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Editorial

Like many heterodox economists, my [TJ's] new year began with the ASSA meetings in Chicago. It was very nice to meet many old and new friends. There were so many interesting heterodox sessions and activities. In particular, those young (and young-at-heart) heterodox economists who attended the Pedagogy and Course Design Workshop organized by Geoffrey Schneider (along with the support from heterodox journals and associations) told me that it was a well-organized and most helpful workshop. Hope we can have a similar or even better workshop at the next ASSA meeting in San Diego (see early calls for papers for the 2013 ASSA meetings here--HES, LERA, and URPE). About a year ago, a number of heterodox economists endorsed a letter urging that ''the AEA create and then promote adherence to a professional code of ethics that at a minimum requires transparency with respect to potential conflicts of interest'' (see the letter here). In response to the letter the AEA Executive Committee announced on January 5, 2012 that AEA ''adopted extensions to its principles for authors’ disclosures of potential conflicts of interest in the AEA’s publications.'' See the press release on this here.   There have been some very interesting pieces on heterodox economics in the mainstream media.  In particular, The Economist magazine ran a long article that included a look at Austrian economics, the so-called Market Monetarist approach, and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) or what they labeled Neo-Chartalism, where Warren Mosler and UMKC were featured prominently.  MMT in particular has been getting a lot of coverage in the Blogosphere. You can find links to some of these interesting discussions in the media section and debates on Randy Wray's blog. Lastly, we'd like call your attention to our own efforts to organize a heterodox economic activity taking place at Buffalo State College on March 2nd. It is a workshop and a public lecture devoted to heterodox microeconomics. Both events are free and open to the public. We hope many heterodox economists in the region can join us. If you are interested, contact Tae-Hee at taeheejo@gmail.com. Happy new year to all and we wish we have many exciting news for heterodox economists around the world! In solidarity, Tae-Hee Jo and Ted Schmidt, Editors Email: heterodoxnews@gmail.com Website: http://heterodoxnews.com

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5-9, July 2012 | Paris, France | Conference Website

Antecedents of the Present Crisis

Organizer: Simon Mohun and John Weeks

1973 is often described as the end of the 'golden age' (although it had been ending for some time prior to that) and the 1970s were a period of considerable turmoil. In retrospect the 70s appear as a period of transition to the era that began at the end of the decade. But was there a crisis in the 1970s? If so, what was it a crisis of and how did it play out? If not, why not, and how is continuity between the 1970s and the 1980s to be understood? We call for papers that specifically relate to these themes.

Please send an abstract of around 250 words by January 27, 2012 to Simon Mohun at s.mohun@qmul.ac.uk.

Poverty Working Group

Organizer: George Labrinidis

 

While the crisis in the EU is unfolding and the recession in the US is persisting, poverty is becoming a reality or a threat for more and more people. Nevertheless, while absolute poverty is the most telling aspect of poverty, research in approaching this aspect is left aside. The Poverty Working Group encourages contributions which shed light on the theoretical approach of absolute poverty, on social needs and the relative level of their satisfaction and the construction of a poverty threshold based on this level.  Additionally, welcome is critique of mainstream relative poverty approaches.  In particular, contributions on the following issues are encouraged, always in accordance with the general call for papers:

• Theoretical approach of the needs of housing, nutrition, clothing and footwear, transportation, health, education, childcare and leisure related needs
• Measurement of those needs, or aspects of them in a given historical and social framework
• The standard of living in general or in particular
• The value of labour power as a useful approach of the poverty threshold, under relative conditions

June 20-22, 2012 | University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK | website

Towards an Ethical Economy and Economics

Social economics, with its focus on social values, social interactions, and ethics, is particularly well suited to provide insightful analyses on the present state of economics as a discipline and on the state of the world economy. The international financial crisis, the European sovereign debt crisis, and increasing inequalities throughout the world raise important social and ethical issues concerning the interactions of governments, financial institutions, individuals, communities, and the economics profession. Social economics offers valuable alternative evaluations of economic activity that lead toward a more ethical and sustainable economy and a more relevant economics.

We welcome proposals for complete sessions and for individual papers – conceptual, applied and empirical – related to the theme of the conference as well as in all areas of social economics. Some topics for discussion might include:

• What is meant by an ‘ethical economics’ and an ‘ethical economic system’?
• What does an increased awareness of the ethics of economic activities imply for social relations and values and for economics?
• What are the manifestations of an ethical economy in terms of: corporate social responsibility; sustainable consumption; economic organisation, such as co-operatives, and the structure of finance, such as regulation, micro-finance, mutualisation, and credit unions?
• What are the relationships between an ethical economy and social capital? Does a high incidence of social capital ensure an ethical economy and ethical economic activities? What does an ethical economy mean for the “third sector” and social enterprise? Does it relate to the UK Prime Minister’s (David Cameron) notion of the “Big Society”?
• What does an ethical economy imply for economic performance? What are the measures of performance and well-being in an ethical economy? Would an ethical economy be more equal? If so, in what respects?
• What does an ethical economy imply for the distribution of income and of wealth, both within a country and among countries?
• What are the relations between an ethical economy and a green economy?
• What are the social and ethical responsibilities of economics and of economists?
• What are the macroeconomic manifestations of ethical considerations – what is an ethical fiscal policy? to what extent is the conventional wisdom concerning sovereign debt crises correct?

Abstract Submissions
To submit a proposal please send an abstract of about 400 words for a paper and/or a proposal of about 600 words for a session, together with the abstracts of the session papers, no later than February 1, 2012. Please include the title of the session or the paper, the authors’ names and institutional affiliations, and contact information in the form of an e-mail address for the corresponding author.

Information pertaining to Submissions of Abstract Proposals can be found on the ASE website at www.socialeconomics.org. Submissions should be made no later than February 1, 2012.

Keynote Speakers

• Tony Atkinson, Department of Economics, Nuffield College, Oxford University
• Ben Fine, Professor of Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

 

ASSA 2013 (US)

San Diego | January 4-6, 2013

HES at ASSA 2013

URPE at ASSA 2013

LERA at ASSA 2013

September 28-30, 2012 | York University, Toronto | website
A Conference of the Forum on Capital as Power

Abstract Submission Deadline: June 30, 2012

With the global crisis lingering, many now wonder how capital has become so powerful, and what should be done about it. Although we are eager to provide answers, the problem starts with the question itself: what exactly do we mean by 'capital', and what does it mean to say that capital is 'powerful'? The difficulty lies in the fractured nature of modern social science – both its conventional division into numerous disciplines, including economics, politics, sociology, international relations, and culture, and the habitual bifurcation of the economy itself into real and nominal spheres. These fractures create conceptual rifts: they place most aspects of power outside the economic process, and they portray capitalization as a fictitious mirror of an economic reality located in production.

The theory of Capital as Power removes these fissures by abolishing the disciplinary divisions between economics, politics, and other disciplines, as well as the economic bifurcation of the real and nominal. In doing so, the theory puts power at the centre of analysis and examines finance as the main algorithm of capitalist power. The goal is to decipher the conversion of qualities to quantities: to theorize and research how the qualities of power – the multifaceted interactions of command and obedience, force and submission, violence and resistance – are universalized and discounted to the quantities of capitalization.

We are calling for theoretical, empirical, and historical papers to engage critically with questions such as the following. How does power bear on accumulation, and how does it get capitalized? How has capitalization evolved and mutated? What are the qualitative forms of power in capitalism, and how do they compare to those that characterized earlier modes of power? What are the historical roots of capital as power? Do these roots alter the way we understand the origins of capitalism? How does capitalism convert qualities into quantities? What are the limits of capitalized power? How is capitalized power resisted and opposed? Can it be reformed or overthrown? Can these questions be addressed by mainstream and heterodox theories of capitalism – and if so, how do their answers differ from those offered by the theory of capital as power?

We are also interested in concrete areas of inquiry related to these broader questions. Suggested topics include:

• Capitalist power and labour – from proletarianization and wages to productivity and organization;
• International and regional relations and the capitalization of power;
• Capitalist and democratic accounting, including the history of discounting and its possible alternatives;
• Power and price formation – from local to global markets;
• The state as a locus of capitalization – from taxes and the law to ideology and violence;
• The role of capitalist power in contemporary crises;
• Capitalized power and nature – from genetic engineering, to energy, to the biosphere;
• Comparative modes of power: ancient and feudal, communist and fascist, capitalist and beyond;
• Capital as Power versus 'primitive accumulation' – dispossession, co-option and genocide;
• The power dimensions of 'immaterial' capitalism – from leisure and fear to knowledge and ideology;
• The psychology of capitalist power;
• Alternative visions for a de-capitalized society.

The conference will comprise two parts: public presentations open to all (day one), followed by a closed workshop for the conference participants (days two and three). The workshop will consist of longer presentations, allowing more time for debate, discussion and contemplation. Participants should be prepared to present in either part, depending on the allocation made by the organizers. Please email abstracts of 250 words to: casp.york@gmail.com. The deadline for abstract submissions is June 30, 2012.

 

Communication, Crisis, and Critique in Contemporary Capitalism (Spain)

October 18-20, 2012 | University of the Basque Country, Bilbao, Spain | CFP

Conference of the European Sociological Association’s Research Network 18 - Sociology of Communications and Media Research

Keynote Talk: Prof. Peter Golding (Northumbria University, UK) – Why a Sociologist should take Communications and Media Seriously

Abstract
In the presentation of this paper, Peter Golding will reflect on why the study of communications and media demands the insights and methods of sociology, and why RN18 therefore is an appropriate network within the European Sociological Association. He will present reflections on how such key sociological concerns as inequality, identity, power, and change are at the heart of the questions we should be posing in addressing the nature and role of the media as institutions and communications as a social process. The paper will also address how far changes in the technologies of media and communications alter, or should alter, our approach to generating research and insight in this field. Peter Golding is pro-vice chancellor of research & innovation at Northumbria University, founder and honorary chair of ESA RN18.

Call for Submissions and Participation
We are living in times of global capitalist crisis that require rethinking the ways we organize society, communication, the media, and our lives. The current crisis seems to a certain degree be different compared to previous ones, among other reasons due to the role of mediated communication and information in establishing/changing economic, political, and social relations as well as the crisis itself. The crisis can also be seen as crisis of what has been called consumer capitalism or informational capitalism. More precisely it has resulted on the one hand in a hyperneoliberal intensification of neo-conservative policies and on the other hand in the emergence of new popular movements that are critical of the commodification of everything and demand the strengthening of society’s commons. The second movement has in the social sciences been accompanied by a renewed interest in critical studies, the critique and analysis of class and capitalism, and critical political economy. The overall goal of this conference is to foster scholarly presentations, networking, and exchange on the question of which transitions media and communication and media sociology are undergoing in contemporary society. The conference particularly welcomes contributions that are inspired by sociological theories, critical studies, and various strands and traditions of the critical study of media & society.

Questions that can be covered by presentations include, but are not limited to:

• What is a crisis? What forms of crisis are there? How do they relate to capitalism and communication?
• How have the media presented the crisis? Which similarities and differences in crisis reporting are there between different media (television, press, and new media) or between media in different countries?
• How has the crisis affected various media and cultural industries? What is the role of changing media technology in the economic crisis? How has the media economy changed since the start of the crisis in 2008? How have advertising investments, profits, market values, etc developed in the media economy since the start of the crisis? How has the global expansion of media industries been reshaped by the crisis and what is the future of global media and news agencies? What changes can be traced in the production of news and other media content? Are there changes in the nature of media products?

• What is the role of media and communication technologies in the financialization, acceleration, and globalization of the capitalist economy? How can a post-crisis media economy look like? How has advertising favoured a climate of private consumer debt?
• What are the ideological implications of the crisis for mediascapes? Which ideological discourses do companies, CEOs, managers, or neoliberal politicians use for justifying their interests, lay-offs, high bonuses, inequalities, etc and how are these discourses represented by the media or in strategic company reports? How are hyper-neoliberal crisis policy responses (“socialism for the rich and capitalism for the poor” in the form of bank bail outs and budget cuts in areas like welfare, education, social security, health care, etc) ideologically justified and how do the media represent such ideologies? What is the role of finance capital in the media and cultural industries? Which hegemonic, alternative, or contradictory interpretations and reception practices of media content that relates to the crisis are there? Which ideologies and myths underlie the capitalist crisis?
• What is the role of media, communication, critical journalism, and alternative media in contemporary uproars, riots, rebellions, social movements, protests, demonstrations, and revolutions?

• How do identities and mediated identities change in times of crisis? How should one think about the relationship of economy and culture in light of the capitalist crisis? What is the relationship of class and identities and of politics of redistribution and recognition today? How do we have to rethink and reshape the relation between political economy and cultural studies in the light of capitalist crisis in order to adequately study the media and communication?
• How is the public sphere changing in the light of the global crisis? What are perspectives for politics, participation, and democracy today and how do these perspectives relate to the media and communication? Is the role of media in democracy changing? If so, how? Are media a distinct player in politics? If the established media form an estate of power in democracy, do we today new a new estate of power? If so, how could it look like?
• What are the causes, realities, and consequences of the commodification of the communication commons? What are alternatives to the commodification of the communication commons? How can one strengthen and create public media and commons-based forms of communication? What are the relationships and differences between the commodity logic, the gift logic, and the logic of public goods and how do these logics shape the media?
• How do contemporary societal trends, such as integration, diversity and conflicts in Europe and the world, transnationalism and networking, digitization, informatization, globalization, glocalization, prosumption, neoliberalism, privatization and commodification, migration, racism, changing gender relations, consumer and advertising culture, warfare, terrorism, the new imperialism, surveillance, social movement protests, global societal risks, the strengthening of right-wing extremist and fascist movements, or the anti-corporate movement and other movements, shape media and communication and how do media and communication in turn shape society in times of crisis and transition?
• What are the tasks, roles, responsibilities, and identities of the sociology of media and communication in a society that is facing deep crisis? What is the actual or potential role of critique, ethics, struggles, counter-power, resistance, protest, civil society, and social movements in contemporary societies and contemporary communications?
• What are the major trends that shape contemporary society and how are these trends related to mediated communication and knowledge production? In what society do we live? What society do we desire to have? What forms of media and communication do we find in contemporary society? What forms of media and communication do we desire and how must society change in order to achieve these goals?
• What are the major trends in respect to crisis, communication, and critique in Europe? What are the major trends in respect to crisis, communication, and critique in other parts of the world?
• How do different companies and organizations make use of different information transmission technologies? What is the role of high speed financial flows and associated transmission networks in the finance industry? How (in)visible are these flows?

Submission
An abstract of 200-250 words should be sent to Dr. Romina Surugiu, University of Bucharest, at the following e-mail address: bilbao.conference@yahoo.com. Please insert the words Bilbao in the subject. The deadline for abstract submission is May 31st, 2012.

The Food Crisis: Implications for Decent Work in Rural and Urban Areas (Germany)

The International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) Annual Thematic Conference
University of Kassel, Kassel, Germany | July 4-6


In recent years, food prices have gone up to prohibitive levels for many of the world’s poor. They have remained high and volatile. While many poor city dwellers have had to switch their diets to include only very basic foods, the vast majority of those who are hungry in the world today (over half a billion) are working in agriculture, either as small landholders or as waged agricultural workers. This paradox has sparked a lively debate about the reasons for food price increases. However, the implications for the Decent Work agenda have received less attention. The four dimensions of the Decent Work concept (creating jobs, guaranteeing rights at work, extending social protection and promoting social dialogue) do not explicitly cover the issue of rising food prices. On the one hand, price increases for the most basic household items threaten any gains achieved through the Decent Work agenda. On the other hand, increased food prices may in principle provide an opportunity for agricultural labour, yet the majority of the food producers seem not to have benefited from rising prices. Apparently, the bargaining power of many producers has been weakened vis-à-vis the buyers of agricultural produce. This development points to another dimension not explicitly addressed by the Decent Work agenda: power relations along the food chain. The International Center for Development and Decent Work (ICDD) wants to commit its Annual Thematic Conference “The Food Crisis: Implications for Decent Work in Rural and Urban Areas” to an exploration of the origins of the food crisis, its implications for the Decent Work agenda, and strategies for addressing the crisis.

The general themes to be discussed are: Assessing the Scope of the Food Crisis: Is there a rural – urban divide? What is the impact on workers and small landholders? What are the implications for the Decent Work agenda? Origins of the Food Crisis: Financialization, land grabbing, climate change and soil degradation, agribusiness, agro-fuels, EU trade policies, demography, productivity obstacles, and other relevant topics. Remedies for the Food Crisis: Increasing agricultural productivity, improving logistics, empowering agricultural workers, food sovereignty, and other relevant topics.

We encourage potential contributors to include a gender-sensitive analysis whenever possible.

If you would like to present a paper in one of these areas, please send a brief abstract (less than half a page) by April 1, 2012 to: ATC2012Kassel@icdd.uni-kassel.de

Please include the following information:

• Name:
• Country:
• Organization:

25-6 April, 2012 | Loughborough University, UK

 

Background: Global capitalism is again facing a popular backlash in advanced countries, focused upon the disparities between the ‘1 per cent’ – largely associated with the finance sector – and the rest of the Global population. Yet there is still little consensus about the effects of globalisation upon income distribution – either within countries or between countries. Rising inequality in the Anglo-Saxon countries, and increasing unemployment in continental Europe, led to a political backlash against global trade in the 1990s. However, traditional analyses, based upon the neoclassical model of the global economy, failed to finda link to trade with developing countries, since traded commodity prices did not seem to be shifting. In addition, inequality was also rising within many developing countries, which was contrary to the simple version of the Stolper-Samuelson theorem. More recent analyses, based upon intra- and inter-firm trade, outsourcing and networking, have suggested that these early conclusions may have been premature. It is argued that many effects initially attributed to technological progress may, in fact, reflect selective outsourcing of certain labour-intensive processes. In addition, global financial liberalisation has led to strong shifts in costs of, access to and returns to finance in different parts of the World, whose effects on inequalities have not fully been explored. The role of the finance sector – both in terms of its extreme concentrations of income on the highest earners, and in terms of its alleged failure to support development among poorer groups – is at the heart of current debate.

 

Call for papers on the themes of:

 

Keynote speakers:

 

Submission of papers: The url to submit papers to GPEN2012 via Conference Maker is https://editorialexpress.com/conference/GPEN2012

 

Deadline for extended abstracts. 10 February 2012.

Authors of accepted papers to be informed by 9 March 2012.

Registration, payment and submission of full paper by 23 March, 2012.

Conference fee £130. Conference dinner an extra £30.

It is intended to submit a selection of papers to a journal special issue.
More information will follow.

Special issue editors: Elizabeth Humphrys, Peter Waterman, Alice Mattoni, Ana Margarida Esteves
Journal website: http://www.interfacejournal.net/

Once, the labour movement was seen as the international social movement for the left (and it was the spectre haunting capitalism). Over the last century, however, labour movements have been transformed. In most of the world membership rates have dwindled, and many act in defence of, or simply provide services to, their members in the spirit of interest or lobbying groups. Labour was once a broad social movement including cooperatives, socialist parties, women’s and youth wings, press and publications, cultural production and sporting clubs. Often it was at the core of movements for democracy or national independence, even of social revolution. Despite the rhetoric of ‘socialism’, ‘class and mass trade unionism’ or, alternatively, technocratic ‘organising strategies’, most union movements internationally operate strictly within the parameters of capitalism and the ideology of ‘social partnership’ (i.e. with and under capital and state).

Elizabeth Humphrys

Oceania & South-East Asia Editor

lizhumphrys@me.com

March 16-18 2012 | Pace University, US | website
Occupy The System: Confronting Global Capitalism

Deadline extended to January 31, 2012

Beginning with the celebrated Arab Spring and the explosive revolts in Greece and beyond uprisings against dictators, crony capitalism, corporate greed and neo-liberal state austerity regimes have spread across the globe. Tactical innovation in the new movements from Tahrir Square to Madison, Wisconsin are breaking down old barriers in the fight for a better future for the world’s people and the planet.

Although it has been a long time coming, the Occupy Wall Street movement’s message is clear: one percent of people living in the wealthiest nation in the world have grabbed most of the country’s wealth and used it to corrupt politics, while unemployment, mortgage foreclosures, strangling student debt and rising poverty grip the rest of the population. The world is changing, the people are rising, and new possibilities for the Left are emerging.

Against this inspiring background, the Left Forum will host its annual conference at Pace University on the weekend of March 16-18, 2012. As it has done for many years, the conference will gather civil libertarians, environmentalists, anarchists, socialists, communists, trade unionists, black and Latino freedom fighters, feminists, anti-war activists, students and people struggling against unemployment, foreclosure, inadequate housing and deteriorating schools from among those active in the U.S. and many other countries, as well. We will again share our activities and perspectives with special attention to all that has changed in 2011 and what it means for the prospects of progressive change in 2012 and beyond.

Once a year, the Left Forum creates a space to analyze the great political questions of our times. Activists, intellectuals, trade unionists, movement-builders and others come together to identify new strategies for broadening the anti-corporate capitalist movement. In the wake of a persistent crisis of the international economic and political system, a new left politics in the United States and around the world is taking shape. Will the mass movements in Egypt, Greece, Latin America, the United States and elsewhere further extend their participatory democratic, community-building, non-capitalist, and caring forms of struggle into the institutions of everyday life? Will the movements confront and disrupt the complicity of neo-liberal state elites with corporate capital? Are there alternatives to the increasingly brutal capitalist system on the horizon? Join us in exploring such questions and moving forward left agendas for social change.

 

Opening Plenary Session includes:

 

Early registration discounts are available for a limited time (e.g., students: $10)

 

For information on panel submissions go to "www.leftforum.org", click "submit panels button."

 

To see panels from last year’s conference go to "www.leftforum.org", click "past events" and choose a particualr conference year.

 

All queries should be directed at leftforum@leftforum.org

September 28-30, 2012 | Campinas, Brazil
Sustainable growth, development and labour: progressive responses at local, national and global level

The Global Labour University is pleased to announce a call for papers for the 2012 conference on “Sustainable growth, development and labour” to be held in Campinas, Brazil from September 28 to 30, 2012.

After the world economy showed signs of recovery from the 2007‐2009 crisis, there were great hopes that the era of neoliberalism was finally coming to an end. However, a feeble recovery and the continuous hegemony of the financial sector pose new challenges to workers throughout the world. Conservative forces are pushing the notion that governments should restrict their activities to a minimum, both as regulators and as participants in economic life, while allowing the unfettered operation of financial markets.

Given this context, the theme of the 2012 GLU Conference will focus on the analysis of development processes, policies and concrete experiences that shed light on possible global, national and local strategies to overcome neoliberal orthodoxy in theory and practice, creating the conditions for inclusive development that is based on a stronger role for workers organization, industrial democracy, and a democratically accountable government that actively participates in economic activities and regulates the economy. 

 

Such discussion should be built on conceptual ideas about alternative models of growth and development, as well as on current national experiences, with emphasis on policies that have helped to raise people out of poverty and destitution. It should discuss the potential and the limits of those policies, in particular in those cases when policies were ‐ or had to be - developed or designed within a dominant neoliberal framework that emphasizes minimal

government participation or expenditures.  As the history of neoliberalism clearly shows, many developing countries that embraced that ideology in general grew more slowly and experienced increasing income inequality. A particularly pressing issue is how to create conditions to protect low income countries from the extended hardships of economic crisis and trade imbalances, as those countries tend to suffer more from external shocks.

 

Thus, the Conference will address three sets of questions:

 

 

The GLU Conference invites contributions from unionists and academics to discuss the issues outlined above, both from a theoretical and from a practical point of view. We welcome submissions for papers on any of these themes. While we encourage submission of papers that broadly fit into the themes, we will also consider papers that do not fit directly into one of the themes as long as they address the broad focus of the conference. The GLU encourages policy orientated research and therefore welcomes submissions that not only analyze the problem, but also offer some policy initiatives and solutions for debate.

Please send a one or two page abstract (which includes your methodological approach) by March 15, 2012 to glubrazilcoord@googlemail.com with copy to cesit@eco.unicamp.br

 

Co­-organized by the Conurbano Institute, National University General Sarmiento, Argentina and the Karl Polanyi Institute of Political Economy, Concordia University, Canada

At the present time, can nations and peoples defend their sovereignty and protect their societies from subordination to global capital and dependence on economic and political centers? In Latin America, in particular, there is evidence of encouraging signs:

• a) National‐popular processes supported by new social movements that question the neoliberal economic rationale and in some cases propose new paradigms: socialism for the XXIst century, vivir bien/ buen vivir, that give priority to guaranteeing the livelihood of all citizens, respecting cultural diversity and harmony with nature.
• b) Interstate forms of solidarity (UNASUR, CELAC)1 to resist North American hegemony that increases the capacity for greater autarchy and sovereignty to confront the economic, political, and cultural domination of the neoliberal project and the continuous commodification of all aspects of life.
• c) The search for new frameworks of social and political thought, particularly the so‐called “decoloniality” that converges with important historical trends in the region. Others include the theology and pedagogy of liberation, dependency theory, new variants of socialism, the peasants’ movement, the worldview of indigenous peoples, the contemporary feminist struggle against patriarchy and the struggle for the rights of nature.

In Polanyi's terms, are these processes temporary responses to the crisis of the world capitalist order, or true "counter‐movements" that challenge neoconservative projects and the dominant neoliberal paradigm? If so, can they lead to the re‐embedding of the economy into more just and democratic societies? Can this be a historic  turning point that could spread to other societies that have experienced capitalist development and now confront problems of their own and of the planet, resulting in another “great transformation”, or an "another globalization"? Is there a risk that the latent global crisis will push democracy in Latin America and other regions of the  world towards new forms of fascism?

Regardless of the nomenclature ‐ social economy, solidarity economy, community economy, popular economy, social and solidarity economy, to name a few – new initiatives are emerging in both the North and in the South. Are they similar in scope and in scale in the center and in the periphery? What role does planning and restructuring of national or regional economies play in an era of globalization (greater autarchy, as in food sovereignty)? Can new forms of reciprocity and fair trade (truly non commoditized) be amplified at the international level? How plausible is the convergence and complementarities between these movements for another economy in the North and in the South?

 

As in all previous International Polanyi Conferences, papers on the life and work of Karl Polanyi are welcome as well as papers from academics and /or professionals on the contemporary relevance of Karl Polanyi’s thought. Simultaneous interpretation (Spanish / English) will be available. Abstracts (maximum 250 words) should be sent before March 15th, 2012 to: polanyi@alcor.concordia.ca

 

Conference Organizing Committee:

 

Registration Fees:

Deadline for papers is January 25th.

 

The GREThA, CNRS, and ESOPE Network jointly organize the 4th Economic Development International Conference. The Conference will be held at Bordeaux on 13th, 14th and 15th June 2012. This 3-days conference aims at contributing to the ongoing debates on the topic: Inequalities and Development: New Questions, New MeasurementsYou will find enclosed the call of papers.

 

For any additional information, go the conference website.

3:00 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 5:30 Workshop Part II: Conspicuous Consumption and Business Competition from the Heterodox Microeconomic Perspective

• Dr. Zdravka Todorova (Wright State University): Conspicuous Consumption as Routine Expenditures and its Place in the Social Provisioning Process
• Dr. Tuna Baskoy (Ryerson University, Canada): Business Competition and Micro-Macro Linkage in Post Keynesian Economics

4:30 – 5:00 Discussion

5:00 – 5:30 Round Table

• Frederic Lee, William Ganley, Ruslan Dzarasov, Zdravka Todorova, Tuna Baskoy, Tae-Hee Jo, Ted Schmidt, and Economics Faculty

6:00 - 9:00 Dinner

For more information about the workshop, visit the website.

Cambridge Seminar in the History of Economic Analysis (UK)

Socialist Renewal and Capitalist Crisis (Cuba)

For further information contact cuba@globaljusticecenter.org

Financial Stability Conference: "Never Again?" (UK)

Middlesex Seminar: Conflicts Within the Crisis (UK)

Tuesday 24 January 2012, 5.30 pm (Room TBA) | Middlesex University, UK

• Dimitris Dalakoglou (University of Sussex) 'Greek-Crisis' as Violence:  Killing People and the Deregulation of Publicly Performed Political  Violence in Athens
• Emma Dowling (Queen Mary, University of London) Occupy the Big Society  - Fault-lines of Crisis and Austerity in the UK
• Moderator: Nicola Montagna

SOAS Globalisation Lectures (UK)

Convenor: Prof. Gilbert Achcar

Wednesday 1st February, 6:30pm – Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

• Inclusion and Participation: A New Agenda for the Globalised Economy / Heiner Flassbeck(Director on Globalization and Development Strategies, UNCTAD)

Monday 5 March, 6:30pm – Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

• Men Who Tiptoe into Their Marital Bedrooms: The Novelist and Dictatorship / Hisham Matar (Libyan novelist, author of In the Country of Men and Anatomy of a Disappearance)

SOAS Money and Development Lecture (UK)

• The Circuit Theory of Money / Alain Parguez, Emeritus Professor of Economics, Université de Franche-Comté at Besançon, France

Theoretical and Historical Research for a Sustainable Welfare State System (Japan)

Date: 13:30-18:00, 4 February 2012, Saturday | Meeting Room on the third floor, Kyoto Museum for World Peace, Ritsumeikan University (map)

Sponsored by the Research Hub for Collaborative Studies, Institute for Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University

• Nobuko HARA (Hosei University), Changes in the Welfare State and Family Policies: A Logic of Work-Life Balance and Gender Equality.
• Reiko GOTOH (Ritsumeikan University), American Liberalism and Security for Right to Well-Being Freedom.
• Norikazu TAKAMI (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow), The Sanguine Science: Historical Contexts of Pigou's Welfare Economics.

* All presentations and discussions will be conducted in Japanese.

What post-crisis changes does the economics discipline need?Are graduate economists fit for purpose? (UK)

Feb. 7, 2012 | Bank of England Conference Centre

• David Colander, Middlebury College: What Makes a Good Economist?
• Roger E.A. Farmer, UCLA: Teaching Economics
• Edward Glaeser, Harvard University: Experience matters in the education of economists
• Harold James, Princeton University: Finance is History!
• John Kay: The Map is Not the Territory: An Essay on the State of Economics
• Alan Kirman, Aix Marseille Université and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales: The Economy and Economic Theory in Crisis
• Andrew W. Lo, MIT: What Post-Crisis Changes Does the Economics Discipline Need? Beware of Theory Envy!
• Michael McMahon, Warwick University: Teaching and Research in a UK University
• Paul Seabright, Toulouse School of Economics: The Education of Economists in the Light of the Financial Crisis

To reserve your free place simply reply to this email [mailto:Sarah.Ward@hmtreasury.gsi.gov.uk] with your contact details.

For more information, download the flyer.

Job Postings for Heterodox Economists

Long Island University Brooklyn Campus, USA

Adjunct Professor for Spring Semester

Marymount Manhattan College, USA

Application Materials: For full consideration, all application materials should be received by February 14, 2012. Electronic submission is preferred. Please send to mbackus@mmm.edu. If materials cannot be sent electronically, please mail to: Dr. Ghassan Shabaneh, Search Committee Chair, International Studies Department, Division of Social Sciences, Marymount Manhattan College, 221 East 71st Street, New York, NY 10021.

Research Associates in History and Philosophy of Social Science, Cambridge, UK

Salary: £27,428–£35,788 pa

We are seeking to appoint two post-doctoral research associates for the ERC-funded project 'A Science of Human Nature: Philosophical Disputes at the Interface of Natural and Social Science', recently awarded to Dr Tim Lewens.

The successful candidates will work full-time on this project, including maintaining and updating the project website, participating in project seminars and workshops, helping to organize workshops, and providing editorial assistance for publications. The successful candidates will have the ability to work reliably and efficiently to deadlines and targets. They will be expected to produce at least one research paper a year on a topic relevant to the project and to assist in compiling an edited volume of papers. They will be mentored by Dr Lewens.

Candidates should have:

• An outstanding record in a field related to the project: such fields are likely to include the philosophy of social science, the history of science (especially social and human sciences), and the philosophy of mind.
• An excellent knowledge of methodological and ontological debates regarding the study of human culture and human nature, either from a historical or philosophical perspective.
• Completed their doctorate by the time of taking up the appointment.

The application, in hard copy only, should consist of:

Roskilde University, Denmark

Roskilde University, The Department of Society and Globalisation invite applications for a position as assistant or associate professor within the field of ‘Social studies/global studies’ starting May 1 2012 or soon thereafter.
 
Job responsibilities include research within the priority research fields of the Department and teaching in the social studies program (socialvidenskab) and in the global studies program. The applicant must contribute to the continuing development of cross-disciplinary courses and research in the Department.
 
The vacant position will be linked to one of the following themes:

• Changing societies: Citizenship, participation
• Civil society and welfare
• Globalization, regionalization and local responses

 

The application should include curriculum vitae, information about relevant teaching experience and a publication list specifying publications that are considered to be particularly relevant for the job.The assessment committee may assess any publication from the publication list. The applicant may therefore be asked to forward additional publications.

Conference Papers, Reports, and Articles

PKSG Seminars available on Podcasts

• 18 October: Cristina Marcuzzo and Murray Milgate on “Re-embracing Keynes”
• 1 November : Michael Joffe and Giammario Impullitti on “How types of market differ and why it matters”
• The audio of the book launch and panel discussion on Post Keynesian Economics at UCL on 8 November 2011 is now available at  http://www.postkeynesian.net/recent_events.html.  The panel included Engelbert Stockhammer, Victoria Chick, John Weeks and Simon Mohun.

RMF (Research on Money and Finance) Podcast

Breaking Up? A Route Out of the Eurozone Crisis
An urgently needed discussion of the future of the eurozone, the possibility of exit, and what that would mean for the people of Europe.

• Costas Lapavitsas, professor, department of economics, SOAS
• George Irvin, professor, department of development studies, SOAS
• Paul Mason, BBC economics editor and author of ‘Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed’
• Stathis Kouvelakis, reader in political theory, King’s College London
• and chaired by Seumas Milne, associate editor, The Guardian

Podcasts of the 9 December event can be seen here

Heterodox Journals

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 71(1): Jan. 2012

Journal website: http://www.wiley.com/bw/journal.asp?ref=0002-9246

• Pharmaceutical High Profits: The Value of R&D, or Oligopolistic Rents?  / Janet Spitz and Mark Wickham
• The General NFP Hospital Model / Mona Al-Amin
• Politics, Economic Provisioning, and Suffrage in St. Louis: What Women Said, What Men Heard / Linda Harris Dobkins
• Economic Thought Among American Aboriginals Prior to 1492 / James Cicarelli
• The Suppression Hypothesis Reconsidered: Competition Between Blacks and White Immigrants in the Retail Trade in Large Northern Cities, 1910–1930 / Robert L. Boyd
• Ethnic Minorities and Integration Process in France and the Netherlands: An Institutionalist Perspective / Ilyess El Karouni
• Explaining Geographic Cluster Success—The GEMS Model /Shyam Kamath, Jagdish Agrawal and Kris Chase
• Lessons from The Cultural and Political Economy of Recovery/Christopher J. Coyne and Jayme Lemke
  

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 36(1): Jan. 2012

Journal website: http://www.oxfordjournals.org/page/3924/1

• Making the same mistake again—or is this time different? / Lawrence King, Michael Kitson, Sue Konzelmann, and Frank Wilkinson
• Financial crisis and global imbalances: its labour market origins and the aftermath / Pasquale Tridico
• Dangerous interconnectedness: economists conflicts of interest, ideology and financial crisis / Jessica Carrick-Hagenbarth and Gerald A. Epstein
• Contradictions of austerity / Alex Callinicos
• The great austerity war: what caused the US deficit crisis and who should pay to fix it? / James Crotty
• The end of the UK s liberal collectivist social model? The implications of the coalition government s policy during the austerity crisis / Damian Grimshaw and Jill Rubery
• Iceland s rise, fall, stabilisation and beyond / Robert H. Wade and Silla Sigurgeirsdottir
• Dire consequences: the conservative recapture of America s political narrative? / David Coates
• A note on America s 1920–21 depression as an argument for austerity / Daniel Kuehn
• US government deficits and debt amid the great recession: what the evidence shows / Robert Pollin
• Fiscal deficits, economic growth and government debt in the USA / Lance Taylor, Christian R. Proaño, Laura de Carvalho, and Nelson Barbosa
• The tragedy of UK fiscal policy in the aftermath of the financial crisis / Malcolm Sawyer
• Is Ireland really the role model for austerity? / Stephen Kinsella
• The macroeconomic stabilisation effects of Social Security and 401(k) plans / Teresa Ghilarducci, Joelle Saad-Lessler, and Eloy Fisher
• The basic paradigms of EU economic policy-making need to be changed / Kazimierz Laski and Leon Podkaminer
• Building faith in a common currency: can the eurozone get beyond the Common Market logic? / Pascal Petit
• The four fallacies of contemporary austerity policies: the lost Keynesian legacy / Robert Boyer
• Russia: austerity and deficit reduction in historical and comparative perspective / Vladimir Popov
• Austerity and fraud under different structures of technology and resource abundance / Jing Chen and James Galbraith

densidades n°8: Diciembre 2011

Journal website: http://www.mediafire.com/?fppn484db8ovcj9

• Harmonização tributária entre o Brasil e os países membros do MERCOSUL / Maria Aparecida Farias de Souza Nogueira
• Hacia la conformación de una unión aduanera del MERCOSUR: ¿Realidad o utopía? / Magdalena Bas Vilizzio
• América del Sur: Defensa y Desarrollo / Alberto J. Sosa
• La Reunión Especializada de Agricultura Familiar del MERCOSUR. Creación y avances de un novedoso espacio en la agenda de la integración regional. / Leticia González
• El Congreso en la formulación de política exterior: Argentina y Brasil en perspectiva comparada /
• Luis Leandro Schenoni y Alejo Martín Ferrandi Aztiria

ESPACIOS

• Iniciativa Niñ@Sur

DEBATES

• Los desafíos pendientes en Suramérica / Carlos Raimundi, Roberto Conde, Luis Maira, Roberto Feletti y Rafael Follonier

LECTURAS

• De Moreno a Perón. Pensamiento argentino de la unidad latinoamericana, de Mario Oporto

ACADEMIAS

• Maestría en Estudios Sociales Latinoamericanos / Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina

DOCUMENTOS

• Declaración de Caracas. Cumbre de la Comunidad de Estados Latinoamericanosy Caribeños (CELAC)

Caracas 3 de diciembre de 2011

Ethical Perspectives, 18(4): Dec. 2011

Journal website: www.ethical-perspectives.be

Special Issue on Morals and Banking

• ‘Introduction: Morals and Banking’ (Luc Van Liedekerke)
• 'Trust and Integrity in Banking' (John Boatright)
• 'Cooperative Banking and Ethics: Past, Present and Future' (Wim Fonteyne & Daniel Hardy)
• 'Morality and Integrity in Cooperative Banking' (Johannes Groeneveld)
• 'Banking after the Crisis: Towards an Understanding of Banking as a Professional Practice' (Bert van de Ven)
• 'Recent Developments in Microfinance and the Impact of the Financial Crisis' (Robert Lensink)
• 'Islamic Finance Ethics and Shari'ah Law in the Aftermath of the Crisis: Concept and Practice of Shari'ah Compliant Finance' (Volker Nienhaus)
• Book Reviews

Ethical Perspectives is an international peer reviewed journal that appears four times a year and welcomes contributions in the various fields of fundamental and applied ethics (economic, social, medical, legal, cultural, …), especially papers that want to stimulate in-depth reflection and further the dialogue between fundamental and applied ethics. Please submit manuscripts, in English and prepared for blind review, to ethical@oce.kuleuven.be. All articles will be reviewed by two external experts.

History of Economics Review, 54: 2011

Journal website: http://www.hetsa.org.au/historyeconreview.html

Celebrating the 75th Anniversary of the General Theory

• Keynes and The General Theory after 75 Years / Rod O’Donnell

ECONOMICS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA

• The Campaign to Arrest Ed Shann’s Influence in Western Australia / Gregory C.G. Moore
• Depression, War and Recovery: Western Australian Economics 1935 to 1963 / Ray Petridis
• Thirty Years of Economics: UWA and the WA Branch of the Economic Society from 1963 to 1992 / Michael McLure
• Charles Harper through a Galbraithian Lens: Agricultural Cooperation and Countervailing Power in Colonial Western Australia / D.J. Gilchrist
• Wilfred E.G. Salter: The Merits of a Classical Economic Education / Ernst Juerg Weber

ONE HUNDRED YEARS FROM TODAY

• Irving Fisher’s The Purchasing Power of Money / Robert Dimand

COMMUNICATIONS AND NOTES FROM THE ARCHIVES

• Marx, Marshall, and ‘the good water-nymphs’ / Geoffrey Fishburn
• One More Word on J.K. Gifford / James Forder

BOOK REVIEWS

• Robert W. Dimand, Robert A. Mundell and Alessandro Vercelli (eds), Keynes’s General Theory after Seventy Years / Robert A. Cord
• Robert Leonard, Von Neumann, Morgenstern, and the Creation of Game Theory: From Chess to Social Science, 1900–1960 / Anthony M. Endres
• Gilles Jacoud (ed.), Political Economy and Industrialism: Banks in Saint-Simonian Economic Thought / R.N. Ghosh
• Anthony M. Endres, International Financial Integration: Competing Ideas and Policies in the Post-Bretton Woods Era / J.E. King

Note: Tony Aspromourgos and Matthew Smith will be taking over as the joint editors of the History of Economics Review from 2012. We congratulate them on their appointment and wish them well with the endeavour. All submissions to HER should now, of course, be sent to Tony and Matthew. For submission details, please see http://www.hetsa.org.au/historyeconreview.html

International Socialism Journal, 133: Winter 2012

Journal website: http://isj.org.uk/index.php4?s=contents&issue=133

Analysis

• The crisis wears on / Alex Callinicos
• The rebirth of our power? After the 30 November mass strike / Charlie Kimber
• The Occupy movement and class politics in the US / Megan Trudell
• Interview: Working people have no interest in saving the euro / Costas Lapavitsas
• China's capitalism and the crisis / Jane Hardy and Adrian Budd
• The Egyptian workers’ movement and the 25 January Revolution / Anne Alexander
• Libya at the crossroads / Simon Assaf
• Revolution against “progress”: the TIPNIS struggle and class contradictions in Bolivia / Jeffery R Webber
• “Take that, Maynard G Krebs!”: the Beat Generation. / Adam Marks
• Engels’s contradictions: a reply to Tristram Hunt / Roland Boer

Book reviews:

• Information is not knowledge / Andy Wilson
• Philosophical arabesques / Ross Speer
• What’s past is prologue / Sally Kincaid
• Hegelianation? / Dan Swain
• Working class theory is something to read / Jamie Woodcock
• “How many ways to get what you want?” / Robin Burrett
• A trade union whodunit / Julian Alford

Journal of Agrarian Change, 12(1): Jan. 2012

Journal website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291471-0366\

Survey Article

• Contract Farming in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Survey of Approaches, Debates and Issues / CARLOS OYA

ARTICLES

• Global Land Grabbing and Trajectories of Agrarian Change: A Preliminary Analysis /  SATURNINO M. BORRAS JR and JENNIFER C. FRANCO
• Emerging Class Relations in the Mekong River Delta of Vietnam: A Network Analysis /LAURA PROTA and MELANIE BERESFORD
• Changing Childhoods: Javanese Village Children in Three Generations / BEN WHITE
• Labour Migration and Gendered Agricultural Relations: The Feminization of Agriculture in the Ejidal Sector of Calakmul, Mexico / CLAUDIA RADEL, BIRGIT SCHMOOK, JAMIE MCEVOY, CRISOL MÉNDEZ and PEGGY PETRZELKA
• Gourmandizing Poverty Food: The Serpa Cheese Slow Food Presidium / HARRY G. WEST and NUNO DOMINGOS
• The Politics of International Assessments: The IAASTD Process, Reception and Significance / SHELLEY FELDMAN and STEPHEN BIGGS

BOOK REVIEWS

• Zimbabwe's Land Reform. Myths and Realities – By Ian Scoones, Nelson Marongwe, Blasio Mavedzenge, Jacob Mahenehene, Felix Murimbarimba and Chrispen Sukume / HENRY BERNSTEIN
• The Politics of Rural Reform in China. State Policy and Village Predicament in the Early 2000s – By Christian Göbel / ALEXANDER F. DAY

Journal of Economic Issues, XLV (4): Dec. 2011

Journal website: http://www.mesharpe.com/mall/results1.asp?acr=jei

• Has Anything Changed in the Past Century? Revisiting Graue's "The Social Cost of Bad Debt" / Dan Friesner, Donald Hackney, Matthew McPherson, Dan Axelsen
• Economic Action, Fields and Uncertainty / Doris Hanappi
• Identifying Institutional Vulnerability: The Importance of Language, and System Boundaries / Wilfred Dolfsma, John Finch, Robert McMaster
• A Proposed Methodological Synthesis of Post-Keynesian and Institutional Economics / Linwood F. Tauheed
• Vicarious Learning and Institutional Economics / Felipe Almeida
• Social Surplus Approach and Heterodox Economics / Frederic S. Lee, Tae-Hee Jo
• Inequality, Social Respectability, Political Power, and Environmental Devastation / Jon D. Wisman
• The Meaning of Nonprofit Organization: Insights from Classical Institutionalism / Vladislav Valentinov
• Informal Institutions and Foreign Direct Investment / Belay Seyoum
• Implicit a prioris in the Evolution of Economics: Ratzinger's Alternative / Andrew Hodge, Alan Duhs
• Public Finance and Wisconsin Institutionalism, 1892-1929 / Marianne Johnson
• Don Lescohier on Labor Market Policy: The Case of the United States After the First World War / Ioannis A. Katselidis
• and Book Reviews
  

Journal of Institutional Econmics, 7(4): Dec. 2011

Journal website: http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_JOI

See the table of contents here. 

Metroeconomica, 63(1): Feb. 2012

Journal website: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291467-999X

• Kaleckian Growth Theory: An Introduction/ Amitava Krishna Dutt
• The Kaleckian Analysis Of Demand-Led Growth / Malcolm Sawyer
• Goodwin Cycles, Distributional Conflict And Productivity Growth / Armon Rezai
• Growth, Cycles, Asset Prices And Finance / Lance Taylor
• Macroeconomic Outcomes Of Changing Social Bargains. The Feasibility Of A Wage-Led Open Economy Reconsidered / Mario Cassetti
• A Neo-Kaleckian Model Of Profit Sharing, Capacity Utilization And Economic Growth / Gilberto Tadeu Lima
• Theoretical And Empirical Shortcomings Of The Kaleckian Investment Function / Peter Skott
• Harrodian Instability And The ‘Normal Rate’ Of Capacity Utilization In Kaleckian Models Of Distribution And Growth—A Survey / Eckhard Hein, Marc Lavoie and Till van Treeck
• Modeling Monetary Macroeconomics: Kalecki Reconsidered / Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy
• Distribution And Capacity Utilization: Conceptual Issues And Empirical Evidence / Michalis Nikiforos and Duncan K. Foley

Ola Financiera, 11: Enero-abril 2012

Journal website: http://www.olafinanciera.unam.mx/new_web/11/index.html

Análisis

• El Consenso de Wall Street / Wesley C. Marshall
• Cajas de ahorro, bancarización e inestabilidad
• financiera / Alicia Girón y Víctor Cadena
• Efectos sociales y políticos de la actual crisis financiera internacional / Samuel Lichtensztejn
• El economista como ingeniero social: la necesidad de ética profesional / George DeMartino
• La crisis financiera intensifica momentos del hacer y lo hecho / Margarita Camarena Luhrs
  

Reseña

• La banca de desarrollo: limites y potencialidades / Elizabeth Concha
  

Clásicos

• Las empresas multinacionales y América Latina / Alma Chapoy

PSL Quarterly Review, 64(259): 2011

Journal website: http://sead-pub.cilea.it/index.php/PSLQuarterlyReview

• Balance of payments constrained growth models: history and overview / Anthony P. Thirlwall 
• Criticisms and defences of the balance-of-payments constrained growth model: some old, some new / John S.L. McCombie 
• The remarkable durability of Thirlwall’s Law / Mark Setterfield 
• The Balance of Payments Constraint as an Explanation of International Growth Rate Differences / Anthony P. THirlwall
  

Rethinking Marxism, 24(1): January 2012

Journal website: http://rethinkingmarxism.org

SPECIAL ISSUE: MARXISM AND NATIONALISM
Guest Editor: Serap A. Kayatekin

• Nationalism Today / Partha Chatterjee
• The Necessity of Multiple Nation-States for Capital / Neil Davidson
• Marx, List, and the Materiality of Nations / Radhika Desai
• China and India: Postcolonial Informal Empires in the Emerging Global Order / Dibyesh Anand
• The Limits of Derivative Nationalism: Marxism, Postcolonial Theory, and the Question of Tamil Nationalism / Ravi Vaitheespara
• Gravel in the Shoe: Nationalism and World of the Third / Anjan Chakrabarti and Anup Dhar
• Playing with Unexploded Munitions / Sherry Millner and Ernie Larsen
• Rethinking Marxism and Nationalism in an Age of Globalization / John Schwarzmantel

Revue de la régulation, No. 10: 2e semestre 2011

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

Post-keynésianisme et théorie de la régulation : des perspectives communes

Au sommaire de ce numéro :

• Éditorial: Dossier : Post-keynésianisme et théorie de la régulation : des perspectives communes
  

• Mark Setterfield / Anticipations of the Crisis: On the Similarities between post-Keynesian Economics and Regulation Theory
• Robert Boyer / Post-keynésiens et régulationnistes : Une alternative à la crise de l’économie standard ?
• Angel Asensio, Sébastien Charles, Dany Lang et Edwin Le Heron / Les développements récents de la macroéconomie post-keynésienne
• Hiroshi Nishi / A VAR Analysis for the Growth Regime and Demand Formation Patterns of the Japanese Economy
• Robert Boyer et Mickaël Clévenot ? Entretien avec Engelbert Stockhammer

Varia

• Olivier Godechot / How Did the Neoclassical Paradigm Conquer a Multi-disciplinary Research Institution?
• Jérôme Maucourant et Sébastien Plociniczak / Penser l’institution et le marché avec Karl Polanyi
• Contre la crise (de la pensée) économique
• Bruno Théret / Du keynésianisme au libertarianisme. La place de la monnaie dans les transformations du savoir économique autorisé

Opinions - débats

• Hélène Tordjman / La crise contemporaine, une crise de la modernité technique
• Bernard Billaudot / Endettement des États et crise de l’euro Diagnostic et solutions
  

Notes de lecture

• Jean-Marie Harribey / André Orléan, L’empire de la valeur, Refonder l’économie, Paris, Seuil, 2011.
• La valeur, ni en surplomb, ni hors-sol
• André Orléan / Réponse à Jean-Marie Harribey
• Ozgur Gün et Sophie Jallais / Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy, The Crisis of Neoliberalism, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachussetts, London, England, 2010. La crise du néolibéralisme
• Christian Le Bas / Cristiano Antonelli, Federico Barbiellini Amidei, The Dynamics of Knowledge Externalities. Localised Technological Change in Italy, Edward Elgar (2011), 224 p.

Présentations de thèses

• Alfonso Giuliani / Alfonso Giuliani, Crédit, consommation et production dans la pensée de Thorstein Veblen
• Hervé Lanotte/ Hervé Lanotte, Investissements publicitaires et choix contractuels d’approvisionnement : les clés d’une gouvernance « coopérative » dans la filière des vins de Champagne
• Ji-Yong Lee / Ji-Yong Lee, La gouvernance d’entreprise et l’hybridation : Le cas de l’Asie
• Hadrien Saiag / Hadrien Saiag, Le trueque argentin au prisme de la dette : une socioéconomie des pratiques monétaires et financière

Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society, 14(4): Dec. 2011

Journal website: www.working-usa.org
 

• Global Economic Crisis, Labor Movements, and Worker Organization/ Immanuel Ness
•  From “Master” To “Menial:” State-Owned Enterprise Workers In Contemporary China / Au Loong Yu
•  Lessons From Efforts To Advance Beyond Keynesian And Neoliberal Economic Policies In The 1970S / Ingo Schmidt
• Temp Agency Workers In New Jersey's Logistics Hub: The Case For A Union Hiring Hall / George Gonos and Carmen Martino
•  Minority-Union Campaign And The Largest U.S. Organizing Victory In Decades: Tsa Workers' Journey For Rights And Union Representation / Sharon Pinnock
•  Crossing The Atlantic From Football To Soccer: Preliminary Observations On The Migrations Of English Players And The Internationalization Of Major League Soccer / Richard Elliott and John Harris
•  Unions As Organizations: Strategy Versus Environment / Angela T. Hall, Jack Fiorito, Marko Horn and Christopher R. Langford
• Religion And Labor: Perspective In Islam / Iftikhar Ahmad

Book Reviews

• The Managed Hand: Race, Gender, and the Body in Beauty Service Work – By Miliann Kang / Aimé Iglesias Lukin
•  Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century – By Nicholas Dagen Bloom / Laura Hapke
• The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia – By Benjamin T Dangl; From Rebellion to Reform in Bolivia: Class Struggle, Indigenous Liberation, and the Politics of Evo Morales – By Jeffrey R Webber / Ethan Earle
•  In the Interest of Democracy”: The Rise and Fall of the Early Cold War Alliance between the American Federation of Labor and the Central Intelligence Agency – By Quenby Olmsted Hughes /Kim Scipes

Heterodox Newsletters

CCPA

• Canada's CEO Elite--a report on management compensation.
• Peddling Green House Gases report.
• A report on income inequality in Canada.
• A report on PM Harper's "crima agenda.
• Several reports on climate change.

GDAE

• Resolving the Food Crisis: Assessing Global Policy Reforms Since 2007

Global Labour Column

• EU ‘Austerity’ Deal won’t work – Irish Workers face a grim Future, Frank Connolly
• Global Labour Online Campaigns: The next 10 Years by Eric Lee
• The G20 and Jobs: Time for Plan B, by John Evans

IDEAs December 2011

• Monetary Policy and Central Banking after the Crisis: The implications of rethinking macroeconomic theory by Thomas I. Palley
• New Issue Newsletter on EU Financial Reform
• The Great Austerity War: What caused the deficit crisis and who should pay for it? by James Crotty
• Transatlantic Cooperation for Post-Crisis Financial Reform- To What End? by Aldo Caliari
• Drawing Lessons from US Financial Reform Efforts: A civil society perspective by Aldo Caliari

    

Levy News: Dec. 2011 and Jan. 2012

New Pubications

• A Comparison of Inequality and Living Standards in Canada and the United States Using an Expanded Measure of Economic Well-Being by Edward N. Wolff, Ajit Zacharias, Thomas Masterson, Selçuk Eren, Andrew Sharpe, and Elspeth Hazell. Working Paper No. 703, January 2012
• The Euro Imbalances and Financial Deregulation: A Post-Keynesian Interpretation of the European Debt Crisis by Esteban Pérez-Caldentey and Matías Vernengo. Working Paper No. 702, January 2012
• Women, Schooling, and Marriage in Rural Philippines by Sanjaya DeSilva and Mohammed Mehrab Bin Bakhtiar. Working Paper No. 701, December 2011

• $29,000,000,000,000: A Detailed Look at the Fed’s Bailout of the Financial Systemby L. Randall Wray. One-pager No. 23, December 2011
• A Crisis of Advanced Capitalism? by C.J. Polychroniou.  One-pager No. 24, December 2011
• Is There Room for Bulls, Bears, and States in the Circuit? by L. Randall Wray. Working Paper No. 700, December 2011
• Trade and Payments Theory in a Financialized Economyby Michael Hudson. Working Paper No. 699, December 2011
• $29,000,000,000,000: A Detailed Look at the Fed's Bailout by Funding Facility and Recipient by James Felkerson.  Working Paper No. 698, December 2011

nef e-letter: January 2012

• Thank you for your support: We would like to say a big thank you to all of you who have made a donation to our appeal. So far we have raised over £3,500 and gained a number of new supporters. Your help will fund further research and campaign work at this crucial time for nef. If you have not yet given, please donate now. Thank you so much for all your ongoing support.
• Stewart Wallis at Falling Walls: nef's Executive Director spoke at the Falling Walls conference in Berlin last November. His talk on national indicators and how economics can be used to measure real progress can now be viewed in full online.
• Lord Glasman and local banking: After speaking at our local banking conference in December, Maurice Glasman again signalled his support in the New Statesman last week. Hear what he and other event speakers had to say on the nef website.
• About Time: Examining the case for shorter working hours, Wednesday 11 January, 6pm
• Nic Marks: Ideas for a happier world, Thursday 19 January, 6-8pm
• SROI Masterclass: 'Creating Spreadsheets for SROI modelling', Tuesday 7 February, 9.30am
• Is economic growth essential for well-being?, Tuesday 31 January, 3.30-4.45pm

World Economics Association

The WEA’s forum for the open review of proposed articles for the World Economics Journal and for Economic Thought is now open. It is located here. 19 submissions have been posted so far. You are encouraged to read and comment on papers that interest you.

The WEA’s first online conference - " Economics in Society: The Ethical Dimension " – is now set to begin on March 1st. The cut-off date for submissions (a wide diversity of papers has already been received) is February 19th. For details, click here. Leave your email address and you will be kept informed.

Heterodox Books and Book Series

Alternative Perspectives of a Good Society

Exchange Entitlement Mapping: Theory and Evidence

The Gatekeeper: 60 Years of Economics According to the New York Times

Paradigm Publishers. November 2011. ISBN: 978-1-59451-683-2 (pb) | website

Microeconomics, Macroeconomics and Economic Policy: Essays in Honour of Malcolm Sawyer

Wisconsin Uprising: Labor Fights Back 

Heterodox Book Reviews

At the Edge of Camelot: Debating Economics in Turbulent Times

Economists in the Americas

Heterodox Graduate Programs, Scholarships, and Grants

European Research Council (ERC) PhD Studentships 2012–16

Fully funded European Research Council (ERC) PhD studentships 2012–16: “Economics in the Public Sphere: USA, UK, France, Poland and Brazil since 1945.”

The Department of History and Philosophy of Science (HPS), University of Cambridge, invites preliminary applications for two ERC Postgraduate Research Studentships to start in October 2012. The
studentships will support three years of doctoral research with funding continuing into a fourth year of thesis writing. The project is funded by the European Research Council.

The doctoral research will be part of a new ERC-funded project entitled “Economics in the Public Sphere: USA, UK, France, Poland and Brazil since 1945” (ERC Grant agreement no 283754). The project is directed by Dr Tiago Mata. It also employs an administrator/research assistant, and two postdoctoral researchers, all based in Cambridge.

Project description
Media reporting on the economy is never far from controversy. Academic economists and the public regularly find journalists at fault in their interpretation of events and prescription of solutions. The project studies “economic journalism” as a site for the production of public economic knowledge. The practices of journalists will be examined toreveal how they parse competing claims of expertise by academic economists, other social scientists and by laymen.

The second half of the twentieth century was witness to increased homogeneity in academic economics and interdependence of national economies, yet the content and style of “economic journalism” has remained distinctive across nations. The project sets out to understand how and why media representation of economic knowledge and so of the economy has remained distinctively different even while the content and style of economics converged internationally.  The project identifies three international economic controversies as focal points for study: the reconstruction debate post 1945, the monetary and oil crisis of the 1970s, and the current economic crisis. The project takes a cross-national approach examining the economic press the in USA, UK, France, Poland, and Brazil.

Cultural standards of trust, the history and economics of the media, and the history of economics and social movements will be used to explain the emergence of distinct national genres of “economic journalism.” The project offers a original perspective on how public knowledge of the economy is a iterative process engaging journalists, academics and laymen and explores the implications of this knowledge formation for the possibilities of public support for economic action and policies.

Research studentships
The doctoral studentships will focus on the study of one of the following national cases: UK, France, Poland and Brazil. Applicants must show proficiency in the language of the national case they elect. Applicants with familiarity with one or several of the research methods: archival research, oral history, ethnographic observation, content and textual analysis of media, will be preferred. Applicants must submit with their application feasible doctoral projects demonstrating their qualification to undertake them.

Further details of the project, including a description of its envisaged methodology, can be found in this document, which contains relevant excerpts from the original ERC proposal:
ECONPUBLIC research outline <http://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/jobs/econpublic.pdf>

The successful candidates will be supervised by Tiago Mata, in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. In addition to pursuing their own doctoral research, the holders of the award will form part of the five-person research team and join in a range of activities to promote research on the theme of the project as a whole.

Candidates must normally have obtained at least a first class honours degree (or equivalent) from a recognised institution of higher education before 31 July 2011. Applicants should also normally have, or be studying for, a master's degree or similar postgraduate qualification in an area related to the history and philosophy of science. If the candidate does not have such experience of formal graduate study, they must demonstrate evidence of sustained experience beyond undergraduate degree level specifically relevant to the research topic that could be considered equivalent to master's study. The studentship pays £21,146 in the first year with increments in thefollowing years. Academic and residency eligibility for a full studentship award are strictly subject to the conditions imposed by the University of Cambridge.

Application procedure
Interested candidates should begin by contacting Tiago Mata (tjfm2@cam.ac.uk) to discuss the suitability of their intended project. They should then send a preliminary application to David Thompson (dt243@cam.ac.uk), to arrive by 15 February 2012. This should include the following:

Shortlisted candidates will be interviewed by Dr Mata. The successful candidate will then be required to submit a separate formal application for admission to the University of Cambridge.

IAFFE Travel Grant Program

Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Fellowships for 2012-2013 Rutgers University

Study Program for Students on Recuperated Factories

Open Movements is about taking the open source model and applying it to social movements creating new alternatives on the grassroots level. Our innovated pilot program is headquartered in Buenos Aires, Argentina to help connect people with the burgeoning Recovered Factory Movement, where workers are recovering bankrupt businesses and managing them democratically in assemblies. The workers strive to deconstruct hierarchies present in standard businesses, and as so are pioneering worker self-management as a powerful tool to rebuild the economy from the bottom up.

Our programs are structured two ways:

• The Student Worker Project semester abroad consists of four months of classes and integrated site visits to explore worker democracy and the recovered businesses in an academic setting. The semester abroad includes two trips to visit cooperatives in other provinces such as the renowned Zanón/FaSinFat ceramics factory in Neuquén. The course strives to give workers input on the values and their experiences of democratic management, but can provide up to 12 units depending on how each student's university rates the coursework. We are currently filling our slots for the Fall semester (August-November) with the deadlines quickly approaching in April. Please pass this information on to students interest in alternative economies. The cost for this program is $4590 and covers all housing and transportation for the four months.
• The Internship and Development Program is the best way to learn about recovered businesses outside the classroom. These are custom programs developed around the interests of the participants, with the possibility of linking up with a host recovered businesses for an in-depth study. All costs are determined on a trip by trip basis.

Steve Wong, Director
steve@openmovements.org
www.openmovements.org

Heterodox Web Sites and Associates

Michael Roberts Marxist Economics Blog

• http://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/

Heterodox Economics in the Media

Crisis pushes German PAEcon movement into mainstream news

Source: Real-World Economics Review Blog, Jan. 16, 2012

The German Press is increasingly supporting the German movement for real world economics. Numerous journalists from newspapers, radio and television have reported about the make-believe nature of neoclassical modeling and the failures of the economics mainstream. Their baseline is that economists have learned nearly nothing from the financial crisis.

The German public radio “Deutschlandfunk” interviewed us. [link]
The leading monthly magazine, “Der Spiegel” had a leading story about us: [link]

And also German public television reported on us with 3 minutes in the main program and 13 minutes in the information channel: [link]

All this positive major coverage has led to the creation of numerous new local real-world economics groups in Germany. In addition to ones in Heidelberg, Göttingen, Berlin and Erfurt, which were active before the attention of the German press, there are now active groups in Tübingen, Regensburg, and other places. Meanwhile our mail suggest that further groups may soon emerge.

After 10 years of effort, like the annual lecture series in Heidelberg and the conference in Kassel, but with little sign of progress, there is now in Germany a mounting way of support for Real-World Economics.

Heterodox Economics: Marginal Revolutionaries

Triple Crisis Blog and Real News Network on G20

UMKC teaches unorthodox economics through Modern Monetary Theory

The Kansas City Star, January 17, 2012.

Read the article here.

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*Editors' note: See the letter to AEA (Jan 3, 2011) endorsed by many heterodox economists.

NBER Announces Free Access to Papers Older than Three Years

Premio Daniel Carasso Prize

• Achievements: The Prize is designed to reward researchers who have completed outstanding scientific work and published widely. The judges look for clearly stated objectives, a rigorous approach, robust methodologies and study design, sound analysis, and relevant conclusions.
• Looking ahead: In keeping with the Carasso commitment to sustainability and long-term health, the Prize also looks ahead. The projects which entrants submit for the Prize should not only have been completed and published, they should also point to possible new directions in the field of “sustainable food and diets for long-term health”.
• Practical: Both the Daniel Carasso Foundation and Premio came into being in response to the interrelated global crises of dwindling natural resources and malnutrition. The foundation offers the Prize to work that addresses the real world. Work that delivers, and will deliver, positive practical results in the field – e.g. pilot studies which could be up-scaled.
• Imagination: Open-mindedness and imagination are driving values of the Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation. Accordingly, the Prize also seeks to recognize work that rethinks issues in new terms and draws on the imagination to offer solutions. Imagination knows no boundaries: the winner should demonstrate that his or her past and future work crosses disciplines from right across the natural and social sciences.
• Team thought and Leadership:The winner should also be someone who thinks in collective terms. He or she is prepared to work in teams, understands the importance of teamwork, and is willing to lead a team in projects that deliver tangible improvements in the long-term health of communities through nutrition. The winner should be able to convince and attract new talents.

Rhonda Williams Prize

• Inequalities based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or nationality.
• Interrelationships among racism, sexism, homophobia, and classism.
• Connections between scholarship and activism.

• A cover letter/email that includes a statement of (a) the connection between the applicant's experience and the Rhonda Williams legacy as described in the criteria above; and (b) how the applicant would bring diversity to IAFFE and how the applicant would like to be engaged with IAFFE in the future.
• A curriculum vitae or resume, labeled "resumeRWS<applicantlastname>"
• A draft of a full paper (not an abstract or outline) for the 2012 IAFFE conference, scheduled for June 27-29, 2012 in Barcelona, Spain (label file "paperRWS.2011<applicantlastname>)."