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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/
APORDE (African Programme on
Rethinking Development Economics) 2011 Conference
5 - 19 May 2011 | Johannesburg, South Africa
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)
Application deadline: December 6, 2010.
Download Call for Applications.
Associazione
Italiana per lo Studio dei Sistemi Economici Comparati (AISSEC)
Re-starting Growth: Protectionism vs.
International Governance
The XVIIIth conference of the Italian Association for the Study
of Comparative Economic Systems (AISSEC) will be held at the University
of Macerata (Italy) from Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 June 2011.
The themes of the Conference include all areas of comparative economics
and related disciplines treated in a comparative perspective. New
approaches to comparative economics, analysis of the various forms of
capitalism, different models of development, trade, monetary and
regional integration represent some of the suggested topics.
- Deadline for submission of abstracts: JANUARY 20, 2011
- Acceptance of submitted abstracts: FEBRUARY 20, 2011
- Submission of papers: MAY 20, 2011
- Registration of authors: MAY 31, 2011
The conference fee, if paid before May 31, is € 50 Euro for junior
participants (up to 35 years old) and € 120 for all the others.
After May 31 the fee is €60 for junior participants (up to 35
years old) and €130 for all the others. The fee includes the
biennial membership of AISSEC, all the conference materials, catering
(lunch and coffee breaks). In order to be included in the program,
registration fees of at least one of the authors of accepted papers
should be paid before 31 May 2011.
Prospective participants should send an e-mail containing the title of
the proposed paper, an abstract of 150-300 words and personal contact
details (name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address) to the local
Organizing Committee:
aissec2011@unimc.it
All the relevant information will be put in due time on the AISSEC
website:
http://www.ec.unipg.it/DEFS/AISSEC
Decolonization
in the Third World: Challenges, Hopes and Limitations
Lucienne-Cnockaert Chair and the Department of History,
Université de Sherbrooke, QC (Canada) | 17-18 November 2011
In consideration of the fiftieth anniversary of the decolonization
of several African countries, the Lucienne-Cnockaert Research Chair in
Modern History of European and Africa will be holding a conference
entitled "Decolonization in the Third World: Challenges, Hopes and
Limitations" on 17-18 November 2011. This conference will be an
opportunity to study the magnitude and complexity of the
responsibilities and challenges, and the various administrative paths
chosen by the post-colonial societies of Africa, Asia and Latin
America.
The aim of this conference is first and foremost to examine the
objectives and challenges of cultural, educational and economic reforms
in the Third World after attaining independence. Researchers will be
invited to examine the nature of interracial and interreligious
relations, as well as the role of minority groups and demographically
diverse populations (women, youth, ethnic groups, descendents of
colonizers, regional groups, etc.) in the process of identity-building
and socio-economic development within the new nation-states. A critical
evaluation of the various reforms undertaken in postcolonial societies
will allow researchers to take note of their limitations and their
success, however limited the latter may appear to be. Finally,
particular attention will be given to the various types of relations
established between Third World countries and the Western world as a
whole, and with international organizations and institutions such as
UNESCO, the UN, the IMF, the Francophonie and the Commonwealth.
We welcome conference proposals touching upon the following themes:
- Cultural and economic aspects of colonialism
- Discourses and intellectual trajectories of the leaders of
independence movements
- The meaning of national symbols: national anthems, mottos and
flags
- The nature of the postcolonial State and the ideologies of
independence
- Cultural policies established in order to restore a national
identity
- Relationships between native populations and the descendents of
colonizers
- Policies respecting women and/or minorities
- Studies of particular concepts or ideologies (pan-Africanism,
pan-Asianism, non-alignment, post- colonialism, socialism, etc.)
- Management of regional, ethnic and religious diversity
- Economic planning and development
- Neo-colonialism and international relationships between North
and South
- International relationships amongst the South
- Interventions of the IMF and the World Bank: challenges and
results
- Memories of independence
Researchers, professors and students interested in participating in
this conference are invited to send proposals approximately 300 words
in length before 1 March 2011.
Registration fees for this conference are $150 CAD. Travel
andaccommodation expenses may be reimbursed depending on funding
received from granting agencies.
Please send proposals along with a brief CV by email to
Professor Patrick Dramé: patrick.drame@usherbrooke.ca
http://www.pages.usherbrooke.ca/lucienne-cnockaert/
The conference will take place at the Université de Sherbrooke
on 17-18 November 2011. Papers and presentations may be in either
French or English.
Contact:
Pascal Scallon-Chouinard
Université de Sherbrooke
Email: Pascal.Scallon-Chouinard@USherbrooke.ca
Web: http://pages.usherbrooke.ca/lucienne-cnockaert/index.php?id=2
ECPR
Reykjavik Panel on Radical Policy Change: Insights from Heterodox
Economics
Section Title: Challenges of Radical Policy Change: A Dialogue between
Theory and Evidence
Panel: Evaluating governance and policy in the face of complexity:
insights from heterodox economics
This panel focuses on how research at the interface between politics
and economics can contribute to exploration of the questions of this
conference section about the relationship between complexity, radical
policy change and democracy. The proposition is that research
straddling the politics-economics interface can not only enrich our
understanding of governance and policy but also offer insights into
their effectiveness. Since values define what constitutes
‘effectiveness,’ this concept is inevitably contestable.
Whereas procedural measures are important for considering the quality
of governance and policy, assessment of effectiveness entails explicit
focus not only on processes but also on outcomes. The presence of
complex, long term, yet also urgent, political issues, such as climate
change and habitat destruction, seems to demand a policy analysis that
can provide both procedural and outcome assessments. Political science
tends to focus on the former, often without detailed consideration of
how procedures relate to the substantive content of subsequent policy
outcomes (Farrell 2004, Greenwood 2010; 2011). Mainstream, neoclassical
economics tends to focus on the latter, providing tools for predicting
policy outcomes, while purporting to be value-neutral with regard to
the desirability of these outcomes and the effectiveness of governing
institutions. Yet, alternative, ‘heterodox’ traditions in
economics, such as Ecological, Austrian and Institutional Economics
tend to focus more explicitly on normative questions of political
economy. Contributions aligned with these traditions address the
outcomes and the effectiveness of different forms of governance and
policy and their implications for democracy. Particularly with respect
to complex geo-political issues such as climate change, a
détente between politics and economics seems to be required
(Farrell, 2006).
This panel invites papers that consider the insights into policy
effectiveness offered by these heterodox traditions, perhaps also
incorporating knowledge from other social and natural sciences. The
panel welcomes both empirical and theoretical papers.
For details of how to submit an abstract, see:
http://www.ecprnet.eu/conferences/general_conference/reykjavik/panel_details.asp?panelid=270
References
Farrell, Katharine Nora. 2004.
"Recapturing Fugitive Power: epistemology, complexity and democracy."
Local Environment 9(5):469-479.
Farrell, Katharine N. 2006. "Reflections on International Political
Economy and Global Environmental Governance." Organization and
Environment 19(2):270-274.
Greenwood, Dan. 2010. “Facing Complexity: Democracy, Expertise
and the Discovery Process.” Political Studies 58(4): 769-788.
Greenwood, Dan. 2011. (Forthcoming) “The Problem of Coordination
in Politics: What Critics of Neoliberalism Can Draw from its
Advocates.” Polity.
European
Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET) Conference in
Mexico
From Colonial Empires to Globalization:
History of Economic Thought Approaches.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Faculty of
Economics. México City | 9 to 12 November 2011
First call for papers and symposia or sessions.
Proposals for papers or sessions on all aspects of the history of
economic thought in the different periods are welcome. An abstract of
about 400 words for a paper and about 600 words for a session should be
submitted at the latest by 1st of june 2011 to
eshetmexico@economia.unam.mx.
First versions of the accepted papers will have to be submitted in full
by 1st September 2011. Some travel grants will be made available by the
organizers.
History of
Economic Thought Society of Australia (HETSA) 2011
The Twenty-Fourth Conference of the History of Economic Thought
Society 0f Australia - HETSA 2011 - is being hosted by the School of
Economics, Finance and Marketing in the College of Business at
Melbourne’s RMIT University. The Conference will be held
5-8 July 2011 in RMIT’s historic Emily Macpherson Building.
There will be two major themes in this conference, the first being the
role of the history of economics within economics itself and then,
secondly, a Retrospective and Prospective on Keynes to commemorate the
75th anniversary of the publication of his General Theory in 1936.
We are very pleased that the distinguished Keynesian scholar and
immediate past President of the European History of Economics
Association, Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, will give the keynote address.
Papers dealing with any aspect of the history of economic thought are
welcome. Papers that deal with either of the two major themes of the
conference would, however, be particularly welcome.
Please note that the formal deadline for submission of abstracts is
March 2011. Abstracts may be sent to
steve.kates@rmit.edu.au
Registration information will be posted in due course. If you encounter
any problems or have any other questions about the conference, please
feel free to email me at the above website or to contract the HETSA
President, Alex Millmow at
a.millmow@ballarat.edu.au
History of Economics Society
2011 Conference
June 16-20, 2011 at the University
of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
Please join us, and add your voice to the historical contemplation of
economic thought and action by submitting a paper or proposing a
session. From Nov. 26 onwards, we now have an on line electronic paper
submission system for the conference. It can be accessed at:
https://notredame-web.ungerboeck.com/spa/spa_p1_authors.aspx?oc=10&cc=110111603651
It will prompt you to provide 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.
It also has allowance for you to propose a session: For each paper, it
will prompt for a session title, abstract, and a list of at least two
other scholars you have contacted to put together a focused session,
either as presenters or discussants. You can also 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. We are also
attempting to arrange a special screening of the film Inside Job on the
first night of the conference, in pursuit of a new class of multimedia
presentations.
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,
the above web site will prompt you to provide details as to the date of
your last degree along with your abstract, and an option to 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 is available at: .
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.eduIndustrial
Relations in Europe
Conference (IREC)
September 1-2, 2011 | Barcelona
The Industrial Relations in Europe Conference (IREC) has been
held annually since 1989. Its purpose is to bring together researchers
from a wide range of European countries and to encourage comparative
analysis and discussion. The conference is relatively small (usually
60-80 participants) and encourages presentation of work in progress in
an informal and constructive environment. The 2011 conference is
scheduled for Thursday 1 and Friday 2 September in Barcelona. The
overall conference theme is “Beyond the Crisis: Industrial
Relations and Sustainable Growth”.
The New
African Economic Renaissance
International Leadership Insititute, Addis Ababa, in partnership
with the University of Greenwich, London |
13 – 14, Dec 2010
This conference aims to explore managerial and leadership tools and
approaches underpinning the emerging economic renaissance in Africa.
Post-colonial Africa, while freed from direct colonialism, is still
strongly influenced by economic and managerial models developed in
Europe and North America. With Africa now emerging from decades of
great economic and social difficulties, there is a need to reassess the
models, approaches and tools needed by African enterprises in the
African context and to what extent these enterprises are developing
management, leadership and enterprising tools, relevantly and
autonomously. There is a considerable opportunity to break with old
practices that have limited and distorted enterprise in the North, to
take advantage of recent advances in managerial and leadership research
in the North but to be selective of approaches appropriate to the
African context and to ensure these are developed to the needs of the
New African Enterprising to support the New African Economic
Renaissance.
The International Leadership Institute in Addis Ababa, in close
partnership with the University of Greenwich, London, is at the
forefront of management and leadership development in East Africa.
Together, these institutions are hosting this conference to help
influence the agenda for advanced management and leadership practice in
Africa in the forthcoming decade. Contributions to the conference will
be published.
The experience of the last conference (13 Dec – 14 Dec
2009) shows that high levels of the academic, business and policy
making community are interested in participating in the debate.
Participants included the Prime Minister’s Office, Ethiopia,
Foreign Embassies and International Organisations residing in Addis
Ababa and corporations such as Ethiopian Airlines, National Bank of
Ethiopia, Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, Development Bank of Ethiopia,
Ambessa International Insurance Company, Wegagen Bank of Ethiopia,
Dashen Bank of Ethiopia, etc.
Applicants interested in participating in the conference (as
presenter, panellist and participation) should provide an abstract of
their proposed contribution, of no more than 500 words, to the
conference organizing committee chairperson at
fhadro@yahoo.com, by 30 Nov 2010.
For more information, please contact:
Market and
Happiness: Do economic interactions crowd out civic virtues and human
capabilities?
Milan | June 8-9 2011
Econometica and the HEIRs Association, in collaboration with the
Economics Department of Milano-Bicocca and Irec (International Review
of Economics), are organizing, on June 8-9 2011, an International
Conference on "Market and Happiness. Do economic interactions crowd out
civic virtues and human capabilities?" with the aim of eliciting
contributions on the nexus between wellbeing, economic interactions,
civil virtues and human capabilities.
“Public happiness” (pubblica felicità) is one
of the key issues of the Italian and Latin classical economic
tradition, that derives from Aristotle’s works and civic
humanism, where markets are considered an essential element of civil
life involving mutual assistance, reciprocity and fraternity, and a
general climate favourable to civil virtues.
Today, however, communitarians and virtue ethics philosophers are
instead critical toward ordinary market relations. They cherish a
suggestion for society to protect itself and preserve higher human
capabilities from what is considered an invasion from market forces. On
a similar line of thought, much of the economic and psychological
literature on intrinsic motivation harbour deep doubts about the
virtuous or ethical nature of market interactions and on the kind of
‘cooperation’ resulting from market interactions. The
reason for these criticism is in the instrumental nature of the
extrinsic motivations that are the basis of ordinary market relations:
in this literature (both communitarians and intrinsic motivation
theory) instrumental dealings are considered to be ethically suspect:
instrumental or means-ends rationality is bad, because only
non-instrumental action is good. Since the market is inherently related
to instrumental dealings, then one is led to conclude, in this
approach, that market interactions are not fully moral. In other words,
if only intrinsic motivations are truly moral, it follows that market
economy cannot belong to the realm of genuine sociality and morality,
and the market should be conceived to be separate from civilsociety. In
particular, mutual benefit in the market comes to be read as unilateral
egoism, and, conversely, mutual benefit in non-market interactions
(i.e. in politics, civil society, family) is seen as the
‘authentic community’, the place of human happiness.
This opposition, between truly moral behaviour and ordinary
market relations, finds to-day support also in some sectors of public
opinion, particularly at the time of an economic and financial crisis.
But, a cultural attitude of suspicion, adverse to market forces, may be
dangerous: both the economic system and civil society depend on
satisfying mutual needs through exchange. Is it possible to imagine and
describe market as a domain of interactions that can be at the same
time moral and mutually advantageous (instrumental)? In this approach,
typical of both Aristotelian and Public happiness traditions, the
morality of actions does not require them to be the fruit of intrinsic
motivations. What such an approach leads to is to provide a different
way of thinking about markets. Normal economic dealings are not
necessarily the offspring of greed, competition or self interest.
This conference will explore the many dimensions of this tension
between market interactions and human capabilities, where such and
similar views are subjected to close scrutiny and criticism.
Topics of interest include:
- happiness and social interactions
- intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in market
- happiness, market and human capabilities
- empirical and experimental studies of personalized interactions
- social capital, institutional design and patterns of human
interactions
- cultural values and demand of conventional versus relational
goods
- foundational, historical and interdisciplinary aspects
- market, capabilities, happiness
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Keynote speakers include:
Martha Nussbaum, Bruno Frey, Robert
Sugden, Irene Van Staveren, Stefano Zamagni
Scientific Committee
Luigino Bruni (University of Milano
– Bicocca & IUS) Pier Luigi Porta (University of Milano -
Bicocca) Lorenzo Sacconi (University of Trento) Stefano Bartolini
(University of Siena) Vittorio Pelligra (University of Cagliari &
IUS) Stefano Zamagni (University of Bologna)
Important Dates
- Electronic Submission Deadline: February 10, 2011
- Notification of Acceptance before: March 10, 2009.
- Discounted subscription until: April 6, 2011
- Paper Submission Deadline: May 20, 2011
Paper Format and Submission
Authors must submit electronically an
extended abstract of approximately 800 words in pdf format to the
conference e-mail address:
happiness.conference@unimib.it
Minimum
Labour Standards And Their Enforcement
Special Symposium to be published in
Economics and Labour
Relations Review 2011
Symposium Editors: Peter Sheldon and Michael Quinlan
Around the turn of the 20th century the development and implementation
of minimum labour standards became a major area of policy debate in
Europe, North America and Australasia. A hundred years later changes to
work organisation and labour markets, industrial relations regimes and
global business practices have once again redirected policy-oriented
attention to the importance of minimum labour standards. We will be
publishing a symposium on this issue in Economic and Labour Relations
Review during 2011. To that end, we are seeking offers of
contributions. Papers can deal with any area of minimum labour
standards or social protection related to the labour market (wages,
hours, occupational health and safety, workers’ compensation etc).
We are keen to publish papers covering the experience in a range of
countries (both rich and poor). We are especially interested in the
implementation and enforcement of minimum labour standards though
papers of a more general character are also welcome. Papers should try,
if possible, to make reference to policy aspects and overviews/policy
reviews are also welcome.
Academic contributions will undergo blind peer review by two referees.
Several papers will also be invited from practitioner experts.
Submissions are due 1 March and the Symposium will be published Mid
2011. We are also hopeful of organising a ‘live’ symposium
linked to the symposium issue of the journal. If you are
interested to contribute, please contact:
Michael Quinlan
m.quinlan@unsw.edu.au
or Peter Sheldon
p.sheldon@unsw.edu.au
New Political Science:
Special Issue
The Great Recession: Causes, Consequences,
and Responses
Systemic and structural contradictions, combined with specific public
policies, culminated in the so-called “Great Recession”
that began in 2008 and continues into the present. While most policy
makers are committed to strategies of muddling through without
addressing systemic and structural problems, it behooves progressives
to offer deeper, critical analyses that address root causes and
shortcomings of mainstream policy prescriptions, on both national and
global stages.
The 33.4 (December 2011) issue of New Political Science will be
devoted to those analyses. The special issue will address three main
areas.
- First, what were, and are, the causes of the crisis? To what
degree can the crisis be attributed to long term underlying systemic
and structural forces characteristic of advanced capitalism, and to
what degree can the crisis be attributed to specific policies of
specific administrations? Would the collapse have occurred without the
war on terror? Without the corporate fraud and speculative trading made
possible by neoliberal policy choices?
- Second, what are the consequences of the crisis that offer both
opportunities and challenges? These might include, for example, a
critical turning point in the ascendancy of neoliberalism, fiscal
meltdown in state and local governments, and increasing commitment to
military Keynesianism. Has the crisis opened or closed opportunities
for progressive reform in education, sustainable development, health
care, immigration, and others?
- Third, what are the appropriate responses by progressives? What
particular policy responses appear most likely to solve the problems,
both in the short term and long term? What responses are likely to
offer palliatives and which offer real, long term reform and
transformation? In the U.S., what, if anything, can Democrats and
Republicans offer in the way of effective policy responses? In other
countries, what, if anything, can dominant policy makers offer?
Submission Guidelines: Preliminary proposals of 250-500 words should be
sent to both editors by January 1, 2011. After reviewing those
proposals, the editors will invite contributors to submit full articles
by April 15, 2011. The co-editors may be contacted at:
lovens@appstate.edu and
mmattern@bw.edu
Public
Administration, Technology & Innovation
6-7 May 2011 | Tallinn, Estonia
The Department of Public Administration at Tallinn University of
Technology and the journal Halduskultuur – Administrative
Cultureare hosting their 13th annual scholarly conference, this time on
“Public Administration, Technology & Innovation”, on
6-7 May 2011 in Tallinn, Estonia.
The 2011 conference is doubling as a kick-off and network-creating
workshop of the newly-established permanent study group ‘Public
Administration, Technology & Innovation’ (PATI) of EGPA, the
European Group of Public Administration. PATI will be officially
inaugurated at the EGPA 2011 Annual Conference in Bucharest (7-10
September 2011), to which all interested attendees of the Tallinn
conference are also invited. On the study group, see
www.ttu.ee/pati.
Technological developments of the last decades have brought the
co-evolutionary linkages between technology and public sector
institutions into the center of both economics and public
administration research. Technologies can, arguably, make public
administration more effective, efficient, transparent and more
accountable; but they can also cause problems with privacy,
sustainability, legality, and equality, to name just a few examples.
Recent public sector austerity measures (and attempts at lean
government in general) may thwart socio-political efforts to foster
technological innovation; but they can at the same time lead to greater
willingness of governments to adopt new technologies and management
principles based, directly or indirectly, on technological innovations.
The challenge to public administration research is not only to trace
and understand these linkages, but to find working solutions to these
apparent trade-offs, and even to investigate the nature and
permutations of the techno-administrative interface generally.
We are inviting papers dealing with theoretical or empirical topics
looking at either side of the co-evolution perspective of technological
and institutional development; the role of public administration in
technological progress and innovation; and the role of technology and
innovation in the trajectories of public administration. Abstract
proposals, no longer than 750 words, should be sent to the conference
manager, Mr. Erkki Karo, at
erkki.karo@ttu.ee,
no later than 14 January 2011; full papers will be expected by 8 April.
The papers presented will be submitted for fast-track peer review for a
theme issue of Halduskultuur – Administrative Culture. This
Journal, published biannually by Tallinn University of Technology, is a
fully refereed interdisciplinary journal of administrative
studies.Halduskultuur – Administrative Culture is available at
EBSCO, Central and Eastern European Online Library and Google Books,
and abstracted, e.g., in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts,
Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts. See
www.halduskultuur.eu.
Revue de la
Régulation: "Re-assessing the Wage-Labor Nexus
on Europe"
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Europe. État des lieux »
"Re-assessing the Wage-Labor Nexus on Europe"
Vous trouverez ci-dessous l'appel à contribution de la Revue de
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à cette adresse : http://regulation.revues.org
>>
consulter l'appel à contribution en français
>> call for
paper, english
Date limite de réception des contributions : 15 avril 2011
Les contributions devront être transmises à regulation@revues.org
Bien cordialement
Pour le comité de
rédaction,
Patrick Dieuaide, Mickael Clévenot
Revue de la régulation : http://regulation.revues.org/
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The Spirit of Capital: A
Conference on Hegel and Marx
The deadline is extended to Jan 10th, 2011 of the New School
Graduate Student Conference in Philosophy, "The Spirit of Capital: A Conference
on Hegel and Marx."
We are looking for papers not only on Hegel and Marx, but on the
critical tradition of thought which they inaugurated. From the young
Hegel to the late Frankfurt School, from philosophy to politics, we
invite contributions on a wide range of themes that fall within this
general orbit. Please feel free contact us with any questions at spiritofcapital@gmail.com
Submission Guidelines:
Papers ranging from 3,000 to 5,000 words should be submitted in blind
review format viaspiritofcapital@gmail.com
and should include the following in the body of the email:
- Author's name
- Title of Paper
- iInstitutional affiliation
- Contact information (email, phone number, mailing address)
Please omit any self-identifying information within the body of the
paper.
Sincerely,
NSSR student conference organizing committee
The New School for Social Research
spiritofcapital@gmail.com
www.spiritofcapital.com
Call for
Participants
Around
Keynes: International Workshop
Friday, December 3, 2010 | Maison des sciences
économiques, 106-112 boulevard de l’Hôpital, Paris
XIIIe (M° Campo-Formio), 6th floor/6e étage. 4pm-7pm /16h-19h
Speakers :
- Harald Hagemann, Universität Hohenheim : « The early
reception of Keynes's 'General Theory' by German-speaking economists
»
- Amos Witztum, London School of Economics and London Metropolitan
University: « Keynes's Digression and the problem with the role
of Government »
- Manuela Mosca, Universita’ degli Studi di Lecce ; Cristina
Marcuzzo, Universita’ di Roma : « Keynes and Cambridge
»
Discussants :
- John Davis, Marquette University and University of Amsterdam ;
- Hans-Michael Trautwein, Carl von Ossietzky Universität
Oldenburg ;
The workshop is open to all. Registrations should be made at the
following electronic address :
Annie.Cot@univ-paris1.fr
Economic
Policy: In Search of an Alternative Paradigm
Dec. 3, 2010 | Middlesex University
We are organizing a conference on ECONOMIC POLICY: IN SEARCH OF
AN ALTERNATIVE PARADIGM on Dec 3 at Middlesex University. If you
plan to come, please register via sending an email with your
name, affiliation, and position to Denise Arden,
D.Arden@mdx.ac.uk,
Middlesex University Research and Business Office.
Please visit the web page for the revised programme:
http://www.mdx.ac.uk/aboutus/Schools/business_school/departments/economics/conference.aspx
French Association of
Political Economy Conference
December 9-10, 2010 | Lille, France | Conferene website
The French Association of Political Economy –FAPE –
(Association Française d’Economie Politique, AFEP: http://www.assoeconomiepolitique.org/)
organizes its first conference in Lille (northern France) at the
beginning of December (9-10 December). The young association (only one
year old) has already attracted a lot of colleagues from almost all
tendencies in the profession, not only many heterodox schools like
post-Keynesians, regulationists, conventionalists, institutionalists,
Marxists and Austrians but also some mainstream colleagues from
different tendencies. This first conference aims to lay the basis for a
major pathbreaking event for the French academic profession.
Headed by André Orléan, the FAPE intends to be a
collective entity devoted to the promotion of pluralism. Indeed,
intellectually open-minded and contradictory debates in the profession
are necessary for collective thinking. “Over the last few years,
economic reflection has progressively shut itself down around dogmatic
propositions and methods. We believe that the absolute hegemony of the
neoclassical approach over the research and teaching institutions in
our country is an obstacle that has to be fought because it leads to a
dangerous impoverishment of the economic discourse, as illustrated by
the current economic crisis”
said André Orléan.
“The blindness of [neoclassical] economists, he adds, has
been brought to light by the crisis. Their inability not only to
anticipate the crisis but also simply to consider it as plausible is
for us the direct consequence of this hegemony. Such a failure shows
how much our community is going badly. (…) It is obvious that we
will not avoid a reflection on the role of our discipline. (…)
Pluralism is a way for the community of the economists to think about
its social role. It is a mechanism that renders visible the vested
interests which try to manipulate it. The FAPE will promote pluralism
towards three directions : pluralism of intellectual approaches,
pluralism of viewpoints and pluralism of disciplines. (…) The
aim of the FAPE is to bear upon the institutional evolutions of both
economic research and teaching towards pluralism. To do so, it has to
be a credible actor by representing and federating the main trends of
thought in the community of economists.”
The first symposium of the FAPE will be held in Lille from Thursday 9
to Friday 10 December 2010. It will gather more than 150 presentations (more informations here) coming from
different strands of the economic profession. As the FAPE is also
looking forward to developing links with other political economy
associations around the world, we hope to see you there.
Download Conference Program.
The Future
of the Left in Latin America
Centre For Global Political Economy
(CGPE), Department of International Relations /| Monday 6th December
5.30-7 pm
Room: FULTON 104 (University of Sussex, Brighton, BN1 9RN)
- Marxism, Dependency Theory and the North-South Divide,
Joseph Choonara (Editorial Board, International Socialism Journal)
- The Transformation Of The Brazilian Workers´ Party,
Hernan Gomez-Bruera (Institute of Development Studies, Sussex)
- End Times for Neoliberalism in Bolivia? The Political
Economy of Evo Morales, Jeff Webber (Politics and International
Relations, Queen Mary,University of London)
Chair: Ben Selwyn (International Relations, Sussex).
About the speakers:
- Joseph Choonara is author of ‘Unravelling Capitalism: A
Guide to Marxist Political Economy’ (Bookmarks, 2009).
- Hernan Gomez-Bruera is conducting doctoral research into
changing Brazilian politics at the Institute of Development Studies,
Sussex.
- Jeff Webber is author of ‘From Rebellion to Reform in
Bolivia: Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation and the Politics of Evo
Morales’ (2011, Haymarket).
The Green Economics
Institute: Two Events
Winter warmer: Tackling Climate Change in the
age of Austerity
December 15, 2010
Learn more about Green Economics responses & solutions to the
climate, and economics crises at this one day conference. Themes and
presentations of the day include progress since COP15, Analysis and
update from Cancun COP16, responses to the austerity packages in the UK
and Europe, and tales from South East Asia of low carbon travel. This
day closes with a Mexican and Greek style Gala Dinner. Book now, and
join us for a day of lively discussion, networking and innovation.
Contact us if you are interested in speaking at this event.
Location: Old Music Hall, Oxford, UK
Time: 10:30 - 17:00/ Dinner: 18:00-23:00
Price: For full day including dinner £40/
Members/students/Concessions £35
For booking, email:
greeneconomicsevents@yahoo.co.uk
(Please note that booking is essential for this event)
Download the
flyer.
Working Symposium on the Built Environment and
the Rural Urban Fringe
January 17, 2011
The Green Economics Institute presents a Symposium which will bring
together state of the art research about the Rural Urban Fringe, and
the economics of the built environment on the 17th of January at the
Green Economics Institute in Oxford. Themes and presentations include,
planning for the long term, overcoming issues of planning for the long
term, rural centric/urban centric perspectives, opportunities for
sustainability in the Rural Urban Fringe, and case studies from around
the world of RUF concerns. Join us for an exciting day of innovation
and lively discussion for research about the rural urban fringe! Email
us for rates, and to book a place, which is essential.
Location: The Green Economics Institute: Old Music Hall, Oxford UK
Time: 10:30-18:00
Price: £35
For booking, email:
greeneconomicsevents@yahoo.co.uk
Download the
flyer.
History of
Postwar Social Science Workshop (LSE)
Monday, 6 December 2010
Organised by Roger Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine, Centre for
Philosophy of Natural and Social Science
Venue: LSE, Lakatos Building, Room T206
The workshop is one of the activities of the History of Post-war
Social Science Group, supported by grants from the Leverhulme Trust
('Academic Collaboration International Networks') and the French CNRS
(GDRE 'History of Recent Economics'):
10.30 – 11.20 Mathew Thomson, University of Warwick
- The psychological sciences and the ‘scientization’
and ‘engineering’ of society in twentieth-century Britain
11.40 – 12.30 Emmanuel Didier, EHESS
- Crisis and knowledge: Democracy, statistics and the making of
the New Deal
14.30 – 15.20 Loïc Charles, University of Reims and Yann
Giraud, University of Cergy
- From science to communication: The Americanization of Otto
Neurath’s pictorial statistics
15.40 – 16.30 Sebastián Gil-Riaño, University
of Toronto
- Anti-racism and cultural change: The anthropologist as steward
of modernity in the 1950s
For more info visit the
Center's Website.
International
Socialism Seminar: Marxism and the Alternatives to Crisis
Tuesday 7 December, 6.30pm | Brunei Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental
and African Studies, Russell Square campus, London, WC1H 0XG
It has been three years since the economic crisis first manifested. The
credit crunch has given way to financial crash and the Great Recession.
The ruling classes of Europe, faced with a growing crisis in the
eurozone, have embraced austerity and cuts in order to shift the cost
of the crisis to workers, students and the unemployed.
In response, we have seen movements of resistance right across Europe.
In countries like Greece, France and Ireland, strikes and protests have
been complemented by alternative programmes and debates about the way
forward for the movement. In Britain, the student revolt has marked a
turning point in the struggle. This seminar will bring together
academics and activists to discuss the current situation and what lies
ahead.
with
- Alex Callinicos (Editor of International Socialism and Professor
of European Studies at Kings College London)
- Jane Hardy (Author of Poland’s New Capitalism and
Professor of Political Economy at the University of Hertfordshire)
- Stathis Kouvelakis (Author of Philosophy and Revolution and
lecturer at Kings College,
- London)
- Costas Lapavitsas (Member of Research on Money and Finance and
Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies)
Free entry – All welcome
www.isj.org.uk *
isj@swp.org.uk * (020) 7819 1177
The 12th
Annual Summer Institute for the Preservation of the History of
Economics
University of Richmond, June 24-27,
2011
The 12th annual Summer Institute for the Preservation of the
History of Economics will be held at the University of Richmond, June
24-27, 2011. The Institute offers a forum for graduate students and
distinguished scholars to present work in progress or more polished
papers to a lively audience. Our mission is to help young scholars
connect in a workshop setting with young and eminent scholars in the
field. Past speakers include Brad Bateman, Mauro Boianovsky, Marcel
Boumans, James Buchanan, Dave Colander, Evelyn Forget, Dan Hammond,
Samuel Hollander, Kevin Hoover, M. Ali Khan, Anthony Laden, David Levy,
Deirdre McCloskey, Steve Medema, Phil Mirowski, Leon Montes, Mary
Morgan, Maria Pia Paganelli, Sandra Peart, Malcolm Rutherford, Warren
Samuels, Eric Schliesser, Gordon Tullock, Anthony Waterman, and Roy
Weintraub.
For the 2011 session, we invite proposals on any topic in the history
of economic thought. New participants are welcome, as are
recommendations and submissions from any and all interested parties. We
hope to organize a day's worth of papers on "Lost insight from old
Chicago" and to offer a day on the role of experts in the economy.
James Buchanan plans to participate as he has in past years. We intend
to present a paper on William Beveridge's "Mock Trial of the
Economists," so other papers on LSE themes would be particularly
welcome.
As in past years, we anticipate that the Institute will be able to
offer modest honoraria for presenters and students. Participation by
upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in economics or related
disciplines is encouraged. The History of Economics Society has
assisted in the past with conference expenses for students. Conference
events include good coffee and continental breakfasts, lunches, as well
as one or two working dinners. Details about travel, housing and other
matters will be posted early in 2011.
Please send expressions of interest, topics of interest, paper
proposals or queries to:
La dette
publique: Marc Bousseyrol, « Vive la Dette »
Quelle est son utilité ? Est-ce que le discours alarmiste
à son sujet n’est pas un prétexte aux politiques de
contre-réformes ?
Avec la participation de :
- Marc Bousseyrol, économiste, conférencier à
Science Po, auteur du livre « Vive la Dette »
Jeudi 9 décembre à 19h30. Espace Comme Vous Émoi.
5 rue de la Révolution. 93100 Montreuil (M9 Robespierre)
For more information, visit the website here: http://www.attac93sud.fr/spip.php?article765
Roosevelt
Institute: the Bipartisan Deficit Commission Report, the future
of the U.S. Economy, and the prospects for policy change in the
wake of the midterm elections
December 2nd, from 8-11am at NYC's Harvard Club 27 West 44th St.
A panel discussion of the Bipartisan Deficit Commission Report,
the future of the U.S. Economy, and the prospects for policy change
in the wake of the midterm elections.
The conversation will be framed by the release of three new
Roosevelt Institute White Papers:
- Democracy in Peril: The American Turnout Problem and the Path
to Plutocracy | Walter Dean Burnham
- A World Upside Down: Deficit Fantasies in the Great Recession |
Thomas Ferguson and Robert Johnson
- Principles and Guidelines For Deficit Reduction | Joseph
Stiglitz
Because space is limited, please RSVP to Madeleine Ehrlich at mehrlich@rooseveltinstitute.org
or 212.444.9138. Continental breakfast served from 8:00 to 8:30 AM.
Students are Welcome.
SHE (Society of Heterodox
Economists ) 2010 Conference
The University of New South Wales will host the 9th Society of
Heterodox Economists Conference on December 6 and 7, 2010 at the Coogee
Bay Hotel.
For more information, visit SHE website: she.web.unsw.edu.au
Job
Postings for Heterodox Economists
The
American University in Cairo
Assistant/associate professors (4)
The Department of Economics in the School of Business at the American
University in Cairo is seeking four full time, tenure-track
assistant/associate professors of Economics with specializations in:
1. Econometrics: Possible fields of interest include but are
not limited to: econometric theory, time-series analysis, quantitative
methods, and applied econometric techniques at both the undergraduate
and graduate levels. Applicants should be acquainted with the common
packages in econometrics and statistics. The successful candidate is
expected to teach undergraduate and graduate courses, actively engage
in research and supervise master's theses in applied economics and
econometrics.
2. Macroeconomics: Possible fields of interest include but are
not limited to: Macroeconomic modeling, forecasting and simulation,
public finance, money and banking, business cycle analysis, and
macroeconomic theory and policy. The successful candidate is expected
to teach undergraduate and graduate courses, actively engage in
research and supervise master's theses.
3. Microeconomics: Possible fields of interest include but are
not limited to: public finance, labor economics, health economics and
economic history. The successful candidate is expected to teach
undergraduate and graduate courses, actively engage in research and
supervise master's theses.
4. Economic Development: Possible fields of interest include
but are not limited to: history of economic thought, development
planning and policy, economic history, Middle East economics, public
finance, and international economics.
The compensation packages for these four positions are competitive, and
are based on the expatriate model. Besides tax-exempt basic salaries,
they include housing, annual two-way airfare, health insurance,
children's school tuition, and other components.
Requirements:
All applicants must have a Ph.D. in Economics by the time of
appointment, preferably with a record of excellent scholarship and
teaching.
Additional Information:
Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the
position is filled. Representatives of the Department of Economics will
interview at the January 2011 ASSA Meetings in Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
Application Instructions:
All applicants must submit the following documents online: a) a current
C.V. ; b) a letter of interest; c) a completed AUC Personal Information
Form (PIF). For your convenience, the PIF can be downloaded from our
website; d) statements of research and teaching interests; e) evidence
of teaching effectiveness; f) a sample of current research. Please ask
three referees familiar with your professional background to send
reference letters
directly to busref@aucegypt.edu.
Note: Please remember your account login, as this enables you to
respond to AUC.
In addition, applicants wishing to be interviewed at the ASSA Meetings
in Colorado should also send a cover letter, current CV, statements of
research and teaching interests, evidence of teaching effectiveness, a
sample of current
research, and three letters of reference (at least one addressing
teaching ability) to economics@aucegypt.edu.
Bogazici
University, Turkey
Assistant Professor (Note: Turkish
citizens only)
The Department of Economics invites applicants with active
research interests and a commitment to high quality teaching. All
fields will be considered, however we especially encourage applicants
working in the fields of econometric theory, history of economic
thought, financial economics, and international macro/trade. The medium
of instruction is English. Position(s) are tenure track at the
assistant professor level. Ph.D. is required at the time of
appointment. The positions are open for Turkish citizens only according
to Higher Education Law in Turkey.
Letter of application, resume, graduate transcript, samples of written
work, 3 letters of reference and teaching evaluations (if available)
should be submitted (via e-mail only) for a complete file. Deadline for
application: Monday, December 20, 2010. Selected applicants with
complete application files will be contacted for interview during ASSA
meetings in Denver.
CONTACT: Fikret Adaman, Chair, Department of Economics, Natuk Birkan
Building, Bogazici University, Istanbul 34342, Turkey (Fax +90 (212)
287-2453; email:
bogazici.econ@gmail.com.
Carleton University, Canada
Assistant Professor - Department of Law,
Faculty of Public Affairs (Law and Economics)
Subject to budgetary approval, the Department of Law, Faculty of
Public Affairs, at Carleton University invites applications for a
tenure-track appointment in Legal Studies at the rank of Assistant
Professor commencing July 1st 2011. The Department invites applications
from qualified candidates in the field of Law, Economy and Governance
with an emphasis on how law mediates economic relations, including but
not limited to, poverty, private Law relations, employment/labour,
digitalization, health, environment, corporate governance, and
international political economy. The successful candidate will be able
to teach in the high demand area of Business Law and will demonstrate a
concentration in one of the four areas identified in the
University’s Strategic plan, namely sustainability and the
environment, health, new digital media and global identities and
globalization.
Candidates should hold a doctoral degree, or the equivalent, in legal
studies, law or a related discipline and demonstrate a capacity for
theoretically-informed, interdisciplinary scholarship and teaching. The
Department of Law is committed to interdisciplinary legal inquiry and
is composed of scholars engaged in interdisciplinary teaching and
research from a range of disciplines including criminology, history,
law, legal anthropology, political economy, political theory, mass
communications and sociology. The Department currently offers a B.A. in
Law and a M.A. in Legal Studies. A proposal to offer a Ph.D. in Legal
Studies is under appraisal. Applicants are requested, by January 31st
2011, to forward a letter of application, a curriculum vitae, a
teaching portfolio, including evidence of teaching performance, or a
statement of teaching philosophy, and have three referees forward
supporting letters to:
Chair, Department of Law c/o Sandy Herbert, Carleton University, 1125
Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ontario K1S 5B6.
sandy_herbert@carleton.ca
Central
College, USA
Assistant Professor
The Department of Economics, Accounting, and Management seeks
applications for a tenure-track position in economics at the assistant
professor level beginning Fall 2011. Ph.D. in economics preferred;
outstanding ABD applicants will be considered. The successful applicant
will teach principles- and intermediate-level courses, as well as
upper-level courses appropriate to the skills of the applicant. The
economics curriculum is integrated with the Management, Actuarial
Science, and Environmental Studies programs, and its faculty engages in
cross-disciplinary activities with numerous other departments. The
normal teaching load is 21-23 semester hours annually. Applicants
should be committed to undergraduate teaching and have an appreciation
for the liberal arts environment. EO/AA
Send: 1) a letter indicating your interest in
teaching in a liberal arts environment and potential contributions to
the department, 2) curriculum vitae, 3) statement of teaching
philosophy, 4) copies of graduate transcripts and 5) contact
information for three references to:
Dr. Robert Franks, Interim VPAA, Central College,
812 University Street, Pella, Iowa 50219.
Full consideration will be given to applications
received by November 24, 2010.
Initial interviews will be conducted at the ASSA
meetings in Denver in January 2011.
Christian-Albrechts
University of Kiel, Germany
Full Professor of the Economics of Ethics
The Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences of
Christian-Albrechts University of Kiel invites applications for the
position of:
The appointment is made jointly by the University and the Kiel
Institute for the World Economy. The position includes a part-time
appointment to the Kiel Institute and will be embedded into a newly
founded Center for Ethics at the University.
The position is concerned with the ethical underpinnings of economics,
both in terms of economic institutions and individual economic
behavior. Candidates are expected to be economists with a strong
grounding in other fields that shed light on the role of ethics in
economics. Concerning the role of ethics in the analysis and
justification of economic institutions governing market activities, the
position calls for expertise in social choice theory, political
economy, and various strands of political philosophy (such as
liberalism, utilitarianism, libertarianism, communitarianism,
multiculturalism, feminism and citizenship theory). Concerning the role
of ethics in the analysis and motivation of individual economic
decisions, the position calls for expertise in such areas as psychology
of economics, identity economics, economics of social norms,
neuroeconomics, socio-economics, anthropology of economics. Candidates
should have familiarity not only with the utilitarian or other
consequentialist ethics underlying mainstream economic theory, but also
deontology and virtue economics. Candidates are expected to provide
ethical insights necessary for dealing with global economic problems,
thereby interacting with economists at the
Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel and the Institute for the World
Economy, and with researchers at the Center for Ethics.
More information:
http://www.wiso.uni-kiel.de/econ/Stellenausschreibungen/Ausschreibung_englisch.pdf
http://www.uni-kiel.de/personalmanagement/ausschreibungen/wethik.pdf
Conference
Papers, Reports, and Articles
Economic Crisis and Left
Response
Marxist-Humanist Initiative (MHI) is pleased to announce
the creation of new pages in our website publication, With Sober
Senses, that are dedicated to following-up on the conference
“Economic Crisis and Left Responses,” held Nov. 6 in New
York City.
Website link.
Crisis of
Capital, Crisis of Theory
A review of the conference can be found
here.
Heterodox
Journals
American
Journal of Econmics and Sociology, 69(5): November 2010
Journal website: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0002-9246&site=1
- Editors' Introduction / Wolfram Elsner and Frederic S. Lee
- Ranking Economics Departments in a Contested Discipline: A
Bibliometric Approach to Quality Equality Between Theoretically
Distinct Subdisciplines / Frederic S. Lee, Therese C. Grijalva and
Clifford Nowell
- Citation Metrics: Serious Drawbacks, Perverse Incentives, and
Strategic Options for Heterodox Economics / Jakob Kapeller
- Research Quality Rankings of Heterodox Economic Journals in a
Contested Discipline / Frederic S. Lee, Bruce C. Cronin, Scott
McConnell and Erik Dean
- Increasing the Impact of Heterodox Work: Insights from RoSE /
Martha A. Starr
- The Diffusion of Heterodox Economics /Bruce Cronin
- Pluralism at Risk? Heterodox Economic Approaches and the
Evaluation of Economic Research in Italy /Marcella Corsi, Carlo
D'Ippoliti and Federico Lucidi
- Research Evaluation Down Under: An Outsider's View from the
Inside of the Australian Approach /Harry Bloch
- Economics Performance and Institutional Economics in Poland
After 1989 /Agnieszka Ziomek
- From Heterodoxy to Orthodoxy and Vice Versa: Economics and
Social Sciences in the Division of Academic Work /Dieter Bögenhold
- The Economists of Tomorrow: The Case for Assertive Pluralism in
Economics Education /Alan Freeman
- Heterodox Economics and the Scientist's Role in Society /Marco
Novarese and Andrea Pozzali
Erasmus
Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 3(2): Autumn 2010
Journal website: http://ejpe.org
(all articles are available here)
Articles
- Making economics more relevant: an interview with GEOFFREY
HODGSON
- Science and social control: the institutionalist movement in
American economics, 1918-1947 by MALCOLM RUTHERFORD
- Michel Foucault’s archaeology of knowledge and economic
discourse by SERHAT KOLOGLUGIL
- Extensionalism and intensionalism in the realist-SSK
‘debate’ by EDWARD MARIYANI-SQUIRE
BOOK REVIEWS
- Review of Harold Kincaid and Don Ross’s Oxford handbook of
philosophy of economics /Caterina Marchionni
- Review of Uskali Mäki’s The methodology of positive
economics: reflections on the Milton Friedman legacy / Julian Reiss
- Review of Herbert Gintis’s The bounds of reason: game
theory and the unification of the behavioral sciences /Till
Grüne-Yanoff
- Review of Jesper Jespersen’s Macroeconomic methodology: a
post Keynesian perspective, and of Luigi Pasinetti’s Keynes and
the Cambridge Keynesians: a revolution to be accomplished / Roger E.
Backhouse
- Review of Nicholas Bardsley, Robin Cubitt, Graham Loomes, Peter
Moffatt, Chris Starmer, and Robert Sugden’s Experimental
economics: rethinking the rules / Ana C. Santos
- Review of Hsiang-Ke Chao’s Representation and structure in
economics: the methodology of econometric models of the consumption
function /Christopher L. Gilbert
- Review of Samuel Gregg’s Wilhelm Röpke’s
political economy / Keith Tribe
Recent PhD thesis summaries:
- Models in science: essays on scientific virtues, scientific
pluralism and the distribution of labour in science / Rogier De Langhe
- The psychological foundations of Alfred Marshall’s
economics: an interpretation of the relationship between his early
research in psychology and his economics / Naoki Matsuyama
- A theistic analysis of the Austrian theories of capital and
interest / Troy Lynch
Industrial
and Corporate Change, 19(6): December 2010
Journal website: http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/
- Alex Coad / Exploring the processes of firm growth: evidence
from a vector auto-regression
- Ulrich Lichtenthaler / Outward knowledge transfer: the impact of
project-based organization on performance
- Peter Teirlinck, Michel Dumont, and André Spithoven /
Corporate decision-making in R&D outsourcing and the impact on
internal R&D employment intensity
- Xavier Martin, Robert M. Salomon, and Zheying Wu / The
institutional determinants of agglomeration: a study in the global
semiconductor industry
- Lars Håkanson / The firm as an epistemic community: the
knowledge-based view revisited
- Fulvio Castellacci and Jinghai Zheng / Technological regimes,
Schumpeterian patterns of innovation and firm-level productivity growth
Special Section: Interfirm heterogeneity-nature,
source and consequences for industrial dynamics
- Giovanni Dosi, Sébastien Lechevalier, and Angelo Secchi /
Introduction: Interfirm heterogeneity—nature, sources and
consequences for industrial dynamics
- Eric J. Bartelsman / Searching for the sources of productivity
from macro to micro and back
- Giulia Faggio, Kjell G. Salvanes, and John Van Reenen / The
evolution of inequality in productivity and wages: panel data evidence
- Giulio Bottazzi, Giovanni Dosi, Nadia Jacoby, Angelo Secchi, and
Federico Tamagni / Corporate performances and market selection: some
comparative evidence
- Keiko Ito and Sébastien Lechevalier / Why some firms
persistently out-perform others: investigating the interactions between
innovation and exporting strategies
- Bong-Kyo Seo, Keun Lee, and Xiaozu Wang / Causes for changing
performance of the business groups in a transition economy:
market-level versus firm-level factors in China
- Leonardo Iacovone and Gustavo A. Crespi / Catching up with the
technological frontier:Micro-level evidence on growth and convergence
- Andrea Bassanini / Inside the perpetual-motion machine:
cross-country comparable evidence on job and worker flows at the
industry and firm level
Journal of
Institutional Economics, 6(4): Dec. 2010
Journal website: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JOI
- Inherent Vice: Minsky, Markomata, and the tendency of markets to
undermine themselves / PHILIP MIROWSKI
- The behaviour of corporate actors: How much can we learn from
the experimental literature? / CHRISTOPH ENGEL
- The close relation between organization theory and Oliver
Williamson's transaction cost economics: a theory of the firm
perspective / BERNARD BAUDRY and VIRGILE CHASSAGNON
- Institutions, taxation, and market relationships in ancient
Athens / CARL HAMPUS LYTTKENS
- Liberalism after Burczak: redistribution, worker self-management
and the market process / DAVID EMANUEL ANDERSSON
- Different contracts in the Civil Code for different
organizations in the market: comparing co-operative and stock banks
using a cost frontier approach / GILBERTO TURATI
The Journal
of Philosophical Economics, IV(1): Autumn 2010
Journal website: http://jpe.ro/?id=revista&p=7
- Critiques and developments in world¬-systems analysis: an
introduction to the special collection (Richard E. Lee)
- Nonwaged peasants in the modern world-system: African households
as dialectical units of capitalist exploitation and indigenous
resistance, 1890-1930 (Wilma A. Dunaway)
- “This lofty mountain of silver could conquer the whole
world”: Potosí and the political ecology of
underdevelopment, 1545-1800 (Jason Moore)
- The rise, maturity and geographic diffusion of the cotton
industry, 1760-1900 (Florence Molk)
- “The dangerous classes”: Hugo Grotius and
seventeenth-century piracy as a primitive anti-systemic movement (Eric
Wilson)
- Structures of knowledge in the Ottoman Empire and Turkish
Republic, 1731¬-1980 (Sanem
Güvenç-Salgýrlý)
Journal of Post Keynesian
Economics, 33(1): Fall 2010
Journal website: http://mesharpe.metapress.com/link.asp?id=x02609555617
- Reflexivity, path dependence, and disequilibrium dynamics /
Anwar Shaikh
- The Post Keynesian alternative for the Russian economy / Soltan
S. Dzarasov
- Financial and economic crisis in Eastern Europe / Rainer Kattel
- Modeling financial crises: a schematic approach / John T. Harvey
- Capital wealth taxation as a potential remedy for excessive
capital wealth inequality / James A. Yunker
- Central banks, trade unions, and reputation-is there room for an
expansionist maneuver in the European Union? / Toralf Pusch, Arne Heise
- Differentiated banking strategies across the territory: an
exploratory analysis / Marco Crocco, Ana Tereza Lanna Figueiredo,
Fabiana Borges Teixeira Santos
- The financial fragility hypothesis applied to the public sector:
an analysis for Brazil's economy from 2000 to 2008 / Fernando
Ferrari-Filho, Fabio Henrique Bittes Terra, Octavio A. C. Conceicao
- Structural change, balance-of-payments constraint, and economic
growth: evidence from the multisectoral Thirlwall's law / Raphael Rocha
Gouvea, Gilberto Tadeu Lima
Research in Political
Economy, 26: 2010
"The National Question and the Question of Crisis"
Journal website: www.emeraldinsight.com/books.htm?issn=0161-7230
PART I: THE NATIONAL QUESTION
- Narihiko Ito, "Is the National Question an Aporia for Humanity?
How to Read Rosa Luxemburg's 'The National Question and
Autonomy'"
- Farhang Morady, "Iran: Islamic Republic or God's Kingdom? The
Election, Protest and Prospects for Change"
PART II: CRISIS EMPIRICALLY AND THEORETICALLY UNDERSTOOD
- Radhika Desai, "Consumption Demand in Marx and in the Current
Crisis"
- Paul Zarembka, "Low Surplus Value Historically Required for
Accumulation, Seen in a Model Derived from Marx"
- Karen Helveg Petersen, "World Money: From the Eurodollar to the
Sinodollar"
- Alan Freeman, "Crisis and 'Law of Motion' in Economics: A
Critique of Positivist Marxism"
PART III: A SCIENCE OF CAPITAL
- Jorgen Sandemose, "Fundamentals of a Science of Capital and
Bourgeois Society: Marxian Notions of Value, Prices, and the Structure
of Time"
Rethinking
Marxism, 22(3): October 2010
Journal website: www.informaworld/rm
Special Issue: THE COMMON AND THE FORMS OF THE COMMUNE
In Memoriam
The Common and the Forms of the Commune /
- Introduction: The Common and the Forms of the Commune ? Anna
Curcio and Ceren Özselçuk
- On the Common, Universality, and Communism: A Conversation
between / Étienne Balibar and Antonio Negri
- Subjectivity, Class, and Marx's “Forms of the
Commune” / Jack Amariglio
The Common and Its Production
- The Common in Communism / Michael Hardt
- Five Theses on the Common / Gigi Roggero
- A Common Word / Aras Özgün
Free Association/Means in Common
Commodity Fetishism and the Common
- Rethinking Socialism: Community, Democracy, and Social Agency /
Antonio Callari; David F. Ruccio
- The Common without Copies, the International without
Cosmopolitanism: Marx against the Romanticism of Likeness / Deborah
Jenson
- The Nature of the Common / Federico Luisetti
“Modes” of Community
- Engendering Feudalism: Modes of Production Revisited / S.
Charusheela
- On Producing (the Concept of) Solidarity / Kenneth Surin
- Pedagogies of the Common / Kathi Weeks
Difference in Common
- Translating Difference and the Common / Anna Curcio
- Jouissance and Antagonism in the Forms of the Commune: A
Critique ofBiopolitical Subjectivity / Yahya M. Madra; Ceren
Özselçuk
- Subjectivity and Visions of the Common / Alvaro Reyes
Review of
Radical Political Economics, 42(4): Fall 2010
Journal website: http://rrp.sagepub.com/
- Patrick Bond / Water, Health, and the Commodification Debate
- Rodney Edvinsson / A Tendency for the Rate of Profit to Fall?
From Primitive to Flexible Accumulation in Sweden 1800-2005
- Adalmir Marquetti, Eduardo Maldonado Filho, and Vladimir
Lautert / The Profit Rate in Brazil, 1953-2003
- Wonik Kim / Simultaneous Transitions: Democratization,
Neoliberalization, and Possibilities for Class Compromise in South
Korea
- Yavuz Yaşar / Gender, Development, and Neoliberalism: HIV/ AIDS
in Cambodia
- Benan Eres / Book
Review: Political Economy and Global Capitalism: The 21st Century,
Present and Future. Robert Albritton, Robert Jessop, and Richard
Westra, eds.; New York: Anthem, 2007
- James G. Devine / Book
Review: Beyond the World Bank Agenda: An Institutional Approach to
Development. Howard Stein; Chicago: University of Chicago, 2008,
334+xviii pp
- Donald R. Stabile /
- Book Review: A Measure of Fairness: The Economics of Living
Wages and Minimum Wages in the United States. Robert Pollin, Mark
Brenner, Jeanette Wicks-Lim, and Stephanie Luce; Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 2008. 312 pp., $59.95 hb, $22.50 pb
- Amit Basole / Book
Review: Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age.
Christian Fuchs; New York: Routledge, 2008. ISBN: 0415961327; 408 pp.
$95.00
- Ajit Sinha / Book
Review: The Economics of Karl Marx: Analysis and Application. Samuel
Hollander; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008, pp. 549
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“Rural
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Poverty” by Carlos Oya, Department of Development
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- A New
“Teachable” Moment?, by Marshall Auerback, Policy Note
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- How
Brazil Can Defend Against Financialization and Keep Its Economic
Surplus for Itself by Michael Hudson, Working Paper No. 634
- Immigrant
Parents’ Attributes versus Discrimination: New Evidence in the
Debate about the Creation of Second Generation Educational Outcomes in
Israel by Joel Perlmann and Yuval Elmelech, Working Paper No. 633
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Books and Book Series
Agriculture and Food in
Crisis: Conflict, Resistance, and Renewal
Edited by Fred Magdoff and Brian Tokar. Nov. 2010. Monthly Review
Press. ISBN: 978-1-58367-226-6
$18.95 paperback. 334 pages | wesite
This essential collection explores frightening long-term trends in food
production and investigates the implications of an agricultural system
that is oriented around the creation of profit above all else, with
food as nothing but an afterthought. It will serve as an indispensable
guide to the years ahead, in which world politics will no doubt come to
be increasingly understood as food politics.
Capital as Power: A Study of
Order and Creorder (Free Download)
by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler
In our book contract with Routledge, we gave up our royalties in return
for the publisher pricing the paperback at less than $40 and for
allowing us to post a free PDF copy 18 months after the original
publication date (May 22, 2009). In line with this agreement, the
complete book is now freely available in PDF format (subject to the
Creative Commons License).
FREE DOWNLOAD: http://bnarchives.yorku.ca/259/
http://www.fernwoodpublishing.ca/Class-Dynamics-of-Agrarian-Change-Henry-Bernstein/
Class Dynamics of Agrarian
Change
By Henry Bernstein. August 2010. Kumarian Press. Paperback: 978 1 56549
356 8 | website
Using Marx’s theory of capitalism, Class Dynamics of Agrarian
Change argues that class dynamics should be the starting point of any
analysis of agrarian change. It provides an accessible introduction to
agrarian political economy while showing clearly how the argument for
“bringing class back in” provides an alternative to
inherited conceptions of the agrarian question. It illustrates what is
at stake in different ways of thinking about class dynamics and the
effects of agrarian change in today’s globalized world.
The Crisis of Neoliberalism
By G. Duménil, D. Lévy. Harvard University Press, 2010.
Hardcover. ISBN 9780674049888
400 pages. | website
Economy, Culture and Human
Rights: Turbulence in Punjab, India and Beyond
By Pritam Singh. Nov. 2010. Three Essays
Collectives.
Hardcover, ISBN:
978-81-88789-62-7. Rs 600 / $40.00 |
website
Financial Liberalization and
Economic Performance: Brazil at the Crossroads
By Luiz Fernando de Paula. Hardback: 978-0-415-46009-5 – US$
130.00 |
website | Series:
Routledge
Studies in the Modern World Economy
‘The merit of the present book is that it surveys the theoretical
arguments for opening of both capital markets and foreign financial
institutions and assesses the empirical evidence. In addition it
provides an extensive analysis of one of the Latin American countries,
Brazil, that has been an assiduous follower of the Washington Consensus
in this regard. It opens a debate that should have taken place before
these policies were recommended across the board to developing
countries’ - Jan Kregel, Levy Institute
‘In this book Luiz Fernando de Paula makes a deep, as well as
broad, analysis of the experience with the process of financial
liberalization in Brazil. Not only does the book analyse the
theoretical and practical issues of financial liberalisation, but also
it is highly critical of it. (…) Anybody who wishes to acquire
full understanding of the Brazilian contemporary experience with
financial liberalisation should read this book’ - Philip Arestis,
Cambridge University
Food versus
Fuel
Edited by Frank Rosillo-Calle and Francis X. Johnson. Zed Books, priced
£14.99/$29.95 ISBN 9781848133839 | website
Keynes
Betrayed: The General Theory, the Rate of Interest and 'Keynesian'
Economics
By Geoff Tily.
Palgrave Mcmillan. Paperback available now | website.
Market as a Weapon: The
Socio-Economic Machinery of Dominance in Russia
By Anton Oleinik. November 2010. Transaction
Publishers. Hardcover. ISBN: 978-1-4128-1129-3. $59.95. 390 pp. |
website
Power is all-encompassing in Russia, and mediates most interactions
among people, including everyday decisions. Even the recent
administrative reforms in the country, which began at the end of the
1990s, have tried to reshape the government institutions and modernize
the country through the use of power. Changes were initiated and
implemented by people vested with power.
Power, convention, and trust can all support coordination. However,
in the Russian institutional context power tends not only to supplement
the alternative coordination mechanisms but also to substitute them.
Power can be used to solve problems related to social action by merging
two (or several) centers of decision-making into one. The actor vested
with power decides exactly how coordination and adjustment can be
achieved. This path-breaking volume shows how power turns into a unique
coordination mechanism and what are consequences of such transformation
for everyday life and businesses.
Market as a Weapon focuses on issues of power and domination using
the configuration of power relationships in Russia as a "critical
case," but goes far beyond a narrowly defined scope of country-specific
studies. Particular emphasis is put on domination by virtue of a
constellation interests in the market, since this is a relatively
underexplored yet broadly used technique for imposing will in all
countries that heavily rely on interventionist policies. Instead of
being a liberating force, the market becomes an additional instrument
facilitating the continuous reproduction of power, which explains the
title of the book.
Both qualitative and quantitative data, including more than one
hundred in-depth interviews with experts, state servants, and
businesspeople in Russia, as well as statistics, are used throughout
the text of this major book.
New
Perspectives on Anarchism, Labour and Syndicalism: The Individual, the
National and the Transnational
Edited by David Berry and Constance Bantman. Oct 2010. Cambridge and
Scholars Publishing. Isbn13: 978-1-4438-2393-7 | website
This collection presents exciting new research on the history of
anarchist movements and their relation to organised labour, notably
revolutionary syndicalism. Bringing together internationally
acknowledged authorities as well as younger researchers, all
specialists in their field, it ranges across Europe and from the late
nineteenth century to the beginnings of the Cold War. National
histories are revisited through transnational perspectives—on
Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Poland or Europe as a
whole—evidencing a great wealth of cross-border interactions and
reciprocal influences between regions and countries. Emphasis is also
placed on individual activist itineraries—whether of renowned
figures such as Errico Malatesta or of lesser-known yet equally
fascinating characters, whose trajectories offer fresh perspectives on
the complex interplay of regional and national political cultures,
evolving political ideologies, activist networks and the individual.
The volume will be of interest to specialists working on the history of
anarchism and/or trade unionism as well as the political or social
history of the countries concerned; but it will also be useful to
students and the general reader looking for discussion of the most
recent thinking on the historiography of labour and anarchist movements
or those wanting a comprehensive overview of the history of syndicalism.
Subalternity, Antagonism,
Autonomy: Marxisms and political Subjectivation
By Massimo Modonesi
Published by Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO),
Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) and Prometeo Editores.
PDF avaible http://bibliotecavirtual.clacso.org.ar/ar/libros/coedicion/modonessi.pdf
Massimo Modonesi was born in Rome in 1971, from 2000 is Professor of
Marxist Socio-political Theory at the Faculty of Social and Political
Sciences of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
(UNAM) where
is also Coordinator of the Center of Sociological Studies. Director
of the review OSAL of CLACSO (Latinoamerican Council of Social
Sciences). Author of La crisis histórica de la izquierda
socialista mexicana (2003) and El Partido de la Revolución
Democrática (2009), editor of El comunismo: otras miradas desde
América Latina (2007); La autonomía posible.
Reinvención de la política y emancipación (2010)
and Una década en movimiento. Luchas populares en América
Latina (2010).
Wage Policy, Income
Distribution, and Democratic Theory
By Oren M Levin-Waldman. Oct. 2010. Routledge. Hardback. ISBN:
978-0-415-77971-5. 240 pages | Series: Routledge
Frontiers of Political Economy | website
This book explores the relationship between wage policy, distribution
of income, and ultimately how that distribution impacts on democratic
theory. In doing so, it examines the types of policies that are
critical to the maintenance of a sustainable democracy. Wage policy,
long the domain of economists (particularly neoclassical economists
whose focus has been their impact on labour markets and income
distribution), has largely been ignored by democratic theorists.
Levin-Waldman argues that because wage policy can shape overall income
distribution, it has a significant effect on equality levels and is
therefore core to democratic theory. Its potential to enhance
individual autonomy, which is a necessary condition for democratic
participation, is another reason why wage policy should be at the
centre of democratic theory.
Heterodox
Book Reviews
The
Methodology of Positive Economics: Reflections on the Milton Friedman
Legacy
Edited by Uskali Mäki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2009. xviii + 363 pp. $48 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-521-68686-0.
Reviewed for EH.NET by
Julian Reiss, Department of Philosophy, Erasmus University. Read the
review here.
The History of the Social
Sciences since 1945
Edited by Roger Backhouse and Philippe Fontaine. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 2010. x + 256 pp.
$26 (paperback), ISBN: 978-0-521-71776-2.
Reviewed for EH.NET by
Philip Mirowski, Department of Economics and Policy Studies, University
of Notre Dame. Read the review here.
Marx and Philosophy Review
of Books
New reviews just published online in the Marx and
Philosophy Review of Books
- Barry Healy on Marx at the Margins
- Jeffery Nicholas on revolutionary Aristotelianism
- Gideon Calder on MacIntyre’s Marxism
- Benoit Dillet on Esposito
- Sara Farris on Reinhard Marx
- Jonathan Dettman on Negative Aesthetics
And a new list of books for review all at www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviewofbooks/
Historical Materialism:
Books for Review
Find a lit of books for review for HM: http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/historical-materialism/journal/books-for-review/books-to-be-reviewed
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Programs and Scholarships
IREX: Short-Term Travel
Grants Program
IREX is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted
for the 2011-2012 Short-Term Travel Grants (STG) Program. STG provides
fellowships to US scholars and professionals to engage in up to eight
weeks of overseas research on contemporary political, economic,
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The STG application is now available online at:
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Completed applications are due no later than 5 pm EST on February 2,
2011. Postdoctoral Scholars and Professionals with advanced degrees are
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STG is funded by the United States Department of State Title VIII
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PhD
opportunities in HET/methodology at City University London
Dear colleagues
May I draw to your attention the possibility of reading for a PhD
in the history and/or philosophy of economics at City University
London. My current student has submitted his thesis – on
the history of national income accounting – and there is thus a
vacancy. More information on the process may be seen at http://www.city.ac.uk/research/resdegrees/studentships.html
. A number of University and Departmental studentships will be
available for good applicants on a (highly) competitive basis.
Part-time study is also a possibility.
Some illustrative topics:
- The evolution of Hayek’s monetary theory
- The micro and the macro of the labour theory of value
- Keynes’s wartime vision of the post-war international
financial system
- The methodology of orthodox and heterodox economics
- Rhetoric and pluralism
- 18th century providentialism
Please do ask potential candidates to send me an email: a.denis@city.ac.uk
Regards
Dr Andy Denis
Director of Undergraduate Studies
Economics Department
City University London
London EC1V 0HB
+44 (0)20 7040 0257
http://www.staff.city.ac.uk/andy.denis
Heterodox
Web Sites and Associates
Marx Dialectical Studies
Marx Dialectical Studies is a cultural institute with two main
goals. Our association is conceived as a reference point for those who
mean to inquiry into Marx's thought with solid philological background
(MEGA2) and critical methodology (dialectics). In a first period, our
acticity will mainly be on the internet and will focus on book and
article reviews. Later, classes and seminars dedicated to Marx, Hegel
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Site WEB sur les modèles SFC
Je voulais vous signaler la naissance d'un site WEB consacré
à la modélisation STOCK FLUX COHÉRENTE. Gennaro
Zezza en est le créateur. Vous y trouverez notamment tous les
programmes EVIEWS correspondants aux différents modèles
de tous les chapitres de l'ouvrage de Godley-Lavie, Monetary Economics.
Ce site en est à ses débuts mais il va largement se
développer avec l'idée de permettre de coordonner et de
faire avancer nos différentes approches pour construire une
alternative post-keynésienne à la modélisation
orthodoxe (vaste programme en effet...). Si chacun faisait avancer ces
modèles dans sa spécialité en utilisant des bases
communes, nous progresserions tous et nous gagnerions du temps et de la
cohérence dans nos présentations et nos publications.
Cela a d'ailleurs toujours été la volonté du
regretté Wynne Godley et de l'heureusement toujours vif Marc
Lavoie.
A bientôt pour de nouvelles aventures!
L'adresse est : http://sfc-models.net
Heterodox Economics in
the Media
Germany’s Austerity
Obsession Speeds up a Euro Showdown
Letter to the Financial Times by Joerg Bibow,
here.
Queries
from Heterodox Economists
SAFER and
the Fight for Progressive Financial Reform: It's Time for Round II and
We Need Your Help
The need for a major overhaul of the US financial system became
glaringly apparent in the wake of the threat of a systemic collapse in
the fall of 2008. Heterodox economists - many of whom had warned about
the impending crisis and had already published articles and papers
proposing reforms - recognized that it was imperative that their voices
be heard in the upcoming debates as a counterweight to the well-funded
efforts of financial industry lobbyists. In the late summer of 2009,
the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of
Massachusetts/Amherst launched a Committee of Economists for Stable,
Accountable, Fair and Efficient Financial Reform (SAFER) to help
further the views of the heterodox community. Supported by a generous
grant from the Nathan Cummings Foundation, Jerry Epstein and Jane
D'Arista organized an inaugural conference on September 11 and 12
attended by more than twenty members to discuss the policy issues and
plot the course for the group going forward.
One of the objectives of the group was to amass a set of materials that
could be posted on the SAFER website and distributed to Members of
Congress and other interested participants in the reform process. A
visit to our website (
http://www.periumass.edu/safer/)
shows how very successful we were in meeting that objective and in
gaining traction for heterodox views and proposals as reflected in
wider attention for our members in the media, in Congress and
elsewhere.
In the fall of 2009 we also made a successful strategic decision to
ally SAFER with the remarkable group of over 250 organizations that
make up Americans for Financial Reform (AFR). Members of AFR include
consumer, employee, investor, community, small business and civil
rights groups. What they lack in funding, compared to the financial
lobbyists, they make up in the number of voters they represent and in
the commitment to financial reform that can serve American workers and
communnities. We made ourselves available to them as expert consultants
and joined in reading and commenting on the endless amendments that
shaped the legislation as it moved through the House and Senate. Our
alliance with AFR facilitated our ability to participate in and
contribute to discussions with critical Senators and their staff who
worked tirelessly to insert more progressive proposals into the debate
as the bill moved to adoption.
Nevertheless, most of us are disappointed in the outcome of the
financial reform process so far and agree that, as a result of
Administration opposition, bank lobbying and the destructive role of
money in the political process, the Dodd-Frank Act is not up to the
task of preventing the next financial meltdown. It also fails to ensure
that the financial system will serve socially productive purposes such
as directing credit to real investment in needed areas. At the same
time, as SAFER member Bill Greider noted in The Nation, "This is not
the end of reform; it's the beginning of a promising struggle to cut
the financial sector down to tolerable dimensions and reduced
power....Think of this as Round One. We witnessed a surprisingly strong
preview of Round Two in the aggressive reforms pushed by some
Democratic Senators. These proposals could someday - maybe sooner than
we imagine - constitute the platform for authentic reordering of the
banking system" ("It's Going to Take a While to Bring Wall Street Under
Heel", The Nation, July 2, 2010).
Of course, "Round Two" is going to be extremely difficult and complex.
An important part of the bankers' strategy to scuttle reform was to
prevent bright lines and tough, clear and strict rules as we and many
others proposed. Instead, the Dodd-Frank Act deliberately left most of
the details of the key reforms up in the air, to be decided by rule
makings and studies in over 11 different domestic agencies and overseas
bodies like the Basel Committee on Banking Reform. Indeed, the Act
calls for an estimated 243 rulemakings and 67 studies with some rules
to be phased in over as many as 12 years.
How all this turns out depends on the balance of forces in the fight.
The banks and financial lobbyists are strong, well organized and
lavishly funded while key progressive forces that fought for reform -
including the crucial Americans for Financial Reform (AFR) - have
experienced an erosion of funding and, thus, of staff. Nevertheless,
SAFER and other reform groups will continue to provide our expertise in
assessing the impacts of key provisions, submitting comments on rule
proposals and providing critical feedback on studies. Key rules we will
monitor include derivatives, establishing the Volcker Rule to ban
proprietary trading, defining capital and liquidity requirements as
well as metrics to measure risks arising from leverage,
interconnectedness and embedded leverage in risky products. But, given
the massive number of hired hands the other side has to provide
comments and influence the direction of rule proposals, we believe that
one of the key tasks facing SAFER is to mobilize additional networks of
experts that can weigh in as well.
To help us accomplish this phase of our mission, we are expanding the
SAFER network to other economists, lawyers, financial analysts, former
regulators and practitioners, young scholars and others with expertise
in this area. We hope members of URPE who have not participated so far
will join in the effort and will also send names and contact
information for people they think we should reach out to. This will be
a tough fight with odds stacked heavily against us but we have all
learned much in the struggle so far and have a clearer idea about what
needs to be done. Unwilling to waste all that hard-won knowledge, we
plan to continue and hope many others in the heterodox community will
join us. If you are interested please contact us at:
Jane D'Arista (jane.darista@snet.net),
Jerry Epstein (gepstein@econs.umass.edu)
and Jennifer Taub (jtaub@som.umass.edu),
Co-coordinators, SAFER
For Your
Information
EuroMemorandum: Confronting
the Crisis: Austerity or Solidarity
Dear friends and colleagues,
With this email we are sending you the text of the EuroMemorandum
2010/11 with the title:
Confronting the Crisis: Austerity or Solidarity
This EuroMemorandum was formulated on the basis of discussions at the
16th Workshop on Alternative Economic Policy in Europe. The first part
outlines the key economic, social and environmental developments in
Europe; the second part is a critique of the policies adopted by the
European authorities; and the third part is a contribution to the
critical debate about possible alternatives.
If you are in broad agreement with the main lines of argumenht of this
year's EuroMemorandum, we ask you to express your support.
In order to submit your declaration of support to the EuroMemo Group,
please fill in the declaration of support at the end of this email or
in the attachment, and send it back via email to euromemo@uni-bremen.de or by
fax to ++49-421-218-2680 by Wednesday, 22 December 2010.
The text of the EuroMemorandum 2010/11 will be published by the end of
December, together with the list of signatories. Last year's
EuroMemorandum was signed by more than 300 economists from all over
Europe and abroad.
Please feel free to distribute the EuroMemorandum 2010/11 widely, thank
you very much for your support,
Best wishes,
the EuroMemo Group Steering Committee
Wlodzimierz Dymarski, Miren Etxezarreta, Trevor Evans, Marica
Frangakis, John Grahl, Jacques Mazier, Mahmood Messkoub, Werner Raza,
Catherine Sifakis, Diana Wehlau and Frieder Otto Wolf
Veblen-Commons
Award Announcement
I would like to make a few announcements regarding the AFEE awards
and honorary titles being given for the 2011 Denver Conference. I am
delighted to announce that this year’s recipients of the
Veblen-Commons Award are Geoff C. Harcourt and Jan Kregel.
Click here for the bios. The award luncheon
and their presentations will be held Friday January 7, 2011 in Hyatt
Regency Capitol 4 room.
If you would like to attend this event you will need to register,
which you can either do online on the AFEE website or by printing out
and mailing in your reservation form. Click here to make your reservation for the
Veblen-Commons Award Luncheon.
Please Note: If you are using the online ordering and want to add
both entrées to your order select one then in the PayPal cart
click the button "Continue Shopping" then select the next entrée
and click the "Add to Cart" button.
If you need extra quantities of the entrées you have
selected you may increase the amount in the PayPal cart before you
complete your order. The deadline for registering is December
10th. Reservation cancellations will not be accepted after Dec.
17th.
November 29, 2010
Eric R. Hake, Secretary
AFEE
Call for
Nominations: ESHET Young Scholar Award 2011
The ESHET Young Scholar of the Year Award is a new award established in
2009. This prize recognizes scholarly achievements of historians of
economic thought at an early stage of their career. The prize is
normally awarded to scholars below the age of 40 in recognition of
outstanding publications in the history of economic thought. The prize
will consist of a five-year membership of ESHET , a waivering of the
conference fee when the prize is awarded, and a certificate signed by
the President of ESHET
Nominations should be sent as soon as possible, but not later than
January 31, 2011 to the Chair of the panel Joachim Zweynert (zweynert@hwwi.org)
and include:
(1) A one-page resume stating the
achievements of the candidate
(2) A CV with list of publications.
The final decision on each of the prizes will be made by the Council of
ESHET in Istanbul, where the Annual Meeting of ESHET takes place next
year (19-22 May 2011). As for all ESHET-Prizes, self-nominations are
not accepted.
URPE (at ASSA) Reality Tour:
Organizing Day Laborers
Thursday, 6 January 2011, 3:00-5:30 p.m.
URPE Reality Tour — Organizing the Unorganized: El Centro
Humanitario and Immigrant Day Laborers
Allied Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado
El Centro Humanitario para los Trabajadores is a unique workers’
center that organizes the poorest and most vulnerable immigrant workers
such as immigrant day laborers and domestic workers. Founded in 2002 by
day laborers themselves to prevent worker exploitation, El Centro
offers local responses to brutal forces of globalization through direct
organizing of the unorganized, policy advocacy and development of
worker owned co-ops. The goal of these initiatives is to empower and
improve the lives of under-served immigrants.
This Reality Tour will take URPE members to El Centro, just a short
distance from the downtown conference hotels. Following a short film
about the work of the center, there will be a presentation by and open
discussion with day laborers and staff on El Centro’s leading
campaigns: domestic worker organizing, a wage theft initiative,
immigrant day laborer organizing and a worker owned green cleaning
co-op movement that is underway in Denver.
The tour will be led by El Centro co-founder Minsun Ji and by URPE
member George DeMartino of the University of Denver.
Registration:
Those who would like to join the tour should register by December 20rth
by sending the $20 registration fee to Pat Duffy at URPE, Gordon Hall,
University of Massachusetts, 418 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst, MA 01002
(please make checks payable to “URPE”).
For more information about the Tour, please contact George
DeMartino<mailto:george.demartino@du.edu?subject=UPRE%
20Reality%20Tour>.
The URPE reality tours are intended to help conference attendees get
out of the conference hotels and into the cities where the ASSAs take
place.
George DeMartino
Professor and Co-Diretor Program in GFTEI
Josef Korbel School of Int'l Studies
University of Denver
Denver, CO 80208, USA
303-871-2546
george.demartino@du.edumailto:george.demartino@du.edu