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Issue-29, June 18, 2006
From the Editor
It truly appears that
heterodox economic activities do not take a summer
vacation. There are new call for papers and new
book announcements. In addition there are call for
participants for various conferences, including the
Association for Heterodox Economics Conference which
will take place in London in July. Moreover, there
are job announcements, links to a couple of
interesting papers, and information and links to
recent journal publications as well as links to
various interesting newsletters. I would like to
mention Marc Lavoie's article that appears in
INTERVENTION--it is an interesting discussion of the
relationship of Post Keynesian economics to other
heterodox approaches--there is a link to the
article. Finally there is informations about a
heterodox economics society in Korea and a couple of
interesting items under FYI.
ICAPE announces its second international
conference that will take place on June 1-3, 2007 at the University of
Utah. Its theme is "Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century". This is an
important conference to attend and present a paper.
This is the last Heterodox
Economics Newsletter until August. I shall be away
at a couple of conferences--Australian History of
Economic Thought and Association for Heterodox
Economics conferences, and then I shall be on
holiday for a couple of weeks.
Fred Lee
In
this issue:
-
Call
for Papers
-
International Forum on Comparative Political Economy of Globalization
- "Trade and sustainable
development: missing links?"
- Association for
Institutional Thought [AFIT]
- Hegemonic Transitions
and the State
- The Constraints to Full
Employment Conference
- The International
Journal of Economics (IJE)
- Which financing for
which development ?
- Economic Pluralism for
the 21st Century
- Conferences, Seminars
and Lectures
- Value Theory and KBE
- Working to Live
- Reclaiming the Economy
- Impact of Keynesian
Economics on Policy
- Understanding modern
money : the key to full employment and price stability
- Japan Academy for Asian
Market Economies (JAFAME)
- The summer school:
Econophysics and Complexity
- The Constraints to Full
Employment Conference
- Forum the Spirit of
Innovation II
- Association for
Heterodox Economics
- Job
Postings
for Heterodox Economists
- FHTW Berlin – University of Applied Sciences, Germany
- Girton College
- Heterodox Conference
Papers and Reports and Articles
- “A reinterpretation and remedy of Keynes’s liquidity preference
theory”
- “The Economic
Development Benefits of Prevailing Wage”
-
Heterodox Journals and Newsletters
- New Political Economy
- USSEE (United States Society
for Ecological Economic) Newsletter
- Intervention
- Levy News
- Talking Economics Bulletin -
June 2006, Fair Dealing
- Historical Materialism:
Research in Critical Marxist Theory
- Capital and Class
- The Economics of Peace and
Security Journal
- PERI In Focus Summer 2006
- June 2006 of Review of Social
Economy
-
Heterodox Books and Book Series
- Eigentumsökonomik
- GDAE Books
- 50 Major Economists
- Macroeconomics in
Context Preliminary Edition on the Web
- The State of Working
America 2004/2005
- Railroading Economics:
The Creation of the Free Market Mythology
- Heterodox Associations,
Institutes, and Departments
- Korean Social and Economic Studies Association (KSESA)
-
For Your Information
- Otto Steiger
- Professor John Milios
- "The Distorted Priorities of
Mainstream Economists."
Call for Papers
International Forum on Comparative
Political Economy of Globalization
Second Conference of International Forum on Comparative Political
Economy of Globalization will be held at Renmin University of China
Beijing, 1-3 September 2006
Conference Theme
Late Development: China, East Asia, and the Developing World
Sponsoring Institutions
The conference is prepared by a Conference Organising Committee under
the auspices of the following institutions, which are founding members
of the Forum:
-The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, U.K.
-The School of Economics, Renmin University of China, China ?? The Study
Group on Contemporary Issues and Marxian Economics, Japan
Background
From the standpoint of political economy, globalization can be
conceptualized as the spatial expansion of the system of capitalism. The
interaction between the global-level systemic dynamics, on the one hand,
and the responses and initiatives of the local (regions and/or
nation-states), on the other hand, is of central importance in
determining world development. Hence the impetus of comparative studies
from a systemic perspective.
A research programme in the spirit of the above stands in contrast to
the mainstream of the existing economic literature on globalization. It
is characteristic of mainstream studies that they tend to be lacking
either a comparative perspective or a systemic perspective, or both. In
other words, they tend to treat local responses/initiatives as no more
than “variables” that are invariant in nature, while losing sight of the
system. To the extent that some of the studies do attempt to take into
consideration the systemic dynamics, this is typically based on fragile
foundations – particularly in the form of the presumption that “perfect
property rights” are in an universal sense the ideal state for world
development. It is due to this characteristic that mainstream studies
have appeared to be wanting, especially in the face of the following
phenomenal events in the age of globalization: the non-fulfillment of
the promises of development in the systemic transformation of countries
of the former Soviet bloc, the miracle and crises on the back of “crony
capitalism” in East Asian development, and the “lost decades of
development despite market reforms” in the broader non-Western world.
A research program emphasizing comparative and systemic perspectives can
only be international in nature. The initiative of establishing the
International Forum on Comparative Political Economy of Globalization is
precisely to seve this purpose. The Launching Conference of the Forum,
in September 2005 at the School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London, was mainly to paving the way for subsequent
multilateral and bilateral collaborative academic activities. On this
basis, this forthcoming Second Conference has its objective of
generating serious scholarly work in the spirit outlined above.
Structures of the Conference
The conference will be composed of key-note speeches, a plenary session,
parallel workshops, and arrangements of group/plenary discussion on
research initiatives and business plans. Proposed themes for parallel
workshops:
- Workshop 1 Conceptualizing the political economy of globalization -
Workshop 2 Late development: trends and issues -Workshop 3 China and the
world economy -Workshop 4 East Asia -Workshop 5 Marxist political
economy in development -Workshop 6 The world of finance
Preliminary Program
First Day 7:00pm – 8:30pm Conference reception Second Day 9:30am –
10:00am Registration and welcome address 10:00am – 10:15am Break 10:15am
– 12:15pm Key-note speeches (four papers) 12:15pm – 2:00pm Lunch 2:00pm
– 3:30pm Workshop 1 (three papers) Workshop 2 (three papers) Workshop 3
(three papers) 3:30pm – 3:45pm Break 3:45pm – 5:15pm Workshop 1,
continued (three papers) Workshop 2, continued (three papers) Workshop
3, continued (three papers) 6:00pm – 8:30pm Dinner
Third Day 9:30am – 11:00pm Workshop 4 (three papers) Workshop 5 (three
papers) Workshop 6 (three papers) 11:00am – 11:15am Break 11:15am –
12:15pm Workshop 4, continued (two papers) Workshop 5, continued (two
papers) Workshop 6, continued (two papers) 12:15pm – 2:00pm Lunch 2:00pm
– 4:00pm Plenary session (four papers) 4:00pm – 4:15pm Break 4:15pm –
5:15pm Plenary discussion on business plans
Announcements and conference closing
6:00pm – 8:30pm Dinner
(Note: depending on the number of participants/papers, the number of
parallel workshops could vary between 4 and 6.)
Prospective Outlets for Conference Papers The conference organizer will
strive to approach prospective refereed journals or academic publishers
for the publication of a selection of the conference papers.
Deadlines for Submitting Abstracts and Papers
31 May 2006 for submission of abstracts (to be used for, inter alia,
publicity and approaching prospective publishers); 10 August 2006 for
submission of papers (to be uploaded to the website of the Forum,
http://www.seruc.com/bgl/ ,
before the conference).
Finance
All expenses except international flights of participants will be
covered by RUC.
PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS ON CONFERENCE PREPARATION
Conference Preparation Committee
RUC 2 + SOAS 2 + SGIME 1 + Utah 1 + Sydney 1 = 7
Suggested Composition of Participants
Overseas SOAS 7
SGIME 7
Utah 4
Sydney 3
Mexico AU 2
Others (HK 2, USA 1, UK 2, Australia 1, etc.) 7 Chinese RUC 7 Others
(Beijing institutions) 5
Suggested Key-note and Plenary Session Speakers Second Day morning John
Weeks Makoto Itoh A person from RUC Dimitri Papadimitriou Third Day
afternoon A person from Utah Thomas Chan Kawamura Leo Panitch
"Trade and sustainable
development: missing links?"
The Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) in Islamabad,
Pakistan, organises its 9th Sustainable Development Conference "Missing
Links in Sustainable Development: South Asian Perspectives" from
December 13-15 , 2006. One of the sub-themes will focus on "Trade and
sustainable development: missing links?" (outline below). Your abstracts
are welcome! Deadline for submission is August 7, 2006.
Outline
Globalisation in South Asia has many faces, such as cross-border trade
in goods and services, foreign companies establishing subsidiaries in
the sub-continent, and short-term capital entering national stock
exchanges. It also has a variety of triggers. Bi- and multilateral trade
agreements have been powerful catalysts of globalisation. The World
Trade Organisation (WTO) founded in 1995 is the only international body
dealing with the rules of trade between nations. At the heart of the WTO
lie agreements between the 149 member states of the WTO. In developing
countries in particular, the impact of the WTO on sustainable
development is highly disputed. Are its rules, dominated by
industrialized countries a new form of colonialism aggravating
inequality between North and South and within developing countries? Or
can compliance with WTO rules provide a more leveled playing field
between dissimilar partners, and promote more sustainable economic
practice?
Since the beginning of the 1990s, the number of Regional Trade
Agreements (RTAs) has risen exponentially. Similar doubts about their
capacity to promote sustainable development have been put forward. In
the South Asian context, an important dimension is the potential of a
regional agreement such as the South Asian Free Trade Agreement (SAFTA)
to resolve their member countries’ multiple security problems.
As globalisation, sustainable development has many dimensions. It may
involve sound environment management, equal access to resources for
women and men, as well as peaceful cooperation between communities and
countries. Depending on the aspect of globalisation and sustainable
development focused on, the outcome might be more or less desirable. The
panel makes an effort to specify these links and thus to provide entry
points for a people- and planet-friendly globalisation in South Asia.
Abstract
A soft or printed copy of the abstract of not more than 400 words should
be submitted by August 7, 2006 at the address given below. It should
clearly state the title, theme, objectives, sources of data, and major
expected findings. It should include the author’s full name, a brief
bionote as author of no more than 30 words, complete contact address
(e-mail as well as postal), telephone and fax numbers.
Organizers
Shaheen Rafi Khan, Research Fellow SDPI
Karin Astrid Siegmann, Junior Research Fellow SDPI
Contact
Karin Astrid Siegmann
Sustainable Development Policy Institute
# 3 UN Boulevard, Diplomatic Enclave-1, G-5
Islamabad, Pakistan
Tel: (92-51) 2278134 ext. 208
Fax: (92-51) 2278135
Email: karin@sdpi.org
Association for Institutional
Thought [AFIT]
The annual meeting of AFIT will be held April 11-14, 2007
Calgary, Alberta Hyatt Regency Calgary
700 Centre Street SE, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
In conjunction with the Western Social Science Association (WSSA) 49th
Annual Conference
Theme for the 2007 Conference:
Borders and Boundaries in Institutional Economics
For detailed information AFIT.doc
Hegemonic Transitions and the
State
23-24 February 2007
Simon Fraser University
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
An international conference on the post-Cold War re-shaping of global
capitalism, hosted by the Centre for Global Political Economy, Simon
Fraser University.
The conference, “Hegemonic Transitions and the State”, aims to
contribute to our understanding of complex interconnections between
capitalist globalization and political authority. The character of the
global system differs in different historical periods. How do we
understand the current reorganization of states and the state system?
What are the
categories and concepts necessary to uncover central tensions and
complexities involved in the making of a global economy? This conference
will explore the historical reconstruction of global capitalism within
the post-Cold War geo-military international context. The central focus
of the conference is the global regulative framework of capitalism. More
specifically, attention will be directed toward examining the forms and
boundaries of power that are emerging to restructure states and the
state system after the end of Cold War military blocs.
This conference will explore world historical relations of contested
projects over political organization, economy, social movements, and
culture in the reshaping of states and the state system. It will focus
on such questions as:
1- Capitalist rivalries between states and regional blocs,
2- American dominance in unifying global social, political, economic,
and military space,
3- The transnational restructuring of capital and classes,
4- The reorganization of states and political alliances (conceptualizing
states in relation to each other as well as in relation to civil
society),
5- The dynamics of inequality, including those relating to capital,
gender, race/ethnicity, culture, technology,
6- Counter-hegemonic movements.
This is a two-day event. The conference themes and questions will be
discussed in sessions, workshops, and roundtables. A refereed
publication of selected papers is planned to follow the conference.
The conference will take place February 23-24 at Simon Fraser University
in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Abstract submission deadline is August 30, 2006.
Paper submission deadline is November 30, 2006.
Please send your one-page paper abstract as an electronic attachment to
Yildiz Atasoy: yatasoy@sfu.ca
or by mail:
Yildiz Atasoy
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology and Anthropology
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC,
V5A 1S6 Canada
Subject to funding, some travel subsidies may be available to graduate
students whose papers are accepted
The Constraints to Full
Employment Conference
- fiscal policy, Work choices and job insecurity December 7-8, 2006
The Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) will host the
Conference, which incorporates the 8th Path to Full Employment
Conference and the 13th National Conference on Unemployment. It will be
staged at the University of Newcastle, NSW - Thursday, December 7 and
Friday, December 8, 2005.
The Call for Papers is now open. Registrations will be open early June.
Major themes for the Conference will be employment quality,
underemployment and marginal workers.
Please note the deadline of September 1 2006 for submission of abstracts
to refereed stream and September 29 for submission of abstracts to the
non-refereed stream.
The 2-day program will cover the following themes and papers are invited
that address them:
- What is full employment?;
- The problem of underemployment and marginal workers;
- The decreasing quality of employment;
- Broadening our measure of labour underutilisation;
- Social networks and their role in local labour market outcomes;
- Welfare to work issues;
- WorkChoices and job security - what has happened so far and the
future?
- Macroeconomic policy and full employment;
- Long-term, youth and indigenous unemployment;
- Employment policy for the disabled;
- Policy responses to unemployment.
- GDP growth, jobs, and the environment;
- The future of work including issues regarding sustainability and job
design;
- Regional employment/unemployment;
- Spatial analysis in social sciences focusing on local and regional
labour markets and housing.
For information about the conference and more details about the Call for
Papers go to:
http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/conferences/2006/index.cfm
For information about CofFEE go to:
http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/index.cfm
The International
Journal of Economics (IJE)
Call for Papers: The International Journal of Economics (IJE) is a
peer-reviewed, scholarly journal devoted to publishing high-quality
theoretical and empirical papers in economics. The interaction between
empirical work and economic policy is an important feature of the
journal. However, the Journal will also consider other types of papers
provided they are of extremely high quality.
For detailed information:
Instructions.doc and Editorial
Board.doc
Which financing for
which development ?
Nous vous rappelons que le Groupement de recherches économiques et
sociales (GRES), organisme regroupant l'IFReDE de l'Université
Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV et le LEREPS de l'Université Toulouse 1,
organise, en partenariat avec l'Association pour le développement des
études keynésiennes (ADEK) et avec le soutien de l'Observatoire
international de la dette (OID), ses 2èmes journées du développement.
Celles-ci se dérouleront à Bordeaux les 23 et 24 novembre 2006. Le thème
retenu est: "Quel financement pour quel développement ?" We remind you
that the Group of economic and social research (GRES), which is composed
by the IFReDE of the University of Bordeaux and the LEREPS of the
University of Toulouse, co-organizes, with the Association for the
development of keynesian studies (ADEK) and with the support of the
International debt observatory (IDO), its second development conference.
This conference will take place in Bordeaux on november 23-24, 2006. The
general theme is: "Which financing for which development ?"
Nous vous invitons à consulter le site du colloque <http://beagle.u-
bordeaux4.fr/jourdev/> qui vous fournira toutes les informations
nécessaires. We invite you to visit the conference website <http://beagle.u-
bordeaux4.fr/jourdev/> where you will find all useful informations.
Veuillez noter que la date limite d'envoi des propositions de
communication est fixée au 15 juin 2006.
Please note that the deadline for submission is june 15, 2006.
N'hésitez pas à diffuser largement cette information. Nous vous prions
d'excuser d'éventuels envois multiples. Cordialement.
Do not hesitate to diffuse widely this information around you and please
apologize for possible cross-posting.
Best regards.
Pour le comité d'organisation, for the steering Committee,
Eric Berr
N'OUBLIEZ PAS la DEADLINE du 15 JUIN.
Vous pouvez envoyer des propositions sur des thèmes plus exclusivement
keynésiens, une après midi y sera consacrée à l'IEP de
Bordeaux.
Edwin Le Heron
31 Rue Jules Delpit
33800 Bordeaux -France
leheron.edwin@free.fr
Economic Pluralism for
the 21st Century
The International Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in
Economics (ICAPE) announces its second international conference:
“Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century”
June 1-3, 2007
University of Utah (Salt Lake City, Utah, USA)
ICAPE and the organizers of “Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century”
invite proposals for papers that will collectively enhance the
intellectual diversity of economic discourse, as well as the usefulness
of economics in promoting human freedom and flourishing.
For detailed information:
ICAPE 2007
CFP.doc
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Conferences, Seminars and
Lectures
Value Theory and KBE
The Lancaster Institute of Advanced Studies has forthcoming events on
Value Theory and the Knowledge-Based Economy (KBE)
in April to September
2006 as part of the Institute's inaugural Annual Programme on KBE.
Histories of 8 Hour Day and Working Life
Working to Live
On June 20 & 21, 2006 Histories of the 8 Hour Day and Working Life, a
joint initiative of the Australian Society for the Study of Labour
History and the Australian Centre at the University of Melbourne,
commemorates the 150th anniversary of the 8 Hour System established by
the Melbourne Stonemasons
Reclaiming the
Economy
Cooperative Forms of Organization
Reclaiming the Economy: the Role of Cooperative Enterprise, Ownership
and Control at the University of Wales Institute Cardiff, UK on
September 6-8, 2006 is an international conference on cooperative forms
of organization
Impact of Keynesian
Economics on Policy
9th Int'l Post Keynesian Conference
The 9th International Post Keynesian Conference from September 15 to 19,
2006 at the University of Missouri - Kansas City is a celebration of the
impact of Keynesian economics on policy. Keynote speakers include Skidelsky, Goodhart, Davidson, Harcourt, Pasinetti.
Understanding modern
money : the key to full employment and price stability
A l’invitation de l’Université Paris-Sud et du Collège d’Etudes
Interdisciplinaire, le professeur Randall Wray de l’Université du
Missouri à Kansas City (Etats-Unis) et du Levy Institute (Etat de
New-York) va venir à la Faculté Jean Monnet à Sceaux à partir du 10
juillet pour nous faire part de ses travaux.
Le professeur Wray appartient à l’école chartaliste selon laquelle la
monnaie est une création de l’Etat. Pour le prof. Wray les Etats sont
normalement en déficit. Il est par ailleurs partisan de la finance
fonctionnelle et de la politique de l’Etat employeur en dernier ressort
telles qu’elles ont été proposées par Abba Lerner et Hyman Minsky.
La bibliothèque de droit et d’économie (bât 236 sur le campus d’Orsay)
possède plusieurs exemplaires de son ouvrage « Understanding modern
money : the key to full employment and price stability ».
Du 10 au 13 juillet le prof. Wray prononcera les quatre conférences
suivantes :
Le 10 juillet sur la pensée monétaire de Keynes à partir du papier ci-joint
« Keynes’s Approach To Money : An Assessment After 70 Years »
Le 11 juillet sur les déficits jumeaux à partir du papier ci-joint «
Twin deficit and sustainability »
Le 12 juillet sur le plan Jefes de Hogar et l’Etat employeur en dernier
ressort à partir du papier ci-joint « The Argentina’s Plan Jefes de
Hogar »
Le 13 juillet sur les accords de Bâle II à partir du papier ci-joint «
Basel II and financial stability: a Minskian approach »
Par ailleurs le fait que l’Etat ne peut normalement avoir d’excédent
budgétaire (et est donc normalement en déficit) est tout à fait
similaire au fait que les entreprises ne peuvent normalement accumuler
de la monnaie et donc ne peuvent réaliser des profits sous forme de gain
monétaire.
Cf. le papier que j’ai écrit sur ce sujet version française version
anglaise
Ces conférences auront lieu salle Jean Gaudemet, Faculté Jean Monnet, 54
boul. Desgranges à Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, tous les jours à 16 heures.
Nous sommes desservis par le RER B (ligne Nord-Sud passant par la
station Châtelet-Les Halles), direction et station Robinson (et non pas
Sceaux !).
Vous pouvez consultez un plan
ici.
Les étudiants sont bienvenus. Malheureusement le prof. Wray s’exprimera
en anglais. Mais les interventions de la salle en français seront
encouragées.
B. Vallageas
bernard.vallageas@jm.u-psud.fr
Japan Academy for Asian Market
Economies (JAFAME)
10th Annual Conference of Japan Academy for Asian Market Economies
July, 15-16, 2006, Kinki University, East-Osaka, Japan
Conference Theme
Emerging Shape of ‘East Asian Economic Community’?
Since the Asian Crisis of 1997, ‘ASEAN plus 3 (Japan, China and South
Korea)’ has become firmly established as a framework for promoting East
Asian corporation. The joint statement of 1999 concerning East Asian
corporation has accelerated wide range of corporation including not only
economic matters like those of trade, investment, currency and finance,
but also other fields like those of social development, human resources,
science and technology. Moreover, it made political matter such as
security problem come within the range of corporation. East Asian Summit
of Dec. 2005 in Malaysia will presumably make this move more
materialized to become a new phase of the East Asian Community. In the
midst of these trends, this conference will deal with the following
problems: How can we evaluate the recent move of regional cooperation
within East Asia? How far East Asian Community has been forwarded? What
kind of societies is it going to make in this region? What is the
difference between East Asian Community and European Community (EU)?
What difficulty will be on the way to the intended goal? What role can
Japan play for this process?
We would like to discuss a wide area of problems around these issues. We
are expecting far-sighted, ambitious and heuristic contributions for
this conference.
For detailed information
workshops program and
Call for Participants of JAFAME 2006.doc
Keynote Speech: Emerging Shape of East Asian Economic Community,
Nishizawa, Nobuyoshi, Kinki University
The summer school:
Econophysics and Complexity
"The summer school: Econophysics and Complexity" will be held at Sinaia
Romania during the 25th August- 2nd September 2006. Its website is
www.econ.complexity.ase.ro
The aim of the international Summer School “Econophysics and Complexity
- the meeting of alternative sciences with education and real economy” -
to be hold in Caraiman Hotel in Sinaia , Romania during on 25th august
-2nd September 2006 is to gather together students and motivated people
from different communities (Physics, Economics, Finance, Commerce,
Mathematics and Engineering) in order to find out about alternative
sciences to be applied at the economic life. The ambition of the
organizers is to promote open-minded, fruitful, cross-interdisciplinary
knowledge between renowned academics of different fields, market
analysts, practitioners and future specialists. The participation will
be granted by the Academy of Economic Studies with 5 transferable credit
units.
The summer school, doubled by two round tables and daily workshops will
focus on topics covered by the field of Alternative Sciences (Econophysics,
Complexity, Business Intelligence) which apply methods from Statistical
Physics, Non-linear Dynamics and Mathematics to Macro/Micro-Economic
Modeling, Financial Market Analysis and Social Problems.
Summer school topics include: Agent-based models: Theory and Simulations
Econophysics ; Information, Bounded Rationality and Learning in
Economics ; Markets as Complex Adaptive Systems - Evolutionary
Economics; Multi-scale analysis and modeling; Non-linear Dynamics and
Econometrics; Physics of Risk; Business Intelligence; Science of
networks; Statistical and probabilistic methods in Economics and Finance
.
Important Dates
Deadline registration first call – June 30, 2006
Notify acceptance - July 15, 2006
Deadline for Registration – July 30, 2006
Deadline for accommodation booking – July 30, 2006
Invited key speakers;
•Prof. Dr. Sorin Solomon - Hebrew University, Israel, ISI Torino Italy –
GIACS Project co-ordinator –
www.shum.huji.ac.il/~sorin
•Prof. Dr. Jeffrey Johnson - Open Univ. London, United Kingdom –
vice-president of European Society for Complex Studies -
http://design.open.ac.uk/individual_pages/jeff_johnson/people_jeff_johnson.htm
•Prof Dr. Mauro Gallegati - Univ. Politechnica delle Marche, Ancona,
Italy -
www.dea.unian.it/gallegati
•Prof. Dr. Gerard Weisbuch - ENS Paris France -
www.lps.ens.fr/~weisbuch/
•Prof. Dr. Massimo Salzano - Universita degli Studi di Salerno, Italy -
www.dise.unisa.it/docenti/salzano.htm
•Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Haven – Essex University, United Kingdom -
www.essex.ac.uk/AFM/staff/haven.shtm
•Prof.dr. Juergen Mimkes - University of Padeborrn, Germany - b6
www.uni-paderborn.de/ag/ag-mim/mimkes1.htm
•Dr. Eng. Wolfgang Ecker-lala Math-UP.Com, Vienna, Austria -
https://www.openbc.com/hp/Wolfgang_EckerLala
•Prof. Dr. Carmen Costea - Academy of Economic Studies, Romania
www.costea.ase.ro
•Lect. Dr. Mircea Bulinski - University of Bucharest -
www.unibuc.ro/en/cdpubl_mirbulinski_en
The Constraints to Full Employment
Conference
Registration Now Open!
The Constraints to Full Employment Conference
-fiscal policy, WorkChoices and job insecurity
December 7-8 2006. University of Newcastle
Please be advised that you can now register on line for the upcoming
Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE) Conference at:
http://e1.newcastle.edu.au/coffee/
Please note that there is a special "2 in 1" option available for those
who also wish to attend the Society of Heterodox Economists (SHE)
Conference 11th - 12th December at the University of NSW.
Don't forget to take advantage of our special "early bird" rates for
registrations received before 31st October 2006.
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Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
FHTW Berlin – University of
Applied Sciences, Germany
Visiting professor – macroeconomics, development studies
Full position opening for minimum 3.5 months, maximum 2 years,
conditional on approval by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
by October. Earliest start date is April 2007, start October 2007 (or
later) possible. 10 hours per week teaching in English, undergraduate
and graduate courses, mainly macroeconomics with focus on developing
countries. Helpful would be additional teaching in development studies
or money and banking or international economics. Candidates must be
non-Germans, have a PhD, teaching experience in English language, and be
dedicated to teaching international students; scholars in a heterodox or
Post Keynesian tradition are welcome. Knowledge of German language is
helpful. Send short letter of interest with CV, teaching records and
publication list to Jan Priewe,
priewe@fhtw-berlin.de by June 20. For background information
on the university and the courses visit
www.fhtw-berlin.de and
www.f3.fhtw-berlin.de/bib/
Girton College
Girton College, Cambridge University, is advertising a vacancy for a
College
Lectureship in Economics. Candidates must be able to teach Micro or
Macro, but the further particulars specify that "The College also has
strong Political Economy associations and applicants with
knowledge/interest in political economy or history of thought in
economics, would be very welcome." Closing date: 23 June.
More info at:
http://www.girton.cam.ac.uk/vacancies/academic/
Alternatively, just email Girton's Director of Studies, Clive Lawson
(cl204@cam.ac.uk,) directly if you need further information.
Forum the Spirit of Innovation II
International Symposium "Knowledge, Finance and Innovation"
Dates: September, 26-30, 2006
Location: Dunkerque and Boulogne sur Mer (France)
Organized by: Research Unit on Industry and Innovation - University of
Littoral Côte d'Opale - France
Draft program, registration
form, venue, social and cultural events on the following website:
http://rii.univ-littoral.fr/en/index_en.html
Conference languages: French, English (with translation)
A bientôt à Dunkerque et à Boulogne sur Mer!
Information: Blandine Laperche (laperche@univ-littoral.fr)
Association for Heterodox
Economics
Annual Conference July 14-16 2006, London
For registration and full details:
www.hetecon.com
For list of themes and papers: AHE.doc
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Heterodox
Conference Papers and Reports and Articles
“A reinterpretation and remedy
of Keynes’s liquidity preference theory”
Wenge Huang
Email: hkevin2000@yahoo.com
Address: Room 2905, Building 4, New Town, 88 Jianguo Road, Chaoyang
District, Beijing, 100022, P.R.China
Abstract: The dissension on the mechanism of determination of interest
rate is always in the center of much confusion and many controversies of
monetary economics. Keynes¡¯s liquidity preference theory remains at the
core of the center. This paper starts off with analyzing the inherent
logic of liquidity preference theory and presents a new interpretation
of the theory in a more logical and clear manner. The reinterpretation
clearly indicates the necessity of introducing liquidity preference
analysis into determination of interest rate, arguing that it is the
liquidity preference analysis based on finance motive, rather than on
transactions motive, that plays a more fundamental role in determining
interest rate. The paper then points out a crucial and unsolved mistake
in Keynes¡¯s liquidity preference theory, i.e. interest rate is
indeterminate, which is revealed by introducing finance motive into the
theory. Further, the paper develops a logically consistent and
integrated model of determination of interest rate on the basis of the
liquidity preference analysis centered on finance motive. In this model,
interest rate is not determined by the demand for and supply of money,
but determined by the demand for and supply of idle money. Paper can be
downloaded
here.
Keywords: Liquidity preference theory, Finance motive, IS-LM model,
Determination of interest rate
JEL classifications: E12, E41, E43
“The Economic Development Benefits
of Prevailing Wage”
The Fiscal Policy Institute today released an issues brief (4 pages) on
“The Economic Development Benefits of Prevailing Wage”. The full report
is available at
http://www.fiscalpolicy.org .
The brief was prepared in connection with a broad-based effort to reform
New York State’s 125 local Industrial Development Authorities (IDAs).
One component of the New York State IDA Reform Initiative agenda is to
extend prevailing wage requirements to IDA-subsidized private
construction.
The IDA Reform Initiative is guided by a group of organizations across
the state including New York City Jobs with Justice, the Working
Families Party, Concerned Citizens for the Environment, Hunger Action
Network of NYS, SENSES, Good Jobs New York, the Fiscal Policy Institute
and a number of local community and labor organizations in Buffalo,
Syracuse and New York City.
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Heterodox Journals and
Newsletters
New Political
Economy
Volume 11 Number 2/June 2006 of New Political Economy is now available
on the journalsonline.tandf.co.uk web site at
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk.
This issue contains:
USSEE (United
States Society for Ecological Economic) Newsletter
We seek to begin with this new issue, a new stage in the evolution of
the USSEE newsletter. We hope to offer the newsletter not only as a
means to publicize events, publications and other matters of interest
for the ecological economic
membership of the United States (cont.)
Intervention
The new issue of "NTERVENTION, Journal of Economics“ is available. We
now face the third year of existence of our German-English journal.
INTERVENTION sees itself as a forum for heterodox approaches in economic
theory and policy. The aims are mutual exchange and the discussion of
different perspectives from different economic schools off the economic
mainstream. The journal comes out on a half-yearly basis in mid-April
and mid-November, respectively.
The “Articles” section of the latest issue features peer-reviewed
contributions by Marc Lavoie, Karin Astrid Siegmann, Martina Metzger,
and Narciso Tuñez-Area. Additionally, the issue includes in its “Forum”
section contributions on reforms of the labour market, on tax policy,
and on demographic challenges of the welfare state in Germany as well as
on current economic policy in Austria. Also included are assessments of
the economic policy and the crisis of legitimacy of the European Union,
and an interview with Paul Davidson. The article by Marc Lavoie “Do
Heterodox Theories have Anything in Common?” may be downloaded for free
at
http://www.journal-intervention.org. There you can also find
further information on the journal as well as subscription information.
We would be very grateful if you would consider supporting INTERVENTION
by starting a subscription – in case you are not already a subscriber.
We also would like to invite you to submit papers for the peer-reviewed
part of the journal. Please tell friends and colleagues about our
journal, and suggest a subscription to a librarian at your institution.
With kind regards,
Sabine Reiner
For the Managing Editors
links to the free downloads:
Contents:
http://www.journal-intervention.org/go/contents-1-06.html
Editorial:
http://www.journal-intervention.org/go/editorial-1-06.html
Article Lavoie:
http://www.journal-intervention.org/go/Lavoie-1-06.html
Levy News
Digital Newsletter of The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College-
May 2006
1.POLICY NOTES
"Twin Deficits and Sustainability"
No. 2006/3
by L. RANDALL WRAY
http://www.levy.org/pubs/pn_3_06.pdf
“Debt and Lending: A Cri de Coeur”
No. 2006/4
by WYNNE GODLEY AND GENNARO ZEZZA
http://www.levy.org/pubs/pn_4_06.pdf
2.WORKING PAPERS
“A Random Walk Down Maple Lane? A Critique of Neoclassical
Consumption Theory with Reference to Housing Wealth”
No. 445
by GREG HANNSGEN
http://www.levy.org/pubs/wp_445.pdf
“Feminist-Kaleckian Macroeconomic Policy for Developing Countries”
No. 446
by STEPHANIE SEGUINO and CAREN GROWN
http://www.levy.org/pubs/wp_446.pdf
“Household Wealth and the Measurement of Economic Well-Being
in the United States”
No. 447
by EDWARD N. WOLFF and AJIT ZACHARIAS
http://www.levy.org/pubs/wp_447.pdf
“Gibson’s Paradox II”
No. 448
by GREG HANNSGEN
http://www.levy.org/pubs/wp_448.pdf
“The Temporal Welfare State: A Cross-national Comparison”
No. 449
by JAMES MAHMUD RICE, ROBERT E. GOODIN, and ANTTI PARPO
http://www.levy.org/pubs/wp_449.pdf
“Extending Minsky’s Classifications of Fragility to Government and
the Open Economy”
No. 450
by L. RANDALL WRAY
http://www.levy.org/pubs/wp_450.pdf
“Time and Money: Substitutes in Real Terms and Complements in
Satisfactions”
No. 451
by J. BONKE, M. DEDING, and M. LAUSTEN
http://www.levy.org/pubs/wp_451.pdf
The Minskyan System, Part I:
Properties of the Minskyan Analysis and How to Theorize and Model a
Monetary Production Economy
No. 452
by ERIC TYMOIGNE
http://www.levy.org/pubs/wp_452.pdf
Talking
Economics Bulletin - June 2006, Fair Dealing
The Talking Economics Bulletin consists of news and views on associative
economics, including short extracts from Associative Economics Monthly
(which is available electronically for £1 an issue at www.cfae.biz/aem
or in a hard copy format - tel (UK) 01227 738207). To unsubscribe from
this list, reply or send an email to info@talkingeconomics.com with
'bulletin unsubscribe' in the subject line.
Arthur Edwards
1) Associative Economics Monthly June 06, Editorial
2) Event Details - in London, Germany, Switzerland, USA
3) Accounting Research
4) Arbeit – Zwischen Kostenfaktor Und Wertschoepfung
5) Ethics with Everything
1) EDITORIAL FROM ASSOCIATIVE ECONOMICS MONTHLY - June 06
This issue is focused on the idea that lack of income is fundamentally a
matter of pricing. In a world where low pricing is celebrated above all
else, is it really any wonder, that there is not enough income
available? How differently things would stand if the prices paid for
things were enough to enable those who produced them to do so
profitably.
The main article, Fair Trade and the Aristotelian Tradition describes a
world in which the prices paid do not contain an element of getting
somethingfor nothing, which is how one could describe today’s culture of
systemic underpayment. Reference is also made to the work of Thomas
Aquinas, fromwhom we have the term ‘just price’, and whose heritage is
still evident in several modern day schools of thought (e.g. the
Austrians and the Association of Social Economists). In counterfactual
style, the Rare Albion piece describes the approach to prices in an
idealized economic world; while the feature item, Concerning ‘True
Price’, has Rudolf Steiner updating the Aristotelian notion by
describing the significance for global economic life whether true or
falsified prices prevail.
Economic life is founded on the productive initiatives that individuals
take, a fact that excludes no one. Making one another profitable is a
matter of recognizing and adequately recompensing the initiatives of
others, a process that enables them in turn to be able to afford what
one offers oneself. This would obviate the need for income support, in
which respect the contribution from Goetz Werner entitled Unemployment –
An Apparent Dilemma provides a link to the previous edition (on work and
income).
In AE and I Mathias Bolt Lesniak describes in a concrete way how
associative economics provides an orientating backdrop for the
day-to-day business decisions by which he is faced.
2) EVENTS
IN BERLIN:
Arbeit – Zwischen Kostenfaktor Und Wertschoepfung
Dr. Christopher Houghton Budd, Wirtschaftshistoriker
-- Vortrag - Samstag, 10. Juni 2006, 20 Uhr
-- Seminar - Sonntag, 11. Juni 2006, 11-16 Uhr
Forum Kreuzberg, Koepenicker Str. 174, 10997 Berlin
Information und Anmeldung zum Seminar: Benjamin Kolass, Tel 0179 498 23
98, benjamin@youthsection.org
Menschen arbeiten, bekommen ihren Lohn, der Lohn erscheint als
Personalkosten in der Buchhaltung des Arbeitgebers. Doch Arbeit ist mehr
als Erwerb und Kostenfaktor. Durch Arbeit entstehen Produkte und
Leistungen, entsteht ein MehrWert fuer die Gesellschaft. – Was ist
Arbeit fuer uns? Wie wirkt sie im Wertschoepfungsprozess? Wie beurteilen
wir den MehrWert, den Arbeit schafft und wie kann dieser adaequat in der
Buchhaltung dargestellt
werden? In seinem Vortrag geht Dr. Christopher Houghton Budd diesen
Fragen nach auf der Grundlage von Rudolf Steiners Anregungen fuer die
Wirtschaft.
Im Seminar werden die Darstellung der Arbeit in der Buchhaltung,
besonders auch der geistigen oder kulturellen Arbeit, genauer
bestrachtet sowie Aspekte des Verhaeltnisses von Grundeinkommen und
Arbeit eroertert.
Vortrag 12.-, erm. 6.- Euro, in englisch mit Uebersetzung / Seminar
60.-, erm. 40.- Euro, deutsch und englisch, Uebersetzung bei Bedarf.
Anmeldung zum Seminar erbeten
IN LONDON, UK:
9 Jun 2006
The Metamorphosis of Capitalism - An introductory course in associative
economics. Fridays, 2 - 5 pm, booking only (Venue below)
3x3x3 - An opportunity to study Rudolf Steiner's Economics Course (Come
occasionally or sign for the whole course) Fridays, 7.15 - 9.15 pm
(Venue below)
Rudolf Steiner House, 35 Park Road, NW1 6XT London
Sunday 18 June
A presentation by Arthur Edwards given in the context of Rudolf Steiner
House open day (entry £6)
2.00 - 2.45pm - Money - of three kinds
A visual introduction to associative economics by Arthur Edwards,
co-editor of Associative Economics Monthly
Rudolf Steiner indicated that in a global economy much will depend on
how money is understood. Individually and as humanity, we construct the
world according to the picture by which we describe it. Money can be
made to act as a mirror, allowing one to overcome the one-sidedness that
gives rise to an illusory world and to see that only in association can
true economic imagery be found.
IN DORNACH, SWITZERLAND:
Events at the Goetheanum, Dornach, Basel, Switzerland, January – June
2006:
Lectures: Thursdays: 8.00-9.30pm, Goetheanum
Beyond competition: The prospects for associative economics today - 29
June
Workshops: Fridays: 9.00–12.00 am, Conference Room, Youth Section House
30th June 2006
For further details contact: Email: economics@goetheanum.org / Tel:
Christopher Houghton Budd (0044 1227 738207) / Jesse Osmer 061 706 4391
(CH)
IN THE USA:
Sep 06 - May 07 (7 Sessions)
The Art and Science of Economics Course
Gary Lamb - garylamb@usadatanet.net
3) ACCOUNTING RESEARCH
Between 4-7th July, a working group meeting will be held at the Centre
for Associative Economics at Canterbury, England to review research that
is being carried out into the history, deeper meaning, and future
development of accounting. This will survey modern developments in
accounting in the light of Rudolf Steiner's indications into the nature
of money and economic life. The gathering is by invitation only and is
for people who have a hands-on familiarity with accounting. Anyone
interested to know more should contact Christopher Houghton Budd - chb@cfae.biz.
4) ARBEIT – ZWISCHEN KOSTENFAKTOR UND WERTSCHOEPFUNG
-- Vortrag - Samstag, 10. Juni 2006, 20 Uhr
-- Seminar - Sonntag, 11. Juni 2006, 11-16 Uhr
Dr. Christopher Houghton Budd, Wirtschaftshistoriker
Forum Kreuzberg, Koepenicker Str. 174, 10997 Berlin
Information und Anmeldung zum Seminar: Benjamin Kolass, Tel 0179 498 23
98, benjamin@youthsection.org
Menschen arbeiten, bekommen ihren Lohn, der Lohn erscheint als
Personalkosten in der Buchhaltung des Arbeitgebers. Doch Arbeit ist mehr
als Erwerb
und Kostenfaktor. Durch Arbeit entstehen Produkte und Leistungen,
entsteht ein MehrWert fuer die Gesellschaft. – Was ist Arbeit fuer uns?
Wie wirkt sie im Wertschoepfungsprozess? Wie beurteilen wir den MehrWert,
den Arbeit schafft und wie kann dieser adaequat in der Buchhaltung
dargestellt werden? In seinem Vortrag geht Dr. Christopher Houghton Budd
diesen Fragen nach auf der Grundlage von Rudolf Steiners Anregungen fuer
die Wirtschaft. Im Seminar werden die Darstellung der Arbeit in der
Buchhaltung, besonders auch der geistigen oder kulturellen Arbeit,
genauer bestrachtet sowie Aspekte des Verhaeltnisses von
Grundeinkommen und Arbeit eroertert.
Vortrag 12.-, erm. 6.- Euro, in englisch mit Uebersetzung / Seminar
60.-, erm. 40.- Euro, deutsch und englisch, Uebersetzung bei Bedarf.
Anmeldung zum Seminar erbeten
5) ETHICS WITH EVERYTHING
Writing from the World Economics Forum in Davos last year, Times
columnist Gary Duncan wryly commented that it was a case of ‘ethics with
everything’ as if in the business community today one dare not stand up
and speak without shouting out one’s benign intentions. The ever
increasing number of ethical’ companies bears witness to this
phenomenon, ‘ethical’ here meaning that the word ‘ethical’ is somehow
used in conjunction with the company name viz The Ethical Property
Company, The Ethical Travel Guide, The Ethical Partnership and so on …
but such an observation is not intended to belittle the word, rather to
put the question: what does ethical mean?
...for the rest of this piece, see
http://talkingeconomics.blogspot.com/
Historical Materialism:
Research in Critical Marxist Theory
Announcing issue 14.1
Historical Materialism
Research in Critical Marxist Theory
Volume 14 Issue 1
2006
CONTENTS
Article
- Andrew Burke- Nation, Landscape, and Nostalgia in Patrick Keiller's
Robinson in Space
- Symposium: On Costas Lapavitsas's 'Social Foundations of Markets,
Money and Credit'
- Jim Kincaid Finance, Trust and the Power of Capital: Editorial
Introduction to the Symposium on Lapavistas
- Gary Dymski, Money and Credit in Heterodox Theory: Reflections on
Lapavitsas
- Dick Bryan and Michael Rafferty, Money in Capitalism or Capitalist
Money?
- Makoto Itoh, Political Economy of Money, Credit and Finance in
Contemporary Capitalism - Remarks on Lapavitsas and Dymski
- Kazutoshi Miyazawa, Anarchical Nature of the Market and the Emergence
of Money
- Costas Lapavitsas, Power and Trust as Constituents of Money and
Credit-
- Interventions: Replies to Ana Dinerstein on the Argentine Crisis
- Guido Starosta, Editorial Introduction
- Alberto Bonnet, ¡Que se vayan todos! Discussing the Argentine crisis
and insurrection
- Juan Iñigo Carrera, Argentina: The Reproduction of Capital
Accumulation Through Political Crisis
- Juan Grigera, Argentina: On Crisis and a Measure for Class Struggle
Review Articles
- Paresh Chattopadhyay, Martin Thomas on Stephen A. Resnick and Richard
D. Wolff's Class Theory and History: Capitalism and Communism in the
USSR
- Alan Freeman on Guglielmo Carchedi's For Another Europe: a Class
Analysis of European Economic Integration
- Loren Goldner on Christophe Bourseiller's Histoire générale de l'ultra-gauche
- Christopher May on Mark Poster's What's the Matter with the Internet?
- Historical-Critical Dictionary of Marxism
historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk
TEL: +31 (0)71 53 53 566
FAX: +31 (0)71 53 17 32
E-MAIL: cs@brill.nl
WWW.BRILL.NL
Capital and Class
Issue 89, Summer 2006: Market, Class
and Society
Contents
Articles
Martin Upchurch
State, labour and market in post-revolution Serbia.
This article looks at the trade union strategies developing in Serbia
since the anti-Milosevic revolution of October 2000.It examines the
interplay between the forces of state and market, and explores the
lessons for trade unions in transformation economies.
Hazel Conley
Modernisation or casualisation? Numerical flexibility in public services
This paper focuses on research data that highlights the way numerical
flexibility undermines key aspects of public service delivery and the
modernisation agenda, such as equal opportunities and recruitment and
retention. It argues that the poorer terms and conditions of temporary
workers provide additional support for trade union claims of the
existence of a 'two-tier workforce' in local government.
Steve Fleetwood
A critical-realist-socioeconomic perspective
This article offers a critique of mainstream theories of labour markets,
and presents a critical-realist alternative assessment. The author
argues that labour markets are inextricably related to the social
structures that create them.
Peter Nielsen and Jamie Morgan
From mainstream economics to the boundaries of Marxism
This paper explores Marxism and critical realism by addressing Ben
Fine's Addressing the Critical and the Real in Critical Realism. Using
Fine's argument as a starting point, the authors take the opportunity to
clearly define the parameters of the Cambridge-based critique of
mainstream economics.
Ben Fine
Debating critical realism in economics
In offering a rejoinder to Nielsen and Morgan, Ben Fine argues once more
that the relevance of critical realism for advancing the prospects of
political economy rests on its moving beyond the methodological critique
of deductivism alone in order to address issues of economic theory.
Matt Hampton
Hegemony, class struggle and the radical historiography of global
monetary standards
In this article, the author argues that a radicalised power politics
pervades the Left's analysis of global monetary standards, and proposes
an alternative framework that places the class relation between capital
and labour at the forefront in explaining the rise and fall of these
monetary standards.
Mike Bessler
Research note on the Marxists Internet Archive
The Marxists Internet archive brings together people of widely diverging
views behind the common goal of creating and maintaining the world's
largest digital library of Marxist works. This article comprises a brief
account of the content, organisation and usefulness of the MIA.
BOOK REVIEWS
Alastair Rainnie
on G Healy et al's The Future of Worker Representation
Lewis Higgins
on Michael Albert's Parecon: Life After Capitalism
Jonathan Joseph
on Ellen Meiksins Wood's Empire of Capital
Luis M. Pozo
on Patrick Bond and Masimba Manyanya's Zimbabwe's Plunge: Exhausted
Nationalism, Neoliberalism and the Search for Social Justice
The Economics of
Peace and Security Journal
The Economics of Peace and Security Journal (EPSJ) is a new, online
journal that addresses all issues related to the political economy of
personal, communal, national, international, and global peace and
security. The scope includes implications and ramifications of
conventional and non-conventional conflict for all human and non-human
life and for our common habitat. Special attention is paid to
constructive proposals for conflict resolution and peacemaking. While
open to non-economic approaches, most contributions emphasize economic
analysis of causes, consequences, and possible solutions to mitigate and
resolve conflict.
EPSJ is aimed at both specialist and non-specialist readers, including
policy analysts, policy and decision makers, national and international
civil servants, members of the armed forces and of peacekeeping
services, the business community, members of non-governmental
organizations and religious institutions, and other interested parties.
Contributions are scholarly-based, but written in a general-interest
style. Please distribute this announcement widely to your colleagues in
the relevant constituencies.
Our advisory board and associate editors include ten Nobel-Laureates and
an international selection of renowned experts in the field. The first
issue – on conflict and development - is available free of charge at
http://www.epsjournal.org.uk. Shortly, there will also be an extensive
book review section (for interactivity, this will allow you to comment
on previous reviews). A call for volunteers to review books will soon be
on the site as well, and other valuable services are being introduced as
the site becomes established.
Vol. 1, No. 2 on economic aspects of peacemaking and peacekeeping is in
preparation with expected publication in late June 2006. Planned issues
include (a) military, civilian and commercial uses of outer space, (b)
arms production and trade, (c) the economics of nuclear weapons, and (d)
maritime security. We welcome your suggestions and proposals for themes,
symposia, or stand-alone articles. Please visit the web site for
details.
For membership, see www.epsusa.org
Jurgen Brauer (Augusta, GA, USA)
J. Paul Dunne (Bristol, UK)
EPSJ Editors
Email: editors@epsjournal.org.uk
PERI In Focus
Summer 2006
Table of Contents
1. An Employment-Targeted Economic Program for South Africa
2. Human Development in the Era of Globalization
3. New Release of the Corporate Toxics Information Project
4. New Estimates of the Ripple Effects of Minimum Wage Laws
5 .In the Wake of the Storm: Environment, Disaster, and Race After
Katrina
6. PERI Working Papers and other Publications
7. Announcements (at left)
For detailed information:
http://www.umass.edu/peri/
June 2006 of Review of
Social Economy
Volume 64
Number 2/June 2006 of Review of Social Economy is now available on the
journalsonline.tandf.co.uk web site at
http://journalsonline.tandf.co.uk.
This issue contains:
If you are
not a current subscriber to this publication, you can request a free
sample issue
here.
NEW Free
2006 Economics Journals Catalogue -
view it here
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Books and Book Series
Eigentumsökonomik
Gunnar Heinsohn and Otto Steiger, Eigentumsökonomik (Property
Economics), Marburg: Metropolis, 2006, 270 pp., index, English abstract,
€ 23.80. Although written in German, book contains a long English
abstract that is
attached. The abstract gives a good account of what the heterodox
approach of "Property Economics" is about.
GDAE Books
The Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University (GDAE)
is pleased to announce new teaching materials in environmental and
social issues:
HARRIS, ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS: A CONTEMPORARY
APPROACH (2nd Edition, Houghton Mifflin, 2006)
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/textbooks/env_nat_res_economics.html
NOW AVAILABLE WITH FREE ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUE UPDATES:
ISSUE UPDATE #1: GASOLINE PRICES AND ENERGY SUPPLIES
ISSUE UPDATE #2: FORMULATING EFFECTIVE ENERGY POLICY
ISSUE UPDATE #3: GETTING SERIOUS ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING
http://www.ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/textbooks/ENREupdate.html
“The book is simply great! It is really one of a kind. It fills an
important need in the field, which will become more and more important
in the future, no doubt – integrating standard environmental economics
and ecological economics.”
-- Rafael Reuveny, School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana
University
50 Major
Economists
The second edition of Steven Pressman's 50 Major Economists was
published in May 2006 by Routledge. It is available both in hardback and
in paperback. The book includes chapters on the main figures in the
history of economic thought, discussing their backgrounds, their
economic contributions, and their place in the history of the
discipline. It also includes chapters on numerous contemporary
economists and has a distinct heterodox slant to it. Besides Marx,
Veblen, Sraffa and Keynes, there are also chapters on John Kenneth
Galbraith, Joan Robinson, Nicholas Kaldor, Barbara Bergmann, Amartya Sen,
Doug North, Joe Stiglitz, and Daniel Kahneman
Macroeconomics
in Context Preliminary Edition on the Web
Nine chapters are now available electronically on the Web. The remaining
chapters will be available by September. You can use this as your class
text this fall by downloading the whole book, or individual chapters, at
no cost to you or your students.
One user of early drafts says:
"Macroeconomics in Context is the best text I've seen for undergraduate
teaching…By paying attention to the challenges we face today, such as
environmental degradation and social issues, students readily see why
and how economics is important to learn."
--Valerie Luzadis, SUNY Syracuse
http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/textbooks/macroeconomics.html
The State of
Working America 2004/2005
Paperback: $24.95 (plus $4.00 shipping/handling) SALE PRICE: $10.00
Prepared biennially since 1988, EPI's flagship publication sums up the
problems and challenges facing American workers, presenting a wide
variety of data on family incomes, taxes, wages, unemployment, wealth,
and poverty—data that enables the book's authors to closely examine the
impact of the economy on the living standards of the American people.
With over 300 tables and charts, The State of Working America 2004/2005
is an exhaustive reference work that will be welcomed by anyone eager
for a comprehensive portrait of the economic well-being of the nation.
Railroading
Economics: The Creation of the Free Market Mythology
by Michael Perelman
Book Description
Most economic theory assumes a pure capitalism of perfect competition.
This book is a penetrating critique of the rhetoric and practice of
conventional economic theory. It explores how even in the United
States-the most capitalist of countries-the market has always been
subject to numerous constraints.
Perelman examines the way in which these constraints have been defended
by such figures as Henry Ford, J. P. Morgan, and Herbert Hoover, and
were indeed essential to the expansion of U.S. capitalism. In the
process, he rediscovers the critical element in conservative thought
that has been lost in the neoliberals present. This important and
original historical reconstruction points the way to a discipline of
economics freed from the mythology of the market. --This text refers to
the Hardcover <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1583671366/ref=dp_proddesc_1/102-8426293-7441740?%5Fencoding=UTF8&n=283155&v=glance>
edition.
About the Author
MICHAEL PERELMAN is professor of economics at California State
University at Chico, and the author of fifteen books, including Steal
This Idea: Intellectual Property Rights and the Corporate Confiscation
of Creativity and The Perverse Economy: The Impact of Markets on People
and the Environment.
* Paperback: 224 pages
* Price: $20.00
* Publisher: Monthly Review Press (May 30, 2006)
* Language: English
* ISBN: 1583671358
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Heterodox Associations, Institutes, and Departments
Korean Social
and Economic Studies Association (KSESA)
Korean Social and
Economic Studies Association (KSESA) is a heterodox economics
association established in 1987. KSESA publishes The Review of Social &
Economic Studies (in Korean, two times a year) and Korean Journal of
Political Economy (in English, once a year). The current president of
the association is Dr. Jin-Do Park (Chungnam National University,
jdpark@cnu.ac.kr ), the journal editor is Dr. Man-Seop Park (Korea
University,
manseop@korea.ac.kr).
The association web page:
http://www.ksesa.org
Phone: +82-2-598-4652 Fax: +82-2-598-4653
The latest issue of Korean Journal of Political Economy (Issue 3, Feb.
2006) contains four articles:
1. The Political Economy of Corporatism /Geoff Dow
2. Reflection on Marx's Theory of "Buying and Selling of Labor Power"
and Its Tactical Implications for Labor Relations in Korea / Shin Joon
Gang
3. Industrial Relations and Anti-Privatization Movement in the Korean
Public Sector /Sang Kon Kim
4. Keynesian Money Demand, Marxian Money Hoarding, and the Purchase of
Gold /Chai-On Lee
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For Your Information
Otto Steiger
Otto Steiger has been awarded the K. William Kapp Prize 2006 of the
European Association of Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE) and the
William Kapp Foundation for his article, "Property Economics versus New
Institutional Economics: Alternative Foundations of How to Trigger
Economic Development", Journal of Economic Issues, 40.1, (March, 2006),
pp. 183-208.
Professor John Milios
The attachment, from
Professor John Milios in Greece (who has published articles in RM and
also translated and published Steve and my CLASS THEORY AND HISTORY in
Greece last year) is self-explanatory. A sign of how far things have
proceeded and something US academics and others should know about.
Richard Wolff
"The Distorted Priorities of
Mainstream Economists."
Many of you will have already seen the recent Toronto Star column by two
eminent Canadian economists, Arthur Donner and Douglas Peters, on "The
Distorted Priorities of Mainstream Economists." For those who may have
missed it, the column is available in theaccompanying
attachment.
Fletcher Baragar
PEF Past-Chairperson
Papers for "Conference
Developments in Economic Theory and Policy"
Attached is the preliminary list of papers accepted for their
presentation at the Conference Developments in Economic Theory and
Policy (Bilbao, 6-7, July 2006).
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