Issue 106 |
October 18, 2010
From the Editors
It's that time of year for job announcements, so spread the
word to prospective heterodox candidates. In our "job postings
for heterodox economists" section we've listed some dozen academic jobs
and several public/private sector jobs. Obviously H.E.N is only
one of several sources for heterodox jobs, so heterodox economists
should also peruse the American Economics Association's JOE (Job
Openings for Economists), and The Chronicle of Higher
Education, where there are often economics positions listed
that are cross-disciplinary and more open to heterodox
approaches.
Speaking of the Chronicle, in our section
"Heterodox Economists in the Media" we have a link to the article Larry
Summers and the Subversion of Economics by Charles Ferguson, the
director of Inside Job, a documentary on the financial
crisis. The article discusses the conflicts of interest that Ferguson
finds among (mainstream) economists who move in and out of academia and
public office, and often receive significant fees from Wall Street for
providing various "services ," not unlike a certain class of
street workers. While I (TS) have not seen the documentary yet, I
have seen a clip of an interview with Frederic Mishkin, who received a
payment by the Iceland Chamber of Commerce to write and present a
report extolling the virtues of Iceland's investment climate, written
about a year or so before the collapse. You can watch Mishkin
sweat here.
Also in the past week, author of The Black Swan Nassim
Taleb suggested, in an article on Bloomberg.com, that
investors should sue the Swedish Central Bank for giving the Nobel
Prize to economists whose theories brought down the financial system.
May the attacks against the mainstream continue...
In solidarity,
Tae-Hee Jo and Ted Schmidt, Editors
Email: heterodoxnews@gmail.com
Website: http://heterodoxnews.com
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Table of Contents
Call for Papers
Call
for Participants
Job
Postings for Heterodox Economists
California
State University-Fresno, US
Connecticutt College, US
Finance Watch,
Brussels
Keene State
College, US
Lewis and Clark College, US
New Mexico
State University, US
Open
University, UK
Portland State
University, US
United Steel
Workers, Toronto, Canada
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, US
University of Massachusetts-Amherst, US
University of
Massachusetts-Boston, US
Conference
Papers, Reports, and Articles
Heterodox
Journals
Heterodox
Newsletters
Heterodox
Books and Book Series
Heterodox Economics in the Media
Queries
from Heterodox Economists
For
Your Information
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Call
for Papers
Association for
Institutional Thought 2011 Conference
Salt Lake City, Utah | April 13-16, 2011
Theme for the 2011 Conference:
Institutionalism and Building Heterodox Economics
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, institutional 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.
Individuals whose papers are accepted may also be expected to
serve as a discussant for a different paper at the meetings. If you
list the areas you prefer to discuss, all attempts will be made to
match your preferences.
Proposal Format: Paper
- Title of the Paper
- Name, Affiliation, Mailing Address, Telephone Number, E-mail
Address
- Other Authors
- Abstract (not exceeding 200 words; type in New Times Roman 12)
Proposal Format: Session
- Title of the Session
- Title of each Paper (3/4 papers)
- Moderator with Affiliation, Mailing Address, Telephone Number,
E-mail Address
- Discussant(s) with Affiliation, Mailing Address, Telephone
Number, E-mail Address
- Presenters with Affiliation, Mailing Address, Telephone Number,
E-mail Address
- Abstract for each paper for the session (not exceeding 200
words; type in New Times Roman 12)
For accommodations reservations call 1-800.HILTONS, and ask for
the WSSA rate of $149.00.
You must be a member of AFIT to present a paper at the
conference—there are not exceptions. Annual dues are $25. Contact
Mary Wrenn, Secretary-Treasurer of AFIT, (
MaryWrenn@weber.edu).
All participants are required to register for the WSSA-AFIT
conference prior to March 1, 2011. This means everybody: professors,
graduate students, undergraduate students—there are no
exceptions.
All proposals must be sent to the conference organizer by
December 1, 2010. Send proposals by E-mail with the subject line AFIT
2010 Proposal Last name and file attachment in Microsoft Word or RTF
format to the conference organizer and Vice President of AFIT:
Fred Lee
Department of Economics
University of Missouri-Kansas City
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
email:
crbrown@astate.edu
Winners will be notified by 1/15/11.
For more information about AFIT, visit our website at site at
www.associationforinstitutionalthought.org/
Download
AFIT Call for Student
Papers.
ASE at the
Western Economic Association 2011 Conference
San Diego, California | June 29-July 3, 2011
The Western Economics Association International has announced
information regarding its 86th annual conference to be held June
29-July 3, 2011 in San Diego California. ASE is pleased to announce
that several sessions have been set aside for participation by our
organization. Interested parties may send an abstract of proposed
papers, along with name, affiliation, mailing address, and email
address to: John F. Henry, University of Missouri-Kansas City;
henryjf@umkc.edu. Proposals of
complete panels are welcome. As well, please let me know if you are
willing to serve as a discussant on and/or chair of a panel.
Please note: Proposals must be received by December 1, so I have
time to organize the panels and forward the information to Joyce
Rosendahl, WEAI conference coordinator. No proposals will be accepted
after that date. Conference fees are $195 for WEAI members and $265 for
non-members. ASE participants must register through the normal WEAI
registration process.
For specific information on the conference, please contact Ms.
Rosendahl at:
sessions@weai.org
Economics and Policy of
Energy and the Environment
Economia delle Fonti di Energia e dell’Ambiente-EFEA
Call for Abstracts and Papers for the Special Issue on “Transport
Economics and the Environment”
Guest Editor: Gerardo Marletto, DEIR/CRENoS – University of
Sassari
“Economics and Policy of Energy and the Environment”
(EFEA) is a multidisciplinary journal
published by the University of Milan “Luigi Bocconi”.
The aim of this Special Issue is to take stock and go beyond results
achieved by transport economics on environmental issues. Both
theoretical and applied papers are encouraged.
Abstracts and papers should be submitted as e-mail attachments to
Gerardo Marletto at:
Please conform to the guidelines for submission to EFEA. All text
must be in English.
(see
portale.unibocconi.it/wps/wcm/connect/Centro_IEFEen/Home/Publications/EFEA/)
Deadlines:
Submission of abstracts (length:
400-600 words): December 15th, 2010
Notification of acceptance: January
15th, 2011
Submission of papers (first version;
length: 8.000-10.000 words): June 30th, 2011
Notification of referees’
comments: September 30th, 2011
Submission of papers (final version):
November 30th, 2011(“EFEA Special Issue” in the subject
line)
The Fifth
“Dijon” Post-Keynesian Conference
13-14th of May 2011 | Université de Bourgogne, Roskilde and
Aalborg University
On the 75th year anniversary of The General Theory, this
year’s conference themes are:
1. The (Macro) economic Consequences of:
• European Monetary System
• European banks and financial institutions
• European labor markets: unemployment, employment and income
distribution
• European fiscal policies: Employment, income distribution and
budget deficits
• European Environment and economic growth
2. The General Theory after 75 years:
• Keynes’ methodology
• Keynes’s macroeconomic theory as different from mainstream
economics in all areas of relevance
3. Teaching Keynes’s macroeconomics:
• How to teach Keynes’s
macroeconomics?
• What to do when textbooks are lacking?
Proposals for a full session and/or for individual papers within these
topics are especially welcome.
They could either have a mainly political perspective related to the
actual crises in Europe or they
might focus on theoretical dimension, how to make a macroeconomic
analysis in the spirit of the
General Theory. Within the latter category we think that a special
session commemorating the
original contributions by the late Wynne Godley would be timely.
Submission should be send to professor Jesper Jespersen
jesperj@ruc.dk not later than
1st
February 2011.
The organizing committee consists of:
Jesper Jespersen, Roskilde Universitet
Mogens Ove Madsen, Aalborg Universitet
Louis-Philippe Rochon, Laurentian University
Claude Gnos, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon
For more information on the conference visit:
www.ruc.dk/kienet
Historical Materialism
Special Issue: Middle East
Extended Call for Papers
Historical Materialism has extended the deadline for proposal
submissions to its special issue on the Middle East, conceived broadly
to include: the Arab world from the Atlantic to the Gulf,
Israel/Palestine, Iran and Turkey. The new deadline for abstracts is
the 10th of November 2010.
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. Having
received a number of excellent submissions already, contributions are
invited on topics such as the following:
- The historical development and contemporary political economy of
the Middle East particularly the Gulf and the Arab world outside of
Palestine, embracing the development of neo-liberalism, new confluences
of capital and capital- state relationships.
- 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 November 10, 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.
History of Economics Society
2011 Meeting
June 17-20, 2011 | University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana.
Please join us, and add your voice to the historical
contemplation of economic thought and action by submitting a paper or
proposing a session. To propose a paper: Please send a title, paper
abstract (not longer than 200 words), and the name of at least one
other scholar whom you have contacted to propose as discussant before
February 7, 2011.
To propose a session: For each paper, send a title, abstract, and
append a list of two other scholars you have contacted to put together
a focused session, either as presenters or discussants, send them to
hesconf@nd.edu by the deadline of
February 7, 2011. Papers subsequently chosen will need to be submitted
to our office by April 11 in order to be made available on the
conference website.
The Conference will host a number of special plenary sessions:
currently, there are plans to convene a plenary on the use of history
to discuss the role of economists in the Great Recession; and special
sessions on economists and the state, the Cold War and the social
sciences, and the production of economic knowledge outside academia.
Sessions which incorporate journalists, professional historians,
science studies scholars, perspectives from outside the United States,
and members of other disciplines are especially welcome. Suggestions
for other special sessions are also welcome.
The HES also provides special support for a limited number of Young
Scholars [YS] to present papers at the conference, by providing free
registration, banquet ticket and a year’s membership in the
Society. If you wish to have your paper considered for the YS program,
please provide details as to the date of your last degree along with
your abstract, and indicate you wish to be considered for the YS
Proposal. A Young Scholar must currently be a PhD candidate, or have
been awarded the PhD in the 2 years preceding the conference. The
deadline for application is February 7, 2011.
Information on transportation, accommodations, and area attractions is
also available at http://hes2011.nd.edu
. Registration information will be posted in due course. If you
encounter any problems will paper/session submission or have any other
questions about the conference, please feel free to email me at hesconf@nd.edu or Conference
Secretary Tori Davies at davies.7@nd.edu.
19th International
Input-Output Conference
Alexandria, VA, USA | 13th – 17th June, 2011 |
Website
Goal of the conference
The goal of the conference is to promote and stimulate the
worldwide exchange of ideas among economists between them and
government officials, policy makers, engineers, national accountants
and managers with interests in input-output analysis and related
methods.
Mode of Participation
Planned/Organized Sessions
At past International Input-Output Conferences, pre-planned
sessions organized by attendees have been most successful in terms of
the number of attendance and participant interaction. For this reason,
we strongly encourage proposals for sets of thematic sessions. In
proposing such sessions or sets of sessions, as soon as is possible
please send the Chair of the Scientific Programme Committee an e-mail
including the name(s) of the organiser(s), an abstract describing the
theme/objectives for the session(s), names and institutional
affiliations of the session chair(s) and presenters as well as an
abstract for each paper to be included in the session. Prior to the
conference authors will be asked to submit a completed electronic
version of their
papers to secure a spot on the final programme.
Individual submissions
The majority of papers at International I-O Conferences tend to
be submitted this way. We ask that author(s) submit their names,
institutional affiliation(s), the paper title and an abstract of the
presentation (of 250 words or less) and select a topic from the list
provided. Abstracts are reviewed by members of the scientific committee
before they can be accepted for inclusion in the conference programme.
At a later date—a month or so prior to the conference
start—authors must submit a completed electronic version of the
paper to secure a spot on the final programme. An author is permitted
to present a maximum of two papers at the conference but can of course
be a co-author of a number of submitted papers.present a maximum of two
papers at the conference but can of course be a co-author of a number
of submitted papers.
Deadline for abstracts
Please submit abstracts for papers before December 31, 2010
through the new online abstract submission system COPASS:
http://copass.iioa.org.
Please, fill in the requested data (title, abstract, names of all
authors, e-mail address, preferred day of presentation, etc.) and
select an appropriate topic for the abstract. The length of the
abstract should not exceed the maximum allowed by the system.
The IIOA has limited funds to encourage young experts from
non-OECD member countriesyoung experts from non-OECD member countries
to attend the conference. As many as ten awards in amounts of up to US
$2,500 each are available. Applicants must be IIOA members born after
1970. They must also present an 2 unpublished paper and have not
previously received travel grants in any of the three previous
International I-O Conferences. The Travel Grant Committee of the IIOA
will verify applicant qualifications and bestow the award to those
qualified applicants with the most promising papers. Authors who wish
to apply for a travel grant should submit their full paper to the Chair
of the Scientific Programme Committee and the Chair of the Local
Organizing Committee by February 28, 2011.
International NGO Journal
International NGO Journal
(INGOJ) publishes high-quality solicited and unsolicited articles,
in English, in all areas of Non Governmental Organization (NGO)
activities. INGOJ is founded to publish proposals, appraisals and
reports of NGO projects. The aim is to have centralized information for
NGO activities where stakeholders including beneficiaries of NGO
services can find useful information about ongoing projects and where
to obtain particular assistance. Also prospective donors will easily
find information about different NGOs and decide which to fund on
specific projects.
Our objective is to inform authors of the decision on their
manuscript(s) within four weeks of submission. Following acceptance, a
paper will normally be published in the next issue. Manuscripts must be
sent as e-mail attachment to
ngo.acadjourn@gmail.com.
Instruction for authors and other details are available on our website
www.academicjournals.org/INGOJ.
Prospective authors should send their manuscript(s) to
ngo.acadjourn@gmail.com
Open Access
One key request of researchers across the world is unrestricted access
to research publications. INGOJ is fully committed Open Access
Initiative by providing free access to all articles (both abstract and
full PDF text) as soon as they are published. We ask you to support
this initiative by publishing your papers in this journal.
Publication Alert
We will be glad to send you a publication alert showing the table of
content with link to the various abstracts and full PDF text of
articles published in each issue. Kindly send us an email if you will
like to receive publication alert.
Oeconomicus
An all-student interdisciplinary journal of
economic issues
Oeconomicus is an interdisciplinary journal of economic issues
written, refereed, edited and published by current undergraduate, M.A.,
and Ph.D. students in the social sciences. The focus of the journal is
on critical or heterodox approaches to issues of economic methodology
and theory, history of economic thought, economic history, political
economy, and economic policy. All heterodox traditions within the
social sciences including- but not limited to- Post Keynesian, Marxist,
Institutionalist, Austrian, Feminist, and
Poststructuralist/Postmodern—are welcomed in the journal.
Oeconomicus is sponsored by the Economics Club at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) and is published annually.
We are currently soliciting submissions for our 2010-2011 issue and
welcome students at all levels to submit full-length articles, book
reviews, interviews or comments. Submissions should be no more that
5000 words and in MS Word format. Submissions and enquiries should be
sent to the editors at
LREVG9@mail.umkc.edu.
The deadline for submissions is March 1st, 2011. Three prizes of $200
each will be awarded to the three best submissions. For further
information about detailed instructions for authors, the journal, the
Economics Club and/or the UMKC Economic Department please visit our
website
http://cas.umkc.edu/econ/_researchCommunity/oeconomicus/index.htm.
Re-inventing
the Lefts in Latin America: Critical Perspectives from Below
Issue Editors: Sara C. Motta and Laiz R. Chen
This edition seeks to bring to light ‘views from the
underside’ about the reinvention of politics, power and political
economy that is occurring in the region or what is often referred to as
the Pink Tide. The Pink Tide, or shift to the left in governments and
politics in Latin America, can be many things, depending on the
perspective one takes. The ‘perspective of power’ tends to
see politics from the top, with a focus on political elites, the
actions and decisions of political leaders, and the changing and making
of policy. This perspective sometimes has a fear of the masses. Their
creativity and politicization is often framed as irrationality and the
governments that they elect such as Chavez in Venezuela and Morales in
Bolivia are framed as the Bad Left in contradistinction to the Good
Left to be found in the Concertación in Chile and the
Workers’ Party Government in Brazil. Conversely, views from the
underside are developed from, and in engagement with, the practices,
imaginaries, political histories, cultures and projects of the
subaltern, understood here as those excluded from the fruits of the
liberal project of free markets and liberal democracy. They have a
commitment to making visible and legitimate such practices and
experiences as a means to develop an ethical critique of dominant forms
of capitalist power and domination. This special edition seeks to
contribute to this process of strengthening and legitimizing subaltern
alternatives from below by opening windows to their diversity,
complexity, creativity and vibrancy.
Many of the new forms of popular politics in the region, from the
development of new forms of state power in participatory asembleas and
decision making forum, to forms of self-government, expand the practice
and theory of politics. They involve a politicization of community and
social relations, the formation of new democratic subjectivities from
the informal sectors, urban shanty town dwellers, landless peasants and
unemployed workers and often an experimental and open practice of
collective construction in the everyday of their projects of social
transformation and political change. These new forms of subaltern
politics are often outstripping conceptual and theoretical frameworks
premised in representational understandings of political organization
and theoretical production. We are faced with political practices that
are recognized as leftist but which differ from many of the leftist
theoretical traditions. There is therefore often a mismatch between old
tools of analysis and the practices of new movements. Hence the desire
and need for theoretical, conceptual and methodological reflection
based on an engagement with, and participation in, these experiences of
subaltern politicization.
Thus, the focus of this edition is to contest the perspective of power
by developing analyses from, and in dialogue with, popular politics
from below. This doesn’t merely mean micro-analysis but rather
the development of particular theoretical and normative
orientations that engage with a multiplicity of spatial scales of
analysis: the local ( community, everyday and subjective), the
regional, the national and the transnational. We hope that these
analyses can contribute to forging epistemological, theoretical and
methodological categories and tools to bridge the gap between new
movements and the academy. Thus as opposed to framing the Pink Tide as
a homogenizing project, this issue aims to present the rich diversity
of the many Lefts through their plural, experimental, creative,
institutional, political, social, subjective, everyday and affective
experiences. The distinct natures of these experiences (i.e. from
popular education, autonomous movements, participatory assemblies,
social programs, cultural politics, co-operatives, etc.) from different
countries in Latin America will provide the diversity and creative
energy that we want to capture.
This issue combines the re-thinking of power, political change
and social transformation through the analyses of left politics from
cultural workers, social movements participants, organic intellectuals,
artists, popular educators and community activists – with
different ways of seeing and learning to see all the lefts, in their
contradictions, tensions but also resonances and connections.
Therefore, in this issue, we welcome reflections about the use for
example of story and song in constructing a cultural politics of
resistance, as well as political economy and social movement research.
In sum, we invite papers that engage from below to produce
theoretically rich, empirically embedded and politically enabling
analyses that can contribute to the consolidation and development of
subaltern left utopias - as an imagining and practice of impossibility
made possible, not merely about reforming but radically transforming
‘what is’ - of the 21st Century.
We recommend contacting the issue editors as soon as possible
with a short abstract of proposed articles to avoid duplication.
We cannot guarantee consideration for this issue of manuscripts
received after Jan. 31, 2011. If you cannot meet this deadline
but are interested in submitting, please contact the issue editors
(contact information below) and the LAP Future Issues Coordinator,
Rosalind Bresnahan at
rosalind568@gmail.com.
We invite manuscripts including, but not limited to, the
following key questions that are the focus of the issue:
- What are the projects, imaginaries and practices of new forms of
subaltern politics?
- What is the role of political parties in these processes?
- Is the state a barrier or enabler of new forms of subaltern
politics?
- What is the role of pedagogies of dissent and transformation,
often based on experiences of popular education, in the formation of
such new forms of politics?
- How do we develop conceptual, theoretical and methodological
tools to engage meaningfully with such new forms of politics?
- What type of politics of knowledge is being developed and how
can we as researchers, committed to developing politically enabling
research, learn from and contribute to this?
- What role is there for movement relevant research?
- How are the lefts shaping and being shaped by emerging popular
political cultures?
- What are the future prospects for grass-roots political
organizing in Latin America when building up relationships at regional
and transnational scales?
- What is the nature of the links between the Pink Tide and
external politics (beyond Latin America)?
SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts should be no longer than 25 pages (approximately
7,000-7,500 words) of double-spaced 12 point text with 1 inch margins,
including notes and references, and paginated. Please follow the
LAP style guide which is available at
www.latinamericanperspectives.com
under the “Submissions” tab. Please use the
“About” tab for the LAP Mission Statement and details about
the manuscript review process.
Manuscripts may be submitted in English, Spanish, or Portuguese.
If submitting in Spanish or Portuguese, please indicate if you will
have difficulty reading correspondence from the LAP office in English.
All manuscripts should be original work that has not been published in
English and that is not being submitted to or considered for
publication elsewhere in identical or similar form.
Please feel free to contact the Issue Editor with questions pertaining
to the issue but be sure that manuscripts(including separate file with
basic biographical information and e-mail and postal addresses) are
sent to the LAP office in Word or rtf format by e-mail to:
laps@ucr.edu with the subject line
– “Your name – MS for Reinventing the Lefts
issue”
In addition to electronic submission (e-mail, or CD-R or floppy disk if
unable to send by e-mail) if possible submit two print copies including
a cover sheet with basic biographical and contact information to:
Managing Editor, Latin American Perspectives¸ P.O. Box 5703,
Riverside, California 92517-5703.
Editor contact information:
Society for the Advancement
of Socioeconomics: Development in Crisis
A Mini-conference to be held at the 2011 meeting of the Society
for the Advancement of Socioeconomics
(Organized by Diego Sánchez-Ancochea, Oxford University and
Aaron Major, University at Albany-SUNY).
Prevailing models of economic development have fared poorly when
confronted with economic crisis. Laissez-faire gave way to Keynesianism
in the wake of the global crisis of the 1920s and 1930s, and
Keynesianism was quickly discredited by the advocates for a neoliberal
approach to economic development in the wake of the crisis of the
1970s. While new calls for enhanced government oversight of financial
markets seemed to signal the death knell of neoliberalism, at the same
time neoliberal development models appear to be strikingly resilient in
the face of the global financial crisis of 2008, as witnessed by the
European Union's successful effort to force the Greek government to
adopt a broad package of austerity measures in exchange for debt
assistance. In developing countries, the UNCTAD has recently called for
more attention to domestic markets, but many countries are still
committed to the promotion of exports and orthodox stabilization.
We invite papers from a variety of perspectives that address the
rise, and decline, of models of development during times of economic
crisis. While models of development are necessarily ideational, and
ideological, we are interested in the nexus of social forces and
institutional structures that explain the rise, diffusion,
consolidation and demise of models of development. Though we are
particularly interested in process unfolding during the current
economic crisis, we are also interested in papers that shed light on
these questions through historical analysis of earlier periods of
crisis. While the mini-conference will have its own sessions, we aim to
also promote similar topics in the network on Globalization and
Socio-Economic Development.
The conference details and on-line submission portal can be found at http://www.sase.org/. The deadline for
submitting paper abstracts is January 15, 2011.
The
Spirit of Capital: The Tenth Annual Philosophy Graduate Student
Conference
April 28-29, 2011 | New School for Social Research, NYC
Paper Submission Deadline: Dec 1st, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Moishe Postone (University of Chicago)
It is impossible completely to understand Marx’s Capital, and
especially its first chapter, without having thoroughly studied and
understood the whole of Hegel’s Logic. Consequently, half a
century later none of the Marxists understood Marx!!” wrote Lenin
in 1915. In 1969, Althusser responded, “A century and a half
later no one has understood Hegel because it is impossible to
understand Hegel without having thoroughly studied and understood
Capital.” What are we to make of this challenge today? Are we now
ready to understand Hegel through Marx, and Marx through Hegel?
It is high time for a reassessment of the core stakes of the Marx-
Hegel debate. What would it mean to think the concepts of capital and
spirittogether? This conference is a place to explore the internal
relations between Hegel and Marx’s philosophical projects. Some
possible questions include: how does Hegel’s phenomenology,
logic, philosophy of nature, history and right internally contain the
elements that Marx will use to decipher the world of property, labor,
commodities and capital? Is Capital a logical theory of forms or a
theory of history? How does Marx negate and realize Hegel’s
project? What is the role of labor in Hegel, and the role of spirit in
Marx? Does the development of history show the unfolding of freedom or
the unfolding of capital? This conference echoes the early
Frankfurt school tradition, with its project for a critique of the
social forms of the present. We encourage submissions on a wide range
of topics and thinkers:
Submission Guidelines:
Papers ranging from 3,000 to 5,000 words should be submitted in blind
review format via spiritofcapital@gmail.com
and should include the following in the body of the email:
i. Author's name
ii. Title of Paper
iii. Institutional affiliation
iv. Contact information (email, phone number, mailing address)
Please omit any self-identifying information within the body of the
paper.
Urban Anthropology: Urban
Informal Economy
The prestigious journal, Urban Anthropology, is organizing a
special issue on the Urban Informal Economy. Contributions can come
from any city in the world. Some first hand fieldwork is expected in at
least parts of the proposed article. See information below as concerns
how to contribute. Please circulate among your colleagues.
If you agree to submit an article, please send me: (a) your name, (b)
your affiliations, (c) your best e-mail address, and (d) a tentative
title for your contribution:
tamardiana@yahoo.com
If you would agree to contribute, the date for the submission of
your formal manuscript would be March or April 2011. The manuscript
should be between 10,000 and12,000 words, including an abstract of up
to 200 words, notes, and a complete References Cited section. After
this information is received, Jack Rollwagen, Managing Editor of Urban
Antropology can send you samples of UAS bibliographic style, a complete
sample article, and so forth.
jrollwag@the-institute-ny.com
Call for
Participants
APORDE
(African Programme on Rethinking Development Economics) 2011
5 - 19 May 2011 | Johannesburg, South Africa | website
Supported by
the Department of Trade and Industry
of South Africa (the dti),
the French Development Agency (AFD),
and the French Embassy in South Africa,
with the French Institute of South Africa (IFAS)
Call for applications
We are pleased to announce that the fifth edition of the African
Programme on Rethinking Development Economics (APORDE) will be held in
Johannesburg (South Africa) from the 5th to the 19th of May 2011.
APORDE is a high-level training programme in development economics
which aims to build capacity in economics and economic policy-making.
The course will run for two weeks and consist of lectures and seminars
taught by leading international and African economists. This call is
directed at talented African, Asian and Latin American economists,
policy makers and civil society activists who, if selected, will be
fully funded.
We encourage everyone with an interest in development to read and
distribute this call for applications. Please note that we receive many
high quality applications and that, as a result, entry into APORDE will
be very competitive (only 30 applicants will be selected).
APORDE is a joint initiative of the Department of Trade and Industry
(the dti), the French Development Agency (AFD) and the French Embassy
in South Africa. Alice Amsden (MIT), Thandika Mkandawire (LSE), Michel
Aglietta (Institut Universitaire de France), Ha-Joon Chang (University
of Cambridge) and Ben Fine (SOAS) are among the lecturers who have
taught on the programme. Nicolas Pons-Vignon (CSID, Wits University) is
the APORDE Course director.
For more information, visit www.aporde.org.za
APORDE is being conducted in a climate when there is much greater
contestation of ideas around the possible options for economic
development and industrialisation than in many decades. An initiative
like APORDE can make a very important contribution in offering us new
insights and reflections on the critical questions of building a
developmental state and mounting a serious industrial policy.
Dr. Rob Davies, Minister of Trade and Industry, Republic of South Africa
Background
Africa is probably the continent most affected by the poor availability
of cutting-edge research and teaching in economics. While only a few
African countries have experienced sustained economic development in
the past 50 years, African governments and civil societies are weakly
equipped to respond critically to external initiatives aimed at their
development and to generate endogenous strategies. The tide is,
however, gradually turning: in South Africa and in other African
countries, the need for “more” (rather than merely
“better”, which has often proved to mean
“less”) state intervention in economic affairs is
increasingly recognised. Crucially, economic take-off appears bound to
remain a pipedream unless it is premised on developmental policy; while
South Africa's DTI is leading the way with its industrial policy, few
African decision makers feel equipped to design and implement such
policies, a gap which APORDE aims to help filling.
APORDE will allow talented academics, policy makers and civil society
representatives from Africa, Asia and Latin America to gain access to
alternatives to mainstream thinking on development issues and to be
equipped in a way that will foster original thinking. Participants will
receive intensive high-level training and interact with some of the
best development economists in the world and with other participants.
APORDE will cover essential topics in development economics, including
industrial policy, inequality, poverty, financial crises and social
policy. Lectures will equip participants with key information
pertaining to both mainstream and critical approaches. Day lectures
will last for three and a half hours, while a number of shorter
lectures will also be organised. The programme of the seminar will be
communicated at the beginning of 2011 and posted on the APORDE website.
For information, the programmes of the first four seminars are
available on www.aporde.org.za.
All costs – travel, accommodation, conference fee and per diem
– will be covered for selected applicants.
The seminar will be held in Johannesburg from the 5th to the 19th of
May 2011.
The venue will be confirmed at a later stage.
Applications
Applicants must demonstrate first-class intellectual capacity and (at
least some) prior knowledge in economics, as well as proficiency in
English. However, the objective of APORDE is to draw participants from
a broad range of backgrounds; persons who have demonstrated exceptional
capacity in their professional lives are invited to apply. The main
body of participants will be drawn from Africa, but we welcome
applications from Asians and Latin Americans who have research or work
experience related to Africa.
Prospective applicants should send
- A completed application form (available on www.aporde.org.za);
- An official transcript (showing courses taken and grades
obtained);
- 2 reference letters, where possible 1 academic and 1
professional, which should be sent directly to aporde@ifas.org.za or faxed to
+27 11 836 5850;
- Proof of English proficiency for applicants whose main medium of
instruction or work is not English. Results of standard English
proficiency tests (e.g. TOEFL or IELTS) will be preferable, but other
proof may also be accepted (e.g. a sample of written work in English).
Applications, accompanied by a covering letter indicating the
applicant’s full contact details (including e-mail address and
telephone numbers), should be sent to aporde@ifas.org.za to the
attention of Nicolas Pons–Vignon.
The application should actually reach Nicolas Pons-Vignon by Monday 6
December 2010 at midnight at the latest. Incomplete or late
applications will not be considered. Please note that individual
acknowledgement of applications will be sent by e-mail only. Candidates
will be notified by e-mail of the outcome of their applications at the
latest by early March 2011.
Download Call for Applications.
Cambridge
Realist Workshop
The programme for the coming term is as follows:
- Monday October 18, Speaker: Tony Lawson (Economics,
Cambridge)
Topic: How
might Social Ontology help Economics and the rest of Social Science?
- Monday November 01, Speaker: Jamie Morgan (Economics,
Manchester)
Topic:
Marshall and the Nature of Modern Economics
- Monday November 15, Speaker: Simon Deakin (Law,
Cambridge)
Topic: The
Nature of Law
- Monday November 29, Speakers: Philip Faulkner and Jochen
Runde (respectively: Economics and Judge Business School, Cambridge
Topic:The The
Social, the Material, and the Ontology of non-Material Technological
Objects
For more information go to:
http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/seminars/realist/workshop_programme.htm
or, for those who have access:
http://www.talks.cam.ac.uk/show/index/18031
Crisis of Labor, Crisis of
Capital: A Global View from the End of the American Century
A talk by Beverly Silver
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19TH, 2010. 6.30 PM – 8.30 PM.| THE SKYLIGHT
ROOM (9TH FLOOR). CUNY GRADUATE CENTER, 365 FIFTH AVE @ 34TH STREET
BEVERLY SILVER is Professor of Sociology at the Johns Hopkins
University. Her research focuses on problems of development, labor,
social conflict and war, using comparative and world-historical methods
of analysis. Her work recasts a variety of issues in a broad spatial
and temporal framework in order to identify patterns of recurrence,
evolution and “true novelty” in contemporary processes of
globalization. She is author of Forces of Labor: Workers’
Movements and Globalization since 1870, which won several awards,
including the 2005 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award of the
American Sociological Association.
Free and open to the public.
SPONSORED BY THE CENTER FOR PLACE, CULTURE AND POLITICS
Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis
24 October · 16:00 - 18:00 | NYU Kimmel Center, rm 802. 60
Washington Square, New York, NY
Featuring John Bellamy Foster and Chris Williams
Around the world, consciousness of the threat to our environment
is growing. The majority of solutions on offer, from using
efficient light bulbs to biking to work, focus on individual
lifestyle changes, yet the scale of the crisis requires far deeper
adjustments. Time still remains to save humanity and the planet, but
only by building social movements for environmental justice that
can demand qualitative changes in our economy, workplaces, and
infrastructure.
For more info contact seanpetty [at]
gmail.com
or 917-573-0708. Presented by Monthly Review Press and Haymarket Books.
Economic Policy: In Search
of an Alternative Paradigm
Dec 3 at Middlesex University, London
PROGRAMME
10:45 Registration and Refreshments
11:15 Opening: Anna Kyprianou, Dean and Pro Vice-Chancellor, Middlesex
University Business School
Session 1: 11.30-1.00pm
Chair: David Kernohan, Middlesex University
- Nigel F.B. Allington, Ecole de Management, University of
Cambridge, Cardiff University; John S.L. McCombie, University of
Cambridge; Maureen Pike, Oxford Brookes University: The Failure of the
New Macroeconomic Consensus: From Non-Ergodicity to the Efficient
Markets Hypothesis and Back Again.
- Philip Arestis, University of Cambridge and Universidad del
País Vasco; Malcolm Sawyer, University of Leeds: A New Paradigm
for Macroeconomic Policies
- Jesus Ferreiro and Felipe Serrano, Universidad del País
Vasco: The Institutional Dimension of the New Economic Policy
1.00– 2.00 Lunch
Session 2: 2.00-3.30pm
Chair: Philip Arestis
- Giuseppe Fontana, University of Leeds: From Maestro to Villain
of Modern Monetary Policy: A Critical Assessment of the
“Greenspan Put” as the Main Cause of the Global Crisis
- Engelbert Stockhammer, Kingston University: Greek debt and
German wages. The role wage policy and economic policy coordination in
Europe
- Ozlem Onaran, Middlesex University: Who Pays for the Great
Recession?
3.30–4.00: Coffee/Tea
Session 3: 4.00-5.30pm
Chair: Ozlem Onaran
- Yiannis Kitromilides, Westminster University: Deficit Reduction
Policies, Market ‘Credibility’ and Market Failure
- Andrew Ross, Government Economic Service and HM Treasury: Does
Economics Help Policy Makers?
- John Grahl, Middlesex University: Financial Regulation in View
of the Great Recession
5.30 – 6.30: Drinks
Registration: Please register by
Monday 22nd November 2010 via
sending an email with your name, affiliation, and position to Denise
Arden,
D.Arden@mdx.ac.uk,
Middlesex University Research and Business Office. Places are limited
and early booking is recommended.
Download the
program.
Free
course on Marx's Capital at Middlesex Philosophy Department
15 October-12 November 2010.
Starting on Friday 15 October at 4pm, Meade McCloughan will present an
exposition of the main argument of volume 1 of Marx's
Capital,
in four parts. The course will focus on the conceptual structure of the
text, with special attention paid to key passages.
- 15th October. Commodities and money: The mystery of
surplus value.
- 22nd October. Capital and labour: The mystery of surplus
value solved.
- 29th October. The dynamics of capitalist production:
Absolute and relative surplus value, formal and real subsumption.
- 12th November. The accumulation of capital; crises,
revolution and communism.
The Penguin Marx Library/Penguin Classics edition (tr. Ben Fowkes) will
be used.
This course is free and open to the public. All welcome.
Time: Fridays 4-6pm. Please note the hiatus during the week ending 5
November.
Place: Room M009 (The Green Room), Mansion Building, Middlesex
University, Trent Park campus, Bramley Road, London N14 4YZ.
Tube: Piccadilly line to Oakwood station, free bus to campus.
Further enquiries:
c.kerslake@mdx.ac.uk.
Global
Development Course (London)
Monday 1st November
The course covers the key issues that face the Third World,
ranging from health and education to international finance and
microfinance, international aid, agriculture, water, exports,
environmental issues. The course comprises 24 modules and is organised
in the evenings and at week-ends, thus enabling any participant to
carry on with their jobs and their daily routines. It lasts 2 weeks and
is held in central London. We have had over the years more than 400
participants, including staff from all the major development agencies,
the Department for International Development and the House of Commons
Select Committee on International Development, as well as students and
teachers. It may be of use to you or someone you know if you are
contemplating a change of career and want to learn about the challenges
you would face. For someone who has specialised in a single area of
work, from human resources to journalism, from marketing to accounting,
the course would be a useful way to reconnect with the broader
issues. Full details and more information, including an
application form, can be found on our website, which is
www.ethical-events.org.
SOAS: The Globalisation
Lectures 2010-2011
Organised by the Department of Development Studies, School of Oriental
and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Convenor: Prof. Gilbert Achcar
Wednesday 27 October, 6:30pm – Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
- PEASANTS STRUGGLES AND ECOLOGY IN THE AGE OF GLOBALISATION |
HUGO BLANCO
Wednesday 1st December, 6:30pm – Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
- WORLD LITERATURE AND WORLD LANGUAGES | TARIQ ALI
Wednesday 2 February, 6:30pm – Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
- THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN PROMOTING PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST | DR.
SHIRIN EBADI
Wednesday 2 March, 6:30pm – Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
- CORPORATE TAKEOVERS, INTERNET CHALLENGE: DOES JOURNALISM
HAVE A FUTURE? | DR. SERGE HALIMI
Interdisciplinary
Seminars: Human Rights, Markets and Governance Challenges
October, 25th 2010 to June, 30th 2011 at ISCTE-IUL, Avenida das
Forças Armadas, Lisbon, Portugal.
We are pleased to send you the program of the Seminars on “Human
Rights, Markets and Governance Challenges", organised by
DINÂMIA-CET, the Centre for Socioeconomic and Territorial Studies
of ISCTE - Lisbon University Institute (IUL), which will be held from
October, 25th 2010 to June, 30th 2011 at ISCTE-IUL, Avenida das
Forças Armadas, Lisbon, Portugal.
The organising committee,
Maria Eduarda Gonçalves
Maria de Fátima Ferreiro
Ana Costa (DINÂMIA – CET, ISCTE/IUL).
Download Program.
Post-Keynesian
Analyses and Modelling Task Group
3rd Season, 2010-2011 (Paris).
1. Tuesday,
October 26th, 2010, 12h30-15h: Pascal
Seppecher (U. of Nice, France): “Stratégies
évolutionnaires dans un modèle macroéconomique
dynamique et complexe peuplé d'agents
hétérogènes, autonomes et concurrents". This
seminar will not take place at the MSH, but on the Paris 13 campus,
room K301.
2. Friday, November 26th, 2010, 14h00-17h00: Henri
Sterdyniak (OFCE, Paris): "Stratégies budgétaires de
sorties de crise, crise des dettes publiques et Réforme du Pacte
de Stabilité" (with Catherine Mathieu), MSH.
3. Friday, December 17th, 2010, 14h00-17h00: Takashi Ohno
(Ristumeikan University,
Japan): “Kaleckian Effective Demand and Capitalism",
MSH.
4. Friday, January 28th, 2011, 14h00-17h00: Rod Cross
(Strathclyde University, Scotland): "Arbitrage and Keynesian
Economics", MSH.
5. Friday, March 25th, 14h00-17h00: Edwin Le Héron
(Sciences Po Bordeaux, France): title
forthcoming, MSH.
6. April: Gennaro Zezza (University of Cassino, Italy):
one Friday in April; date and title forthcoming.
7. Friday, April 29th: Servaas Storm (TU Delft),
14h00-17h00: “Macroeconomics without the NAIRU”, MSH.
8. Friday, May 20th, 14h00-17h00, Tom D. Stanley (Hendrix
College, USA & London School of Economics, UK): “What does it
take to Falsify a Neoclassical Theory? The Meta-Regression
Revolution”, MSH.
9. Friday, June 24th, Amitava Dutt (U. of Notre Dame, USA),
14h00-17h00: “Alternative models of growth, distribution and
endogenous technological change”, MSH.
The attendance to the seminars is free. Most of these seminars
will take place at the MSH of Paris 13 (See
http://www.mshparisnord.org/acces.htm
), and most of them will be in English. Further information on the
CEPN's website:
http://www.univ-paris13.fr/CEPN/.
You can also send an E-mail to
Lang.dany@univ-paris13.fr
(associate professor, Coordinator of the task group "Post-Keynesian
analyses and modelling") for further information.
Post
Keynesian Economics Study Group: Cambridge Keynes Seminar
PKSG website:
http://www.postkeynesian.net/
Michaelmas 2010
All sessions on Tuesdays from 5.00 - 7.00 pm at Robinson College,
Cambridge (note room changes)
- Tuesday 19 October Mark Hayes, Robinson College,
Cambridge
The Post Keynesian Difference
discussant: John McCombie, Downing College, Cambridge
venue: Umney Lounge, Robinson College
- Tuesday 26 October Charles Goodhart, London School of
Economics
The financial crisis and the future of macroeconomics
discussant: Michael Kuczynski, Pembroke College, Cambridge
venue: Auditorium Lounge, Robinson College
- Tuesday 9 November Sheila Dow, University of Stirling
The reform of financial regulation: a Post Keynesian perspective
venue: Auditorium Lounge, Robinson College
- Tuesday 23 November Jesper Jespersen, University of
Roskilde
The Scandinavian countries during the crisis
discussant: Jonathan Perraton, University of Sheffield
venue: Auditorium Lounge, Robinson College
- Tuesday 30 November Malcolm Sawyer, University of Leeds
Progressive approaches to budget deficits
venue: Auditorium Lounge, Robinson College
St Catharine's Political
Economy Seminar Series
Hard Times: the Economics of Austerity
Ramsden Room, St Catharine's College | Wednesdays, 6.00 - 7.30pm
03 November
Simon Mohan: 'A Historical Perspective on the Recent Crisis - What Sort
of Recovery Can we Expect?'
10 November
Roy Rotheim: 'New Keynesian Effective Supply Failures: a Post Keynesian
View
17 November
Paul Ormerod: 'Recessions as Cascades on Networks'
Organised by Michael Kitson on behalf of the
Cambridge Journal of
Economics
UMASS-New
School Economics Graduate Student Workshop
23-24 October 2010 | UMass Amherst, Gordon Hall, N. Pleasant St,
Amherst MA |
website
Workshop papers are available on the website.
Download the
program.
Job Postings
for Heterodox Economists
California
State University-Fresno, US
Assistant Professor – Econometrics and
Forecasting
The Department of Economics invites applications for a tenure
track assistant professor position to begin Fall 2011. We seek
candidates with teaching and research interests in econometrics and
forecasting, and one or more of the following fields: macroeconomics
and money and banking, economic growth, business fluctuations or
monetary policy. In addition, candidates will be expected to teach
principles of economics and introduction to econometrics. Faculty
responsibilities include research and publication, advising students,
and service at all levels of the university. An earned doctorate
(Ph.D.) in Economics is required for appointment to a tenure track
position. An equal opportunity employer. The Department is committed to
economic pluralism and welcomes applicants from all economic
perspectives.
The successful candidate will be expected to work cooperatively with
faculty and staff in the department, college and university. The
successful candidate will be part of a cohort of faculty who will work
as a team to develop research, strategies and practices that support
the urban and regional transformation of the San Joaquin Valley. The
team will work on projects that address the social, economic,
infrastructure, industrial and agricultural needs of the region.
California State University, Fresno is seeking to hire up to seven (7)
Assistant Professors with a research interest in urban and regional
transformation. The research and professional activities of this
research cohort will address issues related to urban and regional
transformation; sustainability of the use of resources such as air and
water; development of curriculum; acquisition of grants and contracts;
and contribute to the work of the San Joaquin Valley Urban Planning
Environmental Resource Center at California State University, Fresno.
Applicants are encouraged to have all application materials on
file by November 30, 2010 to ensure consideration. Submit online
application (
http://jobs.csufresno.edu/).
Attach cover letter, vitae, teaching philosophy and unofficial
transcripts. Candidates must also MAIL 3 original letters of reference
to:
Dr. Antonio Avalos, Search Committee
Chair
Department of Economics
California State University, Fresno
5245 North Backer Avenue M/S PB 20
Fresno, CA 93740-8001
Connecticutt
College, US
Assistant Professor: Economics
The Economics Department at Connecticut College invites applications
for a full-time, tenure track position at the assistant level to begin
July 1, 2011. The field of expertise is of less importance than is a
strong teaching and research focus on the economic and social
significance of inequality. Ph.D. in economics at the time of
appointment is strongly preferred, demonstrated excellence in teaching
and research required.
The Economics Department is both dynamic and diverse, and among
the largest departments at the College in terms of faculty size and
number of majors. The Department maintains strong interdisciplinary
relationships with a number of departments including International
Relations, Environmental Studies, and Mathematics.
Connecticut College is a private, highly selective institution
with a demonstrated commitment to outstanding faculty teaching and
research. Recognizing that intellectual vitality and diversity are
inseparable, the College has embarked on a significantly successful
initiative to diversify its faculty, student body and curriculum. The
College seeks creative scholars excited about working in a liberal arts
setting, with its strong focus on engaged teaching, participation in
shared governance, and active involvement in an institution-wide
advancement of diversity.
Tenure-track faculty members teach a 3-2 load (2-2 in the first
year). In addition to providing ongoing strong support for teaching and
research, the College offers the following resources for pre-tenure
faculty: a summer stipend for the first two years, a supplementary
research fund, and a semester's sabbatical after a successful
third-year review. AA/EEO
Application letters, accompanied by a CV, research paper,
evidence of teaching excellence, discussion of teaching philosophy, and
three letters of reference should be sent to Dr. Edward McKenna, Box
5552, Connecticut College, New London, CT 06320. Review of applications
will begin in late October and continue until the position is filled.
The Department will interview candidates at the ASSA meetings in
January.
Finance Watch, Brussels
Project Manager
Based in Brussels (at least 3 days) per week but will be expected to
travel within Europe on a regular basis
Net Salary: 2500/3000 Euros/per month
Skills:
For exercising this function, the candidate should have:
- Experience with and/or knowledge about European civil society
and lobbying, media campaigning.
- Experience with and/or knowledge about financial markets /
financial and banking industry
- A perfect command of English (written and spoken) and a good
knowledge of French and German
Job purpose:
- To develop a Charter and/or status to precise the objectives for
Finance Watch
- To establish and evaluate different scenarios of project
organisation
- To evaluate and propose different scenarios for financing
"Finance Watch"; to start establishing relationships with potential
fundraisers
- To lead the process of joined elaboration of these items with
the different partners (NGOs, MEPs...)
- To maintain the website http://finance-watch.org
(no technical knowledge required)
CV and cover letters should be send to Pacal Canfin: pascal.canfin@europarl.europa.eu.
Keene State College, US
Assistant Professor, Economics
Keene State College, invites applications
for Assistant Professor, tenure-track Economics position beginning fall
2011. Ph.D. by August 1, 2011 required.
Seeking candidates with research and
teaching interests in fields of applied microeconomics, history of
economic thought, or current heterodox approaches. Teaching
responsibilities include core courses in the microeconomics sequence as
well as upper-level courses in candidate's area of expertise. As part
of regular teaching responsibilities at this public liberal arts
college, all faculty members are expected to teach both in the major
and in the Integrative Studies Program. Candidates with an interest in
interdisciplinary approaches are welcomed. The successful candidate
must be committed to excellence in teaching and development of an
active research program.
Submit cover letter, CV, teaching
philosophy statement, evidence of teaching effectiveness, sample of
scholarly work, three letters of reference preferably via e-mail to: cgreene@keene.edu.
Inquiries contact: Dr. Armagan Gezici: agezici@keene.edu . Review begins
November 15, 2010,continues until December 3, 2010. Preliminary
interviews will be conducted by invitation at the 2011 ASSA meeting,
Denver, CO. An Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, Keene
State College is engaged in an effort to build a community that
reflects the diversity of society.
Lewis and
Clark College, US
Assistant/Associate Professor, Economics
The Department of Economics at Lewis and Clark College in Portland
Oregon invites applications for a tenure track position at the rank of
either Assistant or Associate Professor to begin August 2011. We seek
candidates with research interests in public and/or environmental
economics. Candidates interested in teaching environmental economics on
a regular basis are preferred. Associate Professor candidates must
demonstrate a record of excellence in teaching and research; Assistant
Professor candidates must demonstrate potential for excellence in both
areas. Ph.D. is expected at the time of appointment. The teaching load
is five courses per academic year, with opportunities to participate in
the College's general education program.
Review of applications will begin November 15th 2010 and continue
until the position is filled. The College will be interviewing at the
January ASSA meeting in Denver.
Applications must be sent in hard copy only and must include all
the following materials for consideration: (1) a curriculum vitae; (2)
a letter of application which includes a statement of educational
philosophy, teaching experience, and research interests; (3) evidence
of teaching effectiveness; (4) sample of scholarship; (5) graduate
transcripts; and (6) three letters of recommendation sent under
separate cover.
Contact: Dr. Jim Grant, at
grant@lclark.edu. Please use
"Economics Faculty Position" in the subject line.
Send Applications To: Economics Search Committee, Department of
Economics, Lewis & Clark College, 0615 SW Palatine Hill Road,
Portland, OR 97219.
Lewis & Clark College,an Equal Opportunity Employer, is
committed to preparing students for leadership in an increasingly
interdependent world that affirms the educational benefits of diversity
(see
http://www.lclark.edu/dept/about/diversity.html).
We encourage applicants to explain how their teaching at Lewis &
Clark might contribute a learning community that values diversity.
New Mexico State University,
US
Assistant Professor, Department of
Economics/International Business
Qualifications: PhD in Economics. Candidates must have degree in hand
by date of hire. Applicants must be able to demonstrate evidence of
successful teaching experience and research productivity in economics
either in a prior professional position or as a doctoral teaching
assistant.
Letter of intent, resume, and 3 reference letters with contact
information should be sent to-
Richard V. Adkisson, Department Head
Department of Economics/International Business
P.O. Box 30001/MSC 3CQ
New Mexico State University
Business Complex, Room 234
Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003-8001
Telephone- (575) 646-2113
Review of applications will begin on November 1, 2010, applications
received after this date may be considered.
For more information, click
here.
Open University, UK
Research Associate Vacancy
Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Industrial and Financial
Economics based at the Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom.
Vacancy Reference: 6758; Closing date: 4 November 2010, 12 noon (GMT)
This is an exciting opportunity for a Post-Doctoral Research
Associate to join the FINNOV and IKD research teams at the Open
University. You will be focussed on conducting research within an EC
funded project on Finance, Innovation and Growth (
www.finnov-fp7.eu), enhancing
your career through publication of outputs. Part of your work will
involve writing policy briefs and annual reports for the project,
co-ordinating and collating outputs from academics in different FINNOV
partner institutions (and countries). Thus previous experience with
co-ordinating research is a benefit. You will also help create
synergies between different streams of research within the OU’s
Innovation, Knowledge and Development interdisciplinary research centre
(IKD,
www.open.ac.uk/ikd),
potentially leading to a new grant bid. You should have experience in
writing grant proposals and conducting academic research. Knowledge and
experience of the UK and EU research funding bodies are important, and
some experience with organising research events is desirable.
For further information and details on how to apply, please visit
the
OU Jobs website.
Portland State University,
US
Assistant Professor—International Studies:
Asia & Development Studies Focus
Position Summary
PSU International Studies Program invites applications for a tenure
track Asst. Professor in International Studies with a focus on Asia and
Development beginning September 16, 2011. We seek an individual
with a PhD from a social science-based discipline with expertise
on Asia, particularly East Asia, training in international
development, teaching experience in an interdisciplinary context, and
an active research agenda. The International Studies Program
engages students in the analysis of global and regional social,
cultural, economic, and political issues, and has recently added
a major track with a focus on sustainable economic and social
development that it plans to expand.
Key Responsibilities
- Teach a range of courses, including Introduction to
International Studies, Global Perspectives: Asia (a general education
course and gateway to Asian Studies), a senior seminar on a global
theme, and upper division courses focused primarily on East Asia or
development-related issues, with the potential for graduate-level
course development.
- Engage in appropriate research activities, including the pursuit
of grants and external funding;
- Publication and/or appropriate dissemination of scholarly and
research based knowledge;
- Advise majors in International Studies with an East Asia focus;
- Participate in department and university governance with
contributions to International Studies program development related to
Asia and international development;
- Participate in community involvement activities that support the
goals and objectives of International Studies, including enhancing
community partnerships with NGOs and other development agencies.
Required Qualifications
- Ph. D. in Social Sciences, with preparation to teach on Asia and
development
- Teaching experience in an undergraduate interdisciplinary
context
- International development training in such areas as health,
social justice and equity, non-profit and governmental aid
organizations, education or media, with an emphasis on sustainable
development practices.
Preferred Qualifications
- Research emphasis on East Asia preferred, but applicants whose
expertise is in Southeast Asia with strong preparation to teach on East
Asia may apply.
- International field experience highly desirable
Compensation
Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience; an excellent
benefits package includes fully paid healthcare, a generous
retirement package, and reduced tuition rates for employee,
spouse or dependant at any of the Oregon University System
schools. Portland State University is an Affirmative Action, Equal
Opportunity Institution and welcomes applications from diverse
candidates and candidates who support diversity
To Apply, please submit the following documents:
- Cover letter describing interest in the position, teaching
philosophy, research and publication history, and other professional
accomplishments
- C.V.
- Writing sample
- Teaching portfolio or evidence of teaching
- Three letters of recommendation
Kindly mail* all required application materials to:
Martha W. Hickey, Director,
International Studies
INTL / Attn Asia & Development Search
Portland State University
PO Box 751
Portland OR 97207-0751.
We prefer to receive your application materials by surface mail.
Exceptions can be made upon request. Correspondence will be
conducted primarily by email:
internationalstudies@pdx.edu.
Review of applications will begin November 15, 2010 and position will
remain open until filled. For further questions, please write
Search Committee Chair Professor Sharon Carstens:
carstenss@pdx.edu.
To learn more about our department see
www.pdx.edu/intl. The International
Studies Program maintains a supportive climate of cooperation,
collaboration, and
collegiality.
United Steel Workers,
Toronto, Canada
Full-time staff
The United Steelworkers Canadian National Office is considering hiring
a full-time staff person for the Union’s Research Department for
a 12-month contract position, with the possibility that the time could
be extended. The Union is seeking a person with the following
qualifications:
- University degree in economics (or related field), preferably a
graduate degree and / or
- Extensive collective bargaining experience, particularly in the
area of pensions and benefits
- Commitment to improving lives of working people
- Excellent communication and problem solving skills
The following would be assets:
- Experience working as part of a team in a fluid, fast-paced
environment, with minimal supervision
- Ability to work in both official languages
The responsibilities of the Research Position will include:
Collective Bargaining Support
- Provide bargaining support for negotiations, including
evaluation of economic impact of improvements, evaluation of specific
contract clauses (for example, job evaluation / classification,
training) and preparation and presentation of submissions for interest
arbitrations.
- The ideal candidate would have:
- Expertise in calculating cost of improvements in collective
agreements in the context of collective bargaining
- -Experience in preparing and presenting union positions in
interest arbitrations
- Ability to work as part of a team in the context of collective
bargaining
- Pension Funding and Design
- Provide bargaining support for the negotiation of pensions,
including analysis of pension plans and plan financing, and estimating
cost of plan improvements.
- The ideal candidate would have:
- Understanding of basic concepts of pension and benefit plan
financing and pension and benefit design;
- Ability to use simple computer software to calculate estimated
costs of pension plan improvements
- Ability to communicate basic pension and benefit funding
concepts to staff and members of bargaining committees.
- Experience in collective bargaining.
Corporate and Sectoral Analysis
- Produce reports on the finances, performance, and strategy of
companies.
- Produce reports analyzing performance and prospects in various
economic sectors.
- The ideal candidate would have:
- Understanding of basic accounting concepts, corporate finance,
and economics
- Ability to research corporate structure, evaluate corporate
financial statements, and analyze business plans
- Public Policy
- Support the Union in the analysis of public policy, particular
in areas of public finance, labour market programs and international
trade.
- Drafting speeches for Union leadership
- Drafting submissions, policy papers, and briefing notes
- The ideal candidate would have:
- Understanding of current public policy debates and experience in
the development of alternative policy prescriptions from the
perspective of the Canadian labour movement
- Familiarity with basic concepts of economic policy, and able to
communicate these in simple, understandable terms to union members
As an equal opportunity employer, we encourage applications from
women, people of colour, people living with disabilities and aboriginal
persons.
Annual rate for this position is $76,180,06 (or $6,348.34
monthly), increasing to $76,953.37 (or $6,412.78 monthly) on January 1,
2011. Plus mileage (except to/from our office); in town per diem $11
Mon-Fri inclusive; out of town per diem as travel required; 15 days
paid vacation during 12 month term; and benefit coverage. This position
will be located in Toronto, with frequent travel across Canada and
occasionally into the United States.
Candidates should submit application and résumé by
October 29 to Research Department Head Charles Campbell, United
Steelworkers National Office by email at
ccampbell@usw.ca, by mail to
800-234 Eglinton Avenue East, Toronto, Ontario M4P 1K7, or by fax #
(416) 487-9308.
University
of Maryland, Baltimore County, US
Assistant/Associate Professor
Beginning in August 2011. Ph.D. in Geography or related field
required at time of appointment. The UMBC Department of Geography &
Environmental Systems seeks applicants with research and teaching
interests in natural resources from any of several perspectives
including but not limited to natural resource economies, environmental
governance, trans-border environmental issues, and/or environmental
planning. The ideal candidate should have an interest in the law,
economics, politics, and/or history related to the evolution and
development of natural resource issues. The ability to utilize
geospatial information technology as an analytical tool is desirable.
Candidates are expected to have an active program of research and
publication, ability to attract external funding, and evidence of
commitment to excellence in teaching (the standard teaching load is two
courses per semester).
The Department recently launched its M.S./Ph.D. program and our
faculty are active participants in
UMBC's NSF-IGERT traineeship program, "Water in the Urban
Environment." Interested candidates may visit the web site
http://www.umbc.edu/ges for
additional information.
Please send curriculum vitae and cover letter describing research
agenda and teaching interests, and have three letters of reference sent
to Dr. Sari Bennett, at
sbennett@umbc.edu.
For those unable to submit electronically, please send applications to
Department of Geography and Environmental Systems, UMBC, 1000 Hilltop
Circle, Baltimore, Maryland 21250. Review of applications will begin on
Dec. 1, 2010 and will continue until the position is filled.
University
of Massachusetts-Amherst, US
Assistant Professor, Economics
The University of Massachusetts Amherst Economics Department
invites applications for tenure-track Assistant Professor positions
starting Fall 2011. Appointment is contingent on budgetary
considerations. Scholars from all fields of economics and related
disciplines are encouraged to apply. Fields of particular interest
include microeconomics (including game theory and/or behavioral
economics), environmental, and macroeconomics and political economy. We
seek expertise relating to: (1) public goods and the common good; (2)
economic opportunity; and (3) power, institutions, behavior, and
economic performance. Candidates will be judged on their scholarly
research and teaching. Ph.D. preferred, though ABD with a firm
completion date will be considered. See
http://www.umass.edu/economics/facjobs.html for
more information.
To apply electronically (strongly encouraged), submit cover
letter, cv, three letters of reference, a recent research paper and, if
possible, evidence of teaching effectiveness at
http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo.
Letters of reference and complete applications also can be submitted by
postal mail to Chair, Hiring Committee, Department of Economics,
Thompson Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 200 Hicks Way,
Amherst, MA 01003-9277. Applicants must specify requisition # 39519 in
cover letter. For full consideration, applications must be received by
November 15, 2010. Candidates will be interviewed at ASSA (Denver) and
are encouraged to use AEA signaling. The University of Massachusetts is
an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Women and members of
minority groups are encouraged to apply. We are committed to fostering
a diverse faculty/student body and curriculum.
Assistant Professor, Environmental Economics and
Policy
The University of Massachusetts Amherst Economics Department and
Center for Public Policy and Administration (CPPA) invite applications
for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in environmental
economics and policy starting Fall 2011. Appointment is contingent on
budgetary considerations. The appointee will teach in the Department of
Economics and in the Masters Program in Public Policy and
Administration. Candidates will be judged on their scholarly research
as well as teaching. Ph.D. preferred, though ABD with a firm completion
date will be considered. See
http://www.umass.edu/economics/facjobs.html for
more information.
To apply electronically (strongly encouraged), submit cover
letter, cv, three letters of reference, a recent research paper and, if
possible, evidence of teaching effectiveness at
http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo.
Letters of reference and complete applications also can be submitted by
postal mail to Chair, Hiring Committee, Department of Economics,
Thompson Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 200 Hicks Way,
Amherst, MA 01003-9277. Applicants must specify requisition # 39520 in
cover letter. For full consideration, applications must be received by
November 15, 2010. Candidates will be interviewed at ASSA (Denver) and
are encouraged to use AEA signaling. The University of Massachusetts is
an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Women and members of
minority groups are encouraged to apply. We are committed to fostering
a diverse faculty/student body and curriculum.
Assistant Professor, Economics
The University of Massachusetts Amherst Economics Department and
Commonwealth Honors College (CHC) invite applications for a
tenure-track Assistant Professor position starting Fall 2011.
Appointment is contingent on budgetary considerations. Scholars from
all fields of economics and related disciplines are encouraged to
apply. We seek expertise relating to: (1) public goods and the common
good; (2) economic opportunity; and (3) power, institutions, behavior,
and economic performance. In addition to teaching regular departmental
offerings, the new faculty will teach honors courses that serve the
campus honors community and be engaged in and help strengthen the
departmental honors program. Candidates will be judged on their
scholarly research as well as teaching. Ph.D. preferred, though ABD
with a firm completion date will be considered. See
http://www.umass.edu/economics/facjobs.html for
more information.
To apply electronically (strongly encouraged), submit cover
letter, cv, three letters of reference, a recent research paper and, if
possible, evidence of teaching effectiveness at
http://academicjobsonline.org/ajo.
Letters of reference and complete applications also can be submitted by
postal mail to Chair, Hiring Committee, Department of Economics,
Thompson Hall, University of Massachusetts Amherst, 200 Hicks Way,
Amherst, MA 01003-9277. Applicants must specify requisition # 39523 in
cover letter. For full consideration, applications must be received by
November 15, 2010. Candidates will be interviewed at ASSA (Denver) and
are encouraged to use AEA signaling. The University of Massachusetts is
an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Women and members of
minority groups are encouraged to apply. We are committed to fostering
a diverse faculty/student body and curriculum.
University of
Massachusetts-Boston, US
Two Positions in
H0 – Public Economics
I0 – Health, Education and Welfare
J1 – Demographic Economics
R0 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
The Department of Economics invites applications for two tenure stream
openings, one at the Assistant Professor level and one at the Assistant
or Associate Professor level, beginning Fall 2011 (subject to budgetary
approval). Both positions will support the undergraduate major and the
Economics Department’s proposed M.A. in Applied Economics, which
focuses on urban and regional policy issues with a comparative
international dimension.
A successful applicant should have teaching and applied research
records in urban economics and policy issues, such as urban economic
development, state and local finance, housing and real estate markets,
the economics of health or education, economics of non-profits, and/or
immigration/demography. The applicant should be able to show how these
issues are linked to the larger international and global economies.
Quantitative analysis and experience working with large datasets are
essential. In addition, the candidate is expected to demonstrate an
ability to secure external funding.
We are interested in candidates who include heterodox political
economy, feminist approaches, applied policy analysis, or innovative
methodologies in their research. Candidates should have a successful
teaching record and the capacity to contribute to undergraduate general
education, the economics major and graduate instruction. Evidence of
successful teaching with diverse students is highly desirable.
Candidates must have completed the Ph.D. by September 1, 2011. Evidence
of progress towards an excellent scholarly record is necessary. Review
of applications will begin on November 15, 2010. We anticipate
preliminary interviews at the ASSA meetings in Denver.
Send letter of application, curriculum vitae, a sample of written work,
and three current letters of recommendation. Please include in your
letter of application an explanation of how your work would complement
the heterodox nature of the department. UMass Boston is an Affirmative
Action, Equal Opportunity Title IX employer.
CONTACT: Personnel Committee, Department of Economics, University of
Massachusetts Boston, 100 Morrissey Blvd., Boston, MA 02125-3393.
Conference
Papers, Reports, and Articles
The Economic Consequences of
Mr Osborne
The podcast of Victoria Chick’s talk at this seminar is now
available together with supporting material at http://www.postkeynesian.net/keynes.html
Globalization, Value Theory,
and Crisis (video)
A Keynote presentation at the second International Conference on
Political Economy, “Crisis and Development,” organized by
Kocaeli University in Turkey, Westminster University in England, and
Silesian University in Czech Republic on September 16–18, 2010,
in Kocaeli. Cyrus Bina’s address was titled “Globalization,
Value Theory and Crisis.” During the conference, he was appointed
to the Scientific Advisory of the Conference. Watch the video here: http://www.morris.umn.edu/media/Webstream/mediaplayer/CyrusBina.html.
Heterodox
Journals
American Journal of
Economics and Sociology, 69(4): Oct. 2010
Journal website: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0002-9246&site=1
- Sociology, Economics, and Gender / Julie A. Nelson
- Evolutionary Alternatives to Equilibrium Economics / Joseph E.
Pluta
- The Law of Population and the Austrian School / Stephen P.
Barrows
- Robbins and Malthus on Scarcity, Abundance, and Sufficiency /
Adel Daoud
- The CAPITAL in Social Capital: An Austrian Perspective /Pavel
Chalupnicek
- Comparing Forms of Common Property Resource and Collective Goods
Organizations Operating Water Markets in the Colorado Lower Arkansas
River Basin / Troy Lepper and David Freeman
- Ricardo, Gold, and Rails: Discovering the Origins of Progress
and Poverty /Richard W. England
- The Economics and Ethics of Hurricane Katrina / Llewellyn H.
Rockwell, Jr. and Walter E. Block
- The Ethics of Countering the Private Counterfeiter: Rejoinder to
Block / Laura Davidson
- Rejoinder to Davidson on Counterfeiting / Walter Block
Challenge, 53(5): Sept.-Oct.
2010
Journal website: http://www.challengemagazine.com/
- Letter from the Editor / Jeff Madric
- The Deficit Commission: Will It Do More Harm Than Good? / Jeff
Faux
- Public Opinion, the Deep Recession, and the 2010 Elections /
Robert Blendon, John Benson
- A New Social Contract / Sherle Schwenninger
- Is Prosperity Possible Without Growth? / Barbara Bergmann
- Economics: An Assault on the State / Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira
- Hayek's New Popularity: The False Claims That He Was Right /
Andrew Farrant, Edward McPhail
- Rebound: Why America Will Emerge Stronger from the Financial
Crisis, by Stephen J. Rose / John Schmitt
- The Crisis of Capitalism / Mike Sharpe
Journal of Economic Issues,
44(3): Sept. 2010
- Internet Use and Social Capital: The Strength of Virtual Ties /
Thierry Penard, Nicolas Poussing
- Divided Neighbors on an Indivisible Island: Economic Disparity
and Cumulative Causation on Hispaniola / Cecilia Ann Winters, Robert
Derrell
- Evolution of Corporate Governance Principles among U.S. Firms /
William Redmond
- Progressive Tax Policy and Economic Stability / Christian E.
Weller, Manita Rao
- Trends, Patterns and Determinants of Australian Foreign Direct
Investment / Kishor Sharma, Yapa Bandara
- The Rehn-Meidner Model in Sweden: Its Rise, Challenges and
Survival / Lennart Erixon
- The Natural Environment as Field-Level Actor: The Environment
and the Pulp and Paper Industry in Maine / Rachel Bouvier
- Institutional Change, Gegraphy, and Insolation in Nineteenth
Century African-American and White Statures in Southern States / Scott
Alan Carson
- Financialization and Income Inequality: A Post Keynesian
Institutionalist Analysis / David A. Zalewski, Charles J. Whalen
- Financial Crisis and Economic Stability: A Comparison between
Finance Capitalism and Money Manager Capitalism / William Van Lear,
James Sisk
- The Foundation of the Modern National Economy and Discipline
over Its Monetary Discourse: A Consideration from the Perspective of
Polanyian Economics / Shigetaro Wakabayashi
- Notes and Communications: Between Absolutism and Relativism: The
Economist's Search for a Middle Ground / Andrew W. Foshee, Will C.
Heath
- Notes and Communications: The Financial Crisis: Origins and
Remedies in a Critical Institutionalist Perspective / Helge Peukert
Marxism 21: 2010
Vol.7, No.2 (Summer 2010)
Vol.7, No.3 (Fall 2010)
Metroeconomica,
61(4): Nov. 2010
Journal website: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0026-1386
- MARX-BIASED TECHNICAL CHANGE AND THE NEOCLASSICAL VIEW OF INCOME
DISTRIBUTION / Deepankar Basu
- THE ADVERSE EFFECT OF GOVERNMENT SPENDING ON PRIVATE CONSUMPTION
IN NEW KEYNESIAN MODELS / Stefan Kühn, Joan Muysken and Tom Van
Veen
- REAL CONVERGENCE AND PRICE LEVELS: LONG-TERM TENDENCIES VERSUS
SHORT-TERM PERFORMANCE IN THE ENLARGED EUROPEAN UNION / Leon Podkaminer
- A COMPLETE CHARACTERIZATION OF THE INVERTED S-SHAPED LABOR
SUPPLY CURVE / Tamotsu Nakamura and Yu Murayama
- RESWITCHING AND DECREASING DEMAND FOR CAPITAL /Saverio M.
Fratini
- CAPITAL AND RESWITCHING / Christian Bidard
- FISCAL POLICY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN THE IMPERFECT LABOR MARKET
Koji Kitaura
- MEASURES OF PRODUCTION PRICE-LABOUR VALUE DEVIATION AND INCOME
DISTRIBUTION IN ACTUAL ECONOMIES: A NOTE /
- Theodore Mariolis and Lefteris Tsoulfidis
- AN OVERINVESTMENT CYCLE IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPE? / Andreas
Hoffmann
- ON INCREASING RETURNS TO SCALE. A REPLY TO PROFESSOR RYZHENKOV
/Luciano Boggio
- COMMODITY CONTENT IN A GENERAL INPUT–OUTPUT MODEL: A
COMMENT /Naoki Yoshihara and Roberto Veneziani
- COMMENT TO ‘COMMODITY CONTENT . . .’ BY FUJIMOTO AND
OPOCHER / Enrico Bellino
- COMMODITY CONTENT IN A GENERAL INPUT–OUTPUT MODEL: A REPLY
TO BELLINO, YOSHIHARA AND VENEZIANI /Takao Fujimoto and Arrigo Opocher
Mother Pelican, 6(10): Oct.
2010
Journal website: http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv06n10page1.html
Going Forward After the UN MDG Review Summit
1. Current Status of the Millennium
Development Goals
2. Review of the "Keeping the Promise" Declaration
3. Timidity of National Governments and Global Citizens
4. Ms. Michelle Bachelet and the UN Women Entity
5. Sustainable Human Development and the MDGs
6. Links to Key UN and MDG Documents and Resources
7. Links to News and Reports about the MDG Summit
8. Current Research on Sustainable Human Development
9. A Meditation on Sustainable Human Development
Supplements:
- Supplement 1: Advances in Sustainable Development
- Supplement 2: Directory of Sustainable Development Resources
- Supplement 3: Sustainable Development Simulation (SDSIM)
Articles:
- Socioeconomic Democracy: A Psycho-Politico-Socio-Economic
System, by Robley George.
- Composition and Trends of Homestead Agroforestry in Bangladesh,
by Sourovi Zaman et al.
- Will Working Mothers' Brains Explode? The Popular New Genre of
Neurosexism, by Cordelia Fine.
- A Paradise Built in Hell: Communities that Rise to the Challenge
of Disaster, by Rebecca Solnit.
- We Need Millennium Development RIGHTS, Not Just Goals, by
Phyllis Bennis.
Science
& Society, 7(3): July 2010
Symposium: Capitalism and Crisis in the 21st
Century
Journal Web site: http://www.scienceandsociety.com/
- Introduction: Justin Holt and Julio Huato
- The End of the “End of History”: The Structural
Crisis of Capitalism and the Fate of Humanity / Minqi Li
- Marxism, Crisis Theory and the Crisis of the Early 21st Century
/ William K. Tabb
- Neoliberalism, the Rate of Profit and the Rate of Accumulation /
Erdogan Bakir and Al Campbell
- Credit Crunch: Origins and Orientation / Paul Cockshott and Dave
Zachariah
- The Final Conflict: What Can Cause a System-Threatening Crisis
of Capitalism? / David M. Kotz
- Capitalism, Crisis, Renewal: Some Conceptual Excavations / David
Laibman
- The World Economic Crisis and Transnational Corporations / Jerry
Harris
- Marx and the Mixed Economy: Money, Accumulation, and the Role of
the State / Ann E. Davis
- Rising Profitability and the Middle Class Squeeze / Edward N.
Wolff
Heterodox
Newsletters
CCPA
Canadian Centre for
Policy Alternatives
- Today the CCPA released a report critical of the government's
plan to purchase 65 F-35 Stealth Fighter jets. Pilot
Error: Why the F-35 stealth fighter is wrong for Canada, by Steven
Staples, carefully examines all of Canada’s current and future
security requirements and addresses specific claimed benefits of the
F-35. It concludes that the government should not proceed with the
planned procurement of the jets, and should redefine Canada’s
fighter jet role.
Click here to download and read the full report.
- The CCPA has released a book of essays by prominent Canadian
women in response to last spring's advice from Senator Nancy Ruth to
keep quiet on women's issues in the wake of Prime Minister Harper's
attack on women's programs.
Speaking Truth to Power: A reader on Canadian women's inequality,
edited by Trish Hennessy and Ed Finn, features essays that root
women’s struggle for equality in its historical context. The
essays remind us that, despite the gains that have been made, the
struggle is still far from being won.
Click here for more information about the book, including the list
of twenty-six featured authors. The book is available for purchase for
$14.95 from our online
bookstore.
- Also, don't miss a short new video produced by the CCPA's Nova Scotia office. The video features
well-known progressive Nova Scotians who detail the importance and
impact that the CCPA has in the conservative
policy environment of Nova Scotia. Click here to view it.
Upcoming Events
- Conference: A Canada-EU Free Trade Agreement - Public
Good or Private Interest?
28 October 2010, 8.30am to 4.30pm
Room 608, Robertson Hall, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive
Ottawa, ON
On October 28th in Ottawa, the CCPA and the
Friedrich Ebert Foundation will host a conference questioning the good
of negotiations towards a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement
(CETA) between Canada and and the European Union. Click here for more information
and a full schedule.
- The Age of Unequals: An evening with Richard Wilkinson
Friday, Dec 10, 2010, 7:00pm - 8:30pm in Toronto
What does it mean to live in a new age of inequality? Between the
mid-1990s and the mid-2000s, income inequality grew faster in Canada
than in all but one of 17 leading developed countries, according to the
Conference Board of Canada's 2010 performance report. Click here for more information on Richard
Wilkinson's talk.
Global Labor Column
What
does wage-led growth mean in developing countries with large informal
employment? by Jayati Ghosh
Note from the GLC:
In order to improve the circulation of the Column, which many of
you have received intermittently due to technical difficulties, we are
migrating the mailing list to a new server, housed at the ILO. My lack
of familiarity with the new server has caused many of you to receive a
test message by mistake yesterday – my apologies for this.
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please send a blank email to sympa@ilo.org
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IDEAs: September 2010
Website: www.networkideas.org
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Featured Articles
News Analysis
Levy News: September 2010
NEW PUBLICATIONS
- Gendered Aspects
of Globalization by Sunanda Sen, Working Paper No. 621, September
2010
- Measuring
Poverty Using Both Income and Wealth: An Empirical Comparison of
Multidimentional Approaches Using Data for the U.S. and Spain by
Francisco Azpitarte, Working Paper No. 620, September 2010
- Asia
and the Global Crisis: Recovery Prospects and the Future by Jesus
Felipe, Working Paper No. 619, September 2010
- Quality
of Match for Statistical Matches Used in the 1992 and 2007 LIMEW
Estimates for the United States, by Thomas Masterson, Working Paper
No. 618, September 2010
- How
to Sustain the Chinese Economic Miracle? The Risk of Unraveling the
Global Rebalancing, Jörg Bibow, Working Paper No. 617,
September 2010
- Product
Complexity and Economic Development by Arnelyn Abdon, Marife
Bacate, Jesus Felipe, and Utsav Kumar, Working Paper No. 616, September
2010
- Fall 2010 Summary
nef e-letter: October 2010
Where did our money go? The great banking black
hole
Last week nef's banking campaign delivered a stark warning about the
state of the UK's financial system. Using Bank of England data, nef
calculated that the major lending banks could be demanding another
bail-out in 2011. Their borrowing requirement is set to double next
year to £25 billion a month. nef believes that the banks may need
to turn to the Government for support again.
>> Read Where
did our money go?
>> Independent: Banks
may need new bail-out, warns think-tank
>> Sky News: UK
on cusp of new banking failure
>> Financial Times: Lex
column on UK bank reform
>> Andrew Simms: Is
Osborne cutting for a rainy day of bail-outs?
Special nef event at the Southbank Centre,
London, 7pm, 27 October 2010
Not only is our banking system not even fulfilling its most basic
purpose of bringing credit to firms and households, it's not currently
in any shape to help us make the Great Transition to a low carbon
economy that is necessary, desirable and possible. nef is hosting an
evening of righteous rage and cultural transformation at the Purcell
Room in the Queen Elizabeth Hall at London's Southbank Centre with a
range of leading thinkers and doers including Caroline Lucas, Stewart
Wallis, Andrew Simms, Franny Armstrong, Professor Jayati Ghosh, Rosie
Boycott and Professor Tim Jackson.
Tickets are £10 or £7 for concessions and are going fast.
Avoid disappointment by booking today and call 0844 875 0073 or visit
the Southbank Centre website.
>> Read The
Great Transition
>> Watch
Tim Jackson's TED talk: An economic reality check
nef at party conferences
nef continued to press the issue of banking reform at all three major
party conferences, hosting events at the Climate Clinic to challenge
politicians to consider whether finance can really deliver the green
infrastructure we need.
We held packed out events even at the most inhospitable hours. The
Secretary of State for Business, Vince Cable, spoke alongside nef's
Andrew Simms and Tony Greenham to a full room at 7.30 on a Sunday
morning. Dr Cable agreed with much of our analysis of why a
laissez-faire approach to banking tends to end in failure, and praised
nef's work for drawing links between economic, environmental and social
issues.
Dr Victoria Johnson, acting head of the climate change and energy
programme at nef, also heard from many renewable energy pioneers who
concerned that the UK has a growing green skills gap. A Green
Investment Bank is needed to drive forward innovation and training in
vital sectors for the emerging low carbon economy.
>> David Boyle: Vince
Cable and the Green New Deal
>> Tony Greenham: Osborne's
conference speech was 20th century, not 21st
RSA
hosts lunchtime event on the Big Society, 4 November 2010
The Coalition government wants to build a Big Society; but how do we
ensure the idea is not just big, but also sustainable and fair? In the
face of deep public spending cuts, the Prime Minister has consistently
repeated the message that “we’re all in this
together”.
But can the Big Society project deliver just and equitable distribution
of resources and well-being across all social groups? Join Anna Coote,
head of social policy at nef and author of Ten
Big Questions about the Big Society and a panel of discussants at
the Royal Society of Arts in London to debate
the Big Society, social justice and the new austerity. nef will be
launching a new publication about the Big Society, which will be
available to buy.
Tickets are free, and can
be booked here.
PERI in
Focus: Fall 2010
PERI
(Political Economy Research Institute at UMass-Amherst)
Subscribe PERI in Focus here.
Heterodox
Books and Book Series
Biofuels
and the Globalization of Risk
By James Smith. Zed Books, £17.99/$29.95 ISBN 9781848135727.
Biofuels and the Globalisation of Risk offers the reader a fresh
and compelling analysis of the politics and policies behind the biofuel
story, critically examining the technological optimism and
often-idealised promises it makes for the future. Starting with a brief
history of bioenergy policy, the book goes on to explore the evolution
of biofuels as a policy narrative, as a development ideal and as a
socio-technical system through a series of interlinked case studies
from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Smith argues that the nature of
biofuels, so debated and contested, allow us to understand the
relationships between and possible impacts of climate change,
globalisation and development in entirely new ways and in doing so
allow us to better understand the shifting dynamics of risk,
responsibility and impact that investment in biofuels creates.
This essential new critique argues that the support for biofuels points
to a deep reconfiguration of risk and responsibility and new forms of
environmental determinism where the global south is encouraged to
re-orient its agro-food systems towards biofuel crop production in
order to allow the global north not to meaningfully engage with
altering its levels of consumption, energy use or unsustainable
development. Therefore, he argues, risks and responsibilities migrate
from north to south and biofuels may constitute the biggest change in
North - South relationships since colonialism.
For more information or to request a review copy please contact Ruvani
de Silva on 020 7837 8466 or ruvani.de_silva@zedbooks.net.
Contemporary
Capitalism and Its Crises: Social Structure of Accumulation Theory for
the 21st Century
Edited by Terrence McDonough, Michael Reich, and David M. Kotz
Cambridge University Press. 2010. Hardback/Paperback. ISBN-13:
9780521515160 | Website
This volume analyses contemporary capitalism and its crises based on a
theory of capitalist evolution known as the social structure of
accumulation (SSA) theory. It applies this theory to explain the severe
financial and economic crisis that broke out in 2008 and the kind of
changes required to resolve it. The editors and contributors make
available new work within this school of thought on such issues as the
rise and persistence of the “neoliberal,” or
“free-market,” form of capitalism since 1980 and the
growing globalization and financialization of the world economy. The
collection includes analyses of the U.S. economy as well as that of
several parts of the developing world.
For more information, visit the publisher website or download
a flyer.
Culture Industry Today
Edited by Fabio Akcelrud Durão.
Apr 2010. Cambridge and Scholars Publishing. Isbn13: 978-1-4438-1955-8
| Website
The concept of culture industry leads a double life. On the one hand,
it appears as transparent, being used widely and freely in
reference to a branch of business; on the other, it is a notion
belonging to a critical tradition that wants to preserve the tension
resulting from the juxtaposition of these two words. Culture
Industry Today is a contribution to the latter trend, which takes
into account the current prevalence of the former. By offering
interpretations of the term in relation to philosophy, media,
film, the Third World, the psyche and the culture of consumption,
the book aims at showing the continued relevance of an expression whose
muteness is the corroboration of its darkest content.
http://arbeiterring.com/books/detail/imperialist-canada/
The Dragon
in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization
By Kevin P. Gallagher and Roberto Porzecanski
Stanford University Press, 2010 | website
In the eyes of many, China's unprecedented economic rise has brought
nothing but good news to the countries of Latin America and the
Caribbean. Indeed, China's growing appetite for primary products, and
the ability of Latin America to supply that demand, has played a role
in restoring growth in Latin America, both in the run-up to the global
financial crisis and in its aftermath.
The dragon in the room that few are talking about is the fact that
China is simultaneously out-competing Latin American manufacturers in
world markets—so much so that it may threaten the ability of the
region to generate long-term economic growth. One of the authors' key
findings is that China is rapidly building the technological
capabilities necessary for industrial development, whereas Latin
American tech innovation and sophistication lags considerably. At a
deeper level, the findings in this volume imply that China's road to
globalization, one that emphasizes gradualism and coordinated
macro-economic and industrial policies, is far superior to the
"Washington Consensus" route taken by most Latin American nations,
particularly Mexico.
For more on The
Dragon in the Room and to order
For updated figures and the policy implications of The Dragon in the
Room, read this Policy Brief
Read more on GDAE’s work on China
and Latin America
Economic
Theory and Social Change: Problems and revisions
By Hasse Ekstedt and Angelo Fusari
June 17th 2010. Routledge. Hardback 336 pp. Price £
90. ISBN13: 978-0-415-56423-6 (hbk). ISBN13: 978-0-203-84850-0 (ebk) |
Series: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy | website
The book is a discourse on modelling Man in a social context. Its focus
is on economic mainstream theory in its capacity to handle basic
problems such as uncertainty, social dynamics and ethics. The point of
departure is a systematic critique of the specific methodology of
economics and its axiomatic structure. The ultimate aim is to develop
an economic theory for a socially sustainable society.
'Economic Theory and Social Change' analyses the foundation of economic
market theory in relation to its social implications. On rejecting the
axiomatic structure of the market theory, Hasse Ekstedt and Angelo
Fusari analyse the concepts of growth and uncertainty with respect to a
more realistic modelling of Man. The book also addresses central
political problems and their potential solutions, including permanent
unemployment, distribution of income, the interaction of real and
financial growth, money and the credit system.
In seeking objective values to help to obtain a socially sustainable
society, the book traces a tentative revision of economic and social
thought based on a deepening of some crucial features of modern
economies and societies. These features include innovation, the
connected flow of uncertainty, entrepreneurship, and their role in
fuelling and characterizing economic growth and development. This book
will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers of
economics, particularly to those focusing on economic theory and
political economy
Essays in Heterodox
Economics
Edited by Kriesler, P. M. Johnson and J. Lodewijks
Proceedings Refereed papers of the Fifth Australian Society of
Heterodox Economists Conference, 11-12 December 2006, University of New
South Wales, ISBN: 978-0-7334-241-5 | website
Heterodox Economic
Perspectives on Contemporary Issues
Edited by Chester, Lynne and Johnson, Michael
Proceedings Refereed papers of the Sixth Australian Society of
Heterodox Economists Conference, 10-11 December 2007, University of New
South Wales, ISBN: 978-0-7334-2582-0 | website
Imperialist Canada
By Todd Gordon.
November 2010. Arbeiter Ring Publishing. ISBN: 978-1894037-45-7 | website
Imperialist Canada exposes Canada’s imperialist past and present,
at home and across the globe. Todd Gordon interweaves histories of
indigenous dispossession in Canada with the cold facts of Canadian
capital’s oppression of peoples in the global South. The book
digs beneath the surface of Canada’s image as global peacekeeper
and promoter of human rights, revealing the links between the corporate
pursuit of profit and Canadian foreign and domestic policy. Drawing on
examples from Colombia, the Congo, Sudan, Haiti and elsewhere, Imperial
Canada makes a passionate plea for greater critical attention to
Canada’s role in the global order.
Meltdown:
The End of the Age of Greed
By Paul Mason. A fully updated new edition of an acclaimed report on
the global financial crisis.. October 4th, 2010. ISBN: 978 1 84467 653
8 / £8.99 / $14.95 | website
Meltdown is a gripping account of the financial collapse that
destroyed the West’s investment banks, brought the global economy
to its knees, and undermined three decades of neoliberal orthodoxy.
Covering the development of the crisis from the economic front line,
Paul Mason explores the roots of the US and UK’s financial
hubris, documenting the real-world causes and consequences from the
Ford factory, to Wall Street, to the City of London. In this fully
updated new edition, he recounts how the credit crunch became a
full-blown financial crisis, and explores the impact of this
development on capitalist ideology and politics.
New Book
Series: Contemporary Anarchist Studies
Continuum Books in association with the U.K. Anarchist Studies
Network, the North American
Anarchist Studies Network, and AK Press
This new book series, the first peer-reviewed English-language
series in anarchist studies by a major international academic
publisher, seeks to promote the study of anarchism as a framework for
understanding and acting on the most pressing problems of our times. To
this end, we invite proposals for original manuscripts that exemplify
cutting edge, socially engaged scholarship bridging theory and
practice, academic rigour and the insights of contemporary activism.
We welcome book proposals on a wide variety of subjects
including, but not limited to the following: anarchist history and
theory broadly construed; individual anarchist thinkers;
anarchist-informed analysis of current issues and institutions; and
anarchist or anarchist-inspired movements and practices. Proposals
informed by anti-capitalist, feminist, ecological, indigenous, and
non-Western or global South anarchist perspectives are
particularly welcome. So, too, are projects that promise to
illuminate the relationships between the personal and the political
aspects of transformative social change, local and global problems, and
anarchism and
other movements and ideologies. Above all, we wish to publish
books that will help activist scholars and scholar activists think
about how to challenge and build real alternatives to existing
structures of oppression and injustice.
All proposals will be evaluated strictly according to their
individual merits and compatibility with the aims of the series. In
accord with this policy, we welcome proposals from independent scholars
and new authors as well as from those with an institutional affiliation
and publishing record. Titles accepted for publication in the series
will be supported by an engaged and careful peer review process,
including impartial assessments by
members of an international editorial advisory board consisting
of leading scholars in the field.*
All books published in the series will be publicised widely and
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range of other professional and activist groups and their associated
websites and listservs. The general format of the series will be
simultaneous hardback and paperback publication, with the latter priced
affordably so as to reach as wide an audience as possible. All of the
titles in the series will be published under a Creative Commons License
('copyleft'). This distinctive feature of the series ensures that
permission for non-commercial reproduction of the books will be granted
by the publishers free of charge to voluntary, campaign and community
groups.
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Books from the Merlin Press
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Order books from
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- Socialist Register 2011: The Crisis This Time: Edited by Leo
Panitch, Greg Albo, Vivek Chibber. October 2010
- Getting the message: communications workers and global value
chains: Edited by Catherine McKercher, Vincent Mosco & Ursula Huws.
- In and Out of Crisis: The Global Financial Meltdown and Left
Alternatives by Leo Panitch, Sam Gindin, and Greg Albo
- The Left in Iran, 1905-1940: Edited by Khosrow Shakeri
- Land Tenure, Gender and Globalization: Research and Analysis
from Africa, Asia, and Latin America: Edited by Dzodzi Tsikata and
Pamela Golah
- Revolution and Other Writings:A Political Reader: Edited and
Translated by: Gabriel Kuhn
- A New Notion: Two Works by C.L.R. James: "Every Cook Can Govern"
and "The Invading Socialist Society" Edited by Noel Ignatiev
- Chartism in Scotland by W. Hamish Fraser
Heterodox Economics in
the Media
Britain’s
Austerity Apostles Duck the Debate
Financial Times editorial by Robert Skildesky. Read
it here .
U.K. Bust Needs Big Spender
by Pettifor and Chick
Bloomberg Businessweek. Read it
here.
Larry Summers and the
Subversion of Economics
An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education by Charles
Ferguson director of the new documentary Inside Job. Read it here.
Queries
from Heterodox Economists
Post Keynesian Economics and
Social Justice
I [Ric Holt] am starting a book on Post Keynesian economics and social
justice. The first part of the book will deal with the debate of
justice between Rawls, Hayek and Sen. The second part will be looking
historically at Post Keynesians and their ideas and contributions to
social justice. The third part of the book will look at policy
recommendations from a Post Keynesian perspective of social justice.
Any suggestions of readings that I should look at I would appreciate.
Also please feel free to share your ideas with me about the project.
Ric Holt
Economics
Southern Oregon University
e-mail:
rholt@sou.edu
Tel: 541-552-6784
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Committee
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career market participants: investors, asset managers, business
executives, philanthropists, academics and financial authors, holds
that the financial system is a global commons and calls for a new set
of rules that would allow it to be governed in full conformance with
this reality. Follow the link to read and or sign the petition.
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IIPPE In Brief, Issue 5:
Call for Contributions
We are seeking contributions for the next issue of the IIPPE newsletter
due out in November 2010
These can be:
- Call for papers
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