Issue 331 August 19, 2024 web pdf Heterodox Economics Directory
My ten-year old daughter received a postcard these days. It was sent by a a friend of her's, who is currently on vacation in Northern Italy. The card read:
Dear Florentina,
we are on vacation and it is very nice. But, admittedly, it is also very hot.
Best wishes, Carla*
Now, this is a somewhat compelling analysis. It is hot, much hotter than usual, especially in the Mediterraen area, but also up here in Austria. Maybe it's just an exceptional year adding to a rising trend, but then, maybe not. More probably when it comes to climate change and its local effects, we have to expect non-linearities, or in the more mundane language of economics: we have to expect non-linear local and regional shocks to accompany the somewhat linear trends of average temperature. In general heterodox economists are well-equipped to do so, however, there remains the peculiar question, whether and to what extent those in power will listen to us renegade experts (or, alternatively, to the people in the naturals sciences saying quite similar things).
Indeed the Mediterranean sea could emergence as a large-scale example for such a strong local effect as it could well transform into a hot tub in future summer periods (see here for some data and plots on this), because of its basin-like character. As someone, who is travelling into the Mediterrenean area on a close to annual basis for about thirty years know, I also have to admit that local impacts of climate change are strongly visible in some places for some time now. Especially the characteristic and beautiful pine forests, that can be often found close to the sea, struggle everywhere with increasing heat and humidity.
Coming back to Carla's letter, we also find that the temperatures found in Northern Italy when I was a ten-year old are now found in Austria, even close to the Alps. City gardeners in my home town have recently proposed to react and begin substituting traditionally planted trees with alternatives imported from Italy and Spain. While that sounds smart to me, I wonder where Italians and Spaniards will get their substitutes from? And doesn't such adaption seem nonetheless cynical when moving our perspective to those places, mostly located in the Global South, that are even more exposed to shifting climate conditions and that lack financial and technical means to conceptualize adaption strategies?
Maybe the increasing visibility of climate change will make its massive consequences more transparent to many and, hence, faciliate more radical changes – in any case, late is better than never. For now, I simply hope that Clara will be able to enjoy the remainder of her vacation.
Best,
Jakob
* While my daugher's name truly is Florentina (much to the joy of the people in/from Tuscany ;-), I took the liberty to substitute her friend's true name with an alias.
PS: The Heterodox Economics Directory in its 7th edition is finally out and published. Many thanks to all readers and friends, who supplied suggestions and corrections. I will probably add a little more information in one of the upcoming Newsletters.
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24-25 October 2024 | Cairns, Australia
The Center for International Trade and Business in Asia (CITBA), the only research center within the College of Business, Law, and Governance (CBLG) at James Cook University, Australia, presents "Reskilling Horizons: AI, The Future of Work, and the Quest for a Resilient, Sustainable Tomorrow." This conference beckons a confluence of thought leaders, industry innovators, and academic luminaries to delve into the intricate interplay between human ingenuity and artificial intelligence. Aligned with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8, our conference promotes sustained, inclusive, and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment, and decent work for all, while exploring the transformative potential of AI.
Our meticulously curated conference tracks offer a kaleidoscope of perspectives, each focusing on pivotal aspects of our evolving relationship with technology. We will unravel the complexities of AI integration across diverse sectors, discussing impacts on productivity, workplace dynamics, and the overarching metamorphosis of industry landscapes. Emphasis will be placed on the sustainable and ethical development of AI, including issues such as equitable access, ethical algorithms, and green AI practices that harmonize with our environment.
In an era of relentless innovation, continuous learning is not just an option but a necessity. This track will focus on the pivotal role of upskilling, spotlighting the emerging skill sets required and formulating robust strategies for lifelong learning in tandem with technological evolution. This aligns with SDG 8.6, which aims to substantially reduce the proportion of youth not in employment, education, or training. Leadership in an AI-driven world will also be a key focus, emphasizing the need for resilience, adaptability, and foresight in a tech-empowered landscape.
We will examine the seismic shifts AI and automation are imprinting on economic structures, labor markets, and global commerce, fostering inclusive growth and ensuring that AI-driven progress uplifts societies. This is in line with SDG 8.5, which focuses on achieving full and productive employment and decent work for all women and men. Additionally, the transformative influence of AI on urban environments will be explored, focusing on evolving cities into smart, sustainable, and resilient habitats, ensuring that the urban pulse resonates with progress, inclusivity, and sustainability.
Lastly, we will address the urgent need for reducing carbon footprints and fostering a sustainable, low-carbon economy. Discussions will revolve around innovative strategies, technologies, and policies that drive decarbonisation in various sectors, including energy, transportation, and manufacturing. Join us on this exhilarating journey as we dissect, discuss, and discover the intricate tapestry of the future, woven with the threads of artificial intelligence, human aspiration, and the collective quest for a resilient, sustainable tomorrow.
There are three ways for participants to engage in the BEMAS conference this year:
For authors who wish to submit their full papers to BEMAS 2024, their submissions will undergo a rigorous double-blind peer review process. Accepted papers will have the opportunity to be published in the December issue of the Journal of Resilient Economies (JRE), an open-access journal published by James Cook University, free of charge. JRE allows users to share, copy, and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially. Authors intending to submit their papers should note that the submission deadline is September 30, 2024. We encourage timely submissions to ensure ample time for the review process and subsequent publication preparations.
Submission Deadline: 30 September 2024
The CCSE is an international conference that focuses on the broad theme of cooperatives, the solidarity economy and sustainability. It brings together academics and practitioners for the development of a robust knowledge base on the cooperative sector. The conference creates a platform for dialogue among academics, practitioners, and policymakers for the co-creation of fit-for-purpose knowledge that will advance the cooperative agenda. The following are the main themes of the conference: (1) Enablers of the cooperative movement; (2) Leveraging the cooperative model for socioeconomic development; (3) Cooperatives, Social and Solidarity Economy; (4) Cooperatives, Climate Change, Resilience, and Inclusion and; (5) Cooperatives and Sustainability. The Conference also welcomes the submissions of panel proposals. All paper submissions will be subjected to a double-blind peer review. All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings under ISBN: 978-0-620-92748-2. Click the conference brochure for more information.
Important dates
Early bird registration fees
Please find more information in the next link.
30th January - 1st February 2024 | University of Coimbra, Portugal
The Portuguese Association of Political Economy (EcPol) announces the Call for Papers for the 8th Annual Meeting of Political Economy, to be held at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Coimbra from January 30 to February 1, 2025. The theme for this year is “Political Economy for a Just Life. Theoretical and Practical Challenges”. The meeting aims to bring together all those who, from the most diverse disciplinary Sields and approaches, understand economic phenomena as being eminently shaped by social, political, philosophical, legal, cultural, technological and ecological factors. These factors should be studied within their institutional, historical, and geographical contexts. The meeting will start with the “EcPol Winter School” on January 30 2025, where guest experts will stimulate discussions on the doctoral projects presented by the students.
We welcome proposals for panels from researchers, thematic sections or regional groups, as well as communications on the following topics, among others:
Submission Deadline: 30 September, 2024
Agenda 2063 is a 50-year vision statement for the transformative development of Africa. It aspires to foster inclusive growth, sustainable development, good governance, social inclusion, peace and security, and global participation, among other compelling but ambitious goals. So far, early into the second decade of this multifaceted transformation plan, emerging research underscores uneven findings and outcomes of Africa’s developmental progress.
This Africa Insight special issue invites contributions showing how countries and regions across the continent have performed against the vision promoted in Agenda 2063. Africa Insight is particularly interested in publishing manuscripts that compare experiences across at least two countries in different regions of the continent. Priority will be given to studies that place gender and living standards at the forefront. All studies must adopt a comparative approach.
Submissions must elevate gender questions and living standards in Africa as crosscutters that are intrinsic to topics listed below.
Scholarly contributions should provide new insights on tracking Africa’s development progress, with clear and feasible solutions for development practitioners to consider. Comparative studies that explore experiences across different regions of the continent are encouraged. This special issue aims to contribute to understanding Africa’s development progress and the realisation of Agenda 2063 through rigorous research and analysis. We encourage co-authorship among scholars based in different regions across Africa.
Important deadlines
Extended abstract guidelines
The extended abstract should not exceed 500 words and must clearly state (a) the title of the manuscripts and (b) the special issue topic under which the submitted abstract fits.
The content and structure of the extended abstract must succinctly explain:
Every abstract will undergo a double-blind peer review to assess if it fits this special issue theme. To facilitate this preliminary review, please submit the author’s information (full name and surname, institutional affiliation, resident country, and email address) as required on the submission form.
Submissions can be made online via the following: https://hsrc.ac.za/africa_insight_special_issue_rsvp.php
For any further information or clarity regarding submissions, please do not hesitate to contact the editors at Agenda2063@hsrc.ac.za.
Guest editors: Dr Peter Jacobs (HSRC), Dr Rodney Managa (HSRC), Dr Pauline Ngimwa (PASGR), Dr Uchele Okpanachi (University of Jos).
For further information about the journal please visit: https://africa-insight.hsrc.ac.za/
To download the document please click HERE
Submission Deadline: 9 September 2024
This is a call for contribution to an edited book focusing on the gendered consequences of violence on pro-social values behaviour, including cooperation, trust, diverse forms of political participation, etc. We are interested in empirical chapters investigating clearly defined case-studies as detailed below.
Rationale:
There is an increasing body of work focusing on the microlevel consequences of violence, be it exposure to conflict, organised crime, or other forms of violence, on people’s behaviour in the longer run. This literature has produced quite striking results showing that in some contexts victims can become more socially active, more altruistic, more likely to engage in political activities. These results are sometimes articulated around a “post-traumatic growth” argument, which suggests that in the aftermath of violence, victims (and sometimes perpetrators) can adopt a new outlook on life, leading them to adopt generally more pro-social behaviours.
A number of open questions however remains. First, Yaylaci and Price (2023) and Barclay Child and Nikolova (2020), among others, have questioned whether one should focus on exposure to, or personal experience of, violence. While their work focuses on war violence specifically, the issues they grapple with are more widely relevant, and while Barclay Child and Nikolova (2020) argue that exposure to violence (measured through the level of violence recorded in a given location) can solve endogeneity issues associated with imperfect subjective reports, Yaylaci and Price (2023) argue instead for focusing on personal report, as experiencing violence is not a trivial experience that people would forget, and information on location during a conflict may be more noisy than personal report in the context of wars (as argued e.g. in Litchfield et al., 2024).
Second, some have also questioned the mechanisms at play (Douarin and Litchfield, 2024). Indeed, while “post-traumatic growth” is often mentioned, it is rarely explicitly tested and not always using established measures of post-traumatic growth (e.g. Blattman, 2009). So, a more systematic and explicit explorations of mechanisms could be enlightening.
Third, this literature appears to be quasi-silent when it comes to gendered differences, when both the experience of crime and its aftermaths are very likely to be different for men and women. Hadzic and Tavits (2019) for example have shown in experimental work that when wartime violence is made salient, female respondents report lower willingness to engage in forms of political participation, in contrast to male respondents who exhibit higher willingness.
Here we propose to revisit this area of research by focusing explicitly on gendered differences. We are thus interested in contributions giving a central place to the differences between men and women in their experience of violence and/or the consequences of this experience. Beyond this precondition, we are also interested in contributions which will interrogate the extant literature by engaging with at least some of the issues below:
(i) investigating a variety of forms of victimisation:
(ii) focusing on clearly defined and critically discussed measures of victimisation
(iii) providing some exploration of credible mechanisms (i.e. “post-traumatic growth” or other)
and for outcomes relating to pro-sociality, trust, political participation or related.
Contributed chapters can focus on revisiting already published research investigating issues relevant to this rationale, if the original work was lacking a gendered focus. In this case, the contributed chapter can revisit past analyses, incorporating a gendered lens, and discussing explicitly the impact of doing so on the results.
Submissions:
To express an interest in contributing to this edited book, we ask prospective authors to submit the following information using the form availablehere:
A 500-word abstract focusing on the research question investigated and the relevant context, but also stating the form(s) of victimisation, and how these are measured (in particular: whether the focus is on individual experience, experience in the household or aggregate exposure), and the outcome(s) investigated, explaining how gender will be analysed, and which mechanisms will be discussed, and whether they will be tested.
In cases where the proposed chapter is revisiting work previously published, the full reference of the published work should be included.
At a later stage, selected contributors will be asked to provide a list of authors with a short biography for each of them (about 80 words each).
Timeline:
Deadline for expression of interest with abstract: 7th October 2024 6pm (GMT)
Notification of selected abstracts: 28th October 2024
Deadline to submit chapter for internal review: 5th May 2025
Writer’s Workshop: May/June 2025 (TBC)
Deadline to submit the book for external review: Summer 2025 (TBC)
Expected publication date (TBC)
We are in discussion with UCL Press for the book to be published open access.
We are very pleased to draw your attention to the Cambridge Journal of Economics Special Issue on 'Macroeconomics, Distribution and the “Economics of Enough”'.
See here for the background to the initiative and fuller details.
Contributions are sought above all aiming to restore macroeconomic argument as a means to ending the present standstill in thought and action. Attempts to clarify post-Keynesian discourse on any of these themes will be particularly welcome. Indicative topics include but are not exhausted by the following:
Further information
Sue Konzelmann: s.konzelmann@bbk.ac.uk
Alan Shipman: alan.shipman@open.ac.uk
Geoff Tily: GTily@tuc.org.uk
Submissions should be made using the journal’s online submission system.
During the submission process, please indicate that your manuscript is a candidate for the Special Issue on ‘Macroeconomics, Distribution and the “Economics of Enough”’. Authors are also advised to include a note indicating this in a covering letter that can be uploaded during the submission process.
All papers submitted will be considered using the CJE’s normal peer review process. Please refer to the Journal’s information for authors.
Submission Deadline: 20 May 2025
25-27 June 2025 | University of St. Andrews Business School, Schotland, UK
Genealogies of Corporate Morality: Approaching Business Ethics through Intellectual History
University of St Andrews Business School, Scotland, UK
Co-organised with the Corporate Subjects: An Intellectual History of the Corporation project, Copenhagen Business School, funded by the Carlsberg-Foundation
Where did ideas about corporate morality come from, and why does it matter? Business ethics, a field which has been expanding in Western scholarship since the 1970s, tends to prioritise a philosophical rather than a historical reading of past ethical thought. Although the works of ‘historical figures’ (Werhane et al, 2017) in philosophy have enriched modern analyses of corporate ethics, they tend to be read instrumentally – for their usefulness in addressing contemporary ethical questions – rather than historically, with the primary aim of reconstructing the past intellectual contexts to which these philosophers responded (Skinner, 2002; Hühn, 2018). Nonetheless, ethical responses to the modern corporation are increasingly informed by emerging research on the corporation’s intellectual history (e.g., Ciepley, 2023; Claassen, 2021; Gindis, 2020a; Harris, 2020; Ireland, 1999; Jessen, 2012; Logan, 2019; Mansell, 2024; Mansell and Sison, 2020; Phillips et al, 2020; Stern, 2023). Situating the history of corporations’ behaviour, purpose, rights and responsibilities in their intellectual contexts can reveal the ethical, economic, political and legal assumptions underpinning contemporary business ethics. This historical turn enables us to explore the frameworks and limitations of a field of scholarship that still privileges certain canons and contexts, often foregrounded in Western ideas.
Globally diverse genealogies of corporate morality can yield fresh approaches to moral and political questions today, including the public or private role of business (Ciepley, 2013), the changing framework of choices and constraints that business corporations face (Djelic and Etchanchu, 2017), and the interplay between corporate morality and other ethical and political ideas (Runciman, 1997; Fitzmaurice, 2022). For example, what is the history of thought about corporations’ environmental responsibilities (Pollman, 2024), businesses’ relationship to work and workers (Black, 2003), including the gender divisions that characterise work, and corporations’ implication in colonialism, primitive accumulation, imperial extraction, and counter-revolution (Stern, 2011; Wani, 2022)? How has intellectual debate shaped corporate law (Barkan, 2013; Gindis, 2020b; Kershaw, 2018), and what has been the influence of business forms on constitutional and political thought (Ciepley, 2017; Kubala, 2024)? Should we consider ideas about modern corporations as having an early modern, medieval, or even ancient genealogy (Duff, 1938; Kantorowicz, 1957; Tierney, 1955; Turner, 2016)? How should we critique universal histories of corporations and study non-western formations of corporate subjects (Birla, 2009)? Finally, why and how should ‘canonical’ political and economic thinkers, such as Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Smith, Kant, Marx, Nietzsche and Rawls, be approached by philosophers in business ethics (Dierksmeier, 2013; Hühn and Dierksmeier, 2016; Mejia, 2022; Mansell, 2013; Melé, 2016; Singer, 2015; Sison and Fontrodona, 2012; Smith and Dubbink, 2011; Worden, 2009)?
For this workshop, we invite contributions that think historically about the question of corporate morality. We do not expect contributors to agree on the method of historical work in business ethics; instead, we invite a range of theoretical perspectives on the use of history, as well as detailed cases where histories of ideas about corporations are demonstrated, critiqued, and analysed.
We would welcome contributions that explore:
The workshop will take place 25th-27th June 2025 at St Andrews Business School, Scotland, UK. Participants will present pre-circulated papers, which can be considered for inclusion in a planned special issue in 2026. Participation in the workshop does not guarantee participation in the publication.
Participants’ costs related to accommodation will be covered.
For inquiries, questions or submission of abstracts, please contact Sam Mansell (sfm5@st-andrews.ac.uk), Cailean Gallagher (cg257@st-andrews.ac.uk) or Mathias Hein Jessen (mhj.bhl@cbs.dk).
Deadline for draft papers (5000 words): 1st June 2025 (to be circulated among the participants)
Submission Deadline: 1 November 2024
London, Queen Mary University,8th of November 2024
The School of Economics and Finance at Queen Mary University of London is a centre of excellence in both research and teaching with a unique commitment to inclusion and diversity. The School is a home to a vibrant community of faculty and students, with excellence in teaching across UG, PG, Apprenticeship, and PhD programmes in economics and finance. The School is pleased to announce its third international conference in Economics and Finance Education and Scholarship Research.
Proposals for presentations that demonstrate innovative pedagogy, new technology, curriculum development, equality and diversity analysis or other ways to improve Economics and/or Finance education at any level of higher education (undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate).
Panels will be dedicated to teaching with Historical Perspectives and to how to integrate the history of economic thought in the economics and finance teaching.
300 word abstracts for individual papers should be submitted by 31st of August 2024
Panels should be submitted by a description of the panel (200 words) in addition to the 300 word abstract of individual papers by 31st of August 2024
Participants will be notified by the end of September.
Attendance can be in-person or remote.
There is limited availability for funding for in-person attendance
Submission Deadline: 31 August 2024
25 November 2024 | Berlin, Germany
ZBW, WZB, and RWI are pleased to invite submissions to the Leibniz Open Science Day 2024: Meta Perspectives in Social Sciences. With the growing importance of the social sciences in addressing societal challenges, the significance of a meta-scientific perspective is also on the rise. We need an enhanced understanding of how evidence is generated and communicated to society and policy. Replications and meta-studies in particular are becoming increasingly crucial to ensure the reliability and validity of research findings. These approaches help identify biases, improve methodological standards, and foster transparency, ultimately enhancing the credibility of scientific knowledge.
We particularly invite submissions on the reliability, credibility and generalizability of empirical work in the social sciences, but contributions on all meta-scientific topics in the social sciences are welcome, among others:
The keynote lecture will be delivered by Harry Collins (Cardiff University).
The workshop will take place on November 25th, 2024, in Berlin (Vertretung des Landes Schleswig-Holstein beim Bund). We invite researchers to submit their extended abstracts (max. 750 words) via e-mail to Heike Henningsen (h.henningsen@zbw.eu) by September 15th, 2024. Notifications will be sent by September 30th, 2024. Limited travel assistance is available for junior researchers. Please indicate in your submission whether you will require funding.
Registration for non-presenters will be open in October.
Submission Deadline: 15 September 2024
December 5-6, 2024, Manchester, UK.
A 70th Anniversary workshop at the Global Development Institute (The University of Manchester) engaging with the relevance of Arthur Lewis’ (1954) work today.
With support from The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute Journal of Development Studies Conference Fund and European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) Politics and Political Economy Research Group.
2024 marks the 70th anniversary of Sir Arthur Lewis’ ground-breaking (1954) paper “Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour,” published in The Manchester School. The University of Manchester’s Global Development Institute (GDI) will hold a workshop, in partnership with the European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes (EADI) and the Development Studies Association (DSA), over December 5-6, 2024, to explore the contemporary relevance of the ‘Lewisian’ research programme.
Lewis, a Nobel laureate in Economics, was affiliated with The University of Manchester during the time of writing his famous paper. In an era of new structural transformation problems related to climate change, premature deindustrialisation, generalised stagnation in the Global South, and renewed interest in industrial policy in the Global North, this workshop looks to re-examine the continued salience of Lewis’ dual-economy framework and experience in post-colonial economic policymaking. We invite researchers and actors working in a wide range of fora and traditions to submit applications to participate in the workshop. Submissions on the following topics are particularly welcome:
We invite researchers and actors working in a wide range of fora and traditions to submit applications to participate in the workshop. We see renewed need for methodological pluralism in the study of industrial policy and structural transformation and invite scholars working in a wide array of traditions to participate in our workshop. We wish to bring scholars studying industrial policy and broader challenges of post-colonial development in conversation with one another from a broad range of methodologies, disciplines and theoretical perspectives.
Submissions on related topics in development economics, development studies, and the political economy of development are generally welcome. It is not necessary to engage directly with Lewis’ framework to submit an abstract to the conference. We encourage applicants from a wide range of backgrounds, particularly those underrepresented in academia. We also encourage submissions from scholars based in the Global South. We have some funds available for travel and accommodation.
Submissions require an abstract of up to 500 words. Please send your abstracts to lewis.workshop.2024@gmail.com by September 15, 2024. For further questions, please contact: adam.aboobaker@manchester.ac.uk or pritish.behuria@manchester.ac.uk.
Submission Deadline: 15 September 2024
Infrastructures form the material basis of globalization. They represent networks of physical and non-physical structures that make it possible to bridge distances, i.e. to realize the movement of people, goods, services and capital in space (Larkin 2013). Transnational infrastructures include cross-border networks in the areas of transportation, energy supply, data transmission, as well as the financial system.
In a period that is characterized by a more diffuse economic order and intense geoeconomic tensions (Babić et al. 2022; Brunnermeier et al. 2018), these infrastructures have moved to the center of strategic considerations for states and transnational corporations. States focus on the control over transnational infrastructure and related value chains for two purposes: first, to strengthen their domestic economy and companies vis-á-vis international competitors to realize welfare gains; and second, to ward off direct economic pressures from rivalling countries – or exert them themselves in the form of an instrumentalization of their influence on transnational networks.
Hence, infrastructures are susceptible to weaponization strategies in light of geoeconomic competition (Farrell and Newman 2019). Political conflicts over infrastructures are particularly evident against the backdrop of the current constellation of a "new triad competition" between the U.S., China, and the EU (Abels and Bieling 2023). The strategic expansion of infrastructure development, both domestically and globally via large-scale projects like the Belt and Road Initiative, demonstrate that infrastructures are used to achieve geoeconomic and geopolitical goals, even if this affects the process of globalization (Hameiri and Jones 2023; Leonard 2021; Schindler et al. 2024). Apart from states, transnational corporations such as large, globally operating tech firms are leveraging their role in financing, developing, and operating infrastructures as well (Abels 2024). The way in which infrastructures operate is evidently changing and these changes are shaped by states as well as private actors.
This transformation is taking place at a time when the digital and socio-ecological transitions are putting further pressure on politicians and businesses to innovate and transform infrastructures. Furthermore, a series of overlapping crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the energy crisis, and climate catastrophes have demonstrated the vulnerability of infrastructural networks. They disrupted global value chains and laid bare the insufficiencies of extant technologies and infrastructure (Gentili 2021).
Against the backdrop of these observations, we are looking to put together a group of researchers for an international workshop and a Special Issue with a renowned journal. Individual contributions will shed light on the importance of infrastructures in global geoeconomic competition. Among others, we are looking for contributions from scholars of International Relations, International Political Economy, Political and Human Geography, History, but also any other field that concerns itself with the afore-mentioned complex of issues.
We seek to explore what role transnational infrastructures play in geoeconomic competition – and how they are being shaped by it in return.
To this end, we call for papers on the following topics:
Accepted papers will be discussed at an international workshop at the University of Tübingen, Germany, 27-28 March 2025. Financial assistance for travel might be provided.
In collaboration with the research group, contributions will be submitted to a peer-reviewed journal as a Special Issue.
If you are currently working in the outlined field and would like to contribute, please submit 1.) a provisional title for the paper, 2.) a full abstract (approximately 500 words), 3.) an unstructured short abstract (150 words), 4.) the author(s) names, affiliations and contact information, until September 20, 2024 to jan.ruck@uni-tuebingen.de
If the paper is selected for the issue and workshop, the full manuscript must be submitted by March 13, 2025.
We are looking forward to your contributions and to a rich exchange on this topic!
Organization and funding:
Project EUInfra: ‘Infrastructures of globalization. Strategies of the EU in the global competition for economic expansion and geoeconomic control.’ (University of Tübingen, Institute of Political Science); funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG); project number 526359979, project lead: Dr. Joscha Abels, Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Bieling.
Contact: Jan Ruck (jan.ruck@uni-tuebingen.de), University of Tübingen, Institute of Political Science, Melanchthonstraße 36 · 72074 Tübingen, Phone: +49 7071 29-75907
Submission Deadline: 20 September 2024
12-14 September 2024 | University of Applied Sciences BFI, Vienna, Austria
Recent developments in the EU need to be seen in the context of the disorder and polycrisis that has been generated by the process of disintegration of the neoliberal world order. A polycrisis is constituted by a multiplicity of shocks that may appear disparate, but that interact so that the whole becomes even more overwhelming that the sum of its parts. In the contemporary European configuration, it manifests itself through a set of interactive effects that include climate change, biodiversity loss, the Covid-19 pandemic, energy-, cost-of-living-, care, and reproduction crises, increasing inequalities, the war in Ukraine, an emergent hegemonic rivalry between the US and China, and a crisis of democracy.
The EuroMemo Group conferences in 2022 and in 2023 delved into the question of the polycrisis, analyzing its various aspects and implications. Our 2024 conference seeks to look to the future, the emerging trends in the light of European and global developments, the tensions between opposing tendencies, the intensified global competition.
This year’s EuroMemo Group conference will be jointly hosted with University of Applied Sciences, BFI Vienna and will take place on 12th -14th September 2024 (Thursday – Saturday) in Vienna/Austria.
The conference fees that help cover the cost of organizing the event can now be paid online by clicking HERE.
Members get a 20% discount in conference fees.
5-7 December 2024 | Universidad de la República, Uruguay
The Economic and Social History Program (Universidad de la República, Uruguay) announces the 7th Southern Hemisphere Economic History Summer School (SHEHSS VII), organized jointly with the Young Scholar Initiative (YSI), following the 8th Latin American Economic History Congress (CLADHE VIII), to be held in Montevideo on December 3-5, 2024.
The SHEHSS VII is eager to gather postgraduate students and post-doctoral researchers working primarily on the economic history of the Southern Hemisphere. Submissions on other developing regions are also welcome.
Young scholars will present their own research, discuss and comment other papers, receive comments by invited scholars, attend a set of lectures and participate in CLADHE VIII.
We welcome submissions in English, Portuguese and Spanish, encouraging diverse perspectives,regions and discourse.
SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Luis Bértola, Economic and Social History Programme (Uruguay)
Leticia Arroyo Abad, City University of New York - Queens College (United States)
Cecilia Lara, Economic and Social History Programme (Uruguay)
Ernest Sanchez Satiró, Instituto de Investigaciones Dr. José María Luis Mora (Mexico)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Ana Catelén (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata)
Bárbara Tundidor (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Camilo Martínez (Universidad de la República)
Luis Bértola (Universidad de la República)
Onur Yukcu (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
DEADLINE FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACT SUBMISSIONS: SEPTEMBER 20, 2024
ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATIONS: OCTOBER 5, 2024
DEADLINE FOR FULL-PAPER SUBMISSIONS: NOVEMBER 20, 2024
Want to join? Click here (https://ysi.ineteconomics.org/event/7th-southern-hemisphere-economic-history-summer-school-organized-by-ysi-phes/) for more information and application.
If you have any questions, please send them to ysi.econhist.summerschool.2024@gmail.com and phes@cienciassociales.edu.uy.
The SHEHSS VII will provide financial support for travel and accommodation in Montevideo for a limited number of presenters.
Application Deadline: 20 September 2024
9-13 September | Bogota
Buen día, quisieramos saber si pueden por favor compartir la convocatoria sobre la siguiente escuela que se estará realizando en diciembre en la Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Escuela de Tópicos Avanzados de Economía Política – Convocatoria Abierta
Las actividades se realizarán del 9 al 13 de diciembre de 2024 en la ciudad de Bogotá D.C, Colombia, en las instalaciones de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Un encuentro para las y los estudiantes de últimos semestres y recién egresados y egresadas de economía y carreras afines.
Como parte del Ciclo de Escuelas de Tópicos Avanzados de Economía Política en América Latina de la Network IDEAs, la Fundación Escuela para el Desarrollo, la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas de la Universidad Nacional y el Grupo de Socioeconomía, Instituciones y Desarrollo (GSEID) abren la convocatoria para la Escuela de Tópicos Avanzados de Economía Política.
Esta Escuela está dirigida a estudiantes de últimos semestres de las carreras de Economía y afines. El programa ofrece un panorama teórico de las distintas vertientes heterodoxas, así como su aplicación e implementación en la política pública regional.
La metodología de la escuela vincula clases magistrales impartidas por profesoras(es) de reconocida trayectoria nacional e internacional, así como talleres y trabajo de campo en torno a discusiones centrales para la región como los son: teoría del valor; teorías del crecimiento; políticas macroeconómicas; transición energética justa; procesos de cambio estructural; economía feminista; economía popular, entre otras.
La Escuela contará con la participación de 40 estudiantes de pregrado en economía y/o áreas afines, provenientes de Colombia, Venezuela, México y Centroamérica, quienes serán seleccionados previamente, y para los cuales según disponibilidad se les acompañará respecto a sus gastos de desplazamiento y hospedaje.
Requisitos de admisión: ser estudiante avanzado de Economía o carreras afines o haberse graduado recientemente.
Período de inscripción: 18 de julio del 2024 al 18 de agosto del 2024.
Resultados del proceso de admisión: 30 de agosto del 2024
Criterios de admisión: por antecedentes académicos (los cupos son limitados).
Para mayor información: grupogseid@unal.edu.co
Para más información y acceso al formulario de inscripción, visita el siguiente enlace:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZQRlfKcxeoOAG-EK_aYIDl3N9aHoe6Mb/view?usp=sharing
Se entregarán certificados de participación
Date: March 17 – March 28, 2025
Venue: University of Bamberg, Markusplatz 3, Bamberg, Germany
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We are pleased to announce the Spring School on Perceptions of Wealth Inequality, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. This interdisciplinary research incubator aims to explore perceptions of wealth inequality from different perspectives. The Spring School will bring together young scholars and established experts from diverse fields such as political and communication science, economics, history, and sociology.
Why Perceptions of Wealth Inequality? Across different social groups and countries, individuals often perceive the distribution of wealth wrong. This applies to estimating their view of their own wealth relative to the society they live in but also to the overall situation in this society, i.e., the level of economic inequality, and its consequences for individual life courses. Such misperceptions and more generally perceptions of wealth have far-reaching consequences, as it is the perceived inequality, rather than the actual inequality, that may shape redistributive preferences and, consequently, one’s stance on policy measures. Through deliberation and decision making these stances, in turn, will impact policy making, institutional organisation, and hence the actual inequality as well as its perceptions.
Key Objectives
The School as a Research Incubator
The school will not focus on traditional teaching elements such as lectures or seminars/tutorials. Instead, the two weeks in Bamberg will mostly comprise intense project work: There will be seven projects led by senior experts, which examine different aspects of inequality perceptions using various methods specifically fit for their respective research puzzles. Each participant will join one of these projects. Together, the project teams will work on their project throughout the school, making serious progress towards a publishable research paper. Along the way, participants will learn (more deeply) about the methods they use and the specific topic they study.
The Projects
(Self-)perceptions of the global business elite
Diliara Valeeva, Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research and Data Science Centre, University of Amsterdam
This project will investigate the self-perceptions of the rich and their conscious or subconscious impact on business and policy making. The research understands these as emerging from interactions of wealthy people with their peers, namely at corporate board meetings. It will construct and analyse networks of people cooperating on corporate boards, analyse co-occurrence and differences in corporate policy in cross-section and longitudinally, and characterise individual board members. To operationalise this mixed-method approach, the expert will prepare data (sources) based on their previous experience with similar studies.
Attitudes towards wealth inequality and redistribution
Nhat An Trinh, Institute for New Economic Thinking, Department of Social Policy and Intervention and Nuffield College, University of Oxford
This project focuses on how citizens perceive (i) the distribution of wealth within society and (ii) the role of the state and family in affecting this distribution. Despite extensive research on redistributive preferences, the nexus between perceptions of wealth inequality and preferences for its (re-) distribution is not systematically understood. On the one hand, perceptions of wealth inequality may drive support for the state to redistribute wealth across households by means of taxation. On the other hand, these perceptions may affect attitudes towards wealth transfers made within families through financial gifts and inheritances. Since how far perceptions of wealth inequality influence redistributive preferences is grounded in historical, contextual, and cultural factors (e.g. property regimes, inheritance customs, meritocratic beliefs, opportunities for upward mobility), this project examines granular data on the regional level on attitudes, perceptions, fairness evaluations and voting behaviour from survey and experimental sources and how these are linked to perceptions of wealth inequality. By doing so, this project contributes to a better understanding of the so-called “paradox of redistribution”, i.e., why rising pre-tax inequality rarely translates into increased redistribution. The expert leading the group is building on her extensive experience with regional data in this context.
Media representations of German immigrants in the U.S.
Liane Rothenberger, Department for Communication Science, KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt & Kevin Grieves, Communication Studies Department, Whitworth University Spokane
This project investigates how American newspapers covered immigration of German citizens into the US. Our focus will be on immigrant groups that came to the United States during the 19th century, above all after the European revolutions of 1848-1849. How did the immigrants, many of them arriving in poverty, come to wealth? How were their efforts perceived by the wider public? Together, we will content analyze historical newspaper articles and qualitatively examine coverage narratives and framing. We will evaluate if, and if yes, to which extent, wealth might be connected to perceptions of education, religion, morality and diligence. This project will contribute valuable historical context to our understanding of contemporary journalistic discourses surrounding perceptions of wealth related to immigrant groups.
Agent-based simulation of perceptions of wealth
Jan Lorenz, Social Data Science, Constructor University Bremen
The paper aims to formalise some of the empirical channels behind misperceptions using computer simulations. Recent work demonstrates that endogenously evolving reference groups emerging e.g. from residential segregation based on class can be important drivers of misperceptions. Yet, these explanatory attempts are purely static and could be extended by adding a purposive element allowing agents to adapt their perceptions in light of new information. The foundational bounded confidence model can be used to study the dynamic effects of opinion adaptation with initial misperceptions. The framework is sufficiently flexible to include both local biases based on individual social networks that differentially affect agents and global signals based, e.g. on media coverage that are both well documented in the extant literature. The group working on simulations will apply this so-called bounded-confidence framework to examine which types of perception biases lead to which outcomes, i.e., a state of consensus, persistent fluctuations or stable opinion polarisation. In this way, the simulations can also generate novel hypotheses on the relationship between types of misperceptions, opinion adaptation and long-term outcomes that might be fruitfully applied to more empirically oriented studies.
Public debates and statistical wealth surveys in the long 20th century in Germany
Eva Gajek, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne
The project investigates the connection between statistical surveys of wealth and their scientific and public discussions in the long 20th century in Germany. How and when were numerical surveys of wealth problematized, when did they lead to scandals and how and when did a broad public use figures to communicate about its social structure? The project focuses on three time periods: from the turn of the century to 1914, from the 1960s/to 1970s and from 2001-2010. All three periods were characterized by a strong public discussion about wealth inequality after statistical figures were published and provoked a broad, but also scientific debate that problematized or scandalized the published figures. The empirical basis of the project is a wide range of source material such as statistical surveys, media texts, but also scientific studies.
Wealth Perceptions and Preferences for Taxation and Environmental Policies
Franziska Disslbacher, Research Institute Economics of Inequality and the Department Socioeconomics at WU, Vienna University of Economics and Business
Wealth manifests not only in its levels but also in its origins and uses. Wealth, resulting from savings and intergenerational transfers, serves various purposes, from savings for a rainy day at the bottom to the exercise of power at the top of the distribution. Notably, research has shown that perceptions of economic positions and inequality, rather than actual economic status, significantly influence attitudes and behaviors. Building on this, our project aims to explore how subjective relative wealth, together with beliefs about the individual origin and use of wealth, affects preferences for redistribution, focusing on taxation and climate policies. To gather relevant data, we will design and conduct a representative survey, including an experimental component. Understanding perceived wealth is crucial for unraveling the mechanisms behind the legitimization of wealth and its distribution, and the interaction between the acceptance of specific redistributive and environmental policies.
Perceptions of Wealth Inequality Survey
Laila Schmitt, LMU Munich
The perception of wealth distribution - how exactly people perceive actual wealth at the lower and upper ends of the wealth distribution - is complex. This complexity arises from the multifaceted nature of wealth, which includes assets, savings and debt, and the difficulty of directly observing these dimensions, as is the case with perceptions of income distribution based on earnings for occupations. This study attempts to measure the perceptions of wealth inequality by asking a nationally representative online survey to estimate the average assets, savings and debt required to belong to certain wealth percentiles. To understand the determinants of these perceptions, we will also collect data on beliefs about the methods of wealth acquisition.
Accommodation (one-bed rooms) and meals (three/day) will be provided during the school free of charge to all participants. Participants must pay for their own travel costs. We have limited funding to support participants who can otherwise not get their travel expenses reimbursed. For sustainability reasons, we will not cover flights.
Apply Now – Deadline: August 31, 2024
We invite applications from advanced master students, PhD students and early-career researchers. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and fields of study. There are no restrictions based on citizenship, country of study, or country of employment. About 20 participants will be invited. For a successful application, you do not need to be an expert on wealth inequality perceptions, nor on the methods to be applied. Yet, you should demonstrate your commitment and ability to quickly gather the knowledge and skills necessary to effectively participate. Together with the experts, we will evaluate applications based on the likelihood that the applicant will contribute to the success of the project and everyone else’s educational experience as well as the likelihood of the participant to benefit from participating in terms of their learning and networking. We will take into account the applicant’s career stage and previous educational opportunities. To apply, please fill in this form, which contains a few questions on your background and asks for a short statement of motivation (max. 500 words) which details your commitment to actively participate in the research incubator: APPLY NOW
The Spring School on perceptions of wealth inequality (SPINE) is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation.
Apply here
Contact: SPINE@posteo.de
Application deadline: August 31, 2024
About degrowth, breaking rules, writing and other things! Episode 42
Guest: Timothée Parrique (University of Lund)
Host and Producer: Maria Bach (University of Lausanne)
You can listen here (or on any podcast app): https://ceterisneverparibus.net/about-degrowth-breaking-rules-writing-and-other-things-episode-42/
In this episode, Maria Bach interviews Timothée Parrique about his PhD thesis and book on the Political Economy of Degrowth. They also discuss the importance of writing skills, and breaking academic rules and disciplinary boundaries.
Job title: Doctoral student, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), a research-driven infrastructure based at DIW Berlin, is one of the largest and longest running multidisciplinary panel studies worldwide, and currently surveys around 30,000 people in nearly 15,000 households. SOEP aims to capture social change and thus handles a constant stream of new and diverse topics and tasks. Its data collection and generation adhere to the concept of the survey or data life cycle.
Within the SOEP, the ERC-funded project WEALTHTRAJECT, led by Prof. Dr. Philipp Lersch, will comprehensively and systematically investigate diversity in long-term wealth accumulation trajectories within and between social groups. The project breaks new ground by combining longitudinal data from surveys and registers with new biographical data on wealth, making it possible for the first time to map wealth trajectories over more extended periods of people’s lives.
Starting from 1 Dec 2024, DIW Berlin is looking for a
Doctoral student (f/m/d)
(Part-time 75%)
This position is suitable for furthering scientific training according to Section 2, paragraph 1 of the Act on Fixed-Term Employment Contracts in Academic (WissZeitVG).
Your responsibilities
Research on variability in wealth trajectories over life courses within the WEALTHTRAJECT project
Your qualifications
Completed (or soon to be completed) an excellent university degree in sociology, economics or a closely related field
What we offer
A job at a research institute with around 300 colleagues, where diversity, equal opportunities, and a healthy work-life balance guide all areas of work. Flexible work schedules tailored to your needs as well as remote work are key parts of our work culture.
An exciting and varied job where you will gain deep insights into a research institute as well as national and international science systems. At DIW Berlin, you will have the perfect opportunity to gain further subject-specific training at an institute where science and politics intersect.
DIW Berlin supports your professional and personal qualification and advancement via internal and external career development opportunities and annual performance reviews.
You are paid according to the collective agreement for the public sector (Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes, TVöD Bund), which includes an annual bonus as well as a company pension with VBL Ost.
The office is located in the middle of Berlin-Mitte convenient to public transportation. As a DIW Berlin employee, you are eligible for a reduced VBB-Firmenticket that is partially subsidized.
This is a fixed-term position limited to a period of 4 years.
Remuneration is paid according to TVöD Bund, salary group E13.
The position is linked to the possibility of obtaining a doctorate. It would be an advantage to be integrated in the structured doctoral program, preferably in the Berlin area (for example BGSS). A doctoral agreement will be concluded with DIW Berlin, which guarantees, among other things, qualified individual supervision.
Application Deadline: 30 August 2024
Job title: Postdoc, German Institute for Economic Research, Berlin, Germany
The Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), a research-driven infrastructure based at DIW Berlin, is one of the largest and longest running multidisciplinary panel studies worldwide, and currently surveys around 30,000 people in nearly 15,000 households. SOEP aims to capture social change and thus handles a constant stream of new and diverse topics and tasks. Its data collection and generation adhere to the concept of the survey or data life cycle.
Within the SOEP, the ERC-funded project WEALTHTRAJECT, led by Prof. Dr. Philipp Lersch, will comprehensively and systematically investigate diversity in long-term wealth accumulation trajectories within and between social groups. The project breaks new ground by combining longitudinal data from surveys and registers with new biographical data on wealth, making it possible for the first time to map wealth trajectories over more extended periods of people’s lives.
Starting from 1st Dec 2024, DIW Berlin is looking for a
Postdoc (f/m/d)
(Full-time)
This position is suitable for furthering scientific training according to Section 2, paragraph 1 of the Act on Fixed-Term Employment Contracts in Academic (WissZeitVG).
Your responsibilitiesYour qualifications
What we offer
A job at a research institute with around 300 colleagues, where diversity, equal opportunities, and a healthy work-life balance guide all areas of work. Flexible work schedules tailored to your needs as well as remote work are key parts of our work culture.
An exciting and varied job where you will gain deep insights into a research institute as well as national and international science systems. At DIW Berlin, you will have the perfect opportunity to gain further subject-specific training at an institute where science and politics intersect.
DIW Berlin supports your professional and personal qualification and advancement via internal and external career development opportunities and annual performance reviews.
You are paid according to the collective agreement for the public sector (Tarifvertrag des öffentlichen Dienstes, TVöD Bund), which includes an annual bonus as well as a company pension with VBL Ost.
The office is located in the middle of Berlin-Mitte convenient to public transportation. As a DIW Berlin employee, you are eligible for a reduced VBB-Firmenticket that is partially subsidized.
This is a fixed-term position limited to a period of 3 years.
Remuneration is paid according to TVöD Bund, salary group E13.
Application Deadline: 30 August 2024
Job title: Research Fellow in Financing Essentials and Debt (FED) – Hertfordshire Business School, Hertfordshire, UK
FTE: 1 fte (working 37 hours per week)
Salary: UH7 £37,099 pa with potential to progress to £44,263 pa by annual increments on achieving designated skills and experience
Annual Leave: 35 days plus standard public holidays and an additional 4 days including the closure of our office between Christmas and New Year
Location: De Havilland Campus, Hatfield
Main duties and responsibilities
The candidate will be working with Prof Hulya Dagdeviren and undertake research (into uses of debt by different social classes and sectors of economy) in support of publication and grant-bidding with key research staff in the Business School. The post holder undertake research within the scope of the project, establishing a programme of research activity working collaboratively with colleagues at UH and partner organisations. They will seek external funding, attending project meetings, disseminate the outcomes of projects in various formats and supervise student projects.
Skills and experience required
Applicants are expected to have skills in quantitative and/or qualitative research methods and a willingness to develop impactful research to the benefit of wider society. An ability to analyse large-scale data, use STATA and/or GIS mapping software is welcome. You must be organised, conscientious and able to work both independently and within a research team. You will join a team of researchers and the initial project work will be supported by a Contestable Research Grant from the Business School to pump-prime work in this area.
Qualifications required
An undergraduate honours degree at a minimum 2:2 (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline as well as A PhD (or equivalent qualification), or close to completion of PhD (no more than 3 months prior to viva) in a relevant subject area, or equivalent experience.
Please view the job description and person specification for a full list of the duties and essential criteria. Please attach a personal statement showing clearly how your skills and experience match the Person Specification.
An appointment to this role may require an Academic Technology Approval Scheme (ATAS) certificate.
This post cannot be visa sponsored unless the applicant has a PhD / Doctorate.
Contact Details/Informal Enquiries: Professor Hulya Dagdeviren (h.dagdeviren@herts.ac.uk)
Closing Date: 22 September 2024
Interview Date: TBC
Our vision is to transform lives: UH is committed to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion and building a diverse community. We welcome applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of their protected characteristics, and recognise there are different ways applicants may achieve the criteria in this document. We offer a range of employee benefits including generous annual leave, flexible location opportunities within the UK, discounted Sports Village memberships and free Active Staff sessions, personal and professional development and family-friendly policies. #GoHerts
Application Deadline: 22 September 2024
Job title: Monetary Policy Economist at Dezernat Zukunft – Institute for Macrofinance, Berlin, Germany
The world is changing. Our values — dignity, prosperity and democracy — are not. Help us improve European monetary policy so it better realises those values.
We are looking for people who share our values as well as our commitment to quality; who believe that the production of knowledge can support positive change; and who want to analyse monetary policy (quantitatively and qualitatively) and make proposals for improving it.
We offer you an environment in which you and your ideas can develop into the best version of themselves. Dezernat Zukunft will help you improve your skills and grow your public profile, bring your ideas and analyses into public debates, whether through German or English daily or weekly newspapers, publications in magazines for experts and civil servants, podcasts, interviews or on TV.
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What we expect
What we offer
If you are interested in this position:
Application Deadline: 11 August 2024.
Job title: 2-3 years predoc position in methodologies of monetary theories - Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
The OeNB's Anniversary Fund project "Carl Menger as a Central Banker? From the Origin to the Future of Money" (PI Alexander Linsbichler) at the Institute of Philosophy and Scientific Method (Johannes Kepler University Linz) seeks candidates for one 2-3 years predoc position.
Deadline for applications: 30.09.2024
Applications will be possible as of 05.09.2024 at the job portal of Johannes Kepler University Linz: https://karriere.jku.at/hcm/jobexchange/showJobOfferList.do
Start date: 01.01.2025 (or as soon as possible after that)
End date: 31.12.2026
Possible extension to 31.12.2027 (with 30-40 hours per week)
More information about the project: https://www.jku.at/en/institute-of-philosophy-and-scientific-method/research-projects/carl-menger-as-a-central-banker-oenb/
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Your Qualifications:
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Application Deadline: 30 September 2024
Job title: Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Ecological Macroeconomics, University of Barcelona, Spain
The University of Barcelona is looking for an outstanding postdoctoral researcher in ecological economics to work on an exciting project entitled “Towards a Sustainable Well-being Economy: Integrated Policies and Transformative Indicators” (ToBe). This is a 2-year position, with an anticipated start date of November 2024.
The postdoctoral researcher will help develop a novel ecological macroeconomic model that includes a wide range of indicators of human well-being and environmental sustainability (such as those in the “Doughnut” of social and planetary boundaries). The model will be used to assess different policy packages aimed at achieving a sustainable economy. The researcher may also contribute to research to understand the time-use requirements of achieving a good life for all people within planetary boundaries.
The successful candidate will join a cutting-edge research team working on ecological economics and political ecology, with a particular focus on “post-growth” approaches. The motivation for this research is the observation that GDP growth is no longer improving people’s lives in wealthy nations, and yet it is contributing to a worsening ecological crisis. A new economic paradigm is needed.
The ideal candidate will have a PhD in an area such as ecological economics, environmental studies, natural/social sciences, feminist economics, etc. Expertise in quantitative research methods and computer programming is essential. Knowledge of topics such as system dynamics, time-use data, human well-being, planetary boundaries, provisioning systems, machine learning, and/or material flow analysis is desirable. Experience with existing ecological macroeconomic models (e.g. Eurogreen, LowGrow SFC, PyMedeas) would be advantageous. Note that we do not expect a single candidate to know all of these areas.
We strongly value motivation and initiative, along with skills such as problem solving, professional writing, organisational skills, and the ability to work as part of an international team.
The position will be based in the Faculty of Economics, at the University of Barcelona (Spain), under the supervision of Dr Daniel O’Neill and Dr Federico Demaria.
Completion of a PhD by the start date of the contract is a requirement for the position.
How to Apply
Please submit your CV, a 1-page cover letter, and a 1-page research proposal to Dr Daniel O’Neill and Dr Federico Demaria at ecoeco.recruitment@gmail.com no later than Monday, 2 September 2024, 23:59 CET. The subject of your email should be: “Application for ToBe Position”.
Within your 1-page cover letter, please indicate how your skills and experience match the position. Within your 1-page proposal, please discuss how you would integrate environmental and social indicators, such as those within the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries, into a macroeconomic model.
Please ask two referees to submit reference letters for you to ecoeco.reference@gmail.com by 2 September 2024, 23:59 CET. The subject of their emails should be: “Reference for YOUR NAME”.
Deadline to apply:Monday, 2 September 2024, 23:59 CET
Start date of position: November 2024
Salary: €36,250 per year
Online interviews are expected to be held the second week of September 2024.
The successful candidate will join one of the top groups of post-growth researchers in the world. We work closely as a team, and the successful candidate is expected to live and work in the Barcelona area. Applicants who are not willing to live and work in the Barcelona area will not be considered for this position. Barcelona is a dynamic city on the Mediterranean, with a very high quality of life. The University of Barcelona is generally regarded as the top university in Spain, and one of the best in Europe.
We are committed to advancing the careers of junior women researchers, and researchers from under-represented backgrounds, who are encouraged to apply.
Application Deadline: 2 September 2024
Job title: PhD scholarship: "The political consequences of financial and trade shocks: historical evidence from individual level panel-data in Catalonia, 1920-1950", University of Barcelona, Spain
We invite applications for a 4-year full-time pre-doctoral position starting in March 2025 (tentative). Successful applicants would work as part of the project.
Summary of the project: The project explores the political consequences of income and wealth shocks, with a focus on the changing democratic attitudes of elites during periods of economic instability. It focuses on the crucial years of 1919-1950, which include some of history’s main episodes of financial and real economic distress against the background of a rapidly changing political environment, including the Spanish Civil War and its aftermath. The project addresses key research questions for current scholarly debates in Political Science, Economic History and Political Economy, related to the effects of wealth and income shocks on political elites’ and individuals’ stance towards democracy, incumbent political institutions and their role in democratisation processes, as well as their legacies. The selected doctoral candidate will contribute by extending these research topics.
Specific requirements: grant candidates must have a background in quantitative Political Science, Economic History and/or Economics. Working knowledge of statistics and econometrics software such as Stata or R is required, and familiarity with OCR and data digitalization software, as well as ArcGIS is desirable.
Interested candidates should submit their expression of interest by sending (i) CV, (ii) a letter of interest and (iii) a sample of recent academic work (MSc thesis, working paper, etc.) to Francesc Amat (francesc.amat@ub.edu) and Enrique Jorge-Sotelo (enriquejorgesotelo@ub.edu) before September 5, 2024.
The letter of interest (500 words max) should detail your past experience, interest in the project’s areas, and why you would be an outstanding candidate for this pre-doctoral position.
Application Deadline: 5 September 2024
Job title: Post-Doctoral Position in modern economic and social history – Faculty of Cultural Studies, Bayreuth, Germany
The Bayreuth group in Economic and Social History combines historical research methods with quantitative economic history in teaching and research. Our research focusses on global trade and the world economy of the 20 century, business history in particular of multinational enterprises and political economy. We offer a stimulating research environment, which strongly promotes ambitious research ideas and internal and external research cooperation. Funding for conference travel, research assistants and seminar invitations is available. Our teaching focus is on the master’s programme “History & Economics”, which offers a unique interdisciplinary education in history and economics.
Your profile
Your responsibility
The appointment beginns on April 1, 2025. It is initially limited to 3 years with the possibility of renewal for another 3 years. Payment follows the scale of A13 for civil servants (non-permanent).
The University of Bayreuth values the diversity of its employees as an enrichment and is expressly committed to the goal of equal opportunities for all genders. Women are strongly encouraged to apply in this regard. Individuals who bring more diversity to the research and teaching profile of the University of Bayreuth are explicitly invited to apply. Applicants with children are very welcome. The University of Bayreuth is a member of the Best Practice Club "Familie in der Hochschule e. V.", has successfully participated in the HRK audit "Internationalization of the University" and offers dual career support. Persons with severe disabilities will be given preferential consideration if they are equally qualified.
Application Deadline: 15 October 2024
Job title: Assistant or Associate Professor, Environment and Society, Work type: Faculty Full-Time
The Josef Korbel School of International Studies of the University of Denver seeks to hire a tenure-line assistant or associate professor focused on the societal, economic, and developmental impacts of and responses to environmental change. The position will commence in September 2025.
The successful candidate for this position will demonstrate outstanding potential at the assistant level or an outstanding record at the associate level as both a scholar and a teacher in an interdisciplinary school and will complement the expertise of the existing faculty who specialize in environmental issues. We will give special consideration to scholars who focus on the societal, economic, and developmental consequences of climate change on such matters as economic development, social vulnerability, human well-being, security, and democracy, environmental justice, and/or the efficacy of societal and technological responses to them, including public policies, corporate environmental and social governance, climate adaptation, energy transition, and environmental activism.
The faculty member in this position will be prepared to teach core courses in the Korbel School’s MA in Global Environmental Sustainability, which also enrolls students from other Korbel graduate programs and in the Korbel School’s undergraduate programs. Through research and outreach, the person in this position will contribute to the growth of the School’s environmental programs and commitment to engaged scholarship.
The Korbel School is a leader in public and international affairs education and scholarship, with two undergraduate majors, six MA programs, and an MPP program. We are deeply committed to building a diverse and inclusive educational environment and particularly seek candidates with research, teaching, service, or life experiences that can contribute to realizing that commitment. Candidates must demonstrate the ability to work effectively with ethnically/racially diverse populations. The ideal candidate demonstrates experience and versatility in inclusive pedagogy. We also encourage applications from candidates with non-traditional career paths and from international applicants.
Position Summary
Completed applications received by September 20, 2024, will be guaranteed full consideration. A complete application includes a cover letter, a CV, up to two writing samples, at least one-course syllabus, and (three separate) statements on research, teaching, and how, as a faculty member, the applicant would contribute to values and practices embracing diversity, equity, and inclusivity. Please refer to the University of Denver’s DEI Resources for further information. Applicants should also arrange for three letters of recommendation that referees should submit directly through the University of Denver job application portal. These materials are to be submitted through the University of Denver's online application system at Pioneer Jobs. Questions can be directed to Sage.Brewer@du.edu.
The University of Denver is committed to enhancing the diversity of its faculty and staff. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of age, race, color, national origin, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, military/veteran status or any other status protected by law.
Required Qualifications
A PhD or equivalent in public policy, economics, sociology, political science, political economy, or related field. Applicants with degrees from interdisciplinary environmental and natural resource programs or from the natural sciences will be considered but must also demonstrate a clear connection to the social sciences.
The ability to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental economics, sustainable development, environmental politics, or environmental justice, as indicated by evidence of teaching experience or potential.
Scholarly publications or other evidence of high research potential.
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with research that engages, or has the potential to engage, with various policy communities and stakeholders.
Experience in obtaining or applying for sponsored research funding.
Experience collaborating with scholars in other disciplines.
Working Environment
Standard office environment.
Unexpected interruptions occur often and stress level is moderate to high.
Noise level is quiet to moderate.
Physical Activities
Ability to sit in front of a computer for an extended period of time.
Occasionally required to move about the office/campus with the capability of transporting objects up to 20 lbs.
Work Schedule
While the University's administrative offices are open Monday – Friday, 8:00 am – 4:30 pm, faculty schedules vary from term to term and are based on courses taught, service commitments, and research agendas. The University's academic calendars are posted on the registrar's website.
Application Deadline
For consideration, please submit your application materials by 4:00 p.m. (MST) September 20, 2024.
Special Instructions
Candidates must apply online through jobs.du.edu to be considered. Only applications submitted online will be accepted.
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The salary grade for the position is UC.
Salary Range:
The salary range for this nine-month position is $88,000 - $98,000 at the Assistant Professor level and $105,000 - $120,000 at the Associate Professor level.
The University of Denver has provided a compensation range that represents its good faith estimate of what the University may pay for the position at the time of posting. The University may ultimately pay more or less than the posted compensation range. The salary offered to the selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal salary equity considerations, and available market information, but not based on a candidate’s sex or any other protected status.
Benefits:
The University of Denver offers excellent benefits, including medical, dental, retirement, paid time off, tuition benefit and ECO pass. The University of Denver is a private institution that empowers students who want to make a difference. Learn more about the University of Denver.
Please include the following documents with your application:
Curriculum Vitae
Cover Letter
2 Writing Samples
Course Syllabus
Research Statement
Teaching Statement
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Application Deadline: 20 September 2024
Job title: Researcher (PhD-candidate) - Department of Socioeconomics, Hamburg, Germany
The position is for a research assistant (PhD) at the department of Socioeconomics (University of Hamburg). Your tasks will include academic services, primarily in research and teaching. There will be opportunities for further academic training, in particular for writing a dissertation; at least one third of the respective working hours will be available for this purpose.
Academic collaboration at the Chair of Economics, in particular Empirical Economic Research (Prof. Dr. Ulrich Fritsche). The area of responsibility includes scientific services in the areas of research and teaching with a focus on quantitative methods of empirical economic research. Teaching (mainly in German) in the scope of 3 LVS takes place primarily in economics and interdisciplinary basic courses, macroeconomic basic courses as well as in the field of econometrics and quantitative methods at the Department of Socioeconomics.
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Application Deadline: 1 October 2024
Job title: Post-Doctoral Researcher in Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000 – European Networks, University of Oxford - Faculty of History, UK
We are seeking a Post-Doctoral Researcher to join a major 5-year research project, Global Correspondent Banking 1870-2000, funded by the European Research Council Advanced Grant scheme, led by Professor Catherine R. Schenk and based at the University of Oxford, Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford.
The Role
The overall objective is to analyze the changing shape of international correspondent banking networks across the 20th century using quantitative and qualitative research methods. Alongside a cohort of up to five Post-Doctoral researchers, the Researcher will be attached to a research stream that will use archival research and advanced statistical analysis to explore the dynamics of correspondent banking relationships in Europe during this period, including the banks’ strategy and the impact of economic and political shocks.
The successful candidate will manage own academic research and administrative activities, which involves small scale project management, to co-ordinate multiple aspects of work to meet deadlines. They will also prepare working theories and analyse qualitative and/or quantitative data from a variety of sources, reviewing and refining theories as appropriate, and maintain good communication with the project administrator, report regularly to the Principal Investigator and contribute to the reporting requirements for the project funder.
About you
You will possess sufficient specialist knowledge in a relevant discipline, which may include expertise in financial history or another cognate discipline, and knowledge of European economic history from 1870-2000. You will have experience in managing data through spreadsheets and databases and applying statistical methods to data (e.g. R, Stata, GIS), as well as experience in archival research and collection of quantitative data. Fluency in reading more than one European language, with willingness to travel to archives in Europe where appropriate, is essential.
You will hold a relevant PhD/DPhil, or evidence that a doctorate is close to completion, together with relevant experience. You will have excellent communication and data handling skills, a demonstrable capacity for independent research, be capable of managing your own academic research and associated activities, and have previous experience of contributing to publications and/or presentations. Expertise in programming and geographic/networking software as applied to large databases, and experience of actively collaborating in the development of research articles for publication would be desirable.
This post is full time, fixed-term for one year.
Application Process
For an informal discussion about the role, please contact Professor Catherine R Schenk: catherine.schenk@history.ox.ac.uk.
You will be required to complete a supporting statement, setting out how you meet the selection criteria, curriculum vitae and the names and contact details of two referees as part of your online application.
Only applications submitted online and received before noon Friday 30 August 2024 can be considered.
Please note that you will receive an automated email from our online recruitment portal to confirm receipt of your application. Please check your spam/junk mail if you do not receive this email. You may also receive updates on the status of your application via the same means.
Application Deadline: 30 August 2024
The History of Economics Society and the Journal of the History of Economic Thought have recently created a new prize for the best article published in JHET by an early career scholar. This award is designed to acknowledge the exceptional contributions of researchers in the early stages of their academic careers and provide them with further recognition within our scholarly community.
We are delighted to announce that the selection committee, consisting of Manuela Mosca (chair), Verena Halsmayer, and Jeff Biddle, have decided to give this year's award to Soroush Marouzi, for the paper "Frank Plumpton Ramsey and the Politics of Motherhood".
The article deals with the way in which Frank Ramsey’s family and intellectual context, including contemporary debates surrounding socialism, psychoanalysis and feminism, influenced his attitude towards various proposals for governmental assistance to working class families. The paper’s thesis is that Ramsey's support of a “family endowment” policy emphasizing the economic value of women’s domestic work was in line with the views of England’s “new feminists”, a variety of English feminism at odds with the “liberal feminism” of women affiliated with the British Labour party. The paper’s interdisciplinary approach does not neglect the economic aspect, as it is focused on Ramsey's opinion on the role of women in the economy. The article is beautifully written, offers a neat balance of primary and secondary sources, and skillfully blends intellectual history with social history.
More information about the JHET Early Career Scholar Award can be found on the HES website at:
https://historyofeconomics.org/awards-and-honors/jhet-early-career-scholar-award/
The History of Economics Society is delighted to announce the winner of this year's Craufurd Goodwin Best Article in the History of Economics Prize.
The Goodwin Prize Committee, consisting of Nesrine Bentemessek (chair), Alain Marciano, and Katia Caldari, awarded the Prize for Best Article to Margarita Fajardo for “CEPAL, the 'International Monetary Fund of the Left'? The Tale of Two Global Institutions”, published in the American Historical Review 128(2), 2023.
In this article, Margarita Fajardo extensively explores the intertwined historical trajectories of both the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL), examining how they forged their institutional identities. Emerging from the same global context, these institutions, within two decades of their establishment, had come to embody contrasting visions of the world economic order. While the IMF became associated with the ascent of monetarism and subsequently neoliberalism, CEPAL staunchly advocated for structuralism and dependency theory in opposition to monetarism, earning the epithet of the "IMF of the left" To unravel this intricate narrative, Margarita Fajardo adeptly employed various sources, including the IMF archive, personal archives of CEPAL economists (referred to as cepalinos), and primary published documents of CEPAL.
Beyond offering valuable historical insights into the formation of these institutions' identities, Fajardo's paper delves into the ongoing debate surrounding their economic ideologies. It illuminates a fresh perspective on understanding the history of monetarism, emphasizing that it wasn't solely an academic or theoretical evolution associated with figures like Milton Friedman, Chicago School of Economics, and the Mont Pelerin Society. Instead, it was also a response to policy discussions in the Global South and to the influential structuralist ideas propagated by CEPAL.
This article offers an original study of the mutual antagonism between these two institutions while also shedding light on the economic debates inherent in the processes of shaping their political and economic identities. In this regard, through this richly researched, well-written, and impeccably structured article, Margarita Fajardo significantly contributes to our understanding of global institutional history and economic governance.
Previous award winners can be found on the HES website at:
https://historyofeconomics.org/awards-and-honors/best-article-prize/
The History of Economics Society is pleased to reveal the winner of this year's Distinguished Fellow Award.
The award committee, consisting of three past presidents of the Society -- Marcel Boumans, Evelyn Forget and Jeff Biddle -- decided to honor Sandra J. Peart as the 2024 HES Distinguished Fellow.
Below is an excerpt from one of the supporting letters, submitted by Marianne Johnson:
Professor Peart served as the HES president in 2007 – 2008. The conference she hosted in Fairfax is famous as the only one to turn a tidy profit – largely thanks to her ingenious entrepreneurship. However, the presidency was but one service she gave to the society. Professor Peart was a member of the committee responsible for the rewriting of the constitution. In addition, she recently returned to the society’s leadership in an elected position on the Executive Committee. Her largest impact, however, has been via the establishment and nurturing of the society’s Young Scholars program. Since 2000, this program has assisted more than 250 graduate students and early career scholars to attend the annual HES conference – these include the society’s president and half of the current Executive Committee. There is no doubt that the program has been invaluable, both for encouraging the study of the history of economics and for filling the ranks of the HES. The program, by providing high-quality feedback, introducing young scholars to the editors of journals in our field, and connecting young scholars with more experienced ones, has done much to establish careers. Professor Peart’s enthusiasm for young historians also manifested in her long-running Summer Institute (2004 – 2016) which brought young scholars, titans in the field of the history of economics, and Nobel Prize recipients together for several days of presentations, serious discussion, and socializing. As someone who personally benefited from her programs, I cannot thank Professor Peart enough for this support.
Professor Peart’s scholarly contributions to the field of the history of economics are vast – eleven books, nearly 100 journal articles, and twenty reviews – in addition to invited lectures, podcasts, and opeds. Her work spans from the Classical School to contemporary policy. She has written – often in collaboration with her partner in crime, David Levy – on Adam Smith, William Stanley Jevons, John Stuart Mill, Charles Darwin, Friedrich Hayek, James Buchanan, Carl Menger, and Walter Lippman. More impressive than the catalog of individuals, is the catalog of ideas she has explored: slavery, egalitarianism, liberalism, socialism, individualism, eugenics, racism, leadership, ethics, statistical methodology, and the Soviet Union. This breadth has not compromised depth, as the scholarship is serious and thoughtful, pushing the history of economics in several new directions.
The Distinguished Fellow Award recognizes those who have made substantial contributions in a lifetime of study to the history of economics – and in Professor Peart’s case, we can add in addition, substantial contributions to the institutions that support the study of the history of economics.
Previous award winners can be found on the HES website at:
https://historyofeconomics.org/awards-and-honors/distinguished-fellow/
The History of Economics Society is delighted to announce the winner of this year's Joseph Dorfman Best Dissertation in the History of Economics Prize.
The Dorfman Prize Committee, consisting of Giandomenica Becchio (chair), Jean-Baptiste Fleury, and Juan Carlos Acosta, awarded the Prize for Best Dissertation to Andrés Guiot-Isaac, for the work “The Emergence of an Economic Technocracy in Colombia, 1948-1974".
Dr. Guiot-Isaac’s dissertation is an outstanding research work that sheds light on the emergence and consolidation of professional economists as experts in economic decision-making in Colombia during the period 1948-1974. It expertly combines interviews and archival research—from both Colombian and US collections—to produce a highly original and rigorous analysis of the Colombian case, and a valuable contribution to the larger literature on the international circulation and consolidation of economic expertise after World War II. Dr. Guiot-Isaac's dissertation also excels in its clarity, organization, and the overall quality of its writing.
Congratulations to Andrés!
Previous award winners can be found on the HES website at:
https://historyofeconomics.org/awards-and-honors/dorfman-dissertation-prize/
The History of Economics Society is delighted to announce the winner of this year's Joseph J. Spengler Best Book Prize.
The Spengler Prize committee, consisting of Laurie Bréban (chair), Alexandra Hyard, and Stephen Meardon, decided to award the 2023 prize to H. Spencer Banzhaf for the book Pricing the Priceless: A History of Environmental Economics (Cambridge University Press, 2023).
Although focused on the postwar history of pricing the environment in the United States, Spencer Banzhaf's work recaptures, with a wider lens, the history of applied microeconomics in the 20th century. And that is its great quality. Through his subject, Banzhaf provides an original perspective on the interactions, from the beginning of the 20th century until the 1980's, among different areas of economics, schools of thought, and private and public institutions pertaining to the natural environment -- some of whose histories have been well documented for other purposes, but never so thoroughly or imaginatively for his purpose. That is, to understand what becomes of both the economics of the environment and environmental policy as economists grapple with a pair of timeless questions.
In applying the methods of economics to management of the environment, should the analysis be limited to environmental resources and amenities that are traded in markets? Such an analysis might be done confidently and convincingly within the boundaries of the field, but it would omit consideration of resources and amenities valued in other senses. On the other hand, suppose the analysis is extended, so the methods of economics are applied to study what is not traded in markets. By quantifying it, might economics distort our valuation of it, and even debase it?
In scrutinizing the specific subfields of agricultural and natural resource economics, Banzhaf questions the influence typically attributed to welfare economics in the formation of environmental economics, suggesting a more complex history of the relationships between these fields. To paraphrase him: there was a big time gap between Pigou's early 20th-century writings about environmental externalities and serious consideration of the notion in the economics literature, a gap which "raises the possibility that other currents were at work" for the succeeding half century (p. 18).
Those currents Banzhaf navigates masterfully. We learn, for example, about the role of Resources for the Future, established from Ford Foundation seed money to address Cold-War apprehensions about the anticipated scarcity of environmental resources, but whose economists' apprehensions, like those of John Krutilla, turned from the quantity of resources to their quality. We learn, for another example, about the parallel turn in agricultural economics, whose practitioners became ensconced in the Federal bureaucracy, from the Department of Agriculture to the Interior, where their concerns about water resources broadened from flood control to providing for recreational benefits -- and led from there to new concerns about the more diffuse benefits of water that could thereby be threatened. With new concerns came new thinking in environmental economics, innovations in the economic valuation of non-monetary costs and benefits, the legacies of which are manifest in the field today.
As much as the committee was edified by Banzhaf's history, it was impressed by his meticulous analysis of primary literature, his revisitation of well known texts in ways that challenge preconceived notions, and his own appreciation of valuable works by other historians of economic thought whom he cites comprehensively. We are delighted to announce him the winner of the Joseph Spengler Book Prize for 2024.
Previous award winners can be found on the HES website at:
https://historyofeconomics.org/awards-and-honors/spengler-book-prize/
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Horacio Reyes-Gómez, Enrique Genaro Martínez-González, Jorge Aguilar-Ávila, Norman Aguilar-Gallegos: Sustainable agri-food systems: the case of the avocado value chain in Mexico
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Samuele Bibi: The Distributive Monetary Analysis of a (un)Sustainable Economy
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Steven Pressman: Dealing with Rising Inequality: Is the Fed Up for the Task, or Will Everyone Get Fed Up?
Patricia Couto & Clara Brenck: Monetary Policy and the Gender and Racial Employment Dynamics in Brazil
Matheus Trotta Vianna: Monetary Policy and Income Distribution in a Multisectoral AB-SFC Model
Guillermo Matamoros: Are Firm Markups Boosting Inflation? A Post-Keynesian Institutionalist Approach to Markup Inflation in Select Industrialized Countries
Alex M. Thomas: Classical Economics and the Question of Aggregate Demand
Ramiro E. Alvarez: The Advanced Stage of Industrialisation and the Argentine Pendulum: A Classical-Structuralist Approach
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Edited by Erik S. Reinert & Ingrid Harvold Kvangraven | Edward Elgar, 2024
In contrast to neo-classical mainstream approaches to economics, this innovative Modern Guide addresses the complex reality of economic development as an inherently uneven process, exploring the ways of theorizing and empirically exploring the mechanisms with which the unevenness manifests itself. It covers a wide array of issues influencing wealth and poverty, technological innovation, ecology and sustainability, financialization, population, gender, and geography, considering the dynamics of cumulative causations created by the interplay between these factors.
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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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Edited by Saul Estrin & Milica Uvalic | Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
This book, the first of two volumes, brings together the work of Domenico Mario Nuti to highlight his significant and varied contribution to economics. Bringing together works from across Nuti’s career, his distinctive intellectual framework is exemplified in relation to discussions on the drivers of economic growth and development, the most efficient economic system, the organisation of firms, and how economies should be managed. This volume gives particular attention to socialist economic systems, and the transition of former socialist countries to market economies. This book, through the inclusion of an introduction, aims to contextualise his ideas and illustrate their continued relevance. It will be of wide interest to students and researchers.
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Edited by Saul Estrin & Milica Uvalic | Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
This book, the second of two volumes, brings together the work of Domenico Mario Nuti to highlight his significant and varied contribution to economics. Bringing together works from across Nuti’s career, his distinctive intellectual framework is exemplified in relation to discussions on the drivers of economic growth and development, the most efficient economic system, the organisation of firms, and how economies should be managed. This volume gives particular attention to Nuti’s views about how economic systems evolve, about the possibilities for various forms of economic democracy; and his analysis of East-West integration and globalization. The volume also contains a bibliography of his works.
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Edited by Anna-Theresa Renner, Leonhard Plank and Michael Getzner | Edward Elgar 2024
This timely Handbook showcases cutting-edge empirical and theoretical social science research to shed light on the role, aims and functioning of social infrastructure (SI). Leading scholars present unique insights on topics such as healthcare, childcare, education, employment and SI for marginalized groups alongside cultural and recreational infrastructures.
Ongoing global and regional crises have underscored the significance of SI services and facilities in enhancing individual well-being, social cohesion and equality. With this central tenet in mind, contributing authors challenge traditional views on public welfare systems throughout the Handbook to take into account the climate, care and housing crises. They provide an in-depth examination of the concept of SI and how it relates to different strands of research such as welfare state analysis and urbanism, connecting the field with other emerging strands of conceptualizing socio-economic processes such as the foundational economy approach.
Paving the way for further research, the Handbook of Social Infrastructure is a vital resource for students and scholars of sociology, regional and urban economics, cities, urban planning and geography, and public sector economics and finance. Policy-makers will find it equally beneficial to inform their understanding of spatial planning and economic and social policies.
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By Michael Roos | Springer 2024
This textbook serves as an introduction to the rising field of complexity economics. In thirteen chapters, it provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of the concepts and methods of complexity economics and their applications to economic issues. The book explains that the complexity approach is not just another method, but a worldview that is different from the one of academics with neoclassical training. By contrasting complexity economics with neoclassical economics, the readers are induced to reflect on their own unconscious beliefs about the economic world and develop their own approach to dealing with the pervasive complexities and uncertainties of reality. The first five chapters serve as an introduction and overview. Chapters 6 - 12 present the core concepts of the book. Each of the seven chapters introduces a key concept of complexity and provides applications to economics topics. The final chapter discusses the implications of complexity thinking for economic policy and for the future development of economics.
This textbook addresses advanced undergraduate students and graduate students of economics, interested in a better understanding of the concepts and the way of thinking in complexity economics, as well as in acquiring a sound technical foundation to understand most of the research literature.
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By S. Niggol Seo | Edward Elgar, 2024
This engaging book contributes to the contemporary environmental and natural sciences by offering a comparative intellectual framework. S. Niggol Seo provides an exposition of four pressing modern problems through the Buddhist perspective which he calls the environmental philosophy of the old age.
Illustrating an insightful contrast between modern scientific and economic approaches, and the Buddhist viewpoint, this book examines key environmental issues such as species protection, pollution, natural resource use and global climate change. Through a comprehensive explanation of the pertinent Buddhist philosophy and eleven Buddhist instruments, it unpacks the rich intellectual resources relating to modern environmental and nature studies that have been treasured in the Buddhist Canons and commentaries for thousands of years. This book provides a rare opportunity to reflect on the ongoing climate crisis using a time-tested thought system.
Environmentalists and scholars studying development economics, environmental economics, radical economics and climate change will find this book’s combined outlook thought-provoking and illuminating. Policymakers will also find the chapters on how to tackle global challenges including climate change and environmental pollution to be an excellent resource.
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Edited by Jutta Günther, Dagmara Jajeśniak-Quast, Udo Ludwig & Hans-Jürgen Wagener | Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
This open access book examines how different economic systems impacted the development of East Germany and Poland. Through comparing these countries while they were centrally planned socialist economies with the periods when they transitioned to capitalism, the inability of socialist economies to modernize effectively and produce sustained economic growth is highlighted. Particular attention is given the role of technological progress in economic growth, peculiar institutions, the creation and transfer of knowledge, and post-socialist transformations.
The book presents a detailed analysis of the barriers to modernization and growth implied by Soviet-type state socialism and the differences and similarities between the transition of East Germany and Poland to capitalist market economies. It will be relevant to students and researchers interested in comparative systems and the political economy.
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By Sylvia Sztern | Palgrave Macmillan, 2024
This book explores the impact of railroads on 19century Russian peasant collectivism. The mutual-insurance mechanism in a precarious agricultural environment, provided bya structured communal-village system predicated on the reputation and authorityof community norms,is exposed to rationalist exchange—occasioning an institutional adaptation process:the individualization of property rights in land. Spatial-mobility technology animated market integration, specialization, literacy,and human-capital acquisition among peasant wage workers who commuted from their villages.Temporarily rising transaction costs forced the Tsar to concede household property rights in land in the so-called Stolypin reform of 1906.This challenge to the imperial patrimony, powered by the railroads, steered late imperial Russia toward constitutional governance.The spatial-mobility technology gave peasants access to centers of agglomeration of knowledge, changedcognitive perceptions of distance, and reduced the uncertainty and opportunity costs of travel. The empirical findings in this monograph corroborate the conclusion that the railroads occasioned a cultural revolution in late imperial Russia and made Stalin unnecessary for the modernization of the Euro-asian giant.
This book highlights the profound effect that the development of the railroads had on Russian economic and political institutions and practices. It will be of indispensable valueto students and researchers interested in transitional economics and economic history.
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By Ayşe Buğra | Edward Elgar 2024
This invigorating book approaches social policy as a response to socioeconomic tensions and conflicts brought about by capitalist development, exploring how such policy reflects and shapes the world of work and socioeconomic life. Ayşe Buğra presents a historical overview of the ideas and politics of social policy in a discussion framed around the interrelated questions of poverty, work and inequality.
Tracing the origins of modern social policy back from the early capitalist societies of Europe to the present era of global neoliberal capitalism, Buğra explores the debates on social assistance, labour market regulation and social risk protection in different phases of capitalist history. Chapters discuss liberal, conservative and socialist imaginations of society and conceptualisations of social justice, highlighting the complexity of the conflicts and alliances shaping the politics of social policy. The book ultimately draws attention to the contemporary relevance of the history of social policy and politics for the current state of global politics, marked by the rise of authoritarian populist trends.
Bringing a unique perspective to critical scholarship on capitalism, Social Policy in Capitalist History will prove indispensable to academics and postgraduate students of economic history and sociology, social policy, industrial and employment relations and political economy.
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By Richard Westra | Routledge, 2024
Westra explores a nuanced literature on post-capitalism which claims that instead of constituting the end of history or ending in its supplanting by socialism, capitalism has transmuted into something else. Foci of this literature ranges from questions of financial system and technological change through evidence of shifting class contours metastasizing a more predatory constellation.
In exposing the dire consequences for humanity of capitalist unravelling, Westra remedies the lacunae of current writings which leave fundamental questions of what precisely capitalism is or was and the historical delimitations of capitalism unanswered. He not only critically analyzes the arguments over capitalisms passing under key rubrics of financialization, globalization, intangible assets and social class, but grounds determinations over the existence of capitalism in a novel synthetic definition of it drawn from Marx. While capitalism has always been an exploitative, asymmetric wealth distributive, alienating, class divisive, crises ridden society, Westra explains how current economic transmutations undermine what coherence capitalism had historically maintained.
This book, written in a clear and compelling fashion, is a clarion call for social change. It will be of interest to academics and students across fields of economics, political economy, economic history, political science and sociology as well as to progressive policymakers and social activists.
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The German Left party (Die Linke) in the European Parliament is looking for researchers to commission a study on food price controls.
High food price inflation has been a key factor in the current cost of living crisis in the EU. In some EU countries, such as Greece or Croatia, a cap on profit margins or consumer prices has been introduced to control the prices of certain food products. Against this background, the study would develop a model for the implementation of price controls in the EU agri-food sector (or German agri-food sector) with a view to ensure affordability. Preferably, the envisioned model would operate with a cap on the profit margins of agri-food companies (However, we are open to alternative suggestions). If possible, the study should include a discussion of market concentration/power in the agri-food sector. The geographical scope of the study should be either the EU in general or Germany. Importantly, the study should illustrate the concrete impact of the model providing an estimation of the potential to reduce prices either at macro-level or with a specific case study of a particular food product (e.g. pasta) or company. Overall, the aim is to develop policy solutions to tackle the cost of living crisis.
The report should be written in English or German. It should be between 20 and 30 pages long. The maximum budget for the study is 8000 EUR. We expect interested researchers to submit a competitive offer within the budget.
If you are interested, please send your expression of interest by the 2 September 2024 to christian.scholzalvarado@europarl.europa.eu. Please note that your expression of interest does not have to be a full offer/proposal. Instead, it should be in the form of a brief message, which explains your interest and suitability for this project, and which is accompanied by your CV.
Please note that we can only consider proposals of researchers based in the EU.
The Association Charles Gide pour l’histoire de la pensée économique is pleased to announce the establishment of its new research grant scheme “Bourse de recherche Charles Gide”.
As detailed in attached call for applications (also available on our website: https://www.charlesgide.fr/bourse-de-recherche-charles-gide/), the grant will fund research projects about French-speaking economic thought (that is, economic thought that was originally produced in French). Under this only condition, we welcome all applications, also from colleagues based outside France or French-speaking countries.
Young scholars (including PhD students and non-permanent researchers) are encouraged to apply.
The research grant Charles Gide will be awarded on a yearly basis from 2024 to (at least) 2029. The maximum amount of the grant for each year is 3000 euros. Application must be submitted by October 17, 2024. All practical information is summarized in the call for applications.
Application Deadline: 17 October 2024