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Issue-33, October 16, 2006
From the Editor
Before dealing with a couple of
serious matters, I would just like to note that in
this Newsletter there are some new calls for
papers, including one by the AHE and the New School
Economic Review; numerous conferences, seminars, and
lectures—especially note the seminar at Ashcroft
International Business School organized by Ioana
Negru; three new jobs postings; and various
newsletters, new books and web sites, and a couple
of interesting papers discussing the future of the
history of economic thought.
A
couple of weeks ago, URPE sent out a memo alerting
people to the fact that the AEA was reducing the
number of sessions URPE gets at the ASSA from 18 to
16; and it was requested that people write letters
to the AEA protesting this. Upon receiving the
memo, I sent it to my US-based e-mail lists. One
consequence was that a number of individuals
including myself as acting director of ICAPE sent
letters to AEA protesting the move. A second
consequence was a broad conversation on whether
heterodox economics associations should remain in
the ASSA either individually or as part of a
collective, drop out completely of the ASSA and do
their own thing, or some kind of mixture of the
two. Much of the conversations were carried out on
the AFEE listserve, but parts of the conversation
were sent to me directly. Believing that readers of
the Newsletter might be interested in all of
this, I collected and arranged all the contributions
that have been made over the past two weeks. They
can be perused at your leisure at “URPE, Heterodox
Economics, and the ASSA.” As you wade through the
36-page document, you will notice that the pros and
cons are stated clearly but not in total opposition
to each other, thus leaving room for a negotiated
outcome that could benefit all. In addition, there
is some discussion about forming a united front when
dealing with the ASSA. Still, while many heterodox
economists happily engage across heterodox
approaches, it seems that heterodox associations are
reluctant to do so. Finally, data regarding the
head-count of those attending AFEE, URPE, ASE, and
IAFFE suggest that heterodox economists are not
attending heterodox sessions in large numbers. Thus
it seems, perhaps, that heterodox economists do not
feel that it is important to attend heterodox
sessions and engage with heterodox economists in a
variety of ways at the ASSA. I urge all heterodox
economists to attend the ASSA in Chicago—attend the
heterodox sessions, engage with each other
intellectually and socially, and above all cruise
all the receptions and eat-drink-and talk until you
can do no more. (ProtestASSAcut.doc)
A
second issue that I would like to make you aware of
concerns a job ad that the University of Vermont
wanted to run in JOE. Professor Stephanie Seguino
explains the issue:
The Economics Department at the University of
Vermont placed an ad for a tenure track faculty in
JOE at the end of September. JOE edited this ad
(without any notice), deleting the latter half of
the last sentence, in particular the phrase that the
Department "welcomes applications from women and
underrepresented ethnic, racial and cultural groups
and from people with disabilities." (To see ad,
http://www.aeaweb.org/joe/0610d/html/joe193.html).
When we queried AEA on this, John Siegfried,
Director of JOE, responded that that phrase was
edited out because it is discriminatory, and
indicated that AEA has a policy to not publish
advertising that discriminates on the basis of race,
sex, color, religion, and sexual preference. He has
therefore at this time refuses to reinstate the
entire ad. Our lawyer has reviewed this ad and
indicates that this ad is in no way discriminatory.
We are now considering our response.
I am therefore writing to the URPE listserve and to
inquire as to how URPE or academic institutions may
have or are responding to this position of the AEA.
Please contact me directly with your comments at:
stephanie.seguino@uvm.edu.
If
anyone, whether associate with URPE or not, can help
Professor Seguino, please e-mail her. We all
survive with a little help from our friends
Fred Lee
In
this issue:
-
Call
for Papers
-
Eastern Economic Association Meeting
- INTERVENTION. Journal
of Economics
- ICAPE Conference, 1-3
JUNE 2007
- Association for
Heterodox Economics 9th Annual Conference 2007
- CHORD workshop
- The New School Economic
Review
- Conferences, Seminars
and Lectures
- Ashcroft International Business School
- Workshop: Financial
Liberalisation and Economic Performance
- ANN--SCEME Workshop
- Historical Materialism
2006 Conference
- City University London
- Berlin Conference 27 -
28 October 2006
- The Rethinking Marxism
2006
- Sumner Rosen Memorial
Lecture
- Cambridge Realist
Workshop
- Marx and Philosophy
Society
- Job
Postings
for Heterodox Economists
- The Evergreen State College
- Earlham College
- University of Vermont
-
Heterodox Conference Papers and Reports and Articles
-
Center for Economic and Policy Research
-
Heterodox Journals and Newsletters
- The Talking Economics Bulletin
- Center for Economic and
Policy Research
- Center for Economic and
Social Research- E Newsletter
- Revista De Economia
Institucional
- Issues in Regulation
Theory
- Opinion Sur
- IFS Newsletter: October
2006
-
Heterodox Books and Book Series
- The
Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured
- Affirmative Action in
the United States and India: A Comparative Perspective
-
For Your Information
- History of Economic Thought
- URPE's "Political Economy of
the Iran Crisis" web page
- URPE at the Easterns
- www.worldhunger.org
Call for Papers
Eastern Economic Association
Meeting
Session on Democratic Socialism and Income Equality-Inequality
I am setting up a session for the EEA meeting, February 23rd-25th 2007,
in NYC. I am looking for papers in the area of democratic socialism and
income equality-inequality. I am open to policy analysis and history of
thought papers along these lines.
Doug MacKenzie PhD
SUNY Plattsburgh
E-mail: dmackenz_2000@yahoo.com
INTERVENTION. Journal of Economics
INTERVENTION. Journal of Economics invites submissions in German or
English language for a special issue on theoretical, empirical and
policy aspects of income and wealth distribution to be published in
2008. For detailed information:
Call_Intervention_final.doc
ICAPE Conference, 1-3 JUNE 2007
The next ICAPE conference is on the horizon, and I hope you will
consider participating in it.
Soon to celebrate its 13th birthday, ICAPE (the International
Confederation of Associations for Pluralism in Economics) is an
international consortium dedicated to the active promotion of
intellectual pluralism in economic education and scholarship.
Next June (1-3) on the campus of the University of Utah in beautiful
Salt Lake City, ICAPE will host its second international conference,
"Economic Pluralism for the 21st Century."
We invite proposals for papers and panels that address the value (or
costs) of economic pluralism in any of its domains: economic theory and
philosophy, economic institutions and policies, or economic education.
For further details -- including a list of plenary sessions -- please
see the attached documents, visit our website (http://icape.org/conf2007.htm)
or contact one of the organizers:
Al Campbell (al@economics.utah.edu)
Wilfred Dolfsma (wdolfsma@rsm.nl)
Edward Fullbrook (edward.fullbrook@btinternet.com)
Rob Garnett (r.garnett@tcu.edu)
Neva Goodwin (neva.goodwin@tufts.edu)
John Henry (henryjf@umkc.edu)
Mary King (kingm@pdx.edu)
Fred Lee (leefs@umkc.edu)
Ed McNertney (e.mcnertney@tcu.edu)
Judith Mehta (judith.mehta@ntlworld.com)
Erik Olsen (olsenek@umkc.edu)
Martha Starr (mstarr@american.edu)
Association for Heterodox
Economics 9th Annual Conference 2007
Pluralism in Action
13 – 15 July, 2007
University of the West of England, Bristol
The Ninth Annual Conference of the Association of Heterodox Economics (AHE)
will be held at the University of the West of England from 13th to 15th
July 2007.
Last year’s highly successful AHE conference yielded a stimulating and
original range of papers on pluralism in the social sciences. A striking
feature of the conference was the interdisciplinary character of the
contributions which explored the relation between economics and other
branches of the social sciences. The Ninth Annual Conference will build
on this success.
The conference will have both a thematic part and an open part. The AHE
is happy to consider papers of both types; however, priority will be
given to papers addressing the conference theme, “Pluralism in Action”.
Papers are particularly encouraged dealing with the impact of heterodox,
pluralistic and interdisciplinary approaches both on problems of policy,
and on the advancement of understanding, where mainstream approaches
have failed or fallen short.
For the open part of the conference, as in previous conferences we
welcome submissions dealing with issues of fundamental theory, teaching
and learning in economics, and the history of economic thought.
This year, the committee seeks to broaden the range of heterodox
viewpoints. We encourage single papers or sessions addressing Austrian,
Behavioural, Critical Realist, Ecological, Evolutionary, Feminist,
Institutionalist, Marxist, Post-Keynesian, Schumpeterian, or other
non-mainstream approaches. A feature of the AHE is as a forum for
dialogue between different viewpoints, and we encourage proposals for
sessions which address a single issue or theme from a variety of
viewpoints.
The international character of the conference has been a vital factor in
its growing success. Scholars requiring documentation in support of visa
or funding applications should indicate this in their initial
submission. At present the AHE regrets that it has no funds to provide
financial support, but is actively seeking it and welcomes proposals
from participants regarding organizations for the AHE contact in search
of support for participants from outside the US and European Union.
Deadline for submission:
Proposals for single papers: please send an abstract of not more than
500 words by email only to the local organiser, Andrew Mearman (andrew.mearman@uwe.ac.uk)
, AND the programme coordinator, Alan Freeman (afreeman@iwgvt.org
), by 19th January 2007. Text, HTML, Word and PDF format
attachments are acceptable.
Proposals for sessions and streams: please indicate exactly what you are
proposing, giving the names and email addresses of the proposed
speakers, and attaching the abstracts (of not more than 500 words each)
for their papers. Send by email to Andrew Mearman and Alan Freeman, as
above, by Friday 19th January 2007.
The AHE Committee will consider all abstracts and will notify you of
acceptance or rejection of your proposal by Monday 12th February 2007.
Those whose abstracts have been accepted must send their full paper and
completed registration to be received by Friday 26th April 2007.
Parallel sessions will be 90 minutes long and will consist of two
papers. Sessions may have a discussant for each paper. The conference is
to be conducted in English.
To see details of previous conferences, and to keep up to date with the
2007 conference and other AHE activities please visit:
www.hetecon.com
CHORD workshop
21 March 2007
COMMERCE AND KNOWLEDGE, 1400-2000
University of Wolverhampton
CHORD (the Centre for the History of Retailing and Distribution) invites
all interested researchers to a workshop devoted to the discussion of
the relationship between commerce, information and knowledge in the
period between the fifteenth and the twenty-first centuries.
More information can be found at:
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/knowledge.html
Among the questions that papers might address are: How did retailers and
consumers acquire, spread and use commercial information? How was
consumer knowledge obtained? What was the role of formal training and
commercial education? How did awareness of innovation (and failures)
spread? What was the role of advertising?
Proposals are invited for twenty-minute papers exploring any aspect of
this topic, and focusing on any geographical area.
Themes may include - but are not limited - to:
• Consumer expertise
• Trade knowledge and training
• Knowledge transfer
• Commercial information and advertising
• The trade press and publications
Please send proposals (including title and c. 200 words abstract) to the
address below by 15 December 2006.
The workshop will be held at the University of Wolverhampton,
Wolverhampton city campus.
For further information, please contact: Dr Laura Ugolini, HAGRI / HLSS,
Room MC233, University of Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SB, UK.
E-mail: l.ugolini@wlv.ac.uk
Tel.: 01902 321890.
Workshop web-page:
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/knowledge.html
CHORD web-pages:
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/chord.html
The New School Economic Review
The New School Economic Review will be publishing its third issue in
Spring 2007, and the thematic of the journal issue revolves around
development economics.
Following from the spring 2006 conference hosted by the Economics
Students at The New School for Social Research, selected papers,
presentations and debates from the conference will be published, and the
editors are looking for contributions on the subject of Development, in
the form of papers, letters or book reviews.
Papers should be submitted by e-mail to
submit@newschooljournal.com
and papers will be peer-reviewed in a blind review process. If authors
wish to submit an abstract before submitting the paper, reviewers can
respond to this, but the final deadline for papers remain the same.
The deadline for submission is the 31 November, although we encourage
early submissions to allow for more time for the author to make any
edits that may be required.
The submission procedure is open for anyone to submit work.
For more information about the New School Economic Review, see
www.NewSchoolJournal.com
and for more information about the annual economics conference at the
New School, see
www.NewSchoolConference.com
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Conferences, Seminars and
Lectures
Ashcroft International Business
School
Several seminars at Ashcroft International Business School, Anglia
Ruskin University, Cambridge, this term. The venue is Room 124, Coslett
Building, Mills Road, 10 min walk from the station.
Easy to get to from London King's Cross Station. They take place at 4.00
- 5.30 pm on Wednesdays.
25 October
"Decision-making at The Bank of England"
Dr Andrew Mearman, University of the West of England, Bristol
15 November
"My Six-year-old Son Should Get a Job - Rethinking Trade and
Development"
Dr Ha Joon Chang, University of Cambridge
29 November (This to be confirmed)
"Business cycles and government"
Dr Dean Garratt, Nottingham Trent University
6 December
"Measuring economic indicators"
Dr Bruce Philp, Nottingham Trent University
Contact: Ioana Negru (Ioana.Negru@ntu.ac.uk)
Workshop: Financial Liberalisation
and Economic Performance
Centre for Brazilian Studies
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Workshop: Financial Liberalisation and Economic Performance: the
experience of Brazil and other emerging countries
Friday, 3rd November 2006
Co-ordinator:
Dr Luiz Fernando de Paula
State University of Rio de Janeiro and Centre for Brazilian Studies
ANN--SCEME Workshop
SCEME workshop, 27 October, University of Stirling, on 'Rationality and
Individuality in Economics'; some places available.
Please see full details at
www.sceme.stir.ac.uk/events.htm
The Carnegie Centenary Lecture 2006 will be given at 17.30 on 15
November, Logie Lecture Theatre, University of Stirling by Prasanta
Pattanaik on 'The Concept of Welfare in Economics'. For further details
please contact d.r.kennedy@stir.ac.uk
Historical Materialism 2006
Conference
NEW DIRECTIONS IN MARXIST THEORY
in collaboration with THE ISAAC AND TAMARA DEUTSCHER MEMORIAL PRIZE
COMMITTEE and SOCIALIST REGISTER
8-10 DECEMBER 2006
CENTRAL LONDON
Further details will be sent to registered participants.
PLEASE NOTE: PREREGISTRATION BY SENDING AN EMAIL TO
historicalmaterialism@soas.ac.uk GIVING YOUR FULL NAME IS ESSENTIAL AS
PLACES ARE LIMITED. UNREGISTERED PEOPLE MAY BE REFUSED ENTRANCE DUE TO
SPACE LIMITATIONS
Subjects discussed will include: the transformation problem; variable
capital; Marx's journalism, Otto Bauer’s analysis of the world crisis of
the 1930s; non-equilibrium economics; the labour theory of value;
financial and industrial capital; the euro and labour integration;
finance and the law of value; the domestic labour debate; the political
economy of contemporary capitalism; the legacy of Karl Polanyi; the
political economy of Turkey and Latin America; Marxism, Islam and the
Middle East; Islamism, imperialism and global feminism; the work of
Maxime Rodinson; Islam and capitalism; the labour process and resistance
in the neo-liberal welfare state; the labour movement; migration; land
reform in East Asia and capitalist transitions; commodity chains; waste
and capitalism; global capitalism and urban violence; globalisation;
theories of imperialism; capital accumulation and the state system; oil
and rise of Asia; the governance of global capitalism; China and
Cultural Revolution; Nepal and Maoism; China and future of the global
economy; accumumation by dispossession; economic theory and economics
imperialism; Althusser and philosophy; Marxism and critical realism;
Italian Marxism; Lukacs; Carl Schmitt; Deleuze; Foucault and
governmentality studies; Marxism and political subjectivity; Spinoza;
early Soviet history; Russia in the 1920s; theories of the Soviet Union;
Lenin rediscovered; bourgeois revolutions; passive revolutions; Chris
Wickham and the Middle Ages; Marxism and international law; Marxism and
theology; the US National Security Strategy, Hurricane Katrina, and
contemporary warfare technologies; the historical uncanny; Marxism and
scifi; US leftist theatre; 'political' filmmakers in the United States;
Victor Serge’s approach to literature; Zizek, nationalism and Kusturica;
the future for committed cultural criticism; Marxism and music; the life
and legacy of Ernest Mandel; Marx, Gramsci and anti-oppression politics;
Engels's late letters; Karl Kautsky; class and morality; republicanism;
Ralph Miliband and Nicos Poulantzas today; Marxian political theory; the
Communist Manifesto; Marxist philosophy of language; Marxism and social
movements;...
and much more!
On Friday evening, the winner of the 2005 Deutscher Memorial Prize,
Kevin Murphy, will deliver his Prize Lecture.
The conference will include two Socialist Register plenary sessions to
launch the 2007 issue on the ecological crisis: can capitalism prevail?
and on eco-socialism, democratic planning and political strategy
Attendance at the conference is free but voluntary contributions are
encouraged to help with the costs of organising the conference (we
suggest £15 for unwaged/£30 waged).
City University London
Economics Department Seminar Series
Term 1 2007
Time: Wednesdays 4.30 – 5.30 pm
Room: DLG08, Lower Ground Floor, Social Science Building, St John
Street, London EC1
October 4th
Jordi Blanes-Vidal
Nuffield College, Oxford University
"Behaviour in Workplace Networks: Evidence from the English Judiciary"
October 11th
Jan Toporowski
SOAS
"Woodford, Formalism and Monetary Policy"
October 18th
Raymond Brummelhuis
Birkbeck (Statistics)
TBA
For more information, please contact the seminar organiser:
Dr. Mireia Jofre-Bonet (mireia.jofre-bonet@city.ac.uk)
Berlin Conference 27 - 28 October
2006
Research Network 'Alternative Macroeconomic Policies' would like to
invite you to its 10th workshop:
European Integration in Crisis,
Berlin, 27 - 28 October 2006,
Best Western Hotel Steglitz International, Albrechtstr. 2, 12165 Berlin.
Please find the preliminary conference programme and the registration
form
attached. Conference papers and further information on the
conference will be made available on the conference website:
http://www.boeckler.de/cps/rde/xchg/hbs/hs.xsl/33_83459.html.
There are no conference fees. Meals will be covered by the Hans Boeckler
Foundation. Participants have to cover their travelling and hotel costs.
The Rethinking Marxism 2006
The Rethinking Marxism 2006 Conference Program and schedule has now been
posted online on the conference website:
www.rethinkingmarxism.org
Please go to the website and click the heading "Conference Program" in
the left hand menu.
As you will see, the final program has approximately 150 panels, 3
plenary sessions, an art/video exhibition, and several special
performances, including that of Bread & Puppet theater, one by Fawzia
Afzal-Khan, and many other highlights.
Sumner Rosen Memorial Lecture
Is Full Employment Possible in an Era of Globalization? given by Robert
Pollin, Professor of Economics and Co-Director of the Political Economy
Research Institute University of Massachusetts-Amherst and author of
Contours of
Descent: U. S. Fractures and the Landscape of Global Austerity and
co-author of The Living Wage: Building a Fair Economy
Thursday, November 16
7:00- 9:00 P.M.
Reception preceding lecture
Presidents' Room
Faculty House
Columbia University
400 West 117th Street*
New York City
*Enter campus at 116th Street between Amsterdam Ave. and Morningside Dr.
RSVP to msw22@columbia.edu
or 917-929-5965
Sumner M. Rosen (1923-2005) was a prominent political economist and
lifelong advocate of full employment and other policies to benefit
working people. A professor emeritus of social welfare at the Columbia
University School of Social Work, he was a founder of the National Jobs
for All Coalition; the Columbia Seminars on Full Employment, Social
Welfare and Equity and on Globalization, Labor and Popular Struggles;
and the Five Borough Institute.
Organizers: National Jobs for All Coalition and the Columbia University
Seminars on Full Employment, Social Welfare and Equity and
Globalization, Labor and Popular Struggles
Cambridge Realist Workshop
The program is attached as is a
background paper for the first talk ('How
can methodology reasonably make a difference?' - speaker: Tony Lawson)
for this coming Monday Evening, October 9.
As usual the talks start at 8 pm, but with 'refreshment' available from
7:30. And as in previous years we will be meeting in the CRASSH seminar
room, in Mill lane.
A map showing directions can (along with other info.) be found on our
website:
http://www.econ.cam.ac.uk/seminars/realist/workshop_programme.htm
Marx and Philosophy Society
The next Marx and Philosophy Society afternoon seminar
Saturday 21st October 2006, 2:00pm - 5.30pm Room F3, Royal Holloway, 11
Bedford Square, London WC1B
James Furner (Sussex)
'Marx's account of the state from the German Ideology to the Eighteenth
Brumaire'
Andy Denis (City University London)
'Organicism in the early Marx: Marx and Hegel on the state as an
organism'
There is no registration charge but space is limited, so please book in
advance by sending an email to
martin.mcivor-alumni@lse.ac.uk
11 Bedford Square is a central London site of Royal Holloway, University
of London. Corner of Bedford Sq/Montague Place/Gower Street (opposite
British Museum).
Tube stations: Euston Square, Goodge Street, Russell Square, Tottenham
Court Road.
Streetmap: http://tinyurl.com/5w3lx
Please visit the Marx and Philosophy Society web site
(http://www.marxandphilosophy.org.uk/index.html)
or join the email list
(http://lists.topica.com/lists/mpslist)
for updates.
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Job Postings for
Heterodox Economists
The Evergreen State College
The College is seeking a Feminist Economist (a broadly trained economist
who has a strong background in feminist theory and feminist approaches
to economics) to teach in the field of political economy.
For detailed information:
evergreen.doc
Earlham College
TENURE-TRACK JOB OPENING in Peace and Global Studies
Earlham College is hiring a full-time tenure track faculty member and
Director of our Peace and Global Studies Program (PAGS) to begin Fall
07. Earlham’s PAGS program is interdisciplinary and approaches Peace
Studies in the context of global social structures and social movements.
The primary goal of the program is to develop students' competencies in
fields contributing towards peace and social transformation.
We welcome candidates from a wide range of academic areas of expertise.
Directing the program entails taking the leading role in coordinating
and overseeing the elements of the program in consultation with the
other PAGS faculty.
Earlham invite applications from women, African Americans, Hispanics
other ethnic minorities and Quakers and is an Equal Opportunity
Employer.
You can find this posting and more about Earlham and the PAGS program by
looking at :
http://www.earlham.edu/jobs/pags.html.
We will continue the search until the position is filled.
Send: three letters of recommendation, c.v., cover letter in which you
discuss your academic and experiential work in Peace Studies and your
teaching philosophy, a syllabus for a course you have or may teach to:
Sadie Forsythe, PAGS Office, Drawer 105 Earlham College
801 National Rd. West, Richmond, IN 47374
University of Vermont
E0 Applied Macroeconomics
I1 Health Economics
Q0 Environmental Economics
Z0 Public Policy
H0 Public Finance
The Department of Economics invites applications for a tenure-track
position starting fall of 2007. The appointment will at the rank of
assistant professor. All candidates should have a strong commitment to
research and a commitment to excellence in undergraduate, liberal arts
education. The successful candidate will be expected, where available,
to seek extramural funding for research. We seek a creative economist
who will teach intermediate macroeconomic theory and may contribute to a
potential interdisciplinary graduate public policy program. Exceptional
candidates from any field will be considered.
Ph.D. in hand by date of appointment is preferred. Applicants may send a
paper application or apply on line. Apply online at www.uvmjobs.com.
Search for the position using department name (Economics) only. Attach a
letter of application, curriculum vitae, and a sample of research and
send a hardcopy of evidence of teaching effectiveness and three letters
of recommendation to: Chair, Dept of Economics, 239 Old Mill, University
of Vermont, PO Box 54160, Burlington, Vermont 05405. For paper
applications, send a letter of application, curriculum vitae, a sample
of written work, evidence of teaching effectiveness, and three letters
of recommendation to the above address.
Review of applications will begin November 30, 2006. We plan to conduct
initial interviews at the ASSA meetings. For more information see
www.uvm.edu/~econ. The University of Vermont is an Affirmative
Action/Equal Opportunity employer. The Department is committed to
increasing faculty diversity and welcomes applications from women and
underrepresented ethnic, racial and cultural groups and from people with
disabilities.
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Heterodox
Conference Papers and Reports and Articles
Center for Economic and Policy
Research
Last fall, economists at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
in Washington, DC, presented a series of ten lectures on basic economic
issues. The whole series has been available for download, but you can
now also buy all the talks on DVD. The notice
attached has complete details.
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Heterodox Journals and
Newsletters
The Talking
Economics Bulletin
The
Talking Economics Bulletin consists of news and views on associative
economics, including short extracts from Associative Economics Monthly.
Center for
Economic and Policy Research
Last fall, economists at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)
in Washington, DC, presented a series of ten lectures on basic economic
issues. The whole series has been available for download, but you can
now also buy all the talks on DVD. The
website has complete
details.
Center for
Economic and Social Research- E Newsletter
Content (see attached
file)
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•5th International CASE Conference `Winds of Change: The Impact of
Globalization on Europe and Asia´ - early registration open
•Rethinking balance-of-payments constraints in a globalized world
•Consortium led by CASE has started the FP6 European research project on
the EU Eastern Neighbourhood
•CASE supports EU Development Policy
• Regulatory Policy in Ukraine is unfriendly for business
• 2005 - a good year for CASE
• Latest publications
Revista De
Economia Institucional
VOLUMEN 8, NÚMERO 15,
SEGUNDO SEMESTRE DE 2006
www.economiainstitucional.com
EDITORIAL
ARTÍCULOS
El mercado de bienes ilegales: el caso de la droga, Gary S. Becker,
Kevin M. Murphy y Michael Grossman
Instituciones, recesiones y recuperación en las economías en transición,
Geoffrey M. Hodgson
El PIB de la Nueva Granada en 1800: auge colonial, estancamiento
republicano, Salomón Kalmanovitz
Cardoso el opositor académico vs. Cardoso el político: ¿continuidad o
ruptura?, Corinne Pastoret
Tendencias de la rentabilidad y la acumulación en el capitalismo español
(1954-2003), Maximiliano Nieto Ferrández
El dinero en los modelos macroeconómicos, Wilfredo Toledo
Nivel de reservas internacionales y riesgo cambiario en Colombia, David
Fernando López Angarita
Sector agrícola y política de competencia, Ricardo Argüello C.
Subsidios cruzados: el caso del sector postal, Leslie Bravo Chew y Luis
Fernando Gamboa
La equidad del mecanismo de pago por uso de servicios en el sistema de
aseguramiento en salud de Colombia, Liliana Chicaíza, Fredy Rodríguez y
Mario García
CLÁSICOS
“El bárbaro mecanizado” y “El Estado feudal”, Alberto Lleras Camargo
Política económica de post-guerra. Prefacio, Ministerio de la Economía
Nacional
NOTAS Y DISCUSIONES
Macroeconomía, desarrollo y género, Alicia Girón
La reforma fiscal ecológica en la Unión Europea: antecedentes,
experiencias y propuestas, Tomás J. López-Guzmán Guzmán, Fernando Lara
de Vicente, Fernando Fuentes García y Ricardo Veroz Herradón
Cuarto Simposio Nacional de Microeconomía. Discurso inaugural, Jorge
Andrés Gallego
RESEÑAS
La paz en Colombia: ideas para remozar, deconstruir y refundar, Bernardo
Pérez Salazar
RESÚMENES/ABSTRACTS
POLÍTICA EDITORIAL
INDICACIONES PARA LOS AUTORES/ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
ÍNDICE TEMÁTICO No 1-15
PENDIENTES
Sectores industriales y fortalezas competitivas locales en Río de
Janeiro
La revaluación cambiaria y el retroceso del sector agropecuario mexicano.
¿Una historia de medio siglo?
Los fundamentos morales de la economía: una relectura del problema de A.
Smith
Outsourcing y ventajas comparativas: un análisis epistemológico
Ejército y Constitución en Colombia
Una interpretación alternativa de la integración horizontal entre
empresas
Opciones institucionales para la configuración de los mercados del suelo
urbano en ciudades latinoamericanas
La gobernabilidad: conceptualización y una aplicación al sistema de
educación básica en Colombia
Issues in
Regulation Theory
We’re pleased to inform you of the publication of Issues in Regulation
Theory number 55, which you can
download from the website of our association : (http://www.theorie-regulation.org)
“International migrations, globalisation and development”
Opinion Sur
Year 4, Issue 38, September 27th 2006
Sponsored By:
Sur Norte Inversión y Desarrollo and South North Development Initiative
For detailed information:
opinionsur.doc
IFS Newsletter:
October 2006
Institute for Fiscal Studies October Newsletter is out and can be seen
via the following link. This is a regular bulletin, letting you know
about recent research, publications and press releases. If you wish to
be included in the mailing list for the Newsletter, please send an email
to Bonnie Brimstone (bonnie_b@ifs.org.uk), IFS External Relations
Officer.
October 2006 IFS |Nesletter:
http://www.ifs.org.uk/newsletters/newsletter_october06.php
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Heterodox
Books and Book Series
The
Knowledge-Based Economy: Modeled, Measured
Simulated by Loet Leydesdorff; Universal Publishers, 385 pp., US$ 18.95
http://www.universal-publishers.com/book.php?method=ISBN&book=1581129378
How can an economy based on something as volatile as knowledge be
sustained? The urgency of improving our understanding of a
knowledge-based economy provides the context and necessity of this
study. In a previous study entitled A Sociological Theory of
Communications: The Self-Organization of the Knowledge-based Society
(2001) the author specified knowledge-based systems from a sociological
perspective. In this book, he takes this theory one step further and
demonstrates how the knowledge base of an economic system can be
operationalized, both in terms of measurement and by providing
simulation models. The measurement instruments are applied to the German
and Dutch economies and elaborated in terms of regional and sectorial
differences. The knowledge base is specified in the simulations as a
strongly anticipatory (sub)dynamic that can be expected to operate
within an economic system, but to variable extents.
Affirmative Action in the
United States and India: A Comparative Perspective
”Affirmative Action in the United States and India: A Comparative
Perspective,” has been selected among the initial set of titles to be
made available in paperback as part of Routledge’s “Paperbacks Direct”
program. This brings the price down to the relatively accessible level
of 20 British pounds – roughly 38 U.S. dollars.
If anyone is interested, a copy may be purchased on-line from the
Routledge Paperbacks Direct website
http://www.routledge.com/paperbacksdirect just click on
“Economics”.
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For Your Information
History of Economic Thought
If you are interested in the ongoing discussion of the future of the
history of economic thought, you might want to take a look at the
following papers:
The Blanqui lecture given by Roy Weintraub at the ESHET Porto conference
on 'Economic Science Wars' is now on line at
http://www.eshet.net/best/1150129153__blanqui_lecture.pdf
Heinz Kurz's ESHET Presidential Address, 'Whither History of Economic
Thought? Going Nowhere Rather Slowly?', is also on line at
http://www.eshet.net/src/Presidential_address_Kurz.pdf
URPE's "Political Economy of the
Iran Crisis" web page
Last spring URPE sponsored a panel called "Oil, Nukes, Mullahs,
Democracy and U.S. Hegemony: The Political Economy of Iran" at the 2006
Left Forum, and another panel of the same name at the Brecht Forum, both
in NYC. The 2006LF panel was videotaped, and both panels were audiotaped.
The audiotapes have been used to produce radio programs on WBAI. The
panels led to various articles in magazines and newspapers.
These panels also led to the creation of a web page on URPE's website:
http://urpe.org/Iran_Crisis.htm
The relationship between the US and Iran is still in crisis, and the web
page has received many new additions since it was first announced early
in the summer.
The page contains articles, books, radio shows, a video and
organizations, with links wherever possible. You can play or download
the radio shows and excerpts from panels, and you can order the video.
Speakers and writers featured on this page include Ervand Abrahamian,
Cyrus Bina, Faramarz Farbod, Reza Ghorashi, Ismael Hossein-zadeh, Leili
Kashani, Michael Klare, Fatemeh Moghadam, Kamran Nayeri, Tom O'Donnell,
Hamideh Sedghi and Behzad Yaghmaian. The is also a link to the RRPE page
on Sage's website -- you can look up references to articles on Iran that
have been published in the "Review of Radical Political Economics,"
URPE's journal, over the years.
All opinions expressed in the talks, articles and books on the web page
are those of the authors and do not represent positions of URPE as an
organization. There is also a great variety of opinion among the authors
listed on this page.
URPE at the Easterns
URPE Organizing Sessions at the Eastern Economic Association Meetings –
Call for Papers
If anyone wants to send me proposals, I am happy to coordinate an URPE
session.
-Mieke
Mieke Meurs
Professor and Ph.D Program Director
Dept. of Economics
American University
www.worldhunger.org
For the past 30 years, since its founding in 1976, the mission of World
Hunger Education Service is to undertake programs, including Hunger
Notes, which:
* inform the community of people interested in issues of hunger and
poverty, the public, and policymakers, about the causes, extent, and
efforts to end hunger and poverty in the United States and the world.
* further understanding, which integrates ethical, religious, social,
economic, political, and scientific perspectives on hunger and poverty.
* facilitate communication and networking among those who are working
for solutions.
* promote individual and collective commitment to solutions to the
hunger and poverty that confront hundreds of millions of the people of
the world.
Remember the date: World Food Day is October 16, 2006. Mark it on your
calendars! For more information on how you can make a difference, see:
A Focus for Year-Round Action:
World Food Day USA
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