
We are currently involved in a number of industrial policy research
projects with National and Provincial Government. Our main research
themes are:
- Industrial development and industrial policy
- Economic structure, competition policy and regulation
- Macroeconomic environment affecting industrial development
- Local and regional economic development
- Global financialisation and corporate change
Teaching and Training
CSID is also involved in curriculum development and teaching of
specialist courses in industrial and economic development. From January
2011, CSID will be running an exciting new postgraduate programme in
Development Theory and Policy. Further, we are committed to the
development of young African researchers. To this end we employ
postgraduate economics students as junior researchers to provide them
with hands on research experience and mentoring.
Job description
Responsibilities will be divided between i) Research, research
management and mentoring and ii)
Teaching. The position is full-time on a fixed term basis with the
possibility of renewal. The post will
require:
- Active participation in existing research projects;
- Development of future research projects and input into the
direction of research;
- Management and development of junior researchers;
Teaching of postgraduate courses in microeconomics and/or econometrics;
and Supervision of graduate students
A competitive package will be negotiated.
Required Qualifications
The successful applicant will be familiar with both mainstream and
heterodox approaches to economics and hold a PhD in Economics or
related field or be close to completion. Applicants with more than 3
years academic experience will be at an advantage.
The closing date for applications is 30 September 2010.
The successful applicant is expected to commence employment in January
2011.
Interested applicants should send a CV with contact details for three
referees and a cover letter to Sajida.Durwan@wits.ac.za
Download this job advert.
Good Jobs New York, USA
Part-time Research Analyst, position based in New
York City
Good Jobs New York seeks a part-time research analyst to perform
research and writing on economic development policies and corporate
accountability in New York.
Good
Jobs New York promotes corporate and government accountability in
local economic development projects by serving as a research and policy
clearinghouse when New York allocates economic development subsidies.
GJNY aims to ensure that government and corporations are held
accountable for the creation of
family-wage jobs when public money is used to subsidize private
corporations.
Applicants must have:
- demonstrated commitment to social and economic justice
- an undergraduate college degree and preferably graduate courses
in areas such as journalism, planning/land use, real estate, business
or public finance.
- strong writing and interviewing skills
- strong analytical skills to handle diverse sources and concepts
- basic computer software skills: word processing, spreadsheets,
internet
Other desirable qualifications:
- familiarity with New York City public policy issues related to
tax and budget fairness, or environmental justice and the city's
constituency-based justice networks such as community
organizing/community reinvestment groups
- knowledge of ArcGIS
GJNY is a project of Good Jobs First and the Fiscal Policy Institute.
This is an opportunity for rewarding work in a fast- paced environment
at a highly productive resource center. Women and people of color
are encouraged to apply. Compensation is commensurate with experience.
Partial health and retirement benefits
available.
Please send a resume and cover letter via email to: GJNY@goodjobsfirst.org
GJNY Research Analyst
11 Park Place, #701
New York, NY 10007
Marymount
Manhattan College, USA
Assistant Professor of International Studies
- TenureTrack
The Department of International Studies at Marymount Manhattan
College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track position in
International Studies beginning in Fall 2011.
Description: Candidates should demonstrate substantive interests in one
or more of the following areas: international political economy,
cultural geography, economics of gender, international migration, human
security, economic development, international humanitarian law and
human rights. Area focus and field research experience in Africa is
strongly preferred. The successful candidate will demonstrate continued
scholarly activity, work closely with students, and participate in
college-wide activities such as academic advisement and committee
service.
*Requirements:* Interested candidates must have a Ph.D. in
International Political Economy or a related field and college-level
teaching experience. A commitment to an interdisciplinary approach is
required.
*Application Materials:* Applications should include a cover letter,
curriculum vitae, samples of scholarship, syllabi, and three letters of
recommendation. Electronic submission is preferred. Please send to:
mbackus@mmm.edu. If materials
cannot be sent electronically, please mail to:
*Search Chair: *
Dr. Ghassan Shabaneh, Search Committee Chair, International Studies
Department, Division of Social Sciences, Marymount Manhattan College,
221 East 71st Street, New York, NY 10021.
*Submission Deadline:* For full consideration, all application
materials should be received by
October 15, 2010.
In conjunction with teaching responsibilities, full-time faculty
members are expected to participate in divisional and college meetings,
advise students, engage in scholarly activities, and participate in
outcome assessment, curriculum development and writing across the
curriculum, along with other service to the college. MMC faculty must
have a strong commitment to undergraduate teaching within a liberal
arts environment. Marymount Manhattan College is an Affirmative
Action/Equal Opportunity Employer.
Penn State University, USA
1. Assistant Professor Department of Labor
Studies and Employment Relations
The Department welcomes applications from all candidates with
strong backgrounds in employment relations, labor economics, and
related social sciences. We are particularly interested in candidates
with research and teaching interests in collective bargaining,
workplace dispute resolution, labor and employment law, international
labor, and workplace diversity.
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline and
possess significant research potential. External funding potential will
also be considered.
2. Associate Professor/Professor position
Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations
The Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Penn
State University invites applications for a tenured faculty appointment
at the Associate Professor or Professor rank to begin August 2011.
The Department welcomes applications from senior scholars with
strong backgrounds in employment relations, human resources,
organizational behavior, labor economics, and related social sciences.
Applicants should possess a Ph.D. in a relevant discipline, a strong
research record commensurate with a senior rank, and external funding
experience.
Electronic submission strongly preferred. Send applications for
both positions consisting of a letter of application, curriculum vitae,
three reference letters, and a writing sample to
pfc2@psu.edu. If unable to send
electronically, applications can be mailed to Paul Clark, Professor and
Head, Department of Labor Studies and Employment Relations, The
Pennsylvania State University, 003 Keller Bldg., Box EC, University
Park, PA 16802. Applications received by October 1, 2010, will be
assured of consideration; however, all applications will be considered
until the position is filled. Penn State is committed to affirmative
action, equal opportunity and the diversity of its workforce.
Conference Papers, Reports, and Articles.
Purchase College, The State
University of New York, USA
Purchase College, The State University of New York, is currently
conducting a search for two tenure-track positions in economics for the
fall of 2011. One is for a
Cultural
Economist (at the assistant or associate level) and the other is
for a
Behavioral Economist (at the
assistant level).
You can learn how to apply and get a more detailed description of
these positions at the following URL:
https://jobs.purchase.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1283696953605
(Click “Search Positions” on the left-hand column)
Purchase College is located in Westchester County, about 35 miles north
of New York City — commuting distance from the City.
University
of Washington-Tacoma, USA
Assistant Professor, Interdisciplinary
Arts & Sciences
The University of Washington Tacoma invites applications for a full
time tenure-track Assistant Professor in Interdisciplinary Arts &
Sciences (IAS) with teaching and research interests in political
economy. The position will primarily support a program of study in
Politics, Philosophy and Economics, but will also contribute to other
interdisciplinary programs at UWT. The successful candidate will be
broadly trained, possess a range of interests, and will demonstrate
excellent potential as both a teacher and a scholar. The position
begins September 16, 2011, and requires a Ph.D. in Economics or a
related field. The ideal candidate will offer courses in Asian
political economy, comparative development, and international
economics, as well as micro and macroeconomics.
IAS offers a range of interdisciplinary majors, of which Politics,
Philosophy and Economics is one. We welcome applicants representing
diverse perspectives and approaches. One of three University of
Washington campuses, UWT is located in both new and historic facilities
in downtown Tacoma and primarily serves students of a wide variety of
ages and backgrounds in the South Puget Sound region. For more
information about UWT, visit our website at
http://www.tacoma.washington.edu.
To apply, please submit a) a letter delineating your interests and
qualifications for teaching in an interdisciplinary program, b) a
statement describing your research interests, c) a statement of your
teaching philosophy, d) a CV, e) an article length writing sample, f)
evidence of teaching effectiveness, and g) three letters of reference.
Submit all application material through the website
http://academicjobsonline.org.
Full consideration will be given to applications received by November
1, 2010. For further information, email Katie Baird at
kebaird@uw.edu.
The University of Washington is an affirmative action, equal
opportunity employer. The University is building a culturally diverse
faculty and staff and strongly encourages applications from women,
minorities, individuals with disabilities and veterans. All University
of Washington Tacoma faculty engage in teaching, research and service
in an interdisciplinary context.
If you have a question about the details of this search/position please
contact the hiring unit directly. Thank you for your interest in this
position at the University of Washington. If you have a question about
the details of this search / position please contact the hiring unit
directly. Thank you for your interest in this position at the
University of Washington.
Villanova University, US
Economics/Political Economy
The Department of Humanities at Villanova University is seeking to
hire in the area of Economics / Political Economy, with an effective
start date of August 2011.
As an small department committed to an integrated, interdisciplinary
approach to human questions, we seek a candidate who is interested in a
wider scope of questions than traditional neoclassical economics or
political science scholars are often willing to undertake. We are
looking for someone willing and able to engage fundamental questions
about the nature of social science and economic theory as it relates to
an understanding of the human person. This can and should be done
in close connection with the most rigorous pursuit of excellence in the
disciplines of economics scholarship. The full ad is attached, and all application
details can be found at https://jobs.villanova.edu. More information
about the Department of Humanities can be found at http://www.humanities.villanova.edu.
Please feel free to call or email Dr. Kevin L. Hughes with any further
questions: Kevin.hughes@villanova.edu
or 610.519.4728.
York
University, Canada
Position Rank:
Full Time Tenure Stream - Assistant Professor
Discipline/Field:
Business & Society
Home Faculty: Liberal Arts & Professional Studies
Home Department/Area/Division: Social Science
Affiliation/Union: YUFA
Position Start Date: July 1, 2011
Business and Society (
http://www.yorku.ca/laps/sosc/buso/)
is a unique and innovative interdisciplinary programme; its mandate is
to explore critically alternative approaches to the study of business
and economics not traditionally found in conventional business
programmes. Members of faculty enjoy a rich environment with colleagues
from parallel interdisciplinary programmes, e.g., Law & Society,
International Development Studies, Labour Studies, Social &
Political Thought.
Applications are invited for a full-time tenure stream appointment, at
the Assistant Professor level, in Business & Society. At the time
of appointment the successful candidate will have a Ph.D. in one of the
social sciences or in a related field (e.g. ethics, political
philosophy). Applicants should have an ongoing programme of
interdisciplinary research which focuses critically on the conduct and
regulation of business and its social implications. Demonstrated
excellence (or the promise thereof) in both teaching and in research
and publication is expected in at least one of the following areas:
social economy; law, governance and policy; ethics in economics and
business; corporate social responsibility. In addition, applicants
should have the breadth and versatility to teach the core courses of
the Business & Society undergraduate programme. A teaching and
research focus which pays heed to social exclusion (e.g., to issues of
race and gender) would be an asset.
Applicants should submit a curriculum vitae, a statement of teaching
and research interests, one example of their scholarship and teaching
evaluations. They should also arrange for three letters of reference to
be sent, by November 15, 2010, to:
Professor Darryl Reed, Chair,
Department of Social Science, S754 Ross
Building, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, Ontario, M3J 1P3
Tel.: 416 736 2100 (ext. 77812); Fax: 416 736 5574. Email:
dreed@yorku.ca
York University is an Affirmative Action Employer. The Affirmative
Action Program can be found on York’s website at www.yorku.ca/acadjobs or a
copy can be obtained by calling the Affirmative Action office at
416-736-5713. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply;
however, Canadian citizens and Permanent Residents will be given
priority.
Position details can also be found here: http://webapps.yorku.ca/academichiringviewer/viewposition.jsp?positionnumber=1166
Heterodox
Journals
Business History Review,
84(2): Summer 2010
A Special Issue on the Oil Industry
Journal website: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=BHR
Introduction: Diana Davids Hinton
Articles:
- Keetie Sluyterman, "Royal
Dutch Shell: Company Strategies for Dealing with Environmental Issues"
- Nathan J. Citino, "Internationalist Oilmen, the Middle East, and
the Remaking of American Liberalism, 1945–1953"
- Daniele Pozzi, "Entrepreneurship
and Capabilities in a 'Beginner' Oil Multinational: The Case of ENI"
- Lisa Bud-Frierman, Andrew Godley, and Judith Wale, "Weetman
Pearson in Mexico and the Emergence of a British Oil Major,
1901–1919"
- Michael R. Adamson, "The Role of the Independent: Ralph B. Lloyd
and the Development of California’s Coastal Oil Region,
1900–1940"
Literature Review:
- Marcelo Bucheli, "Oil, Politics, Society, and Multinational
Corporations in Latin America: Major Achievements in the
Historiography, 1990–2010"
Cambridge Journal of
Economics, 34(5): September 2010
Journal website: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3924/1
Special issue: Corporate Accountability and
Legal Liability: On the Future of Corporate Capitalism
- Stephanie Blankenburg, Dan Plesch, and Frank Wilkinson / Limited
liability and the modern corporation in theory and in practice
- Paddy Ireland /Limited liability, shareholder rights and the
problem of corporate irresponsibility
- Hugh Goodacre / Limited liability and the wealth of
‘uncivilised nations’: Adam Smith and the limits to the
European Enlightenment
- Richard Arena / Corporate limited liability and Cambridge
economics in the inter-war period: Robertson, Keynes and Sraffa
- Jan Toporowski / Corporate limited liability and the financial
liabilities of firms
- Chirashree Das Gupta / Globalisation, corporate legal liability
and big business houses in India
- Peter Muchlinski / Limited liability and multinational
enterprises: a case for reform?
- Sue Konzelmann, Frank Wilkinson, Marc Fovargue-Davies, and
Duncan Sankey / Governance, regulation and financial market
instability: the implications for policy
Historical Materialism,
18(3): 2010
Journal website: http://www.brill.nl/hima
Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial-Prize Lecture
- Kees van der Pijl | Historicising the International: Modes of
Foreign Relations and Political Economy
Articles
- Adam Hanieh | Khaleeji-Capital: Class-Formation and Regional
Integration in the Middle-East Gulf
- John Roberts | Art After Deskilling
Interventions
- Ben Fine | Locating Financialisation
- William Beik | Response to Henry Heller’s ‘The
Longue Durée of the French Bourgeoisie’
- David Parker | Henry Heller and the ‘Longue Durée
of the French Bourgeoisie’
- Henry Heller | Response to William Beik and David Parker
Review Articles
- Emmanuel Barot on Sciences et dialectiques de la nature edited
by Lucien Sève and Eftichios Bitsakis’s La nature dans la
pensée dialectique
- Steve Edwards on Caroline Arscott’s William Morris and
Edward Burne-Jones: Interlacings, and Mike Sanders’s The Poetry
of Chartism: Aesthetics, Politics, History
- Owen Hatherley on Sabine Hake’s Topographies of Class:
Modern Architecture and Mass Society in Weimar Berlin
- Elizabeth M. Sokolowski and Amy E. Wendling | New Waves in
Philosophy of Technology edited by Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen, Evan Selinger,
and Søren Riis
Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism
- Wolfgang Fritz Haug | General Intellect
International Journal of
Pluralism and Economics Education, 1(3): August 2010
Journal
website: http://www.inderscience.com/browse/index.php?journalID=319
Articles on Pluralism
- Plurality to pluralism in economics pedagogy: the role of
critical thinking / Ioana Negru
- The challenges of anthropology / Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Article on Pedagogy
- A heterodox teaching of neoclassical microeconomic theory /
Frederic S. Lee
Section on Money and Banking and the Financial Crisis
- Editorial: Teaching during the global financial crisis / Deborah
M. Figart
- The origins and consequences of bankers' power / Norbert Haering
- The possible perverse effects of declining wages / Marc Lavoie
- Pedagogical approaches to theories of endogenous versus
exogenous money / Stephen Kinsella
Journal of Agrarian Change,
10(3): July 2010
Journal website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/joac.2010.10.issue-3/issuetoc
Special Issue: Productive Forces in Capitalist
Agriculture: Political Economy and Political Ecology
- The Bernstein and Byres Prize in Agrarian Change | Deborah
Johnston, Cristobal Kay, Jens Lerche and Carlos Oya
- Introduction: Some Questions Concerning the Productive Forces |
HENRY BERNSTEIN
- The Accelerating Biophysical Contradictions of Industrial
Capitalist Agriculture | TONY WEIS
- Issues in the Political Economy of Agricultural Biotechnology |
DAVID WIELD, JOANNA CHATAWAY and MAURICE BOLO
- Impeding Dispossession, Enabling Repossession: Biological Open
Source and the Recovery of Seed Sovereignty | JACK KLOPPENBURG
- The End of the Road? Agricultural Revolutions in the Capitalist
World-Ecology, 1450–2010 |JASON W. MOORE
- The Material Conditions of a Polarized Discourse: Clamours and
Silences in Critical Analysis of Agricultural Water Use in India |
PETER P. MOLLINGA
- Beyond Industrial Agriculture? Some Questions about Farm Size,
Productivity and Sustainability | PHILIP WOODHOUSE
Mother Pelican, 6(9):
September 2010
The PelicanWeb's Journal of
Sustainable Development has been renamed Mother Pelican in
honor of the Human Being she represents.
Journal website: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n09page1.html
The UN MDG Review Summit
1. The UN MDG Review Summit
2. Review of the "Keeping the Promise"
Report
3. Opportunities for
Collaboration/Participation
4. Key References and Workings Documents
5. Planned MDG Summit Meeting Agenda
Supplements (September Updates):
Supplement 1: Advances in Sustainable
Development
Supplement 2: Directory of Sustainable
Development Resources
Supplement 3: Sustainable Development
Simulation (SDSIM)
Articles:
Declaration of Independence from Wall
Street, by David Korten
Seizing the Moment for Clean Energy, by
Ann Florini
Towards a New Economy and a New
Politics, by Gus Speth
TripleC (cognition,
communication, co-operation), 8(2): 2010
Open
Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society
Special Issue on Capitalist Crisis,
Communication & Culture
Edited by Christian Fuchs, Matthias Schafranek, David Hakken, Marcus
Breen
What is the role of communication in the general situation of
capitalist crisis?
The global economic downturn is an indicator of a new worldwide
capitalist crisis. The main focus of most public debates as well as of
economic and policy analyses is the role of finance capital and the
housing market in creating the crisis, less attention is given to the
role of communication technologies, the media, and culture in the world
economic crisis. The task of this special issue of tripleC is to
present analyses of the role of ICTs, the media, and culture in the
current crisis of capitalism. The seven papers focus on the causes,
development, and effects of the crisis. Each paper relates one or more
of these dimensions to ICTs, the media, or culture.
Heterodox
Newsletters
CCPA:
August 2010
Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives
- The Education Project's latest publication is now in the
bookstore. Climate
Change -- Who's Carrying the Burden? The chilly climates of the global
environmental dilemma, goes beyond the traditional analyses of
climate change that focus on global techno-fixes and free-market
solutions. Instead, the authors focus on the inspirational
possibilities that can be achieved through system change. The book
features an impressive list of contributions from well-known authors
and activists, including Naomi Klein, Stephen Lewis, Vandana Shiva,
Noël Sturgeon, Elizabeth May, Jessica Yee, Sarah Flicker, Deborah
Barndt and Isaac Osuoka. For the full table of contents and for
purchase information, click here.
- Canada has one of the worst income-to-debt ratios in the world.
CCPA Senior Economist Armine Yalnizyan, in her latest commentary,
writes about Nobel-prize-winning-economist Paul Krugman's warning for
Canadians: we have one of the worst income-to-debt ratios in the world.
Click here
to read how exposed Canadians really are.
- We have also posted select articles from the latest issue of The
Monitor - our monthly research magazine sent free to all members.
Click on the following articles to read them on our website:
- The CCPA's latest report finds that for the first time in 30
years, six of Canada's hottest real estate markets are in a housing
bubble. Canada's
Housing Bubble: An Accident Waiting to Happen examines trends in
house prices in Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal and
Ottawa between 1980 and 2010 and finds price increases in those cities
are outside of a historic comfort level. You can download
the full report or read
an interview with author David Macdonald on the CCPA website. An interactive
feature based on the report can be accessed on the Globe and Mail
website.
- We hope those of you in the GTA can join us on October 4, 2010
for a one-day
conference at the University of Toronto Scarborough celebrating the
release of Anti-Racism
in Education: Missing in Action. The day will feature Charles C.
Smith (editor) and prominent thinkers including George Dei, Tim
McCaskell, Tina Lopes, Carol Schick, Carol Tator, Frances Henry, Leanne
Taylor and others to discuss the role of education in fighting racism.
We hope you can join us for an event that promises to be exciting,
informative and provocative.
Click here for more information.
Development Viewpoint #54
IDEAs:
August 2010
Website: www.networkideas.org
or www.ideaswebsite.org
Featured Themes: The Global Financial Crisis
Featured Articles
Alternatives
News Analysis
IWPR: August 2010
Institute for Woman's
Policy Research
"Women
in Poverty During the Great Recession," an IWPR Briefing Paper
analyzing the most recent American Community Survey data from the U.S.
Census Bureau, finds that in every state a large number of adult women
who live in poverty are not receiving help through benefit programs.
Focusing on food stamps, heath coverage, and cash assistance, IWPR
finds that the rates of adult women in poverty during the recession who
are not receiving assistance vary among different public programs and
across the states and regions.
Global Labour Column
Levy News:
August 2010
- Why China
Has Succeeded—and Why It Will Continue to Do So, Jesus
Felipe, Utsav Kumar, Norio Usui, and Arnelyn Abdon. Working Paper No.
611, August 2010
- Using
Capabilities to Project Growth, 2010–30, Jesus Felipe, Utsav
Kumar, and Arnelyn Abdon. Working Paper No. 609, August 2010
- Assessing
the Returns to Education in Georgia, Tamar Khitarishvili. Working
Paper No. 608, August 2010
- Extrinsic
Rewards and Intrinsic Motives: Standard and Behavioral Approaches to
Agency and Labor Markets, James B. Rebitzer and Lowell J. Taylor.
Working Paper No. 607, August 2010
- Changes in
Central Bank Procedures during the Subprime Crisis and Their
Repercussions on Monetary Theory, Marc Lavoie. Working Paper No.
606, August 2010
NEF
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The Great Banking Question
Recent Publications
Policy
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Heterodox
Books and Book Series
G. D. H. Cole: Selected Works
Edited by Noel Thompson. Routledge, October 27, 2010 | 3,640 pp. ISBN:
978-0-415-56651-3. $1,300.00 | webpage
G. D. H. Cole was one of the foremost British socialist thinkers of the
twentieth century. His literary output was immense and encompassed
works of social theory, economics, political economy, economic history,
social and labour history, political theory, history of thought and
sociology. The books and pamphlets chosen for this edition are amongst
his most significant. They are representative of the different phases
of his thinking and illustrative of an acute and inquiring socialist
mind as it wrestled with the formidable political and intellect
challenges confronted by socialists in this most turbulent of centuries.
This set re-issues 10 works of the well-known socialist thinker G. D.
H. Cole and one volume of collected pamphlets, originally published
between 1917 and 1956. The works in this collection encompass three
critical periods of Cole’s socialist thinking: the guild
socialist decade from 1913-23; the post 1929 period when his political
economy was dominated by the notion of socialist economic intervention
and planning, and the post-war period when, like other socialist
theorists, he sought to come to terms with the particular challenges
posed by the legacy of the Attlee governments, and the emergence of an
affluent society. A substantial introduction by Noel Thompson places
the works in their social, political and historical context and
illustrates their continued relevance.
The Economics Of Abundance:
Affluent Consumption and the Global Economy
By Brendan Sheehan. Edward Elgar. August 2010 | 224 pp, Hardback 978 1
84376 670 4 | £65.00, on-line discount £58.50 | web | View
New Directions in Modern Economics series books
The Economics of Abundance: Affluent Consumption and the Global Economy
(New Directions in Economics Series). The book addresses the challenge
posed by J.K. Galbraith over fifty years ago to make a constructive
contribution to a different style of economic analysis - the economics
of abundance. It identifies a system of abundance inhabited by the
'people of plenty' and illustrates that the driver of growth in this
system is spending by affluent consumers. The book provides essential
heterodox economic theory to explain this spending and explore its key
drivers and constraints. The greatest threat to this system is
under-consumption. The book explains how the system of abundance
spontaneously responds by creating the institution of marketing, which
amplifies the drivers of spending and relaxes the constraints. However,
all this has implications for the way in which markets work. It builds
on themes first identified by J.K. Galbraith to introduce a new
conceptual framework - that of corporate-guided markets for branded
products.
This book will prove a valuable resource for academics in other fields
including: economic and social history, sustainability, sociology,
social psychology, cognitive psychology, marketing and cultural studies.
Effective Demand, Economic
Growth and External Constraints: Rethinking Regional Integration in
Latin America
By Margarita Olivera. LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing (August 3, 2010).
212 pages, ISBN-13: 978-3838382968 | Webpage
How to achieve a sustained economic development process in developing
countries is up today an open issue. Traditionally it has been believed
that liberalisation and free trade policies would have helped them
develop. Yet the economic strategies based on the neoliberal reforms
have proved to be wrong, especially for Latin America. The failures
have been so strong that Latin America was led to more economic
vulnerability and even to de-industrialisation. This book attempts to
provide a better development strategy for Latin America, alternative to
traditional outward-looking, free trade policies. After reviewing some
traditional and heterodox theories, the book suggests that a demand-led
growth strategy is a promising way to boost development. By extending
this model to open economies this work stresses the external
constraints that these economies have to face. Finally, a regional
integration set-up is presented as a good complement to the demand-led
growth strategy to reduce the external constraint and attain
development. The book should be useful to the academic economist as
well as policy makers, and to anyone else interested in Latin American
development.
Envisioning Real Utopias
By Erik Olin Wright. Verso. September 2010. 412 pages | Cloth. ISBN-13:
978 1 84467 618 7 US$95 / £60 / CAN$118.50 | Paper. ISBN-13: 978
1 84467 617 0. US$26.95 / £16.99 / CAN$33.50 | Webpage
Leading sociologist proposes a new framework for a socialist alternative
Rising inequality of income and power, along with the recent
convulsions in the finance sector, have made the search for
alternatives to unbridled capitalism more urgent than ever. Yet there
has been a global retreat by the Left: on the assumption that liberal
capitalism is the only game in town, political theorists tend to
dismiss as utopian any attempt to rethink our social and economic
relations. As Fredric Jameson first argued, it is now easier for us to
imagine the end of the world than an alternative to capitalism.
Erik Olin Wright’s Envisioning Real Utopias is a comprehensive
assault on the quietism of contemporary social theory. Building on a
lifetime’s work analyzing the class system in the developed
world, as well as exploring the problem of the transition to a
socialist alternative, Wright has now completed a systematic
reconstruction of the core values and feasible goals for Left theorists
and political actors.
Envisioning Real Utopias aims to put the social back into socialism,
laying the foundations for a set of concrete, emancipatory alternatives
to the capitalist system. Characteristically rigorous and engaging,
this will become a landmark of social thought for the twenty-first
century.
Floodlines:
Community & Resistance from Katrina to the Jena 6
By Jordan Flaherty, with an Introduction by Amy Goodman of
Democracy Now! and a preface by civil rights attorney Tracie Washington
| July 2010. Haymarket
Books, $16, Paperback. ISBN: 9781608460656
With the livelihood and culture of Gulf Coast residents once again at
risk from BP’s drilling disaster, Floodlines vividly describes
what is at stake for the people of the region. Expertly weaving the
interconnected stories of public housing residents, musicians, Mardi
Gras Indians, Arab and Latino immigrants, and grassroots activists,
Floodlines offers a unique, firsthand account of race, culture, and
community in New Orleans.
The Great
Credit Crash
Edited by Martijn Konnings. Verso. March 2010. 304 pages | Cloth,
ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 433 6, US$100 / £60 / CAN$118.50 | Paper,
ISBN-13: 978 1 84467 431 2, US$26.95 / £16.99 / CAN$33.50
Most accounts of the current financial crisis tell a story of
deregulation, out-of-control markets and irresponsible speculation. But
few of those works have done more than regurgitate the newspaper
coverage. In contrast, THE GREAT CREDIT CRASH digs deeper, drawing on
some of the most prominent radical analysts of the modern market to
foreground key questions that are still waiting to be answered.
This volume presents a more complete and convincing analysis of the
recent economic disaster, which is revealed as a product of a social
order built during the triumphalist years of neoliberal capitalism. The
essays are collected across sections examining the origins and causes
of the crisis, its global dimensions, and the political ramifications
of the credit crash, with contributors assessing current events and
political responses and critically examining official rhetoric and
hegemonic narratives to point the way to an understanding of the crisis
that goes beyond the subprime headlines.
Contributors to the volume include: Walden Bello, Peter Gowan, Stanley
Aronowitz, Leo Panitch, Dick Bryan, Gary A. Dymski, Thomas Ferguson,
Sam Gindin, Michael Hudson, Robert Johnson, James Livingston, Scott
MacWilliam, Johnna Montgomerie, Anastasia Nesvetailova, Ronen Palan,
Michael Rafferty, William I. Robinson, Herman Schwartz, Susanne
Soederberg, Jeffrey Sommers, Henry Veltmeyer.
For more information visit:
http://www.versobooks.com/books/klm/k-titles/konings_martin_great_credit_crash.shtml
The Making of a
Transnational Capitalist Class: Corporate Power in the 21st Century
By William K. Carroll published. Zed Books. £24.99/$44.95 ISBN
9781848134430 |
web
Throughout the world, there has been a growing wave of interest in
global corporate power and the rise of a transnational capitalist
class, triggered by economic and political transformations that have
blurred national borders and disembedded corporate business from
national domiciles. Using social network analysis, William Carroll maps
the changing field of power generated by elite relations among the
world's largest corporations and related political organizations.
Carroll provides an in-depth analysis that spans the three decades of
the late 20th and early 21st century, when capitalist globalization
attained unprecedented momentum, propelled both by the
transnationalization of accumulation and by the political paradigm of
transnational neoliberalism. These has been an era in which national
governments have deregulated capital, international institutions such
as the World Trade Organization and the World Economic Forum have
gained prominence, and production and finance have become more fully
transnational, increasing the structural power of capital over
communities and workers.
Within this context of transformation, the book charts the making of a
transnational capitalist class, reaching beyond national forms of
capitalist class organization into a global field, but facing spirited
opposition from below in an ongoing struggle that is also a struggle
over alternative global futures
Marcelo Diamand. Escritos
Economicos.
El economista que cambio la historia del pensamiento economico argentino
de H. Garetto Editor. ISBN 978-987-1493-11-1
Prologo por Fabián Amico y Alejandro Fiorito, Investigadores de
UNLU. Grupo Lujan-Revista Circus. Read the prologue
here.
Handbook on Trade and the
Environment
Edited by Kevin P. Gallagher. Edward Elgar. 2008, 368 pp, Hardback 978
1 84720 454 7 . £120.00 |
2010, 368 pp, Paperback 978 1 84980 083 9. £29.95 |
web
In this comprehensive reference work, Kevin Gallagher has compiled a
fresh and broad-ranging collection of expert voices commenting on the
interdisciplinary field of trade and the environment. The
editor’s well worked introduction synthesizes the emerging themes
of the collection, which is divided into three sections: trade and
environmental quality, trade and environmental politics, and trade and
environmental policy. In addition to in-depth overviews of the field,
the Handbook includes case studies on East Asia, Africa, Latin America,
Europe, and the United States.
Heterodox
Book Reviews
Debt,
Innovations, and Deflation: The Theories of Veblen, Fisher, Schumpeter,
and Minsky
By J. Patrick Raines and Charles G.
Leathers, Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar, 2008.
Reviewed for
Heterodox Economics Newsletter by Zachary Nixon, Denison
University. Download the review.
Empire and
Globalization: Networks of People, Goods and Capital in the British
World, c. 1850–1914
By Gary B. Magee and Andrew S. Thompson. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2010. xx + 291 pp. $32 (paperback), ISBN:
978-0-521-72758-7.
Reviewed for EH.NET by
Ranald Michie, Department of History, University of Durham. Read the
review here.
The Road from Mont
Pèlerin: The Making of the Neoliberal Thought Collective
Edited by Philip Mirowski and Dieter Plehwe. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 2009. vi + 469
pp. $55 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-674-03318-4.
Reviewed for
EH.NET by
Bruce Caldwell, Department of Economics, Duke University. Read the
review
here.
Francis Ysidro Edgeworth: A
Portrait with Family and Friends
By Lluis Barbé. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar 2010. xxxvi
+ 291 pp. $150 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-84844-716 5.
Reviewed for
EH.NET by
Warren J. Samuels, Department of Economics, Michigan State University.
Read the review
here.
Laurence S.
Moss (1944-2009): Academic Iconoclast, Economist and Magician
By Widdy S. Ho, 2010. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. ix
+ 673 pp. $40 (hardcover), ISBN:
978-1-4443-3556-0.
Reviewed for
EH.NET by
Richard P.F. Holt, Department of Economics, Southern Oregon University.
Read the review
here.
Marx and Philosophy Review
of Books
- Tom Steele on Edward Carpenter
- David McLellan on Marxism and religion
- Alexander Marshall on Mészáros
- Jeremy Spencer on Rancière
- Clara Fischer on Engels and feminism
- Meade McCloughan on Benjamin and Brecht
And a new list of books for review can be found here:
www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/
Heterodox Graduate
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Spencer Foundation
Dissertation Fellowships for Researches related to Education
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Applicants need not be citizens of the United States; however, they
must be candidates for the doctoral degree at a graduate school within
the United States. These fellowships are not intended to finance data
collection or the completion of doctoral coursework, but rather to
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dissertation. For this reason, all applicants must document that they
will have completed all pre-dissertation requirements by June 1, 2011
and must provide a clear and specific plan for completing the
dissertation within a one or two-year time frame.
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announced in Apirl 2011. Awards to support completion of the
dissertation begin in June 2011.
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encouraging all aspects of research, writing, and teaching of business
history and the environment in which business operates.
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Common Sense Journal Now Online
Common Sense: Journal of the Edinburgh Conference of Socialist
Economists
Web address:
http://commonsensejournal.org.uk
Institute
for New Economic Thinking
Founded in October 2009 with a $50 million pledge by George Soros,
the New York City-based Institute for New Economic Thinking is a
nonprofit organization providing fresh insight and thinking to promote
changes in economic theory and practice through conferences, grants and
education initiatives.
The Institute recognizes problems and inadequacies within our
current economic system and the modes of thought used to comprehend
recent and past catastrophic developments in the world economy. The
Institute embraces the professional responsibility to think beyond
these inadequate methods and models and will support the emergence of
new paradigms in the understanding of economic processes.
The Institute firmly believes in empowering the next generation,
providing the proper guidance as we challenge outdated approaches with
innovative and ethical economic strategy.
The Institute’s objective is to expand the conversation to
create an open discussion for a wider range of people. Some would say
that present day dialogue is closed and polarizing. We recognize the
need for an environment that is nourished and supported by discourse, a
discussion that spans a much wider spectrum of thinking and
incorporates the insights of other intellectual disciplines in both the
natural and social sciences.
The Institute was conceived during the first half of 2009 through a
series of discussions that culminated at a summit in July of 2009 in
Bedford, NY.
Grant Program
The Institute is committed to supporting the next generation of
economists who are rethinking economics for the 21st century. One of
the main ways we’re doing this is by supporting innovative
thinkers with substantial grants, ranging from $30,000 for an
individual to $250,000 for whole teams. The Research Grant Program will
receive the majority of funding to drive the Institute’s mission,
and we will have two cycles of funding each year.
The Institute is currently in the midst of its Inaugural Grants
Program cycle. Over the summer, we began accepting applications, and
were pleased to have received more than 500 from all over the world.
Submissions came from every region, including Africa, Asia, Eastern
Europe, and Oceania - with the bulk coming from North America and
Europe.
True to INET’s mission, the topics of the proposals ranged
across the gamut of our preoccupying themes, including political
economy, inequality, theories of finance, empirical macroeconomics,
human capital and growth, economic history, and theories of networks
and systems.
We are currently entering Stage 2 of this Grant cycle, in which
about 15% of the applicants are being be asked to provide more
information about their proposals so we can make our final decisions by
October 15th. The evaluations are being conducted by a jury of INET
Advisory Board members and outside referees, assisted by a specially
recruited team of post-doctoral students and assistant professors.
For more information, visit
the Institute website.
Marxsite is Back
After months of technical problems and staffing difficulties, Marxsite
returns. Expect a cascade of postings as we struggle to catch up with
the momentous events which the current phase of the capitalist crisis
has unleashed.
Please let other people know. During our absence the site continued
getting more than 1000 hits a day, despite not updating. This can only
be because of the range of accumulated materials and links that the
site now deploys.
http://www.marxsite.com/
The Socialist Project
website
The Search page on the Socialist Project website is now live and upto
date. You can search by Author's Name, or selected topics. You can also
make full text searches using Google - conveniently located in one
place at:
www.socialistproject.ca/search.php
Other features on our website:
Heterodox Economics in
the Media
The Dismal
State of Economic Theory and the Opportunity for a New Beginning
By L. Randall Wray (University of Missouri-Kansas City). Benzinga.com.
September 2, 2010. Read the article
here.
Note: Professors Randall Wray and William Black will do a weekly column here.
‘New
paradigm’ is just an update
Financial Times. August 23 2010 01:16 | Dr Hugh Goodacre | Read
the letter here.
"
Prof Stiglitz’s “new paradigm” is in
fact just an updated version of the market fundamentalism it claims to
replace: have faith in markets – if they break down, you can fix
them."
Queries from Heterodox
Economists
Financial Reform Proposals
I am trying to gather proposals on how to deal with the
structural problems in our financial system from a "heterodox" point of
view. I know that the right-wing in particular wants to blame
everything on "government" (Fannie and Freddie, the Community
reinvestment act, etc.) and that's total nonsense. But among those who
want reforms there are a wide variety of proposals. Obviously I know
some of them but would love to be educated about what everyone out
there has seen.
Any links to or references to structural reform proposals for
specifically the US financial system would be most appreciated.
Thanks,
Mike Meeropol
mameerop@gmail.com
Henryk
Grossman Project: Assistance sought
Henryk Grossman was a major figure in the development of Marxist social
and economic theory, and economic history during the 20th century.
There has recently been a resurgence of interest in his contributions.
But a large proportion of his work remains untranslated into English or
is hard to find. It is time that his writings were brought together in
an accessible form and that all his important work was made available
in English.
A project is underway to publish selected works by Henryk Grossman in
the Historical Materialism Book Series. Unfortunately we have no
financial backing for this substantial undertaking. So we are seeking
two kinds of assistance:
- suggestions about how we might obtain funds, without danger to
life and limb, would be very much appreciated. Are there any cultural
institutions, university translation offices, government funded
academic research programs or philanphropic institutions which we could
tap into?
- we are also looking for experienced translators who are prepared
to donate their efforts to the project. The translations will be from
German, French, Polish and Yiddish into English. The contribution of
translations of short (a few hundred words) as well as longer texts
would be appreciated.If you can help, please get in touch.
In solidarity
Rick Kuhn
School Politics and International Relations
Building 22
ANU ACT 0200
Australia
tel +61 (2) 612-53851
fax +61 (2) 612-52222
Rick.Kuhn@anu.edu.au
www.anu.edu.au/polsci/rick
Research on Corporate
Markups
I'm doing some research on the gross markup of retail prices to the
consumer versus wholesale. Agricultural prices seem particularly easy
since there's a futures market for them. So, for example, I'm seeing a
900% markup for a loaf of bread versus the futures price of wheat. I
think it's a useful analysis as it captures the sum of profits,
marketing, middlemen, etc. in the supply chain. I think it would be
particularly interesting to see what the markup is on items imported
from low wage countries. An example might be what Walmart pays the
Chinese factory for commodity x versus what it's selling for at the
store.
I'm wondering if anyone has done research into this or can direct me to
it.
Thanks
Jim O'Reilly
jporeilly3@yahoo.com
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Christopher Freeman (11th
September 1921 - 16th August 2010)
As you may by now know, Christopher Freeman passed away on 16th August
2010. We are writing to those who knew him, or who have been touched by
his work, to share a memory with you, and to let you know, if you wish,
how you can contribute to the celebration of his life.
The Science Policy Research Unit, which he founded, has a website at
http://www.sussex.ac.uk/spru/about/chris
where you can share experiences of working with him. We have set up a
personal website at
http://www.freemanchris.org/
which we expect to be ready by Monday and to which you are welcome to
contribute, including photographs and personal memories. It will carry
as complete as possible a record of his contribution to economics and
science.
SPRU is organising a memorial later in this year; please contact them
for details. The funeral ceremony, for family and friends, will be at
in Lewes on Thursday 26th August at Pelham House Hotel at 1pm. There
will be a reception afterwards. For all information please contact the
funeral directors
www.arkafunerals.net.
We are considering how to preserve the legacy of Chris’s
contribution to knowledge. One suggestion is a charitable trust
dedicated to this end. If you think this is a good idea and feel you
can help, please contact Alan Freeman at
afreeman@iwgvt.org.
This has been a sad time for everybody. We have composed a personal
record of his life and work, which were intimately connected, and which
follows, and is attached.
Christopher Freeman 11th September 1921 – 16th August 2010
A light has gone from the world. Christopher Freeman passed away early
on Monday 16th August at home, surrounded by those he loved, looking
out over our small garden to the open blue skies beyond. On 11
September he would have been 89. To many he is known as the creator of
the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) and a founder of the theory of
innovation, the economics of science, and the systematic study of
long-term movements in economic growth, for which the world is in his
debt.
As his children, we knew more. Son of Arnold, Sidney Webb’s
secretary and an early pioneer of the Workers’ Educational
Association, Chris left school as an idealistic communist. Plunged into
war, he was spared none of the horrors on the Western Front or in the
Camps he entered with the advancing allied forces. Witness to the worst
and best of what humans could do to each other, and propelled by great
love of humanity, nature, and art, he sought to build a new world with
his wife Peggotty, a socialist and talented linguist of American and
German Jewish parentage. Blacklisted in academia, he embarked on the
life of a working class organiser, first with the WEA in Clydeside,
then the Daily Worker, followed by the Society for Cultural Relations
with Russia.
His close contact with inner circles of the German communists had
already led him, sadly and with great pain, to conclude well before he
left the party in 1956 that it was not the vehicle for a future he
never ceased to work for. A spell with the Post Office and then the
London Export group, specializing in trade with China and Russia,
opened a door at the National Institute for Economic Research. He soon
dedicated himself to marrying economics to science, which he saw not
just as the vehicle of enlightenment but as the means end poverty and
suffering worldwide.
At the invitation of Sussex Vice-Chanceller Asa Briggs he established
SPRU in 1966. A twin of the Institute for Development Studies, it was
born in an atmosphere of renewal driven by an alliance between the
Mitteleuropaische intelligentsia that poured into the country before
and during the war, and the spirit of scientific endeavour that had
shaped Britain from the Industrial Revolution to the apocalyptic
discoveries of wartime. These pioneer institutions were wrought almost
from nothing, the joint work of a band of fellow-idealists from all
countries and walks of life who wandered in and out of our house in
bewildering numbers, many remaining our friends today. His engagement
with this ‘invisible college’ of scientists and political
theorists framed what was becoming postcolonial Britain; its outlook is
conveyed in a lecture on J.D. Bernal singled out for us by several of
the hundreds of students and researchers whose rise to eminence took
them through SPRU’s portals. (
vega.org.uk/video/programme/86)
His remarkable partnership with Carlota Perez launched another chapter
of this story. The doubts and fears that shaped his young years still
haunted his children. The shadow of the Bomb still hung over us all,
while cruel invasions, barbaric oppressions and grinding poverty still
stalked the world. An emerging environmental crisis was already
becoming evident. For Chris, science was the means to human liberation,
but required governance, direction, and institutional support to put it
at the service of the poor and forestall its abuse by the rich. He
poured out papers and ideas, assembled on
freemanchris.org, a
collaboration between Carlota and his grandson Leo, and on SPRU’s
website at
sussex.ac.uk/spru/about/chris.
His world view brought him almost visionary foresight, bringing to
attention issues only now entering popular discourse. His devastating
critique of the OECD’s 1976 McCracken report was one of the first
clear economic judgements that postwar growth had come to an end, and
would not return without conscious state and institutional
intervention. Even as the Soviet and Eastern Blocs fell apart, he was
by the end of the 1980s predicting the Chinese Economic miracle. He
began writing about green technological revolution in the early 1990s;
a remarkable interview, whimsically published in 2000 as If I Ruled The
World, outlines a manifesto for a hypothetical ‘first woman
president of the USA’ to be elected in 2004, which could easily
serve as required reading for Obama’s advisors today.
Professor without a doctorate, his tolerance, aversion to elitism, and
his engagement with the personal lives of his friends and colleagues is
legendary. Yet It was not a casual or accidental personality trait but
the outcome of reflection on the human costs, witnessed first hand in
his youth, of acting otherwise. Appreciation and acceptance of
diversity were woven into his approach to life as much as theory. As a
crabbed neoliberal dogmatism began to close in on his profession, he
joined his name to the first modern call for a return to pluralism in
economics, published in the American Economic Review in 1992. The
breadth and depth of his gifts to economic theory is an enduring
testimony to an inspiration which helped so many others, whether of his
mind or a contrary one, to give of their best.
Chris’s love for the world was witnessed by all he came in
contact with, especially his five children, his five grandchildren, his
first wife Peggotty, his second wife Maggie, and his widow Carlota. A
nature-lover long before it became fashionable, he was a passionate and
active member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. At the
time, we may have complained about a succession of
far-from-conventional birdwatching holidays in marshes, windswept
seashores and probably, were it not for Peggotty’s intervention,
sewage farms, but our time spent learning bird calls and listing
strange species has brought its reward: in every distant cry from every
creature flying overhead to distant places, we hear the voice of our
wonderful father, free at last.
Lieutenant-Captain, father, comrade, Professor; may the world return
the love you gave it.
Alan Freeman
Tom Freeman
Kathy Freeman
Susan Freeman
Lewes, Friday, 20 August 2010
