Issue 335 November 18, 2024 web pdf Heterodox Economics Directory
Following Karl Polanyi's classic The Great Transformation we can understand how increased economic pressure through marketization and individualization contributes to the emergence of countermovements that, explicitly or implicitly, aim to preserve social cohesion. Historical examples for such countermovements may be bright (as in the case of the New Deal or the development of European welfare states), while others are seemingly darker (like, e.g., Nazi Germany or fascist Italy). At first sight, brightness might seem like a subjective concept here, but my intuitive understanding is that it is eventually governed by how narrow the respective movements conceptualize the 'we' that underscores their understanding of social cohesion in the first place. The reason for this is, simply, that narrow conceptions of 'we' can quickly undermine moral universalism and, hence, transgress into a lack of dignity for 'others', however conceived.
Against recent elections results, both in the US and elsewhere, Polanyi's perspective is of some merit to rationalize how and why economic developments and aspects impact electoral attitudes. A better understanding of how exactly feelings of economic insecurity interact with other core factors in recent elections, like increasing misogyny and racism or the rise of fake news and highly polarized modes of public debate, is probably needed. Still, I would assert that economic factors, like the decade-long increase in inequality paired with rising prices for basic goods, also played a key role in these elections (see also here for a similar take on 2016). In my view many people have the impression that the current system does not work in their favor (which is probably not too far off ;-), so they are going for some alternative, even if it might have bad smell.
If populist and anti-democratic forces gain more traction two main fields of tension will, in my humble view, be important to observe in the near future: the first is essential on a very general level and relates to the differences between rhetorics and reality. For both, radicalized 'populist' parties in Europe and the coming Trump administration it remains to be seen to what extent (or how quickly) their anti-democratic rhetorics tanslate into tendencies to actually dismantly democratic institutions and procedures. Opportunities for doing so are now there (e.g. in the US or Italy) and will probably come with greater frequency in the next years.
The second tension is more directly related to economics: as European populist parties often have a contradictory stance, combining cohesive, inclusive rhetoric with a rather libertarian take on economic policy issues, they are often quite compatible with standard economics in economic policy terms (but typically will have little interaction due to cultural differences). The situation is different with the coming Trump administration, which seemingly considers to implement some policy measures that could strengthen the position of the US middle class. Although only a small part of these policies can be rationalized (like increased trade regulation), while other seems highly disruptive (like expanding fossil sectors), it allowed the Republicans to create a narrative on how do to things differently – also in economic terms.
All in all, it remains that narratives about economic alternatives seemingly can gain traction in the current environments. Although we probably still need to find one that convincingly integrates ecological and social concerns on a sincere democratic basis, this is one of the very few optimistic conclusions I drew these days. I hope you understand the urge to share that one ;-)
All the best,
Jakob
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20-21 February 2025 | UFRJ-Praia Vermelha Campus, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2nd Agent-Based Macroeconomics Workshop (ABMW): Industrial Policy and Finance for Sustainable and Inclusive Growth
The second edition of the Agent-Based Macroeconomics Workshop (ABMW) brings together researchers and policy experts to explore pressing topics at the intersection of economic growth, inequality, industrialization, finance, and climate change. Taking the approach of modeling the economy as an Evolving Complex System, this edition of the workshop is dedicated to advancing our understanding of how industrial policy and finance can be combined to foster sustainable and inclusive growth.
The event welcomes both applied and theoretical research. It will address both global and Brazilian challenges, such as reducing income and wealth inequality, promoting sustainable economic growth, economic stability, and accelerating the green energy transition, by means of a combination of rigorous academic studies and practical policy insights.
Submission Process
Paper submission and participation are free of charge. A limited number of contributions will be selected. Researchers from academia and policy-oriented institutions are encouraged to apply, with preference given to contributions incorporating agent-based modeling approaches. Italian Economic Journal welcomes submissions of papers applying ABM in all areas of economics, presented at the workshop.
Submit your paper or an extended abstract of up to two pages by clicking here or by copying and pasting bit.ly/2ndABMWorkshop in your web browser. We encourage submissions from graduate students and young scholars. Additionally, postdoctoral researchers, Ph.D., and master’s students are invited to apply to the 6th Agent-Based Macroeconomics Summer School (ABaMSS).
No accommodation or travel expenses will be covered. However, selected participants may be granted a partial stipend through the Young Scholar Initiative (YSI) of INET, particularly in the case of graduate students and early career researchers living outside Rio de Janeiro.
More information is available on the official website.
Submission Deadline: 13 December 2024
18-20 June 2025 | King’s College, London, UK
We invite submissions of streams for the 27th Conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, taking place on June 18-20, 2025 at King’s College, London (Waterloo Campus), in London (UK). This is an event organised in collaboration with the Department of International Development at King’s College London.
The AHE conference seeks to support scholarship, activism, reflection, and debate on innovative and diverse heterodox and radical understandings of the global political economy. In the midst of multiple crises, including environmental breakdown, genocide, mental health crises, rise of authoritarianism, and crises of social reproduction, heterodox and radical approaches to economics and political economy are crucial for grappling with the challenges we face. We welcome submissions that challenge conventional economic paradigms, offer alternative frameworks for understanding and navigating these complex crises, and actively work towards radical social change.
What is a stream?
A stream is a session or series of sessions held at the conference organised on a specific theme. The stream coordinator will propose a theme for their stream and be responsible for selecting which papers and panels should be included in their stream from the regular call for papers (which may include roundtable and panel proposals too), organising the papers into sessions, and ensuring that there is a chair for each session. The AHE Academic Officers will be responsible for final decisions on paper selections, sending out acceptance letters, visa letters, and finalising the programme schedule.
The streams will typically involve one or more sessions that are based around 3-4 papers, optionally with a discussant(s). As stream coordinator, you may encourage your presenters to submit full papers in advance and/or agree on a post-conference publication plan, but this is optional. In the interest of encouraging discussions across theoretical traditions or schools of thought, we especially encourage streams organised by theme or topic rather than by discipline/theoretical tradition. However, streams organised by theoretical tradition will also be considered. We expect stream coordinators to especially encourage women, people of colour, early career scholars, and scholars based in the Global South when they advertise their stream for potential submitters. The AHE Conference Organising Committee may advise the stream coordinators on issues of equality, diversity and inclusivity.
To reiterate, the call for streams is not a call for a set of closed panels. Rather, it is a call for themes to which others will submit abstracts during the Call for Papers. However, we do encourage coordinators to give examples of papers they foresee will be included in their stream, if possible. Possible stream topics could include (but are certainly not limited to): Climate change, labour, money, finance, innovation, gender, race, economic development, economic and social policy, imperialism, economic history, history of economic thought, economics education, philosophy and methodology in economics. We encourage each stream proposal to list a minimum of two stream coordinators.
Timings
The Call for Streams is open until 29 Nov 2024. Decisions about stream proposals will be made by the AHE Conference Organising Committee and communicated to all proposing stream organisers by 9 December in time for the opening of the call for papers in mid-December. The Call for Papers deadline will be 14 February 2025. It will also be possible to submit individual panels and roundtables to the CfP to be considered for stream coordinators. Once the CfP has closed, stream organisers will be contacted with the submissions to their stream. Thereafter, they will have three weeks to evaluate the submissions and communicate their recommendations to the AHE Conference Organising Committee. This schedule will allow us to send out acceptances to presenters by early April 2025.
The conference will be in-person only. Click here to submit your stream proposal.
Deadline: 29 November 2024
Global Social Challenges Journal is calling for submissions for a special collection on Revolutionary Constitutionalism: Constitutionalism from below and for the next world system.
This Special Collection will advance an emergent field of scholarly research, which is coalescing around the concept of “revolutionary constitutionalism”, understood as the participatory practices of a social movement in deliberating, articulating, and constituting a new social order. This field of inquiry is in part a response to our current conjuncture and the failures of existing systems to address the multiple, intensifying and interconnected crises we face. Where the global social movement of the turn of the millennium declared ‘another world is possible’, scholarship on revolutionary constitutionalism examines both the sources as well as the emerging institutional contours and systemic designs of this other possible world.
Constitutions and constitution-making processes have often been understood as a province of technocrats and elites, removed from real-world struggles of the great multitudes of the world’s peoples. The articles in this collection will counter this persistent bias, drawing on scholarly studies of popular constitutionalism, revolutionary constitutionalism, the sociology of constitutions, prefigurative legalities, radical governance, systemic movements, and next system design to show the power and the relevance of constitutional politics in wider struggles for democracy, justice and ecological sustainability.
Submissions should address at least some aspects of the following questions:
We welcome exploration of these questions from a diverse range of empirical and theoretical perspectives. We seek contributions from community-based scholar activists, as well as those in the academy. We are particularly seeking contributions from writers based in and writing from perspectives of the Global South, though we also welcome contributions from scholars of all regions, who are grappling with these questions.
This Special Collection is a project of a new International Research Collaborative on Revolutionary Constitutionalism, supported by Next System Studies at George Mason University.
Submission Process
Interested authors should send a 250-word abstract to Special Collection Editors Dr Carys Hughes (carys.hughes@uel.ac.uk) and Dr Ben Manski (bmanski@gmu.edu) by 20 December 2024. Invitations for full paper submissions will be sent in mid-January 2025, and full papers will be due by end of March 2025.
Abstract submission deadline: 20 December 2024
20 May 2025 | Somerville College, Oxford, UK
Multidisciplinary Mill(s): John Stuart Mill Conference 2025
Building on the success of the John Stuart Mill Annual Lecture series which has been running since 2016, Somerville College will be launching a new one-day conference which aims to bring together researchers from the many disciplines in which the philosophy and thought of John Stuart Mill, his father, James Mill, his wife, Harriet Taylor Mill, or his stepdaughter Helen Taylor (from whom Somerville received Mill's library) has had an influence.
The conference will feature a keynote lecture by Michele M Moody-Adams, Joseph Straus Professor of Political Philosophy and Legal Theory at Columbia University. Professor Moody-Adams' paper will explore Mill's claim that Jeremy Bentham and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were the two great "half-men" of their time, asking whether this assertion illuminates Mill's view of the relationship between tradition and progress, or a fundamental ambivalence at the core of Mill's thought, and what this might tell us about Mill's understanding of truth.
We welcome equally submissions which develop the theme outlined by Professor Moody-Adams, or those which explore different themes. The key proviso is that your submission should explore the work of one of the Mills (John Stuart, James, Harriet or Helen) and should discuss other key figures only in relation to one of the Mills and not in the key figure's own right. After all, this is a conference dedicated to the Mills. Papers can be from any discipline of relevance to Mill, and we hope to see as many disciplines as possible represented at the conference.
In support of the aim of bringing together the many disciplines which reference Mill, we hope to facilitate cross-disciplinary conversations as well as inter-generational collaboration. We are seeking submissions from experienced researchers and early career researchers, including graduate students, and welcome submissions from those new to researching Mill.
For more information about the one-day conference and for details on how to submit a paper, please see the conference webpage or email Sarah Butler, Librarian at Somerville College.
Submission Deadline: 28 February 2025
1-3 July 2025 | online / 9-12 July 2025 | University of Montreal, Canada
The SASE Conference 2025 is taking place in July 2025 in Montréal, Québec. More information on the main conference is available on the official website and in the last issue of the heterodox economic newsletter.
Network Q 2025 Theme: Asian Capitalisms and Global Turbulence
The emergence of Asian capitalism(s) has raised a host of questions and a burgeoning literature on commonalities, differences and complementarities with capitalism in the West and other geographies. Similarly engaging has been the debate on the national, regional and international implications of globalizing Asian capitalism(s). Recently, research has sought to capture the dynamics of rising economic nationalism and ‘systemic competition’ in the global economy. Such concepts as armed interdependence, deglobalization, post-neoliberalism and a Second Cold War have been used to characterize the global resurgence of neo-mercantilist policies and rhetoric, industrial policies, trade and tech wars, regionally competing alliances, and decoupling tendencies among the world’s biggest industrial powers. These contestations are formulated in particular in relation to the emergence of a global China, expanding BRICS and expansionist Russia as perceived contenders of the US-led liberal international order. These dynamics may reverberate very differently within a region that covers the expanse of the Eurasian landmass to the Pacific Rim and the interaction with other emerging, late developing and peripheralized economies in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East. At the same time, growing South-South collaboration is reconfiguring the rules of the game and modes of cooperation around global issues such as digitalization, climate change and sustainable development. This turbulent state of affairs raises a whole set of questions on the combined and uneven development of 21st century Asian capitalism(s), in their interaction and encounter with other regions, and the possibility of new, reconfigured pathways of socio economic integration and eco-systems. This year’s network will put a special focus on newly emerging socio-economic ecosystems of industrial development and innovation in Asia and among Asian countries, and their potential as alternative pathways to the dominant pattern of geo-economics and -politics.
We hence welcome papers and panels around the following themes:
Topical issues related to globalizing Asian capitalism such as tech competition and geopolitical rivalry, public health and social protection, climate and sustainability, connectivity, rising economic nationalism, and economic decoupling and de-globalization, are particularly welcomed. We welcome individual papers but also specifically encourage participants to submit panel proposals.
Network Q 2025 Submission types
For the 2025 conference, Network Q, invites individual paper submissions, submissions for thematic panels, and Author-meets-Critics panels on recently published books. Moreover, since SASE 2025 is going to be an offline conference, Network Q is organizing two virtual sessions before the conference. Thematic panels can address any of the themes and issues above and should be based on paper drafts with a structured discussion including a discussant. Author-meets-Critics panels (“book salons“) are composed of a minimum of three discussants with relevant expertise on a recently published book speaking to Network Q themes. Note that SASE seeks to promote gender equality. We thus strongly encourage you to take gender balance into account in panel proposals.
Submissions should be done through the SASE website.
More information on other networks at SASE Conference is available here.
Submission Deadline: 16 December 2024
SASE Mini-Conference on “Democratic Economic Planning for the Real World (MC12)”
This SASE mini-conference (MC12) aims to bring together a new generation of researchers and practitioners interested in democratic economic planning from a postcapitalist perspective. It is the first conference organized by the International Network for Democratic Economic Planning (INDEP), a network launched in July 2024, bringing together more than 200 members from more than 15 countries under a unified web of knowledge exchange and collaboration. The two-day mini-conference will be part of the SASE Network I: Alternatives to Capitalism and will be held during the SASE conference in Montréal, Québec, Canada from July 9 to 12.
This mini-conference will be themed “Democratic Economic Planning for the Real World.” Theoretical models of democratic economic planning (DEP) are often criticized on the basis that they seem abstract and removed from our day-to-day lives. This criticism is partly valid, but it often neglects the work done by activists worldwide who build spaces and projects where postcapitalist structures and practices are of central importance. Therefore, we wish to bring researchers and practitioners together to build a robust dialogue that enlightens and enriches everyone in this burgeoning space.
We are interested in receiving proposals about postcapitalist models, visions, and experiences. Proposals could be tailored to the following themes, but these are not mandatory. Every proposal related to economic planning and postcapitalist political economy will be considered.
Scholars, practitioners, and researchers outside the university should submit their approximately 1000-word abstracts through the SASE submission webpage.
SASE Mini-Conference on "Extending the Debate on Craft Work, Precarity, and Organising in Artisanal Industries (MC2)"
A rich stream of academic research now exists analysing the resurgence of ‘craft’ and ‘artisanal’ forms of production and consumption in the new millennium, which can be considered a ‘third wave of craft’ (Jakob 2013). This resurgence has interested a broad spectrum of work configurations associated with the idea of prioritising human engagement over machine control (Kroezen et al. 2021). In particular, in addition to traditional forms of craft and DIY activities (Banks 2010; Luckman 2015; Patel 2024) the third wave is characterised by the symbolic re-signifying of manual jobs belonging to the service sector as ‘craft’ or artisanal (Ocejo 2017), in what is being labelled as the ‘neo-craft economy’ (Gandini and Gerosa 2023; Land 2018). These new forms of craft are being consistently associated with authentic urban places (Zukin 2010) and the modern urban middle class, characterised by inconspicuous consumption (Currid-Halkett 2017) and a culturally omnivorous ‘taste for the particular’ (Smith Maguire 2018). Despite its symbolic association with manual work and idealised imaginaries of the past (Bell, Dacin, and Toraldo 2021) in a movement ‘back to the future’ (Land 2018), the resurgence of craft also has deep connections with the development of the digital economy (Luckman 2020) and digital platforms, having itself become platformised (Gandini et al. 2024).
Overall, this third wave of craft is led by notions of craftsmanship (Sennett 2008) as an ideal of ‘good work’ against the alienation of ‘bullshit jobs’ (Graeber 2018) and authenticity as a multi-faceted and powerful imaginary of consumption for both producers and customers (Gerosa 2024; Thurnell-Read 2019). From this point of view, the new resurgence of craft seems to re-propose in renewed ways the long-standing meanings attributed to craftwork in opposition to industrial work (Braverman 1998) and to craft objects in opposition to industrial consumption goods (see, e.g., the Arts and Crafts movement). It is no surprise then that craft and neo-craft economies are commonly associated with desires for a better future (Bell, Dacin, and Toraldo 2021) and with progressive political sentiments, spanning from a critique of the industrial system and the consumer society (Ocejo, 2022) to more explicitly anti-capitalist visions. From artisan bakeries to craft breweries to heritage clothing producers, the neo-craft economy is one that promotes an image of quality and care, often discursively positioned as a counterweight to the impersonal, low-quality, and mass produced commodities of the mainstream, corporate economy.
More recently, a growing critical corpus of research is putting the craft and neo-craft phenomena under scrutiny. The explosion of “hipster” businesses and aesthetics has led to an increasing critical engagement concerning the impacts they have on urban space and communities (Wallace 2019). Research has denounced the gendered nature of neo-craft work (Thurnell-Read 2022; Land, Sutherland, and Taylor 2018) and the racial inequalities characterising it (Patel and Dudrah 2022). Less attention has been paid until now to the workers upon which the image of the craft economies is built in terms of their working conditions, realisation and exploitation, with few exceptions (see e.g., Delgaty and Wilson, 2023 and Anderson, 2022). The terms artisan and craft both depend on an image of a skilled worker who is an expert in their particular skilled vocation. That this worker, and the army of “unskilled” workers that support their endeavors, are often left out of craft discourse altogether calls into question the degree to which these industries are actually committed to the espoused values of the neo-craft movement.
Although much of this work also deals with the attraction and benefits of neo-craft vocations, considerably less grapples with the class relations and composition of the neo-craft workforce. As a partial response to this under researched, yet crucially important input into the craft economy, this mini-conference intends to bring together an interdisciplinary group of critical scholars engaging with the working conditions, class composition, and workplace cultures of neo-craft industries, broadly defined. We seek contributions that connect neo-craft work to relations of equality/inequality, opportunity/exploitation, vocation/class, and beyond. As such, potential themes may include, but are not limited to:
Taken together, these themes will contribute to the SASE 2025 conference theme of Inclusive Solidarities. Critical discussions of the neo-craft economy hold the potential to reveal developing forms of exploitation and solidarity specific to the changing regime of accumulation in the 21st century. Neo-craft is a peculiar development in the 21st century economy, one that exists at the nexus of the digital and material, that reproduces traditional forms of exploitation while increasingly depending on worker autonomy and creativity. Moreover, as a grouping of industries that celebrates diversity and inclusion at the same time that portions of its workforce are treated as interchangeable, it marks an important line of inquiry in considerations of inclusive solidarities and the interactions between worker identities and working-class interests. This mini-conference will add a critical dimension to the academic discourse on the neo-craft economy by critically examining its employment practices, its divisions of labour, and, ultimately, the pathways toward solidarity and organising on the part of its workers.
Submission
MC02 accepts abstracts of approximately 1000 words. If your abstract is accepted, you will be asked (but not required) to submit a full paper prior to the conference in Montreal (9-12 July 2025). The mini-conference organizers will be in touch about deadlines and specifications.
SASE Mini-Conference on “Inclusive Solidarities: Reimagining Boundaries in Divided Times (MC11)"
In an era marked by deepening divisions, both within and across national borders, the concept of solidarity has gained renewed importance. The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Socio-Economics (SASE), themed “Inclusive Solidarities: Reimagining Boundaries in Divided Times,” offers a timely platform to explore the changing dynamics of solidarity in the global economy. In line with this focus, this year, the “Connecting Global Capitalism and National Capitalisms” Mini-Conference invites contributions about how our core theme about the linkage between global and national capitalism can help to understand the grievances caused by the interaction between global capitalism and national capitalisms, the impact of these dynamics on the responses to the grievances, and the reimagination of boundaries that transforms and shapes emerging forms of solidarity. We especially welcome proposals that explore the relationship between these dimensions through bridging the fields of Comparative Political Economy (CPE) and International Political Economy (IPE).
For the community of scholars in Socio-Economics, any systematic study of the economic and political aspects of a contemporary capitalism and its outcomes requires a deeper understanding of the interactions and linkages between International Political Economy (IPE) and Comparative Political Economy (CPE). International organisations, institutions, regimes, and structures–which are usually studied by IPE scholars—are affected and shaped by domestic actors and social movements; but at the same time, they affect and shape domestic socio-economic regimes and political responses to those regimes. This is also true when understanding the grievances of different groups, and how these groups materialise their grievances, such as through creating different forms of solidarities. Therefore, connecting the IPE and CPE approaches is essential both to understanding the causes of grievances, and the forms of solidarity developed to address those grievances, and their inclusivity. Similarly, engaging in these debates calls for an approach that connects the dots between micro, meso and macro levels of analysis for a comprehensive understanding about these grievances and the responses to them.
Based on the outline above, our mini-conference will invite papers addressing the following questions that align with the conference theme of this year:
We expect our mini-conference to provide a vital platform for scholars to explore these and other related questions at the intersection of comparative and international political economy. By bringing together diverse perspectives and cutting-edge research, this initiative will contribute to an interdisciplinary understanding of how global and national economic systems can be reimagined to foster more inclusive and solidaristic societies. Building on the success of our previous mini-conferences organized as part of the SASE Annual Meetings in the past three years, we look forward to a stimulating exchange of ideas and to the development of new insights that will inform both academic research and policy-making in the years to come.
Submission
MC11 accepts abstracts of approximately 1000 words (deadline December 16 2024). If your abstract is accepted, you will be asked (but not required) to submit a full paper prior to the conference in Montreal (9-12 July 2025). The mini-conference organizers will be in touch about deadlines and specifications. MC11 will organize one virtual session during the virtual conference days (1-3 July 2025), as well as one hybrid session during the on-site conference (9-12 July 2025). Submissions can be made through the usual process, details here.
More information on the SASE Conference and other Mini-Conferences is available here.
Submission Deadline: 16 December 2024
Call for papers special issue on the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Banco de Mexico
Bank of Mexico, the institution empowered to create the currency that circulates in the country, celebrates 100 years of existence in 2025, which is why Ola Financiera convenes from the perspective of the heterodox financial economy a special issue on the centenary of this important event: the creation of the Central Bank of Mexico.
This public entity oversees designing and executing monetary policy and managing the country's currency, while supervising the money supply. Among its outstanding functions, the definition and communication of monetary policy stands out, through which macroeconomic objectives such as price stability and economic growth are sought.
One of the instruments available for this purpose is the fixing of the interest rate through open-market operations, which affects the cost of money. The high reference rate, and its eventual transmission to the economy, seeks to regulate the quantity of money in circulation downwards, while the low rate aims to allow increases in the quantity of money in circulation, thus stimulating economic growth. If interest rates determine the cost of credit in domestic currency, the exchange rate determines the relative prices of other currencies. Both prices turn out to be decisive for different economic activities, and their setting, therefore, represents one of the most important policy decisions for the economic life of the country.
It is in this context that the journal Ola Financiera makes a cordial invitation to the international academic community to join this task and participate with us by sending original and unpublished papers to be part of our Vol. 18 No. 52 September-December 2025, which will be dedicated to addressing the Mexican economy from the perspective of the central bank: the Bank of Mexico.
Please find more information on the official website.
January 2025 | Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
Workshop Overview
This workshop aims to bring together cutting-edge results and new developments in Agent based models applied to political economy. With political economy we intend to embrace themes and domains at the heart of the Classics, including economic growth, business cycles, technical change, income distribution, functions and capacity of the State. In addition, we also welcome papers directly addressing the role and design of economic policies, including fiscal and monetary policies, innovation and industrial policies, trade and development policies, low-carbon transition policies, labour and welfare policies. The venue will be an occasion to exchange ideas, discuss open issues and challenges for future developments. The event welcomes contributions related to the following key topics:
Submission and Selection
Paper submission and participation are free of charge. In order to be considered, the applicant must submit either a complete paper or an extended abstract (up to two pages) in the form provided below. A limited number of contributions will be selected. Researchers from academia and policy-oriented institutions are encouraged to apply, with preference given to contributions incorporating agent-based modeling approaches. The selected papers will be considered for publication in the Italian Economic Journal. Longer contributions, collecting consolidated, teaching-friendly materials, may be hosted in the Cambridge Elements in Complexity and Agent-Based Models. Graduate students and young scholars are especially encouraged to submit. No accommodation or travel expenses will be covered. However, selected participants may be granted a partial stipend through the Young Scholar Initiative (YSI) of INET, particularly for graduate students and early career researchers living outside Pisa.
Venue: Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Piazza Martiri della Libertà, 33 – 56127 Pisa (Italy).
For application, please use the Application form. For more information please contact the Keynesian Economics Working Group (mariaenrica.virgillito@santannapisa.it; gpetrinidasilveira@gmail.com; damiano.difrancesco@santannapisa.it; a.agnesi@pm.univpm.it; teresa.felici@iusspavia.it).
Deadline for applications: 9 December 2024
18-27 February 2025 | UFRJ-Praia Vermelha Campus, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
6th Agent-Based Macroeconomics Summer School (ABaMSS)
The summer school aims to provide an overview of Agent-Based Macroeconomics (ABM) from both theoretical and applied perspectives. It starts motivating the utilization of a complexity approach to macroeconomics, rooted in models with heterogeneous, interacting agents. It then extensively presents the Agent-Based Computational Economics approach, elucidating various macroeconomic models accounting for endogenous growth, business cycles, crises, development, and climate-economic coevolution. The presentation of the models includes potential applications to economic policy issues such as fiscal, monetary, innovation, industrial, labor, and climate-change interventions. Participants will also take part in hands-on ABM implementation labs, gaining exposure to a wide array of techniques, from foundational to cutting-edge methodologies. Moreover, participants will have the opportunity to attend the 2nd Agent-Based Macroeconomics Workshop, and are invited to submit their research papers for presentation during the event.
Application
Requirements: Short CV, Motivation Letter, optional recommendation letters.
More detailed information and Application Details.
Application Deadline: 5 December 2024
2 December 2024 09:00-11:00 GMT/11:00-13:00 SAST | online
Art For Critical Research Practice: Unpacking Industrial Livestock Through Art-Based Research
Can arts-based research and practice unravel the systems of thinking, knowing and creating that tie us into industrial livestock production? This online workshop by the Critical Research on Industrial Livestock Systems (www.crils.org) Network explores arts as a tool to analyse ecosystems, capitalism and food with Cooking Sections artist duo Alon Schwabe and Dr Daniel Fernández Pascual (School of Architecture, Royal College of Art), and Maya Marshak (Bio-economy Research, University of Cape Town). Chaired by Dr Andrew Bennie Senior Researcher in Climate Policy and Food Systems (Institute of Economic Justice, South Africa).
Register here.
13 March 2025 | Atlanta, USA
As part of the annual meeting, the BHC’s Emerging Scholars Committee is hosting an in-person book proposal workshop on Thursday afternoon, March 13th. This is an exciting opportunity for up to five emerging scholars to improve their book proposals under the guidance of a senior BHC member. We’re happy to announce that this year’s faculty director for the workshop will be award-winning historian Seth Rockman.
The workshop is not limited to those who identify as business historians. We conceive of business history broadly and welcome proposals on a wide variety of topics, including but not limited to political economy, labor history, consumption studies, financial history, the history of science and technology, and many more across eras and regions. The workshop aspires to support a new generation of historians working on topics related to business history in innovative ways.
Workshop participants will pre-circulate and read all book proposals, then discuss them for 45 minutes each. This style of peer review is designed to replicate the general scholarly audience to which a proposal must speak. This workshop is an opportunity to receive supportive guidance within the friendly confines of the Business History Conference.
Funding is available to defray the costs of attending the conference for successful applicants. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to meet university press and/or series editors. Additional career and publishing-related workshops that are free for all to attend are run by the Doctoral Colloquium.
Application
To apply for a place in the book proposal workshop, please send the following documents to emerging.scholars.committee.bhc@gmail.com with the subject line “Atlanta Book Proposal Workshop Application” by December 15th, 2024:
Applicants will receive notification by early February 2025. If accepted, workshop participants should be prepared to circulate their draft book proposals by Monday, February 27, 2025.
Selection criteria: Our primary interest lies in helping early career scholars develop great dissertations into convincing book proposals. We will therefore first consider the quality and novelty of the scholarship as reflected in the application materials. We are seeking well-researched work with strong analysis. In light of the ESC’s mission to help the career development of all recent graduates and the BHC’s DEI guidelines, we may also consider the applicant’s level of available institutional support and the diversification of BHC membership. Applicants must hold a Ph.D. by the time of the workshop and must be writing their first book.
Application Deadline: 15 December 2024
Economics For the People takes you on a journey to explore the transformative power of economics when it is harnessed for the working classes, to advance social justice, and to create an inclusive and equitable society. It is an open invitation to participate in collectively shaping and reimagining an economy that prioritizes the needs and aspirations of the working classes, marginalized communities, and individuals of different gender expressions, sexualities, and abilities. The show features diverse voices, experiences and perspectives that often remain unheard in mainstream conversations about economics, markets and numbers.
In the feature this month (EP13: The Decline and Fall of Neoliberalism, Trump’s Tariff Proposal), the podcast speaks with Professor David Cayla about his latest book, focusing on the decline of neoliberalism and populism. If neoliberalism is disappearing, what will replace it? Is populism a political reaction to the decay of neoliberal economic policies? Professor Cayla, visiting Kansas City from France, is a member of the Department of Economics at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In the Dollars & Sense Debrief, Chris Sturr interviews John Miller about the economic consequences of Trump's proposal to fund the federal government strictly from tariffs.
Job title: PhD-Position at OBFA-TRANSFORM
The research group ‘The Political Economy of Financing Large-Scale Transformations. Off-Balance-Sheet Fiscal Agencies in Wars, Reconstruction, and the Green Transition’ (OBFA-TRANSFORM, see https://obfa-transform.eu/)—funded via the Emmy Noether programme of Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and hosted at Global Climate Forum (GCF) in Berlin—offers a PhD position (E13, 50%).
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GCF is an equal opportunity employer. We strive for diversity and inclusion and welcome all qualified applicants. The successful candidate will join a friendly and highly motivated team in central Berlin. Employment at E13 50% comes with additional pension insurance benefits and a substantive research budget to facilitate conference travel, fieldwork, and research stays abroad. We collaborate with the John F. Kennedy Institute at Freie Universität Berlin where you will register as a PhD student, become a member of the graduate school, and have teaching opportunities. We expect the candidate to be based in Berlin for the duration of the position, with possibilities for (extended) stays abroad.
The position will start in April 2025 (or as soon as possible thereafter). The expected duration of the position is four years. We can offer an initial contract for one year with the outlook of prolongation for further three years (pending approval of the second funding period by DFG).
The deadline for applications is 15 December 2024. Please send your application as a single PDF with the subject “PhD application” to Dr Steffen Murau (steffen.murau@globalclimateforum.org). The file should include a motivation letter, a CV, up to three writing samples, and a five-page PhD proposal in which you sketch how you would apply the framework of the group (Monetary Architecture and macro-financial governance process) on one or several case studies of your choice. The proposal should be broadly related to how large-scale investment and/or transformation projects have been carried out (today and/or in the past, in one or more countries of your choice) and which role off-balance-sheet fiscal agencies have played in it (also vis-à-vis the central bank, the treasury, banks, and non-bank financial institutions).
Application Deadline: 15 December 2024
Job title: Assistant Professor in Economic History
The Department of Economic History is inviting applications for an entry-level career-track Assistant Professorship in the History of Economics to further enhance its strengths in research and teaching.
Outstanding junior candidates whose research engages with the history of economics, broadly defined, are encouraged to apply. We are particularly interested in candidates whose research connects the history of economic ideas to the economic history of the same time and place, including the impact of economic ideas on policies and practical changes/outcomes within economies, and/or the effect of historical economic change on economic thought. We value diversity of research methodology and invite applications from candidates working on any time period or geographical area.
The other criteria that will be used when shortlisting for this post can be found on the person specification, which is attached to this vacancy on the LSE’s online recruitment system. In addition to a competitive salary the benefits that come with this job include an occupational pension scheme, a research grants policy with personal reward options, generous research leave (sabbatical) entitlement, a collegial faculty environment and excellent support, training and development opportunities. Salary is competitive with Departments at our peer institutions worldwide and not less than £61,446 pa inclusive and the salary scale can be found on the LSE website.
For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification. If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email Jennie Stayne j.c.stayner@lse.ac.uk
Application Deadline: 9 December 2024 (23.59 UK time)
Job title: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
The Department of Economics and Finance at Saint Peter’s University invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the Assistant Professor level beginning in the Fall of 2025. Candidates should preferably have already earned (or are near the completion of) a Ph.D. in economics.
Candidates should be committed to excellence in both teaching and scholarly research. The successful candidate will teach courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels in corporate finance, econometrics, and potentially some specialized economics and finance areas, such as behavioral and/or ecological economics. Candidates should also be willing to teach introductory principles-level courses when needed. Strict preference will be given to the candidate with a) an ability to demonstrate a teaching and research agenda involving the financialization of the business enterprise, and b) an ability and willingness to become the Director of the Department’s Master of Science in Finance degree program (after an appropriate interval). Saint Peter’s University is a liberal arts university with a demonstrated commitment to diversity. EOE.
Candidates should electronically submit a cover letter, CV, graduate transcript, research sample, three letters of recommendation, teaching evaluations, statement of teaching philosophy, and statement on academic pluralism to Devin T. Rafferty, Chair of the Department of Economics and Finance, Saint Peter’s University, 2641 John F. Kennedy Blvd., Jersey City, New Jersey, USA, 07306 at the following email address: DRafferty1@saintpeters.edu.
The cover letter should speak to how you would build an active classroom setting when dealing with complex conceptual economic and financial issues in a diverse educational environment, and the academic pluralism statement should demonstrate expertise in multiple theoretical approaches to the discipline. Our Department intends to conduct initial interviews in-person at the Allied Social Science Association meetings in San Francisco, CA from January 3-5, 2025, and applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
Job title: Pre-/Post-doctoral Researcher in Climate Finance
A researcher is wanted within the ESG UPTAKE project (https://www.unive.it/pag/49196) that aims to mainstream a science-based framework for ESG and climate risk assessment (data, models, scenarios) and climate stress testing to 14 European central banks and financial regulators. Furthermore, for selected authorities, we will develop an assessment of the insurance protection gap and propose policy solutions.
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Job title: Tenure-eligible lecturer in the area of History of Economic Thought
The Department of Economic History, Institutions, Politics and World Economy at the University of Barcelona is recruiting one tenure-eligible lecturer in the area of History of Economic Thought. Successful applicants will be expected to develop independent research projects achieving international recognition in History of Economic Thought, and to be involved in the school research activities. The position involves teaching at the undergraduate and/or postgraduate levels. The contract is 6 years long, starting in September 2025, with monthly gross earnings of ca. 3,000 €.
Expressions of interest must be submitted to: jsanjulian@ub.edu by November 20, 2024, and must include a cover letter and a CV. The school will contact the shortlisted candidates in early January with details on the formal application process.
Email enquiries should be directed to: jsanjulian@ub.edu
Job title: Full professor for pluralist economics with a focus on transformation, sustainability and global justice (in German)
Universitätsprofessur (W2) für Plurale Ökonomik, insbesondere Transformation, Nachhaltigkeit und globale Gerechtigkeit
Ihre Aufgaben:
Sie vertreten das Fachgebiet der ausgeschriebenen Professur in der gesamten Bandbreite in Forschung und Lehre. Sie tragen zur strategischen Weiterentwicklung der Forschung innerhalb Ihres Fachgebietes insbesondere in den Bereichen Entwicklung und ökologische Nachhaltigkeit bei, wobei Sie sich empirischer Methoden bedienen. Sie übernehmen Verantwortung für die Weiterentwicklung des Masterstudiengangs „Plurale Ökonomik“ in dem Sie hauptsächlich Ihre Lehre erbringen. Sie bieten darüber hinaus Lehrveranstaltungen im Bachelor und Master Volkswirtschaftslehre und Betriebswirtschaftslehre an.
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Marc Hassenzahl, +49 271 740 3139, dekanat@wiwi.uni-siegen.de
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Job title: Editorial Assistant
Verso Books, the leading radical publisher in the English speaking world with a 50 year history, is seeking a highly organised and motivated Editorial Assistant to support the European Editorial Director in the management of day-to-day editorial operations, grant applications, and funding initiatives. This role will play a key part in tracking open access and translation grants, as well as providing general editorial administrative support. The successful candidate will ensure that grant applications and funding processes are managed efficiently and documented accurately across various projects. Salary is £27,540. The position is full-time and based in our London office, with a hybrid model.
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We’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Please apply with a CV and short covering letter, as separate attachments, to opportunities@verso.co.uk with the subject line: APPLICATION - EDITORIAL ASSISTANT.
Application Deadline: 26 November 2024
The HES Society invites to apply for the Best Dissertation in the History and Methodology of Economics in memory of Joseph Dorfman.
The winner will receive a stipend of $500 plus travel expenses up to $1,000 (and not $500 as initially announced) to attend the 52nd annual conference of the History of Economics Society (June 28-30, 2025 at the University of Richmond, Virginia).
All dissertations in the history of economics and economic methodology, written in English, completed and defended during the last two years (September 2022 to August 2024), are eligible. The selection committee will consider all nominated dissertations, with self-nominations permitted. This year, the selection committee is formed by Jean-Baptiste Fleury (HDEA, Sorbonne Université), Juan Acosta (Universidad del Valle), and Marianne Johnson (University of Wisconsin). To nominate a dissertation for the Dorfman Prize, please contact the Chair of the committee: jean-baptiste.fleury@sorbonne-universite.fr.
The History of Economics Society welcomes nominations for The Craufurd Goodwin Best Article in the History of Economics Prize. Beside the honor, the winner will receive a $500 award plus travel expenses of up to $1000 to attend the presentation at the Society's annual conference.
Craufurd Goodwin, who passed away in 2017, was a founding member, past President and distinguished fellow of the History of Economics Society. His long and outstanding editorship of History of Political Economy helped shape the professional community of historians of economics.
Any article in the history of economics published in English during 2024 is eligible for the award. It is recognized however, that despite official publication dates, many publications are shipped after year end. In such cases, relevant articles that are in ‘proof’ form, with accompanying evidence of the journal and year of publication, may be accepted at the discretion of the Chair of the committee.
The Committee considers all nominated articles as well as all articles published in the Society’s journal: Journal of the History of Economic Thought. The committee may not ask editors of journals for their nominations as editors, but editors may nominate in a personal capacity. Nomination of an article by its author is welcome.
The members of the Selection Committee this year are Alain Marciano (University of Turin, Italy), Katia Caldari (University of Padua, Italy) and Gary Mongiovi (St. John's University). Nominations (brief reasons), including a complete citation of the article and the a pdf of the article, should be sent as soon as possible but no later than January 31, 2025 to the chair of the committee, Alain Marciano (Email: alain.marciano@unito.it).
Application Deadline: 31 January 2025
The prize committee, consisting of D. Wade Hands (chair), Shinji Nohara, and Angela Ambrosino, decided to award the 2024 prize to Soroush Marouzi for the paper 'In Search of Lost Reason', presented during the recent HES meetings in Santiago, Chile.
The paper examines the change in attitude about human nature that a number of scholars associated with Cambridge and Bloomsbury had after WWI. The two individuals that figure most prominently in Soroush's discussion are John Maynard Keynes and Frank Ramsey. The argument is that prior to WWI the dominant Bloomsbury attitude about human nature was intellectualism (Cambridge rationalism): basically that human behavior is driven by the intellect and rationality. After WWI and the experience of how the masses had responded to the war, the intellectual optimism of these scholars faded. Anti-intellectualism – the idea that "human behaviors are typically driven by instincts, habits, impulses, and unconscious drives" – became a powerful influence. Soroush discusses how these changes affected scholarly attitudes, focusing particularly on Keynes and Ramsey. While neither one of these scholars committed entirely to anti-intellectualism, these pessimistic ideas had an impact on their work: particularly Keynes' General Theory and Ramsey's turn toward pragmatism. The paper is not only extremely well-researched and well-written, it may even help some readers understand certain aspects of contemporary politics and behavior.
Previous award winners can be found on the HES website at: https://historyofeconomics.org/best-conference-paper-by-a-young-scholar/
Thomas Elliot, Benjamin Goldstein, Sylvain Charlebois: Over 6 billion liters of Canadian milk wasted since 2012
Patrik Söderholm, Maria Pettersson: Green versus green: The case against holistic environmental permitting processes
Anders Hayden: Buzzword or breakthrough beyond growth? The mainstreaming of the Wellbeing Economy
Michael J. Vardon, Thi Ha Lien Le, Ricardo Martinez-Lagunes, Ogopotse Batlokwa Pule, Sjoerd Schenau, Steve May, R. Quentin Grafton: Accounting for water: A global review and indicators of best practice for improved water governance
Kaitlin Kish, Eric Miller: Broadening ecological footprint and biocapacity research: A co-developed research agenda with Canadian stakeholders
Nicola Bertoldi, Daniela Perrotti: Linking systems to agencies in urban metabolism studies: A conceptual framework and computational analysis of research literature
Arthur Lauer, Iñigo Capellán-Pérez, Nathalie Wergles: A comparative review of de- and post-growth modeling studies
Xiaojie Wen, Philipp Mennig, Johannes Sauer: Assessing the regime-switching role of risk mitigation measures on agricultural vulnerability: A threshold analysis
Felipe Jordán: Varieties of capitalism and environmental performance
Marieke Fenton, Brittney K. Goodrich, Jerrod Penn: Measuring beekeepers' economic value of contract enhancements in almond pollination agreements
Brian Baldassarre: Circular economy for resource security in the European Union (EU): Case study, research framework, and future directions
Ruth Beatriz Mezzalira Pincinato, Atle Oglend, Martin D. Smith, Frank Asche: Biological control of a parasite: The efficacy of cleaner fish in salmon farming
Giorgos Galanis, Mauro Napoletano, Lilit Popoyan, Alessandro Sapio, Olivier Vardakoulias: Defining just transition
Takefumi Fujimoto, Aya Suzuki: Different strategies of crop diversification between poor and non-poor farmers: Concepts and evidence from Tanzania
Akvan Gajanayake, Usha Iyer-Raniga: If there is waste, there is a system: Understanding Victoria's circular economy transition from a systems thinking perspective
Daryna Grechyna: Raising awareness of climate change: Nature, activists, politicians?
Aliza Fleischer, Yadin Gindin, Yacov Tsur: Integrating recreational ecosystem service valuations into Israel's Water economy
Kangyin Dong, Congyu Zhao, Rabindra Nepal, Kerstin K. Zander: Are natural disasters stumbling blocks to carbon inequality mitigation? A global perspective
Elisabeth Jost, Martin Schönhart, Hermine Mitter, Ottavia Zoboli, Erwin Schmid: Integrated modelling of fertilizer and climate change scenario impacts on agricultural production and nitrogen losses in Austria
Marian Rodríguez-Fuentes, José Alberto Zepeda-Domínguez, Lotta C. Kluger, Claudia María Fumero-Andreu, Germán Ponce-Díaz, Manuel J. Zetina-Rejón: Supply networks of fisheries social-ecological systems: A systematic review of the network approach
Ruben Nicolas, Vítězslav Titl, Fredo Schotanus: European funds and green public procurement
Stephan Geschwind, Johann Graf Lambsdorff: Does scarcity induce hostility? An experimental investigation of common-pool resources
Rocco Caferra, Andrea Morone, Piergiuseppe Morone: After the storm: Environmental tragedy and sustainable mobility
Peter M. King, Martin Dallimer, Thomas Lundhede, Gail E. Austen, Jessica C. Fisher, Katherine N. Irvine, Robert D. Fish, Zoe G. Davies: Stated preferences for the colours, smells, and sounds of biodiversity
Yacov Tsur: The diverse impacts of democracy on greenhouse gas emissions
Thierno Bocar Diop, Lionel Védrine: Did crop diversity criterion from CAP green payments affect both economic and environmental farm performances? Quasi-experimental evidence from France
Eckhard Hein, Marc Lavoie: Profit margins are determined by the need for companies to generate enough internal finance to pay for their investment’
Emilia G. Marsellou: Testing the Bhaduri–Marglin model for the demand regime of Greece
Vlassis Missos, Peter Blunt, Charalampos Domenikos, Nikolaos Pontis: Inflated inequality or unequal inflation? A case for sustained ‘two-sided’ austerity in Greece
Marcello Spanò: Balance-sheet restructuring in Italy: an empirical analysis based on monetary circuit theory
Marco Veronese Passarella: It is not la vie en rose: new insights from Graziani’s theory of the monetary circuit
Edouard Cottin-Euziol, Hassan Bougrine, Louis-Philippe Rochon: The reflux phase in monetary circuit theory and stock–flow consistent models
Melanie Jaeger-Erben: » No quick answer! Transformation research has to “stay with the trouble”
Julia Michaelis, Bendix Vogel, Sebastian Strunz, Wolfgang Lucht, Henriette Dahms, Christina Dornack, Anne Geissler, Julia Hertin, Franziska Hoffart, Claudia Kemfert, Manuel Klein, Wolfgang Köck, Jonas Lage, Elisabeth Marquard, Sophie Schmalz, Josef Settele, Bernd Sommer, Sebastian Weiss, Sophie Wiegand: Sufficiency as a “Strategy of the Enough”: Curbing ecological crises and injustices. A summary of the German Advisory Council on the Environment’s discussion paper
Sarah Gottwald, Christian Albert, Gustavo Arciniegas, Marta Ducci, Sana Jajeh, Ron Janssen, Rory Taylor: » Geodesign as a boundary management process: Co-creating and negotiating sustainable landscape futures. Participatory research methods for sustainability – toolkit #11
Constanze Zöllter, Stefanie Rößler, Robert Knippschild: » In-migration for transforming peripheral locations through a real-world experiment? Experiment insights on location decisions in the medium-sized city of Görlitz, Germany
Felix Poelsma, Stephanie Moser, Susanne Wymann von Dach, Thomas Breu: The added value of including citizen perspectives in a transition management process towards climate neutrality. Insights from an experience in the Swiss Alps
Jana Costa, Mandy Singer-Brodowski: Fridays for Future: Dealing with controversial issues in schools
Lenelis Kruse: Environmental psychology on the rise? Recognition – current challenges – responses
Rea Pärli, Christoph Bühler, Karen Bussmann-Charran, Alanis Camichel, Urs Gimmi, Rolf Holderegger, Eva Lieberherr, Sarah Pearson Perret, Sarah Richman, André Stapfer, Christoph Vorburger, Alex Widmer: Building bridges for biodiversity. Introducing the Translational Centre Biodiversity Conservation
Sarah Keller, Basil Bornemann, Claudia Zingerli, Aline von Atzigen: Between analysis and activism: How do young scientists think about sustainability research?
Ana Filipa Ferreira, Carsten Mann, Jan-Peter Mund, Martin Welp: The Biosphere Reserves Institute at Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development. Advancing science in, with and for UNESCO Biosphere Reserves
Helga Kromp-Kolb, Lukas Meyer: Against science skepticism and for democracy. The Climate Change Centre Austria’s (CCCA) understanding of science
Stefan Gröschner, Frank Betker, Florian Strunk: New impulses for regional urban research, sustainable urban development, and urban mobility
Special Issue: Marxism and the Critique of Antisemitism, Part Two: Revisiting the Classics
Gabriel Winant: The Baby and the Bathwater: Class Analysis and Class Formation after Deindustrialisation
Jean-Pierre Couture: The French Debate over On the Jewish Question: From an Anachronistic Trial to the Crisis of Secularism
Michael Löwy: Franz Kafka and Antisemitism: The Historical Context of Der Prozess
Igor Shoikhedbrod: Revisiting the ‘Jewish Question’ and Its Contemporary Discontents
Enzo Traverso: Auschwitz and Hiroshima: Günther Anders
Ishay Landa: Rootism, Modernity, and the Jew: Antisemitism and the Reactionary Imaginary, 1789–1945
Neil Levi: Power, Politics, and Personification: Toward a Critique of Postone’s Theory of Antisemitism
Translation
Selim Nadi: Introduction to Abraham Serfaty’s ‘Letter to the Damned of Israel’
Abraham Serfaty: Letter to the Damned of Israel
General Articles
David G. Rowley: Marxism as a Natural Science: Alexander Bogdanov’s Anti-Revisionist Revisionism
Dominique Routhier: A Situationist Portrait of Power: Cybernetics, May ’68, and The Situationist International
Intervention
Miriyam Aouragh: From Erasure to Restoration: Antisemitism and the Visual Reverberations of a Revolutionary Pedagogy
Guglielmo Carchedi: Beating the Untrodden Paths: Computers, Artificial Intelligence and Quanta in Marxist Theory
Jinhai Yang: The Contribution and Historical Significance of Xi Jinping’s Statements on Poverty Alleviation
Yongmu Jiang & Yuan He: The Process, Characteristics and Prospects of the Century-Long Fight against Poverty by the Communist Party of China
Yongmei Sun: China’s Achievements of Poverty Alleviation, and the Prospects for the Anti-poverty Battle
Zhengtu Li & Zijian Xu: The Practice of Common Prosperity with Chinese Characteristics: Institutional Guarantees, Intellectual Impetus and Scientific Theories
Ken Hammond: Political Economy in Early Modern China and Its Relevance to Contemporary China
Ladislav Zemánek: Neo-Leninism and Chinese Reforms: Soviet Perestroika Revisited
Marek Hrubec: Socialist Tendencies in the South-South Cooperation: Typology of States, Independence and Development
Special issue: Public Banks and Public Water
Guest editors: Susan Spronk. University of Ottawa, Canada; David McDonald. Queen’s University, Canada; Thomas Marois. McMaster. University, Canada
David A. McDonald, Thomas Marois, Susan Spronk: Public Banks + Public Water = SDG 6?
Nadine Reis: The KfW Development Bank and water infrastructure financing in Latin America
Thomas Marois: Rethinking Dynamic Public Banks for Green and Just Transitions
Petri S. Juuti, Riikka P. Juuti, David A. McDonald: Collective Public Banking for the Common Good in the Nordic Region
Susan Spronk, Karina Valverde, Thomas Marois: Democratic Patient Finance: The Banco Popular and Community-Based Water Operators in Costa Rica
Melina Tobias, Devin Case-Ruchala: : Multi-level public-private partnerships for access to water in Buenos Aires
Ali Rıza Güngen: ‘No one can compete since no one dares to lend more cheaply!’: Turkey’s Ilbank and public water
Giuseppe Danese and Luigi Mittone: The Tragedy of the Masks: Curbing Stockpiling Behavior through a “Victim”
Sophie Clot and Gilles Grolleau: No Organization is Perfect: The Positive Effect of Acknowledging the Negative
Alija Avdukic, Faizal Monjoo, Ataollah Rahmani and Ahmed Abdullah: Exploring the Process of Decision Making on the Use of Pensions for Financing Old Age: Muslim Workers Living in England
Yanping He-Ulbricht and Marc Oliver Rieger: Cultural Impact on Attitudes Towards Price Changes and Income Inequality Policy—A Study with Language Priming Method
Max Molden: Boosts, Knowledge, and Autonomy
James K. Galbraith, Thomas I. Palley, and Matías Vernengo: Paul Davidson (1930–2024) and the founding of Post Keynesian economics
Gabriel Mathy: Are jobless recoveries history? Okun’s law, insufficient stimulus, and slow recoveries
Robert Pollin and Hanae Bouazza: Considerations on inflation, economic growth, and the 2 per cent inflation target
Guilherme Spinato Morlin and Riccardo Pariboni: Demand-led growth under political constraints: a long-run model of conflict inflation
Thomas Barnebeck Andersen: Hysteresis and the long shadow of the exchange rate regime
Giorgio Liotti, Rajmund Mirdala, and Luigi Salvati: The effect of fiscal austerity on citizens’ trust in the European Union
Maria Cristina Barbieri Góes, Santiago José Gahn, and Ettore Gallo: Autonomous demand and economic growth in Mexico (1993–2019): theory and empirics in a small, open and peripheral economy
The 26th Annual David Gordon Memorial Lecture
David McNally: Marx on Colonization and Bonded Labor: The End of Capital and the Beginning of a Journey
Kirstin Munro: Comments on David McNally’s “Marx on Colonization and Bonded Labor”
URPE at the ASSAs
Junshang Liang and Chengwei Tang: Production Structures and Fluctuations in the Money Supply: An Analysis Based on Marx’s Concept of Set-Free Money Capital
Bin Li:Unraveling the Roots of Fiscal Crises in Contemporary Capitalist Nations and Strategies for Overcoming Them
Yeo Hyub Yoon and Grishma Neupane: Liquidity Preference, Interest Rate Spread, and the Transformation of the US Financial System
URPE at the EEAs
Erdogan Bakir and Al Campbell:Business Cycle Expansions in the Post-World War II United States Economy
Ann E. Davis:Money as a “Social Power”: Commodity Fetishism and Financialization
Woocheol Lee: From a Spoke to a Hub: The Case of South Korea
Ricardo R. Fuentes-Ramírez: Beyond Dependency in Puerto Rico: Exploring Social and Solidarity Industrial Policy as an Alternative for the Global South
Articles
Mukesh Eswaran: The Nature of Labor’s Vulnerability to Exploitation
Manuel Gracia Santos, Miguel Montanyá, and María J. Paz: Decomposition and Dynamics of Unit Labor Costs in a Context of International Fragmentation of Production: Evidence from the German Automotive Sector
Richard Sobel: Centrality and Historicity of Work in Marx’s Thought: Some Reflections from a Post-Marxian Point of View
Notes and Comments
E. Ahmet Tonak: The Value of Marx in The Value of Everything
Dong-Min Rieu: Labor Intensification and Value Production
Deepankar Basu, Cameron Haas, and Thanos Moraitis: Labor Intensification and Value Production: A Rejoinder
Alain Marciano: What should economists do?: A historical perspective
Zachary A. Collier, Zachary J. Gochenour: Interdependence: good, bad, or indifferent?
Vicente Moreno-Casas: What can complexity learn from Misesian economics?
Victor I. Espinosa: The perils of lax economic policy: The case of Chile during the COVID-19 pandemic
Correction: Victor I. Espinosa: Correction to: The perils of lax economic policy: the case of Chile during the COVID-19 pandemic
Deirdre Nansen McCloskey: Austrians should reject North and Acemoglu: Some critical reflections on Peter Boettke’s The Struggle for a Better World
Lauren K. Hall: Family, equality, and public and private distribution: a review essay of Melinda Cooper’s family values
Marcus Shera, Kacey Reeves West: Two worlds collide: A review essay of Humanomics: moral sentiments and the wealth of nations for the twenty-first century
Caleb Petitt: Mark Koyama and Jared Rubin, How the world became rich: The historical origins of economic growth
Special Issue: Labour Process Theory 50 Years after Braverman’s Labor and Monopoly Capital
Paul Thompson: Doing labour process theory after Braverman
Paul Thompson, Chris Smith: Labour process theory: in and beyond the core: continuities, challenges, and choices
Wolfgang Menz, Sarah Nies: The dual economics in the labour process: managerial contradictions and indirect control
Lu Zhang: Labour process theory and research on the changing nature of work and employment in China
James Steinhoff: The universality of the machine: labour process theory and the absorption of the skills and knowledge of labour into capital
Steven P. Vallas , Juliet B. Schor: Labour platforms as mechanisms of class reproduction: middle-class interests as the basis of worker consent
Edited by Louis-Philippe Rochon and Mario Seccareccia | 2024, Edward Elgar
In this insightful volume, editors Louis-Philippe Rochon and Mario Seccareccia bring together key essays from the influential and highly-regarded journal, Monnaie et Production.
Beginning with a new commentary, Rochon and Seccareccia provide a modern perspective, highlighting invaluable insights on both the content and the editor, Alain Parguez. Showcasing 15 classic articles on topics such as money, finance and policy, this book highlights the bridges built between American post-Keynesians and the European heterodox community. The selected essays examine the missing links that history has brought to light and pay tribute to this historic, ground-breaking journal on its 40th anniversary.
Highlighting a seminal contribution to heterodox economics, but little known in the English-speaking world, this book provides a unique reference opportunity to view these important historical essays in one place. Scholars of economics interested in post-Keynesian theory and in this important episode in the history of economic thought will find this a vital resource.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Evelyn Kwok | 2024, Edinburgh University Press
There are around 340,000 Foreign Domestic Workers in Hong Kong, but the ways in which they experience migration is largely hidden in the homes of their employers.This book helps us to understand the complexities of migrant experiences by analysing the socio-spatial consequences that emerge from global migrant labour, and examining the capacity of the disenfranchised to create new spatialities by using public space to resist their disempowerment. This approach gives voice to a phenomenon silenced by the hegemony of mainstream urban economics and, in turn, reveals practices that cut across global labour. By shedding light on the importance of space in moulding these practices and how these practices, in turn, shape space, Kwok demonstrates the power and limits of spatial agency in pushing back against the deleterious consequences of considering labour as another commodity, and reveals what lies behind the curtain of Hong Kong’s ‘successful’ spatial capitalism.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Aurelie Charles | Springer Nature, 2024
In a world where global finance must align with the green transition, this Open Access book challenges established economic thinking. It argues for a shift from individualism to group-focused economic theory and policy, revealing that historical financial accumulation stemmed from collective rather than individual actions.
To combat detrimental herd behavior, the book advocates for methodological groupism in economic policies. This shift promises more resilient financial flows, ensuring widespread societal benefits and mitigating harm to the global ecosystem. Through data analysis of capital and labor earnings in the US, UK, France, and Italy, and the introduction of "sustainable earnings trends," the book provides actionable insights applicable from local to international levels, using the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a guiding framework.
This makes the book a must-read for scholars, researchers, and students of environmental economics, sustainability, labor economics, finance, public policy, and governance, as well as policymakers seeking profound insights into the future of sustainable economics and finance.
Please find a link to the book here.
by Hasan Gürak | 2024, Palgrave-Macmillan
This book examines the role of creative mental labor in determining long-term economic growth, production costs, and product pricing. By redefining theories of value-price and growth in relation to creative mental labor, it acknowledges the role of human talent and skill in the creation of new technologies, productions, and productions methods, and highlights the impact this has on supply and demand dynamics. Traditional and neoclassical notions of human capital are challenged to present a new theory of growth that is more aligned with real life economics.
This book reevaluates ideas of economic growth by contextualising technological advancement and sustainable long-term economic growth within ideas of creative mental labor and skilled mental labor. It will be of interest to students and researchers working on labour economics.
Please find a link to the book here.
Edited by Yeva Nersisyan and L. R. Wray | Edward Elgar, 2024
This Companion is a comprehensive introduction to Modern Money Theory (MMT), covering a wide variety of topics from the nature and origins of money, to the fundamentals of government spending and taxation, to the application of MMT in developed and developing countries.
Bringing together prominent MMT economists, The Elgar Companion to Modern Money Theory analyzes the crucial contemporary issues of financing the green transition, aging and social security, and job guarantee programs. Authors discuss government debt in the modern money system, the dynamics of fiscal deficits and debt, resource constraints, and macroeconomic policy. This forward-thinking Companion constructively responds to MMT critiques, advocating for the use of MMT principles to devise more effective and sustainable development policies for the future.
This book is a crucial resource for students, academics, and researchers specializing in economics, political economics, political science, and the social sciences more broadly. Discussing practical examples alongside theory and related critique, The Elgar Companion to Modern Money Theory is also invaluable for economic policymakers and practitioners.
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by William I. Robinson | 2024, Resistance Books (London)
For the last twenty years, William I. Robinson has been developing a new theory of capitalism and the state; now his selected writings are collected in War, Global Capitalism and Resistance. His theory of capitalism, imperialism, and the state — describing a transnational capitalist world, a global police state, and the resistance to them — derives from earlier Marxists theories but also transforms and develops them. He applies his theory to such issues as education and migration, and the Israel-Palestine war, and calls for the creation of a new international to confront global capitalism. His writings challenge us to rethink our understanding of capitalism and the class struggle. This compact book contributes to contemporary Marxist theory and should be widely read and debated on the left.
Please find a link to the book here.
The next deadline for applications to the History of Economics Society's Early-Career Scholars Research Fund is Dec 1. The History of Economics Society welcomes applications by early career scholars for research funding of up to 1,500 dollars. The program supports early career scholars that otherwise would not have funds to undertake research activities. Up to 4 awards will be made every year.
Early career scholars are those studying for a PhD or within 4 years after completion of their PhD. Eligible expenses include travel and accommodation costs for visits to archives, for recording of oral histories, or for similar activities. Subsistence, purchase of equipment, fees/licenses/rights, digitization and transcription costs are typically not eligible.
The application must include a brief description of the project, details and full costings of expenses, mention of other funding applications submitted for the same activities. These materials should not exceed 750 words. In addition, the application must include a two-page CV of the applicant and a letter of support from their supervisor.
Proposals should be submitted to office@historyofeconomics.org.
Applicants should be aware that there may not be a specialist of their topic among the evaluation committee. Candidates should therefore provide a short but clear summary of the state of the art (with a few key references), a clear justification of why the research question the grant is addressing advances the existing literature, and detailed information about the evidence the applicant intends to gather in the research activities.
Application Deadline: 1 December 2024
The Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, founded in 1986 through the generous support of Bard College trustee Leon Levy, is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, public policy research organization. The Levy Institute is independent of any political or other affiliation, and encourages diversity of opinion in the examination of economic policy issues while striving to transform ideological arguments into informed debate.
The graduate program, established in 2014, features one-year M.A. and two-year M.S. degrees in Economic Theory and Policy. The program is designed to offer a solid foundation in both neoclassical and alternative economic theory, policy, and empirical research methods. Small class sizes and personal interactions with scholars create a close community allowing students to be uniquely embedded and engaged in the internationally cited and recognized research at the Institute
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Master of Science
The two-year MS is designed to prepare students for a career in non-governmental and civil society organizations, academia, government agencies, and financial, non-financial, and multilateral institutions. The program offers unprecedented opportunities to participate in advanced research alongside Institute scholars.
Master of Arts
The one-year MA concentrates on alternative approaches to economic theory, and offers a complement to an advanced degree.
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Early Decision Deadline: January 15, 2025 | Regular Decision Deadline: April 15, 2025
The Department of Economics at the University of Manchester welcomes applications for students who wish to study for a PhD in Economics, while specializing in Economic History, Economic Growth and Comparative Development, Political Economy, Institutional Economics, or Cultural Economics, with an historical dimension.
In Manchester you will benefit from the supervision of faculty members in these fields, such as: Professor Nuno Palma, Professor Philipp Roessner, Dr. Catherine Casson, Dr. Guillaume Blanc, and Dr. Yuzuru Kumon. You will also benefit from the intellectual activities of the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development.
About 10 students are admitted to the Manchester PhD track each year, most of which with scholarships given by the University of Manchester. You maybe admitted with or without funding; in the latter case, you will be advised to search for external funding opportunities. After reviewing your application, we will inform you whether you are accepted or not, and in the former case, if we are able to offer you a scholarship.
While we cannot guarantee funding, it is likely that admitted students whose application we support will be fully funded by a scholarship from the Department of Economics. There is NO application fee. It is advisable that you apply as soon as possible, and no later than the end of February.
Please find more information on the heterodox PhD Programs here and here.
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