Issue 327 May 13, 2024 web pdf Heterodox Economics Directory
While many people think Moloko's classic 'The Time is Now' is a love song, I posit it can be equally well interpreted as a celebration of the warm feelings induced by the arrival of a long-awaited publication: the book, that contains your most important ideas; the edited volume you have been waiting so long for; the perfect paper, accepted and published by a renowned outlet. The song works especially well if you have been behind the deadline, experiencing this strange mixture of bad consciousness and anxiety. In such cases "all eyes are on the clock" and "time takes too much time" just as the song's lyrics posit ;-)
As such, this has a direct relation to the mission of the Heterodox Economics Newsletter as an update of the widely cherished Heterodox Economics Directory is so long overdue. Too long, as some would say, and possibly rightly so. But we are going to set this right. The time is now ;-)
We are working hard to provide the often-requested update and we will start today publishing a beta-version of the 7th edition of Heterodox Economics Directory. By now, we managed to get a preliminary version of the section on heterodox journals online and we would urge you to check it out. As always, we tried to be diligent and inclusive, but it could well be that we overlooked important outlets that should be included in the Directory. So please, have a look at the current list and tell us, if you spot any important omissions.
Many thanks and all the best,
Jakob
PS: If you wanna work at one of the home institutions of the Newsletter – the Institute for Socio-Economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen – you should definitely check out this timely job ad.
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7-10 November 2024 | SOAS, Russell Square, Central London
Conference Theme: "Countering the Plague: Forces of Reaction and War and How to Fight Them"
POST-CAPITALISM STREAM CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
The need to fight against authoritarian, right-wing, militarist politics at a global scale revives the significance of alternative political imaginaries, post-capitalist economies and transition debates within Marxism’s plural traditions. Old debates are revisited from a fresh perspective to question, challenge and expand the meaning of socialist planning, from the Socialist Calculation Debate and New Economic Planning to Socialist Cybernetics. New debates bring to the fore the possibilities and limitations of subverting contemporary digital technologies and material infrastructures for socialist ends. Recent archival work reveals underappreciated contributions of post-colonial Black radical thought and non-Aligned movement to a new international economic order before their potentials were repressed by neoliberalism.
Radical experiments of producer and consumer cooperatives, complementary currencies, urban commons, communal care led by black, indigenous, queer, women’s and workers’ struggles emerge as laboratories of learning for Marxists and socialists rather than offering a blueprint of what a post-capitalist economy should look like. How those struggles and experiments can be galvanised for a subaltern hegemony remains also a crucial strategic question. At the same time, various theoretical insights within post-capitalism debates including Degrowth, Post-work, Ecological post-work, Eco-socialism, Diverse and Queer economies, Crip Time, Abolitionism, Red Deal, amongst others, offer a fertile ground to expand the territory of the discussion. The role of state institutions is also being re-thought with the debates on universal basic income and universal basic services from critical, feminist, anti-ableist and anti-racist perspectives.
The twenty-first annual conference of Historical Materialism invites delegates to submit proposals to engage with, contribute to and advance those debates. Submissions may be developed based on classical and contemporary theoretical debates, historical and empirical case studies/experiments of alternative economies, or performance/interpretation of literary and artistic work through the lenses of post-capitalist futures. The theme is open to all disciplines and interdisciplinary analysis emerging from scholarly research and activist practices.
We are inviting proposals broadly on, but not limited to, the following themes/questions:
Complete panel proposals of three or four persons and roundtables on specific themes, books, or concepts are also encouraged. If you would like to discuss a proposal in advance, please email: conference@historicalmaterialism.org .
Please note that this is an in-person conference only – a rationale for which can be found in the general call for papers. Online presentations will not be permitted. Participants will be expected to take part in the whole of the conference (not just their session or the day of their session) and to make themselves available for the scheduling of their session at any point during the entirety of the three and half days.
MARXIST-FEMINIST STREAM CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
In 2024, all societies are connected to war, its politics, policies, propaganda and finances. This war, against workers, against nature, against the right to live, against the mere possibility of imagining freedom from exploitation and oppression, is led by capital; it supports and is supported by its imperialisms and the reactionary forces capitalism’s own reproduction requires. This war has many iterations: we highlight the genocidal suffering of the Palestinian people, imposed by their occupiers and the western imperialist complex (its chiefs and vassal states) who send the occupying forces bombs to kill, maim, displace. The women and children of Gaza constitute the majority of those victimised in the most abhorrent ways. The occupiers have targeted and flattened the social reproduction facilities of Gaza – hospitals and schools – and use the starvation of civilians as a weapon of war. The international ‘community’ watches as legality loses its meaning. Only lethal power seems to matter – exposing the authoritarianism and fascist-leaning underbelly of global capitalism.
Despite this, there is transnational popular will in supporting the Palestinian resistance. Workers and activists are blocking ports, highways, museums and military production sites, students are defying university administrations, holding vigils, staging walkouts, takeovers and hunger strikes. Anti-Zionist Jews have taken over bridges, railway stations and more. All this takes place despite the authoritarianism that threatens people’s freedoms and livelihoods for speaking out. Feminists on the anti-imperialist left are front and centre in these actions.
We are inviting proposals broadly on, but not limited to, the following themes/questions:
Submission Process
Individual proposals for papers and panels must include: i) Names of participants with e-mails, phone numbers and institutional affiliations. Where there is more than one participant, we require a clear indication of a corresponding author. ii) Title and abstract of the paper or panel. In the case of a paper, please submit an abstract of no longer than 300 words. In the case of a panel, please submit an overarching description of 300 words, names and details of each participant and abstracts for individual papers.
When submitting, please indicate that your paper or panel is intended for the Post-capitalism Stream. Please also ensure that all contact information and institutional affiliations are accurate and up-to-date.
Submit paper or panel proposals here. For inquiries contact: conference@historicalmaterialism.org or visit the official website.
Submission Deadline: 17 May 2024
6-8 August 2024 | University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany
The Pluralumn* group of the German Network for Pluralism in Economics calls for papers and presentations for its 5th Scientific Workshop. The workshop is open to all young scholars and early-career researchers, from advanced Master’s students to PostDocs. We welcome papers that take a pluralist approach to economics and from any field or school of thought within economics. Likewise, we encourage submissions from adjacent disciplines such as sociology, political science, psychology, history and philosophy that discuss economic phenomena or aim to enhance economic methods and methodology.
The aim of the Pluralumn* workshop is to bring together young scholars and early-career researchers to enable exchange between colleagues one would rarely meet at specialised conferences and symposia. The workshop will offer two distinct presentation formats depending on the state of the research to be presented:
The conference language is English and there will be an option for hybrid participation. It will be free of charge and we hope to provide a large number of participants with a stipend to cover travel expenditures. Further information will be provided with acceptance notification.
We encourage especially submissions by:
Either an abstract (max. 500 words) or description of the research idea is required. Expect notifications of acceptance by mid to end June. Conference contributions should be in English to reach a broad audience.
Participation without presenting is, of course, also possible. We kindly ask non-presenting participants to fill in the registration form by July 14, 2024.
Submission Form: https://forms.gle/QfnYkuoEWm6yPqf2A
Registration Form: https://forms.gle/Ubzrb5s3DbJGFtnk6
Submission Deadline: 19 May 2024
This Handbook aims to assemble the most prominent concrete experiences and theoretical models in postcapitalist political economy in one volume. Scholarship in this field is focused on elaborating, implementing, studying, and critically assessing systemic alternatives to capitalism.
Postcapitalist political economy brings together contributions from theoreticians and practitioners, going back as early as the utopian socialists of 18th century, whose aim is to overcome capitalism by proposing or carrying out large-scale alternative social systems. The field was heavily centered on the question of centralized economic planning for most of the 20th century. Nevertheless, in the 1970s and 1980s, two main schools of thought emerged that proposed alternatives to capitalism and authoritarian central planning: market socialism and democratic economic planning. The 21st century has seen a resurgence in debates on postcapitalist political economy, with several recent publications focusing particularly on updating and evaluating postcapitalist models of the two main schools. Unsurprisingly, issues related to technology, international markets, ecological breakdown and gender justice are now central to the debate. New models also appeared, drawing on past ones and proposing ways to overcome their limitations and contradictions.
Concomitantly, concrete experiments in postcapitalist economic organization have been proliferating in the last decades, varying in scope and scale. While the economic power of Zapatistas and Rojava’s autonomous administration span entire regions, for instance, recuperated entreprises in Argentina, communas in Venezuela and smaller-scale community/solidarity economy initiatives coexist with widely different economic logics. Postcapitalism is thus both emergent in practice and present in vibrant theoretical discussions, but the variety of models and experiments makes having a systematic appraisal difficult. This Handbook aims to provide a solid point of reference by retracing the evolution of the field and giving a good description of the current state of affairs, both for theoretical models and concrete experiments.
Structure of the book
Our objective is to create a handbook that can appeal to both undergraduate and early graduate students. The book chapters should explicate concrete experiments or models, presenting their potential as well as limitations. In order to keep the book accessible to our audience, analytical or theoretical aspects will not be heavily focused on. The book will thus serve as an introduction to various postcapitalist experiments and models to provide a comprehensive overview to students entering this field of study.
The book will consist of six sections, each covering an epoch in the field’s evolution. There will be 30 chapters in total, each focusing on one experiment or theoretical model. Below is a preliminary list of sections and chapters with potential themes and topics. Please note that this is only a potential list, and we welcome any contributions that fit the proposed sections.
visions and utopia Utopian socialists in France, England, Germany and the US; utopian socialists experiments; Marx and the social republic.
Central planning in the USSR and the Eastern Bloc; central planning in China; planning and self-management in Yugoslavia; central planning in Cuba; planning in Africa; planning in South America; planning in the capitalist core during and after WWII.
The planning in-kind of Otto Neurath; political economy of the second Spanish Republic (1936-1939); Anton Pannekoek’s council communism; Cornelius Castoriadis’ content of socialism; Murray Bookchin’s libertarian municipalism.
Oscar Lange and the first vision of market socialism; Alec Nove and feasible socialism; Wlodzimierz Brus and Kazimierz Laski and post-soviet market socialism; David Schweickart and market socialism against capitalism; John Roemer and the future of socialism; the renewal of market socialism in the 2000s.
Pat Devine and Fikret Adaman’s Negotiated Coordination; Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel’s Participatory Economics; Paul Cockshott and Allin Cottrell’s Computerized Central Planning; Takis Fotopoulos’ Inclusive Democracy; David Laibman’s Multilevel Democratic Iterative Coordination; Daniel Saros’ General Catalog; Anitra Nelson’s Beyond Money; Simon Sutterlutti and Stefan Meretz’s Commonism.
Political economy of the Zapatistas; political economy of Rojava; political economy of Venezuelan communes; political economy of Marinaleda; political economy of Argentina’s recuperated enterprises; community economics.
How to submit a proposal
Bengi Akbulut, Mathieu Dufour, Audrey Laurin-Lamothe, and Simon Tremblay-Pepin will edit this Handbook. This team has been working in the Planning for Entropy research group since 2018 and has written various publications on Postcapitalist Political Economy, together or separately.
Each chapter should be 7,000 words (references and notes included), focus on one specific experience or model, and be more descriptive than reflexive or analytical.
Please submit a 500-word abstract of your chapter at: planningforentropy@gmail.com
Submission Deadline: 31 August 2024
11-13 September 2024 | Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
International Conference on Economic Theory and Policy held at Meiji University, Tokyo, on 11－13 September 2024. This year we will arrange a session or keynote lecture to commemorate:
We usually accept various topics on Economic Theory, Economic Policy, History of Economic thought, Topics on Money and finance, Empirical studies, Input-Output Studies, Post-Keynesian Economics etc.. See the page of "PAST CONFERENCES" of the conference website.
Special Sessions or Keynote Lectures on
Economic Theory:
Economic Policy:
Empirical Studies, Input Output Analysis:
Topics in History of Economic Thought
Submission of abstract
For those who want to join our conference and present their paper, please send your abstract (between 200 words and 500 words) with your name, your affiliation and contact address to confyagi@meiji.ac.jp until 30 June, 2024. One author can present two topics (two papers), if the author wants to do so.
Notification of Acceptance: We will send you the notification of acceptance, basically within one week after your submission of abstract, in order that the participants can prepare for their travel to Japan.
VISA: For those who need VISA application, please contact us after submitting your abstract: Contact: confyagi@meiji.ac.jp, yagi8@meiji.ac.jp
11th Conference of International Walras Association
Just before our September conference, the 11th conference of International Walras Association will be held at the same place (Meiji University) on 9-10 September 2024. Please visit its website.
Submission Deadline: 30 June 2024
The Economists’ Philosophy Day – A Journal of Philosophical Economics celebration of philosophical reflection in economic science
In deference to the work of all inquisitive minds, past and present, who have embraced philosophical reflection to understand the consequential events for people’s wellbeing, the Journal of Philosophical Economics announces this call for the third edition of the Symposium on the Economists’ Philosophy Day, 21 Nov. 2024.
In October 2005, the UNESCO General Conference proclaimed the third Thursday of November every year ‘World Philosophy Day’ recalling that ‘philosophy is a discipline that encourages critical and independent thought and is capable of working towards a better understanding of the world and promoting tolerance and peace.’
It is in this spirit that J Philos Econ proposes to celebrate the Economists’ Philosophy Day by organizing online plenary sessions on scientific communication dedicated to the philosophical landmarks through which our science has been challenged, for better or for worse. For this edition, this call invites contributions in the theme of Democracy for sustainable life.
Today, local societies, national societies and global societies are facing some serious challenges. Health problems such as pandemics and ecological problems such as climate change, loss of biodiversity, pollution of land, air and water can be considered examples. An institutional structure characterized by democracy as a game of policymaking and decision-making will likely be more successful in the resolution of these problems than dictatorship. Freedom of speech is a prerequisite for whistleblowers in relation to the most difficult challenges and various cases of corruption.
But democracy is an issue as well in a university context. Departments of economics can be chosen as an example. A certain kind of economics, so called neoclassical theory, is in a close to monopoly position. Neoclassical economists tend to present their discipline as established and successful. In economics (and other social sciences), values, ethics, and ideology are always present and limiting attention to the ideology built into mainstream neoclassical economics is not compatible with democracy. New schools of thought or paradigms have appeared in response to new serious challenges. Ecological economics, in the sense of economics for sustainable development, is one example.
Proposals of approx. 500 words are expected by June 28, 2024. After acceptance, authors are invited to submit the full version of their study for peer-review by September 27, 2024. Proposals will be sent to editor@jpe.ro
Organizers: Valentin Cojanu, Editor, Journal of Philosophical Economics & Peter Söderbaum, Professor emeritus, Mälardalen University & Oana Camelia Șerban, Executive Director, Research Center for the History and Circulation of Philosophical Ideas & Dr. Ioana Negru, Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu
For more information please visit the official website.
Sumission Deadline: 28 June 2024
The Review of Social Economy will publish a special issue on ‘African Philosophy, Politics, and Economics’ and seeks interdisciplinary papers from Philosophy, Political Science, Economics, and related fieldson topics relevant to PPE in the African context, broadly construed. The Review of Social Economy is an interdisciplinary outlet, and its editorial board comprises economists, political scientists, philosophers, and sociologists, so widely accessible contributions are encouraged. However, formal and mathematical arguments perfectly fine provided that the main ideas are explained for non- mathematical readers.
Benjamin Ferguson and Katherine Furman will act as guest editors. Paper submissions will be subject to standard refereeing procedures and quality checks, with final publication decisions resting with the journal’s editorial board.
Papers should be submitted as pdf files on the journal’s submission portal (https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/rrse) and should conform to the instructions for authors provided on the journal’s website. When submitting, please select the special issue ‘African Philosophy, Politics, and Economics’ in the drop-down menu and indicate that the paper is meant for the special issue in the cover letter.
Questions and queries can be directed to the guest editors. Please find more information on the official website.
Submission Deadline: 31 July 2024
3-4 June 2024 | London School of Economics and King’s College London, UK
Next month, on the 3-4 June, the London School of Economics and King’s College London are hosting a conference in which top experts will discuss global finance, big tech, shifting global order and Susan Strange's profound impact on IPE. We hope that this will not only be a landmark event in the IPE calendar, but also a worthy celebration of Susan Strange in what would be her 101st year.
The conference is an in-person only event to which you are very welcome. If you’d like to attend, please register on Eventbrite to ensure your admission and to assist us in catering planning. Further details of the conference can be found in the attached conference programme and poster.
Program
Monday, 3rd June
11am-12.30pm: Power, Finance and Knowledge: The Legacies of Susan Strange as a Researcher
2pm-3.30pm: Cultivating Critical Minds: Legacies of Susan Strange as a Teacher
4pm-5.30pm: Ideas that Endure:Why Susan Strange Matters Today
6pm-8pm: Reminiscences of Susan Strange with Wine and Hors D’Oeuvres
Tuesday, 4th June
10.30am-12.30pm: Platform Capitalism and Big Tech in the 21st Century
1.30pm-3.30pm: China’s Century? Exploring the Challenges to US Hegemony
4pm-6pm: Frontiers: Strange’s Thought in the Next 100 Years (PhD Session chaired by Randall Germain - Carleton University)
Location: The conference will take place in the heart of London - at the London School of Economics and the Strand Campus of King’s College London - in two architectural landmarks of the area: Marshall Building and Bush House.
1-4 July 2024 | Rome, Italy
Planet Earth is at a crossroads. Many scientists are raising the alarm that we are closer and closer to the tipping point, facing unprecedented issues in terms of global warming, pollution and biodiversity impoverishment. The anthropogenic causes of this drift are undeniable, and related to a production model that places exploitation at its core. A transition to a more sustainable, inclusive, just and green world is in order. In this regard, however, two further challenges emerge. On the one hand, Governments are implementing policies that are too hesitant (in terms of both size and timing) to address this pressing scenario. On the other hand, the few measures adopted often run the risk of being inequitable, exacerbating the inherently asymmetric and redistributive nature of climate change. The summer school is dedicated to exploring these aspects of public policies for the transition, with a particular emphasis on understanding their socio-economic and welfare implications. By integrating economic principles with a focus on welfare and political economy, the event strives to contribute to a sustainable and resilient future for generations to come. In the spirit of pluralism characteristic of the EAEPE, the lectures will address these important topics from different perspectives and approaches.
The EAEPE Summer School is open to PhD students and early-career researchers working specifically in the field of institutional and evolutionary analysis, with a special focus this year on ecological economics and welfare. Lecturers will address these important topics from different perspectives and approaches. Many Research Areas are relevant: Social Economics, Public Economics, Macroeconomics, Labour Economics, Effective Demand, Environment-Economy interactions, Economic History, Evolutionary Economics, Comparative Economics, Industrial Policy, Innovation and Technology, etc. More generally, contributions from all fields using institutional, evolutionary, multidisciplinary approaches are welcome. Lectures by internationally renowned scholars will be given in the morning, while afternoons will be devoted to presentations by advanced PhD students and early-career researchers, who will thus benefit from comments and suggestions from experts in the field.
Application: PhD students can apply by uploading their CV using the online submission form. Advanced PhD students and early-career researchers who would like to present their work can submit their proposal or paper along with their CV using the online submission form.
No Summer School Fee (but 50€ for lunches): Participants are requested to be EAEPE members. For PhD students and those with a gross personal income less than 10,000€ per year a Special Rate Membership is available, at the price of 25€. More information here.
Hotel Accommodation (at Villa Benedetta): Rooms are available, at special prices for the Summer School students. First come, first served policy applies. Rates are the following:
Price per room per night, breakfast included, city taxes excluded (6.00 € per night per person).
Important Dates
For information and contact: summerschool@eaepe.org
Apply here:
https://eaepe.org/?page=events&side=summer_school&sub=summer_school_application
Pasquale Tridico (Roma Tre University), Sebastiano Fadda (Roma Tre University and INAPP), Giacomo Cucignatto (SVIMEZ), Matteo Deleidi (University of Bari), Riccardo Pariboni (University of Siena), Walter Paternesi Meloni (Sapienza University of Rome), Davide Romaniello (Vanvitelli University), Luigi Salvati (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice).
Contact: Queries about the 17 EAEPE Summer School should be addressed to summerschool@eaepe.org.
Application Deadline: 24 May 2024
2 -6 September 2024 | University of Barcelona – Faculty of Economics and Business
The 2024 ESHET Summer School in History of Economic Thought, Economic Philosophy, and Economic History will take place in Barcelona, organised by the Department of Economic History , Institutions, Policy and World Economy of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Barcelona and PHARE (University of Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne), with the support of the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, the European Society for the History of Economic Thought (ESHET), the Barcelona Economic Analysis Team (BEAT), the Centre d’Estudis Jordi Nadal d’Història Econòmica, the Fundació Ernest Lluch, and the Associazione Italiana per la Storia dell’Economia Politica (STOREP).
The Summer School is open to Ph.D. students and young scholars (Ph.D. degree obtained after January 2022) in History of Economic Thought, Economic Philosophy, or Economic History. 18 proposals will be selected for presentation.
The general topic of the Summer School is “New Perspectives in Economics, New Topics in History of Economics”.
Alessandro Roncaglia (2019) depicted the evolution of Economics since the Second World War to our days as “the age of fragmentation”. He referred not only to the well-known diverse theoretical approaches, from Marginalism to New Keynesians, passing through all modern heterodoxies, but also to the new sub-fields that emerged and consolidated in Economics along these decades. Intensification in labour division in our discipline has given rise to new specialized sub-fields that have allowed enormous progressions in the analysis of economic phenomena from very different standpoints, even if, some argue, at the cost of losing the general picture – a charge made after the global meltdown of 2008, for instance by Krugman (2009) and Cardoso (2009). This diversification has been coupled with the rise of new methods of analysis, resulting in a set of varied and pluralistic approaches to the discipline. This process has been particularly intense in the past two decades. New challenges have been undertaken with new analytical tools, which not only have enriched the scientific panorama, but, to many scholars, have turned inescapable for a comprehensive understanding of present-day problems. The scientific community has blessed this evolution. A quick look to the list of the Nobel Prize in Economics in the last years allows reckoning a salutary mix of old and new topics and methods. The recent award to Claudia Goldin, an economic historian working on gender differences in the labour market, epitomises this trend. Others preceded her: Duflo, Banerjee and Kremer concentrated on the problem of poverty with an innovative experimental approach; Nordhaus integrated climatic change into long-run macroeconomics analysis; etc. Pluralism has not only permeated economic research, but is slowly – but steadily – expanding in the training of future economists at the undergraduate level.
Historians of economics have tracked these developments. Backhouse and Cherrier (2014) noted the deep change in economics since the seventies, towards applied work. Again Cherrier (2017) followed the changes in the JEL Codes system as the outcome not only of deep debates on the discipline itself and its methodology, but also of changing institutional and technological frameworks. JEL codes “point to the transformation of the subject matters of the discipline and the rise and fall of different approaches to economics” (2017, 547). Davies (2019) questioned whether specialisation in economics was causing it to become “an increasingly fragmented and diverse discipline with a continually rising number of niche-based research programmes and a declining role for dominant cross-science research programmes”. Trautwein (2022) has insisted on the fact that fragmentation has led the discipline to lose “the big picture”, while Fontana and Iori (2023) have analysed the fragmentation of the mainstream.
But historians of economics and economic philosophers have also welcomed diversification in topics and methods. Edwards’s (2020) analysis of History of Political Economy in the occasion of the fifty anniversary of the publication of its first article by A.W. Coats (entitled “Research Priorities in the History of Economics”), has shown that these “priorities” have indeed changed, essentially in the last decade: “The big difference between the earlier four decades and the 5 (2009-2018) is the shift of research interests toward recent economics, together with explicit concerns about the appropriate historiographic methods to do so” (2020, 19-20). Fragmentation in History of Economics has not come without cost either. Weintraub (2015) pointed out that dispersion makes it difficult for practitioners to deal with topics distant from their fields of research: “A historian of the modern re-emergence of classical liberalism may be quite unable to distinguish Turgot from Quesnay beyond vaguely recalling material taught in a survey course in the history of economic thought” (2015, 361). The proliferation of thematic and specific conferences beyond the classical meetings of historians of economics thought and philosophy of economics and methodology, plus the emergence of specialized workshops, summer schools, etc. have aided in this process of diversification. A search into the main journals in our sub-disciplines confirms a renewal in research subjects, showing the concern of scholars – especially young – for diversity in topics and methods. Ecological economics, feminist economics, experimental economics, the circular economy, sharing economy, economic ideas from the global South, etc. have become the target for many of our colleagues, closely trailing frontier research in Economics. Working in the slippery terrain of inter-disciplinary borders, and used to a vast range of methodological approaches, they may well have a comparative advantage to better understand the economy in this era of fragmentation.
This Summer School therefore proposes a reflection on how the proliferation of new perspectives and subjects in Economics is mirrored in the research topics of historians of economics, economic philosophers and methodologists. It encourages participants to examine the effects of the fragmentation of the economic science on our particular areas of inquiry, observing the reaction of our community to the increasing diversity in Economics, but also to discuss how to preserve their autonomy and specificity. This proposal would come to complement that of last Summer School edition, which focused on data and techniques for research. This evolution in the economic science is highly relevant to young researchers in our sub-fields, as they will have to deal with a new scientific panorama, and find their place and speak with loud voice. This furnish new opportunities to make original contributions. The works by Bach (2021) on the economy of India, Orozco and Betancourt (2022) on the institutionalization of feminist economics, or Franco and Missemer (2023) on ecological economics, are a few examples of the immense potentiality of new topics in our disciplines. It is a time of change in Economics, its topics for research enlarged, its methodologies revisited, its borders called into question. This is challenging and appealing to our community. * (see References below).
Important remark: Lectures given by senior scholars will deal mostly with these issues, but there is no specific theme for students’ presentations. Ph.D. students and young scholars are thus invited to send proposals on any topic in the History of Economic Thought, Economic Philosophy, and Economic History.
Guest Speakers
The Organizing committee and the Summer School Scientific committee select invited speakers based on their areas of expertise. The list of speakers for this Summer school are renowned experts (titles are indicative):
Structure of the Program
Applications
Contributions will be selected from extended abstracts in English of 500 to 1000 words, or full-paper proposals of up to 7500 words. Abstracts (or full papers) must be sent, together with a CV and a letter of recommendation from a supervisor, to Javier San Julian Arrupe: jsanjulian@ub.edu
Registration fees: 120 euros (double room) or 180 euros (single room). Participants are expected to make their own travel arrangements and pay for their travel costs. Fees include accommodation in Colegio Mayor Universitario Penyafort of the University of Barcelona (5 nights, check-in September 2, check-out September 7) and daily breakfast and lunch.
The Venue
The Summer school will be held at the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Barcelona, Av. Diagonal 696, 08034, Barcelona. The Colegio Mayor Universitario Penyafort is within walking distance to the venue, in Av. Diagonal 639.
Local Organizing Committee
Scientific Committee
Submission Deadline: 16 June 2024.
3-9 August 2024 | Chandolin, Valais, Switzerland
"Back to the Future Utopia - Transforming Labour, Power, and Institutions from a Pluralist Perspective"
From 3-9 August, the third Summer School of Pluralist Economics Zurich will take place in Valais.
Join us for lively discussions on the Transformation of Labour, Power, and Institutions while building a community and enjoying the mountains. Everyone is welcome, no matter your background knowledge or field of study or engagement. This year's Summer School is running under the title "Back to Utopia - Transforming Labour, Power, and Institutions from a Pluralist Perspective". The Summer School will be held in English and is designed to bring together activists and critical social scientists. No prior knowledge is required.
At the beginning of the morning courses different schools of theory will be introduced and put in relation to each other - above all feminist, post-Keynesian and institutional economics. Participants are invited to offer their own workshops, to initiate projects at the intersection of activism and research and to break with traditional academic hierarchies. In the afternoon, guest speakers will offer input on this year's focus topic: Where to & how?
More information and the application form are available here and on Instagram.
21 May 2024 | online
Asociacion de Economia Critica, Associacao Portuguesa de Economia Politica and Sociedad de economica critica invite particiants to join the following online event.
Round Table: External debt conditioning development? Debates in Argentina, Portugal and Spain
Participants: Emilia Val and Francisco Cantamutto (Argentina), Paulo Coimbra, Joao Paulo Avelas Nunes and Ricardo Cabral (Portugal), and Nuria Alonso (Spain)
Date: Tuesday 21 May 2024, Time: 13:00 (Argentinian time) 17:00 (Portuguese time) 18:00 (Spanish time)
Zoom link: https://videoconf-colibri.zoom.us/j/94922945900?pwd=SmVBc1AxWjJwN05xNUNpa0p0UDUxZz09
ID: 949 2294 5900
Password: 658751
The world needs new ideas, institutions, and policies to avoid catastrophic climate breakdown. Yet markets will not find a green direction alone. To deliver a just transition to net zero, states must go beyond market-fixing and derisking and embrace their role as market shapers. Public investment and mission-oriented industrial strategy can galvanise green innovation by holistically shaping new markets, whilst green financial policy can incentivise private capital to align with climate goals in ways that create clear accountability.
Join us virtually and in-person at the IIPP Forum 2024 to rethink the existing policy paradigms and to explore what these transformative ‘market shaping’ policy approaches look like in practice.
Industrial strategy is back around the world; however, it risks reverting to old models focused on promoting specific sectors and technologies, guided by outdated economic assumptions that limit the role of the state. It is often also being advanced without a global equity or global climate action lens. IIPP’s new Strategic Economics Alliance (SEA), spearheaded by Professor Mariana Mazzucato and Dr Carolina Alves, aims to strengthen new economic thinking and its influence on economic policy, including in the area of green industrial strategy. Join UCL IIPP in-person at the Gustave Tuck Theatre or online for its evening panel discussion as it launches this new alliance.
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17-21 June 2024 | University of Southern Denmark, Odense (Denmark)
We would like to invite all PhD students and early-career researchers with an interest in economic history, big data and demography to attend a new PhD course this summer.
Description: Currently we stand upon the precipice of a data revolution in our study of the past. The course will introduce PhD students to Big Data methodology in economic history. The focus will be holistic, guiding students from the inception of a research project to its culmination via research examples from the guest Professor. Topics such as data sourcing, web scraping, Optical Character Recognition methods, data base management, econometric analysis, sentiment analysis and visualization will be woven together. Research themes such as historical demography, social mobility, inequality, psychology and more, will provide the intellectual demand for such methodology. Students will explore their own projects and will complete and present a fleshed out research proposal by the end of the week.
Application Deadline: 1 June 2024
19-23 August 2024 | Maastricht University, Netherlands
The course introduces students to Modern Mony Theory (MMT) in the context of the Eurozone. The course explains money creation and its macroeconomic consequences, including the response to the pandemic, fiscal framework of the European Union and its recent reform, causes and consequences of inflation and unemployment.
The balance sheets and transactions that are relevant for understanding modern money are examined, with a focus on the Eurozone. Explanations include the idea that banks can create bank deposits through their accounting software, that governments spend first and collect taxes later and that central banks use a set of interest rates as their main tool of policy instead of manipulating the money supply.
Teaching will consist of lectures in the morning. Afternoons are free for self-study and reading.
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For further information an Application please visit the website.
Application Deadline: 19 July 2024
he Regional Studies Association’s newest Research Network ESPPRIT is inviting you to join the first workshop and kick-off of the network taking place Tuesday 28th May, 09:00am-11:00am BST.
Theme of the event: Eco-Social Policy and Practice for Innovation and Transformation (ESPPRIT)
The workshop will focus on the status quo of Regional Studies in systematically addressing regional transformations, different disciplinary approaches to the systematic reorganisation of society and the strengths and limitations of strategies promoting sustainable wellbeing.
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To find out more about this research network, workshop, and to register, please visit next link.
Is student debt a mechanism to discipline workers? In the Special Feature with Jason Wozniak, the interplay between student debt and control of students and workers is discussed. In our D&S Debrief, Chris Sturr interviews Michelle Gonzalez and Nick French about how the New York State Nurses Association won safe staffing – the right to have an adequate number of staff to take care of patients. And our Econ 101 feature asks – what is behind elite panic over shoplifting?
Find a link here: https://kkfi.org/program-episodes/ep-7-student-debt-safe-staffing-for-nurses-elite-panic-over-shoplifting/
Also available on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/economics-for-the-people/id1729672278
Job title: Tenure-track position in economic political geography
The Gran Sasso Science Institute (GSSI) - a research-intensive university specialising in doctoral education - announces a selection procedure for a tenure-track academic position in Geography.
The post-holder will conduct research activities in the discipline of economic-political geography, particularly in the field of urban and regional development studies, and is expected to engage in theoretical and methodological debates in geography and related socio-spatial disciplines.
The teaching commitment required involves teaching in English-language courses and seminars at the doctoral and post-doctoral levels, particularly in the Regional Science & Economic Geography doctoral programme, as well as supervising or co-supervising doctoral theses.Contract duration: 6 years. After the third year and up to the 6th year of contract, if the post-holder has obtained the national scientific habilitation, they can be hired on a permanent basis as associate professor.
2-year postdoctoral experience requirement. Candidates must hold a Ph.D. or equivalent degree and have completed at least two years (even non-continuous) of documented postdoctoral research activity.
All details can be found here.
Deadline for application: May 9, 2024
Job Title: Lectureship in Political Economy
The School of Politics and International Relations is seeking an exceptional scholar for the role of Lecturer in Political Economy (Teaching and Scholarship).
The position is open with regards to areas of interest within the fields of Political Economy, at a national or global scale. We particularly welcome applications from scholars using political economy approaches to analyse empirical developments relating to China, development, or financialization, and those interested in political economy theory. The role holder will contribute to the development of a new MA in International Political Economy. They should be committed to and able to teach a range of theoretical approaches in critical dialogue with one another, to help students develop their own perspective.
The Lecturer will also be expected to make contributions to scholarship, which Queen Mary defines as pedagogical reflection and innovation; enhancement of student experience and education; influencing the higher education agenda; and wider public engagement connected to the subject area.
About You
You will have a PhD (or equivalent) in Politics, International Politics, Political Economy or relevant Social Sciences/Humanities area. You will contribute to teaching and scholarship within the School, and to take a significant role in developing our pedagogical practices, particularly in the areas of student engagement, academic skills and writing development, and assessment and feedback. You will have an understanding of the opportunities and challenges involved in teaching a diverse student cohort. Experience of contributing to citizenship roles in a large, dynamic school is essential.
The position is genuinely open with regard to areas of interest, though we are particularly interested to recruit a scholar who uses political economy frameworks to analyse empirical developments relating to China, development, or financialization, or a theorist. The post-holder must also be committed to diversity of thought in the construction and delivery of curricula.
For further information an Application please visit the website.
Job title: position in History of Economics and Economic History
The Department of Economics at Universidad de Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, is pleased to announce an opening for a position in History of Economics and Economic History, primarily focused on instruction, with opportunities for engagement in research and dissemination based on individual interests. We are seeking individuals at the early stages of their academic careers who have a solid foundational knowledge in Economics and a potential interest in developing educational content in areas such as the History of Economics, Economic History, Economic Methodology, and Economic Philosophy.
The selected candidate will be primarily responsible for designing and teaching courses that explore Economic Theory and its historical development. These courses play a crucial role in our academic programs, from undergraduate students to PhD levels. This three-year position offers a competitive salary and the chance to be part of a vibrant academic community. Universidad de Los Andes prides itself as a leading Economics department in Colombia and ranks among the top five in Latin America. We have a longstanding commitment to the study and instruction of the History of Economic Thought.
Proficiency in Spanish is required for this role. Please submit to d.perez-reyna@uniandes.edu.co a resume and a teaching philosophy that includes references to your experience teaching relevant courses related to History of Economic Thought by May 24th, 2024.
For more information please contact d.perez-reyna@uniandes.edu.co or visit the official website.
Application Deadline: 24 May 2024
Job Title: PhD-student or Post-Doc
The institute of socio economics is searching for a new PhD-student or Post Doc. The institute stands for a socio-economic approach in dealing with economic phenomena. Economic issues are pursued from an interdisciplinary and pluralistic perspective at the interface of economics and social sciences.
Your main tasks
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Code number241-24
Application
Please send your electronic application, together with the usual supporting documents and the reference number 241-24 to PD Dr. Jakob Kapeller, University of Duisburg-Essen, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute for Socio-Economics, Working group Socio-Economics with a focus on empirical inequality research, Lotharstraße 65, 47057 Duisburg, E-Mail: jakob.kapeller@uni-due.de.
Information about the job
Additional information regarding the Faculty of Social Sciences and the position can be found at https://www.uni-due.de/soziooekonomie/. For further information and application please visit the website.
Application Deadline: 19 May 2024
Job Title: Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Business Economics
The University of Bath School of Management in the UK is seeking to appoint a teaching focussed Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Business Economics, to join the Business Economics Group of the Marketing, Business & Society Division within the School of Management. There are a number of Heterodox Economists within the Business Economics group already, so another would be a great fit.
Job purpose
Plan and deliver taught programmes of education and support student learning at undergraduate and postgraduate level (as appropriate). Play a key role in the developing the teaching culture and student experience of the University.
Main duties and responsibilities
This teaching-specialist academic role covers all aspects of the design, delivery and development of education on the University of Bath’s taught programmes. The description below indicates the level of responsibility and scope of the role in terms of the range of activities that may be required. You will not necessarily be expected to undertake the full range at any one time, but may be required to do any of them with reasonable notice and support, according to the changing needs in the Department/ Division / University.
Underpinning these activities are an ongoing commitment to continuing professional development and scholarship, where scholarship is defined as engaging with a deep and broad study of the discipline, familiarity with the current boundaries of knowledge and how they are advanced, and active participation in the development of education in the discipline.
For further information and Application please visit the website.
Job title: Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Development Economics
About the role
The University of Bath is an international centre for research and teaching excellence, committed to achieving global reach. We are seeking a development economist to join the Department of Social and Policy Sciences. DSPS is committed to being interdisciplinary, progressive, and impactful in both research and teaching.
Its academic staff come from a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds including economics, sociology, politics, anthropology, geography, development studies, social and public policy, social work, and criminology. The Dept is home to the Centre for Development Studies, which will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025.
You will be expected to conduct original, rigorous, and internationally significant research in development economics, and to help build our already strong community of doctoral and post-doctoral researchers. Core teaching will contribute to BSc and MSc programmes in International Development with Economics, as well as quantitative methods across a wider range of programmes, including the MSc in Public Policy.
The position on offer is full time (36.5 hours per week) and on a permanent basis.
About you
Our ideal candidate will have a doctoral qualification or equivalent in Economics with a clear focus on Development Economics, and a single or joint undergraduate degree in Economics. You will also have some teaching experience and demonstrated capacity to publish internationally recognised work. While open to applicants with diverse interests and expertise you will need to demonstrate a willingness and capacity to thrive within a strongly interdisciplinary community, and a commitment to research and teaching that is relevant to contemporary global challenges.
About the Department
DSPS has an inclusive, interdisciplinary vision. To find out more visit our website http://www.bath.ac.uk/sps. In addition to the Centre for Development Studies DPSP is home to the Centre for Analysis of Social Policy, and the Centre for Death and Society. It also has strong relations with the Institute for Policy Research.
Additional questions can be directed to Prof Monica Greco, Head of Department (mg2725@bath.ac.uk) and Prof James Copestake (hssjgc@bath.ac.uk).
What we can offer you:
We consider ourselves to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on our teams.
We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information. Email details to a friend
Further details:
Application Deadline: 19 May 2024
Job title: Lecturer in Management
The Work, Employment, Organisation & Public Policy (WEOPP) academic group at the University of Bristol Business School is looking to hire a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (Assistant and Associate Professor equivalent), depending on the applications we receive, in any area of work and employment studies (including management and organisation, political economy of work, industrial relations, labour and global production, labour migration, gender and work, among others), particularly candidates researching the digital transformation of work/employment/organisations, and those with quantitative methods skills.
We are seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Management in the Work, Employment, Organisation & Public Policy academic group, particularly in the following areas:
This role offers a well-defined career pathway and is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the delivery of leading practices in research, impact and education
There is one vacancy available within the department and we are open to recruiting at either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level depending on the applications we receive. To see details of the Senior Lecturer position please follow this link.
What will you be doing?
You will be involved in a range of education and research activities in the school in a highly collegial and collaborative manner as follows:
Developing a strong international research and impact profile in business and management and attracting external research funding.
You should apply if
We welcome applications from all members of our community and are particularly encouraging those from diverse groups, such as members of the LGBT+ and BAME communities, to join us. For Informal queries please contact: Name: Dr Robin Klimecki, Head of the Work, Employment, Organisation & Public Policy academic group (Email: robin.klimecki@bristol.ac.uk). This advert will close at 23:59 GMT on 02/06/2024. It is expected that the final selection process will be held in week commencing Monday 24 June 2024 For further details on the jobs and the candidates sought, please see the university's site.
Application Deadline: 2 June 2024
Job title: Senior Lecturer in Management
The Work, Employment, Organisation & Public Policy (WEOPP) academic group at the University of Bristol Business School is looking to hire a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer (Assistant and Associate Professor equivalent), depending on the applications we receive, in any area of work and employment studies (including management and organisation, political economy of work, industrial relations, labour and global production, labour migration, gender and work, among others), particularly candidates researching the digital transformation of work/employment/organisations, and those with quantitative methods skills.
We are seeking to appoint a Senior Lecturer in Management in the Work, Employment, Organisation & Public Policy academic group, particularly in the following areas:
This role offers a well-defined career pathway and is an exciting opportunity to contribute to the delivery of leading practices in research, impact and education
There is one vacancy available within the department and we are open to recruiting at either Lecturer or Senior Lecturer level depending on the applications we receive. To see details of the Lecturer position please follow this link.
What will you be doing?
You will be involved in a range of education and research activities in the school in a highly collegial and collaborative manner as follows:
You should apply if
For Informal queries please contact: Name: Dr Robin Klimecki, Head of the Work, Employment, Organisation & Public Policy academic group (Email: robin.klimecki@bristol.ac.uk)
This advert will close at 23:59 GMT on 02/06/2024. It is expected that the final selection process will be held in week commencing Monday 24 June 2024. For further details on the jobs and the candidates sought, please see the university's site.
Application Deadline: 2 June 2024
Job title: 3 PhD student positions (4 years, 100%)
To complete the team of the project Normativity and its Foundations in Lausanne School and Normative Economics, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation—SNSF (Division I) and based at the Walras-Pareto Centre for the History of Economic and Political Thought of the University of Lausanne, we intend to recruit three PhD students (for four years, at 100%) to work with us. The project will start on August 1, 2024, and will be carried out over a four-year period.
The first Ph.D. student will work on the nature and place of normative considerations in Léon Walras’s project and on the ontological, epistemological, and theoretical specificities of the latter, particularly in relation to the other protagonists of the marginalist revolution. They may also (or alternatively) study the similarities and differences between the role of general equilibrium analysis and its normative function in Walras and the writings of neo-Walrasians, notably Kenneth Arrow and Gérard Debreu. Given the significant influence of the Bourbaki group on Debreu’s understanding of the link between social phenomena, economics and mathematics, the PhD student could also propose a comparative analysis between Walras’s philosophy of science and that of the Bourbaki group, particularly concerning the ontological status of mathematics. An excellent command of French (written and spoken) is essential for this position. Fluency in English is also highly recommended, and knowledge of Italian would be an asset.
The second Ph.D. student will focus on the link between Vilfredo Pareto’s political economy and his writings on sociology and psychology, examining the implicit or explicit presence of normative considerations in his contributions to these disciplines. The goal is to understand whether Pareto’s sociological writings allow us to reinterpret his ordinalist approach, his idea that psychology should be the foundation of economics, and his positions regarding the role of norms and values in the social sciences. They may also (or alternatively) examine the relationship between Pareto’s socio-economic thought and the writings of the founders of welfare economics. Although several articles and books have studied this question, we still lack a rigorous and systematic assessment of the similarities and differences between Pareto and the writings of John Hicks, Harold Hotelling, Abraham Bergson, Nicolas Kaldor and Paul Samuelson. A good command of French and Italian (written and spoken) is essential for this position. Fluency in English is also highly recommended.
The third Ph.D. student will study the complex relationship between Paretian welfare economics and social choice theory (including the writings of Amartya Sen). This relationship is paradoxical since social choice theory can be seen as either a refinement or a rejection of Paretian welfare economics. The Ph.D. student will propose a systematic assessment of the historical context of the emergence of social choice theory and the reaction of leading welfare economists, such as Paul Samuelson, to social choice theory, examining not only their technical writings on the subject but also their correspondence (e.g., that between Kenneth Arrow and Samuelson). They may also (or alternatively) study social choice theory from the point of view of its ontology and epistemological specificities. An excellent command of English (written and spoken) and the ability to work in French are essential for this position.
For more information on the project and the positions, please refer to the link indicated for each of the three positions, as well as the website of the project.
The deadline for applications is May 21, 2024. Interested parties can contact Roberto Baranzini (roberto.baranzini@unil.ch) and Sina Badiei (sina.badiei@unil.ch).
Application Deadline: 21 May 2024
EAEPE invites young scholars to submit their 2024 EAEPE conference paper for the annual EAEPE Herbert Simon Prize. The prize is 500 euros. Submissions should be papers that have been submitted to the 2024 EAEPE Conference following the acceptance of an applicant’s abstract. Applicants must attend and present their accepted paper at the 2024 conference. Papers that have not been accepted for presentation at the 2024 EAEPE conference will not be considered. Eligible applicants are scholars—with accepted abstracts and full papers for the 2024 EAEPE Conference—who are within 3 years of completion of their PhD in 2024 or who do not reach their 35 birthday in 2024. Co-authored papers are eligible if all co-authors meet the eligibility requirements as above. Each author may submit no more than one paper, single or co-authored, for this prize. In the case of two or more eligible co-authors, at least one-of the authors should be a paid-up EAEPE member in 2024. Any member of the EAEPE Council or Trustee of the Foundation for European Economic Development (FEED) serving during 2024 is ineligible to enter, including as a co-author.
A single PDF file of the conference paper, by the eligible author(s), should be sent by 7 June 2024 to the EAEPE Prize Coordinators:
Sending your entry to the wrong email address will result in a delay that may make you miss the deadline. EAEPE will not be held responsible for submissions that are emailed to the wrong address.
The EAEPE Council will judge all the EAEPE prize submissions. The Council reserves the right not to award the prize if the entries are below the required quality. All applicants will be informed, of the outcome of their submission, by 22 July 2024. Authors can participate in only one EAEPE Prize competition each year.
Submission Deadline: 7 June 2024
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Henning Schwardt: Evolutionary alternatives to equilibrium frameworks in economics education
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by Gerald Epstein | University of California Press, 2024
Bankers brought the global economic system to its knees in 2007 and nearly did the same in 2020. Both times, the US government bailed out the banks and left them in control. How can we end this cycle of trillion-dollar bailouts and make finance work for the rest of us? Busting the Bankers' Club confronts the powerful people and institutions that benefit from our broken financial system—and the struggle to create an alternative.
Drawing from decades of research on the history, economics, and politics of banking, economist Gerald Epstein shows that any meaningful reform will require breaking up this club of politicians, economists, lawyers, and CEOs who sustain the status quo. Thankfully, there are thousands of activists, experts, and public officials who are working to do just that. Clear-eyed and hopeful, Busting the Bankers' Club centers the individuals and groups fighting for a financial system that will better serve the needs of the marginalized and support important transitions to a greener, fairer economy.
An eye-opening account of the failures of our financial system, the sources of its staying power, and the path to meaningful economic reform.
Please find a link to the book here.
By Yannick Slade-Caffarel | Routledge 2024
Social ontology is the study of the nature and basic structure of social reality. It is a rapidly growing field at the intersection of philosophy and social science that has the potential to greatly assist social researchers of all kinds.
One of the longest running projects in social ontology has developed over the better part of the last four decades through the work of Tony Lawson and the Cambridge Social Ontology Group. Cambridge social ontology has its origins in an assessment that the widespread explanatory failure of modern mainstream economics, as well as in the social sciences more generally, is due to sustained ontological neglect and the resulting use of research methods that are inappropriate, given the nature of social material. The Cambridge project’s aim has been to rectify this neglect through conducting explicit and sustained inquiry into the nature of social material with a view to elaborating an explanatorily powerful conception of social ontology. The result is social positioning theory. This book is an introduction to the key features of social positioning theory, provides context as to the theory’s development and illustrates how social positioning theory can clarify the natures of phenomena such as gender and the corporation.
Cambridge Social Ontology is for social scientists, philosophers and all readers interested in gaining a better understanding of the nature of social phenomena.
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Edited by Louis-Philippe Rochon, Sylvio Kappes, Guillaume Vallet | Edward Elgar 2024
Central Banking, Monetary Policy and Gender uniquely explores the ways in which monetary policies, changes in interest rates and unconventional monetary strategies such as quantitative easing affect women. This groundbreaking book analyses the inner organisation of central banks, considering for the first time how banking transmission mechanisms operate in relation to gender, investigating issues of power, income, wealth inequality and labour market dynamics.
Editors Louis-Philippe Rochon, Sylvio Kappes and Guillaume Vallet bring together internationally renowned scholars to present cutting-edge research. Chapters discuss the role of monetary policy in the gender pension gap; the impact of inflation reduction policies on female and male employment rates; the gender politics of comportment in central banking; the inner organisation of central banks and how financial crises can create systemic discrimination. Contributors advocate for looking beyond the traditional roles of central banks, encouraging scholars and practitioners to assess strategies and frameworks from alternative perspectives such as gender to highlight systemic inequalities and campaign for better, more equitable practices going forward.
Offering a novel approach to central banking and monetary policy, this book will be invaluable to academics, students and researchers in political economy, feminist economics, and public policy. Its practical and timely guidance will also be of interest to professionals working in the banking, economic and financial sectors.
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by Albino Barrera | 2023, Cambridge University Press
We seek to be both loving and just. However, what do we do when love and justice present us with incompatible obligations? Can one be too just to excess? Should one bend rules or even break the law for the sake of compassion? Alternatively, should one simply follow rules? Unjust beneficence or uncaring justice—which is the less problematic moral choice? Moral dilemmas arise when a person can satisfy a moral obligation but only by violating another moral duty. These quandaries are also called moral tragedies because despite their good intentions and best effort, people still end up blameworthy. Conflicting demands of compassion and justice are among the most vexing problems of social philosophy, moral theology, and public policy. They often have life-and-death consequences for millions. This book examines how and why compassion-justice conflicts arise to begin with and what we can do to reconcile their competing claims.
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edited by Tuija Takala | Edward Elgar, 2024
The Concise Encyclopedia of Applied Ethics in the Social Sciences is an in-depth exploration of ethics across multiple different fields. Editors Tuija Takala and Matti Häyry collate entries from global experts to provide an incisive look into applied ethics on both methodological and theoretical bases.
Covering a vast array of disciplines, this prescient Encyclopedia analyzes the many roles that applied ethics plays in the social sciences. Entries scrutinize the various manifestations of ethics across a range of disciplines and subdisciplines such as animal studies, criminology, and global health. The entries on sociology, social psychology, welfare economics, and corporate social responsibility discuss historical development through ethical concepts, while entries such as conflict studies, strategic management and future studies seek to predict future paradigm changes. On the theoretical level, the framing of research questions also entails ethical choices, which is emphasized in the entries for archaeology, food system studies, global health, and migration studies.
This thought-provoking Encyclopedia is a crucial resource for scholars of economic thought and methodology, legal philosophy, human rights, politics and public policy research, and sociology and sociological theory. It will also benefit those researching and working across the social sciences more broadly.
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By Rémy Herrera and Zhiming Long | Haymarket Books, 2023
Chinese economic growth is an extraordinary phenomenon that deserves an original analysis. Dynamics of China's Economy traces this dynamism from the origins of the People's Republic to the present day. The analysis offered is unique, first, because the authors have reconstructed statistical databases in time series for the stock of physical capital, the stock of human capital, expenditure on research and development, and Gini income inequality index. Their methodologies screen a very wide range of theoretical currents: neoclassical, Pickettyan, and Marxist. It further stands out from similar inquiries because the most modern tools of statistics and econometrics are mobilized to carry out their research.
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edited by Madhura Swaminathan, V. Surjit, V. K. Ramachandran | Agrarian Studies, 2023
The essays in the book explore the nature and direction of socio-economic change in the lower Cauvery delta. They draw primarily on the results of two census-type, schedule-based surveys of all households conducted in the villages of Palakurichi and Venmani in Nagapattinam district, Tamil Nadu, in 2018–19. The region in which the villages are located is historically associated with large agricultural surpluses from rice cultivation, in turn sustained by punishing forms of caste and class oppression. Recent decades, however, have seen great changes to the crop regime and to relations of agrarian production. The sharp decline in the supply of Cauvery water for irrigation to the region in the last two decades has accelerated this change and given it new dimensions. The analyses and findings presented in the book discuss the manifold stresses on the socio-economic fabric of the region with the decline of the delta as a hub of rice cultivation. The gains achieved in the 1980s from the Green Revolution weakened, and no major new sources of non-agricultural production emerged within villages. The old forms of tyrannical landlordism and extra-economic oppression of Dalit agricultural workers – that had led to the massacre of 44 Dalits by landlords in Keelavenmani in 1968 – do not exist today, owing to sustained struggles by the working people led by the Communist parties. Nevertheless, unequal land ownership and landlessness and acute economic inequality continue to be significant features of the agrarian sector. An important new aspect of agrarian change, this study notes, is the replacement of the full-time agricultural labour force with a rural manual worker force that engages in both agricultural and non- agricultural wage labour. The essays also analyse other dimensions of agrarian change in the region – in employment and incomes, the forms of credit in operation, education, sanitation, and housing. The pace and path of economic change has placed rural Tamil Nadu ahead of many other Indian states, in terms of both economic performance and human development. Yet, without fundamental structural change, this book argues, the gains attained are incomplete. Here lies a central policy challenge to meeting the region’s economic and democratic potential.
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by Norman C. Miller | Edward Elgar, 2023
This insightful and comprehensive book uses theory and empirical studies to debunk contemporary illusions about the functionality of economies and examines the phenomena of economic magic and economic black magic.
Norman C. Miller considers 11 economic myths, three of which are the theory that excessive imports reduce employment as firms are forced to downsize or shut down, that a more equal distribution of income kills incentives and reduces economic growth rates and the myth that a higher minimum wage always generates a net decrease in employment. Chapters examine the effects of advances in technology, poverty and income inequality, international trade, and trade deficits on employment and economic growth. The book concludes with discussions on three case studies demonstrating economic black magic, namely the Great Depression, the Great Recession, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
This creative and accessible book will be vital reading for students and scholars in economics and finance, the history of economic thought, methodology of economics, and political economy. It will also be beneficial for business owners, economists, finance practitioners, and social scientists, as well as citizens interested in the functioning of economies.
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Edited by Gerd Gigerenzer, Shabnam Mousavi, Riccardo Viale | Edward Elgar, 2024
Honoring the life and work of Herbert Simon, this illuminating Companion provides an in-depth survey of one of the most prolific social scientists of our age. Mirroring the breadth of Simon’s studies, chapters analyze his contributions to artificial intelligence, economics, entrepreneurship, management, psychology and other fields.
The comprehensive book outlines how Herbert Simon came to be the only person to receive both the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics and the Turing Award in Computer Science. Bounded rationality, satisficing and heuristic search are just a few of his seminal ideas that pioneered behavioral economics and artificial intelligence. Elucidating how Simon freed the study of human behavior from the dictates of subjective expected utility theory and Bayesian theory, chapters discuss how he instead promoted the development of empirically based theories on the behavior of individuals, organizations and machines. Interdisciplinary contributors thoughtfully explore his groundbreaking ideas, examining Simon’s influence on their own work and even their personal outlook on life.
This Companion enables the ideas of Herbert Simon to live on. It is a foundational resource for scholars of disciplines such as cognitive science, entrepreneurship, organizational behavior, behavioral and experimental economics, econometrics, economic psychology, industrial organization, and public administration and management.
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by Dirk Ehnts | Springer Link, 2024
This book explains how central banks, banks and governments create money. Written in an accessible style, this book provides an introduction to modern monetary theory without requiring any prior knowledge of economics. It covers the most important aspects of monetary theory, including inflation targeting, government spending, and international trade, as well as economic policy to achieve macroeconomic goals, such as price stability, full employment and sustainable use of resources. Accordingly, it offers a valuable asset for students of economics, central bankers, banking professionals, and academics alike.
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Klaus Dörre | Edward Elgar, 2024
In this prescient book, Klaus Dörre combines a vision of a climate-just society with a reformulation of socialist ideas that can guide the way to a ‘sustainable socialism’ for the 21st Century.
Chapters cover a vast array of topics, including today’s economic-ecological meta-crisis, digital socialism, the need for an immediate, effective transition to more sustainable living, and the recent effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Recognizing modern-day politics’ aversion to the ‘s-word’, Dörre reformulates socialism for a contemporary audience and argues for the practicality and realisability of alternatives to capitalism. In a ground-breaking approach, Dörre uses the UN Sustainable Development Goals as a normative basis upon which to measure the actions and policies which will be needed to create just and resilient societies. The book outlines and recommends key transitional strategies that can serve as a compass guiding us to a sustainable world.
This timely book will be a vital resource for researchers, academics and students of sociology and sociological theory, political theory and philosophy, political economy and international politics. Providing an innovative approach to many of society’s current issues, Rethinking Socialism will also be of interest to governmental policymakers and think-tank experts as well as trade unionists, climate activists, and those involved in feminist and indigenous movements.
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by Stephen Mullen | University of London Press, 2022
This important book assesses the size and nature of Caribbean slavery’s economic impact in British society. The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy, a grouping of West India merchants and planters, became active before the emancipation of chattel slavery in the British West Indies in 1834. Many acquired nationally significant fortunes, and their investments percolated into the Scottish economy and wider society. At its core, the book traces the development of merchant capital and poses several interrelated questions during an era of rapid transformation, namely, what impact the private investments of West India merchants and colonial adventurers had on metropolitan society and the economy, as well as the wider effects of such commerce on industrial and agricultural development.
The book also examines the fortunes of temporary Scottish economic migrants who travelled to some of the wealthiest of the Caribbean islands, presenting the first large-scale survey of repatriated slavery fortunes via case studies of Scots in Jamaica, Grenada and Trinidad before emancipation in 1834. It therefore takes a new approach to illuminate the world of individuals who acquired West India fortunes and ultimately explores, in an Atlantic frame, the interconnections between the colonies and metropole in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
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By Gregor Gall | Agenda Publishing 2024
Growing levels of income and wage inequality and the precaritization of many sections of the labour force have made labour unions as salient as ever. Although membership levels have decreased, they remain among the world's largest representative organizations and continue to play a significant role as vehicles for democracy, sustainable development and social justice.
This handbook assembles an array of experts to critically engage with the debates and discussions about the role and purpose of unions and the many means by which they seek to attain them. The book provides insights into how unions can meet the challenges of structural changes in the labour market, including technological progress, the green agenda and the digital platform economy, and how they can better represent the needs of their members, in particular migrant, domestic and informal workers.
The book is a valuable resource for industrial relations, labour economics, sociology of work, employment and labour law, history of trade unionism, working patterns and practices, workplace culture and workers' rights.
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By Grzegorz Konat | Brill 2024
The book takes an in-depth look at a hitherto unexplored part of the oeuvre of prominent Polish economist and historian of economic thought Tadeusz Kowalik: his thesis that the systemic transformation that took place in Poland in the late 1980s was a de facto "epigonic bourgeois revolution". Since Kowalik actually never extended his argument to support this thesis, the aim of the book is to answer the following question: If some important reflections on the revolutionary character of the Polish transformation scattered throughout Kowalik's works were to be found, would they together constitute a convincing justification for the thesis of the "epigonic bourgeois revolution"?
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by Hans Lind | Edward Elgar, 2024
This innovative book uses in-depth empirical studies of scientific articles and takes inspiration from Nobel laureates to explore how theories and models are used in economics. Hans Lind ultimately illustrates that economics studies a ‘chaos-theoretic’ system where a theory is a framework that helps formulate hypotheses rather than a set of statements about how an economy works.
Based on these empirical studies Lind analyses different kinds of path-breaking contributions in economics and why these developments do not fit Kuhn’s theory of progress in science. Through the close analysis of scientific articles, chapters also discuss why analysis of a simple model can help us understand how the real economy works and how a new idea becomes accepted through everyday observations, the building of models and empirical studies. He argues that it is crucial to use a range of methods, including case studies and mathematical models, to help identify causes and patterns in a science that studies a chaos-theoretic system.
Written in an accessible style, Theories and Models in Economics will prove a vital resource for scholars looking for a greater understanding of both the methodology and the development of economics. It will appeal to practitioners and social scientists more broadly who are interested in learning more about how economists conduct their research and how this differs from other disciplines.
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by Tonia Novitz | Edward Elgar, 2024
Examining the relationship between trade and labour regulation in light of the pressing need to promote sustainable development, Tonia Novitz interrogates how international legal architecture could be reformed so that no one in the world of work gets left behind. She highlights the dangers of pursuing labour and environmental issues on parallel tracks without recognising how they interact, ultimately arguing for the crafting of the content and application of trade rules through participatory processes, which involve the inclusive representation of all sectors of the labour market and all parts of the world.
This timely book explores the potential promise of economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability, alongside the concrete limitations evident at the International Labour Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank Group and the World Trade Organization. The author interrogates the capacity for regional trade arrangements to operate in innovative ways, considering the European Union (EU) as a case study. Novitz further considers how corporate governance could be regulated to promote sustainable development in trade supply chains.
Expansive in scope, this book will be a vital read for scholars and students in the fields of labour, trade, company and EU law, as well as politics and international relations. It will also assist policy makers and officials connected to international organisations and regional trade institutions.
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edited by Pia A. Albinsson, B. Yasanthi Perera, and Stephanie J. Lawson | Edward Elgar, 2024
This dynamic book explores the importance of collaborative consumption. Doing so is relevant at a time when the sharing economy has established itself as part of the mainstream market. Nearly 40 expert scholars across the globe go beyond the existing literature to investigate understudied community efforts and spaces, including innovative topics such as hand-me-downs and coworking.
Championing an interdisciplinary approach, Understanding Collaborative Consumption follows a detailed framework to dissect its role within the sharing economy. Setting out a schema for understanding collaborative consumption and its paradoxes, it analyses the role of the consumer and provides an exploration of grassroots and community efforts. Contributors discuss platformed and branded efforts to extend the reciprocity based market, and conclude with an appraisal of negative externalities and emerging trends.
Providing an in-depth examination of a sector that has in recent years rapidly grown in scope and breadth, this book will be a crucial read for academics and researchers of business management, marketing and sociology. It will also prove valuable to students and scholars interested in economic entrepreneurship, branding and the sharing economy.
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The History of Economics Society welcomes applications by early career scholars for research funding of up to 1,500 dollars. The program supports early career scholars that otherwise would not have funds to undertake research activities. Up to 4 awards will be made every year.
Early career scholars are those studying for a PhD or within 4 years after completion of their PhD. Eligible expenses include travel and accommodation costs for visits to archives, for recording of oral histories, or for similar activities. Subsistence, purchase of equipment, fees/licenses/rights, digitization and transcription costs are typically not eligible.
The application must include a brief description of the project, details and full costings of expenses, mention of other funding applications submitted for the same activities. These materials should not exceed 750 words. In addition, the application must include a two-page CV of the applicant and a letter of support from their supervisor.
Proposals should be submitted to office@historyofeconomics.org.
Applicants should be aware that there may not be a specialist of their topic among the evaluation committee. Candidates should therefore provide a short but clear summary of the state of the art (with a few key references), a clear justification of why the research question the grant is addressing advances the existing literature, and detailed information about the evidence the applicant intends to gather in the research activities. The next deadline for applications to the History of Economics Society's Early-Career Scholars Research Fund is May 15.
Application Deadline: 15 May 2024
The History of Economics Society is delighted to announce that, from next July, the Journal of the History of Economic Thought will begin its transition to a new editorial team. Erwin Dekker, Catherine Herfeld, Harro Maas, and Alexandre Mendes Cunha will become the journal’s co-editors, and Christina Laskaridis will take over as the new book review editor.
Erwin Dekker is Senior Research Fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. He has recently published Realizing the Values of Art (2023), Jan Tinbergen (1903-1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise (2021) and the edited volume Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons (2021). From 2014 to 2021 he was assistant professor of cultural economics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He is currently working on a history of socio-economic thought in Chicago between 1920 and 1960.
Catherine Herfeld is professor of philosophy and history of economics at Leibniz University Hannover, Germany. Her research interests cover topics in history, methodology, and philosophy of economics. Currently, she is particularly interested in the questions of why and how models are transferred across different domains and in which way such model transfers can lead to progress in economics. She also researches the history of rational choice theories in economics, including their development in, and diffusion across different institutional contexts.
Harro Maas is a professor in History and Philosophy of Economics at the Walras-Pareto Center for the History of Economic and Political Thought at the University of Lausanne. He has published widely on the history of economics from the Victorian period to the present, with an emphasis on the transformation of the economist’s methods of thinking and acting with ‘data’. He is the editor of the Cambridge Series Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics and co-editor of Cambridge’s new essay series Elements in History of Economics.
Alexandre Mendes Cunha is Associate Professor of Economics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, where he holds a Jean Monnet Chair funded by the European Commission. He specializes in the history of economic thought and intellectual history, studying the international diffusion of economic ideas in different historical contexts, with a focus on eighteenth-century Enlightenment studies and interwar Europe.
Christina Laskaridis is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Economics at The Open University (OU). Her work examines the political economy of sovereign debt. She is a trustee and secretary of the UK Society for the History of Economic Thought, a former fellow at Duke’s Center for the History of Political Economy, and the 2021 recipient of the Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation Prize awarded by the History of Economics Society.
The current editors, Jimena Hurtado and Pedro Garcia Duarte, will continue to work alongside the new team to oversee the production of all JHET issues until December 2025. The History of Economics Society thanks them for the exceptional services rendered since 2018 and for guaranteeing a seamless editorial transition.
Carlos Eduardo Suprinyak
Secretary, History of Economics Society
Associate Professor, The American University of Paris