Heterodox Economics Newsletter

Issue 257 January 06, 2020 web pdf Heterodox Economics Directory

Yesterday, this year's ASSA meeting in San Diego has ended. The ASSA meeting is probably the greatest gathering of economists throughout the year and it is noteworthy insofar as the ASSA is one of the very few places, where exchange between heterodox and mainstream economists could be facilitated. I say 'could be', because actually this is only rarely the case: mainstream researchers typically do not participate in heterodox sessions, while heterodox economists, who do occasionally visit mainstream sessions, often remain invisible there as the standard mainstream session does not allow for much discussion. This separation has been further amplified by an evaluation system used by the AEA, which assigns future slots for sessions based on past attendance. This scheme creates an additional (and in my view unhelpful) incentive to stick in one's 'in-group' and abstain from interparadigmatic engagement (see also here for a specific criticism of this practice). By the way, the same incentive - stick with your in-group to maximize visibility for your own field or approach - emerges in the context of citation-based evaluation routines (see here for an elaboration).

However, the ASSA is nonetheless a great to place to stay in touch with major debates in the profession and to find some potential insights and inspiration. Even if I cannot attend personally (as in this year; otherwise you would have gotten a more extended report:-), I always screen the contributions in the heterodox sessions, which can be quickly assessed here (Hint: You have to search of different heterdox associations first to not get lost - a compilation of these associations can be found here). In case you are interested in participating: the calls for the ASSA meeting typically close between April and May of the year before the event and are regularly announced in this Newsletter!

All the best for the upcoming year,

Jakob

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Table of contents

Call for Papers

EASST+4S Conference (Prague, August 2020)

18-21 August 2020 | Prague, Czech Republic

EASST+4S "Locating and Timing Matters: Significance and Agency of STS in Emerging Worlds"

How has the world changed since 2016 when EASST and 4S met in Barcelona? Since then, efforts to frame “alternative” approaches and futures appear to have been co-opted by powerful actors. Big Data has been fiercely replacing former identities with digital identities for humans, animals and artefacts. Geopolitical and epistemic centres have further multiplied. The global temperature of the planet continues to increase, as do global emissions of CO2. Wildlife biodiversity is decreasing, while the first CRISPR-Cas engineered babies with altered germlines were born. Modern nation-states have become more unstable even as we see the tentative emergence of new collectives and solidarities. The #metoo campaign has sparked a new wave of articulations of and conflict over gender power asymmetries contributing energy to other ongoing efforts against asymmetric differentiations and exclusions in and beyond academic contexts. These are just some of the major shifts that create feelings of urgency, unease and confusion. Calls to “act now” proliferate. And yet, while technoscience and its products ever more tangibly shape our planet and lives, politicians, publics, and even academics feel helpless.

We invite STS scholars to examine such spiralling changes that generate these feelings of urgency and powerlessness in ways that make our research relevant to wider academic and non-academic publics. For the meeting in Prague, we especially welcome inquiries into longer term continuities and discontinuities and material legacies of modernity—both desired and undesirable—that have been built into our sociotechnical infrastructures and ways of living. We want to pay special attention to the ways in which geopolitical, economic and epistemic globalization is localized and distributed over Planet Earth. What are the means and ends of STS in different places? What does it take to intervene and be relevant here and there? Whom do we want to speak and act with? Who wants to speak and act with us?

We encourage STS researchers to ask reflexive questions with regard to our own existing and potential practical contributions to these ongoing developments. How do we, can we and should we (re)organize our own professional practices to the differences we desire? How may we collaborate across regions, genders, races, religions or disciplines without reproducing inequalities? How shall we publish, (co)author and cite in inclusive ways? How do we rethink and remake ways of recognizing and crediting the work of others in an era of pervasive audit and (self)tracking? How do we liaise, meet up and travel responsibly in a time of climate disruption and overproduction of waste? How can we engage with policymaking and society at large amidst the dynamics of “alternative facts”?

Submission Process

There are three ways how to take part in EASST/4S Prague 2020: Presenting individual paper, organizing Closed Panel, organizing and/or engaging in Making & Doing. Please consult the focus and themes of the conference program as well as the participation guidelines before submitting.

1.) Presenting Individual Paper

Individual paper submissions should be in the form of abstracts of up to 250 words. They should include the paper’s main arguments, methods, and contributions to STS. When you submit your paper, you will be asked to designate one or more STS Research Areas using a drop-down menu.

When submitting your paper, we urge you to consider submitting it to an Open Panel. This method of “crowd-sourcing” panel composition has proven successful in stimulating the formation of new networks and collaborations around topics of interest to the 4S community. Open Panels have been proposed by scholars working on nearly every continent and relating to just about every major STS theme. You can read summaries of all the accepted Open Panels here. When you submit your paper to an Open Panel and up to two alternates. Single papers unassigned to an Open Panel(s) will be added into suitable panels (both Open and Closed) by the program committee.

2.) Closed Panel

Closed Panel proposals should contain a summary and rationale of up to 250 words, including a brief discussion of its contribution to STS. A panel proposal must contain between 3-10 paper abstracts. A Closed Panel can extend into maximum two sessions. Note that the Program Committee will take the final decision about panel composition. If your proposal contains fewer than five papers, the Committee may (in consultation with organizers(s)) assign additional papers to your panel to optimize scheduling and participation.

The Program Committee will consider proposals for a limited number of Authors Meets Critics panels. Authors Meets Critics panels must contain two books, both of which are the first books of their respective authors. The panel discussion should address both books together and should reflect the diversity of work and scholarship of 4S. Please submit Authors Meets Critics panel proposals as Closed Panels.

Submitting a panel involves some extra steps. Panel organizers are responsible for assigning roles to each presenter and entering the titles and abstracts for all presentations in their panels. You may want to watch this screencast video before beginning (Please note that it was created for the last year NOLA meeting and some details may not apply, such as the Twitter handle).

3.) Organizing and/or engaging in Making & Doing

The STS Making & Doing program invites 4S members to present experimental works and innovative practices in any medium that engage speculative, empirical, reflexive and/or aesthetic approaches to the study of science and technology, broadly defined. Making & Doing encourages the participants to move beyond the printed page and share projects that consider what it might mean to “make do” in the merging worlds. We strongly recommend the organizers read more about Making and Doing and view examples from past meetings before submitting your proposal.

To submit any of the above types of proposals, visit the program website and log in with your 4S credentials. If you have submitted a paper to any recent 4S meeting, you already have an account. Please exercise due diligence and look for an existing account before creating a new one. Creating a duplicate account is likely to cause complications. The same caveats apply to entering co-authors and session participants.

Call for Abstracts - Panel 135

Paulina Dobroc, Andreas Lösch and Maximilian Roßmann invite the broad spectrum of STS-scholars to submit abstracts for their open panel “Politicization of Sociotechnical Futures: Prerequisites and Limits” (Panel 135) at the EASST4S conference in Prague (18-21 August 2020):

STS-research on expectations, imaginaries and visions has shown that imaginaries of sociotechnical futures, the promises and fears associated with them, increasingly influence processes of sociotechnical innovations and transformations. In various societal contexts — e.g., research politics, scientific collaborations, parliamentary debates, social movements — these imaginaries serve as visionary resources and capacities to legitimate decisions, coordinate practices, steer developments, raise awareness for specific problem-solutions etc. For this purpose, futures are getting politicized. The objects of politicization materialize in a variety of forms (e.g., terms, symbols, metaphors, narratives, artifacts, traditions, organizations). We assume that both, the specific characteristics of the societal context (e.g. power constellations) and of the forms (e.g., discursive narratives or prototypes) are conditions for the politicization. For example, it makes a difference, if promises of openness are part of hacker practices or part of parliamentary debates about Open Government. At the same time, an in-vitro-burger may serve as an object of politicization differently in the context of 3D printing development compared to public controversies on nutrition transition.

We invite theoretical and empirical papers from the broad spectrum of STS-scholars to discuss and to elaborate questions such as:

Please submit your abstract of max. 250 words until February 29, 2020 here. For more details see the Panel description.

Submission Deadline: 29 February 2020

18th International Conference of the Charles Gide Association on 'Co-operation' (Lausanne, Sept. 2020)

10-12 September 2020 | University of Lausanne, Switzerland

The 18th international conference of the Charles Gide Association will be held at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), 10-12 September 2020, under the auspices of the Centre Walras Pareto d’études interdisciplinaires de la pensée économique et politique (CWP). The theme of the conference will be on ‘Co-operation’.

‘Co-operation’, i.e. ‘acting hand-in-hand with someone else’ has been, for centuries, central to the way economic and political societies operate. The question of co-operation arises in the 1820s in a number of important and converging ways: in Robert Owen’s shadow it was understood as a way of organizing the economy in such a way that it was rooted in co-operative societies, which were constituted on the basis of collective decision making and an equitable distribution of wealth. From the 1820s onward, many thinkers who were influenced by Charles Gide’s ‘co-operativism’ and the Nîmes School considered the idea of co-operation to be at the centre of their reflections. This gave birth to numerous social and economic experiments. In the British case, these ranged from the Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers to the Preston Model.

The topic of co-operation raises many questions, especially, for example, in relation to reciprocity and exchange, oscillates between distinct poles. As a ‘Third Sector’ it differs explicitly from capitalism, liberalism, and socialism. But the boundaries between co-operation and other political ideologies are far from being clearly demarcated. In a broad constellation of concepts, co-operation can be situated next to ‘associationism’ and ‘mutualism’, and gave rise to a Theory of Commons, as well as a social-economy of solidarity. Situated between the spheres of individual actions and transactions and state intervention, it co-ordinates and orientates actors in the political and social spheres. A number of economic theories today have developed out of the concept of co-operation. It can be deployed in game theory in order to account for modes of social organization, shedding light on how social institutions, which are emerge out of competing private interests, might be made stable. It is therefore worth studying co-operation’s theoretical foundations, its changing, and many meanings, the debates it has generated in the field of economic, social, political, and philosophical thought, and its numerous historical forms.

Some of the issues raised by co-operation in various fields may provide for fruitful avenues of reflection:

Please note:

Proposals should be submitted via the conference website,

For further information contact the organising comitee or visit the official conference website.

Submission Deadline: 15 March 2020

1st International Conference on the Contemporary Issues in Finance, Trade and Macroeconomy (Istanbul, Apr. 2020)

4-5 April 2020 | Istanbul, Turkey

We are honoured to invite you to the 1st International Conference on the Contemporary Issues in Finance, Trade and Macroeconomy (ICOFINT), which will be held at the Hilton Istanbul Kozyatagi Hotel on April 4-5th, 2020, Istanbul/Turkey. The finance-real economy nexus at micro and macro levels continues to garner the attention of professionals and academics alike as the importance of connections between these fields has become increasingly well understood. The recent developments in the international economics and politics, associated trade wars, slowing global growth and risks to financial stability and vulnerabilities of monetary and fiscal authorities are crucial and debatable areas. In addition to these economic and financial issues, the dawn of fourth industrial revolution is breaking and artificial intelligence, blockchain and deep learning are emerging technologies with crucial social, economic, political and financial implications.

The 1st International Conference on the Contemporary Issues in Finance, Trade and Macroeconomy (ICOFINT) brings together international scholars and policy-makers to present and discuss research on the frontiers of knowledge in the interconnected fields of Finance, Trade and Macroeconomy. The themes of this year’s conference are Financial Stability, Risks to the Global Growth, Financial Integration, Trade wars and Tensions, 4th Industrial revolution, Innovations, Artificial Intelligence, Blockchain & their implications for businesses and society.

Paper Submission Deadline: 28th February 2020

Notification of Acceptance: 1st March 2020

The Extended Abstract/manuscript (MS-WORD, PDF) should be submitted to info@icofint.com.

32nd Annual Conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) (Bilbao, Sept. 2020)

2-4 September 2020 | Bilbao, Spain

"The Evolution of Capitalist Structures: Uncertainty, Inequality, and Climate Crisis"

In recent decades, the global spread of economic liberalization and financial deregulation, has inserted the former socialist economies (e.g. China and Central Europe) into international markets. This has generated deep structural changes in both the evolution of advanced, emerging and developing economies and the global distribution of growth and human development. Many advanced economies implemented economic and welfare reforms to reduce unemployment and match rising competition from these new international actors. Employment policies evolved into labour market policies to promote greater flexibility instead of workers’ rights and wages. Similar processes have occurred in emerging and
developing economies.

Since the implementation of the policies of the Washington Consensus, governments opened their economies and markets to domestic and international competition and integrated into regional governance systems such as the European Union, the European Monetary Union, the NAFTA, Mercosur, etc. Financial deregulation was one of the outcomes of such policies, which significantly increased the impact of volatile global markets on national economies. Now national financial regulators face challenges in supervising globally mobile financial capital and recurring financial crises have become more widespread due to greater interconnectedness of financial systems.

The globalization process, labour market reforms and technological change, have in many cases, generated high structural unemployment, a decline in labour incomes and security and segmentation in labour markets. In most countries, income distribution inequality, both personal and functional, has increased. This inequality has created additional global economic problems, such as greater economic and financial instability, higher poverty rates, and a stagnation of private consumption that leads in turn to lower rates of economic growth and even secular stagnation. Polarisation of incomes increase in private indebtedness, and youth unemployment remain highly problematic in both. The impact of these structural changes has accompanied a squeezing of public sector capacity to deal with the rising need to protect people through the social and redistributive policies. Governments are expected to be smaller but more efficient despite shrinking fiscal space. Dominant fiscal policies, which are still oriented to reducing the size of the public sector, sustain and control fiscal imbalances.

For the first time in decades there are signs that global economic integration is now threatened, while challenges posed by the processes of internationalization and globalization, rising inequality in income distribution are accompanied by new forms of risk. Greater military and environmental insecurity has forced people from their homes to seek safety abroad. Environmental collapse has changed from a possibility into a process and, soon, an inevitability. National political systems, including democracies, have been stressed by these changes creating hybrid forms of authoritarianism. International forms of cooperation that were seen to order world politics are also experiencing dramatic change. Given the uncertainties and complexity of these structural changes and the threat of an increasingly instable global ecosystem, alternative theoretical and methodological approaches capable of representing and interpreting these disequilibria are required.

The conference invites delegates to open up their discussion of the dynamics of economic evolution in late capitalism and to test established and novel interpretations of capitalist structure. These might include stock-flow, integrated assessment, agent-based modelling and network analysis or they may address particular challenges such as the consequences of cumulatively worsening climate change. Macroeconomic policies need to gain new inspirations from ecological economics and political ecology, e.g. steady-state perspectives or even confronting the growth imperative of capitalist evolution.

We may also address how hegemonic political economic goals, such as achieving price stability and controlling public debt via austerity policies make it difficult to provide the necessary means for labour and the environment. The conference will provide unique opportunities to revisit the foundations of inequalities and structural change, to discuss alternative points of view at the macro, meso and micro levels, and to enrich traditional evolutionary background with diverse fields such as complexity science, biology, political and international studies, development studies, physics, philosophy sociology, history of thought, and management science among others. The aim is to provide new empirical evidences and fresh insights for
policy makers to understand the complexity of structural change and to redefine innovation and formulate new innovation policies. In doing so we aim to allow a rethinking of the role of the State in relation to transition issues; to define and build commons to manage environmental issues; to establish new partnerships with developing countries; to investigate new ways of consuming and producing; to shape new institutions to manage these structural changes; to redefine social interactions related to demand and the labour market; to define new business models relevant to the internet age; to identify new organizing principles in the context of a knowledge economy; and to finance and participate in a greener economy.

Abstract Submission to Regular Sessions opens online on 7 January 2020.

Submission Deadline (for Special Session Proposals): 10 February 2020

Abstract Submission Deadline: 1 April 2020

4th International Marxist Feminist Conference (Bilbao, Oct. 2020)

15-17 October 2020 | Bilbao, Spain

It is our pleasure to inform you that the 4th International Marxist Feminist Conference will be held in Bilbao (Basque Country), on October 15, 16 and 17, 2020. The event will be organized by Transform! Europe, the University of the Basque Country (UPV / EHU), the Iratzar Foundation, Parte Hartuz, Critical Theory Bilbo-Barcelona (BIBA CT), InkriT and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.

The conference will be organized in ten thematic axes, and the proposals will have to be included in one of these axes, exposed in the web. Main thematic axis:

We welcome papers and panel proposals by activists, academics and social movemets, especifically from the feminist movement, unions, new working class associations and autonomous militant groups. Proposals —at least one page and two at most— can be submitted in Basque, English or Spanish via the online platform. Registration for the event is free and mandatory, and it will be open until April 30, 2020 also through the web. Participants will have to pay for their travel and stay expenses. We will have the privilege of having the following keynote speakers: Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, Lorena Cabnal, Elsa Dorlin, Nancy Fraser, Francesca Gargallo, Frigga Haug and Gayatri Spivak. In addition, we will have an opening plenary session formed by the Feminist Movement of the Basque Country and the new organizations of working women.

To register, send the proposals and get all the information visit the official website.

Submission Deadline: 15 March 2020

8th Erfurt Graduate Seminar for HET and Constitutional Economics (Erfurt, Feb. 2020)

5-6 February 2020 | Erfurt, Germany

For the past 12 years the Wilhelm Röpke Institute has co-organized, jointly with the University of Erfurt, the Network for Constitutional Economics and Social Philosophy NOUS, and the Aktionsgemeinschaft Soziale Marktwirtschaft ASM, a two-days seminar at the University of Erfurt targeted at PhD students with projects in history of economics. In the current format designed in 2011, we are interested in submissions in history of economics as well as in the general field of constitutional economics.Please find the full call here (in German only).

For Submission of Abstracts (200 words) and any further questions please contact Prof. Dr. Stefan Kolev and/or Alexander Heß.

Submission Deadline: 10 January 2020

8th UECE Conference on Economic and Financial Adjustments (Lisbon, July 2020)

10 July 2020 | Lisbon, Portugal

UECE (Research Unit on Complexity and Economics), REM and ISEG are organising the 8 UECE Conference on Economic and Financial Adjustments. In this context we invite submissions addressing notably the following issues: economic and financial adjustments; economic imbalances; country issues; challenges to monetary policy and fiscal policies

Papers should be submitted electronically via email. For further information please visit the conference website.

Submission Deadline: 15 May 2020

Call for Book Chapter Proposals: "Democracy and Development"

"Democracy and Development" in Elgar Handbook on the Politics of International Development

The notion of “democracy” can be loosely defined to mean “a government of the people, by the people and for the people”. More generally it refers to electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation and the political culture of a particular country. Early prophets of development did not establish an association between economic development and forms of government. Moreover, the Brazilian miracle and most works on the developmental state did not originally make a connection between authoritarian rule and development. Classic examples to support this point are Taiwan, Singapore and China. Since the end of the Cold War democracy has often been conceived a prerequisite for development, or at the very least a prerequisite for donor support. The multiplication of democracies across the globe has called into question the nexus between democracy and development. A lively debate revising the absence of the nexus has ensued. Those in support of the linkage argue that the two – democracy and development – are intertwined and depend on or lead to the other. However, opposing views claim that the two concepts are independent of each other, and can easily be achieved without necessarily depending or leading to the other. An important point to note is that both development and democratization are progressions and not a once-off event.

We are seeking chapters that critically investigate the nexus drawing insights, either from theories that investigate the nexus, or from empirical evidence across a variety of countries. The publishing format will be an essay collection for our Elgar Handbook on the Politics of International Development under contract to be submitted in early 2021.

Contributions should be generally oriented around one or more of the following (or thematically similar) questions:

How to apply

Send an abstract of 500 words and short bio to Editors Melisa Deciancio, Pablo Nemiña or Diana Tussie.

Submission Deadline: 20 January 2020

Fair Trade International Symposium (Chiapas, June 2020)

8-13 June 2020 | San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico

The VII Fair Trade International Symposium will take place in Chiapas, southern Mexico, in June 2020. For the first time, this meeting will take place in a country where fair trade actors are mainly small farmers. Chiapas is certainly one of the best places to hold a symposium with and for fair trade farmers, as it is the heart of Mexico and Central America coffee production, as well for honey production from Yucatán to Nicaragua and Argentina. At a wider scale, challenges faced by Mexican farmers are shared in most Latin American countries, and in many ways, close to situations in Africa and Asia.

Jointly with the steering committee, the host institution has identified a series of topics relevant for both academics, practitioners and producers, along three main thematic areas.

For more information about this topics please visit the Themes section. Any other research related to FT is welcome. Sessions will be built on the basis of received and accepted papers.

Presenting at FTIS 2020: The symposium will feature plenary keynote addresses, parallel paper presentations, poster sessions and participatory workshops. The main languages of the symposium will be Spanish and English, with simultaneous translation during as many of the sessions as possible. There will be an opportunity during poster sessions for multilingual presentations and discussions.

Papers: Researchers and practitioners who would like to present a paper are invited to submit an abstract (500 words written in Spanish or English). Paper sessions will include time for audience questions and feedback. The abstract should include the theme addressed, the applied theory and methodology, the results obtained and the main bibliography.

Free format presentations: Farmers and people belonging to farmers’ organization are welcome to submit a free-format presentation, relating their experience in one of the topics that will soon be announced. These presentations will be part of specific sessions oriented to the exchange of knowledge through a “campesino a campesino” (farmer-to-farmer) method. Texts should be written in a maximum of 500 words including pictures, graphs and drawings.

Posters: Participants are also given the opportunity to submit a 1-page abstract for poster presentations. Poster abstracts can be written in Spanish or English. Limited translation support will be provided, but authors are encouraged to consider an effective presentation format for an international audience.

Workshops: A workshop is a working meeting that focuses on a specific area related to the conference themes. Proposals for workshops should be 1 page in length. The proposal should include a brief overview of the area of research, teaching or practice that will be addressed, a summary of the session’s planned activities, and a brief discussion of the workshop leaders and some tentatively identified participants. A workshop session can require participants to read and prepare feedback on one another’s abstracts or do some other preparation prior to the session.

Submission Process

All abstracts should be submitted online. All abstracts will be evaluated through a peer review process. Notification of acceptance or refusal will be sent within 1 month. Reviewers may formulate suggestions, or in some cases require specific conditions, which will need to be considered for the acceptance of the full paper.

Please make sure the abstract submission includes:

Submission constitutes a commitment that at least one paper author will attend the conference if the submission is accepted. Everyone submitting a proposal should be prepared to serve as a reviewer for at least three other submissions if requested. If you have questions, please contact Andrés Castro Siller (ECOSUR).

Submission Deadline: 15 January 2020

Historical Materialism: The Rise of New Authoritarianisms and the Agenda for Resistance (Ankara, April 2020)

10-12 April 2020 | Ankara, Turkey

The rise of far right authoritarian regimes, nationalist and populist political parties and movements, and neo-conservative ideologies and politics across the globe, present a new challenge to states and to the global order. For those on the left and the center-right embracing neo-liberalism, the new challenges of autocratic leaders and fundamentalist radicalisms require analyses and responses. The popularity of those right movements, and their political success in both democratic politics and their political success in securing power within democratic politics has jeopardized the main tenets of liberal democracy. Increasingly, authoritarian and populist political strategies have frustrated democratic opposition movements and challenged political resistance. The left needs to understand the rise of the far right parties, examining their social/class basis as well as their historical and geographical context. Equally, the left needs to examine the effectiveness of its resistance and responses to the outrage of the right.

The rise of authoritarianisms has had severe implications at the local as well as global levels, including diplomatic tensions, wars, refugee crises, ecological crises, urban crises, casual cultural and purposeful misogyny and racism. Historical Materialism Ankara invites contributions that enrich radical critical understandings of the present conjunctures. Papers that analysing the problems and developing coherent and effective responses are also welcome. Papers are especially encouraged on the following themes:

In addition to these themes, HM Ankara also welcomes panel and paper proposals that advance Marxist and left radical thought and politics. This includes:

The conference will also include the following streams, see this link for full details.

Submision Process

1.) Panels: Panels may be papers organised around a theme, roundtable discussion forums or book launches. All have similar requirements. Submit proposals for panels via the online portal. Please note that papers will only be accepted if they contain:

2.) Papers: Submit proposals for individual papers via the online portal. Please note that the conference organisers will organise accepted papers into thematised panels.
Papers will only be accepted if they contain:

Submission Deadline: 24 January 2020

Multinational Companies in Turbulent Times: Strategies, Norms, and Experimentation across Borders (Seoul, April 2020)

16-17 April 2020 | Seoul, Republic of Korea

Turbulent times is an apt metaphor for today’s global economy. Economic, political, and technological uncertainties have grown continuously, and digitization accelerates the blurring of temporal and spatial boundaries of global business and work. Despite contributing to the creation of turbulence, MNCs must also cope with turbulent times by altering not just business matters, but the ways in which their workforces operate globally. MNCs exist in contested fields where organizational actors compete, negotiate, disrupt, and consistently create-and-recreate work norms in rapidly changing environments. In this conference, we are keen to share scholarly efforts that aim to answer questions regarding how these norm changes occur in MNCs. We also explore their production networks and uncover how the mechanisms of norm changes differ across countries and regions during turbulent times.

We are particularly interested in the roles played by individual and collective actors, otherwise known as globalizing actors. These actors intend to create, maintain, and disrupt norms in multinational organizations while dealing with fluctuating environments and increasingly diverse workforces in their day-to-day operation. These globalizing actors exercise reflexive agency to create, diffuse and negotiate norms in the iterative and fragile process of institutional experimentation, engaging in MNC’s strategic action fields. As individuals play the roles of globalizing actors, they exploit ambiguities, form alliances, employ formal and informal resources, and interact with existing institutional and normative beliefs to advance their interests without risking their relationship with the companies. This conference intends to shed light on the less documented topics of strategic and reflexive roles of globalizing actors and the implications of their actions in MNE strategies, norms, and experimentation.

This conference welcomes scholarly works in any social science discipline that enhances our understanding of both emerging and established MNCs as the strategic action fields. We identify three themes for theoretically rich and timely discussions as follows, and submissions can address one or cross-cutting themes.

Submission Process

Participants will have an opportunity to submit their full papers for consideration of a special issue in Spring 2021 at the Journal of Asian Sociology. Interested participants of the conference should submit their abstracts with a maximum length of 1000 words to Dr. Jinsun Bae. Please email inquiries to this address as well.

Submission Deadline: 20 January 2020

Post-Keynesian Conference (Lille, Dec. 2020)

9-11 December 2020 | Lille, France

The ADEK (French Association for the Development of Keynesian Studies) organize a Post-Keynesian conference in Lille in December 2020. This conference is the successor of the Dijon and then Grenoble rendez-vous which were the bi-annual international conferences organized by French Post-Keynesian economists.

In 1930, John Maynard Keynes wrote his famous essay where he tried to anticipate the economic situation which would prevail 100 years later. 90 years ahead, two questions can be addressed:

The conference welcomes papers dealing with these two questions. When Keynes wrote the Economic Possibilities, the economy was in the middle of one of the most severe economic crisis the World has ever experienced. The economic mood was very pessimistic at the time, but Keynes tried to see beyond the short-period crash and look at the long run future of our society. He assessed that the economic problem would be solved, or nearly so, within about 100 years. There are only 10 years left now, and the problem of "poverty in the midst of plenty" is still relevant today. After several decades of rising inequalities, a new economic and nancial crisis has casted doubt on the limits of conventional economic policies, especially monetary policy. Meanwhile, some issues have emerged that challenge the economic problem, especially the "ecological problem". Why aren't we where Keynes thought we would be? The conference encourages proposals which are dedicated to explain why we are so far apart from the picture Keynes drew in 1930. The conference will also try to anticipate the economic future of our own grandchildren. How can we anticipate the economic situation at the end of the XXIst century? Are we able to promote economic policies dealing with the ecological problem? What are the monetary and nancial reforms needed to shape a more stable economic environment? The working language for the conference will be English. Some parallel sessions in French will be held. This conference will be held in Lille (France) and is being organised by the Clers e (Centre lillois d'études et recherches sociologiques et économiques, UMR CNRS 8019), University of Lille, and ADEK (French Association for the Development of Keynesian Studies). We encourage economists from various strands of post-Keynesian economics, as well as from other heterodox traditions, to submit papers that fall within the scope of the general theme of the Conference, as well as within the scope of post-Keynesian economics. As 2020 is also the 50th anniversary of the death of Michal Kalecki, papers that honour his memory are also welcomed.

Submission Process

Paper proposal: on the conference theme and/or within the scope of Post-Keynesian economics (and its relation to other Keynesian schools of thought);
Panel proposal (one coordinator, one theme, and three to four contributors).

Please submit your proposal(s) (abstract with less than 200 words) via the official website.
For informations, please contact: pklille2020@sciencesconf.org

Submission Deadline: 26 June 2020

Review of Evolutionary Political Economy (REPE): Special Issue on “Networks dynamics, economic transition, and policy design”

Special Issue on “Networks dynamics, economic transition, and policy design” in the Review of Evolutionary Political Economy (REPE)

The structural change of modern economies due to rapid technological advancements is a multifaceted and complex phenomenon and nowadays often discussed as transition towards a knowledge-based economy. In this sense, recent issues challenging the economy and society are for example the global sustainability goals, the energy question, new market structures driven by new technologies, rapid changes through digitalization etc. Cooperation is one way for firms to cope with an increasing level of complexity in high velocity market environments and outperform competitors. Cooperation enables mutual exchange of knowledge, provides learning platforms and paves the way for collective innovation processes for the actors involved. The sum of micro-level cooperation activities for a well-specified set of actors is reflected in network patterns at higher aggregation levels. Networks can drive – but also hamper – transition processes and are themselves affected by economic transition in various ways.

Empirical research shows that innovation processes are in many cases the outcome of collaborative activities of heterogeneous actors. In nearly all industries and technological areas we see a pronounced R&D cooperation intensity and the emergence of innovation networks with dynamically changing compositions over time. At the same time, we know that economic actor’s innovativeness is strongly affected in various ways by its strategic network positioning and the structural characteristics of the socio-economic environment in which the actor is embedded in. In this sense, R&D cooperation and innovation networks, geographical closeness and other dimensions of proximity, interregional differences in innovation activities, industry dynamics, structural change and systemic instabilities, path-dependencies and lock-in effects, bounded rationality, herding behavior, and self-enforcing system dynamics – to name just a few relevant issues – need to be considered appropriately to gain an in-depth understanding of innovation processes. Even though these issues have been proved to play a key role, they are typically neglected in traditional economic models. Systemic approaches – rooted in evolutionary economics – provide a more realistic and comprehensive theoretical basis to capture the highly complex and socially embedded nature of innovation processes. Interdisciplinary research on complex adaptive systems provides a prolific toolbox for analyzing and understanding system inherent dynamics compared to traditional, exclusively prize-quantity and cost-benefit oriented frameworks. This perspective allows us to identify systemic failures, which slow down or hamper innovation. Within the systemic perspective widely unexplored innovation policy-related issues can be analyzed, which are of a theoretical and an applied interest.

The objective of this special issue is to promote theoretical, conceptual, and empirical research on system dynamics, system failures, systemic interventions and innovation policy design. Possible research questions are outlined below. Exemplary research questions:

Structure of the planned Special Issue

Currently, we plan to include a maximum number of six to nine research papers, organized in three separate, but closely related thematic sections and an opening (editorial) paper. The first section focuses on issues manly concerned with ‘network and system dynamics’, the second focuses on ‘economic transition and structural change’, and the third relates to ‘policy design and implementation’.

Submission process

Please consult the submission guidelines before submitting the paper. We only consider papers submitted via the online editorial management system.

Submission Deadline: 23 February 2020

Studies in Emergent Order and Organization (SIEO): Special Issue on "Carl Menger and Classical Liberalism"

Special Issue on "Carl Menger and Classical Liberalism"

The aim of this issue will be to highlight the role of the founder of the Austrian School of Economics within the tradition of classical liberalism. A special focus will be directed on the connection between his theory of institutions as emergent orders related with the notion of spontaneous order, later developed within the School, which is fundamental in understanding political and economic classical liberal tradition.

Contributors are required to send their proposals on the following possible issues:

Please, send your proposal to giandomenica.becchio@unito.it. Notification of acceptance will be sent by March 15, 2020. A proposal for a session at the next SDAE conference (November 2020, New Orleans, LA) may be on the table, depending on feedback and timing. Please, let the organising comitee know whether you will be able to eventually join the Conference, in case the session proposal will be accepted by the SDAE committee.Submission Deadline: 1 March 2020

Workshop on "Understanding Economic Theory and Development in a Sraffian Framework" (Hyderabad, Oct. 2020)

19-20 October 2020 | Hyderabad, India

"Understanding Economic Theory and Development in a Sraffian Framework"

Neoclassical economics continues to dominate contemporary economics teaching and research, despite the 2007 Global Financial Crisis posing a serious challenge to the Neoclassical understanding . While there have been several attempts to strengthen alternative approaches to economic theory post the crisis, the attempts have been limited and its impact has remained marginal.

In this context, Sraffa’s contribution and its further developments, along with the economic understandings by John Maynard Keynes and Michal Kalecki, offer a coherent theory of value and distribution and an alternative theory of output and economic growth that can be applied in the context of both advanced and developing economies. In the recent couple of decades, much work has been carried out in the areas of monetary economics, public economics, firm theory, capital theory, economic growth, environmental economics using a Sraffian framework. In this workshop, we will engage with Sraffa’s contribution to economic theory and with works that analyze various economic questions in a Sraffian framework. Through this workshop, we will attempt to engage with the logical difficulties of mainstream neoclassical framework and with the Sraffian theory as an alternative framework for understanding contemporary economic processes and economic development.

YSI, in collaboration with University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad and Azim Premji University, Bengaluru, is organizing a two-days long workshop on:

This workshop aims to provide a platform for Masters’ and PhD students with these interests to present their work, obtain feedback from senior scholars, and to obtain an understanding of the frontiers of the Sraffian research programme. The Workshop will also invite a set of senior scholars who will deliver lectures on the theme of the workshop and engage with the young scholars. The workshop is particularly directed towards researchers and students with an interest in classical political economy (CPE), history of economic thought, and economic development from a CPE perspective.

The workshop will comprise of a set of plenary talks by invited scholars and a set of presentation sessions for young scholars to present their work based on the theme and obtain valuable feedback from the senior scholars. This call for abstracts is organized by the Economic Development Working Group. Contact the organisation team regarding any questions.

If submitting initial drafts, please provide a good roadmap of how the project will be developed. The Initial drafts should be no less than 5000 words. If selected, full articles must be submitted by the deadline for full paper submission. All papers must include an abstract no more than 500 words To submit an abstract visit the official website.

Submission Deadline: 1 March 2020

Call for Participants

Event Invitation: "Recession ready: Green planning to beat tomorrow’s downturn" (London, January 2020)

16 January 2020 | London, UK

The New Economics Foundation are hosting a discussion on 16 January 2020 on planning a green response to the next recession, with speakers including Lord Adair Turner, Professor Daniela Gabor and Caroline Lucas MP.

Failure to respond to the last recession by scaling up investment in a socially just way to tackle climate breakdown was a missed opportunity. Austerity saw vital public services and investment cut back after 2010, prolonging economic pain, increasing inequality and suppressing average living standards. But worse still, failure by governments to fund a cleaner, zero-carbon economy after the recession has left a permanent scar on our planet. Not enough investment was brought forward in the crucial months after the recession. With annual growth at its lowest in a decade, recent figures suggest Britain’s flagging economy dodged a bullet by narrowly avoiding a recession. With the likelihood of another recession now higher than at any time since 2007, the question is no longer a matter of when will the next economic downturn come, but what to do once it strikes?

Ten years on, UK policy makers find themselves once again unprepared for another recession but also in the midst of a climate emergency. Yet there is also clear potential for change. How do we get there? From Green New Deals, to carbon taxes, to green monetary policy, to fiscal rules – join NEF for a discussion of the possible responses.

The event (which is free to attend) will take place at the Royal Society in London, between 9:30am – 11:30am on Thursday, 16 January 2020.

Find out more and register here. For further information please contact Lukasz Krebel.

Job Postings

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands (1/2)

Job title: Assistant Professor Position in Macroeconomics of Development

The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) is a leading academic centre for international development studies. While part of Erasmus University Rotterdam, the ISS is based in The Hague. ISS was established in 1952 as a post-graduate institute of policy-oriented critical social science and development-oriented research. ISS offers a PhD in Development Studies, a 15.5 month MA in Development Studies, a joint MA in Public Policy (Mundus MAPP), and post-graduate Diploma courses. The two positions have been created as part of ISS’s ongoing ambition to diversify the composition of its academic staff with recruits from the Global South. ISS has identified key partner countries and, in particular, for these two positions, we seek applicants from the Global South whose work focuses on Ecuador and/or Colombia.

The position is meant for early-career academics, that is, those with a recent (or soon to be completed) PhD and offer the possibility of pursuing a career at ISS while creating or enhancing strong connections with academic institutions in Ecuador and Colombia. The successful candidates will be embedded in the institute’s research program and will work with a team of researchers who will ensure that the candidates receives support from within the organization and are enabled to participate in research, teaching and engagement with institutes in Ecuador and Colombia. The expectation is that the successful candidates will play a leading role in developing further collaborative activities in these two countries, such as joint research and PhD supervision, double degree MA programmes, exchange of researchers and students, and engagement with alumni.

The successful candidate will be expected to carry out high-quality and societally-relevant research in the broad areas of Macroeconomics of development, with expertise in areas such as financial flows, financialization, trade. Candidates with a heterodox economics perspective are encouraged to apply. The candidate will have a teaching base in the Major in Economics of Development (ECD) and/or the Major in Agrarian, Food and Environmental Studies (AFES). They will also be expected to contribute to institute-wide teaching efforts, such as in research methods.

Desired skills and expertise

We are looking for candidates who meet the following requirements:

Conditions of Employment

The selected candidate will be offered a contract at the level of Assistant Professor, starting as soon as possible, with the possibility of tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor after 6 years upon successful performance as judged according to specified tenure track conditions. To help develop candidates with the tenure track from assistant to associate professor, they will be offered:

In accordance with the conditions applied at Erasmus University Rotterdam as indicated in the Collective Labour Agreement (CAO NU) of the Dutch universities, the salary is dependent on the candidates’ experience and corresponds to scale 11, which is between € 3637 and €4.978 gross per month, on a fulltime basis. In addition, EUR pays an 8% holiday allowance and an end-of-year payment of 8.3% and offers excellent secondary benefits. Erasmus University Rotterdam, in cooperation with the nearby universities of Leiden and Delft, offers a Dual Career Programme to assist spouses of international employees in their search for a job on the Dutch Labour market.

How to apply

Please submit your application, including a CV, a motivation letter, two sample papers, and a 3 page (maximum) description of your focus areas in research and teaching. This document should also indicate key academic partner/s in Ecuador and/or Colombia and discuss how ISS may build collaborative activities with institute/s in Ecuador in the coming three years. Applications may be sent by email. Additional information may be received by contacting Prof. Mansoob Murshed, Chair of the Selection Committee via email or via the official website.

Application Deadline: 20 January 2020

Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands (2/2)

Job title: Assistant Professor Position inEnvironment, Natural Resource Use and Management

The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) is a leading academic centre for international development studies. While part of Erasmus University Rotterdam, the ISS is based in The Hague. ISS was established in 1952 as a post-graduate institute of policy-oriented critical social science and development-oriented research. ISS offers a PhD in Development Studies, a 15.5 month MA in Development Studies, a joint MA in Public Policy (Mundus MAPP), and post-graduate Diploma courses. The two positions have been created as part of ISS’s ongoing ambition to diversify the composition of its academic staff with recruits from the Global South. ISS has identified key partner countries and, in particular, for these two positions, we seek applicants from the Global South whose work focuses on Ecuador and/or Colombia.

The position is meant for early-career academics, that is, those with a recent (or soon to be completed) PhD and offer the possibility of pursuing a career at ISS while creating or enhancing strong connections with academic institutions in Ecuador and Colombia. The successful candidates will be embedded in the institute’s research program and will work with a team of researchers who will ensure that the candidates receives support from within the organization and are enabled to participate in research, teaching and engagement with institutes in Ecuador and Colombia. The expectation is that the successful candidates will play a leading role in developing further collaborative activities in these two countries, such as joint research and PhD supervision, double degree MA programmes, exchange of researchers and students, and engagement with alumni.

The successful candidate will be expected to carry out high-quality and societally-relevant research in the broad areas of Environment and natural resource use and management, with expertise in areas such as the natural resource curse, extractive industries and environmental justice. Candidates with a political economy of development perspective are encouraged to apply. The candidate will have a teaching base in the Major in Economics of Development (ECD) and/or the Major in Agrarian, Food and Environmental Studies (AFES). They will also be expected to contribute to institute-wide teaching efforts, such as in research methods.

Desired skills and expertise

We are looking for candidates who meet the following requirements:

Conditions of Employment

The selected candidate will be offered a contract at the level of Assistant Professor, starting as soon as possible, with the possibility of tenure and promotion to the rank of Associate Professor after 6 years upon successful performance as judged according to specified tenure track conditions. To help develop candidates with the tenure track from assistant to associate professor, they will be offered:

In accordance with the conditions applied at Erasmus University Rotterdam as indicated in the Collective Labour Agreement (CAO NU) of the Dutch universities, the salary is dependent on the candidates’ experience and corresponds to scale 11, which is between € 3637 and €4.978 gross per month, on a fulltime basis. In addition, EUR pays an 8% holiday allowance and an end-of-year payment of 8.3% and offers excellent secondary benefits. Erasmus University Rotterdam, in cooperation with the nearby universities of Leiden and Delft, offers a Dual Career Programme to assist spouses of international employees in their search for a job on the Dutch Labour market.

How to apply

Please submit your application, including a CV, a motivation letter, two sample papers, and a 3 page (maximum) description of your focus areas in research and teaching. This document should also indicate key academic partner/s in Ecuador and/or Colombia and discuss how ISS may build collaborative activities with institute/s in Ecuador in the coming three years. Applications may be sent by email. Additional information may be received by contacting Prof. Mansoob Murshed, Chair of the Selection Committee via email or via the official website.

Application Deadline: 20 January 2020

Queen's University Belfast, North Ireland

job title: Lecturer in International Political Economy (IPE)

The School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy, and Politics at Queen’s University, Belfast, is one of the UK’s leaders in internationally recognised research and teaching in political science and international relations. The School seeks to appoint a lecturer in IPE to support research and teaching at all levels, including delivery of teaching on the undergraduate Politics, Philosophy and Economy (PPE) programme and IPE at the MA level. The person appointed will be expected to work with colleagues across specialisms in the School and to play a central role in all the School’s research and teaching activities.

The successful candidate must have:

Further information about the School and staff can be found online.Informal enquiries may be directed to Chris Raymond.

Queen’s University Belfast is a driver of innovation and talent based on excellence. Throughout the University, our academics are collaborating across disciplines and with outside agencies and institutions on projects of world significance. We are connected and networked with strategic partnerships across the world, helping us to expand our impact on wider society locally, nationally and globally. The University is committed to attracting, retaining and developing the best global talent within an environment that enables them to realise their full potential. We are a leader in gender equality and diversity, and are one of the UK’s most successful universities in the Athena SWAN initiative which promotes gender equality and career progression. We are ranked 1st in the UK for knowledge transfer partnerships, (Innovate UK) 9th in the UK for University facilities (Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2018) and 14th in the UK for research quality (Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019).

For full job details and criteria please see the Candidate Information link on our website. Submit your application via the online plattform. You must clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria when you submit your application. For further information please contact Resourcing Team, Queen’s University Belfast.

Application Deadline: 6 January 2020

University of Westminster, UK (1/2)

job title: Lecturer in Media and Communication

The School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster is looking for committed, enthusiastic lecturers to join our successful course teams and to help us grow our portfolio. The successful applicants will teach on both our undergraduate and postgraduate courses as required. We do not expect applicants to have all the expertise listed here, but to have experience in one or more of the following areas:

The School vision is to prepare students for the rapidly changing global media and communication industry through learning and teaching that is research-informed, practice-led and based on action learning. We currently offer eight undergraduate and 13 postgraduate courses covering the fields of Media Management; Digital Media, PR and Journalism; Media and Society; TV and Visual Communication; as well as a flourishing PhD programme. Several of our courses were the first of their kind and we continue to innovate, developing new programmes that reflect the changing media and communication workplace. We teach a diverse, multicultural student population.

How to apply

To apply, you should have the skills to deliver one or more of the areas listed above, along with a relevant degree and some teaching and / or professional experience. A PhD (or close to completion) or professional qualification is desirable but not essential for these posts.

All applications should be submitted online. Further information can be found in the job description and person specification, which can be accessed via the official website. If you have any queries or experience any difficulties, please do not hesitate to contact the HR Recruitment Team via email.

Application Deadline: 12 January 2020

University of Westminster, UK (2/2)

job title: Assistant Head of School (Media and Communication)

The School of Media and Communication at the University of Westminster is looking for an experienced, strategic academic leader to join our successful School. This vacancy has been created by an internal promotion. This post is full time and permanent, working 35 hours per week.

The successful applicant will play a key role in the School, working closely with the Head and senior leadership team to shape and implement School strategy, ensure our portfolio is innovative and stimulating, support and manage course teams, and help to maintain our high quality standards. You must be able to demonstrate your ability to manage teams and ensure an outstanding student experience. You will also have the opportunity to maintain your own teaching and research, including course leadership. This is an ideal post for an experienced academic who wants to develop their strategic role to the next level.

The Assistant Head of School role is fixed-term and rotating for an initial period of three years (with a possible extension of two years). The appointment with the University will be on a permanent basis and the successful candidate will be appropriately qualified to meet the requirements of a Principal Lecturer / Reader or Professorial level appointment. Following completion of term as Assistant Head of School, the successful candidate would revert to permanent role of either Principal Lecturer or Professor and re-embrace their academic career within the College / School.

How to apply

All applications should be submitted online. Further information can be found in the job description and person specification, which can be accessed via the offical website. For an informal discussion about this role please contact Michaela O’Brien, Head of School.

Application Deadline: 19 January 2020

Unversity of Luxembourg / Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), Luxembourg

Fully funded PhD researcher in Economic Geography

In a joint research project co-coordinated by both the University of Luxembourg (UL) and the Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research (LISER), we are looking for two PhD candidates interested in the realms of green/sustainable finance and alternative/circular economies. One position will be recruited by the University (main supervisor: Christian Schulz), one by LISER (main supervisor: Sabine Dörry). Together with the supervisors, the two candidates will be closely collaborating on the AltFin project.

The AltFin project seeks to better understand regional economic development at the interface of alternative economy approaches, here circular economy (CE), and sustainable finance, in order to comprehend mechanisms that will guide regional transitions towards sustainable development. Fundamentally, transitions as directed, yet open-ended, social processes require institutions to adapt and change. Thus, AltFin scrutinises in particular regional institutions in the three neighbouring countries France, Germany and Luxembourg, where national and regional initiatives have started to support CE endeavours. CE is indeed a prominent example of broader alternative economy approaches with particular – long-term – financing needs. At the same time, powerful financial firms, mainly embedded in international financial centres (IFCs) to serve global circuits of capital, have started to shift parts of their business towards sustainable finance. For example, large investment funds seek to invest in projects and assets that not only generate financial returns but also ecological and/or social benefits (impact investing). CE is an area that potentially matches these investment criteria, but, so far, the majority of financial firms anchored in IFCs invest much more on a global than on a national/regional level. Further, finance is a powerful player and may promote change in a different direction than that intended by CE agents. The proposed project builds on preliminary evidence from Luxembourg that although there is strong demand for financing CE projects on a national level, financial firms in Luxembourg’s IFC – which has heavily specialised in green bonds and green investment funds – primarily invest in extra-European regions and, there, mainly in climate finance projects. We hypothesise that one reason for this organisational, financial and geographical mismatch is a corresponding mismatch in Luxembourg’s institutions that are currently unable to (re-)align local finance needs in regional alternative economic projects with global finance supply in IFCs. We seek to investigate empirically in a comparative manner the power-induced relationships between sustainable finance designed in the IFCs Frankfurt, Luxembourg and Paris, and alternative economic activities in the three regional economies. Ultimately, AltFin seeks to develop a new framework of institutional change and its key mechanisms and practices at the interface of sustainable finance and alternative economies to strengthen regional economies and their sustainable development.

The Doctoral Candidate will be a member of the department of Urban Development and Mobility (UDM) and do his/her research within the framework of the AltFin research project

Tasks include:

Your Profile:

Required Documents:

Please submit your complete application via the online platform.

For project related information, please contact Dr Sabine Dörry (no applications), for administrative matters, please contact the recruitment office.

Application Deadline: 31 January 2020

Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria

job title: Third-party-funded project staff member (40 hours/week, part time negotiable)

The WU Institute for Ecological Economics is currently inviting applications for a Financial data scientist (extent of employment 40 hours/week but part time negotiable) as part of the “Climate Economics and Finance” Research Group. This employee position will be initially limited to a period of one year (but can be extended based on performance across the 3 years duration of the project). The starting date is February 15, 2020 (commencement date subject to change; we are flexible and will consider different starting dates should the successful candidate require it). Job interviews will take place either physically/webex on January 9 and 10, 2020. Salary is competitive and commensurate to experience.

The post holder will contribute to the activities of the CASCADES project (Cascading climate risks: Towards adaptive and resilient European societies), funded by the European Commission under the H2020 framework and comprising twelve European institutions. The aim of CASCADES is to study the implications of extra-European climate risks on various domains of European societies (trade, finance, geopolitics, policy, etc.). The aim of the Work Package led by WU is to achieve: i) a comprehensive assessment of the exposure of European businesses and private/public financial institutions to direct and indirect extra- European climate risks and opportunities, from the perspective of both individual organisations and the financial system as a whole; ii) the identification of appropriate changes in business models, portfolio allocation strategies and public policies to reduce the exposure of European businesses and investors to climate-related risks and make use of opportunities.

The responsibilities of the post holder will be to contribute to:

The post holder will work in close connection with Dr. Emanuele Campiglio, Dr. Irene Monasterolo, the place of work will be the WU Institute for Ecological Economics in Vienna. This position does not involve any teaching. We offer a dynamic, international, collaborative professional growth in the field of climate finance.

Applicants should have:

The required skills and experience will be assessed taking into consideration the applicant’s level of qualification (i.e. pre doc or post doc level) and/or previous experience in the private sector.

Please submit:

For the pre doc position the minimum gross monthly salary is € 2,864.50 (for 40 hours/week), subject to adjustment if candidates can document relevant prior professional experience. The gross monthly salary for the post doc position is € 3,803.90 (for 40 hours/week). This employee position will be limited to a period of one year, starting on February 15, 2020 (commencement date subject to change). For further information visit the official website.

Application Deadline: 7 January 2020

Awards

Call for Nominations: Craufurd Goodwin Best Article in the History of Economics Prize

The History of Economics Society welcomes nominations for The Craufurd Goodwin Best Article in the History of Economics Prize. In addition to the honor, the winner will receive a $500 award plus travel expenses of up to $1000 to attend the Society's annual conference (June 2020 in Utrecht, The Netherlands).

Craufurd Goodwin, who passed away in 2017, was a founding member, past President and distinguished fellow of the History of Economics Society. His long and outstanding editorship of History of Political Economy helped shape the professional community of historians of economics. Any article in the history of economics published in English during 2019 is eligible for the award. It is recognized however, that despite official publication dates, many publications are shipped after the end of the year. In such cases, relevant articles that are in 'proof' form, with accompanying evidence of the journal and year of publication, may be accepted at the discretion of the Chair of the committee.

Besides the nominated articles, the Committee will consider all articles published in the Society's journal, Journal for the History of Economic Thought. Nomination of an article by its author is welcome. The members of the Selection Commitee this year are Hsiang-Ke Chao (National Tsing Hua University), Andrej Svorencik (University of Mannheim), and Ana Maria Bianchi (chair, University of Sao Paulo).

Nominations (brief reasons), including a complete citation of the article and/or a pdf of the article, should be sent to the chair of the committee, Ana Maria Bianchi.

Submission Deadline: 31 January 2020

Call for Nominations: Kurt-Rothschild Award for Economic Journalism and Research

In memory of the considerable achievements of Austrian Professor of Economics, Kurt Rothschild, the Karl-Renner-Institut and the Social Democratic Parliamentary Club established the Kurt Rothschild Award for Economic Journalism and Research. Through his work, Kurt Rothschild left a sustained impact on science, politics and society in Austria. As a socialist of Jewish origin, Kurt Rothschild had to flee Austria after its annexation into Hitler’s Nazi Germany. It was particularly this time in exile that contributed to his societal approach to economic research.

The prize recognizes contributions to the economic and social sciences, which propose new approaches to the major challenges of our time, beyond standard and mainstream economic theory and in the spirit of Kurt Rothschild. Qualified submissions for the award consist of two combined components. The first consists of articles directed at a broad media audience, including commentaries and contributions to newspapers, magazines or blogs; and the second consists of academic work published in academic journals, books or as working papers. The applicant must be explicitly identified as a (co-)author in both items submitted. The submission form is available online.

The overall sum of the award money of the Kurt Rothschild Award is 10.000 €. A jury decides upon the division of this overall sum between the multiple awardees. No late submissions will be accepted (date of e-mail or postmark). The publication of submissions should have taken place in the 12 months prior to the final submission deadline. The submission form, as well as all relevant information pertaining to the award, is available online.

Submission Deadline: 27 April 2020

Journals

Capital & Class 43 (4)

Isabella Bakker and Stephen Gill: Rethinking power, production, and social reproduction: Toward variegated social reproduction

Sébastien Rioux: A feast of Tantalus: Corporeal crisis and death by starvation in Britain 1830–1914

Paul Foley: Social-ecological reproduction and the substance of life in commodity frontiers: Newfoundland fisheries in world market shifts

Ellie Gore and Genevieve LeBaron: Using social reproduction theory to understand unfree labour

Adrienne Roberts and Ghazal Zulfiqar: Social reproduction, finance and the gendered dimensions of pawnbroking

Charles Dannreuther: Silencing the social: Debt and depletion in UK social policy

Alexander Nunn and Daniela Tepe-Belfrage: Social reproduction strategies: Understanding compound inequality in the intergenerational transfer of capital, assets and resources

Myles Carroll: From nationalist communitarianism to fragmentary neoliberalism: Japan’s crisis of social reproduction

Stuart Shields: The paradoxes of necessity: Fail forwards neoliberalism, social reproduction, recombinant populism and Poland’s 500Plus policy

Competition and Change 24 (1)

Charlotte Rommerskirchen: Foreign bond investors and market discipline

Jannes Tessmann: Global value chains and policy practice: The making of linkages in the Ivorian cashew industry

Aleksandr Christenko, Žilvinas Martinaitis, and Simonas Gaušas: Specific and general skills: Concepts, dimensions, and measurements

Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon: State capitalism(s) redux? Theories, tensions, controversies

Economic Thought: History, Philosophy and Methodology 8 (2)

Juozas Kasputis: Hierarchical Inconsistencies: A Critical Assessment of Justification

Ioannis A. Katselidis: Institutions, Policy and the Labour Market: The Contribution of the Old Institutional Economics

Richard Everett Planck: Orthogonal Time in Euclidean Three-Dimensional Space: Being an Engineer’s Attempt to Reveal the Copernican Criticality of Alfred Marshall’s Historically-ignored ‘Cardboard Model’

Miguel D. Ramirez: Credit, Indebtedness and Speculation in Marx’s Political Economy

Stavros Mavroudeas: Comment on Miguel Ramirez’s paper, ‘Credit, Indebtedness and Speculation in Marx’s Political Economy’

Miguel D. Ramirez: Response to Stavros Mavroudeas

Economy and Society 48 (4)

Jack Parkin: The senatorial governance of Bitcoin: making (de)centralized money

Peter Fleming, Carl Rhodes & Kyoung-Hee Yu: On why Uber has not taken over the world

Daniel Souleles: The distribution of ignorance on financial markets

Ryan Davey: Suspensory indebtedness: time, morality and power asymmetry in experiences of consumer debt

David A. Palmer & Fabian Winiger: Neo-socialist governmentality: managing freedom in the People’s Republic of China

Neil Howard & Roberto Forin: Migrant workers, ‘modern slavery’ and the politics of representation in Italian tomato production

J. Z. Garrod: On the property of blockchains: comments on an emerging literature

Feminist Economics 26 (1)

Sarah Gammage, Shareen Joshi & Yana van der Meulen Rodgers: The Intersections of Women’s Economic and Reproductive Empowerment

Neetu A. John, Amy O. Tsui & Meselech Roro: Quality of Contraceptive Use and Women’s Paid Work and Earnings in Peri-Urban Ethiopia

Kate Bahn, Adriana Kugler, Melissa Holly Mahoney & Annie McGrew: Do US TRAP Laws Trap Women Into Bad Jobs?

Didem Pekkurnaz: Employment Status and Contraceptive Choices of Women With Young Children in Turkey

Sarah Gammage, Naziha Sultana & Allison Glinski: Reducing Vulnerable Employment: Is there a Role for Reproductive Health, Social Protection, and Labor Market Policy?

Felix M. Muchomba, Nan Jiang & Neeraj Kaushal: Culture, Labor Supply, and Fertility Across Immigrant Generations in the United States

Rohini Prabha Pande, Sophie Namy & Anju Malhotra: The Demographic Transition and Women's Economic Participation in Tamil Nadu, India: A Historical Case Study

International Critical Thought 9 (4)

Enfu Cheng & Zhihua Zhan: A New Historical Materialist Interpretation of the Role of Historical Figures: On the Concept of “Makers of History in a Broad Sense”

Ottokar Luban: Rosa Luxemburg’s Concept of Spontaneity and Creativity in Proletarian Mass Movements—Theory and Practice

Annamaria Artner: Accumulation of Advantage and Elimination of Scarcity—A Critique of the Neoclassical Approach

James M. Craven: Constructs and Roles of Culture in National and Other Social Formations and Imperial Soft-Power Projections

Bin Yu: Why Has Marxism, Which Originated in the West, Succeeded in China?

Diego Pautasso, Marcelo Fernandes & Gaio Doria: Marxism and the National Question: Domenico Losurdo’s Contribution to the Dialectics of the National and International

Nicola D’Elia: Notes on the Reprint of Late Marx and the Russian Road Edited by Teodor Shanin

Tony Andreani: Notes on Jean-Claude Delaunay’s Les Trajectoires Chinoises de Modernisation et de Developpement, De l’Empire agro-militaire à l’Etat-Nation et au Socialisme

Justin Theodra: Audacity and Acuity: The Life and Work of Samir Amin

Journal of Historical Materialism 27 (4)

Sara Salem: ‘Stretching’ Marxism in the Postcolonial World

Thierry Drapeau: The Frightful Hobgoblin against Empire

Giulia Dal Maso: The Financial Crisis and a Crisis of Expertise: A Chinese Genealogy of Neoliberalism

Marcelo Starcenbaum: Marxism, Structuralism and Psychoanalysis

Jacques Bidet: Neoliberalism Facing Its Subjects: A Metastructural Approach

Fred Moseley: Marx’s Economic Manuscript of 1867–68 (Excerpt) Editor’s Introduction

Herbert Panzer: Marx’s Economic Manuscript of 1867–68 (Excerpt) Translator’s Introduction

Karl Marx: Marx’s Economic Manuscript of 1867–68 (Excerpt)

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Ludo Cuyvers: Why Did Marx's Capital Remain Unfinished? On Some Old and New Arguments

Maxi Nieto and Juan Pablo Mateo: Dynamic Efficiency in a Planned Economy: Innovation and Entrepreneurship Without Markets

Gregory Slack: From Class to Race and Back Again: A Critique of Charles Mills’ Black Radical Liberalism

Todd Gordon and Jeffery R. Webber: Complex Stratification in the World System: Capitalist Totality and Geopolitical Fragmentation

Books and Book Series

Marxism: Karl Marx’s Fifteen Key Concepts for Cultural & Communication Studies

by Christian Fuchs | 2020, Routledge

This book is a critical theory toolkit on how to how to make use of Karl Marx’s ideas in media, communication, and cultural studies. Karl Marx’s ideas remain of crucial relevance, and in this book, Christian Fuchs introduces Marx to the reader by discussing 15 of his key concepts and showing how they matter for understanding the digital and communicative capitalism that shapes human life in twenty-first century society. Key concepts covered include: the dialectic, materialism, commodities, capital, capitalism, labour, surplus-value, the working class, alienation, means of communication, the general intellect, ideology, socialism, communism, and class struggles.

Please find a link to the book here.

Money Power and Financial Capital in Emerging Markets

by Ilias Alami | 2019, Routledge

This book provides a comprehensive investigation of the messy and crisis-ridden relationship between the operations of capitalist finance, global capital flows, and state power in emerging markets. The politics, drivers of emergence, and diversity of these myriad forms of state power are explored in light of the positionality of emerging markets within the network of space and power relations that characterises contemporary global finance. The book develops a multi-disciplinary perspective and combines insights from Marxist political economy, post-Keynesian economics, economic geography, and postcolonial and feminist International Political Economy. Alami comprehensively reviews the theories, histories, and geographies of cross-border finance management, and develops a conceptual framework which allows unpacking the complex entanglement of constraint and opportunities, of growing integration and tight discipline, that cross-border finance represents for emerging markets. Extensive fieldwork research provides an in-depth comparative critical interrogation of the policies and regulations deployed in Brazil and South Africa.

This volume will be especially useful to those researching and working in the areas of international political economy, contemporary geographies of money and finance, and critical development studies. It should also prove of interest to policy makers, practitioners, and activists concerned with the relation between finance and development in emerging markets and beyond.

Please find a link to the book here.

Heterodox Economics in the Media

"Economics for People" with Ha-Joon Chang

In the new series “Economics For People” from the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), University of Cambridge economist and bestselling author Ha-Joon Chang explains key concepts in economics, empowering anyone to hold their government, society, and economy accountable.

The series can be found here.

For Your Information

Letter to Peter L. Rousseau (AEA) regarding the allocation of session at the ASSA meeting

Dear Dr. Rousseau:

We, representatives of several associations that participate in the annual meetings of the American Social Science Association (ASSA), wish to express our objections to the AEA policy regarding the allocation of sessions at these meetings, as described in your letter of November 7, 2018. The policy would have the effect of contributing to the problem of the lack of diversity within the economics profession and run counter to the recently expressed commitment of the AEA to address the issue of racial and gender discrimination.

The allocation of sessions is, understandably, based on attendance at the sessions of participating organizations. Our objections are both to the method of counting attendance, and to the proposed cutting of sessions by organizations whose median attendance falls below 13. We note that the policy proposes only methods of cutting sessions, with no consideration of possible additions.

Specifically, we object to the exclusion of presenters, chairs and discussants in counting the number of people attending sessions. Our organizations are committed to providing opportunities for participation in these sessions to scholars whose work is less well-known and who are more likely to be at the beginning of their academic careers. We therefore encourage them to contribute to the development of the discipline of economics through such participation, particularly as discussants. By doing so, we actively counteract the racial and gender discrimination that plague our profession. The AEA's proposed method of counting attendance directly limits our ability to do so.

The benefits of diversity extend beyond racial and gender composition to include those whose work challenges the theoretical orthodoxy that is well represented within the ASSA Presentations of new ideas understandably draw smaller audiences than those that have already achieved recognition. Thus the policy of reducing the sessions for organizations with lower attendance necessarily reduced the opportunities for the ongoing development of the discipline that is vital to address the multiple real-world problems that we are experiencing. These include not only the lack of racial and gender equality, but the increasing inequality both within and between countries, as well as the dangers of climate change.

We therefore request a reconsideration of the policy on allocation of ASSA sessions, and look forward to hearing from you.

Julie Nelson,
President, Association for Social Economics (ASE)
julie.nelson@umb.edu

Reynold Nesiba
President, Association for Institutional Thought (AFIT)
nesiba@augie.edu

Paddy Quick
President, Union for Radical Political Economics (URPE)
paddyquick8@gmail.com

Omari H. Swinton
President, National Economic Association (NEA)
oswinton@howard.edu

Geoff Schneider
Executive Director, International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics (ICAPE)
gschnedr@bucknell.edu

Dave Zalewski
President, Association for Evolutionary Economics (AFEE)
ZALEWSKI@providence.edu