Heterodox Economics Newsletter

Issue 239 December 03, 2018 web pdf Heterodox Economics Directory

It is now quite evident that tackling climate change is a major economic challenge of the 21st century. Against this backdrop, I was intrigiued to find that some members of the European Central Banking System are now actively thinking about an agenda on how to incorporate climate-considerations in central banking activities. The first progress report of the associated "Network for Greening the Financial System" explores general options for introducing criteria for assessing the financial risks arising from climate change and the use of fossil fuels - as, for instance, steming from a reliance on emission-intensive inputs or investments in climate-vulnerable sectors - and introducing these criteria in the broader operations related to macroeconomic surveillance and financial stability assessments. Such an approach is surely laudable as it essentially aims to influence the behavior of private actors in the financial sector to engage in similar efforts for assessing risks emerging from climate change and to adapt their investment strategies accordingly. However, the strategy is also cast within the current conceptual and theoretical constraints: it aims to design more appropriate incentive-schemes by employing and extending traditional risk-assessment tools to encourage greater sensibility for climate-concerns and operates fully within the given mandate of the European Central Banking System.

As already said I find this laudable and ambitious because this strategy surely represents a step in the right direction. Nevertheless I wonder, whether such efforts - if successively implemented in due time - would really exhaust the institutional potential of central banks for fighting climate change. In theoretical terms, climate change can be seen as a coordination problem (arising from a repeated prisoners' dilemma) with many, many players. In such a constellation it can often be beneficial to assign a stronger role to centralized decision-making instead of relying on decentralized coordination. Applying this more abstract argument to the case at hand would probably imply an even more ambitious strategy for Central Banks by, for instance, widening their mandate to also engage in financing for more long-term innovations to the benefit of future generations. A concrete proposal could draw, for instance, on Modern Monetary Theory and the works on the entrepreneurial role of the state to provide a clear-cut roadmap for doing so. Such a suggestion would not be that radical as it neither implies to overburden central banks nor would it lead to the conclusion that the state should solely direct the path of innovation; it would rather follow the modest Popperian principle of piecemeal engineering by aiming to develop novel tools for resolving a major problem for the further development of mankind.

Seeing such a strategy complement the efforts currently undertaken by the "Network for Greening the Financial System" would probably induce me to tell my children slightly more optimistic bedtime-stories, so, hey, there is also an incentive-component here!

All the best,

Jakob

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Call for Papers

"Enlightening the Future: The Challenge for Organizations" - Marxist Organization Studies sub-theme at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) 2019 Conference (Edinburgh, July 2019)

4-6 July 2019 | Edinburgh, UK

In 2019, the aim is to build on the success of the eight previous EGOS Marxist studies sub-themes in bringing together people who share an interest in drawing on Marx's ideas to advance management and organization studies. The organizers of the EGOS 2019 Colloquium have called for papers on the theme “Enlightening the future” and Marxism, being one of more important children of the Enlightenment, has much to contribute to this theme. With its aspiration to bring human reason to bear on the organization of production—displacing the “anarchy” of the market and “despotism” of capital—Marxist work is particularly well placed to contribute to the examination of challenge to organizations posed by the Enlightenment and its current impasse.

We welcome all papers that engage Marxist theory and organizational analysis, both understood in the broadest possible terms. We particularly welcome that address the following:

We are not dogmatic in an attachment to any specific kind of Marxism. Indeed, all kinds are welcome and we also welcome non-Marxists those who wish to critique Marxist analysis. In previous years our sub-theme has enjoyed lively debate spanning a wide range of approaches. Some scholars have sought to integrate insights from organization studies into a Marxist framework, while others have examined how Marxist insights may fruitfully add analytical value to other research traditions.

We invite contributions that either (a) enrich our understanding of the empirical world of organizations based on Marxist theoretical foundations, or (b) enrich Marxist theory in a way that promises deeper understanding of that world.

Following EGOS guidelines, submissions take the form of “short papers” of up to 3,000 words, which, upon acceptance, are then developed into full papers (of up to 8,000 words) in time for presentation at the Colloquium. Please find the original call as well as more information on the conference here. Papers should be uploaded via the EGOS website. More information on the submission procedure can be found here.

Submission deadline: 14 January 2019

14th biannual International Network for Economic Method conference (Helsinki, Aug. 2019)

19-21 August 2019 | Helsinki, Finnland

The International Network for Economic Method, in collaboration with TINT – Centre for Philosophy of Social Science, University of Helsinki, is delighted to announce the 14 biannual conference.

We welcome proposals for contributed papers and symposia in all areas of the philosophy and methodology of economics. We particularly encourage submissions that combine philosophy and methodology of economics with other perspectives on studying economics offered, for instance, by history and sociology of economics, ethics, political philosophy, as well as by feminist approaches and social ontology.

Keynote speakers

Abstract submission

Contributed papers

Abstracts for contributed papers should be 550-650 words. Please prepare your abstract for anonymous review. Submit your abstract through Easychair. In the field “Other information and files” please select contributed paper as the submission type.

Symposia

A symposium is composed of three or four papers that address a shared theme. Symposium proposals should contain a short summary of the topic and motivation of the symposium (450-500 words) accompanied by short abstracts of the symposium papers (3-4 papers per symposium, 450-500 words each). Please prepare your submission for anonymous review. Submit your symposium proposal through Easychair. In the field “Other information and files” please select symposium proposal as the submission type.

Further information

Information about registration fees, childcare services during the conference and other practical matters will be available soon here. If you have any questions, please contact Pekka Tolvanen.

Submission deadline: 17 February 2019

1st International European Modern Monetary Theory Conference: Extended deadline (Berlin, Feb. 2019)

The deadline for paper submission for the 1st International European Modern Monetary Theory Conference in Berlin has been extended to 31 December 2018. Please find our original article here.

26th International Economic Conference (Sibiu, May 2019)

24-25 May 2019 | Sibiu, Romania

The Lucian Blaga Unversity of Sibiu invites contributions (short papers of 6-10 pages) for the 26 International Economic Conference that will take place in Sibiu, Romania, May 24-25. The conference is open to and welcomes heterodox economics papers and sessions.

Our guest speaker is Wilfred Dolfsma, Wageningen University (Netherlands) with: “Innovation for development: where economics and business science meet”.

The conference language is in English. Also, the registration fee is 100 euros/person.

If you have any questions, please address the conference email: iecs@ulbsibiu.ro

Please find the original call here.

Submission deadline: 15 February 2019

2nd Vienna Conference on Pluralism in Economics (Vienna, April 2019)

15-16 April 2019 | Vienna, 2019

Among the social sciences, economics is in a dominant position. Economic approaches and indicators are overrepresented in the public discourse on societal, political, or environmental phenomena. Other social sciences often struggle to get their voices heard although their perspectives are valuable complements to conventional economic analysis. At the same time, a rather narrow conception of what constitutes economics leads to a neglect of many schools of economic thought that have existed throughout history and still exist today. This reduces the potential for a holistic understanding of and adequate solutions to real world Problems.

Therefore, the objective of this conference is twofold. First, it shall contribute to an understanding of contemporary challenges from a broader social science perspective. Second, it aims at highlighting various schools of economic thought, their core concepts and approaches, and how they can contribute to a better understanding of our complex reality. We explicitly encourage contributions from all social sciences, including economics, as well as inter- and transdisciplinary approaches.

The following topics will be at the core of the conference:

Specific contributions may be from the topics of e.g. climate change, globalization, well-being and development, power, the rise of the populist vote, the welfare state, distribution and inequality, labor, financial markets, digitalization and others. All theoretical assumptions should be explicitly reflected upon in the submissions. Advanced students are highly encouraged to participate.

Abstract for Application: 300-500 words.

Please find the original call here.

Submission deadline: 03 January 2019

31st Annual Conference of the Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics: "Fathomless Future: Algorithmic and Imagined" (New York City, June 2019)

27-29 June 2019 | New York City, USA

A varienty of calls have been published for the 31st Annual Conference SASE conference.

About the conference

This conference will feature papers all across topics of traditional concern for socio-economics, we especially welcome submissions addressing these changes in politics, the economy, and society at large. How can we understand the direction in which we are headed? What are the various ways to regulate these processes? How are these changes influencing inequalities, democracy, labor, communities, and the international balance of power? How should we think of time in social life? What role does imagination play in the economy? Will the mechanization of human cognition lead to a mindless social universe? How are identities being reconfigured? What has happened to human expectations, hopes, and predictions? How can we (re)gain control over our collective futures?

Established in 1989, SASE owes its remarkable success to the determination to provide a platform for creative research addressing important social problems. Throughout its three decades, SASE has encouraged and hosted rigorous work of any methodological or theoretical bent from around the world based on the principle that innovative research emerges from paying attention to wider context and connecting knowledge developed in different fields. SASE is committed to diverse membership and lively intellectual debates and encourages panels that include or are likely to include a diverse group of participants. This conference will also be an occasion to celebrate SASE’s 30th anniversary.

Please find further information here.

“Alternatives to Capitalism” Research Network I

The recent and yet unresolved Great Recession has revealed just how unjust, inefficient and unsustainable contemporary capitalism has become. This has revitalized public and academic debate about the future of capitalism and the urgent need to envision and enact alternatives that can help tackle the multiple crises that societies are currently facing: high and rising inequality of income and power, eroding democracy, human-induced climate change and environmental destruction. As income and wealth inequality have intensified within capitalist societies, people’s sense of voice or control over longstanding societal institutions has also diminished. In response, many people across the globe have joined together to create new futures through alternative systems, institutions, organizations and other collectives, and relationships. Our network encourages research and scholarship on such collective efforts to create more transformative, egalitarian, horizontal or non-hierarchical practices, relations, social movements, groups, organizations, and societies. Moreover, our network provides an engaging forum for discussing and envisioning alternatives.

The broad aim of this research network is to advance the international, comparative and interdisciplinary study of alternatives to capitalism and its associated institutions. More specifically, the research network has three goals:

  1. To bridge the disparate interpretative frameworks that exist by engaging in a theoretical systematization of the literature;
  2. To map existing alternatives embedded within various socio-economic and geographic contexts;
  3. To encourage the use of innovative research methods that can provide new insights and reach broader audiences.

Contributors are invited to investigate and analyse the practices, strategies and discourses being used by different social groups to enhance and exercise social power rooted in the voluntary association of people and based on the capacity to engage in collective action of various sorts. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: cooperatives (worker/producer/consumer) and cooperativism; political and ethical consumerism; eco-villages and sustainable communities; community and practice-based initiatives; the future of work; radical lifestyles; utopias and alternative futures; prefigurative initiatives and prefigurative politics; direct democracy and municipalism; commons and commoning; alternative forms of organisation and governance; anti-capitalist trade unions and political parties; transformative social innovation; alternative media and other forms of alternative social reproduction. We are particularly interested in the ways in which the State and the market interact with these alternatives through mechanisms of facilitation, co-optation, or repression.

Please submit your proposals (paper abstracs of max. 1000 words or session proposals) using the online system at this link.

Early career scholars are eligible to apply for the Early Career Workshop. If selected, the conference fee cost, the full conference accommodation and the additional night of accommodation for the Workshop will be covered. More info here.

For grad students presenting in our network, we may have access to reasonably priced accommodation, please check later for more info.

Please find further information in the original call here.

Submission deadline: 14 January 2019

Mini-Conferences

Deadline as well as information regarding the submission process can be found at the end of the last Mini-Conference Call.

Mini-Conference on "Global Value Chains Analysis: Past, Present, and the Future"

Global value chain (GVC) analysis has reached a milestone with over twenty years of research. Ananalytical framework for understanding the global fragmentation of manufacturing and services as keyprocesses of globalization, GVC research has helped us conceptualize and anticipate a variety of impacts,opportunities and challenges, posed by global industries on firms, workers, local communities, naturalenvironments and national developmental paths. A series of forthcoming books on GVCs take stock ofthe breadth of research conducted thus far and consolidates key contributions, laying a basis for futureresearch into the impact of these global processes on our economies, politics, and societies across scalesand geographical locations (Barrientos 2019; De Marchi, Di Maria, and Gereffi 2018; Gereffi, Ponte, andRaj-Reichert 2019; Gereffi 2018, Ponte 2019). A key characteristic of analytical progression in the GVCdomain is its inter-disciplinary openness to research for example in Economic Geography andInternational Business (Cook et al. 2018), amongst others.

We are interested in papers on the following key themes which are innovative in their scope, methods,and ideas. We are particularly interested in inter-disciplinary contributions. Papers can be cross-cuttingin its thematic focus.

Mini-Conference on "Socio-Economics Revisited: Economic Sociology Meets Heterodox Economics"

Revisiting the intellectual project of socio-economics therefore requires a revitalization of the conversation between economic sociology and those non-neoclassical strands of economics that are usually labelled as heterodox, reaching across the theoretical as well as normative and political spectrum from Marxian and Postkeynesian via institutional and evolutionary to Austrian economics. Adding to the rejection of neoclassical equilibrium analyses, their common ground lies in a shared vision of capitalist market economies as shaped by uncertainty, instability, novelty, conflict, and persistent change. Crucially, this vision of economic affairs also characterises the major strands of economic sociology.

The SASE mini-conference “Socio-Economics Revisited: Economic Sociology Meets Heterodox Economics” is meant to promote the conversation between economic sociology and heterodox economics. Key questions to be explored are as follows:

Please find the original call for this mini conference here.

Please find more information about the mini conference series here.

Submissions of abstracts (up to 200 words) are made using the SASE online submission system through a login username at www.sase.org.

Submission deadline: 14 January 2019

3rd International Conference on Economic Structures 2019 (ICES 2019) (Osaka, March 2019)

18-19 March 2019 | Osaka, Japan

The 3rd International Conferenceon Economic Structures 2019 (ICES 2019) will be heldon18 & 19 March2019 at Ritsumeikan University(Osaka Ibaraki Campus(OIC)), Japan (Address: Ritsumeikan University, 2-150 Iwakura-cho, Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan). The Pan Pacific Association of Input-Output Studies invites your participation and contributionto the ICES 2019. ICES 2019 of this year focuses on the following sub-themes. All contributions that address thefollowing sub-themes are especially welcomed. We also welcome your proposals for organized special sessions.

  1. Environment, Resourceand Energy
  2. International Economyand International Development
  3. Telecommunication and Information Technology
  4. Productivity
  5. Computable General Equilibrium Model
  6. Regional Input-Output Analysis
  7. Theory of Input-Output Techniques
  8. Compilation ofInput-OutputTable, SNA, or SAM
  9. Disaster and the Economy/Society
  10. Others

The online submission system (SOLTI) will be open in November 2018,which will be announced here.

Please find more information on the conference here and the original call here.

Submission deadline: 31 December 2018

7th Euroacademia International Conference on "The European Union and the Politicization of Europe" (Bruges, Jan. 2019)

25-26 January 2019 | Bruges, Belgium

The 7th International Conference ‘The European Union and the Politicization of Europe’ aims to survey some of the current debates in EU studies and addresses once more the challenges of the EU polity in a context of multiple crises that confronted Europe in recent years. It supports a transformative view that invites to dialogue balanced weights of optimism and pessimism in a belief that the unfold of current events and the way EU deals with delicate problems will put an increased pressure in the future on matters of accountability and will require some institutional adjustments that address democratic requirements for decision making. However in its present shape and context the EU does not look able to deliver soon appropriate answers to democratic demands. In neo-functionalist slang we can say as an irony that the actual crisis in the EU legitimacy is a ‘spillover’ effect of institutional choices made some time before. To address the EU’s democratic deficit however is not to be a sceptic and ignore the benefits that came with it but to acknowledge the increasing popular dissatisfaction with ‘occult’ office politics and with the way EU tackles daily problems of public concern while the public is more and more affected by decisions taken at the European level. The question to be addressed in the conference is weather the increasing politicization of the EU will lead to a full democratization of EU politics or to increasing fragmentation and division.

Is the EU becoming an increasingly politicized entity? Is the on-going politicization of Europe a structured or a messy one? Do political parties within the European Parliament act in a manner that strengthens the view of the EU as an articulate political system? Are there efficient ways for addressing the democratic deficit issue? Can we find usable indicators for detecting an emerging European demos and a European civil society? Does an Europeanization of the masses take place or the EU remains persistently a genuinely elitist project? Did the Lisbon Treaty introduce significant changes regarding the challenges facing the EU? Can we see any robust improvements in the accountability of the EU decision making processes? Are there alternative ways of looking at the politicization processes and redistributive policies inside the EU? What is the impact of Brexit for the future of the EU? Can we expect a future of European solidarity or division? These are only few of the large number of questions that unfold when researchers or practitioners look at the EU. It is the aim of the 7th International Conference ‘The European Union and the Politicization of Europe’ to address in a constructive manner such questions and to offer a platform for dissemination of research results or puzzles that can contribute to a better understanding of the on-going process of politicization within the European Union.

The conference welcomes papers advancing contributions from the widest area of inquiry related to the EU, from theoretic contributions and methodological proposals to case studies at EU level and regional or national levels. It aims to be an interdisciplinary event that adds value to the debate about the present and future of the EU based on the firm belief that deepening the specialized dialogue on EU topics leads to asserting the European critical thinking and to a better understanding of European realities. Papers addressing current challenges from the Eurozone crisis to Brexit or re-emergence of nationalist parties and attitudes in member states as well as security studies and IR papers are especially welcomed.

The conference is organized yet by no means restricted to the following panels:

For complete information before applying see full details of the conference here. Please find the full call here.

You can apply on-line by completing the Application Form on the conference website or by sending 300 words titled abstract together with the details of contact and affiliation at application@euroacademia.org

Submission deadline: 10 December 2018

Charles Gide 2019 workshop: Extended deadline (Montreal, June 2019)

The Deadline for the Charles Gide 2019 workshopon "Evolutions of the disciplinary boundaries of Economics with the other sciences"has been extended to 15 December 2018. Proposals can be submitted online.

Please find our original article here.

Conference and Special issue on "The Globalization Project: Falling Behind or Failing Forward?" (Torino, June 2019)

13-15 June 2019 | Torino, Italy

Alternate Routes and the University of Turin, in conjunction with the gallery exhibition Behind the Indian Boom: Invisible India, invites submissions for our latest conference and special issue. A retrospective with future implications: 2019 marks eleven years since the Great Recession and bank bailouts began, ten years since the Keynesian stimulus comeback, nine years since the recent austerity push, three years since the Paris Agreement, twenty years since the launch of the Euro, thirty years since the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement came into effect, and more than forty years since the ‘other’ 9/11 and onset of monetarism. How might we evaluate the longue duree of neoliberalism, and what might more recent trends like rightwing populism and illiberalism mean for the future of neoliberalism and the globalization project? How are labour and other social movements responding? What role, if any, for social democracy? And what to make of twenty-first century socialism?

Alternate Routes invites panel and paper proposals for its upcoming annual conference that probe the dialectic of continuity and change. To encourage broad intellectual engagement and debate, we are seeking paper and panel proposals on a wide range of topics relating to these trends, including but not limited to:

To submit your proposal, please click here or visit www.alternateroutes.ca. A selection of papers will be considered as part of a special issue publication of Alternate Routes: A Journal of Critical Social Research. Conference Registration Fees: Permanent Faculty €200; Contract Faculty and Graduate Students: €150.

Submission deadline: 31 December 2018

Congress titled "Quo Vadis Social Sciences: Political, Economical and Social Issues in Retrospect and Prospect" (Ankara, Apr. 2019)

25-26 April 2019 | Ankara Turkey

Interactions between markets and politics; the influence of markets on politics and the influence of policy on markets are increasing in the globalized World. There is a change in economy, society, politics and even in climate. The main purpose of the congress is to examine these changes in a multidisciplinary perspective. In this context, the effects of globalization process will be investigated through the studies of researchers from different disciplines such as economics, public finance, management, sociology, political science and public administration.

The related topics (but not limited to)are:

You can present your work during the conference either as a regular presentation in one of our panels. Regular Presentation: You will have up to 15-20 minutes time for your presentation. It is recommended to speak no longer than 15 minutes and let at least 5 minutes for discussion. Please bring your presentation on a USB flash drive. Each presentation room will be equipped with a laptop and a screen for PowerPoint presentations.

Abstracts must include:

You can submit your abstracts via mail to fsecon2016@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is 15 March 2019.

Please find further information here.

Rethinking Macroeconomics: Call for research on gender-aware macroeconomic models

As part of its second year of activities, the Rethinking Macroeconomics Working Group, a part of the Care Work and the Economy (CWE-GAM) Project, is issuing an open call for research papers focused on producing theoretical gender-aware macroeconomic models that incorporate care activities—of ourselves and one another, both paid and unpaid. This charge is intentionally a wide one, as the field is so new and the important questions so numerous. In thinking more specifically about how best to develop a research proposal, we strongly encourage you to keep the following project priorities in mind. The research and modeling should:

We would like the set of models to reflect a diversity of methodological approaches, as well as initiate dialogue across schools of thought or combine the best of different modeling tools and norms, yielding a “hybrid” approach. The objectives and work program of the entire research project, as well as the paper abstracts for the Rethinking Macroeconomics Working Group’s first year of activities, can be viewed here.

In addition to producing a paper on macroeconomic modeling, scholars will collectively contribute to a theoretical modeling working group that will give feedback to one another as well as contribute to and draw from other parts of the CWE-GAM Project. In addition to the Rethinking Macroeconomics Working Group, there are two additional groups of scholars working on South Korea as a case study: the Understanding and Measuring Care Group focuses on estimating the care economy and collecting both time use and qualitative data on paid and unpaid care; and the Gender-Aware Applied Modelling Group is constructing a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Korean economy that incorporates care and gender dynamics. There will be numerous opportunities to both draw from and contribute to the work of these other groups.

Please, email a brief (2 pages max) research paper proposal to elissa.braunstein@colostate.edu. The proposal should include the following:

Please find the original call as well as further information here.

Submission deadline: 15 December 2018

Review of Economics and Economic Methodology: Call for Contributions

Review of Economics and Economic Methodology is a peer-reviewed, bi-annual academic journal with a focus on economic theory, economic methodology, economic history and ethics in economics. It is set up and managed by the coordinators of the Movement for Economic Pluralism, Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana. REEM is an open access journal, all its content is permanently available online without subscription or payment.

We are welcoming contributions from the following research domains:

  1. Economic theory: We welcome contributions from different schools in economics, papers are not discriminated by their paradigmatic content, but by the quality of research.
  2. Economic methodology: We welcome the methodological analysis of concepts, theories and techniques of economics, either mainstream or heterodox.
  3. History of economic thought: We welcome papers that deal with historical development of ideas, concepts, theories and methods in economics.
  4. Ethics and economics: We welcome contributions in philosophy, political science and moral philosophy, in so far as there is some clear link to economics.

All submissions must show a clear connection to economics, but can also be interdisciplinary in nature, for example philosophical with a focus on conceptual or methodological issues. All contributions should in some way indicate the link with already published research and ongoing debate in the field.

The Review of Economics and Economic Methodology accepts papers sent to reemslovenia@gmail.com and written in English (possibly Slovenian) to check for potential eligibility.

Please find the original call as well as more information regarding the submission process here.

Submission deadline: 1 March 2019

URPE@WSSA call for papers and registration (San Diego, Apr. 2019)

24-27 April 2019 | San Diego 2019, USA

The Second Annual URPE@WSSA Conference is at the 61st Annual Conference of the Western Social Sciences Association (WSSA), which truly is an association of sister social sciences in addition to economics and political economy. Association for Institutionalist Thought (AFIT) whom UPRE organizes in conjunction with has had a presence at the WSSA for years. The link to Overview of the conference is here.

To facilitate registration, WSSA has allowed people to upload their papers and panel sessions directly on their website, with the caveat that URPE members be certain to indicate that you are with the URPE section. Below are the links that take people directly to the URPE-selected option on the WSSA website.

If you have any questions contact scott-carter@utulsa.edu or Geoff.Schneider@Bucknell.edu.

YSI’s North America convening: "Beyond the great men narrative" (Los Angeles, Feb. 2019)

22-24 February 2019 | Los Angeles, USA

Beyond the great men narrative

For many economists the history of their profession is the history of a few outstanding, mostly male, individuals whose work was crucial in shaping the profession’s agenda and whose names live on in their association with parameters, theories, principles, etc. Much of the work in the history of economic thought has done little to dispute this view as it is still mostly centered on big names and tends to focus on their contributions to economic analysis. A growing segment of the literature, however, has explored the broader context in which economists act, their relationship to public policy debates, the conformation of communities, the construction and diffusion of tools and practices, etc. This work has brought to light a larger cast of characters and offers a richer understanding of the evolution of economics and of its role in society.

As part of our effort to foster this kind of work we invite contributions that challenge the great men narrative. Research on any geographical location or historical period will be considered, and topics may include, among others:

Applications should be made here. Please find the original call here. Further questions can be directed to Juan Acosta and Christina Laskaridis

Submission deadline: 18 December 2018

Call for Participants

2018 International Symposium: "Marx in the 21st Century" (Tokyo, Dec. 2018)

22-23 December 2018 | Tokyo, Japan

The Programme of the International Symposium on "Marx in the 21st Century" is now available online here. Further information regarding the Symposium can be found here.

CBNA Winter School in Social Network Analysis (London, Jan. 2019)

7-11 January 2019 | London, UK

The Centre for Business Network Analysis (CBNA) at the University of Greenwich, London, is hosting the 8th edition of its popular Winter School in Social Network Analysis.

Please find further information here.

To book on to one or more of the named workshops, please visit the University of Greenwich Online Store. If you would like to pay via invoice, please email us on BusinessEvents@gre.ac.uk. Students and Staff from the University of Greenwich Business School receive complementary places, please email BusinessEvents@gre.ac.uk for further information.

Historical Materialism Sydney 2018: "Contesting the Survival of Capitalism" (Sydney, Dec. 2018)

The program of the Historical Materialism Sydney 2018 Conference on "Contesting the Survival of Capitalism" in Sidney is now available here. Please find our orginial article here.

International Confederation of Association for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE) (Atlanta, Jan. 2019)

3 January 2019 | Atlanta, GA, USA

The program for the 2019 ICAPE conference, with a rich blend of panels, workshops and round tables is now available online. As usual, all of the heterodox perspectives will be represented, which should make for some fascinating discussions.I hope you will consider attending this conference, which will take place the day before the ASSA meetings. The location is Agnes Scott College in suburban Atlanta. If you are interested in attending, please register for the conference here. Note that a full breakfast, lunch, coffee, and reception are included in the registration fee.

Third Summer School on the History of Economic Thought in Latin America (EVPEAL) on "History of Economic Thinking in and from Latin America" (Mexico, Feb. 2019)

13-16 February 2019 | Mexico City, Mexico

The Faculty of Economics of UNAM, YSI/INET and ALAHPE invite you to:

The third edition of the “Summer School on the History of Economic Thought in Latin America” (EVPEAL) to be held at the Faculty of Economics of the UNAM in Mexico City, February 13-16, 2019. This event will be held after the editions held in Bogotá in 2015 and Ouro Preto in 2017.

The Summer School will once again bring together graduate students and young researchers selected to present their research progress on topics related to the history of economic thought, economic history, and the methodology of economics. Relevant specialists in the study of the history of economic thought in Latin America will also be invited.

The Summer School will have sessions dedicated to the presentation of ongoing research by advanced master students, doctoral students and young academics, which will be commented by invited scholars. These sessions will provide a space for in-depth discussion. In addition, some sessions will be devoted to thematic debate workshops. At the end of each day, there will be room for informal conversations about ongoing research projects and broader intellectual and professional concerns.

Candidates wishing to participate in the 3rd EVPEAL should submit their proposals (in English, Portuguese or Spanish) on a topic related to the theme of the event, with a summary of up to 400 words no later than January 11, 2019, using the following form.

The Scientific Committee will select 20 proposals from the applications received. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance by January 25 and must submit the full version of their contribution by February 2 at the latest.

The organization will have partial and complete grants for selected participants (including those who have received their doctoral degree between 2016 and 2018). Those interested in applying for these grants should send the full version of their papers to alahpe.unam@gmail.com.

The Summer School seeks to provide a vehicle for strengthening academic work in Latin America. However, there are no restrictions regarding the place of origin of the participants: we welcome and encourage proposals from young scholars from around the world.

For further enquiries you can contact us at alahpe.unam@gmail.com

Submission deadline: 11 January 2019

Workshop on "Modelling and Analysis of Complex Monetary Economies V" (Paris, Dec. 2018)

14 December 2018 | Paris, France

The programme of CEPNs "Dynamics of Capitalism and Post-Keynesian Analysis" workshop on Modelling and Analysis of Complex Monetary Economies V to be held at Centre d'Economie de l'Université Paris Nord (CEPN) is available here.

YSI's Philosophy of Economics Working Group Webinar on "Feminist Economics and Social Provisioning" (Dec. 2018)

The Philosophy of Economics Working Group of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI) invites to the Webinar Feminist Economics and Social Provisioning.

Professor Zdravka Todorova (Wright State University) is going to present the general aspects of gender studies in economics. The Webinar will take place 14:30, Central European Time, on December 18, 2018. You may join through this link.

You find some reading suggestions about the topic in this folder, but remember they are only suggestions, everyone is invited to join us regardless of being able to read it or not: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1rajB7a6_f9i0hLWS52H99AuOa2DlwjpF

This webinar is the first part of a studying group focused on Feminist Epistemology in Economics. The studying group schedule and texts will be settled in this first meeting. This Webinar will be recorded, so anyone that desires to join us later can have contact with this general introduction. The project is an initiative of the following working groups: Gender and Economics; Philosophy of Economics, and History of Economics Thought.

Young Scientists Summer Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg (Austria)

Every summer from 1 June to 31 August, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) hosts up to 50 doctoral students from around the world in its Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP).

What is IIASA?

The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) is an international scientific institute that conducts research into the critical issues of global environmental, economic, technological, and social change that we face in the twenty-first century. Our findings provide valuable options to policymakers to shape the future of our changing world. IIASA is independent and funded by prestigious research funding agencies in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, and Oceania.

IIASA’s research comes under the following programs:

IASA’s annual 3-month Young Scientists Summer Program (YSSP) offers research opportunities to talented young researchers whose interests correspond with the institute’s ongoing research on issues of global environmental, economic, and social change. Each YSSP participant works on a topic related to his or her PhD thesis and to IIASA’s own research agenda, the goal being to write a publishable paper. All YSSP participants are personally mentored by IIASA senior scientists.

You should apply if:

Successful applicants from countries with an IIASA National Member Organization (NMO) are eligible for funding, and some fellowships are also available for students from non-NMO countries. To learn about funding in your country, contact your National Member Organization.

General Questions may be directed to yssp.info@iiasa.ac.at. More information can be found here

Please find a link to the application portal here.

Application deadline 11 January 2019

Job Postings

Drew University, USA

Drew university has just published two job openings.

Drew University, a Phi Beta Kappa liberal arts university, includes the College of Liberal Arts, the Drew Theological School and the Caspersen School of Graduate Studies. Drew is located on a beautiful, wooded, 186-acre campus in Madison, New Jersey, a thriving small town close to New York City. The Theological and Caspersen Schools offer MA and PhD degrees and the College confers BA degrees in 30 disciplines.

Drew is dedicated to exceptional faculty mentorship, a commitment to connecting the campus with the community and a focus on experiential learning.

Job title: tenure-track Assistant Professor in macroeconomics and monetary economics

Drew University seeks applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in macroeconomics and monetary economics beginning August 2019, pending budgetary approval. The successful candidate will teach courses in our undergraduate economics & business programs, and closely work with our diverse and international graduate and undergraduate students. This person will direct our innovative Wall Street semester program in New York City every other spring semester. In addition, they will contribute to a program that values interdisciplinary, experiential, and global macroeconomic perspectives. For full consideration, applications must be complete by December 5, 2018.

Requirements

The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in Economics with a focus on macroeconomics, by August 1, 2019. Course responsibilities include introductory and intermediate macroeconomics, and money & banking.

Application

To apply, please send:

To enrich education through diversity, Drew University is an AA/EOE. This position is subject to a background check.

To apply, log into Econ Job Market here.

Application deadline (for full consideration): 5 December 2018

Job title: tenure-track Assistant Professor in Finance

Drew University seeks applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Finance beginning August 2019, pending budgetary approval. The successful candidate will teach core courses in our new Masters in Finance program and closely work with our graduate and undergraduate students. In addition, they will contribute to a program that values interdisciplinary, experiential, and global business perspectives. We especially encourage candidates with industry and/or academic work experience. For full consideration, applications must be complete by December 7, 2018.

Requirements

The successful candidate must have a Ph.D. in Finance, or Economics with a focus on Financial Economics, by August 1, 2019. Course responsibilities include investments, quantitative financial analysis, and/or risk management.

Application

To apply, please send:

To enrich education through diversity, Drew University is an AA/EOE. This position is subject to a background check.

To apply, log into Econ Job Market here.

Application deadline 7 December 2018

SUNY/Empire State College, USA

Job title: Associate Dean for Labor Studies

SUNY Empire State College seeks an Associate Dean to lead college wide labor studies and the Harry Van Arsdale Jr. Center for Labor Studies. This academic leader will be responsible for the current Van Arsdale labor studies program in Manhattan, while continuing to develop high quality labor studies programs throughout SUNY Empire State College. SUNY Empire State College is committed to continuously growing and improving the Van Arsdale Center and labor programs by expanding our labor-centered programming through new curriculum and program development and by pursuing partnership opportunities with unions throughout New York State.

The Associate Dean for Labor Studies and Harry Van Arsdale Center for Labor will collaborate with senior Academic Affairs leadership to expand student success with high quality labor studies programming that promotes innovation in teaching, mentoring and learning. This academic leader will work closely with our labor faculty, professional employees, and support staff to develop student and academic services to meet the needs of working students. The Associate Dean will collaborate with the Vice President for Enrollment Management (VPEM) to strengthen recruitment and enrollment strategies and work closely with the Associate Vice President for Programs and Partnerships to grow partnerships with labor organizations across New York State and the United States. This academic administrator will also collaborate with the Executive Director for International Education to assess the potential for international partnerships.

Responsibilities include supervision of faculty, professionals, and staff, as well as recruitment, hiring and evaluation of full-time, part-time, and adjunct faculty. The Associate Dean for Labor Studies and Harry Van Arsdale Center for Labor oversees and manages the development of annual programs for all employees at the Center. This leadership position is responsible for faculty development related to mentoring, teaching, scholarship, as well as college and community service and continued growth. The successful candidate will promote a dynamic and collaborative environment supporting faculty and staff efforts college-wide in the development of labor studies learning opportunities across multiple teaching modalities, development of new degree programs in the field, assessment of learning outcomes and enhanced student support and enrollment services.

Job Functions/Responsibilities:

Requirements

Please find the original job posting here and the link to the application portal here.

Applications are considered on a roling basis

The European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Austria

Job title: Social Policy Analyst

The European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research, a UN-affiliated intergovernmental organization in Vienna, has a vacancy for a researcher to work on a broad range of issues on long-term care and/or health focusing both on Austria and on international comparative perspectives in the UNECE region.

These include inequalities (including gender) in use of care, quality of care, policy analysis and consultancy.

The European Centre offers the possibility for researchers to develop and grow in a working environment that emphasises excellence, interdisciplinary co-operation between colleagues inside and outside the European Centre, independence and autonomy at work.

We offer flexible working hours and a remuneration package compatible with expertise and demonstrated experience.

Please send your application with CV and letter of motivation in English to Judith Schreiber.

For more information on the job profile click here. The original job posting can be found here.

Application deadline: 31 December 2018

University of Hertfordshire, UK

The Business School at the University of Hertfordshire has announced 2 vacancies at professor / reader level.

Job title: Reader/Professor in the area of Business and Management

As part of a new investment strategy, we are planning to appoint two new colleagues at Reader/Professor level dependent upon experience and qualifications. These are part of the Business School’s strengthening of its research infrastructure and environment. We are looking for staff from any cognate of Business and Management who can contribute to our existing areas of research expertise across the Business and Management spectrum.

The appointee will undertake novel enquiry to disseminate new knowledge and/or advances in practice which lead to positive impact in the economy and society, they will play a leading role in advancing the School’s research strategy and, as a professor, lead projects, teams and/or scholarly communities. The appointee will attract and mentor early years researchers, will undertake teaching at both postgraduate and undergraduate levels, generate income from research funding and will build professorial and knowledge exchange networks.

The person and their research expertise and track record is more important than the subject specialism though we would welcome applications from staff with specialisms in Health Care Management, Management, Economics, Marketing, Finance, Accounting, Work and Employment with quantitative skills. There will scope to develop your own research activities with staff, and to support your research development strategy.

We are also appointing a number of additional Research Fellows. The Research fellow appointments are designed to build the research infrastructure in the School and to support our existing research groups. We provide a very generous amount of time for research for Readers and Professors to support the research culture and there will be an expectation to undertake a limited amount of teaching as well as research supervision.

Skills and experience needed

We are looking for researchers with transferrable skills from across the social science field so areas such as Sociology, Psychology, Statistics, Information Technology, Psychology as well as other Business and Management areas are welcome to apply. We are seeking people preferably with 4* and some 3* research outputs as well as success in bidding for research grants. You will also need quantitative skills. You must have a track record of PhD supervision with a minimum of TWO successful completions together with extensive teaching experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, a record of quality published research of international standing and an excellent record in attracting research funding.

In addition, for a professorial appointment, an international research record and reputation, including publications for REF submission, success in research income generation, evidence of engagement with the impact agenda, significant experience of curriculum design and assessment and the ability to teach modules on the Business and Management pathways.

Qualifications required

PhD in a relevant area.

As this is a readership or professorial appointment, the names and contact details of three academic referees of appropriate standing in the field are required who may be approached by the University prior to interview. The Appointment Panel for the post will be constituted in such a way that if the successful candidate fulfils the University's Professorial criteria, then the Panel may award a Professorial title to the successful candidate.

Please feel free to contact Professor Stephen J. Page, Associate Dean (Research) with further questions.

Please find the original job posting as well as a link to apply here.

Application deadline: 5 January 2019

University of Vienna, Austria

Job title: University Professor of International Development

he professorship is dedicated to development research from a political science perspective. Expected are research and teaching knowledge of current discourses on development, theories and intersectional concepts of development, as well as empirical research in thematic fields of development research from a political science perspective. Participation transdisciplinary teaching and research as well as administrative tasks are expected.

Successful candidates should have the following qualifications:

The University of Vienna expects the successful candidate to acquire, within three years, proficiency in German sufficient for teaching in bachelor’s programmes and for participation in university committees. In addition, the University of Vienna expects the successful candidate to be prepared to take over responsibility on the organisational level of the Faculty and the University, if necessary.

We offer:

The University of Vienna pursues a non-discriminatory employment policy and values equal opportunities, as well as diversity (http://diversity.univie.ac.at/en). The University puts special emphasis on increasing the number of women in senior and in academic positions. Given equal qualifications, preference will be given to female applicants.

Application documents:

Applications in German or English should be submitted by e-mail to the Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences of the University of Vienna, Univ.-Prof. Hajo Boomgaarden, PhD, Rooseveltplatz 2, A-1090 Vienna.

Reference no.: 490-39

The application deadline: 7 January 2019.

Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

Research Institute Economics of Inequality at the Vienna University of Economics and Business has published three job posting:

Job title: third-party-funded project staff member position (pre-doc)

The Research Institute Economics of Inequality is currently inviting applications for a30 hours/week third-party-funded project staff member position(pre-doc, employee subject to the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement for University Staff - Angestellte/r gemäß Kollektivvertrag für die Arbeitnehmer/innen der Universitäten; minimum gross monthly salary, paid 14 times per year: Euro 2,095.95, recognition of previous employment - if relevant to the advertised position - possible). This employee position will be limited to a period of four years, starting on February 01, 2019 (commencement date subject to change).

Duties and responsibilities:

Your Profile:

Applications should be made online (Reference Number: 3793)

Application deadline: 19 December 2018

Job title: third-party-funded project staff member position(post-doc)

The Research Institute Economics of Inequality is currently inviting applications for a20 hours/week third-party-funded project staff member position (post-doc, employee subject to the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement for University Staff - Angestellte/r gemäß Kollektivvertrag für die Arbeitnehmer/innen der Universitäten; minimum gross monthly salary, paid 14 times per year: Euro 1,855.88. This employee position will be limited to a period of four years, starting on February 01, 2019 (commencement date subject to change).

Duties and responsibilities

Your Profile

Applications should be made online (Reference Number: 3794)

Application deadline: 19 December 2018

Job title: project assistant

The Research Institute Economics of Inequality is currently inviting applications for a20 hours/week project assistant(employee subject to the terms of the Collective Bargaining Agreement for University Staff - Angestellte/r gemäß Kollektivvertrag für die Arbeitnehmer/innen der Universitäten; minimum gross monthly salary, paid 14 times per year: Euro 1,023.45. This employee position will be limited to a period of four years, starting on February 01, 2019 (commencement date subject to change).

Duties and responsibilities

Your Profile

Applications should be made online (Reference Number: 3795)

Application deadline 19 December 2018

The institute economics of inequality (www.ineq.at) is a multidisciplinary research institute at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, where professors of the Departments Economics and Socio-Economics research and analyse a wide variety of questions concerning economic, social and ecological inequality with a small team of young but highly qualified researchers.

To extend our research team, we offer an interesting and challenging job in a young and motivated team with flexible working hours. The post-doc position specifically focuses on empirical inequality research, both independently and in the context of currently running projects at the institute, INEQ has a strong track record of acquiring third-party funding and plans to actively support the successful candidate in submitting projects in order to augment this position to a full-time contract.

Qualified candidates with disabilities are strongly encouraged to apply for this part-time position.

Awards

Call for Nominations: Journal of Australian Political Economy Young Scholars Award 2018

Each year the editors of the Journal of Australian Political Economy give one or more Awards of $2,000 to encourage students to work on writing an article for publication. Normally, the article draws on a thesis, either at Honours or Masters level, that they have written on a political economy topic. The closing date for applications is the end of November (I.e. this coming Saturday), but applications received by midday on Monday will also be considered.

Applications should include a brief c.v., a one-page description of the topic of the thesis and what the prospective article would address and the name of an academic who would be a suitable supervisor. Applications should be sent to frank.stilwell@sydney.edu.au

Academics in the SHE network are encouraged to draw this opportunity to the attention of their students.

Call for Submissions: 14th Annual Student Scholars Award Competition by the Association of Institutional Thought

This is a reminder that the Association for Institutional Thought (AFIT) is still taking submissions for the 14th Annual AFIT Student Scholars Award Competition.Please find our original article with more information here.

Submission deadline: 20 December 2018

Winner Announcement: The History of Economics Society Best Paper Award

The History of Economics Society is pleased to award the prize for the best paper by a Warren and Sylvia Samuels Young Scholar at the 2018 HES annual conference to Matthew Panhans for his paper “Health Economics: Scientific Expertise and Policymaking.” Panhans’s paper explores the history of health economics as an independent field within applied microeconomics, taking account of the indirect influence of economic expertise through analytical tools as well as the direct influence of economists themselves. His paper is well-researched, perfectly executed in terms of writing and clarity, and original in its topic.

Matthew Panhans did the research for his paper while he was a graduate student at Duke University. He is now at the Bureau of Economics, Federal Trade Commission, Washington, DC.

The committee for the prize consisted of Beatrice Cherrier, Robert Dimand (chair) and Tiago Mata.

Journals

Annals of the Fondazione Luigi Einaudi. An Interdisciplinary Journal of Economics, History and Political Science, 52 (1)

Giuseppe Bertola: Introduction to the Symposium: Globalization in Historical Perspective. A Long-term View

Kevin O’Rourke: Varieties of Backlash

Stefano Fenoaltea: The Backlash to Globalization: Some Further Thoughts

Ugo Panizza: The Real Effects of Financial Globalization: What Do the Data Say?

Francesco Tuccari: Foreword to the Symposium on Global History

Marco Meriggi: Global History: Structures, Strategies, Open Problems

Laura Di Fiore: Geographies of Global History

Vittorio H. Beonio Brocchieri: The Great Divergence vingt ans après: Toward a Medium-term Synthesis?

Patrizia Delpiano: Early Modern History in the Journal of Global History

Giovanni Gozzini: Great Depression, 2008 Great Contraction, and World History

Massimo Firpo: Luther and Europe

Joseph Straus: Legal Order in the Draft: Europe on the Eve of the 100th Anniversary of the Treaty of Versailles

Bruna Ingrao: Models in Economics: Fables, Fictions and Stories

Paolo Silvestri: Economics, Humanities and Values

Francesco Forte: Economics, Value Judgements and Interdisciplinarity

Riccardo Faucci: On Einaudi's 'Vision' of the Good Polity

Raimondo Cubeddu: On the Moral Foundations of the Science of 'Buon Governo'

Luigi Einaudi: On Abstract and Historical Hypotheses and on Value Judgements in Economic Sciences: Conclusions

Francesco Cassata: On the Relationship between Irving Fisher and Luigi Einaudi: Introductory Note

Peppino Ortoleva: Review of M. Ceretta and B. Curli (eds.), 'Discourses and Counter-discourses on Europe. From the Enlightenment to the EU', Milton Park, Routledge, 2017

Furio Stamati: Review of H. Zimmermann and A. Dür (eds.), 'Key Controversies in European Integration', Basingstoke, Palgrave MacMillan, 2nd ed., 2016

Emma Tieffenbach: Review of F. Guala, 'Understanding Institutions: The Science and Philosophy of Living Together', Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2016

Cambridge Journal of Economics, 42 (6)

Antonio Andreoni, Ha-Joon Chang, Sue Konzelmann, and Alan Shipman: Introducton to the Special Issue: Towards a production-centred agenda

Dominique Foray: Smart specialisation strategies and industrial modernisation in European regions—theory and practice

David Bailey, Christos Pitelis, and Philip R Tomlinson: A place-based developmental regional industrial strategy for sustainable capture of co-created value

Marco Cucculelli and Dimitri Storai: Industrial districts, district effect and firm size: the Italian evidence

David Bailey, Carlo Corradini, and Lisa De Propris: ‘Home-sourcing’ and closer value chains in mature economies: the case of Spanish manufacturing

Andrea Ascani and Simona Iammarino:Multinational enterprises, service outsourcing and regional structural change

Antonio Andreoni: The architecture and dynamics of industrial ecosystems: diversification and innovative industrial renewal in Emilia Romagna

Julie Froud, Steven Hayes, Hua Wei, and Karel Williams: Capabilities and habitat in industrial renewal: the case of UK textiles

Marco Bellandi, Erica Santini, and Claudia Vecciolini: Learning, unlearning and forgetting processes in industrial districts

Frank Pyke: Managing technological change for inclusive growth

Capitalism Nature Socialism, 29 (4)

David N. Pellow: Political Prisoners and Environmental Justice

José A. Tapia Granados: Inexorable March Toward Utter Climate Disaster?

Ecosocialist Thought

Eamonn Slater: Engels on Ireland’s Dialectics of Nature

Anne Gough and Daniele Valisena: From Factories in the Field to Activist Scholar: Don Mitchell Reflects on Intellectual Practice and the State of the University Today

Contradictions and Struggles

Juan M. Ramírez-Cendrero: Limits and Contradictions of Post-developmentalism as a Heterodox Approach to Capitalist Development

Alexander Dunlap: “A Bureaucratic Trap:” Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) and Wind Energy Development in Juchitán, Mexico

Ellen D. Russell: Resisting Divide and Conquer: Worker/Environmental Alliances and the Problem of Economic Growth

Economic Thought - History, Philosophy and Methodology, 7 (2)

Dirk-Hinnerk Fischer and Hovhannes Yeritsyan: A Common Misunderstanding about Capitalism and Communism Through the Eyes of Innovation

Stuart Holland and Andrew Black: Cherchez la Firme: Redressing the Missing – Meso – Middle in Mainstream Economics

Christian Müller-Kademann: The Lucas Critique: A Lucas Critique

David Orrell: Quantum Economics

Timon Scheuer: Computational Agents, Design and Innovative Behaviour: Hetero Economicus

Economy and Society, 47 (4)

Donald MacKenzie: ‘Making’, ‘taking’ and the material political economy of algorithmic trading

Llerena Guiu Searle: The contradictions of mediation: intermediaries and the financialization of urban production

Javier Lezaun: The deferred promise of radical cure: pharmaceutical conjugations of malaria in the global health era

Franck Cochoy, Johan Hagberg and Hans Kjellberg: The technologies of price display: mundane retail price governance in the early twentieth century

Boris Vormann: When private vice hurts public virtue: of blind men, elephants and the politics of market failure

Minh T. N. Nguyen: Vietnam’s ‘socialization’ policy and the moral subject in a privatizing economy

European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies: Intervention (EJEEP), 15 (3)

Forum

Eckhard Hein and Marc Lavoie: Interview with Robert A. Blecker: ‘People will come searching for us post-Keynesians if the political atmosphere is encouraging’

Fernando Ferrari Filho: Obituary: Fernando José Cardim de Carvalho (1953–2018)

Articles

Fernando J. Cardim de Carvalho: Arguments for austerity, old and new: the British Treasury in the 1920s and the Bundesfinanzministerium in the 2010s

Philip Arestis, Ayşe Kaya and Hüseyin Şen: Does fiscal consolidation promote economic growth and employment? Evidence from the PIIGGS countries

Barbara Fritz and Daniela Magalhães Prates: Capital account regulation as part of the macroeconomic regime: comparing Brazil in the 1990s and 2000s

Mikael Randrup Byrialsen and Hamid Raza: Macroeconomic effects of unemployment benefits in small open economies: a stock–flow consistent approach

John Grahl and Photis Lysandrou: Germany’s brake on European capital-market development

European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, 25 (4)

Francesca Dal Degan: Antonio Genovesi and Italian economic thought: when ethics matters in economics

Pier Luigi Porta: From Economia Civile to Kameralwissenschaften. The line of descent from Genovesi to Beccaria in pre-Smithian Europe

Francesca Dal Degan: Beyond virtues and vices: Antonio Genovesi's and Adam Smith's “science of relationships

Adrian Pabst: Political economy of virtue: civil economy, happiness and public trust in the thought of Antonio Genovesi

Cosimo Perrotta: Evolution and development, categories of Genovesi’s economics

Pascal Bridel: On the origin of money, or Menger’s one-sided reading of Genovesi’s Lezioni

Luigino Bruni and Paolo Santori: The plural roots of rewards: awards and incentives in Aquinas and Genovesi

Richard Arena: In memory of Pier-Luigi Porta

International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education, 9 (4)

Special Issue on: Applying a Pluralist Approach to Informing Policy

Stefanos Ioannou and Olivia Bullio Mattos: Taking a leap towards a real world macroeconomics teaching

Imko Meyenburg: Choices under epistemic pluralism in economics

Guillaume Vallet: The importance of cross-fertilisation between economics and sociology to investigating monetary issues: the case of Swiss WIR currency

Lucie Cerna and William Hynes: A pluralistic approach to public policy: the case of the OECD's New Approaches to Economic Challenges initiative

Jonathan Warner: Economic pluralism: the role of narrative

Journal of Economic Issues, 52 (4)

Malcolm Rutherford: Market Deficiencies: From Veblen to Akerlof and Shiller

David Dequech: Applying the Concept of Mainstream Economics outside the United States: General Remarks and the Case of Brazil as an Example of the Institutionalization of Pluralism

Luke A Petach: Inequality and the Rate of Return on Capital: An Institutional Approach to “The Piketty Problem

James M. Cypher: Interpreting Contemporary Latin America through the Hypotheses of Institutional Political Economy

Javier Arribas and Luis Cardenas: Monetary Policy as Compensatory Power? An Institutionalist Approach to the Eurozone Crisis

Pascal Grouiez: Understanding Agro-Holdings in Russia: A Commonsian Analysis

Luís Otávio Bau Macedo: Charles Sanders Peirce and the Social Ontology of the Firm: A Semiotic Perspective on Human Agency

Ricardo Barradas, Sérgio Lagoa, Emanuel Leão and Ricardo Paes Mamede: Financialization in the European Periphery and the Sovereign Debt Crisis: The Portuguese Case

Erik Dean: The Going Enterprise Paradox: Stability and Instability Under Money Manager Capitalism

Guido Rossi and Salvatore Spagano: From Custom to Law, An Economic Rationale behind the Black Lettering

Dieter Bögenhold: Economics between Insulation and Social-Scienciation: Observations by a Sociology of Economics

Eric Magnin: Varieties of Capitalism and Sustainable Development: Institutional Complementarity Dynamics or Radical Change in the Hierarchy of Institutions?

Journal of Institutional Economics, 14 (6)

Joel Mokyr: Bottom-up or top-down? The origins of the Industrial Revolution

Jason Potts: Governing the innovation commons

Richard N. Langlois: Fission, forking and fine tuning

Dacid A. Harper and Anthony M Enders: From Quaker Oats to Virgin Brides: Brand capital as a complex adaptive system

Jonathan M. Barnett: The costs of free: commoditization, bundling and concentration

Scott Shane and Nico Nicolaou: Exploring the changing institutions of early-stage finance

Rebeca S. Eisenber: Shifting institutional roles in biomedical innovation in a learning healthcare system

New Political Economy, 24 (1)

Genevieve LeBaron Nicola Phillips: States and the Political Economy of Unfree Labour

Chaewoon Oh: Political Economy of International Policy on the Transfer of Environmentally Sound Technologies in Global Climate Change Regime

Lisa Diependaele, Ferdi De Ville and Sigrid Sterckx: Assessing the Normative Legitimacy of Investment Arbitration: The EU’s Investment Court System

Neil Dooley: Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf? Rethinking the Core and Periphery in the Eurozone Crisis

Diana Stuart, Ryan Gunderson and Brian Petersen: Climate Change and the Polanyian Counter-movement: Carbon Markets or Degrowth?

Patrick Emmenegger and Paul Marx: The Politics of Inequality as Organised Spectacle: Why the Swiss Do Not Want to Tax the Rich

Pınar E. Dönmez and Eva J. Zemandl: Crisis of Capitalism and (De-)Politicisation of Monetary Policymaking: Reflections from Hungary and Turkey

Ciarán Michael Casey: The Irish Newspapers and the Residential Property Price Boom

Rethinking Marxism, 30 (3)

Oded Nir and Joel Wainwright: Where Is the Marxist Critique of Israel/Palestine?

Noam Chomsky, Joel Wainwright and Oded Nir: “There Are Always Grounds for Seeking a World That Is More Free and More Just”: An Interview with Noam Chomsky on Israel, Palestine, and Zionism

Raja Khalidi: Nation and Class: Generations of Palestinian Liberation

Sherene Seikaly: Men of Capital in Mandate Palestine

Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan: Arms and Oil in the Middle East: A Biography of Research

Amir Locker-Biletzki: Rethinking Settler Colonialism: A Marxist Critique of Gershon Shafir

Nitzan Lebovic: The History of Political Melancholy as an Alternative History of Zionism

Review of Economics and Economic Methodology, 3 (1)

Manoudakis, K.: On Price Normalization and Choice of Techniques in Ricardo's Theory

Bandala, J.G.M.: Ricardo, Marx, Keynes: Distinct Economic Visions?

Shaikh, A: Absolutne stroškovne razlike in trdovratna trgovinska neravnovesja: Harrodijanski proces usklajevanja

Review of Political Economy, 30 (3)

Joseph Persky: Say’s Law, Marxian Crisis Theory and the Interconnectedness of the Capitalist Economy

Robert Boyer: Marx's Legacy, Régulation Theory and Contemporary Capitalism

M. C. Howard and J. E. King: MARX@200

Ben Fine and Alfredo Saad-Filho: Marx 200: The Abiding Relevance of the Labour Theory of Value

Barbara Harriss-White: Awkward Classes and India's Development

Jamie Morgan: Species Being in the Twenty-First Century

Terrence McDonough and Cian McMahon: Marxism, Crypto-Marxism and the Political Economy of Capitalism

Jan Toporowski: Marx, Finance and Political Economy

Christian Gehrke and Heinz D. Kurz: Sraffa’s Constructive and Interpretive Work, and Marx

Fiona Tregenna: Sectoral Structure and Change: Insights from Marx

Ramaa Vasudevan: Shadow Money in the 19th Century: Is Marx Relevant for Understanding Contemporary Shadow Money?

Simon Derpmann: Money as a Generic Particular: Marx and Simmel on the Structure of Monetary Denominations

Review of Radical Political Economics, 50 (1)

Waquar Ahmed: Governing Foreign Direct Investment: Post-Enron Initiatives in India

Eren Duzgun: Property, Geopolitics, and Eurocentrism: The “Great Divergence” and the Ottoman Empire

Ruth Felder and Viviana Patroni: Precarious Work in Recession and Growth: A New Structural Feature of Labor Markets in Argentina?

Chris Rogers: Global Finance and Capital Adequacy Regulation: Recreating Capitalist Social Relations

Bruno Jossa: Is Historical Materialism a Deterministic Approach? The Democratic Firm and the Transition to Socialism

Guido Starosta and Alejandro Fitzsimons: Rethinking the Determination of the Value of Labor Power

Francisco Paulo Cipolla: The Mechanism of Relative Surplus Value

Rinaldo Evangelista: Technology and Economic Development: The Schumpeterian Legacy

Thomas Lamarche and Catherine Bodet: Does CSR Contribute to Sustainable Development? What a Régulation Approach Can Tell Us

Mark Horowitz and Robert Hughes: Political Identity and Economists’ Perceptions of Capitalist Crises

Brenda Spotton Visano: From Challenging the Text to Constructing It in a Large Economics Classroom: Revealing the Not-So-Common Sense of the Capitalist Mode of Production

The Review of Austrian Economics, 31 (4)

Diana W. Thomas: A process perspective on regulation: Who bears the dispersed costs of regulation?

Sanford Ikeda: The nature and limits of Gary Becker’s theory of racial discrimination

Walter G. Castro and Rafael E. Beltramino: Moral markets: A marginalistic interpretation of Adam Smith

Giandomenica Becchio: Austrian economics and development: The case of Sudha Shenoy’s analysis

Daniel P. Aldrich: A research agenda for disaster entrepreneurship

Emily Chamlee-Wright: The power of narrative in post-disaster entrepreneurial response

Lori Peek: The role of local entrepreneurs in promoting disaster recovery: a review of Community Revival in the Wake of Disaster

Virgil Henry Storr, Stefanie Haeffele-Balch and Laura E. Grube: Entrepreneurs drive community revival in the wake of disaster

Books and Book Series

Dust Bowls of Empire - Imperialism, Environmental Politics, and the Injustice of "Green" Capitalism

by Hannah Holleman | 2018, Yale University Press

The 1930s witnessed a harrowing social and ecological disaster, defined by the severe nexus of drought, erosion, and economic depression that ravaged the U.S. southern plains. Known as the Dust Bowl, this crisis has become a major referent of the climate change era, and has long served as a warning of the dire consequences of unchecked environmental despoliation.

Through innovative research and a fresh theoretical lens, Hannah Holleman reexamines the global socioecological and economic forces of settler colonialism and imperialism precipitating this disaster, explaining critical antecedents to the acceleration of ecological degradation in our time. Holleman draws lessons from this period that point a way forward for environmental politics as we confront the growing global crises of climate change, freshwater scarcity, extreme energy, and soil degradation.

Please find a link to the book here.

A Modern Guide to Rethinking Economics

edited by Louis-Philippe Rochon and Sergio Rossi | 2019, Edward Elgar Publishing

Since the beginning of the 21st century, there has been an unprecedented move towards ‘rethinking economics'. This book contributes to this worldwide discussion by providing readers at all levels with thoughtful contributions on a range of economic topics. The book includes chapters on rethinking fiscal and monetary policies, international trade, the role of the state, money, growth, the environment, development policies, energy, healthcare and more. Written by top experts in their respective fields, this book will be useful to students and faculty who want to not only rethink economics, but also to offer an alternative and coherent economic analysis to the orthodoxy.

Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, there has been an unprecedented move towards ‘rethinking economics’ due to the damages generated by the global financial crisis that burst in 2007-2008. Almost a decade after this crisis, policy is still unable to provide all citizens greater wellbeing or at least an encouraging economic future. This book addresses the urgent need to rethink economics by providing readers at all levels with thoughtful chapters on a range of relevant economic topics.

Editors Louis-Philippe Rochon and Sergio Rossi provide a first-class compilation of contemporary economic problems as well as a criticism of mainstream economics and economic policy, thereby offering a thorough investigation of these issues and policy solutions along alternative lines of thought. The book includes chapters on rethinking fiscal and monetary policies, international trade, the role of the State, money, banks, economic growth, the environment, development policies, energy, healthcare, and more. Special attention is paid to the importance of institutions and power relationships within the economic system.

Written by top experts in their respective fields, this book will be useful to students and faculty who want to not only rethink economics, but also to offer an alternative and coherent economic analysis to the orthodoxy. Economists and policy-makers will also find this book to be of much interest.

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All Fall Down – Debt, Deregulation and Financial Crises

by Jane D’Arista | 2018, Edward Elgar Publishing

All Fall Down traces the ways in which changes in financial structure and regulation eroded monetary control and led to historically high levels of debt relative to GDP in both developed and emerging economies. Rising stocks of debt drove the global financial system into crisis in 2008 when households, businesses, financial institutions and the public sector in some countries strained to generate sufficient income for debt service. The stagnation and fall in asset prices that followed began the process of unwinding that led to a run on the financial sector by the financial sector.

This engaging examination describes critical developments that changed the structure of US financial markets as well as developments and innovations in US credit markets that created the context for crisis. It discusses the advent of dollar hegemony, the critical role of international reserves in generating credit, the emergence of the debt bubble in the 1980s and the mounting risks of debt in the new millennium. The author also proposes a systemic approach to monetary control, offering two new reform proposals. The analysis concludes that reforms are needed in order to support sustainable economic activity in the US and global economies.

This volume will appeal to students and scholars of economics interested in international finance and banking, financial regulation and monetary policy implementation. It will also be of interest to business economists, lawyers, policymakers and journalists concerned with the effects of financial instability and involved in ongoing debates on financial and monetary reform.

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Extracting Profit: Neoliberalism, Imperialism and the New Scramble for Africa

by Lee Wengraf | 2018, Haymarket Books

A piercing historical explanation of poverty and inequality in African societies today and the social impact of resource-driven growth, Extracting Profit explains why Africa, in the first decade and a half of the twenty-first century, has undergone an economic boom. Rising global prices in oil and minerals have produced a scramble for Africa’s natural resources, led by investment from U.S., European and Chinese companies, and joined by emerging economies from around the globe. African economies have reached new heights, even outpacing rates of growth seen in much of the rest of the world. Examined through the lens of case studies of the oil fields of the Niger River Delta, the Chad-Cameroon Pipeline and the East African infrastructure boom, this period of “Africa rising” did not lead to the creation of jobs, but has instead fueled the extraction of natural resources, profits accruing to global capital, and an increasingly wealthy African ruling class.

Extracting Profit argues that the roots of today’s social and economic conditions lie in the historical legacies of colonialism and the imposition of so-called “reforms” by global financial institutions such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. The chokehold of debt and austerity of the late twentieth century paved the way for severe assaults on African working classes through neoliberal privatization and deregulation. And while the scramble for Africa’s resources has heightened the pace of ecological devastation, examples from Somalia and the West African Ebola outbreak reveal a frightening surge of militarization on the part of China and the U.S.

Yet this “new scramble” has not gone unchallenged. With accounts of platinum workers’ struggles in South Africa, Nigerian labor organizing and pro-democracy upheavals in Uganda and Burkina Faso, Extracting Profit offers several narratives of grassroots organizing and protest, pointing to the potential for resistance to global capital and fundamental change, in Africa and beyond.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith: A Philosophical Encounter

by Charles L. Griswold | 2017, Routledge

Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Adam Smith are giants of eighteenth century thought. The heated controversy provoked by their competing visions of human nature and society still resonates today. Smith himself reviewed Rousseau's Discourse on Inequality, and his perceptive remarks raise an intriguing question: what would a conversation between these two great thinkers look like?

In this outstanding book Charles Griswold analyzes, compares and evaluates some of the key ways in which Rousseau and Smith address what could be termed "the question of the self". Both thinkers discuss what we are by nature (in particular, whether we are sociable or not), who we have become, whether we can know ourselves or each other, how best to articulate the human condition, what it would mean to be free, and whether there is anything that can be done to remedy our deeply imperfect condition. In the course of examining their rich and contrasting views, Griswold puts Rousseau and Smith in dialogue by imagining what they might say in reply to one another. Griswold’s wide-ranging exploration includes discussion of issues such as narcissism, self-falsification, sympathy, the scope of philosophy, and the relation between liberty, religion and civic order.

A superb exploration of two major philosophers, Jean-JacquesRousseau and Adam Smith: A Philosophical Encounter is essential reading for students and scholars of these two figures, eighteenth century philosophy, the Enlightenment, moral philosophy, and the history of ideas. It will also be of interest to those in related disciplines such as political theory, economics, and religion.

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Money - 5,000 Years of Debt and Power

by Michel Aglietta | 2018, Verso books

As the financial crisis reached its climax in September 2008, the most important figure on the planet was Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. The whole financial system was collapsing, with little to stop it. When a senator asked Bernanke what would happen if the central bank did not carry out its rescue package, he replied, “If we don’t do this, we may not have an economy on Monday.”

What saved finance, and the Western economy, was fiscal and monetary stimulus – an influx of money, created ad hoc. It was a strategy that raised questions about the unexamined nature of money itself, an object suddenly revealed as something other than a neutral signifier of value. Through its grip on finance and the debt system, money confers sovereign power on the economy. If confidence in money is not maintained, crises follow. Looking over the last 5,000 years, Michel Aglietta explores the development of money and its close connection to sovereign power. This book employs the tools of anthropology, history and political economy in order to analyse how political structures and monetary systems have transformed one another. We can thus grasp the different eras of monetary regulation and the crises capitalism has endured throughout its history.

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Money and Government - The Past and Future of Economics

by Robert Skidelsky | 2018, Yale University Press

The dominant view in economics is that money and government should play only minor roles in economic life. Economic outcomes, it is claimed, are best left to the "invisible hand" of the market. Yet these claims remain staunchly unsettled. The view taken in this important new book is that the omnipresence of uncertainty makes money and government essential features of any market economy.

Since Adam Smith, classical economics has espoused non-intervention in markets. The Great Depression brought Keynesian economics to the fore; but stagflation in the 1970s brought a return to small-state orthodoxy. The 2008 global financial crash should have brought a reevaluation of that stance; instead the response has been punishing austerity and anemic recovery. This book aims to reintroduce Keynes’s central insights to a new generation of economists, and embolden them to return money and government to the starring roles in the economic drama that they deserve.

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Mythologies of State and Monopoly Power

by Michael E. Tigar | 2018, Monthly Press Review

“Mythologies,” writes veteran human rights lawyer Michael Tigar, “are structures of words and images that portray people, institutions, and events in ways that mask an underlying reality.” For instance, the “Justice Department” appears, by its very nature and practice, to appropriate “justice” as the exclusive property of the federal government. In his brilliantly acerbic collection of essays, Tigar reveals, deconstructs, and eviscerates mythologies surrounding the U.S. criminal justice system, racism, free expression, workers’ rights, and international human rights.

Lawyers confront mythologies in the context of their profession. But the struggle for human liberation makes mythology-busting the business of all of us. The rights we have learned to demand are not only trivialized in our current system of social relations; they are, in fact, antithetical to that system. With wit and eloquence, Michael Tigar draws on legal cases, philosophy, literature, and fifty-years’ experience as an attorney, activist, and teacher to bust the mythologies and to argue for real change.

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Reification and Representation: Architecture in Politco-Media-Complex

by Graham Cairns | 2018, Routledge

The relationship between politics and the public relations industry is controversial and, at times, polemic. However, one component of this relationship that has yet to be investigated is the role of architecture. Arguing for a fundamental reconfiguration of our understanding of ‘political architecture’, this book suggests it is not only a question of constructed buildings, but equally a case of mediated imagery.  

Considered through examples of architecture as a backdrop for photo shoots by politicians in the democracies of the United States and the United Kingdom, this book suggests these images give us both a better understanding of recent developments in the Western political economy and the architectural and urban developments of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries.

Using case studies of Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair, David Cameron, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Donald Trump, this book represents a ground-breaking triangular analysis that will be essential reading for scholars in architecture, politics, media and communication studies.

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The European Illusion: Why we need new strategies towards the EU and beyond

by Attac Austria | 2018, Attac

Record poverty in southern Europe, fences and guns in response to refugees, Brexit on the horizon – the European Union is facing the deepest crisis in its history. 

But does the EU have the potentialto become the "social and democratic Europe" that has been presented to us as a political ideal for decades?

In order to find answers to these questions, it is necessary to demystify many of our most beloved images of the EU. We must shatter the European illusion - because at its core are competition andneoliberal economic policy. Changing this would be near to impossible. But if the EU cannot be saved and a return to the nation state is no solution, what then?

The European Illusion analyses the EU’s role in key policy areas and reveals the truth behind some of the most strongly held beliefs about the European Union. It proposes a starting point for a newdiscussion for social movement activists and progressives. Instead of arguing over the false dichotomy of “reform or exit”, we must look for new strategies towards the EU and beyond.

The ebook is available free of charge here.

The History of Money and Monetary Arrangements: Insights from the Baltic and North Seas Region

by Thomas Marmefelt | 2018, Routledge

Today, most money is credit money, created by commercial banks. While credit can finance innovation, excessive credit can lead to boom/bust cycles, such as the recent financial crisis. This highlights how the organization of our monetary system is crucial to stability. One way to achieve this is by separating the unit of account from the medium of exchange and in pre-modern Europe, such a separation existed. This new volume examines this idea of monetary separation and this history of monetary arrangements in the North and Baltic Seas region, from the Hanseatic League onwards.

This book provides a theoretical analysis of four historical cases in the Baltic and North Seas region, with a view to examining evolution of monetary arrangements from a new monetary economics perspective. Since the objective exhange value of money (its purchasing power), reflects subjective individual valuations of commodities, the author assesses these historical cases by means of exchange rates. Using theories from new monetary economics , the book explores how the units of account and their media of exchange evolved as social conventions, and offers new insight into the separation between the two. Through this exploration, it puts forward that money is a social institution, a clearing device for the settlement of accounts, and so the value of money, or a separate unit of account, ultimately results from the size of its network of users.

The History of Money and Monetary Arrangements offers a highly original new insight into monetary arrangments as an evolutionary process. It will be of great interest to an international audience of scholars and students, including those with an interest in economic history, evolutionary economics and new monetary economics.

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World in Crisis: a global analysis of Marx’s law of profitability

by Michael Roberts and Guglielmo Carchedi | 2018, Haymarket Books

Most mainstream economists view capitalism’s periodic breakdowns as nothing more than temporary aberrations from an otherwise unbroken path toward prosperity. For Marxists, this fundamental flaw has long been acknowledged as a central feature of the free-market system. This groundbreaking volume brings together Marxist scholars from around the world to offer an empirically grounded defense of Marx’s law of profitability and its central role in explaining capitalist crises.

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Heterodox Graduate Programs, Scholarships and Grants

PhD Studentships in International and Comparative Management, Loughborough University London

The Institute of International Management at Loughborough University London is offering fully funded PhD studentships. Applications falling within the five following research areas are welcome:

To apply for a studentship, please follow our step by step guide to submitting a PhD application here. When submitting an application, please ensure that you quote the correct studentship reference number, which is included in each studentship listing.

Students seeking to do a PhD thesis on comparative political economy, employment relations and/or the labour process, including Marxist and/or institutionalist approaches, may contact Matt Vidal directly.

Please find further information here.

Application deadline: 10 December 2018 (for most studentships, please check the individual deadlines carefully!)

Two PhD fellowships at Concordia University, Canada

Position Title: Doctoral Fellow in Critical Policy Studies / Social Network Analysis

As a researcher with the project, in collaboration and with the guidance of the supervisor and within the bounds of the project mandate, the Doctoral Fellow in Critical Policy Studies and Social Network Analysis will undertake research leading to publication in leading international journals. More specifically, the Doctoral Fellow will be responsible for the following tasks and activities: social network analysis mapping interconnections of firms with political and economic elites cross-nationally; literature reviews; primary and secondary data collection; presenting research; writing up research for publication; writing up research for policy and stakeholder audiences; developing and maintaining a project website and social media presence (e.g. Twitter); helping to organize events; and other activities as required.

Key resposibilities

Skills and Qualifications

The candidate should be applying for or enrolled in a PhD in Sociology or a related discipline. Experience with Social Network Analysis and relevant software (UCINET, R, Gephi) is an asset. Experience in the financial sector or with accounting or related fields is an asset. Strong theoretical interest in areas relating to financialization and critical accounting studies is an asset.

How to apply

To apply for this position, please submit the following documents:

Please submit all documents by email to Chris Hurl. Qualified applicants will be invited for an interview to be conducted by telephone or Skype. Only those applicants selected for consideration will be contacted

Please find the original posting here.

Application deadline: 31 December 2018

For Your Information

Accreditation system for masters courses taking a pluralist approach to economics

Promoting Economic Pluralism has started an interesting initiative to promote pluralist economic teaching throught the world by building up an accredidation system for master courses. Find out more about this initiative here.

New publication series: EPOG's "Policy Briefs"

The first edition of a series of "Policy Brief" prepared by the Alumni of the Economic Policies in the Age of Globalisation (EPOG) Master Programme. This is a Master in economics characterised by its institutionalist approach, the importance given to the reality of the socio-economic phenomena and its willingness to promote trans-disciplinary approaches. Its aim is to apprehend the economic, social and environmental crises we are facing and the necessary transition processes we need to build in a globalised world.

The series of policy briefs offers an analysis of topical issues and derives recommendations. In this first edition João Pedro Scalco Macalós, currently PhD candidate at University of Paris 13, discusses the impact of the Fed’s “normalization” of monetary policy on Emerging Market Economies.

If you want to be informed on that Policy Brief series or the EPOG programme, please register here.